Jay Baer is a social media strategist, author and speaker and President of consultancy Convince & Convert. Humor, insight, personal experience, and common sense. That’s what social media speaker Jay Baer brings to the stage. An experienced keynote speaker and founder of five companies, Jay Baer has consulted for more than 700 brands (including Nike, Sony, Procter & Gamble, and Cadbury) on digital marketing and social media since 1994. Today, his consulting firm works with major corporations to create winning social media strategies that are successfully integrated with other marketing objectives. Fast Company Magazine cited him as one of America’s three leading social media advisors. The co-author of the book "The NOW Revolution: 7 Shifts to Make Your Business Faster, Smarter, and More Social" ) is also one of the world’s top 20 marketing resources according to Advertising Age Magazine. Clients say: "Our firm hired Jason to bring us up to speed in B2B digital marketing and PR strategies. He was phenomenal - not only did he teach us, but he inspired us. I would recommend him highly as a balanced right/left brain thinker!" Jay Baer's Convince & Convert blog is recognized as one of the best marketing blogs in the world by AdAge, Junta42, Alltop, Social Media Today, Scribnia, and a host of other arbiters of that sort of thing. Jay's writings have an emphasis on sound, practical social media advice that both makes you think, and makes you think you can do it, too. Conference planners say: “Not only does Jay Baer command extraordinary knowledge and expertise on social media and deep understanding about the implications for PR and marketing across multiple industries, but his ability to capture an audience’s attention and imagination for an entire day is unique. Jay’s energy and enthusiasm for the subject matter is infectious and he converts ordinary folk to believers in a very short amount of time.” The digital agency he founded in 2000 – Mighty Interactive – was named Arizona’s best online firm five years in a row. He previously was a senior executive at Visitalk.com; co-founder of the pioneering local content and Web development firm azfamily.com (sold to BELO Corporation); and a senior executive at Internet Direct, the world’s first Web hosting company (sold to Mindspring). Before moving online, jay Baer was a marketing and public relations executive, and political consultant, working with congressional, gubernatorial, and presidential campaigns. Titles *The 5 ways to Build Stunning Brands with Social Media *Why Before How: Creating a Social Media Strategic Plan in 7 Steps *The 6 Dangerous Fallacies of Social Media *The Social Media Train: Catch It If You Can *You Can Be a Social Media Rock Star: Storytelling and Thought Leadership for Small Business 7 Steps for Social Media Strategic Planning *The NOW Revolution: 7 Shifts to Make Your Business Faster, Smarter, and More Social Mobile Marketing: 160 Characters To Tell Your Customers You Love Them Marketing Sideways to Win at Social Media Email and Search Marketing: The Funnel is Dead Topics Business, Social Media/Networking, Strategic Planning Click topic above to see more speakers on that topic Speaker's Asking Fee Range $10,000 - $14,999 Click on fee range to see more speakers. This is the starting keynote fee range - other programs may be higher. State IN Click on state above to see more speakers from that state. Fees The fee range quoted means the speaker's fee starts somewhere within that range. Note that speaker's fees are subject to change and some speakers may have special fee quotes.