Sam has been involved
in diversified management, consulting, and entrepreneurial
endeavors for over 15 years, the last 7 of which has been
intensely focused on the Internet Marketing arena. During that
time he has established himself as a widely recognized and
sought out authority on Internet Marketing strategies, with
areas of expertise including: Web2.0/Social Media, Search Engine
Optimization, Viral Marketing, e-Commerce, affiliate programs,
Google Adwords advertising, and interactive multi-media. He is
interviewed frequently on his various areas of expertise and
regularly speaks to groups on a variety of Internet Business
topics.
Sam is also a accomplished direct response
copywriter having written for many top Internet Marketers and
companies including Nightingale Conant, “The world leader in
success and personal development publishing.”
Sam has consulted with a broad range of companies, with
clients in fields such as: cutting-edge tech concepts, luxury
yachts and boats, fashion, wine, real estate, travel, the US
Military, and tourism. His client in the "specialty advertising
and promotions" field is recognized as being in the top 3% of
the industry in revenues. He has served on the Marketing Board
for a national restaurant concept, worked as the Chief Marketing
Officer for a former PGA tour player, and also served as the
Director of Internet Strategy and Analytics for The Republik
Agency in North Carolina
Gary has served as a digital/addressable media thought leader
and spokesperson for agencies, clients and broadcasters in the
UK, Europe and US. He has been behind the strategy, design and
build of digital and direct initiatives for Motorola, Unilever,
Kraft, Hershey’s, Kodak, Enfamil and Polo Ralph Lauren.
Gary
served as SVP of business development for New Paradigm Digital
and Senior Partner Group Account Director for Mckinney-Silver
and OgilvyOne Interactive, New York, where his mobile work for
the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty earned a Cannes Lion and was
widely recognized as a groundbreaking integrated brand
initiative. Gary has been a speaker on the use of addressable
marketing at events such as the CTIA, the Mobile Marketing
Association and I-Media Conferences.
Rob has been building interactive web sites since 1997, and has
been involved in the development of applications for fortune 500
firms including FirstUnion/Wachovia, Cable & Wireless, DuPont, and
GlaxoSmithKline. While Rob is a PHP/MySQL evangelist, he is fluent
in most of todays (and yesterday's) programming languages.
Rob founded Thirdparty
Labs in 2006 to provide top-notch technical services to the
advertising and PR industry. He is the creator and maintainer of
the Carbon Content Management Toolkit, a framework for rapidly
developing 100% custom content management solutions, social media
platforms and web applications.