This Old New Business With Jeff Korhan

Stephanie Sammons is an entrepreneur, a digital business and marketing strategist, and a Certified Financial Planner. She teaches entrepreneurs, business owners, and professionals how to build personal digital influence and create a more powerful, productive, and profitable digital presence. Stephanie was recently named one of the Top 10 Most Influential women on Twitter and a Top 25 Social Media Expert by LinkedIn.

Mike Rorie has been actively involved in the green industry for over 30 years. He started Cincinnati, OH based commercial grounds management company GroundMasters with one truck, and grew it into a highly profitable, multi-branch, regional platform that ranked among the largest landscape companies in the country, before selling to a national firm in 2006. Mike is now the CEO of Go iLawn, the go-to online property measuring system for landscape contractors.

John Lee Dumas is the Founder and Host of EntrepreneurOnFire, a top ranked podcast named "Best in iTunes 2013". John interviews today's most inspiring and successful Entrepreneurs 7-days a week, and has been featured in Forbes, TIME and Inc. Magazines. He is also the Founder of Podcasters' Paradise, a community where podcasters learn to create, grow, and monetize their podcast.

Shep Hyken is a speaker and both a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best‐selling business author who has been entertaining audiences with his unique presentation style for over 25 years. As a customer service expert, he works with companies that want to build loyal relationships with their customers and employees. His programs combine important information with entertainment.

Laura Madison is an enormous Toyota enthusiast and a salesperson at Ressler Toyota. Laura has created a thriving micro-business within that of her employer, and it is anchored around social media and her website: LauraToyota.com. Originally from the East Coast, she now lives in beautiful Bozeman, Montana.

Ann Handley is the Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs, a training and education company. In addition to being named by Forbes as the most influential woman in social media, she is also a monthly columnist for Entrepreneur magazine, a member of the LinkedIn Influencer program, and the co-author of Content Rules - the all-time best-selling book on content marketing. Her new book, Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content, will help your business tell its story.

Martin Shervington is an executive coach, business consultant, and marketing psychologist whose work centers on communication, people, and technology in modern life. He splits his time between the UK and the United States working on a number of web marketing projects, with a great majority of them involving Google and Google+.

Mike Gingerich is best known as the co-founder of Tabsite, a leading Facebook Page app platform for contests and lead capture. He is also a Facebook marketing speaker, strategist, and writer for notable business publications. Mike hails from the Hoosier heartland of Indiana, and therefore is naturally an avid basketball fan. His small business digital podcast is appropriately named Halftime Mike.

John Ferrara has over 20 years of experience in customer relationship management (CRM) and sales force automation (SFA). An entrepreneur at heart, Jon founded Goldmine in 1989 with a college friend, which he turned into a highly successful venture that he eventually sold to FrontRange. In 2009 he founded Nimble Inc, which produces the popular Nimble Social CRM.  

Ryan Hanley is a consultant, speaker, the host of the Content Warfare Podcast, and soon to be published author of Content Warfare. He helps brands and businesses find their audience, tell their story, and win the battle for attention online.

Frank Kenny is a longtime entrepreneur and former chamber of commerce CEO. He is the founder of a number of educational communities designed exclusively for chambers and their members, including the very active Chamber of Commerce Professionals Facebook group, and Chamber Pros Insider, both of which provide strategies and advice on social media and digital marketing.

Jill Konrath is the bestselling author of SNAP Selling, Selling to Big Companies – and recently released, Agile Selling. Jill’s expertise has been featured by ABC News, Fortune, Forbes, The New York Times, Inc, and many others. She’s full of great advice and fresh strategies for winning NEW customers in today’s evolving sales environment.

Chris Brogan is the CEO of Human Business Works, the publisher of Owner Magazine, and a New York Times bestselling author of multiple books, including The Impact Equation, Trust Agents (co-authored with Julien Smith), Social Media 101, Google+ for Business, and most recently published, The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth: Entrepreneurship for Weirdos, Misfits, and World Dominators.

John Jantsch is the founder of The Duct Tape Marketing System, and a recognized small business expert. He is the author of a number of books, including Duct Tape Marketing, The Referral Engine, The Commitment Engine, and recently released, Duct Tape Selling: Think Like a Marketer - Sell Like a Superstar. Jeff Korhan and John Jantsch discuss smart selling and building digital marketing assets to establish trust early in the buyer's journey.