Top Influencers & People to Watch – Volume 9

In case you haven’t been keeping track, our Top Influencers and People to Watch series represents our attempt to continually comb through the plethora of thought leaders and practitioners of digital marketing strategies to round up the most influential movers-and-shakers. These experts, you can best believe, are at the forefront of their industries, knowledgeable in a range of focus areas that together capture what’s happening – and what’s coming – in the world of digital marketing.

If you are attempting to stay relevant with new marketing tactics and strategies, brainstorming for your next blog post subject or trying to keep on top of the trending topics in your specific corner of marketing, then the individuals in the ninth installment of our Top Influencers and People to Watch series are the people you should be following.

Jeff Bullas

Jeff is a blogger, author, strategist and speaker, working with companies and executives to optimize their online personal and company brands via digital, content and social media marketing. Spending most of his career involved with Information Technologies, Telecommunication and the Web industry, his achievements include being the Number One Content Marketing Influencer in 2015 as awarded by Appinions, being listed as the Number One Content Marketing Influencer for 2015 by Onalytica, being ranked number eight on Forbes’ The World’s Top 40 Social Marketing Talent list in 2014 and much more. Further, he is the author of a best-selling book, Blogging the Smart Way – How to Create and Market a Killer Blog with Social Media, with his own blog receiving over five million page views per day.

Jeff Sheehan

Jeff founded Sheehan Marketing Strategies with the goal of assisting the growth and marketing success of companies, all based on years of assisting the largest companies in high-tech and other areas in increasing their revenues by hundreds of millions of dollars – all over decades of achievement on both a supplier and consulting basis. He is also one of the world’s top-followed business-to-business (B2B) sales and marketing professionals on Twitter, specializing in technology, integrated marketing and social media, and offers value to his clients as a marketing consultant and speaker. His Sheehan Marketing Strategies remains focused on helping businesses, professionals, non-profits and individuals be found through on and off-site SEO practices. Jeff’s co-authored HIRED! Paths to Employment in the Social Media Era takes an exhaustive look at the steps today’s job-seeker should take in securing employment in the social media era.

Jon Loomer

Born in Wisconsin and being a self-proclaimed Milwaukee Brewers and Green Bay Packers fan, Jon Loomer runs what he calls a “consulting and digital tutorials destination” in Jon Loomer Digital. The focus of his website concentrates on helping people make a difference through social media, specifically Facebook, applying more than five years of experience with the platform from a business perspective. Whether clients’ goals are revenues, brand awareness, conversions or something else, Jon helps through one-on-one coaching, a power editor training course and more.

Ian Michiels

Ian is a seasoned research analyst, strategic consultant and business executive boasting a strong background in analytical and creative marketing. Prior to joining the leadership team at Gleanster, a company providing all the tools clients need to make smart decisions about business technology, he was the VP of Marketing and Advisory Services at Marketsphere Marketing, a leading professional services firm, where he helped companies such as Nike, Sears Holdings, T.Rowe Price, Franklin Templeton, Caesars International and Adobe maximize success in marketing operations. As a recognized thought leader and accomplished speaker with a wide body of published thought leadership works, Ian has advised hundreds of technology solution providers and is the author of Lead Nurturing for Dummies.

These top online influencers in the digital marketing world have managed to shed some light on the market, and for the better, while ushering in a new era of digital marketing tools and approaches for today’s most established companies.