Jay Baer
Marketing and customer service guru, author, Hug Your Haters, digital marketing expert, international speaker and host
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Jay Baer is an experienced pro, having given hundreds of insightful, humorous presentations world-wide to audiences as large as 15,000, and a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP). Jay has the same goal for every keynote presentation and emcee opportunity: to be the best, most invigorating speaker you’ve worked with, ever. Jay is:
- A renowned business strategist
- A popular emcee and event host
- A New York Times best-selling author of five books
- An advisor to more than 700 companies since 1994, including Caterpillar, Nike, The United Nations and 32 of the FORTUNE 500
- An entrepreneurial success story, having started five multi-million dollar businesses from scratch
- Founder of Convince & Convert, a strategy consulting firm that helps prominent companies gain and keep more customers through the smart intersection of technology, social media, and customer service
- A media brand. Jay’s Convince & Convert Media division runs the world’s #1 content marketing blog, multiple podcasts, and many other education resources for business owners and executives
- An active venture capitalist and technology advisor, as well as an avid tequila collector
- The world’s most retweeted person by digital marketers
- The world’s #2 most retweeted person by B2B marketers
- A go-to source for the press including NPR, USA Today, Time, Real Simple, CBC and many more
- Host of the popular Social Pros podcast, named the best marketing podcast in the 2015 Content Marketing Awards
Keynote Presentations
Hug Your Haters: How to Embrace Complaints and Keep Your Customers
Haters aren’t your problem … ignoring them is. If it feels like there are more complaints than ever, and that you’re spending more time and money dealing with negativity and backlash, you’re right. But the rise of customer complaints is actually an enormous opportunity. In this eye-opening presentation, Jay reveals brand-new, proprietary research into The Science of Complaints – why and where your customers complain, and how to turn customer service into a marketing advantage.
Youtility: Why Smart Marketing is About Help not Hype
If you’re wondering how to make your company seem more exciting, you’re asking the wrong question. You’re not competing for attention only against other similar products. You’re competing against your customers’ friends and family and viral videos and cute puppies. To win attention today, you must ask a different question… “How can I help?” Youtility will cause you to rethink everything you thought you knew about marketing. Filled with relevant examples, you’ll see why the Youtility system now powers the marketing programs of hundreds of major companies.
Smarketing: Align Your Sales and Marketing to Achieve Hyper-Growth and Happy Teams
Aligned sales and marketing teams achieve 19% faster revenue growth and 15% more profitability. But how do you actually do it? This fast-paced presentation filled with current examples will have you rethinking the roles of marketing and sales. You’ll learn practical ways to better integrate sales and marketing to drive growth and improve customer satisfaction. This session will also cover digital and social selling, and how it adds value to the customer buying journey.
Jay Baer Testimonials
“Not only is Jay a killer speaker, but he played an integral role in facilitating connections between our customers on-site. He doesn’t just go the extra mile, but MANY. ”