Jay Baer
Marketing and Customer Experience Speaker, Emcee and Trusted Advisor
SPEAKER FEE RANGE: $17,000–$30,000 [FEE NOTE]
TRAVELS FROM: Indiana
RELATED TOPICS: Branding & Marketing, Business Author, Consumer Engagement, Entrepreneur, Innovation & Creativity, Tech Futurist
Jay Baer helps businesses clone their customers. He is a 7th generation entrepreneur, has written 6 best-selling books, and has founded 5 multi-million dollar companies. He is the President of Convince & Convert, a consulting firm that works with the world's most iconic brands - like The United Nations, 3M, and Hilton - gain and keep more customers. A recent inductee into the Professional Speaking Hall of Fall, he's also an avid tequila collector, and a certified barbecue judge. Jay is also an in-demand emcee for complex, multi-day events, and has hosted events for IBM, Oracle and many other major brands for audiences as large as 15,000 attendees. He’s an expert interviewer, a hilarious, on-the-fly host, and a master weaver together of event themes and key concepts.
Jay Baer is a Hall of Fame Speaker, New York Times best-selling author of six books, internet pioneer, entrepreneur, and the most inspirational expert on marketing, word of mouth, and customer service.
Jay spent 20 years in digital marketing, consulting for more than 700 companies during that period, including 30 of the FORTUNE 500. His current firm – Convince & Convert – provides social media and content marketing advice and counsel to leading companies such as Oracle, Salesforce.com, California Tourism, Billabong, Hardee’s, DOLE and more.
His second book, Youtility: Why Smart Marketing is About Help not Hype, was #3 on the New York Times business best seller list, and a runaway #1 Amazon best seller. Jay speaks numerous times per year worldwide, and shows how to use technology as an unfair marketing and customer service advantage. As a result, audiences will rethink their approach to marketing and customer service, helping them gain more customers and keep those they’ve already earned.
Jay’s Convince & Convert blog was named the world’s #1 content marketing blog by the Content Marketing Institute, and is visited by more than 200,000 marketers each month. Jay also hosts and produces the Social Pros podcast, which is downloaded 25,000 times monthly.
A fixture in social media, Jay draws attention to interesting and useful articles, videos, blog posts and events via following on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and Google Plus, which number more than 100,000. He is also an active venture capitalist, and is an investor or advisor to more than a dozen early stage technology and social media companies.
Convince & Convert is the fifth multi-million dollar company Jay has started from scratch. Before his move into digital marketing in 1994 he was a brand marketer and a political consultant, with major roles in state, federal and presidential electoral campaigns.
Jay Baer is also an in-demand emcee for complex, multi-day events, and has hosted events for IBM, Oracle and many other major brands for audiences as large as 15,000 attendees.
He’s an expert interviewer, a hilarious, on-the-fly host, and a master weaver together of event themes and key concepts.
Befitting his roots in Arizona, Jay is a tequila collector and maintains his allegiance to the teams of his alma mater, the University of Arizona. He lives in the idyllic college town of Bloomington, Indiana, with his wife and children, and travels from Indianapolis to speaking opportunities world-wide.
Jay spent 20 years in digital marketing, consulting for more than 700 companies during that period, including 30 of the FORTUNE 500. His current firm – Convince & Convert – provides social media and content marketing advice and counsel to leading companies such as Oracle, Salesforce.com, California Tourism, Billabong, Hardee’s, DOLE and more.
His second book, Youtility: Why Smart Marketing is About Help not Hype, was #3 on the New York Times business best seller list, and a runaway #1 Amazon best seller. Jay speaks numerous times per year worldwide, and shows how to use technology as an unfair marketing and customer service advantage. As a result, audiences will rethink their approach to marketing and customer service, helping them gain more customers and keep those they’ve already earned.
Jay’s Convince & Convert blog was named the world’s #1 content marketing blog by the Content Marketing Institute, and is visited by more than 200,000 marketers each month. Jay also hosts and produces the Social Pros podcast, which is downloaded 25,000 times monthly.
A fixture in social media, Jay draws attention to interesting and useful articles, videos, blog posts and events via following on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and Google Plus, which number more than 100,000. He is also an active venture capitalist, and is an investor or advisor to more than a dozen early stage technology and social media companies.
Convince & Convert is the fifth multi-million dollar company Jay has started from scratch. Before his move into digital marketing in 1994 he was a brand marketer and a political consultant, with major roles in state, federal and presidential electoral campaigns.
Jay Baer is also an in-demand emcee for complex, multi-day events, and has hosted events for IBM, Oracle and many other major brands for audiences as large as 15,000 attendees.
He’s an expert interviewer, a hilarious, on-the-fly host, and a master weaver together of event themes and key concepts.
Befitting his roots in Arizona, Jay is a tequila collector and maintains his allegiance to the teams of his alma mater, the University of Arizona. He lives in the idyllic college town of Bloomington, Indiana, with his wife and children, and travels from Indianapolis to speaking opportunities world-wide.
- The Three Drawbridges: How to Cross Your Customer's Moat of Attention
To win with content in today’s world, you must fundamentally realign your thinking and your expectations. Instead of assuming your content will succeed, and trying to avoid mistakes that would cause failure, you now must assume your content will fail, and make CERTAIN you pass the three tests required for content lift-off.
These tests are called the "Three Drawbridges of Content Success" – and your customers constantly have their hands on the levers, deciding when and whether to lower the bridges and let you in to their hearts, minds, and wallets.
This fast-paced and funny presentation from Hall of Fame keynote speaker and bestselling author Jay Baer will entertain you, inspire you, and scare you. Before this session ends, you'll be scheduling a team meeting to rework your content marketing strategic plan! - 4 Ways to Win: How Small Businesses Can Outflank the Big Guys and Thrive in 2020 and Beyond
The big guys have more money. They have more awareness. They have more technology. But small businesses can still win and grow if they stop trying to copy the big guys, and instead double-down on an intimate approach to customer experiences. In this timely and vital presentation, Jay demonstrates the four ways small businesses can clearly differentiate from large competitors, and how those distinctions can be used to attract more customers than ever. Jay will change the way you think about customer experience, customer service, personalization, and marketing.
Audiences Will:
• How customers choose between large and small business alternatives
• Pandemic-driven customer expectation trends and implications for small business success
• Why “every business must now function like a startup” and why that’s good news for small businesses
• How to become more of what you are instead of chasing what you’ll never be
• How to become irreplaceable to your customers
• How you can turn the tables on the colossuses by embracing your points of differentiation
• Be entertained and inspired by a minimum of 9 relevant, customized (and often hilarious) examples and case studies - Youtility: How to Grow Your Business by Helping, not Selling
The key to breaking through customer cynicism and competitor messaging clutter isn’t shouting louder, it’s becoming truly, massively relevant. If you sell something, you’ll make a customer today. But if you help someone, you’ll make a customer for life. Jay shows how to make usefulness the central, winning philosophy for your business. - Coveted Customer Experience: How to Grow Your Business by Focusing on 3 Things Your Customers Truly Care About
You’ve heard it before. Over and over, in fact. “Improve your customer service.” “Optimize the customer experience.” But what does that even mean? Today, when your intersection points with your customers may number in the dozens (or even hundreds) tackling customer service or customer experience holistically is impossible. You can’t magically get better at every customer touch point. But you CAN get better at the touch points that matter. - 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. - Talk Triggers: Turn Your Customers into Volunteer Marketers
Customer experience is how you make your customers feel. Great customer experience occurs when you exceed customer expectations. And when you do so, customers are COMPELLED to talk about you. In this fast-paced, timely, dynamic presentation Jay teaches his customer experience excellence framework, showcasing how any business can turn customers into advocates. With hilarious and poignant storytelling, Jay teaches attendees the three primary ways to use customer experience to trigger word-of-mouth, illustrates mistakes to avoid, and inspires audiences to put new strategies into practice immediately.
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