2016 - Confluence Conference, Oklahoma

2016 Speakers

Connect: http://authenticstorytelling.net/christoph-trappe/

Christoph is a career storyteller who has worked as a journalist, nonprofit executive recognized nationally for his digital initiatives and currently helps hospitals across the United States share their authentic stories. He often speaks at conferences across North America on such topics as authentic storytelling, content marketing and WordPress. He’s a top healthcare social media… View Article

Damon Gochneaur – Social Media

Connect: http://aspiroagency.com/

Session: Full Funnel Targeting using Facebook & Instagram With a background in B2B lead gen and affiliate marketing, Damon Gochneaur has spent nearly a decade entrenched in helping businesses get more out of digital. AdWords and Analytics certified, a jack of all trades. Former Director of Marketing for Globe Runner SEO and Lead SEO at Online… View Article

Daniel Russell – Social Media

Connect: https://gofishdigital.com/

Daniel is one of the fastest rising stars in the digital marketing industry. In 2015 alone, his innovative work for clients was featured in The Washington Post, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Yahoo News, and Inc. He has been interviewed about his marketing efforts on KABC and the Growth Hacking Podcast. He has also covered innovative marketing… View Article

Erin Yarbrough – Content Marketing

Connect: http://ou.edu/webcomm/

Erin Yarbrough is the Associate Vice President for Web Communications, Marketing & New Media at The University of Oklahoma. She has a background in web marketing, project management, & large-scale initiatives. Erin works to market the OU brand through projects such as OU social media, video marketing, web development, mobile strategies, enterprise content management, web… View Article

Giovanni Gallucci – Social Media

Connect: http://gallucci.net/

Giovanni is an Ad Age, Emmy, Telly, and Webby award-winning social media strategist and photographer. He operates a boutique online media agency based in Dallas, Texas where he helps tech and entertainment brands develop loyal, engaged online audiences. Giovanni spends most of his time as an online content producer for music artists, tv shows, films, and… View Article

Joe Martinez – PPC

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Joe Martinez is the Senior Manager of Paid Media and Community for Granular in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He loves to spend just as much time on marketing psychology and user experience improvement as physical optimization to improve paid search results. In addition to being the main blogger for Granular, he can be seen as an active… View Article

Joe Youngblood – SEO

Connect: http://www.joeyoungblood.com/

Joe Youngblood is an SEO, Innovative Marketer, Futurologist, and the founder of award winning creativity laboratory Winner Winner Chicken Dinner; a boutique agency focused on creating remarkable and innovative experiences with digital marketing and technology. He is a writer for Search Engine Journal and Search Engine Land, discusses current marketing issues on his blog, frequently… View Article

Josh Weum – Business Development

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Josh Weum has worked in Google’s Agency department for almost two years. He’s responsible for helping brands grow, and more specifically, helping businesses make the transition from traditional media into digital. His passion is helping brands navigate the process of “finding your customers online” its many different forms, whether the customers be real estate buyers… View Article

Kirk Williams – PPC

Connect: http://zatomarketing.com/

Kirk is the owner of ZATO, his PPC Marketing agency and has been working in Paid Search since 2010. He has published articles on Search Engine Land, Moz, PPC Hero, and the Bing Ads blog, but is probably more well known for the dumb PPC memes he shares on Twitter. In 2015 Kirk was named… View Article

Korey McMahon – Goal Setting

Connect: http://www.koreymcmahon.com/

Prior to earning a bachelor’s degree from Colorado State University, Korey competed as a professional freestyle snowboarder. In 2003, he ranked second in the nation by the United States of America Snowboard Association. After his retirement from competitive snowboarding, Korey sprung face-first into the world of marketing with the notorious mogul, Mountain Dew. Collaborating and… View Article

Maree Jones – PR

Connect: http://www.luckie.com/

Whether in front of a classroom or a boardroom, Maree’s focus has always been education. A former middle school teacher, Maree is now passionate about educating clients and partners on current trends and best practices within social media and digital platforms and implementing those strategies in order to create buzz. At Luckie & Company, Maree… View Article

Sarah Hoffman – Social Media

Connect: https://bigwing.com/team/sarah-hoffman/

Sarah Hoffman is the Senior Manager of the Social Media team at BigWing Interactive. Within just three years, Sarah is credited with turning the social media department from an exciting vision into a major company product. Sarah has propelled stellar advertising campaigns and has been credited for increasing BigWing’s social media revenue by 265% in just… View Article

Steve Hammer will be a presenter at Confluence 2018

Steve Hammer – Search Strategy

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Steve Hammer is the President and co-Founder of RankHammer, the 2015 US search awards small agency of the year. Steve is a sought after speaker on the subjects of search marketing, PPC and analytics. In particular, he has been noted as a leader in AdWords Scripts and Google Tag Manager. Steve’s experience in online media… View Article

Zeph Snapp – SEO

Connect: http://alturainteractive.com/

Zeph Snapp is the CEO of Altura Interactive, the digital marketing agency he founded in 2010 that is focused on helping international companies reach Spanish speakers in the US and Latin America. He has spoken industry events like Searchfest, State of Search and Mozcon. His data driven, customer-centric approach has been trusted by brands like… View Article

Joe Laratro – Keynote

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Joe is President and Founder of Tandem Interactive. He founded the company in April 2006 to focus specifically on underserviced areas of online marketing. Tandem is a boutique-style agency that provides SEM services to help clients achieve website success through online marketing strategies with the goal of driving bottom line results. Joe has deep roots… View Article

Larry Kim – Keynote

Connect: https://mobilemonkey.com/

Larry Kim founded WordStream, a marketing software company managing over a half-Billion dollars in annual ad spend for over ten thousand customers, and is currently at his new company, MobileMonkey. He developed free tools for Facebook ads & AdWords used by over a million marketers worldwide. Larry’ shares marketing insights to over a million visitors/month… View Article

Greg Gifford Confluence Digital Marketing Conference SEO Speaker

Greg Gifford – SEO

Connect: http://www.dealeron.com/

Featured by: SE Journal, Pubcon, SMX Greg Gifford is a local search superhero, and he wants you to don a cape as well. Currently the Director of Search and Social for DealerOn, Greg specializes in using local SEO and managed social media to stay ahead of the pack in the hyper-competitive car-dealership market. Frequent blogger… View Article

Shawn Cohen – Content Marketing

Connect: http://www.56marketing.com/

Featured by: SMX London, Moz.com Shawn is Senior Associate of Online Marketing at TXU Energy, managing SEO and paid search strategy. When he’s not busy geeking out over deregulated energy, Shawn consults with clients through his boutique digital marketing agency, 56Marketing. With his guidance and execution, a variety of clients across industries have achieved double… View Article