Speaking

Mike speaks regularly on the power of social media, online marketing and personal branding. He is recognized for his ability to convey a message with heartfelt passion and conviction. It comes naturally when you are doing what you love. As a Fortune 500 marketing executive, he represented his employers at various events of well over 12,000 attendees, including press briefings, panels, corporate presentations, and executive reviews.

Topics include content marketing, blogging, influencer marketing, local online marketing, technology trends and many others.

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Upcoming Speaking Events

• 6/20/13  Texas Self Storage Association Executive Retreat, Keynote: “Key Strategies for Dominating Local Search”
• 9/13/13  Opening Keynote, Pinnacle Summit, “Trends in Technology”

Past Speaking Events

• 4/10/13 Guest lecturer UNT Journalism Department
• 1/23- 1/24 2013 Keynote Speaker, City of Arlington’s Brand Aid Marketing and Social Media Conference
• 12/5/12 Dallas Digital Summit  Content Strategy & Curation
• 12/4/12 Dallas Digital Summit  Marketers Roundtable
• 11/12/12  State of Search, DFW Search Engine Marketing Association
• 10/21 – 10/23/2012 Driving Sales Executive Summit 2012
• 9/12/12 Dallas Business Journal Growth Expo, Panel on Strategic Online Marketing
• 5/23/12 Creating a Blog Process and Program, Private Webinar for Michael and Susan Dell Foundation
• 4/25/12 Developing a Social Media Program, Private Webinar for Michael and Susan Dell Foundation
• 3/28/12 Understanding Social Media, Private Webinar for Michael and Susan Dell Foundation
• 3/10/12 SXSW “Your Marketing Sucks: Why You Need to Think Local“
• 2/17/12 Explore Dallas Fort Worth
• 2/11/12 Kellogg Graduate School of Management and Northwestern University
  The 7th Annual Kellogg Career Symposium “Moving up in a Down Economy: How to Accelerate Your Career“
• 2/9/12 PRSA Dallas – The Age of the Brandividual
• 2/9/12 TeXchange Panel “Bootstrapped PR“
• 10/13/11 Guest Lecturer, University of North Texas, Department of Radio, TV and Film
• 9/14/11 DFW Retail Executives Association – Social Media in Retail: What’s New? What’s Now? What’s Next?
• 7/8/11  Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG), Google 2011: It’s all About Local
• 5/24/11  Brookhaven Country Club Business Alliance, Panel on Social Media
• 5/18/11  DFWSEM Panel on Intersection of Search and Social
• 4/27/11  DFW American Marketing Association, Google 2011, Dallas, TX
• 4/2/11  LULAC District III Convention, Dallas, TX
• 2/22/11 SMU PRSSA, Dallas TX
• 1/11/11 Professional Association of Innkeepers, Charleston, SC
• 10/28/10 Social Media Club of Ft. Worth – The Age of The Brandividual
• 10/20/10 SMU - Careers in Social Media Dallas, TX
• 10/19/10 SMU – Social Media and Your Job Search Dallas, TX
• 9/17/10 Optimization Summit - Social Media ROI.
• 9/17/10 Kimberly Schlegel Whitman RSVP Calendar – Building your Brand via Social Media
• 9/11/10 Press Club of Dallas Social Media Workshop at SMU, Dallas, TX
• 8/18/10 eWomen Network Ft. Worth, TX
• 7/14/10 North Texas Food Bank Agency University – Social Media: The Way of The Future
• 6/29/10 Career Connection General Session
• 5/28/10 Big D Design Conference, Dallas, TX
• 3/11/10 The Innkeeping Show, Austin, TX
• 3/9/10 DFW American Marketing Association New Media SIG ”The Age of the Brandividual”, Dallas, TX
• 2/25/10 MIT Enterprise Forum “Bootstrapping”
• 2/25/10 KickApps Social Media Seminar: Keys to Business Success with Social Media.
• 2/6/10 Kellogg Alumni Club of Dallas 5th Annual Career Symposium, SMU Exec Ed Center, Dallas, TX
• 12/16/09 Grace Community Church – “The Age of the Brandividual”   7pm WC101, Plano, TX
• 11/2/09   Tourism Association of New Mexico Research and Marketing Conference Albuquerque, NM
• 10/16/09 PRSA Dallas Communications Summit Dallas, TX
• 9/23/09   PR Newswires “Industries in Flux: Media and Public Relations and the Impact of Social Media“
• 9/5/09     DFW Twitter Meetup, BlackFinn in Addison, TX
• 8/10/09   Social Media Marketing Workshop Las Cruces, NM
• 7/21/09   Private Webinar – “Leveraging LinkedIn To Grow Your Business”
• 5/22/09   Seminar  Albuquerque, NM
• 5/18/09   DFW Social Media Marketing Meetup - “The Age of the Brandividual”  Dallas, TX
• 5/14/09   Winning In Life Now Radio Interview
• 4/30/09  Dallas Morning News

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