This Years Speakers

Adam Witty

  • Founder and CEO of Advantage Media Group
  • Host of 3rd Annual Author Marketing Summit
  • Author of 21 Ways to Build Your Business with a Book
  • Recognized expert and speaker on marketing techniques for authors
Adam Witty is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Advantage Media Group, a leading publisher of business, motivation, and self-help authors. Based in Charleston, South Carolina, Advantage publishes hundreds of authors around the world.

In addition, Adam is the President of the Faculty of Author Inner Circle, the founder of the Author Marketing Summit, author of 21 Ways to Build Your Business With a Book, co-author of Click: The Ultimate Guide to Internet Marketing for Authors, and an in-demand teacher and consultant on marketing and business development techniques for authors.

Brian Jud

  • Author of Beyond the Bookstore
  • President of Book Marketing Works
  • Host of the TV show The Book Authority
  • Host of the National Special Sales Conference sponsored by Simon and Schuster
Brian Jud is the leading industry expert on special sales of books to non-retail markets. He is the host of the National Special Sales Conference sponsored by Simon and Schuster and conducts the Masters of Book Marketing seminars and the Book Marketing Monthly tele-seminars. He is the author of Beyond the Bookstore and The Marketing Planning CD-ROM describing new ways to sell more books profitably to special-sales buyers.

Brian is also the editor of the Book Marketing Matters newsletter on special sales topics. He is a syndicated columnist and a regular contributor to the PMA Newsletter, SPAN Newsletter and Book Marketing Update. Brian is the host of the television series The Book Authority and has aired five hundred and fifty shows. Brian is an adjunct lecturer of sales and marketing courses for graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Hartford and the University of Connecticut.

Steve Gilliland

  • Speaks to 250,000 people per year
  • Author of 4 books, including best-selling Enjoy the Ride
  • Shares the speaking platform with Ken Blanchard, Rudy Giuliani, Jim Kelly, Pat Summit
  • Founder and Owner of a multi-million dollar speaking and information marketing business
Steve Gilliland is one of the most in-demand and top rated speakers in North America. He has been working with meeting planners and speakers bureaus since 1999 to entertain, educate and inspire audiences all over the world. He speaks to more than 250,000 people a year and has shared the platform with numerous dignitaries, including bestselling author Dr. Ken Blanchard and former Mayor of New York Rudolph Giuliani. In addition to his brilliant speaking career, Steve is an accomplished author, which is evidenced by his book Enjoy The Ride, being on the publisher's bestselling top 10 list for three consecutive years.

Steve built a multimillion-dollar company from the ground up on the same philosophy he expounds to his audiences. If you continually learn more about your company, your industry, your customer and yourself, you will always be a leader. You will be purpose-driven rather than process-driven, and you will make a difference. His motto is straightforward: If you take care of people, the business will follow. Implementing this principle, he has people grow their businesses and expand their lives by teaching them to rethink their work, their relationships and themselves. He was recognized by Whos Who for Speakers and Business Professionals, and his company was acknowledged by the Pittsburgh Business Times as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in the region.

Andrew Lock

  • Host of Help! My Business Sucks #1 Most Popular WebTV show in Apple iTunes
  • Personal Manager of Paul Daniels, the Johnny Carson of the UK
  • Founder of GotBiz.tv Internet TV network for entrepreneurs
  • Author of 6 books including Magical Marketing
Andrew Lock is the host of Help! My Business Sucks!, a free, weekly web TV show that helps entrepreneurs get more done and have more fun. With an irreverent, entertaining, and humorous style, the show has become more popular than a supermodel at a Catholic boarding school. In 2008 the show became the #1 most popular marketing WebTV show in the Apple iTunes store with over 150,000 weekly viewers, beating well known traditional business training competitors like Harvard Business Review, Advertising Age, and Business Week.

The creator and presenter of the show, British born Andrew Lock, is a maverick marketer. Andrew is on a mission to expose traditional marketing techniques as outdated and ineffective. Youll discover much better ways of promoting your business, to make it stand out from the crowd. Youll also discover that marketing is everything and everything is marketing a phrase that youll hear a lot from Andrew.

In 2009, Andrew launched a new WebTV network for entrepreneurs called GotBiz.tv. Andrew teaches authors how to promote their book and business through cutting-edge internet television.

Mike Stewart

  • The Internet Video Guy and the Internet Audio Guy
  • Regular speaker and resident expert for Dan Kennedy and Armand Morin
  • Clients include Delta Air Lines, Georgia Pacific, Coca-Cola, Kroger, and Ford Motor Company
Mike Stewart, also known as The Internet Audio and Video Guy consults authors and small business owners, teaching them how to set up their own worldwide TV stations and broadcast their unique marketing message to the world. Mike focuses on Internet technologies that allow audio and video to be streamed over the Internet.

Mike teaches students how to record themselves to make quality multi-media audio and video information products that can be marketed for high profits.

Mike has been in the recording business for more than 25 years. He is known as the Internet Audio Guy. He owned a recording studio in the Atlanta area where he created and recorded radio/TV advertising campaigns for many major corporations such as Delta Air Lines, Georgia Pacific, Coca-Cola, Kroger, and Ford Motor Company, just to name a few.

Michael Cage

  • Known as The Professor Of Profitable Tele-seminars And Webinars That Sell Like Crazy
  • Faculty + Expert to Dan Kennedy and Bill Glazers 20,000+ entrepreneur members







Yolanda Harris

  • Founder and CEO of The Keynote Group
  • Former VP and Advisor to Anthony Robbins
  • Clients include Keith Harrell, Les Brown, Jeffrey Gitomer, Cynthia Kersey and Bob Burg
A trusted business coach, leadership advisor and expert in building businesses, Yolanda Harris came to the motivational speaking industry with more than 20 years of executive leadership experience in the areas of marketing, real estate, and finance and business development.

Yolanda's passion for excellence in leadership, and implementation of change, led her to internationally-known authority on peak performance, Anthony Robbins, where she directed the coaching sales division, helping evolve the department into a cohesive and highly profitable team. Having worked closely with the motivational speaking maverick, Yolanda quickly carved out a unique niche for herself, one that combined her enthusiasm for influential speakers with her mastery of building remarkable and financially successful businesses. Following this passion, Yolanda continued to lend her expertise to other high profile speakers such as Keith Harrell, Les Brown, Jeffrey Gitomer, Cynthia Kersey and Bob Burg.

In 2003, Yolanda established The Keynote Group, which represents a talented roster of clientele from an array of industries. The company supports highly-acclaimed authorities in their field looking to perfect their message, as well as top performing Fortune 500 executives make the transition from corporate America to entrepreneurial speaker. By leveraging their unique selling points, Yolanda helps a pool of leaders build a world-class speaking business.

Jordan McAuley

  • CEO of CELEBRITY I PR
  • Best-selling author of Celebrity Leverage and the Celebrity Black Book
  • Known as King of Celebrity Contacts: founder of ContactAnyCelebrity.com
  • Has been featured by CNN, National Public Radio, USA Today, Investor's Business Daily, Associated Press, Sirius/XM Satellite Radio, and more...
Jordan McAuley is the Founder and President of CELEBRITY | PR, a media and public relations firm located in New York City that specializes in strategic marketing and publicity. Known as the King of Celebrity Contacts, Jordan's record spans more than a decade in publicity, marketing, publishing, events, and entrepreneurship.

Jordan's Contact Any Celebrity service is one of the most respected publicity resources in the world, with billings of more than $1 million annually and a blue-chip roster of over 5,000 marketers, publicists, nonprofits, journalists, and media clients who rely on it daily.

McAuley and his clients have been featured by the Associated Press, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, Star Magazine, Village Voice, Entrepreneur Magazine, Out Magazine, New York Magazine, and more. He has also appeared on CNN, National Public Radio (NPR), E! Online, Q Television, Better TV, and Sirius/XM Satellite Radio. He is the author of the best-selling Celebrity Leverage and Celebrity Black Book

Marisha Friedman

  • Founder and CEO of EMSI, Pay-for-Performance PR agency
  • Author of Celebritize Yourself
  • Nationally syndicated radio talk show host, The Family Roundtable
  • Past PR clients include Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., The Temptations, and Robert McFarlane
  • Expert 0f "Harnessing the Power of Publicity"
Marsha Friedman, author of Celebritize Yourself and CEO of EMSI is Americas PR Expert. As a radio personality and public speaker, Marsha can be heard every week on the nationally syndicated talk radio show The Family Roundtable.

Marsha Friedman launched EMS Incorporated in 1990. Her firm represents corporations and experts in a wide array of fields such as business, health, food, lifestyle, politics, finance, law, sports and entertainment. Some of the more prominent names on her client roster are Teamsters President, Jimmy Hoffa Jr.; Sergeants Pet Care Products; Former National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane and the famous Motown Group, the Temptations.

She consults individuals and businesses on a daily basis and is frequently asked to speak at conferences about how to harness the power of publicity.