Dynamic management strategist with a 30 year record of achievement and demonstrated success driving growth while providing award-winning leadership in highly competitive markets. Adept at driving growth of company revenues and improving team performance. Exceptional mentor and coach. Tenacious in building new business, securing customer loyalty and forging strong relationship with external business partners.Currently the President and CEO of the Association of Directory Publishers. ADP is an international trade organization founded in 1898 to meet the needs of independent directory publishers, to promote their interests and to improve the business climate for their success.Previously served in leadership role at the Local Search Association for over 25 years, as the Director of Membership and Sales.Specialties: General Management, Corporate Development, Product Development, Business Operations, Strategy, Product Marketing.

-Management - Systems, people, procedures, etc.-Technology - Familiar with Mac and PC, VBA, Applescript, Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, Phone and data systems and wiring (I'm the guy everyone hands their new electronics to on Christmas and says "Figure this out for me")- Negotiation - Have negotiated price for company printing, sale of proprietary software, employee benefits, etc.- Handyman/Facilities manager - Light electrical, drywall, framing, plumbing, flooring, painting, etc.Specialties: -Management - Systems, people, procedures, etc.-Technology - Familiar with Mac and PC, VBA, Applescript, Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, Phone and data systems and wiring (I'm the guy everyone hands their new electronics to on Christmas and says "Figure this out for me")- Negotiation - Have negotiated price for company printing, sale of proprietary software, employee benefits, etc.- Handyman/Facilities manager - Light electrical, drywall, framing, plumbing, flooring, painting, etc.

Print and online Yellow pages search,search engine optimization text marketing,video and website provider.

Regional content with the emphasis to inform and connect our communities through multi-media. Specialties: media & marketing for small and mid-size markets. Focusing on content for consumer and business for newspaper, magazines, directories, and radio.

Janice is ADP's Director of Finance and has been with the Association for 15 years. She has over 35 years of accounting experience in various positions including, Accounting Supervisor, Senior Accountant, Budget Analyst, and Accounting and Finance Director in Association Management, Finance, Legal, Travel, and Transportation industries. Janice received a Bachelors of Science degree in Business Administration with an Accounting and Finance Specialty from Lawrence Technological University. She enjoys spending time with her daughter, son-in-law and new grandson, the outdoors, gardening and the lakes of Northern Michigan. Janice also volunteers her accounting services to numerous organizations.

Lisa joined ADP in 2014 as Membership Director, was promoted to Accounting Manager in 2015 and is currently the Director of Operations. Prior to ADP, she worked in the accounting field for local contracting companies and owned a catering business in the wedding industry. Lisa has an Associate in Applied Science degree in Accounting from Davenport University. She is very active with her three daughters and enjoys spending time outdoors hiking through the Sleeping Bear Dunes, snowshoeing, kayaking and bowling. 

Jill is the Association's Director of Communications and has over 25 years of experience in the public relations and marketing arenas. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Communication, Arts and Sciences from Western Michigan University.She is married with two children and likes to dance, take long walks with her dog, read, and travel with her husband.

Kelly joined ADP in 2017 and handles the association's donated ad programs which include Senior Life, Alarm Advisors, Pura Vida and Leadz. 

As an ex - Amdocs executive Yosh is specializing in end-to-end online business solutions for companies that deal with connecting buyers and sellers. Yosh services include: business consulting, state of the art technology solutions, project management & integration and training. Yosh's specialty is offering advanced technology platforms and solutions that can increase the company ROI and increase the digital revenue substantially. Yosh's is an industry professional that brings the worldwide expertise and experience and can introduce many different type of solutions that can bring added values to any of the businesses. Yosh brings, to its customers, world wide industry knowledge from both software solution and operation, together with top level expertise in the Directory business, and business process.

Kai-Uwe Rössel, Trainer and Business Analyst at net-linx Europe GmbH, www.net-linx.com.IT Graduate engineer ("Diplomingenieur").In the old days worked as developer for Mainframe computers and emerging Personal computers.20 years in the Directory / Local Search industry.Responsible Trainer for net-linx projects in Europe, Asia and Africa. Other training assignments in Northern America.Furthermore, doing business analysis and consulting for net-linx clients worldwide, and in turn feeding back industry experiences into the solution development at net-linx.Likes cycling (Cannondale racing cycle -- really love it :) and scuba-diving.

Extensive experience in digital marketing and have leveraged that to develop a holistic approach to digital marketing strategies that encompasses multiple disciplines to drive performance.*Data analysis toward methodologies to translate analytics and research data into actionable insights.*As of January 1st, 2016, I've played a direct part in helping over 1.2 Million businesses for the major Search Engines. My company has a well-rounded marketing portfolio complete with traditional, online, digital, social and video.Specialties: Digital Marketing Solutions for Local Search.

At Digital Marketing Inc., we create a highly personalized and targeted strategy to align with a client’s branding and revenue goals to help them achieve success. Our team is made up of marketing professionals with decades of experience ranging from print advertising to online marketing This unique, boutique background allows us to harmonize a tremendous variety of services in the digital world with the ability to seamlessly integrate with print strategies. DMI works with clients directly on a local and national level as well as managing customers for resellers of our products and services.The integration of creative print and digital media creates results-driven campaigns for our clients. Learn more in our case study image below.Digital Marketing Inc. provides superior results for all of our clients by cherry picking the appropriate digital services to reach their goals and infusing them into a seamless strategy. All of our services include full support and coaching to help integrate your offline marketing efforts with digital strategies. DMI uses a variety of analytic and data measuring tools to judge your digital performance, identify where improvement is needed and optimizing our strategies to get you the best results! Explore our extensive list of services in the document below. 

I am a doer. Everyday brings with it new challenges and new hope, and it makes me feel alive. I love to see smiling faces - of my team mates, my customers, my friends and my family; and if I am able to contribute to that smile, I feel grateful.

Senior Media, Advertising and Technology executive.Experienced, entrepreneurial leader with a proven track record of performance in media, advertising and e-commerce. Successful at generating audience and revenue growth in the media, consumer, product, advertising and b-to-b markets. Focused on businesses in transformation. Specialties: Building great teams that achieve measurable results, increasing market share.David has a history of improving advertising and traditional media results in digital and traditional media, in both large at scale companies like YP, AOL and Clear Channel, as well as in start up environments.

Entrepreneurial, energetic driven by an unyielding passion to make a difference. 10+ years experience in digital advertising. CEO of GotU, Inc. - a Facebook Marketing Partner focused on creating the best local digital advertising solution for SMBs.

Matt Stewart grew up in Georgetown TX, just 30 minutes down the road from Austin. He attended Texas Tech University before moving to Florida, where he met his Canadian wife, who he moved with to London Ontario. Matt has been a Financial Advisor for the past 15 years in London. He enjoys competitive swimming and relaxing with his two dogs. For the past two years, he has been working on developing the Locapon App. He is excited to be back in Texas for the first time in 20 years to be able to share this fresh idea with the Publisher community.

Steve Sitton has spent 30 years on the cutting edge of the Directional Media Industry. Joining ADP in 1985, he founded, owned and sold five Print and print/digital companies between 1985 and 2010. During the 25 years that Steve was an ADP publisher, he hired, trained and led nearly 1,000 sales people and managers. Steve founded Market Authority, Inc. in 2009.With nearly 600,000 live Consumer Interviews; Market Authority is the world’s leader in Directional Media consumer research. Market Authority’s trainings are widely seen as the most powerful and effective trainings in the Directional Media Industry. As of Feb 2015, Steve and other Market Authority trainers have presented Market Authority’s signature trainings to over 16,000 sales people and managers across 13 countries.

As Chief Strategy Officer for NavAds, a leading location marketing technology company with deep roots in the navigation and mapping industry, Gideon leads the company’s U.S. operation, where he is focused on developing strategic partnerships.Prior to NavAds, Gideon served as CRO/CMO for local search marketing company Local Market Launch.Gideon was CEO of Simply Ideas a marketing software company focused on SEO lead generation. He was also a partner and founder at MicroGravity Media, an organic search marketing software company and a principal at Proper Hosting, a green hosting company, and several highly regarded social media ventures, including Twitroduce.com and DoDraw.com. Gideon's ventures have been selected by KillerStartUps.com and The Launch Pad.

Experienced General Business Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the telecommunications industry. Skilled in Advertising, Sales, Strategic Planning, Business Development, and Marketing Strategy. Strong accounting professional graduated from Eastern Illinois University.

Andrew is CEO of LocalSEOGuide.com a leading SEO consultancy with a specialty in Multi-Location & Enterprise SEO for 10+ years.Andrew is editor of the Local SEO Guide blog which includes their definitive Local SEO Ranking Factors study. He has been a regular contributor to SearchEngineLand and co-founder of BayAreaSearch.org, the association of Bay Area search marketing professionals.Andrew has over 20 years of experience in the Internet. He was a founding member of NBC’s Internet group and former GM of NBC.com. He helped start Insider Pages, a pioneering local-social search engine, which was acquired by CitySearch in 2006.

12 time Presidents club sales winner ! I am an entrepreneur that strives to build on present and new pathways to profitablr sales for my company .My back ground in starting up companies and building out sales teams and sales channels .At this time I am leading with the build up of a performance based digital and print products . Starting with an idea to serve advertisers who needed a purchasing model that could meet the strict demands of the CFO/CMO relationship. We have moved from no clients to hundreds in only of few years and millions of dollars of sales and profits.. all with no IT development. The challenge is met head on to continue to grow as I look to aggregate the product into an ever expanding distribution network. One of my mottos in life- is that you have to ask ! and be ready to find a way to make the answer a yes !

As a seasoned marketing executive with more than 15 years of experience, Laura uses her entrepreneurial spirit to lead all of Vivial’s marketing functions including marketing communications, digital marketing, investor relations, product marketing, partner marketing and go-to-market strategy.Laura began her career at Vivial as an account executive, working directly with the company's small- and medium-size business clients, so she understands their needs and unique challenges when it comes to digital marketing support. She is able to take this knowledge and work with Vival's team and agency partners to develop marketing campaigns that resonate and appeal to SMBs. She has also served in sales, operations, product development and product marketing roles, which allows her to leverage her end-to-end knowledge to create a successful marketing strategy for all the divisions within Vivial.One of Laura’s most significant accomplishments as vice president of marketing at Vivial has been leading a yearlong rebranding effort for the organization. This complete brand overhaul focused on the merger of multiple brands into one advertising technology company. The process included selecting agency partners, choosing the new brand and driving the brand launch plan for full rollout on an aggressive schedule. 

Bernadette Coleman is the founder and CEO of Advice Local, an award-winning local search technology and local presence management company focused on improving visibility for clients across the local digital universe.Not only is her company a 3x Inc. 500 award winner, Bernadette herself has received many accolades. Most recently, she won Internet Marketing Association’s “Internet Marketer of the Year” in 2017 and is the prior recipient of two Silver Stevie®Awards: “Woman Executive of the Year 2013” and “Woman Entrepreneur of the Year 2013.”Actively involved in digital marketing with an emphasis on local SEO since 2001, Bernadette speaks at local events like the American Marketing Association, and national events such as Pubcon, Local Search Association, Association of Directory Publishers, and Big Design.Called the Queen of Local SEO by industry peers, Bernadette is always thinking about how businesses, small and large, can leverage content marketing, search engine optimization, and social media to dominate local search.In her spare time she and her husband, Tom, work as advocates for brain injury awareness through their cofounded nonprofit, TryMunity.

A successful executive experienced in operations, product development, marketing, business development, implementation, training and education. Experience covers various industries including digital presence management, SEM & SEO, telecommunications and electronics.

Experienced Executive Sales Management & Marketing professional with proven track record in Interactive Digital Media, SaaS, SEM, Mobile and Magazine/Newspaper fields. Strategic thinker, creative, analytic and driven.

Sales and Marketing Professional with strong financial skills.(former CPA)Specialties: Sales, Marketing, Profit Optimization, Product Launches, Product Management, Pricing, Market Management, Business Development, Product Positioning.

GotU is an independent technology company focused on developing effective local advertising solutions for local businesses, leveraging 13 years of experience, growth and success in the digital world.As an Account Director my role is to support key partners with product implementation, go to market strategy and long-term success, acting as a connection between internal functions - such as Development, Project Management, Campaign Management- and our Partners .

A pragmatic, clear thinking and outcomes focused professional who has extensive experience in business development/marketing and sales technics. Proven track record in the delivery of service through the management of daily operations, implementation of strategies, relationship development and recommendation of improvements. Achieves business development and marketing objectives by contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing quality and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining system improvements; and implementing change.

Digital Media professional with 21+ years experience in national and local media sales, account management, strategic business development, media and marketing strategy, and Listings Presence Management and Mobile App creation, sales and marketing.

David has worked in online media for two decades. He previously was news editor at Mediabistro, online editor at Editor & Publisher, and a reporter for Metro NY. He has also written and edited for Wired, The New York Times, Ad Age, Forbes Traveler, New York magazine and many other online and offline publications. He lives in Providence, R.I.

Experienced Publishing Director with a demonstrated history of working in the publishing industry. Strong sales professional skilled in Mobile Advertising, Digital Strategy, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Marketing Management, and Advertising Sales.

A digitally focused marketing professional that understands the power of online marketing and respects traditional marketing channels as well. It is all about providing a good return on any investment (ROI) made into a marketing budget. There is no silver bullet. The best way to accomplish a good ROI is to analyze every scenario and find solutions to the unique needs every product, campaign, or company has.

Gregg K Walls - Born and raised in Buffalo NY and a graduate of Clarence Central High School and Slippery Rock University. That’s right Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania aka. “The Rock” and believe it or not, he’s proud of it. For more than 20 years Gregg has been helping businesses both large and small navigate the difficult world of effective advertising. From President and CEO of his own advertising agency to partnering with White Directory Publishers in the early 90’s and then becoming VP of the Reseller Channel with Localedge a division of Hearst Media Services, Gregg has been a key educator and consultant in the ever changing world of advertising.

I manage the National Sales Communications efforts. I work with marketing to secure all sales aids to assist our team in selling the yellowbook/hibu products. I also manage the performance platform, specifically pay for call and pay for click. I manage our agency website.