Shane Gibson is an international speaker and author on sales performance, B2B Selling, and sales leadership who has addressed over 200,000 people on stages in North America, Southern Africa, India, Dubai, Malaysia and South America. Shane Gibson is #5 on the Forbes.com list of the Top 30 Social Sales People in the World.

Shane’s books include Sociable! How Social Media is Turning Sales and Marketing Upside Down. Closing Bigger the Field Guide to Closing Bigger Deals and Guerrilla Social Media Marketing, co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson. His latest book co-authored with Dr. Denis Cauvier is called "Real Results in a Virtual Economy - How to Future-Proof Your Business."

He is a certified Master Trainer and contributing author in the Complete Sales Action System™ and Managing Complex Business Relationships. Shane is Canada’s only Guerrilla Marketing Master Trainer. He is also co-founder and facilitator of the Langara College Online Professional Sales Certificate Program; a 72-hour 4-month program based upon Shane’s sales processes and programs.

Blogging since 2002 and podcasting since 2004, Shane is a veteran in the social selling arena and cited as an expert in the use of social media platforms and channels. Published in numerous publications including CMA Magazine, the Financial Post, the Globe and Mail, Entrepreneur.com and Business In Vancouver Magazine.

Shane’s speaking and training clients include: Great West Life, BDC, Sun Life, BMO Financial, CPA, HUB International, Canaccord Financial, Ford Motor Company, Manitoba Motor Dealers Association, American Marketing Association (BC and MB), CMA Canada, ACL, HeroX, Reliance Industries (India), Corning Cable Systems, IUOE, The Vancouver Board of Trade, Seminarium Colombia, Seminarium Chile, the Sauder School of Business, the University of British Columbia, and hundreds of entrepreneurs, individual sales people and marketers over the past 20 years. When he’s not selling or speaking, you can find Shane hiking or skiing in British Columbia’s Coast Mountain range with his family.

4 Time Best Selling Author, Publicity and Networking Expert, International Speaker

Jill Lublin is the 4 Time Bestselling Author of “Guerrilla Publicity”, “Get Noticed... Get Referrals”, and “Networking Magic”. An international speaker with more than 200 speaking engagements each year, Jill Lublin is an audience favorite for her lively and interactive keynote speeches, seminars, and special programs. Her unparalleled knowledge of publicity and networking has gotten the attention of ABC, NBC, CBS, The New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, Fortune Small Business and a long list of media outlets worldwide. Having shared the stage with Tony Robbins, Richard Simmons, and Jack Canfield, when Jill isn’t traveling the word wowing audiences, she hosts her own television show, “Messages of Hope.”

Praised as a modern-day Dale Carnegie for how to be influential, Jill Lublin has empowered and inspired over 100,000 people through her best-selling books, national and international speaking tours, and strategic consulting engagements. Jill’s national bestselling books include:

* Networking Magic, which rose to #1 on the Barnes and Noble charts for three weeks (with Rick Frishman, Adams Media, 2002)

* Guerrilla Publicity often called the PR bible, which has proven so perennially popular that it was updated to a second edition with podcasts, blogs, and media training for the digital age (with Jay Conrad Levinson and Rick Frishman, Adams Media, September 2008).

* Get Noticed... Get Referrals: Build Your Client Base and Your Business by Making a Name for Yourself, also a #1 national bestseller (McGraw-Hill, June 2008).

* The Profit of Kindness: How to Influence Others, Establish Trust, and Build Lasting Business Relationships (Weiser January 2017)

An internationally renowned speaker, Jill teaches powerful publicity, networking, and how-to- be-influential techniques. As the CEO of the strategic consulting firm, Promising Promotion, Jill has trained companies in innovative methods to improve bottom line results. Jill's clients range from banks to software companies, and include entrepreneurs, national associations, non-profit organizations, and franchises. She has also created a complete home study system for how to “Be Influential” and teaches crash courses in publicity internationally.

In the past twenty years, she has worked with ABC, NBC, CBS, and other national media, and knows what the media wants. Jill has been featured in The New York Times, Women’s Day, Fortune Small Business, Inc, and Entrepreneur Magazine, and on ABC and NBC radio and TV national affiliates.

Rick Frishman, Publisher at Union Square Publishing in New York and founder of Planned Television Arts (now called Media Connect), has been one of the leading book publicists in America for over 43 years. Rick works with many of the top book editors, literary agents, and publishers in America, including Simon and Schuster, Harper Collins and Random House.

Rick is Co-author of 19 books including Guerrilla Publicity and Networking Magic.

Union Square Publishing publishes fiction and nonfiction books and looks for authors who believe in giving back. Union Square Publishing gives a portion of every book sold to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

He has worked with hundreds of bestselling authors such as Mitch Albom, Bill Moyers, Stephen King, Caroline Kennedy, Howard Stern, President Jimmy Carter, Sophia Loren, Smokey Robinson, Nelson DeMille, Barbara Bush, Jackie Collins, Arnold Palmer, Yogi Berra, Whoppi Goldberg, Vanessa Redgrave, Henry Kissinger, Bill Parcells, Walter Cronkite, Jack Canfield, Gov. Mario Cuomo, John Grisham, Salmon Rushdie, and Senator John Glenn.

Rick has appeared on hundreds of radio shows and more than a dozen TV shows nationwide, including Oprah, Fox News and Bloomberg TV. He has also been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Selling Power Magazine, New York Post, and scores of other publications.He has appeared on stage with notables such as Sir Richard Branson, The Dalai Lama, T. Harv Eker, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Tony Hsieh, David Bach, Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar and Brendon Burchard.

Rick has a BFA in acting and directing and a BS in communications from Ithaca College. He is a sought-after lecturer on publishing and public relations. He is founder of Author101University. Author101U has presented over 32 events since 2002.

Rick and his wife Robbi live in Long Island, NY with their Havanese puppy Cody. They have three children: Adam, Rachel, and Stephanie

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