As every generation has embraced internet-connected smartphone/ tablet and now,spending hours using it; in order to reach out to them, digital marketing has become indispensable for almost every other business under the sun.
Amazing thing about digital marketing is, it touches multi-disciplinary topics including five (5) ‘P’s of marketing
- Product
- Place
- Price
- Promotion
- People
Hence digital marketing aims to cover branding, content marketing, buyer persona, content distribution, product/service pricing, product marketing, and so much more.
It is whole gamut of things one need to understand in order to use digital marketing effectively. Using digital marketing effectively means, driving higher traffic, having greater engagement, getting more conversions, etc.
If you want to ride this wave, you need to look upto and learn from the masters, the best of the people in this industry to make your product/service stand out and carve your niche.
Who are the world’s top digital marketing experts, social media experts, content marketers, branding and marketing gurus? We are compiling the list. And here it is
1. Gary Vaynerchuk
 | Gary Vaynerchuk | ||
| Known As | |||
| Founder and CEO of Vayner Media. Initially he has been known as a wine critic who scaled his family’s wine business. He is best known for his work in digital marketing and social media through New York based agency named VaynerX. Gary is chairman of VaynerX and CEO of VaynerMedia. | |||
| Website | Medium | ||
| garyvaynerchuk.com | @garyvee | Garyvaynerchuk | @garyvee |
| Followers Stats | 1.91 M | 3.04 M | 296K |
| What’s Popular | |||
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| The Most Powerful Mindset For Success | |||
2. Guy Kawasaki
 | Guy Kawasaki | ||
| Known As | |||
| A Silicon-Valley based author, speaker, entrepreneur, and evangelist. One of the sales person hired by Apple to market Macintosh computer and coined term Apple Evangelism. Also sits on the Board of Trustee of Wikimedia Foundation; founder of AllTop, co-founded Garage Technology Ventures and now currently chief evangelist of Canva – online graphic design tool. | |||
| Website | Medium | ||
| guykawasaki.com | GuyKawasaki | GuyKawasaki | Guy Kawasaki |
| Followers Stats | 1.44 M | 3 M | 77 K |
| What’s Popular | |||
| Quote “A good idea is 10% inspiration and 90% implementation.” | |||
| Quote “Defy the crowd. The crowd isn’t always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.” | |||
| TEDx Talk at Palo Alto | |||
| TEDx Talk at University of Berkeley | |||
3. Seth Godin
 | Seth Godin | ||
| Known As | |||
| Marketing Guru. He is Stanford alumni who held executive positions at dot com business. This american writer has more than 15-international best seller to his credentials and he is called as an Ultimate Entrepreneur in the Information Age (in 1998, he sold Yoyodyne to Yahoo! for US $30 Million). Seth is the founder and CEO of Squidoo.com and widely known for his innovative, disruptive thoughts on marketing, leadership, advertising, new ventures. | |||
| Website | Medium | ||
| seths.blog | ThisIsSethBlog | SethGodin | SethGodinBlog |
| Followers Stats | 685 K | 15 K | 118 K |
| What’s Popular | |||
| Quote “Content marketing is all the marketing that’s left.” – Seth Godin | |||
| Quote Content that builds trust is human, personal, relevant, it isn’t greedy, and it doesn’t trick people. If the recipient knew what the sender knows, would she still be happy? If the answer to that question is yes, then it’s likely it’s going to build trust | |||
| 10 Rules for Success | |||
| How to Be Truly Remarkable | |||
4. Jeff Bullas
 | Jeff Bullas | ||
| Known as | |||
| Content marketing influencer, digital entrepreneur, marketing strategist, keynote speaker and bestselling author. Jeff speaks, writes about marketing, digital content, social media, entrepreneurship and innovation among other topics. Jeff is CEO of Jeffbullas.com Pty Ltd. which helps businesses and individuals to build brands, to leverage online branding using social media techniques, content and digital marketing. | |||
| Website | Medium | ||
| JeffBullas.com | JeffBullas | JeffBullas | @jeffbullas |
| Followers Stats | 568 K | 34 K | 68 K |
| What’s Popular | |||
| Quote One of the biggest mistakes small business owners make is that They see social media as a homogenous entity. | |||
| Famous Article | |||
| Three Pillars to Content Marketing | |||
| How to Grow Your Web Traffic and Get Noticed on Noisy Web | |||
5. Lilach Bullock
 | Lilach Bullock | ||
| Known as | |||
| Content marketing guru, digital marketing speaker & consultant. Lead Conversion Expert who advocate best practices of content marketing, social media and outreach techniques. Founder of Lilach Bullock Ltd, helps content creation and PR for B2B technology, SaaS companies & Enterprises | |||
| Website | Medium | ||
| lilachbullock.com | lilachbullock | lilachbullock | @lilachbullock |
| Followers Stats | 102 K | 16 K | 8.9 K |
| What’s Popular | |||
| 10 Things to Give up Excuses, Self-doubt, Fear of failure, Procrastination, People pleasing, Fear of success, Negative thinking, Negative self talk, Judgement of others, Negative people in your circle | |||
| How I Learned to Overcome The Fear of Not Being Liked (TEDxBolton) | |||
| Break Free From Traditional Sales with Digital Selling (Simplilearn Webinar) | |||
6. Shelly Kramer
 | Shelly Kramer | ||
| Known As | |||
| Digital transformation expert, brand strategist; serial entrepreneur in technology ventures. She covers trends in B2B marketing and sales, digital transformation, customer experience, and marketing automation. Founder and CEO of V3 Broadsuite [V3B] also Senior Analyst and Founding Partners at Futurum Research | |||
| Medium | |||
| shellykramer | ShellyKramer | shellydemottekramer | @shellykramer |
| Followers Stats | 104 K | 8 K | 15.6 K |
| What’s Popular | |||
| I think that B2B marketers need to understand lead generation and the roles that email marketing and marketing automation can, and should, play in their success, and lobby for the budget that will help them put those things in place. Marketing teams will benefit, sales teams will benefit, and customers and prospects will benefit. But you can’t do email marketing and marketing automation without content, so understanding the right kind of content to create for each stage of the customer journey, having the ability to do (or outsource) that, and also making a commitment to creating video content are the three key things that I think it’s imperative that B2B marketers embrace in the coming year. Reference: https://www.snapapp.com/blog/b2b-marketing-trends/ | |||
| Integrated Marketing Strategy with Shelly Kramer | |||
| Why Does Full Stack Cloud Matter To Marketers! | |||
7. Neil Patel
 | Neil Patel | ||
| Known As | |||
| The top most digital marketing influencer today. Very active on social media, Neil is known for qualitative and quantitative analysis of the digital media experiments he conducts. At the age of 16, he created the first website; that experience forced him to learn marketing; so much so, he became very good at it and became an advocate of digital marketing. Neil is co-founder of Neil Patel Digital, CrazyEgg, Hello Bar. | |||
| Website | Youtube | ||
| neilpatel.com/ | neilpatel | neilkpatel | youtube/channel |
| Followers Stats | 325 K | 375 K | 367 K |
| What’s Popular | |||
| Quote “Create content that teaches. You can’t give up. You need to be consistently awesome.” | |||
| Growth Hacking | |||
| How to Get 4 Million Visits Per Month With One Simple Keyword Hack | |||
8. Tim Ferris
 | Tim Ferris | ||
| Known As | |||
| Author, Podcaster and TV Show Host. He built company BrainQUICKEN and sold it to private investors. His podcast show ‘The Tim Ferriss Show’ is hugely popular. Well known early stage angel investor into technology companies such as StumbleUpon, Evernote, Shopify, TaskRabbit, etc also acts as an advisor to Uber, Facebook, etc. He coined and published famous ‘The 4-Hour Workweek’ | |||
| Website | Medium | ||
| tim.blog | tferriss | timferriss | @timferriss |
| Followers Stats | 1.6 M | 1.4 M | 109 K |
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| Quote “For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. “Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it “eventually,” just do it and correct course along the way.” | |||
| Quote “Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.” | |||
| How to Master Any Skill By Deconstructing It | |||
| How to Create Better Morning Routine | |||
9. Rand Fishkin
 | Rand Fishkin | ||
| Known As | |||
| Founder of Sparktoro; ex-CEO and co-founder of SEOMoz, wrote a book Lost and Founder. Rand was one of the early proponent and advocate of how search engine result page works as he started writing, conversing about search engine optimisation. The thing that was just another (but useful valuable) blog initially, without any vision, turned into knowledge but, host of product suite and got list into Inc 500 companies. | |||
| Website | Medium | ||
| sparktoro.com | @Randfish | Randfishkin | @randfish |
| Followers Stats | 423K | 94 K | 54 K |
| What’s Popular | |||
| Quotes Don’t conflate revenue with success, especially not long term. Many of the best things we’ve done have cost or lost money in the short run, but built a better brand over the years because of it.” | |||
| “Tell a story. Make it true. Make it compelling. And make it relevant.” | |||
| How the Future of Web Marketing Changes the Startup Game | |||
| Unconventional Ways to Win | |||
10. Oli Gardner
 | Oli Gardner | ||
| Known As | |||
| Co-Founder of digital marketing tech company – Unbounce . He claimed to have seen more landing pages than anyone on the earth. Oli is also a well regarded key-note speaker covering topics around branding, digital marketing, landing pages and conversions among others. | |||
| Website | Medium | ||
| unbounce.com | oligardner | Linkedin: oligardner | @oligardner |
| Followers Stats | 32.1 K | 9 K | 7.7 K |
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| Four Corners of Conversion | |||
| The 12-Step Landing Page Rehab | |||
11. Andrew Warner (Mixergy)
 | Andrew Warner | ||
| Known As | |||
| Founder of Mixergy, where he interviews successful Internet entrepreneurs to teach others what they learned. Mixergy has been very popular among entrepreneurs as well as wanna be entrepreneurs. He also founded, ran and sold a dot com/internet era company named ‘Bradford & Reed’ that was generating revenue of whooping US$ 38+ million. | |||
| Website | Medium | ||
| mixergy.com | @AndrewWarner | andrewwarne | @andrewwarner_26131 |
| Followers Stats | 35.5 K | 1.1 K | |
| What’s Popular | |||
| The Common Key Factors of Successful Entrepreneurs After 1000+ Interviews
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| How to Beat Procrastination | |||
12. John Lincoln
 | John Lincoln | ||
| Known As | |||
| Co-Founder, CEO MBA, UCSD Teacher, Bestselling Author, Influencer, Industry Leader and Expert Digital Strategist | |||
| Website | Medium | ||
| ignitevisibility.com | @johnelincoln | John Lincoln | John Lincoln |
| Followers Stats | 194.7K | 21.5k | 7.7 K |
| What’s Popular | |||
| How To Get Your First 10,000 Instagram Followers (Without Buying Them) | |||
| How Does Technical SEO Work? (And Why You Need It) | |||
| SEO In 2020: How To Prepare For Major Disruption (And Scale) | |||
13. Daniel Gilbert
 | Daniel Gilbert | ||
| Known As | |||
| Daniel Gilbert is founder and CEO of Brainlabs .Daniel was named #1 in PPC Hero’s Most Influential PPC Experts in the World list (2018), one of the most influential people in digital by Econsultancy (2018), and was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (London, 2018). | |||
| Website | Medium | ||
| brainlabsdigital.com | Dangilbertppc | Dangilbert | Daniel Gilbert |
| Followers Stats | 127.9K | 23.4 K | 1.4 k |
| What’s Popular | |||
| In-housing, Media Transparency & Marketing Basics | |||
| Daniel Gilbert,Brainlabs,Interview @ DMX Dublin 2018 | |||
14. Cyrus Shepard
 | Cyrus Shepard | ||
| Known As | |||
| He worked as Lead SEO for Moz intermittently from 2012-15. Today he runs his own SEO company known as Zyppy. | |||
| Website | Medium | ||
| zyppy.com | Cyrus Shepard | Cyrus Shepard | Cyrus Shepard |
| Followers Stats | 62.7 k | 8.7 k | 5.3 k |
| What’s Popular | |||
| Google Ranking Factors with Cyrus Shepard | |||
| Cyrus Shepard Presentation at Peepcon 3.0 | |||
15. Solomon Thimothy
 | Solomon Thimothy | ||
| Known As | |||
| Solomon Thimothy is a serial entrepreneur, and marketing expert with an obsession for growth. He is the co-founder of OneIMS, a Chicago-based inbound marketing company. Recently, he founded Clickx, an all-in-one marketing analytics platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Solomon started his marketing career over 12 years ago with a single focus: helping businesses grow their presence online and thrive in a digital world. | |||
| Website | |||
| thimothy.com | sthimothy | Soloman Timothy | Solomon Thimothy |
| Followers Stats | 27.7 k | 6.5 k | 2.5 k |
| What’s Popular | |||
| COMMON PROBLEMS STARTUPS FACE | |||
| Street-smart vs. Book-smart: How To Leverage Your Natural Inclinations? | |||
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