Content Track

Over the course of his twenty-year career, Chris Baggott has redefined what it means to be a marketer. In 2001, he set up a desk in his friend’s garage and worked alongside Scott Dorsey and Peter McCormick to build ExactTarget, which has since grown to become a world-leading, multi-national email service provider. In 2007, Chris created Compendium, a content marketing platform that helps organizations capture and create original content in a branded hub for distribution to any marketing channel. In short, Mr. Baggott knows his stuff when it comes to content marketing, business blogging, and email marketing. In fact, he literally wrote the book on the latter when he penned Email Marketing by the Numbers in 2006.

Monique Pouget is the Director of Content Marketing at Thunder SEO, an inbound marketing agency based in San Diego, California. At Thunder SEO, Monique and Thunder's team work with local and national clients to help them integrate SEO and social media into their holistic marketing strategies. She's a big believer in creating compelling, unique content that *has* to be shared, and thinks that every business, big or small, should have an awesome blog.

In March of 2012, Monique infused her passion for both social media and analytics into two, well-received SMX West presentations, and in June of 2012, she spoke on Hardcore Social Tactics at SMX Advanced. In the past, she's also spoken about Social Media Marketing for both SCORE Counselors to America's Small Business and Action Coach business coaching. Monique takes pride in the social media programs and training she has developed for hundreds of corporate employees across the country, and loves learning from her peers at the San Diego Marketing Meetup she co-founded last year.

When she's not studying the SERPs and helping clients rank, you can usually find her riding bikes, blogging for Holiday Matinee and Wantist, searching for treasures at swap meets, or touring craft breweries in San Diego. If you meet her, please greet her with a high-five or three.

Justin Gray is the CEO of LeadMD. He founded the company in 2009 with the vision of transforming traditional “grassroots” marketing efforts through the use of marketing automation and CRM solutions. With 13 years of experience in the industry, Gray has seen the potential for growth in this space and the willingness mid-size have to join the SaaS revolution as it pertains to their marketing processes. Mr. Gray has formed of a true Marketing-as-a-Service corporation, which specializes in outsourcing the core functions of a marketing department either through on-demand solutions, consulting or both. Since that time Mr. Gray has emerged as strong voice for marketing automation and the content marketing industry.