Shama Kabani
America’s Favorite Social Media Expert and Author of THE ZEN OF SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING: An Easier Way to Build Credibility, Generate Buzz and Increase Revenue
“An Online Marketing Shaman and a Millennial Master of the Universe”
FastCompany.com
“One of the Top 25 under 25 Entrepreneurs in North America”
BusinessWeek
“Think Shelly Lazarus, CEO of Oglivy & Mather”
ELAN Magazine
Shama Kabani is the President of The Marketing Zen Group, a full service online marketing firm that serves clients around the world. She has been dubbed the “master millennial of the universe” and “an online marketing shaman” by Fast Company. She has aptly been named one of the 10 Most Infl uential and Powerful Women in Social Media.
Shama holds a Masters degree in Organizational Communication from the University of Texas at Austin, and prides herself in being a constant learner. Her website, www.MarketingZen.com, has turned into a high-traffi c destination for people looking for advice on how to successfully market their businesses online. And, companies often look to Shama to guide them when it comes to the vast world of social media marketing. She also hosts a popular web TV show on new media marketing at http://Shama.Tv, and the media regularly call on her to comment on marketing and technology trends. In 2009, BusinessWeek honored Shama as one of the Top 25 under 25 Entrepreneurs in North America. Her fi rst book, The Zen of Social Media Marketing (BenBella Books), is due out in the Spring of 2010.
Contact us for more info on booking Shama!Shama’s Presentation Topics:
The Zen of Social Media Marketing
Facebook is closing in at 400 million users. Twitter is the fastest growing social site with 55 million. And LinkedIn is already the favorite child of over 65 million professional business users. It has never been as easy, as efficient, or as quick to reach people and get known as it is now. Shama Kabani shows you how—and how to not get overwhelmed in the process.
Focused on easy-to-implement, “Zen-minded” methods and techniques, Shama’s talk includes:
• Where social media marketing fits in the bigger marketing picture and how to measure your efforts.
• How to drive traffic to your sites and generate qualifi ed leads
• How to find and create strategic joint venture (JV) relationships using social media
• The #1 reason people fail at social media marketing… and how to avoid that mistake
Additional Speaking Topics:
- How to ACT (Attract/Convert/Transform) to Get Clients Online
- Facebook Famous: How to Market your Business on the Biggest Social Networking Site
- The New Rules of Online Marketing: How to Get Clients with Class
- Social Media Marketing for B2B Companies
- Hybrid Websites 2.0 – The Future of Websites
- Understanding the Working Mindset of Gen Y and Millennials
Recent Praise from Event Organizers:
“On behalf of the Alliance of Technology and Women (ATW), I want to thank you for delivering a fantastic presentation on Tuesday night. You kicked off our summer setting a high standard for our series. From a quantitative perspective you were a hit with nearly 100% rating the event excellent. From a qualitative perspective there were comments such as: great topic and very valuable and interesting real world example of how social media is being used.”
- Lisa Danzer, President of ATW
“Shama (Hyder) Kabani is the perfect blend of professional and yet real. Her ability to simplify complex subjects and capture a crowd with her magnetic personality is unparalleled.”
- Gail Goodwin, Inspire Me Today
“Shama’s enthusiasm, cheery personality, and desire to truly help others made her one of the hits of the Aloha Summit. If we can, we’d be delighted to have her back again as a speaker.”
- Dave Taylor, co-organizer, The Aloha Social Media Summit
Recent 2009 speaking engagements:
- Blog World and New Media Expo
- Vistage – CEOs
- Marketing Communication Association
- Dallas Richardson Chamber
- Business Wedding Professionals Expo
- National Association of Women in Business
- Women’s Leadership Exchange
- Parker Seminars – For Chiropractors
- CEO Netweavers
- Alliance of Women in Technology
- DFW Mortgage Association
- Social Media Telesummit
- ELAN Music Camp for Kids
- Career Design Seminar
- Dallas Internet Marketing Seminar Series
- All Things Blogging
- Professional Business Networking
- Abilita National Conference
- Aloha Social Media Summit
- Institute of Management Consultants
- InnoTech Conference
- Business Marketing Association
