MarketingSherpa Speaker Services

If you're looking for someone to present practical and engaging information about the latest in marketing, consider inviting our speakers to your events.

• Our speakers draw attendance - Are you looking for VPs, Directors and Managers of marketing who work in mid to large corporations to come to your event? Every week 237,000 of these marketing professionals read MarketingSherpa's latest research and Case Studies. They know and trust the MarketingSherpa brand, and they know our speakers.
• Proven, engaging speakers - Our speakers give marketers the analysis, inspiration, and instructions to improve their results. We are selective about where we send our speakers, because we make sure that the topics are specific to the needs of the venue.
• Easy to work with - We know how hard it is to plan an event with speakers. We've done many ourselves, so we'll work with you to make sure we meet your deadlines. We'll work with you to achieve your turnaround dates, whether you need a speaker months from now or weeks. All you need do is fill out our Request for speaker questionnaire, and we'll contact you within one business day.

Our speakers can provide the latest information on a number of topics, including but not limited to:

• B-to-B Lead Generation
• Consumer Marketing
• Online Publishing
• Email and Search Marketing
• Online and Offline Advertising
• Public Relations and more

Be sure to read some recent testimonials.
To contact us about a speaking engagement, fill out our Request for speaker questionnaire,

Biographies of Available Speakers

As Senior Reporter for MarketingSherpa, Sean Donahue is in charge of MarketingSherpa's newsletters that cover business-to-business marketing, mobile marketing, online publishing, search, subscription sales and great minds in marketing.

Prior to joining MarketingSherpa, Donahue was editor of Mainebiz, a bi-weekly magazine covering business and the economy of Maine. He also has covered business and technology as a staff writer for Business 2.0 magazine and was a reporter for Wired News.

Donahue received the Excellence in Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for in-depth reporting in 2000. He also contributed to a feature that was nominated for a Maggie Award from the Western Publications Association. While editor of Mainebiz, the newspaper was named Best Newspaper by the Alliance of Area Business Publications in 2006.

Sergio Balegno is Research Director for MarketingSherpa’s Research Group. Sergio is the lead author of MarketingSherpa’s 2010 Marketing Benchmark Reports on the topics of Social Media, Email and B2B. He researches, writes and frequently speaks about these topics at MarketingSherpa summits and training workshops, industry conferences and corporate events. He is a thought-leader responsible for the development of new methodologies that improve the performance of marketing programs and advance the careers of marketing professionals.

As principle analyst covering the topic of social media, Sergio created MarketingSherpa’s Social Marketing ROAD Map, a systematic approach to mapping an effective social marketing strategy. He is also credited with developing MarketingSherpa’s research model for Social Marketing Maturity. This model demonstrates the disparity in the performance of social marketing programs by organizations in each phase of the maturity lifecycle.

Since 1980, Sergio has worked on the brand-side as Vice President of Marketing in the airline industry, on the agency-side as founding partner of a B2B communications firm that was an early innovator of digital marketing practices, and as Managing Director of an online marketing consultancy. He joined MarketingSherpa in 2008 and is a frequently quoted authority on the topic of online marketing research and best practices.

MarketingSherpa’s Research Group consists of knowledgeable analysts who conduct primary research on a broad range of marketing topics for the creation of benchmark reports, best practice handbooks, training curriculum and other research-based content.