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Jay Baer

Jay Baer

Jay Baer, CSP is the world’s most retweeted person among digital marketers. He is a renowned business strategist, keynote speaker and the New York Times best-selling author of five books including Hug Your Haters.

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  • $30,000
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  • Attitude
  • Business
  • Business Growth
  • Corporate Culture
  • Emcees
  • Entertainment
  • Inspirational
  • Internet Marketing
  • Leadership
  • Marketing/Merchandising
  • Master of Ceremonies
  • Motivation
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Career

  • 25 Years
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  • About

    Jay has advised more than 700 companies since 1994, including Caterpillar, Nike, Allstate, The United Nations and 32 of the FORTUNE 500.

    He is the founder of Convince & Convert, a strategy consulting firm that helps prominent companies gain and keep more customers through the smart intersection of technology, social media, and customer service.

    His Convince & Convert Media division owns the world’s #1 content marketing blog, the world’s top marketing podcast, and many other education resources for business owners and executives.

    The creator of five multi-million dollar companies, Jay is an active venture capitalist and technology advisor, as well as an avid tequila collector, and certified barbecue judge.

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    Keynote OR Breakout | Educational | Inspirational | Motivational

    How much are you willing to wait? If you’re like most of your customers, the answer is very little.

    Your customers are deciding to buy from you today (and every day) based on how fast you are (or aren’t). More than half of all customers have made a recent purchase from a business that responded first, even if they were more expensive. And, 2/3 of all customers say speed is as important as price.

    Technology can provide a tremendous competitive advantage as companies jockey to deliver The Time to Win: the perfect interval that exceeds customer expectations for responsiveness.

    In this dynamic new program from CX expert and researcher Jay Baer, you’ll learn what today’s customers think is fast and slow in each communication channel. And you’ll learn specific tools to get faster throughout the customer journey; increasing new customer attraction, and current customer retention.

    Based on brand-new, proprietary research, this presentation will have you rethinking your own answer to the “how fast is fast enough?” question. And you’ll be inspired by powerful examples of businesses winning with speed.

    You Will Learn:

    • Why speed is the most important element of customer experience
    • How long consumers will wait to hear back from a business
    • How consumers feel when brands are faster (or slower) than they expect
    • The huge connection between responsiveness and revenue
    • Which generation is the most patient, and which is the least patient
    • Specific, concrete plans you can use to determine the perfect responsiveness (The Right Now) in any customer interaction

    You’ll be entertained and inspired by a minimum of 9 relevant, customized (and often hilarious) examples and case studies

    Keynote OR Breakout | Educational | Inspirational | Motivational

    The best way to grow ANY business is for your customers to grow it for you. But that only occurs if you deliver a customer experience that creates conversations.

    Word of mouth influences 50% of all purchases, but we too often take this for granted. We just assume that our customers will talk about us. But they won’t, unless you give them a story to tell.

    In this hilarious and interactive presentation filled with examples and research, Jay Baer teaches audiences how to create a unique story for their business; a tale that will turn their customers into their most effective sales and marketing advantage.

    This powerful keynote creates real change among attendees. It alters the way they think about the intersection of customer experience, marketing, sales, and operations, yielding big growth and enhanced cooperation.

    Audiences Will:

    • Learn how to grow their business with word of mouth
    • Discover why customers talk, and why they remain silent
    • Learn the definition of a Talk Trigger (an unconventional, operational choice that creates conversation)
    • Discover the 4 Requirements of a Talk Trigger
    • Learn the different types/categories of Talk Triggers
    • Be entertained and inspired by a minimum of 9 relevant, customized (and often hilarious) examples and case studies

    Keynote OR Breakout | Educational | Inspirational | Motivational

    Customer expectations never move backwards. They want it right, and they want it right now.

    And given that customer experience is at least as important as price in most scenarios, getting those interactions perfect has a big impact on your success.

    But you can’t magically get better at every component of customer experience. However, you CAN get better at the ingredients that matter most.

    Coveted Customer Experience is a fast-paced, dynamic, inspirational, and hilarious presentation backed by real data, that shows you how to gain and keep more customers by improving on the three things that really matter to them.

    You Will Learn:

    • Why customer experience is the fastest route to growth
    • When customer experience stops and customer service stops
    • The 3 elements of your business that are non-negotiable for your customers, and where they’ll give you a pass
    • What customers really expect from your business category, and how to exceed it (without spending a fortune)
    • Specific, concrete plans you can put into practice tomorrow that will create a customer experience worth coveting, that produces big results
    • You’ll be entertained and inspired by a minimum of 9 relevant, customized (and often hilarious) examples and case studies

    Keynote OR Breakout | Educational | Inspirational | Motivational

    Don’t Attack Your Customers’ Castle, Get an Invitation to Go Inside

    Total marketing messages increased 40% last year. To protect their attention, audiences’ are stashing it away inside a castle.

    You cannot breach this castle by creating even MORE messages. But you can exceed your communication goals IF you convince your audiences to lower a drawbridge and invite you in.

    To win with content in today’s world, you have to fundamentally realign your thinking and your expectations, and make CERTAIN your communication passes the three tests required for success.

    These tests are called the “Three Drawbridges.” Your customers constantly have their hands on the levers, deciding when and whether to lower the bridges and let you in to their hearts, minds, and wallets.

    This fast-paced and funny presentation will entertain and inspire. Filled with real-world examples!

    Audiences Will:

    • Learn how the pandemic changed B2B and B2C customer expectations and desires
    • Discover why content and communications success isn’t found inside a technology platform
    • Understand how “radical relevance” offers the key to customer hearts and minds
    • Learn about the 3 Drawbridges of radical relevancy that will increase sales
    • Be entertained and inspired by a minimum of 9 relevant, customized (and often hilarious) examples and case studies

    Keynote OR Breakout | Educational | Inspirational | Motivational

    Haters aren’t your problem … ignoring them is.

    If it feels like there are more complaints than ever, and that you’re spending more time and money dealing with negativity and backlash, you’re right. But the rise of customer complaints is actually an enormous opportunity.

    In this eye-opening presentation, Jay reveals proprietary research into The Science of Complaints – why and where your customers complain, and how to turn customer service into a marketing advantage.

    80% of companies say they deliver exceptional customer service. 8% of their customers agree. Jay teaches the critical steps necessary to retain and delight customers in this disrupted era when customer service has become a spectator sport.

    Audiences Will:

    • Learn why customer expectations are rising faster than ever
    • Discover the huge disconnect between what customers and companies think about service
    • Learn the one, giant, recent shift that changed everything about customer service
    • Discover why praise is the most overrated thing in business (and in life)
    • Learn how to handle unhappy customers, online and offline
    • Be entertained and inspired by a minimum of 9 relevant, customized (and often hilarious) examples and case studies

    Keynote | Educational | Entertainment | Inspirational | Motivational

    Hall of Fame keynote speaker Jay Baer is also an in-demand emcee for complex, multi-day events, and has hosted events for IBM, Oracle and many other major brands for audiences as large as 15,000 attendees.

    Because Jay and his team have created more than one hundred virtual events, Jay often works with meeting planners to plan, promote, and produce events that are shifting online. Jay helps with run-of-show, tech platform selection, speaker coaching, interactive elements, marketing, and more.

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    “The minute Jay (literally) ran up on stage to inspire over 700 property managers, the energy level in the room reached phenomenal heights. His style — a perfect balance of humorous examples and educational insights — kept people engaged until the very end. It was informative, actionable, personal, and incredibly valuable to our customers.”

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    “There are some speakers that are great on stage, some that have amazing and relevant content, a very small handful who actually share something that will shift your entire business strategy, and very very few who impress me as having all the above – Jay is that guy.”

    World Champion Public Speaker Rory Vaden
The minute Jay (literally) ran up on stage to inspire over 700 property managers, the energy level in the room reached phenomenal heights. His style — a perfect balance of humorous examples and educational insights — kept people engaged until the very end. It was informative, actionable, personal, and incredibly valuable to our customers.
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