Molly has certified thousands of marketers in paid traffic and customer acquisition and personally spent $8mm+ on paid traffic channels like Facebook, Google, and Twitter while maintaining a positive return on investment.

Molly started her career as an intern at DigitalMarketer.com in 2012, excelling to VP of Marketing in 2014. She held that position until 2017, when she started her own consulting agency.

Most recently she worked with Smart Marketer to develop a “Train My Traffic Person” course which offers a coaching and consulting service to help marketing professionals in small to large businesses optimise paid advertising campaigns. When she’s not teaching, Molly spends her time setting strategy and running ads for some of the world’s fastest-growing companies.

Russ Henneberry literally wrote the book on digital marketing.

He co-authored “Digital Marketing for Dummies” with veteran entrepreneur and marketer, Ryan Deiss. 

Formerly the Director of Editorial at DigitalMarketer, Russ has trained and certified thousands of professionals in the art of content marketing through his coaching, courses and stage presentations.

Russ recently established Modern Publisher, a community of people selling information products that provide tremendous value to their audience and aren’t ashamed to charge for it. 

John Grimshaw is an analyst, digital marketer, and educator working to educate business owners around the world. The Chief Marketing Officer of Smart Marketer, John has monitored and managed the metrics behind over $6 million in paid traffic spend, 443 million sent emails and hundreds of promotional campaigns. In addition to creating the Analytics & Data Mastery course for DigitalMarketer, his credentials include features on the Perpetual Traffic Podcast, the eCommerce Evolution Podcast, speaking at Traffic & Conversion Summit, and teaching for MarketingProfs.

Marcus Murphy is a business expert who cares deeply about the flourishing and success of entrepreneurs. He previously worked for Yelp in San Francisco, going from start-up to a multi-billion dollar giant. He sits on the advisory board at Linkedin and is a sought after speaker and trainer to LinkedinLearning’s more than 22 million students.

Marcus worked at Keap as the Global Partner Development Manager where he developed and broadened new international markets throughout Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa.

Marcus was a senior member of the executive team at DigitalMarketer and is widely known for his business partnerships with people and brands like Tony Robbins, Daymond John, Gary Vaynerchuk, and Linkedin. Marcus is a speaker with keynotes at conferences like INBOUND, Hypergrowth, Dreamforce, Social Media Week, ICON, Digital Sales and Marketing Day, and many more. He is also the host of Traffic and Conversion Summit and Affiliate Summit, boasting more than 20,000 attendees between them.

Marcus is currently the co-founder and CEO of The Five Percent, an international community geared toward inspiring, equipping, and facilitating actionable content for emerging entrepreneurs.

On a more personal note, Marcus is a husband to his beautiful and talented wife Gina and their two amazing daughters Florence and Pearl.

As Managing Director of Omnichannel Media Group (O.M.G.) and Founder of DMDU Connect, Sonya has been responsible for building a business that helps people to grow their own businesses online. With a career that has spanned from micro-business to the board rooms of some of Australia’s largest corporations, Sonya understands the opportunity that digital offers all business and she is passionate about helping others to succeed through creating compelling stories that connect with your audience.

Sonya believes that digital marketer is no longer a silo strategy…. It is at the core of all marketing and communication. Businesses need to be where their customers are when their customers want them…. The challenge face all businesses is how they do this.

…podcast with over 175 episodes featuring some of the world’s leading online entrepreneurs and content marketers.

Previous guests include Ryan Deiss, Richard Lindner, Roland Frasier, James Schramko, Amy Porterfield, Sonia Simone, Brian Clark, Mike Rhodes, Rand Fishkin , Neil Patel, Noah Kagan and lots more.

Ash occasionally speaks on stage and has spoken at Superfast Business Live, Macquarie Bank and IBM.

His membership program called Get Me To Done helps business owners build their online businesses using content strategies such as podcasting, blogging and marketing automation.

Meryl Johnston is the founder and CEO of Bean Ninjas, the global bookkeeping business she launched in seven days in 2015.

She’s a Chartered Accountant and has 10+ years of experience in commercial accounting roles, as an auditor at international firm BDO and as an accounting lecturer.

Meryl and the Bean Ninjas team are on a mission to educate and support 10,000 business owners in making data-driven business decisions to create freedom in their lives.

Jo Murphy left the halls of academia six years ago to pursue a career as a freelance digital marketer. She specialises in Facebook and Instagram, works primarily with environmentally friendly eCommerce businesses, and once sent a slinky down the staircase of a ten storey building. 

As an active contributor in some of Australia’s biggest online business communities, Jo is passionate about providing solid information and education to businesses of every size and believes that meaningful connections and collaborations are one of the biggest keys to success.

When she’s not working with Facebook/Instagram ad clients through her own business The Ad Nomad, she’s busy working alongside the SmartMarketer team as a community manager for Team Traffic and Train My Traffic Person.

Resident doctor, education master and all-round nice guy, Anthony Fernando is the keystone of our training team. Anthony’s efforts have enlightened countless users and helped bring SEO to the masses.

Anthony has had a long and varied career, met with success at every turn. At the age of 10 Anthony began to assemble his mosaic of skills by teaching himself to programme in BASIC.

Over time he has added further programming, IT consultancy, anatomy, saxophone playing, neuroscience, molecular biology, swing dancing and most recently a PhD in Education to his repertoire, becoming so broadly knowledgeable it’s sometimes thought he may have invented the idea of “information”.

His gift for teaching manifested itself nearly a decade ago when he developed and marketed his own brand of educational software for beginning pianists.
The author of the inspirational fable ‘The Oracle’s Secret’ and developer of www.dontquitpoem.com, Dr. Anthony has inspired over one million people worldwide.

Previously a colleague and business partner of Eugene, Anthony was sworn in as a Shogun so that he might impart a mere fraction of his knowledge to us all.

Anthony is currently the standout favourite to win the Noble Samurai Greatest Human Being Ever award, edging out the close second Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in the latest polls.

Pauline Longdon is an author, professional copywriter, and marketing strategist. She specialises in Emotional Direct Response and Cognizant Copy.  She’s been trained by the “who’s who” of the copywriting world and is currently one of Parris Lampropoulos’ coveted Copy Cubs (She is the first Australian woman to be trained by him). 

Her background as a Registered Nurse and an Army Major give her a rich source of life experience. She uses her life experience to keep her finger on “the pulse of humanity.” And that’s what gives her and the copy she writes, an edge. 

Pauline had to recreate herself after depression derailed her promising military career. On her discharge day, her brain was so fried she couldn’t read or write. Now she is a world class copywriter, mentor, and speaker. She was recently named as one of 10 women to watch in 2020 by the YMag (a popular print magazine here in Australia).

Barbara Turley is Founder & CEO of The Virtual Hub – one of the fastest growing producers of digital marketing virtual assistants for businesses who need to free up time & eradicate overwhelm by leveraging highly cost-effective offshore teams. 
She is also an investor with a keen interest in scalable business models, content marketing and all things digital.

Paul Martins commenced in his role as Head of Economic Development at Sunshine Coast Council in 2014. He is charged with the implementation of the Regional Economic Development Strategy, the region’s Major Events Strategy and Investment Attraction for the Sunshine Coast.

In FY2017/18, Paul’s team supported more than 6,000 companies achieving $503 million economic impact and attracting and supporting 2386 jobs. Paul was a key member of the project team that secured an international broadband submarine cable to the Sunshine Coast (the first government in Australia to achieve this).

Paul’s previous roles include being a member of the Federal Government’s Senior Executive Service holding onshore and offshore roles with the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade).

Paul was Australia’s Minister-Counsellor (Commercial) and Senior Trade and Investment Commissioner to Malaysia and Brunei and the Head of Austrade’s South East Asian Infrastructure and Mining and Oil and Gas Units, managing teams spread across seven countries.

Paul previously held posts as Trade Commissioner to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean as well as Trade Commissioner to Indonesia helping companies secure major export contracts and facilitating investment into Australia and organising some of the largest Australian conferences, exhibitions and missions to these markets.

Paul has also enjoyed several roles in the private sector including as CEO of a large manufacturing business with offices across five locations in Australia and as Director of Sales and Marketing for an international manufacturing operation.

Paul is the Qld Chair of the Australia Indonesia Business Council, supports several Sunshine Coast Industry Boards and Committees and serves on a range of Council Taskforces including the Smart Cities and Innovation Program Process Control Groups among others.

Paul’s education qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts in Modern Asia Studies, an MBA in Entrepreneurship, and several business and leadership short courses with AGSM, INSEAD and the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas. Paul speaks three languages and is married with two children.

Peter Shaw is a Trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming and Founder of ScaryandExciting.com

He has spent the last 15 years working with business owners, sales people, athletes, creatives and peak performers all around the world. Most recently working closely with Red Bull extreme athletes and endurance athletes as they search for the latest mindset strategies and training techniques. Peter teaches Neuro Linguistic Programming, Public Speaking, Stand Up Comedy and a zero fear Skydiving Workshop!

People seek him out for performance hacks, to solve unsolvable problems, and for his unique ability to cut straight to core of a problem and rebuild people and systems so the original problem doesn’t exist anymore.

Peter Shaw loves pushing people outside their comfort zone and putting the tools in the hands of his clients and students – and one thing is for sure, you’ll never be able to think the same way ever again after a session with him.