Chris Brogan

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Chris Brogan
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Brogan in 2010
Born (1970-04-01) April 1, 1970 (age 54)
Occupation(s)Speaker, author, marketing consultant
Website Official website

Chris Brogan (born April 1, 1970) is an American author, journalist, marketing consultant, and speaker about social media marketing. [1]

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Early life and education

Brogan was born in Maine and has lived more than half of his life in northern part of Massachusetts. [2] [3]

Career

Brogan's book, Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust (2009), written with Julien Smith, became a New York Times bestseller, [4] and hit the Wall Street Journal bestseller list (#8), [5] [6] and the Amazon top 100 list (#30). [7] Brogan's second book was Social Media 101: Tactics and Tips to Develop Your Business Online (2010). [8] His other titles include Google+ for Business and The Impact Equation (co-authored by Julien Smith). [1]

Brogan wrote for Entrepreneur magazine. [9] In 2012, his blog, chrisbrogan.com, was in the Top 5 of the now defunct Advertising Age "Power150" ratings. [10] [11] Chris launched the PodCamp [12] unconference series (aimed at bringing together people interested in blogging, social media, social networking, podcasting, video on the net) with Christopher S. Penn. He Won the Mass High Tech All Stars award for 2008. [13]

Chris Brogan is the president of Human Business Works [14] and the founder of Kitchen Table Companies. [15] Additionally, he used to serve on the board of advisors of HubSpot. [16]

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