Bernadette is the CEO of Advice Interactive Group, an award-winning Inc 500 digital marketing agency and is also known as the Queen of Local SEO. Bernadette is passionate about all things digital, including content, search, social and local. Her knowledge and experience have made her a leader in the industry, and her passion for innovation and growth has led her company to become one of the leading online digital marketing and technology firms.

As co-founder of Rocks Digital, she has helped create a digital marketing resource with an influence that transcends its competition. Educating the digital community, through this website and her other endeavors, feeds her soul and pushes her not just to follow trends, but create them.

In her spare time, she enjoys audio books and the company of her amazing husband, Tom Coleman, and their blended family of five children. Together Bernadette and Tom are advocates for brain injury awareness and work to promote their nonprofit, TryMunity, which is a social network for survivors and supporters of traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Rock Talks Session

Dominating Local SEO in Mobile SERP

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Women Leading in Local Panelist

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Joe Youngblood, SEO Strategist, started his journey into online marketing at 14 years old when he built his first website and began trading banners and links with other webmasters and he has been doing SEO even before Google. As a graduate of University of Texas at Arlington, he augments his digital marketing experience with a traditional marketing degree. Since then he has moved into the SEO / Internet Marketing consulting field, was accepted to join the DFWSEM Board of Directors and joined the illustrious ranks of marketing speakers at the apex of marketing conventions – Pubcon.

Joe’s websites have been mentioned in Wired magazine, on CNN, NBC, CBS and other news outlets representing industries such as real estate, online radio, video hosting, and eCommerce. His work involves anticipating search engine changes and developing holistic strategies to capitalize on them, while creating valuable content that brings in positive signals from other websites and social media.

Joe’s link building strategies where coined as “amazing” in a Forbes article.

Rocks Talk title

The SEO Mindset

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Jerod Morris to Present on Content and Connection

Veteran podcaster, Jerod Morris is VP of Marketing for Rainmaker.FM, the digital marketing podcast network launched by Copyblogger Media. Jerod has spent almost a decade working in online media strategy, production and marketing. He has been a featured speaker at conferences across the country about leadership, content strategy and podcasting.

He is the host of several successful podcasts, including The Lede, The Showrunner, and The Assembly Call. Jerod was a featured presenter at Authority Intensive 2014 and speaks regularly throughout the country about content strategy. He also has first-hand experience with directing content teams of multiple contributors for high-traffic websites, even before he joined Copyblogger Media.

Jerod is a Graduate of Indiana University and, after graduating, he taught at an alternative school for troubled youth prior to a chance meeting with Derick Schaefer which began his career in online content marketing and led him to his current position.
Rocks Talk Title

Content is Not King. Connection is King.

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Lissa Duty, Brand Development Manager at Advice Interactive Group is a speaker, social media coach, trainer and author of 25 Tips to Twitter Success: Learn How To Market Yourself, Brand and Business Online and co-author of Your LinkedIn Professional Network: How to Connect, Optimize, and Implement for Success.

In 2009 she discovered a passion for leveraging online social media platforms to brand clients and businesses.

Lissa can be found speaking around conferences, local chambers, and groups about leveraging social media and the importance of online branding. She does this in between leading social media maintenance services for the Advice Interactive Group brands and their clients, plus providing social media coaching and group training classes for her private clients.

Lissa is Co-Founder of Rocks Digital, a year-round blogging website whose mission is to provide the resources, information, and insights to stay on the forefront on digital marketing. Rocks Digital is the home website to one of the largest digital marketing conferences in Texas, organized by Lissa annually.

Connect with Lissa on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn @LissaDuty. Just Google “Lissa Duty” and you’ll find an endless stream of opportunities to learn more about her, her contribution to social media and the community.

June 29 – Rock Talks Title

ROCKING Real-Time Community Management

#SocialMedia Authority @LissaDuty to Speak on Community Management at #RocksDigital #Dallas
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June 30 – Panel Moderator

Rocks Digital Marketing Q & A Panel

A favorite each year at the conference, the Rocks Digital Marketing Q & A panel focuses 100% on answering questions asked from the audience. By the time we get to this session, attendees have heard from the top experts in their industry and this is their opportunity to get any final digital marketing questions answered.

Be ready with your Content, Local Search & SEO, Social Media, and Mobile and Website questions!

Panelists include Beth Kahlich, Justin Liles and John Nosal.

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Candy Barone known as the “Pull-No-Punches” Account- ability Powerhouse, is a certified master coach & trainer, a certified Law of Attraction practitioner, professional speaker, and published author (You Empowered Strong: Infinite Possibilities in the Power of Y.E.S., 25 Brilliant Speakers: Their Expert Advice to Springboard Your Speaking Career, Behind Her Brand, Volume 2, & Dream Star – a children’s book). She is a master at helping people others say YES to themselves, destroy the NOISE getting in their way, and create an accountability plan to help them realize the dreams they have for themselves.

Candy’s diverse and expansive leadership experience (nearly 20 years in Corporate America, with companies like Landis & Gyr (Siemens division), Johnson Controls, GE Healthcare, and Northwestern Mutual) has provided her with extensive tools to help grow business professionals and future leaders, build exceptional, high-performing teams, and catapult individuals to a level of superhero status.

After going through her own personal and professional assessment, Candy made the decision to leave the corporate world in order to give her full attention to building out her own dream and purpose. You will find that she is passionate about serving others and providing people with the tools they need to truly empower themselves.

In addition to running her own business, Candy also serves as a trainer for the Certified Coaches Fed- eration (CCF), a business coach for Texas Women in Business, and an Executive Director for the Pub- lic Speakers Association. She was named a VIP Woman of the Year by the National Association of Pro- fessional Women (NAPW) and also volunteers by giving time in her community.

She is a change agent who advocates empowerment, leadership and social responsibility. Candy lives in Austin, TX, with her puppy, Payton (who is the love of her life), and loves to spend her free time out- doors hiking, kayaking, or paddle boarding.

Her philosophy is “Say YES to Yourself, Destroy the N.O.I.S.E., and Go Big to Grow Big”.

Rock Talks Title

Go BIG to Grow BIG: How to Rock Business for Explosive Growth

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