Joe Pulizzi is first and foremost a content marketing evangelist. He began using the term “content marketing” back in 2001.  He’s the founder of the Content Marketing Institute (CMI), the leading content marketing educational resource for enterprise brands, recognized as the 468th fastest growing private company by Inc. magazine in 2013.  CMI is responsible for producing Content Marketing World, the largest content marketing event in the world, as well as the leading content marketing magazine, Chief Content Officer.  CMI also offers strategic consulting for enterprise brands such as AT&T, Petco, LinkedIn, SAP and many others.

Joe has written a new book, Epic Content Marketing as well as co-authored two other books, Get Content, Get Customers and Managing Content Marketing.

Joe has spoken at more than 200 locations and 10 countries advancing the practice of content marketing.  He’s delivered keynote speeches for dozens of organizations including DuPont, SAP, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Alcatel-Lucent & NASA Tech Briefs.

He has been honored with numerous awards and accolades including “Custom Media Innovator of the Year” by American Business Media, voted “Who’s Who in Media Business” by BtoB Magazine, named a Folio: 40, and recognized as the “Most Influential Content Strategist” by Lavacon.

Joe also writes one of the most influential content marketing blogs in the world and is overly passionate about the color orange.

He founded Z Squared Media LLC shortly after leaving an executive position at Penton Media.  Z Squared Media is the parent company of The Content Marketing Institute.  Z Squared was named a 2012 Inc. 500 Company.  The Content Marketing Institute was named the 2012 Weatherhead Upstar.