Mari Smith

         Mari Smith is ranked #10 on Forbes Top Social Media Influencers list. It all started for her in 1999 when she was a internet marketer specializing in relationship marketing, email marketing and web copy. She enjoyed working with people who are conscious, heart-centered and concerned about making a difference on the planet not just making a dollar. In 2008, FastCompany.com made her “the Pied Piper of the Online World”  because she was such a raving evangelist for the platform.
        She first got involved with Facebook when a colleague invited her to join an alpha test team of his platform. He had just gotten approved as a Facebook application. She had been on LinkedIn, Ecademy, Ryze, Plaxo and MySpace for some time, and hadn’t yet seen any business results. She figured Facebook would be the same as MySpace.
         She ended up creating an account on Facebook, and  just knew something was different.Suddenly, she was befriending hundreds of people she had admired for years and years, and they all became fast friends. She started raving to friends and colleagues about Facebook and quickly began to teach her peers how to use the site. Before long, she conducted interviews of other social media specialists and bloggers and began creating products, online courses, and training. She also joined Twitter a few months later and fell in love with that platform too.
          Now, she is a relationship and internet marketing consultant and social media business coach. Her latest work includes Social Midas: 15 Golden Keys To Stellar Social Media Marketing.