My Top 10 Best Internet Marketing Gurus in 2017
I have been a blogger and an entrepreneur for quite some time now, and I wanted to showcase some of the best Internet Marketing Gurus who have influenced me and guided me in my journey. There are many online marketeers out there, it is really a matter of one’s perspective as to whom you would follow and would consider your Guru. For me, these 10 people have been a major influence and I would like to share this with my audience as well.
Ryan Deiss
Ryan is the founder and CEO of DigitalMarketer. He is also highly sought after speaker and consultant whose work has impressed 200,000 clients in 68 different countries. His pioneering digital marketing strategies have been responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in online sales.
| Follow Ryan On FaceBook | https://www.facebook.com/ryandeiss |
| Follow Ryan on Twitter | https://twitter.com/ryandeiss |
| Visit Ryan’s Blog | http://www.digitalmarketer.com/blog/ |
I picked up one of his famous quotes from the internet which made a lot of sense and has a lot of impact on online marketeers. Here it is:
Neil Patel
Neil is a Seattle based entrepreneur, angel investor, and analytics expert. He is a Guru in digital marketing and is the co-founder of the analytics companies – KISSMetrics and Crazy Egg.
He is also a major contributor to renowned publications like Entrepreneur Magazine, Mashable, Moz, Geekwire, TechCrunch and many others. With a huge fan following, he has made it to top of the best internet marketing gurus you can see today.
| Follow Neil On FaceBook | https://www.facebook.com/neilkpatel |
| Follow Neil on Twitter | https://twitter.com/neilpatel |
| Visit Neil’s Blog | https://www.neilpatel.com |
Darren Rowse
Now, Darren does not need any introduction does he? He started with his passion for blogging in 2002 and has been just unstoppable since then. We all know him as the “pro blogger” and we follow and practice what he has to say.
Darren is a blogger, speaker, consultant and founder of several blogs and blogging networks, including Problogger.net and digital-photography-school.com. He is an active contributor to over 20 different blogs and has over $20,000 in total ad revenue in a month!!!
Darren Rowse was named in the Forbes Web Celebrity List in 2007!!!
He holds pro-blogger events every so often and it is needless to say that it is packed with enthusiastic bloggers and followers from all around the world. For all these reasons he makes it without a doubt as the best internet marketer in 2017 and beyond for sure.
| Follow Darren On FaceBook | https://www.facebook.com/problogger |
| Follow Darren on Twitter | https://twitter.com/problogger |
| Visit Darren’s Blog | https://www.problogger.net |
Seth Godin
An author of 18 books which have not only been bestsellers, but also been translated into 35 different languages across the world, Seth Godin is definitely in this list of mine. He is a blogger, speaker, writer and an online marketeer, he is the founder of Squidoo and Yoyodyne.
Recently Seth was inducted into the Direct Marketing Hall of Fame, one among the three chosen for this honor in 2013.
In April 2016, his book ‘All Marketers Are Liars’, as selected at Forbes as one of the six essential books every marketer should have on their shelf.
| Follow Seth On FaceBook | https://www.facebook.com/sethgodin |
| Follow Seth on Twitter | https://twitter.com/ThisIsSethsBlog |
| Visit Seth’s Blog | http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ |
Liz Strauss
One should not think I am listing only men as top internet marketing gurus. I am not gender-biased and I keep my vision open and eyes stretched when it comes to following some of the top talented people in this challenging times.
Liz is a social web strategist and community builder. Her blog: Successful-blog – has been called both a destination for all bloggers and writers, and also an event. Her blog has tens of thousands of comments on each and every article, in-fact the WordPress Plugin – Liz Comment Counter was named in her honor to respect and recognize the time and devotion she has in replying to each and every comment.
Liz was named to two Forbes list: “The Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers” and “The Top 10 Women Social Media Influencers”.
| Follow Liz On FaceBook | https://www.facebook.com/liz.strauss |
| Follow Liz on Twitter | https://twitter.com/lizstrauss |
| Visit Liz’s Blog | http://successful-blog.com |
Melonie Dodaro
Another top-notch woman entrepreneur and online marketing expert to follow is Melonie. She is notably ranked as “Canada’s #1 LinkedIn Expert and social media trainer”. She is currently the CEO of Top Dog Social Media and an author of the best selling book ‘The LinkedIn Code’.
If you or your business needs to learn to use LinkedIn to grow, Melonie is the person to go, she has the expertise in helping business owners and other professionals on how to strategically use LinkedIn in order to attract appropriate audiences.
She holds in-house training, talk-shows and consultative services. She has helped many Fortune 500 companies to improve their sales force by intensive training on how to use social media to optimize their existing services.
| Follow Melonie On FaceBook | https://www.facebook.com/TopDogSocialMedia/ |
| Follow Melonie on Twitter | https://twitter.com/meloniedodaro |
| Visit Melonie’s Blog | http://topdogsocialmedia.com/blog/ |
Pat Flynn
I am sure you all know Pat Flynn, he is an American entrepreneur, blogger and podcaster known for his website Smart Passive Income where he shares income experiments. The main purpose of this website is to teach all his readers about proven strategies for running and maintaining an online business and at the same time optimizing it for passive income.
He is also an author of the best selling book ‘Let Go’, you can find it on Amazon for just $2.99. In 2008, he was laid off from his regular 9-5 job at an architectural firm, and all he had to his name was a blog with some irrelevant architectural notes. But he found that his blog was getting some serious traffic from other like-minded architects who used to come to his blog for exam-studies. That is when he made his smart move to organize his thoughts from notes and created a product out of it and sold it for some crazy money.
Now you know how much we will have to learn from this guru himself, so I would highly recommend anybody to follow his social profiles below and get to know what he has to share.
| Follow Pat Flynn On FaceBook | https://www.facebook.com/smartpassiveincome |
| Follow Pat Flynn on Twitter | https://twitter.com/patflynn |
| Visit Pat Flynn’s Blog | http://patflynn.com |
Sandi Krakowski
Sandi is an out-of-the box author and speaker, thought leader and top social media influencer. She has built a 20-million dollar empire with her self-taught skills. She is known for her work on Faith At Work and Empowering Women.
As a Facebook marketing expert, she was noted by Forbes as a “Top 20 Online Marketing Influencers”, “Top 20 Women Social Media Influencers” and a “Top 50 Social Media Power Influencer”. With all these attributes under her belt, she is of course one of my best online marketing gurus in 2017 to be followed and revered.
Sandi has been featured in Forbes, Mashable, American Express OPEN, BeliefNet, She has helped build 11 notable companies by utilizing her experience in eCommerce, Internet marketing, direct response marketing, publishing, book creation, copywriting, sales and management, team development and leadership.
| Follow Sandi On FaceBook | https://www.facebook.com/SandiKrakowskiBiz |
| Follow Sandi on Twitter | https://twitter.com/sandikrakowski |
| Visit Sandi’s Blog | http://www.arealchange.com |
Guy Kawasaki
Guy is a marketing expert, serial entrepreneur, Apple Fellow, TED Speaker and has inspired people all around the world and helped them achieve their goals and beyond.
Guy is also the chief evangelist of Canva which we bloggers are using so much these recent times to create our featured images of expert round-up posts. He is also the brand ambassador of Mercedes Benz and executive fellow of Haas School of Business.
Guy is an author of “The Art of Start 2.0”, “The Art of Social Media”, “Enchantment”, and many other books you can find on Amazon.
“Guy’s Golden Touch” is also a famous phrase meaning “Whatever is Gold, Guy touches”. Now how can you not follow such a powerful personality who can make such a great impact on your online business??
| Follow Guy On FaceBook | https://www.facebook.com/guy |
| Follow Guy on Twitter | https://twitter.com/GuyKawasaki |
| Visit Guy’s Blog | https://guykawasaki.com |
Yaro Starak
Yaro is the founder of his blog – Entrepreneurs-Journey dot com. If there is anyone who is living off of the internet, travelling the world and making tons of money by blogging, it is Yaro!!
Yaro is a blogging superstar and you can read on ‘his story’ page how he got fascinated by the internet and started having his own websites and blogs, started selling cards on the internet, made huge loads of money and travelled all around the world. I could settle for such a life 🙂
Yaro has many books and podcasts on his website where he explains how one can monetize their blogs and increase their traffic by a huge extent. He explains how he increased his online income so that he never had to work for anyone else. Now is that what all bloggers are aiming at?
| Follow Yaro On FaceBook | https://www.facebook.com/YaroStarak |
| Follow Yaro on Twitter | https://twitter.com/YaroStarak |
| Visit Yaro’s Blog | https://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com |
Over To You
So this is my list of Top 10 Internet Marketing Gurus to be followed in 2017. They are listed in no particular order and I would recommend following them and learning from them for all of you who visit my blog. These are some folks who have proved their excellence and has a lot to enlighten us with their success stories.
Do you have anyone in particular that you would like to recommend? Which online marketer and entrepreneur do you follow and what have you learnt from them? Do share your thoughts by leaving a comment.
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Hello Praveen
Nice list of some top Internet marketers and pro bloggers. However I would like to add harsh Agarwal of Shoutmeloud to your list. He is also one of the best Internet Marketing Gurus and professional blogger.
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Hello Vishwajeet
I am glad you liked the list. Yes, I am also a follower of Harsh from a while now and he has a very good presence in the online marketing community. Thanks for your suggestion.
Praveen Rajarao recently posted…How Women Can Get Ahead In The Workplace
Hi Praveen,
Nice list.
Though, very tough to say this who is the best in certain filed. With lots and lots of online marketers making a name in digital marketing today, coming up with a list like this will be a very tough task.
I see marketers like John Chow, Brian Dean of Backlinko worthy of mention, my opinion, though.
Anyway, thanks for sharing your list of favorite online marketers with us.
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Hello Shamsudeen,
Welcome to DMC. Yes, you are right, there is no such thing as a ranking of first or second when you list all these wonderful inspiring people. It took me quite some time to narrow down to the Top 10 among the best internet marketing gurus I follow.
Yes there are others whom we follow, I do follow Brian and John as well, it is just a start maybe, I will come up with a follow-up list to mention all others whom we look up for their advice and leadership.
Thanks once again and hope to see you back soon.
Praveen Rajarao recently posted…How Women Can Get Ahead In The Workplace
Hey Praveen,
I have known all of them for a very long time. I remember when Pat launched his video series. He is a guy with multiple talents.
And Melaine, she is amazing. I always liked the domain name she has. No one can forget about Neil, he is an inspiration to many.
~Ravi
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Hello Ravi,
I am glad you are already following them all and value their advice and leadership skills. I think we have a lot to learn from all these wonderful people and can maybe achieve a small part of what they have done so far.
Thanks for stopping by.
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Great list! Everyone here is worthy to be on the list. However, I personally think Neil and Darren are the best around when we talk about internet marketing and conversions! I have learnt so much from these guys! They are just brilliant! Thanks Praveen for the share!
Hello Raghu,
Thanks for your comment and it is good to know you admire Neil & Darren. Yes, they are quite an influence on all bloggers.
Keep following them and am sure there will be a positive change in anything you do.
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Darren of Problogger is one of my first favorite internet marketing gurus during the time when I was only starting out. From then on, I discovered other amazing digital marketers such as Neil Patel, Yaro Starak, etc.
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Hello Grant,
Welcome to DMC and thanks for your comment.
Yes, Darren has been all blogger’s guru and we have discovered many other bloggers through his website. I am glad you are already following some of the internet marketing gurus I have mentioned, do explore into other’s profiles and see if you would be interested.
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nice list..there are other people also like Dharmesh Shah, Brian Dean, Avinash Kaushik…but you have listed moast of the top influencers
Thanks Alice for your comment. Yes, there are many other influencers in internet marketing, I am sure we can list a lot many. I do hope I can write a follow-up to this article to add to the list. Let me ponder.
Praveen Rajarao recently posted…5 ways you can make money and travel the world
Here is the genius of digital marketing I got lots ideas and blog tips from these genius thanks for the blog.
Sure thing, glad it helped you.
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How could you leave out Anik Singal and the king Eben Pagan? These guys could walk into any top ten list for 2017 in my opinion!
Hello Hopeton,
Thanks for adding more value to this article by leaving your comment. I shall definitely check out Anik & Eben since you have recommended.
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All are great people that i need to get inspired by them and start blogging my own website
Neil Patel is my favorite in this list. Learned a lot regarding SEO, Content marketing and promotion. You can’t imagine how inspired I am from this guy.
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It is great to see the prominent people who are making big waves in the area of internet marketing. I aspire to be one of them someday. Thank you so much for sharing. 🙂
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Hi Praveen, a great list, I too really enjoy listening to Neil Patel’s video and blogs. He provides a ton value for new entrants in SEO and content based marketing.
Keep up the great work.
Cheers Paul
I have to say that Seth Godin is my favorite. I get his daily email and it’s ALWAYS worth the read. (One reason is that it’s usually short, which should be a hint to any email marketer out there!)
This is a great list, in fact when I first read the heading ” internet marketing gurus” some names already rank in my head like Neil Patel, and fortunately he made the list. Neil is a great internet marketer I really like him as well as the others. Thank you for this post.
I first read the heading ” internet marketing gurus” some names already rank in my head like Neil Patel, and fortunately, he made the list. Neil is a great internet marketer
Hi Praveen, a great list, I too really enjoy listening to Neil Patel’s video and blogs. He provides a ton value for new entrants in SEO and content based marketing.
Great collection of marketing gurus. have a lot to learn from them.
no doubt they all are best i have learned through their tutorials on youtube. i work in digital marketing agency canada.
Great piece on internet marketing gurus, thanks for sharing. Will follow them of course and will use their tips for our marketing campaigns. Again, thank you and more power.
Hi Praveen,
This is Praveen from this end too :p
Glad I found this post of best Internet Marketing Gurus. I have been in the Digital Marketing domain for the last 3 years and I know only 1 out of these 10. The one I knew is Neil Patel. Thanks for introducing the rest of the clan to me.
Bookmarking this one!
All are great people that I need to get inspired by them and start blogging my own website
All of are very talented and intelligent digital marketer. But I strongly follow Neil Patel. Because Neil Patel is one of the genuine and solid digital marketers in this world. Thanks for sharing this.
Great piece on internet marketing gurus, thanks for sharing. Will follow them of course and will use their tips for our marketing campaigns. Again, thank you and more power.
Hii Praveen
My first Digital Marketing Guru was Mahesh gaur. I only heard about Neil before. Thanks for introducing the rest of the clan to me.
I have subscribed to Neil Patel and I learned a lot, I can say his my foundation in Internet marketing. Way to go to Neil! More power to you!
Hey,
I also follow Niel and Fed Flynn is a good entrepreneur. Neil is also king of digital marketing and has vast material. He explains about facts that matter. He is really a Guru of Marketing.
Thanks for sharing
Hi Praveen Rajarao,
Wow! This is really very good informative article for Income.I think Internet marketing is very important for easy earning.
Great website you have got here.. It’s hard to find quality writing like yours these days. I really appreciate individuals like you! Take care!!
Notable listing of Internet marketing gurus! Every person here is worthy of being on the listing. But Yaro Starak and Pat Flynn are the high-quality round whilst discussing Internet marketing and conversions! I’ve learnt a lot from these guys! They are simply remarkable!