Joe Pulizzi considers himself a content marketing evangelist. If it's related to content marketing, you'll most likely find Joe in the middle of the conversation. Joe started using a strange term - content marketing - back in the early 2000's. Today, content marketing is a well-known philosophy that is driving the most effective marketing programs on the planet.

Previously an executive for Penton Media, Inc., Joe founded Junta42 to help marketers create and develop better content marketing. Joe is also the founder of the Content Marketing Institute, SocialTract and Content Marketing World the largest in person event in the industry.

Joe is also co-author of the books Managing Content Marketing, and Get Content Get Customers (McGraw-Hill), which helps teach businesses why and how to create their own compelling content to drive their businesses. Get Content Get Customers has been called THE handbook for content marketing.

An accomplished speaker, Joe travels around North America and Europe teaching audiences about content, publishing and social media. Among his many awards, Joe was recently voted "Custom Media Innovator of the Year" by American Business Media. For more about Joe's activities, see Joe's blog, http://blog.junta42.com.