Founder of WordStream, Inc - Provider of the 20 Minute PPC Work Week, the AdWords Grader and Free Keyword Tools used by over a million marketers world wide. Columnist at Inc. Magazine and #1 Author for Search Engine Land in 2013. Key Interests include: Content Marketing, AdWords/PPC/SEM, Entrepreneurship and Start-ups.

Founder @ Founded WordStream in 2006. Bootstrapped the company. Used consulting services revenue to fund a team of engineers and marketers to develop and sell software for search engine marketing automation. In August of 2008, I secured a 4M Series A venture capital investment from Sigma Partners and later in 2010, another 6M Series B investment led by Egan Managed Partners. Today the company employs around 160 people and manages approximately a half Billion dollars of ad spend for thousands of customers world-wide. In my role as founder, I help with marketing and product management. In the last 5 years I've written over a thousand articles on small business marketing which have been cited in over ten thousand publications and have generated a total of over 10 million views. My blog does over a million unique visitors every month and is the world's most popular internet advertising blog. I'm also a top contributor to a dozen other industry blogs such as Inc. Magazine, Search Engine Land, etc. In addition to blogging, I've keynoted or spoken at numerous industry events including INBOUND, Search Marketing Expo (SMX) East, SMX West, SMX Advanced, ClickZ / SES (Search Engine Strategies), Pubcon, MediaPost Search Insider Summit, PPC Hero Conference, SEMPDX, MNSearch, SearchExchange, MarketingProfs B2B Forum, State of Search, Sascon, Searchlove, SEJ Summit, Conversion Conference, Content Marketing Conference, 3XE Digital, Unbounce, Marketing Festival, etc. Recently, I won the "most influential PPC expert"​ in 2013, 2014 and 2015 according to the PPC Hero Blog and marketing agency 3Q Digital. Last year I won the "ClickZ Digital Marketing Hall of Fame"​ and "Small Business Influencer Award" in 2013. I was also the #1 top columnist for all of Search Engine Land in 2013. From August 2006 to Present (9 years 3 months) Greater Boston AreaVolunteer Mentor @ I mentor a half-dozen startups doing work in consumer products, higher education, social media software, small business marketing, and consumer services. My focus is on helping start-ups with their internet marketing efforts, including public relations, content marketing, online advertising, email marketing, thought leadership, etc. From December 2014 to Present (11 months) Greater Boston AreaWeekly Columnist @ I write a weekly column called "In The Trenches" that covers hands-on start-up and marketing issues including content marketing, social media marketing, paid search, entrepreneurship, and other topics. In September 2014, I was the #4 author there. Last year WordStream won the #184th spot on the Inc. Magazine top 500 fastest growing companies in America. You can read the articles here: http://www.inc.com/author/larry-kim From February 2013 to Present (2 years 9 months) Partner and Guest Blogger @ I'm a guest contributor for the HubSpot Blog where I write about Pay Per Click, Content & Social Media Marketing: http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/author/larry-kim - I've also done several Hubspot webinars, presented at both INBOUND 2014 and INBOUND 2015 (the Hubspot Conference) done various #inboundhour & #CROday chats on Twitter, and am a top 20 contributor to Inbound.org From June 2013 to Present (2 years 5 months) Greater Boston AreaGoogle Premier SMB Partner @ WordStream is a Google AdWords Premier Small & Medium-Sized Business (SMB) Partner, joining a small group of highly qualified companies. This means that effective immediately, clients will receive the benefit of WordStream’s Client Success and Managed Services teams working with Google regularly to optimize the performance of their campaigns. In addition I've worked with Google on various case studies for the AdWords and Think Google Blog -- http://www.google.com/ads/premiersmbpartner/advertisers-findpartner.html From February 2015 to Present (9 months) San Francisco Bay AreaColumnist @ In 2013, I started publishing articles at Search Engine Land roughly every 2 weeks. I was their their #1 columnist for all of 2013. I've also participated as a speaker for their Search Marketing Expo (SMX) Advanced, SMX East, and SMX West industry conferences. I'm a contributor to their sister publication, Marketing Land, and won the 2015 Search Engine Land Search Marketer of the Year award. You can read my articles here: http://searchengineland.com/author/larry-kim From January 2013 to Present (2 years 10 months) Contributing Author @ I write articles periodically for marketing profs for over 5 years, for example, this article on useless marketing metrics is among their Top articles for 2015: http://www.marketingprofs.com/articles/2015/27359/these-six-stupid-marketing-metrics-need-to-die I've developed training materials for mobile search marketing and spoke at their B2B Marketing Forum in October 2014, in Boston. You can read my articles here: http://www.marketingprofs.com/authors/610/larry-kim From July 2009 to Present (6 years 4 months) Greater Boston AreaColumnist @ I recently started writing for Social Media Examiner to focus on in-depth case studies for Paid Social Media Advertising topics, including Facebook Advertising, Twitter Ads, Linkedin Advertising, Google+ Advertising, YouTube Ads, etc. http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/author/larry-kim/ From July 2015 to Present (4 months) Greater Boston AreaContributing Author @ I have been writing a monthly column at Search Engine Journal for over 5 years, covering Search Engine Marketing, Online Marketing, Business Growth and other topics. The articles are often the top performing columns for the month: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/author/larry-kim/ -- I'm also a speaker at the 2015 Search Engine Journal Summit. From January 2010 to Present (5 years 10 months) San Francisco Bay AreaAdvisory Board Member @ Curata is a content marketing and content curation platform. As advisory board member I assist with their marketing and product strategy. From August 2012 to Present (3 years 3 months) Cambridge, MassachusettsAdvisory Board Member @ ThriveHive does marketing online and offline marketing for very small businesses. In my role I assist the team with product and marketing strategy. From July 2012 to Present (3 years 4 months) Cambridge, MassachusettsDirector of Marketing @ Various software marketing projects. From 2004 to 2008 (4 years) Bedford, Massachusetts

Bachelor of Applied Sciences, Electrical Engineering @ University of Waterloo From 1996 to 2001 Larry Kim is skilled in: Twitter Marketing, Facebook Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Start-ups, Conversion Optimization, Content Marketing, Content Strategy, Public Relations, Search Advertising, Inbound Marketing, Public Speaking, Blogging, Lead Generation, Mobile Advertising, Google Analytics, Venture Capital, CRO, SEM, Online Marketing, SEO, Web Analytics, PPC, Google Adwords, Social Media Marketing, Marketing, Digital Marketing, Online Advertising, Web Marketing, E-commerce, Product Management, Digital Strategy, Social Media, Email Marketing, User Experience, Analytics, Landing Page..., User Interface Design, SaaS, Marketing Strategy, B2B Marketing, Strategic Partnerships, A/B testing, Link Building, Marketing Automation, Google Webmaster Tools, Display Advertising, Content Writing, Java, Mobile Marketing