Bryan Kramer

Best-selling author, TED Talk speaker and CEO who consults Fortune 500 clients such as IBM, Cisco and Pitney Bowes surrounding the human and sharing economy.

Expert on

  • Trends
  • Employees / Workforce
  • Best-Selling Author
  • Business
  • Content Marketing
  • Social Media

Fee Range

$15,000–$20,000

Travels from

CA, US

Bryan Kramer is one of the world’s foremost leaders in the art and science of sharing, and has been credited with shaping the #H2H human business movement in content marketing and social.

He’s also best-selling author, TED speaker and CEO who consults Fortune 500 clients such as IBMCisco and Pitney Bowes on humanizing business through social media. Notable events he’s spoken at include NASACharles SchwabSXSWIBMHarvardBloomberg and the NFL.

Having worked hands-on as a senior advertising account executive, interactive planner and strategist, managing consultant, online producer, and marketing consultant for some of the Bay Area’s largest marketing firms, Bryan has built his career on understanding every part of the digital marketing business.

Bryan has been named a “Top 25 Social Influencer to Follow” by Forbes, one of the “100 Most Influential Tech People On Twitter” by Business Insider, and one of the “Top 50 Social CEOs on Twitter Globally” by The Huffington Post.

Bryan’s second book, Shareology, made the USA Today’s Top 150 Book List the week of its release, as well as #1 on Amazon in four categories including Business & Planning. The book explores the history, art and science of sharing, and illustrates why sharing is what gives us a unique competitive advantage as individuals and brands.

His first book There is No B2B or B2C: It’s Human to Human #H2H explores the many facets of why and how communication today needs to be adjusted to keep up with our ever-evolving and fast moving social and digital world. It rose to the #1 in Business Books on Amazon in its first week. In January 2015, #H2H was named as the #1 buzzword for 2015 by The Writer.

Bryan is the President and CEO of PureMatter a content, social and digital marketing agency in San Jose, CA. His leadership has steered the agency to consistent growth over the last 10 years, making it one of the fastest growing private companies in Silicon Valley for more than five years by the San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal, and has been recognized as one of the publication’s “Top Who’s Who.” He also sits on several advisory boards including Mutual Mind, Raynforest, HealthPure and SpiderQube.

In true social media style, Bryan loves to talk. He’s an active blogger, pulling in thousands and thousands of readers monthly to his syndicated network and is a featured contributor to SocialMediaToday.comBusiness 2 CommunityIBM Smarter Commerce blog and other leading digital marketing publications.

No stranger to public service, Bryan is a past president of the American Advertising Federation (AAF) Silicon Valley chapter and former committee member of the Boys and Girls Club of Silicon Valley. Since 2006, Bryan’s been an active Silicon Valley Rotarian and currently sits as the VP of Marketing for the Santa Clara County Boy Scouts of America, where he received the highest silver medal award for community impact and volunteerism.

SHAREOLOGY: HOW SHARING POWERS THE HUMAN ECONOMY

Sharing has always been a fundamental human behavior that has been central to our survival as a human race. Sharing stories, processes, insights, philosophies,techniques, secrets; sharing is how we connect to each other and advance forward.

Now with technologies like the Internet, video, social media and mobile, sharing has increased its ease and scale to a global level. Information is no longer confined to geographical boundaries; proximity is no longer required to pass information from one human to another.

As humans, we need to rethink how, what, why and where we share ideas to influence and affect the direction we want for our global tribe.

Bryan will discuss The H2H Sharing Connection:

  • Why learning how to speak “human” will make you a better sharer and communicator.
  • The Shift to the Human Economy – What is the Human Economy and what factors are converging right now to cause it.
  • The Human Business Movement – Why now more than ever are people awakened to humanizing their brands?
  • The Shareability Quotient – Tools you can use to know if what you’re sharing will resonate with who you want it to.
  • The Different Types of Sharers – Learn which type of sharer you are, and how it can connect you with others like you.
  • Building Your Personal Brand – Why owning your “Social Body Language” and personal brand has never been more critical.

HOW SOCIAL LISTENING IS THE BEST-KEPT SECRET TO SMARTER MARKETING

Too many companies treat social media as if it’s a one-way conversation.They set up Twitter and Facebook accounts and then start pumping out updates.

But if you aren’t listening to what your fans, customers, critics and competitors are saying, you’re missing the whole point of social media.

The new economy is about engagement and for that, you have to listen. More importantly, there’s a real-time battle for understanding what’s in the head of your consumer right now.

Bryan will discuss a specific set of steps for social listening in order to build an effective marketing strategy. Real world examples will include how listening can help drive better reach, product development, improved operations, shorter sales cycles and lead generation.

HOW TO BUILD YOUR SOCIAL BODY LANGUAGE

As a company or personal brand, much of your social interactions are public, so paying attention to your social body language – or your collective behavior across the Internet – is critical.

While there’s no way to control every perception, you can certainly guide it toward a direction that’s right for you… but only if you’re mindful now.

Bryan will walk you through the practical steps to create and maintain your social body language, while looking at a few key areas including your current and potential influencer network, curation strategies, building your listening strategy, and maximizing your time without it overtaking the rest of your life.

HUMAN TO HUMAN #H2H: LEARN HOW TO SPEAK HUMAN, SHARE HUMAN AND MARKET HUMAN

We’ve been trained to speak “business to business” (B2B) or “business to consumer”(B2C).

But businesses and products do not have emotion. Humans do.In Human to Human Marketing (#H2H), Bryan explores why and how communication needs to be adjusted to exude simplicity, empathy and imperfection – in the same way humans are built.

Through storytelling about his own experiences, as President of a Silicon Valley marketing firm, he delivers practical tools and steps you can use right now to connect with other humans and be better marketers, managers, and fellow members of the human race.

Key concepts include:

  • The Four Rules of Context
  • Why the Six Basic Human Needs are critical to understand to connect with your audience
  • How Human Sensory Building will make you a better communicator
  • How to avoid the “Brand Wrecking Ball”
  • What a “Focker Moment” is and why you should celebrate failure
  • The Secrets to Making Ideas Crowd Worthy, with real world consumer, non-profit and Enterprise B2B business examples
  • The difference between “Dark” and “Delightful” Disruption.

THE HUMAN FIREWALL: BREAKING THROUGH THE CONTENT CLUTTER

The science behind how humans receive and accept content in a world of an exhaustive amount of content. As content continues to come in many flavors and we continue to build on demand, the amount of content we’ve seen will double will bring back a true renaissance of creativity.

What you will get out of the keynote:

  • We will break down the genetics of content consumption
  • Build a working knowledge of sensory content that maps to the basic human needs.
  • Develop emotional stories that connects to the human desire to learn and grow.
  • Finally, we’ll explore cognitive technologies that are going to enable marketers to learn and predict outcomes.