Krista Neher is a 6-time bestselling author, international speaker, award-winning entrepreneur, global thought leader, and the CEO of Boot Camp Digital. Krista has trained hundreds of thousands of marketers over 20 years as a sought-after authority, digital transformation leader, and keynote speaker on digital marketing, social media marketing, and personal branding.
With over 20 years of digital marketing experience, Krista was a digital marketing pioneer – executing digital strategies before “digital marketing” was a recognized term. She has worked with companies like Meta, Nike, Procter & Gamble, GE, Macy’s, Google, Morgan Stanley, and the United States Senate. She has been featured as an expert in the New York Times, CNN, Wall Street Journal, NBC, CBS, Entrepreneur, and the Associated Press. Krista is passionate about digital marketing and created one of the first accredited certification programs in the world.
Krista is a social media and digital marketing pioneer, having created some of the earliest social media marketing before social media was even a recognized term.
Since then, Krista has worked with clients like P&G, GE, NASA, Meta, Google, General Mills, the US Senate, Nike, Harley Davidson, Remax, and more to grow their digital marketing capabilities. Krista has been a featured expert on CNN, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, NBC, CBS, and Shape Magazine.
As an entrepreneur and CEO of Boot Camp Digital, Krista helps businesses grow their digital marketing capabilities through training, education, and strategic consulting. She has worked around the world. Krista created the first Accredited Social Media Certification program globally and wrote the first textbook on social media.
Krista is the bestselling author of 6 books on digital marketing, including Launch Yourself! Personal Branding, Digital Marketing that Actually Works, Social Media: A Strategic Approach, Visual Social Media Marketing, Visual Social Marketing for Dummies, and the Social Media Field Guide.
Krista can deliver a customized presentation for your group, including:
- Full-day, half-day, or multi-day workshops
- Keynote presentations
- Breakout sessions
- Seminars
- Webinar series
- Strategy sessions
- Virtual events
Krista has worked with these, among many more industries:
- Financial
- Marketing
- CPG
- Education
- Energy
- Manufacturing
- Government
- Non-profit
- Media
- Tech
- Start-up
- Healthcare
- Medical device
- Pharma
Krista is experienced in working with:
- Executive retreats
- Team workshops
- Women's groups
- Professional associations
- Industry events
- Conventions
- Trade shows
- Conferences
- Corporate Groups
- Associations
Krista speaks on topics including:
- AI
- Marketing
- Digital Marketing
- Branding
- Personal branding
- Social Media Marketing
- LinkedIn for Sales
- LinkedIn for Executives
- Tiktok
- SEO
- Entrepreneur mindset
- Productivity
- Digital productivity
- Digital advertising
- Content optimization
- Digital marketing strategy
- Digital marketing trends
Krista Neher is a 6-time bestselling author, international speaker, award-winning entrepreneur, global thought leader, and the CEO of Boot Camp Digital. Krista has trained hundreds of thousands of marketers over 20 years as a sought-after authority, digital transformation leader, and keynote speaker on digital marketing, social media marketing, and personal branding.
With over 20 years of digital marketing experience, Krista was a digital marketing pioneer – executing digital strategies before “digital marketing” was a recognized term. She has worked with companies like Meta, Nike, Procter & Gamble, GE, Macy’s, Google, Morgan Stanley, and the United States Senate. She has been featured as an expert in the New York Times, CNN, Wall Street Journal, NBC, CBS, Entrepreneur, and the Associated Press. Krista is passionate about digital marketing and created one of the first accredited certification programs in the world.
Krista is a social media and digital marketing pioneer, having created some of the earliest social media marketing before social media was even a recognized term.
Since then, Krista has worked with clients like P&G, GE, NASA, Meta, Google, General Mills, the US Senate, Nike, Harley Davidson, Remax, and more to grow their digital marketing capabilities. Krista has been a featured expert on CNN, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, NBC, CBS, and Shape Magazine.
As an entrepreneur and CEO of Boot Camp Digital, Krista helps businesses grow their digital marketing capabilities through training, education, and strategic consulting. She has worked around the world. Krista created the first Accredited Social Media Certification program globally and wrote the first textbook on social media.
Krista is the bestselling author of 6 books on digital marketing, including Launch Yourself! Personal Branding, Digital Marketing that Actually Works, Social Media: A Strategic Approach, Visual Social Media Marketing, Visual Social Marketing for Dummies, and the Social Media Field Guide.
Krista can deliver a customized presentation for your group, including:
- Full-day, half-day, or multi-day workshops
- Keynote presentations
- Breakout sessions
- Seminars
- Webinar series
- Strategy sessions
- Virtual events
Krista has worked with these, among many more industries:
- Financial
- Marketing
- CPG
- Education
- Energy
- Manufacturing
- Government
- Non-profit
- Media
- Tech
- Start-up
- Healthcare
- Medical device
- Pharma
Krista is experienced in working with:
- Executive retreats
- Team workshops
- Women's groups
- Professional associations
- Industry events
- Conventions
- Trade shows
- Conferences
- Corporate Groups
- Associations
Krista speaks on topics including:
- AI
- Marketing
- Digital Marketing
- Branding
- Personal branding
- Social Media Marketing
- LinkedIn for Sales
- LinkedIn for Executives
- Tiktok
- SEO
- Entrepreneur mindset
- Productivity
- Digital productivity
- Digital advertising
- Content optimization
- Digital marketing strategy
- Digital marketing trends
AI Like a Pro: 50+ Ways to Use AI to Get Better Results Faster
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Digital Marketing Trends and Insights
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LinkedIn for Sales: How to Find, Connect, and Convert
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The Future of AI: What Business Professionals Need to Know to Harness AI
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Building Your Social Media Strategy in 8 Steps
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By having that clear strategy in place participants will be able to understand clearly how social media...
AI for Marketers: How to Accelerate Your Results with Generative AI
AI is changing the way we complete tasks and approach our work. It is a powerful tool that can accelerate results. Studies show that AI increases productivity (up to 60%) and improves the quality of results. Marketers are among the first groups to embrace AI, with over 70% using it.
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Launch Yourself: Defining, Designing, and Delivering Your Personal Brand Online
Employers, business partners, customers, friends, family and even recruiters are heading straight to Google to assess your credibility. Are you actively managing your brand?
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Personal Branding Keynote
Everyone has a personal brand - the question is whether or not you are strategic about crafting and positioning it. Whether it is in-person or online, people are forming impressions about you. In the age of Google and LinkedIn we often build impressions about people without even meeting them. Personal branding is about proactively building your brand in order to attract the opportunities you want. Regardless of your career or business aspirations, a strong personal brand is vital to your...
Harnessing the Power of Social Media to Grow Your Business Online
Social media is one of the quickest growing and most powerful marketing opportunities for businesses. The trouble is that there are so many options and many businesses don't know where to start. This topic helps businesses understand social media marketing and how to create a strategic social media plan. This presentation covers "The 8 Directions of Social Media" and includes over 20 social media tools to leave your audience inspired and energized about social media marketing...
AI for Sales: How Sales Teams Can Accelerate with AI
AI can be a game-changer for sales teams. AI likely won’t replace sales representatives, but it will accelerate their results. Sales reps harnessing AI will get better results than those not using it. AI is shown to improve productivity (up to 60%) while increasing the quality of outputs.
Smart sales and business development professionals are incorporating AI into their daily work. AI isn’t great at all tasks, but it is a powerful assistant in completing tasks...
Steps to Building a Social Media Plan that Gets Results
With the explosion of social media, many businesses are rushing in without taking the time to build a strategic plan that will really get results. Most businesses fumble around in social media and don't get the results they want. An average person on Facebook is connected to 190 people/pages/groups/events. There are 30 million blogs and only 60 million blog readers. If you want to break through the clutter you need a plan that stands out. This presentation...
Digital Marketing that Actually Works – RIGHT NOW!
When it comes to digital marketing it can be difficult to separate the noise and focus on the items with the biggest impact. There are so many channels, tools, technologies and emerging approaches it can be challenging to know where to start. In this webinar we'll focus on how to make sense of the noise and focus on impact. Krista Neher, digital marketing pioneer and author of 5 books (including Digital Marketing that Actually Works) will guide you through what actually works in this...
LinkedIn Accelerator: Getting Real Results from LinkedIn (Hands-on Workshop)
Most people are on LinkedIn but aren't using it strategically. You probably have an account on LinkedIn but are you getting results from it? This session will show you exactly how to use LinkedIn to get results for your business.
Whether you are in sales, leadership, marketing, or are a professional looking to grow, unlocking the power of LinkedIn can provide you with tremendous value. In this session you'll discover:
- Why LinkedIn is such a powerful tool for...
Grow Your Productivity with AI Ethically and Responsibly
Studies show that over 50% of business professionals use AI at work, yet over 70% haven’t disclosed to their bosses that they are using AI. Over 4% of business professionals acknowledged sharing confidential information with AI.
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Employee Advocacy on Social Media: Unlock the Power of Your People
Your employees are likely your biggest asset in building your company's reputation. Whether it is a part of your marketing, sales, branding, recruiting, or online reputation strategy, your employees can play a key role. In many cases, employees have the potential to reach more people than their employers on social media. Plus, they are authentic and relevant, which creates even more impact.
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Designing a Powerful Personal Brand that Stands Out
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Navigating the Social Media Landscape
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Unlocking Influencer Marketing
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The Business Value of Social Media
More people check Facebook every day than read the newspaper or listen to the radio - you can't afford to ignore it any more. Social media site like FaceBook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are transforming your business, your customers, your colleagues, your partners, and everyone linked to them in revolutionary ways. Whether you're a small-business owner or part of a multinational corporation, you need to be listening to what is being said about your products, your services, and your competitors...
Improving Your Social Media: Growing Your ROI with Content and Analytics
Many businesses are already active on social media but aren't getting the results they want. While setting up a presence isn't difficult, breaking through in an increasingly cluttered landscape can be a huge challenge.
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Digital Transformation: Teach your Elephant to Run
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SEO 101: Getting Results with Search Engine Optimization and Google
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Content that Connects: Planning and Optimizing Content to Maximize Results
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Digital Marketing Boot Camp
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The digital marketing Boot Camp is based on the Boot Camp Digital 4 Day Boot Camp but can be customized for clients.
Digital Marketing Foundations
The audience needs to have a...
Digital Marketing and Social Media Analytics, Measurement and ROI
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Taking Your Facebook Content to the Next Level
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Communicating in the Age of... Squirrel... Limited Attention Spans
Communicating Digitally in the Age of ... Squirrel ... Limited Attention
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The first phase should kick-off the program and get participants excited...
Getting Noticed on Facebook
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Social Media for Marketers from Start to Finish
Building a Social Media Strategy
Social media starts with a solid strategy. This section will include building a strong social media strategy and how to build a strong content marketing strategy. We'll look at integrating social media with traditional marketing efforts to connect with customers.
Social Networks: What, Why, How + Best Practices
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Advanced Facebook Ads Hidden Features
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In this session, we'll show you how to use some of Facebook's most powerful (but hidden) features hands-on.
Facebook Overview: Maximizing Results on the #1 Biggest Social Network
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- How Facebook has changed and how you can take advantage of...
SEO Check-up
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Facebook Ads: Beyond the Basics - Optimizing and Improving Ads
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This program goes beyond the basics of Facebook ads and shows you how to get better results from your ads and diagnose where your...
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Lincoln Maly Marketing
On-Site
J.M., Principal, Lincoln Maly Marketing
Krista's engaging personality, professional presentation skills, and top-tiered marketing and social media knowledge combine to create a fun, knowledge-based, energy-filled experience. I value the times that I have participated in one of her seminars and would recommend Krista with a virtual megaphone.
Vling, LLC
On-Site
C.B., Chief Executive Coordinator, Vling, LLC
What I thought would be a refresher course for someone who has grown up using social media was so much more insightful. I now have the knowledge to implement a campaign and measure it's success more efficiently!
Evergreen Capital Investments, TEDxCincinnati Organizer
On-Site
J.E., President, Evergreen Capital Investments, TEDxCincinnati Organizer
I am so impressed. You have exceeded my expectations for the Boot Camp Digital Class. It was two days of information that I am excited to implement. Your materials, slides, examples and book gave me a clear guide to move forward and make a big impact in my business and future TEDxCincinnati Events. Thank you - you're amazing!
NAMI-Clermont County
On-Site
A.F., Executive Director, NAMI-Clermont County
The Social Media for Marketing class was phenomenal! Krista was able to provide step-by-step instruction in how to use social media — which tools to use to keep my website content current, how to start a Facebook fan page and how to create a blog. If you are new to social media or if you've been using social media, you'll learn how to take your social media skills to the next level. I recommend the class to everyone, from small organizations to large; for businesses to non-profits. Everyone at any level will benefit.
Saybrook Marketing Communications
On-Site
C.P., Senior Counselor, Saybrook Marketing Communications
Krista's presentation and materials are so helpful and comprehensive. After attending I feel like I have what I need to be successful. She is the guru!
Incisive Media
Virtual
M.G., Event Organizer and Manager, Incisive Media
Krista is one of the finest educators in her field. As an award winning marketer, author and keynote speaker at industry events she has built a fabulous reputation in the digital marketing industry. In my role as producer of SES Conference & Expo I was always delighted to have Krista on board as trainer, speaker and moderator. She is a natural communicator and consistently received great feedback and top scores from the conference attendees. She has a true depth of knowledge in social media marketing and the passion to go with it. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend her to anyone looking to improve their digital marketing skills.
Virtual
W.
Easy format, straight forward user experience, practical and informative information delivered with enthusiasm and real life examples
Various
On-Site
S.C., Event Organizer and Speaker, Various
I've hired Krista to speak at my events more than once, and also shared the stage with her. She is dynamic and high-energy and always customizes her presentation to make sure it really resonates with the audience. Both the audience and clients are always thrilled with her presentations.
Fortune 500
Virtual
J.R., Corporate Events, Fortune 500
Krista was an excellent speaker! I received great feedback on her presentation. She was extremely professional and easy to work with. Her presentation was customized for our group, highly interactive and very engaging. I will definitely be booking her again.
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