Meet the designers and business leaders who'll be dropping their knowledge at Spark.
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Online Marketing Expert & Author
Amy Porterfield
Amy Porterfield is an ex-corporate girl, author, online marketing expert and the host of the top-ranked podcast, Online Marketing Made Easy. In the last 15 years Amy has built a $100 million business and served over 90,000 students through her courses and New York Times Bestselling Book "Two Weeks Notice."
amyporterfield.com
@amyporterfield
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Author & Creative Agency Mentor
Mike Janda
Mike is an award-winning creative director, designer, agency owner, and author. He has served clients like Disney, Google, and National Geographic. He was a Senior Creative Director at Fox Studios. His books, "Burn Your Portfolio" (2013) and "The Psychology of Graphic Design Pricing" (2019), are top-sellers translated into multiple languages. His work and agency have received numerous accolades.
michaeljanda.com
@morejanda
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Designer & Agency Owner
Jen Olmstead
Jen is a Virginia-based designer and visual storyteller who specializes in creating tailored brand experiences for creative entrepreneurs and building engaging online spaces. She co-founded TONIC SITE SHOP, offering customizable, cocktail-inspired websites for stylish creatives.
tonicsiteshop.com
@tonicsiteshop
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Founder & content marketing specialist
Davey Jones
Davey Jones, CEO of Formilytics and creator of BDOW! (formerly Sumo), co-founded the agencies Davey & Krista and Till Agency. He believes effective marketing starts with the question: How can that work for someone like me? Davey helps businesses answer this question and develop communication strategies, drawing from his experience managing millions in ad spend.
bdow.com
@bdowleads
The Only Question You Have to Answer to Win in Business
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Director of Marketing
James Nwobu
James Nwobu leads as the Director of Marketing at Showit, collaborating with a passionate team to cultivate more creativity in each other and every creator they encounter. He's a multifaceted creator, business coach, and golf enthusiast (for anyone out there who wants to play), who is deeply passionate about identity formation and the transformational power of communication.
showit.com
@jamesnwobu
LIFE & business coach
Angel Marie
Angel Marie is a life and business coach helping people achieve God-empowered mental and financial freedom. She equips creative entrepreneurs for success through healthy mental and financial habits. Her coaching has impacted over 100,000 people, focusing on authentic marketing, brand-building, mental health mentorship, and spiritual guidance.
coachangelmarie.com
@angelmarieofficial
Email Marketing Mastery in 2024: How to Consistently Grow an Email List of Dedicated Fans and Write the Kinds of Emails to Them that Actually SELL.
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Retail brand designer & art director
THOMAS ADCOCK
Thomas Adcock is a versatile creative leader whose work spans brand, graphic, retail, digital, product, and social design. For the past 10 years, he has created iconic, storytelling-centered work for one of the world's most respected brands. He believes design is a philosophy that transcends mediums.
thomasadcock.design
@theletterthomas
The Clarity of Storytelling
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brand & web designer
BERNEL WESTBROOK
Bernel is a brand and web designer, podcast host, and founder of Branded by Bernel, a marketing agency for the creative community. Since 2016, Bernel has worked with hundreds of creative entrepreneurs to build trustworthy brands and websites, serving the industry with high energy, honesty, and a passion for inspiration.
brandedbybernel.com
@brandedbybernel
Building A Seamless Workflow
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Independent Type Designer
JEN WAGNER
Jen Wagner is an independent type designer in Nashville, TN. She creates and publishes meticulously crafted typefaces (like Editor's Note & Perfectly Nineties) with a focus on emotional impact and practical use. Her goal is to make stunning type accessible to all creators, from agency designers to small business DIYers.
jenwagner.co
@jenwagner.co
How to Choose the Right Fonts for your Brand
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Agency Founder & Designer
Ariel Garcia
How to Create Work That Gets Noticed (& Makes You Irreplaceable)
byariel.co
@byarielco
Ariel Garcia is the founder of ByAriel, a full-service creative agency and Drop Dead Designer, a design-first education platform for graphic designers. She lives in Portland, OR with her husband and tiny dog, Panda. When she's not running her companies, Ariel loves to travel (25 countries & counting!) and get lost in a good fiction book.
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Brand & Showit Website Designer
INGRID URENA
Ingrid Urena is the founder of Penguin Designing, tea lover, and dog momma, helping growing businesses increase their revenue with a money-making Showit website and a refreshed brand. She specializes in e-commerce and memberships that build credibility, capture leads, and generate sales.
penguindesigning.com
@penguindesigning
Maximize Your Margins: Profit-Boosting Techniques for Your Online Shop
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Aritst, Brand Designer & Creative Consultant
JONNY ASHCROFT
Jonny Ashcroft is an artist, brand designer, and creative consultant. He possesses over 15 years of experience building creative at the highest levels. He specializes in building brands, conjuring creativity, and making stuff rad.
jonnyashcroft.com
@jonny_ashcroft
Brand World Building
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Designer, Educator & Podcaster Host
ELIZABETH MCCRAVY
Elizabeth McCravy is a Showit website designer, online business educator, and host of the Breakthrough Brand Podcast. She’s the creator of the popular courses, Booked Out Designer and Podcast Success Blueprint, and she's the web designer behind Elizabeth McCravy Shop templates. Elizabeth is a wife, boy mama x2, and believer based in Nashville, Tennessee.
elizabethmccravy.com
@elizabethmccravy
How to Attract and Book Clients with $10K+ Budgets in Your Design Business
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Small Business Attorney, Blogger & Podcaster
PAIGE GRIFFITH
Paige is the founder of The Legal Paige, a virtual legal platform for small businesses. Paige helps clients run legally protected businesses through her contract shop, podcast, YouTube channel, and blog. Her mission is to make the law less intimidating for entrepreneurs.
thelegalpaige.com
@thelegalpaige
Legal Strategies for Website Designers: Protect Your Assets!
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SEO Specialist & Accidental Web Designer
Chris Misterek
Chris is a designer and community manager at Showit. Thanks to ADHD, he’s tried everything from producing albums to a brief attempt at leatherworking (tools on standby). He’s got a knack for SEO, and loves the challenge (read: neuroticism) of making websites rank higher on Google. And yes, he’s teaching a workshop—totally not because the original teacher canceled.
showit.com
@chrismisterek
SEO for you and your clients
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Designer, Marketing Strategist & Actor
SARAH KLEIST
Sarah Kleist is a Showit website designer, actor, TikToker, vocalist, rulebreaker, New Yorker, and the most Taurus-y Taurus you've probably ever met. As a designer who moonlights as an actor, Sarah helps creatives and entrepreneurs build their digital stage and find their spotlight both online and IRL.
sarahkleist.com
@kleistcreative
Planning an Epic Brand Photo & Video Shoot
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Business accountant & Founder
MADISON BROWN
Madison is the CEO of Madison Dearly Bookkeeping, a team serving brand and web designers with hands-on financial tracking and analysis. With a Bachelor's in Accounting and 12+ years of experience, Madison knows that confidence in your business’s financial health fuels the growth you deserve.
madisondearly.com
@madisondearly
Money Money Money: Business Finances for Your Creative Brain
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Photographer & Software Engineer
DAWN RICHARDSON
Dawn, a software engineer turned wedding photographer, empowers creative entrepreneurs to go from tech overwhelmed to tech empowered. Her mission is to create a safe, fun corner of the internet where they can learn to leverage technology in their business, reducing work time, freeing up more time to focus on the ones that matter most.
techsavvycreative.com
@techsavvycreative
Leveraging AI in your Business
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Co-Founder & Director of Content
MACK GARRISON
Mack Garrison, Co-Founder and Director of Content at Dash, a high-end animation studio, merges creativity and community. A Raleigh native and NC State College of Design grad, with over a decade in motion design, Mack excels in bridging client-creative relationships. His portfolio includes J.P. Morgan, Coinbase, Red Hat, Fidelity, IBM, BASF, Lowe's, Lenovo, Coca Cola, The YMCA, Riot Games, US Bank, + more.
dashstudio.net
@dash_nc
Trust Your Gut - How Designers Can Build a Studio and Find Success.
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Brand & Website Designer
KRISTA JONES
Krista Jones, part of the Davey & Krista duo, is a brand and website designer with a background in nonprofit web design and wedding photography. Co-founder of the Rising Tide Society, Krista now focuses full-time on helping creatives build successful businesses through custom branding, website design, consulting, and online education.
daveyandkrista.com
@daveyandkrista
Creating Digital Products
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SEO-Focused Design Partner
ABIGAIL DYER
Abigail is a Showit Design Partner that specializes in stylish, SEO- focused websites. She’s been deemed by clients as their fairy ’brand’mother and is a self-proclaimed healthy(ish) overachiever. If she’s not designing, she’s reading, sewing, or still contemplating if she should finally start that garden.
abigaildyerdesign.com
@abigaildyerdesign
Build Your Best Showit Template
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Founders & Designers
Sam & Rachel
Sam and Rachel of Northfolk, have 12+ years of experience selling website templates and digital products. In 2019, Northfolk retired all their templates with other platforms and went exclusively to Showit. Sam and Rachel now split their time between their successful template shop and educating other Showit designers to copy their business model inside Revolving Revenue.
northfolk.co
@northfolkco
Selling Digital Products & Templates with Showit
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website creator & entrepreneur
Erica Carnohan
Code wizard, owner of Seedling Studio, and lover of all things websites, Erica is here to help you simplify and conquer your business's biggest tech challenges. Armed with half a Computer Science degree, Erica fell in love with building websites in college. She's a right brain-left brain mixologist, a personal development junkie, a grammar nerd, and a mom to four chickens.
theseedlingstudio.com
@the_seedlingstudio
Showit Development 101: Uplevel Your Designs with Code
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