About Saul!
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Greetings and salutations, I’m Saul Colt and I’m North America’s best World of Mouth Marketer. I specializing in working with Startups and Big Brands and sometimes both at the same time. My work focus is in baking marketing into products and company brands so people talk about your company and amplify your messages with the result of building great brands, increasing sales and creating loyal fans who hang on every word as well as share those words with people that are looking for you without knowing you existed.
(Long Story) Short Bio:
Saul Colt is the Founder and Creative Director at SAUL COLT – The Idea Integration Company. In his career he has been named as one of the iMEDIA 25: Internet Marketing Leaders & Innovators as well as been called one of Canada’s best community builders/experiential marketers. NYT Best selling author and Internet Pioneer Chris Brogan once referred to Saul as “exactly who you want representing your company” and that message has been echoed by media properties ranging from Inc to Forbes Magazine. In a previous life Saul was the first international employee of Zipcar and the person responsible for launching Zipcar into the Canadian marketplace, was a key person in the growth of FreshBooks.com (The #1 Cloud Accounting service for Small Business Owners) and even knows what it is like to work for a large corporation from his time in a leadership role at Rogers Communications and Xero.com. On top of all that Saul is also a Professional Speaker and Consultant specializing in Word of Mouth Marketing, Stunt Marketing, Social Media, Customer Experience, and Community Building. Saul loves all people, especially women and is tired of people asking him to remove his shirt. In his free time he collects Nike Air Force One sneakers, watches lots of Movies and just happens to be the Smartest Man in the World.
Saul in the News…
When you do great work, people notice and over the past decade my accomplishments have been featured in Books, Television, Magazines, Radio, Newspapers and Magazines.
Books:
A few of the books I’m written about are:
Word of Mouth Marketing – Andy Sernovitz
The Hidden Power of your Customers – Becky Carroll
New Business Networking – Dave Delaney
Podcasts and Columns:
Host of The Xero Hour Podcast (Click to Listen)
Regular Panelist on the Beancast (Click to Listen)
The Limitless Business Podcast (Click to Listen)
Mitch Joel’s Six Pixels – Mirum Podcast (Click to Listen)
Regular Column at Owner Magazine
Forbescast (Click to Listen)
Firepole Marketing (Click to Listen)
Selected Press/Media
Firepole Marketing – How to grow a company to 4.5 Million Users
Inc Magazine – Love is all you need.
The Globe and Mail – 80’s Fad Floats Back
The Daily Muse – Word of Mouth Marketing Secrets from Mastermind Saul Colt
Forbes Magazine – Why its better for your career to be loathed than liked
PC Magazine – What Do You Carry: Saul Colt—Not Your Average Marketing Guy
DX3 Canada – Behind the magic. Q&A with Saul Colt
Suprpod.com – Saul Colt: The Time Traveling Story Telling Superhero
Business Insider – Freshbooks Head of Magic Two Rules of Marketing Success
Gospacerace.com – 3 Questions that will put the funk back in your hammer pants
Jonah lupton interviews Saul Colt
CNBC Dennis Kneale Show – Saul Colt talks about Twitter Rumours
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/12398764
The Rise To The Top interviews Saul Colt
Syracuse University iSchool- Talk with Saul Colt on Small Budget Marketing
Six Marketing Lessons you can learn from Saul Colt’s Pants
Pressable.com – Word of Mouth Marketing with Saul Colt
Communitech.ca – Alexis Ohanian and Saul Colt weigh in on Waterloo Region Tech
Betakit.com – Kinetic Cafe partners with Freshii to start health focused startup program
Techcrunch.com – Fresh Startups launches to help health food and fitness startups
Associated Press – IT’S A LITTLE BROKEN, SO LET’S FIX IT: A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE OF CANADIAN STARTUP ACCELERATORS
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