If your morning cup of coffee wasn’t the kick in the butt you needed to get your day started, these women are sure to inspire you to get to work.
With millions of dollars in revenue and millions more generated for their clients through their marketing strategies, these women in marketing are inspiring to say the least. They’ve built massive businesses based on their entrepreneurial bug, and many have continued to create 7-figure and viral results for their clients while balancing being a mom.
Here’s who you should watch out for because you need to be listening to and learning from all of them.
1. Lisa Nichols
CEO of Motivating The Masses
As one of the world’s most requested motivational speakers, Lisa Nichols is known for transforming lives. It all started with changing her own life from being a single mother on paid assistance to the founder and CEO Of Motivating Masses. Through her platform, she’s been able to serve almost 80 million people by giving them the tools they need to live the life they want to achieve.
Lisa Nichols is a 6x best-selling author and has appeared on Oprah, The Today Show, The Dr. Phil Show, The Steve Harvey Show, and Extra. She’s received the Humanitarian Award from South Africa, The Ambassador Award, and the LEGO Foundation‘s Heart of Learning Award. Lisa also has a non-profit foundation Motivating The Teen Spirit, where she’s helped 270,000 teens and directly stopped teen suicide, dropouts, and reunited families.
2. Jackie Hermes
CEO of Accelity
When she’s not flying as a pilot in the sky, Jackie Hermes is on the ground helping B2B SaaS businesses grow faster as the CEO of Accelity. While working in the marketing department of a SaaS company, she started a side hustle selling $5 bags of cookies at Farmer’s Markets. That side hustle helped her start Accelity, which has grown from a business of one to a team of more than fourteen SaaS and marketing passionates.
Jackie leveraged LinkedIn to grow Accelity and has grown her audience on the platform to over 30,000 followers. She now helps B2B SaaS businesses with everything from planning to execution until the founders exit the company or decide to grow their in-house team.
3. Danielle Canty & Natalie Ellis
Co-Founders of BossBabe
Danielle Canty and Natalie Ellis had a huge problem with the fact that only 18% of women can hit six figures in their business and that only 2% reach the 7-figure mark. Their brand BossBabe fixes that. With free and paid programs, BossBabe has worked with over 100,000+ women to help them make their professional and personal dreams a reality.
With a strong value for collaboration over competition, Danielle and Natalie have built their business on transparency. They’ve grown the BossBabe Instagram following to over 2.7 million followers and have leveraged that audience to create a 7-figure business in their first year. While Danielle focuses on growth strategy, operations, and memberships, Natalie markets the BossBabe brand through her marketing zone of genius.
4. Rachel Miller
Founder of Moolah Marketing
If you ask Rachel Miller, organic traffic is not a myth. It’s an achievable marketing result if you’re implementing the right strategies. Rachel is the founder of Moolah Marketing, where she’s helped over 3,444 businesses grow on social and reach virality. She helps small businesses to celebrity companies to Fortune 500 companies get traction on social media.
Through her program Page Strategies, Rachel shows businesses how they can create an active, engaged audience on social and convert them into customers. As a contributing writer at DigitalMarketer, Rachel proves time and time again how well she understands the customer’s mind and how to position your brand to get the results you’re looking for.
5. Kristen Bryant
Director of Content Marketing at Help Scout
Kristen Bryant is the Director of Content Marketing at Help Scout, a certified B-corp that helps businesses communicate with their customers. Kristen’s focus is on creating Help Scout’s content strategy, growing their audience and leads, and managing content creators and strategists.
Before her role at Help Scout, Kristen worked at Wistia, helping market the Wistia long-form video series and launching a new business line. She also cultivated strategic partnerships and the event strategy and represented Wistia as a speaker on various podcasts and shows.
6. Marisa Murgatroyd
Founder and CEO of Live Your Message
With the goal of helping 1 million entrepreneurs create their business, Marisa Murgatroyd spends her days helping those entrepreneurs live their message. After realizing the world wasn’t going to change with a top-down approach, she built a business that approaches reality through a bottom-up perspective. By giving entrepreneurs the tools and strategies they need to share their message with the world, Marisa is able to make change one person at a time.
Live Your Message has helped clients like Justin Livingston, Callan Rush, Danny Iny, Alexis Neely, and Susan Peirce Thompson establish their online presence. With Marisa’s expertise, new entrepreneurs don’t have to wait for their chance to be featured in big publications. They can live the reality they’ve always wanted (and build the entire thing from the comfort of their living room).
7. Julie Stoian
Co-Founder of Funnel Gorgeous
Julie Stoain has brought in over $1 million in sales from a spreadsheet. That’s a pretty great lead magnet strategy if you ask us. As a digital marketing expert, coach, and co-founder of Create Your Laptop Life, Funnel Gorgeous, Digital Insiders, and more, she gives new business owners the skills and strategies they need to build and grow a profitable online business.
In less than three years, she grew her business to $3 million and has now been featured on Content Academy, Boss Moms, GoDaddy Garage Blog, and Funnelhacker Radio. Through her businesses, she teaches aspiring entrepreneurs the growth hacks and strategies that will help them succeed with their digital marketing strategy.
8. Rachel Pedersen
Founder and CEO of The Viral Touch
If you’ve spent the last year wondering if you should be on TikTok—Rachel Pedersen has the answer for you. With 568,000 followers on the platform and the title of “Queen of Social Media,” she helps businesses create the growth they’ve been waiting for from social. She also teaches busy parents how to be Social Media Managers so they can get the career freedom they’ve been looking for.
As the Founder and CEO of 2 multimillion-dollar companies, Rachel’s proud of having accomplished her dreams and being able to help other entrepreneurs do the same. Her client wins include growing a skincare company by 6,725% (creating multi-million-dollar revenue), scaling a weight-loss company from $300,000 a year to $3 million a year in less than one year, and helping five clients go viral with over 10 million views.
