About the Author

Dave Kerpen is the founder and CEO of Likeable Local, a social media software company serving thousands of small businesses, as well as the chairman and cofounder of Likeable Media, an award-winning social media and word-of-mouth marketing agency.

Following Dave’s sponsored wedding that raised over $100,000 including $20,000 for charity, he and his wife Carrie started and transformed the KBuzz (founded in 2007) into Likeable Media, the only three-time WOMMY Award winner for excellence from the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) and one of the 500 fastest growing private companies in the United States, according to Inc. magazine for both 2011 and 2012.

Named by Entrepreneur magagine as one of 10 up-and-coming leaders, Dave has been featured on BBC, CNBC’s On the Money, ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS’s The Early Show, in the New York Times, and in countless blogs. Dave has also keynoted at dozens of conferences across the globe including Singapore, Athens, Dubai, San Francisco, and Mexico City.

Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Generally Amazing on Facebook and Other Social Networks,” was Dave’s first New York Times bestselling book. Dave followed Likeable Social Media with two more books, Likeable Business and Likeable Leadership. He is now working on his fourth, “The Art of People.”

Dave livesin Port Washington, NY, with his wife and children.