As CEO of Audience Machine, Todd Tweedy is responsible delivering technology-enabled community marketing and search engine marketing services to achieve cost-effective online customer acquisition and revenue goals.

Mr. Tweedy’s client experience includes Sylvan Learning, Rolex, AOL, LikeMe, MTV, Microsoft, Metagenics, Netscape, MTV Networks, Quest Communications, Discovery Channel, FedEx, US West, US Airways, Volkswagen, Audi and Scholastic among many others.

Mr. Tweedy has authored numerous articles on ecommerce and email as well as the word of mouth industry study Perceptions, Practices & Ethics in Word-of-Mouth Marketing that has been downloaded over 150,000 times since being published in May of 2006.  Mr. Tweedy also authored The Neighboring Marketing Model published by Internet.com in 2002 on how to leverage public instant messaging networks to support acquisition marketing.

Todd is a big-picture technology-driven marketing geek with documented ability to drive strong acquisition growth and online sales. Vast e-commerce experience from airline reservation systems to book sales and from affiliate marketing to viral and social networking over 16 years with B2C & B2B leadership for startups, ad agencies as well as Fortune 500 firms.

Mr. Tweedy has served on a number of boards including National Advisory Board for The History Makers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive. In addition, Mr. Tweedy is a former member of The Social Media Collective, a group of industry leaders in the social media arena and is a member of the Board of Directors for VBMA – Viral & Buzz Marketing Association. Mr. Tweedy formerly blogged for Corante.com, a business strategy and technology application publisher and was president and chairman of the board for The New Media Society of Washington, DC.

Mr. Tweedy has co-chaired conferences for JupiterMedia on enterprise instant messaging integration and marketing. He has spoken at numerous conferences on word-of-mouth, cost effective interactive marketing, search engine marketing, and instant messaging across the United States as well as in Europe, Asia, and South America.

Todd lives St. Paul, Minnesota with his wife and three children.

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