SEASONED BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:
KNIGHT'S CORE BIO: Christopher M. Knight is a proven entrepreneur who excels at creating & leading high-performance Internet startup companies with an obsession on delivering a fast and positive end-user driven experience. He and his team accomplish this thanks to daily innovation, creative solutions based on user feedback, and a high commitment to exceed the expectations of their stakeholders. He attracts "A"-level achievers to quickly execute the companies' objectives and implement quality control assurances -- while he steps out of the day-to-day operations to focus on the long-term client opportunities, relationship-building and new product development.
KNIGHT'S CORE PHILOSOPHIES: User-obsessed, Speed-obsessed, Creativity, Innovation and Metrics-driven, Quality-focused and Long-Term oriented. Always give more than you expect to receive in return. Be as transparent as possible with your stakeholders and encourage them to provide frequent feedback to help prioritize continuous improvements. Whatever you are for, strengthens you. The purpose of life is to serve others, and by doing so, all of our needs, desires and wants can be met. Always take massive action directed towards worthwhile goals. Quality control everything and build trust, credibility and reputation through honorable actions every day.
ARE YOU LINKEDIN?: Social Network With Chris Knight
ARTICLE WRITING & MARKETING EXPERT BIO: Christopher M. Knight is an article writing & web content coach. He is also the publisher behind the wildly popular EzineArticles.com community & innovative marketing system of over 150,000+ expert authors who share more than 3,000+ fresh quality articles every single day with the more than 25 million monthly visitors that surf the site. EzineArticles.com is a free matching service that helps ezine publishers find quality niche-perfect supplemental content that they can use for their next email newsletter and authors with an expertise contribute dozens, hundreds and even thousands of articles with the expectation to attract highly qualified leads back to their website. Knight leads the team of editors and software/server development professionals who continue to innovate daily to expand the sites offerings including tens of thousands of RSS feeds, targeted permission-based email alerts, author training ezines, blog and forums designed to help authors and publishers succeed.
EZINE PUBLISHING EXPERT BIO: Christopher M. Knight is the publisher of Ezine-Tips, a long-running newsletter on the business of publishing email newsletters (ezines).
Presently:	EzineArticles.com Community: Publisher & CEO of EzineArticles.com, an expert author community of over 150,000+ authors who share thousands of fresh quality articles every day that are made available for limited niche syndication by ezine publishers. The site acts as a matching service for ezine publishers who are seeking supplemental content for their next email newsletter and expert authors who want to share their expertise in exchange for exposure, credibility and qualified traffic referrals back to their website.
1999 to Present	EmailUniverse.com Network: Founder, Publisher & CEO. The EmailUniverse.com Network (Multiple websites, email newsletters, email discussion lists, email industry news, and expert advice by hundreds of ezine publishers) is a leading provider of information, tools, and research for business professionals who are trying to leverage email, email newsletters and email marketing campaigns to help build, grow, and promote their business.
1999 to Aug. 2002	SparkLIST.com Corporation: CEO & Co-Founder of this joint venture between SparkNET Corporation and Lyris Technologies, Inc. The combined company leveraged SparkNET's 3-year lead in the email list-hosting service industry and Lyris's Email List Management email software to provide high-volume, scalable, extremely fast, secure and confidential email list hosting for email newsletters and email discussion lists. When Lyris acquired the majority of SparkLIST they did not own yet in August 2002, SparkLIST had nearly 1,000 clients and was managing over 50 million permission-based email list members across over 3,000 email lists to over 500,000 recipients every month on average.
1995-1999	SparkNET Interactive: CEO & Founder of a high-volume email list hosting/promotion/management and media company. SparkNET was originally an ISP that was built for 2 1/2 years. The dialup division was sold in 1998 and the website design and hosting division was sold in 1999 to help focus the company on its core email list serving competencies.
1998-1999	internet.com LLC: Joined as Managing Editor of the ISP-Lists, which he founded back in 1996 and now continues to manage for internet.com after the 90 lists and 30+ websites were acquired. Skills mastered in this role are online web & E-mail advertising. Knight made history after building and selling an email discussion list community that still maintains the highest marketshare in its niche.
1994-1997	PC Experience Center: CEO & Founder of a Microsoft Authorized Technical Education Center, with a state-of-the-art 3 room PC Training facility that became #1 in its market for service. New Horizons Computer Learning Center of Madison, Wisconsin, and a franchise of the world's largest PC training facilities, acquired PCE on 12-31-97.
1992-1999	PC Specialists, Inc.: CEO & Founder of a PC Hardware, Networking, and Service Center in regional Wisconsin.
1988-1992	Worked for a series of employers, ranging from Best Buy, to Deans foods. To help pay for college he worked as a Pea Combine Leadman. Knight learned strong leadership skills and teamwork through these positions. Knight also worked for telemarketing firms and sold home & car audio systems to hone his selling skills.
1986-1994	Knight Entertainment: Founder in a DJ Entertainment business which not only paid the bills while building his PC Hardware business in 1994 but also taught him business basics and presentation/speaking and customer-relations skill. Knight was 16 when he started Knight Life DJ Service, which was later renamed Knight Entertainment.
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Science in Business - Marketing  - University of Phoenix (High Honors)
Associate Degree in Marketing & Marketing Communications - NorthEast Wisconsin Technical College (High Honors)
TELE-CLASS (TeleSeminar) LEADING & GUEST EXPERT EXPERIENCE:
HOST/GUEST: Chris Knight & Jeff Herring's 100 Articles in 100 Days #HAHD "Traffic Celebration Teleseminar" July 1st 2009
GUEST EXPERT: Erin Blaskie's 2009 Summer Speaker Series #sss09 "Traffic Generation and Article Writing" June 10th 2009
GUEST EXPERT: Dan Ho interview on "Scaling Article Marketing for Affiliate Marketers" May 2009
GUEST EXPERT: Joanna Penn's "The Creative Penn" Author 2.0 Program "Traffic generation and article writing" April 2009
GUEST EXPERT: Jimmy Vee & Travis Miller's StraightTalk Podcast "Make Money With Article Marketing" March 2009
GUEST EXPERT: Alex Mandossian's Smart Start Giving Charity Telefundraiser "On Entrepreneurial Inspiration & Achievement, Business Rituals, Big Ideas for Business Acceleration..." February 2009
GUEST EXPERT: Jeff Herring's Article Marketing Cafe' "Article Writing & Marketing Predictions for 2009" Jan 15th, Feb 11th, & Mar 18th 2009
GUEST EXPERT: Dan Kennedy's Info Riches Product Interview "Discussing Future of Info Product Marketing Strategies" December 1, 2008
HOST: Interviewed EzineArticles Expert Author Ann Keeler Evans "From Zero to 250 Articles in 6 Months... How'd She Do It!?" November 26, 2008
GUEST EXPERT: Melody Campbell's Get More Business Radio Talk Show "Article Writing & Marketing For Small Business Owners" November 14, 2008
GUEST EXPERT: Stacey Hylen's Business Optimization Week "Optimizing Your Business For Any Economy" October 22, 2008
GUEST EXPERT: Jeff Herring's Article Marketing Cafe' "Article Writing & Marketing" August 21, 2008
GUEST EXPERT: Chris Curtis's WebWise Radio Show "Article Marketing 101" October 7, 2007
GUEST EXPERT: Ask The Expert Salon With Kendall Summerhawk "The Fine Art of Article Marketing" with Christopher Knight March 8, 2007
GUEST EXPERT: Blogging and Beyond Podcast With Patsi Krakoff & Denise Wakeman "What The Article Syndication Model Is About" March 1, 2007
GUEST EXPERT: Paid Membership Call With Jeff Herring's Mentee's "High Quality & Quantity Article Writing, Little Known Secrets, & Future of Article Content" February 28, 2007
HOST, PRODUCT CREATION: Knight Interviews Dr. Pauline Wallin "The 7 Biggest Mistakes Professionals Make When Writing for the Web" December 8, 2006
GUEST EXPERT: Marketing Qi With Ellen Britt "Building Traffic & Pre-Qualified Leads For Your Business While You Sleep Thanks To Articles" December 7, 2006
GUEST EXPERT: 10StepMarketing Podcast With Debbie LaChusa "How To Write Articles That Publishers Will Want To Accept" November 3, 2006
GUEST EXPERT: Article Production Strategies With Jeff Herring "What Article Directories & Ezine Publishers Are Looking For From Expert Authors" October 9, 2006
GUEST EXPERT, PRODUCT CREATION: Making Money With Content With Cathy Stucker "Contributed To Cathy's 11 CD's & 300 Page PDF Building A Content Rich Website Training" August 18, 2006
GUEST EXPERT: Affiliate Marketing With Anik Singal "How to leverage article content & permission-based email to drive affiliate program revenues, recruit new affiliates and build or enhance your current affiliate channel." July 25, 2006
GUEST EXPERT: Mastermind With Ali Brown "Six Ezine Publisher Make Over's, Live Group Consulting, List Building, TEXT vs. HTML, Relationship Building With Permission Email, Deliverability & More" June 20, 2006
GUEST EXPERT: ePub SIG With Ellen Mossman-Glazer "ePublishing as a Profit Center, Marketing Tool and Publicity Generator" April 24, 2006
PRODUCT CREATION: Web Content Secrets "Discover The Proper Content Mix That Can Help Your Business Attract Pre Qualified Traffic, Sales & Massive Levels of Exposure" April 5, 2006
GUEST EXPERT: Conversations With Experts Series, With Krakoff & Wakeman "Article Writing 101 To Create Qualified Traffic, Article Mechanics, Quality Metrics & More" March 15, 2006
HOST: Article Announcer With Jason Potash "What Is Article Announcer? How Should People Syndicate Their Articles?" June, 2005
HOST: Knight Interviews EzineQueen, Alexandria K. Brown "How To Boost Your Business With Your Email Newsletter" November, 2004
SPEAKING EXPERIENCE:
Google's AdSense Partners Day Event 2008 Beijing, China How to grow traffic, increase ad revenue / user engagement, retain users & grow your Internet business.
MarketingSherpa's 3rd Annual Email Summit Miami 2008 MarketingSherpa's PR firm flew me in to blog the event from an ezine publisher viewpoint.
Yanik Silvers Underground March 2006 Event Email List Building, Email Deliverability and What Ezine Articles Syndication is All About!
NEPA 2005 (Newsletter & Electronic Publishers Association 2005) Creating An E-Marketing List That Gets You Loads of Cash
INBOX Email Event 2004 Moderator; Improve Use of Customer Lists and Preferences to Build Customer Relationships Moderator; Email Lists in Action: A Case Study Moderator; Knowing When to Outsource Your Email Marketing Activities Moderator; Keep Your Eye on the Ball: Email is All About Personal Relationships
ClickZ New York 2003 Email List Production Track Moderator Email In-House or Out-Source Seminar Email Format Seminar
ISPcon San Jose 1999, ISP-Marketing Seminars
Fall Internet World NY ISP World 1999, Moderated ISP/ASP Panel
ISPBF.com's (Internet Service Provider Business Forum) 1999
Pre-ISPcon Educational Sessions 1999, ISP-Value Added Services
ISPcon Baltimore 1999, ISP-Marketing Seminars
Spring Internet World 1999, Moderator of ISP World
ISPF II San Diego 1999, ISP-Exit Strategies Seminar
ISPcon Canada 1999, Keynote & ISP Moderator/Ambassador
ISPcon San Jose 1998, speaking on 5 ISP-Marketing seminars
ISPF Atlanta 1998, speaking on ISP-Exit Strategies
Jay Abraham's Million Dollar Summit London 1997, speaking on internet/web/email strategies
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay 1996, lead 2 session Internet Marketing Seminar
AUTHOR:
Article Production Strategies Discover Insider Article Writing & Marketing Secrets To Squeeze More Traffic From Your Existing Content & Soon To Be Written Web Content Self-Published 2005, 2006, 2007 [Click here to get your copy now]
ISP Marketing Survival Guide: Proven Strategies and Secrets for Outmaneuvering the Competition Published by John Wiley & Sons of NY, 1999 [Click here to get your copy now]
CO-AUTHORED, CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR, or INTERVIEWED:
Be Unreasonable, by Paul Lemberg The Unconventional Way To Extraordinary Business Results Pages 133-135, Lemberg interviewed me on how to "Obsessively Create Value: An Unreasonable Case Study" McGraw-Hill, May 2007 [Click here to get your copy now]
Cash Content Formula, by Cathy Stucker The Unconventional Way To Extraordinary Business Results Disc #7, Stucker interviewed me on: "Article Writing & Marketing Strategies" Special Interests Publishing, 2007 [Click here to get your copy now]
101 Great Ways To Improve Your Life, Vol3, by David Riklan Featuring Ken Blanchard, Les Brown, Mark Victor Hansen, Byron Katie plus many other leading experts. Pages 13-16, I contributed an original article, "The Nine Strategies to Attract Your Greatest Intentions in Life" Self-Improvement Online, Inc., 2007 [Click here to get your copy now]
The Complete Guide to E-Mail Marketing, by Bruce C. Brown Pages 124-131, I contributed two articles, "Ezine Article Ideas -- 15 To Spur Your Creative Writing Spark" and "Increase Your Ezine Frequency via Smarter E-Mail Segmentation" Atlanta Publishing Group, Inc., 2007 [Click here to get your copy now]
CERTIFICATIONS:
MCP	Microsoft Certified Professional
NAC	Neuro Associative Conditioning, trained under Tony Robbins for 2 weeks in Hawaii in 1991.

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