Meet John Lincoln, MBA - Co-Founder & CEO

John Lincoln (MBA) is CEO of Ignite Visibility, a highly sought-after digital marketing strategist, keynote speaker, and winner of the coveted Search Engine Land “Search Marketer of the Year” award.

Ignite Visibility is a leading performance-marketing agency specializing in multichannel digital strategy, SEO, paid media, social media, creative, email, PR and CRO. Founded on the principles of relationships, responsiveness, and results, Ignite has consistently been named a top Digital Marketing Agency in the United States by Clutch.co. This success, as well as other awards for client work, has propelled Ignite Visibility to the Inc. 5,000 list six times.

His business’s mission is to help others through digital marketing and use the profits to invest in his clients’ success, employees’ success, and in his community. With nearly twenty years of demanding experience, Lincoln has worked with over 1,000 online businesses. Through work with these, and many other clients, he has helped take hundreds of websites to the #1 position in Google for competitive keywords, built social communities into millions of followers, strategized many record-breaking advertising campaigns, and worked on hundreds of advanced projects in CRO, influencer marketing, media buys, email and digital marketing strategy. Lincoln has authored thousands of articles and videos and has been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, and more.

He has authored three books, “Advolution” (2022), “The Forecaster Method” (2019) and “Digital Influencer” (2016), and is the Producer and Director of “SEO: The Movie” and “Social Media Marketing: The Movie.” He has been recognized as a Most Admired CEO and Top Business Leader Under 40 by the San Diego Business Journal. He has spoken at conferences and events like Web Summit, SMX, and Pubcon. He taught Web Analytics, SEO and Paid Media at UC San Diego from 2010 to 2018.