Who is John Russell?

John Russell, is President of MaximizeTheWeb.com, and R J Associates, an internet marketing development firm located in Wyandotte, Michigan. The company was founded in July 1997 to help businesses, organizations, communities and individuals "Maximize the Web" and understand this powerful new communication medium. 

John has served the Southern Wayne County Chamber of Commerce, as a member of the Board of Directors, Moderator of the Technology Group and Chairman of the Small Business Committee. 

John has over 18 years of sales and marketing experience in both management roles and field sales. He has a Masters Degree in Management from Walsh College in Troy where he has worked as an adjunct professor in traditional, Internet and interactive marketing.

His program on "Web Site Re-Engineering" has received top marks at the Internet World Conferences in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City. In March of 2000, John took his program internationally to Internet World Asia in Singapore. He added "Small Business and the Internet" topic to the 2000 Los Angeles and New York Internet World lineup, and added IW-Toronto to the list in 2001. He was invited to speak three times (once as a keynote) at Internet World in Buenos Aires Argentina in August 2001. In addition, he participated in "E-Business 4 Small Business" in Las Vegas and Des Moines Iowa, sponsored by Iowa State University in 2001. John completed his 5th year at Internet World at 2003 Spring Internet World in San Jose, CA.

He partnered with Key3Media to produce "E-business for Small Business" at the 2001 Spring COMDEX in Chicago, where he served as Program Chair, moderator and speaker at one session. John brought a similar program to Internet World in Los Angeles and New York City in 2002, producing the program in cooperation with Penton Media. John has spoken on e-business and e-marketing concepts to a variety of groups like the International Association of Business Communicators, the Adcraft Club, Comerica Bank, as well as programs co-sponsored with Microsoft Corporation.

After a two year hiatus, Russell returns to web marketing, concentrating on small businesses and non-profit organizations.