About
Digital Crush is a full-packed, one-day conference for digital marketers and business professionals looking to grow their digital marketing skillset and toolbox. In a collaborative and inspiring atmosphere, participants will be able to learn, exchange ideas, network and establish relationships with others in the area.
Our Vision
Our goal is to bring together and educate digital marketers and small business of the inland northwest on practical and important digital marketing practices. Through this we hope that your business is able to increase market share, customers and profit by utilizing the newest and best practices in digital marketing.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Ali Schwanke
CEO / Simple Strat
The Search for Hidden Insights: How to setup and use analytics for smarter marketing
Ali Schwanke is the CEO and Chief Marketing Strategist of Simple Strat, the marketing agency for B2B companies that are serious about growth. With nearly 15 years of marketing experience as both an in-house marketer and entrepreneur, Ali brings a unique data-driven perspective to marketing and sales.
As an industry professional, Ali’s work focuses on helping companies develop and implement growth-driven marketing programs. Whether that’s removing roadblocks, identifying new tools, clarifying a message, or developing better ways for sales and marketing to collaborate, audiences love Ali’s fresh approach and tell-it-like-it-is style. She is a HubSpot Certified Inbound Marketer and content creator, speaking and contributing to a number of marketing publications, communities and events worldwide. Ali is also the co-founder of BrandPlan, a technology start-up focused on helping marketers better plan, visualize, and execute their marketing strategy.
Ali is the incoming president of the AMA National Practitioner’s Council in Chicago, and a past-president of the Lincoln Chapter of the American Marketing Association, as well as an AMA award recipient – Marketer of the Year (2010) and Corporate Marketer of the Year (2018). She also serves as a marketing mentor for NMotion and the Global Accelerator Network and marketing advisor with the regional Vistage Trusted Advisory Board. In her free time, she enjoys running, writing and photography, spending time with her husband and two boys, and making a delicious batch of oatmeal raisin cookies.

Paul Warner
Marketing Campaign Manager / Schweitzer Engineering
Content Strategy: Manage the Challenges of Control and Creativity
Paul Warner is a business owner and content marketing campaign manager at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, where he oversees advertising, digital content strategy and analytics. Starting with his first job in Silicon Valley, he has gained marketing and sales experience across several industries. Locally, Paul has worked with Northern Quest Resort & Casino on digital content strategy and Washington State University teaching entrepreneurial marketing. Additionally, he has performed consulting work for clients in government, education and private industry since starting his business in 2009. Paul has a B.A. in journalism and an M.S. in communications.

Cindy Krum
CEO & Founder / MobileMoxie
The New SEO & The Story Your Data Isn’t Telling You
Cindy Krum is the Chief Executive Officer of MobileMoxie, LLC (Previously Rank-Mobile LLC), which launched in 2008. For the past 10 years, she has been bringing fresh and creative ideas to her clients, regularly speaking at national and international trade events about mobile web marketing, mobile SEO and app SEO. Her company launched the first mobile-focused SEO tool set and APIs to help other SEO tools provide better insights about the mobile market and use-case.
Cindy is author of Mobile Marketing: Finding Your Customers No Mater Where they Are, also writes for industry publications, and has been published in Website Magazine, Advertising & Marketing Review, Search Engine Land, ODG Intelligence, and quoted by many respected publications including PC World, Internet Retailer, TechWorld, Direct Magazine and Search Marketing Standard. Cindy is passionate about bringing creative online marketing solutions to clients, and working with clients to develop high level mobile and international marketing strategies.