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Hello, everyone.

My guest today is Justin Klein.

He is the co-founder and CEO of Markerley, an influence marketing company

focused on influencer identification and tracking for some of the world's largest and most

rapidly growing consumer brands. Justin, are you ready to take us to the top?

I'm ready. All right, good. So tell us about Markerly. How are you approaching influencer

marketing? What's your business model? How do you make money? Yeah. So, I mean, if you think about it,

as far as, you know, what influencer marketing is, it's, you know, you're basically finding popular

people on social media. I mean, technically influencing can happen anywhere, but we focus on social.

And we are both, you know, kind of an agency

and technology company. So we run campaigns on a full service level. If you need everything done,

soup to nuts, you know, from strategy, identification, outreach, pretty much everything that

involves an influencer campaign all the way to, you know,

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