Here is a short list of people I learn from, and admire, on a daily basis. I am sure they’ll help you as well.

ChrisBrogan

Chris Brogan is a ten year veteran of using social media and both web and mobile technologies to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Chris speaks, blogs, writes articles, and makes media of all kinds at[chrisbrogan.com], a blog in the top 10 of the Advertising Age Power150, and in the top 100 on Technorati. He is co-author of the book Trust Agents.

Jason Markow

Jason writes “The Think (Here) Blog, centered around entrepreneurs who are truly exceptional, what they do, and how they do it.  His primary focus is on a little something he calls BLB (Bottom Line Blindness). Although in its infancy, he intends for it to grow into a most important project.

Tim Ferriss

Timothy Ferriss, nominated as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People of 2007,” is an angel investor and author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been sold into 35 languages.

Gary Vaynerchuck

Gary Vaynerchuk has captured attention with his pioneering, multi-faceted approach to personal branding and business. After primarily utilizing traditional advertising techniques to build his family’s local wine business into a national industry leader, Gary rapidly leveraged social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to promote Wine Library TV, his video blog about wine. As his viewership swelled to over 80,000 a day, doors opened to a book deal, several national TV appearances, and a flurry of speaking engagements around the world. Gary’s dual identity as both business guru and wine guy has made him the “Social Media Sommelier.”

SpeedRFP

SpeedRFP is revolutionizing the world of meeting and event planning. They are working to re-define the essential tools of this process and make it easier from start to finish.