Timothy Hughes, CEO and Co-founder of DLA ignite, joins Tejas Mehta to discuss the power of building an online community, the role of influencer marketing in social selling, and the future of social media. Timothy Hughes is a social selling innovator and pioneer, ranked by Onalytica as the number one most influential person globally for social selling. He has over thirty years of experience in sales, marketing, and business development. Timothy is a Non-Executive Director at HighChloeCloud, a Global Instructor and Business case contributor at ThePowerMBA, and a Contributing Member at RevGenius and RevOps Co-op. Before DLA ignite, Timothy spent more than a decade at Oracle Corporation and worked in marketing and sales roles at companies like Capgemini, DSP-Explorer, and Fujitsu. He is also the bestselling author of Social Selling: Techniques to Influence Buyers and Changemakers and Smarketing: How to achieve competitive advantage through blended sales and marketing.