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The Koozai Team commence their Movember campaign for charity tomorrow and during that time we also want to pay tribute to the people in marketing who have brilliant beards, marvellous moustaches and who make facial hair a work of art.In this first post it’s down to you to nominate those people in marketing who you feel have great facial hair, and then we will commence voting shortly.
The closing date for nominations is 13:00 GMT Thursday 3rd November, and you can nominate anyone in the marketing industry via the comments below.
After you’ve made your nominations, we’ll then open the gates for voting and you can help determine the best facial hair in marketing.
To get you started here are seven notable figures. Don’t forget to leave your suggestions in the comments section below and we’ll be covering the Koozai team adventures in Movember very soon.
Image from SEOMoz
Image from Search Engine Land
Image from Matt Cutts.com
Image from Mashable
Image from IM SEO
Image from Danny Dover.com
Image from Star Pulse
I’m sure we’ve missed a ton of great examples, so please leave comments below:
Mike Essex
Mike Essex specialises in digital marketing and everything search. A recent project of Mike’s was featured on BBC News, Radio 5Live and the Times here in the UK, whilst also featuring on USA Today and ABC News in the US. He will be writing throughout the month about digital marketing and much more...
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23 Comments
Mike 31st October 2011
Ooh one more to add to the nomination: Barry Schwartz
Oliver 31st October 2011
What about Alan Sugar? His designer stubble is epic! Can’t beat the rough and rugged look!
Bas van den Beld 31st October 2011
LOL
Definitely Ralph (Fantomaster) without any competition there!
Dean Marsden 31st October 2011
You forgot about Seth Godin…. oh wait…. thats a different blog post altogether.
Bas van den Beld 31st October 2011
hehe yeah, when’s the balding guys? I stand a chance there
Dean Marsden 31st October 2011
Hehe,You do! Recognition needed all round. We’ll have to arrange a vote for the other end of the facial hair spectrum.
James 31st October 2011
I nominate Steve Logan, Senior Writer here at Koozai. That man’s beard is the stuff of champions.
Mike 31st October 2011
Also Gianluca Fiorelli has the best avatar beard image, and is notable for his status at the top of the SEOmoz user list.
Bas van den Beld 31st October 2011
Others? Well, there’s My co-host on the radioshow Roy Huiskes: https://twitter.com/#!/chapter42, Rishi: https://twitter.com/#!/rishil, David Wallace: https://twitter.com/#!/DavidWallace, Greg Jarboe: https://twitter.com/#!/Gregjarboe, Kristjan Hauksson: https://twitter.com/#!/optimizeyourweb, Christoph Cemper: https://twitter.com/#!/cemper, Dave Snyder: https://twitter.com/#!/davesnyder, Lee Odden: https://twitter.com/#!/leeodden and probably a few more. And I think if you would ask Andy Betts he would grow one for you
Mike 31st October 2011
Bas that’s an amazing list! This competition just got interesting
Matt Hunckler 31st October 2011
OK, so I definitely have to nominate Slingshot SEO mad scientist and co-founder, Jeremy Dearringer (http://twitter.com/#!/papaslingshot). His beard is unparalleled.
Mike 31st October 2011
Two more suggestions from Facebook groups – Richard Shove and Gary Buchan.
Paul Gailey 31st October 2011
A must: Vint Cerf
Dean Cruddace 31st October 2011
@mikehalvorsen is an avid participant in Movember you need him on the list!
Dean Cruddace 31st October 2011
Oh nearly forgot about Ingo Bousa as well. @supaswag
Dean Cruddace 31st October 2011
Ok a few more to add to the list (just checked my SEO the way it should be list on twitter)
@tedives
@matthewjbrown
@mwilton13
@onreact_com
@ruudhein
@millerian
@garretfrench
@terryvanhorne
@thegypsy
Mike Wilton 3rd November 2011
haha hey Dean, thanks for the nomination! I guess you’ll be seeing my mug on here soon enough.
Mike 31st October 2011
And three more courtesy of our Twitter fans: @ysekand, Daniel Thornton and Kelvin Newman.
We really are an industry of high quality facial hair.
Marc Shepherd 31st October 2011
We have two people in our agency with great facial hair! http://www.guerilla.co.uk/about-us/our-team/
Colin McDermott 31st October 2011
It has to Fantomaster. Rand a close second.
Fantomaster = Gandalf?
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Mike 3rd November 2011
And the final nominations from Twitter are in:
thogenhaven
DannyNMIGoodwin
tom_parnell
tombowdenCRO
philnottingham
dohertyjf
unmarketing
badams
Voting will open soon.
Briony 3rd November 2011
Fantomaster!!! He is epic… just like his beard.