• Eric HarrNeighbor

  • San Anselmo-Fairfax, CA

Eric Harr is a TV host, a national best-selling author, a syndicated columnist, a magazine founder, a CARE ambassador, a technologist–and the founder & president of a social media agency. He has worked with clients such as HP, The Four Seasons, CARE, The Conference Board, Lexus, Clover-Stornetta, The International Criminal Court and Universal Pictures–as well as politicians, film producers, professional athletes and celebrities.

Mr. Harr is the author of the best-selling social media book: “The Real Truth About Social Media: 8 Timeless Truths Revealed and 8 Monumental Myths Uncovered” available online and in brick-and-mortar bookstores nationwide.

Mr. Harr is also the Founder & President of Resonate Social, an integrated marketing agency with clients such as HP, The Four Seasons, Lexus, Circle Bank, Universal Pictures, Rain-X, The Conference Board, JFCS, Clover-Stornetta, George Howell Coffee, CARE and Mollie Stone’s. He built the company from the ground up and bolstered growth in a wavering economy. The business was profitable within 32 days of launching and within a 10-month period, Mr. Harr grew it to an $8 million business with 12 full-time employees. His articles on social media reach an audience of millions via SocialMediaToday, Forbes.com, AllTop and other business blogs.

Mr. Harr has designed and deployed dozens of social campaigns and has overseen all traditional print/broadcast media and PR outreach, community management, brand messaging, influencer engagement and social campaign development for a range of clients—successfully aligning social media with traditional marketing strategies and measuring non-financial outcomes, as well as financial impact, in a dashboard technology he developed called “SocialSee.” The technology is the first to calculate, in real-time, a company’s Return on Investment (ROI) from social media.

Mr. Harr has a “red velvet rope” policy, only engaging with a select number of clients who meet a strict set of criteria. They must align with his mission of: “do good business with good people as we do good in our world.”

He has worked with over 50 clients, helping them establish and scale their social communities with engaged audience reach into the millions. He has also designed award-winning social campaigns for clients including: HP Veer Peer, CARE I Am Powerful Workout and SlimeCares. His clients have realized sales increases up to 571% (via new product launches, website optimization, ad creative and e-commerce) with cost savings up to 86% (via customer service improvements, PPC enhancements and reputation defense/crisis management services).

Mr. Harr has appeared on FOX News, NBC, ABC, NPR, CBS Radio and in Marie Claire, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle and The San Jose Mercury News.

Mr. Harr is a best-selling author of four books for Random House and Rodale and the Founding Editorial Director of VIV Magazine, the world’s first mass-market interactive magazine (named after his daughter Vivienne).

He is an Ambassador for CARE, a leading humanitarian organization. A global visionary, he launched an international health initiative for CARE to support the war on poverty and to raise funds and awareness for the organization. He has made substantial donations to CARE over the years and on a trip to Mozambique, saw the effects of his work first-hand. In his words: “That journey changed me forever. It’s a major catalyst for having jumped into social media: to unleash a world of social good.” He also raises awareness for, and contributes to: Operation Smile and Charity Water.

Mr. Harr is an accomplished writer. For five years, he wrote a weekly, nationally-syndicated column with The Los Angeles Times that was syndicated in over 140 publications across the United States and around the world via Tribune Media Services (TMS). His articles have appeared in People, USA Today, GQ, SHAPE and Men’s Health and in major market newspapers including The New York Daily News, The Miami Herald and The San Francisco Chronicle. 

Mr. Harr is a world-class triathlete (ranked #6 in the Triathlon Pro Tour World Rankings in his first year) and recently finished 40th overall, and 4th in his age group, at the 2011 Ironman Triathlon World Championships in a time of 9:01:34. As part of this quest, he raised money and awareness for CARE.

He is the host of Resonate Radio, a bi-monthly radio show featuring news and newsmakers in the world of social media, including Guy Kawasaki, Brian Solis, Scott Stratten and Jay Baer.

He is the creator of a new series “personal empowerment” applications, starting with: FlyRight, the world’s first, real-time customer service mobile app for airline travel.

Connect with him on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and Pinterest (yes, he’s pinning. Earth-shattering, we know.)

To learn more, contact him here.

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