Laura Fitton

Author, Marketing Evangelist , HubSpot.com

About This Expert

Laura “@Pistachio” Fitton is the co-author of Twitter for Dummies (@dummies). She is also the Inbound Marketing Evangelist for HubSpot.com.

Called by some a “Cinderella story” and a “Queen” of Twitter, Fitton is credited with explaining Twitter’s value to Guy Kawasaki and dozens of other tech leaders. She has been speaking professionally about the business use of Twitter since October 2007, and by popular demand launched Pistachio Consulting, the first Twitter for Business consultancy, in September 2008.

She’s lectured on Twitter for Business at Harvard Business School, for Cornell’s Entrepreneurs’ Network (she is an alum) and other universities and at numerous conferences including BlogWorldExpo, Defrag, Supernova, LeWeb, Learning 2009 and each of the major Twitter conferences.

Pistachio Consulting clients include Ford, IBM, Johnson & Johnson and Anthem Healthcare. Laura been quoted in more than 50 national publications including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Newsweek, and BusinessWeek.

On the personal side, Laura stays busy stealing bits of time here and there for ice hockey, ashtanga yoga, surfing, snowboarding and rock-climbing. She’s also a stroke survivor dedicated to raising awareness. Laura makes her home near Boston, MA with her two daughters and a giant Leonberger dog named Hope.