John Lincoln (MBA) is a three time author, filmmaker, former UC San Diego instructor, digital marketing strategist, entrepreneur, and Co Founder of Ignite Visibility. He is known for blending creativity, business strategy, and a passion for helping others into every part of his work and life. John is also deeply committed to giving back and actively supports organizations such as Make A Wish Foundation, Rady Children’s Hospital, Padres Pedal The Cause, Reality Changers, and several youth focused fundraisers and community programs. Outside of work, he is an avid surfer, trail runner, soccer player, fitness enthusiast, and a strong supporter of youth sports and leadership development.
Ignite Visibility is a leading performance marketing, development, and technology company that helps organizations grow through innovative strategy, scalable execution, and a commitment to relationships, responsiveness, and results. The company has been featured as an Inc. 5,000 business six times and continues to expand its capabilities. In 2023, Ignite Visibility acquired Integrated Digital Strategies. In 2025, the platform grew further with the acquisitions of Outliant, Rallio, and EverConnect. Ignite Visibility and its combined group of companies are proudly backed by Mountaingate Capital.
John has worked on more than one thousand digital marketing programs, supporting well known brands, public companies, and high growth organizations. His client experience includes Inspire Brands, DoorDash, The Knot Worldwide, Driven Brands, HBO, World Surf League, COX Communications, FOX, Morgan Stanley, Tony Robbins, Amway, Inogen, Experian, Neighborly, and many more. His work spans SEO, paid media, AI strategies, content, analytics, conversion optimization, and the development of digital systems that help companies scale. He has taken websites to number one positions in Google for highly competitive keywords, grown social communities to millions of followers, and led multimillion dollar advertising programs that set performance records.
John and the Ignite Visibility team have created more than one hundred and fifty proprietary methodologies that provide marketers with clear strategic answers across industries. Ignite also offers CertaintyTech, a forecasting, competitive benchmarking, and media mix modeling platform, as well as Rallio, the company’s social media, review generation, and AI powered system.
John has been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, and additional publications. He is the author of Advolution, The Forecaster Method, and Digital Influencer, and he is the Producer and Director of SEO The Movie and Social Media Marketing The Movie. He has earned recognition as a Most Admired CEO and a Top Business Leader Under 40 by the San Diego Business Journal. He has spoken at major conferences including Web Summit, SMX, and Pubcon. John also taught web analytics, SEO, and paid media at UC San Diego for more than a decade before dedicating himself fully to Ignite Visibility and his family.
John is passionate about helping people grow and creating opportunities for the next generation. The best place to follow John and reach out is his Linkedin Profile. https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnelincoln/