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Donald F. Pooley - Click Here To Read Donald's Articles - Don Pooley, the author of this article,
allows you to publish
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Don Pooley CLU, CFP, CHFC, "The
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Max Kalles - Click Here To Read Max's Articles - Max Kalles is a certified internet
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Rebel Brown - Click Here To Read Rebel's Articles - For over 25 years, I've created strategies
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Billy Sharma - Click Here To Read Billy's Articles - BILLY SHARMA
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Donna Williams - Click Here To Read Donna's Articles - Donna Williams is a 25-year veteran
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Donna began her career as a junior
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Phillip Ross - Click Here To Read Phillip's Articles - Phil's professional education and life
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Maribeth graduated with a degree in
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Albright & Wilson, Bayer AG, English China
Clays, Hilti AG and The Dow Chemical
Company.
Since 1997 Phil runs global marketing and
sales excellence practice,
GEMS/MarketAbility - creating value for
clients by helping them to apply marketing
and sales excellence and customer value
management to their businesses.
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development and implementation working
together with the client�s team.
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GEMS and MarketAbility have featured in
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T: +41 4 4783 8777
E: p
hil.allen@gems-europe.com
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Susan Payton - Click Here To Read Susan's Articles - Susan Payton is the Managing Partner of
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jonathan jones - Click Here To Read jonathan's Articles - I am an online marketing coach. My goal
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visit my blog.
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Diana Bourgeois - Click Here To Read Diana's Articles - With over 7 years in the field of social
media, internet marketing, and blogging, I
never get tired of teaching and learning
about new ways to help small business
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I became fascinated with the �Ah Ha�
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In many cases, social media and marketing
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Jeremy Pisanic - Click Here To Read Jeremy's Articles - With over 15 years of marketing
experience, Jeremy has enjoyed helping
businesses grow and prosper. Jeremy has
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school and has seen the growth of several
companies. His greatest experience is in
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is the Vice President of Marketing for
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helped contribute to the transformation of
the company from a sole proprietorship to
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Karen McNulty - Click Here To Read Karen's Articles - Karen is a Chartered Marketer and has been
a full member of the Chartered Institute
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has a Diploma in Marketing (DipM). She
majored in marketing for her degree and
has worked in marketing in one way or
another ever since, practising her
marketing in a wide range of companies,
from Hewlett-Packard to a small internet
cafe. Karen currently has her own
marketing business, Marketing Picture,
which provides marketing strategy,
copywriting, PR and design for SMEs. She
has further built up her knowledge of
small businesses over the last 10 years,
working with an Enterprise Agency as a
business adviser and as a Marketing
Manager for them. Karen is impassioned
about all aspects of marketing and a great
practitioner of what she preaches,
currently also using her expertise to help
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Angela Kambarian - Click Here To Read Angela's Articles - Angela Kambarian is a copywriter and
marketing consultant with over a decade of
business experience and a Master's Degree
in Communications.
Angela creates powerful results-driven
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Joe Gagliano - Click Here To Read Joe's Articles - Joe Gagliano began his career as a
communicator with advertising and public
relations activities for consumer accounts
such as Hotpoint, Concord Electronics,
Dodge Dealers Group, and Southern
California S & L.
In the late sixties he moved to the U.K.,
where he assumed the position of
Advertising & PR Manager, Europe, with UCC
subsidiary Computer Instrumentation Ltd.
He later joined Memorex Corporation in
London, where he had full promotional
responsibility for Western Europe and the
USSR.
After leaving Memorex Joe moved to
Interdata, and eventually he formed an
advertising and PR agency partnership in
London, England, with a clientele that
consisted mainly of U.S. high technology
companies operating in Europe.
After returning to the United States, Joe
instituted a PR division at the Sunnyvale,
California, advertising agency Imahara &
Keep, holding the title of vice president.
In 1986, he formed Gagliano Public
Relations to serve clients in
business-to-business and service
industries. After a brief spell as
publisher of a lifestyles magazine in
Silicon Valley, he returned to high-tech
PR and advertising with encryption chip
manufacturer Hifn. He currently operates
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Jim Stafford - Click Here To Read Jim's Articles - Jim has worked for leading companies in
the Marketing Automation space (BI, data
mining, campaign management and
eMarketing) for over 10 years. He has
held roles of Director - Database
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companies like Aprimo, Group1 Software,
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has consistently helped sales teams meet
or beat established sales targets. He was
the principal pre-sales contributor to
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General Motors. He is a seasoned expert
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trends. Jim has an M.A. Degree in
Economics from the University of Maryland
and has been a frequent speaker at annual
National Center for Database Marketing and
Direct Marketing Associations events.
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Michelle Moore - Click Here To Read Michelle's Articles - Marketing entrepreneur and author of A
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A Rose Geranium and A Cup of Tea
(bizbrandstory.com)
Background: Financial Services, Sales and
Marketing. Creator of the Mortgage "pi"
wheel.
Specialty: Helping businesses project a
positive image with quality marketing
tools and print advertising since 1999.
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Robert Skrob - Click Here To Read Robert's Articles - Robert Skrob, President of the Information
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Jeremy Toeman - Click Here To Read Jeremy's Articles - As the founder of Stage Two Consulting,
Jeremy Toeman brings over ten years of
experience designing, building and
marketing numerous award-winning products
in the "convergence" space of new media.
An expert in digital media and consumer
technology, he is a regular speaker and
moderator at trade shows and conferences
including Under the Radar 2008,
CommunityNEXT 2007, CTIA SmartPhone Summit
2006, DigitalLife 2005, and CES 2004.
Jeremy pioneered new media marketing as
Sling Media's Vice President of Market
Development where he built the first
online community for a consumer
electronics product, and achieved
phenomenal awareness across consumers,
bloggers, and traditional press.
In addition to Stage Two Consulting,
Jeremy is the head of marketing for Bug
Labs, blogs regularly at LIVEdigitally, is
a columnist for Engadget, and is an
advisor to numerous technology startups.
Jeremy holds a B.S. in Economics and
Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon
University. He plays a lot of card and
board games, volunteers in the local
community, drinks wine, and complains
about all the bad drivers around him.
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Ajay Prasad - Click Here To Read Ajay's Articles - Ajay is the President & CEO of Global
Marketing Resources, an Orange
County Website Design company that
offers ecommerce partnership, Internet
marketing and consulting for small and
medium businesses. Prior to GMR, Ajay had
over 17 years of marketing & business
management experience at senior executive
positions in marketing at large, medium
size, and start-up companies. Ajay has
been quoted in major newspapers
(Restaurant, Dallas Morning News, San Jose
Mercury News, The Wall Street Journal,
etc.) about his views on restaurant & car
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Jeff Werner - Click Here To Read Jeff's Articles - As Marketing Communications Director for
WebVisible, Jeff is responsible for
spearheading the communications strategy
for the leader in Internet advertising
solutions for local and small businesses.
He brings to his position more than 15
years of orchestrating corporate
communications programs for high-tech
companies and small businesses alike. He
earned a Master of Arts degree in
Communications from California State
University, Fullerton, and a Bachelor of
Arts degree in English from the University
of California, Berkeley.
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Brad Kleinman - Click Here To Read Brad's Articles - Brad Kleinman decided at a very young age
he did not want to be a typical
“40-hour-a-week” employee. Kleinman
received a bachelor’s degree in
Engineering from the University of
Cincinnati and a Master’s of Engineering
and Management from Case Western Reserve
University. He started his first business,
BSK Consulting, in 2004, where he “helped
starting businesses start.”
Kleinman’s first full-time online venture
was eHighSchoolTickets, an online
ticketing company for high schools. While
building the company, he became a
consultant for the Key Entrepreneur
Development Center at Corporate College, a
division of Cuyahoga Community College,
and then accepted a full time position as
Associate Director of the Entrepreneur
Center.
Kleinman is currently in charge of
WorkSmart’s marketing efforts and manages
the Education & Training Division which
runs eMarketing programs such as
conferences and workshops across the
country.
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Diana Perrett - Click Here To Read Diana's Articles - Dianne has run her own marketing
consulting company for the past 20 years.
She has consulted to numerous businesses
from multi-nationals to one man start ups
on three continents and continues to work
in both first world
and emerging economies.She believes
marketing is not about theory, or science,
or art but about practical action and
results.To back this up, she has developed
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workbook that business owners work through
to produce a concise and practical
marketing plan specific to their business
and it's operating environment.
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Mark Michuda - Click Here To Read Mark's Articles - Mark Michuda CEO of TextHub and his team
are leading the forefront in mobile
marketing technology. They are considered
experts in the mobile marketing industry
and pride themselves on treating every
customer with customized consulting by
tailoring a mobile marketing plan around
objectives.
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Chase Rief - Click Here To Read Chase's Articles - Chase Rief is a USC graduate with majors
in both International Relations and
Political Science, but he always harbored
an interest in technology. Chase is a
former employee of NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory. Chase worked at a large online
marketing firm where he felt the needs of
smaller businesses were being overlooked.
He developed Rief Media Inc. with the idea
in mind of having one stop where clients
could go to get all of their marketing
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to be the only company you need to help
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Maja Rehou - Click Here To Read Maja's Articles - Expert copywriter and marketing
specialist, Maja Rehou is the founder of
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providing small to medium sized
enterprises with highly targeted and
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years managing the marketing department of
a well-established professional service
firm, she knows how to create copy that
gives her clients a competitive
advantage.
Rehou is also the Director of
Communications for the Canadian
Association of Women Executives and
Entrepreneurs (CAWEE) and has been
profiled in the Business Review. A
published author in numerous magazines
both online and off she also helps
entrepreneurs and small business owners
gain exposure and promote their services
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Colin Simmons - Click Here To Read Colin's Articles - Word of Web is word of mouth
recommendations on the web. Its function
is to give recognition to quality
businesses endorsed by their customers. It
doesn't matter what the business does so
long as it is recommended by its clients
and customers. Word of Web also lists
community and charitable concerns. Reviews
can be submitted on and off line. Prizes
are given for the 'best' reviews.
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John Finegan - Click Here To Read John's Articles - John brings over 20 years of Ag-related
sales, marketing, and technical experience
gained at Chevron Chemical Company and
Valent U.S.A. His career began with four
years in field sales followed by four
years as a Product Manager responsible for
herbicides, insecticides, and PGRs in both
row crop and professional markets. He then
served as Federal Registration Manager for
three years. This was followed by a 6-year
assignment as Midwest Sales Manager. Under
his leadership, sales grew nearly tenfold
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Andrew Loos - Click Here To Read Andrew's Articles - Andrew Loos is a Co-Founder and Managing
Partner at Atta
ck! Marketing and Promotions. He
currently heads up the strategic alliance
division within their Los Angeles branch.
Andrew's background and inspiration were
molded in the emerging guerrilla marketing
movement of the late 90's. Since joining
Attack! his commitment has been re focused
to evolving practices around the execution
of agency-driven experiential programs.
About Attack! Marketing and Promotions:
Attack! is a field marketing agency,
partnering with agencies to provide
staffing resources, promotional support,
logistics, and fulfillment focused on
developing successful brand experiences.
At the core of our success is turn-key
field marketing services, enabling
agencies to deliver the best in field
marketing, guerrilla and non-traditional
marketing, and out-of-home media.
Since 2001, Attack!'s award winning team has
worked with agencies to promote over 400
of the country's best brands.
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Michele Hanson-O'Reggio - Click Here To Read Michele's Articles - Outsourcing & Productivity Expert Michele
Hanson-O’Reggio, teaches entrepreneurs and
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Shaun Gisbourne - Click Here To Read Shaun's Articles - Telemarketing Expert from the UK.
Shaun has been using the phone for
business successfully since 1994.
Having previously worked on large scale
telemarketing, telesales, cold calling,
event marketing and research projects for
technology companies such as Cisco,
FreeMarkets/Ariba, 3Com, Altiris, Cognos,
and more recently Inovis, Shaun's focus
now is on helping smaller, start-up and
specialist niche organisations to get the
most value from telemarketing as a
valuable part of their marketing mix. He
can help whether telemarketing is carried
out in-house or outsourced. His particular
passion is in helping niche consultants
and subject matter experts to develop and
increase opportunities for public
speaking.
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Paul Rakovich - Click Here To Read Paul's Articles - Pay-Per-Click Expert Paul Rakovich grew a
no-named business selling Tony Robbins CDs
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Bonnie Buckner - Click Here To Read Bonnie's Articles - Bonnie Buckner is a published writer,
entrepreneur and managing director of two
companies she co-founded: Microfocus
Media, a corporate and political market
research firm, and BC, a restoration and
urban renewal venture. In these capacities
she has worked with U.S. Presidential and
other prominent national political
campaigns, and has teamed with city boards
to help organize community grass-roots
neighborhood improvement efforts. Bonnie
has produced reality programming for film
and cable, and has written copy for
national ad and product positioning
campaigns. A doctoral candidate in Media
Psychology, Bonnie uses imagery in working
with individuals and organizations, and
speaks on panels across the United States.
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Ariel Horn - Click Here To Read Ariel's Articles - Ariel is a three time Emmy-award winning
veteran of the television industry. He
spent nearly a decade in Strategic
Marketing / Promotion for NBC, launching
four Olympic Games and Sunday Night
Football.
Ariel is now the point man for the highly
successful Horn Corp, a digital marketing
agency in SoHo, NY which specializes in
digital strategy and execution for brands
and networks across virtually every
sector. His team is leading the charge on
branded digital entertainment and hope to
continue connecting brands with content.
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Lennie Appelquist - Click Here To Read Lennie's Articles - Lennie is 20 year veteran of the film
industry.Working on feature films before
moving to television commercials where he
learned hands on about big money marketing
campaigns.
As an As
sistant Director and award nominated
member of the Directors Guild of America,
Lennie has spent most of his adult life
figuring out how to take all the elements
of very complex film productions and
creating strategies on getting the job
done on time and within budget. And when
you're talking about budgets, they could
easily range to over $1,000,000 per day.
Lennie brings his strategic planning and
considerable marketing skills to the
Internet creating online strategies for
businesses of all sizes. Feeling that
businesses in general and small businesses
in particular were being under-served
online, Lennie created FreeMarket Media Group.
FreeMarket Media Group is an and company supplying
cutting edge tools to businesses of all
sizes. Essentially, untangling th
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Michael Zipursky - Click Here To Read Michael's Articles - Michael Zipursky is a direct-marketing and
advertising consultant and copywriter. His
clients range from consulting firms to
billion dollar technology manufacturers
and include Panasonic, Financial Times,
Dow Jones, Nissha, Sumitomo and others. He
is the president of Relagy Marketing and
co-founder of
Business Consulting Buzz, an online
resource for consultants and the
consulting industry.
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Shari Boyer - Click Here To Read Shari's Articles - Shari Boyer, CEO
Shari has an extensive background in
sales, marketing, and product management
including Brand Management positions at
Nestle and Proctor & Gamble. Shari was one
of the initial employees of Imagitas and
during her 7 year tenure she helped forge
their strong relationship with the U.S.
Postal Service and started their sales
force. Shari has a BA in Economics and an
MA in Sociology both from Stanford
University.
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James Salter II - Click Here To Read James's Articles - Persuasive business writing will keep your
prospects and customers coming back. That
is why my work with business clients
focuses on objectives and outcomes that
help create successful marketplace
performance and business results.
With broad management experience in the
areas of marketing, sales and operations,
I bring useful insights and market
perspective to business writing that is on
target, on time and on budget.
I work in business and consumer markets in
SEO and SEM environments, producing a wide
range of output from white papers and
special reports to web copy, collateral,
newsletters, annual reports, and business
reports.
Find out more at www.b
usinesswriter.us or contact me at j
salter2@businesswriter.us to see how
we can work together to get you the
writing results you want.
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Richard Woller - Click Here To Read Richard's Articles - Richard L. Woller is the Founder and
President of Plum Market Research, a
market research company providing
confidential, real-time reports to
restaurants,cultural institutions and
other industries looking to understand
their position in the LOCAL MARKETPLACE.
Rich has a long history of
entrepreneurship and also operates a
successful tour company. He holds a
Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from
Syracuse University and a Masters Degree
in Public Administration from New York
University. Rich has served on numerous
boards and most recently, served as the
Chair of the Berkshire Visitors Bureau, a
850 member travel and tourism
organization. His leisure pursuits
include outdoor adventure, coaching
community sports, reading, cooking and
writing opinion/editorials for his local
newspaper.
He can be reached at rwoller@plummarketresearch.com or
413-637-8858
www.plummarketresearch.com
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Don Smith - Click Here To Read Don's Articles - Don E. Smith, M.A, is the Speech Wiz, a
communications trainer, executive coach,
and motivational speaker. Drawing on more
than 30 years as a professional
communicator with university-level
classroom credentials in public speaking,
Don E. has developed a technique for
presentation and interpersonal
communication skills development. An
award-winning speaker, Don E. coaches and
trains solopreneurs, managers, and
professionals in how to tell their story
effectively to audiences and customers.
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Michael Della Penna - Click Here To Read Michael's Articles - Michael Della Penna: Co-Founder &
Executive Chairman:
Michael Della Penna is the co-founder and
executive chairman of the Participatory
Marketing Network (PMN) thepmn.org.
The PMN was established in November 2008
to help marketers make the transition from
push and permission marketing to
participatory marketing. Prior to
founding the PMN and Aiti Solutions, LLC
www.
aitisolutions.com, Michael served as
CMO of Epsilon, a leading provider of
multi-channel, data-driven marketing
services. Michael has been active in a
number of important marketing industry
associations (AOTA, DMA) and has been
recognized as one of the top five most
influential people in email marketing by
B-to-B Magazine in its annual 100 "Who's
Who in B-to-B Special Report"(2002, 2003,
2004, 2006, 2007). For more visit
thepmn.org/leadership.html
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Lee Gallagher - Click Here To Read Lee's Articles - Lee Gallagher is an industry researcher
and consultant. Starting his career in
1992 with IBM, he continues to take on new
challenges. He has held many positions at
IBM over the past 16 years from project
management, executive, and sales. His
most notable accomplishments have been his
outstanding sales record in both solutions
selling as well as in the print industry.
He has written and published many white
papers and articles, appearing in DMNews,
Target Magazine, Graphic Arts to name a
few. His main focus now is 1 2 1 marketing
as he continues to speak at key industry
events on personalization of marketing
campaigns and its significance for top
line growth.
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Dennis Nixon - Click Here To Read Dennis's Articles - Who am I? I am recent Grandfather that
enjoys spending time with all of my
family. In my spare time I enjoy
woodworking and fishing.(not enough
fishing!)
I run Smash Hit Displays, a company that
was been creating high quality custom
trade show displays for just under a
decade. We have thousands of clients
worldwide and a track record of success
and quality.
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Annie Meachem - Click Here To Read Annie's Articles - Annie is an expert in Attraction Marketing
and author of "Attraction Marketing: How
to Attract All the Perfect Clients You
Want", published by the Lean Marketing
Press, and available from www.bookshaker
.com, Amazon, and many good bookshops.
She works with Feng Shui consultants and
self-employed professionals who want to
spend more time doing what they love and
less time marketing.
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Jeff Roach - Click Here To Read Jeff's Articles - Jeff Roach owns and operates Jeff Roach &
Associates Inc., a Toronto-based corporate
communications and investor relations
consultancy. Prior to forming his company
in 1993 he had a successful 28-year
career with some of Canada's leading
corporations including Senior
Vice-President, Corporate Communications &
Public Affairs, CIBC, (1985-92); Assistant
Vice-President, Corporate Communications,
Northern Telecom Limited, (1982-85); and
Director, Corporate Communications,
Bell-Northern Research, (1979-82).
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Emma McAlpine - Click Here To Read Emma's Articles - Swordfish was started in 2004 by marketer
Emma McAlpine. Emma has spent almost a
decade working in marketing. Since
returning to New Zealand in 2003 (after
spending five years marketing in London),
Emma saw that many small to medium sized
businesses struggled with implementing and
running their own marketing programmes.
"It's a time issue more than anything,"
says Emma. "Many business owners have
great marketing and communication ideas.
It's just spending the time to achieve
that optimum result".
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Donna Fisher - Click Here To Read Donna's Articles - Donna Fisher, CSP is a marketing
consultant, author and expert on people
and how people can best communicate and
connect with one another to create
opportunities. Her programs are ideal for
people who want to increase their business
by mastering their people skills and
building strong alliances with others.
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