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And nooooo - it isn't for the food either! (although I AM a fabulous cook)
They are STARING at all the cool quotes, cards, offers and important things or people that I want to remember and have in my radar. All attached with a fabulous magnet of course.
(REALLY - it's a position of honor!)
And people LOVE looking at it!
I often advise my clients that ANY sales and marketing materials they're creating had better be FRIDGE WORTHY. (or puh-lease - DON'T show them to me)
- Read the article.
Teresa Thomas Bohannon is a web designer,
hosting & domain provider & internet
marketing consultant. Teresa founded Spun Silk Web Design
in December of 1995 as one of the first
free standing female owned web design
firms in the country. Teresa is also the
founder the LadyWeb Family of
Informational & Educational Websites,
created to help women and men who dreamed
of starting their own businesses to find
their way inexpensively through the
available maze of website options, domain
and hosting providers, and software
solutions. Teresa's latest venture is
the MyLadyWeb
Self-Installing AdSense & Affiliate
Websites, a simplified turnkey option for
beginning online entrepreneurs.
Teresa is a published author of short
stories and holds an MA in history. She
also works full time as the Human Resource
Administrator for a non-profit political
subdivision of the State of Tennessee.
Teresa's personal cause, is revitalizing
literacy by renewing the dying tradition
of spending quality time reading "with"
children.
Elevating Your Business is a business
strategy, coaching, education and speaking
company specializing on building bigger,
better businesses—faster! Our clients are
service industry business owners and
financial professionals who face overwhelm
in key business fundamentals: planning,
operations, marketing.
Maria Marsala, Chief Operations
Strategist, uses extensive financial and
business experience to help her clients
and students streamline, automate, and
create simple systems. Using her
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processes that let them get back to doing
what they enjoy the most.
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Ilise Benun is an author, consultant,
national speaker and co-founder of
Marketing Mentor.
Her books include “The
Designer’s Guide to Marketing and
Pricing"
(HOW Design Books, Spring 2008), “Stop
Pushing Me Around: A Workplace Guide for
the Timid, Shy and Less Assertive” (Career
Press 2006), “The Art of Self Promotion”
(2007) "Self-Promotion Online" and
"Designing Web Sites:// for Every
Audience" (HOW Design Books).
Her work has been featured in national
publications such as HOW Magazine, Inc.
Magazine, Nation’s Business, Self,
Essence, Crains New York Business, Dynamic
Graphics, The New York Times, Toronto
Globe and Mail, The Washington Post, The
Denver Post and more.
Benun publishes a blog ww
w.marketingmixblog.comand a weekly
email newsletter, Quick Tips from Marketing
Mentor!
which is read by 8000+ small business
owners.
Benun started her Hoboken, NJ-based
consulting firm in 1988 and has been
self-employed for all but 3 years of her
working life.
Sue Stockdale founded Mission Possible, www.miss
ionpossible.co.uk to help women to
achieve their goals in business, using the
same principles that led to her success in
becoming the first British woman to ski to
the Magnetic North Pole. Since 1997, the
company has worked with 1000s of women
worldwide. Services include an
award-winning businesswomen’s network, and
peer support groups for growing
businesses.
A fitness fanatic, Sue has represented
Scotland in athletics, and in 2004
finished runner-up in TV’s Superhuman. Her
academic achievements include an MBA in
Entrepreneurship and an MSc in Quality
Management. She lectures at several
Universities on leadership and
entrepreneurship and her advice on
motivation regularly appears in the media.
She is author of Kickstart Your Motivation
and Secrets of Successful Women
Entrepreneurs. For further information www.suestockd
ale.com
Kim Duke, The Sales Diva, provides savvy,
sassy sales training for women small biz
owners and entrepreneurs. Kim works with
clients internationally, showing them The
Sales Diva secrets to success! Sign up for
her saucy and smart FREE e-zine and
receive her FREE Bonus Report "The 5
Biggest Sales Mistakes Women Make" at www.salesdivas.
com You can listen to her podcasts at
www.sale
sdivas.libsyn.com
Retired at age 45, I am now a successful
entrepreneur/mentor in wealth strategies
for creating financial and personal
freedom. I teach people how to THINK like
an entrepreneur, how to ACT like an
entrepreneur, and most importantly, how to
get RESULTS like an entrepreneur. My
passion is in personal development because
I understand and know how much lives are
transformed when people learn how to get
past their limiting beliefs, their fears
and their past conditioning.
www.Abu
ndant-Lifestyle.com
1-519-342-4050 or 1-800-576-2917
Is the author of five books on marketing
for small businesses, including Perfecting
Your Pitch, (Career Press 2005) Off The
Wall Marketing Ideas, (Adams Media 2000),
How To Be A Big Fish In Any Pond, Media
Madness, and A to Z to Visibility
Served as Small Business Editor at US
News & World Report, and the Small
Business Marketing Expert for Entrepreneur
Magazine. She is a regular contributor to
Franchise Update and has been featured in
The Wall Street Journal, Fortune Small
Business (FSB), Success Magazine, The New
York Post, Franchising Magazine, among
numerous other publications
Nancy also was the publicist for Matt
Lauer (currently co-host of the Today
show)
Nancy is the President of her marketing
company, Impression Impact, which she
launched in 1990 and Founder of the Grow
Your Business Network
In the spring of 2005, Nancy became very
ill and underwent a liver transplant due
to liver failure. She is the grateful
recipient of a donor liver. Find out how
you can become a donor at www.organdonor
.gov.
Dr. Jerry V. Teplitz' background is as
unique as the techniques he teaches. He
originally graduated from Northwestern
University School of Law and holds both a
Master and Doctorate in Wholistic Health
Sciences.
Jerry is the author of the book Managing
Your Stress: How To Relax and Enjoy, and
his two latest books are Switched-On
Living and Brain Gym for Business.
Articles on Jerry have appeared in such
publications as Successful Meetings,
Prevention Magazine, and T&L Golf
Magazine.
As a professional speaker, he has spoken
to over one million people. Dr. Teplitz
has also been honored by his peers in the
National Speakers Association by receiving
the title of "Certified Speaking
Professional" and has been selected as
"Top Rated Speaker" by the International
Platform Association.
Dr. Teplitz is listed in several editions
of Who's Who in America, and served eight
years on the faculty of the U.S. Chamber
of Commerce Institute for Organization
Management.
Tricia Molloy is a professional speaker,
business consultant and author of the
acclaimed book, "Divine Wisdom at Work: 10
Universal Principles for Enlightened
Entrepreneurs." Her new book, "Take Your
Higher Self to Work," comes out in early
2009. Through Working with Wisdom talks,
workshops and retreat programs, Tricia
inspires business people to use universal
principles--like the Law of Attraction,
Affirmations, Visualization and
Gratitude--to achieve their goals. To sign
up for the free Working with Wisdom
e-newsletter and learn more about these
programs, visit www.di
vinewisdomatwork.com.
Shirley M Mueller turned every doctor's
fear - inability to invest his or her hard
earned money wisely - into her greatest
passion. While practicing medicine, she
handled seven family investment accounts.
When she retired from medicine in 1995,
she worked for seven years in the
investment industry. Now, she writes
regularly for Physician's Financial News,
a money management internet publication
directed at doctors. Dr. Mueller also
educates, both one on one and publicly,
about how to effectively self-invest using
a simple and effective three-step
approach. Recently she gave lectures
regarding this topic at Indiana/Purdue
University.
Mueller specializes in client-managed
investment portfolios for which she
provides unbiased information. She is not
associated with a firm for whom she has to
promote a party line. Her fee is hourly,
not a percentage of assets.
Gayle Kesten is a writer and editor
who blogs about IT-related topics for
small businesses on Sma
llBizResource.com. Kesten’s
"Wednesday's Woman" series profiles
businesswomen of interest, trends,
research and many other issues that matter
most to working women.
Gail Clanton Diggs is president of [GCD
Writing and Marketing Solutions www.gcdwritingandmarketing.com].
GCD is a full-service company dedicated to
providing clients with high quality
writing and marketing assistance.
“I love this work”, says Gail. “I enjoy
listening to the visions of my clients and
then working with them to create strong,
current web site copy, write press
releases, create ads, develop brochures,
and more to help ensure that their
professional dreams come true”, she said.
Gail has almost 25 years of experience and
her happy client base includes health
professionals, women’s ministries,
financial experts, and authors. While her
experience is broad, much of her recent
work has revolved around initiatives
related to health. She takes seriously
her responsibility to each of her clients
and sees their success as intricately tied
to her own.
She has a BA in Communications from the
University of Dayton and a MA in
Journalism from University of Maryland,
College Park.
To learn more, visit her [web site http:ww
w.gcdwritingandmarketing.com] or email
Gail at gail@gcdwritingandmarketing.com.
Brandy Adamson
CEO, Alive Inc & ALIVE Magazine
Business & Life Strategist
Publisher
Speaker
Ms. Adamson is the owner of Alive
Incorporated, a firm providing it clients
with business consulting, brand
management, marketing and coaching
services. Through its newest addition to
the Alive Incorporated family, Siri
Publishing, Ms. Adamson also publishes
ALIVE Magazine, a bi-monthly publication
for aspiring and current entrepreneurial
women of color. This magazine motivates,
inspires, and encourages women to bring
dreams to life. The mission of this
publication is to nourish women’s dreams
through access to resources, networking,
development opportunities and avenues for
advertising her business.
A business and life coach, she coaches
entrepreneurs and professionals to
identify priorities and align their values
and actions while developing effective
strategies to make progress toward life
goals. Her e-newsletter and blog talk
radio show provide inspiration and
motivation to its readers and listeners.
Ms. Adamson is available for speaking
engagements. The most requested programs
are Empowerment, Entrepreneurship and
Diversity.
ed
itor@alivemagonline.com
A leading authority and bestselling author
on the topic of inter-generational
communication, Misti Burmeister has – for
more than 10 years – empowered
multi-generational organizations to
increase their effectiveness, thus
improving their company’s profits and
productivity, and substantially
accelerating their careers.
This talented entrepreneur has consulted
for well-known companies including AT&T,
Johnson & Johnson, UPS, government
agencies and many others. Combining humor
with hard-hitting information, she’s
earned acclaim for providing immediately
applicable steps that enable staff to work
together and bring out the best in teams
and organizations, in spite of their
generational differences.
A holder of degrees in both Psychology and
Kinesiology with a Masters degree in Human
Communications, Misti has proved that
increased understanding plus systemized
methods of implementation result in
increased collaboration and improve a
company’s bottom line. And, as you’ll be
able to easily see for yourself, she
brings a passion, belief and skill set to
this topic that will empower you to
fulfill your potential.
Gregory Henderson is an Author, Internet
Entrepreneur and Freelance Contractor.
Specializing in Internet Ideas and
Solutions while sharing methods,
strategies, and step by step start up.
Will help with any questions or problems
you may encounter on your adventure
through the Internet Jungle at www.ideas-to-become-an-entrep
reneur.com or www.home-base-business-success.com
or glhhelp@ya
hoo.com
Gerry Myers is CEO/founder of Advisory
Link (AL). AL helps corporations in
marketing and selling to women, as well as
recruiting, retaining and promoting women
in the organization. In addition to
development and overseeing the innovative
Women’s Advisory Boards program, she
creates and facilitates Exec-U-Links,
which are peer coaching groups. One
example is the Women Executives and
Business Owners. AL’s website is www.advis
orylink-dfw.com Myers has written for
or been featured in The New York Times,
The Financial Post, The Dallas Business
Journal, Honolulu Weekly, Toronto Star and
Working Woman, to name a few. Myers is
author of Targeting the New Professional
Woman: How to Market and Sell to Today's
57 Million Working Women. She is co-author
with Jack Canfield, Dr. Warren Bennis and
others in the upcoming book, Leading the
Way to Success. Myers is past president of
the DFW National Association of Women
Business Owners and of the D/FW AWN and
has served on the advisory boards of UNT
Dept of Marketing & Logistics, Women's
Leadership Exchange, Women's Resource
Center of the Dallas Metropolitan YWCA,
Girls Inc., etc. She is an alumnus of
Leadership America, Class of 2003.
Sylvia Allen is President and founder of
Allen Consulting, one of the country's top
public relations and event marketing
firms, celebrating 30 years in business.
Allen has been successful in securing
millions of dollars worth of sponsorships
for her clients and increasing attendance
at events. In addition, she has generated
extensive media coverage
(radio/TV/print)for her accounts.
Sylvia is author of the books, "How To Be
Successful at Sponsorship Sales" and "A
Women's Guide to Sales Success", and is a
sought after speaker, traveling the globe
to deliver seminars and presentations. She
was recently appointed as the Director of
Partnership Marketing with the
International Festivals and Events
Association. She has served on numerous
boards and is currently Chair of the
Sponsorship Advisory Committee for the
Guggenheim, and on the Board of Directors
for Bike New York. She is a founding
member of Women In Sports and Events
(WISE), and in 2004 founded Sylvia's
Children, a 501(c)3 organization dedicated
to supporting children in Uganda orphaned
by the AIDS crisis. For more information
on Sylvia's Children, visit www.sylvi
aschildren.org.
Michelle currently works for Cambridge
Who's Who as the web content developer and
manager. She also writes for and manage
several blogs for the company revolving
around members' accomplishments as well as
resourceful articles for entrepreneurs,
executives and professionals.
Cambridge Who's Who is the fastest-growing
publisher of executive, professional and
entrepreneur biographies in the world
today. Our accomplished members and
extensive online database make Cambridge
Who's Who a premier resource for
networking.
The Cambridge mission is to deliver its
members the recognition and competitive
edge needed to network and do business
effectively. Inclusion in the Registry is
an honor limited to individuals who have
demonstrated leadership and achievement in
their industry and occupation. The
registry is distributed exclusively to our
members around the world, making it the
ideal vehicle for you to use to position
yourself and your company.
Wendy Brickman, President of Brickman
Marketing, moved from Los Angeles to
Monterey and established her firm (www.bri
ckmanmarketing.com) in 1990. The
company provides marketing, publicity,
advertising and market research services
to local and national companies.Wendy
worked in the management training film
area for over 7 years and held management
positions in the home video industry for
several years at Paramount Home Video,
Media Home Entertainment and Pacific Arts
Video. She holds an M.B.A. in
Marketing/Management from Loyola Marymount
University, an M.A. in Broadcast
Journalism from the USC, in Los Angeles,
and a B.A. in English from the UC at
Berkeley. She is a graduate of Leadership
Monterey Peninsula and Leadership Santa
Cruz County. She is the winner of three
Business Excellence Awards (2007, 2003,
1998) from the Monterey Peninsula Chamber
of Commerce, a 1999 Small Business
Advocate of the Year Award from the
California Chamber of Commerce, and a 1999
Robert C. Littlefield Award from the
Monterey Commerce.
Amy Sherman, LMHC, is a licensed mental
health counselor in private practice. Amy
is the author of the ebook, “Distress-Free
Aging: A Boomer’s Guide to Creating a
Fulfilled and Purposeful Life” and “The
Joy of Optimism 10-Lesson eCourse. Visit
www.bummed
outboomer.com to learn more about the
baby boomer generation and to receive a
Special Report on Overcoming Adversity.
Contact her by email at amy@
bummedoutboomer.com or by phone at
561) 281-2975
She’s been described as: sassy, wise,
irreverent, remarkably insightful and
classy.
Hall of Fame speaker and executive coach
Marjorie Brody has educated and inspired
thousands of audiences to step up and
demonstrate their real worth in
organizations across the country and
around the world.
With enough degrees, honors, awards and
certifications to make the most
accomplished among us envious, Marjorie
Brody, MA, CSP, PCC, CPAE, has become the
go-to “sage” for organizations and leaders
looking for honest feedback and real-world
solutions.
If your challenges are around
career-related topics and/or workplace
professionalism, you’ve come to the right
place.
Her in-demand programs and spot-on
executive coaching, create tangible impact
with professionals -- while helping their
/organizations gain a competitive
advantage in the marketplace.
From immigrant to domestic violence
survivor to homeless welfare mom to
awarded entrepreneur Ms. Angelina Musik's
passion is to provide perspective, hope,
tools and opportunities
to empower others to move forward in life
and business. She
created 7 Steps to Believe and Achieve
Series (2008);
An Entrepreneurial Motivational
Speaker/TV/Radio Show Host; founder of the
2x US SBA Awarded MOMtrepre
neurs Network; owns Intel
ligent Netware, a Media, Marketing,
Web Technology. Her clients range from
small business entrepreneurs to
fortune 100 companies to rural communities
in America. Her story and expertise has
been
featured on ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, TBN, PBS
and PAXTV Networks. She's a former NBC
Apprentice Season III Semi-Finalist, has
consulted with Trump
University. Her newest project underway to
personally and financially enable women to
get off and stay off of welfare. It will
air as a documentary in 2009.
For creative director and owner Nancy
Owyang, her company’s mission—“making
businesses memorable”—begins with the idea
that each client deserves a unique design
solution. Through her company, Eye 2 Eye
Graphics (www.Eye2
EyeGraphics.com), Nancy has created a
practical process that allows her to
capture the true essence of a company and
express it in a visual manner.
Eye 2 Eye Graphics has developed a special
niche, serving women entrepreneurs who
want to compete with much bigger
corporations but require marketing
material that levels the playing field.
Through professional identity packages
that include logos, letterhead and
envelopes, business cards, brochures,
websites, and other collateral material,
Nancy helps them move their branding and
marketing materials from “obsolete” to
“outstanding.”
Clients praise Nancy’s design
sensibilities and her ability to “get” an
owner’s vision for a business and then
translate it into a graphic representation
of that business. Her solutions are
practical and unique, detail-oriented,
on-time and on-budget. Learn more about
Nancy Owyang, Eye 2 Eye Graphics and view
portfolio work at www.Eye2Ey
eGraphics.com
Alison is a business consultant,
accountant, keynote speaker, as well as a
mother and woman in business. Her passion
and drive is for helping others to create
successful businesses easily – without
losing your mind or life in the process.
As a trouble-shooter her managerial,
financial, analytical and diagnostic
skills have assisted her to work in some
of the most dynamic industries in
Australia, UK and New Zealand, including
hospitality, banking, manufacturing,
health & beauty, retail, baby products and
many more.
Having run her own businesses, she knows
what’s involved. Drawing on her extensive
experience, in May 2005 Alison launched
Tinytalk – Baby sign Language after
successfully using an American version
with her daughter. Alison’s success was
facilitated by her ability to quickly
learn and implement effective and creative
ways to market Tinytalk.
Now Alison’s passion and drive for helping
others has led her to establish Business
Women Unite, a FREE online community for
astute business women who want to connect
with others and get access to business
growth tools, experts and advice. To
access now for free visit
www.businesswomenunite.net
Ginny Wilmerding is the author of Smart
Women and Small Business: How to Make the
Leap from Corporate Careers to the Right
Small Enterprise (John Wiley & Sons,
October 2006), the ultimate guide for
women who want to be their own boss (see
www.smartwomen-smallbusiness.com).
Written for mid-career women who are
looking for entrepreneurial alternatives
to the world of big business but aren’t
sure where to start, the book offers
insight and inspiration from women who
have started new ventures, bought small
companies, acquired franchises, consulted
for or partnered with small business
owners, and taken over family businesses.
The book has been featured on FOX &
Friends
Ginny has negotiated the purchase of small
businesses and has professionally authored
business plans, private equity placement
memorandums, valuation analyses, and
business cases. She graduated summa cum
laude from Princeton University in 1991
and is a former research associate at
Harvard Business School.
Ginny started a new business in 2007,
Global Gift and Garden LLC (www.
globalgiftandgarden.com), a wholesale
pottery importing and distribution company
based in Brighton, MA.
GROWE, www.growe.biz
, is the brainchild of two successful
women entrepreneurs, Michelle Goss and
Debby Stone. Both are professional
certified business coaches. Together,
Michelle and Debby founded GROWE on the
proven principle that bringing the best
and brightest minds together in a small
group setting creates magic for all
participants, both professionally and
personally. For more information about
GROWE or it's founders, visit us at www.growe.biz,
or call directly by dialing 770-622-9615.
Overcoming a health challenge in my early
30’s began my understanding of the
importance of the words we use to create
our lives. This experience ultimately lead
me to start Affirmagy on Valentine’s Day
2005. My vision? To share with others the
power of words to impact our lives and the
lives of others.
Your interest in Affirmagy
and our mission are welcomed. And if
you like, please come visit my blog that
centers around intentional living and the
idea that we all have gifts to give the
world. It’s a place where we look at our
‘work’ as an expression of who we are –
and the power that idea has to catapult us
all forward. My blog can be found at Kr
isten Marie's Blog
Internationally-recognized sales
strategist Jill Konrath is the SheEO of
the Sales SheBang – a conference &
community for women who sell. Launched in
2007, the Sales SheBang is the top online
resource for saleswomen and features
advice from top women sales experts.
Jill is also author of the instant sales
classic, "Selling to Big Companies." As a
frequent speaker at annual sales meetings
and industry events, she helps salespeople
crack into corporate accounts and win big
contracts.
Her own client list is proof positive that
Jill knows exactly what she's talking
about. She's worked with such well-known
corporate giants as 3M, General Mills,
Carlson Companies, Medtronic,
UnitedHealthcare, Hilton and many others.
Jill also writes a leading on-line
newsletter that’s being read today by over
20,000 sellers from around the world. Most
recently, she’s been featured in Selling
Power, Entrepreneur, The New York Times,
Sales & Marketing Excellence – and the
list goes on!
For more info:
- Website: http;//www.
sellingtobigcompanies.com
- Website: www
.salesshebang.com/jk
- Blog at: sellingtobigcompanies.blogs.com
- eMail her at jill@sellingtobigcompanies.com
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When my friends come over to my house, the first place they head to is the fridge.
And nooooo - it isn't for the food either! (although I AM a fabulous cook)
They are STARING at all the cool quotes, cards, offers and important things or people that I want to remember and have in my radar. All attached with a fabulous magnet of course.
(REALLY - it's a position of honor!)
And people LOVE looking at it!
I often advise my clients that ANY sales and marketing materials they're creating had better be FRIDGE WORTHY. (or puh-lease - DON'T show them to me)
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