It Takes a Village...

Accomplished Jazz Singer, Deborah E, is also Deborah Anderson, of Social Web Café. Her versatile experience has included music, teaching, writing, and Chief Technology Officer in the corporate world. More recently, Deborah has blended her stage skills and ability to build a fan base, with the skills gained in corporate America. As a community building strategist, she joined Ann Smarty’s team at MyBlogGuest, where she contributes her social media strategies as well as hosting the monthly MyBlogGuest Google+ Hangouts on {Read More}

Pamela Wilson is an award-winning graphic designer and marketing consultant. Since 1987, she’s helped small businesses and organizations create 
“big brands” through a system of marketing and 
design that makes them look professional,
 cohesive and successful. 
In short, BIG. She’s devoted to sharing the design and marketing tips and tricks she’s learned over the years. Pamela joins us as our Branding Mentor.

Nick Armstrong is unapologetically awesome at explaining difficult-to-grasp marketing and web technology concepts. In his day-to-day work, he helps small business owners swear less and profit more. For the last 3.5 years, Nick’s business WTF Marketing has made marketing fun again for a large number of happy clients, among them Fortune 100s, solopreneurs, and everything in between, including three distinct $2M+/year businesses in Fort Collins, Colorado alone. He leverages over a decade of web design experience and eight years of hands-on, knee-deep community {Read More}

Tara Gentile empowers passion-driven entrepreneurs to find the profit in producing the work of their true spirits. She is the author of the digital guide, The Art of Earning: Because Making Money Should Be Beautiful, and the Lab Director at Kick Start Labs. Tara is a thought leader and creative business coach redefining commerce as the creation and distribution of meaning, connection, and experience. She brings creative thinking to branding, product development, and marketing that incorporates both strategy and high {Read More}

Denise Wakeman is an Online Visibility Expert, Founder of The Blog Squad, and co-founder of The Future of Ink. She works with service professionals and small business owners to leverage blogs for their businesses, as well as strategically use social media tools to boost online visibility to get more traffic, leads, customers and opportunities. Denise writes on two marketing blogs, is a co-author of bestselling books Success Secrets of Social Media Superstars and Trust Your Heart: Transform Your Ideas Into {Read More}

Erika Napoletano holds no fancy titles and is an expert at nothing except screwing up royally and learning from her mistakes. As the person behind the RedheadWriting online persona, she’s been hailed by Forbes as a “spinless spin doctor” for her BS-free perspectives on business, marketing, branding, and life in general. She’s the “Head Redhead” at RHW Media, a Boulder-based brand personality and strategy firm, where she works with companies from all walks of life to help them discover who {Read More}

Lori R Taylor listed by Forbes as a top 50 Social Media Power Player is a 20 year marketing veteran, with a special focus in direct response. A national winner of multiple DMA Echo awards for her work with Disabled American Veterans she is considered one of the top copywriters in her field. For Disabled American Veterans alone she has written and created campaigns over the last 17 years that have raised almost 3 billion dollars. She’s also an angel {Read More}

Gina Bell is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, successful coach and author, President and CEO of Gina Bell, Inc. a company devoted to teaching multi-passionate entrepreneurs how to create fun, fame and good fortune online doing ALL that they love to do! Gina is also Founder and President of the International Association of Women in Business Online {IAWBO} as well as the TheNetworkingMasters.com and JV Mavens Partner and Prosper Network to name a few of her companies and projects. Gina is host {Read More}

Deborah Gallant was born with a business brain, always finding innovative ways to do things profitably. She earned her MBA in Marketing from Columbia University (where she won an award for the top woman marketing graduate) and has worked in the corporate world as well as for small business. Her independent thinking and creativity served her well when she jumped into the Internet industry in the mid-90’s (where folks frequently had to make things up as they went along). She started her {Read More}

Steven Washer, 20-year video producer and educator, is on a mission to provide coaches with the power of the movies to take their messages far and beyond. He is the Teacher-In-Chief of the online media company, BrainyVideo.com, specializing in video marketing, sales and training media with an emphasis on content that converts. As an author, speaker and writer on video marketing, Steve specializes in providing business owners with the tools and techniques to create an authority presence online. He is {Read More}