Wednesday Keynote: DL Byron

Keynote: Talk Amongst Yourselves: How Blogs, Wikis and Social Media are Transforming Small Business (Wednesday, July 9)
Workshop: Build & Run Your Business More Profitably with Blogs, Twitter, Flickr & Facebook (Wednesday, July 9)
Bio: DL Byron is principal of Textura Design - texturadesign.com, which is co-presenting the “Social Media Essentials” day of BizJam Seattle 08 with Biznik. With more than twelve years of experience, Byron is an expert blogger, web designer and developer. An entrepreneur and an inventor (Clip-n-Seal), he also consults with clients, co-founded the Blog Business Summit, and publishes a network of successful blogs, including one of the first business blogs.

Byron lives in Seattle with his wife Pam, two children, and a pug named Cap’n. When he is not blogging, he races his bicycle with the Union Bay Cycling Club.

Thursday Keynote: Lisa Johnson

Keynote: The Free Agent Formula (Thursday, July 10)
Workshop: The Free Agent Formula Worshop (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: Lisa Johnson, who will give the keynote address at BizJam 08, is the co-author of Don’€™t Think Pink (AMACOM, 2004), author of Mind Your X’s and Y™’s (Free Press, 2006), and CEO of The Reach Group - reachgroupconsulting.com. A leading corporate trainer and brand consultant, Lisa has worked with top companies nationwide and has up-to-the-minute knowledge of market forces, trends and consumers’€™ buying minds.

Her marketing concepts have appeared in Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge, the New York Times magazine, The Chicago Tribune and on NPR’s Marketplace. SoundViews named her first book, Don’t Think Pink, one of the top marketing books of all time.

Joel Ballezza

Workshop: Remote Control Project Management (Wednesday, July 10)
Bio: Joel Christian Ballezza is a communications professional and co-founder of the Seattle-based talent agency ReadyDone – www.readydone.com.

Ballezza has aided start-ups, state and federal governments, non-profits and corporations with their traditional and digital media communication needs. An advocate for open-source software and plug-in services, Ballezza has a passion for rapid development. When he’s not typing away, Ballezza enjoys hiking mountains and volunteering with the local non-profit ReallyGive and the Washington State Chapter of the high school marketing organization DECA.

Ilise Benun

Workshop: How Not to Network (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: Ilise Benun is an author, consultant, national speaker and co-founder of Marketing Mentor - www.marketing-mentor.com. Her books include, The Designer’s Guide to Marketing and Pricing (How, 2008), Stop Pushing Me Around: A Workplace Guide for the Timid, Shy and Less Assertive (Career Press, 2006), The Art of Self Promotion (2007), and co-author of Public Relations for Dummies (2006) with Kirshenbaum and Bly.

Her work has been featured in national publications such as HOW Magazine, Inc. Magazine, Nation’s Business, Self, Essence, Working Woman, The New York Times, The Washington Post and many more. Through Marketing Mentor, Benun consults privately with creative professionals on their marketing and other client-related issues. She started her Hoboken, NJ-based consulting firm in 1988 and has been self-employed for all but 3 years of her working life.

Robbin Block

Workshop: 9 Ways to Market Your Business using Social Networks (Wednesday, July 9)
Bio: Robbin Block, Lead Consultant at Blockbeta Marketing — www.blockbeta.com, has been helping businesses use traditional and online marketing effectively for over 25 years. She has taught at the university level, and has consulted and worked for companies of all sizes and types — from seed to corporate. As a cross-pollinator, she merges ideas from various business models to reveal previously hidden strategies and opportunities. Of particular interest is the combination of Web and wireless to build added-value services and integrated customer communications.

Robbin gives engaging, motivating and often humorous presentations on entrepreneurship, strategy, Internet marketing and Web 2.0., providing practical tips and tools that can be put into practice immediately.

Robbin has an MBA from Boston University and a BA in Economics from the State University of New York at Albany. As a SCORE counselor on marketing and the Internet, she’s worked with hundreds of small businesses and startups since 2003. She also volunteers at KBCS 91.3FM on the One World Report public affairs program as a writer, copy editor and voice talent.

Bryan Brewer

Workshop: Introduction to Business Plans (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: Since 2000, Bryan Brewer has helped startup clients raise more than $10 million in investment capital. Bryan brings a broad business background, strong communication skills, and deep connections to the Seattle venture community to his consulting practice.

In his practice at Business Plans Northwest, Bryan provides business coaching services for entrepreneurs, and expert business plan writing. He brings decades of experience in both large firms and startups companies, having worked in a variety of fields, including management, marketing, sales, technology, and finance.

Karol Brown

Workshop: Contracts, Copyrights, Corporate Formations, Oh My!: Small Biz Legal Q&A Panel (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: Karol Brownholds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a law degree from Yale Law School. She teaches immigration law at the University of Washington Law School as an adjunct professor. Karol Brown also founded the Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Washington and Seattle University law schools, allowing students to research human rights issues for organizations around the world. She has served on the Executive Committee of the American Immigration Lawyers of Washington, organizing Continuing Legal Education programs for the organization.

Danny Bronski

Workshop: Contracts, Copyrights, Corporate Formations, Oh My!: Small Biz Legal Q&A Panel (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: Danny Bronski is an attorney with the mindset of an entrepreneur; his intellectual property and business law practice emphasizes prevention of legal problems and creative problem solving.

Danny started a growing law firm in 2003 called VeriTrademark to help growing businesses create wealth by leveraging their intellectual property. While progressive and forward thinking aren’t concepts that you typically associate with a law practice, VeriTrademark is able to provide exceptional value to its clients by emphasizing technology and efficiency in its own business and by focusing on personal service. Working almost exclusively with growing businesses (most of whom have a strong foundation in intellectual property), VeriTrademark deftly solves legal problems that involve trademarks, patents, contracts, licensing, technology, domain names, defamation, copyright, and even employee issues.

Because VeriTrademark focuses on leveraging technology to deliver services in a more customer-friendly and value-focused manner, we work with growing businesses regardless of where they are physically located. And while it’s more fun to help you stay out of trouble, VeriTrademark can also help you if you are in legal trouble already.

Valerie Farris

Workshop: Contracts, Copyrights, Corporate Formations, Oh My!: Small Biz Legal Q&A Panel (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: Valerie Farris is a small business attorney with Cloutier + Engle in Edmonds, WA. Valerie works with small businesses and their owners to create peace of mind and security. Whether you need advice about business entities (which is best for me? What’s the difference?), contracts, insurance coverage, employment law, litigation (and how to avoid it!) or estate planning, Valerie works with you to make your business, and your life, as worry-free as possible. The professionals at C+E are committed to serving their clients with creativity, passion, and integrity, and they are proud to provide “Small Town Service + Global Perspective” to all their clients.

Lara Eve Feltin

Biznik Co-founder
Bio: Lara Eve Feltin has been an indie photographer since 1999. As Studio LEAF, she specializes in a documentary style of black and white portraits of babies and children. She co-founded Biznik with Dan McComb in November, 2005. As a visual artist (painting, sculpture & photography) and proud of her Montessori education, Lara tends to think outside the box in regards to most things, contributing a creative and innovative eye to every project she embarks on.

Michelle Goodman

Workshop: So You Wanna be a Published Author? A Primer in Selling Your First Book (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: Michelle Goodman is a freelance writer, author, and writing instructor. Her books — My So Called Freelance Life (Seal Press, October 2008) and The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube (Seal Press, 2007) — offer an irreverent take on the traditional career guide. She writes a weekly career column for ABCNews.com and blogs about work/life balance for the Seattle Times at Nine to Thrive. Her articles and essays about alternative careers, cultural trends, and human mating rituals have been published by CNN.com, Salon.com, BUST magazine, the Seattle Times, Yahoo! HotJobs, AOL.com, and many more. She’s worked in book publishing one way or another — as a staff publicist, a freelance editor, freelance copywriter, a writing instructor, an anthology contributor, and now an author — since 1990. For more dirt on her so-called freelance life, visit her popular self-employment blog at www.anti9to5guide.com.

Geoffrey Grosenbach

Workshop: Business Networking via Personal Journalism (Wednesday, July 9)
Bio: Geoffrey Grosenbach is Senior Visionary at Peepcode Publishing - peepcode.com, the screencast publishing company he runs out of his home in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. He’s also host of the Ruby on Rails Podcast - podcast.rubyonrails.org, and blogs at Nuby on Rails - nubyonrails.com. Geoffrey will share how he created a profitable business by fully tapping the power of two social media: podcasting and blogging.

Molly Gordon

Workshop: How to Get Clients Without Shouting (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: Molly Gordon is a certified business coach dedicated to helping independent professionals and artists reconcile the challenges of building thriving livelihoods and loving their lives. Her business coaching, teleclasses, books, and seminars help small business owners to evolve authentic practices that make doing business a heartfelt expression of their gifts in the world, while ensuring that they and their families prosper.

Chris Haddad

Workshop: Why Your Website Sucks - The Workshop (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: Chris Haddad is a Seattle copywriter and proponent of value-based pricing. His articles have earned him the coveted “expert” rating on Biznik.com, where his articles have collectively received more views than any other author to date. He has been hosting workshops on Biznik since 2006. “I help you build your business to staggering heights through the profoundly perturbing power of hardworking words,” he says.

Leif Hansen

Workshop: Raving Fans: Using Social Media Tools to Build an Online Community for your Business (Wednesday, July 9)
Bio: Leif Hansen is a social media consultant, breakthrough coach, group facilitator, improvisor and operates as managing director of Spark Social Media and Spark Northwest. For over two decades he has been helping people discover, understand and implement the most innovative technologies.

His Soul Tech workshops, aimed at helping individuals become more technologically productive and balanced, have received national attention including recent coverage on the Today Show. He states his passion as “helping individuals and organizations to expand their creative potential through fostering rich online & offline innovation enhancing and community building experiences”.

Matthew Haughey

Workshop: Authentic Communication with your Customers (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: Matt Haughey is an early pioneer in blogging, and founder of the large community site MetaFilter.com in 1999. He worked on early versions of Blogger.com at Pyra Labs, and was creative director at Creative Commons.

Currently, Matt maintains half a dozen blogs, writes for the New York Times Technology section, takes daily photos, and rides his bike thousands of miles per year. Matt is based out of the Portland, Oregon area where he lives with his wife, daughter, and two horrible cats.

Howard Howell

Workshop: Shameless Bragging for the Professional Networker (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: Howard Howell opened his first business (a restaurant) in 1966. Since then, he has started and run businesses in distribution, sales, manufacturing, retail, service and software development companies. An engaging public speaker, Howard enjoys sharing his experience with business owners.

Currently, Howard serves as a small business mentor through seminars, networking events, and workshops, which he hosts regularly on Biznik. Howard’s approach to instruction is practical, real-world tips and advice. At his current businesses, www.thatleaseguy.com and www.bizfinancialservice.com, he provides small business commercial loans for equipment and vehicles.

Beth Yockey Jones

Workshop: Why Your Website Sucks - The Workshop (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: Beth Yockey Jones describes herself as a “publisher, writer, small business badass.” She is also a designer and graphic artist as well as an experienced business manager at Yockey Communication - yockeycommunication.com, a small family-run publisher of business books. A graduate in social studies and English, Beth is also at home with statistical analysis and technology. She has worked in television production and has coordinated a number of multimedia presentations. As art director, editor and chief researcher of Yockey Communication, she is involved in every phase of every project.

Ami Kassar

Workshop: Guerrilla Marketing Your Big Idea (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: Ami Kassar, Chief Innovation Officer of Advanta Bank Corp. Ami Kassar has been with Advanta since 2001 and has held key leadership roles in the company’s Internet, business development and innovation activities. Prior to joining Advanta, Ami founded shop2give.com, a network of online charity shopping malls. He received an MBA from The University of Southern California and a BA from Brandeis University.

Karrie Kohlhaas

Workshop: Powerhouse Packages: Dramatically Increase Business and Have Happier Clients (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: Karrie Kohlhaas had fun telling Fortune 100 companies what to do as an applied anthropologist and “Understander” at a think-tank consultancy in Chicago. Applying anthropology to modern experience she studied how people attribute meaning to products and services for companies like Nabisco, Gerber, McDonald’s, Texas Instruments, and General Mills.

When she went solo, she swore off big business for her true passion: cultivating small businesses and working directly with entrepreneurs who are passionate and invested in the work they do. As a Business Cultivator based in Seattle, Kohlhaas owns ThoughtShot Consulting and works with small business owners locally and across the US to break new ground, move beyond their edge and find smarter, easier and more authentic ways to grow their businesses. She’s been consulting for over 12 years and serves as a long-term advisor for most of her clients.

Whitney Keyes

Workshop: High-Impact, Low Cost Marketing: Secrets to Maximizing Your Marketing - for Almost Free! (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: Whitney Keyes is a consultant for entrepreneurs and one of the executive producers and co-hosts of WhitneyandWyatt.com - whitneyandwyatt.com, a Web TV talk show. She currently produces Biz Bites, a new Web TV show for small businesses. Prior to launching her own company, Keyes spent six years at Microsoft as a senior manager where she worked directly with Bill Gates. At Microsoft she developed and helped manage many of the company’s global initiatives including its first corporate social responsibility report, the launch of Office 2000, and viral marketing initiatives.

Keyes speaks and teaches internationally on a range of business, marketing and lifestyle topics. She writes a daily blog on the Seattle PI for entrepreneurs called The Biz Bite: A Blog to Boost Business. An engaging, entertaining and motivating speaker, Whitney enjoys sharing the zigs and zags of her entrepreneurial career with spunk and humor.

Jason Levine

Workshop: Marketing Yourself as a Brand and Branding Yourself as a Business (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: Jason Levine Jason Levine is the Founder and Executive Director of Perfect Pixels Media Group - www.perfectpixels.com - a digital media branding agency. PPMG focuses on creating for its clients brand significance through design, messaging and user experience. Clients include All Recipes, ING, Microsoft, Trulia and Getty Images.

Formerly a Creative Director within Virgin’s Travel Group in the UK and Design Director for Classmates.com, Jason has over fifteen years of experience in interactive design. He has a background in brand strategy, usability & heuristics analysis, and interface design.

Jason has developed sites for clients ranging from the UK’s National Lottery site to idealab! to Microsoft and Hewlett Packard. He spent several years in Los Angeles with the branding agency Siegel & Gale working with clients ranging from American Express, Countrywide, Experian, Rockwell and CB Richard Ellis. He also worked in Siegel & Gale’s San Francisco and New York offices founding their information design departments, before moving to London. Jason has won several industry awards for his designs and teaches usability in design.

Elizabeth Mance

Workshop: There’s More to Your Numbers Than Your Tax Return (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: Elizabeth Mance runs Accountability Services - accountabilityservices.biz, a full-service Seattle accounting firm. Prior to establishing the firm, Elizabeth worked for Arthur Andersen for 12 years where she worked her way up from auditor to tax manager, and then eventually became Andersen’s CFO for their Software Development division at their Technology Campus in Sarasota, Florida. In 1997 she left Andersen to pursue her dream of starting her own business here in Seattle.

Elizabeth is an honors graduate in Accountancy from the University of South Florida and also holds a degree in Marketing. Her combination of education and experience give her a well-rounded background that is ideal for providing clients with strong financial solutions and overall business guidance.

Dan McComb

Biznik Co-founder
Bio: Dan McComb is a former award-winning photojournalist whose work has appeared in newspapers and magazine such as Time and Newsweek. After two years as a publication designer at Sasquatch Books, in 2000 he began a freelance career developing websites for schools and non-profit organizations. In 2005, frustrated with the lack of good networking options in the Seattle area, he and Lara Feltin began working to create a business networking community for local, independent business people. Today Biznik currently has more than 12,000 members in 96 countries.

Brandi Pierce

Workshop: Why Your Website Sucks - The Workshop (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: Brandi Pierce, the force of nature behind aShadow Web and Graphic Design, is an accomplished entrepreneur with a strong background in print, web, and marketing design. It’s no mistake that Brandi has been dubbed “The Color Queen.”

Brandi understands the importance of your long-term vision. Whether you are a small startup or a well-established company, she brings to the table the skills you need to communicate that vision effectively in all of your marketing materials. Brandi believes that knowledge is power (and empowering!), and an essential stepping-stone to success. Brandi is committed to excellence, integrity, and beauty in design - making aShadow instrumental to its clients as they develop their corporate identity and marketing position.

Brian Rauschenbach

Workshop: Getting Found in Search: SEO Myths Busted and Secrets Exposed (Wednesday, July 9)
Bio: Brian Rauschenbach is chief marketing officer at his own advertising agency, Add Three - addthree.com, based in Seattle, WA. Prior to that he worked at Match.com, where he was the director of online marketing after the Kiss/uDate.com acquisition. Before Match.com, Brian spent eight years managing the media buys for Kiss.com and uDate.com. He has worked with and represented several online brands including PeopleFinders.com, PerfectMatch.com, BagBorroworSteal.com, King.com, Photoworks.com, Trumba.com, JudysBook.com, and Jott.com. He is a search marketing expert.

Tracy Record

Workshop: Take Your Passion and Turn it Into a Business Using Social Media, Wednesday, July 9
Bio: Tracy is a 25-year-plus veteran of Web, TV, radio, and newspaper work. She and husband Patrick Sand co-publish West Seattle Blog, the only daily news source for Seattle’s largest neighborhood. Tracy launched it in December 2005 with the intention it would be “just” a blog - noting that while many people were blogging IN West Seattle, no one seemed to be blogging ABOUT West Seattle. A year later, a devastating windstorm threw much of West Seattle into blackout mode for days, and readers’ hunger for neighborhood-specific information steered the site into news mode. Over the ensuing year, coverage expanded to everything from traffic tieups to coyote sightings to development issues, and readership grew - currently at (May 2008, Google Analytics) nearly 5,000 visitors and 15,000 pageviews daily. With proceeds from a “pledge drive” in August 2007, Tracy and Patrick turned WSB into a business, starting ad sales a few months later. That went well enough that Tracy quit her job as assistant news director of KCPQ-TV in December 2007 and has since worked full time gathering, shooting, writing, reporting, and editing news and information for WSB — with the help of contributions from all over West Seattle. Favorite reader-provided description for WSB: “A revolutionary resource for local information.”

Mack Rieder-Johnson

Workshop: Tracking Your Web site Progress With Google Analytics and Beyond (Wednesday, July 9)
Bio: Mack Rieder-Johnson is a Paid Search Associate for Portent Interactive where he frequently provides Google Analytics Consulting. Mack’s credentials includes Google AdWords Qualified Individual and Yahoo! Search Ambassador certifications. He also writes articles and creates video seminars for PPC Villain (www.ppcvillain.com), a parody blog that provides evil search marketing advice.

D. Keith Robinson

Workshop: Entrepreneurial Success By Design (Wednesday, July 9)
Bio: D. Keith Robinson is a Founder, Principal and the Creative Director of Seattle-based design agency Blue Flavor - www.blueflavor.com.

Keith has been working on the web, in some form or another, for almost 13 years. He started his career with Microsoft and quickly moved to a three-year stint at Boeing, where he worked as a designer and developer for some of Boeing’s highest profile projects.

He left Boeing to pursue the dot-com boom, and jumped ship just before the dot-com bust to head back to work for Boeing on the Connexion project. Since then, he has spent a few good years at Children’s Hospital Seattle, had a two-year gig as Editor-in-Chief for Digital Web Magazine, and gave the agency world a shot. Along the way, he has met some great people and worked on some amazing projects.

Keith is a recognized expert on web design, information architecture, and web publishing and he is a frequent speaker and writer on those subjects. In addition to the terrific companies above, he’s worked with AAA, Adobe, Connexion by Boeing, Real Networks, and Sony.

Thomas Schmitz

Workshop: Tracking Your Web site Progress With Google Analytics and Beyond (Wednesday, July 9)
Bio: Thomas Schmitz is an SEO analyst and social media marketing consultant at Portent Interactive. Thomas brings twenty years professional online experience dating back to 1987 when he was an Assistant Systems Operator for GEnie, a predecessor of AOL, and served as editor of GEnie Lamp, a periodical for Apple II computer users. As the Marketing Director of Sotheby’s International Realty’s Honolulu office Thomas helped pioneer the use of the Internet as a marketing tool to sell high-end real estate internationally. Thomas has also served as a communications and development director for several nonprofits where he repeatedly demonstrated how web sites could be used as an integral campaign tool.

Aliza Sherman

Workshop: Surviving Social Media: How to Manage and Leverage Your Multiple Social Media Accounts (Wednesday, July 9)
Bio: Named by NEWSWEEK magazine as one of the “Top 50 People Who Matter Most on the Internet,”
Aliza Sherman is a Web pioneer; Web 2.0/3.0 and integrated social media marketing consultant; published author; radio and television producer; international speaker; and regular contributor to national magazines, web sites and blog.

In 1995, Aliza started the first woman-owned full-service Internet company, Cybergrrl, Inc. She also started the first women’s Internet organization,Webgrrls International, that grew to over 100 chapters worldwide with 30,000 members. Today, she advises companies and nonprofit organizations on their Internet communications, social media, and virtual world strategies.

Aliza’s books include Streetwise eCommerce: Establish Your Online Business, Expand Your Reach, and Watch Your Profits Soar! (2007), The Everything Blogging Book: Publish Your Ideas, Get Feedback, And Create Your Own Worldwide Network (2006), Powertools for Women in Business: 10 Ways to Succeed in Life and Work (2001), and Cybergrrl at Work: Tips and Inspiration for the Professional You. She blogs regularly for WebWorkerDaily.com, WorkItMom.com as The Entrepreneur Mom, Anchorage Daily News as AK Tech Girl and on her own blogs including Aliza Sherman Rants & Raves and Cybergrrl Oh: Living a 2nd Life. She also podcasts for the Quick and Dirty Network as Small Biz Tech Girl.

She currently lives in Anchorage, Alaska with her wildlife biologist husband and their 2-year old daughter.

Matt Smith

Emcee BizJam Soirée “Story Wave” (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: Matt Smith is a solo performance artist (My Boat to Bainbridge, Helium, My Last Year with the Nuns) who has taught thousands of people the principles of improvisational theater - matt-smith.net. He works days championing storytelling as a leadership tool in the workplace as a Communications Specialist, and he’s a celebrated benefit auctioneer. He was a founding member of Seattle Improv and Stark/Raving Theater with Ed Sampson. His screen credits include Sleepless in Seattle, Outsourced, Spiderman.

Jason Swihart

Workshops: Twitter? I Don’t Even Know ‘Er: Social Media & the Significance for Entrepreneurs (Wednesday, July 9)
and Social Media Fundamentals Q & A (Wednesday, July 9)
Bio: Jason Swihart has been working on the Web since the early 90s when, as an undergrad at the University of Minnesota, his blossoming career as a Gopher developer was derailed by something called the “World Wide Web.” Since then he has worked on a wide variety of projects for clients ranging from non-profits to Fortune-500s to mercenary publications.

Now at Textura Design, Jason works with clients like Intel, Boeing, and Wellpoint, providing Social Media consulting and strategy. As part of a two-man firm, Jason shoulders responsibilities including business management, training and education, project management, and development.

Jim Turner

Workshop: Get Started Blogging: Why & How (Wednesday, July 9)
Bio: Jim Turner is the leader of the One By One Media team - onebyonemedia.com - and it was his vision that began the business in 2004. Jim is a well-respected professional blogger, mentoring others to become professional bloggers and leading companies through successful online campaigns. Jim is a leader in the new industry of social media and business blogging, and is well connected in advertising, public relations, marketing and other business circles. Jim is also the owner of Bloggers For Hire - www.bloggersforhire.com, a company that provides professional bloggers for your business website.. Jim lives in Colorado with his wife and four children.

Mikelann Valterra

Workshop: How to Set and Raise Your Fees with Confidence (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: “Earn Your Worth Queen” Mikelann Valterra, founder and director of the Women’s Earning Institute - womenearning.com, is passionately devoted to helping professionals earn what they’re really worth. Mikelann is a published author, speaker and nationally sought after expert on earning issues. She is the author of Why Women Earn Less: How to Make What You’re Really Worth (Career Press, 2004), and How to Set and Raise Your Rates - A Woman’s Guide.

Eric Weaver

Workshop: OMG! U So Need to Leverage Social Marketing (Wednesday, July 9)
Bio: Eric Weaver is vice president of Edelman Digital, where he helps companies with branding, messaging, naming and positioning, as well as launching new marketing efforts like podcasting, product blogging, and RSS marketing. As a brand/marketing strategist, he helps clients leverage social trends and market realities to better connect with their customers and grow revenue.

Throughout his career, Eric has worked with some of the biggest brands in the US and abroad, including BMW, Brita, Clorox, De Beers, eBay, Ford, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Foods, Lincoln, Mattel, the Mayo Clinic, MCI, Procter & Gamble, UPS, the US Dept of Commerce, and many more.

Pamela Ziemann

Workshop: Authentic Presentation Skills (Thursday, July 10)
Bio: Pamela Ziemann is a communication coach who has taught communication and presentation skills workshops throughout Australia, the United States and Canada. She teaches workshops that help business owners build confidence in public speaking, and make more money by voicing their deepest values and aligning these values with the products and services they offer. She is a former member of the National Speakers Assoication.

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