Sheri McConnell, Conference Keynote Speaker
Sherri McConnell is fast becoming the voice of Smart Women Entrepreneurs all over the world. Her current company, the Smart Women’s Institute of Entrepreneurial Learning focuses on teaching various wealth building business models such as information publishing and creating membership-based companies. Her company also teaches its followers and members (which is nearing the 50,000 mark) how to market online, create a magnetic brand, and most importantly do this while maintaining down to earth balance in their lives.
As a consultant, Sheri is considered the only resource in the world specializing in creating thriving membership-based businesses like associations, institutes, alliances, and so on. Sheri has consulted with hundreds of these networks across the Internet and considers herself lucky to have helped birthed so many powerful and successful brands over the last decade.
Under the Smart Women Institute umbrella women entrepreneurs can enroll in annual programs ranging from $197 a year to $100,000. Sheri’s goal of building a company where women truly inspire each other and hold each other accountable in a graceful manner is exactly what has set her company a part. “Money is power” she explains. “Power to create positive change.”
She is also the author of Smart Women Create Membership-Based Businesses, The Smart Women’s Book of Powerful Quotations and Smart Women Know Their “Why” – A Guide for Discovering Your Life Purpose While Owning a Business So You Can Create Positive Change in the World (and Making Big Profits!). You can visit Sheri, access her free article archive, and find out more about her and all of her companies at www.smartwomeninstitute.com Sheri lives in San Antonio, Texas with her husband, their four children, and two adorable “weenie” dogs.
Caitie Ramsburg, Community Through Blogging
is a Brand Account Manager at BlogFrog. Over the past 10 years, she has worked with brands such as IBM, Apple, Samsung, Target, Kenmore and Doritos. Prior to her work with BlogFrog, she served as Account Manager at VSA Partners in Chicago and Marketing Manager at Dreaming Tree Films. She has recently relocated back to her home state of Colorado after 2 years living abroad in London. Caitie is a graduate of Colorado State University with a degree in Technical Journalism. She resides in Boulder, CO with her husband Michael and son.
Mary Jaksch is a professional blogger, as well as an authorized Zen master, psychotherapist, and author. She lives in New Zealand, was awarded an MA in Religious Studies, holds a 4th Dan Blackbelt in karate, started professional life as a flautist, and loves dancing Argentine tango.
Mary is the creator and author of the blog Goodlife ZEN, and Chief Editor of the writers’ blog Write to Done. Together with Leo Babauta of Zen Habits, Mary has created a hugely successful online training program for bloggers, the A-List Blogger Club and A-List Blogging Bootcamps.
Holly Homer started blogging as a substitution for her scrapbooking habit years ago. She soon realized she was addicted to purchasing URL’s much to the delight of her Go Daddy account. Through the years she has had many ideas, but only enough energy to implement several. She runs a Dallas based website with over 65 DFW contributors (She is Dallas) and is a founding partner at Business 2 Blogger where she does consulting. Her heart will always be where she started at June Cleaver Nirvana…because it all boils down to the fact that she is a mom blogger.
J From J’s Everyday Fashion
J’s Everyday Fashion is a how-to blog that teaches women to recreate looks seen on celebrities and in magazines, how to shop on a budget, and how to rework items in their closet. J shows women everyday that it is possible to look great with limited time and money by sharing her own journey as a girl on a budget. The blog is full of tips, articles, and discussions on how fashion works in real life situations. In less than a year, J’s Everyday Fashion has grown a community of more than 10,000 women on Facebook who love to talk fashion and share ideas in a safe, uplifting environment. In addition, J’s Everyday Fashion – The Show is premiering on IzonOrlando in May 2011. J also has several upcoming events across the country, with plans to continue to expand her brand in the near future.
Kole Mcrae was built from the parts of lesser writers. He was created to destroy the universe but soon discovered his love of Ramen noodles. He simply could not destroy a universe that contained such a wondrous food.
Kole also happens to know a little bit about finding peace in your hectic work life. You can subscribe to his blog Office Buddha.
Caz Makepeace graduated from university in 1997 as a primary school teacher and left Australia three days later on her first overseas adventure through Indonesia before settling in London for two years to teach and travel Europe.Her travel addiction was born and she has been living and travelling the world since. For the past nine years she has travelled with her husband Craig and now their 3 year old daughter Kalyra. Caz has travelled through 35 countries and has lived and taught in Dublin, London, Bangkok, North Carolina and her home country, Australia.After suffering financial challenges and generally feeling misaligned with her life’s purpose, Caz realized that she was not doing anything with all the knowledge and experiences she had gained from travelling the world. She realized these weren’t worth much if she wasn’t sharing them. And so y travel blog was born. Caz is co-founder of y travel blog along with Craig. Within a year they had become one of the most popular travel blogs with the most engaged and interactive fanpage community. They also rank within the top 20 online influencers in travel.Caz attributes her success to having passion for what she does, having the right positive mindset, her determination for success, and her ability to learn quickly from others and improve on that.She now shares her knowledge on how to have success with blogging through various education sites such as Pro Blogger, Travel Blog Success and Travel Blog Challenge. Caz will be co-authoring a book on the Positive Impact travel can have on the world which will be published late 2011, and is writing her own book on how to live and travel the world and why you should.Caz is now applying all she has learned in the travel blogging field to her new personal blog Mojito Mother which focuses upon putting the mojo back into a mother’s life.Caz loves to inspire others to live their best life. She loves interacting and meeting new people and is always happy to share all she has learned so that others may have the same success.
Christie Glascoe Crowder is an author, blogger, lifecaster, social media geek, and all around master-multi-tasker who uses her real world experiences to cultivate a life she loves. She left the corporate world and her own successful project management firm behind to become a published author, certified life/empowerment coach, and now, certified social media consultant. Through writing, speaking, and consulting, she helps others discover their true passions and entrepreneurial spirit. The success of her coaching, blogs, online shows, her passion for social media, and relentless creativity has caught the eye of big brands and small businesses. She works with them to create unique branding and entertaining digital marketing programs to actively and productively engage with their primary target market.
Jenny Dean is a 31-year-old-business owner and entrepreneur from Kansas City. Jenny is President and CEO of Business Blog Writers, a company that supplies blog content specifically for company’s blogs, Floppycats.com, an informational website about Ragdoll cats and Antioxidant-fruits.com, an informational website about the antioxidant powers of fruit.
Michele McGraw, ScrappinMichele, is a 43-year-old work-at-home mother of four children (2 girls, 7 and 12, 2 boys, 8 and 15). She met her husband, Jason on AOL 18 years ago in the Romance Connection room and they have now been married for 17 years and live in the Northern Virginia area.
For the last 14+ years, Michele has been connecting women online in support of their hobbies and healthy lifestyles. Michele is CEO of Mom Geek Media and creator of Scraps of My Geek Life, a blog offering daily commentary, advice, reviews and shared experiences of how her real life and the digital domain connect. Her latest adventure is a blog dedicated to the Project 365 Geeks out there. She is the Gadget Editor at Mom Blog Magazine, Tech & Digital Scrapbooking Editorialista at MyBlogalicious and Tech and Gadget Editor at The DC Moms and can be found blogging at Yahoo! Shine, Technorati and the BlogWorld Expo blog. Michele has also worked closely with many large brands including AMD, Yahoo, Microsoft, EA SPORTS Active, Healthy Choice, Office Max, momAgenda, AboutOne, HP and more.
She can be found on Twitter as ScrappinMichele, Facebook as Michele McGraw and Scraps of My Geek Life and LinkedIn.
Ronique Gibson is an Associate Architect and a LEED Accredited Professional, who has been in the design industry for over 13 years. Her home design service, Stagetecture encompasses home staging, organization, décor, DIY projects, and helping those who love their homes! She also writes at Freshome, an architecture and interior design online magazine. She writes for numerous home inspiration blogs, and is a social media consultant. Ronique enjoys writing about family solutions, and making your home the best place it can be, while also helping small businesses reach their target marketing through custom blogs and social media outlets.
April Durham graduated with two degrees in Advertising and TV Production, but after two years in the corporate world she decided to take her blog design “hobby” and turn it into a full time career! Now she teaches blog design to people around the web, and just started a new site called The Blog Designer Network where people can learn design, grow their blogs, and even inspire others!
Stephanie Peterson can’t decide what she wants to be, so she does it all: blogging, neurotic, break-the-mold pastor’s wife, blessed mommy, math nerd, film and commercial actor, virtual assistant, and household deal hunter.
Stephanie has been blogging since September 2010, with favorite writing topics including marriage, mission, and beauty outside of culture.
Besides loving to work (apparently), she tries to spend all of her free time with her two favorite men: pastor hubby Brad and 15-month old Samuel. She thinks it’s also important to sneak in moments for food-love, laughing in the sunshine, and late-night reading.
Krizia is an Entrepreneur, Host, Producer, Speaker & International Author!
After successfully selling two on her online magazines in May 2011 to American investors, she has turned her attention to locating some of the most successful people in the world to support women entrepreneurs in their business growth.
Every week, Krizia interviews some of the most successful business women and business coaches from around the world on her online show — Women Entrepreneurs HQ! You can catch the latest interviews by visiting http://www.WomenEntrepreneursHQ.com/
She has recently started her hand at freelance writing with a focus on not for profits. Her second blog is devoted to her writing and creativity over at The Write Place to Be at Words and creativity are the fuel to how we live our lives.
Carolina Moore is a wife, mom, and craft blogger living in Las Vegas, NV. With a background in Advertising and Marketing, she finds her passion working with her hands, and sharing her creations with others through her blog.On her craft blog, you’ll find a history of her creations, and she has guest posts on numerous topics throughout blogland, including The Lady Bloggers Society.
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PLUS A handful more of speakers to be announced this week!
