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Cathy Watters, Co-Founder, Editor cathy@entrepreneurialwoman.ca Vancouver, BC Entrepreneurial Woman Magazine |
| Cathy is a journalist with over 20 years experience as a newspaper reporter, freelancer, and copy editor. Her work has appeared in over 40 magazines and newspapers including Canadian Living, Business in Vancouver, Small Business Opportunities Magazine, Retail Connections, The Thompson Citizen and The Halifax-Herald. | |
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Chris Meier, Co-Founder chris@entrepreneurialwoman.ca Vancouver, BC +1 (778) 898-5548 Chris Meier, Design |
| Chris Meier is a professional photographer, web designer, and graphic artist with around 15 years experience in the industry. His portfolio may be found at www.design.chrismeier.ca. | |
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Matt Mayer, Blogger, Technology Expert matt@entrepreneurialwoman.ca Vancouver, BC |
| With over 5 years of experience (and counting) working in the video game industry, and lifetime love for all things 'tech', Matt Mayer is our resident technology blogger. In addition to introducing you to new gadgets, he reviews web-based products and services, as well as software, designed to help you improve your business, and your life. | |
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Katherine Lazaruk, Image Intensive katherine@icuimage.com Vancouver, BC +1 (604) 436-4769 ICU Image Consulting |
| Katherine Lazaruk, a longtime resident of Vancouver, comes from a performance and education background with bachelor’s degrees in Music and Education. Katherine trained with Karen Brunger, AICI CIP and holds certificates in Image Consulting and Advanced Image Consulting from the International Image Institute (Ontario, Canada). She helps individuals and small businesses with all aspects of image: appearance, behaviour and communication. Specializing in image education with groups and individuals and passionate about personal development, she loves to help her clients shine. She volunteers regularly at Dress for Success Vancouver and is an associate member of the Association of Image Consultants International. | |
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Cathy Kuzel, The Connected Woman North Vancouver, BC +1 (604) 980-5585 vwww.cathykuzel.com |
| Cathy Kuzel, author of Are you a Collector
or a Connector? is a professional speaker and trainer on sales,
customer service, professional development and a guru at networking.
Cathy works with entrepreneurs and SME companies in significantly increasing
productivity and profitability through communication, sales and marketing
strategies to improve performance and build extraordinary leaders. | |
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Mhairi Petrovic, Outsmarting Social Media info@out-smarts.com Vancouver, BC +1 (604) 909-3532 Out-Smarts Marketing |
| For over 15 years Mhairi Petrovic has had a passion for Internet technologies. In 2002, after a successful sales and marketing career in the software and technology sectors, she founded Out-Smarts Marketing. Her goal was to leverage her global sales and marketing expertise gained on both sides of the Atlantic to work with clients to maximize their online exposure. Mhairi (pronounced “Va-ri”) saw the unique communications potential of social media well before her peers and established herself as a leader in the social media/networking space. As a result, Out-Smarts has become an established company with a solid mandate to work closely with small and medium sized businesses; developing and implementing custom marketing strategies to maximize on-line exposure through Internet, Social Media and Email marketing. When not online Mhairi can be found spending time with her wee family, running, or jewellery making. | |
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Karen Dodd, Columnist Lions Bay, BC |
| Having crashed and burned to a crisp, Karen Dodd is on sabbatical from coaching and speaking about marketing and client attraction for entrepreneurial women. After many years of coaxing from her husband and soul-mate, she has finally given herself permission to chill out, heal, and write her first novel. | |
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Ellen Rohr, Contributor contact@barebonesbiz.com Rogersville, MO (USA) +1 (877) 629-7647 www.BareBonesBiz.com |
| Ellen Rohr, president of www.BareBonesBiz.com, teaches the basics, the few things that make all the difference to your business success. Ellen nearly sank her own family’s business. Then she learned how to keep track of the money…and make more of it. In turn, she has helped thousands of biz builders start, fix and grow their companies. She is a columnist for PHC News, Business Journals, and lots of trade magazines, providing “in the trenches” insight that business owners can relate to. As president of Benjamin Franklin, The Punctual Plumber, a home-service franchise company, she grew the company from zero to $40 million in sales (and 47 locations) in less than 2 years. Ellen is the author of three business basics books:
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| Carmen Jubinville, Contributor carmen@carmenjubinville.com Legal, Alberta +1 (780) 289-9396 Carmen Jubinville: The Big Life Coach | |
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Carmen Jubinville is a Certified Professional Coach. She is known to her clients, readers and listeners as The Big Life Coach. Carmen is the founder of The Big Life, a business committed to supporting and empowering everyday people who desire more meaning, purpose and fulfillment. Carmen helps people step into their greatness by teaching them how to love themselves, their bodies and their lives. She offers straight-forward, down-to-earth and sincere value to her peeps through her coaching program (The Big Life Self-Mastery Program), her online ezine (The Big Life Ezine) and through her Contact Radio Network talk show (Step Into Your Greatness). Carmen's articles are published monthly in Entrepreneurial Woman Magazine. In September 2011, Carmen was featured in Womanition Magazine, the only women’s profile magazine in Canada! To follow Carmen, join her Official Facebook page at Carmen Jubinville: The Big Life Coach. and visit her online to learn more about her programs, to sign up for her weekly ezine and to check her radio show times. | |
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Carolyn West-Price Touhey, Contributor MakeAnImpact@SmartBizStrategy.com Union Bay, BC +1 (250) 335-2342 SmartBiz Strategy |
| Carolyn West-Price Touhey is an award-winning marketing consultant who specializes in making organizations visible and credible to achieve their growth objectives. In 1990, she founded IMPACT Marketing & PR, which is still in operation today. In 2007, after moving from Maryland to Canada, Carolyn founded SmartBiz Strategy on Vancouver Island. In addition to working in the trenches with her clients, she teaches marketing and writes marketing columns for several publications. She has taught hundreds of small business workshops across North America, and was a practitioner faculty member for Johns Hopkins University and Loyola University Maryland. She is also the recipient of various business awards including Women In Business Advocate of the Year for the State of Maryland in 2000. Her other company, Two Eagles Lodge, won the Vancouver Island Better Business Bureau’s Torch Award in 2010, recognizing her B&B as top among all island hospitality businesses. Carolyn earned her MBA and BBA from Loyola College. | |
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Catherine Rocheleau, Contributor info@igniteleaders.com North Vancouver, BC +1 (855) 772-7557 Ignite Leadership International |
| Catherine Rocheleau is the Founder & CEO of Ignite Leadership International™. Ignite Leadership empowers business professionals and business owners to engage others and achieve sustainable results through leadership development and change strategies. Our clients embrace, navigate and lead their own changes, balance ‘head and heart’ and create systems to create a more rewarding business and personal life. Join us on Twitter and Facebook as well. | |
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Corinne Kantor, Contributor info@thefoodcop.com Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (USA) +1 (949) 888-1793 www.TheFoodCop.com |
| Corinne Kantor, DTR, is a Registered Dietetic Technician, owner of The
Food Cop, and author of The Food Cop: Nutrition Guide and Workbook. She teaches nutrition classes, provides nutrition counselling and offers other nutrition-related services as well. | |
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Narges Nirumvala, The Power Communicator narges@executivespeak.com Vancouver, BC www.ExecutiveSpeak.com |
| A Dale Carnegie Sales Talk Champion and owner of ExecutiveSpeak, Narges Nirumvala works one-on-one with entrepreneurs, executives and community leaders around the world to help them supercharge their public speaking and presentation skills with a focus on persuasive content, great presentation skills and achieving powerful results.
In addition to being a columnist for Entrepreneurial Woman Magazine, her writing has been published and circulated to 106 countries worldwide. She is the first person in British Columbia (and only the third in Canada) to be selected as a keynote speaker and role model for the ‘7 Success Secrets for Canadian Immigrants’ monthly seminar. Narges volunteers her time extensively and has served on numerous not-for-profit boards including St. Michael’s Centre Hospice Foundation, Rotary International, eWomenNetwork Metro Vancouver and the Kitsilano Chamber of Commerce, where she served as Vice President. She has been past-chair and emcee for the Westside Awards of Distinction and was nominated for the Business In Vancouver Influential Women in Business Awards. | |
| Abbey Fatica, Contributor info@livingyourmoment.com Columbus, OH Living Your Moment | |
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Abbey Fatica is the founder and CEO of Living Your Moment, an affordable marketing agency that specializes in working with busy Moms and Dads who own small businesses. She's also on Twitter (@livingyrmoment) and Facebook (Living Your Moment). | |
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Chris Green, Chris Green's Legal Basics cgreen@greenlaw.com Langley, BC +1 (604) 532-1215 GreenWay Legal Centre |
| Christopher Green is a business lawyer with over 32 years experience in private practice in the Province of British Columbia. A graduate of Queen’s University at Kingston and Osgoode Hall Law school, Chris has acted as criminal defence counsel, crown counsel, counsel for the Insurance Corporation of BC, and as a barrister before every level of court in the Province. Much of his current practice is devoted to providing advice to small businesses. He lectures in business law to the Surrey Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Programme, the Entrepreneur Apprenticeship programme, and the Youth Entrepreneurship Programme. He is also a fundraiser/spokesperson for the Canadian Diabetes Association Team Diabetes programme. Chris is the owner of Greenway Legal Centre, a store-front legal clinic in Willowbrook Mall, Langley, and is fluent in English and Legalese, speaks bad French and broken Spanish, and can order beer in 13 other languages. | |
