Womens Media Summit

Speakers

MEET OUR GUEST EXPERTS

Shannon Cherry is a mom of twin girls, a PR pro, an entrepreneur who works at home and a professional writer and speaker living in Albany, NY. She is the founder and president of Cherry Communications  and its subsidiaries, Be Heard Solutions and Penny Pinching Publicity.  Working with small business owners and entrepreneurs, her goal is to help them to find their voice, tell their story and be heard.

A former TV and newspaper journalist, Shannon has aggressively designed and developed dozens of innovative public relations and marketing strategies. Her clients have appeared on the pages of USA Today, the New York Times, Money Magazine, Associated Press, and Parents and have been featured on the Today Show, CNN, The History Channel, Good Morning America, and Oprah. 

Shannon is the co-author of two books: Become Your Own Great & Powerful: A Woman’s Guide to Living Your Real, Big Life and Parenting Beyond Belief (Amacom Books, 2007). She also is the blogger behind www.mommy-inc.com, the only online blog about an entrepreneur mom with twins.

Shannon also publishes the award-winning free ezine, Be Heard!, and offers a free ecourse and publicity package at www.getfreepublicitytips.com.

SAMANTHA ETTUS is the creator of the bestselling Experts’ Guide series of books, offering knowledge seekers trustworthy and entertaining advice in a “CliffsNotes” format. As an author, media personality, and syndicated columnist, she has developed a formula for identifying the world’s leading experts and delivers their know-how through her books, television segments and columns.

Touted as the “Expert’s Expert” she is a correspondent on WNBC’s “New York 360°” and has appeared in a number of national media outlets including the Today Show, The O’Reilly Factor, The New York Times, and USA Today. Samantha pens a nationally syndicated column through Scripps Howard, is a columnist for ModernMom.com, and a Contributing Editor for 02138 Magazine.

Her first book, The Experts’ Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do, includes chapters written by Larry King, Donald Trump, Jennifer Capriati, and Peggy Post, among others. The second book in the series, The Experts’ Guide to Life at Home, features Al Roker, Rachael Ray, Leeza Gibbons, Senator Dianne Feinstein, and 96 other renowned experts.
For additional information on Samantha visit www.samanthaettus.com.

Catherine Franz is a Global, Certified Professional Coach, and Certified Teleclass Leader, trainer, speaker, author, and Master Practitioner Laws of Attraction.  Clients include professional firms, restaurants, retail, and service professionals across the globe, US, UK, Australia, New Zealand.  Catherine is a popular and entertaining presenter who spcializes in marketing, product development, creating passive revenue streams, and using writing to promote your career or business. 

You can find out more about Catherine, read her articles and sign up for her newsletters at Abundance Center and CatherineFranz.com.  Read her blog at Abundance Blog. 

Sherryl Lin Haldy is a Senior Executive Producer at VoiceAmerica.com, an Internet Talk Radio Network with over 1.5 million listeners. Sherryl Lin oversees production of Internet Talk Radio programs for hosts on a variety of topics. Sherryl Lin works with publicists and experts who are interested in hosting their own Internet talk radio programs. VoiceAmerica.com features programs on women’s issues, personal development, business, sports, politics, health and more. Sherryl Lin has been with the network for just over a year. Prior to her work with VoiceAmerica Sherryl Lin owned her own successful retail business for 14 years. She also has an extensive background in production, sales, marketing and public relations. Sherryl Lin now lives in Phoenix, Arizona, where VoiceAmerica.com is based. You can learn more by visiting www.VoiceAmerica.com. 

Paul Hartunian is North America’s leading expert on obtaining mountains of free publicity for their businesses. He has shown thousands of people how to use publicity to get customers and rocket businesses to all time highs, and even become celebrities in their own marketplace. “Every person on this planet can get tremendous amounts of free publicity for any product, service cause or issue. They just have to be taught the simple steps to take…and then take them”, according to Dr. Paul Hartunian. 

Paul Hartunian is a wiz at showing people how to get mountains of free publicity for their online and offline businesses. He has shown thousands of people how to use publicity to make sales, get leads, rocket businesses to all time highs, and even become celebrities. His techniques require no special skills, no “insider contacts,” and little or no money.  Paul and his publicity students have been featured on the Phil Donahue Show, the Jenny Jones Show, To Tell the Truth, the Regis Philbin Show, Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, Smart Money, CNN News, Forbes, Changing Times, Redbook, New Jersey Monthly, Money magazine, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and over 1,000 other radio and TV talk shows.   And yes, he really did sell the Brooklyn Bridge! “Anyone can duplicate what I’ve done. Not only will I prove that statement, I’ll teach people exactly what to do and how to do it, so they can prove it to themselves.” 

In his talk “How to Get $1 Million Worth of Publicity…FREE!”, Paul teaches his audience, step by step, how they can get mountains of free publicity. 

He reveals the secret to getting on the Sally, Oprah and the other “majors”. 

He tells the audience how to conduct themselves during an interview so they not only make a substantial amount of money, but they’re also asked back to do it again! 

He tells them how he made $400,000 with just one hour of work, thanks to the media. 

But, more importantly, he shows the audience how to duplicate what he’s done by teaching them the special method he’s developed for getting media coverage. 

“I don’t care if a person has a little ice cream shop in a tiny town or if he has a huge, multinational corporation. I can teach them how to get publicity that will boost their bottom lines while making them mini-celebrities.”

Visit Paul online at: www.HotPublicityTips.com and www.MillionDollarPublicity.com

Penny Haynes Penny Haynes runs Online Community Magazines, turnkey multi-media magazine software for communities. AroundCherokeeCounty.com, in Cherokee County, GA. is the Flagship Online Community Magazine, and was the first magazine to be published in June. Penny helps local businesses create home-made radio and tv shows and post them on the site.  Non-profits, churches, government offices and schools get free columns in the magazine.  She’s presently hosting an Around Cherokee County Idol contest on the site to draw traffic and increase publicity.

Penny is also involved in helping local high school and middle school students learn audio and video editing, so local businesses can have their radio and tv shows produced by the students. This provides income and experience for the students, and reduced costs for the businesses. Penny’s first local customer was a chiropractor whom she met at a small group networking event put on by the Chamber of Commerce. He purchased a year’s column and a year’s radio/tv show!

For more information about the magazine software, visit http://www.OnlineCommunityMagazines.com.  For information about learning audio and video production, go to http://www.LearnAudioAndVideo.com.

Christine Louise Hohlbaum is a mom expert, award-winning American writer and author of Diary of a Mother: Parenting Stories and Other Stuff (2003) SAHM I Am: Tales of a Stay-at-Home Mom in Europe (2005), The Author’s Companion CD-Rom (2005). She has been published in hundreds of publications and currently writes an advice column for Hybrid Mom magazine. She has a BA from Smith College in Political Science and German Literature. From the University of Constance, Germany, she obtained her combined master’s degree in International Relations, German and English Literature. She has appeared on numerous programs including NPR’s The Parent’s Journal with Bobbi Conner. She has appeared in Boston Globe Magazine, Pregnancy magazine, Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies Home Journal, Parents and Woman’s Day. She also acts as PR consultant for book authors and is a motivational speaker. Her specialty is key messaging development.

When she isn’t writing, leading seminars, or wiping up messes, she prefers to frolic in the Bavarian countryside with her husband and two children. For more information visit her website at http://christine.presskit247.com/

Marilyn Jenett is a renowned prosperity mentor with an international following.  She is also an accomplished business woman and owner of a company, Marilyn Jenett Locations, that served the corporate arena for 20 years. Her achievements in the business world were the result of the prosperity principles she now teaches in her Feel Free to Prosper program.

With no publicist, PR or marketing resources, and using only her prosperity principles and the “Universe as her publicist,” Marilyn manifested a cover feature story in the Los Angeles Times that attracted thousands of telephone calls for years and syndication around the world via Associated Press.  This was followed by local and national prime time television segments and continuing media exposure, including the first article she ever wrote that grossed $250,000 for her business!

Marilyn founded the Feel Free to Prosper program to mentor and teach others to become aligned with Universal laws and accept their right to prosper. Her students, from around the globe and from all walks of life, are enjoying remarkable success applying her lessons and participating in her private and group sessions, teleclasses and audio programs.  Visit her website at www.FeelFreetoProsper.com and her network forum at http://prosper-network.ryze.com

Her fascinating memoir, Feel Free to Prosper: An Entrepreneurial Memoir of Synchronicity and Guidance attracted an agent and will soon be published. It can be read free on her forum until the book’s release.

Annie Jennings of the National PR firm, Annie Jennings PR is a National Publicist specializing in promoting authors and experts to the media.   Annie’s vision and insight has revolutionized the publicity industry as many of the publicity techniques, tools and strategies in widespread use throughout the industry today have been developed by Annie Jennings PR.   Annie freely shares her publicity strategies with authors and experts so everyone can have access to PR strategies, both the basics and advanced PR thought, so they can share their messages with millions for the betterment of all. 

Annie Jennings has been an invited guest lecturer for NYU’s Publishing Program and for the American Society Of Journalists & Authors.  Annie Jennings PR has provided over 500 SMASH HIT PUBLICITY Teleseminars for consistent standing room audiences, reaching hundreds of thousands of author and experts.   Annie Jennings is the premier publicity expert in the country with her knowledge sought out by professionals and organizations everywhere.

FAST COMPANY Says:  FAST COMPANY says that “Annie Jennings PR is the place to go to learn how to become a bestselling author”. 
Annie Jennings PR has over 25,000 authors experts signed up with her company and every morning Annie and her staff has but one thing to say:   “Let’s Kick It Up A Notch Today!” 

Nancy S. Juetten Demystifies the Media Relations Process So Business Owners Everywhere Can Benefit!

Work-in-the-trenches publicist, newspaper columnist, and Media-Savvy-to-Go Publicity Toolkit creator Nancy Juetten gladly supports the success of business owners everywhere by showing them how to get seen, heard, and celebrated in their own backyards … and beyond through the impact and credibility of free publicity.

Nancy enjoys sharing how to unlock the power of publicity with editors, radio station hosts, and business owners through interviews, public speaking, and training.

The Media-Savvy-to-Go Publicity Toolkit is empowering business owners everywhere with essential tips, tools, and resources to make it easy to earn favorable publicity and earning rave reviews in the process. Visit her Main Street Media Savvy for more information.

Jason Kauffman is a National Media Trainer who specializes in media training authors and experts to provide outstanding interviews for the media and create a win-win for the station, the host, the listeners and of course, the authors.  Jason is with the leading national PR firm, Annie Jennings PR and has over a decade of experience in the fast-paced news talk radio environment, working for high- powered stations and producing award-winning programming.  Jason Kauffman is the media trainer for Annie Jennings PR’s 25,000 authors and expert and is the Director of Annie’s news research division where experts are tied into the hot topics of the week to be heard on top news stations in the top 35 markets of the country and nationally syndicated programming.

Francine Kizner, senior projects editor at Entrepreneur.com, has been the editor of WomenEntrepreneur.com since its launch in May 2007. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California and has been a copy editor, freelance writer and associate editor. Her responsibilities include:

• Host/produce a podcast for WomenEntrepreneur.com
• Managing all the columnists for the women’s site—I have done everything from recruiting them to setting up their contracts to coming up with topic lists with them to keeping them on schedule and editing their articles
• Managing all the bloggers on the Entrepreneur.com blog network (for ent and womenent)—this has included recruiting bloggers, negotiating contracts, keeping them on schedule, monitoring the blogs and comments, etc.
• Handling all the pitches, bylined articles and freelance articles for the women’s site

In addition to all this, Francine occasionally writes for the site—blogs, articles, slideshows, quizzes.

Beverly Mahone is a graduate of Ohio University where she majored in journalism.  The Ohio native has worked in several markets including Boston, New Hampshire, and West Virginia.  As the military reporter for the NBC Affiliate in North Carolina, she was one of a select group of journalists chosen to travel to Guantanamo Bay Cuba to cover the Haitian Refugees.   Beverly won a Boston’s Best Award for a talk show she produced and hosted called The People’s Forum.

After a distinguished 25 year career in radio and television news, Beverly decided it was time to step out on faith and pursue her desire to become a published author.  In June 2006, her debut non-fiction book, Whatever! A Baby Boomer’s Journey Into Middle Age  was published.  The book takes a look at issues affecting baby boomer women, including menopause, dating after 40, raising children, midlife employment issues and aging gracefully Renowned Poet and Author Nikki Giovanni has endorsed the book calling it “The right story at the right time.”  As a result of the book’s subject matter and popularity, Beverly has been invited to speak to numerous women’s groups.  In the summer of 2007, she began a “I’m still Hot…it just comes in Flashes now!” Summer Book Tour with a platform of bringing menopause out of the closet.

Also in the summer of 2007, Beverly published her first ebook titled Mama Said There’d Be Days Like This.  The ebook is a collection of essays written by Beverly and fellow baby boomers who reminisce about the very important, but often ignored, advice from dear sweet mom.  The book has received rave reviews.

You can read more about her online at: http://www.talk2bev.com or http://www.talk2bev.blogspot.com

Kirsten Osolind is CEO of RE:INVENTION Marketing, a nationally noted and quoted marketing and PR firm. Her 18-year marketing career includes leadership roles as Whole Foods Market’s National Marketing Director, WebMD’s Director of Advertising & Media, General Mills’ ethnic marketing manager, and brand manager at Coke and P&G. Kirsten has been cited in over 500+ women’s and business publications from Redbook and Pink to BusinessWeek and INC. A former and current Entrepreneur Magazine marketing columnist, Kirsten hosts one of the nation’s top 150 marketing blogs according to Advertising Age Magazine, also the #1 Google-ranked women entrepreneurs’ blog.

She serves on the National Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors of the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and on the Board of Directors for Invincibelle, a privately-held company dedicated to serving the needs of multi-cultural women. An elected member of the prestigious Economic Club of Chicago, she has also served as 2006-2007 National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) National Public Policy Forum Chair, chaired the first YWCA Future Leaders Board, and was appointed to the Springboard Enterprises Venture Forum Midwest 2005 Steering Committee and 2004 Illinois State of Women in Politics Planning Committee. Technology geek and high heel shoe lover, Kirsten received her M.B.A. from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.

Raleigh Pinskey specializes in building PR, Branding, and Visibility Marketing platforms for people, places, products and ideas, so they can get their brand and message in front of their target market over and over and over again, and get client to come to them.

The Raleigh Group client history is filled with entrepreneurs, books and musicians–including Sting, KISS, Paul McCartney and Blondie—the first Chicken Soup for the Soul book, Harvey Diamond’s Fit For Life Solution, comedians Robert Klein and Richard Jeni, thousands of small businesses and a top favorite, The Bronx Zoo’s “A Great Snake named Jake.”
 
Raleigh breathed life into the $5,000 Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Doll, launched the internationally respected QLink Electro Magnetic Field protective pendant, Callan Pinkney’s Callanetics fitness regime, the original singing telegram company Music Box, fed samples to Grand Central Station rush hour railroad commuters to promote Gourmet To Go, promoted a Country and Western concert with a stagecoach parade up Fifth Avenue at lunch time, myriad books, businesses, cult movies, magazines, soap opera daytime players, and jingle writers, to name a few categories.
 
Raleigh Pinskey created, produced and hosted the successful airline in-flight business audio program Pipeline For Profits for AmericaWest and Mid West airlines.  Her interviews and articles appeared in Entrepreneur Magazine, The Los Angeles Times Syndicate, Cox Syndicate, EOnline!, International Business Woman, Kuwait Times and countless media outlets internationally, and counts hundreds of radio and TV interviews.  
 
Raleigh Pinskey is the author of the international best selling 101 Ways to Promote Yourself, (Harper Collins) with a quarter of a million copies in print, and sold in nine countries. Her 56 information products on how to Maximize Your Biz-Ability thru Visibility Marketing also includes the inspirational and motivational books and CD’s The Forgiveness Factor and Did You Have a Good Day Dear.  www.PromoteYourself.com / www.RaleighPinskey.com

Lori Prokop is co-founder of Keyboard Culture Blog Community where 100,000 people could be reading and supporting you and your message. Lori is a Leading Expert, Author and  Creator of the ebook, book, CDs, DVDs, online videos, consulting, speaking and more on: Lori has helped people and their companies earn as much as $6.6 million dollars in additional revenues in 90 days.

Lori developed the List Profit Program. She and her team build online lists of highly-targeted prospects and responsive buyers and guarantees 1,000 people on your list within 90 days.  Lori Prokop is a Google Adwords Expert and fantastic, result-producing copywriter.

Would you like 100,000 people reading and supporting you and your message? Learn how you too can become an Expert at Keyboard Culture.  

Ponn M. Sabra is the Founder/Owner of EmpowerWomenNow.com the leading Internet Branding Online Resource for Women Entrepreneurs, Home Based Entrepreneurs & Small Business Owners. Best-selling author of Empowering Women to Power Network , WomenEntrepreneur.com Columnist and home based internet entrepreneur, Ponn is a disabled, homeschool mother of 3 young girls.

At the age of 25, with her Masters in Public Health Ponn was appointed the youngest U.S. public health official. She left her post six-months after her first daughter was born and began freelance writing in the public health field. After traveling throughout the U.S. and Middle East for 2 years, she settled in Toledo, OH where she became a Top Producer for her home real estate office specializing in foreclosures and short sales. In July 2004 Ponn experienced a near-death car accident, which forced her in bed-rest. She wrote “Empowering Women to Power Network” while bed-ridden. During the past 3 years she was diagnosed “disabled,” with an extremely rare brain disorder. In September 2007, she relocated to be closer to family and continues to build an active online community at EmpowerWomenNow.com.

Susan Wilson Solovic is CEO of SBTV.com – small business television.  SBTV.com is the first and only video news and information destination site for American’s small businesses.  Solovic began her professional career as a television news anchor and reporter for NBC and CBS affiliates.  Subsequently, she joined a Fortune 100 company where she was named executive vice president, director of corporate marketing, of the firm’s international asset-based lending division.  While working in an executive capacity, she attended Saint Louis University Law School and graduated with honors.  Her legal background provides her with a unique view of American business. 
Solovic is the author of the popular book, “The Girls’ Guide to Power and Success,” which was originally released in June 2001 and was re-released in paperback in 2003.  The book is also being published in Korea, China and Thailand. “Reinvent Your Career: Attain the Success You Deserve and Desire” is another of Solovic’s books.  It offers motivational and practical advice for those individuals seeking to re-ignite their careers.  Her latest title, “The Girls’ Guide to Building a Million $ Business”, was release in late October and has already hit bestseller lists.

Among the many things Susan is involved in, she  serves on the advisory board for the John Cook School of Business Entrepreneurial Studies at Saint Louis University – one of the top rated entrepreneurial schools in the U.S.

On behalf of SBTV.com Solovic accepted the Stevie Award for the Most Innovative Company up to 100 employees.  The Stevie Awards are considered the Oscars of business. 
 
In October 2006, SBTV.com was recognized by the Women’s Technology Venture Cluster as the Best Investment Opportunity. 

For nearly a decade, Solovic taught a women’s entrepreneurial training program at a St.Louis-based college.  She is a featured business expert on Trump University and was a featured columnist on women’s business issues for UPI.  She is regular small business contributor on ABC’s America This Morning and ABC’s Money Matters.  She is also a popular media guest on radio and television programs across the country including CNN, Bloomberg, Early Today, and Good Day New York.