Chris is the President of Human Business Works and started New Media Marketing Labs to work with large and mid-sized companies such as Pepsico, Comcast, Molson/Coors and The Henry Ford Museum to improve online business communications like marketing and PR through the use of social software, community platforms and other…
Andy Crestodina is the strategic director at Orbit Media Studios. He brings vision and Web marketing expertise to the Chicago business community. At his best, he is an idea machine, aligning client’s goals with effective Web marketing techniques. Ideas are tempered by 10 years of experience on a huge range…
Meet Andy Crestodina – Breakfast with a Chicago Web Strategist
To paraphrase a familiar old saw, when you’re handed lemons you make lemonade. No one knows that better than Orlando, Fla., entrepreneur and businessman Matt Durfee, who over the years has made enough lemonade to quench the thirst of a small city with a little left over to spare. Matt,…
Meet Matt Durfee – Founder and CEO of the Navigator Institute
Daniel Butt founded NoodleStorm.com because he wanted to help make the world more efficient. When he had the idea for this online student consulting marketplace, he dropped everything he was doing and started working on its development. He knew from his prior work experience and education that many organizations, especially…
Dirk Wuertz is an atypical winemaker from the Rheinhessen area of Germany. After doing a lot of things in his life, he discovered his deep love for the most divine beverage — wine. This love brought him to many places and wineries. Before he started his own business, he worked…
Maretta Johnson grew up in Pelham, Ga. (population approximately 4,400). She attributes her creativity and work ethic to her upbringing. Maretta is a college graduate and has been a certified paralegal for 18 years. She has been married to her husband, Jacques, for 23 years. They have two sons, Jacques…
Jenny Foss first decided she had to become an entrepreneur after witnessing a board room fight over, no joke, coupons at a former employer. Made worse? The skirmish was on 9-11. She got the official kick-in-the-pants to take the leap a few years ago, when she became a single mother and…
Brian always has had a passion for coming up with new ideas. To date, he holds four patented inventions and has an additional three that are patent pending under his company, Think Up Designs. Brian’s inventions were brought to market through manufacturing, as he has appeared on QVC and also…
A former attorney and corporate mediator, Dina has made a career of helping people say what matters to those who matter most- clients, friends and family. Having trained over 1000 people to communicate and problem-solve better, her work has been featured in leading business magazines like Inc and Entrepreneur and…
Lawrence Chernin is the founder of BrainiacDating.com – a website for out of the box singles and several intelligence themed singles groups with thousands of members across the US and Canada. His favorite slogan is “it’s sexy to be smart” and his message is to encourage singles to think and…