Guest List
January 15.2013
Los Angeles-based entrepreneur, speaker and small business expert, Rieva Lesonsky (@Rieva) will provide insights and answers to questions from Pittsburgh-area small business owners via Twitter in Building Bridges for Business’ (@bridges4biz) monthly TweetChat on January 15, 2013 at 7 PM EDT. The Tweetchat is sponsored by True Fit.
Lesonsky, who is co-founder and CEO of GrowBiz Media and SmallBizDaily.com and served as the editorial director at Entrepreneur magazine for over 20 years, will offer information and resources on securing capital, networking, marketing strategies and women’s entrepreneurship in a free one-hour online event. Her expertise on the subject has led to frequent national media appearances, such as the Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, Fox Business News, The Martha Stewart Show and Oprah.
PAST GUEST
November 6, 2012
Brian Moran is the Founder & CEO of Brian Moran & Associates, Brian is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs achieve their objectives & to run better businesses. Brian, along with a team of experts, is leveraging his 20+ years of experience in publishing magazines for business owners to assist entrepreneurs with everything from social media to accessing growth capital to expanding into the global marketplace.
Brian is currently a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business Council, a member of the CEO Advisory Board of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, a member of the Advisory Board of the Rothman Institute of Entrepreneurship Studies at FDU and a member of SCORE’s National Marketing Council.
Brian is a graduate of Marquette University’s School of Journalism.
Past Guests
January 2012: Forbes one of the top 20 most in uential leaders for entrepreneurs, Melinda Emerson, will provide live answers and resources. Ms. Emerson, known to many as “SmallBizLady,” is America’s #1 Small Business Expert. She helps people transition from having a job to starting a business. Grab her national bestselling book, Become Your Own Boss in 12 months! As CEO of MFE Consulting LLC, Melinda educates entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 companies on small business start-up, business development and social media marketing.
February 2012: Gina Schreck is the Chief Hooligan at Synapse who makes sure everyone is heavily caffeinated and is always looking for new ways to use technology tools to build business and manage that treasured brand! She hosts two shows, Gettin’ Geeky and SchreckTech (loads of archives in the Media Library or Gettin’ Geeky tabs) and has authored 6 books, including Gettin’ Geeky with Twitter and the soon to be released, Gettin’ Geeky with Facebook for Business.
March 2012: Susan Wilson Solovic, is an award-winning entrepreneur, a CEO, a journalist, bestselling author, multi-media personality, and attorney. But behind every achievement, Solovic embodies ideas that make her universally – and intimately – relatable to all entrepreneurs: hard work, fortitude, and persistence. In a world of quick and questionable viral fame, Solovic is a rare commodity: she is what she preaches.
May15, 2012: Lisa Elia, the company’s CEO and founder, is a publicist and expert media trainer who has secured placements for clients in major media outlets, such as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Time Magazine, USA Today, CNN, Redbook, In Style and hundreds of others. She has positioned clients for book deals, endorsement deals, positions as contributing editors to magazines and even their own TV shows.
July 10, 2012: Ngozi Bell is the Region III federal government advocate who helps identify concerns around policy and regulations that aff ect small business owners and works closely with the chief counsel for advocacy. Her region consists of Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. Most recently, Bell served as vice president of Birchmere Ventures, an early stage venture capital rm that focuses on investing in and developing start-up companies in the medical, cleantech, and technology sectors.
September 18, 2012: Rieva Lesonsky is CEO of GrowBiz Media, a media and custom content company focusing on small business and entrepreneurship. A nationally known speaker and authority on entrepreneurship, Lesonsky has been covering America’s entrepreneurs for more than 30 years. Lesonsky is a nationally-known speaker, and frequent media guest. She has appeared on the Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, Fox Business News, The Martha Stewart show and Oprah, and can regularly be seen on MSNBC’s Your Business.
