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Lena West is the CEO and Chief Strategist of xynoMedia Technology , a New York-based firm that helps high-growth companies leverage the power of social media, blogs, podcasts and online communities.

Zeke Camusio is a serial entrepreneur. The Outsourcing Company, his sixth endeavor, is an online marketing agency that helps businesses make money online.Camusio also pens the blog "Let's Do It!" a down-to-earth approach to online business and entrepreneurship. If you have an Internet marketing question, ask Zeke. He'll be happy to help you.

Brad Sugars is the founder of ActionCOACH, the world's number one business coaching firm. As a world-renowned entrepreneur, author and Business Coach, he has helped more than a million clients around the world find business and personal success. Sugars has owned and operated more than two dozen companies including his main company, ActionCOACH, which has nearly 1,000 offices in 26 countries.

Ramon Ray is editor of SmallBizTechnology.com and author of Technology Solutions for Growing Businesses. His site helps small to medium-sized businesses use technology to grow through news, articles, discussion groups, resources, analysis and events. Ray also serves on the board of directors and technology committee for the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce.

Nina L. Kaufman is an award-winning business attorney, author and speaker. For more than 15 years, she has successfully navigated thousands of small businesses through the legal hurdles they face in starting and running their companies. Under her AskTheBusinessLawyer.com brand, she reaches thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners with her legal services, professional speaking, information products, and LexAppeal weekly ezine. With skills honed from stand-up comedy, Nina is a sought-after professional speaker. She has given seminars, workshops, teleclasses and presentations for numerous organizations in the New York City area, with hot topics that include protecting your business on the internet, building business partnerships and collaborative alliances that work, and training clients to pay on time.

Steve Adams is vice president of marketing for Protus, a provider of Web-based services for small- to medium-size businesses. The company's offerings include the Internet fax service MyFax, a feature-rich virtual PBX phone service that travels with the user from phone to web called my1voice, and the email marketing solution with advanced automation features called Campaigner. He is a seasoned industry speaker having spoken at a variety of telecommunication trade shows and conferences. He is a graduate of the University of Waterloo and the Ivey School of Business. Before joining Protus, Adams was with Spotwave Wireless, a provider of in-building wireless coverage solutions

Roy Williams is the founder and president of international ad agency Wizard of Ads. He also teaches creative thinking, strategic planning and human persuasion courses attended by executives from many of the world's largest advertising agencies, professors from leading universities, broadcasters, journalists and small-business CEOs from around the world. In addition, Williams has authored numerous books on improving advertising efforts, including The Wizard of Ads and Secret Formulas of the Wizard of Ads.

Viral activist and communications guru Pattie Simone is a nationally known business speaker, writer and consultant. Simone is president and chief success strategist at Write-Communications.com and Marketing-Advantage.net, founder of WomenCentric, a sassy women's speaking bureau and a columnist for WomenEntrepreneur.com. Simone has appeared on numerous radio and TV programs and is publishing her first e-book, Penny-Pinching Marketing Secrets: BIG Results for Small Business Success. For more info on Simone, e-mail profit@marketing-advantage.net or call (845) 362-7880.

Penny is a seasoned human resources executive and consultant with over 25 years of diverse business experience in advising enterprise leaders on employment-related matters. Most recently, she established RemarkAbleHR, Inc., a consulting/services company focused on helping business owners/managers to find -- and keep -- the best talent available in their markets. In addition to recruiting, RemarkAbleHR identifies how clients can be competitive in the challenging employment arenas of 2007 and beyond. Morey has also served as the director of administration and human resources for Mazda Motor Manufacturing throughout its first 5 years in the U.S and as vice president of administration and human resources for TelePlace, an international telecommunications collocation and managed services company.

Wendy Piersall is known for her expertise as an online publisher and social media marketing authority. She has worked with brands such as Epson and Kmart to develop and implement strategic web 2.0 marketing campaigns to target women online as consumers and as business owners. She is also the founder of the Sparkplugging blog network and speaks frequently on the subjects of social media, entrepreneurship and the online publishing business.

Tim Berry is the president of Palo Alto Software Inc., which produces the industry's leading business planning software, Business Plan Pro, as well as other popular planning applications for businesses. He also is an author and an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon, where he teaches a course on entrepreneurship. In January 2007, Berry received the Corporate Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Rosalind Resnick is the founder and CEO of Axxess Business Consulting, a New York consulting firm that advises startups and small businesses. She previously was a co-founder of NetCreations and hosted AOL's NetGirl Forum. Resnick also serves on the board of Do Something, Inc., a New York-based nonprofit organization that empowers young people to change their world.