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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.

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.

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.

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.

Pam Newman is a Certified Management Accountant, author and Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor for Financial and Point-of-Sale software. She is also president of RPPC, Inc., which offers customized business development services. Newman provides financial coaching to entrepreneurs through a variety of mediums, including a weekly talk show, newsletters, books, articles, presentations and personalized consulting.

Bunmi Zalob is founder and president of MommysCompany.com, an online magazine for entrepreneurial moms; BusinessMom.net, a network for business-oriented moms; and UnbusyMom.com, where she offers a workshop that teaches peaceful living and rehabilitates hectic women. She also is an accomplished freelance writer and public speaker on the topic of family and business and is working on her first book, The Art of UnBusy for the Modern Mom.

Kim Gordon is the owner of National Marketing Federation and is a multifaceted marketing expert, speaker, author and media spokesperson. She has served as the national spokesperson and consultant for companies such as Visa, eBay, Sprint and Office Depot. Gordon's latest book is Maximum Marketing, Minimum Dollars.

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.

Marilyn August is the founder of Wealth & Wisdom Seminars, a company devoted to helping clients explore and transorm their relationships with money. She also is the author of Journey to Wealth & Wisdom, which features her "Seven Agreements for Financial Success." August has been a business consultant for the Small Business Development Center in Santa Ana, California and today advises a growing number of business owners and commissioned sales professionals.

Michael H Kaleikini is a business development consultant and VP of marketing and business development with Corporate Rain Makers, LLC in Las Vegas, Nev. Kaleikini has been in consulting for many years working within different businesses and different industries, through which he has been able to learn the ups and downs of market trends, and positioning to internet marketing where his research is now focused. His experience in start up companies has spanned the eighties through to today. He has seen the same challenges and has been able to help many clients through the maze of creating everything from resumes to business plans. Being a certified Business Etiquette Trainer with the American Business Etiquette Trainers Association, Kaleikini has had the pleasure of working with people from diverse backgrounds and helping them understand the finer points of doing business abroad and here at home.

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.

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.