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Marci Shimoff Marci Shimoff
www.HappyForNoReason.com / www.MarciShimoff.com
#1 New York Times Bestselling Author
HAPPY FOR NO REASON: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out
Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul 1 & 2
Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul 1, 2 & 3
Chicken Soup for the Single's Soul



Marci Shimoff is the author of the new, instant runaway bestseller, HAPPY FOR NO REASON: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out, which offers a revolutionary approach to experiencing deep and lasting happiness. It has immediately soared to #1 on many national bestseller lists including Amazon and Barnes and Noble.com, and has debuted at #2 on The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. Marci is one of the bestselling female nonfiction authors of all time. In addition, she's a featured teacher in the international film and book sensation, The Secret.

Through her books and her presentations, Marci's message has touched the hearts and rekindled the spirits of millions of people throughout the world. She is dedicated to fulfilling her life's purpose of helping people live more empowered and joy-filled lives.

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C.J. Hayden C.J. Hayden, MCC
www.GetClientsNow.com
Author, Get Clients Now!


C.J. Hayden, MCC, is a business coach who teaches people to make a better living doing what they love. Her company, Wings Business Coaching, specializes in working with business owners, self-employed professionals, and people in marketing and sales. C.J. is a former corporate productivity consultant with over 25 years experience in business management. She has been a professional trainer since 1978, and a coach since 1992.

C.J. is the author of Get Clients Now! (AMACOM, 2007), Get Hired Now! (Bay Tree, 2005) and The One-Person Marketing Plan Workbook. She has taught Marketing for John F. Kennedy University, Mills College, SCORE, and the U.S. Small Business Administration.

C.J. has been featured in Investor's Business Daily, Home Office Computing, and Costco Connection, and in numerous books, including Get Slightly Famous, How to Position Yourself as the Obvious Expert, and The Business and Practice of Coaching. She has been widely profiled internationally by newspapers, radio, and TV.

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Elizabeth Murphy Elizabeth Murphy

Elizabeth Murphy is Operations Manager for Alexandria Brown International, Inc., a multimillion dollar company devoted to empowering women around the world with the tools to live the freedom-based lives of their dreams.

When Liz started her own VA business one of her first clients was Alexandria Brown, "The E-zine Queen". Ali and Liz grew together, forging a long and successful business relationship and friendship. Today Liz is an integral part of Ali's business.

Working with Ali, Liz began to absorb everything that Ali teaches about marketing, business, success, and manifesting the life of your dreams. Liz transformed her own business in less than a year and doubled her income while cutting back on hours to spend with family. Liz's advise to other small business owners is, "Don't let your circumstances create your success. Realize that you are the only one in charge of your success and happiness."Liz currently resides in Easton, MA with her husband and two young children.

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Michael Port Michael Port
www.MichaelPort.com

Called a "marketing guru" by the Wall Street Journal, Michael Port has lectured, trained, inspired, and provided coaching and consulting services to over 20,000 business owners in the last two years alone. As a speaker, he has headlined events with leaders like Tim Sanders, Carly Fiorina, and Tony Robbins.

Michael is the author of the national bestselling Book Yourself Solid and Beyond Booked Solid (April '08). Also forthcoming is The Contrarian Effect: Why It Pays To Take Typical Sales Advice and Do The Opposite (Sept. '08) followed by The Think Big Manifesto in late 2008.

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Allison Nazarian Allison Nazarian

Allison Nazarian is the President & Founder of Get It In Writing, Inc., a leader in providing copywriting and marketing services, consulting and instruction to businesses throughout the world.

Allison and Get It In Writing have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, INC Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, Fortune Small Business (FSB) and WomenEntrepreneur.com.




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Dee Doochin Dee Doochin
www.CopyWritingForVAs.com
Empowering Your Life and Business Success: The VOCKATIV Processing Styles Inventory

Dee Doochin has dedicated her life to empowering people to understand how they process and how that processing can transform their lives. She is the co-creator of the VOCKATIV© Processing Styles Inventory and she is a sought after speaker in helping individuals, businesses, coaches and students embrace their processing styles for success. When people seek answers to making life, work, and love easier, Dee coaches them, consults with them on their processing styles, and supports them on a journey to their limitless potential.

Her passion and experience in processing styles has led her to work with a variety of people, including ADDults, folks in recovery, and those in life or work transition, in the arena of life coaching. Dee was a contributor to Teaching Teens with ADD and ADHD written by Chris Ziegler Dendy. She is a member of the International Coach Federation, Coachville, the Tennessee Coaches Alliance, Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA)-Board of Directors, Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD), the ADHD Coaches Organization and CABLE.

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Tom Buford Tom Buford
"The Fee-Setting Go-To Guy"
www.ChargeWhatYouDeserve.com

Tom Buford, founder of Charge What You Deserve, is an author, coach, consultant and speaker. He shares marketing and fee-setting strategies with service professionals so that they begin to charge what they deserve and enjoy the businesses that they've been dreaming of. Using his techniques, Tom's clients have been able to double their fees and attract more clients than ever before.



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Paulette Ensign Paulette Ensign
Paulette Ensign has personally sold well over a million copies of her own tips booklet, '110 Ideas for Organizing Your Business Life', without spending a penny on advertising and has clients, worldwide, who have surpassed her results. She did this with no business training, and enough guts and natural irreverence to figure it all out as she went. With a sense of humor and a 'can-do' attitude, Paulette now shares her experiences with clients and audiences worldwide, through her consulting, speaking, and teleclass services and products. She made a cross-country move from New York to San Diego, California in 1996, without missing a beat in her business because of the role that booklets play. When asked why she moved, her answer has consistently been "It doesn't snow in San Diego". She lives happily with her cat, five minutes from the beach.

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Michelle Howe Michelle Howe
www.InternetWordMagic.com

Michelle Howe, MBA, is the owner of Internet Word Magic, an Internet marketing and PR agency. A former university professor, Michelle assists companies to effectively position their online marketing message.

A published author, Michelle is the author of the award winning book, "Turn Browsers into Buyers: Secrets for Turning an Internet Profit." As a columnist for the Riverside Business Journal, Michelle wrote a monthly column called "Writing for Business".

Her company, Internet Word Magic, specializes in writing search engine optimized content for websites and creating irresistible copy to sell your company's product or service. She translates your marketing materials into the language of the Internet for increased revenue and business success. In her capacity of consultant, she works directly with a business to ensure that the company's Internet message is clearly and concisely expressed in the words most understood by the target audience.

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