Denise DiGrigoli and Troy Amuso, along with daughter Ava, hosted an opening reception at their Southport gallery, Troy Fine Art, last night to a crowd of loyal supporters and well-wishers. I captured this image of an ebullient Denise with her equally joyful banker...
Sharon Leichsenring, artist extraordinaire, paints murals in people's homes and workspaces. She doesn't depend upon people spelling her name correctly to find her at SharonPaintsMurals.com--a wise move when you have a challenging last name to remember, pronounce...
I so enjoyed having lunch with Eileen Fisher yesterday at the Pierre Hotel in NYC. She's been a role model for me for the past 15 years, so seeing her again was a joyful experience. I did have to share her with about 300 other working women, but I didn't mind. We...
I had the pleasure of speaking for WBDC last night to aspiring, emerging and seasoned business owners. When sharing my success with the press, which was a piece of cake during my egg decorating days, the question arose: What if you're in a service business? How do...
I've seen the look on the faces of my clients, but there was no mirror handy yesterday during my meeting with Denise DiGrigoli. The expression resembles something close to Munch's figure in The Scream. This time it was on my face. She and I had gotten together to...
It's not only businesses that need to create branding messages these days. In her opening remarks to the assembled alumnae who gathered to meet and greet Mount Holyoke College's newly inaugurated President, Lynn Pasquerella told us of her current mission to tell...
341 Studios put on another informative and enlightening Fresh Intelligence Roundtable last Friday. This time the topic was Search Engine Marketing. David Hoffman did a great job of explaining the vast terrain of SEO and pay-per-click strategies. Like all the other...
I practically flew home from  341 Studios' Fresh Intelligence Roundtable Series this morning. Offered to clients and prospects of this energized and energizing marketing & design company, today's talk was on email marketing trends featuring Bradly Serlin. You'd...
Ronnie Ann Ryan, aka The Dating Coach, came to my Remarkable Women's Network event last Tuesday night well prepared. (Ronnie is in the light turquoise on the right end of row 2.) She has put together a 5-day virtual expo called Dating for Keeps which she...
In response to my blog post on Monday, the brilliant and creative Denise DiGrigoli, owner of Troy Fine Art Services, Inc., came rushing into my Remarkable Women's Network event Tuesday evening exclaiming, "I've got something to show you!" Denise had written me a...
You can learn a lot about self-marketing from watching the video Isn't She Great? a fictionalized version of the author's life starring Bette Midler and Nathan Lane. Jacqueline Susann was the master. When her first novel Valley of the Dolls was published, she and...
It works every time. What's the first piece of mail you open, should you receive any, in your snail mail box? If there's something there that is thick and bulky with a first class stamp and a valued name on the return address, my money says that's what gets ripped...
I had a conversation with a representative from Infusionsoft.com this week about how to work their system. It's a very sophisticated email marketing vehicle I just signed up for. Kirk opened the training call by explaining this image --how it takes the business...
Two-hundred and fifty women received a postcard mailing from me last week announcing my upcoming summer Remarkable Women's Network events. It had the image you see here on the face of it taken at my March 15 event held at Boardroom in Stamford, CT. Only women who...
Heather Habelka told me that when she used to play with dolls, she didn't cast them as family members like mother, father, sister and brother. Nor did she pretend that they were students and she the teacher. When she was growing up, she told me recently, her dolls...
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