Melinda F. Emerson, “SmallBizLady” is America’s #1 Small Enterprise Professional. She is an internationally famend keynote speaker on small enterprise improvement, social promoting, and on-line advertising technique. As CEO of Quintessence Group, her Philadelphia-based advertising consulting agency serves Fortune 500 manufacturers that concentrate on the small enterprise market. Purchasers embrace Amazon, Adobe, Verizon, VISA, Google, FedEx, Chase, American Specific, The Hartford, and Pitney Bowes. She additionally has a web based college, www.smallbizladyuniversity.com, that teaches individuals on-line advertising and easy methods to begin and develop a profitable small enterprise and publishes a weblog SucceedAsYourOwnBoss.com. Her recommendation is broadly learn, reaching greater than 3 million entrepreneurs every week on-line. She hosts The Smallbizchat Podcast and is the bestselling writer of Change into Your Personal Boss in 12 Months, Revised and Expanded, and Repair Your Enterprise, a 90 Day Plan to Get Again Your Life and Scale back Chaos in Your Enterprise.