Lucille Friedland, M.S. Marketing Trouble-Shooter, Consultant, Business/Personal Coach Friedland Marketing (www.FriedlandMarketing.com) & Creator of EcoFunShop.com and other companies "The purpose of my life, books, and companies is to create prosperity, health, and well-being for all." Lucille brings over 26 years of successful marketing and strategic planning expertise. She has won over a dozen awards and honors in her field, including international ones. In 1996, she established Friedland Marketing, where she continues to be a Marketing Trouble-Shooter, Consultant, and a Business/Personal Coach. While open to almost all types of clients, she specializes in cases where people are having problems making their marketing work or they want to grow their business from a cocoon to a butterfly. Her former clients have grown up to 30 fold in revenues and valuation when they stayed with her long-term. Formerly, Lucille served as a senior judge for an international competition for media and marketers called The Dalton Pen. For two terms, Lucille served as Co-Director of the Independents'' Roundtable for the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), Silicon Valley Chapter. Among dozens of past clients include HP/ Agilent Technologies, United Way, The Redevelopment Agency of The City of San Jose, and Underwood & Rosenblum, Inc. civil engineers and land surveyors. Lucille has extensive experience marketing for many clients in each of the following fields: government, high tech, health/ medical, nonprofits, small business & consulting firms, American Indian projects, book projects, construction/ building projects, legal projects, financial projects, professional associations & awards programs. Lucille has established a number of other companies as well that are listed at the end of this book, including but not limited to EcoFunShop.com For may years, Lucille has used a variety of high tech software and cloud computing. With many interests and hobbies, Lucille in addition has travelled and lived abroad and throughout the U.S.A. She planned and wrote this book in New Mexico, U.S.A. based on her experiences there.

M. Nikkie Roberts, M.A. Ph.D. Student, University of New Mexico (UNM) -- Text from UNM Web Site Department of Journalism & Communications Nikkie is originally from a small farming community in southeastern Idaho but considers herself a true Oregonian, having spent the last 11 years in the Portland, Oregon, area. She received her BA in speech communication (2008) and her MA in interdisciplinary studies (2011) at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Her research focuses on the meeting place of rhetoric and culture. Her Master''s thesis, Preach My Gospel: A Metaphoric Analysis of Mormon Missionary Rhetoric, examined the role of grammatical structures and metaphor in the execution of the Mormon Church''s proselytizing methods. Nikkie intends to continue a focus on language and culture as rhetorical devices and examine how those devices are used to suppress minority cultures through the process of rhetorical criticism. Nikkie has taught public speaking and interpersonal communication as an adjunct instructor at Oregon State University and Linn Benton Community College. She intends to continue a career in teaching and research after completing her PhD program. Nikkie enjoys playing the guitar, dabbling in graphic design, and using her blog as a creative outlet for her "less academic"

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