Carolyn Herfurth, founder of The Biztruth and creator of Art of the Ask Academy, is a serial entrepreneur, author, speaker, trainer and business mentor.
She has advised thousands of people to make thoughtful decisions about business ownership and helped launch nearly 100 businesses.  Fed up with the plethora of super talented entrepreneurs who struggle with sales, Carolyn has made it her mission to equip service-based entrepreneurs with the confidence and skills to double their closing rates and multiply earnings.

Prior to starting The Biztruth, Carolyn established the Minneapolis office of The Entrepreneur’s Source, North
America’s leading business ownership consulting organization. In addition to advising clients, Carolyn is author of “Buying a Franchise: Tips, Tools & Tales for Doing It Right” and cofounder the Minnesota Franchise Spectacular, an annual trade show attracting thousands of individuals interested in owning a franchise.  Prior to pursuing her lifelong dream of owning a business, Carolyn enjoyed a successful 13-year sales career with Oracle, Rand Worldwide and several other leading companies.
Carolyn speaks extensively on sales and business ownership to a variety of entrepreneur groups, including New York Expo, Savor the Success, Small Business Expo, S.H.E. Summit, Enlightened Entrepreneurs, National Association of Women Business Owners, SCORE, Small Business Development Center, Bloomington Chamber of Commerce and more. Whew!

In addition to receiving a bevy of sales awards, she has been recognized by Upsize magazine for Best Practices in Customer Relations, received numerous awards from The Entrepreneur’s Source & been honored by the National Association of Women Business Owners. Carolyn loves performing standup & improv comedy...anything that brings levity to an all-too
serious world. She has “competed” in a duathlon and a half-marathon & looks forward to her
next physical & mental challenge… TBD!   She has proudly served on boards for the Bloomington Chamber of Commerce, Ordway Circle of Stars, and PaceMaker 5000, a 5k walk/run that raises funds for Children’s Hospitals.

Rebecca's website ProfessionalContentCreation.com is dedicated to teaching small business owners how to use content to market their businesses.
We do this by providing tutorials and info on best practices for different aspects of blogging and other types of content creation.
Knowing that the blogging journey is a marathon, not a sprint and can be hard and discouraging at times, anybody blogging needs a huge dose of encouragement to keep you motivated. Recognizing that issue you’ll also find posts that focus on mindset and motivation.
For those who need help that goes beyond the information provided in our content, we provide a small range of services to help you use content to make a difference in your business.
Rebecca Livermore is the owner of Professional Content Creation and has been a professional freelance writer since 1993.

Her company is focused on training small business owners on how to effectively use content to market their businesses.

Hailing from the land of Paul Bunyan, wooded trees and lakes for miles, Tena’s big personality + aptly given nickname ‘Tena-talks-a-lot’ sent her searching for more. After spending some time in the big city with a “big girl job” Tena quickly realized that the cubicle life wasn’t for her. With a little nudge from her husband she founded tena.cious, a social media + graphic design firm, and effectively launched herself as a brand with a career that makes room for all her passions.
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Despite starting off as a company of one, Tena has built a team of amazing women who have supplied the resources + woman power for her to pursue a legacy outside of solely running a business. Tena is a social media expert and accomplished speaker + trainer on all things social. Her love of twitter, training and talking + her social rock-stardom has made her known for building connections both online and off.
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Her experiences as a mom of three, business owner and leader within her communities makes her a strong advocate of customer focused, loyalty and relationship based sales. Tena believes in creating a strong brand presence for your business and with a heart as big as her personality, her raving fans + the size of her CLIQUE grows daily.

Social Media Brand Strategist, Business Consultant , and Speaker, Karen Yankovich is the CEO of Dimar e Group, LLC. Having “been there and done that” i n the arena of losing (and then re-finding) a focu sed approach to business and life, Karen now offer s coaching and consulting for entrepreneurs. Her u nique specialty blends her “get it done” attitude with a passion for soulful living in her personal services and online workshops.

Social Med ia and LinkedIn Evangelist, Karen guides entrepren eurs to creating wealth by combining smart busines s practices with simple proven systems that develo p and maintain strong customer relationships. She offers results oriented and expert Conversational Marketing strategies that position her clients to bring in instant results. Karen’s background inclu des over twenty years in the fields of information technology, marketing, and customer relationships , making social media her ideal niche. 

Erlend Bakke is a Norwegian entrepreneur, speaker, and author born in 1981 in London, UK. He is the current CEO and founder of Mr. Outsource, YouSpin, and 3sixtyfactory. He manages 20 employees in 2 countries and lives between San Francisco, London, Oslo, and Davao City in the Philippines.
As a member of the young breed of forward-thinking businessmen, he advocates the idea of leading a freedom lifestyle while building cash flow through businesses. Erlend trains entrepreneurs on how to start, run, and own freedom businesses through his seminar The Freedom Bootcamp, his membership website WorkLessEarnMore.tv, and his weekly podcast Invincible Entrepreneur.
In 2013 he first published the book ‘Never Work Again‘, which is focused on applying freedom to your life as well as your business by cutting the crap and getting real about your true needs and desires.

Entrepreneur Magazine has said - When it come to marketing strategies, content marketing has just been crowned king, far surpassing search engine marketing, public relations and even print, television and radio advertising as the preferred marketing tool for today’s entrepreneur.

We are very fortunate to have Jeff Herring – The King of Content Marketing with us to show how to unleash and cash in on your content over and over again.

Jeff has been building his own businesses with Content Marketing since 1994. With his exclusive Content Marketing strategies, Jeff has fast become a Living Legend of Quality Traffic Generation.

Jeff has long been the “behind the scenes” guy creating Direct Response Content for many top internet marketers and business leaders,with clients such as Dan Kennedy, Alex Mandossian and others.

Jeff is going to show you a simple yet powerful system for creating prospect & profit pulling content in 20 minutes or less…

Here’s what Chris Bloor of Australia said about Jeff after he was a guest on his recent telesummit:

“I can honestly say that in the 12 years I have been online, I have NEVER had anyone leave me wanting more and more of their content than Jeff did in the time he was sharing with me.

I love the feeling you get as you listen to someone and it hits you… “This is going to make a huge difference in my life! I won’t be the same after this…”

John Walters is an extraordinary tax expert.

Unlike many Certified Public Accountants who are only allowed to work in their particular state, John is an Enrolled Agent (E.A.).

This means, John has been licensed by the federal government to help people with their tax problems, anywhere in the United States.  Specializing in getting his clients more money back at the end of the year, John creates a customized tax strategy for every single one of his clients.

John is not a typical “accounting guy”.  He uses his unique understanding of business and marketing, to help his clients come up with business strategies that work for them.

Jason Hartman has been involved in several thousand real estate transactions and has owned income properties in 11 states and 17 cities. His company, Platinum Properties Investor Network, Inc. helps people achieve The American Dream of financial freedom by purchasing income property in prudent markets nationwide. Jason’s Complete Solution for Real Estate Investors™ is a comprehensive system providing real estate investors with education, research, resources and technology to deal with all areas of their income property investment needs.
The United States offers nearly 400 distinct and diverse markets while most media pundits characterize the “housing market” as if it were a single entity. We realize they do this to cram a cogent comment into a simple sound bite. Real estate cannot be described that simply. It’s just not accurate. There is NO such thing as a United States real estate market. However, there IS an Atlanta, Georgia or a Dallas, Texas real estate market. To that end, we at Platinum Properties Investor Network scour the entire country with an “Area Agnostic™” approach and select the most suitable and sensible markets to recommend to our investors so they don’t waste countless hours doing it themselves. Through our podcasts, educational events, referrals, mentoring and software to track your investments, investors can easily locate, finance and purchase properties in these exceptional markets with confidence and peace of mind.

Gene is fiercely committed to working with high-achieving leaders in small businesses who want to lead with confidence and achieve true financial freedom (in months, not years). As the Managing Director of Core Elevation, Inc., Gene helps leaders transform from stagnate, stressed and struggling to thriving, growing, and loving their work.

Since 1993, Alex Mandossian has generated nearly $400 million in sales and profits for his strategic alliance partners, clients and students on five continents.  His expertise is in electronic broadcast media such as teleseminars, webinars, podcasts and most recently, Google hangouts.

His marketing strategies helped convert his annual income in 2001 into a month income by 2003 and then into an hourly income (16 times) by 2006.  His colleagues acknowledge him the Warren Buffet of the Internetbecause of his unique ability to make money for his partners, clients and students.

Alex’s blog is read weekly by over 155,000 subscribers. He has shared the stage with diverse thoughts leaders such as Richard Branson, Harvey Mackay, Donald Trump, Tony Robbins, Robert Kiyosaki, Suze Ormand, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the Dalai Lama.

He has pioneered Internet marketing innovations such as online audio (Audio Generator – 2003), online video (Instant Video Generator – 2004), crowd sourcing (Ask Database – 2005), Tele-Summits (Virtual Seminar Week – 2006), and G+ Hangout monetization (Hangout Marketing Secrets – 2013).

Alex lifetime goal is to become the world’s 1st “work-at-home” billionaire not in Net Worth, but by creating over one thousand other Internet marketing millionaires before his 77th birthday. He lives in Marin County, CA and is a dedicated dad to his two young children, Gabriel and Breanna.