Small Business Expert Award Nominees

Eric Ward is widely considered to be one of the leading experts in website promotion. His start in Internet marketing occured in 1993. In 1994, he was hired by Jeff Bezos of Amazon as an online publicist.…   Read More

Wendy Piersall forged the road for mom bloggers in the early 2000s. As a serial entrepreneur, she transformed her personal blog into a powerful blog network, selling it to private investors soon thereafter.…   Read More

EBM Direct Marketing Services LLC,a Google Certified Partner, provides digital direct marketing solutions for small and mid size businesses. The company's objective is achieving top return on investment…   Read More

Bob Walsh is the author of The Web Startup Success Guide, and co-hosts the Startup Success Podcast. Over the years Bob has written 4 other books for microISVs and startups including Micro-ISV: From Vision…   Read More

Darren Shaw is a liberal arts graduate from the UofA with a minor in Computing Science. In 2005, he founded Whitespark - a company specializing in Internet marketing and website development.   Read More

Lida Citroën, an internationally regarded branding expert based in Denver and founder of LIDA360, a marketing and branding consulting firm, has made a career of helping people and companies create new…   Read More

Rae Hoffman-Dolan is an Internet Marketing and SEO consultant. She is also the CEO of Sugarrae SEO Consulting, spending her work hours on various types of Internet marketing: search engine optimization,…   Read More