Maria Duron

What have you done to inspire others to speak positively about your brand? Everything I do and train about is in creating a viable community, conversation & commerce around your brand. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Whether you're a business or a personal brand, I focus on both the strategy and the “how to” of leveraging referrals and word of mouth. ~Maria Elena Duron

Maria Elena Duron is:

• 15+ years of practical experience in online and offline connections and developing brand communities
• Serves as a skilled catalyst for positive conversation around your brand.
• Designs live, online, social platform events around brands including founding one of the Top 10 Twitter chats in the world
• Delivers great brand recognition to clients and their positioning as industry experts
• Provides a focused social marketing expertise in small business and also to the direct selling industry with 25+ years actual field sales, recruitment and leadership experience

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

• Editor-in-Chief of #1 focused GenY Career Development Blog
• Chief Content Officer with the World's Foremost Authority on Personal Branding
• Author and Presented Social Marketing Course used by the Texas Association of Realtors
• Provides expert webinars to the National Society of Hispanic MBAs, Coaches and Speaker's Bureaus
• Served in leadership roles as company CEO, Executive Director, Board President, Vice President of Development.
• Presents Annual Leadership Program "Suits With Skills" for the Junior League. And, she provides personal branding, reputation and word of mouth marketing workshops at colleges, universities, Texas Conference For Women, Massachusetts Conference for Women.
• Awarded the "Excellence in Business Award" from the Texas Governor's Office
• Awarded Business Woman of the Year; Best of Texas; Person of Vision; and Social Marketing All-Star
• March 30th is Maria Elena Duron day in the city of Midland, Texas.

UNIQUE VALUE:

• Easily connects with others
• Powerfully uplifting, passionate and ever positive
• Known for the 5 Daily Gratitudes
• Known for creating and moderating #brandchat -  recognized as one of the top 15 chats for Social Media Marketers by Mashable.com and recognized by Social Fresh as one of the 16 chats recommended for Marketers and Public Relations Professionals.
  
• One of the top 25 Brand Experts to follow on Twitter

Buzz2Bucks | word of mouth firm: focuses on visibility, credibility and connect-ability for individuals, professionals and small businesses. Maria Elena Duron helps high performing entrepreneurs and executives learn how to manage their personal brand and business brand on-line and off-line, leverage their expertise and connections and generate-- the talk that yields profits.

A.K.A./Common Misspellings: Marie Duron, Maria Duran, Marie Duron, Elena Duron, Elena Duran, Maria Elena Duran, Marie Elena Duran, Mary Duran, Mary Duron, Maria Chua.

http://MariaElenaNetworks.com

http://WordofMouthMaven.com

Chief Engagement Officer | Marketing Coach at buzz2bucks | word of mouth firm

January 2004 - Present | Texas; Nevada

Creating Conversation, Connection and Community Around Your Brand. Buzz2Bucks, helps you market you and your business in person and online through effective social marketing strategies focusing on the recognition and connections necessary to realize your own definition of success. Great for busy individuals and companies! Buzz2Bucks provides online community management services, profile management services, and social management- helping entrepreneurs, leaders and businesses - to establish higher visibility and provide consistency in branding as well as establishing the expertise in their industry for entrepreneurs. From online to offline brand ambassadors and strong referral sources, buzz2bucks engages your community where they are. Maria Elena Duron focuses on helping you build, bolster or bailout your brand and broaden your network. The firm focuses on visibility, credibility and profitability for small business owners and leaders. Maria Duron helps high performing entrepreneurs and executives learn how to manage their personal word of mouth marketing on-line and off-line. We provide the following services for - ENTREPRENEURS AND LEADERS: ✔Brand development and communication strategy/plan development ✔Community development and growth around your brand - both personal and company brands ✔Development, implementation and growth of your brand community ✔Development and strategy for brand advocates to brand ambassadors ✔Training marketing team members and community support internal staff members ✔Coaching and consultation to current marketing teams ✔Serve as your outsourced marketing department AGENCIES AND FIRMS: ✔Your label marketing services to your clients serving as your outsourced marketing department ✔Your label marketing training, consulting and coaching services

Editor-in-Chief, Personal Branding Blog at Personal Branding Blog

January 2009 - Present | Boston, MA

Working closely with great minds, expert authors, bloggers and CEOs focused on personal branding and personal brand development. Manage syndicated partner relationships; editorial calendar development; content development; book reviews and content source selection.

Chief Content Officer, Reach Personal Branding at Reach Personal Branding

February 2008 - Present | New York

At Reach, we’ve spent the last decade building and refining a powerful personal branding process. Here’s what sets the Reach methodology apart. It: ✔is based on corporate branding philosophy with a major focus on authenticity, differentiation and relevance ✔has been proven with hundreds of thousands of executives, professionals and entrepreneurs around the world ✔is being used by over 500 Reach-certified Personal Branding Strategists and 360Reach Analysts in 23 countries ✔incorporates an innovative and powerful personal branding assessment, 360Reach, that has been used by nearly a million people ✔has been featured in print, online and broadcast media, including Time, Forbes, Fox News Live, BBC, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, New York Times and Entrepreneur ✔takes into account both real- and virtual world personal branding and communications activities ✔has been incorporated into talent development programs at companies like Microsoft, J&J, JPMorgan, American Express, Starwood Hotels, IBM, Cisco, British Telecom, P&G, Ogilvy and Morgan Stanley. Manage syndicated partner relationships; editorial calendar development; content development; content guidelines and policies across all Reach resources; book reviews and content source selection.

Senior Manager, Send Out Cards at Send Out Cards

January 2002 - Present

Personalized and automated follow-up, relationship building system. Designed around gratitude and appreciation. Appreciation beats promotion - every time! True relationship marketing is centered around reaching out and genuinely caring about your customer, client or connection.

Director of Public Relations and Business - Freelancer at Privately Held Company

August 2009 | Los Angeles, CA

Develop and implement marketing strategies; create public relations strategies, development and success measurement. Manage the entire business entity and departments including - manufacturing, fulfillment, marketing channels, web and online marketing, affiliate marketing, public relationships campaigns and the customer service department.

Texas Tech University

Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Marketing

Concentration: Marketing

Activities: Activities and Societies: Delta Sigma Pi Texas Tech Fashion Board La Ventana Editorial Staff

Cornell University

Management Extension Studies - Leadership Effectiveness

Concentration: Management Extension Studies - Leadership Effectiveness

University of Phoenix

Organizational Studies: Management and Marketing

Concentration: Graduate Studies

Speaker | Providing Practical Steps to Harness the Power of Word of Mouth - personally and for your business; Marketing Coach for Community Managers, Small Businesses and Professionals Groups and Associations: Member-New York National Speakers Association Past President, Midland North Rotary Club Founder & Moderator, #brandchat (live branding conversation on Twitter) PUBLICATIONS: Numerous authored, co-authored and quoted publications including Entrepreneur Magazine; Texas Meetings & Events Magazine; Alaskan Airlines and the Malaysian Surveyor CONTRIBUTOR | COLUMNIST: -Yahoo Shine -Business Insider -Site Pro News -Question Pro -AOL Business Woman of the Year Communicator of Year Volunteer of Year 2012 Excellence in Business Award, Texas Governor's Office 2010 Best of Texas Award Winner 2010 Person of Vision 2010 - West Texas Area 2009 Best of Texas Award Winner 2008 Best of Texas Finalist 2008. 2009, 2010, 2011 2011 Social Marketing All-Star Award RECENTLY PRESENTED AT: InnoTech Conference (Austin, TX) InnoTech Women of IT Summit (Austin, TX) Governor's Summit (Midland, TX; Chicago, IL) Women's Leadership Foundation (Dallas, TX) Texas Conference for Women (Houston, TX) International Association of Administrative Professionals (Washington D.C.) Texas Governor's Economic Summit (San Antonio, TX) Massachusetts Conference for Women (Boston, MA) NSHMBA - National Society for Hispanic MBAs (Chicago,IL) Women in Leadership Conference (Las Vegas, NV) Business Women's Conference (San Diego,CA) Federation of Insurance Women of Texas Conference All Women's Expo Women of Wisdom Conference Society of Petroleum Engineers