Profitable return on relationships for passionate founders & executives
Maria Duron's Bio:
Maria Elena Duron is a Coach and Trainer specializing in Marketing, Digital Business and Appreciation. She trains and works with Restaurants, Realtors, Rejuvenators (hotels/spas/wellness) and Renegades (inventors/authors) in “Making Visible Profitable”. Texas Meetings and Event Planners awarded, Maria-Elena, Best of Texas Training three years in a row for her engaging presentation style and practical tips. She received the Texas Governor’s Award for Excellence in Business and leads one of the top six Twitter chats in the world – #brandchat .
Duron is a Constant Contact - Authorized Local Expert and a Premier Partner with Appreciation at Work. She is a trainer on email marketing, social media marketing, onlie review and recommendation marketing and appreciation marketing. Duron is also a national ambassador and brand marketing expert for Alignable, Nurph and Brand Yourself.
Maria Elena has over 18 years experience supporting small business with a background in marketing, advertising, non-profit marketing as well as first-hand knowledge of owning her own business. She has earned the Texas Governor’s Excellence in Small Business Award, Texas Person of Vision Award, Best of Texas Team Building and Training Award and Business Women of the Year.
Maria Elena draws from her experience to be a valuable resource to small businesses, companies, non-profits and associations and to move, touch and inspire others to action. She has presented for organizations including the Search Marketing Expo – Social Media Marketing International Conference, Massachusetts Conference for Women, Texas Conference for Women, InnoTech International Conference, National Society for Hispanic MBAs, Association of Energy Service Companies National Conference, SBA, SBDC, CBS-TV and many chambers of commerce and associations.
Duron created and moderates one of the top six twitter chats in the world for business, Brandchat. Maria Elena is also Editor-in-Chief of a blog that Forbes lists as the number one career blog, the Personal Branding Blog. She is a columnist for US News & World Report, Yahoo Small Business Advisor, AllBusiness, Small Business Trends and a few dozen other publications and is also a special guest columnist with Fox Business.
Prior to focusing on marketing strategy, Maria Elena worked in the training and development field providing time management and goal setting seminars and in the non-profit field in leadership, workforce and donor development
Maria Elena lives in Texas with her husband and children. She is the proud mom of three boys.
Maria Elena Duron specializes in profitable return on relationships for passionate founders & executives. She works with small business owners and entrepreneurs on how to manage their personal brand, the conglomeration of personal brands in their company, and marketing for profitable results. Duron helps them with their brand online and offline, leverage their expertise and connections and generate “the talk that yields profits”.
Maria Elena is a national speaker speaking on the following topics:
Branding Yourself: Stand Out & Fit In
Align Yourself : Strength in Numbers
Appreciation at Work: The 5 Languages of Appreciation
Appreciation in Business: Customer Engagement
Motivating by Appreciation: Applying Appreciation at Work
Social SMART Marketing
Virtual Business Management: Connection Clarity
Workshops She's Ready to Teach:
An Afternoon of Social Media
You're Social, Now What? Making Social Media Work for Your Business
The Power of Email Marketing: Featuring Social Media Engagement
Mobile Marketing for Small Business
Restaurants: Building Your Customer Base with Events & Registration; Offers and Promotions
Pet Professionals: Building Your Business with Newsletters & Announcements
Realtors: The Power of Social and Email Marketing - Build Your List and Grow Your Business
Solopreneurs: Email, Facebook and Campaigns - to Build Your Business
Appreciation Marketing: The Power of Email and Personal Brand Engagement
Her real world, bootstrapping experience, in small business makes her training practical and potent.
16+ 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 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 6 chats for business; 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
Know, Like + Ignite is a boutique Relationship Development Firm that works with small business in “Making Visible Profitable”. Focused on marketing through online recommendations, referrals and appreciation, clients are provided services either “Done for You” or “Done With You” to increase referrals and business. We offer training, coaching, implementation services in:
List Development and Referral Marketing Coaching
Online Review Marketing Consulting
Custom Email Marketing
Social Media Coaching and Services
Social WiFi Consulting and Services
Appreciation in Business: Marketing through Your Team and Raving Fans
Me to We Marketing: From Personal Brands to Business Brand
Know, Like + Ignite is a member of The Texas Housing & Lodging Association, The International Academy of Web Television, The Filipino American Chamber of Commerce, The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, The Texas Restaurant Association and moderator of Marketing Land (a division of Search Engine Journal).
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.
Topics and Speaking Background: Download Speaker Information One Sheet
Company: Know, Like + Ignite Relationship Development Firm
Maria Elena Duron's Speaking Site: http://MariaConnects.com
Join Maria Elena on your favorite social network, http://SocialMaria.com
Maria Duron's Interests & Activities:
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:
-U.S. News & World Report
-Fox Business
-AllBusiness
-Yahoo Small Business Advisor
-Small Business Trends
-Business Insider
-SteamFeed
-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:
Search Marketing Expo - Social Media Marketing (Las Vegas, NV)
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