Lucy Rosen is president of The Business Development Group, Inc. (http://www.businessdevelopmentgroup.com), a leading marketing, public relations and business development firm based in New York. A visionary in creating and expanding business opportunities for her clients through her expertise in building strategic alliances, she is also the founder and president of Women on the Fast Track (http://www.womenonthefasttrack.com), a unique international networking organization for businesswomen.

Our guest on this segment of the Smallbiz Brain was verrrry thirsty. Seth Goldman was continually in search of the perfect drink to quench his thirst after a run, a game of basketball or between grad school classes. This thirst for the perfect quench paralleled his path to co-found Honest Tea. That was about ten years ago.
Today, Honest Tea can be found in tens of thousands of stores across the US. The company has applied its passion for social responsibility to initiatives in the environment and to creating partnerships with the growers, cultures, and communities behind the teas.

Our guest on this segment of the Brain is changing the way customer relationship management is done. David Schenberg is the Founder and CEO of Busy Event, an Event Customer Relationship Management platform that directs the flow of meetings and events and the people and data associated with them.

In this segment I visited with Dave Scammell, he’s the CEO of Sohonet—-the company provides connectivity for the feature film industry and has an international presence.

Our guest on this segment of The Smallbiz Brain left the corporate world to pursue her dream of coaching fellow-entrepreneurs toward redefining their visions so they too can make a “big splash” in their lives and businesses.

Lorin Beller Blake is the founder of Big Fish Nation, a year-long business development program that leads entrepreneurs toward maximizing their lives and business goals. She’s also the author of the book, From Entrepreneur to Big Fish: 7 Principles to Wild Success.

Since 2004 she’s has been fulfilling her own dream—to share her Big Fish principals with thousands of entrepreneurs nationwide through her innovative program which as been promoted nationally as ‘a Zen approach to business.’ Big Fish Nation and Lorin Beller have been nationally recognized by Investor’s Business Daily —She was named one of the Top 30 Female Executives of 2004 by Female Entrepreneur Magazine.

I’ll be producing no less than 30 Blog World and New Media Expo interviews into a podcast series within the next few weeks.

Our guest on this segment of the Smallbiz Brain created a very unique company that tracks the performance of privately held growth companies throughout the US.

Steve Watkins is the Founder and CEO of Entrex, which manages the PCI, or Private Company Index—This system monitors trends, benchmarks a performance reports findings, and celebrates the Top Growth Companies throughout the year.

This segment features Eric Keiles & Mike Lieberman, co-authors of Reality Marketing Revolution: Transform your business into a money making machine!

Maggie Macnab is an awarding winning graphic designer, educator and author with a focus on the visual language we use as humans on the planet. In this wonderfully Maggie-esque articulate segment, she unpacks some of the thinking that goes into designing logos and other design elements to communicate various things.

Mark Sanborn, CSP, CPAE, is president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea studio dedicated to developing leaders in business and in life. In this segment, he shares the work found in his new book, The Encore Effect, scheduled for release in September of 2008.