About Rieva Lesonsky and Ronan Keane

Rieva Lesonsky

Rieva Lesonsky

About Rieva Lesonsky

Rieva Lesonsky is CEO of GrowBiz Media (www.growbizmedia.com), a content and consulting company that helps entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses. One of the nation’s leading experts on entrepreneurship, Lesonsky has been meeting with, consulting to and speaking to America’s small and midsize businesses for more than 26 years. Her energy and enthusiasm have helped spread the message of entrepreneurship nationwide.

Prior to co-founding GrowBiz Media in 2008, Lesonsky was SVP/Editorial Director of Entrepreneur Magazine. A nationally recognized speaker who regularly addresses audiences across the country, Lesonsky has appeared on hundreds of radio shows and numerous local and national television programs, including CNN, Good Morning America, the Today Show, Fox Business News, The Martha Stewart show and Oprah, and can regularly be seen on MSNBC’s Your Business.

Lesonsky wrote the bestselling book Start Your Own Business, currently in its 4th edition, and has co-authored several other books about small business and entrepreneurship. She blogs about small business for AllBusiness.com, Microsoft Office Live and The Huffington Post, and hosts a weekly radio show for small-business owners on wsRadio.com. In 2009 she was named to Folio magazine’s annual Folio: 40 list of top influencers in the publishing industry.

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Ronan Keane

Ronan Keane

About Ronan Keane

Ronan Keane is President of UpClick Marketing (www.UpClickMarketing.com), a Northern Virginia-based Search Engine Marketing and Social Media Marketing firm. UpClick Marketing provides strategic and tactical services that position and extend the online reach of Fortune 1000 and small businesses’ brands, products and services on the Web via Google, Yahoo, Bing, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other Social Media sites.

As Creative Director for Popular Science Magazine, Ronan assisted in the successful launch of international editions of Popular Science Magazine in China, Russia and Israel. Ronan has also worked with marquee brands such as GE Plastics, Nike and Nissan, successfully increasing their brands’ Sales and Marketing reach online. He has led teams on national and international e-commerce initiatives for Black and Decker and Renault. Up until recently, Ronan was the head of Marketing for a large online banking, bill pay and e-commerce provider to 1,600+ financial institutions with a user base of 10M+.

Ronan is very active in the Washington, DC metro area Social Media scene and has frequently spoken about Social Media Marketing at local Colleges and Universities. He organizes monthly Social Media gatherings with his 300+ member LinkedIn group called ‘NoVa Search and Social Media Marketing’.

Ronan is currently managing the design and development of his new niche Social Media site that will soon launch in private beta to the airline industry.

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