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Join host Maureen Kedes with special guest, Peter Martin, President of Cactus Sky Communications, the nation’s premier eMail Marketing agency. Cactus Sky has a whopping 95% email delivery rate and less than 1/2% unsubscribe rate. The company’s delivers email through SPAM filters and firewalls and tracks the recipients' actions (clicks). Peter is also the founder of AskPatty.com, Inc., the #1 rated Automotive Advice Site for Women, and the creator of the Certified Female Friendly Training Program, designed to assist car dealers to sell and provide exceptional customer service to women. Peter started his automotive career in 1987 with the Ricart Ford organization and was part of the team that took the dealership to the Number 1 Retail Dealer status with Ford Motor Company. His extensive background in the automotive industry provides him with a keen insight into advertising and marketing. Peter is a regular speaker and author.

Join host Maureen Kedes with special guest, Carla Yashiro, Corporate Marketing Manager in mobile advertising at GoldSpot Media. Carla will teach us how she effectively targets mobile publishers, advertisers and ad agencies in support of her company’s mobile app & ad campaign creation tools. Formerly Senior Promotions Producer at Telemundo NBC Universal, Carla won 12 industry awards including an Emmy as a TV Producer. Carla is also Co-Founder of “Gather Your Crowd,” a marketing consultancy firm specializing in social media, branding, promotions and public relations. She has done webinars and presentations at Berkeley Haas School of Business and Stanford University.

Join host Maureen Kedes with special guest Jocelyn Kung, President of The Kung Group (TKG). TKG works with the globe’s top business leaders teaching them how to drive corporate success by maximizing human effectiveness and eliminating behavioral road blocks -- resulting in healthy companies with markedly higher earnings. Kung will discuss why CEOs at Fortune 500 companies such as: Cisco, Oracle, Apple, Levi Strauss, Genentech, Microsoft, Adobe, Shutterfly, & LexisNexis have become TKG devotees. Other topics on the show will be TKG's proprietary teachings including: Executive Team Design; Development & Coaching; Organizational Assessment; Change Management; Strategic Meeting Design & Facilitation; Leadership & Management Training; and TKG’s latest offering: the KOPI Survey, which is quickly becoming corporate America’s barometer of business health.

Join host Maureen Kedes with special guest Jocelyn Kung, President of The Kung Group (TKG). TKG works with the globe’s top business leaders teaching them how to drive corporate success by maximizing human effectiveness and eliminating behavioral road blocks -- resulting in healthy companies with markedly higher earnings. Kung will discuss why CEOs at Fortune 500 companies such as: Cisco, Oracle, Apple, Levi Strauss, Genentech, Microsoft, Adobe, Shutterfly, & LexisNexis have become TKG devotees. Other topics on the show will be TKG's proprietary teachings including: Executive Team Design; Development & Coaching; Organizational Assessment; Change Management; Strategic Meeting Design & Facilitation; Leadership & Management Training; and TKG’s latest offering: the KOPI Survey, which is quickly becoming corporate America’s barometer of business health.

Learn the art of business to business public relations from two of the nation’s top strategists, Samantha DiGennaro (Founder) and Howard Schacter (President) of DiGennaro Communications. Join host Maureen with her guests Howard and Samantha who will take us through a journey of what it is like to run the PR for global media companies, full-service advertising agencies, and digital and design corporations. Also discussed will be how to manage the public image of various CEOs and the best tips for strategic messaging throughout the advertising, media, marketing and technology industries.

Just in time for pre-Oscar buzz, join two veteran Hollywood power players for an exciting, titillating hour of chat on the true goings-on of the PR game in Tinseltown. Join host Maureen Kedes and Emmy-nominated actress Tonja Walker Davidson, a former soap star who is using her daytime fame as a launching pad to a powerhouse producing career, including her own show, which makes its debut on our network next week! Making an appearance later in the hour is Marilee Mahoney of MPM Communications in Hollywood. A ‘publicist’s publicist, www.mpmcommunications.com you won’t want to miss this episode.

Marilu Henner has starred on stage, in several hit TV series, films, commercials, television movies and specials. She has co-starred with some of Hollywood’s leading men and worked with some of the best directors in Hollywood and on Broadway. She believes that with good health you can do it all. Marilu’s entire life is a testimony to the power of her approach to health. Marilu worked on the TV show Taxi, with Judd Hirsch, Danny DeVito, Tony Danza, Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Conaway, Carol Kane, and Andy Kaufman. Later she worked side by side with some of the most talented actors around; Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Elizabeth Ashley, and Hal Holbrook. Tonia Kulberda is the Producer and Manager of Marilu.com, delivering Marilu Henner’s dynamic Total Health Makeover program to health-seeking fans and members around the world for a remarkable ten years and counting. For more information please visit www.marilu.com or Contact Tonia at tonia@marilu.com

When PR and legal teams collide, Selling Sexual Harassment, will take a look at some of the biggest sex scandals of our times: harassment, assault, molestation, discrimination- from the legal and PR perspectives, and how they interact. Our panel will discuss turning around public opinion when your client is being accused of the worst sexual violations or you are representing the victim. Some of the cases we will discuss are: Kobe Bryant, Michael Jackson, Maury Povich, Rob Lowe, Monica Lewinsky, and Clarence Thomas. Join guests Judy Smith of www.ImpactStrategiesLLC.com whose PR skills were put to the test for Monica Lewinsky, Marion Barry, Justice Clarence Thomas, Kobe Bryant, and Riddick Bowe; and David H. Greenberg of www.DiscriminationAttorney.com, a leading Sexual Harassment victims’ lawyer and a trial attorney with over 35 years experience. His clients have appeared in the LA Times, 20/20, and other media outlets. Mr. Greenberg is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Join host Maureen Kedes with the 3 top players in the field of legal marketing, Our guests will be: Jay Jaffe, President and CEO of Jaffe PR; Bob Ambrogi, Legal Consultant; and Heather Milligan, Director of Marketing at Barger & Wolen. Find out how savvy legal marketing and PR can swing a judge, the jury, and the media.

Learn the art of business to business public relations from two of the nation’s top strategists, Samantha DiGennaro (Founder) and Howard Schacter (President) of DiGennaro Communications. Join host Maureen with her guests Howard and Samantha who will take us through a journey of what it is like to run the PR for global media companies, full-service advertising agencies, and digital and design corporations. Also discussed will be how to manage the public image of various CEOs and the best tips for strategic messaging throughout the advertising, media, marketing and technology industries.

Today’s guest is Tim O’Brien who has worked in the entertainment industry for more than 25 years; informing family and children of exciting adventures, amusement destinations, and unusual distractions from the everyday grind of life. He serves as the national corporate spokesperson for Ripley Entertainment Inc. and has the privilege of showing off the company’s 70-plus attractions throughout the world. An industry specialist and award winning photojournalist, has had nearly 5,000 articles and more than 3,000 photos published.. He has appeared in 10 theme park documentaries on the Travel Channel, The Discovery Channel and National Public Television. In demand as a Ripley spokesperson, O’Brien appears on more than 100 radio and television shows each year. In 2001, O’Brien won the coveted “Lifetime Service Award” from the International Association of Amusement Parks & Attractions (IAAPA), making him the first journalist to ever win that accolade in the association’s 75-year history.

Join host Maureen Kedes with special guest, Peter Leeds of www.gabardine.com

Listen up with Host Maureen Kedes and guest Peter Shankman, author of Can We Do That?! Outrageous PR Stunts That Work and Why Your Company Needs Them. Peter is recognized nationally and globally for radically new ways of thinking about social media, PR, marketing, advertising. Shankman is Founder and CEO of The Geek Factory, Inc., a NYC Marketing and PR Strategy firm. His blog (www.shankman.com) both comments on and generates news and conversation. Peter launched Help A Reporter Out or HARO (www.helpareporter.com) which connects journalists with the sources they require using a social media platform. HARO is already over 36,000 members and growing, and has a growing stable of national journalists using the service on a daily basis.

Join host Maureen Kedes with special guest, Philip Kitchen, Founder and Editor of the Journal of Marketing Communications and an advisory and review board member for 10 academic journals ranging from Europe to the Asia-Pacific region. Kitchen will speak about the world of international PR. Philip Kitchen recently served as chair of Strategic Marketing at Hull University Business School in the U.K. His international résumé includes visiting professorships at universities in France, Malaysia, Italy, Colombia, Greece, Norway and New Zealand. He has written or co-authored 12 books, and has presented papers on marketing management or marketing communications at conferences in more than 25 countries.

Join host Maureen Kedes with Media and crisis communications expert Jeff Ansell, author of When the Headline is You: An Insider's Guide to Handling the Media (Jossey-Bass). www.jeffansell.com. In his 40 years as a journalist and media adviser, Jeff has created a unique process that enables newsmakers and public speakers to be compelling communicators. Jeff is an instructor for the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program “Dealing with an Angry Public,” sponsored by Harvard Law School. He lectures on media skills to Harvard Business School MBA students in the “Negotiating Complex Deals and Disputes” course.

Join host Maureen Kedes with Special Guest and former Vertex Client, Scott Dempster of Airhead Parts and KarmannGhia.com. Learn how marketing savvy, passion and drive took this surfer, rocker, hobbyist to become and entrepreneur who took his garage hobby to big business status.

Join host Maureen Kedes with special guest, Peter Leeds of www.gabardine.com

Join host Maureen Kedes with special guest, Darren Jacklin, known around the world as the “Mega Manifestor,” teaching people how to achieve and acquire what they want. Jacklin has trained personnel from more than 130 Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, AT&T, Black & Decker, Barclays Bank, Air Canada, as well as high school and professional athletes from more than 36 countries. Featured on NBC and CBS, Jacklin does live corporate training seminars and events worldwide. This week’s episode will focus on Jacklin’s latest project, 101 Ways Your Kid$ Can Make Money: The Secrets About Money That You Don't Learn in School, a 10-CD educational audio program, book and a Hollywood film to be released Fall, 2011.

Join host Maureen Kedes with special guest, Darren Jacklin, known around the world as the “Mega Manifestor,” teaching people how to achieve and acquire what they want. Jacklin has trained personnel from more than 130 Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, AT&T, Black & Decker, Barclays Bank, Air Canada, as well as high school and professional athletes from more than 36 countries. Featured on NBC and CBS, Jacklin does live corporate training seminars and events worldwide. This week’s episode will focus on Jacklin’s latest project, 101 Ways Your Kid$ Can Make Money: The Secrets About Money That You Don't Learn in School, a 10-CD educational audio program, book and a Hollywood film to be released Fall, 2011.

Join host Maureen Kedes with special guest, Darren Jacklin, known around the world as the “Mega Manifestor,” teaching people how to achieve and acquire what they want. Jacklin has trained personnel from more than 130 Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, AT&T, Black & Decker, Barclays Bank, Air Canada, as well as high school and professional athletes from more than 36 countries. Featured on NBC and CBS, Jacklin does live corporate training seminars and events worldwide. This week’s episode will focus on Jacklin’s latest project, 101 Ways Your Kid$ Can Make Money: The Secrets About Money That You Don't Learn in School, a 10-CD educational audio program, book and a Hollywood film to be released Fall, 2011.