Ilise
Benun is the co-founder of Marketing Mentor, as well as an author
and
national speaker. Her books include Stop Pushing Me Around: A Workplace
Guide for the Timid, Shy and Less Assertive (Career Press, June 2006),
Self-Promotion Online and Designing Web Sites:// for Every Audience
(HOW Design
Books).
She is also co-author of The Art of Self Promotion and PR for Dummies,
2nd Edition. She has been featured in The New York Times, Inc.
Magazine, Self, Essence, Crain’s New York Business, HOW
Magazine
and Working Woman. She has given presentations for national and
international trade organizations, including The HOW Design Conference,
American Marketing Association, Business Marketing Association, AIGA,
Graphic Artists Guild, Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario and NY
Designs—a program of LaGuardia Community College/CUNY.Benun
started her Hoboken, NJ-based consulting firm in 1988
and
has been self-employed for all but three years of her working life. She
has a BA in Spanish from Tufts University and lives in Hoboken with her
dog charlie, 2 cats and a frog!
Peleg
Top is
an entrepreneur, a business coach, a consultant and a mentor
to
the creative industry. After more than sixteen years running Top Design
design
firm, he now focuses on helping designers market and brand themselves
while becoming smarter and happier business owners. Top has spoken at
industry conferences, including the HOW Design Conference and has also
authored
design books including Design
for Special Events: 500
of
the Best Logos, Invitations and Graphics (Rockport
2008) and
Letterhead and Logo Design 8 (Rockport
2003).
In
2003, he and Ilise Benun co-founded Marketing-Mentor (www.marketing-mentor.com),
a one-on-one mentoring program and marketing resource center for the
creatively self-employed.
Peleg
currently resides in Silverlake, California with his partner of eleven
years and one very spoiled Dalmatian. He is a certified trained chef
and loves hosting great dinner parties.
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