May
26
It happened again. I received yet another link to yet another sales page with yet another lineup of all male marketers.
This wasn’t the bad part. When I said something about it on a public form (yes, I can be vocal) I received back a response (not from the website owner) that there just aren’t any female speakers on internet marketing topics.
What? Are you living under a rock? I did a quick brainstorm and came up with 26 well known women who teach marketing topics, all of whom I know personally. This list is the result of a total of three minutes of brainpower.
In no particular order:
Me- Donna Fox- Marketing to Women
Sylvie Fortin - Step-by-step online businesses
Jennie Armato - physical products
Lorrie Morgan Ferraro - copywriting
Jody Colvard - podcasting/blogging
Alexandria Brown - ezines
Christina Hills - shopping carts
Debra Thompson - events
Rosalind Gardner - affiliate marketing
Sydney Johnson- ebay
Tracy Repchuck- niche marketing
Heidi Nabert - podcasting
Stephanie Mulac - blogging
Kim Castle - branding
Stephanie Frank - business systems
Daryl Grant - turnkey business
Amanda Clarkson - ebay
Jeanette Cates - making technology accessible
Judith Sherven - soft topic copywriting
Debra Micek - online persuassion
Mari Smith - Facebook
Alice Seba - internet marketing sweetie
Rhey Perry - internet entrepreneurism
Letitia Wright - PR and media
Jen Hanby - copywriying
Liz Tomey - not sure if she speaks but she’s so cool she has to be up here!
I thought of a bunch of other women too, like the wonderful Leah Carson, Lisa Preston and Michelle MacPhearson that I wasn’t sure spoke from the stage.
And even more amazing speakers like Alexandra Watson, Dani Johnson and Cindy Cashman that won’t speak on internet topics, but have great value to add to any event.
Then there are the thousand of niche bloggers out there, the majority of which are female! There is an entire world of people who are internet marketers that are being ignored. Thankfully there are great events like BlogHer that give us an outlet.
But basically, you get the idea. We’re out there, and there’s no excuse to ignore us!
If you are a female marketing speaker, or know one, leave a comment with their name, website and specialty. That way the nextime I get a bullshit response like that, I’ll just send them here.
Be inspired,Donna
Donna Fox is an Internet Marketer, focusing on Marketing to Women Strategies. She believes that effective selling to women comes from not selling, but creating an environment with your design and language to encourage buying.
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Hi Donna,
I’m flabbergasted! Maybe he’s never been to a seminar or has never done any webinars, or teleseminars, or possibly does live Under A Rock.
You can add Liz Tomey as a speaker, I have seen her on stage - she is fantastic. I am glad you spoke up and gave some representation to women speakers. And I am sure there are tons of women who have not been on stage that would be excellent at it.
Don’t ever stop being vocal!
-Yvonne
Donna, you couldn’t be more spot on girlfriend! I pound away day-after-day teaching marketing, creating compelling web copy for both my teleseminars and live presentations for entrepreneurs. Both men and women are my clients and they love my female energy and wisdom. I tell it to them straight.
The proof … my business partner Barry Ackerman and I have raised over $1,600,000 in kind and cash sponsors for our the OC Children’s Book Festival and attract 18,000 attendees to our annual event; and I have expanded my business 100 fold in the past six months all because of my Internet marketing skills. It’s OK none of the “seminar boys” ask me to speak at their events I’m really way too busy anyway.
Pat Burns
Author, Speaker and Corporate & Entrepreneurial Advancer
www.ThePatBurns.com AND www.GrandparentsRock.com AND www.KidsBookFestival.com AND http://www.backfromtheedgemovie.com
Hey Donna,
That’s exactly what I’m talking about. I posted a very similar post on a very known forum and got the same response. It was a whole big thing.
You met me. You know the passion I, too, have for internet marketing and women.
As a matter of fact, I went to Keith Wellman’s Million Dollar Launch last weekend and while it was a great workshop, I was thoroughly annoyed by the fact that there were no female speaker. Dammnnnn.
We are on the same page. I even have a page on my blog dedicated to women on the web (of course, you’re included). You can see it here
http://profitablesistas.com/im-sistas/index.html
I’ve been helping soul-driven entrepreneurs create a living from who they are for a decade now, and there are only two ways that people discover me - word of mouth and internet marketing (although I’m getting ready to bust out and do some speaking soon!).
It’s all about knowing yourself and your market well enough to be articulate and add value to both. As we evolve ourselves, our businesses can grow… but I digress. ;+)
I’m so pleased that you are highlighting this as an issue - more than 75% of my clients are women, and the majority of them are using internet marketing to build their businesses successfully. Thank you for being the “she voice” on the leading edge for all of us out here doing it!
With good energy ~
Lynn Scheurell
Creative Catalyst
www.mycreativecatalyst.com
www.getitdonefast.com
www.geeniforchange.com
Donna,
You go girl!
Yes, I do think that some people live under a rock, and don’t get out much.
All anyone needs to do is to see who shows up at internet marketing events, or who shows up on Teleseminars and you will see that selling to women is a smart thing to do.
Sometimes the women marketers have a different style from the men, so the male promoters don’t notice them.
I’m so glad you made this post!
And don’t forget Leesa Barnes, the podcasting expert.
-Christina Hills
“The Shopping Cart Queen”
http://www.ShoppingCartQueen.com
Wow, great post! And I mentor other females to build their own online businesses and have presented about copywriting and organic SEO as well.
Surprised with the list you provided, NONE of those females were asked to participate to speak about Internet Marketing. Such a crazy world!
I think it is our time to put on an all female presenters Internet Marketing conference, if it hasn’t been done yet. If so, then let’s start it this year. We are all spread throughout the world so we def. could get easily 20+ speakers per conference. Anyone interested?
Great post Donna!
Ummm… men…
you’re allowed to comment too!
I don’t bite…
much…
That’s a funny thought - better than 1/3 of my Following list on Twitter is strong, smart, savvy women who speak on many relevant topics.
Personally, I find that Web2.0 and Social Media are full of women who would fit your list - but there’s still the ‘old school’ thinking to sweep out the door.
Great post!
GeekMommy
(Parenting, Technology, & Twitter - it’s my life)
I see this often, I am invited to a lot of events, with no women or people of color on the list of speakers.
Women buy, we buy a LOT, We are still starting businesses at a faster rate than men are.
Internet marketers are usually cutting edge but this is an are where they are a little stuck.
Perhaps we ( female speakers) as a group should start making an assertive effort to do more promotion to the event creators and keep reminding them, we are here, we have a following and we have something to bring to the table.
Dr. Letitia Wright
The Wright Place TV Show
www.wrightplacetv.com
www.twitter.com/drwright1
Hey Donna,
This is pure BULLSH–! Sorry but it pisses me off that there are still some cavemen out there living under a rock. That gives the rest of us a bad name, image and impression that we are not ready for female Internet Marketers to pitch from the stage when we know DAMN WELL there are plenty of you out there who can more than do the job.
I mean we have a woman running for President and it is 2008 yet this ignoramous doesn’t think we have any female speakers on internet topics? SERIOUSLY this guy is an a–hole. I am trying not to offend the women reading this post but it ticks me off too.
I’ve always wondered and have had these discussions with my wife that what this industry needs is an all woman event and my wife has long wanted to do this. My wife markets informational products and runs the membership sites we own. She is great at both and HAS spoken before but of course on none of the “big” events because it does tend to be “the good ol boys” who dominate the stages out there.
If I were to tell you a story of a famous real estate marketer and author who references “soups and souls” you probably would REALLY blow a fuse but the bottom line is if the women want that kind of exposure and the men are not willing to share it then you ladies need to (A) take it or (B) create it!
My wife knows over 35 ways to produce informational products and I know that THAT is a topic that will do well. She plans on coming out more mainstream but see we look at it like this… we don’t have to kiss anyone’s a– to put her on stage. We do our own thing. Like my last two events I kissed NO ONE’s butt to put them on yet I received a lot of support and love both from fellow marketers and attendees. Why? Because I just went and did it. My wife and I put this on and said “Hey let the chips fall where they may.” Both of us went through one of John Childers FIRST Vegas trainings on how to become a public speark many years ago!
Our 6figureworkshop.com and newbie2expertstatus.com seminar were a hit and my wife and I did these with the help of those that are in our corner. So my thoughts are that you ladies need to pull together and have your OWN conference, expo, workshop and or seminar. I’ve been telling my wife for YEARS. I even suggested to her that we need to put on the first ever COUPLES event and have both women and men speakers so both halves can see that they EACH have something to contribute to the home business or their online businesses in general.
It’s like back when I was a door to door sales man many many years ago. You can NOT go into a home and try to sell the wife or husband ALONE! You need both parties there because if not it becomes a one-legged pitch. You need them both there because usually it takes them both to make a buying decision when you’re coming into their homes. I rarely found it where the woman alone said yes ESPECIALLY if it was a high ticketed item like the Kirby vacuum.
I know that women share a different perspective and have a lot to offer and have always wondered what these guys were afraid of and why they don’t put MORE of them on their stages. I mean we have women preachers, cops, construction workers, soldiers, mechanics, truck drivers, etc. etc. Even WAY BACK when in Egypt they had a femail Pharaoh. We’ve had in this world even women chiefs in some cultures so I just don’t get why in the “IM World” things have not come full circle.
I know of a lot of the same women you mentioned in that list above and I truly believe they have a lot to contribute and bring to the table when it comes to IM. I don’t care what anyone thinks when it comes to my opinion but I do agree and believe we have a lot of GREAT women speakers who are SHARP and just need to be given the opportunity. I think maybe some of these guys are afraid that the women may be better closers… who knows? Bottom line is aren’t women the DOMINATING purchasing sector online? Who better to speak their language then women??
Sorry for the rant but you know I am here for you Donna. I am a Warrior and am not afraid of a fight when it comes to correcting something that is wrong in any space. Regardless of the form we need to get rid of these prejudices.
Mark Ress
The Financial Healer, Six Figure Launch Coach and King of Virtual Real Estate (V.R.E.)
http://www.VRECoach.com
Donna,
Fabulous post. Keep being you, spreading the word, and having fun doing it.
Twenty Twenty
http://www.exhostage.com
ExHostage - Turned Professional Visionary
Once again, you’re right on the money, Donna! I am astounded that women still appear “invisible” to some in Internet Marketing, especially given market demographics. And look at all these great replies from powerful women. Men (and women) who miss this are robbing themselves and their businesses.
Serena Mira Asta
Wow, what a fascinating response from that guy.
I’ve got to admit though - I didn’t know about a lot of those women, so I appreciate you taking the time to post them!
It’s true - there are a lot of amazing women out there who have incredible things to say.
And just to add to your list, Christine Comaford Lynch spoke at the last JV Alert in Orlando.
Also, Jaime and I do IM seminars for offline businesses (www.10kSeminarSecrets.com/).
…and I’m sure there’s plenty more where that came from! I’ll think about more.
Best,
Rach
…Lynn Terry, too.
Donna, thanks for making all of us female Internet marketing speakers more visible!
Since you spoke at “Bridging Heart and Marketing I” - the only Internet marketing conference for the soft sell/care giver community - you know that we had 5 female speakers AND 80% of our very appreciative participants were women.
For “Bridging Heart and Marketing II” (September 12-14, 2008) we have 5 female and 5 male speakers. It’s so important that women get the support from female speakers to know that they can be hugely successful online - and do it with heart!
Keep up the good work!
Judith Sherven
http://www.bridgingheartandmarketing.com
Thank You Donna!
There are actually several Seminars organized by women or couples and these women also speak at them.
I’ll see about compiling a list of my own for my blog - about time we took this thing by storm!
Thanks for the inspiration, I’ll be sure to link back to your post in mine!
Pam Hoffman
http://seminarlist.blogspot.com
p.s. i am looking for good IM role models who are also women. we just do things a little different and while i can learn stuff from the guys - i don’t always work quite the same way that they do so i need to see how other women work too. ever-so-grateful, pam
Nice post, Donna!
True, there’s no shortage of good female speakers. I think some seminar organizers just pick all their buddies to ask… and so men ask men.
But it’s totally to their detriment!
Women respond differently to women, and men respond differently to women. A seminar organizer should look for a diverse array of topics and modes of communication to make sure all the cash that can be tapped, is!
I think he must be living under a rock! I know many of the women on your list and many who are blogging here now and they are all awesome internet marketers. And I have heard several of them speak! Hopefully he will check this blog and find us all here. Thank you for bringing this to the front, and letting the men know that we do exist and we are ready to rock and roll!
To You Simply Having More,
Janet Majoulet-Foust
Wealth Harvest
www.wealthharvest.com
the Amazing Julie Perry just sent me a private message and reminded me that I was focusing on stage speakers… but in the world of speakers willing to do teleseminars and webinars, we have oddles more women.
Julie herself knows more about YouTube and podcasting than just about anyone. And she writes some mean copy.
When we open up the discussion to great women service providers (that would also make wonderful interviews for interview-related products), there really is no acceptable reason to not feature women who know their stuff.
Hey Donna, you’re right!
One of my fav books is by Mary Lou Quinlan titled “Just Ask A Woman: Cracking the Code of What Women Want and How They Buy” - and its true that most men don’t give enough props to this majority segment to their business demise, plus women don’t voice and share their gift of intuition once they get to the top of the corporate ladder.
Donna, I was scanning all the women whom I follow or follow me on Twitter, and I was amazed at the brilliance and talent they all possess! I was going to add them to this comment, but it would be like “War and Peace”. So login to your Twitter account, and view my women friends at Twitter.com/shermanhu - this is proof that not having women sharing and presenting is a mistake - unless event organizers are lazy or prefer an ‘old boys club’, which is pitiful.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Something else that bothers me, is the condescending attitude women receive in forums, especially a very popular forum that will remain un-named.
It’s like I’m some uneducated 10 year old that couldn’t possibly understand what the men are talking about.
Sharon Bray-McPherson
Follow me on Twitter
http://twitter.com/sbraymcpherson
Hi Donna,
I wonder if we went to the same page? Or was it the OTHER page the week (month, year, decade) before?
I was struck by the same when I learned about a similar copywriting “guru-du-jour” series and landed on a page with the same guys as usual (nothing against any of them!). And I know of at least 3 kick-ass women copywriters - Cathy Goodwin, Cyndi Smasal, and of course Red-Hot Copy Lorrie…
I just spoke on Social Networking at “One Day”, an all-woman speaker conference put on by An Empowered Woman Network, held at the Luxe Hotel in Bel Air, CA. There were 120+ enthusiastic women all wanting to know how to leverage social networks to drive traffic and business.
After five years as the “behind the scenes” internet & JV strategist for a few of the really well-known authors and speakers, and having even put together JV deals between internet juggernauts, it’s something I’ve often wondered about…why aren’t there more women doing these types of deals and speaking on the stage?
I’m happy to share what I know and contribute to the cause…whatever it turns out to be!
Thanks for the muse…
Michelle Price
Eva Gregory writes:
The Blog Squad: Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff
also
Kathleen Gage of Street Smarts Marketing
How about Beth Schneider at Process Prodigy?
Did anyone mention her yet?
And there’s also
Tracy Monteforte at www.WTPowers.com
and of coruse
Barbara Drazga at www.BunnySlipperBusiness.com
Warmly,
Paulie
Hey Donna - Thanks for the shout-out. And the list you gave of phenomenal female Internet marketers who speak from the stage is a great one. Heather Seitz is another fine example (though her main niche is real estate investing, she does teach event promotion along with Debra Thompson).
Unlike most of the male Internet marketers who choose to go the speaker-circuit route, many of the successful women I know in the Internet marketing world are busy focusing on their own niches and businesses. Perhaps it’s just more of a masculine trait that a person who learns a few things about list building or promoting eBooks then feels he has the right to turn around and tout himself as an expert or a “guru”–and is willing to take to the stage and say that to make money. (Cringe. Bet that might have just opened a can o’ worms.)
Seriously though: It seems like every time I turn around there’s some new kid on the block (99% of the time male) trying to sell a $2,997 eCourse on IM tactics he probably only began implementing himself less than a year ago (and very likely, has yet to make much $ on — or reproduce in a second niche). I specifically recall one “guru” who was telling people he could teach you how to write a book in I think it was a week, or less than a month…something like that. Yet, this particular individual had never even written his own book, nor had anything published! Again, most female IMers I know are busy making money in their own niche and aren’t likely to want to jump into the “selling snake oil” arena.
Having said that, and going along with your point, I do agree that there are far more CREDIBLE female Internet marketing superstars out there making a difference than who get credit for doing it. I’ve looked at seminar speaker line-ups in the past and have been shocked to see, more often than not, only ONE OR FEWER females on the list. Yet, they are out there! Perhaps they’re not getting asked to speak? Perhaps their coaching programs don’t make the grade monetarily (in terms of what the seminar organizer can receive)? I’m not sure what the answer is, but I know I’m making a note to myself when I see seminar organizers neglecting to include female speakers on their agendas.
Perhaps next time a seminar is being planned, the organizer should take a look at the list you just gave. Thanks again, Donna, for compiling it!
~Julie Perry
P.S. I follow nearly all those women on your list and have bought or consulted many of their products/blogs/email lists. From my personal experience, there’s a WEALTH of VALUABLE and honest information being taught by these women. THANK YOU, and keep it up!
Darn it woman!
I WISH you hadn’t created this post & mentioned my name! At least you didn’t post our sites along with it.
Now our powerful band of sistahs secretly succeeding on the internet is revealed for those rock-living-men (that we speak not of).
Why do you wish to let our secrets OUT? Let’s let the men living under a rock CONTINUE to live there, while we embrace the men who know us, love us, appreciate us, invite us on stage, and joint venture with us on the products, services & software we quietly create in the background, giving our own clients the edge. (ssssshush woman! is nothing sacred with you?!)
Quite frankly, these men who do their research, and have us at their events will be the ones who will succeed in the new media marketplace. The others… will be a distant reminder of “how it used to be”.
I won’t even list my site here where I teach my clients (women AND men) how to get the edge when marketing online - b/c I don’t want the rock-hiding-men that you’re going to send to this post to merely “copy my shtuff” as they’ve done in the past.)
Male internet marketers KNOW full well that we exist. They ALSO know how generous we are with sharing stuff, that’s why I now keep many things OFF the net, public forums, etc. and only reveal them for “members only” so “those men” can’t use us to do their dirty work any more.
I’ll just say that I was the first to write a PUBLISHED book (not an eBook) on New Media Marketing, and as a result, a multitude of opportunities opened to me.
So - women - go and do likewise. Earn the respect & admiration of “the good guys” doing business online, and FIGHT for what you want - b/c it will NOT be handed to you. You’ve gotta earn it. (Heaps of confidence that Donna has & many of the women I know well on this list will also help.)
I do find it interesting how Mark commented on how we have a woman “running” for president as if that counts for anything. Because I see this as an overwhelming example how both men AND women are NOT fully supportive about women in positions of power over men.
Look at how many Hillary supporters abandoned her the moment a man threw his hat in the ring.
We even have professional women bloggers & blogging associations vigorously supporting the man over the woman for the Presidential nomination.
I wonder if this isn’t just a problem with “men” recognizing powerful & successful women marketers but rather if it’s more of a problem with women not fully supporting one another the way men do for each other.
If you look at the psychology & the strategy of “old boys networks, you’ll discover…
ah crap! this “comment” is getting too long & turning into a post. Will you accept a trackback from my blog if I “continue what you started”?
In the meantime - SHUSH girl!!! Be quiet for a change! And stop naming names! Some of us LIKE being clandestine on the net. It’s our strategy & it’s workin’ for us.
PS: I LOVE Julie Perry!
I was pleased to see that I knew 90% of the women on your list & that another woman mentioned adding Julie Perry to your list.
That’s one of the reasons I love Twitter! I’ve met SO Many more cool, successful, thriving women marketers on Twitter & now doing several joint ventures with them.
Here’s to the “New Women’s Network” Hoo-Rah!
@CoachDeb
Hello Donna,
I see you got in my favorite Blog Squad Ladies.
I think if you take a look at some of the best ran forums you will notice that they are ran by women. They may or may not own them but, they are the moderators that keep them clean.
Some of the best & cleanest social sites are also ran by women.
I also noticed that more & more ladies are running the cleanest Traffic Exchanges.
Maybe the girls are just so busy cleaning up the unwanted things online. Hmmmm!
I do know that when I ran a conference room to help community members that I could give information & many would still wait until one of the guys came in & ask him. The guys would usually tell them “ask Sheryl” because they had no clue.
So, maybe it the mind set of the listeners to only trust a mans opinion.
Sheryl Loch
Wow - this sure has opened something up in a big way!
Soooo, Donna - when’s your event anyway? :+)
With good vibes ~
Lynn
Well, here’s the deal… last time I threw a party with all women speakers, nobody came.
ok, that’s not exactly true. We had an amazing group of people show up at the Wonder Women of the Web event (as you well know, Lynn).
There was perfect energy in the room and some of the attendees went on to do really great amazing things.
But the event was a financial disaster (for me) because the budget was huge and the attendance was not.
So, before I did it again, I’d really have to know I had the support of this very community… and from the nature of the responses, it sure looks like I do
That’s hilarious/sad, there are no female speakers in internet marketing?!?
Even Dan Kennedy/Bill Glazer have a few chicks speaking at their events now!
(btw, I’m also raising my hand as a female speaker — about law & finance for solo-entrepreneurs & small biz owners, including internet marketers)
~ Elizabeth
I do want to follow up w/ my own comment that I’m not going to choose to do business w/ someone JUST because she’s a woman — I pick the best person for the job.
Now lots of the time, that’s a chick.
But I do feel it does a disservice to all women to affirmative-action-y pick a woman when she’s not ready or appropriate for a job/project.
~ Elizabeth
This post comes right at the time I was wondering myself where the female marketers are because I had not come across any but Michelle McPherson (I must be in the wrong crowd!).
One thing it has inspired me to do is to at least get out and talk locally on the subject as soon as I can. Local women’s breakfast networking event here I come!
Hey, Sunshine!!
You don’t know how many times I’ve gotten a pat on the head, as if being a woman makes me slightly addled, and not quite able to converse at the “grown-up” table…
Yes, I was/am a speaker; was a “Peak Performer” speaker for a while, and have done dozens of workshops and seminars. I’ve been in the marketing business for over 20 years, and I’ve seen and learned alot.
Strangely, I was recently discussing this exact topic - and about having a “Women In Internet Marketing” event of some sort… maybe at a spa.
I find my current focus is off stage - although recently have decided it’s time to make a splash, get more visual.
Oh - and a woman is now the co-admin at http://ablakeforum.com - that’d be me!! We’ve taken it up a notch, loads of new features like embedding video and accepting affiliate links… and the content is really amazing!
Keep up the amazing work Donna!
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Ohh Donna, After a long weekend away I come back to this kick ass blog! Someone mentioned only seeing 1 or 2 female names?? Well why don’t you think about an event and have a few 1 or 2 male names or make it equal - go 50/50!~
I think that would rock to get it level in some small way! You truly are the voice (ok the loudest voice) of reason here!
I may not be in this market but I know a lot of the men and women in it and I was glad to see Dani Johnson as she is one of my favorite ladies - loud, fun and soooo full of energy. I would have thrown in Alicia Pierce as a strong female just as I am sure she could speak but doesn’t but we all know she runs the “pierce train”.
Thank you from all women including me who I am just along for the ride!
This is a problem I am determined to help resolve with my new website, HerProBlog.COM. I have seen thousands of great women authored websites that are not receiving the attention they deserve. Why? Could it be because many women marketers are not as web tech savvy?
I have seen so many websites that have the potential to be much more than they are but because of lack of some basic web marketing knowledge, these sites will become lost in the masses. This is true of male and female author websites but it seems to be more true of the women author sites.
The goal of HerProBlog.COM is to help women learn how to create and maintain professional blogs as well as to teach them how to earn a respectable income from or because of their blog.
This blog post is great and wish you the best of success with your marketing ventures.
A few of my other sites.
http://iwebis.com - web technology, marketing , blogging
http://horseapproved.com - horse community for horse people
http://timetobudget.com - personal finance
http://herproblog.com - professional blogging tips for women ( still in pre-launch )
Thanks!
w0000t!!! GO girls!
I’m for sure a fan of spotlighting women in a more male-dominated industry.
The interesting thing is we’re in the midst of a shift away from traditional internet marketing towards social and relationship marketing… which is the ideal platform for feminine energy.
Nonetheless, I tend to make the distinction between numbers-based marketers (all about the list size, stats, conversions, dollars) and heart-based marketers (all about the people and customer service and real results for clients - of course $$ too, but leading with heart). Both men and women can fall into either of these camps… though, there is a bias towards heart-based for the gals, eh?!
It’s also what the market demands. If you’re putting together a multi-speaker in-person event and your market grumbles at all men, get some women speakers in there pronto!
Here’s a few more gals to add:
Melanie Benson Strick http://www.successconnections.com/
Nancy Marmolejo http://VivaVisibility.com
Ellen Violette http://TheEbookCoach.com
Great post Donna!
While I’ve never spoken at a live event (yet) I do loads and loads of online seminars.
Did anyone mention Lisa Diane? And Christina (can’t think of her last name) who spoke about Taxes at Tim Knox’s event and she rocked da house! There are tons of female internet marketers and speakers who I respect and admire.
I like Lisa’s idea about having a ’spa’ event…haha!
Keep rockin’ Donna!
Jen
Hi All You Action Women
Sweet Mari sent me over here and I am really impressed. So many women all doing online business.
I have only worked with men so far and I must say I miss working together with women.
So seeing all your names here made my day.
I would love to connect to you all:-)
Cheers
Tina Lindgren
www.sellingscruffys.com
Ok here is an event that is not MALE dominated. Check it out at Ross Goldberg’s Masters Seminar
Well, Kathy, I could argue that it’s still male dominated. After all (never mind, I won’t talk about the misogynist speaker)… define domination? Any time the speaker lineup doesn’t represent a cross section of the population, that’s domination by my definition.
That being said, Ross has been good about women speakers, he always seems to have them at his events.
What a great resource you have here! I think I enjoyed the comments almost as much as the post
I see a lot of ladies here (or mentioned here) that I know personally, which is great. Several others I am making note about…
My name is Lynn Terry (thank you for the mention above). I am an under the radar Internet Marketer. I quit my day job in 1996 and work online full-time.
I’m more of a writer than a speaker, at least when it comes to the stage. I tend to do more radio & webinar type appearances. I am a single mother and prefer to stick closer to home for now - at least until the kids are raised
I think some organizers believe women don’t sell well from stage and they don’t want to risk.
I know several amazing speakers and I speak a lot to chambers of commerce, women organizations and others on how to use social media for business and info-marketing but on internet marketing events, only the ones I put together.
It is sad!
Shahar Boyayan
BuzzBooster.com
http://www.wisechicksclub.com
Donna, first of all I just want to remind you that you have FABULOUS hair. : ) Second of all, thank you for bringing this up.
While it’s true there are few invitations, more women should *speak up and step up* to the stage!
Even mostly male audiences love hearing from a female speaker. I’ve been told again and again when I speak at all-male events how refreshing it is “not to be yelled at for 90 minutes or hit over the head with a hammer”.
I love men, their fierce strength, their power, their energy. But the universe is designed for the ying and yang work together.
Feminine energy is sorely needed not only in the business world, but today in the world itself.
We are the lovers, the healers, the nuturers, the mothers, the teachers. Don’t any of you ladies forget that. Reclaim your intuition, your strength in gentleness, your color, your joy. And bring it to everyone you can.
We just may finally heal the world.
Love and Success,
Ali
www.AlexandriaBrown.com
What a wonderful surprise to find you, Donna, and this blog. I clicked on Mike Cunningham’s Ryze Page, and then clicked on his website link, www.epeopleplus.com, which utimately lead me to you. Devine intervention, perhaps.
I consider myself an internet marketing speaker due to the simple fact that I am sending out video emails daily…be it a holiday greeting, messages to my clients, or a little “fun” news item I do on Fridays called “It’s News To Me” (just started this recently) in http://www.Ryze.com at Heidi Richard’s Network, HER Mastermind.
I actually did recognize many of the names in the previous posts and know without a doubt that Heidi Richards, Founder of Women’s E-Commerce Association International (WECAI) definitely should be included. She is a guest speaker and is all about women entrepreneurs. The WECAI Organization can be found online at http://www.wecai.org
If you are ever in the Greensboro, Raleigh, or Charlotte area for an event, please let me know!
Best Regards to all,
Debbie Barth
NC Women’s Network-Talk Fusion
Do you know about Nancy Marmolejo? She markets herself as a coach, and I think maybe that is why a lot of women marketers are overlooked by the IM community — they don’t necessarily market themselves as marketers. Google on “coach”, “trainer”, “expert”, “public relations”, “ePublishing”, “WAHM”, etc and loads of women who are basically doing internet marketing will emerge. Nancy Marmolejo’s site at vivavisibility.com was the first real IM site I ever came across, and only because I was reading a library book about crafting by the “Crafty Chica” and when I visited the CC blog it had a link to an interview mp3 she did with Nancy, all about marketing your books on MySpace. Nancy has an ebook about Myspace marketing (”Make MySpace Your Space” - the first internet marketing ebook I ever bought!!!), and the Crafty Chica is a pretty big success story of how a niche book writer (in traditional publishing) really pumped up her sales by making friends on MySPace, sending regular bulletins to her Myspace friends, blogging on Myspace, etc. If you click on the Resources link page on Nancy’s site, she lists several other women you might not see mentioned on most IM sites:
Anita Larson, The Web Muse
Michele PW, Your Ka-Ching! Marketing Strategist
Kendall Summerhawk, The Horse Whisperer for Business
Lorrie Morgan Ferrero, “Red Hot Copy”
Ali Brown, “The Ezine Queen”
Karen Saunders, Mac Graphics
Karen Knowler, The Raw Food Coach
Flavia Manconi, Project Image
Vanessa Besack, Besack & Associates
Kathy Cano Murillo, “Crafty Chica”
Women are definitely active in IM, but we’re not being recruited in the same way or by the same people that the men of IM are. Now that I’m really interested in all areas of IM, I’m following Joe Vitale,Jim Edwards, Terry Dean, Dan Kennedy, Simon Hodgkinson and lots of other Big Men On Campus, but I never would have heard of social network marketing or other IM concepts if I hadn’t first been “acquired” by Nancy through her colorful, interesting and exciting web design and products. So many IM sites run by men are very blah-looking, very cookie-cutter in their designs. Also, many of them just aren’t female-friendly (I love InstantVideoEmpire, but their theme music on their audio interviews is so ‘Wayne’s World’! LOL), and others are downright hostile (I’m thinking Rich Jerk, of course).
Also, Kristie Tamsevicius is huge with the WAHM market — her webmomz.com site positions itself for the internet home business, direct selling, stay at home mom market. Almost any PLR ebook or digital product could be “niched” down (or up?) to this enormous market of women, and open up a whole universe of new prospects.
You’re also missing Marnie Pehrson, who runs IdeaMarketers.com, on your list.
Also: The Blog Squad (www.blogsquad.biz)
Also: Suzanne Falter-Barns, of
www.getknownnow.com
And I found the link to the Crafty Chica Myspace Interview, featuring Suzanne, Nancy Marmolejo, and Cathy Cano-Murillo, if anyone wants it:
http://www.audioacrobat.com/play/WjK0R5Kx
Ximo ephedra….
Ximo ephedra….