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 (www.topdesign.com),
a successful
and profitable
Los Angeles-based 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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