Ms Sonia Brown, SistaTalk Founder, and Lady on the Move

Ms Sonia Brown, of London, England, created the social network, "SistaTalk", for the sole purpose of "inspiring and empowering women to network online".

Additionally, Ms Brown is the founder and director of the National Black Women's Network (NBWN) which aims to raise the status and profile of black women in all walks of life. The NBWN provides dynamic initiatives, enabling women from diverse backgrounds and occupations to develop strong professional and social contacts, high quality training and educational programmes, leadership and national recognition.

With a background in marketing, event management and business development, this lady is not one to stay silent or static.With an impressive educational background that includes a Master of Arts degree in Marketing and Communications and a Bachelor of Arts in Business and Communications, Ms Brown has found time to become a NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Business Practitioner while currently undertaking her doctorate degree.

But Ms Brown's energy, determination, and desires don't stop there. This active lady with a commitment to serve others:

• sits on the GLE/oneLondon Growth Panel which offers loans for businesses trading for a minimum of one year to £40,000;
  
  
• is a member of the MOD Diversity Champions Panel; and
  
  
• is a Strategic Partner on the BAME Women's Councillors Taskforce.

On top of all that, Ms Brown writes a weekly business page for The New Nation Newspaper and is a regular contributor for features in magazines, radio shows, and speaking engagements around women in business.

According to Ms Brown, "Entrepreneurship is hard work and very lonely when you are going after your dreams and fulfilling your vision. Be prepared to do the work now so that you can enjoy the spoils at a later stage. The personal mantra I use is You gotta do what you need to do in order to do things you wanna do!"

I'm sure you'll agree with me that this lady is truly maximizing her potential and, as a role model, is encouraging other ladies to maximize theirs.

If you're looking for help in building a personal network that connects you to other esteemed and acclaimed professionals and entrepreneurs online, SistaTalk is for you.

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Mark Genovese: Directing Cities All Across America

Mr. Mark Genovese is President and Chief Executive Officer of MANE World Promotions, Inc. and the Founder and Owner of

City-Centers, as a city and state directory, is a progressive link-building opportunity for small business owners. As of April 1, 2008 City-Centers.com had over 90 web portals in every city in the United States.

As host of your city, your ads will appear in all 90 portals. After new portals are added to the system, your ads will also appear on all new portals. This will create a growing number of links to your website showing search engine bots that your site is becoming more popular each month giving your site better search engine ranking and a higher position in their index!

Here is where the work comes in:

As Host of your city, all you will need to do is spend an hour or so telling City-Centers about your city. And you will do so by adding links to your city. Samples of organization and communities to include are non-profit organizations, service clubs (Lion, Rotary, et al.), Chamber of Commerce, schools (private and public), churches, city services, and other information about non-commercial sites located in your city.

That's it! For your help City-Centers will give you free text ad links to your business domain for life!

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and sign up to be your city's Host Master.