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Michelle Shelton
Marketing & Sales Consultant
Marketing & Sales Consultant
Michelle has expertise in critical aspects of business management including marketing, branding, customer relations and sales. Michelle is also a Licensed Arizona Real Estate Agent. She has a wide range of experiences in marketing and sales planning, public relations campaigns, market research and positioning. She has developed special skills and knowledge in customer management including value-added communications, service excellence, customer referral networking and appreciation programs. She also builds strong vendor relationships gaining competitive advantages in purchasing and contract negotiations. She is a tireless entrepreneur who brings high levels of enthusiasm, energy and creativity to every business endeavor. Her diversified work experiences give her insight into people and business problems where others may fail. Michelle’s entrepreneurial spirit stems from growing up in a family owned business in the Midwest. Her father was a successful businessman who single handedly branded his company name by becoming an innovator in self-service gasoline. She watched her father take a single bait shop and turn it into a thriving chain of Convenience Stores. She gained a wealth of practical knowledge by working with her father on different aspects of the business, eventually managing several of the stores herself. In 1991, Michelle founded Our Daily Bread, a bakery equipment business. In order to develop greater visibility for her business she taught adult education classes through Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska. She also provided marketing and public relations services for Weather Wise Roofing, and Getko Group, a division of Cendant. Michelle’s creative imagination gives her an edge in developing newsletters, advertising layouts, PowerPoint Marketing Presentations, and sales flyers.
Thomas Silvestri
Senior Business Consultant
Senior Business Consultant
For the last 15 years Thomas has been a successful business executive and entrepreneur with extensive experience in business development, internet strategy, market intelligence, information technology systems including international business experience. The first company he founded in 1985 was KDC Music Production in Germany, a total music production company producing TV/Radio Commercials and management for Record Industry Artists. The second company he founded in 1999 was Transmedianet Inc., an innovative internet solutions company in Chicago. After a profitable sale of this organization, Thomas moved to Scottsdale, Arizona to work as an Internet Ebusiness Consultant helping start up and intermediate businesses succeed with their key account development and business strategy on the Internet. Thomas graduated from Northwestern University, American Academy and The Musikhochschule with multiple degrees in Music/Arts Production and Business Management.
John Samota
Senior Performance Consultant
Senior Performance Consultant
For the last 15 years Thomas has been a successful business executive and entrepreneur with extensive experience in business development, internet strategy, market intelligence, information technology systems including international business experience. The first company he founded in 1985 was KDC Music Production in Germany, a total music production company producing TV/Radio Commercials and management for Record Industry Artists. The second company he founded in 1999 was Transmedianet Inc., an innovative internet solutions company in Chicago. After a profitable sale of this organization, Thomas moved to Scottsdale, Arizona to work as an Internet Ebusiness Consultant helping start up and intermediate businesses succeed with their key account development and business strategy on the Internet. Thomas graduated from Northwestern University, American Academy and The Musikhochschule with multiple degrees in Music/Arts Production and Business Management.
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