#GrowSmartBiz Video: SmallBiz Quick Tip-Becoming an Entrepreneurial Leader Rieva Leonsky

Rieva Lesonsky is CEO of GrowBiz Media, a communications company offering custom content and expert insight designed to help entrepreneurs build their businesses and achieve success. Lesonsky spent 26 years at Entrepreneur magazine, where she started off as a research assistant and worked her way up to editorial director. Lesonsky is also one of the only women to ever hold a top spot at a business publication.

A native of New York, Ms. Lesonsky is the author of Get Smart and the best-selling Start Your Own Business, and co-author of the books Young Millionaires, Ultimate Book of Franchising and 303 Marketing Tips. She served on the Small Business Administration’s National Advisory Council for six years. The SBA also honored her as a Small Business Media Advocate and a Woman in Business Advocate. She is a nationally recognized speaker and expert on entrepreneurship and small business ownership, and is a regular on MSNBC’s “Your Business” program.

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About: Shashi Bellamkonda works for Web hosting company, Network Solutions, as the first-ever Network Solutions 'Social Media Swami'. In this position he has helped Network Solutions aggressively move into the online space to actively listen to and interact with its customers. This push paid off when Network Solutions won the 2008 SNCR Excellence in New Communications Award for Online Reputation Management/Corporate Division. A prolific Twitterer, blogger, and product innovator, Shashi loves technology, testing new things and helping people and small businesses. A self-described 'Internet junkie,' Shashi has presented previously on 'How to Sell Social Media to Your Boss' and 'Social Media Tools for Small Business.' Shashi started his blog to keep his many on and offline friends up to date on the coolest new things to check out and answer their questions on social media and technology including things like how to prevent popups, how to avoid viruses, how to save computers from hackers, and the ever popular 'Why is my computer freezing?' A resident of Maryland, Shashi Bellamkonda speaks 7 languages and ardently works to turn his hobbies into his profession. His blogs are: blog.networksolutions.com and http://www.shashi.name
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