About Jen

Hi. The “About Me” page is always the most difficult to write.

I mean, really, what do you want to know?

  • I’ll have been married 8 years next January.
  • All my children are girls.
  • My grandmother is in a nursing home.
  • The family I was born into was not traditional, but not un-traditional.
  • I treat high-level corporate executives the same way I treat small business owners: with respect, humor, a light heart and a fast brain.

Oh, you wanted to know about what I do for a living?

  • I’m the owner of a local Chicagoland business that specializes in online marketing, training, social media, and hourly meeting rental space.
  • I’ve been and still am an online marketer of my own stuff, including my fabulous, effective book about networking.
  • There are other things I’m in the middle of which I’m sure I’m forgetting.
  • Oh, I set up and ran the Twitter stream for a Frito Lay campaign and done other things with large and small companies in social media.
  • I take projects that seem interesting and do them because they are fun. I like to work on things that I think are fun, which may not seem fun to anyone else in the world. That’s what makes me marketable in a world of people who will do anything for money.
  • I always do a phenominal job because I don’t do projects I don’t like!

Or were you asking about what I’m doing with my life now?

  • I work on the team of a fabulous woman doing marketing and branding consulting.
  • I blog.
  • I am going back to school this semester for the first time in a long time. Yea for adult continuing education, right?
  • I’m a writer.
  • I’ve worked on social media campaigns for Fortune 500 companies as well as solopreneurs.
  • I hang out online. A lot.
  • I give people ideas. I was giving them for free, but I’m thinking about charging from here on out because ideas are precious things and should not be given – or taken – lightly.

Or did you just want to know the kinds of things I’m into?

  • Finance (the stock market, economics, debt, Dave Ramsey, spending, saving, etc.)
  • Blogging (about pretty much everything – my first blog was an online journal on a geocities account in 2001. I’ve been around the blogging block and learned my boundaries the hard way!)
  • Reading (I love books. Love. I used to read a book a day and would like to get back to that.)
  • Learning (Online, offline, independently, taught…doesn’t matter…I love to learn.)
  • Parenting (Do I have a choice? LOL)
  • Marriage (My husband and I have gone back and forth as primary breadwinner, it’s been interesting.)
  • The Internet. Since I got my Tandy-1000 back in, what, 1989? I’ve loved the ‘net. My 2400 baud modem was my best friend and I seroiusly still get chills when I hear the noise of a 2400 or 9600 baud modem. Sexiest sound on earth. When I think about judging that woman who married the Eiffel Tower, I remember that sound and feel a pang of sympathy. I kind of – just a little bit – know how she feels.