Maria Marsala, founder of Elevating Your Business, is a small business advisor, author, speaker, and former Fortune 500 executive. She entered the business world at 14 selling AVON, hit Wall Street three years later, and made her mark at several formerly well-respected Wall Street firms. Maria climbed the corporate ladder and broke through the glass ceiling, exhibiting fierce determination and keen insights. Wall Street rewarded her fierce determination when she became a bond trader and department manager at a time when women executives were a rare commodity. Elevating Your Business provides support to CEOs, presidents, and executives of purposefully-expanding B2B service companies. Located in the USA, her clients have sales of 6 and 7-figures annually, or have those numbers as their goals. They count on Maria’s business knowledge, system design, organization, and efficiency to help them find solutions to their business growth challenges. Maria shepherds her clients toward success by focusing on simplicity and execution and giving them the support and resources they need to make better business decisions. After many requests to share her insights on what small business owners can learn from corporate America, Maria created "Corporate Secrets Marketing.” Her concepts have been featured in numerous national and international publications, including Money magazine, Jim Cramer’s “The Street,” Women's Day, Market Watch, Advisor Max, and The Bottom Line. Her strategies are mentioned in several books including "6 Steps to Free Publicity" by Marcia Yudkin and "Streetwise Small Business Book of Lists" edited by Gene Marks. Maria has spoken internationally at more than 100 events, radio shows, and TV shows. She is an Internet-marketing veteran, trained life coach, certified teleseminar leader, and former newspaper columnist. She is a native NY’er who currently lives near Seattle, Washington. She has been a volunteer for four decades at places such as Washington DECA, Eagle Harbor UCC, Make Mine a Million, NAFE, and the Columbia Tower Club. She has received numerous awards for her volunteer efforts protecting the environment and working with teenagers. Maria is single and enjoys playing cards and games, gardening, attending the theatre, concerts, or perusing hardware and office supply stores.
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http://www.CoachMaria.com/blog
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Elevating Your Business has provided coaching, consulting, and education support to services professionals since 1998, helping them earn more, work less, and have a higher-quality life. In the business world 35 years, including a long stint as a Wall Street Trader and executive, Maria Marsala has worked with thousands of business owners with 0-50 employees. Her solid track record of success can work for you as well.
Awards: Community Service (various)
