Maria Elena Duron

Maria Elena Duron is a pioneer in social word of mouth marketing and is skilled at creating community, connection and commerce around your brand.

✔15+ years of practical experience in online and offline connections and developing brand communities
✔Serves as a skilled catalyst for positive conversation around your brand.
✔Designs live, online, social platform events around brands including founding one of the Top 10 Twitter chats in the world
✔Delivers great brand recognition to clients and their positioning as industry experts
✔Through a partnership with Momentum Factor, provides a focused social marketing expertise to the direct selling industry with 25+ years actual field sales, recruitment and leadership experience

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
✔Editor-in-Chief of #1 focused GenY Career Development Blog
✔Author and Presented Social Marketing Course used by the Texas Association of Realtors
✔Provides expert webinars to the National Society of Hispanic MBAs, Coaches and Speaker's Bureaus
✔Served in leadership roles as company CEO, Executive Director, Board President, Vice President of Development.
✔Presents Annual Leadership Program "Suits With Skills" for the Junior League. And, she provides personal branding, reputation and word of mouth marketing workshops at colleges, universities, Texas Conference For Women, Massachusetts Conference for Women.
✔Awarded Business Woman of the Year; Best of Texas; Person of Vision; and Social Marketing All-Star

UNIQUE VALUE:
✔Easily connects with others
✔Powerfully uplifting, passionate and ever positive
✔Known for the 5 Daily Gratitudes

Buzz2Bucks | word of mouth firm: focuses on visibility, credibility and connect-ability for individuals, professionals and small businesses. Maria Elena Duron helps high performing entrepreneurs and executives learn how to manage their personal brand and business brand on-line and off-line, leverage their expertise and connections and generate “the talk that yields profits”.

Websites:

• Company Website
• Facebook
• SearchME

Interests:

Speaker | Providing Practical Steps to Harness the Power of Word of Mouth - personally and for your business; Marketing Coach for Community Managers, Small Businesses and Professionals

Groups and Associations:

President, Midland North Rotary Club Co-Founder Moderator, #brandchat (live branding conversation on Twitter) Facilitator, Chamber LEADers,Midland Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Facilitator, IT Coaches Special Interest Group Preferred Strategist, Reach Personal Branding Contributor | Columnist: Personal Branding Mag, QuestionPro, YOUnique, the Personal Branding Blog

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  360 Reach Personal Brand Group
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  Alumni
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  Best Practice Institute
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  Blue Marketing & Sales
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  Blue: The DallasBlue Business Network (25,000+ members)
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  BranchOut
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  Business Development
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  Circle of T.E.N. - CEO Mastermind Roundtable
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  Direct Sales Networking Group
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  Direct Selling Corporate Management and CxO's
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  Direct Selling Women's Alliance
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  Employee Benefits and Human Resources
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  Executive Suite
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  Facebook Marketing & Advertising Tips
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  Google Plus Marketing
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  IT LIONs
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  Job-Hunt Help
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  Job-Hunt Help: Personal Branding
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  Massachusetts Conference for Women
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  National Association for Female Executives (NAFE)
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  Official Rotary International Group
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  Open Networking Q&A
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  Open Sez Me (Open Networking)
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  Permian Basin
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  Personal Branding Network
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  Personal Branding from the Inside Out
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  Predictive Index
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  Social CRM ( SCRM )
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  Social CRM Community
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  Social Media Marketing
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  Social Media Training Group
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  Social, Viral & Word of Mouth Marketing
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  Social-smart
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  SpeakerMatch
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  Success Networking
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  Texas Conference for Women
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  Texas Tech Group
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  The Moxie Exchange
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  The Social Media Strategies for Business Group
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  Word of Mouth
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  eMarketing Association Network

Honors and Awards:

Business Woman of the Year | Communicator of Year | Volunteer of Year
2010 Best of Texas Award Winner
2010 Person of Vision 2010 - West Texas Area
2009 Best of Texas Award Winner
2008 Best of Texas Finalist

PUBLICATIONS:
Numerous authored, co-authored and quoted publications.

HIGHLIGHTED KEYNOTE VENUES:
2010 Texas Conference for Women
2010 All Women's Expo
2010 Texas Governor's Economic Summitt
2009 Massachusetts Conference for Women
NSHMBA - National Society for Hispanic MBAs
Federation of Insurance Women of Texas Conference
Women of Wisdom Conference
Women in Leadership Conference
Permian Basin Society of Engineers
Midland Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Women's Conference
National Association of Chamber Ambassadors Conference
Hobbs + Fort Stockton Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet
Southeastern Career Institute Commencement Ceremony