Maria Carlton is an award winning  business person, author, presenter, and coach with a serious passion for helping professional experts step up and stand out to their target markets.

Maria brings her unique background as a top business and marketing coach, publisher, author, speaker and brand communication specialist to assist SME’s and service providers become outstanding in their fields.  She’s one of the few people in the world who totally understands the synergy between the speaking and publishing worlds and knows how to help others maximise that connection, and all the brand communication steps along the way towards becoming famous to their target markets.

 She has assisted dozens of authors to write, publish and in some cases become best selling authors of non-fiction books.   She’s also written a number of top selling books of her own, and collaborated on and published several anthologies with writers from all over the world.

 Maria is also the founder of Idea to Author-ity, the first global online community specifically serving the speaking and publishing industries, and in 2011 was named the National Speaker Association of New Zealand’s Business Person of the Year in recognition of her full range of skills demonstrated to achieve business success in the speaking industry.

Topics Include:

Moving from Idea to Author-ity®

What does it really take to move from having a great idea or being a good public speaker to becoming a highly regarded expert who speaks and writes?  These are the  essential things you MUST know that WILL and WON’T assist your career as a professional expert who speaks and writes.

I Wrote a Book – Now what?

What exactly are your options for getting your masterpiece to market and how do you decide what to do, when and who with.  The publishing industry is rich with authors who lost out, so here’s how to save time, money, and maximise your resources and use your book to help ensure your book works for you, instead of just sucking a lot of time and money out of you.

The Marketing Minefield

How to get your head around traditional (offline) marketing and modern (online) marketing and not waste a lot of money and time on what doesn’t work.  In this jam- packed session, you’ll find out about social media, electronic media, and paper media and how they all fit and work together.

Brand Communication

Are you turning your clients on or off?  And does your customer service measure up to your brand promise?

Each of these is a 45-60 minute Keynote  presentation, and can also be extended into  half day workshops

The Magic is in the Mix

This is a half day workshop exploring where the mix on online and offline media connect for companies large and small, as well as professional service providers.

The subjects covered include:

• Understanding Online Media
• Understanding Offline Media
• Publicity vs Public Relations
• Extending your Global Reach
• Partners in Marketing