Nancy Michaels is the author of five books on marketing for small businesses, including Perfecting Your Pitch, (Career Press 2005) Off The Wall Marketing Ideas, (Adams Media 2000), How To Be A Big Fish In Any Pond, Media Madness, and A to Z to Visibility. She has spoken in 42 states to more than 60,000 entrepreneurs on behalf of such clients as Xerox, Office Depot, AT&T, Staples, Cendant (Avis and Budget Rental Cars), Constant Contact, among many others. She is the first recipient to win the Tom Peters WOW! Project Personified Award (2002) that hails individuals who take on WOW! projects. The WOW! Project was a cover story for Fast Company magazine. Nancy acts as Lead Consultant and host of Office Depot.com's Web Café Series of on-line seminars geared toward small business owners www.officedepot.com/webcafe.

Nancy is Inc.com's Solo Business Expert on sales, marketing and business development issues for the solo entrepreneur http://www.inc.com/resources/solo. She served as Small Business Editor at US News & World Report, and the Small Business Marketing Expert for Entrepreneur Magazine. She is a regular contributor to Franchise Update and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune Small Business (FSB), Success Magazine, The New York Post, Franchising Magazine, among numerous other publications.

Nancy and her speaker team, have conducted more than 600 seminars in three years on behalf of a national retailer where sales increased 200 to 300 percent on the days of these events. She was a nationally syndicated newspaper small business columnist for Scripps-Howard News Service (1999 - 2000).

Nancy also was the publicist for Matt Lauer (currently co-host of the Today show)and is the President of her marketing company, Impression Impact, which she launched in 1990 and Founder of the Grow Your Business Network.