Maria Elena Duron
Title: Personal Branding + Identity Coach
Profession: Coach
Acting as your "personal buzz agent" providing services and coaching where the focus is garnering the recognition and connections for success for busy CEOs, entrepreneurs and emerging leaders. Buzz2Bucks provides online profile management services, social management and reputation management - helping key employees to establish higher visibility and provide consistency in branding as well as establishing the expertise in their industry for entrepreneurs.
EDUCATION | Bachelor's Business Administration in Marketing, graduate work in organizational management and communication, certified preferred personal branding strategist, business coach and certified networker.
HOW TO GET STARTED | Find out and manage your own personal brand and see if you have a love doing it. If you do, then seek certification.
MUST HAVE TRAITS | A great listener, not afraid to give feedback diplomatically, to take a coaching approach to personal branding.
beginnings
how I got started | I'm a business coach who owned a large networking franchise and realized that many people struggled with their own "introductions" or "elevator speeches" because they really didn't know what it is that made them so unique and how they delivered through their strengths.

inspiration
why this job?| Too many minorities and women are discouraged or derailed from pursuing their business aspirations because of their powerful commitment and responsibility to family. The moment of my inspiration is defined by my own boy's accidental shooting literally shot life and passion into my business to assist minority business owners and women in business in pursuing their dream of family balance, leadership and business ownership. I help connect the dots in creating buzz that results in bucks!

love
why I love this job!| I deliver a message that you can still focus on your family and leave a legacy of success. Buzz2bucks was founded with a single vision summed up in the mission of the group: To provide a kick start to valuable connections and serve as an inspiration to those emerging family focused, values based leaders on the journey to fulfill their potential as self starters, executives and entrepreneurs.

work
my typical day| Start by spending fun, quality time with husband and kids and then begin blogging, tweeting and providing press releases for my clients. Network online and offline for my clients. And, three days out of the week I actually coach my clients through their marketing strategies. Here - I either do the marketing work WITH them as their coach or FOR them as their outsourced marketing department.

challenges
what they are | Many people do not know what their unique value proposition is and they must realize that they have to have that in order to brand themselves authentically.

upside
all about growth | I can work with a small start up business, solopreneur all the way to a large company team. It provides me great variety and excitement in everything I do. I look forward to every single day!

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