Learn more about the Weekend ReTweaters
Michele Savoldi - Founding Member
Michele Savoldi was bitten by the marketing and PR bug when she worked at a radio station over 20 years ago. Since then, she has worked in the industry either at an ad agency, corporate office, or non-profit organization. This variety of experience has led to business ownership and in April of 2008 she opened her own marketing and communication company, columbus imPRessions. It is through columbus imPRessions that Michele serves non-profit organizations, trade associations and small businesses using an innovative “beyond the box” approach strategically blending marketing, messaging, and social media to create multi-media success. Michele is also the founder of The In-Kind Connection, a complimentary service that uses social media to connect non-profit organizations to businesses and donors, and is a featured columnist on Columbus Underground, Greatest City of All, and Columbus Examiner.
Michele is enthusiastic about branding, fascinated with social networking, and passionate about making a difference for the greater good. She lives for creative expression and loves exploring new destinations. She loves food, red wine and travel and when all three can come together it’s magic! Her dream vacation would be to travel to Italy!
Follow me on Twitter: @CbusImpressions
email: michele@columbusimpressions.com
Tiffany Eckhardt - Founding Member
Tiffany Eckhardt believes life is to be lived as an adventurous journey. Apart from the most rewarding journey as a wife and mother, she has spent most of her career in sales, but loves marketing, networking and promoting her favorite businesses with social media. As an adventurer with an entrepreneur spirit, she has owned several small businesses and has worked as a Realtor. She was employed at The Hall Company on the Sales and Marketing team where she has developed a social media strategy promoting their advances in technology.
Recently, she has found her voice through contributing to several blogs; including Greatest City of All, Tastecasting and DoingLifeBeingTiff. Tiffany is not afraid to pursue a good idea and hopes to use what she has learned from her business ventures in her next great adventure. Her ultimate dream is to combine her entrepreneur spirit and her natural ability for promoting with her passion for travel.
“Life is a journey, come travel with me!” is one of her favorite sayings. She recently checked off an destination on her bucket list, a dream adventure in Italy, where she soaked in one of the most romantic cultures.
Follow me on Twitter: @TiffanyEckhardt
e-mail: eckhardt.tiffany@gmail.com
Rose Landon - Founding Member
Rose thoroughly enjoys spending time with her family and friends, gardening and traveling across country with her husband, Robb. Her passion lies in creating heirloom quality quilts. Her beloved family and friends have been the proud recipients of these works of art. Rose is a gifted teacher and has passed her passion onto her granddaughter and countless friends. It is easy to catch her enthusiasm for design and the geometry of quilt making.
In an effort to stay in touch with her family and friends, Rose embraced social media. Facebook was just the beginning of her journey to being a social media maven. It was through her work with Tastecasting and Meet2Eat that she learned the art of promoting restaurants using various social media platforms. Her friends now call her for recommendations on where to dine. During her involvement with these socially minded groups, she has formed new friendships, visited unique restaurants and learned to appreciate technology.
Rose’s ideal vacation is going to a place and discovering the unexpected. Finding what makes a place different from the next. Taking a hike in the woods getting away from the everyday. Being in God’s sweet spot and finding the beauty in that place. Then coming home to family and friends is the best part of it to the people who know me and love me and want to be in my life. To know I belong somewhere where they accept me for me. What more could you want?
Follow me on Twitter: @RoseLandon
E-Mail: roselandon@yahoo.com
Cheryl Harrison - Founding Member
A Good Idea!
Cheryl has been having a romantic love affair with the city of Columbus since she first moved her to attend Capitol University. The people, the neighborhoods, the events and the emerging tech scene have all become an integral part of her life and kept her here to make a career! She loves spreading the word about great spots in Ohio on her blogs - Tappedin.tv and BeingCheryl.com and on social media sites like Twitter, Yelp, Facebook and Foursquare.
Follow on Twitter: @CherylHarrison
Anna Harper-Hess
Anna Harper‐Hess’s background is in academia working for universities in the areas of compliance, online technical support, and faculty management. Graduating with a BA in sociology and an MA in Liberal Studies with a concentration on Sociology, Anna is fascinated by social media.
In 2008, she began working as a social media marketer for Crimson Cup Coffee & Tea, a specialty coffee roaster/retailer, and teacher of coffee shop business success. The founder of Crimson Cup’s social media program, Anna expanded the company’s online presence through applications such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Crimson Cup’s blog.
Currently, Anna is the Digital Marketing Specialist for Bizwatch Search Analytics, a search engine marketing company that specializes in search engine optimization (SEO), Pay-Per Click advertising (PPC) and social media.
Recently, Anna launched her own website as a way to express her thoughts about sociology, social media, and to provide general social commentary. In addition to her own site, she is also a contributor to the Greatest City of All blog.
In her free time, Anna loves to look at art, sip on whiskey (Irish preferably), try new foods, and is a coffee snob. A lifelong traveler, Anna has backpacked through Europe and has been all over the United States. The places at the top of Anna’s travel list are Egypt, Australia, Japan, and Alaska.
Follow me on Twitter: @aharperhess
Email: anna@aharperhess.com
Lindsey Evans
Lindsey Evans is a Loan Officer with Western Ohio Mortgage Corp. by day and a computer marketing nerd by night. Before the world of home finance, Lindsey received a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Ecology specializing in Consumer Affairs at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. While at OSU Lindsey worked for a local advertising agency and completed coursework in demographics and marketing.
Lindsey began her web presence six years ago with her personal Facebook page.
She pushed WOMC into social media through Facebook, Twitter and blogging via videos, links and information for Realtors, clients and homeowners.
Combining her love of travel and meeting new people with marketing is what lead Lindsey to the Weekend Retweat team. She was recently described by Rose Landon this way, “Lindsey has friends, and she has friends she has yet to meet.”
While traveling Lindsey enjoys sampling local micro-brews and loves a good Hefeweizen. Lindsey’s favorite travel destination is Providenciales, Turks and Caicos, located in the British West Indies. She has traveled throughout the US, and driven cross-country from Ohio to California.
Lindsey has recently completed driving all miles of Interstate-70 with the exception of 15 miles outside Baltimore, MD. Lindsey would like to visit Italy, France, Greece and Vancouver.
thelandoflindsey.blogspot.com and http://www.Littlemissmortgageblog.com
Follow me on Twitter: @Lilmissmortgage and @lindseyscoot16
Email: levans@westernohiomortgage.com
Lisa Foster
Lisa Foster arrived in Columbus 12 years ago and bonded immediately with her new Buckeye identity. Moving from Maine, Lisa, her husband and two children settled in Dublin, where they have been enjoying everything that Central Ohio has to offer. A veteran of long drives down country roads, the idea of the Weekend ReTweat really struck a chord with Lisa’s love for travel and exploring new places. Spending a weekend in a new town is both a relaxing escape and an opportunity for discovery. Sharing that discovery makes the experience richer and even more enjoyable.
Lisa’s professional background in real estate has given her a keen appreciation for the architecture and unique features of different communities throughout the country. She started her own business, real estate photography and marketing services, providing high quality photos and property brochures which real estate agents use to market their listings. Her job is to “help the house find its owners” by showcasing the features and amenities that make each one of them someone’s new home. This line of work has given her the opportunity to get to know many towns and neighborhoods throughout Central Ohio. She describes herself as having a ‘map brain’, and a real affinity for exploring whatever area she happens to be in.
When she’s not busy photographing houses, one of the things Lisa enjoys most is working with Emerald City Players, a community theater company in Dublin, Ohio. She can usually be found staffing the box office, but has ventured on stage to perform in a few productions. Lisa’s a huge fan of social media and has integrated the use of Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and other programs into her business and personal life. She’s participated in conferences, seminars, meetups and groups including Meet-2-Eat, TasteCasting, Social Media Club Columbus, RE Barcamp and more. An unrepentant news junkie, Lisa is a lover of family, dachshunds, cats and traveling. While she’d like to live at the beach, Lisa has the Grand Canyon, Australia, Hawaii and a return trip to Lake Tahoe on her travel wish list.
Follow me on Twitter: @XMainer
E-Mail: LisaF@columbus.rr.com
Phyllis Nichols
Phyllis Nichols, owner of SoundAdvice Sales and Marketing helps small businesses develop a sales strategy that is comfortable to implement allows their passions to be their focus.
With nearly 2 decades experience combined with years of community involvement, Phyllis brings a unique perspective to her role as a marketing consultant. She began her corporate career at a small privately owned business that became a world-class publicly traded company where she earned top honors from industry leaders and clients for her sales success and service level commitment.
Her experience includes positions in corporate sales, account management, people leadership, employee development and strategic planning. In all her roles, Phyllis has used her strengths in developing creative solutions to difficult problems, organizing resources to achieve goals, building relationships and inspiring colleagues to become involved in their communities.
Phyllis now brings her passion for marketing to entrepreneurs and small business owners. She helps ensure success by drawing on the strengths of the individual client to make the process an enjoyable one.
Joining the Weekend ReTweat team combines Phyllis’ favorite things. Travel, promoting small businesses and social media. It’s a terrific way to meet new people and bring much deserved attention to those who are following their passions.
Follow Me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/PhyllisNichol
Email: pnichols@soundadvicesales.com
Shannon McGill
Shannon McGill is enjoying the benefits of social media and networking every single day. Not only a wife and mom but also owner of Shan's Fitness, LLC. The founding principals behind the company has always been to help men, women and children find their inner beauty and the happiest life possible by employing healthy habits. Through social media, Shan's Fitness, LLC is currently enjoying tremendous growth and using momentum to capitalize on many opportunities. Through this growth, Shannon is looking forward to taking her fitness knowledge and expertise on the road, literally! She has always had a passion for traveling and has began to incorporate travel and fitness through fitness retreats.
Shannon believes that the world is big and needs to be explored. Her perfect trip would be one without limits. No time frames means no need to rush and miss a discovery that needs discovering. She is looking forward to the future of the Weekend Retweaters and growing both in social media and networking with the group and the many people she meets through her endeavors.
Twitter me on Twitter: @shansfitness
Email: shansfitness@yahoo.com
Roberta Yoder
Roberta became an entrepreneur by default – she married one. Having quit her full time job as Human Resource Manager in the automotive industry to help with the family business, her mindset shifted from employee to business owner and entrepreneur. Bitten by the social media and marketing bug, she thrives on networking and marketing her concrete construction business and the amazing counties in which she straddles: Champaign and Logan Counties in Ohio.
In the fall of 2009, Roberta’s husband suggested she take a getaway weekend by herself to refresh and renew. So she followed the Graham High School Marching Band to a band festival in northern Ohio and spent the entire weekend at a bed and breakfast by herself. And by herself it was, as there were no other guests and no innkeepers outside of the initial welcome when she arrived. Breakfast was cereal on the counter. Crumbs were on the table. The entire time she was thinking, “I could do better than this!” Thus the dream began…Roberta has been unable to get that thought out of her head, and she dreams of owning her own bed and breakfast in the future. So as she focuses on marketing her current business, she also makes notes on how she can apply those skills to her future business. Every opportunity she gets to stay in another town, she looks for a bed and breakfast to call home for the night.
Roberta was thrilled to be asked to join the Weekend Retweat team. Combining social media and a Bed and Breakfast sounded like a perfect fit with her interests and aspirations.
www.facebook.com/roberta.yoder
Twitter: @RobertaYoder
Email: robertayoder@yoderconcrete.com
Faye Oney
After more than 20 years helping small businesses solve their marketing challenges through The Dispatch media (advertising sales), Faye is now on her own as an independent marketing consultant. She enjoys hanging out in the social media world and loves learning something new every day through her social networks.
Growing up, Faye traveled with her family in their small plane to many places around the country. She now enjoys scuba diving with her husband in dive locations such as Nassau, Cozumel, Bonaire, the Florida Keys, and Utila. Faye also organizes a girls’ getaway weekend to wine country every year. Someday she would love to travel to Europe and other countries outside the U.S. – something her parents did when they became empty-nesters.
Faye recently discovered Geocaching, and is always looking for pals to go caching with!
Twitter: @FayeinCbus
Janice Robinson
Janice is a flight attendant who shares her experiences as she works and travels in the air through her alter ego, Skychi. SkyChi is an international traveler who is a linguist who has lived in France, Belgium, Venezuela, Argentina, and Turkey. SkyChi speaks French, Spanish and some Turkish. SkyChi has the unique ability to communicate and understand people of other cultures. This is her life as a flight attendant. You will meet some of her passengers and co-workers. You will see the places she visits. She will share with you the way I find my way around sightseeing in different places. She will also share some of my favorite eating spots at different airports and cities. You will learn travel tips and suggestions from a flight attendant.
http://skychitravels.blogspot.com
Twitter: @skychi_travels
Email: skychitravels@gmail.
Vicki holds a bachelor's degree in religious studies from Ohio Christian University. She finds culture and religion fascinating and throughout her travels has encountered amazing people from all walks of life. After her first year of college, Vicki spent a year living in Jerusalem, Israel. It was there that her love of culture and religion was born. She has also traveled in Central America and Asia and throughout North America.
Vicki has a particular interest in fighting human trafficking and educating others on this global pandemic. This passion has taken her as far as Cambodia and Thailand and as close to home as the inner city of Columbus.
Always up for an adventure, Vicki is learning to let go of the "what if's" and embrace the "what is" in life. She is excited to be joining fellow travelers and enthusiasts on this journey of life!
Twitter: @VickiLeighEsh
Email: eshvicki@yahoo.com
Vicki Esh
Vicki Esh is a native of the "thumb" of Michigan but currently makes her home in central Ohio along with her husband and their 3 daughters. In addition to her responsibilities as wife and mother, Vicki works part time in an optometry practice, which explains her growing collection of sunglasses!
