Laurie Morgan

Brainstorming with Laurie is like surfing on a tidal wave. Thankfully, there’s a good many tools available to record our meetings, lest too many brilliant morsels would be left lying on the beach.

Laurie Morgan is a seasoned marketing executive, successful publisher and start-up specialist with 20 years of management experience and a track record of launching and expanding new businesses.

Morgan's background as an experienced entrepreneur and corporate executive proves invaluable to her work helping small and medium businesses solve operational problems, plan and execute marketing efforts, and ready themselves for growth. Prior to launching her current ventures, Morgan was the founder and president of IDG.net, the IDG Online Network. In this role she created and oversaw the IDG Global Web Advertising Network, and oversaw the IDG.net web site, which organized content from 250+ individual IDG sites in more than 10 languages. Morgan was honored by Advertising Age magazine, which named her to its list of "Women to Watch.

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