While her Honor's Society high school peers were off to college, Lorrie attended the prestigious School of Hard Knocks where she moved to the low-cost-of-living community of Santa Barbara and worked full time and went to school at night. Her people-meets-sales skills landed her promotions in retail and she soon ended up in management at a foo-foo department store, where a personal shopping client who worked one of those hard to explain internet jobs offered her a "drop out of college you'll make a lot of money on the internet" job. Lorrie needed to satiate her 'not like the other kids' ways, so she told her friends and family that she was quitting it all to sell "clicks." Some intervention attempts were staged, but Lorrie persisted and ended up at a leading online advertising network. Although the job was lucrative, driving traffic to sites that had gargantuan ad budgets and no business models was un-fulfilling. While other dot-commers were buying new cars and partying like it was 1999 (oh wait it was), Lorrie took her dot-com cash, left the victim triangle of strategic-less marketing and pulled some serious shop therapy by going back to college.

Another start-up (See Anne Orfila's bio) pulled her in and although the dot-com boom was over, she found herself riding the dot-bomb ride with pride. She went from selling clicks to managing marketing campaigns and took her depth of online advertising CPM, CPC and CPA speak and added SEO, SEM, CTR, PPC, Email, Usability, CMS and other new nerd phrases to her vocabulary, giving her a breadth of expertise and securing a "veteran" status in her field. She tried to find her happy place climbing the ladder at other companies and finally came to terms with the fact that she had professional Attention Deficit Disorder and had to teach, speak, write and serve multiple clients at the same time to find self-satisfaction. She continued teaching at UCSB and Berkeley and when her clientele became too overwhelming to serve on her own, Lorrie tapped her former colleagues like Anne and Kelly to help her make small businesses BIG with the web then enrolled in graduate school to satiate her ADD/overachiever tendencies.

While researching businesses and critically evaluating the company she had, she had a Maslow's Hierarchy of needs self-actualization that although she helped people with their marketing (which she did really well), what she was really doing was marketing THERAPY. Listening to problems, solving problems, helping clients find answers within themselves, own their wants, get over fears of failure and let of marketing efforts that were dysfunctional were what her life purpose was about!

Lorrie soon recruited other talented marketers and built an amazing "Wild Web Women ®" (and man!) team to help save/stop more professionals from being dangers themselves and others. Lorrie is committed to using her superhuman marketing powers for good and speaks, writes and teaches with her authentic spunk and flair. Lorrie holds a Master of Arts in Organizational Management, is loving the wild web life and empowering professionals to manifest their marketing destinies. Well behaved women never made history, and being different has worked so far, so Lorrie has no intention of behaving any time soon.

Diagnosis: ADD, OCD, Perfectionist, Over-Communicates, Workaholic

Addictions: Facebook home page checking, Textual Harrassment, Crackberry Compulsive Checking, Twittering, Veganaise, Pandora Internet Radio. Haribo Gummy Candy, People

Obsessions: Seth Godin anything, Keeping Email Inbox Quantity low

Phobias: Having a creative idea slip through the cracks, getting a passive aggressive email message that was worthy of a phone call and not getting it in time

Compulsive Behaviors: Spell checks all text messages before sending, can't leave a hotel without taking soap, opens and saves all email attachments, will only eat Haribo Gummies, no other gummy is worthy

Self-medicates with: Coffee, Anything with Sugar in it, Good Food, Good Wine, Great Company

It may have been her love for storytelling or multiple viewings of “Almost Famous,” but after graduating from college, the next practical thing for Emilia to do was become an entertainment reporter. After numerous internships on the West Coast, Emilia decided to move to New York City to pursue her “go big or go home” dream of climbing the almighty masthead and becoming a big time magazine editor.

However “go home” started sounding like a pretty attractive option after one blistering East Coast winter! (Side note: Emilia’s first experience with blogging was her online journal on Xanga.com called “Sucks in the City.”)

Needless to say, Emilia quickly realized that growing up in Los Angeles makes you evolutionarily unfit to endure any sort of inclement weather elsewhere. It’s totally true, you can take the girl out of the Valley, but you can’t take the Valley out of the girl.

However, moving back to the West Coast and leaving the Publishing Mecca behind meant having to find a way to translate her writing and editing skills into another meaningful occupation that she could pursue with equal passion.

The time Emilia had spent working as an entertainment reporter and copy editor at national entertainment and lifestyle magazines had opened her eyes to something that wasn’t taught in any of her UCLA media courses: How consumer publishing is often driven by advertising and circulation numbers, more so than the stories that filled its pages.

She also realized that many editorial decisions weren’t necessarily made by the writers and editors. They were often prompted and motivated by a more subtle force known as the Dark Side.

Emilia realized how the Message Makers in PR and Marketing were often covertly crafting and controlling the stories that written by reporters! That was enough to prompt her to leave the world of bluelines, red carpets, and media junkets and plunge wholeheartedly into the Dark Side.

Emilia now puts the power of storytelling to work as an Account Manager for Lorrie Thomas Web Marketing. She is passionate about helping individuals, companies and organizations by honing their own unique narratives so that they can tell and sell their compelling stories on the web. As a Treatment Specialist for Web Marketing Therapy, she helps clients achieve marketing well-being by understanding how to put the power of storytelling to work for their businesses in results-driven strategies that marry that art and science of web marketing.

Diagnosis: Loves sweating the small stuff (the beauty is in the details!) and is prone to excessive planning, over-thinking, and neurotic fits of tidying.

Addictions: Free music downloads, books on writing, and Macbook photobooth effects.

Obsessions: Broadway musicals, online shopping, and cocktails à la Mad Men. Pour me a Tom Collins or Vodka Gimlet, but hold the Old Fashioned!

Phobias: Typos, spiders, and dangling modifiers.

Compulsive Behaviors: Eating gummy candies in twos, singing in the car while driving too slow, and writing in lists of three (punctuated with serial commas).

Self-Medicates with: Nachos, spinning (ever hear those two words in the same sentence?), and dog walking.

Actor Most Likely to Portray Her In the Story Of Her Life: Rainn Wilson

She graduated with a Bachelors in Theatre Arts from Appalachian State University in North Carolina (at some point during the 90s) before setting out for a fabulous career in theatre when she began teaching and managing school programs for the largest regional theatre in the Southeast, The Alliance Theatre. This opportunity led to the role of Education Director at the Georgia Ensemble Theatre in nearby Roswell, GA. During her time with GET, she discovered her passion for marketing as she took on projects to promote the Youth Conservatory program.

She moved to The Art Institute of Atlanta where she remained for the next 6 years recruiting students and managing events for the Admissions and Communications departments. During this time, she began studying Social Media Marketing methods and utilized social media channels to reach out to prospective students, distribute press releases and promote events for the college. She joined the staff at Out of the Box Marketing where she continues to implement Social Media Marketing strategies for clients and is now working with the Lorrie Thomas Web Marketing Therapy Team to treat Web 2.0 Fears and other disorders, and to encourage and foster your addiction to Facebook.

She lives in the hip Atlanta suburb of Smyrna GA (hey, we have a mall and a Target) with her husband, one year old daughter (who is a You Tube Sensation), 3 cats and her beloved mutt Henry.

Diagnosis: Shamelessly addicted to Web 2.0 social networks and talking about the inauguration.

Addictions/Obsessions: Depends on the time of year, at the moment....Twitter, Coffee, Egg Whites, Blogging, Kaboodle, Twitter, Reading, Facebook, Writing, Updating her Status, Twitter, my family, Twitter, my animals, Twitter and getting things at Target.

Phobias: None- I am a fear specialist. But I am a little afraid of Peanut Butter right now.

Compulsive Behaviors: I tend to spend an usual amount of time checking out my peeps in Twitter- and looking at people's Facebook photos.

Self-Medicates with: Gym therapy, Day Care, Cheese and Crackers.

Nicki prioritized work, school, exercise and fun-time. She also discovered a passion for small businesses and quickly decided to change majors. She switched from Religious Studies to Business with an emphasis in Integrated Marketing Communications and took more than 20 units a semester while working 20-30 hours at the coffee shop. Nicki also took the opportunity to study abroad in Madrid, Spain for 6 weeks. Learning and traveling in Spain was a life-changing experience for her and she strongly believes the best way to learn about a culture is first-hand.

Nicki graduated college in 4 years and moved back to Good Old G-Town. She worked as a Marketing Coordinator at a small business that manufactures and distributes professional rescue equipment to over 75 countries. After working a couple of years, she wanted to learn more so she decided to take night classes and journeyed into the land of Web Marketing Applications at UCSB extension. That's when she met the Boss Lady and thus began the WILD WEB WOMEN ® era. She immediately registered for Lorrie's SEM class and asked LT to take her as an intern. Nicki worked nights and weekends and fell in love with the Wild Web Women ® team.

She quickly grew a passion for the numbers and analytics side of Web Marketing and she became the Data Diva for the WMT team! Measuring site success and reviewing the analytics on a regular basis to build strategy and new opportunities to make more money - is the name of her game. Data is useless unless you have someone (a.k.a. NICKI) to interpret it.

Nicki performs many more Web Marketing functions, in addition to analyzing the data. Nicki creates social media strategies, makes relationships via social media, provides site creative direction, builds wireframes, manages SEM, optimizes web marketing and much more. Nicki also enjoys co-teaching The Art and Science of Web Analytics at UCSB Extension and guest speaking at the Social Media Marketing Applications Course at UCSB Extension.

Diagnosis: Minor case of OCD, an excessive usage of parenthesis's and percentages, and a lack of patience for people that litter

Addictions: Traveling, searching for beach glass, socially awkward moments, Google, Social Media, and street-fashion blogs (the sartorialist, garance dore, fashion toast, lulu & your mom)

Obsessions: Ideas, open-minded people, Wikipedia-ing things, and cleaning my inbox

Phobias: Publishing an article before proofing and sending the wrong numbers and percentages for site analytics

Compulsive Behaviors: Checking analytics, organizing Gmail, making music playlists, pretty much making all kinds of lists

Self-medicates with: Music Therapy (actually blaring the music while singing and dancing), coffee, tea, half & half and raw sugar, books and collecting books that I want to read, practicing Bikram's Yoga, and watching the Food Network and the Travel Channel

He was driving traffic to websites back when people were wondering whether Internet sales would really catch on. These days he's showing folks how to navigate the briar patch of social media marketing (SMM), catapulting them to the top of the cyber-heap faster than they can say Brer Rabbit. He's a master at addressing clients' with cyber-anxiety disorder. Although nothing eases marketing fears like soaring revenues, Nathaniel's also the only member of the Web Marketing Therapy team with a bona-fide advanced degree in psychology from a prestigious institute of higher education. His never-ending enthusiasm for life, socializing and the web have landed him in the board rooms of some of the world's largest and best agencies and multi-national brands as a consultant on the social fabric of the internet. We give him a long leash so he knows to lead them all back here.

Diagnosis: Wanderlust, insomniac, socialite, flirt.

Addictions: Crackberry, Flip Mino HD and Video-Nano; euro-disco scene, live music, Facebook-ing, YouTube-ing, buying new gadgets and software, researching new lands to visit, filming everything with various gadgetry, yogurt with sour cherries (mmmmmm!).

Obsessions: Organizing HD and webmail into increasingly minute folder divisions.

Phobias: Domestication

Compulsive Behaviors: Diving into research rabbit holes on the net and surfacing hours later, checking email, texting, blogging, finding cool quotes for Facebook.

Self-Medicates with: Travel, travel, travel! French wine. Fine dining. Shopping. Diving into any body of water he can find. Dancing.

Try interviewing in the professional business world and having PASTRY CHEF as your last job! She was practically laughed out of her first interview-but something made them hire her (must be her charming personality!) Working for one of the largest temp agency's for three years was fun and challenging, but when afore mentioned dot.com came knocking (See Lorrie and Anne's bio) she was wooed into the shorts and flip-flop, dogs at work lifestyle of the innovative company and off to work she went! Working alongside the President, CFO and Chairman of the Board brought a multitude of opportunities to dabble in marketing, sales, hr and just about anything else that needed to be done at the growing company. Kelly returned to her marketing roots when one of the marketing team members went out on maternity leave - and Lorrie got to show her the ins and outs of all the letters Anne mentioned in her story. Lorrie eventually went off on a new adventure, but still crossed paths with Kelly almost weekly at Summerland Beach Café', where Kelly dined on Sunday mornings with friends and every time they met, Lorrie would talk about this lil' ol' marketing company and toss in "if you ever leave the dot com, let me know-would love to have you on the team!" Lorrie had to wait a few years, but after Kelly joined the motherhood club, working with the Wild Web Woman ® team Lorrie was building sounded like much more fun! She joined the team in April '07 and has been meta-tagging, blog training, writing, SEOing, organizing and counseling ever since!

Diagnosis: Detail Diva with a desperate need to help people

Addictions: My Crackberry, Sugar (must have dessert after dinner-doesn't everyone?), A&W Root Beer, biking instead of driving whenever feasible, horses, dogs, cats (ok, pretty much anything with fur!) and my too cute for words toddler and vet school student husband!

Obsessions: Making sure all my son's toys are put back together daily and have all the pieces accounted for, clicking the "reconcile now" button on my crackberry every couple of minutes to make sure I'm not missing an email

Phobias: WWLD (What Would Lorrie Do) moments when she isn't reachable on crackberry, facebook, twitter or email and I need to come up with a solution NOW! Sending an email to a client with a spelling error or the wrong attachment

Compulsive Behaviors: hanging all clothes according to color (lightest to darkest) and sleeve length (shortest to longest) and then proceeding to space the hangers (one finger apart), facing all the labels on jars in the fridge OUT and arranging by type (my husband calls me MONK), not to mention washing off the lids of said jars before returning them to their proper spot

Self-Medicates with: Reality TV, Ice Cream-any kind will do in a pinch, but my two favorites are Ben and Jerry's Chubby Hubby and Baskin Robbins Peanut Butter and Chocolate, or a bike ride with the husband, dogs and kid

By the time high school rolled about, this new lifestyle was getting pretty stagnant and Valia was itching for something and somewhere new. However, there was the little matter of college that needed to be addressed and so she spent her four years of high school making the most of her education, participating in the typical (but necessary) clubs, honor societies and dipping her feet in the pool. After becoming 'well-rounded' her 'respectable' career of choice was law. However, realizing how long that would take and the lack of 'world explorer extraordinaire' attached to the job description, that idea quickly faded. When college came about, she discovered she could hit two birds with one stone: to go school and not stay in one place! (Just to clarify, Valia is against animal cruelty and would never hit a bird, despite her fear of the malicious pigeons that hang out outside her flat).

The place crazy enough to satisfy Valia's world curiosities was conveniently enough situated across the Atlantic: Richmond-The-American-International-University-In-London. She wasn't sure what to study - but she knew it had to be something that she could apply wherever she ended up in the world. Enter marketing: practical yet mysterious, broad and ever-changing. After four years of taking various classes, serving as editor of her school's finance newsletter (leaning about numbers is important too!) and representing Japan in the annual International Night, Valia further spent her school breaks traversing Europe. By getting stranded in Bohemian valleys, sneaking into the Vatican and spending a night in a former Swedish prison, she feels she has succeeded in maximizing her college years while feeding her appetite for everything new and different.

After graduating, she realized four years in London were not enough to discover every tea house in town so she decided to remain for the time being. Her internship in Internal Communications re-affirmed her love for the flexible and diverse marketing discipline, where her creativity and passion for new projects could flourish and be met with new challenges. Valia feels Web Marketing Therapy is the perfect place to experience and contribute to the fusion of online marketing and considers herself to be extremely lucky to have been introduced to this creative and driven team!

Diagnosis: Obsessive-compulsive traveler, Bulgarian with an American accent/American with a Bulgarian je ne sais quoi, Japan-ophile

Addictions: Passion Tea Lemonade, Roger & Gallet's Bamboo body lotion, iced coffee

Obsessions: Mushroom tortellini, Japanese Dramas, impersonating vampires and/or Russians, J-pop, navy blue, Japanese idols

Phobias: Having a key fall off the keyboard, shrinking wrists, creature/ghost living in her kitchen walls, becoming a "person under the train" and causing further delays to the District Line (the Tube)

Compulsive Behaviors: Making strange noises around unsuspecting flatmates, cutting her bangs/fringe, building machines, opening too many browser tabs (poor Chrome)

Self-medicates with: Listening to songs in languages she does not understand, Pret's Yoga Bunny Detox, dramacrazy.net, Lindt's Coffee Intense Chocolate

Heading into college with the idea that she wanted to pursue something both creative and eventually lucrative, she started her time at the University of Maryland, College Park, in the department of Architecture. At the same time, she was riding high on a scholarship presented to her by a new honors program, College Park Scholars. As part of that program she had to choose an honors discipline, and picked International Relations - mostly because she dreamt of living abroad at some point and figured it would help lay the ground work. After a year-or-so of being unhappy in the Architecture Department, and relishing the work of the honors program, Kate abandoned the idea of designing skyscrapers and went full steam ahead into dreams of working for the State Department. Working her way through college as an Admin Assistant for the Department of Government & Politics only helped cement the idea that she wanted to be among the ranks of the professors, visiting dignitaries and diplomats for whom she fetched coffee.

Having studied abroad her Junior year in London, learning about British public policy concerns, Kate decided to take advantage of the BUNAC program upon receiving her BA and worked in London for a year after graduating. While she had a great time in the Social Services office of the International Students House there taking graduate students on tours of Western Europe, throwing parties and DJ'ing, her self-taught skills designing posters, pamphlets, invitations, and ultimately web sites was being leveraged more and more in her job on top of her "regular" duties. After an unexpected departure from the UK at the end of her work visa (she'd hoped for an extension which was unceremoniously denied), she landed back in her home state of Connecticut planning to move back to the DC area and pick up where she left off in the world of International Diplomacy.

With a growing portfolio of design work under her belt, however, she was persuaded by Oracle Corporation in Redwood Shores to join their ranks as a graphic designer during the dot-com boom by offering her a crazy dot-com salary, great health care & a moving budget. Having never even thought about living on the West Coast, Kate saw this as the spectacular opportunity to try something new and pay off her student loans. She packed the car with her clothes and house plants and drove across the country to start a new life.

While at Oracle for just under 7 years her career evolved as her discipline evolved, from Graphic Designer, to UI Designer, to Interaction Designer, to User Experience Designer, and ultimately to managing a team of Interaction Designers, Usability Engineers and Visual Designers. Growing tired of the corporate management struggle in a ruthless environment, she moved to a job with Sony Corporation of America as a user experience design team of one on a media content management project with a small team of developers & a much shorter commute.

While at Sony Kate determined that she wanted to pursue a more flexible and personally satisfying life, and started her own company, Outbox Online (http://www.outboxonline.com), where she could do freelance design, see projects through to successful completion from start to finish, and enjoy the feeling that comes from seeing her clients thrive with their new web presence. It is through Outbox Online that Kate met Lorrie as a colleague on a mutual project. Lorrie's passion about her career and fun approach to the work of helping people identify and exceed their goals for their companies through web marketing made it really easy to decide to work with her wonderful team. Offering her services through Web Marketing Therapy as a graphic, web and user experience designer, Kate is here to make you and your company look GREAT while achieving your web marketing goals.

She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, Graeme, and their cat, Luna.

Diagnosis: Acute Aesthetic Obsession, Internet & Technology Fixation, Geekism

Addictions: Tea with Milk & Sugar, Never Leaving Something Undesigned, Fixing up Her New House

Obsessions: This Old House TV show, Twitter, Flickr

Phobias: Bad or Unthoughtful design, Spiders

Compulsive Behaviors: Wears Fingerless Gloves While Working on the Computer to Keep Hands Warm, Never Without a Cup of Tea or Chapstick

Self-medicates with: Tea, Food, Yoga, Gardening, Time w/ Husband & Cat

True to her word, she did that for about a month, and was quickly whisked up by the International Sales Department of a major Scanning Probe Microscopy company. Staying with that for a few years, she became an expert in Excel and deciphering different international accents. Eventually bored with that, she moved on to a new dot-com company that was going to change the world of dial-up (you laugh now, but they sure were serious at the time!). Working the entire time in Advertising Online Sales with Lorrie Thomas by her side, she was introduced to the world of acronyms at a young age: CPC, CPM, CPA and in a matter of three years added C-U-Later to that when she left the corporate world to help build and shape a little human. Missing all those acronyms, she was soon woo-ed by Lorrie Thomas to become Lorrie Thomas Web Marketing's first employee, bringing forth all of her skills from life and work to better serve the World Wide Web. Anne's part in WebMarketingTherapy, as Psycho-Web-Analyst, is to help the client understand the web, understand Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM), decipher their website's statistics and sometimes, as an added bonus, decipher what is happening within themselves. A little bit crazy, a love for solving puzzles, a wry sense of humor and a lot of smarts make her the leading Psycho-Web-Analyst on the WebMarketingTherapy team.

Diagnosis: Slight OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), Slight OCD (Oh, that was already stated), Perfectionist to a certain degree. A little neurotic about work.

Addictions: Previously addicted to Facebook Scrabble (Scrabble-free for 14 days now!), Gmail, Creating More and More Labels in Gmail, Googling, Wikipedia-ing, Text Messaging, Exercising, Diet Coke, Cheese Enchiladas Verde at Rose Cafe (Santa Barbara)

Obsessions: Having a Favorite Pillow that Travels Wherever Anne Goes

Phobias: Clients that Ignore all Email, Phone Messages and Text Messages, Phone calls that come through with "Private Number", Un-friending People in Facebook, Copying a Spreadsheet for another Client and Not Replacing the Client Name in the Header

Compulsive Behaviors: Exercising, Text Messaging, Checking Email all Day, Sleeping on Favorite Pillow

Self-Medicates with: Meditation, Green Tea, Food, Good Friends, Good Wine, Spinning and Running

When the parents of her two friends had approached Vanessa's mother about what she had accomplished, her mother realized why Vanessa's preference of playing school over the customary play-date activities had landed her a full scholarship to a private elementary school in New Jersey. Hop, skip and jump five years later to Miami, Florida where Vanessa moved with her family. Forget about the sand and beach, Miami was the epicenter of Vanessa's new technological obsession. She would soon be introduced to her wonderful, yet prodigious stepfather. He introduced her to the world wide web (and also lovingly enslaved Vanessa as his personal co-pilot for all tech-related tasks for his software development business) It didn't take long before Vanessa would be found hunched over an HTML book as fat as Atlas Shrugged, honing in on her web-site building skills. A blogger was born. You heard right, in 1995.

Vanessa's stepfather soon landed a job with a company that initiated the use of web technology in mobile devices and relocated the family to Silicon Valley, the hub of technology and innovation! Vanessa was in a state of bliss and California is where she could finally call home. A few years later it was time for college and if it wasn't for her mother's loving but harsh dissuasion during her first year in college, Vanessa may have never made it close to being a Wild Web Woman. After spending sleepless nights studying to be a storyboard and animation artist in college, her mother asked one day in her best New York accent, "Vanessa, wuddya going to graduate from college with a degree in drawin' pic-tcha's?" With a mother as a financial advisor and a father who worked on Wall Street, she followed family suit and headed to the business school at San Francisco State University where she studied marketing.

No later than a week after graduating college, Vanessa put her nose to the grind and was hired at a medical laser company that catered to the aesthetic and medical markets. For nearly two years, she worked in the marketing department alongside luminaries in the medical industry hosting webinars, seminars around the country and assisted with various marketing campaigns, creative product launches and promotions. The industry proved to be scientifically interesting and educational however, Vanessa's creative appetite had her thirsty for something slightly more intriguing. She made a brave move to the interior design world, working for a boutique firm in Menlo Park working as a designer and project manager for the next four years. Here she had quenched her appetite for creativity yet her career was now lacking any technological substance. Once working hours were over, Vanessa started to fill the gap after hours with her new found obsession for various social media platforms when she launched her own small, jewelry company. A few shopping trips with her girlfriends had her dabbling with jewels and jewelry design. This after-hours hobby turned into a passion and the passion turned into a prospering business, dubbed Rasbarri. Her new venture had her blogging, tweeting and putting her right back in her comfort zone. It wasn't long before her hard work was recognized through the web. Rasbarri was picked up by a prestigious boutique on Santana Row in San Jose and the Marina district in San Francisco. Not only has her online marketing brought continued success, she took her skills to the street and picked up a few social media accounts of her own. Like a good Samurai, Vanessa is passionate about how businesses can achieve their maximum business value from their social media strategies.

Diagnosis: Self proclaimed hypochondriac, ADD, and Queen of Over-Analyzation.

Addictions: Chai latte's, Pepperidge Farm goldfish and Facebook.

Obsessions: Antique store shopping, the translator on my Macbook Pro and anything cupcake-related.

Compulsive Behaviors: Random fact-finding via the web, making lists, and updating my Mac calendar every time I breathe.

Phobias: Singing at the top of my lungs in my car when my cell phone has mysteriously dialed someone I know.

Self Medicates with: iced coffee mid-afternoon, snuggle time with her fluff-ball Maltese puppy, late-night Rasbarri jewelry creations and those deadly, mini-fruit tarts I can't seem to stay away from at the farmers market...

Like a good Swede, Pamela graduated with a B.A. in Communication Arts from Cal Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, CA. While there, she worked in the studios (KTTV News, Fox Studios, and Paramount Pictures); yet, no matter where she was, the marketing ideas would surface. Her expanded interests also earned her a national gold medal in persuasive speech, tennis championships, and the artistic title of “journeyman printmaker.”

Since graduating college, Pamela has helped a number of companies grow. As a “farmer’s daughter,” she often found herself wearing multiple marketing hats and rolling up her entrepreneurial sleeves. She served as Marketing Director for the Corporate Law Firm of Citron & Deutsch (and several of their entrepreneurial clients), College Enterprises, Inc. (which was purchases by Blackboard, Inc. in 2001) and an educational research and development company called, Spotlight Enterprises, Inc. (founded in Sweden). She’s been a marketing consultant for several other companies (incl.: Marketing & Financial Management, Inc., 3M, Saturn, and Stockholm Krystal Vodka). Her emphasis is in strategic marketing and relationship building, delivered through creative execution. When Pamela met like-minded Lorrie Thomas and her inspiring team, she couldn’t help but join forces. Together, the team shares a goal of delivering an “evolutionary new approach” to web marketing that maximizes business relationships and success.

Diagnosis: A bit of a Perfectionist (okay, some say, “uber-perfectionist”); Over-Active Mind (wakes up with ideas in the middle of the night); Multiple Personalities (but, she can wear “multiple hats”!)

Addictions/Obsessions: Constantly plays with words; Trader Joes’ treats; Her husband’s Internal Medicine Career (jokes that she has an “emeritus” in medicine); Retaining her Youth

Phobias: Global Warming; Aging (not gracefully that is); Tricky Sales Callers, Slight Case of Hypochondria (comes with having a doctor-husband)

Compulsive Behaviors: Researching or shopping online; Creating her own crazy workout programs; Periodic art fits –creating and/or appreciating it.

Self-Medicates with: Good movies, friends, teas, art, books, walks on the beach, and very inventive vodka cocktails! (made with Stockholm Krystal of course!)

He knows that vanity, self-awareness and mindfulness of image are qualities that need to be paid special attention to in marketing promotions. On the web, "show me" is often much more powerful than "tell me", so KC ensures the photographs and video on WMT client websites represent personality, personal style and create a positive memory that makes a meaningful marketing investment.

In the first seconds a potential client scans a web page, organizations have to capture attention - competition is only a click or two away. Photographs and video are two very valuable tools to keep customers on a site and should never be overlooked when refreshing your image online. KC's marketing mantra is "Invest in beautiful images. They will be useful for years to come."

In business, the general rule is "Location, Location, Location". In Photography, the rules are just as simple, "Lighting, Lighting, Lighting and a bit of touchup".

Having a web ego is healthy -KC is proud to be a "web-vanity enabler" to make sure professionals and organizations looks good where it counts most these days - on the web.

Diagnosis: He diagnoses Vanity Insurance so organizations capture and maintain clients with beautiful, professional photography and video.

Addictions: Tea in the morning at the local independent coffee house and chatting on Facebook.

Obsessions: Grabbing photos off of friend's Facebook pages and photoshopping their images onto other more exotic images to create a fun, humorous photograph.

Phobias: Being stagnate. Always looking for adventure!

Compulsive Behaviors: Ironing jeans and steaming shirts. Hates wrinkled clothing.

Self-Medicates with: Flying, long rides with his daughters on the BMW Motorcycle, making short films for film festivals, climbing mountains, great white shark cage diving and dessert crepes from the local French restaurant.

After graduating with a degree in Creative Studies, she worked at a local paper and then at the university as an editor and designer. While there she filled many roles, including designing publications and on-brand publicity materials, web work, producing conferences, and raising money through grant writing. She co-edited the book AfroGEEKS: Beyond the Digital Divide, exploring information technology access. She dove even further into web design and development, and found that her tenacity worked well in the world of browser wars and cross platform issues. She started Dowitcher Designs, a web and graphic design business, with partner Jill Kingdon. Not wanting to leave the book world, she also started a small press publishing local poets.

The freedom to fully explore new media and new opportunities was addictive, and she plunged in the deep end. Teaching clients how to develop websites and branding materials and then going home to learn more about search engine optimization best practices was great! Oftentimes marketing advice was a natural extension of the web conversation. She was lucky enough to take Lorrie's web marketing course at UCSB, where she was glad to find someone who approached websites from the end-user standpoint, thinking of usability, design and marketing as part of the whole package. It took Kelly Kohen, WMT web marketing counselor, to point out that both Amber and Lorrie kept talking about usability, design, building client relationships, small business consulting, education... after the eureka moment, Amber joined the team.

Glad to be part of the Wild Web Women ® team, Amber stays busy working with clients on a variety of projects, expanding her knowledge, and sharing it. She is a graduate of the Women's Economic Ventures program, where she volunteers as a mentor and helps with small business consulting. She teaches the Principles and Techniques of Web Design at UCSB Extension, where she enjoys learning from her students. She continues to run her web and graphics business, and looks forward to the opportunities to continue learning, collaborating and teaching with WMT.

Addictions: good cup of tea, iGoogle, and Trader Joe's cinnamon almonds (the most fattening superfood ever?)

Obsessions: having Internet Exploder love my code (and display it correctly), spreading the word about Firefox as a great browser

Compulsive behaviors: checking email, analytics and blog feeds, adding iGoogle widgets

Phobias: bad user interface designs, nested tables in web development, email scrapers (those pesky bots that grab your email address to be spammed!)

Self medicates with: long walks on the beach, hikes, anything active and outdoors, nature photography, the occasional nice glass of wine

In addition to being an adventure-seeker, Wei also enjoyed the thrill of performing in front of large audiences. In high school, she actively participated in the Speech and Debate team, which taught her important lessons about public speaking as well as introduced her to some very intelligent peers. After winning a few trophies for public oration, Wei embraced her love for Speech and Debate and duly noted her interest in pushing her own intellectual envelope regarding politics, debate, and public speaking.

Dancing along the same line of passion, Wei fed her love for politics at UCSB with her political science major. However, after one quarter of hearing "a lot of political science majors work at Starbucks after graduation", she decided to add Business Economics to her degree just in case there is an ounce of truth in the rumors. Even though Santa Barbara was gorgeous and new to Wei (whose life in the Silicon Valley for 8 years was beginning to appear monotone), her quest for adventure led her to spend three summers in Europe for which she paid for by working at a law firm in San Jose temporarily. Her first trans-Atlantic flight to Spain opened the Pandora's Box of traveling for Wei to grasp every opportunity to travel abroad in subsequent years so that she can absorb new cultures and meet interesting people outside her usual circle of companionship.

Wei's strong passion for exposure to new things combined with her love for intellectual challenge has led her to begin working with Lorrie Thomas at her amazing WMT company. After meeting with Emilia from WMT, Wei decided that working with refreshingly intelligent and upbeat go-getters is a perfect fit for her personality. She is exploring the possibilities of web marketing with her internship at WMT and is very excited to contribute to this growing team.

Diagnosis: Insatiable appetite for learning new things; fear of staying static and needs to constantly be on the go (whether it be traveling or rising up to new challenges), fear of empty schedules, prone to over-planning, over-organizing, OCD.

Addictions: Nutella (the big jar), stilettos, shopping.

Obsessions: 24, furry animals, jet-setting across the globe

Compulsive behaviors: Randomly breaking out into songs, uncontrollable laughter, shopping.

Phobias: boredom, snakes, snags on dresses

Self medicates with: jogging on the beach, Chris Rock comedy

After college, Melissa joined the AmeriCorps to make her contribution to her country while she was young enough not to care about saving for retirement. During her service she assisted victims of sexual assault and domestic violence with counseling and community resources. This spirit of community service catapulted her into working with non-profit organizations for the next seven years.

Melissa worked for the Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center and the Community Environmental Council, where she helped coordinate the Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival among other things. She developed a nice set of marketing skills, such as event coordination and email marketing. She also volunteered for local film festivals and completed an internship in video production.

Melissa joined the corporate world of marketing in 2008. She took a life-changing UCSB Extension course from Lorrie Thomas in web marketing and never looked back, hooked on the adventure of being one of the Wild Web Women®! Melissa has since started her own one-woman show, Vandew Marketing, and immediately gained a deep appreciation for the amazing team that fuels Web Marketing Therapy. As a Webphobia Coach for Web Marketing Therapy, Melissa helps clients overcome their fear of the Wild Web to embrace the possibilities it offers for marketing based on what's right for you instead of tradition alone.

Diagnosis: A humanitarian, a misanthrope, a perfectionist, and a "big picture" idealist are stuck in an elevator together. Thankfully, this elevator has windows with a nice view. Plus, somebody brought cookies.

Addictions: Overanalyzing everything, especially how marketing can "make this so much cooler," and the Cheezburger Network (for irony, see "Phobias")

Obsessions: Tools that can do everything in one place like HootSuite or iPhones, Harry Potter anything, and all TV shows that promise vampire drama (despite the voice in her head screaming "Nooo, the writing is awful!")

Compulsive behaviors: Googling the answers to any and all ponderings, trying to get people to process their feelings, signing up for NaNoWriMo each year ignoring how it's likely she'll write about 500 words

Phobias: Misuse of apostrophes and grammar, doing the same thing forever, and forgetting to bring lip balm or gum

Self medicates with: Doctor Who, a good Earl Grey, sudoku, and meditation

In a previous life, Wil directed and created web, print and product branding for over 100 different products sold worldwide to Petco, PetSmart, Walmart and others as the former Vice President of Marketing for Veterinarian's Best, Inc.

Wil brings a unique blend of right and left brain function to help create clean, simple and effective design solutions. Your marketing materials, whether online or print, convey a powerful image of what you have to offer and his philosophy has always been to "keep it simple and make it make sense."

Be unique. If you are contemplating the use of "stock" layouts or logos, don't expect to stand out.

Wil lives in Santa Barbara, CA and yes, the weather is really nice today.

Diagnosis: An incurable attention to detail and humor.

Addictions: 85% or higher dark chocolate, really tart Pinkberry plain frozen yogurt with fresh fruit.

Obsessions: Accuracy is speed ... doing it right the first time saves time.

Phobias: Office cubicles and being too accessible.

Compulsive Behaviors: It would be easier to list the non-compulsive behaviors.

Self-Medicates with: 100 miles a week of road cycling, running errands in busy traffic on a fixed gear messenger bike, teaching Spin Class to a room full of attractive women, rappelling 180 feet off vertical waterfalls, good red wine and cold Pabst Blue Ribbon.