Susan Gunelius is the author of over half a dozen marketing, social media, branding, copywriting, and blogging books, and she is President & CEO of KeySplash Creative, Inc., a marketing communications company. She also owns Women on Business, a leading blog for business women. She is a featured columnist for Entrepreneur.com, a featured blogger for Forbes.com, and the Guide to Blogging for About.com. Additionally, her marketing-related articles have appeared on websites such as MSNBC.com, FoxBusiness.com, WashingtonPost.com, TheStreet.com, SmartMoney.com, TodayShow.com, BusinessWeek.com, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Small Business, and more.

She has nearly 20 years of experience in the marketing field having spent the first decade of her career directing marketing programs for some of the largest companies in the world, including divisions of AT&T and HSBC. Susan also appears at in-person and virtual events where she speaks about marketing, branding, social media, and more (visit www.SusanGunelius.com for more information). You can connect with her on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.

Susan’s words of wisdom:

More cowbell.

Robin Parrish is a professional novelist and 15-year veteran journalist. His credits include About.com, INFUZEmag.com, PopCultureGeek.com, and more. He’s a hardcore fan of genre television, video gaming, comic books, and blockbuster movies. His friend Allan Heinberg (creator, Young Avengers) calls him “a keen-eyed, passionate pop cultural savant, whose writing is as incisive and insightful as it is entertaining.”

Robin’s words of wisdom:

All you have to decide is what to do with the time that’s given to you.

After working for FOX News and MTV Networks, Andrew G. Rosen set on the exciting road towards self-employment as a professional blogger, freelance writer, social media producer, and podcasting expert. He founded Jobacle.com, a well-recognized career advice and employment news blog. He is also the author of The Exit Guide: How to Leave a Job the Right Way. Learn more at drewrosen.com.

Andrew’s words of wisdom:

Everything you do, everything you say, and everything you think will determine your future karma. Stay mindful, breathe deeply, and play nice!

Jonathan Bailey has been building Web sites for 15 years and has been blogging actively since 2005. Best known for Plagiarism Today, his blog copyright and plagiarism issues, he also blogs for BloggingPro, WhoIsHostingThis and Blogging Tips. He has also been a featured author on Blog Herald and the European Journalism Centre.

Jonathan’s words of wisdom:

Always write for yourself first. This guarantees you a happy audience and lets your readers grow and learn with you.

Noemi Twigg is an English teacher by day and a geek by night. She loves gadgets to death and spends a lot of her time reading up on new things that she could add to her collection. She also has this peculiar habit of personifying her babies, as she likes to call them, by giving them names. Writing is her other passion, which takes up most of her free time.

Noemi’s words of wisdom:

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Kevin Whipps is a writer and photographer based in the Phoenix, Arizona area. For the past 10 years, Kevin has been writing for various print and web publications, while carving out a name for himself in the industry. Although he writes about a wide variety of topics, he tends to focus on the automobile and tech industries.

Kevin’s words of wisdom: Courage and grace are a formidable mixture.

Ia Lucero has extensive experience in managing both the technical and design aspects of websites. If she had her way, the Internet would have nothing but beautifully-designed and standards compliant websites.

Ia’s words of wisdom:

Complaining is silly. Act or forget.

Darnell Clayton is a geek, poet and free lance writer who has been blogging since the turn of the Millennium. When he is not blogging or syndicating articles upon the Universe Today, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Blog Herald, you can find him on his beloved iPhone tweeting, running and Facebooking with friends.

Darnell’s words of wisdom:

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Carson Brackney is a consultant, copywriter and content provider. He’s been working as a freelance writer for over five years. He’s a veteran of three misguided attempts at grad school, a wildly happy married father of two little girls, a fan of the woeful Kansas City Royals and makes the world’s greatest tuna casserole. In addition to contributing at Freelance Writing Jobs, Carson blogs at CarsonBrackney.com and is particularly interested in the constantly changing role of web-based writers.

James Johnson is a self professed social media geek and huge fan of gadgets, the Chicago Bears and the Chicago Cubs. He currently writes as a tech blogger for Inquisitr.com and runs his own online news site Indyposted. He can also be found writing health, finance and computer/cellular/internet and sports articles all around the web. You can reach him in the Twitterverse @Techobsessed.

James’ words of wisdom:

If someone tells you they’re a “Social Media Expert” ask how many years they’ve been using social media. I’ve never seen someone become an expert at anything in just a few short years.

Born and raised in Aruba, currently residing in The Hague (The Netherlands), Darice de Cuba has been blogging since 2003 while teaching herself all about XHTML, CSS and PHP. Darice writes blogs and codes for a living. She loves reading books, photography and cooking. She is a fan of The Big Bang Theory and several other TV shows. Her sport of choice is anything with a racket, but mostly tennis.

Darice’s words of wisdom:

Work to live, don’t live to work.

Jodee Redmond Jodee Redmond is a freelance writer, editor, blogger and Internet researcher who has been working online since the late 1990s. She has been published online and in print, and has been a guest lecturer at the University of Western Ontario.

Before turning her love of the written word and unbridled curiosity into a writing career, Jodee worked in a number of fields. Previous employment includes working as a tax preparer, in sales and as a legal assistant.

Jodee’s words of wisdom:

You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.

Gayla Baer is an internet professional with over 12 years experience. Best known for founding the popular parent/consumer blog MomGadget.com, Gayla also served as channel editor and blogger for b5media for 3 years.  Gayla recently co-launched GadAboutMedia.com, which is a network of blogs and bloggers catering to "every day people with every day issues." She’s currently considers GaylaBaer.com and SlimFitMama.com to be her home base.

Gayla’s words of wisdom:

Tough times don’t last, tough people do.

A writer and editor of over 11 years, Dina Ely is accustomed to professionally starving. Still, she has the opportunity to write about things she loves for a living, and would have it no other way. Called “pathologically eclectic” by a fellow geek who coined the term, Dina’s interests vary from comics to soccer to opera singing. She’s a published poet with 2 books under her belt. She lives in the suburbs of literary hub New York City.

Dina’s words of wisdom:

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. But calculator wristwatches never go out of style.

Dhee Burr is the presenter of Stolen News on Radio23, and currently with a hyper-local multimedia project (www.bespokeproject.org) as a community researcher, and as a reporter for CaveMedia. Dhee has been a comics geek since the age of nine, published as a small press writer; former actor, dancer and trainer in industry.

Dhee’s words of wisdom:

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Robyn-Dale Samuda, born and raised in Jamaica, is an Entrepreneur, Blogger, Educator & Web Developer and is CEO of Creative Engine Jamaica, one of Jamaica’s leading web development firms. One of his passions, is making life better for children in need through his brainchild, the Victory For Kids Foundation. He enjoys playing pool, swimming, creating business opportunities for young aspiring entrepreneurs and teaching through blogging which he does through his main blog, Sam’s Web Guide.

Robyn’s words of wisdom:

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, either way you are right!

Lorna Doone Brewer is a freelance writer living in the Pacific Northwest. She and business partner Tamara Berry founded the Berry|Brewer Freelance Agency in 2007 in response to being laid off by a company that didn’t deserve them in the first place.

Lorna now spends her days writing for a wide variety of clients, ranging from marketing companies to nonprofit organizations and covering a whole lot of ground in between. She is fiercely protective of her time, opting out of working for The Man so she could take orders from the world’s most precocious toddler instead. She doesn’t regret her choice.

Lorna’s words of wisdom:

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read

Publishing now in a fourth language, English, Franky Branckaute is an online dinosaur and has written on many of the Splashpress Media publications. Before going professional online and ultimately becoming the Chief Strategist for Splashpress Media, his online career path lead via several online Windows and security communities in Dutch, French and German. Once he started writing in English only the sky was the limit. Some people say he has the snark in him, others call his style highly offensive. What he does not know or respect is the so-called A-list. He calls it the hit list.

Franky’s words of wisdom:

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.