Katya Andresen Featured as ideablob.com Guest Advisor

 

What:  Katya Andresen, V.P. of Marketing for Network for Good, is currently serving as ideablob.com's featured guest advisor for the week of May 19, 2008.

Ideablob.com is a vibrant and active community where small business owners and entrepreneurs are sharing business ideas in exchange for feedback, advice and votes from the community. Advanta, one of the nation's largest credit card issuers (through Advanta Bank Corp.) in the small business market, awards a $10,000 monthly prize to the best eligible idea, as determined by the votes of the ideablob community. To date, Advanta has paid out prize money to contest winners from Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and State College, PA.

Who:  Katya Andresen develops and executes the marketing strategy for the online charitable giving resource, Network for Good. She has extensive experience with consumer outreach, media relations, corporate partnerships and nonprofit marketing. Before joining Network for Good, she worked in several marketing positions, most recently as Senior Vice President of Sutton Group, a marketing and communications firm supporting nonprofits, government agencies and foundations working for the social good. Besides being a marketing leader at Network for Good, the former journalist is also an avid blogger for www.nonprofitmarketingblog.com, and an author of the book Robin Hood Marketing: Stealing Corporate Savvy to Sell Just Causes. Fundraising Success magazine named her Fundraising Professional of the Year in 2007. 

Why:  As a featured guest advisor on ideablob.com, Andresen is offering her extensive background and experience to small business owners and entrepreneurs.

Having Andresen as a guest advisor provides business owners and entrepreneurs with a unique opportunity to pose serious business questions to a seasoned professional. And it's just one example of the innovative ways that ideablob and Advanta are helping small business owners and entrepreneurs realize their dreams.

 

Where:      http://www.ideablob.com/

 

When:       The week of May 19, 2008

 

Contact:   David Goodman                                          Jennifer Sherlock

              Vice President, Communications                PR Manager

              Advanta                                                               Advanta

              215-444-5073                                                   215-444-5592

              dgoodman@advanta.com                              jsherlock@advanta.com

 

There is no purchase necessary to enter the ideablob.com contest. Contest began on 9/24/07 at 12:00:00 am CT and ends on 9/30/08 at 11:59:59 pm CT. Open to legal residents of the 50 U.S. states and D.C. who are of the legal age of majority in their state of residence at the time of entry. Void where prohibited. Official Rules are available online at www.ideablob.com. Sponsored by Advanta Bank Corp., PO Box 30715, Salt Lake City, UT 84130-0715. Ideablob and ideablob.com are registered service marks of Advanta Bank Corp.