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Olalah Njenga
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  • Raleigh, NC
  • United States
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A key ingredient in life and in business . . . integrity.

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About my Business:
YellowWood Group is a strategic marketing firm that specializes in marketing planning that aligns marketing strategies with sales goals. For more information about marketing consulting for growing and midsize companies, visit www.YellowWoodGroup.com.


YellowWood Group also owns and marketing coaching system for small business owners in service business called Marketing With Ease™. For more information about marketing for small & solo business owners, please visit www.MarketingWithEase.com.

About Me:
I am the CEO and senior marketing strategist of YellowWood Group, as well as the developer of Marketing With Ease™. To my delight and surprise, Marketing With Ease™ was featured in the book Perfecting Your Pitch, by Office Depot® advisor, Nancy Michaels.

I am a volunteer counselor for SCORE®, the largest non-profit organization for small business that is volunteer-based in the United States. I also sit on the advisory board for the Women's Business Center, a program of the North Carolina Institute of Minority Economic Development in Durham NC.

I am the author of 37 What Were They Thinking? Moments In Marketing (release Late Fall 2009), a member of the National Speakers Association and have been featured twice at Business Idea Café®, the top ranking US website for small business owners. I have served as an entrepreneurship coach at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University Of North Carolina and served twice as a Board Advisor for Wake Technical Community College.

I enjoy working with business professionals who are on fire and committed to their success.

How to reach me:
Email: onjenga@yellowwoodgroup.com
Phone: 919-783-4101
Twitter: www.Twitter.com/Olalah

My Ideal Customer is:
} Growing & Midsize companies who are ready for a fresh approach to marketing and want to leverage new tools, new media and new thinking for better results faster.

} Small & Solo Business Owners who are in service based businesses and are responsible for managing their own marketing pipeline and filing their own sales funnel.

My Ideal Referral Partner is:
If you and the professionals with whom you do business, live, work and play by the philosophy of doing business with integrity and honoring relationships, then let's chat.

Who referred you to inSide919?
Deidre Hughey
Website:
http://www.YellowWoodGroup.com
Blog Address:
http://www.MarketingWithEase.com
Linkedin Address:
http://www.Linkedin.com/in/olalah
Facebook Address:
http://www.Facebook.com/Olalah
Your Twitter to Follow:
http://Twitter.com/Olalah
919 Phone number (only add if you are okay with people calling you)
919.783.4101

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At 8:13pm on October 18, 2009, Leslie Flowers, Change Agent said…
I know Wendy! Good to know.

Ditto on Social media summit. Thoroughly enjoyed. Honestly, that had to be about $20k in value ... thank you for your generosity!
At 10:47pm on October 17, 2009, Angel Lebak, Virtual Assistant said…
AMAZING job today at the Social Media Summit. It was wonderful to finally put a person with the face! Your knowledge base is immense. Thank you for sharing!
At 5:32pm on October 17, 2009, Pat Howlett said…
GREAT Job today at the Summit.
At 9:13am on September 29, 2009, Leslie Flowers, Change Agent said…
LOVE new profile picture, Olalah!
At 10:58am on September 26, 2009, Janice or Craig said…
You as well. Thanks for a response. Wish you all the luck in your endeavors
At 8:28pm on September 15, 2009, Yolanda Ventura said…
I am a member of the North Raleigh group now. I am really excited about it! Thanks for the welcome!
At 2:12pm on September 12, 2009, Pat Howlett said…
Hey O, hope you can make it to the End of Summer "Social Hour" Trying to get a bunch of inSiders to meet each other offline. It's what I do :)
At 10:50am on September 8, 2009, Evelyn McCauley said…
That sounds fine, thanks Olalah. Good luck with your book! I'll look forward to reading it.
At 11:25am on September 7, 2009, marilyn said…
Ok, are you involved with it?
At 2:54pm on September 4, 2009, Evelyn McCauley said…
Hi Olalah,

We met yesterday at Chix in CH, and I wanted to invite you out sometime, to connect and see what we have in common. Please let me know what works for you.

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Olalah Njenga's Blog

Olalah Njenga

Where's Your Inner Phoenix?

It can happen to anyone at any time . . . life gets in the way.

Remember all of those dreams you had? You know the ones, the dreams of creating the life you wanted, the lifestyle you craved and the flexibility and freedom to live on your own terms.

For me, somewhere between business ownership, "mom-dom" and "wife-dom", I put some of my dreams on hold. Eventually, the fire inside that I had for those dreams started to fizzle until the flame went out.

I decided to sign up for… Continue

Posted on May 11, 2009 at 11:37am — 5 Comments

Olalah Njenga

What's Your Theme Song For Today?

The sun is out today in the Raleigh metro area. If you know me well, then you know I can only go about 2 days without sunshine before I start to eat paste and climb the walls.

Today, there is a special skip in my step. The sun is beaming. I'm working from home. I'm waiting (ever so impatiently) for my website to be finished with its new look. And IT'S FRIDAY!!!!!

Most people know that Friday is my "Sharpen The Saw" day. If you are a 7 Habits follower, this will make sense… Continue

Posted on February 27, 2009 at 11:55am — 8 Comments

Olalah Njenga

Why I'm So Glad That My Stepfather Taught Me How To Drive Backward

When do you ever really need to know how to drive backward? I mean really, we might back up to adjust for parking, but no one ever really "drives" backward right?

When I was 15, my stepfather taught me how to drive. He insisted that I learn how to drive based on 2 fundamental principles.

Principle #1 - Learn how to drive a stick (manual) just in case you go out on a date with a guy driving a pick-up truck and he tells you "put out or get out". You can kick him in the b*lls, take his key… Continue

Posted on February 8, 2009 at 4:15pm — 6 Comments

Olalah Njenga

What's Your Crazy Collectible?

Come on . . . we all have one crazy thing that we collect that we don't tell folks about.

OK, maybe your closest of close friends know about it, or your family. But other than that, no one knows that you are collecting this "thing".

My "thing", my crazy collectible thing . . . is a coffee mug.
Might sound strange to some as I've been a tea drinker my whole life. But then . . . wham!
My daughter turned 13 and I have been surviving off coffee ever since.
Any guesses on why? (SheContinue

Posted on February 8, 2009 at 12:53pm — 5 Comments

Olalah Njenga

What's Your Music For Melancholy Moments?

We all have them . . . moments of melancholy. Melancholy doesn't have to be a bad thing. It can be a good way to mentally escape and drift into another state of mind. See life through different eyes. Awaken something that was left undone inside your spirit. Give your soul a reason to exhale and take another breath.

When I feel melancholy rearing it's head, I put on some vintage Madonna. Not the stuff she sings now, the stuff she sang ten, fifteen years ago. . . when she sang for the pure… Continue

Posted on February 7, 2009 at 12:47pm — 3 Comments

 
 

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