Nicolette Lemmon, President/Founder

Owner of a successful marketing and advertising agency, Nicolette Lemmon, became an award-winning marketer. She used her experience, talent, and skills to help clients succeed and wrote several marketing manuals. Her ability to help others implement ideas, campaigns and assist in their job-finding efforts, fostered invitations to speak to groups, including the American Marketing Association and other trade organization conferences. She has spoken to thousands of people about how to use marketing principles and how to market themselves for career success.

People often asked about a book of her tools to help them with their resumes and to get that next job or promotion. To help someone on their path to success and fame, she wrote and self-published, "Almost Famous: How to Market Yourself for Success." By encouraging the reader to think of oneself as a business, she provided the insights and perspectives that have helped thousands of individuals to achieve more success in their job searches and careers. She recently updated the book to address different generations finding their way in changed market situations and published "Almost Famous 2.0: How to Market Yourself for Success."

In addition, Nicolette turned her talent to writing fiction novels and short stories mysteries and joined Sisters in Crime (SinC), a national organization of mystery writers where she serves on the Marketing and Education Committees and has created a library of over 175 "SINC-UP" video tips with insights from authors, agents and editors. She is past president and serves on the board of the Sisters in Crime Grand Canyon Writers Chapter where she also created the Mysteries & More Marketing Network to help members develop author branding and promotions to sell more books.

Having writers ask her for a workbook after attending her workshops and networking groups, Nicolette started the "Write. Market. Succeed." series that helps authors build a writing business plan and develop marketing and promotions. The first in her series was "An Author's Marketing Playbook," which was followed by the new "A Writer's Business Plan Workbook."

She has served many community and charity boards. Nicolette currently is a member of the Board of Directors of Arizona Central Credit Union, a financial institution with branches across the state of Arizona.

Other Fun Facts:

As the founder of LemmonTree Marketing Group, a full-service marketing agency, Nicolette Lemmon put her years of experience into helping people apply marketing techniques to their own careers. She is a well-recognized speaker on financial services marketing for which she authored the book, "Successful Marketing Strategies, From Research to Results" for a financial industry marketing education program called Credit Union Marketing University.

LemmonTree Marketing Group provided a layered approach to marketing strategy combining traditional, online and social media solutions focused on achieving results. Clients benefitted from increased loan portfolios, balanced deposit portfolios and growing member business using our cost-efficient and effective solutions. In addition, Nicolette authored "Successful Product Development from Research to Results" for the Credit Union Executive Society.

Nicolette has a master's degree in business administration (MBA) from Arizona State University (ASU), and she has served on the faculty of the University of Phoenix and several institutes. She is a past chairman of the ASU Alumni Association and received the Outstanding Alumni Service Award and the Arizona State University Young Alumni Achievement Award by the ASU Alumni Association. Other awards of distinction include Top 100 Small Businesses in Arizona by DiverstiyBusiness.com, Top 50 Woman-Owned Businesses-Arizona, a nominee for Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Arizona, sponsored by Inc. Magazine and Ernst and Young; and Top 50 Women Business Owners in Arizona by Today's Arizona Woman Success Magazine.