JMA and Associates LLC. Media

A small business marketing and sales expert, Janice Albokai’s 25-year career has ranged from telemarketing to direct sales to being a marketing expert for small businesses and entrepreneurs. Since 1993 Janice has consulted with over 5,000 small businesses, from traditional to Internet marketing to social media marketing strategies.

For six years during the 1990s, Janice worked with four chambers of commerce in Northern Cali-fornia, where she developed and implemented targeted programs to drive membership. This in-cluded the Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce, a 93-mile-wide area in northern California encompassing 39 other chambers of commerce.

In addition, Janice spearheaded the growth of the River City Small Business Chamber, raising its membership from 400 local businesses to more than 1,200 in less than two years. During this time, Janice’s business development team increased membership revenue to more than $500,000 while sustaining healthy membership retention levels.

In 2003, Janice relocated from Northern California to North Texas, and over the next five years shared her experience and marketing strategies through a variety of ways:

• Publishing Fort Worth Small Business Times (new edition coming Fall 2011)
• Founding and running the North Texas Small Business Alliance www.ntsbsmallbusinessconnection.com
• Establishing ROI Small Business Coaching and Consulting
• Founding and running the North Texas Christian Women’s Chamber
• Authoring and selling 1,000 copies of “What Is A Social Media Environment”
• Hosting “The Voice of Small Business,” an Internet radio show heard nationwide with more than 25,000 downloads monthly www.blogtalkradio.com/janice-albokai.

Through her current businesses, JMA and Associates Media and ROI Small Business Coaching and Consulting, Janice advises small business owners in North Texas and across the country on a variety of online and offline sales and marketing strategies.