Gail Greenberg - Mitzvah Chic

Originally self-published, the book was picked up by Simon & Schuster. MitzvahChic is endorsed by Rabbi Harold Kushner based on its scholarship and intellectual rigor, and by Sam Raimi, director of the "Spider-Man" movies, who calls it "fun, refreshing, insightful and original. Judaism," he concludes, "has never seemed so cool."

Gail's website - www.MitzvahChic.com - is the top bar/bat mitzvah planning site online and features an innovative section for product and crafts ideas, "tips" articles, a popular advice column, the first national vendor directory for this event, and even a service where visitors enter their bar/bat mitzvah date and get a custom planning timeline generated just for them. Once visitors enter their event date, they receive emailed planning reminders over the course of two years to keep them on track during the lengthy planning process. This is one of Gail's many original ideas that is now being widely imitated.

Gail - a lifelong writer, editor and crafts artist - discovered internet marketing in May, 2006. Since then, she has apprenticed with member site guru Len Foley and has a number of projects in development. In addition to her own projects, she works with website owners to help them retool their sites to incorporate cutting edge internet marketing ideas and technologies.

Gail's innovative ability to entice an audience enabled her, while creative director of a small public relations firm in Philadelphia, to get the Philadelphia Flower Show written up for the first time in BusinessWeek and other non-horticulture media. Her determination as a researcher has yielded eyebrow-raising anecdotes: as a editor running a magazine during her senior year at Boston University, she tracked down two ghost-hunters starting with nothing but the name of a burned-down theater they'd once lectured in. Once she found them, they gave her the worldwide scoop on the story later known as "The Amityville Horror." Gail also studied fiction-writing with E.L. Doctorow at Sarah Lawrence College.

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Alan Phillips:

I voted 10 for Gail.
Gail has a clear imagination and enough focus to make her story interestingly different. Her obvious love of family and pets shows dedication. Sharing the votes with her dog suggests to me that she is not all about herself, but instead has great interest in all those around her. The video is calm and smooth which clearly indicates the stability of her planning abilities.
Gail has all the right characteristics that lead to success for her and all those around her.

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