Shakira Brown, Award-Winning Small Business Public Relations Expert

Shakira Brown is the co-founder of Best Business Mastery LLC and http://bestbusinessmastery.com, which provides effective and tactical information related to marketing, advertising, branding, web strategy and public relations for small business owners and leaders in today’s new economy.

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Shakira is a nationally recognized pr expert and has been quoted and featured in PRWeek, Brandweek, Crain’s Chicago Business, Woman’s World, Smartmoney.com,  Working Mother, Creditcards.com, Black Enterprise, AOL Money & Finance, Plastic Surgery Practice Advisor, and NJBIZ, among many others.

She has been honored with over nine communication industry awards including: Hermes Creative Platinum award for Best Breaking News Pitch (2007, MarCom Creative Awards Gold Winner, Trade Advertising Campaign (2008); MarCom Creative Awards Gold Winner, Promotion/Corporate Identity program (2006) and the two AAM Marketing Achievement Award for Internal program  and Website (2006).

She also won top honors from the League of American Communications Professionals Spotlight awards as part of a collaborative branding campaign that won the Platinum Spotlight Award for Best In-House Materials and ranked number three for the top 100 Communications/Publicity Materials of the year ahead of Adobe, Kodak, Wells Fargo, GE, Martha Stewart and ESPN to name a few.

Before Shakira embarked on a career in public relations and marketing, she worked for an NPR radio station and was in television news production at ABC, CBS, NBC, VH-1 and HBO to name a few. She served as a dayside television news producer at MSNBC for over four years, where she produced news content for various programs and specials.

Throughout her career, Shakira has worked with well-known television personalities, moguls and brands including Brian Williams (Nightly News), Diane Sawyer (Good Morning America), Ann Curry (Today Show), Rosie O’ Donnell, Steve Capus (President, NBC News), Conan O’Brien (Tonight Show),Frank Newport (Editor in Chief, The Gallup Poll), Soledad O’ Brien (CNN), Russell Simmons (Founder of Def Jam and Phat Farm empire), Mort Walker (creator – Beetle Bailey) and Patrick McDonnell (creator – Mutts),  plus many more.

Shakira is a media council member with Gerson Lehrman Group Councils which has networks of consultants, physicians, scientists, engineers, attorneys, market researchers, and other professionals from around the world. She is a voting member of the National Association for Television Arts & Science (EMMY) and the former financial communications chair of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).

She  also served as diversity chair on the executive board for the PRSA-NJ chapter. In addition, she served on the Board of Trustees for TV-36, a local public access television station serving the five New Jersey towns.

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