Michelle Girasole is an online marketing services expert and a co-author of The Sassy Ladies’ Toolkit for Start-up Businesses. She has helped her clients, which range from female-owned start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, market their products and services online, using tools such as permission-based e-mail, podcasting, blogging, social media and search engine sites. Michelle regularly teaches workshops and seminars to entrepreneurs, businesspeople, and business school students. She helped launch a peer-to-peer business advisory board program for the Entrepreneurship Forum of New England. She received her master’s in business administration and marketing degrees from the University of Rhode Island. She is the mother of two young children and three old cats, and the wife of one handsome husband.

TNEW: Hi Michelle, so we are going to talk about why you decided to work for yourself?

Michelle: When I was 15 years old, I saw my parents sell a business and our… Full Article