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Millions of men and women around the world read Susan's email newsletters, visit http://personallifemedia.com and purchase her online sexy sexy ed programs. She publishes her own advice column and programs as well as working with a hand-selected group of experts who compliment her heart-connected, conscious lovemaking education style.Through Personal Life Media, Susan has authored 20 books including Relationship Magic, The Passion Patch and 30 Romance Tricks That Work Like Magic, thousands of articles and audio dialogs on many topics including flirting and seduction, safe sex, foreplay and erotic escalation, advanced anatomy, creative lovemaking, masculine-feminine magnetism, expanded orgasm and sexual empowerment. The thrust of her work serves those who crave a profoundly nurturing sex life. She has published a collection of online courses including her own wildly popular Revive Her Drive and Steamy Sex Ed DVD Collection, Dr. Patti Taylor’s Seduction Trilogy and Expand Her Orgasm Tonight, as well as The Multi-Orgasmic Lover for Men by Jim Benson and Female Liquid Orgasm and Keep Her Coming by Tallulah Sulis. Susan is known for her compassion and fearlessness in teaching the fundamental techniques and communication skills that make for crazy-good sex. And who doesn’t want a little more of that? Susan is Chair Emeritus of the ad:tech conference and sits on the Board of Directors of ZEDO, Inc. She’s a Silicon Valley Woman of Influence, a DEMO God and has been featured in The New York Times and on CNBC as well as appearing on ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC as the “Marriage Magician.” She lives on beautiful Mt. Tamalpais in Marin, California with her husband and their teenage daughter.

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Susan is now Chair Emeritus of ad:tech Expositions, the leading conference for digital marketers that reaches more than 50,000 attendees at events in San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, New York, Paris, London, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai and Sydney. Susan was conference chair from 2001-2006 and personally selected nearly 1,000 speakers each year as she programmed every event uniquely. Susan continues to participate as a speaker, moderator and on the ad:tech advisory board.

Susan is the FOUNDER of the ADM, having originally convened the original 14 companies to explain her vision for an organization that would help individual podcasters and vidcasters as well as media companies both emerging and traditional monetize their content by creating standards and guidelines for the industry.Leveraging her success co-founding the Internet Advertising Bureau, Susan mistakenly believed the podcasting industry could benefit from standards.She came to realize that at the time, podcasting was simply a hacker's plaything... that podcasters were not "serious business people." They didn't want to make money and Apple didn't empower or enable technologies for podcasts to drive revenue with their content.Apple just wanted people to make content to sell more iThingies. Ultimately the ADM at downloadablemedia.org was disbanded.Perhaps 15 years later there will be some appreciable revenue models for podcasting...

As Chief Marketing Officer Susan worked with leading personal growth personality, Anthony Robbins on this social meaning technology start up. Susan was also on the Board of Advisors reporting to Tony Robbins, the CEO and Investors.

Susan was on the advisory board of Wisdom Ark from the inception of OurStory.com through the launch of Tribit.com.Susan worked with Andy Halliday and Paul Gassee at her dining room table on the original business model, later polished by Ryan Keating. Andy Halliday continues to innovate social media as he plans his next endeavor.

I used my contacts to start a digital advertising consulting company. I needed a break from start ups and just wanted to work from home. I was sick of traveling and adrenally fatigued. So I worked with a bunch of cool people on fun projects that appealed to me where I could add value to make everyone happy. Here's what my old bio said about that time in my career:Susan Bratton is known for her “power-rolodex” of decision-makers in Marketing, Advertising and Media. Her relationships in the high-tech, packaged goods, entertainment, retail, automotive, and web-services industries successfully create new business opportunities for her clients.Susan’s 25 years of experience with publishing, Internet start ups, industry associations, programming industry conferences and corporate advisory boards provides leadership strategies to create comprehensive growth plans for high-tech companies in the interactive marketing industry.

This was the second company where I was involved with Hilmi Ozguc. He's a sure winner, that guy.I helped Maven establish a sales team and a go-to-market plan before segueing onto the company's advisory board. What we invented was basically what Microsoft Silverlight turned into. Maven was acquired by Yahoo!.

Oh man! Saaaaaaaad story....The most beautiful, amazing, talented founder -- Phil Goldman -- DIED the day after Christmas 2003. And with it, Mailblocks died too.Phil created an online email service just like what is now Gmail. (Google came by, looked at what we built and launched Gmail shortly after. I'm not saying they STOLE it, but it was basically Mailblocks with a Google logo, ok?)AOL was smart enough to grab up the engineers and all the rest of us were out of jobs, worthless stock options... just a shitty, shitty stroke of sad luck.I wouldn't take it back. Working for Phil Goldman was a dream. He was a kind and brilliant man who thought BIG BIG BIG and believed he could accomplish anything.Every moment working with him -- and we made a great team -- was pure joy. Even when we went on press tours in Manhattan and I climbed 30 or 40 flights of stairs with him in the fire exits because of his claustrophobia. He hated elevators.Even though Phil died and it was a tragic loss, working with that team on that project was a delight I wouldn't trade for anything.

As a Sales Consultant, Susan worked with Fortune 500 brands such as Unilever, Pepsi and General Motors to create consumer online marketing programs using digital couponing.This was right after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and business was at a stand still. I needed a job. And there were NONE to be had.I remember playing golf in Silicon Valley at a little executive course and it was so quiet all you heard were birds chirping like we were in the wilderness. But we were in the middle of the Silicon Valley... all the planes were grounded, nobody was driving around, and I was jobless.I took this job at Softcoin on commission-only plus travel expenses. It was PAINFUL.No companies were making decisions...SoftCoin had a "nice-to-have," but not a "have-to-have" unproven technology.I banged my head against the sales wall for about a year of effort with NOT ONE SALE.It was then that I realized, you have to pick the right companies in the right situations.SoftCoin wasn't a bad company... it was just wrong company at the wrong time for me.Lesson learned. I left and ended up at Mailblocks working for the amazing Phil Goldman.Gotta know when to fold 'em.

What a freaking ride!When we (@Home Network) bought Excite we doubled our company to nearly 2,500 people. The HR Manager and I were the only two women who reported to the CEO.I remember being in the executive meetings and watching all the dick-slapping shenanigans and territorial warring that the male executives did in those meetings. Seriously... they acted like gorillas.I went toe to toe with Harvard and Stanford MBA's (the place was lousy with them) and I held my own using the skills I had: charisma, leadership, empathy, strategy...And I learned how to get up on a table in a conference room and address my 100+ employees with vision, a strategy and confidence.I got to LEAD.Which I love and am great at.The experience of working in such a large and quickly growing organization was an opportunity VERY FEW people ever get. I had seven offices around the country staffed with ad sales teams. I did a lot of international travel to sell online advertising to global brands.I learned how important it is to have loyal people working directly under you. And how important it is to put teams together that leverage each other's talents. Right place. Right time. I was in the Silicon Valley in the dot com heyday and I had the appetite and energy -- and a love of digital media -- and worked my ass off. It was an incredible career. And now that I work out of my two homes with my husband with a distributed global team helping people find more intimacy and passion, I still rely on the leadership and strategic vision skills I honed at @Home Network, Excite and ultimately Excite@Home.It was a lovely ride.

In 1996 a group of early interactive ad sales pioneers founded The Interactive Advertising Bureau. I was one of those dedicated pioneers.We were a publisher-led organization focused on developing standards so ads could be easily bought and sold. I did all the original programming for the IAB events in New York, SF and at corporate HQ's. I also brokered the relationship between the IAB and the leading industry conference, ad:tech so that the IAB would hold their meetings during ad:tech events.It was this relationship that ultimately resulted in me becoming the Chair of the ad:tech conference. I am now Chair Emeritus of ad:tech and no longer involved with the IAB.We did amazing things in those early years establishing standards and creating the internet advertising industry. Shout out to Rich LeFurgy, Kate Everett Thorp and so many powerhouses with vision for the industry!The IAB continues to be a pioneer advertising business organization that develops industry standards, conducts research, and provides legal support for the online advertising industry.

William Randolph Hearst, hired me, handed me a laptop and said, "Go create broadband digital advertising." So I did.@Home Network was the creator of 100Mbps cable modem Internet connectivity. And along with that lightening fast connection came a consumer content experience that leveraged the high speed digital deliver. My role was to come up with advertising on that consumer site. We invented the first video banners and worked with Fortune 500 advertisers to co-create next generation ad models that persist to this day.I started with a command and ended up with an international team of broadband advertising sales people generating millions in revenue.We then purchased Excite@Home and I was promoted to VP Sales & Marketing, managing $100 million in revenue and 125 sales, marketing, operations, and market research professionals during the dot com bubble and right on down through the dot bomb explosion. In my tenure I went from being the first hire to laying off over 100 people.Co-creating and then dismantling the dream was -- though tragic -- an experience that has left me with a deep understanding of what is important in building a company that can last for decades.

I started my first company when I was 26.A female publisher, Joy (I forget her last name!) said she wanted me to be a rep and sell advertising in her magazine, AV/Video.She didn't want to hire me, she wanted to empower me to start my own company.So I did.It was her belief in me and her fronting me the money to buy a copier (true!) that put me in business in my spare bedroom in my townhouse in Phoenix Arizona.I worked my ass off every day, day in day out, calling media buyers and pitching page-four-color ads in that magazine. And slowly other publishers wanted me to sell ad space for them.Media Associates had a great reputation as a rep firm in the trade publishing industry. I was the Western-regional representative for a number of print magazines including Computer Pictures, AV/Video, and Multimedia Producer among others over the course of my 10 year experience.I developed a fantastic database of media buyers on my early Macintosh computer with Filemaker Pro -- after all I was a Silicon Valley tech girl having moved my company to Los Altos, CA.I ultimately sold Media Associates to my long-standing and best publisher, Knowledge Industry Publications and stayed on as Associate Publisher with KIPI until the Internet era proved too enticing.