Founder Ramon Ray presents award as Small Business Champion

Nancy Ploeger honored for her work as the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce president for 21 years and as one of the founders of the IWEC Foundation, focused on successful women owned businesses from around the globe.

The Smart Hustle Magazine awards honor business owners, entrepreneurs and champions of small business who best exemplify the hustle, the Smart Hsutle, of entrepreneurship and the small business community.  Considered leaders by their peers, Smart Hustle Magazine honorees are professionals who demonstrate success in business ownership and are leaders and positive contributors to the business community or champions of the small business community.

The Conference offered a keynote presentation by Seth Godin, Mastermind and other presentations on pitches, insights from Salesforce, Zoho and video marketing.

Other honorees included Joe Connolly, WCBS News Radio business personality, Alfred A. Edmond Jr. of Black Enterprise as well as several Entrepreneurs from the NYC area.

About Smart Hustle Magazine

Smart Hustle Magazine is a digital and print magazine that shares the challenges, celebrates the successes and chronicles the hustle, the smart hustle, of today’s small business entrepreneur. Our vision is to become the community for small business entrepreneurial success by helping and supporting each other and celebrating the smart hustle – overcoming scarce resources, setbacks and other obstacles through creativity, innovation and perseverance – on the way to even greater small business success!

Ramon Ray, Publisher and Executive Editor

Smart Hustle Magazine is the brainchild of Ramon Ray, a celebrated author and technology evangelist. In addition to writing the best-selling The Facebook Guide to Small Business Marketing, Ramon is a celebrated speaker, small business event organizer, publisher of SmallBizTechnology.com and serves as small business evangelist for Infusionsoft. You can follow him on Twitter at @RamonRay.