Susan-Says Blog

Susan Wilson Solovic is CEO of SBTV.com – Small Business Television. SBTV.com is the first and only video news and information destination site for America’s small businesses. Solovic began her professional career as a television news anchor and reporter for NBC and CBS affiliates. Subsequently, she joined a Fortune 100 company where she was named vice president, director of corporate marketing, of the firm’s international asset-based lending division. While working in an executive capacity, she attended Saint Louis University Law School and graduated with honors. Her legal background provides her with a unique view of American business. Solovic is the author of “The Girls’ Guide to Building a Million Dollar Business” which is consistently ranked among the top 25 books for women in business on Amazon and was listed as a “must read” in Entrepreneur magazine. Solovic made her debut as an author with “The Girls’ Guide to Power and Success,” which was originally released in June 2001 and was re-released in paperback in 2003. The book is also being published in Korea, China and Thailand. “Reinvent Your Career: Attain the Success You Deserve and Desire” is another of Solovic’s books. It offers motivational and practical advice for those individuals seeking to re-ignite their careers. She also authored “Hanging onto the American Dream: A Story of Business Leadership and Leaving a Legacy.” A popular keynote speaker, Solovic has spoken to more than 250,000 small businesses in the past four years. Solovic serves on the advisory board for the John Cook School of Business Entrepreneurial Studies at Saint Louis University – one of the top rated entrepreneurial schools in the U.S. She is a member of the Board of Advisors for Enterprising Women magazine and in 2007 was selected as one of the magazine’s Enterprising Women of the Year. Solovic was also tapped for the inaugural Women Impacting Public Policy Board of Directors serving on the Executive Committee and as Chair of the organization’s Executive Advisory Board. WIPP honored Solovic with the organization’s highest recognition, The President’s Award in 2007. She is a founding member of Women Leadership Exchange’s LEXCI Circles program and a founding member of Boardroom Bound. Solovic served on the National Women’s Business Council which counsels the President, Congress and the SBA on issues impacting women business owners. She was named one of the Most Influential Women in St. Louis (2004) by the St. Louis Business Journal and received the 2004 YWCA’s Special Business Leader award for Entrepreneurial Success. In 2006 she received the Distinguished Leader award from Southeast Missouri State University and in 2000 she was named a Distinguished Alumni from Columbia College. Solovic previously served on the John F. Kennedy School of Government Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard University. On behalf of SBTV.com Solovic accepted the Stevie Award for the Most Innovative Company up to 100 employees. The Stevie Awards are considered the Oscars of business. Recently, AT&T awarded SBTV.com and Solovic the Innovator of the Year award for pioneering a new industry. SBTV is the first recipient of this prestigious award. In October 2006, SBTV.com was recognized by the Women’s Technology Venture Cluster as the Best Investment Opportunity, and in 2008 Solovic was one of 20 women-led media companies selected from more than 100 applicants to participate in the All Things Media venture forum. For nearly a decade, Solovic taught a women’s entrepreneurial training program at a St.Louis-based college. She is regular small business contributor on ABC’s America This Morning and MSNBC’s “Your Business”. She is also a popular media guest on radio and television programs across the country, KSDK-TV and Fox 2 in St. Louis. She hosts an Internet radio program called “Power Lunch with Susan” and she is an expert columnist for AT&T’s Onward Small Business, as well as a featured blogger for Dell, AllBusiness.com, SCORE and Women for Hire.