About | Rising Star Ideas

Rising Star Ideas

Rising Star Ideas, LLC provides strategic social media solutions to enable organizations to increase sales, build brand awareness and increase customer loyalty. Our team of highly successful and motivated individuals are dedicate to providing a winning combination of strategies and techniques to measure return on investment (ROI). We do this by employing a team of experts in social media usage, as well as, time saving free or low-cost social media integration tools.

Companies hire Rising Star Ideas to solve one or more of these problems:

To identify opportunities and weaknesses from their current social media landscape
To facilitate social media learning through individual or group training, and workshops
To develop a social media strategy to nurture and grow customer relationships and create personal connections

Rising Star Ideas, LLC, a Columbia Maryland based company, founded by Tonya R. Taylor over 10 years ago to provide essential information technology solutions. Ms Taylor is a Social Media Strategist who specializes in teaching how to leverage Twitter for business through her seminars and workshops. She is the author of the “Twitter Quick-Start Toolkit “ a four part system used to build your audience, increase your traffic, broadcast your message and BOOST your sales, quickly, easily and automatically – even if you “Just don’t get it!”

Tonya R. Taylor

Ms. Taylor graduated from University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) with a M.S. and B.S. in Information Technology. In addition, she has a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University.

Ms. Taylor’s background includes completing the award-winning ACTiVATE (Achieving the Commercialization of Technology in Ventures through Applied Training for Entrepreneurs) program that helps mid-career women start businesses by licensing technologies from universities and government labs. The program received the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship’s (USASBE) award for Best Specialty Entrepreneurship Education Program.

Tonya, an emerging online business tool resource, created 101 Free Tool.com , a handy FREE searchable website for small business owners who want to address tomorrow’s technology needs today.

In addition, she is the author of the Quick Start Toolkit, the Entrepreneur’s step-by-step guide to POWER up your business fast! The Quick Start Toolkit is a fool-proof, fast and easy, connect-the-dots strategy to walk new business owners through the steps needed to magically attract prospects, steamroll your competition and build ironclad trust with your customers – guaranteed.

Ms. Taylor speaks on the following business topics:

She is a member of the following organizations:

Board Member of the American Marketing Association (AMA) of Baltimore
Howard Technology Council
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.

Ms. Taylor is a contributing technology writer to various magazines, newsletters, websites and blogs. Ms. Taylor uses her unique business experiences to publish her widely read FREE weekly e-newsletter for NEW small business owners who want insider secrets and helpful technology tips that save time and money.