"I started my business as a solo designer, thinking that I would forever remain a subcontractor working from my home office. As the amount of business grew, it became clear that I would have to stop depending on subcontract work and start to market, promote, and manage my business -- AND its growth.

"I was totally unprepared. All of my ability lay in design, building web pages, programming and Flash development -- NOT running a business.

"With Denny Esber of Key West Media, LLC, I started developing a Marketing Action Plan with the advice of Lorraine Lane. I Immediately started seeing improvement in the way I managed and marketed my company.

"With the ongoing coaching provided by Lane Business Consulting, I am confident my company's future is very bright indeed!"

Arthur G. Breur
President, Breur Media Corporation

"In the fall of 2004, we engaged Lorraine Lane for a series of customer service related training sessions with several of our staff members. Lorraine has been very receptive with working with us for customizing the sessions and has done an excellent job of planning and implementing the training sessions.

"Lorraine has done more than I was expecting and I have a strong sense that our staff finally has a clear understanding of who our customers are and how we market to them. We are seeing more receptivity in our core staff working with our marketing team and a better awareness to asking for repeat business.

"I recommend Lorraine because of her desire to meet the customer's needs, her desire for results and her willingness to work around our needs and schedule. She is a results driven person."

J.R. (Rick) Smith
President, Stewart Title of Tampa

"Lorraine Lane is a talented professional who I fully recommend. I've seen Lorraine first hand as a meeting facilitator, a business coach and consultant and in all three roles, she has excelled.

"Lorraine is an Advanced Trainer in an organization I belong to, BNI, a business networking organization, and I've had the opportunity to see her facilitate training sessions with new members. These new members are all sales professionals or business owners, a high energy, independent-minded group and the number of participants has been anywhere from 3 to 30, Lorraine is adept at keeping this audience engaged, facilitating a conversation between the participants so they can learn from each other while continuing to add insight and steer the training successfully.

"My role as Area Director for BNI, has also offered me the opportunity to see Lorraine in the role of Business Coach and Consultant on several occasions. She's effective in helping to set a vision and goals for groups and individuals, working with those groups or individuals to lay out a plan of action to accomplish the goals and then holding people accountable to their commitments. I've seen her handle and diffuse angry situations using clarity, objectivity and compassion. I've also seen her most recently take a disjointed team of business professionals, help them unify and determine a sense of purpose to great success. The individuals on this team have grown significantly as a result of Lorraine's coaching and counseling.

"It's been very gratifying for me to work with Lorraine. She's someone I have referred to some of my business associates for Business Coaching and won't hesitate to continue to do so."

Paula Bonnell
Area Director, BNI
President, Aslite Enterprises