Carrie Perrien Smith is an expert on building business
relationships. She can teach you how to transition your prospects into clients,
create a customer base of fans who rave about you to their peers, and create
strong professional relationships within your organization. A skilled
connector, Carrie is personally responsible for business connections that have
resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue in the last five years.
She is a publishing, communication, and training industry
veteran. Carrie’s corporate career spans 15 years, split between Texas
Instruments and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Her company, Soar with Eagles, offers training,
book publishing, event design, and consulting services as well as a professional
speaker bureau.
She is an expert on building business relationships. She
publishes an e-mail newsletter called Effective
Strategies. It provides information and ideas that give business and non-profit
professionals a competitive edge. She has just introduced an e-mail newsletter
focused on book publishing for writers and speakers called The Last Word on Books. She is the author of Networking Zone: The Business Referral Network Construction Guide
and a co-author of Wise Words for Smart
Teens: The Teenager’s Guide the a Great Life. Her most recent book which
will be released in June is Currency:
Striking Networking Gold in a Relationship Economy.
Carrie is a native of the Tulsa area. She earned her Bachelor of
Science and Masters in Business Administration at John Brown University, a private Christian
university. After many years in Dallas, Texas, she lives in Rogers,
Arkansas with her husband, Tom.