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.