August 24, 2011 - Forbes Magazine 2011 & @Holly_Hanna pick Linda Hughes aka @iempoweru as #9 of 25 Most Influential Women Tweeting About Entrepreneurship

June 9, 2011: Top 60 sites owned by Women You Should Know by @bigmoneywebs http://bit.ly/mqWteU WOO! HOO! ECO is #8!

Copied with permission from an email sent by Ariela Beniluz 12/24/11:

Being new in on this subject of social media, I'm happy to share with you my experience with http://www.entrepreneurcommunityonline.com - ECO.

Having the need to promote our product with zero budget I had run into one of Linda Hughes's tweets and took her invitation to introduce myself to her.

That has happened less than a month ago. I started with building a twitter account from zero, and I can happily say my account has already gained more than 130 followers, most of them related to our target market and through some of those we got promotions and business opportunities.

For me ECO was not only a "crash course" with very good intuitive video tutorials that gave me the basic tools for building my social media presence. I found a group of experts motivated to help each other with their expertise.

Being able to approach Linda on any simple question I may have, getting quick and useful answers, have helped me a lot. I was not promised to have instant results without efforts, but implementing the new knowledge I got along with having constant support and backup, I feel I found a great place to start my experience in the social media world. I suggest you visit the site and read a little to see if it can suit you too. Good luck!

Copied with permission from an email 11/13/11 from ECO Team Member Richard Garde

Well, you found your way here. Congratulations! I know a lot about you already by that fact. You are hungry, smart and curious. You see things a bit differently than most of the folks you know. You know there is a better way and you have part of the answer and you are looking for ways to increase the exposure of what you know. Again welcome for getting here however you got here.

Entrepreneur Community Online (E-ko for short) is a fantastic resource that provides support both technological and emotional (nothing better than finding a tribe that is going your way) at an affordable price point for beginning entrepreneurs or advanced entrepreneurs who are looking for a better way to use the internet to create a community presence and generate influence .

Check out the resources and scroll through the subscribe drop downs. You will find lots of information and ways to increase your ripple in the internet pond. What’s more this is a community of diverse people who support one another. So it is not just a technological brain dump waiting to fill you up with more techno-confusion.

I have to say that there aren’t many people more techno-challenged than me. Trying to use all the social media or the right social media and trying to get advice from the so-called social media experts who are one page ahead of me was puzzling if not confusing, with no real headway being made in the practical real-world results in ROI. Effort without pay is a hobby or a failed business. Here you will find experience in what works to make a business grow.

I like the information here, tested by real people. I like not having to blaze a trail in tech that I want to use like a TV (I know enough to turn it on and change channels; I don’t need an advanced degree to watch NCIS.) Here at ECO you will find guidelines to make your presence on the internet with both push and pull technology. (Help you create a presence and help you build a community where you are influential in your specialty.)

You already know how to make the world a better place. ECO will give you a bigger world to change.

Copied from the ECO Blog from Team Member Lisa A Stavig 11/4/11:

I am a new business owner and joined ECO in March. I was interested in twitter and social media. I have an online Etsy shop and website and needed exposure. I had learned that in the world of online sales, a business can live or die on listing views.

So I was put into the Business to Consumer group on ECO. What a joy those other business owners are! They helped me to feel like a member of a community and not such an island. This very fun and lively group of entrepreneurs retweeted my tweets faithfully every day. And I retweeted them.

Now for the fun part. Recently Etsy has started displaying your individual shop statistics, only for the shop owner to see. They may have been doing this for a while and I just realized it. But the point is I did finally realize it and am completely amazed. My individual listing views double every time an ECO team member retweets my tweets. I had Linda Hughes retweet an item at a certain time and was able to see my views for that item double. Now when I see a rise in my listing views and I haven’t done anything, I know it is the power of ECO!

You might say “Show me the money!”. Well, due to my higher listing views and my diligence in being a committed member of ECO, I have been able to form some strategic partnerships. A coffee shop in the Midwest found me through Etsy and they now carry my coffee sleeves in their shop. Several different groups have contacted me this week alone and I am now doing their craft fairs this holiday season which will definitely convert into sales. And yes, I have had sales online through my Etsy shop.

The other benefit of ECO is the people that you meet. I have utilized Pooja Khana’s (@bluekneemarket) expertise in marketing several times and I have been able to have support from Linda Hughes for my website and tweet account. My final thoughts are you get out of something what you put into to it. Put the effort into ECO and you will see the rewards. I did and am still seeing the rewards. Thank you Linda!

Posted in Linda Hughes LinkedIn Account by Kevin Townsend of Technology, Licensing and Patents, 4/24/11:

Linda is a great entrepreneur, teacher and mentor. She is great at helping entrepreneurs get started, develop and be successful in managing their marketing, social media, contacts, leads, and creating online and local business communities all over the world.

Posted in Linda Hughes LinkedIn Account by Pooja Khanna, Bluekneemarket 4/24/11:

“It has always been a pleasure to work with Linda. She is absolutely amazing in her follow up and always meets her commitments. By joining the ECO community, I received tremendous support from Linda and the other entrepreneurs in the community. My social media clout has increased phenomenally and Linda was instrumental in enabling this. I highly recommend other entrepreneurs and startups to join the ECO network and work with Linda.”

Posted in LisaAStavig.com blog 3/22/11:

Lisa A Stavig attends Entrepreneur Community Online Super Saturday Event. This was an awesome Meet-Up sponsored by Entrepreneur Community Online. ECO is an online social media site geared just to Entrepreneurs. There were 4 key speakers and they gave such a huge amount of information that all new small business owners need. Linda Hughes is the brain behind ECO (Entrepreneur Community Online) and arranged the whole Meet-Up. It was held at Denver University in their Daniels School of Business. There were about 20 attendees. It was a day-long event and had lots of time for networking with other small business owners. I received lots of feedback on problems I was facing as well as pats on the back for any successes I had. Keep checking back here for more information on the next Meet-Up sponsored by ECO. Their link is on my home page. Check it out and join. It is a very worthwhile organization.

February 27, 2011: Itll_Be_OK Rick Hagler:

@TCFS_guy @iempoweru If you only know two people on twitter these are two GREAT contacts! Both are genuine and sincere....a lucky find 4 me

Posted in Linda Hughes LinkedIn Account By Shaunese Cradle, MBA Candidate '12, University of Denver 12/10/10:

“I worked with Ms. Hughes as a volunteer at this year’s Angel Capital Summit at the University of Denver – Daniels College of Business. Ms. Hughes not only provided exceptional direction for all of the volunteers her work ethic and professional acumen made the entire 2-day event run seamlessly. Ms. Hughes has a strong business leadership skill-set as well as an effective communication style. I look forward to working with her again.”

Posted in Linda Hughes LinkedIn Account By Dru Shockley, Owner, Focus on the Vine Web Solutions 5/19/10

“Linda is amazing. She can listen intently and studiously to a bunch of shared ideas and distill the core that needs to be focused on. Invaluable in team efforts. No wonder she tireless generates golden-nugget tweets for her clients. If you can't afford her, at least follow her.”

Email Post from Sandip Sen @ecothrust 1/2/10:

Hi Linda,

Thx for the excellent opening. I am thrilled at the opportunities you are creating, and as you would have guessed I have applied to be interviewed on Cap & Trade. As a matter of fact I am just soaking up the viewership and response that social media is creating and what we can achieve sitiing at remote locations of the world. 2009 has been a eye opener, an amazing experience. It was an extraordinary and eventful year in which I reached my milestones every quarter. The Copenhagen Gear shift was just the right icing on the cake, the annual bonus. Yes after I retired, I had decided to work 18 hours a day, and 10 hours a weekend and set up stiff quarterly targets. Targets for 2010 is going to be even tougher as I have to finish writing the book " Climate Change and Streetonomics " by Sept in addition to my blogging and presentations. My vision is to help grow the $ 10 billion Green Climate Fund to a $ 200 billion per annum Green Climate Fund and i am fairly confident that it can be achieved.

Linda, I am truly excited and thrilled with events and the awesome power my friends like you are providing and one day surely perhaps in 2011, I will meet you to express my thanks and gratitude in person.

Best rgds Sandip Sen

Posted in Linda Hughes LinkedIn Account By Richard Garde, D.C.6/2/09:

“Linda came highly recommended by several business leaders on the regional and national levels. She did not disappoint, she exceeded my expectations. She has helped me take a start up concept to a brand that is now having world-wide exposure. It has been a joy and pleasure working with Linda. I couldn't say enough about how she has helped me.”