Newport Life Magazine announces 2017 Top 10 Groundbreakers winners, including Designated Editor founder
Suzanne McDonald was one of the Newport County residents who won the magazine’s Top 10 Groundbreakers award.
The Groundbreakers award is given to individuals in Newport County, Rhode Island who have made a positive impact in their field. The categories for Groundbreakers are Community Leader, Educator, Professional, and Volunteer and the awards are nomination-based.
Suzanne earned the Groundbreakers award for the professional category.
Suzanne McDonald broke new ground by founding and continuing to grow the only area organization focused on educating professionals, at no cost, about the newest digital marketing tools and techniques to increase their business and, thereby, provide businesses needing marketing with a better informed, skilled cadre of digital marketers and improve the local economy. It’s especially helpful for small businesses that do not have funds to employ an in-house or contract digital marketer.
View the full nomination details here.
Suzanne McDonald, a revolutionary in the Social Media universe, started her company, Designated Editor, with the express purpose of educating clients on EVERY aspect of social media from Google+ and WordPress to blogger outreach/strategy to fully integrated marketing – and to do it affordably and so thoroughly that she would become the leading purveyor of social media expertise in New England. McDonald’s “techie” forum, in Newport Rhode Island, has a waiting list. Her business has doubled each year since she began.
In addition to Designated Editor, Suzanne now runs Angles & Insights and Newport Interactive Marketers, a network for digital marketers in New England.
Newport Life Magazine is the only lifestyle magazine dedicated to Newport County. Since 1993, it has showcased all that is unique about the City-by-the-Sea, from its people and places to its events, history and of course its distinctive lifestyle. Newport Life Magazine strives to educate its readers about Newport County’s distinctive history, as well as the remarkable events that occur today.