Blue Melnick and Bari Baumgardner, event consultants, recently hit two separate Amazon.com best seller lists with the new book, “The Next Big Thing: Top Trends From Today’s Leading Experts to Help You Dominate the New Economy.”

Orlando, Fla. – March 17, 2011 – Bari Baumgarder and Blue Melnick, live event planning consultants, recently joined a select group of America’s leading entrepreneurs and businesspeople to collaborate and co-write the business and marketing book titled, The Next Big Thing: Top Trends From Today’s Leading Experts to Help You Dominate the New Economy. The book was published by CelebrityPress™, a leading business and marketing book publisher founded by Nick Nanton, Esq. and business partner, JW Dicks, Esq.

Bari Baumgardner is the founder of SAGE Event Management, Strategic Advice for Growing Events. With more than twenty years of experience in the meeting and event planning world, she is passionate about the mechanics of designing meetings that make a difference. In addition to helping her clients realize their visions and wow their attendees, she is a sought after speaker, and she regularly coaches clients on the how-to’s of launching a seven figure businesses through a single event.

Blue Melnick is an event consultant and sales expert, who has helped some of the top information marketers grow their business through live events.  Some of his current and past clients include Ali Brown, Glazer-Kennedy Inner Circle, Speakers and Authors Network Group (SANG), and Fabienne Fredrickson, just to name a few.

The new book, The Next Big Thing: Top Trends From Today’s Leading Experts to Help You Dominate the New Economy was released on Thursday, March 10, 2011.  It features forward thinking trends to help entrepreneurs and business people dominate the new economy.  Blue and Bari contributed a chapter titled “The Live Event: Business Builder, Brand Launcher, Millionaire Maker.”

On the day of release, The Next Big Thing reached best-seller status on Amazon.com, reaching #4 in both the Entrepreneurship and Communications categories.

From CelebrityPress:

The old adage states: “Driving forward while focusing on the rearview mirror will land you in an accident.” This also holds true in business. While it’s important to understand the past, the future is where the real opportunity lies. But how do you tell the difference between passing fads and profitable trends? The authors in this book aim to do exactly that. Forty-one leading experts across multiple industries have teamed up to share The Next Big Thing to help you profit in this new economy.

After such a successful release, Blue Melnick and Bari Baumgardner will be inducted into The National Academy of Best-Selling Authors™, an organization that honors authors from many of the leading independent best seller lists.

To order a copy of the book, go to http://www.amazon.com/Next-Big-Thing-Leading-Dominate/dp/0982908369/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1299767268&sr=8-5

Learn more about Blue Melnick at http://www.BlueMelnick.com/. For more information about Bari Baumgardner, visit SAGE online at http://www.sageeventmanagement.com/.

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