Cidnee Stephen

A seasoned marketing strategist, speaker and writer.  Cidnee is also the owner of Strategies for Success and the Regional Guide for Duct Tape Marketing for W. Canada & W. USA

Cidnee Stephen is a high energy and accomplished marketing professional.   Born to market, she showed her creative side at a very young age when she started marketing greeting cards and good ol’ lemonade in elementary school.   To anyone that knew her, it was no surprise then that she chose marketing as her vocation at University over 20 years ago.

Of course most of the marketing principles she learned way back then suited large corporations. So when she was thrown into small business marketing years later, she needed to come up with some new approaches that were cost effective, but still generated quality leads. Her techniques served her well and she continuously has been a top producer for the companies she has worked with - both large and small..      

Having worked in Canada and Europe , Cidnee has called Calgary her home since the mid 1990’s.  She started Strategies for Success in 1999. Since then she has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs and small businesses to build sound marketing systems that get results!

In 2004, Cidnee was selected by John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing as one of his founding Authorized Marketing Coaches in North America. Today she remains one of Duct Tape Marketing's leading coaches world-wide and was chosen as one of 4 Regional Guides for Duct Tape Marketing in 2008 to oversee and support other coaches in the network. Cidnee is also the lead of the newly launched Duct Tape Marketing EXCELerator program worldwide.

Cidnee is a sought after speaker and consultant on the elements of small business marketing.  Popular topics include “How to Grow in a Down Economy” and “7 Steps to Marketing Success”.  She is also a regular columnist for magazines and corporate newsletters and launched her blog Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur in 2008. She publishes the popular biweekly marketing ezine, the Marketing Excel-erator and will be finishing her new book in 2009 "If You Aren't Getting the Business, You Don't Deserve It"

A big believer in giving back to the community, Cidnee mentors one youth entrepreneur pro bono annually through the Canadian Youth Business Foundation.  She speaks pro-bono to many not-for-profit associations and still loves to introduce elementary kids to the concepts of marketing by sharing the secrets of selling lemonade to classrooms.  

MOST IMPORTANTLY - Cidnee is an avid skier, golfer, traveler, and her son David’s biggest fan.