Madalyn Sklar is a music business coach, consultant, blogger, social networks maven and fearless leader at GoGirlsMusic.com. She has spent over 15 years working with a wide range of independent musicians as well as music industry professionals all over the world. She’s helped countless businesses of all shapes and sizes, music and non-music, with her Internet marketing expertise. Her goal is to help people achieve greater success utilizing social media by working smarter not harder.

Madalyn has spoken on music panels all over the country and moderates many of them as well. She’s been heard at 2NMC, 8×10 Music Conference, Dewey Beach, Dfest, DIY Convention, Folk Alliance, Hyperactive Music Festival, Invasion of the GoGirls, Millennium Music Conference, MTEC, NARIP, NEMO, PLAY:stl, Rockrgrl, SongU.com and South Park Music Festival. She has been named one of 10 Powerful Women in Music by Curve magazine and one of the 15 People You Should Know In the Biz by Indie-Music.com. In 2011 she was voted #2 for NARIP’s Best in the Biz for Best New Media/Social Media Executive.

Madalyn founded GoGirlsMusic.com, the oldest and largest online community of indie women musicians. Her mission is to promote, support and empower female musicians. She started the organization in 1996 with a vision of bringing together independent women musicians from around the world. 15 years later, GoGirlsMusic.com has become a welcome destination for women in music through networking and events. She also runs Social Networks for Musicians and Social Networks for Biz where she helps musicians and all business types effectively create + manage their social networks.

You can find out more about Madalyn and the work she does at her website; http://www.madalynsklar.com.