Tonya R. Taylor

Tonya R. Taylor, founder of SavvyBizBuilder.com, empowers business owners with savvy ways to use their WordPress website for marketing to build a BIG ONLINE PRESENCE that doesn’t suck.  She is known as the “Savvy Online Business Builder” for solo entrepreneurs and small business owners who need more time to focus on running their six figure business and want fast, proven results ensuring potential customers can find them online. She believes without traffic, what’s the point of having a website to begin with!

Tonya began using her expertise to spark her cupcake fetish, which started in the summer of 2008 as a hobby in her spare time (as rare as that is!). She scoured the Internet for all things cupcake. Overwhelmed with the number of beautiful pictures, unbelievable designs, cupcake only bakeries — she built a website to display her finds, just for fun.

This niche website quickly became a popular destination for cupcake lovers around the world. Tonya’s goal was to drive cupcake enthusiast traffic to the cupcake website and especially reach out to cupcake bakers to invite them to add their business to the growing international cupcake bakery directory.

In the beginning, using only Twitter @CupcakeIdeas, the cupcake bakery list grew by 200% in just a few weeks! Tonya’s specialty is low-cost or no-cost traffic sources, so naturally Twitter was a good fit. Now the website CupcakeIdeasForYou.com that started with just 20 cupcake bakeries boasts a membership of 1200+ cupcake bakeries in 38 countries.

Using her signature Savvy Online Business Building System™ to drive traffic fast, Tonya’s cupcake website receives thousands of unique visitors each month and is on the first page of Google for searches about “cupcake ideas”, and ranks above the Domestic Diva herself, Martha Stewart!

Tonya serves on the American Marketing Association of Baltimore’s board as Director of Social Media. She is a social media journalist to the Examiner.com where she features small businesses and information dedicated to all things social media in the Baltimore metropolitan area.  She is an American Express Open Forum contributor and is a contributing technology writer to various magazines, newsletters, websites and blogs. Her business advice has been featured on Social Media Today, The Business Monthly, SelfGrowth.com and teleseminars, podcasts and radio in the United States and Australia.  She also publishes her own valuable, widely read weekly ezine “Building Blocks for Online Success” and is a contributing technology writer to various magazines, newsletters, websites and blogs.