Kim Garst

Kim Garst (born September 28, 1964) is the Founder and CEO of Boom! Social, a personal branding and social media business consulting firm. She is the author of "The Quick and Easy Guide to Branding Your Business and Creating Massive Sales with Pinterest”
Education
Garst grew up in New Castle, VA where she attended New Castle High School. After graduating, she attended Roanoke College and Methodist College where she earned a BS in Political Science. She later attended the University of Phoenix where she earned a ME in Distance Education.
Career
Garst began her career as a paralegal at the law offices of McCoy, Weaver, Wiggins, Cleveland & Raper in Fayetteville, NC where she worked from March 1988 until April 1991. After the birth of her first child, Garst became a stay-at-home mom and started her own at-home marketing business, "A-Z Marketing." In 2010, Garst started "Social Media Branding with Kim Garst". In 2012, the business was renamed Boom! Social.
Garst's role in Boom! Social is that of the leading business coach. The company serves over 27,000 subscribers and clients and provides individuals and businesses with information and resources to integrate social media strategies into their marketing efforts. Under Garst's creative direction, Boom! Social provides custom branding solutions and social media marketing packages, which include consultation, training and design, social media management and social profile engagement and Twitter training.
In 2012, Garst launched the annual 2-day Social Boom! Conference, which has featured such speakers as New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author, Gary Vaynerchuk.
Garst is a social media keynote speaker and provides social media training to entrepreneurs and corporations including IBM and the Florida Keys Digital Marketing Conference. Interviews with Garst have appeared in Digital Journal, Simple Online Solutions and the BIB Podcast.
Honors and Awards
* Ranked #24 in Forbes 2012 list of Top 50 Social Media Influencers
* Ranked #7 on the Kred list of Top 50 Social Media Bloggers
* Ranked #28 on Holly Hanna's Top 30 Women in Tech.
* Social media category winner in Start Up Nation's Top 200 Leading Moms In Business
* Named one of the Top 100 Branding Experts To Follow on Twitter by Evan Carmichael.
* Winner in Social Media Examiner's the "Top 10 Small Business Facebook Page" contest.
* Named one of the "Top 10 Branding Sites That Don't Waste Your Time" by Brand Your Backside in 2012.
* Named one of the 30 Best Female Bloggers by author and speaker Erno Hannink.

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