Katie Dunsworth and Andrea Baxter, Smart Cookies and founders of Spark PR and Bratface Marketing, will be sharing their best practices in public relations and marketing communications.

Katie and Andrea are two communications pros. Based out of Vancouver, their extensive marketing and PR experience has helped launch The Smart Cookies and other well known brands into multi-national markets.

About The Smart Cookies
The Smart Cookies are five women who were living beyond their means and struggling to stay on top of their finances. At $50,000 in debt and at their financial breaking point, they decided to do something about it. They formed a money group, started talking about their problems and quickly developed strategies for turning their financial lives around - without surrendering their sanity or social lives. Just one year after joining forces, the Smart Cookies dramatically improved their financial situations — paying off their debt, adding thousands to their investment portfolios and making major developments in their careers, relationships, and life goals. Using their real world experience the Smart Cookies now speak to women around the world on their fresh approach to money management. They are the authors of the best seller The Smart Cookies Guide To Making More Dough, host of their own weekly TV series on the W Network and and are contributing columnists to the Globe & Mail.

On Tuesday, September 29, Katie and Andrea will be discussing what they've learned from their experience in Public Relations and Marketing at the September Financial Services Marketing Meetup. Katie and Andrea will be discussing:

• building a fresh brand in the finance sector
  
• steps to leveraging your brand through free press
  
• maintaining momentum through the use of social media
  

In the meantime, for more information on the Smart Cookies:

• You can follow Smart Cookies on Twitter
  
• You can follow Spark PR on Twitter
  
• You can follow Andrea Baxter on Twitter