Media Room

Shama Hyder is the Chief Marketing Consultant and Founder of After The Launch. She helps professionals take their marketing (and their businesses) to a whole new level.

Shama’s immediate contact info:

Phone: (469) 774-8000 (8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Dallas – Central Time)

Contact me  (through my website - I check my e-mails frequently)
Write to me at "Shama (at) AfterTheLaunch (dot) com" (please substitute the @ sign for the word "at" and the period character for the word "dot"). Sorry, - I am fighting an onslaught of spam by people and software detecting my e-mail address on my website!  

Shama Hyder

Welcome to the Media Room for Shama Hyder!

Shama works with independent professionals and professional service firms who are struggling to market themselves and their practices.

Shama is an energetic and captivating guest who can share stories from her own journey to successful business woman, entrepreneur, and marketer. In addition, she can offer plenty of advice and tips on what it takes to market a business with ease and intelligence in this era of web 2.0

What makes Shama an expert on marketing?

Shama has been an entrepreneur from childhood. From educational consulting to coaching, she has experience in starting and building service oriented businesses from scratch. Part marketer, part technologist, and part futurist; Shama knows exactly how to leverage these skills to help her clients super-charge their marketing.

Her educational background is in Corporate Communication, and she is a proud alumnus of the University of Texas at Austin. Also, Shama constantly seeks to learn and seek training from other top mentors in the field. She feels that marketing is an ever changing landscape, and so the only real experts are those who keep up with the industry.

In addition, her website has turned into a high-traffic destination for people looking for advice on marketing their professional service businesses successfully.

If you need tips, stories or ideas on:

  • Current Trends in Marketing
  • Social Media Marketing (leveraging platforms such as Facebook and LinkedIn)
  • Business Blogging
  • How the Economy is Currently Affecting Businesses and How to Cope
  • Search Engine Optimization or Search Engine Marketing
  • How to Market a Service-Oriented Business

please call Shama at her number below, or fill out the Contact Form.

Possible general interview questions

  1. How did you become interested in marketing?
  2. Why is it that talented professionals often struggle so much with marketing?
  3. How do you help professionals fill up their practices with ease? Is it mind-set? Is it actual strategies?
  4. What makes service-oriented companies different than retail companies? Why do their marketing strategies have to differ?
  5. What is Web 2.0? How can businesses leverage Web 2.0 to market themselves?
  6. What is the future of Facebook? Is it a useful tool for businesses?
  7. What is Twitter? Is it a useful tool for businesses?
  8. Looking into the future, what are the cutting edge marketing developments that you see happening?
  9. What is Search Engine Optimization? What types of businesses can benefit from this?
  10. What are your thoughts about blogging? Should businesses have a blog?
  11. Is blogging a good marketing tool?
  12. What can businesses do to prepare for recession?

Press Releases:

-12/09/2007- Dallas’ First Marketing Firm to Work Solely with Service Professionals

-01/24/2008- Five Tips on Keeping Your Business Profitable During a Recession

Shama’s immediate contact info:

Phone: (469) 774-8000 (8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Dallas – Central Time)

Contact me through my website
Write to me at "Shama (at) AfterTheLaunch (dot) com" (please substitute the @ sign for the word "at" and the period character for the word "dot"). Sorry, - I am fighting an onslaught of spam by people and software detecting my e-mail address on my website!