Based in Cleveland, Ohio, the Small Business Influencer Awards initiative is produced by Small Business Trends, an award-winning online publication serving over 7,500,000 small business owners, stakeholders and entrepreneurs annually. {mprestriction ids="1,3"}Also producing the awards is SmallBizTechnology.com, a media company that produces online content and live events educating small and mid-sized companies on how to strategically use technology as a tool to grow their businesses. 

Elyachar is the chief content producer-writer of jakes-take.com and a columnist for Examiner.com and SciFi4Me.com. Since its inception in 2011, Jake’s Take’s goal is to use an investigative approach to covering pop culture. He has interviewed a diverse group of music legends including Dolly Parton, Gordon Lightfoot, Lee Greenwood and Tanya Tucker; Emmy-winning choreographer Travis Wall; numerous alumni from “America’s Got Talent,” “Asia’s Got Talent,” “Britain’s Got Talent,” “Dancing with the Stars,” “So You Think You Can Dance” and “The Voice;” world champion bodybuilders Micah and Diana Chaloux Lacerte; YouTube fitness sensations Scott Herman, Nick Wright and New York Times best-selling author and fit2fat2fit creator Drew Manning. Elyachar is a social media consultant to for- and non-profits. Elyachar’s current and former clients include All Care Dental, the Freelance Exchange of Kansas City (where he is the director of social media), the Jewish Federation of Greater KC and TeenFit Movement. He is a mentor for MINDDRIVE, a non-profit that prepares at-risk high school students for careers after they graduate. 

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