Business Efficiency Consultant & Quintessential Type-A Personality

Marina in One Sentence

As a business efficiency consultant I help small businesses save time and money; I also help other Type-A personalities leave for Paris on 56 minutes' notice, all while working towards my life goal of drinking a Guinness in every country.

Frequently Asked Questions

Before you email me, please see if the answer to your question can be found below. (If you email me a question that's answered here, I can't guarantee a response. Thanks for understanding.)

Can I hire you?

Yes! I offer both personal efficiency consulting and business efficiency consulting services.

Can I date you?

Nope, I'm taken.

What's that you're kissing in your avatar?

My cat, Kahlua.

You don't seem like a very nice person.

Nice people don't get very far in life - they're too busy being trampled on by everyone else. I'm a good friend and often a kind person, but I am definitely not "nice."

How can I be an efficiency consultant?

If you have to ask, you can't.

I hear you have a crazy checklist in your bathroom.

I do, though I would argue that it's not all that crazy. You can see it here. (I also have a crazy cleaning checklist.)

How do you keep up with so many blogs?

Easy - I have a crazy blog checklist.

Why don't you answer my calls?

I hate the phone. Unless I have a scheduled phone call with you, odds are my ringer won't be on. Email is a much, much better way to reach me.

I would like you to write an article about [insert topic here].

I love suggestions - please email me and I'll see what I can do!

I would like to interview you so I can intentionally mislead you into giving a quotation in support of a topic that you do not support at all.

I hope your lack of journalistic integrity comes back to haunt you (and your little dog, too). I'm looking at YOU, Dian Schaffhauser. (For the record, telecommuting rocks.)

I would like to invite you to participate in a women-only seminar/blog/magazine/thought.

Don't bother. In case my anti-National Organization for Women blog didn't tip you off, I think feminists are sexist pigs. For every such inquiry I receive I shall sponsor a male-only party at my own home (which I will then ban myself from attending). Depending on the content of your invitation, there may even be strippers.

I'd still like to email you.

Cool: marina (at) marinamartin (dot) com