Alison Davis Curry, Alison Davis Curry: Business Development is inspired by the greatness in all of us.
Business Name
Alison Davis Curry: Business Development
Business Description
Since 1996 I’ve been a consultant helping people and companies develop both web-based and bricks-and-mortar businesses. All rely extensively on the Internet for marketing and connectivity,and I enable them to use the web to its fullest. My clients are in Arts, publishing, and retail; they include business-to-business,business-to-consumer, and philanthropic foundations, to wit — Art Directors Club, American Illustration/American Photography, Black Book, Folioplanet, My Urban Sherpa, Pino Luongo Restaurants, Farm Sanctuary, Humane USA PAC, Hunterdon County SPCA, NYDG Foundation, Alexandria Township NJ + Southside Community Gardens. Select projects are listed on my website, alisoncurry.com
Start Date
January 1, 1997
Best thing about working for yourself?
Being able to schedule time with my family.
Worst thing about working for yourself?
Having to solve problems that arise when I have scheduled time with my family.
Why did you start your business?
I started my business when I became pregnant with my now 14 year old because I wanted to take care of myself during my pregnancy – eat a meal before 3:00PM – stop traveling to 3 cities in a week,…and to answer to my daughter first, not my clients or a revenue growth chart.
When did you start to think of yourself as an entrepreneur?
My CFO of My Urban Sherpa who I’ve know for 16 years defined me as a serial entrepreneur – I hadn’t thought of myself as one – but I wear the hat.
How do you relax?
I relax when I am fully engaged in a conversation. I love the people I work with and the people I meet, and when I am engrossed in a conversation – I am totally relaxed.
What is something that you are known for?
I am known to identify the critical issue – identify and solve the core issue that addresses the myriad details that are out of alignment.
What 5 things would you never like to be without?
I never want to be without family, friends, health, sense of humor, presence of mind.
What’s a business that you think is interesting or inspiring?
I love the NGOs that are saving the planet and the people who live here – organizations like the Clinton Foundation / CGI, the Gates Foundation, and people including George Soros, Jane Goodall, Emily Pilloton, Richard Branson, Wayne Pacelle, Cory Booker…
Who is a person that inspires you?
I am inspired by the greatness in all of us – the passerby who saves a child from drowning, the man who rescues a fellow who falls into the tracks, the woman in Romania who rescues girls from prostitution rings,…there is a hero in each of us.
Beth Blatt