About the Avenstar's Article Vine Founders

Mark McGinnis made his transition to being an entrepreneur from the corporate world where he spent 10 years as a Fortune 500 corporate marketing executive. In this position, he was responsible for multi-million dollar marketing budgets and for implementing strategic marketing plans on an international level. Tiring of wearing suits and color-coordinating his ties, Mark founded the Hollywood-based advertising agency, WGD-Media, Inc. Then, as President and Creative Director of Avenstar, Inc., Mark was responsible for dozens of successful broadcast television advertising spots and infomercials. In addition, Mark was the co-owner/director of the Hong Kong-based Creativations. In his role with the company, he took an innovative new product idea (Fireflies) and brought it through the development and marketing process - all in just one year. Now, Mark along with Kim, have Co-founded Zen Fireflies, this site Avenstar's Article Vine, and Our Inner Source -- truly a work of passion and dedication to building a better world to live in. Our biggest project to date has been A Zen Gift- aZenGift.com offering hundreds of new age products at great prices. Mark also has a popular daily blogs at zen posts -- insights for business and life and BringYouSuccess.com -- business and marketing tips for the entrepreneur. Avenstar.net is the official site of the Avenstar advertising/marketing agency for SEO, PR, web design, print/collateral design, and video production....

Kim McGinnis came out to LA several years ago to pursue her dream of acting. She has performed in numerous plays and commercials; this led to Kim also becoming a writer. Kim wrote and performed a one-woman show in Santa Monica, Ca. This empowering and cathartic experience motivated her to go back to school and then dive head-first into the challenging world of being an entrepreneur. Guided by her intuition, Kim met Mark and developed a powerful partnership involving 2 small businesses--Avenstar (an advertising and full service marketing agency) along with Avenstar Enterprises, a company solely created to bring innovative and soulful products such as their very popular Zen Fireflies product to fruition. Kim als has two daily blogs, Our Inner Source, and Be Like Nature.