The URL dr is an enthusiastic and motivating speaker

Kim Merritt has been a nationally recognized entrepreneur since she started her first company, Kim’s Khocolate, at the age of eleven. Over Kim’s forty-four year business career, she has been involved with four startups. Always involved and concerned about the plight of today’s small business owner, Kim speaks on a variety of subjects related to small business, entrepreneurship, e-learning, and how to succeed.

Just a few of The URL dr's presentations

Ms. Kim Merritt has presented numerous workshops at our America’s SBDC National Annual Conference. She’s received outstanding reviews from the members that attended her workshop, providing them with new ideas and information to bring back to their centers, allowing for easy implementation into their own training programs. Ms. Merritt is a pleasure to work with and is a great asset to any organization that is looking to improve their personnel.

Kim is definitely an expert in her subject matter! Every training session is packed with information that is of utmost value for the participant who is considering or already engaged in a business opportunity. Speaker evaluations, which are completed at the conclusion of each training session, continually receive the highest of reviews. Kim is extremely organized, reliable, motivated, enthusiastic, very cooperative with whom to work, and is to be commended for always ensuring a job well done!

The reviews for the event were positive and your expertise made this the kind of topical, thought-provoking workshop AUTM strives to deliver.

Each time I see Kim speak, I am more impressed with the depth and breadth of her knowledge and speaking skills. She’s an engaging speaker with solid, applicable information for her audiences. While engaging her services as a speaker for the Idaho SBDC, I found her preparation to be exemplary. She was well-rehearsed and ready for any deviations thrown to her. In short, she’s an excellent speaker and I would both hire her again as well as see her speak whenever I had the opportunity.

Kim Merritt

Kim Butler, aka The URL dr, has been doling out prescriptions for online success to business clients for more than 15 years. Raised in the funeral business, she is a fourth generation self-employed business owner.

Nationally recognized since she was a teenager, Kim started her first company, Kim’s Khocolate, at the tender age of eleven. Five years later, she was discovered by Guy Kawasaki and went on to do business with Apple, The Rolling Stones, AT&T, Land Rover, and Bausch & Lomb. Subsequent e-commerce companies have sold everything from dinnerware to dog products. Her most recent, Good Dog in a Box, is her first foray into subscription boxes. Kim’s various retail companies have grossed over $11.5 million.

As The URL dr, Kim speaks, conducts workshops, and consults with companies in all areas of e-commerce. Her e-learning system, The Small Business Academy, offers more than 500 educational and instruction videos to small businesses. Kim has been a featured speaker at YPO Family University, The Wharton School, National Federation of Independent Business, ASBDC, SBDCs around the country, and AUTM. She has testified before a US Senate Subcommittee on Entrepreneurship and received the NFIB Young Business Owner of the Year Award.

Kim’s entrepreneurial activities have been highlighted in “USA Today,” “Inc,” “People,” “Barron’s,” “Newsweek,” “Success,” and “Ms.”