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Marianne Szymanski is founder and president of Toy Tips, Inc., an independent research group that conducts on-going academic research on toys and juvenile products. A national author (A Parent's Essential Guide to Smart Toy Choices/Jossey Bass), entrepreneur, speaker, lecturer and media personality, Marianne has led her organization's unbiased tests of over 85,000 products from more than 4200 manufacturers for the past twenty three years.

A former retail sales representative for an international toy manufacturer, Marianne saw the opportunity to provide parents with unbiased honest information on how to select products that enhance a child's development. Her mission to to encourage parents to be their child's own toy expert. This inspired the 1991 formation of The Toy Tips Research Institute, a year-round program of toy evaluation and testing that does not accept revenue from manufacturers.

In 1996, she launched Toy Tips Magazine to provide parents with unbiased information about toy reviews, toy safety, durability, learning value, age appropriateness and enjoyment. To date, seventeen million copies have been distributed through retailers, hospitals, pediatricians and educators. Now renamed, Toy Tips & Parenting Hints, the publication has grown to include research on parenting, child safety, health and studies on child development and childhood chronic diseases. An online version of Toy Tips & Parenting Hints is available free on the company website at toytips.com.

In order to serve her local community with toy lending, Marianne created the Toy Tips Toy Lending Library in conjunction with the Franklin Public Library in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This program reached a 10 year anniversary milestone in 2012. She also helped create toy lending programs for both Hilton and Hyatt hotels. An online collection of her work is available at the Strong Museum in Rochester, NY. Marianne's work has been published in research journals in the United States and the United Kingdom. She guest lectures at universities about entrepreneurship. She served as an adjunct professor in the undergraduate program at the Lloyd Grief Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California and the graduate entrepreneur program at Marquette University. She currently hosts her own Toy Tips segments for a variety of news stations across the U.S.

For the last fourteen years, Marianne and her research has been regularly featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, Dr. Oz, Rachael Ray, The Today Show, The Discovery Channel, FOX and Friends, Lifetime, HGTV, Oxygen, Network, A View from the Bay,The History Channel, the Jane Pauley Show, PAX, The Early Show and close to 300 local new stations across the country. From 1992-1998, she was the resident toy guest on ABC's Good Morning America, and logged 53 segments with additional guest appearances.

Marianne is the 1996 recipient of the Wisconsin Small Business Association Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and a delegate of the 1995 White House Conference on Small Business in Washington, D.C. Marianne believes that volunteer work is just as important as a job. She served on the marketing commitee of the Betty Brinn Children's Museum, was the chair for St. Francis Hospital Foundation and is a past auxillary board member of the Boys and Girls Clubs in Milwaukee, WI. She holds a dual degree in psychology and marketing from Marquette University and graduated from the Stanford Publishing Course at Stanford University. For more information, see toytips.com.

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Marianne Szymanski
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It seems to me that an article you worked on, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Marianne Szymanski, may be copied from http://theguidefortoys.com/About-Toys/Our-Partner-Marianne-Szymanski.htm. It's entirely possible that I made a mistake, but I wanted to let you know because Wikipedia is strict about copying from other sites.

It's important that you edit the article and rewrite it in your own words, unless you're absolutely certain nothing in it is copied. If you're not sure how to fix the problem or have any questions, there are people at the help desk who are happy to assist you.

Thank you for helping build a free encyclopedia! MadmanBot (talk) 03:45, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

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Your draft article, User:Toyguru/sandbox


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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 23:52, 11 December 2015 (UTC)