Frequent Lifestyle and Consumer Reporter, Jennifer Litwin, has spent more than 15 years making sense of the world from the consumer’s point of view. Since writing her two popular books, Furniture Hot Spots: The Best Furniture Stores and Websites Coast to Coast and Best Furniture Buying Tips Ever!, this Random House author has written and executed her popular Shop Cop segments for TV, covering all areas in which we spend money.
Jennifer’s Background
Jennifer Litwin, an MBA graduate from the University of Chicago, has appeared on TV, nationally, on: Good Morning, America, Today Show, CBS Early Show, Inside Edition, CNN and Fox News. On the radio, Litwin has done Shop Cop segments on Martha Stewart, NPR and Michael Finney. In print, Litwin has contributed to Consumers Digest, Money, CNN Money, Smart Money, Quick & Simple, and has been in USA Today, Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, and a host of other national and local shows and press.
On television, Jennifer has been a consumer contributor to ABC 7 Chicago, doing “The Shop Cop” segments, and has been The Shop Cop for ABC’s Twin Cities Live. Each of Jennifer’s books, with Random House and the Lyons Press as the publishers, ranked #1 and 2 on Amazon.com in the furniture category for more than a year. Business Week magazine named Jennifer Litwin as one of the nation’s top women business entrepreneurs, asking her pick for favorite books to read. University of Chicago Graduate School of Business named Jennifer Litwin “Alumni to Know” for two years in a row. Several recurring appearances on Fox Good Day Shows in: Dallas, Philadelphia and New York. She has also appeared several times on NBC LA and ABC’s Northwest Afternoon in Seattle. Recently, Modern Luxury’s CS magazine named Jennifer Litwin Chicago Celebrity of the Month and Real Simple magazine named Litwin one of the nation’s leading home furnishings experts. USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, National Enquirer, Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, US News & World Report published articles about Jennifer Litwin and her shopping savvy. Recently, Jennifer was named Celebrity Aquarius by the NY Daily News Astrologer, and Astrologer for Star magazine, Jennifer Angel.
Coming Soon!
Certified Gorgeous, The Online Marketplace for Exquisite Home Furnishings, is coming soon! Certified Gorgeous, Jennifer’s latest business venture, will be the most professional way to sell beautiful home furnishings online, using the nation’s best cyber appraisers to price and describe our exquisite pieces. Certified Gorgeous will have a large inventory of a variety of home furnishings, and will provide front door pick-up, packaging supplies sent right to your home or business, and additional shipping insurance, going above and beyond the usual home furnishings ecommerce sites. There will be a range of inventory ranging from antiques to new. Launching soon.
Accomplishments
~ Jennifer has been a frequent consumer contributor to ABC 7 Chicago and ABC’s Twin Cities Live, doing the “Shop Cop” segments.
~ Each of Jennifer’s books, with Random House and the Lyons Press as the publishers, ranked #1 and 2 on Amazon.com in the furniture category for more than one year.
~ Business Week magazine named Jennifer Litwin as one of the nation’s top women business entrepreneurs, asking her pick for favorite books to read.
~ University of Chicago Graduate School of Business named Jennifer Litwin “Alumni to Know” for two years in a row, 2006 and 2007. Litwin was asked to speak to the MBA class about her Shop Cop persona.
~ Repeat appearances on Fox Good Day Shows in: Dallas, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York. Also appeared several times on NBC LA and ABC’s Northwest Afternoon in Seattle.
~ Modern Luxury’s CS magazine named Jennifer Litwin Chicago Confidential Person of the Month.
~ Real Simple magazine named Litwin one of the nation’s leading home furnishings experts in its recent Classics issue.
~ USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, National Enquirer, Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, US News & World Report published one whole-page articles about Jennifer Litwin and her shopping talents.
~ Following two segments on Good Morning, America and Inside Edition, where Litwin went undercover to big box retailers to show that the home furnishings industry is completely unregulated and that the tags usually incorrectly describe the materials in furniture products, each of those stores changed their labeling and brand names.
~ NY Daily News (www.jenniferangel.com) named Jennifer Litwin Celebrity Aquarius 2010.