Jan Walsh is a writer and web entrepreneur.

"Success is Plan A. There is no Plan B." is Jan Walsh's maxim. And as both a writer and Internet entrepreneur, Jan’s career is a success story. As a freelance writer and columnist, Jan's wine, food, profiles, and travel articles are published in magazines, books and on the web.

Envisioning the Internet as a platform to syndicate her local wine and food columns, Jan founded BirminghamWine.com in 2006 and BirminghamRestaurants.com in 2007. Upon the success of these websites, Jan grew her digital publishing company, Jan Walsh, LLC, in 2008 to include BirminghamBrides.com.

In 2009 Jan and her business, Walsh Media, LLC founded BirminghamDoctors.com. As founder and developer, Jan was named Birmingham Business Journal's Health Care Heroes - Health Care Innovator 2009. The awards honor the best and brightest in Birmingham’s dynamic medical field. These awards were created several years ago to honor the talented individuals, companies and organizations who are helping Birmingham’s health care industry become one of the nation’s leaders.

Also in 2010 DineDaily.com launched as a partner site to BirminghamRestaurants.com. Most recently in Summer 2011, the restaurants site expansion to other markets began with the launch of MontgomeryRestaurants.com.

Jan's newest company, LocalLawyers.com, LLC has launched  BirminghamLawyers.com, HuntsvilleLawyers.com,  and MontgomeryLawyers.com. The Alabama State Bar has partnered with LocalLawyers.com to offer internet marketing, reputation management and lawyer referrals on these city sites and on AlabamaLawyers.org.  Local Lawyers has Local Association Partnerships with the Birmingham Bar Association, Huntsville-Madison County Bar Association and Montgomery County Bar Association, with other partnerships in the development phase. The Grand Launch of these websites began with statewide website, AlabamaLawyers.org in November 2011. Three of the local city websites launched in December 2011, and the fourth one will launch in May 2012.

Perhaps this business brings Jan's career full circle. She began as an English educator and now uses communications to synthesize the real world needs of a whole new world—the Internet—to businesses.

And Jan still makes time to write her monthly columns for B-Metro magazine and articles for Wine Spectator and other national publications.