Patty has well over 20 years experience in marketing and has been in the online space since 1998 where she developed an e-commerce program for a gourmet gift company into a million dollar business. She has spent 15 years helping the wine industry gain traction online and has since branched out to help other industries grow their brands including restaurant, financial, legal, health and beauty, motorsports, landscape design, cbd/cannabis, political activism and non profits. Golden State Marketing, and her other business, California Wine Marketing, were founded in 2006.

Patty also teaches classes on various marketing topics for SCORE  in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles counties,  MCSC/Women’s Business Center  as well as offer private seminars and individual or group private training. She is also a marketing consultant for MCSC, mentoring new business owners.