Karla Ingleton Darocas

Karla Darocas teaches a variety of digital media courses to adults who want to know "how-to" use their digital devices, computers and the Internet - to accomplish their personal and business goals.

Digital Media Communications
Training & Consulting

Karla Ingleton-Darocas is a graduate of the University of Waterloo and holds an honours B.A. degree in Fine Arts. She also holds a creative arts degree and a diploma in entrepreneurial business development. She has worked as a journalist in the newspaper industry since 1976. She launched her first entrepreneurial business in 1978.

Since 1990 - Karla has offered Management Advisory Services to entrepreneurs starting up an Internet Based Enterprise and to Executives and Managers reorganizing their companies management structures, to take advantage of the Internet. 

Over a decade ago, Karla Ingleton-Darocas was the first person in Canada to create an online website, which advised entrepreneurs on how to structure and manage their companies. Karla is recognized as a leader in providing "hands-on" management and "do-it-YOURself" productions to an ever-growing new world of entrepreneurial networks. 

Karla Ingleton-Darocas has built and advised on hundreds of websites and e-business developments. Now she trains others to do the same.

She now lives, works and teaches on the Costa Blanca - Cumbre del Sol - Spain.

Specifics include:

• assessment of the electronic marketplace relative to the strengths and weaknesses of client's enterprise

• determine the extent and appeal of current website offering business solutions to their companies' management problems

• analyze the existing structure of operations and determine whether there are overlaps in divisions impeding maximum returns on profits

• study clients business plan

• recommend improvements relative to expanding clients business products via the Internet

• advise on how management restructuring would best suit clients business and needs

• set up training programs for managers on how-to integrate their operations seamlessly to best serve their needs via the Internet

• recommend on how clients can have a direct impact on the management structures of their firms via their e-commerce websites

• advise on the costs of achieving reorganization and recommend payback ratios to use

• consult on how to sustain business with other entrepreneurs

     

CAREER BIOGRAPHY

Karla started writing for her local newspaper in 1978. Her editor assigned Karla to reporting on the Fashion industry in Toronto, Canada.

1980 - She opened, owned and operated a trendy boutique and started her life as an entrepreneur. By 1984, the economic recession crashed her business.

So, in that same year, Karla signed up to attend the university in Kitchener-Waterloo. While majoring in Fine Arts, Karla continued her reporting skills by writing for her school newspaper and the regional newspaper. She specialized in documenting the regional music scene, as well as the imported blues music culture.

It was a fun and memorable adventure, and Karla was introduced to some really hard working entrepreneurs and artists - who knew the meaning of a "Hoodoo Lounge" and "Pop The Gator".

Upon graduation in 1990 from the University of Waterloo, and with an interest in promoting "talent" and helping people with computer problems, Karla launched her first communications company. Zona Communications and its many forms - radio show, gallery, printed magazine, online magazine, teaching platforms - opened doors to opportunities, but also a new way of thinking.

In 2000, Karla changed her reporting and publishing style to include entrepreneurs and published an online magazine to highlight these smart and talented people.  This quest brought forth interviews with inspiring entrepreneurs, talented artists, inventors, educators, deal makers, CEO's, and presidents - from all over the world!

She later sold that online enterprise to a group of investors in California - where she lived for a while until the tragic NY disaster of 2001 - and when her Spanish boyfriend proposed, and the rest is history.

Today, from her cyber-office on the coast of the Spanish Mediterranean sea, Karla continues to report on insightful and interesting events, people and issues that help entrepreneurs to thrive and survive.

Her favourite topics include small business, entrepreneurs, Spanish real estate market, Spanish food and culture, Spanish art, Costa Blanca regional market economy systems, Costa Blanca expats, general business tips, marketing and website tips, and health and wellness research.

She also continues to teach educational skills that help entrepreneurs and other friendly folks to utilize their computers and the internet in order to achieve their goals.

Together, with her husband Jose Darocas, they help their community of neighours, mostly retired, to solve computer and internet problems. They also empower their clients with plenty of computer, Internet and business DIY tips, advice and training. 

The pair also run a small property real estate agency, focused on their community of Cumbre del Sol and Benitachell. This is the website - www.SpainLifestyle.com   

Karla Darocas also offers private tuition to adults wanting to learn how to paint - specializing in fabric painting.

She holds an honours degree in Fine Arts and majored in the great artists of Spain, and did her thesis on Spain's legendary film maker - Luis Buñuel.

 

BRIEF CV

Education

• Humber College of Applied Arts and Technology - Creative Arts Diploma, 1980 - Rexdale, Ontario. Canada.

• University of Waterloo - Honors Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts with Major in Film Studies, 1990. - Waterloo, Ontario. Canada.

• CODA - Business Program - Diploma, 1994. - Kitchener, Ontario. Canada

Sole Proprietorships

• Hemlines Boutique & Design Shop - Owner - 1980-1984 (Toronto - Canada)

• Zona Communications including Zona Magazine, Zona Space and Zona Radio - Owner - 1990-2000 (Waterloo - Canada)

• SEEN.COM - Publisher / CEO - 2000-2001 (Toronto - Canada  / California - USA)

• 2004 - to present www.Darocas.com  (Darocas Communications & Training - Benitatxell - Spain)

• 2007 - to present www.SpainLifestyle.com (Real Estate - Benitatxell - Spain)

Freelance, Contract & Consulting Work

Teaching, Journalism, Photography, Videography, Small Book Publishing, Graphic Design, Website Development, Online Network & Content Development, Internet Business Consulting, Business Startup Consulting.

Volunteer Work

• 1990-1996 - CKWR Community Radio Waterloo - Canada - broadcaster - cultural supporter featuring regional and Canadian music

• 1996-2000 - Worked on a variety of fundraiser - artists / cultural events in support women's shelters throughout Ontario, Canada.

• 2004 -  WIBC - Network & Support Director / Founder -  Women in Business Club of Spain - professional networking and fundraising club in support of regional women's safe shelters, Stop Domestic Violence Campaign & International Women's Day. www.wibc-spain.com - *read article in Broadsheet Magazine *

Influences include: 

• Marshall McLuhan, Disney, Buñuel, Bréton, Dali, Picasso, Man Ray, Warhol, John Lennon, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Remedio Varo, Felini, Marley.

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