Posts Tagged ‘small business’
Define your career by living your passion – an interview with Norry Ascroft
Many entrepreneurs and small business owners know how to turn this passion into a career – with insights from this interview with Norry Ascroft, you can too.
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Have you ever gone to a party and had the most amazing time? What if you could recreate that fun feeling and find a way to have that be how you make your living?
Norry Ascroft knows how to be the life of the party. His alter-ego is Lionel Vinyl, “your disco dance teacher”. Everything about Norry exudes fun! Norry has indeed found a way to live this fun lifestyle while earning a living at it. But he goes beyond simply being an entertainer – Norry is passionate about helping kids, and uses his character to engage kids in learning principles of success.
Be a Media Magnet – How to Leverage Traditional & Social Media – An Interview With Shawne Duperon
As entrepreneurs and small business owners, you have a message the world needs to hear. With Shawne Duperon’s helpful suggestions in this interview, you can learn how to get the media to seek you out so you can get your message out there.
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Over the last 20 years, Six-Time EMMY® award winner Shawne Duperon has interviewed most presidents and hundreds of celebrities and sports stars. She knows what it takes to grow relationships, especially with reporters, producers, editors and influential bloggers. This former ABC and NBC reporter has trained thousands across the globe how to powerfully network and leverage traditional and social media.
Shawne is a champion networker, and has figured out how to apply the same principles of networking to working with the media. Like great networking times 100. The principle of reciprocity plays true here – you want to make the life of the media people you’re courting super easy.
Compelling customer service practices all your customers—even Gladys—will thank you for! – an interview with Marilyn Suttle

As entrepreneurs and small business owners, managing difficult customers is a skill you can learn and convert them into happy, repeat customers.
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Do you have a difficult customer who demands more than you’re willing to give, requires more skill to manage, and who pushes all your buttons? (Me too.)
Do you sometimes wish they would go away (but, then you’re telling revenue to go away), or would you rather find a way to turn them into a wonderful, loyal customer who refers you to all their friends (this is the way to go, baby!).
This week’s guest, Marilyn Suttle, is the author of “Who’s Your Gladys? How to Turn Even the Most Difficult Customer into Your Biggest Fan”. She will share how you can not only effectively manage your difficult customers, but will describe the things you can do to convert them.
“How to Fix a Flat Tire” – Living Life in Balance. Interview with Walt Hampton

Entrepreneurs, Small Business Owners, Professionals, and Managers all have challenges of obtaining results and achieving goals across multiple dimensions and put their health and happiness at risk.
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Do you feel like some parts of your life are working great, yet others are a mess?
Consider how “busy” has become a way of life or a badge of honor. If you lead a full life, are driving hard toward your goals then you risk burn-out or knocking the important elements of your life out of balance. The “tire on which you roll through life” will go flat.
Use your Positive Mental Attitude to Accelerate Your Goals – An Interview with Maryanne Ross
This week’s guest on the Institute of Success and Goal Achievement, Maryanne Ross shows how shifting your attitude can enable you to improve your results and experience more fun, freedom, and fulfillment in everything you do.
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Do you wonder what separates average from great results? Our inner cheerleader – our Positive Mental Attitude – has proven to be part of the answer to this question over and over, yet many people struggle to maintain a Positive Mental Attitude day in and day out.
Live Life Wide Open- Interview with Mark Miller

Small business owner Mark Miller shares his philosophies to achieve more fun, freedom and fulfillment.
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Are you tentative in life – take a conservative approach and act cautiously? Do you wish you had a little more courage to drive toward your dreams more aggressively?
This week’s guest, Mark Miller, will inspire you to get the most out of life, starting right now. Mark’s philosophy is to “Life Life Wide Open”. But what exactly does that mean?
“Play to Win – With Heart and Soul” An interview with Shayla Roberts
Do you feel like to succeed you need to put your head down and push through with hard work and grit? What if there was another way to achieve your goals that feels effortless – would you be interested in learning what that is?
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Thankfully, there is another way. In this week’s interview, we’ll hear our guest, Shayla Roberts, talk about how to “Play” in your “Optimal Operating State” and discover how easy it can be to get the results you want.
Shayla Roberts is professional innovator, creating programs, products, and services to facilitate human development. She has written a number of books, including “Bold Moves: JUMP to Outstanding Self-Managed Action” with co-author (and former i-saga guest) Allan Milham.
Institute of Success and Goal Achievement guest Tiffany Wright
Boy did I take a lot of notes!
Tiffany Wright is a walking encyclopedia about raising capital for your small business (or, large business – the principles are the same). Tiffany is the author of Solving the Capital Equation: Financing Solutions for Small Businesses. This book came from answering her clients’ questions over the past few years, so you know it is full of info that you want to know.
If you’re a small business owner or entrepreneur then this interview is a must! Have you ever wondered if you had enough working capital to cover your expenses for the next few months? What about how you will fund that really great project that will certainly bring you loads of revenue? Is there financing out there for you? What are your options? Can you easily get it?
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