Viki Viertel - The Business Buddha & Time Management Queen

Time Management survival is no easy task, ESPECIALLY for the entrepreneur. Yet somehow Viki Viertel has mastered, like no other, to do the seemingly impossible... To run her life, run a full medical teaching career, and run her own full time successful consulting business.

You can find out more about Viki and how her expertise will make a world of difference in your business! Go to www.thebusinessbuddha.com and sign up for her free E-zine.

Teleseminar Topic: Time Management Survival

As most virtual assistants know, struggling to find enough time each day is difficult! Viki Viertel is a self-professed time management guru. Her schedule is enough to make anyone’s head spin but she manages it all effectively and efficiently.

Join us to learn all about her time management secrets!

Free event for members (speaker series members, platinum and gold). Non-members can purchase a seat in this exciting teleseminar for only $24.95!

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Date: June 25, 2008
Time: 2PM Eastern, 1PM Central, Noon Mountain, 11AM Pacific

Penny C. Sansevieri - Author Marketing Experts, Inc.

Penny C. Sansevieri, CEO and founder of Author Marketing Experts, Inc., is a best-selling author and internationally recognized book marketing and media relations expert. Her company is one of the leaders in the publishing industry and has developed some of the most cutting-edge book marketing campaigns. Her company researched, developed and implemented the first comprehensive Internet publicity campaign called The Virtual Author TourTM.

Teleseminar Topic: Red Hot Web 2.0 Tricks to Sell More Books!

You’ve heard the term “Web 2.0” but can it really help you sell more books? You bet it can and this class will show you how. Packed with tons of information and super simple things anyone can to do get themselves into the Web 2.0 marketing world, you’ll walk away with fun ideas, simple tricks, and tons of helpful advice.

We'll cover:

• Creating “feeder” sites that feed traffic into your web site!
• Using book videos to sell more books
• Using Wikipedia to market yourself
• Why linking to other web sites is a bad idea
• How to get more web site traffic right away!
• Got blog? The one thing you should NEVER do with your blog!

Free event for members (speaker series members, platinum and gold). Non-members can purchase a seat in this exciting teleseminar for only $24.95!

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Date: July 9, 2008
Time: 7 PM Eastern

Mikelann Valterra - Founder of The Women's Earning Institute

Teleseminar Topic: The Four Keys to Earning Your Worth

Are you earning at your potential? Or are you struggling against an "internal income ceiling"? In this powerful tele-seminar, Mikelann Valterra, founder of The Women's Earning Institute, explores the psychology of why women undersell themselves and what to do about it. From expecting less money than other people, to difficulty in asking for what they really want, women who "underearn" deal with complex emotional issues around making money. Learn four crucial skills to earning what you are really worth and start making more money today!

We'll cover:

• One way to make asking what you want easier
• How women under-price themselves and what to do about it
• A powerful strategy to conquering the "good girl syndrome"
• The importance of getting in touch with your "resentment number"

Free event for members (speaker series members, platinum and gold). Non-members can purchase a seat in this exciting teleseminar for only $24.95!

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Date: July 16, 2008
Time: 1 PM Eastern

Alexis Martin Neely - Family Wealth Matters

Alexis Martin Neely, a bona fide 'Intrepid Entrepreneur,' teaches
entrepreneurs how to "show the Universe you mean BIG Business!"

Teleseminar Topic: Show the Universe You Mean Business About Your Business

Alexis reveals:

• How to build a million dollar business in three years or less
  
  
• The legal steps you must take if you want your business to be
  incredibly successful
  
  
• The three most powerful business relationships every small business owner needs to have ... they are often overlooked, but these relationships mean the difference between hobby and enterprise

Alexis Martin Neely is revolutionizing the world of financial and estate planning for families and changing the way Americans think about lawyers as the Personal Family Lawyer you love. After experiencing the impact of a failed estate plan in her own family and then discovering that failed estate plans devastate hundreds of thousands of families each year, Alexis quickly found a solution to this problem and restructured her own law practice, Martin Neely & Associates, to address them and founded the Family Wealth Planning Institute to train other lawyers to do the same.

Visit her site at www.alexisneely.com.

Free event for members (speaker series members, platinum and gold). Non-members can purchase a seat in this exciting teleseminar for only $19.95!

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Date: August 5, 2008
Time: 3PM Eastern, 2PM Central, 1PM Mountain, Noon Pacific

Debbie LaChusa - Marketing Consultant, Coach, and 6-Figure Work-at-Home Mom

Debbie is the owner of DLC Marketing, Inc., a home-based marketing consulting firm, and its subsidiaries: 10stepmarketing, which teaches solo-professionals how to market themselves more effectively; and 6-Figure Work-At-Home Mom, which teaches moms how to transition their professional skills into a lucrative work-at-home business. Debbie has spoken on marketing at conferences across the United States and in Canada. Her advice is featured in Entrepreneur Magazine’s “How to Start a Personal Training Business” and she has written and published over 140 articles on small business marketing. Debbie is also an Extended Learning instructor at California State University San Marcos and is on the faculty of Wellcoaches Corporation where she has taught over 600 coaches how to build and market their new businesses. With 21 years of marketing and small business experience, Debbie enjoys helping others learn how to transition from working for someone else to building a successful business that allows them to do work they enjoy and make a great living, on their terms.

To learn more, visit www.10stepmarketing.com or www.6figureworkathomemom.com and sign up for Debbie's free e-zines, special reports and audio classes.

Teleseminar Topic: 5 Secrets to Marketing on a Shoestring Budget

In this content-rich teleseminar, you will learn:

• How to get tens of thousands of visitors to your website every single month
• How to generate tens of thousands of dollars worth of FREE advertising
• How to become a “go-to expert” in your industry
• How to network without ever leaving your home or office
• How to never ever make another cold call again
• How to have pre-qualified clients coming to you every single day

 … All While Spending Little To No Money on Marketing

It’s time to start getting great big results from your marketing, without breaking the bank!

Free event for members (speaker series members, platinum and gold). Non-members can purchase a seat in this exciting teleseminar for only $24.95!

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Date: August 12, 2008
Time: 2PM Eastern, 1PM Central, Noon Mountain, 11AM Pacific

Susan Daffron - President of Logical Expressions, Inc.

Susan Daffron is the president of Logical Expressions, Inc. a book and software publishing company in Sandpoint, Idaho.  She is the co-author of Web Business Success: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Web Sites That Work and has been working with clients online since 1995. She and her husband have operated their business virtually from a log home deep in the forests of Idaho since 1996. Their Web sites have received kudos from USA Today, Tribune Media Services, and the BBC. She is also one of the founding partners of the Association of Web Entrepreneurs.

In addition to Web Business Success, Susan has written 8 other books including, Vegan Success: Scrumptious, Healthy Vegan Recipes for Busy People, Happy Hound: Develop a Great Relationship with Your Adopted Dog or Puppy, and Happy Tabby: Develop a Great Relationship with Your Adopted Cat or Kitten and 5 other books on computing topics. She also produces the weekly Publishize newsletter and podcast about infoproduct and self-publishing topics.

Susan is also the President and Founder of the National Association of Pet Rescue Professionals (NAPRP) an association that offers tools and information to help people working in humane organizations save more lives. After adopting her own pets, Susan became interested in pet care and humane issues. To further her education, she has been a veterinary assistant and worked at animal shelters as both an employee and volunteer. These experiences led her to form the NAPRP. She also does a weekly radio show for Pet Life Radio called Take Me Home, which showcases adoptable pets from shelters and rescue groups.

Teleseminar Topic: Don't Follow the Herd: Enjoy Online Success Using Simple Tried and True Marketing Methods

The online world is full of confusing and often contradictory marketing information. In this teleseminar, you will learn how to separate the hype from tested tactics that actually work. You'll learn why:

• Following the latest "techno-fad" or guru is almost always a bad idea.
• It's more important to understand the business and marketing issues surrounding new technology than it is to understand the technology itself. (You really don't have to be a nerd or "techno-geek" to earn a decent living online!)
• You should not take a "Chicken Little" approach and curtail online marketing in a down economy.
• Certain "tried and true" online marketing methods work and the reasons why they work. (Hint: people are still people, and the Internet really hasn't changed that much!)

Free event for members (speaker series members, platinum and gold). Non-members can purchase a seat in this exciting teleseminar for only $19.95!

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Date: September 9, 2008
Time: 3PM Eastern

Lisa Manyon - President of Write On ~ Creative Writing Services, LLC

Lisa Manyon, President of Write On ~ Creative Writing Services, LLC.
(www.Lisamanyon.com and www.writeoncreative.com), Founding Partner and Director of Copywriting and Publicity for the Association of Web Entrepreneurs and Managing Director of the Red Hot Communications Copywriting Agency joins us with critically important tips to gain added business exposure from press releases. Manyon is the first professional copywriter in the state of Idaho to earn Glazer-Kennedy's Creating Copy that Sells Certification. Manyon will share how one of her press releases was used to promote Glazer's copywriting program and more.

Teleseminar Topic: POWERFUL Press Releases~ How to Leverage Your Expertise to Gain Business Exposure

During the call Lisa will reveal her best tips to:

• Discern the difference between free and paid publicity and why both are important elements of your marketing efforts.
• Gain a better understanding of what is newsworthy and what is not
• Demonstrate why press releases are not just about media exposure anymore.
• Case studies of how press releases can lead to:
  • Print & Television exposure
  • Increased online publicity for your website
  • Additional exposure as traditional marketing support
  • Public education surrounding misperceptions about issues
• Reveal the basic formula for press releases

Press releases or news releases are traditionally used to alert the media of something newsworthy. The landscape of press release distribution has changes dramatically because of online newswire services and aggregates. Lisa Manyon shares her proven tips on how to generate traffic, opt ins, media exposure and more with online press releases.

Free event for members (speaker series members, platinum and gold). Non-members can purchase a seat in this exciting teleseminar for only $24.95!

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Date: September 17, 2008
Time: 1PM Eastern, Noon Central, 11AM Mountain, 10AM Pacific

Trina Hoefling, Owner and Lead Consultant, Consult One Group

Trina Hoefling, founder of GroupONE Solutions, LLC, is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and organization development consultant. Ms. Hoefling has over 25 years’ experience, and has founded or co-founded five successful businesses. Trina holds two M.A. degrees in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Communication. As someone who began developing and managing virtual teams and businesses in 1984, Trina Hoefling’s experience in virtual work and team relationship management is arguably the most extensive in the field.

Teleseminar Topic: Customers for Life: Developing and Maintaining Long-Term Customer Relationships

Service and value has become THE business of American business. This is even more critical for customer-driven organizations that rely exclusively on service for customers to know they have invested wisely.  How well you manage the delivery of service and perceived value has a tremendous impact on your retained customer base.  A recent study by the Strategic Planning Institute documented that customer-focused businesses grow market share faster and have higher profit levels than low customer service focus.  The message is clear--Improving the quality of your value to your customer through effective service practices can lead to growth.

Session Outcomes:

• Identify value of "lifetime" customers
• Identify steps to analyze your (internal or external) Customer Service Strategy
• Clarify widely held customer myths and truths
• Identify 8 Basic Principles of a customer service strategy

Free event for members (speaker series members, platinum and gold). Non-members can purchase a seat in this exciting teleseminar for only $24.95!

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Date: October 14, 2008
Time: TBD

Elinor Stutz - CEO of Smooth Sale, LLC and Author of "Nice Girls DO Get the Sale: Relationship Building that Gets Results", published by Sourcebooks

Elinor transformed her top-producing corporate sales career into Smooth Sale LLC, a sales training company. She teaches entrepreneurs, network marketers and beginning salespeople how to build relationships throughout the sales cycle in order to build repeat business, referrals and testimonials.

Teleseminar Topic: Relationship Selling Works!

Elinor refers to her program as a holistic approach to business as it incorporates sales, entrepreneurial and leadership skills – all of which you need to build a truly dynamic business. To prove her point relationship selling works, she was an unknown author, the publisher took a chance by publishing her book,and now it’s selling worldwide and translated into 5 languages.

In this class you will learn:

• How to turn negatives into positives
• Approach others not as prospects but as potential friends
• How to effectively network
• Easy, non-threatening ways to follow-up
• Strategies to establish you as the expert in your field
  

Free event for members (speaker series members, platinum and gold). Non-members can purchase a seat in this exciting teleseminar for only $24.95!

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Date: October 22, 2008
Time: 1PM Eastern

Joan Stewart - The Publicity Hound

Joan Stewart's free publicity campaign started at age 10 when her hometown newspaper wrote a story about a blue ribbon she won for a 4-H sewing project at the Ohio State Fair. From then on, she was hooked on publicity.

Today, Joan teaches Publicity Hounds how to catch the attention of frazzled news directors, busy reporters and grumpy editors. In fact, she worked as a grumpy editor at three daily newspapers and The Business Journal in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

As a media relations consultant and professional speaker, she shows people how to use the traditional media and social networking to establish their credibility, enhance their reputation, position themselves as experts, sell more products and services, promote a favorite cause or issue, and establish their companies as employers of choice.

Her popular electronic newsletter called "The Publicity Hound's Tips of the Week" goes to more than 30,000 subscribers worldwide and includes the best publicity tips and good clean dog jokes (one in each issue) you'll find anywhere. She lives and tries to stay warm in Port Washington, Wisconsin.

Teleseminar Topic: “How to promote your clients online and offline and get thousands of dollars in free publicity.”

You will learn:

• Why VAs can raise their fees as soon as they learn valuable publicity skills
• Publicity-related tasks VAs can add to their line-up of services to help bring more revenue through the door
• The one publicity task you NEVER want to offer to clients, even though they’ll beg you to do this for them
• A handy and free online tool that will cut hours off of publicity-related research you do for clients
• How to write great press releases, a valuable service you can offer
• 8 ways to get publicity online for your own VA service…use these same strategies when getting publicity for your clients
• The importance of blogging and how VAs can help clients slice hours off this time-consuming chore
• Why VAs should be blogging and posting comments at other people’s blogs
• 4 fun things you can do for publicity for yourself or your clients
• Tips to help you build stronger relationships with the media.
• The importance of becoming an expert, and positioning yourself as one…this goes for your clients, too.
• The importance of using video in a publicity campaign and some great ideas to get you started
• How Joan’s newsletter can help you
  

Free event for members (speaker series members, platinum and gold). Non-members can purchase a seat in this exciting teleseminar for only $24.95!

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Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Time: 7PM EST

Jan Phillips of JanPhillips.com

Jan Phillips is a visionary thought leader, award-winning author and dynamic speaker. She teaches individuals and organizations to ignite their original thinking and capitalize on their diverse strengths to achieve success while being a force for good in the world.

Jan is known worldwide for her keynote speaking, workshops and multimedia video presentations. She creates a unique multi-sensory experience, weaving humor, storytelling, captivating imagery, and music to inspire and ignite insights for life-changing action. Jan shows people how to access their wisdom, activate their own creative energy and communicate with passion and power.

Jan is one of the founders and principal members of the 9th Element Group, an organization dedicated to promoting thought leadership by providing compelling keynote speakers, educational programs, products, workshops and seminars. Her own quest has led her into and out of a religious community, across the U.S. on a Honda motorcycle, and around the world on a one-woman peace pilgrimage. Blending east and west, art and activism, reflection and ritual, Jan’s transformational presentations inspire consciousness and commitment.

Teleseminar Topic: The Art of Original Thinking: The impact of your creativity on the world at large

You will learn:

• How to increase your creative and intuitive bandwidth
  
  
• Staying balanced for a better bottom line
  
  
• How to increase the wisdom in your groups
  
  
• Why and how it pays to be good
  

Free event for members (speaker series members, platinum and gold). Non-members can purchase a seat in this exciting teleseminar for only $24.95!

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Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008
Time: Noon Eastern, 11AM Central, 10AM Mountain, 9AM Pacific

Kimber Britner-Igniting Hearts

Kimber Britner is a natural activator who coaches people to live life to the fullest. She helps people identify and become intentional about their purpose and vision in life. Through the internationally acclaimed Path TM seminar, by Laurie Beth Jones, Kimber teaches tools to make a vision a reality.

Her group also works with companies and small businesses to increase their effectiveness and turn struggling environments into thriving environments. When companies implement, The Path Elements Profile (PEP) and Team Matrix, they are able to identify the challenges that cause heavy lifting and harness the strengths to propel their company forward into greater success.

Teleseminar Topic: Keys to Make Your team Thrive and Not Merely Survive

In this enlightening and fun teleseminar you will learn about:

• Understanding the elements of your teams make up
  
  
• How to maximize your teams strengths
  
  
• The secrets of speaking your team’s language
  
  
• Learn the motivation to draw out excellence
  
  
• How to deal with difficult types
  

Free event for members (speaker series members, platinum and gold). Non-members can purchase a seat in this exciting teleseminar for only $24.95!

COMING SOON

Date: TBD
Time: TBD

Mari Smith - Facebook for Professionals and Facebook Master Class

Mari Smith is a Relationship Specialist, Internet Marketing Consultant, and Facebook Business Coach. Her specialty is helping entrepreneurs to develop information products and systems, and to strategically grow their businesses using no and low cost online marketing techniques.

Mari is passionate about teaching professionals how to develop powerful profitable relationships using social media, particularly Facebook.

Teleseminar Topic: How To Strategically Grow Your Business Using Facebook & Other Social Media

Facebook has significant implications for business owners, marketers, and entrepreneurs. This highly successful online social networking platform is hurtling towards an active membership of 200 million users by the end of 2008, at a rate of 250,000 registrations per day.

To keep your business current in today's world, you must know how to use the latest conversational marketing techniques and viral technologies, including Facebook and its array of powerful features.

Mari will share the top reasons why you need to be active on Facebook if you're in business, including how to:

• Establish yourself as a thought leader in your industry.
• Drive a flood of traffic to your website and blog.
• Get rapid top Google placement.
• Easily find more paying clients.
• Build a team of quality Joint Venture partners.

Join us for this information-rich Teleseminar and learn how you too can use this powerful platform to leverage your results.

Free event for members (speaker series members, platinum and gold). Non-members can purchase a seat in this exciting teleseminar for only $24.95!

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Date: December 2, 2008
Time: 2PM EST

Sheri McConnell - Founder & President of Sheri McConnell Companies, Inc.

Sheri McConnell is the President and Founder of two national organizations–the National Association of Women Writers and the Association of Web Entrepreneurs. She teaches women writers and entrepreneurs how to discover, create, and profit from their intellectual knowledge. Sheri has a Masters of Arts in Organizational Management and a Bachelors in Social Work.

Teleseminar Topic: FOCUS Marketing Method

This popular program is the marketing method I developed to help my coaching clients stay on track all year long. Program includes a Mind Map.

You will learn:

• Why and how to filter your ideal customers–this step alone is the key to making six figures
• How to organize your marketing and schedule ongoing sales, launches, and follow-up
  
• Why conversion is so important
• The correct way to convert subscribers into loyal customers
• How to utilize current marketing theories that already exist, such as SWOT, Marketing Funnel, and the P’s of Marketing.
• How to systemize and take advantage of automation and the natural selling cycles

Although the event is over, non-members (excluding speaker series, gold and platinum) can purchase this recording.

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Allison Nazarian - Copywriter/Marketing Consultant/Author/DIY Guru

Allison Nazarian is the President & Founder of Get It In Writing, Inc., a leader in providing copywriting and marketing services, consulting and instruction to businesses throughout the world. Allison, who holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.S. from Columbia University’s School of Journalism, is a recognized expert in the areas of information marketing; blog writing; SEO copywriting; and developing accessible and affordable tools such as books and training programs for marketing DIY-ers (do-it-yourselfers). Allison and Get It In Writing have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, INC Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor and WomenEntrepreneur.com.

To learn more, visit www.GetItInWriting.biz and sign up for Allison's free e-zine, copywriting secrets e-book and weekly tips.

Teleseminar Topic: Get Blogging (Or Jump-Start Your Existing Blog) Today

In this jam-packed teleseminar, you will:

• Discover what blogs are (and aren’t!) and how they work.
• Determine the purpose and unique vision of your blog.
• Gain insight into how to use your blog to market your services

Learn how and where to find interesting, newsworthy and intriguing topics, issues and trends that will appeal to your readers and target market.

Hear Allison’s Top 5 tips for getting started... today!

Although the event is over, non-members (excluding speaker series, gold and platinum) can purchase this recording.

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Janet Barclay - Master Virtual Assistant

Janet Barclay is a Master Virtual Assistant, the Founder and General Manager of Organized Assistant, and Co-Author of "Maximizing Your Time with Microsoft Outlook 2003." She has been featured as an organizing expert on television and radio and in several major publications.

You can find Janet at her website, Organized Assistant.

Teleseminar Topic: Organizing and Your Computer

Technology has made it easy to gather and share information without leaving your desk, but that information is useless if you can't find it when you need it. This teleseminar covers tips and techniques to organize your email and other electronic files, and lets you discover how your computer can enhance, rather than hinder, your productivity!

Although the event is over, non-members (excluding speaker series, gold and platinum) can purchase this recording.

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