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Effectively Influencing Up
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One of the world's most widely recognized executive coaches, great thinker Marshall Goldsmith provides perspectives on the value of changing what you can change -- and "making peace" with what you can't. He is author or coeditor of 22 books on leadership and business.
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X-Ray Your Competition
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Widely published author and respected pioneer in the field of business intelligence, Leonard Fuld reveals how the secret language of competitive intelligence can be your company's hidden key to success.
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Getting More Buy-In for New Ideas and Innovations
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Laurence Haughton, best-selling author and management consultant, reveals how to overcome resistance to change by getting more people to buy in to your ideas from the beginning and maintain their momentum.
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The Age of the Alpha Dog
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Learn how companies in ordinary industries achieve extraordinary success from the perspective of respected journalist Donna Fenn, author of "Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become a Leader of the Pack."
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The Practices of Exemplary Leadership
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Jim Kouzes, co-author of the award-winning book "The Leadership Challenge" and Executive Fellow at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University, explains how five learnable behaviors can make a significant difference in your performance as a leader.
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Cashing In On Webinars
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Jaclyn Kostner, an author and leader in virtual communications, explains how Webinars and Web conferencing give small businesses a powerful way to create and sustain critical business relationships when people are NOT face-to-face—but across town or across continents.
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Learn Branding Secrets the Big Guys Use
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Stop marketing and start branding. That's the advice from branding strategists Suzanne Tulien and Carol Chapman, co-authors of two e-books: "6 Myths of Branding " and "Getting Your Employees on the Brand Wagon." Tulien and Chapman promise to reveal brand truths based on leading practices from highly successful brands that you can implement to catapult your business.
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It’s The Fast That Eat The Slow
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Author and speaker Laurence Haughton explains how to think and act quickly to stay ahead of your bigger competitors. His seminar draws on research from his book "It’s Not the Big that Eat the Small… It’s the FAST that Eat the Slow."
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Surviving 11th Hour Negotiations
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Jeff Thull, author and leading-edge strategist for major companies, provides insights on about how to pre-empt last-minute negotiations to protect your price and profitability. Thull explains how to lead your customers through a buying process that puts you in control.
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Creating Rules For Women To Play By
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Gail Evans, author of the influential and best-selling "Play Like A Man, Win Like A Woman," discusses the importance of women to start playing on "the same team." Evans also covers new approaches to mentoring and networking.
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The Power Of Relationships
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Building strong relationships with your customers is key to long-term business success. Eric Groves, senior VP for the e-mail marketing service Constant Contact, explains how to create a winning relationship strategy for your business.
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Building A Better Business
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Marie Diaz, CEO of Pursuit of Excellence HR, talks about how to develop your leadership potential and increase personal and employee productivity in her "Building A Better Business" presentation.
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Tips For Doing Business With The US Hispanic Market
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With over a trillion dollars of buying power, the Hispanic population will continue to grow in numbers and economic strength for the next four decades. Having served as Chairman of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, JR Gonzales shares his insights and advice for increasing your business in the growing Hispanic demographic.
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Delegation Is Not A Dirty Word
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To be successful, small business owners need to learn to delegate effectively to their employees. Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio, authors of "The Girls Guide to Starting Your Own Business," offers tips and techniques for mastering the art of delegation.
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Small Business. Big results.
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Recognized as one of the most influential Americans and business leaders, Dr. Stephen Covey offers an engaging discussion on how small businesses can get big results by identifying their most important goals and focusing on priorities that will help achieve them. Covey is author of several acclaimed books, including the recent international bestseller, "The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness."
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7 Ways to Boost Your Business Just by Asking
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Jack Canfield, founder and creator of the wildly successful "Chicken Soup for the Soul®" series, shares seven simple asking strategies that worked successfully in his business and helped build a billion-dollar brand.
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Competitive Advantage: Find Out If Yours Is A Hit Or A Myth
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Jaynie Smith author of the top-selling book "Creating Competitive Advantage," says 95% of all companies don't even know their competitive advantages. Watch or listen to this seminar to learn what competitive advantage is and is not – and how to leverage yours to improve your bottom line.
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Lessons of the Natural Entrepreneur
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Award-winning business leader Andre Taylor offers concise yet powerful lessons on creating and building a successful business by discovering, appreciating, and using your innate success instincts.
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Girls' Guide to Building a Million Dollar Business
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Susan Wilson Solovic, series host and author of the Girls' Guide to Building a Million-Dollar Business shares empowering guidance to those women who want to gain the confidence and knowledge to become successful entrepreneurs.
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Word Of Mouth Marketing
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George Silverman, author of "The Secrets of Word of Mouth Marketing," explains how you can dramatically boost your sales by getting customers to sell your products and services for you.
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Secrets Of Guerrilla Marketing
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"Guerrilla Marketing" refers to unconventional ways of pursuing conventional marketing goals. Jay Conrad Levinson, creator of the best-selling "Guerrilla Marketing" book series, talks about guerrilla marketing tactics that help you achieve serious profits with little or no cost.
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Search Engine Marketing With Results
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Scott Linzer, director of search marketing at Universal McCann, discusses how to maximize efficiencies from search engines. His strategic seminar will focus on how to use search for business intelligence, maximize efficiencies in search, and future trends in search.
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Boosting Sales With Incentives
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Find out how to get detailed information about your customers, create one-to-one relationships that foster brand loyalty, and increase bottom-line-profits in this seminar by Josh Linkner, CEO of the marketing and promotions company ePrize.
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Making Work, Work
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Join best-selling author and time management expert Julie Morgenstern - brought to you in-part by FranklinCovey - as she shares strategies that help small business owners take control of their work life.
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Low-Cost Marketing Ideas
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Hear Al Lautenslager present 10 low and no-cost marketing tactics that you can put to use immediately to get more business. Lautenslager is the author of the best-selling "Guerrilla Marketing in 30 Days."
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The Egonomics of Leadership
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The egos of those in your company can be an asset or liability. Author Steven Smith talks about 'egonomics' and how to make individual egos a positive force in your business.
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Franchising The Sweet Way
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Margaret McEntire is the founder and owner of Candy Bouquet International, Inc., a top rated franchise company and the largest candy franchise in the world. McEntire explains how franchising works and what you need to know before buying a franchise business.
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From Startup to Franchise
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Hear how Cereality, the first cereal restaurant, went from a startup business to successful franchise. Cereality co-founder David Roth also talks about assessing the viability of your businesses idea, and how to brand and protect it.
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10 Steps To Hanging An 'Open' Sign On Your New Business
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StartUpNation founders Rich and Jeff Sloan explain how you can follow in their entrepreneurial footsteps, offering 10 tried-and-true steps designed to move you through the idea stage and into full-fledged business ownership. After a dose of the Sloan Brothers' wisdom, you'll understand how to finance your dream, build your brand, and market to your customers.
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Considerations Before Starting Your New Business.
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Before you start a business, it might help to think about your motivation. Andrew Bein, a marketing veteran and Trump University faculty member, explores the different reasons people have for operating independently, and shows business owners how to set appropriate expectations.
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Waking The Entrepreneur Within
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Michael Gerber is the best-selling author of "E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It." Gerber's talk on "Awakening the Entrepreneur Within" focuses on today's entrepreneurs and how they transform dreams into commercially successful enterprises that make a difference.
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Dare To Start A Business
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Many people want to be entrepreneurs, yet something holds them back, observes Rieva Lesonsky, editorial director at Entrepreneur Media Inc. Lesonsky explores the three "dares" you need to overcome when you want to start your own business.
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