Leverage Your Visibility with Online Video – Free Call Tonight!

Posted by Denise Griffitts on Mar 17, 2010 in Internet Mastery | 0 comments

Online video is huge. It is absolutely everywhere and is a enormously popular marketing tool for entrepreneurs. Did you know that video is being called the “must use marketing tool” of 2010?

If you want to use video to promote your business, but you’re not sure where to begin, I can point you in the right direction.  My friend and colleague Lou Bortone is the go-to guy for video and if you want to get some video marketing tips and tricks from him, you can listen to him tonight.  This is brand new, never-before-shared content and doesn’t require you to opt-in or sign-up. Just show up here.

Lou tells me that this call tonight will also give you a brief “sneak peak” of the first ever online video bootcamp on Saturday, March 27. It is aptly named “Video in a Day!”

If you want to find out how to market and promote your business with video, this is the perfect opportunity.  It’s easy, affordable and you can get your video online in just one day!

I really hope you’re able to take advantage of this unique opportunity to learn video from Lou.

Once you have posted your new videos please come back here and let us know where we can see them!

Your Partner In Success Radio Show Welcomes Deborah Dubree

Posted by Denise Griffitts on Oct 7, 2009 in Internet Mastery, Your Partner In Success | 0 comments

Your Partner In Success Radio Show

Please join me as I interview Speaker, Trainer, Coach and President of Clear Edge, LLC.

Deborah Dubree delivers high-energy, content-driven, actionable material that is customized to suit your audience. She tells real stories that inspire, motivate, engage and teach.  Her presentations challenge your audience to act, to do something different, to “up their game” by holding up the reality mirror and help them face their challenges, and achieve them.

Deborah is internationally recognized by satisfied clients for pushing, stretching and making them uncomfortable as they cut through their empty words and promises to themselves and learn to dominate their sandbox …and then beg for more.

In addition, her leadership skills earned her several respected positions including: President of Construction Financial Management Association and International President of the Timberline User Group. Her contribution to the construction industry was so valued, industry peers nominated her National Woman of the Year in Construction.

Eventually, Deborah stepped away from her CEO position to create her company ClearEdge.

She now coaches and trains worldwide serious achievers how to stop wasting time, money and energy, and instead experience the clarity, confidence and courage to be powerful – consistently- as they strive to be “THE” #1 Best in their Category.

We will be discussing some of the important questions a lot of people have on their minds about how to shortcut personal and professional success. Be sure to have a pen and paper hand as she will be giving you information you don’t want to miss.

Your Partner In Success Radio Show

When: Friday, Oct 9, 2009

Time: 9 am PST, 10 am MST, 11 am CST, 12 pm PST

Where:  Your home office telephone or computer.

Website: Your Partner In Success Radio Show

Call-in Number: 347-843-4988

Time permitting, we will take questions so please be sure to join us in the chat room.

We look forward to “seeing” you!

Your Partner In Success Radio Show Welcomes Kim Beasley

Posted by Denise Griffitts on Sep 30, 2009 in Your Partner In Success | 0 comments

Please join me as I interview Kim Beasley. Kim is a speaker, author and educator who knows first-hand the trials and tribulations of starting your own business. After earning degrees in Organizational Development and eBusiness with emphasis in technology and project management, Kim took her personal experiences in the business world and launched her own company in 2005 called Agape 3 Business services. Initially, Kim put her programming skills to use for small business owners to help them develop and maintain their web presence through her business Agape3 Business Services LLC. After developing many successful relationships, she expanded her business model to include social media, general support services to further support their needs. It has now become Kim’s passion’ to help others venture into the rewarding life of being a business owner.

We will be delving into the following topics:

Your Passionate Business – Developing your business from a skill that you are passionate about

What does it mean to develop a “Your Passionate Business”?

What resources are available to business owners through “Your Passionate Business”?

What steps are involved in “Your Passionate Business”?

How do the Huddle Groups work within “Your Passionate Business”?

How can someone become a Focused Huddle Group Coach?

What are some of the hiccups that Kim helps people deal with?

In teaching business owners how to “deal with life’s little hiccups”, what are some of the key things they need to do?

Are there specific things that a business owner can do to prepare for “hiccups”?

Your Partner In Success Radio Show

Your Passionate Business by Kim Beasley

When: Friday, Oct 2, 2009

Time: 9 am PST, 10 am MST, 11 am CST, 12 pm PST

Where:  Your home office telephone or computer.

Website: Your Partner In Success BlogTalkRadio

Call-in Number: 347-843-4988

Time permitting, we will take questions so please be sure to join us in the chat room.

We look forward to “seeing” you!

How to Build a Successful Organizational Improvement Program

Posted by Denise Griffitts on Aug 25, 2009 in Entrepreneurism, Internet Mastery | 0 comments

Look beyond efficiency to effectiveness and align the thinking, behaviors and actions of your team to create the results you want.

By Tony Bodoh, President, Tony Bodoh International, LLC

The blind pursuit of greater efficiency has been the cause of failure for companies of all sizes. CEOs hear real stories of the results of Lean, Six Sigma, or Theory of Constraint projects and they boldly proclaim through an executive order that their companies will implement such programs. Years and millions of dollars later, these programs are abandoned as another failed fad.

Why do these programs fail more often than they succeed?

The answer is astonishingly simple: The management team did not change their thinking which informed their behaviors which caused their results.

Every change program must have essentially the same elements incorporated into it as any successful twelve step program. This is necessary because the processes and policies of companies are the cause of habits and addictions of the staff and management of the company. People do things the same way every day. They also crave the biochemical stimulus they receive through exerting power, being praised, or just being part of the crowd and complaining about what is wrong with the company.

If a CEO recognizes that her change program will come into direct conflict with the power of the subconscious minds of her employees and customers, she will build a program that focuses on changing the thinking and behavior of her employees, long before she address the change in results. In fact, the change in results will be exponentially greater if one focuses first on changing thinking and behaviors before attempting to change results.

How many people really understand the root cause of efficiency? I would argue that very few really grasp the true cause of efficiency.

Webster’s Dictionary defines efficiency as the power to produce the effect desired. Applying this definition to business, we would say that a project which has a thirty percent return on investment is more efficient than a project with a twenty percent return on investment. In essence, it took the same amount of money to create a greater effect.

This is interesting, but how does one create greater efficiencies?

The answer is found in the definition of effectiveness. Webster defines effectiveness as being in a condition to produce the desired effect. It is the condition that is the root cause of efficiency.

When teaching this concept in seminars I use a simple example.

Imagine a car is sitting on a road in neutral and facing the direction we want to go. If several people get behind the car and push, the car will begin to move. The transfer of power is efficient because we get movement.

Now, imagine the car has been turned perpendicular to the path we want to travel. Several people start to push on the side of the car in an attempt to push it down the road. The transfer of power is inefficient because we see no movement.

This example shows that efficiency is determined primarily by the alignment of the elements of a project with the vision of the end in mind. In other words, the car cannot move down the road if it is not first pointed in the right direction. It will take far more power to move a car that is out of alignment than a car that is aligned with the road.

These same principles hold true in business. Every organization is currently aligned to produce a particular effect with a specific amount of power. If the CEO wants to achieve the same effect with less power she must first create alignment in the minds and hearts of her management team and staff. Then she must remove resistance in the minds of customers, vendors and other stakeholders. Only when the alignment is correct will the results be efficiently achieved.

This last statement should not be construed as a reason to wait to act. In fact, you will only know that the conditions are correct when you test, through action, to see if the power you expend causes the results you want.

Follow these steps for success:

1. Align the obvious elements
2. Test through action
3. Measure results
4. Start the process again.

It is helpful, and often more efficient, to partner a change expert from outside the company with subject matter experts from inside the company. The transfer of knowledge from the expert to your team will increase effectiveness of future efforts.

About Tony Bodoh International

Tony Bodoh is an expert coach who specializes in aligning an organization’s operations and culture in the service industry. He has a portfolio of alignment projects with financial results ranging from $10 million to over $1 billion. Through projects focused on customer satisfaction and loyalty Bodoh has produced results with double and triple digit improvement in critical scores. Tony Bodoh’s Specialties: Application of Lean and Theory of Constraints principles in service industry.