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Small Business Professional Toastmasters Club Forming

It’s no secret that we are big fans of Toastmasters. In my mind–there is nothing more important for a business person to develop, than communication skills. Up until now there hasn’t been a local club that focused entirely on Small Business. Up Until Now That Is! Join us here in Vancouver for an organizational meeting to [...]

Make the Most of Opportunities to Speak

Speaking opportunities are public relations and marketing events, not sales opportunities. If you are the featured speaker at a business or community event, your job is to entertain, motivate, inspire, encourage, or whatever else your contact person wants you to do. Of course, your audience wants to get to know you, so they can learn [...]

Celebrate Communication Skills

Have you ever listened to a speaker whose message was diluted or lost in verbal graffiti? Is it only an exhausted athlete being interviewed after a victory who is guilty of saying you know or um again and again and strengthening this habit? Or, could it be a teenager who says “like” anywhere in a [...]

5 Tips to Take Control of Your Facebook Situation

Change is hard! When you are used to doing something in a certain way—it’s hard to change and do it differently. Seems like the entire free world is up in arms about the recent Facebook changes. I’m not sure if we should be or not. For the most part, I’m liking the new changes—maybe that’s because, [...]

Social Security Tele-Webinar August 10th at 7 AM PDT

We’ll be talking about Social Security! No–No—Not “that” kind of Social Security. The kind you need if you or your business are online and using the Social Media Sites. Join us for a free call hosted by Alexis Mason and Rusty Lee at My Business Launch. Our special guest will be security expert Jeff Ferdinand. We’re starting [...]

Marketing or Networking: What is it really?

Last week we asked the question: Is it Marketing or is it Networking. Here’s the second part of that post….. How do you build such a network? How have I built my network? There’s no better way to build a relationship of trust, no faster way than to do it in person. Yes you can do [...]

Is It Marketing… Or Is It Networking?

Marketing your small business these days is more important than ever. With today’s economy, if you don’t have new business coming in, your survival is in great peril. Many of us are spending time, often far too much time, working on the Social Networking sites. It is an effective way to build contacts. It seems [...]

Four Simple Tips for Effective Event Networking

Are you ready when you attend a business meeting or event? It’s an often overlooked skill that can help establish you as an expert and professional. Entire books have been written on the concept of meeting new people and developing relationships that can lead to a healthy and productive professional image. Don’t be intimidated by [...]

Situational and Interactive Learning

There is a huge body of information and numerous skill sets that you need in order to launch a successful business. For this post, I have broken some of the material down into five areas. You can work with your trusted advisors in all these areas. If you haven’t yet created a mastermind group, the [...]

New Book and Workshops Announced

Hello Everyone, We are pleased to announce the title you helped us to select for our book and that you can now buy it on Kindle. Just click here for more details: Launching Your Business: End the Mystery ~ 101 Practical Tips. We hope you’ll get a copy and that it will help to build [...]

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