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Smart-Savvy Entrepreneur’s Talk with Teresa Cleveland [Podcast]

TiffanyO. — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:00:39 +0000

This show will feature experts ready to share insights related to social media, marketing, the nuances of running a virtual business in the age of web 2.0 and the most common issues/solutions facing entrepreneurs in the global economy.

Why listen: We help business owners connect mind, body and soul. It’s a program that allows the heart, head, and hands to intersect.

Our weekly program is designed to address 4-areas of the entreprenuer’s life cycle (marketing & pr, networking, technology and taking time for yourself! – which is why we are in business).

Thursday’s at 4:00 p.m. EST.

Subscribe to the iTunes feed here:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-social-networking/id405332500

This week, meet Teresa Cleveland…

First and foremost, I’m continually evolving and having a blast doing it! I love surrounding myself with people who can see the possibilities and are ready to embrace and share their vision & voice. They enjoy collaborating and supporting one another.

I believe that when we stop ‘shoulding’ on ourselves and begin embracing our own authenticity, there is an amazing shift that happens and we should buckle our seat belts as opportunities materialize. When we can say “maybe” instead of “I could never” or “I’m not (smart, pretty, qualified, etc) enough” we open ourselves to endless possibilities. My life is a testament to the power of overcoming negative self-talk and experiences. I am dedicated to helping others develop an awareness that empowers them to live the fulfilling life they are meant to live!

Wherever you are in your journey, I’m committed to helping you clarify, connect, and communicate your unique vision and voice. If your “take action”, confident, calm demeanor has been replaced with procrastination, uncertainty and frustration you are not alone. Are you ready for an effective solution? Specializing in empowering you to define your best life, I partner with you and using various philosophies we will createyour customized strategy. My job is to provide you with the tools to succeed, personally and professionally. I love what I do and so can you…successfully!

I am blessed to be personally trained and certified by some amazing experts like Bob Burg and Chris & Janet Attwood to teach some of the very programs that have impacted my life. How cool is that?!?!

We can work together via private strategy sessions, one-on-one consultations, teleseminars, workshops, and group mentoring programs. I am also available as a professional speaker for your organization.

Listen to the interview here.

If you attended Teresa’s session at the Beyond Social 101 conference, be sure to grab the handout here:

Upcoming show line-up:

Segment: Networking Know How

Description: Networking is not new, but for some it still is NOT working! The radio/podcast segment is designed to help smart-savvy entrepreneurs tighten up your online and offline skills. We’ll also include tools and technology topics. It’s one-on-one interviews and cool round-table discussions too.

Segment: Marketing Madness Made Simple

Description: This series is an awesome line up of marketing gurus that understand how to reach your target audience in simple ways.

Segment: Women In Technology

Description: Technology is an area of passion for Tiffany as well as helping women position themselves for greater leadership roles and heighten their visibility on technology conference platforms. Innovation happens and we want to learn, teach and show women how to get there and lead it! This segment is an empowerment segment. It will feature interviews with women in technology and men willing to share what it takes to play in their sandbox!

Segment: Coaches Concierge

Description: Tips and strategies to grow your business or make a career move. Focuses on finance, emotional IQ, leadership, marketing. Get advice from a coach in business, executive, finance, attraction marketing, job transition and life!

Fix your business problems. Make mindset shifts. Charge what your deserve. Get hired. Learn to say no!

Smart-Savvy Entrepreneur’s Talk with Lori Raudnask

TiffanyO. — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:52:30 +0000

Why listen: We help business owners connect mind, body and soul. It’s a program that allows the heart, head, and hands to intersect.

Our weekly program is designed to address 4-areas of the entreprenuer’s life cycle (marketing & pr, networking, technology and taking time for yourself! – which is why we are in business).

Every Thursday from 4:00 p.m. EST.

This week, meet Lori Raudnask, author and million dollar sales coach…

Apologies in advance for the first few seconds having the fuzz and static:(. The actual interview came through clear!

Subscribe to the iTunes feed here:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-social-networking/id405332500

MEET LORI RAUDNASK

Lori Raudnask is a passionate, professional, driven entrepreneurial woman. For over 34 years she has dedicated her skills to mastering and improving the “sales” experience. She has used her talents, persistence, advanced training techniques, and commitment to success to build a sales team that has generated over 100 million dollars in direct sales and helped to launch hundreds of successful women entrepreneurs.

Lori expanded that focus in 2005, by joining the senior leadership team of a major international franchisor. She led the creation and implementation of franchise field training systems in 13 countries directly supporting the successful launch of over 65+ offices in just four and half short years.

Under her direct leadership, training, and mentoring franchise field offices reported significant revenue growth from start-up, with the majority seeing profitability in as little as 9 months or less.

Additionally, Lori drove the training operations and logistics for all of the public training events the company held, literally serving thousands of entrepreneurs, professionals, and a who’s-who list of Fortune 500 clients in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, South Africa, and Australia.

Ask anyone who has attended one of Lori’s speaking engagements, received coaching from her, read her book “Persistence Pays” or listened to her audio cd “Mastering The Art of Networking” and they will tell you she creates a powerful and effective connection with her audience where everyone walks away with a wealth of real strategies and tools they can use immediately for serious results.

Lori’s training system engages participants and readers in hands-on experiential learning that clearly identifies the limiting patterns, behaviours, and beliefs holding back their professional and personal lives and assists them in clearly identifying what they can do to achieve their desired results.

Lori’s passion and drive to create serious results for sales professionals has inspired her to write a book, provide individualized coaching, produce an audio cd and speak to large audiences throughout the world.

May your dedication to succeed pay off for you as it has for me… and remember Persistence Pays.

Listen to the interview here.

Upcoming show line-up:

Segment: Networking Know How

Segment: Marketing Madness Made Simple

Description: This series is an awesome line up of marketing gurus that understand how to reach your target audience in simple ways.

Segment: Women In Technology

Segment: Coaches Concierge

Fix your business problems. Make mindset shifts. Charge what your deserve. Get hired. Learn to say no!

Mobile goes social!

TiffanyO. — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:49:55 +0000

Have you tried integrating mobile media and social media? It’s a great way to reach people in a targeted way. They self-select joining your community and they give you something precious that you must guard, their mobile phone number. Yes, this is the new email list.

Last year I gave a talk on mobile media and the power of “now” with adoption. One year later and mobile is still blowing up…

Instead of teaching the power, I wanted to tap in to it. So, this week I set out on test of the tools. With the help of Laura Jo Richards, I set up a keyword campaign on an emerging mobile platform “iZigg“. Last year, I used Club Texting, which I also recommend, especially if you do not want a monthly recurring charge.

The event I’m testing this with is the ”Beyond Social 101′s Blah Blah Blogging Bootcamp” conference for women, by women. The goal in creating and organizing this conference was to create a platform for women in technology to stand on and connect them with other women in business.

Creating a contest was easy, but socializing it took a few minutes to make it attractive. After creating a note in Facebook, and sharing it with friends, a targeted list started to be develop. Here’s the Facebook post I created:

Win 2 Tickets to go beyond social 101 by adding blogging to the mix | Text “beyondsocial101″ to 90210

Contest time!!!

Why:

We are testing out iZigg as a mobile media tool for tradeshows & events. Help us determine if mobile media really works!

What:

We are all set for tomorrow’s Meet & Tweet and Saturday’s first ever, Columbus Blogging Bootcamp for women, by women put on by Talk Social Networking featuring Girls In Tech. If you haven’t registered, here’s your last chance!!! We’re raffling 2 tickets today and tomorrow…

How to enter:

Just text BeyondSocial101 to 90210

Winners:

Announcements made at 10 p.m. today and noon tomorrow! No fee to enter, just a std text msg rate. Don’t delay. Text it now!

Details about the conference are here http://www.beyondsocial101.com/.

It’s an intimate regional conference with attendees coming from across the U.S.

A lesson I learned today: Make sure people understand that by opting in to your contest, or if you are doing it live at an event, they will receive 2-3 initial messages. The first is a confirmation, the second is your personal message. For some, who have limited texting plans, this may be less attractive, so be careful when setting up your campaign, and communicate expectations.

More lessons later, since the contest is still running, so check back later for results.

So, are you curious about the winner of todays raffle for the event? Drum roll please….

Tune in tomorrow… winners have been notified and we’re awaiting their Twitter ID’s.

Communication – 99 ways to speak and be heard!

Tiffany Odutoye (@virtualpartner) — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:13:03 +0000

Today I got a nice little nugget in my inbox, and thought – yes! This definitely should be shared.

How many times have you spoken, and realized that what was heard, was not at all what you said? Communication is part art and part science and must be practiced. There are four main goals: to inform, to request, to persuade, and to build relationships.

If we don’t master the art of communication, we may waste our time doing pointless activities that amount to, well, pointless activity.

For example: is your social networking NOT working? Has your sphere of influence and reach expanded? Chances are you are not building the type of relationships that benefit from your influence. Perhaps you are talking to the wrong people. So, what can do?

Take a look at this list and identify one or two items that fit your objectives for communicating (informing, requesting, influencing, or building relationships). Try them right away and be sure to pop back on this page to share your comments and stories. I want to hear them!

Article Resource: 99 Ways to Improve Your Communication [http://www.getinfrontblogging.com/communication/99-ways-to-improve-your-communication/]

Additional resource: Lynne Waymon founded an organization called: Contacts Count. Check out some of the resources she offers for effectively connecting and building relationships (communicating) at live events.

Find them at http://www.contactscount.com

Making Your Words Count (ismckenzie.com)
Social Media Q&A: Is One-Way Communication an Oxymoron? (socialmediatoday.com)
Communicate effectively (slideshare.net)

How to Get Local PR on a Micro Budget

Tiffany Odutoye (@virtualpartner) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:09:00 +0000

**UPDATED***

Who doesn’t need good press?

Imagine seeing your name in the local business newspaper and magazine, being highlighted in a local publication or TV show, your family, friends, clients and potential clients gathering calling to congratulate you on your press coverage.

If building your credibility through local public relations is appealing to you, you will want to join us as Meredith Liepelt of Rich Life Marketing shows us the exact steps she takes to secure local press coverage for herself and her clients. And how you can too!

Join us as Meredith teaches us how to get local PR on a micro budget!

You will learn:
• The #1 thing that makes up the news
• Four kinds of stories that reporters love
• The simple components of a press release
• How to know where to send your press release
• The one thing you should never say to a reporter when you call to follow up
• How to get your name in the paper next week – really!
• The key components of your press kit

Join the LIVE Smart-Savvy Entrepreneur’s BlogTalk Radio show ***UPDATED****on May 7th, at 5:00 p.m. EST: http://bit.ly/C7kR5 (or get the replay of the show on-demand).

Questions will be taken LIVE during the show at: (347) 308-8941

Host: Tiffany Odutoye | Guest: Meredith Liepelt

About the featured guest:
Meredith Liepelt, Creative Client Attraction™ Strategist and President of Rich Life Marketing, is an award-winning marketing entrepreneur, coach, speaker and author of eight years. She has been featured on entrepreneur.com, MSN.com, Portfolio.com, ABC, NBC, Business First, The Columbus Dispatch, as well as a multitude of newspapers and radio shows around the country. Meredith is a featured columnist in Glow Magazine, www.ResourceNation.com and has been published in many others outlets.

Meredith is featured in the books Real You Incorporated, 8 Essentials for Women Entrepreneurs, by Kaira Rouda and Beating the Bailout Blues by Rosalind Resnick. She is a member of The National Association of Women Business Owners and eWomenNetwork where she leads the marketing committee for the Columbus, Ohio chapter. She is the author of an upcoming book on client attraction strategies for solopreneurs.

Meredith works with solopreneurs and micropreneurs around the country through her group and private coaching programs, boot camps, teleseminars, retreats and home study kits. Meredith created a 2-minute movie called www.TheRichLifeMovie.com that other women business owners have called “brilliant” and “a true gift to women in business.”

She publishes a very popular free bi-weekly enewsletter called Smart Marketing that is packed with client attraction advice, tools and resources. Every new subscriber receives a free e-course where she teaches her Marketing for a Truly Rich Life Formula™ valued at $139.

Web 2.0 Expo 2008 | 2009

Tiffany Odutoye (@virtualpartner) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:00:00 +0000

Web 2.0 Expo is a global annual gathering of technical, design, marketing, and business professionals who are building the next generation web. Web 2.0 Expo features the most innovative and successful Internet industry figures and companies providing attendees with examples of business models, development paradigms, and design strategies to enable mainstream businesses and new arrivals to the Web 2.0 world to take advantage of this new generation of services and opportunities. Web 2.0 Expo is co-produced by O’Reilly Media and TechWeb.

Here is a clip form the keynote (Oct. 2008).
2009 is planned for March 31-April 3 (San Francisco, CA)

Blackberry Blues – 10 Tips and Tricks

Tiffany Odutoye (@virtualpartner) — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:15:00 +0000

Has your Blackberry suddenly gone wacky? Have your recently lost valuable data?

If not, great. Here’s the low down on preventing information overload on Blackberry:

Top 10 tips of the month:
1) Make it your standard to maintain at least 14,000,000 bytes of free space!
2) Regularly check your system and remove any unused programs – they are just wasting space.
3) Use the “delete prior” feature, which keeps your messages on your desktop, but not clogging up your in-box.
4) Be sure to turn on the feature “Delete on prompts” (especially if using IMAP).
5) Clear history for internet use.
6) Clear cache operations.
7) Save music and audio books to the memory card and NOT the phone.
Make sure your photos taken with the camera phone are stored on your data card and NOT the phone.
9) At least once a week, connect your device to your laptop and back up your data.
10) Finally, re boot for your changes to take affect.

More tips and tricks in my monthly newsletter. Sign up for it here:

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Here’s a BONUS for all of you Google business app lovers…
Just released google and blackberry contacts sync!!! Check out the details here:

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-sync-for-blackberry-now-with.html

The Virtual Wire – Two New VA Bloggers Added!

Tiffany Odutoye (@virtualpartner) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:16:00 +0000

There’s two new kids on the block! and who likes being the new kid on the block anyway? No one ever really does, unless you receive the warmest welcome there ever could be. That is exactly the way The Virtual Wire’s team have embraced me.

I introduced myself to The Virtual Wire’s (TVW) community, and for those who have followed me to this blog, thank you. I feel really privileged to be one of the newest VA bloggers added to TVW, and hope that you’ll continue to read in both places. For those of you who haven’t heard of TVW, please read my first post.

Starting October 1st, and every Saturday thereafter, I’ll be blogging thematically on TVW (unless, something more compelling strikes me and I just have to tell you about it). October will be dedicated to the art of entrepreneurial thinking, or should I say the “lost art”. It would be great to hear from you as we explore this topic. There will be resources, advice (like we need more of that) and stories too. To kick this off, see where my motivation began (blog entry: Entrepreneurship – principles that recapture the lost art…). If you respond to the call to action, please tell me about it. We all want to hear from you!!

We are also graced with the talent and expertise of Sydni Craig-Hart of Craig-Hart Consulting, and EAtoVA. I could not be in better company, and neither will you. Sydni will be blogging on TVW on Wednesdays, and I know you’ll be informed and enlightened by her perspective. She rocks!

Thank you to the TVW team for having me!

Virtually yours:)

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Talk Social Networking » smart-savvy entrepreneur

Smart-Savvy Entrepreneur’s Talk with Teresa Cleveland [Podcast]

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-social-networking/id405332500

This week, meet Teresa Cleveland…

Segment: Networking Know How

Segment: Marketing Madness Made Simple

Segment: Women In Technology

Segment: Coaches Concierge

Smart-Savvy Entrepreneur’s Talk with Lori Raudnask

This week, meet Lori Raudnask, author and million dollar sales coach…

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-social-networking/id405332500

Listen to the interview here.

Segment: Networking Know How

Segment: Marketing Madness Made Simple

Segment: Women In Technology

Segment: Coaches Concierge

Mobile goes social!

Communication – 99 ways to speak and be heard!

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