Archive for November, 2007
Carlsbad Chamber Honors It’s Volunteers At the First Friday Breakfast
November 30th, 2007 | Posted by Debra Simpson | Category: Carlsbad Chamber | No CommentsJoin me when the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce holds their First Friday Breakfast next Friday, December 7th at the Hilton Garden Inn. Chamber President Ted Owen and outgoing Chairman of the Board, Paul Thompson will acknowledge the volunteer business owners who provide invaluable assistance to the Chamber. Each year hundreds of volunteers donate their [...]
Sales and Success Boot Camp
November 28th, 2007 | Posted by Debra Simpson | Category: Sales | No CommentsAre you ready to make 2008 your best year ever? I know I am, so I took Eric Lofholm up on his offer to attend a FREE Sales and Success Boot Camp this weekend in Newport Beach. 2008 is right around the corner. Now is the time to prepare for the best year of your [...]
Heart of the Holidays Book Signing
November 27th, 2007 | Posted by Debra Simpson | Category: Book Review | No CommentsA few years ago I was approached by Sheryl Roush, Sparkle Presentations, and asked to contribute to her Heart of a Woman book. I, along with many other women in the business community provided inspirational passages, humorous and serious stories, as well as poems. It may have started with Heart of a Woman, but it [...]
Operational Branding – Image Power
November 26th, 2007 | Posted by Paul Miser | Category: Marketing,Paul Miser | No CommentsBranding has been a huge "buzz" word in the business realm in today’s society. Many companies and business people believe that branding is just a logo and copy written about the company to be sent to the customer or potential customer to entice them to buy. This is only a mere fraction of what the [...]
How Safe is Safe?
November 20th, 2007 | Posted by | Category: Barbara Eldridge,Strategic Planning | No CommentsSeveral weeks ago I attended a SCORE workshop cosponsored be Hewlett Packard on disaster planning for the small to mid size business owner. Little did I think that within weeks San Diego businesses would be needing this information, much less having to already put it to use. As small business owners we have all invested significant [...]
Sundown at the Village Faire
November 16th, 2007 | Posted by Debra Simpson | Category: Carlsbad Chamber | No CommentsThe Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce held it’s monthly Sundowner last night at the Village Faire. What a great networking event! Here are pics I took last night of many of my fellow Chamber members. The Chamber really outdid itself on this Sundowner. My favorite part???? The Pacific Coast Concert Band and the food. Ok, the [...]
Accelerate Your Personal Wealth By Unlocking The Power Of Your Telephone!!
November 13th, 2007 | Posted by Debra Simpson | Category: Marketing,Product Creation | No CommentsMarty M. Fahncke of Conference Call University, will be interviewing, Alex Mandossian, Chief Instructor for Teleseminar Secrets, creator of the Virtual Book Tour, to discuss how to… Create content-rich info products at the speed of sound Automatically build highly-responsive online lists from scratch Motivate and persuade prospects to sign-up on calls faster Inspire and influence [...]
6 Steps to PR Success
November 12th, 2007 | Posted by Paul Miser | Category: Marketing,Paul Miser | No CommentsOver the past few weeks, I have heard mutiple small business owners ask about Press Releases; How do they work, who do you send them to, how can a small business get recognized, etc. I’m sure this has crossed your mind at some point as well. I’m going to tell you right now, it’s not [...]
Euphlotea, Has It’s Time Come?
November 9th, 2007 | Posted by Debra Simpson | Category: Regional News | 3 CommentsI recently interviewed Adam Englund, Euphlotea’s President. We spoke about his vision to build a floating airport to serve San Diego County. I hope you find it as informative as I. Please leave your comments below. Adam brings three decades of environmental activism, visionary engineering, critical legal analysis and transportation advocacy to his position as [...]
What Stifles Growth or Promotes Success?
November 8th, 2007 | Posted by | Category: Barbara Eldridge,Strategic Planning | No CommentsYour success in business comes down to the difference between managing your work or letting your work manage you. What’s it going to be? The biggest contributors to clutter are those good old fashion letters, junk mail, memos, e-mail printouts and sticky notes, So how do you sort through all the junk and all the [...]
Marketing for 2008 – Allocate Correctly for Highest Profit
November 5th, 2007 | Posted by Paul Miser | Category: Marketing,Paul Miser | No CommentsAs we start planning for 2008, we have to take a good look at our revenue goals, our annual budget, and of course our marketing plan. We look at our goals to make sure we know where we are going, our budget to ensure we are well funded, and our marketing to get us to where [...]