North San Diego Business At Large

North San Diego Business At Large
Show Notes: July 30, 2010

Link to live stream, Friday, July 30th 3pm PT

Dale Condy, Gems of La Costa, will be my business guest interview. He’s using Facebook to raise awareness and brand recognition for his business. He’s got some creative ideas and will be able to share a few ideas as a business owners who is leveraging his “brick and mortar” business online.

I’ll follow that up with a discussion on Facebook Pages and why you’d want to consider adding one to your marketing efforts. Taking your questions on using Facebook Pages for your business.

If you have a question you’d like answered on using Facebook Pages for Business, just use the North San Diego Business Contact form and send your question to me.

North San Diego Business At Large

North San Diego Business At Large
Show Notes: July 23, 2010

My business interview was with Cassie Carter, QLN Conference Center, about the conference center and how local small business owners can use the center. I also discussed the use of Facebook profiles for business.

The conference center has several space configurations allowing it’s use for many types of events. The center also offers WIFI for those looking to use the Internet in a presentation or as an instructional tool.

Cassie can be reached at QLN Conference Center Contact page or by phone, 760-722-0072 ext. 193. The conference center is located at: 1938 Avenida del Oro, Oceanside, CA 92056

The second half of the show Barbara Eldridge, Mind Masters, and I talked about Facebook profiles and gave some tips on organizing friends and how we use our profiles for business.

Next week we’ll be discussing Facebook Pages. Use the North San Diego Business Contact Us form to send a question you have on using Facebook for business.

North San Diego Business At Large

North San Diego Business At Large
Show Notes: June 18, 2010

Dr. Deena Stacer, The Big Ask Strategy, talks about the Big Ask. She also holds a “Big Ask” Meetup on Wednesday mornings at The Q in Oceanside.

Learn to think bigger than ever before to create amazing personal and professional success. Take your life to a higher level and get rid of the recession mindset.

You’ll hear how to:

• Think bigger, than ever before about your personal and professional life
• Ask bigger questions to create bigger answers
• Learn how to get clear about what you want
• Learn how to stay focused on what you want
• Learn how to ask others for help, to get what you want
• Learn how to get your mind out of the recession mindset.
• Learn how to turn you mind into a powerful machine creating an abundance and achievement mindset
• Learn how to attract big answers to your big ASK questions
• Learn how keep creating bigger and bigger results
• Learn how to change your life and accomplish your dreams quickly
• Meet others who want to kick their little asks to the curb and make way for Big Ask Success!

Thinking Big in the 21st Century

Think BIG, Ask BIG , Act BIG, Acheive BIG, Achieve BIG, Give BIG

North San Diego Business At Large

North San Diego Business At Large
Show Notes: June 11, 2010

Jeanette Alessio-Way, The History Lady, is a unique lecturer who illuminates the past using fascinating objects that spark memories and prompt audience participation. She commands a wealth of historic facts and anecdotes, delivered in a warm and congenial style. From schoolchildren to seniors, audiences are enthralled by Jeanette’s fun and educational presentations.

Jeanette shared how she came to start such a fascinating business. She also shared many stories, not only about history, but about the reactions and recollections from the seniors she meets during her visits to their care centers.

One of the other treasures to come out of what Jeanette does is capturing the stories as she visits the senior facilities. Sitting down with, and listening to, the seniors and their first-hand accounts of our recent history. Jeanette is truly one of the “jewels” in our small business community.

The last 15 minutes of the show I shared a few search engine optimization terms and tips about how to make your blog content a little easier for the search engines to read and index.

North San Diego Business At Large

North San Diego Business At Large
Show Notes: June 4, 2010

My guest was Ann Marie Houghtailing, The Houghtailing Group, has partnered with the University of San Diego to provide a summer course to middle (July 26-29) and high school (Aug 2-5) students, Blazing My Trail. Check out the site.

Ann Marie needs company scholarships and opportunities to speak to parent’s groups, PTAs, PTOs, Mom groups, etc. It’s an innovative program sharing a message of creating your opportunities versus waiting for opportunities.

Ann Marie was a delightful interview and the program is incredibly worthy of any support  you, or a business owner you know, can provide.

Here are the links to tell you more about the programs.
The Houghtailing Group
USD Blazing My Trail

North San Diego Business At Large

North San Diego Business At Large
Show Notes: May 21, 2010

My guest this episode was Felena Hanson, Perspective Marketing.

Felena Hanson brings over twelve years of marketing and management experience to the table. She’s not only an industry expert but also a marketing professor, author, and international speaker.

Her background includes, marketing plan creation and implementation, marketing management, brand management, product positioning, market research, marketing communications, web marketing and customer relationship management.

She has worked as an Account Director for PremiereGroup, a marketing agency in Los Angeles, California, where her responsibilities included managing marketing communications programs for clients such as DIRECTV, SunAmerica, Fox News Channel, Washington Mutual and Epson.

North San Diego Business At Large

North San Diego Business At Large
Show Notes: April 18, 2010
Special Episode

I interviewed Sheryl Roush, Sparkle Presentations,  about her role as Emcee for the upcoming Women In Business Symposium being held May 20, 2010 at the Del Mar Fairgrounds.

Sheryl has been one of the keynote speakers in the past and was asked to come back this year to bring a bit of “sparkle” to the day.

In addition to Sheryl as Emcee, Dee Sanford and Judy Carter will be the two keynote speakers. There will also be two sets of 30 minute roundtables presented by experts from the business community on a variety of topics important to running our businesses and our lives.

North San Diego Business At Large

North San Diego Business At Large
Show Notes: February 26, 2010

My guests for the first half of the show were Scott Ashton, The Oceanside Chamber of Commerce and Colm Kelly, Do Better Business, one of the sponsors who shared the upcoming San Diego Business Showcase on March 11, 2010.

My second guest will be Mia Roseberry, Wounded Warrior Homes, to talk about transitional housing for our North San Diego Veterens.

North San Diego Business At Large

North San Diego Business At Large
Show Notes:  February 19, 2010

Dan Boe, Inner-Fire Presentations, shared the six deadly mistakes we make in our sales conversations. They include:

1. Not getting the commitment up front.
2. Relying on product knowledge.
3. Being a free consultant.
4. Not having a process.
5. Trying to beat the buyer at his/her own game.
6. Selling features & benefits.

Dan offers sales courses which can be found at his site, Be The Fire, and has been a previous guest of North San Diego Business At Large (episode page).

North San Diego Business At Large

North San Diego Business At Large
Show Notes: February 12, 2010

Today I spoke with Sue Crum, the R.E.D. team, about her work with Jack Canfield in helping people get moving towards their dreams.

Sue Crum

She is currently one of less than 75 people world-wide selected by Jack Canfield to help others implement positive changes in their lives so that they can get on to the life they imagine.

Sue is passionate about lifelong learning and inspiring others to create the life and the space they deserve.

She works with clients individually and in groups speaking about clearing up the roadblocks that sometimes hold us back.