North San Diego Business At Large
Show Notes: February 17, 2012

Listen Live at 3pm PT

In this episode you’ll meet North San Diego entrepreneur and Coach, Greg Clowminzer.

For the past 23 years Greg has been both a successful entrepreneur and passionate truth seeker. Today he offers advice and personal coaching for CEO’s, small business owners, and professionals who are stressed out and overwhelmed by the challenges of growing a business, deepening relationships and living a life of meaning.

You will often catch Greg ranting about conscious entrepreneurship, integrating passion, profit and peace into your business, enlightened leadership, refining human capital, as well as eloquent riffs into the nature of conscious loving relationships.

Greg Clowminzer also known as Zen Coach is a self-realized spiritual teacher, life success coach and publisher of Daily Wisdom online coaching tips. He’s been studying small business success, personal leadership, marketing, business development along with martial arts, meditation. shamanic healing arts, humanistic psychology, yoga, life coaching, and other spiritual and esoteric traditions from around the world for the last 20+ years — and by now should know to keep his mouth shut — but has too much information he wants to share with you in order to transform you into a total master of living a life of SUCCESS and TRUE HAPPINESS – one that you can operate effectively in a cool and sexy way in today’s modern world.

North San Diego Business At Large
Show Notes: January 27, 2012

Harvey Brate will be my guest. He’s the founder of Contacts N Coffee, a new networking group in North County.

Contacts N Coffee’s purpose is to enhance the growth of their members’ businesses by providing an environment to share qualified and mutually profitable professional referrals and leads.

Contacts N Coffee became the fastest-growing networking group in the Santa Barbara region. Which just goes to show you, keeping it simple has huge rewards. The Santa Ynez, Ventura, Ojai, Conejo Valley, Simi Valley and Carlsbad groups are also rapidly expanding which suggests that the first group wasn’t just a case of beginner’s luck!

It’s that time of year, the Women In Business Symposium will be held May 19th at the Del Mar Fairgrounds.

This year I had the privilege of interviewing Rita Kahn, So What, Do It Now!, one of the keynote speakers at the symposium. At each event over the past 11 years, we have a charity of focus. For the first time ever, we are focusing on the same charity in back-to-back years, the Wounded Warrior Homes.

The early registration for the symposium ends this Friday, May 13th. Sign up now for a fabulous day of networking and learning. There are several roundtable sessions that will share business and lifestyle information with you.

This event draws over 300 women from all over San Diego County and over 75 exhibitors. It’s a day of fun and catching up with the women in business that you may not have seen recently. Who knows, you could meet your next client at this event. Register Now!

North San Diego Business at Large
Show Notes: November 19, 2010

Wow, two years ago I started my weekly internet radio show, North San Diego Business at Large. In this episode I’ll share how the show got it’s start and do a little celebrating with my good friend, Barbara Eldridge, Mind Masters and my co-director at Mind Masters Entrepreneur Association.

The second half of the show well finish up our conversation of last week, the outline of your business plan. Working from the Operational Plan, Management Plan and finally the Financial Plan.

Sites we talked about:

Mind Masters
Mind Masters Entrepreneur Association
Accion

Where else in North County can you join other women in business for an exciting networking event right on the coast in Carlsbad?

The North County Chapter of the For You Network is hosting Paula A. Sassi, who will be speaking about Team Building on Thursday, August 26th at 11:30am. The meeting is held at Vigilucci’s Seafood & Steakhouse, 3878 Carlsbad Blvd.

This presentation offers a sure and entertaining way for groups to evaluate their personalities and potentials. By applying the principles of graphology, the science of handwriting analysis, individuals can identify their personality types and abilities in order to strengthen the productivity and compatibility of the team. With a few basic handwriting indicators, team members will discover their personality types whether it is driving, expressive, amiable or analytical along with other traits that can be discerned from their handwriting.

This fun and in depth look at team members can also provide an insightful lesson in how to achieve even more understanding, compatibility and productivity in the workplace.

To reserve your place at the table, contact Barbara Eldridge, Mind Masters or call 858-467-9091

About the Presenter:
Paula A. Sassi, Certified Master Graphologist, has worked professionally in the field of handwriting analysis since 1980. Owner and director of her own corporation, Paula serves a diverse group of clients in the area of personnel selection, behavioral profiling and compatibility analysis. Top businesses and corporations seek her services for help in hiring and promoting personnel as well as in conflict resolution. Author, lecturer and teacher, Paula offers you one sure guarantee, you will never look at handwriting quite the same again.

The meeting is $10 for members, $15 for non-members. Lunch is optional and no-host.

North San Diego Business At Large

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

The Women In Business Symposium is being held Thursday, May 20, 2010 at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. This is the 11th year Sheila McDonnell has been producing this event.

Sheryl Roush

Sheryl Roush, Sparkle Presentations, will be the Mistress of Ceremonies. Anyone who knows Sheryl can tell you it’s an excellent event to attend, just because she’s there. she brings a passion to any event she’s involved with, and she really does “come from the heart.”

Sheryl has authored a “Heart Book Series” with several titles, Heart of a Woman, Heart of a Mother, and her current releases, Heart of a Military Woman and Heart of a Business Woman. But that’s not all.

Dee Sanford

Dee Sanford, Dee Sanford International, is one of the two keynote speakers. Dee is a Motivational Speaker, Trainer, TV & Internet Radio Host, and Founder of Two Networking Organizations.

Dee will be speaking about “The Power of Big Dreams and the Boldness to Make Them Happen”

Judy Carter

Judy Cater, Comedy Workshops,  will be the Symposium’s other keynote speakers.

Judy is a professional comedian and will be speaking about Stress Reduction: Laughing Your Way Out of Stress—Turning Problems into Punch Lines.

The Early Bird deadline is May 10, 2010.  There are still opportunities to market your business through sponsorship, or becoming one of the exhibitors. Make sure to register now for this wonderful networking event.

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 @Large Show Notes
December 4, 2009, 3pm PT

My guest this week was speaker and author Liz Goodgold, a fiery redhead with over 25 years of experience in marketing and branding. She is the author of RED FIRE BRANDING: Create a Hot Personal Brand and Have Customers for Life and DUH! Marketing.

Liz has worked for such major clients as Quaker Oats, Times Mirror, and Arco Oil as well as with small business owners and start-ups. Her specialized, one-on-one branding and coaching programs spark new ideas that deliver sure-fire results.

An often quoted expert, Liz has appeared in over 500 media outlets including ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNBC, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.

On Friday, July 24, 2009 I interviewed Cynthia Renee Fraizer, Energy Tour Cafe, about using new media when it was an very new technology.

Cynthia is famous for her Tech Divas events in which she brings guests to the event via virtual technology. It was an interesting hour. Let me know what you think by commenting.

The Carlsbad Chamber holds it’s First Friday Breakfast next Friday, November 7th at the Hilton Gardens Inn.

Discover The Power of Etiquette to Grow Your Business 

Learn what it takes to be charismatic and unforgettable in your industry, community and social circles by attending the Chamber’s First Friday Breakfast November 7th.

The featured speaker will be Phyllis Davis, who has been teaching American business etiquette to companies, government organizations and individuals for 33 years. In 2001, she founded the American Business Etiquette Trainers Association.

Davis is the bestselling author of “E2: Using the Power of Ethics and Etiquette in American Business.” She has been featured on “CNN Headline News,” “CNN Financial News,” “Bloomberg Financial Radio,” “Good Day New York” and “NBC Chicago.”

During the First Friday Breakfast, Davis will:

•Instruct men how to shake hands with women so that they like and trust them automatically and teach women how to shake hands with men to make them comfortable.

• Discuss the corporate hierarchy of who initiates the handshake and who receives it.

• Teach you the nonverbal components of a sincere handshake that creates a strong unconscious, yet human connection.

• Educate you about how to give a business card to someone and how to receive a business card. Like the handshake, the business card also is based on hierarchy and follows certain guidelines during networking situations and business settings.

• Demonstrate the art of making small talk that reveals your character, so people will like and trust you, without revealing private information about yourself.

First Friday Breakfast is the Chamber’s premiere networking and business promotional event, and one of the most regularly attended monthly programs. The breakfast will be from 7 to 9 a.m. Nov. 7 at Hilton Garden Inn, 6450 Carlsbad Blvd., Carlsbad, 92008.

Itex is a barter organization here in San Diego and it’s absolutely true that if Cash is King, Barter is Queen. Join Art Kaliel and the many Itex members and their guests at a Mini Trade Show being held Thursday, August 21st at the Marron Adobe from 4pm to 6pm.

So come and network with other solopreneurs in North San Diego County and learn how you can leverage your business with barter!  Oh, yeah!! I’ll be there….look for the hat, of course!