Smallbiz Brain with David Wolf

Want to understand how to work the media for your small business?

Our guest on this segment is total expert in all things media.

As a veteran Hollywood Correspondent, Gayl Murphy reported on entertainment and show business for ABC News, ABC TV, SKY News, BBC Radio, BBC TV, E! Entertaintment, HollywoodToday.net and BigMediaUSA and many others. She has personally interviewed over 14,000 of the biggest celebrities and newsmakers in the world.

If you’re interested in finding an efficient solution to building a website, our guest on this segment will certainly interest you. On this edition we’re joined by technology veteran, entrepreneur and radio broadcast personality, Christopher Nakea. His company is revolutionizing the world of web design with their new product and platform called the Nakea Site Manager.

Joining us on this segment is Bill Odell-he’s the Vice President of Marketing at Helpstream-the company provides a unique social customer service and relationship management system for its clients, covering many of their customer service requirements in a single customer engagement platform.

Our guest on this segment is an accomplished young serial entrepreneur and speaker. Scott D Gerber is the founder and CEO of Gerber Entertainment, an entrepreneurial incubator that invests capital, management expertise, and marketing services into innovative early and mid-stage companies in the entertainment, Internet, media and marketing industries.

I’m joined in this segment by David Meadows, the founder of the United States Center for Entrepreneurship. As a serial entrepreneur, Mr. Meadows has been the founder of businesses in publishing, software, printing and education, the largest of which now employs over 500 individuals. Mr. Meadows is passionate about assisting developing entrepreneurs and launched the United States Center for Entrepreneurship on October 1, 2009.

The United States Center for Entrepreneurship will offer “self-paced” step-by-step online classes that make starting a business easy for anyone in the world. USCFE is great for inventors, dreamers, retirees, individuals who have lost their jobs, employees who wish to get out on their own and anyone seeking business ownership.

Chris Drake, the CEO of Firehost helps us understand the risks of cybercrime and describes how his company is helping clients step up protection from hackers.

Our guest on this segment says that the demand for constructive change and the speed of change in today’s world is unprecedented and that businesses must innovate if they are to have any reasonable chance of growth.

DJ Heckes is the owner of Exhib-it! — a leading national tradeshow marketing enterprise and the author of a new book entitled—-Full Brain Marketing—soon available in print from Book Surge-Amazon and on audio book and e-book. In it, she discusses how, if done properly, marketing can be accomplished more easily and with a far greater rate of success. The book explores & uncovers some of the ways to tie in traditional, digital and social media marketing to lead a business to success—- and avoid unnecessary mistakes, obstacles and easily avoided failures.

Many small business owners are facing losing everything as they struggle with the health care crisis. Our guest on this segment knows the plight of small business owners well-John Arensmeyer is the founder and CEO of The Small Business Majority-the non-for-profit organization was co-founded and is run, by small business owners to present a more accurate, pragmatic and centrist view of public policy issues affecting small business. The organization is currently focused on finding a solution to the dramatically rising health insurance bills small firms have been facing over the past several years.

Our guest on this edition has a big, bold, unadulterated wake-up call for small business owners. The book is Profits Aren’t Everything, They’re the Only Thing—-and the author is George Cloutier. He built a $20 million-a-year business from the ground up, is a Harvard MBA, and is best known for doing absolutely whatever it takes to bring his clients’businesses back to life——and long-term profitability.

Our guest on the segment is the founder of midas financial-the company has secured over $250,000,000 in business funding for their clients in the last five years. Darrell Hornbacher is also author, speaker and specialists in personal and business credit and all matters relating to obtaining capital for your small business.

Our guest on the segment is the founder of midas financial-the company has secured over $250,000,000 in business funding for their clients in the last five years. Darrell Hornbacher is also author, speaker and specialists in personal and business credit and all matters relating to obtaining capital for your small business.

Every business that’s growing has issues around change management. Our guest on this edition is an expert in that area. Theresa M. Welbourne, Ph.D. is the founder, President and CEO of eePulse, Inc. and an Adjunct Professor of Executive Education at the University of Michigan Business School. As CEO of eePulse, Inc. she leads an organization that delivers web-based leadership tools and research for continuous improvement and change management. Using eePulse’s proprietary web-based, enterprise-wide software suite called Measurecom™.

Email Marketing so much a part of everything small business everywhere. Our guest on this segment knows much if not all there is to know about this marketing mechanism, perhaps better than most—-Eric Groves joins us, he’s the Senior Vice President, Global Market Development at Constant Contact.

Our guest on this segment is an expert in startups, business incorporation and personal and business finance.

Scott Letourneau is a busy lecturer, consultant and author, who is recognized worldwide for helping entrepreneurs get their businesses off to a fast start. He’s the founder and CEO of Nevada Corporate Planners, Inc., and a contributing author for the new book from Entrepreneur Magazine’s Start Up series; “Start Your Own Information Marketing Business—Your Step-by-Step Guide to Success.”

In this segment I visited to get a preview with Rick Frishman about Author 101 University which is a huge upcoming educational seminar coming on October 30 and 31in Las Vegas.

Our guest on this segment spent more than 30 years as a top executive and business owner in the newspaper industry, ultimately starting his own company that published weekly newspapers in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Today, Tom Krekel runs the New Mexico franchise for Renaissance Executive Forums-an international company dedicated to helping top executives accelerate positive change in their businesses and in their lives.
This unique system revolves around a “peer advisory board process” and leverages the collective experience of and expertise of the Forum members to the benefit of a particular individual.

Our guest on this segment is the founder and CEO of Sogistics Corporation, an internationally-known firm focusing on sales productivity improvement. Over 20 years decades, Marc Miller has helped organizations to understand, connect, and add value to their customers’ strategies as a way to drive more profitable sales growth.

If you’re curious about how to build a loyal, dedicated team of employees with low turnover rates, high job satisfaction metrics—-all this in the Pizza Business—-our guest on this segment can help. Dave Melton joined Dominos Pizza as a delivery person in 1982, then opened his first franchise unit in 1990—-and has never looked back.

Our guest on this edition is a celebrated leader in the world of executive coaching. Terry Ostrowiak’s career in coaching, training and personal development spans over 40 years and includes experience in more than 26 countries.

He’s been a featured speaker at many international conferences, ran one of the most successful independent Dale Carnegie© operations in the world from his base, in Johannesburg, South Africa—-and he’s the founder of Quantum Leap—-the company provides Master Coaching services providing resources and coaching services to Small Business Owners around the globe.

Our guest on this segment says the vast majority of business owners don’t really understand their financial information—and what their financial statements are capable of telling them.

Steve Wilkinghoff is a Chartered Accountant who has worked with hundreds of businesses over the last 15 years. The vast majority of his career has been spent helping small business owners understand and improve their business, and in the process improve their lives. He’s the author of Found Money—Simple Strategies for Uncovering the
Hidden Profit and Cash Flow in Your Business…