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May 15th, 2013

Business Planning, Coaching/Training, Facebook, Home Study Programs, Internet Marketing, January Jones, January Jones Sharing Success Stories, Marketing, Networking, PR/Promotions, Social Media Marketing

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January Jones welcomes Roberta Budvietas from New Zealand on Wednesday, May 15th at 9 pm ET!

January Jones welcomes Roberta Budvietas from New Zealand on Wednesday, May 15th at 9 pm ET!

“EAT THE RHINO!”

Mentor Stopping Thieves stealing Success at Get Out of Stuck

“Who Stole My Success?”

Stop These 21 Thieves of Success

Stop These 21 Thieves of Success

By Roberta Budvietas, Business Mentor

	Thief	Suggestion to stop the thief
	Your self talk	Watch what you say about yourself
	SNIOPEs (Subject to the negative influence of others)	Let no one else, especially family and friends define or limit you
	Time thieves	Stay in control of your time. Set a time to handle the phone, emails, visitors
	Doubt	Remember that hindsight is almost perfect but doing nothing means you achieve nothing so give it a go
	Priorities	Identify what is URGENT and what is important and keep your goals in mind when setting priorities
	Money Attitude	Develop an attitude to money that establishes your self-worth and stay aware of your attitude about worth, value and money
	Breaking your word	When you break your word with others, you first break your word with yourself so only give your word (promise) when you intend to keep it.
	Doing things partway	Finish what you start and finish it to the best of your ability. You can revisit and amend later but do your best first time
	Assuming you know what the other person is thinking	Restrict the number of assumptions you make about any situation to 0. That way you always get clarity about what they are thinking (HARD)
	Forgetting that others are self-centered	Remember that everyone ‘s world revolves around themselves and they seldom really think or care about what you want or need so be clear in how you help others and what you want in return
	Misunderstanding what tribes are all about	Gangs, tribes , family and friends all come with obligations. Understanding the rules and expectations of the tribe, helps you achieve more.
	Misunderstanding the money cycle	Unless you understand the basics of money, economics, debt and finance, your attitude to money will be limited
	Giving too much because of self-worth perception	Giving is good, especially at the start of a relationship but you need to allow the other side to give back too. That way you get a win-win
	Coping when things go wrong	Remember that things go wrong. Develop techniques that reduce your panic and stress when they do.
	Mismanaging the little things	Do things simply and once only. Saves later on time and allocation. Develop simple systems for common daily activities to reduce stress and problems
	The Do-it-all yourself syndrome	Yes you can do it all yourself but sometimes it is better to get help. Remember that your children and partners learn to help and share your excitement and that builds better people when you get them to help out
	Forgetting the big picture and getting caught up in the details	Remember that while the details are important, many details are time wasters rather than time savers because they fail to help you achieve your goal
	No Preparation	Always take time to find out what you need to know and do before doing something. It will save time and reduce stress and costs.
	No Plan	A simple plan that says do this and this and this to achieve that helps keep your on track for achieving your objectives
	No Action to achieve performance	Unless you get up off the couch and do something nothing happens so prepared and plan but then do the work
	Afraid to learn	Develop a habit of learning something new every day and work to improve your mind and body daily.

The preceding list is expanded and explained in the Stop the Success Thieves ebook, webinars and program. Sign up to find out more at

May 14th, 2013

Business Economic Recovery, Facebook, Internet Marketing, January Jones, January Jones Sharing Success Stories, Marketing, Networking, PR/Promotions, Social Media Marketing

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January Jones welcomes Rick Polson author of “Making a Super Star Company” on Tuesday, May 14th at 9 pm ET!

January Jones welcomes Rick Polson author of “Making a Super Star Company”

Tuesday, May 14th at 9 pm ET!

About Author Rick Polson

Communications is an art that I have taken to heart since high school. After helping to set up and participate in an on-campus radio station, I went on to study broadcast communications, receiving a Bachelor’s degree from Curry College. Since then, I have held a wide range of positions in the fields of Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations.

I was an Account Executive at several broadcast facilities in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Boston, Massachusetts; and Tampa Bay, Florida – selling, writing, and producing ads for numerous industries. I also was an on-air participant in some locations. As a Public Relations Manager for an international computer product manufacturer and distributor, I was deeply involved in branding global product lines. I also have advertising agency experience, involved with all aspects of client relations and placement of marketing programs.

Throughout my career, I have held high expectations for my staff and myself. It is important that everyone is properly trained in their focuses, whether sales, customer service, advertising or marketing. Communication is also important to encourage a continual flow of information to build confidence in the company and staff.

I mastered several computer programs, including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher), Sales Tools (ACT, Goldmine), and social media applications (Facebook, Twitter).

Rick Polson

bigrickbook@yahoo.com

https://www.facebook.com/#!/MakingASuperstarCompany

So, you just started a business

This compelling new book by Rick Polson – ”Making a Superstar Company” – gives new business owners a way to understand the different types of marketing and advertising vehicles available to them. It is written in a style where “you’re sharing a cup of coffee or meal” with the author while he tells you how these things work. There are many historic references and examples to give the reader an understanding of newspaper, radio, cable/TV and the Internet just to name a few.

As the author says, ”Most small business owners are experts in retail, restaurants, service companies like air conditioning or plumbing, but most have no real grasp on how to gain a customer base and build a business. That’s why I wrote the book. To help them grow and be successful.”

He goes on to tell us that there are plenty of examples in each chapter that the reader can put into place immediately and grow their business successfully. If read a chapter or two at a time, the new business owner can build their organization in steps and be successful. It is also a benefit for business owners of any current business as a review of new ideas.

The book is available at many eBook channels like Amazon, BarnesandNoble.com, ebookstore.sony.com, Smashwords.com and many more. You can also contact Rick at bigrickbook@yahoo.com. It will be a paperback in the spring.

May 12th, 2013

Business Planning, Coaching/Training, Facebook, January Jones, January Jones Sharing Success Stories, Life Planning, Networking

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January Jones welcomes Wild Creations’ Rhett Power!!

January Jones welcomes Wild Creations’ Rhett Power!!

“1 Million Frogs”

Rhett’s journey from employee to CEO!

Rhett Power

Co-Founder &

President, Wild Creations

Rhett Power is former business development consultant who has worked for more than a decade to help small and medium sized businesses grow. In 2007 he and a business partner took on two ambitious goals that have been fully realized: first, to take a small one product company and make it into a globally recognized toy company and second, too become cutting edge leaders in a rapidly changing retail environment.

Power co-founded Wild Creations in 2007 and quickly built the start up into the 2010 Fastest Growing Company in South Carolina. Wild Creations was awarded a Blue Ribbon Top 75 US Company by the US Chamber of Commerce and named as one of Inc. Magazine’s 500 Fastest Growing US Companies two years in a row. They have also won over 40 national awards for their innovative toys. He has been twice named a finalist for Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award. He has been featured and quoted on CNN Money, Fortune.com, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and many other national and regional media. Power and company are currently in the final stages of taking Wild Creations public with an IPO scheduled before the end of 2012.

Power is a sought after speaker on entrepreneurship, the toy industry, and making social media work for business. He is also a recognized expert on marketing and media strategies, product development, branding, and market trends.

Power currently has an active role in the Toy Industry Association’s Political Action Committee. He volunteers with Project Amazonas which delivers medical aid along the Amazon River and is working with business partners in the toy industry to create a toy bank for the children’s hospital in Charleston, SC.

Power served in the US Peace Corps in Uzbekistan, is a graduate of the University of South Carolina, is married to Julie McKay who is serving her country as a US Diplomat in Panama, and is father to two brilliant boys Max and Riley. Rhett has travelled to 39 countries and intends to sail around the world.

You can follow Rhett on social media:

Twitter: @rhettpower

LinkedIn: rhettpower

May 8th, 2013

Business Economic Recovery, Business Planning, Coaching/Training, January Jones, January Jones Sharing Success Stories, Marketing, Networking

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January Jones welcomes “The Doctor of Change” Dick Steiglitz!

January Jones welcomes “The Doctor of Change” Dick Steiglitz!

Are you sick of the Bad New Tsunami?

Listen on Wednesday, May 8th at 9 pm ET!

“IF YOU THINK IT, YOU CAN DO IT.”

Dick Stieglitz acquired his leadership skills during forty years’ experience in industry and the U.S. Navy. He earned a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and served ten years as a U.S. naval officer refueling nuclear submarines. After leaving the Navy, he became Vice President of a software company, and Director of Defense Consulting for an aerospace firm. In 1984, Dick founded a company that helped executives in Federal agencies change how the government does business. Since he sold that company in 2006, he has devoted his time to writing and executive coaching. He is the author of three books:

· Leadership Conversations – Challenging High-Potential Mangers to Become Great Leaders
· Expensive Mistakes in Buying and Selling Companies, and
· Taming the Dragons of Change in Business – How to Thrive in a Relationship Economy.

Dick also publishes a monthly e-letter titled The Leadership Challenge and speaks frequently at industry and government forums on the subjects of leadership, change, and building coalitions.

May 7th, 2013

Coaching/Training, January Jones, January Jones Sharing Success Stories, Mind, Body, Spirit, Networking, Spiritual, Veteran/Active Military

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January Jones welcomes Humorist Sporty King!

January Jones welcomes Humorist Sporty King on Tuesday, May 7th at 9 pm ET!

How To Be Ugly!

Discussing Success, Toastmasters and The Yellow Ribbon Program!

Sporty King, ACS, CL has spoken with domestic and international audiences, sharing his passion for Life, Leadership, and Literacy. He is an award winning professional speaker, author and TV personality who delivers inspirational, practical, usable techniques to apply in your daily life. Thus he works with people who want to help others feel good about themselves and their contribution to the bottom line. Imagine sharing that message with your students, parents, conference and meeting attendees.

Jack-of-all-trades…master of none? Not really.
Which life would you say doesn’t affect yours?

Sporty’s signature keynote speech, “How To Be UGLY” (Unique, Gifted, Lovable You), delights and enlightens audiences of all ages, ethnicities and genders. View it on the Video Links page. Best used as a keynote-plus-concurrent session speaker, it is his passion for manipulating the English language that brings magic to his words… a magic that makes him the ideal person to deliver your winning message. Also consider using Sporty as M.C. (L.) * (Master of Ceremonies, Creativity & Listening: one who listens intently to delight your audience with the connecting points throughout your program.) Thus his moniker,The Master of Listening.

Recently finishing as Division Champion, while competing for the 2011 World Champion of Public Speaking, he is an accomplished member of Toastmasters International, having earned the designations ACS, CL (Advanced Communicator Silver, Competent Leader); and is a member of the 1996 Toastmasters Hall of Fame, having finished as one of the Top 9 speakers in the world at the International Speech Contest.

Among King’s media appearances are the Chicago Tribune; ABC/TV’s “Someone You Should Know” news segment with Harry Porterfield; and weekly on WGN/TV’s nationally syndicated Minority Business Report, delivering inspirational messages about business and life.

Sporty is a native of Harlem, in New York City. He started writing poetry in 1969 to combat homesickness. Having won an ABC (A Better Chance) Scholarship, he went away to private high school (in Massachusetts). During his first year he was one of seven blacks in a student population of 200+… second year 1 of 5… 3rd year 1 of 3…. His poetry started out somewhat militant, but with an introspective base of seeking to understand [rather than perpetuate].

King began his 18-year career at The Wall Street Journal in January of 1975 as a messenger. While at the Journal, he began sharing his poetry at the department Christmas party. Sporty wrote poetry that would get each person in the department’s name into the poem. It became the highlight of the party, and heads of other departments began seeking invitation to his department’s party. Eventually, more departments merged their party, and people vied for position in Sporty’s poem. One year the poem got up to 70 names, 10 pages…. He served his final 6 years at the Journal as Midwest Region Classified Advertising Sales Manager, before retiring to pursue his oratorical gift.

As a Chicago Public Schools registered vendor and ISBE Certified provider for CEU/CPDU credits, Sporty was consistently on the program at the Chicago Archdiocese of Chicago’s Young Adult Ministry seminar; Poetry Instructor at Harvey APC After-school Mentor Program; and Young Authors’ Club Coordinator at Ella Flagg Young Elementary School. He is a former Bolingbrook Community League basketball coach and referee; Adjunct Professor at Kennedy-King College; former Artist-In-Residence at Purdue University; former Public Speaking instructor at Harold Washington College and Prologue Alternative High School; Past Board President and member at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boys & Girls Club; and Board President at WYTEC (Westside Youth Technical Entrepreneur Center). All places where he enjoyed a hands-on influence in the lives of young people.

That influence is fueled by Sporty’s belief that we touch children’s lives by re-educating and refreshing adults. Thus his message is well received with parents and auxiliary organizations as well. He credits his 1994-2010 monthly sessions with ”Seasoned” Citizens at Chicago Department on Aging Centers as keys to his ability to increase communication between generations.

In July 2010 he relocated to Charlotte, NC and has continued sharing his gift for saving lives through his contract with the Urban League of the Central Carolinas, facilitating a Life Skills Training Program.

In January 2011 he began working with the Cadre of Speakers… facilitators available to Military Service Members through the Yellow Ribbon Program (YRP). YRP weekends serve pre, during and post deployment Service Members and their families to keep their bond strong as they keep America strong. Seminars are scheduled for the families and are held in multiple locations every weekend throughout the country. Sporty received his first Command Coin for Excellence from the 181st Infantry Regiment.

An expert on personal success, the impact of words in our lives, and turning any negative into a positive, Sporty is the author of 6 books: “I Found Out I’m Dying: A Celebration of Life” … a ‘story’ in poetry that reminds us to be comfortable with the decisions we make in enjoying life to the fullest; “Do You Have Any Idea… How Fine You Are?” … a poetic tribute to God’s greatest gift to, and source of mankind –Woman; “StartingToday…” weekly affirmations for daily living; and “Your Name Came To Mind” … the sequel to “I Found Out…”reminding readers to be comfortable with spiritual growth; “Morning… Noon… & Night…” is a collection of inspirational quotes sure to give you memorable lessons that you can apply and share in your daily dealing with destiny; and his most recent book, “a poet in every PrOphET” is an inspirational story in poetry about the connection between Sporty’s gift and vision….