ALM 157: 7 Hour Book – Nick Raithel

7 Hour Book

Nick Raithel – 7 Hour Book

Nick Raithel is the creator of the 7 Hour Book. This proven system allows any business owner to get their own professionally-published book while spending only 7 hours of their time on it.

With the 7-Hour Book, Nick is on a mission to help business owners finally get the recognition they deserve. Time and again, he’s seen business people in nearly every community who have incredible stories and knowledge to share. A book is the ultimate way for those in business to share their insights and be recognized. Yet the issue always seems to be that no one has any time.

Seeing this, Nick combined advanced time management strategies with his own experiences in publishing and marketing. The result was the 7-Hour Book, a service that’s been delighting clients ever since.

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7 Hour Book – Nick Raithel

ALM 156: Customer Retention – Carrie Hartunian Smith

Customer Retention

Carrie Hartunian Smith -Customer Retention

Carrie Hartunian Smith brings a wealth of experience – and tremendous passion – when it comes to impacting businesses. Her success began shortly after joining a start up media company in 1993. Growing the business from $60K a month in revenue to finishing the first year in business with $7mm, the company had explosive growth each year thereafter. After selling the media company in 2007, Carrie was
asked to stay on with the new organization to be an integral part of their aggressive growth strategy, acquiring 5 media companies in under 2 years. Today, Carrie works with business owners and entrepreneurs to develop accelerated growth strategies in highly competitive industries. She creates and executes strategic growth plans, directing integrations and marketing automation, as well as manages projects and establishes benchmarks for success. Her expertise in fostering winning cultures, increased productivity and reducing costs in mission driven environments are just a few of her recognized talents and is a talented and accomplished leader.

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Customer Retention – Carrie Hartunian Smith

ALM 155: Mindset Mastery – Caitlin Pyle

Mindset Mastery

Caitlin Pyle – Proofread Anywhere

Mindset Mastery is a core principle for this guest. Caitlin Pyle is a 29-year-old millennial entrepreneur who works entirely online. She built a seven-figure blog and business in one of the tiniest niches on Earth: proofreading. Based in Orlando, Florida, Caitlin has been married for five years, and she and her husband Ben just returned from a year-long travel adventure through South America.

ProofreadAnywhere.com

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Mindset Mastery – Caitin Pyle

ALM 153: New Marketing Strategies – Kevin Donlin

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Kevin Donlin -Marketing Multipliers

Kevin Donlin has been called an “accidental pioneer” of online marketing, having sold one of the first ebooks on Usenet in 1994. From 1995 to 1998, he was Webmaster for FedEx.com, where he worked with the pioneers of online marketing. Since then, he’s written or co-written 4 books, and been a marketing advisor for clients big and small, delivering sales gains of more than $1 million on multiple occasions with online marketing and direct mail. He’s been interviewed by ABC-TV, Fox and NBC News, CBS Radio in Los Angeles and New York, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fortune magazine, Entrepreneur magazine, and too many others to list here. He’s the author or co-author of 5 books, including the forthcoming book, “Marketing Multipliers.”

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New Marketing Strategies – Kevin Donlin

ALM 150: Marketing Above the Noise – Linda Popky

Marketing Above the Noise

Linda Popky – Marketing Above the Noise

Award-winning marketing expert Linda J. Popky, the founder and president of Redwood Shores-based Leverage2Market Associates, transforms organizations through powerful marketing performance. Her clients range from small businesses and consultants to mid-sized companies and large Fortune 500 enterprises. She’s been involved with many of the Silicon Valley companies who developed and deployed the technologies that have changed the world over the last twenty-five years, including Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, NetApp, PayPal, Plantronics, Autodesk, Applied Materials, and others.
A consultant, speaker, and educator, Linda has been named one of the top women of influence in Silicon Valley and inducted into the Million Dollar Consultant® Hall of Fame. She is the past president of Women in Consulting and is a member of the Watermark Strategic Development Board. The first marketing expert worldwide certified to offer the Private Roster™ Mentoring Program for consultants and entrepreneurs, Linda has taught marketing at San Francisco State University’s College of Extended Learning, University of California Santa Cruz Extension in Silicon Valley, and West Virginia University’s Integrated Marketing Communications program.
Linda holds an MBA and a BS in Communications from Boston University. Her new book Marketing Above the Noise: Achieve Strategic Advantage with Marketing that Matters¸ was released in March 2015. A classically trained pianist, Linda has also produced Night Songs, a CD of classical piano music.

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Marketing Above the Noise – Linda Popky

147: Selling -Butch Bellah

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Butch Bellah -Selling

Butch Bellah is a Speaker, Sales Trainer, Author and Coach and truly love helping others reach new heights, develop new skills or overcome obstacles and hurdles. He formed B2 Training & Development to specialize in sales training and coaching for organizations and individuals. With more than 25-years of hands on experience “in the trenches”, he feels uniquely qualified to help you avoid pitfalls, break out of slumps or simply improve your selling skills. In his career, he spent almost 16 years with a large regional wholesale food distributor and helped grow it from $35million in annual sales to more than $250 million before acquiring the company as a minority shareholder with a business partner. Today he works with companies, individuals and sales teams to help them get more appointments, land more business and retain more customers—all while focusing on bottom line profits. He gets to speak regularly to groups throughout the southwest where he is able to draw on more than 10-years of experience as a professional stand-up comedian. (THAT was the best sales training he has ever received!)

He has been named one of the Top 50 Sales Experts and one of the Top 100 Business Coaches to follow on Twitter and his first book, The 10 Essential Habits of Sales Superstars: Plugging In To The Power Of Ten is available now.

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Selling – Butch Bellah