Wednesday
March 21st

3pm PT/6pm ET
(6pm Eastern / 5pm Central / 4pm Mountain)

Selecting Your Best Business Model
With Entrepreneur Extraordinaire Co-Author Karen Terry

A business model officially defines the core aspects of a business, including the purpose of the business, its offerings (products and services), strategies, infrastructure and organizational structure, trading practices, and all operational processes and policies. In other words, it’s the way in which you or your company operates on a day-to-day basis in order to generate revenue, income and profits. A business model exemplifies exactly how a business works in order to make money.

Join Karen for this exploration of different, successful business models as she shows you how to:

• Understand the differences among models
• Choose the right business model
• Become an innovator in business

Karen Terry works professionally with women and men on all kinds of career issues, including those who are starting new businesses, choosing or changing a career, seeking work and life balance, handling retirement issues around starting a second career or business, and reaching the next level in a career.

Thursday
March 22nd

3pm PT/6pm ET
(6pm Eastern / 5pm Central / 4pm Mountain)

Hiring the Right People
WithEntrepreneur ExtraordinaireCo-Author Cynthia Fassler

When you are a solo entrepreneur and are doing it all, there comes a time when you need to stop working in your business and start working on your business. Burn out can be costly. When you are ready to grow your business, you may need to bring on help to take you to the next level. You may already have had employees in a variety of roles to help build your firm or to keep the firm moving in the right direction. When the workload overwhelms the workforce, you get diminishing returns on productivity and morale. Do not overwork your core team—start thinking about hiring additional staff to keep things moving smoothly.

Join Cynthia in this insightful session and discover how to:

• Define what you need and want in staff
• Create job descriptions that spell out the requirements
• Review a resume to read between the lines

Cynthia Fassler founded TSS (Total Staffing Solutions, Inc.) in 1982 and it quickly expanded to fulltime placement and executive search. Known for her energetic style and commitment to customer satisfaction, Cindy is a recruiter who listens to her clients and finds top talent to meet their needs.

Friday
March 23rd

3pm PT/6pm ET
(6pm Eastern / 5pm Central / 4pm Mountain)

Quarterbacking Without Touching the Ball
With Entrepreneur ExtraordinaireCo-Author Felicia Streeter

Many entrepreneurs—especially those with back office problems—have a problem letting go. They want to be involved in every aspect of their business because they have a mistaken belief that no one can do it as good as they can. They do not trust their team. Most entrepreneurs are too attached to their businesses. They treat the business like their children.

Join Felicia for this lively session where she will share her secrets to:

• Build a team of independent contractors, employees or partners to accomplish your goal of making more money and working less.
• Create a structure to support your business
• Create a process to keep your eye on the ball and all the players on the field

Felicia Streeter is the co-founder of Streeter Construction Group, an author and a speaker. She works one-on-one with entrepreneurs mentoring them on how to grow a million-dollar business. She specializes in building streamlined systems and effective teams and in leveraging time. This gives her clients strategies, tools and a plan of action to transition from a “doer” to a leader and grow their business fast.

Saturday
March 24th

3pm PT/6pm ET
(6pm Eastern / 5pm Central / 4pm Mountain)

Intuition--Your Valuable Resource for Immediate Answers for Tangible Business Re$ults
With Entrepreneur Extraordinaire Co-Author Susan Rueppel, PhD

Successful business people know that using their intuition provides a powerful business advantage. In today’s fast-paced, competitive and often economically challenged business climate, it is important to utilize all the resources at your disposal. Even people who use intuition in their personal life forget to apply it to business in a practical way. Intuition is a valuable and often untapped business resource you can access for expanded creativity, clarity, focus, confidence and more. You can use it to gain a clearer vision, for specific strategies to monetize your ideas and as a roadmap to get from where you are to where you want to be in business.

Join Susan in this enlightening, interactive session and discover:

• The nature of intuition
• Various intuitive senses and how they communicate with you
• How to use intuition in business decisions

Susan Rueppel is an internationally known business intuition expert, speaker, author and trainer. Her vision is to help generate a soul-based business revolution by inspiring entrepreneurial professionals to use intuition as a valuable business resource in order to serve more people doing what they love and creating an abundant income.

Monday
March 26th

3pm PT/6pm ET
(6pm Eastern / 5pm Central / 4pm Mountain)

Cast Aside Business Building Busters to Ensure Your Success
With Entrepreneur Extraordinaire Co-Author Caterina Rando, MA, MCC

You know you need marketing skills, you know you need sales skills, you know you need to provide excellent customer care to make your business profitable and sustainable. That is just the beginning. To be a truly extraordinary entrepreneur who continues to grow your business, it is also important to look at how you behave at the helm of your company.

Join Caterina and explore some of the biggest business growth busters she has seen that prevent entrepreneurs from accelerating the growth of their businesses.

• Stop waiting for ready
• Stop saying yes when you want to say no
• Stop doing it all yourself

Caterina Rando provides consulting, training and solutions to ensure women entrepreneurs succeed. Through her Business Breakthrough Summit, Sought After Speaker Summit and Luxury Retreat for Women Entrepreneurs, she and her team show women how to become recognized as experts, think and plan strategically and significantly grow their revenue.

Tuesday
March 27th

3pm PT/6pm ET
(6pm Eastern / 5pm Central / 4pm Mountain)

Overcoming Fear to Seize Opportunities
WithEntrepreneur ExtraordinaireCo-Author LeTonya Moore, Esq.

Are you the person who wishes they could do big wonderful and grandiose things? Have you longed to make a career change or move in another direction? Have you taken an inventory and found several missed chances for success? Opportunities are all around. Some are blatantly obvious, while others are latent. What happens when an opportunity is presented? Are you afraid to seize the moment? What prevents you from recognizing the big break? How do you sever the ties that bind?

Join LeTonya in this intriguing session and discover what to do if:

• Your outlook is getting in the way of your success
• You are living in a culture of fear
• You are more negative than positive

LeTonya Moore is “The Opportunity Coach”! She developed the M.O.V.E. concept to Motivate clients to find and seize Opportunities, to lead them to Victory, through active engagement and Executing action plans! She teaches that your perspective is your reality—that your thoughts, words and actions are a direct correlation with what happens in your life. She shows you how to change your perspective to change your reality!

Optimal Health for Entrepreneurs
With Entrepreneur Extraordinaire Co-Author Tamara Cameron

As entrepreneurs, we spend a lot of time making sure that our businesses are doing well. We work long hours, research, network and upgrade our training. There is another aspect of our business that is just as important as our latest marketing, which gets less attention—our health! We are our businesses. If we are healthy, happy and driven, our businesses will be healthy, happy and flourishing. A high level of health is a real business asset that you cannot ignore if you want big success. Here are my best tips for making easy changes to dramatically increase your health, so both you and your business thrive!

Join Tamara for this enlightening session and find out how:

• Caffeine and sugar put you on a rollercoaster to disaster
• Avoid foods that eat your energy and replace them with foods that nourish it
• Choose snacks and make food choices that lead to health and vitality

Tamara Cameron is passionate about teaching others the joys of a healthy, balanced lifestyle. She specializes in helping busy entrepreneurs make wellness a priority so both they and their businesses thrive. She also offers group programs and highly individualized one-to-one nutrition and lifestyle coaching to help people resolve issues that are holding them back from powerfully achieving their goals. 

Friday
March 30th

3pm PT/6pm ET
(6pm Eastern / 5pm Central / 4pm Mountain)

Brand Appeal
With Entrepreneur Extraordinaire Co-Author Alesia Dowden

One of the most enjoyable moments of developing and growing your business will occur as you embark upon branding your product or service or when you are creating a personal brand. Whether you design your own brand or hire a professional, your creativity must flourish in this moment. You will be challenged to merge all aspects of your business into a visual presentation and create a signpost that reads, “Stop here. I have what you need.” You will place your business on the map of the business world and in the minds of the consumer.

Join Alesia and discover the power of branding:

• Explore the elements that make up your brand
• Discover what you logo and tagline say about your business
• Learn how to do it yourself or to hire an expert

Alesia Dowden is the owner and "Extreme Business Coach" of Alesia Dowden Enterprise, a business dedicated to assisting the new entrepreneur in developing and fine-tuning their home-based business. She believes that most people have hidden talents that can produce financial well-being when properly cultivated.

3pm PT/6pm ET
(6pm Eastern / 5pm Central / 4pm Mountain)

Plan Before You Build
With Entrepreneur Extraordinaire Co-Author Win Day

A website can be a powerful tool in your marketing toolkit. It can also be one of the largest, single expenses that your business incurs. If your website is not getting the results you want, if it is not growing your list and making you money, take a close look at your design, your content and your strategy. On the other hand, if your business does not yet have a website, what are you waiting for?

Join Win in this interactive session and learn how to use these concepts if you are having a new website developed or are reviewing your existing one.

• Establish your purpose and goals for your website
• Set up your domain registration and hosting site
• Create the content your audience wants and needs

As a web strategist, Win Day bridges the gap between the technical, “geeky” side of web development and the entrepreneurs who need a website that works for them, for their clients and for their business. Her straightforward, non-technical presentations and workshops on web and content strategy reassure her clients that their website, as a powerful part of their marketing toolkit, will help grow their list and make them money.

3pm PT/6pm ET
(6pm Eastern / 5pm Central / 4pm Mountain)

Relational Marketing
With Entrepreneur Extraordinaire Co-Author Kym Glass

As an entrepreneur, it is difficult to wear all the hats you must wear for your business and network, lead generate and cold call to find ideal clients. Because business starts with relationship building, it is important to begin networking while building loyalty, trust and friendship with potential prospects. These people will be more likely to assist you by either using your product and service or trust you enough to refer you to others that may be seeking your expertise. The importance of networking is that you must continuously identify ideal prospects and clients to keep your sales funnel alive.

Join Kym in this dynamic session as she shares her secrets for successful face-to-face marketing.

• Get started networking and building your relational marketing skills
• Create your commercial to introduce yourself in the best way possible
• Master online relational marketing

Kym Glass is a seasoned entrepreneur and natural global business connector, which is why she is called “The People Person” and is a powerhouse business konnector and konduit. She is a sought-after speaker for networking facilitation, relational marketing, basic networking principles, key ingredients to your business success and her personal story of unshakeable courage . . . from chaos to clarity.

3pm PT/6pm ET
(6pm Eastern / 5pm Central / 4pm Mountain)

Creating Information Products to Expand Your Success
With Entrepreneur Extraordinaire Co-Author Dortha Hise

For entrepreneurs, it is important to create a steady pipeline of new prospects and clients to maintain your cash flow in your business. Product creation may not be one of the sources that you have thought to try. There are physical products and information products. A physical product is anything you tangibly hold in your hand, such as a book or a DVD. Alternatively, an information product is anything digital that can be downloaded from your website or emailed to the person who orders it.

Join Dortha in this exciting session as she shares different types of information products you use to begin making money immediately!

• Learn how to create and set up podcasts and videos
• Write and place articles that establish your expertise
• Create newsletters and ebooks that mean more contacts and business

A serial entrepreneur, Dortha Hise runs a successful virtual consulting business and a web design and development business. She offers a variety of support to her clients from research and phone calls to web design and social media support.

Wednesday
April 4th

3pm PT/6pm ET
(6pm Eastern / 5pm Central / 4pm Mountain)

Set the Stage for your Speaking Success
With Entrepreneur Extraordinaire Co-Author Elizabeth Bachamn

Speaking in public is one of the fastest ways to promote your business or practice. It can be an essential part of your marketing plan. Instead of talking to people one on one to persuade them to sign up with you, you have an entire room full of potential clients. Whether you are talking to your boss or speaking to a crowd, public speaking is like putting on a show. It is all theater—in the best possible way. If you do it right, your ideal clients will come running up, begging to work with you.

Join Elizabeth for this exciting session and learn how to be a speaker rock star!

• Understand and use different learning styles to reach your audience
• Have fabulous stage presence
• Project your passion

In workshops, webinars and solo coaching, Elizabeth Bachman’s clients learn the secret to owning the stage, techniques to make stage fright work for you, and how to ignite the audience to take action so that they beg to work with you. Elizabeth helps her clients stop procrastinating, get past their emotional blocks and take their show on the road.

Thursday

There are many ways to expand business on the Internet with Facebook®. For example, you can search for people whom you want to know, based on their business and whether they might be a good fit as a partner or for a joint venture. This is also a good way for you to become known. Since you are connecting with the people you have chosen, when you come to know, like and trust them, they will do the same for you. They will share your name with others via what I call free advertising.

Join April for this fast-paced session and find out how you can use Facebook® to build your business.

• Discover the functionality Facebook offers to display your expertise
• Learn how to network using Facebook
• Gain tips and strategies for when and what to post

April Cooper has dedicated her life to striving for the betterment of the people she loves. Her goal is to enhance the lives of women by teaching them the best way to brand themselves with social media as a platform and to move their businesses forward. She helps her clients by giving them a social media presence, teaching them to give value and showing them how to stand out at a business-networking event.

Friday

It is important to become noticed and put your best foot forward so you can be competitive with larger companies in the global marketplace. Entrepreneurs can do this with social media, specifically blogging and video. People want to purchase from and work with people they know and trust, not a company or someone they do not know. It is all about relationships! You want to have a relationship with your customers. Blogs are a form of social media and they most certainly help you to build a relationship with your target market.

Join Robin for this dynamic session and learn:

• The value of having a blog and the need to contribute posts regularly
• The differences among blogging platforms
• Tips for using blog videos

Robin O’Neal Smith founded the social media company, Be Social, Get Success, to teach people how to use social media in plain English. She helps entrepreneurs improve their online presence through webinars, workshops, presentations and consultations. Many of her training webinars are now video recordings posted on her web site, and she uses videos on her blog and in her volunteer work.

April 7th

Do you ever wish you had more time? I mean, really have more time, where the day has 30 hours instead of 24? On the other hand, do you wish you could make time stop, like in the science fiction movies? Then, all those projects you are behind in—or never had time for—can finally be done? We are stuck with 24 hours in which to live and manage our day. “Manage” is the operative word. If we misuse or waste time, we are throwing money out the door.

Join Rosie for this eye-opening session as she shows you how to:

• Handle interruptions and distractions
• Manage time spent on email and the Internet
• Organize paper and computer documents

Working with busy, often overwhelmed, entrepreneurs who want to have less stress and more time to grow their business, Rosie Aiello is an expert at assessing a business owner’s challenges. She develops processes and systems that run the business more effectively, increase profits, improve productivity and create better focus—all of which put busy people back in control.

Monday
April 9th

3pm PT/6pm ET
(6pm Eastern / 5pm Central / 4pm Mountain)

I Hate Paperwork!
With Entrepreneur ExtraordinaireCo-Author Judy Rough, CSA

Entrepreneurs spend much of their time at the ten-thousand-foot level. It is natural territory for them because in order to launch their business, they must have the vision, see the big picture and develop strategies and plans to realize their dreams. However, what about the paperwork? Most people, especially entrepreneurs, often hate paperwork. It is the bane of our existence! However, the world and business only work when you have good documentation that you can put your finger on in minutes.

Join Judy for this session that can help you get on top of paperwork. She will help you:

• Understand how to organize for your style
• Create an organization system that works
• Gain freedom from piles of paper and documents

With decades of experience in vital record and document organizing, Judy Rough, home downsizing expert and senior move manager, is passionate about helping clients get their ducks in a row to escape their paper drama. Her user-friendly insightful approach to helping people organize their life’s papers and plans has made her a sought-after coach, workshop leader and speaker at national conferences.

Tuesday
April 10th

3pm PT/6pm ET
(6pm Eastern / 5pm Central / 4pm Mountain)

Going Global with Ease and Grace
With Entrepreneur Extraordinaire Co-Author Dakota McKenzie

You need to spread your wings and fly, not once, but repeatedly in your life and your business. Learning to do this when you are a beginner is exciting and challenging. Learning to do it all over again after you have become an expert in your field is even more exciting and challenging. You have to master this humble process and learn to welcome it repeatedly. When you do so, your business and your life will take you to amazing places. You will live your life to the fullest and create transformational effects in others and in this world that you cannot dream of.

In this exciting, interactive session, Dakota will share with secrets for:

• Using beginner’s mind to achieve mastery
• Expand exponentially with ease and grace
• Do more with less by leveraging yourself

Dakota McKenzie, author, speaker, founder of “Blissworks! For Business,” is all about natural power, ease and grace—and a stunningly unique approach that will leverage your business beyond your wildest dreams! She is a spiritual mentor, an entrepreneur extraordinaire and a gifted intuitive rolled into one powerful package.

Wednesday
April 11th

3pm PT/6pm ET
(6pm Eastern / 5pm Central / 4pm Mountain)

Journey to the Future
With Entrepreneur Extraordinaire Co-Author Cynthia Bruno, Esq.

You are an extraordinary entrepreneur desiring to take your business from “Point A” to “Point B.” While it isn’t quite as simple as inputing addresses into a computer, by utilizing a bit of forethought and organization and defining clearly your end point and interim objectives, you can arrive at “Point B” every bit as effectively as if you were following computerized map guidance. The first step is to define where “there” is—in other words, where do you want to go or what do you want to achieve? 

In this dynamic session, Cynthia will help you:

• Explore your mission and vision for your business
• Set major objectives and milestones
• Solidify principles specific to your business to take you from an ordinary entrepreneur to an extraordinary entrepreneur

In 2011, Cynthia Bruno joined Hume Global Enterprises as the chief executive officer. Her responsibilities include defining key corporate concepts in order to organize and grow Hume Global from a small family business centered around sales of one product to an international company focused on marketing tools within the agricultural industry.

Thursday
March 12th

3pm PT/6pm ET
(6pm Eastern / 5pm Central / 4pm Mountain)

Mind Your Mind
With Entrepreneur Extraordinaire Co-Author Brenda Lee Gallatin MA ABS, CDC, CLC, CDV

Business is challenging, sometimes overwhelming and sometimes downright tough. All of this can make you, as an entrepreneur, sometimes feel like you just do not have what it takes to be successful. Here is what I want you to know: You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your beliefs. What about when you don’t feel extraordinary, invincible or that you can keep going? That is what we are going to discuss in this chapter. The more attention you put on believing in yourself, the more successful your business will be.

Join Brenda Lee for this lively session as she shows you how:

• Unconscious life commandments may be holding you back
• Recognize where these commandments came from
• Break free from the constraints that keep you from achieving success

Brenda Lee is an inspiring, compassionate, energetic spunky coach. She is a seasoned professional counselor to a diverse range of people. Her education, life and business experience and her faith make her uniquely equipped to help you with discovering your life purpose and limiting beliefs and support you on your way to making your dreams a reality.

Friday
April 13th

3pm PT/6pm ET
(6pm Eastern / 5pm Central / 4pm Mountain)

Find a Need in your Community, Fill It and Make Money
With Entrepreneur Extraordinaire Co-Author Alexis Williams-Patton
 

Whatever your compassion or passion, it can provide a highly rewarding and lucrative income—most often a six-figure or million-dollar income—if properly planned and leveraged. In this chapter, I am going to show you how to do it with just what you have on a small level. After you read this chapter, I hope that you are encouraged to leverage what you have learned and create a massive business for yourself and your family. All kinds of entrepreneurs have emerged over the past twenty years.

Join Alexis for this inspiring session and learn how she built a successful business helping others. She will show you:

• How to start small and grow big
• Explore your options
• Get started making money by helping others

Alexis Williams-Patton is a single mother, entrepreneur, healthcare and corporate recruiter consultant, sought-after speaker and published author. An entrepreneur, she has provided jobs for up to twenty-five women and men. She helps shift, break ground and encourage the church and secular worlds to birth out their dreams and destiny to promote good will, create jobs and heal many of the social ills in our communities.