• 6 Steps to Building a Better Business – How to follow a simple plan to achieve business success.
• Everyone Communicates Few Connect – Utilizing simple communication skills to connect with any audience.

Michael says: I was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1965, and have been married to my wife Sharon since 2006. Our first child Cameron was born in May of 2011.

Since receiving my Master’s Degree in Aquatic Biology from Central Michigan University I have traveled the U.S. extensively as a corporate and private environmental consultant working on some of the largest natural gas pipelines constructed in the country. This experience allowed me to work closely with corporate executives, federal agencies, project design engineers and field construction staff.

As a corporate consultant for AECOM, The Louis Berger Group and 3D/International, I assisted companies such as Duke Energy, SoCal Edison/Edison Mission Energy, TransCanada Pipeline, Williams Gas Pipeline and Boardwalk Pipeline by ensuring environmental compliance on over 500 miles of Natural Gas Pipeline installation.

As an independent contractor I have worked with the Exxon Mobil, Williams Communications, Enbridge, Spectra Energy and Williams Pipelines. I have also been helped start up two inspection companies; the Wyatt Group and Sage Staffing Services.

Wanting a change, I began a career shift that has included working with Primerica Financial Services since 2003. In 2011, I continued my career shift and began working the #1 Business Coaching firm in the world and in Texas; ActionCOACH and N3Coaching. I also started training with the #1 leadership mentor in the world Dr. John C. Maxwell. I know that joining forces with the #1 Leadership Coaching Company and the #1 Business Coaching Company will help change the lives of so many people here in Houston.

Are you ready to embark upon journey to greatly improve your skills and beliefs, your income and your lifestyle –achieving the ambitions and dreams you went into the business for in the first place? If so, it’s time to get into ACTION. Call me now to arrange a free business diagnostic and together we will explore all the possibilities.

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• From EW to WOO – Clubbing clients over the head no longer works. Seduction techniques have only short-term results. That’s why successful organizations court, or WOO, potential clients. Dr. Peters shares marketing techniques that attract loyal and long-term clients.
• WOO Selling – Imagine prospects wanting your product… They’re coming to you, instead of you doggedly chasing after them. Imagine learning techniques that not only make you attractive to prospects, but that also convert them into long-term and loyal customers. Perhaps now is the time to commit to change, and begin to enjoy the rewards of top salespeople. It’s easy to implement a few key strategies, apply simple persuasion techniques,  to attract customers into a conversation that evolves naturally into a significant relationships.
• Present, Persuade, Profit – Whether speaking to clients, presenting before potential clients, or simply sharing a message that needs to be heard, your team must understand the principles of persuasive presentations. Learn to compel audiences to take action and make changes. How will you construct your presentation so that audience not only listen, but take action? What few simple things can you do visually and physically to cause the to listen and applaud?
• Be Read: Copywriting that Attracts, Connects, and Get’s Results – Do the words in your marketing collateral grab your readers and guide them to take the actions you’re wanting? You might think that writing is a talent you’re born with, but don’t buy into the myth. Writing clear, compelling copy is a skill that can be taught and learned. 
• In this seminar you’ll learn, step by step, how to shape your message and organize your words. Forget about what you were taught in school; this program shares the secrets of the most successful copywriters. Learn to write the way they write, and witness the results.
• Be Correct: Mistake Free Grammar and Proofreading! – One typo can destroy a message, ruin a reputation, or cause a loss of opportunity. Misunderstanding and not knowing a grammatical rule can make us look silly, stupid, or incompetent. The good news is you don’t have to sit through a boring grammar class to refresh your grammatical knowledge or learn how language has changed since high-school. A workshop that makes proofreading and grammar fun? You bet. This program is based on the latest research on how adults learn. It’s fast-moving, so you stay interested. It’s engaging, so you learn by doing. And it’s fun, so you happily give it your all. 
• Be Read: Advanced Business Writing – What you learned in high school doesn’t apply to the real world. When was the last time your wrote a five-paragraph essay on what you did for summer vacation? If you write the way you were taught, you’ll confuse your team, lose customers, and bore potential customers. We used to focus on grammar and proper structure, but writing is a visual form of communication with music in the background. Literally, how we write it is more important than the message we want to convey. 
• Unlearn what you were taught in school to create copy that your boss, team, customers, and potential customers will read. This full-day seminar give tricks, tips, and techniques you didn’t learn in school. There are ways to get people to read what you write. Learn them.
• Be Recognized: Book 2B Booked – When you are an author, you are THE authority. This seminar helps you become the obvious expert with your own book. Few things establish authority more easily and cheaply than a book. Participants in this seminar learn writing techniques and promotion tips to make sure you are the recognized authority in your field.
• Be Recognized: Book 2B Books as a self-publisher – This seminar may be incorporated in the first Book 2B Booked seminar, or it may be offered as a separate educational experience for those who have a manuscript ready and a clear marketing plan. Once the realm of people who could not make it in the real publishing world, self-publishing is now the most profitable method of producing your book.
• Be Heard: Make Sure Your Prospects are Listening – This half-day, full-day, or two-day seminar explains the fundamentals of presenting ourselves visually to our customers and potential customers. Learn the secrets of room position and the hand motions that keep your audience involved in what your are saying. The two-day seminar gives participants the opportunity to practice what they’ve learned and receive immediate feedback from their audience.
• Be Heard in the Office – This seminar gives supervisors and mid-level managers insights into what motivates and de-motivates their team. More than a basic management seminar, participants learn how to use their position in the room, body language, tone, even wording techniques to get their teams to not only perform, but to also want to perform.
• Be Heard by Your Customers – Much of customer service is perception. This seminar instructs front-line and customer service professionals on the art of finessing customers, especially in moments of crisis and complains. Participants learn skills to avoid caving to customer demands; even better, they learn how to get customers to agree to a compromise and feel good about it. Your goal is to keep the customers you have, and to intensify their loyalty to your organization.

Jonathan Peters, Ph.D. is a recognized trainer and writer with an emphasis in business communications. If it involves words, it involves him.
He has trained thousands of people across the country. His audiences have learned better presentation skills, improved their business communications, beefed-up their writing and document designs, boosted their management skills, even increased their reading rates and memory retention.
As a writer, Dr. Peters has written everything from a fourth-grade history textbook to the technical manual for the command-and-control system for a nuclear weapons plant that may or may not exist. He has been involved in a variety of writing projects, including marketing copy, web content, and book summaries. Dr. Peters has authored 5 books under his name and ghostwritten 16 others.
As a writing instructor, Dr. Peters has worked with corporations as well as universities. He has given corporate training in business writing, consulted with companies on marketing copy and documentation processes, and teaches senior-level business writing courses at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
During his doctoral studies, Dr. Peters became interested in how the new sciences influence our culture. He is now excited about what the emerging science of networks says about how we conduct our social lives and our businesses.

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• Your Face isn’t Finished until Your Lipstick is On: Rules of the Women’s Success Game – Somewhere along the way a man came up with yet another sports analogy and started calling success a game. And like any game there are rules for playing the game. Everyone knows that the rules for success are different for men and women. Monica gives straight forward Lipstick Lessons that empower women to make their own choices and bend or even break the rules where necessary on their journey to success.
• Let’s Talk! – The Secret of Powerful Communication Skills for Women – It’s a fact – women who are powerful, poised communicators are seen as more professional and are much more likely to achieve tremendous career success. In this workshop you’ll learn how to void the major communication mistakes that damage women’s careers and how to master confident and credible communication.
• How to Deliver Totally Awesome Training – Whether you are a new or seasoned trainer, this is the quickest and easiest way to learn the skills you need to become a more confident and dynamic trainer. Session topics include: presentation skills; using “openers” and “closers”; encouraging discussion; incorporating multi-media (or not); motivating adult learners; and developing your own training activities.
• Speak and Grow Clients – The Power of Public Speaking to Grow Your Business – If public speaking is not part of your sales and marketing plan, you’re missing out on the opportunity to reach a large number of people, who are interested in what you’re selling, in a short amount of time.  This workshop will help you target the opportunities, teach you techniques to get you in the door and on the platform, and presentation strategies that will get you clients and revenue.
• Get Connected – The Sizzle of Social Media – So you’ve heard of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and others … but like many, you’re simply not sure what to do with this maze of social media. The good news is that networking through social media may prove to be the fastest, most efficient way to reach and connect with current and new clients. This workshop will get you up and running and generating new business with social networking in no time.
• How to Develop Totally Awesome Training Programs – In this workshop, participants will learn how to describe the process involved in developing a training needs analysis, identify different types of training needs, write measurable training objectives for a training program, and organize training content. We will also explore the four levels of evaluation of training and develop a training plan. Even if you’ve never developed a training seminar before, this workshop will equip you to design and implement programs that will fit the needs of your market.
• Totally Awesome Presentation Skills – Whether it’s speaking to a group of 1 or 500 – it’s not what you say – it’s what your audience hears that matters. Learn how to write, prepare, and deliver Totally Awesome Presentations that will earn you Perfect 10 reviews every time.
• Target Your Sweet Spot – This workshop provides an overview of marketing strategies for business owners. By the end of this workshop, participants will be better able to understand why a solid marketing plan is critical to your business’s success and gain a competitive advantage by uncovering the real benefits of their products. They will learn how to conduct a competitive analysis, recognize the importance of branding their company, and appreciate the payback of a solid sales and selling strategy.
• Simple Strategies for Success – This information packed session on simplified strategic planning is all about you! You will get the opportunity to reinforce principles you know and challenge yourself with new ideas. It is about asking yourself what you want, then committing yourself to get there. Is your success intentional or accidental? Do you know where you’re going, and how to get there? In this hands-on workshop, Monica will show you how to use a 10-point checklist to gauge your readiness for strategic planning, the 7 vision-killers to avoid, and how to diagram your goals and objectives into realistic action steps.

Monica Cornetti is the owner of EntrepreNow!, a business training and consulting firm. She has more than 20 years experience in the corporate, non-profit, and academic sectors with an expertise in bringing excellence to organizations through leadership and training.

A Senior Small Business Development Specialist, Monica is a highly sought after speaker and trainer. Her emphasis is always on fun and learning as she delivers high-energy, high-content training, along with a plan for application in the real world

Her client list includes: The Association of Small Business Development Centers, The International Association of Administrative Professionals, Infinisource, Proctor & Gamble, Severn Savings Bank, The Nature Conservancy, American Fidelity, FM Global, American Society of Women Accountants, National Seminars Group, SHRM, Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, North TX Region SBDC, UW-Madison SBDC, Kentucky SBDC, Pacific Island SBDC, South Carolina SBDC, MEED Center, Team Networking, and The National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship.

Monica is a graduate of Seton Hill with a BA in psychology and The University of Houston-Victoria where she earned a Masters Degree in Economic Development and Entrepreneurship. Her passion centers around helping entrepreneurs take their business to the next level of success and significance.

She’s a natural-born motivator, optimist and entertainer. Her presentations are inspirational, funny, and focused on helping her participants achieve results.

Monica is a published author, a top-notch speaker, a professional consultant and an accomplished leader known for being one of the best entrepreneurial training experts in the business. With loads of spunk and charm, her skills as a speaker have earned her Perfect 10 reviews from participants across the country.

Committed to excellence, Monica has dedicated her life to helping others reach and fulfill their dreams. She lives in Dallas, TX.

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• 7 Strategies to Maximize Your Networking Success – This interactive presentation focuses on helping professionals create a networking plan by following 7 simple strategies to maximize networking success. Attendees will learn networking strategies, how to overcome networking challenges, how to work the room, and strategies to turn contacts into contracts.
• How to Turn Contacts Into Contracts – Learn to turn your leads into prospects and prospects into customers with a simple yet effective strategy that will grow your business. This presentation covers creating a contact management system, improving your networking skills, building alliances, making connections and better follows up techniques.
• How to Stand Out From the Crowd With Your Own Unique Brand – Getting noticed when hundreds of competitors are going after the same target audience can be difficult. Make sure you can stand out from the crowd by creating a unique brand. In this seminar attendees will learn how to establish a strong brand as the first step to making self-promotion a lot easier and more effective.
• Strategize Your Success With a Marketing Plan – Learn how to attract more clients and increase revenue as you define new strategies for your products and services. This presentation helps you put strategic marketing planning into focus by clearly demonstrating strategies and how to put them into action.

Tarsha Polk , The Marketing Lady™ is passionate about empowering people to succeed in business and increase their income. She is a business coach, trainer, international speaker, marketing expert, talk show host / producer, columnist, and an instructor of entrepreneurship. Her audiences and clients benefit from innovative marketing strategies that get results.

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Call Tarsha: 972.985.5056

• Life’s a Sales Call! ^® - The only thing worse than training employeesand having them leave, is to not train them and have them stay.
• Mastering Professional Sales – Mastering Professional Sales provides the tools and the training to make the shift from transactional selling to the Relationship-Selling Platform^®.
• Mastering Professional Leadership^® – Leadership Development Training for a target audience comprised of up to twenty participants.
• Mastering Customer Service^® – Mastering Customer Service provides the attitudes, behaviors and communication skills to assist any professional in a service capacity  in the handling of both “internal” and “external” customers.

Jack is the CEO and founder of NextStep Solutions (NSS), sales specialists headquartered in Houston, TX. NextStep Solutions, www.nextstep-solutions.com, is known, worldwide, for increasing client sales, through a customerized approach to strategy, training, coaching, and consulting services.

NextStep Solutions—founded in 1995—inspires sales greatness, focusing on building relationships and enhancing communications skills, delivering quantifiable results. For the past five years, Jack was a radio personality, hosting a daily, live business talk show, “Where Wall Street Meets Main Street,” heard during morning drive-time, across the State of Texas, on the BizRadio Network—and on the internet around the world.

After graduating from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1978, Jack began a decade-long career with IBM. He quickly established a stellar reputation as the best “new account” sales professional in the company, leading the nation in new accounts opened—53 systems in 52 weeks—BEFORE the advent of the PC. The most amazing part: he did it in his SECOND year on quota. Upon being awarded the highest IBM sales award—The Eagle—his professional speaking career was inadvertently launched, when he traveled across the country, sharing his sales techniques with other IBM professionals.

Jack wrote the book on sales. In fact, he’s the author of the best selling book, Life’s A Sales Call: How To Succeed In The World’s Oldest Profession, on sale everywhere and at www.amazon.com. He now travels the world, speaking before thousands of people, delivering presentations with extremely high content in an entertaining and inspirational fashion, in areas of Sales, Marketing, Service and Leadership.

Jack is very involved in the local community. He founded and capitalized The Barnabas Society, www.barnabassociety.org, a 501c 3 corporation, that raises and distributes money and resources to people in their greatest times of need, with all the funds donated anonymously.

Nicknamed “NIKE” (Just Do It!), he will electrify your group with his high-energy approach to sales—and life. If the best teacher is one whose life is the text, Jack has been there, done that, bought, sold AND designed the T-shirt.

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• What the HECK is Social Media? – Choosing the social media networks which are appropriate for your business to find qualified potential clients does take an understanding about what is available.  Stop your head from spinning when it comes to Social Media. 
• To Facebook or Not to Facebook – The 24/7 marketing tool is not all about family pictures and reconnecting.  Develop a social media marketing strategy for your business’ growth and learn how to manage your time implementing the plan. 
• Making your best first virtual impression – Making the decision for your social media personality.  Creating a following which is engaging can be achieved.
• It’s 2010 – Social Media Etiquette – Don’t get the surprise of your life.  The ways we communicate have changed over the years, but the basic principles of social etiquette remain as classic as ever.
• Win the War through good Campaigning – Social media can help you build brand awareness, promote products, and engage with new audiences.  Research your potential clients, listen to them, prepare your strategy, and monitor & measure everything you do.

Cindy Watts is a fun and enthusiastic marketing expert. She consistently achieves outstanding results. Understanding each client’s business is how she successfully helps them think Outta The Box.  She teaches her clients how to apply this knowledge with energy, enthusiasm, and a dedication to excellence. 

For the past 21 years, Cindy has been dedicated to sales & marketing with a special focus on Marketing to Moms. 
She has successfully trained Women Business Owners, Entrepreneurs, and Upper Level Managers. Cindy brings excitement & energy to every training session (and maybe some chocolate.)

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·         Put Yourself Last: Networking for Success! 

·         Valid Selling: Using validation rather than “selling”

Bill Lynch writes, consults and speaks on customer acquisition and revenue growth for small to mid-sized businesses. Lynch shares his recipe for success in helping small business owners develop business plans, deal with the financial realities of small business, and clarify the roles of cold calling and networking. He assists small business owners in understanding the value of a new customer and how much to invest to acquire one. Lynch teaches people the need to trust yourself to produce high value results and offers solutions on how to do so. 

Lynch bought a failing Minuteman Press franchise in 2005 averaging $5,000 a month in sales and turned it into a million dollar business.  Prior to his franchise purchase, Lynch was President and CEO of a company manufacturing and importing cleaning products which grew from $5 million in sales to $20 million under his direction.  Customers included major retailers and janitor supply distributors. 

Lynch spent over 40 years in sales, marketing and senior management positions. He has an MBA from the University Of Chicago Booth School of business.

He is an Affiliate member of the North Texas Chapter of the National Speakers Association.  His articles appear regularly in Business North Texas.com, the SCORE newsletter and other business publications. His blog on Networking has developed a loyal following. He is the author of a chapter in a newly released anthology on living your passion.

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• The Speaker’s Revenue Machine – People can’t “Get” what you do unless they know what you sell. AND you give them opportunities to buy. Your entire Business runs on a Revenue Machine, and you need to manage it. 
• Pricing to Sell: Making it Easy to Buy You – Your Clients Shop With Their Heads, But They Buy With Their Hearts. Successful Businesses have Solid Price Lists. They know what the Right Price is for their Prospects to become Customers.
• The Influencer Intellect: Prosperity is More Than WHO You Know – Be an Influencer and you can Access the Golden Ticket. The R4H Monetize Your Connections System will Identify who you already know that will lead to Prosperous Relationships.

As the CEO of the R4H Group, the Premier Strategy and Outsourcing Partner for Speakers on a Mission, Kathy uses her over 15+ years of harvesting talent for Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft to bring top professionals together for incredible projects.

She has worked with hundreds of successful professionals who are in the public eye. Kathy has shown authors, speakers, educators, executives, and entertainers that the difference between success and failure is how they use their time and resources.

Known as a straight talker, Kathy believes with a great message and mission comes the responsibility of bringing revenue to the table to push that message out to larger audiences. her ability to harvest and manage global talent virtually makes her a must have for Platform Speakers and Professionals who Speak.

Call Kathy – 214.527.7391

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• Intangible Business – Soft assets often drive income and represent a substantial portion of the balance sheet of a business. This session discusses the use of patent, copyright, and trademark law to help businesses understand how to protect and commercialize those intangible assets.
• Technology Troubles – From creating and operating a company website to protecting innovative products and processes, technology matters can push the bounds of law in ways that create unpredictable results for business. From common technology issues to cutting edge technology issues, this presentation covers intellectual property law issues for technology businesses in order to help spot those landmines.

John has a unique background for practice and presentation of intellectual property and technology law issues. Before becoming an attorney, he was exposed to a wide range of technology and business. In business, he worked in startups, such as a startup marketing microbrews on the internet, to large business environments such as IBM. In technology, he has a degree in chemistry, has worked with electronics, and worked in information technology as it evolved from an exclusive tool of the technical staff to commonplace usage for the entire staff. His legal experience includes matters in software, chemical processes, medical devices, electronics, domain names, and consumer products. His real world business and technology experience, along with his practice of law, allow unique presentations for invention, branding, and content matters for companies.

John blogs, tweets, and speaks about intellectual property and technology law issues with passion. He uses a story and examples based speaking approach so the audience walks away with a better understanding of their issues.

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• If You Don’t Have a Video, You Don’t Exist. – Understand why 86% of Internet users prefer a video over text and why having a video can put you on Google’s first page.
• Technology for Presenters – Everything a presenter should know to make an impactful presentation.
• Make Money While You Sleep – How to digitize your message and sell it on the web.

Andre Costa has 25+ years of business experience mostly spent in the Information Technology field creating computer-based training and training curriculums.

He currently holds the position of E-Learning Director at ReachLocal and owns Orion21, a company dedicated to create on-line presentations (videos, podcasts, audio books and e-learning) for speakers, coaches, ministers, and trainers.

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