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Episode 42: Automating the Sales Process with Tim Bornholdt

April 22, 2019 by Garrett Ervin

Business Infrastructure

Episode 42: Automating the Sales Process with Tim Bornholdt

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As an app developer, Tim Bornholdt is no stranger to process automation. Yet it wasn’t until he “put up a mirror” to his own company’s sales process, that he realized they were losing sales as a result of different people doing the same work in different ways. So he automated the sales process leading to service consistency, better tracking and ultimately increased sales conversion. Listen as he shares tips on selecting the right people and technologies to leverage during the process automation journey.

Special Guest: Tim Bornholdt, Partner at The Jed Mahonis Group

Location: St. Louis Park, MN USA

Show Notes:

Constant Variables: a podcast co-hosted by Tim that includes specific episodes that explains the entire life cycle for app development in a non-technical, easy-to-understand format
How I Built This: an NPR podcast hosted by Guy Raz
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World: book by Cal Newport
Signal v. Noise: Strong opinions and shared thoughts on design, business, and tech. By the makers (and friends) of Basecamp
XKCD comic strip by Randall Munroe:

LEADER DIALOGUE: Performance Excellence in the Age of Consumerism

April 19, 2019 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

LEADER DIALOGUE: Performance Excellence in the Age of Consumerism

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Hospital Governance Board Coaching

Pamela R. Knecht is the guest on this epsiode of Leader Dialogue Radio. Pam is an accomplished governance coach assisting not-for-profit Health Systems with strategic planning, governance, education, and organizational diagnosis and change management. Tune in to learn how to develop ideal board and management alignment, and how to enhance performance efficiency and effectiveness.

Pam Knecht/Accord Limited

Pam Knecht is President and CEO of ACCORD LIMITED, a national consulting firm based in Chicago and is an expert in not-for-profit healthcare governance. For over 22 years she has worked with hospitals, health systems, clinics, and health plans of all types and sizes.

Pam has long been recognized as a thought-leader in the field of governance. In 2007, she was named a Governance Advisor by The Governance Institute. She served as faculty for the former Center for Healthcare Governance of the American Hospital Association. Currently, she is a faculty member for The Governance Institute, iProtean, and multiple state hospital associations.

Pam regularly assists boards and CEOs with strategic planning; corporate and governance restructuring; system affiliation and integration; change management facilitation; and governance assessment, development and coaching. She also shares her extensive experience in governance frequently as a speaker and author.

About SOAR Vision Group

The SOAR Vision Group mission is to: Align People with Purpose to Achieve Exceptional Results. SOAR provides best practice strategy execution, business process optimization services, and a structured organizational development approach for organizations to effectively implement the Baldrige Performance Excellence framework. For more information, contact SOAR Vision Group at (888) 294-3303 or visit soarvisiongroup.com.

About the Baldrige Foundation

The mission of the Baldrige Foundation is to ensure the long-term financial growth and viability of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, and to support organizational performance excellence in the United States and throughout the world. The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is presented annually by the United States President to organizations that demonstrate quality and performance excellence. For more information, contact the Baldrige Foundation at (202) 559-9195 or visit baldrigefoundation.org.

Beth Schiavo with The Gender Plan

April 18, 2019 by Garrett Ervin

ePresence

Beth Schiavo with The Gender Plan

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Beth Schiavo/The Gender Plan

Developed by former CFO and Big 4 partner Beth Schiavo, The Gender Plan is an impact-oriented methodology that helps businesses harness the power of a gender-inclusive workforce to drive progress and profits. With empathy and insight gained from almost 30 years of leadership experience as a woman climbing the corporate ladder, Beth works with executive leaders and their teams, in collaboration with HR, to take away the taboo-factor by focusing on the facts. From data-driven discovery to custom plan design and implementation, Beth helps organizations move from a compliance, programmatic approach to diversity to implementing impactful, sustainable changes that start at the top.

Mark Galvin/ePresence

ePresence provides personal branding services for individuals, executives and entrepreneurs. They leverage social media on an individual level since that is where the audience is most engaged. Mark Galvin, CEO and Founder of ePresence, is a personal social media expert with 29 years of business management and hotel industry experience including stops with Marriott, Hyatt, Omni and IHG.

Yvener Liberal with Emsite Preventive Health Services, Dr. Adam Tedder with Clear Path Family Chiropractic, and Nathaly Tabares with Nathaly Tabares Photography

April 18, 2019 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Yvener Liberal with Emsite Preventive Health Services, Dr. Adam Tedder with Clear Path Family Chiropractic, and Nathaly Tabares with Nathaly Tabares Photography

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Mike Sammond, Yvener Liberal, Nathaly Tabares, Dr. Adam Tedder, Steven Julian

Yvener Liberal/Emsite Preventive Health Services

Emsite Preventive Health Services offers a range of appropriately-targeted preventive health screenings to identify potential threats to your health. These preventive health screenings help identify abnormalities that may lead to heart disease, stroke, and aneurysm. Health screenings are essential to a healthy lifestyle because the sooner a threat is detected, the higher the success of treatment and the lower the risk of complications. Emsite Preventive Health Services offers several affordable preventive health packages to ensure that you are provided with a comprehensive understanding of your overall health.

Dr. Adam Tedder/Clear Path Family Chiropractic

Clear Path Family Chiropractic is a family-focused chiropractic clinic that works with families and clients of all ages. Their main focuses are Upper Cervical chiropractic care, pediatrics, perinatal care, and neurological conditions. Clear Path Family Chiropractic strives to create a warm environment, excellent care, exceptional healing and amazing results.

Nathaly Tabares/Nathaly Tabares Photography

Nathaly Tabares Photography is a small business located in Duluth, GA. Nathaly’s main focus is to capture beautiful memories for you and your family. She will also guide you and help you select the perfect pieces of wall art to display those images. She will create for you photography and wall art at it’s finest!

SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Lorraine Edwards with Lorraine Communications, Inc.

April 18, 2019 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Lorraine Edwards with Lorraine Communications, Inc.

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Lorraine Edwards/Lorraine Communications

Lorraine Communications is a strategic communications company. They apply integrative and often non-traditional approaches to solve client communications and marketing issues with work based on extensive research and detailed measurement of results. They focus on complicated subjects and complex situations and frequently work in areas often overlooked by other agencies, such as mid-sized markets and under served populations.

David Brinkman with AssureSign and Michael Maxsenti with Sequr

April 17, 2019 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

David Brinkman with AssureSign and Michael Maxsenti with Sequr

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Nikole Toptas, David Brinkman, Michael Maxsenti

David Brinkman/AssureSign

David Brinkman is the President & CEO of AssureSign, a market leader in electronic signature that simplifies the world’s most powerful action – the signature. Available as both on-premise and as an on-demand SaaS solution for businesses, AssureSign enables any organization to create and execute a secure and seamless signature experience. By offering the electronic signature industry’s most flexible API, AssureSign has also built an extensive partner program with a proven revenue stream. Founded in 2000, AssureSign has executed over 400 million electronic signatures for many of the world’s most well-known brands.

Michael Maxsenti/Sequr

Sequr helps companies automate physical security management by automating traditional work flows and lets employees use their phone as a keycard instead of physical keycards.

Episode 41: Streamlining the Book Writing Process with Win Charles

April 15, 2019 by Garrett Ervin

Business Infrastructure

Episode 41: Streamlining the Book Writing Process with Win Charles

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As an energetic author, artist, podcaster, journalist, teacher and fashion designer, Win Kelly Charles cannot afford to waste time nor let a physical disability slow her down. “Just Do It!” is her response to anyone contemplating their next business move, especially aspiring authors. In this episode, Win shares the essential people and tools she relies on to streamline her book writing process. With nine published books and three in the queue, you don’t want to miss what she has to say!

Location: Aspen, Colorado USA

Show Notes:

Visit Win’s Amazon Author’s Page for a full listing of her books which include:
Dragon Naturally Speaking: mobile dictation software – sign up for a FREE trial
Siri Dictation Guide: a visual guide for using text dictation on an iPhone
Kindle Direct Publishing: Amazon’s platform to self-publish eBooks and paperbacks for free
On Writing: a Memoir of the Craft: a book by Stephen King – “Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King’s critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work.”
Alicia Butler Pierre on Ask Win: Alicia’s interview on Win’s podcast
Win’s Podcasts: Ask Win, A Diary of a Fashionista, Welcome to Journalism

MARKETING MATTERS WITH RYAN SAUERS: Marcie Reif with Marcie Reif Photography

April 11, 2019 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

MARKETING MATTERS WITH RYAN SAUERS: Marcie Reif with Marcie Reif Photography

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Marcie Reif/Marcie Reif Photography

Marcie Reif is an in-demand kids, family, and commercial photographer in Atlanta, GA. In addition to running her portrait business she is also a photography educator. Marcie is the co-founder of The Photographer’s Retreat, and educational experience for female photographers, and the author of the best selling instructional resource Bringing Home the Story of the Beach. She started her professional photography career in 2010, transitioning from a hobbyist taking pictures of her own children to begin growing the Marcie Reif Photography brand into the commercial and portrait photography experience it is today. She speaks several times a year at conferences around the country leading other photographers by giving them the confidence and tools to create strong portraits of family and children, as well as motivational strategies on building their photography community. Her work has been featured countless times by industry-leading companies and has appeared in multiple highly-acclaimed magazines.

Jane Bishop/Take the Next Step

Jane Bishop, is CEO of Take the Next Step which emerged out of her passion to help others “go for their It.” She helps small business owners, entrepreneurs strengthen and align with their inner core for success by using her coaching and training skills. When you work with Jane you will experience accomplishing your “it,” and be a greater influence to those around you. Jane uses her E4U system to help clients get to the core faster to create and execute a plan for effectiveness. Jane is also a professional speaker and published author. Curious? Reach out and book a complimentary session and see where that leads.

Ryan Sauers/President of Sauers Consulting Strategies

Ryan T. Sauers has spent over 25 years leading and/or consulting with marketing, media, and related companies. He is also owner of two Our Town Gwinnett monthly magazines. Sauers is a frequent national speaker and global columnist. He serves as an adjunct university professor teaching leadership courses. Ryan is a Certified Myers Briggs, DiSC, and Emotional Intelligence practitioner. Ryan is working on his Doctoral degree in Leadership. He is author of the best-selling books Everyone is in Sales and Would You Buy from You?

Show Overview

Marketing Matters is a radio show discussing topics as they relate to marketing, communications, sales, leadership and more. Host Ryan Sauers, a best-selling author and national speaker, discusses how these topics play a role in every aspect of our lives. Each episode shares tangible nuggets of information that listeners can easily understand and apply to their everyday life, whether personal or business. The show challenges listeners’ current state of thinking so they can grow to new heights and see new opportunities in business, which is rapidly changing, multi-generational. and noisy in nature.

The Georgia Advanced Directive for Health Care

April 10, 2019 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

The Georgia Advanced Directive for Health Care

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Senior Salute Radio brings timely information to leading age Boomers and Seniors addressing the issues of aging, care-giving and maintaining quality of life. Learn from both professionals and regular people going through the process with their families.

The Estate & Asset Protection Law Firm was established to serve the legal needs of senior citizens when their health care needs increase. The Firm focuses its entire practice on Asset Protection and Estate Planning matters, which encompasses the areas of Medicaid Planning, VA Benefits Planning, Special Needs Planning, and Estate Planning. Victoria Collier has grown her law practice through her personable nature and good management skills. The office is located in downtown Decatur, GA. The Firm makes house calls to those clients who are unable to come to the office. They understand that you might not be able to make it into the office, so they have no problem coming to you! Take comfort in knowing that it is the mission of Victoria Collier to support her clients in the creation of a long-term care plan for preserving assets, maximizing independence, and enhancing quality of life.