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Dave Beck with Foundry 45 and Brian Mann with Cypress.io

June 22, 2016 by Stone Payton

Atlanta Business Radio

Dave Beck with Foundry 45 and Brian Mann with Cypress.io

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Dave Beck is co-founder and Managing Partner at Foundry 45, a Virtual Reality company that helps brands connect with their customers through immersive sales and marketing experiences.

Before starting Foundry 45, Dave served as the Chief Operating Officer at EquipCodes, a mobile SaaS and Augmented Reality company that developed experiences for organizations ranging from Fortune 500 businesses to the new Center for Civil and Human Rights Museum in downtown Atlanta.

Dave serves on the board of the MAK Historic District, and is very active in the Georgia Tech community as a mentor for MBA students and a teacher for Entrepreneurship classes.

Dave earned his bachelors degree in Marketing from Wake Forest University and his MBA from Georgia Tech.

Brian Mann / Cypress.io

Brian Mann is a senior software engineer who loves working in startups. He leads development teams specializing in web application services. After eventually falling in love with Javascript, he created a screencast series called BackboneRails, which he wrote, directed, edited and animated in his spare time. After the series gained international traction, he’s now building a startup attempting to solve some of the biggest challenges developers face today.

He’s an active member of the local tech community and enjoys organizing and giving talks at events. He works alongside his wife Jennifer, coincidentally another developer, who never gets tired of hearing his crazy ideas.

KSU Shrimp Tank Featuring David Dixon And Richard Valladares

June 21, 2016 by Stone Payton

Atlanta Business Radio

KSU Shrimp Tank Featuring David Dixon And Richard Valladares

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David Dixon / Brannen Goddard

David Dixon is a native of Atlanta and an entrepreneur at heart. Upon returning to Atlanta after graduating from Samford University, David led the sales team for the nation’s second largest parking company. He and his team grew the outside sales portfolio by fifty percent in the first year. Through that team, David learned expertise in strategic planning, business development, and accounting and operations, which led him to open two successful small companies in 2002.

Using the wealth of knowledge in business experience and customer relations, David has represented clients in leasing over 200,000 square feet in his first two years in the business. His clients range from large national firms to local growing companies. David’s real estate specialties include lease renewals, relocations, expansions and dispositions. David has the knowledge to help his clients plan strategically for the current markets, as well as for the future and his clients respect his honesty, loyalty and constant dedication to their real estate needs.

Richard Valladares / GreenbergTraurig

Richard J. Valladares has experience in numerous areas of litigation, including complex commercial litigation, personal injury defense, class action, construction litigation, products liability and insurance coverage litigation. His litigation and trial experience extends throughout all phases of a dispute, including pre-litigation negotiations, administrative investigations, trial and appeal. In addition, he advises a wide array of clients, from Fortune 500 companies to the smallest entrepreneur, on commercial dispute resolution and litigation avoidance techniques. Rich also has broad experience advising clients on electronic discovery and electronic document retention, and frequently writes and lectures on these topics.

High Velocity Reboot: Lee And Stone Back In The Studio

May 8, 2016 by Stone Payton

High Velocity Radio

High Velocity Reboot: Lee And Stone Back In The Studio

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High Velocity Reboot

Lee and Stone will be back in the studio co-hosting the High Velocity Radio show each week starting soon !

“The travel has been fun,and we’ve learned so much.” says Stone. “. . . but we both really miss that weekly show rhythm — and of course we absolutely love using the BRX platform to celebrate Top Performers Producing Better Results In Less Time.”

“Our Guest Hosts have done a fabulous job in our absence of interviewing passionate business leaders with compelling stories to share. We’re committed to continuing that tradition, and look forward to getting back in the studio.” — BRX CEO Lee Kantor

New interviews will be posting soon. In the meantime, here’s one of our recent favorites.

* Captured in Dallas on our late April road trip for Training Pro’s Learning Insights show.

Enjoy . . .

Tom Allen from Opango discussed how L&D organizations can take their performance to the next level by leveraging technology.

Tom is Founder and CEO of Opango, provider of a Cloud based Learning Management System for the Enterprise and Small Business . It’s primary purpose is to deliver on demand product training, franchise training, certification and continuing education. The platform delivers courses, tracks progress, administers quizzes, final tests, surveys, certificates and maintains student transcripts

Opango also provides full service course development including learning 2.0 instructional design, writing, photography, audio, videography, interactive 2D and Photo Realistic 3D animations.

Help One Million Businesses Share Their Stories – Business RadioX

February 9, 2016 by Stone Payton

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Change Leaders Exclusive Episode 1

February 9, 2016 by Stone Payton

Atlanta Business Radio

Change Leaders Exclusive Episode 1

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Change Leaders Exclusive: Showcasing and Learning From World-Class Change Agents

Episode 1 – Feb. 9th, 2016

Tune into Change Leaders Exclusive as we discuss the barriers change agents are breaking and the changes they are making. Steve Koonin, CEO of the Atlanta Hawks, and Art Hopkins, Executive Recruiter at Russell Reynolds Associates, join James with today’s topic of “How to Handle the Personal and Professional Challenges of Leading Change”. James discusses the challenges both faced in their respective careers as well as what they look for when making change initiatives in their companies.

Steve Koonin was named Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Atlanta Hawks and Philips Arena on April 13, 2014. Koonin, who also has an equity position within the ownership group, oversees all business, financial and strategic operations of the Atlanta Hawks and Philips Arena, and represents the owners as the head of the organization.

Koonin, a longtime entertainment and marketing veteran, joined the Hawks after spending the previous 14 years with Turner Entertainment Networks, most recently serving as the division’s president. As president, he oversaw programming, marketing, scheduling, strategy and operations for top-rated networks TNT, TBS, truTV, Turner Classic Movies, as well as Peachtree TV. Under his leadership, the networks have won numerous Emmy Awards and Peabody Awards, as well as established ratings records and critical acclaim. He was also instrumental in the programming and media rights acquisition processes around the NBA and NCAA, and helped build strong brand franchises in “Inside the NBA” and “NBA on TNT”.

During his Turner career, he was selected for TV Guide’s “The Power List” and named by Entertainment Weekly as one of the “Smartest People in Television”.

Prior to his stint at Turner, Koonin was at the helm of presence marketing and worldwide advertising at The Coca-Cola Company, where he spent over a decade. While serving as Coca-Cola’s vice president of sports and entertainment marketing, he was named Sports Executive of the Year by Sports Business Journal.

A lifelong resident of Atlanta, Koonin serves on the boards of Emory Healthcare, the Georgia Aquarium, the Fox Theatre, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and is a trustee of the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta. He is also on the board of GameStop, the world’s largest video game and entertainment software retailer.

Art Hopkins advises clients within the Technology Sector, focusing on the Information Officers Practice. He is based in Atlanta.

Expertise: Technology and Technology Officers

Prior to joining Russell Reynolds Associates, Art was with Macquarium, an Atlanta-based experience design and strategy firm, most recently as CEO and earlier as President. There, he was responsible for leading the transformation of the firm from a regional interactive agency to an industry-leading Customer Experience firm. Prior to this, he spent ten years with Blackwell Consulting Services as Vice President, Consulting, where his responsibilities included management of the consulting organization and leadership of key client initiatives. Earlier, he was with William James & Associates as a Consultant, building and integrating custom software solutions for financial institutions. Art began his career as a Supervisor, Participant Accounting at NBD Trust Co. of Illinois.

Art is very active in the community and has a personal interest in matters related to education. In addition to serving on the Board of Directors for the Information Technology Senior Management Forum and the Executive Board of Directors for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, he has served on Georgia’s Commission for School Board Excellence, Junior Achievement of Georgia, and as the Board Chair of the W.E.B. DuBois Society.

Art received his B.A. in Finance from the University of Maryland College Park.

Content Is Not King – Business RadioX

November 21, 2015 by Stone Payton

Let’s Face It . . . Content can be a real burden to create, an unwelcome interruption to receive — and so many Content Marketing strategies are the business equivalent of a single guy walking into the same bar every Friday night, throwing his hands up and announcing to the crowd at the top of his lungs . . .

“I’m rich, I’m smart, I’m good looking . . . and I’m available.” — then rushing home to wait by the phone for Miss Right to call.

Content Is Not King — not in my arena, and probably not in yours . . .

Results Is King.

Better Results In Less Time is the ideal King, and the coin of the realm is Relationship. This precious currency is backed by the Trust you’ve earned from genuinely serving your market, your community, and your profession.

Now you’re not going to hear many Media Execs talk about Better Results In Less Time, because it’s inextricably tied to a topic only a precious few of us are willing to address head on . . . Return On Investment.

What you’re more likely to see and hear — especially from those who want you to write them a check or those defending the last check you wrote — are words like impressions, cost per thousand, circulation, traffic, clicks, viewers, listeners, followers, subscribers, downloads, ratings . . . just about anything other than Actual Increase In Volume & Pace Of New Revenue.

The next time you find yourself in a conversation or reviewing documentation including words like these — please recognize . . .What you’re experiencing here is the pretty assistant spinning the box while the crafty magician sneaks out the trap door.

If you’re a B2B Exec . . .

Buying air time or column inches from Big Media to reach a pre-existing audience simply will not equip you to genuinely serve your market — at least not very efficiently. You don’t have a relationship with these anonymous “eyes & ears”– and most importantly, you don’t have their trust — their hearts & minds.

Of course, if you hang in there long enough and spend enough money, you might eventually see some modest results — just as our single friend boldly advertising at his local bar might eventually meet Miss “Right Now” if not Miss Right.

Betting on this formula — Relying on Big Media “faux metrics” to deliver meaningful results — seems to me like an unnecessary “long shot” for all, and cost-prohibitive for most.

Back To My World, and maybe yours — Helping B2B Execs Serve Their Market And Grow Their Business . . .

Results in our arena are built on Relationships and Trust. One Trusted Relationship is worth a thousand, or ten thousand, or even a hundred thousand impressions, clicks, website visits, whatever. With Trusted Relationship as the foundation, Content is gratefully received, implicitly trusted, and liberally shared.

Now content becomes a marvelous tool for removing the friction and shrinking the timeline for your sales & marketing strategy. You’re serving and selling with genuine insight — enjoying true peer to peer relationships, solving real problems, capitalizing on real opportunities. And you’re doing it all better, faster, cheaper . . .

Producing Better Results In Less Time.

Our thing — The Business RadioX ® platform — does this really well, especially for B2B Execs who want to “Own Their Backyard”. You can get a little insight into How and Why it works so well at MyBRX.com. And you can access thousands of hours of practical content on virtually any business topic you can imagine at BusinessRadioX.com.

But our clients aren’t the only ones building their businesses on Trusted Relationships, and crafting their strategies to serve that discipline.

There are other organizations out there executing authentic Content Marketing strategies — serving intentional, engaged audiences, seeing organic results, and enjoying actual Return On Investment. You probably know a few, because this is the content you look forward to receiving — and in some cases, the firms you trust with your own time and money.

I particularly like the way these folks explain it . . .

As you continue to seek out these resources, I hope you’ll seriously consider the idea that Content Is Not King — that you’ll try to resist the allure of Big Media “faux metrics,” that you’ll choose to build your business on Trusted Relationships, and never again let someone tell you that you cannot expect to see or accurately measure actual Return On Investment from your marketing dollars. You can, and you should.

And if there’s anything I can do to help you think it through — whether it involves a conversation about our services or not . . . I’m at your disposal:

770.335.2050

stone@BusinessRadioX.com

meetme.so/BRXvisit

Good Luck and Godspeed . . .

Walking The Carpet At Hinman 2015

March 31, 2015 by Stone Payton

For 103 years, dental professionals have considered the Thomas P. Hinman Dental Meeting to be one of the premier sources of continuing education. The meeting continues to attract the country’s leading, most respected clinicians and lecturers in the field of dentistry today.

Atlanta Business Radio Host Lee Kantor “walks the carpet” at Hinman 2015, stopping along the way to visit with several Exhibitors . . .

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Andrew Kuzmen

Pelton & Crane

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Brynn Gibbs

Consumer Fusion

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Dr. Bill Williams

Solstice Dental Advisors

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Jag Dhamrait

Iveri Whitening

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James Dawson

TextRequest

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James Farleo

Clear Optix

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Lonnie Guerrero

LiveRecall

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Nikko Solemsaas

HealthFirst

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Peter Volk

DentalEZ Integrated Solutions

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Riley Banks

Henry Schein

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Buckhead Studio: New Offering For Underwriters – Business RadioX

February 28, 2015 by Stone Payton

Buckhead Studio: New Offering

Buckhead Business Radio X ® Studio has a new offering for Underwriters who might be better served with a practical alternative to the standard Weekly Show format.

(Sandy Springs too — but candidly, we’re getting a little full over here.)

Self-scheduling Software

Makes it real easy to book Dedicated Episodes on whatever rhythm makes sense for you and your objectives.

Flex Packages

Designed to fit virtually any budget.

Gwinnett, Midtown, and Cobb studios will likely follow suit — we’ll keep you posted.

ROI Institute Featuring Jack Phillips

June 5, 2014 by Stone Payton

Thought Leader Radio

ROI Institute Featuring Jack Phillips

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Jack Phillips, Ph.D/ROI Institute

Dr. Jack J. Phillips is a world-renowned expert on accountability, measurement, and evaluation. Phillips provides consulting services for Fortune 500 companies and major global organizations. The author or editor of more than fifty books, he conducts workshops and presents at conferences throughout the world.

Phillips has received several awards for his books and work. On three occasions, Meeting News named him one of the 25 Most Powerful People in the Meetings and Events Industry, based on his work on ROI. The Society for Human Resource Management presented him an award for one of his books and honored a Phillips ROI study with its highest award for creativity. The American Society for Training and Development gave him its highest award, Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Development for his work on ROI. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Fortune magazine. He has been interviewed by several television programs, including CNN.

His expertise is based on more than 27 years of corporate experience in the aerospace, textile, metals, construction materials, and banking industries. Dr. Phillips has served as training and development manager at two Fortune 500 firms, as senior human resource officer at two firms, as president of a regional bank, and as management professor at a major state university.

Dr. Phillips regularly consults with clients in manufacturing, service, and government organizations in 60 countries in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia.

For the past 20 years, Phillips has been in the consulting business. He created one firm, Performance Resources Organization, and sold it for several million dollars. He created another company, ROI Institute, which now operates in 60 countries. The ROI Institute provides a variety of services in the human capital analytics area.

Dr. Phillips has undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering, physics, and mathematics; a master’s degree in Decision Sciences from Georgia State University; and a Ph.D. in Human Resource Management from the University of Alabama. He has served on the boards of several businesses—including two NASDAQ companies—and several nonprofits and associations, including the American Society for Training and Development, the National Management Association, and the International Society for Performance Improvement. He is chairman of the ROI Institute, Inc., and can be reached at (205) 678-8101, or by e-mail at jack@roiinstitute.net