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Jesse Carter: Fundraising In The Direct Sales and Network Marketing Industries

December 29, 2010 by angishields

The Launch Hour

Jesse Carter: Fundraising In The Direct Sales and Network Marketing Industries

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The Nonprofit and Fundraising Industry is the Third largest segment of our economy. As such, Direct Sales and Network Marketing companies are desperately trying to find their comfort zone of selling their products to nonprofit organizations. There is big money to be made and we’re talking with Jesse Carter, a pioneering leader in the Direct Sales Fundraising Industry. Learn why there’s a huge potential in the direct sales industry and how fundraising development is not fully understood right now and how you can benefit by getting involved early. Discover how you can profit as an entrepreneur in this newly transforming segment of the Direct Sales industry.

Carter Resource Development

We offer nonprofit groups, organizations, churches, ministries, clubs and associations free fundraising ideas, resources and products.
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Rick Walker: Innovate or Die on the Vine

December 22, 2010 by angishields

The Launch Hour

Rick Walker: Innovate or Die on the Vine

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Innovation is the key to jumping ahead of competitors. While some people and companies may want to hide and ride out the current recession, now is the time to think ahead and innovate. The heart of innovation is with entrepreneurs. They have a risk-taking mentality and are willing to think outside the box. There is a certain spirit that lives within them that comes to the surface in troubled times like these.

Rick Walker
Highlights

Patent Attorney, Business Executive, and Entrepreneur

proven track record in protecting IP and generating profits for shareholders
over ten years as a partner in a law firm
over fourteen years as EVP, CAO, and General Counsel of a NYSE-listed company
member of a three-person executive management team that led growth from about
- $100 million in sales to almost $1 billion in six years
compounded annualized return to shareholders of approximately 30% before it was sold
the company had 30 plants in 5 countries

Named one of “Latest Generation of Atlanta CEOs and Power Brokers”
Atlanta Journal Constitution, April 2007.

Has counseled Boards of Directors of companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.

Directors included the CEO’s of CIGNA Insurance, Stanadyne (Moen Faucets), and General H. Norman Schwarzkopf.

Extensive experience in business and transactional law, IP litigation and strategy, licensing, mergers and acquisitions, hostile tender offers, start-up funding, stock offerings, and complex corporate governance situations.
Guest Lecturer – Emory Law School, Georgia Tech College of Management, and University of Tennessee.
AV® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell legal directory (highest ranking).
Society of International Business Fellows (SIBF) – National Board of Directors, Vice President of Membership, Executive Committee, and Finance Committee
North Fulton Bar Association – Board of Directors, President
Georgia Automotive Manufacturers Association (GAMA) – Founder, President & CEO
Numerous non-profit and charitable Boards including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Georgia Golf for the Kids (benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) – Co-Founder of the Atlanta Chapter

Education

University of Michigan, Business School – Executive Program
University of Detroit – JD
University of Detroit – Master of Engineering, Engineering Design and Computer Control
University of Detroit – BChE (magna cum laude, first in class)
- Process, Manufacturing, and Materials Engineering
- Cooperative training assignments were with an electrical/electronics company

http://www.falconipcapital.com

Rose Marie Iskowitz: The Dipe n’ Go Story

December 13, 2010 by angishields

The Launch Hour

Rose Marie Iskowitz: The Dipe n’ Go Story

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When your innovation is in the infant arena, you need to dot your i’s and cross your t’s when it comes to safety. Listen in as Rose Marie Iskowitz (along with her product safety mentor Edie Tolchin, owner of EGT Global Trading) explains her journey for Dipe n’ Go.

Rose Marie never envisioned herself as an inventor but when an unexpected job loss intertwined with motherhood and her busy life, a product idea was born! Before she knew it, Rose Marie was joining her sales and marketing experience with her tenacious personality and embarking on the next stage in her professional career – entrepreneurship!

Dipe n’ Go is the ideal baby changing station for your SUV, minivan or hatchback vehicle. Attaches easily to the inside of your hatch and stays stocked with supplies so it’s ready when you need it. Machine washable too!

The infant & children’s market sector is a great industry for product developers so listen in for some timely tips.

Laura Waage: Making the Leap from Employee to Entrepreneur

December 6, 2010 by angishields

The Launch Hour

Laura Waage: Making the Leap from Employee to Entrepreneur

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Transitioning from being an employee to an entrepreneur launches several emotions: fear, excitement, disorientation, anxiety, the list goes on and on.

Laura Waage, Founder and CEO of morphos business solutions, shares the formula for success that she used to effectively make the metamorphosis from Employee to Entrepreneur. This is the same methodology that she leverages both for clients who are looking to transition into entrepreneurship, as well as for existing businesses seeking to increase their revenues. With her “Structured Entrepreneur” approach, she works side by side with budding and established business owners to create systemized processes that propel their organizations from Functional to Exceptional.

For more than a decade, Laura Waage served as a Sales Director, Consultant, Trainer, Facilitator and Presenter. She has worked with thousands of businesses of varying sizes, helping them to design better business practices, increase their revenues and create heightened customer experiences.

To compliment her extensive business background, Laura is also a Certified Coach who received her formal training from the Robbins-Madanes Center for Strategic Intervention and the University of San Francisco Center for Child and Family Development.

Laura combined her professional experience with her coaching certification to create a dynamic organization: morphos, LLC. As founder and CEO, Laura effectively helps entrepreneurs to identify the obstacles that stand in their way, and design and implement actionable business plans that move their company from functional to exceptional.

If you are considering making the move from the corporate world to having your own business, you need to connect with Laura and learn about her Entrepreneur Success Tools!

Steve Rae, Founder of roam

November 29, 2010 by angishields

The Launch Hour

Steve Rae, Founder of roam

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Steve Rae is the Founder of roam, the innovators work place. Listen in on how roam provides progressive entrepreneurs an ideal workplace to get work done between appointments, meet with clients, enjoy superb food and beverages and attend unique networking events. Numerous successful new businesses have launched from roam; when you enter into roam the energy and creativity makes your skin tingle and you heart race.

Steve is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in implementing innovation and change. As a VP at IBM for 10 years he led complex acquisition integrations, plus he was the world wide VP of services for Learning Solutions.

In case you haven’t noticed, there has been an invisible migration from the traditional work place and the stifling cubicle. roam was birthed to intercept that mobility trend.

Ben Hudson: How To Find Work When There Are No Jobs

November 18, 2010 by angishields

The Launch Hour

Ben Hudson: How To Find Work When There Are No Jobs

00:00 / 0:31:58

One of the drivers for the surge in entrepreneurship is the RESUMES NO LONGER WORK! The traditional approach to job search is out of date for the new economy. Listen, and listen carefully, as Ben Hudson shares his secrets for an entrepreneural approach to a temp-to-perm engagement.

With over 40 years of practical tactical experience in a Fortune 500 company, international agency, business development consulting, executive career coaching and small business startups, Ben is a unique resource. He has worked with over 1000 individuals and 250 plus successful startups.

The Solutionship process that is outlined in his newly released book: “Finding Work When There are no Jobs” is a distillate of over 10 years of hands-on coaching and is the foundation of his successful consulting practice…a time-tested, proven method for finding profitable work in “the worst economy since the Great Depression”…and a much needed approach in today’s marketplace.

Mike Drummond: The World of Innovation

October 19, 2010 by angishields

The Launch Hour

Mike Drummond: The World of Innovation

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Pulitizer Prize Finalist, Publishing Entrepreneur, Inventors Digest Editor-in-Chief: Mike Drummond’s credentials are awesome! In this interview Mike discusses trends in innovation and the role of inventors in the American economy.

As editor-in-chief of Inventors Digest Mike oversees all editorial as well as financial and marketing aspects of the nation’s longest-running publication in the invention industry. He serves on various company and academic boards, as well as judge and speaker at industry events.

His work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Wired, Salon.com, Fortune, Cnet, Business 2.0, Forrester Research Magazine, among others, and carried by the Associated Press and Knight Ridder/McClatchy newswires.

In addition to being a 2008 Pulitzer Prize finalist he has also won numerous investigative, feature, and business-writing awards. He’s also the author of Renegades of the Empire (Random House/Crown Publishers, 2000), an inside story of Microsoft’s computer-game and Internet ambitions.

You can count on Mike to be candid and this interview is no exception. Follow Mike on Twitter @inventorsdigest, become a fan on Facebook. Contact him at mike.drummond@inventorsdigest.com.

Gary Sullivan of Allstar Marketing on “As Seen on TV” Product Searches

October 14, 2010 by angishields

The Launch Hour

Gary Sullivan of Allstar Marketing on “As Seen on TV” Product Searches

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Snuggie, Topsy Turvy, Mister Steamy, Emery Cat, SmartSpin, the list goes on and on of the TV informercial megahits from AllStar Marketing. If you have ever dreamed of having your product seen on TV, this is a must listen episode! The Snuggie first aired in the hot, hot month of AUGUST and sales went out the roof; a clear indicator that this was a product with appeal.

Gary Sullivan is the Director of Merchandising at ALLSTAR MARKETING GROUP LLC. He shares with our listening audience their 7-Point Criteria that determines if your product is a candidate for prime time: Unique, Mass Market, Problem Solving, Priced Right, Easily Explained, Age Appropriate, Credible.