Entrepreneur Extraordinaire Virtual Book Launch FREE Tele-Seminar
In Entrepreneur Extraordinaire, twenty-one top women entrepreneurs from a variety of disciplines and industries have joined together to give you the most effective strategies they know and use to help you guild a successful business and handle almost any situation with courage and strength. Small shifts can transform your self-confidence, strengthen your skills and contribute to a more productive, successful business.
This is your opportunity to hear each these co-authors share their insights and expertise. This virtual event is a treasure trove of wisdom, innovative ideas and thought-provoking information. You will discover a wealth of strategies, best practices and proven guidelines you can use immediately to be the absolute best entrepreneur you can be.
Join us for this powerful, life-changing event and leave with tools and techniques for mastering business. Here is just a sample of the benefits you will find inside to transform yours:
- Communicate your personal brand and make it part of everything you do
- Avoid legal mistakes that can cost you not just money, but your business as well
- Dispel negative beliefs that can undermine your success
- Create information products and cash flow
- And much more
For more information, visit: http://eetelesummit.com/
Networking Know How – How to Make Your Connections Count
Weeks after meeting a travel consultant at an event, I received a huge packet of promotional material in the mail. This costly packet was sent without a hello note, no business card and no follow-up call. What a waste of paper, postage and energy! Attractive, innovative marketing materials are far less important than a smile and a handshake.
I attribute my professional success as a business coach and professional speaker to the people that know me, like me and trust me — the people in my sphere of influence. These people are my friends, my clients, my vendors, members of groups I belong to, and anyone else I have ever met that I maintain contact with. To learn more about how to create and maintain a large sphere of influence, read this helpful piece: http://www.attractclientswithease.com/articles/networkingknowhow.htm
Add Biz Journal Logo Don’t Forget, Networking 2.0 – From Contacts to Contracts, presented by the Silicon Valley/ San Jose Business Journal takes place on Wednesday, March 21st from 9am-12pm. For more information, and to register, visit: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/event/67091
Guest Blog from Deborah Boland
I want to share these great tips my good friend Deborah Boland provided on how to create a superstar headshot.
5 Simple Tips to Create a Superstar Headshot
Want more speaking gigs and wondering why you are not getting them? Maybe your headshot is standing in the way of your success. If you want a photo that will make you stand out from the crowd check out these 5 simple Tips to create a superstar headshot!
1. Get a Professional Headshot
Too many people have their photo taken in front of a white wall or outside in front of a tree. This looks amateur. You need to hire a professional photographer to take your picture inside a studio with flattering lighting to get a headshot that communicates star power.
2. Shoot from above
For one of your shots, try sitting down low and have the photographer get up on a small ladder and shoot down at you. This might sound strange and feel even stranger while it’s happening, but it looking up makes you lift up your chin, causing your eyes to look large and wide. This makes for an especially flattering shot.
3. Don’t put your hands in the shot
There is nothing more cheesy than the tired old pose of one hand placed delicately under your chin. Keep your hands out of the shot, so the focus is on your face, for a headshot that lets your personality shine through.
4. Have your make up applied by a professional
If you don’t wear make-up and think you don’t need to wear it for your photograph, you are fooling yourself. (even men need a little powder). A professional make-up artist understands photographic lighting and will make you look more energetic, more attractive and more confident, guaranteed.
5. Don’t Sit Still
While the photographer is shooting, try moving slightly after each snap of the shutter. Tilt your head a little, lift and lower your chin, angle your shoulders slightly. Keep trying new positions. A good photographer should direct you to do these things, but if not, you want to make sure you keep your body fluid for a fresh, natural and warm (not posed) shot.
Deborah Boland and JoJami Tyler are Image & Media Experts who specialize in helping women stepping into the spotlight to shine. Visit them at www.fabulousafter40.com and find out how they can help you Tweak Your Chic and Communicate with Star Presence.
Make Every Call Count
After years of coaching sales and business people in a wide variety of industries, there is one thing that stands out as an important differentiating factor between those who have average success and those who consistently soar. It is not enough to go on appointments, send out fancy packets and pass your card around. You have to be willing to become masterful at using the phone. Review these “quick tips” for making every call count, and see if you are not more masterful the next time you dial. http://www.attractclientswithease.com/articles/makeeverycallcount.htm
Don’t forget to check out Make Your Connections Count. This valuable tool will help you turn your networking efforts into a business building machine. With this book, you can quickly rev up your networking know-how. Top experts in each of their specialties have joined together to give you proven, highly effective networking strategies. You’ll find everything you need to make your connections truly count and your business thrive. To order, visit : http://www.connectionscountbook.com/
Networking 2.0, From Contacts to Contracts
Networking 2.0 is an interactive workshop presented by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal led by me, Caterina Rando. The program is suited for novice networkers and seasoned veterans who want to up their game. You’ll leave the workshop with the networking skills you need to win new clients and increase your sales!
During this 3-hour workshop, you’ll learn how to be loud and proud about who you are and the value you bring, as well as how to :
- Introduce yourself in a way that captures people’s attention to immediately engage them
- Create rapport quickly and begin meaningful conversations
- Become a resource for refferals to keep your business on other people’s mind
- Develop a networking plan that meets your goals and objectives
- Utilize simple, fast floow up techniques that build relationship online and offline
- Apply strategies to go from “just a contact” to a person of influence with your connections
Register now and take advantage of the early registration pricing! Details and registration available here: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/event/67091
For more info, contact Debra Robinson at 408-299-1816 or debrarobinson@bizjournals.com
Are You Ready to Shift Your Conversation About Money and Wealth?
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Stop Waiting for Ready
This is an excerpt from our upcoming book Entrepreneur Extraordinaire that will be out soon. My chapter is on Business Building Busters To Cast Aside to Ensure Your Success.
Does this sound like you? I have a talented, gifted, gracious, smart client who is frequently waiting until everything is totally figured out as in a course being 1005 written before it is marketed, also until everything is 100% done like every last tweak of a website and until everything is ideal like having 100% enrollment in a group before she starts anything. As a result of this consistent behavior it takes her forever to do anything and her business is not growing. Does any of that ring a bell for you?
Instead of waiting for ready do the opposite and be willing to create and learn as you go.
Maybe that sounds scary and I will not deny that it is, however learning and creating as you go is you being in forward motion. Waiting for ready is staying in the same place and being stagnant while you get everything completed.
Let’s be very clear a successful business is in a constant state of stretching and reinventing and adjusting. You as the entrepreneur are best served by also be in a constant state of stretching, reinventing, adjusting and learning.
Ask yourself right now: Where are you waiting for ready and what is that costing you? Next question: what are you going to do about it? Be willing to be uncomfortable while you are creating, learning and growing is your key to a truly extraordinary business. I promise you will amaze yourself.
LEARN THE SECRETS OF CREATING INFLUENCE TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS AT THE “NETWORKING 2.0 FROM CONTACTS TO CONTRACTS”
I am thrilled to partner with two of American City Business Journals, the Sacramento Business Journal and The San Francisco Business Times.
As we enter 2012, we all are looking for new ways to connect that will result in new alliances, create new opportunities and allow us stand out in a crowded marketplace. “Networking 2.0 from Contact to Contract” is a three-hour workshop and power networking experience that will surely give you the skills to do that. Coming up The Sacramento Business Journal, and the San Francisco Business Times are offering a one year subscription when you join us for this live interactive event.
I will teach you how to be loud and proud about who you are and the value you bring. We will cover creating rapport quickly, how to engage in meaningful conversations; how to be resource for others and build relationships online and offline. Whatever it is you are looking for clients, a job, capital for your business venture, this event is for you. You will learn how to turn contacts into contracts no matter where you come from in the business world.
In this program we will emphasize the difference between simply meeting people and actually creating influence with people. There is a big difference that people with influence know the difference. I will show you how to become a person of influence. I have found with my 20 plus years of experience in helping people grow sustainable and profitable businesses that how we network with others is a vital part of how we develop the ability to easily add clients, get our calls returned and build a great reputation.
This is an incredible opportunity. Your investment includes: the interactive program where you will meet many of the people in the room, an autographed copy of my book, Make Your Connections Count, a year subscription to the business journal and the business journals Book of Lists.
Join me for Networking 2.0 in the Sacramento Area on January 31st.
http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/event/ 62361#register or contact Ravi Bazar at (916) 558-7881,rbazaz@bizjournals.com
Join me for Networking 2.0 in San Francisco on February 8th
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/event/60831
or contact call Shane Dorrian at (415) 288-4973 or email sdorrian@bizjournals.com
Join me for Networking 2.0 in the East Bay on February 7th
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/event/60821
or contact call Shane Dorrian at (415) 288-4973 or email sdorrian@bizjournals.com
Happy New Year!-Make it Your Best Year Yet
Every year I create a new, full color, daily inspiration card. I encourage you to download and post it right where you will see it in the morning to uplift and inspire you each day. I love the card we created last year so much that this year’s design is very similar. The message is new.
I wrote these words, keeping in mind that you would read them to yourself, to give yourself a boost and set yourself up for a great day. We can all do well to remind ourselves to be enthusiastic, bolder and to take a risk to achieve a goal.
Download this card and let it serve as a reminder of how powerful you are and all that is possible for you with each day.
Interview with Julie Renee Doering
Julie Renee Doering interviewed me for her Miraculous Living Radio Show. If you want to learn how to be loud and proud about who you are and the value you bring give it a listen here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/miraculousliving/2011/11/17/caterina-rando-rev-julie-renee-breakthrus-biz-beaming-brite