The holidays are the perfect time to mingle and network. People are gathering everywhere for socializing and holiday parties. What a great way to strengthen your relationships and celebrate your accomplishments for the year!

Listen to the show and learn:

1. Why its important to MINGLE

2. How to GIVE gifts that show your appreciation

3. What NOT to do during the holidays

4. Networking Ice Breakers

Networking is more than just passing out business cards...it's about the incredible relationships you create!

Today's show is brought to you by the St. Louis Networking Club, an organization dedicated to building strong professional partnerships and referrals. Learn more at www.StLouisNetworking.com

St. Louis Networking Holiday Show - December 14th from 1-5 pm at the Maryland Heights Community Center. A HUGE end of the year networking event and opportunity to get those LAST MINUTE GIFTS! Tickets are ONLY $10 and include a chance to WIN a FREE Full Page Ad in ACCOMPLISH Magazine! Display Tables Available! Register at www.StLouisNetworking.com

Join the host of the show Darlene Willman, "The Sassy Networker" and her co-host Shelly Rice"The Referral Machine" for a special show of SHAMELESS PROMOTION!

Call in today and give us your ONE MINUTE COMMERCIAL! That's right; we want to hear who you are, what you're offering and how to reach you!

If you've got a special promotion or holiday gift idea...TELL US about it! We're not called The Referral Machine and Sassy Networker for nothing! We can help get the word out for you!

The number to call is 347-989-8320 then press one to be on the air. Tell your friends to listen to the show either online at AccomplishRadio.com or call in on their phone at the same number.

The world's waiting to hear your message!

Michelle Neujahr provides motivational keynotes, in-house training seminars and small business consulting services to organizations ready to take their business to the next level. She delivers high energy, dynamic presentations guaranteed to reinvigorate your organization and revive your people. With more than a decade of experience as a motivational speaker, Michelle has given over 1,000 presentations to audiences across the country. In addition Michelle has owned three businesses, worked in the corporate world as Director of Sales & Marketing and is the author of Hey Girlfriend – Live Passionately Real. In 2007 she won the Entrepreneurial Educator of the Year at SMCC where she serves as the director of the entrepreneurial center.

Ken is a marketing strategist that has built 35 businesses during his business career. Using his marketing skills, he generated 6,000,000 million customers across those businesses.

Some of the businesses Ken built included: two banks, a basketball league, an airline, an insurance brokerage, and a multi-level company.

Ken sold his last business in 1998 and retired, but decided in 2006 to re-join the business world to share what he knows. During 2006, he co-founded Creating Customers, LLC, with a business partner, Reginald Niles, to help small and mid-size businesses:

• Find and acquire more customers

• Keep more of the customers they have

• Implement affordable marketing strategies,

• Implement tried and true marketing methods to build their businesses.

Ken has written several books, including:

(1) “How To Get Customers To Call, Buy & Beg For More”, (2) “How To Capture The Mind Of Your Customer and Get Them To Say Yes”, and, (3) “The Ultimate Insurance Business Success System” (a 1200-page set of manuals).

He’s also written 300 information products, and publishes a weekly e-newsletter called, “Marketing Tip of The Week.”

Ken speaks to groups of all sizes, and consults with individuals, small businesses, and mid-size businesses to help them grow rapidly.

Dr. Donna is a walking billboard for everyday leadership success. Using 15 years of wit, sass, hard work, determination, sweat, finesse, and class, Dr. Donna applies colorful leadership principles to accomplish the impossible. Dr. Donnas’ book R.E.A.L. Leader's Wear P.I.N.K. is a life changing account of failure, falling and excelling. If you want to learn how to take lemon's, make lemonade and then sell it for a profit, you need to ask Dr. Donna because she has the answer! From the hood to the suburbs Dr. Donna broke free and you can too!

Dr. Donna leads with style. Having conducted 15 years of research she understands the components of achieving leadership success. Dr. Donna has the ability to transform people and organizations. Her realistic approach in every situation is different than most. By using The Colorful Leadership Principles she has developed, now the everyday leader can become extraordinary.

Dr. Donna was born and raised in Detroit Michigan. Dr. Donna attended Detroit Public Schools and was awarded a ROTC scholarship to attend college. After Graduating from College, Dr. Donna served in the U.S. Army as a Military Police Officer. Additionally Dr. Donna spent 9 years in Corporate America working for Frito-Lay. This work experience translates into one word, Success.

Her vision is: “From the PTA to the Boardroom anyone can lead! Because Leaders are made not born!”

Got a question you want answered? Are you stuck in the middle of an accomplishment & need some advice to break thru to the next level?

Every Friday we’ll offer a chance to call in to Accomplish Radio and share what you’re working on and what you need the most to help you progress and achieve your goals.

Darlene Willman has been a business owner for over 7 years and has overcome a variety of challenges along with learning some valuable life lessons. She has successfully developed several companies and achieved unbelievable results.

She has mentored and coached hundreds of people from Start Ups to CEO’s. Experienced nearly every aspect of business and can offer assistance to anyone needing advice or suggestions.

Call in to the show (347) 989-8320 and let’s see if we can help you accomplish your goals. Share your accomplishments too!

About Your Host:

Darlene Willman is dedicated to supporting small businesses by sharing resources, connections, education and services nationwide. Founder of the U.S. Small Business Conference & ACCOMPLISH Magazine & Radio Show. Published 100+ articles on networking, referrals, productivity, motivation, inspiration and many other business best practices. Contributing author in the NEW book, “Incredible Business” & acknowledged by the U.S. Small Business Administration as “Women in Business Champion of the Year.” Nominated for Dove Awards for Women Leadership & Most Influential Business Women in St. Louis. Keynote speaker, consultant & mentor with appearances in a variety of newspaper editorials, articles and magazines, including interviews on radio, TV, teleseminars and featured in a few books. Writer for the St. Louis & Dallas Small Business Examiner offering advice and opinions relating to a variety of business topics. Darlene has a well-established, worldwide professional network. Connect on LinkedIn, Twitter & Facebook or USmallBusinessConference.com

Idora Caldwell is an award-winning Creative Director, Author, Speaker, Instructor, and Graphic

Designer who is continuously taking graphic design to a whole new level by instinctively infusing marketing strategies into her cutting-edge designs. Because of her eclectic experience and educational background, she approaches graphic design and marketing with a more introspective and encompassing eye that many graphic designers don’t possess. Ms. Caldwell is Creative Director at Caldwell Creative, a freelance graphic design and marketing company

when she isn’t teaching graphic design at Westwood College. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Mass Communication/Graphic Arts and a Masters of Arts in Journalism. She also has over a decade of graphic design, marketing, radio/TV/film, public relations, copywriting, and

mass communications experience. She has worked in every aspect of mass communication and brings a

well-rounded and introspective approach to graphic design.

• ARTS Award Winner – 2005/2006

• Nominated for Cambridge Who’s Who Who's Who Among Executives, Professionals and

Entrepreneurs

• Creative Director – Caldwell Creative-Marketing & Design

• Instructor/GD Internship Coordinator – Westwood College

• Graphic/Web Designer – Feizy Rugs Inc.

• Staff Writer– BPPG Publishing Group

• Instructor – Philander Smith College/ University of AR at Little Rock (UALR)

• Production Assistant – KARK-TV (NBC) Channel 4 NEWS

Idora Caldwell is also the FOUNDER of MIX IT UP, breaking barriers and building business while promoting diversity and networking. Mix It Up is changing the way true professionals network and conduct business.

Learn more at www.caldwellcreativemd.com

Tonya Hofmann is the CEO and Founder of Your Local City, Inc. She started her company as soon as she realized that there was a huge need to help business with their advertising and promotion needs. She began her company in February 2005 with just an idea of affordable advertisement.

YourLocalCity.com was born but quickly found that there had to be more. So in 2006 she started the first Your Local City networking group. Tonya made an effort to bring together positive professionals who love to help each other. The groups are designed to give a learning experience to help the group members at each meeting with their business or personal growth. Promoting businesses on the website and in person has made a huge impact on so many lives. Learn more at www.YourLocalCity.com

Laura Wells is the President of The Heart Link Network, an international women's networking organization with over 150 chapters in the USA, Canada, and Australia. Laura is also a Relationship Marketing Coach and teaches entrepreneurs how to increase referrals, retain clients, and create better relationships with their friends and family by showing them how to act on their promptings.

Laura has been an entrepreneur and a “connector” for her entire adult life. She began connecting others to success before she even knew what networking was – beginning as a teenager with an organization for Mothers of Preschoolers called MOPS International, where Laura led two chapters in the Las Vegas area.

Laura also had a successful 10-year career in Direct Sales where she built strong teams and developed leaders nationwide. She received multiple awards from two well-known Direct Sales companies for Top Sales, Top Recruiting, and Leadership Excellence. Laura spoke at National Conventions, served as a member of corporate-office focus groups, and led multiple workshops for her colleagues in those companies in order to help THEM grow their business as well by teaching them Laura’s best business practices.

In addition to coaching others to achieve success as president of The Heart Link Network and as a relationship marketing coach, Laura is also a Girl Scout Troop Leader and volunteers her time for various organizations. She and Dawn Billings, CEO and Founder of The Heart Link Network work together on the Heart Link Network women’s networking blog and in January, will be launching Heart Link Radio here on BlogTalk Radio!

Laura has a special passion for making business connections happen within her community AND beyond. She has a unique talent for helping business owners and entrepreneurs “flip the switch” on their marketing strategy by teaching them how to present their business by being their best product.

Kym Glass spent over 20 years in the telecommunications in the areas of customer service, project and process management, office management, human resources and organizational development. Kym has always been the "Go-To-Girl" responding to over 3500 employees' needs.

She offers her diverse experience to create innovative, high energy, speaking engagements, workshops and trainings for small business owners and corporations. Kym's passion and expertise reside in the areas of sales, marketing, customer service and networking. She has a strong desire to educate business owners and provide them with the resources, tools and support to grow their business to exceed their goals. It is Kym's philosophy, "that it's not WHO you know, but more importantly HOW you treat who you know." Learn more at www.KymGlass.com