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The federal government spends over $600 BILLION every year on goods and services. 23% of those purchases are set aside for small businesses!

PTAC can help determine if the government buys what you have to offer then guide you through the federal procurement process. PTAC is funded by the Department of Defense to provide FREE government contracting assistance to small businesses.

Jane Stewart has been with the PTAC program for 22 years and is a Level 3 Certified Procurement Professional through the Association of Procurement Technical Assistance Centers.

Geza shares his meteoric career trajectory as he went from Jewelry Designer to Architect to Art Director of Hollywood film and tv shows within the span of 20 years. Geza has worked on films such as Judas and the Black Messiah, Dark Waters, White Boy Rick and many others. He’s even been bowling with Matthew McConaughey and considers Martin Sheen perhaps the nicest guy he’s ever met.

Geza attributes his continuous ascent to a diligent work ethic and the building and nurturing of important relationships.

Why is your online brand so important?

Barry Edwards, owner and creative director of Edwards Communications, has been building brands online since 1996. He specializes in establishing brands that get found online and that convert prospects into customers without spending more money than necessary on online ads.

Barry utilizes UX (User Experience) design and refined Content Marketing to get small business in front of their best target audience and generate leads from these prospects. He's also sharing his FREE eBook with our listeners, "Building Your Best Brand".

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How can you expand your market beyond the USA?

Nate Ward runs the Ohio Export Assistance Network serving the greater Cleveland-Akron area. He tackles these important questions:

Ohio Export Assistance Network has helped hundreds of Ohio companies grow their export sales by nearly $100m over the past ten years, growing business on every continent except Antarctica. Nate and his team, housed at Cleveland State University, manages the longest running export accelerator in the country, one of four export internship host sites, and occasionally lead Ohio trade missions to various foreign markets.

Break out of "Survival Mode" and transform into your best self.

Kurt Treu, The Growth Coach, explains the universal limitation and how to break free from it. Kurt also answers these profound questions:

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Doug Moseley is a lawyer with the University of Akron Law School's SEED Legal Clinic, The SEED Legal Clinic provides very low cost legal services for entrepreneurs. It's mission is to enrich their senior level law school students by giving them experience dealing with real client matters under the supervision of staff attorneys, while exclusively serving new businesses that can't afford an attorney.

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Rick Coleman is an author, entrepreneur and owner of Jackpot Chicken Food Truck – a Best of Cleveland finisher since 2016. He is also the author of, "So You Want to Be a Food Trucker" to help other entrepreneurs help launch successful food truck businesses.

Rick also mentors young aspiring entrepreneurs.

Rick Coleman, Jackpot Chicken, Facebook: facebook.com/jackpotchickenfoodtruck

Join us as Nadine Nocero-Tye discusses how to get your business found on Google by your target audience.

Nadine Nocero-Tye has been helping companies turn 'arts and craft' style marketing into revenue-driving investments for the last 10 years. As a partner at SyncShow, a digital marketing agency that achieves 95% of their clients' pipeline goals. Nadine shares secrets of how SyncShow helps their clients generate more traffic and conversions via brand awareness and lead generation techniques.

Nancy Valent - Creative Rainmaker for NMV Strategies is an expert in branding, crisis communications and public relations. Nancy has created a proprietary way of creating elevator pitches that strengthen your brand while delivering your unique propositions.

Nancy has held executive positions for Fortune 500 companies and was Chief Marketing Officer for a premier international franchise where she developed a strategic marketing initiative that enabled franchisees to achieve image awareness, sales growth and dominance throughout the USA and Canada.

Nancy has trained more than 500 executives and small business owners in proactive media awareness and crisis procedures utilizing her background in media relations.

Bob Goricki helps businesses get found online by their target audience through Google, social media and other digital channels.

Bob has worked at marketing agencies since 2005, joined regional CPA and business advisory firm Skoda Minotti in 2006 as part of an internal marketing department of three people. The goal was to eventually provide marketing services not just to the firm, but to clients of the firm as well, which was achieved within three years.

Over the next few years, the team added a business advisory offering that complemented Skoda's other non-CPA services  such as information technology, staffing and wealth management.

In December of 2019, Skoda Minotti was acquired by Marcum LLP and the team became Marcum Strategic Marketing. And as of November 1, 2021, became Strategic 7 Marketing. Their focus is on results-driven marketing processes that increase brand recognition, build customer loyalty and drive leads and sales.