Enterprise Podcast Network

Tom Farnell, Founder and Director of Entertainment Nation, a UK-based live entertainment agency that supplies bands, musicians and performers for weddings, parties and corporate events joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Tom Farnell discuss the following:

* Can you tell us a bit about yourself and Entertainment Nation?

* What was your motivation for starting Entertainment Nation?

* Who are your customers?

* How do you find your customers? Word of mouth, marketing efforts ect.

* What are the benefits of booking live entertainment through an agency?

* What’s the most exciting thing about owning a business?

Tom Farnell is the Co-Founder and company Director of UK-based entertainment agency Entertainment Nation. Entertainment Nation supplies bands, musicians and performers for a wide range of events including weddings, parties, charity balls, awards ceremonies, corporate events and Christmas parties.

Tom is an experienced professional musician who, alongside running Entertainment Nation, continues to play drums in an in-demand professional function band. Tom’s extensive experience in the music industry is the foundation of the Entertainment Nation ethos of providing exemplary customer service through knowledge of every aspect of planning entertainment at a live event.

Website: www.entertainment-nation.co.uk

Social Media Links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EntertainmentNation

Twitter: https://twitter.com/EntNationUK

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/entertainmentnationuk

Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/+EntertainmentnationCoUkofficial

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaaHpP5ucBHMIn9w785d5sw

John Oechsle, CEO at Swiftpage, the provider of leading small and midsized business CRM and email marketing software Act! joins Enterprise Radio discussing the 30 year anniversary of Act!

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest John Oechsle discuss the following:

* Can you tell us a little bit about yourself, Act! and the history of the product as we reach the 30 year anniversary of the software’s launch?

* How has the contact management and larger CRM industry overall evolved over the past 30 years?

* What should entrepreneurs and small businesses particularly be looking for in a CRM solution?

* How has Act! been able to continue to evolve and be innovative over the years? What lessons can other small businesses learn from Act! to keep their products and business relevant over the course of multiple years and decades?

* Where do you see both Act! and the overall CRM space moving in the future?

H. John Oechsle joined Swiftpage in July 2012 and currently serves as CEO. John came to Swiftpage with a 30-year track record of building highly profitable and sustainable revenue growth for emerging companies and established global leaders.

Prior to joining Swiftpage, John served as the executive vice president of strategy and product for DigitalGlobe. During his tenure, he was instrumental in shaping the future of the company and driving revenue growth through the launch of a number of very successful product lines. Prior to DigitalGlobe, John was the senior vice president of technology and content as well as chief information officer for IHS Inc. Before that, he was the chief information officer and vice president of information management worldwide for Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, a Johnson & Johnson company, where he was responsible for all technology and e-business. Earlier in his career, John served as the senior vice president and chief technology officer for Land America Financial Group, Inc., and director of global information management for Kellogg Company. John holds a bachelor of arts degree in computer science from Rutgers University and is a graduate of the Tuck Executive Program at the Amos Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College.

John is an advocate for technology and education in Colorado and has been an active contributor and served as 2007 Chairman of the Colorado Technology Association(CTA). John supports OpenWorld Learning, an organization which uses the power of technology and peer teaching to develop leadership and ignite a love of learning among children. John also supports Kidstek, an organization dedicated to making technology accessible to youth. John has been recognized several times for his involvement in the industry. In 2006 and in 2009, John was awarded the Technology Executive of the Year, and the Titan of Technology awards by the CTA. John was also awarded the Bob Newman Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Community by the CTA in 2011.

While not at Swiftpage, John juggles his time being a husband, father and grandfather, and spends the time he has left playing golf, skiing and boating.

Website: www.act.com

Social Media Links:

Facebook: http://act.com/facebook

Twitter: http://act.com/twitter

Corporate Anthropologist Andi Simon, Founder and CEO of Simon Associates Management Consultants and author of On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to take your Business to New Heights joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Andi Simon discuss the following:

* Companies like Microsoft and Intel are hiring corporate anthropologists. In fact, Microsoft is the largest corporate employer of anthropologists in the world. They obviously think understanding and molding corporate culture is a worthwhile investment. Your research and career is dedicated to this field. Why do you think anthropology is important to a company?

* As a follow-up, how can smaller companies (read: not of Microsoft’s size) put these concepts to use.

* What is one of the guiding principles of your work?

* What are you working on now?

* If you were able to give a business owner only one piece of advice, what would it be?

Dr. Andrea (Andi) Simon, a corporate anthropologist, has over 20 years of expertise. She founded SAMC in 2002 to bring the unique perspective of anthropology to businesses and organizations managing change. Using business-focused games and strategic methods and tools, SAMC helps business leaders envision where they need to go next and works with them to develop a map of how to get there, all the while making the change process understandable and their abilities to change effective.

Andi is also the author of On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights. Corporate anthropology is the practice of observing both the customer and the processes of a business critically in order to recognize unmet needs, tap into new markets, and achieve “aha!” moments that can lead to meaningful innovation and growth. In On The Brink, Andi shares seven amazing stories of companies who have achieved meaningful breakthroughs and growth, and actionable techniques to apply corporate anthropology to your business.

Website: www.andisimon.com | www.simonassociates.net

Facebook: facebook.com/SimonAssociatesManagementConsultants

Jill Amy Rosenblatt, the author of the new fiction thriller/suspense series, The Fixer with her second book in the series currently out now is The Fixer: The Killing Kind joins Enterprise Radio.

This episode of Enterprise Radio is working in conjunction with the Author Channel.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Jill Amy Rosenblatt discuss the following:

* When did your love for writing begin?

* How did you choose to write the suspense/ thriller genre?

* What did you enjoy most about writing The Fixer Series?

* Can you share a little about the main charcaters in the book and how you developed them?

* Can you share with our listners how hard is it to maintain a career in fiction writing?

* Are you working on your next book?

Jill Amy Rosenblatt is the author of Project Jennifer and For Better or Worse, both published by Kensington Press. Her first adventure in self-publishing is the new suspense/thriller series, The Fixer. The first book in the series is The Fixer: The Naked Man. The latest is The Fixer: The Killing Kind.

Jill Amy’s first foray into writing was studying screenwriting. After a time, she moved on to novel writing. In between, she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Writing and Literature and her Master’s degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Burlington College.

Since there are other stories out there of professional “fixers,” Jill Amy decided the series would be an origin story. The series addresses the question, How did Katerina Mills find herself in this dangerous line of work?

Jill Amy is currently at work on the third book in the series, The Fixer: The Last Romanov, currently scheduled for release in Winter 2018.

Website: www.jillamyrosenblatt.com

Social Media Links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Jill-Amy-Rosenblatt

Twitter: @jillarosenblatt

Shlomi Gian, industry veteran and CEO of PacketZoom that accelerates mobile performance through its SDK and complimenting leading CDN’s, by removing roadblocks in the mobile last mile of app development joins Enterprise Radio.

This episode of Enterprise Radio is working in conjunction with the Mobile App Channel.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Shlomi Gian discuss the following:

* What does PacketZoom do?

* What are the main challenges for mobile app developers today?

* How does Mobile Expresslane work?

* What kinds of results does Mobile Expresslane result in?

* How does PacketZoom compliment CDN’s?

* Who are PacketZoom’s solutions directed to?

Shlomi Gian serves as PacketZoom Chief Executive Officer since June 2016. Mr. Gian has 20 years of experience in the technology space with 12 of them heavily focused on mobile measurement and performance solutions.

Shlomi joined PacketZoom after spending four years at Akamai where he co-founded the Emerging Mobile Business Unit and served as the Head of Mobile Market Development. Prior to Akamai he was the General Manager of Mobile Solutions at Cotendo before it was acquired by Akamai. Prior to Cotendo he served as the General Manager of Mobile services at Keynote Systems. Prior to Keynote Mr. Gian served as the General Manager of DeviceAnywhere which evangelized the real device based mobile testing and monitoring market and was acquired by Keynote Systems in 2012.

Mr. Gian holds an B.S. degree in Computer Science from Tel Aviv Academic College and MBA degree from the University of San Francisco.

Website: www.packetzoom.com

Danna Olivo, CEO of MarketAtomy LLC joins Enterprise Radio. Known as the “business birthing specialist,” Danna is a growth strategist who works with early stage business owners to ensure they succeed in their new businesses ventures.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Danna Olivo discuss the following:

* As a business growth strategist, what are the top three areas that early stage entrepreneurs encounter that could be detrimental to their success?

* In your new book MarketAtomy: What To Expect When Expecting A Business you talk about the MarketAtomy Concept. Can you tell what this is?

* You talk about sequencing? What exactly does this mean?

* Why would someone who is fairly new to the entrepreneurial landscape choose to come to you over the Small Business Administration or SCORE?

* What is one last nugget you have for anyone out there considering starting their own business or struggling to grow an existing business?

Danna Olivo is a Business Growth Strategist and CEO of MarketAtomy, LLC. Her passion is working with small first stage entrepreneurs to ensure that they start out on the right foot and stay on the path to financial freedom. Known as the Business Birthing Specialist, Danna understands the intricacies involved in starting and running a successful business. Her efforts extend beyond the initial strategic planning process on into the implementation and monitoring phase. As an intricate component ingrained into her client’s business structure, she works diligently to keep her client’s accountable and on track to fulfilling their success goals.

A graduate of the University of Central Florida’s College of Business, Danna holds degrees in both Marketing and Management Information Systems (MIS). She brings more than 35 years of strategic planning experience in business, marketing and business development both nationally and internationally.

Danna is not only a professional business growth strategist but has worked as an International Strategist within the country of Brazil, is a public speaker and #1 Best Selling Author on Amazon with “Success From The Heart.” Her newest book “MarketAtomy: What To Expect When Expecting A Business” is now available.

Website: www.marketatomy.com

Social Media Links:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannaolivo

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketAtomy

David Bateman, the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Officer of AmpliSine Labs, LLC joins Enterprise Radio to talk about AmpliSine’s product SitePro®.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest David Bateman discuss the following:

* Tell us a little about SitePro?

* What type of services does SitePro offer?

* How did you know there was a need for this software in the oil industry?

* How can SitePro help the oil and gas industry?

* What has SitePro done for the industry so far?

David Bateman currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Officer of AmpliSine Labs, LLC.  He also holds a position on the company’s board.  As an executive at AmpliSine Labs, Bateman manages the day-to-day business and financial operations of the company, as well as executes the corporate development strategy.  He came to AmpliSine Labs with private equity experience in the areas of energy, technology and real property.  During his time with AmpliSine Labs, his financial expertise and his company development skills were crucial in launching AmpliSine’s fluid automation software, SitePro.

Bateman began his career as a Sales Engineer for ITT Fluid Technology, where he handled multiple international accounts and almost tripled the businesses international revenue in a short period of time. Bateman holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and M.B.A. from Texas Tech University.

Website: www.sitepro.com

Social Media Links:

Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/amplisinelabs

Twitter Link: @amplisinelabs

Mark Russell, a director at bmicro, a marketing consultancy for micro businesses, based in Liverpool, United Kingdom joins Enterprise Radio. Mark helps micro businesses with branding, content marketing, social media and strategy services for local companies in Liverpool, from sole traders to tech startups.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Mark Russell discuss the following:

* What made you choose to become a consultancy?

* Why have you chosen to focus on micro businesses?

* What are the changes you see for digital marketing in the future for micro businesses?

* What advice would you give to entrepreneurs starting out with marketing?

* Can you tell us about your models and frameworks and how this helps your client’s?

* What are the biggest challenges for an entrepreneur /micro business when it comes to digital marketing?

Summary: Start with purpose and personas, know your audience, then find influencers to get you out in front of create awareness for you, create content to help your brand and engage on their channels, social media, online offline etc.

Mark Russell is a director at bmicro, a marketing consultancy for micro businesses based in Liverpool, UK. bmicro work with a range of companies from sole traders, tech startups and community interest companies. He also runs a Social Media Meetup every month where he invites guest speakers to share their insights on how they use social media.

Website: www.bmicro.co

Social Media Links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bmicromarketing

Twitter: @bmicro_co

Roger Neel, Chief Technology Officer and Founder of Mavenlink a leading cloud-based application for project management and resource planning joins Enterprise Radio to focus on a new study that shines light on the growing services industry and the future of work.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Roger Neel discuss the following:

* Can you start by telling us more about Mavenlink? For our listeners who don’t know, what does Mavenlink do and who is it used by?

* Can you tell us about the State of Services Economy report that Mavenlink recently released and how it all came together?

* In the report, it states that, “78.3% of service leaders state business conditions are changing quickly, and 20% of those stated faster than ever before. Why is this more so in the services industry? What are the key drivers of change in services?

* You also say in the report, “85%  of service businesses are a majority of project-based work; 89% are trending towards more project-based work”, what is the driver here – clients, speed of work, or a need for more transparency in business models? How do you balance non-billable time associated with new business in this scenario?

* 85% of respondents in your survey also stated that in the last 12 months, they have expanded to offer an increasing variety of services. More than ⅔ said its clients asking them to expand in their services offering. Can you comment on the shift from product-driven economy that offer services, to now a services-economy that offers products? How does this complicate services delivery? What’s driving the new client demands?

* Let’s talk about the rise of the services supply chain that you cover off in the report, 96% of those surveyed said they are actively seeking new relationships with on-demand workforce (subcontractors, freelancers, etc) and 36.3% of respondents said they had to turn down work last year because of lack of adequate resources. What does the services supply chain mean to you? How is it different or what analogies are there to the manufacturing supply chain?

* Another data point in the report touches on the role of hyperspecialization. 35% of respondents said the primary driver for working with on-demand workers is access to specialized skills that the full-time/in house team does not have. Let’s talk about hyperspecialization. What does it mean to you? Why are services impacted by this trend?

* Can you tell us why this report matters?

* What is your vision or view of what the future of services looks like?

A software expert with over 12 years in the industry, Roger Neel is an advocate for technology solutions that deliver business value. He brings expertise and best practices insight across industries in the areas of content management, knowledge management, and social networking applications. As CTO, Roger directs the product and engineering decisions of Mavenlink.

An accomplished web app designer, Ruby on Rails engineer, and thought leader in agile software development, Roger has worked with and advised a range of companies: from newly-formed startups to nationally recognized products and brands such as Apple, 3M, and Bank of America. He helped advise new product development and engineering while part of the Sales and Partners team for integrated knowledge management platform InQuira (acquired by Oracle in 2011), where he met fellow Mavenlink co-founders Ray Grainger and Sean Crafts.

Outside of leading the Mavenlink engineering team, Roger dedicates his time to mentoring startup founders and software developers. He is passionate about sharing his insight and advice with others when it comes to navigating the critical cross-section betwee...

Dale Beaumont, Founder & CEO of BRiN and an award-winning technology entrepreneur, international speaker and author of 16 best-selling books joins Enterprise Radio to share 7 easy-to-use techtools to help improve your business.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Dale Beaumont discuss the following:

* Tell us about your background and how you got into business.

* So what is the business that you have today and what does it do?

* Why do more business owners need to embrace technology?

* What are your 7 “must-have” technology tools?

* Can you explain each of the tools and how they work?

* Do you need to be a tech-savvy person in order to use them?

* Now I understand you have one more as a bonus, what is it?

Dale Beaumont is an Award-Winning Technology Entrepreneur, International Speaker & Author of 16 Best-Selling books.

Dale started his first business at 19 and has been building companies ever since. One of those companies is now a multimillion dollar enterprise, which has enabled Dale to become an Investor, Philanthropist, and to step foot in 70 countries.

Dale has been featured in Forbes Magazine, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Gizmodo and GQ, just to name a few.

With a passion to give back, Dale’s goal is to help more than one million entrepreneurs around the world with BRiN, “The World’s First Business Advisor Powered by Artificial Intelligence”.

Available for free as a smartphone App, BRiN is now capable of providing personalised education and human-like support to every entrepreneur on the planet, all at the same time.

Website: http://brin.ai

Social Media Links:

Facebook: https://facebook.com/dalebeaumont | https://www.facebook.com/BRiNdotai

Twitter: @Dale_Beaumont | @brindotai

Linkedin: https://au.linkedin.com/dalebeaumont

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dalejbeaumont | https://www.instagram.com/brin.ai