Enterprise Podcast Network

Community Solutions Strategist and Professional Speaker Desley Cowley again joins Enterprise Radio. Her online business, Spruiker Hire, is an innovative and unique national talent directory designed specifically to help retailers and shopping centres find quality short term retail talent.

This episode of Enterprise Radio is in association with eAustralia, our Australian entrepreneurs & business owners.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Desley Cowley discuss the following:

* What can our listeners do to make their star shine brighter than  others who may be chasing the same dream?

* What tips would you give to SME’s..and any job seeker for that matter to help them get that interview?

* So, now, the applicant has won the interview, what interview tips can you share to help them through this experience which, for some, can be quite stressful?

* Where can our listeners find out more about mastering their resume writing job interview skills?

* SME’s understand ‘return on investment’ or ROI more than most.  What are your thoughts on choosing to go back to work for an SME in terms of their ROI?

Desley Cowley is a transformational whole of community solutions strategist, retail leasing and marketing advisor, speaker, trainer and facilitator who specialises in strengthening connections between retailers and their communities through development of strong strategic partnerships.

As founding business owner of Spruiker Hire, a national online retail training and talent directory, Desley Cowley has developed an innovative and unique online product that is designed to make it easier for the retail industry to source and train quality short term retail talent.

A property investor herself, she holds a current Queensland Real Estate Agents’ licence, has been managing shopping centres since 1988 and contributed to the success of more than 400 retailers in 3 states.

Desley provides innovative, whole of community focused, alternative solutions, help and advice on retail lease negotiation, retail marketing and business planning and starting an online business.

She is currently working with Rockhampton’s Dreamtime Cultural Centre on The Dreamtime 30 Year Anniversary Project that will establish a pathway for the centres next exciting 30 years.

She has previously worked with successful indigenous not for profit and for profit organisations in Bundaberg, Rockhampton and Alice Springs and is interested in partnership projects that provide meaningful indigenous outcomes to benefit all Australians through cultural engagement and awareness.

Website: www.spruikerhire.com

Social Media Links:

Facebook: facebook.com/SpruikerHire

Twitter: @SpruikerHire

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Matt Seigel, CEO and Executive Producer of Envision Festival a four-day celebration that brings together a community of people from across the globe joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Matt Seigel discuss the following:

* Please explain to our listeners a little bit about your background and how Envision got its start.

* How has Envision developed over the past 6 years?

* What is the role of community within the festival and how has that role evolved?

* Do you have any advice for people who may want to make their own visions become realities?

* What does the future of Envision look like to you?

Matt’s educational journey began with a BS in Finance and minor in East Asian Religions at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. After college, he spent 2 years in the NYC financial world as a corporate consultant, while simultaneously attending, volunteering or working as many festivals and events as time allowed. When the 2008 financial crisis liberated him from the corporate machine, Matt picked up and moved to Colorado to fulfill a lifelong dream of teaching ski lessons at Vail Ski Resort.

In 2011, while consistently knee deep in the powdery aspen groves of a record snowfall season, Matt co-founded and produced the first Envision Festival ~ Costa Rica.  In the 6 years since its establishment, Matt has been a driving force behind Envision’s growth, artistic direction and leading edge user experience design. In that time, he has also co-produced, consulted for and fulfilled an assortment of core staff position for many events across the United States. Matt currently resides in and around Dominical, Costa Rica immersed by plants, animals and energy of the rainforest. He is a vegan, an aspiring herbalist and is always focused on ways to strengthen and build the community he loves so dearly.

Website: www.envisionfestival.com

Social Media Links:

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

Twitter: @EnvisionFestCR

Santosh Jayaram, Co-Founder and VP of Business Development at Table8, an app and web-based dining resource that provides users a new way to find and book their ideal restaurant reservation and discover new food and drink experiences joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Santosh Jayaram discuss the following:

* Can you tell us a bit more about your background and how the idea of Table8 came about?

* Table8 is an app and web-based dining resource providing users a new way to find and book their ideal restaurant reservation and discover new food and drink experiences. How does it work?

* How has Table8 evolved over the past couple years?

* What’s the “Dining Club Membership” and why should one join?

* How does Table8 help business travelers?

* What cities is Table8 active in? Is the app available on both iPhone and Android?

Santosh Jayaram, VP Business Development and Co-Founder – Santosh Jayaram is a co-founder and VP of Business Development at Table8. Previously, Santosh was the VP of Business Operations at Twitter, Inc., where he led strategy and global business operations through periods of sustained and explosive growth at the company. Prior to Twitter, Santosh managed the Search Quality Operations team at Google, helping advance the overall quality and relevance of Google’s search products. A veritable foodie, and amateur Instagram food photographer, Santosh founded Table8 so that lack of planning would never again get in the way of a great meal.

Website: www.table8.com

Social Media Links:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/Table8dining

Twitter: @Table8

Instagram: @Table8dining

Ryan Shapiro, the founder of Fynd, a company dedicated to personal tracking & offering the the first instantaneous personal tracking products joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Ryan Shapiro discuss the following:

* What is FYND’S business goal & mission?

* Why are current tracking devices not reliable?

* How will 4G tracking change consumer behavior?

* What is the benefit for consumers?

* What can we expect in the future from FYND?

Ryan Shapiro is the founder of Fynd, a company dedicated to delivering on the promise of the personal tracking category. Fynd is Ryan’s latest entrepreneurial endeavor, having previously founded JPay, which set a new standard across the U.S. corrections industry for electronic payments, email, entertainment, and educational services. After JPay’s successful acquisition in 2015, Ryan turned his attention to disrupting the consumer tracking device market, launching the industry’s first 4G LTE real-time tracker. Ryan holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Colorado Boulder.


Fynd Technologies is a Florida-based technology company creating the first instantaneous personal tracking products using the most current technologies, in the smallest form factor on the market. On a mission to finally deliver on the promise of the personal tracking category, Fynd has unveiled its flagship product, the first 4G LTE tracking device to instantly locate people and pets. Fynd anything in the world and get started today at www.fyndeverything.com.

 

Website: www.fyndeverything.com

Fynd Social Media:

Twitter: @fyndeverything

Facebook: facebook.com/fyndeverything

Instagram: @fyndeverything

The highly-acclaimed musical duo Suzanne Veronica and Michael Passaro joins the eMusician Podcast Show to discuss how to successfully navigate your music career on your own.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guests Suzanne Veronica and Michael Passaro discuss the following:

* How did you two meet and get started in the business?

* How long have you been performing?

* What are your biggest triumphs?

* The two of you have enjoyed a successful career without managers, booking agents or promoters— can you explain how you do this for our listeners who may be thinking about going the same route?

* What is the biggest lesson you’ve learned in doing the “work” yourself?

“I believe always, that everything happens for a reason.” – Suzanne Veronica

As classic as a “girl meets boy” tale in the movies, Suzanne Veronica and Michael Passaro literally bumped into each other on a street corner one hot afternoon in South Philadelphia. After discussing music, exchanging cards and a few phone calls later, the start of something amazing was happening – the birth of the Suzanne Veronica & Michael Passaro duo.

That was in 1997. Now, nearly 20 years later, the twosome has released seven albums independently, performed at some of the most acclaimed venues in and around Philadelphia and even had A-list artists perform on their latest album 7 Tales Of Wonder, including Fran Smith, Jr. and David Uosikkinen from The Hooters. It is a CD that they agree is their best work to date.

“Suzanne and I really took a different direction with our latest album”, said Passaro. “With Steve Butler helping to produce it and Fran and Dave performing with us, it just has this raw energy that exudes from each of the artists.”

Veronica believes strongly in emitting energy from her music and hopes that fans feel the emotion that she and Passaro put into every song they record.

“Our songs are written based upon our moods”, Veronica explains. “I don’t set out to write a sad song or a more upbeat song. I just write what I feel and thanks to Mike’s musical input, it always translates into exactly how I felt at that moment.”

While the duo has been hard at work releasing albums over the years, their stage show is where they really shine. Describing their sound as “eclectic with a rock and pop style”, Veronica admits that they both influence the music greatly.

“Mike was more into the harder rock influence but our common passion has molded into a collaboration that was a creation entirely original,” said Veronica.

A chance meeting that led to a lifetime of music, success and, most importantly, friendship for nearly 20 years? It almost seems impossible in this industry. But as Bob Dylan once said all it takes is “A Simple Twist of Fate.”

Website: www.suzanneveronica.com

Social Media Links:

Facebook: facebook.com/suzannesveronica

Twitter: @suzanneVeronica

YouTube: Suzanne Veronica Music

 

Jared Bauer, MBA, the Co-founder and CEO of Apollo DX joins Enterprise Radio. Apollo DX’s Mobile Diagnostic Platform provides laboratory-quality test results in 10 minutes or less, expediting diagnosis and treatment for patients.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Jared Bauer discuss the following:

* What is Apollo Dx and what does the company do?

* How did you (personally) get into the healthcare industry?

* As CEO, how do you identify an area prime for innovation?

* How are the innovations Apollo Dx provides changing or improving the healthcare industry?

* Why do you think innovation is so important to the healthcare industry?

Jared Bauer, MBA is the co-founder and CEO of Apollo Dx. Apollo DX’s Mobile Diagnostic Platform provides laboratory-quality test results in 10 minutes or less, expediting diagnosis and treatment for patients. Learn More ApolloDx’s Mobile Diagnostic Platform utilizes the users’ smart device to provide qualitative and quantitative results at the point of care.

The company’s technology allows medical professionals to obtain results more quickly and get into a treatment plan quicker which is hugely beneficial to patients. In addition to faster treatment plans, the quicker diagnostic also improves the mental stability of patients by allowing them to know what the problem is and adjust and set expectations accordingly. Today, under Bauer’s leadership the company is thriving and helping change lives.

Bauer is a turnaround specialist. In this role he often has the toughest, most pressure packed job; come into a failing business with high hopes of a turnaround but in reality very little resources for doing so, create a vision that will carry the company to success, execute on the vision and then if successful, be acquired by a competitor and ultimately be replaced.

Prior to Apollo Dx, Bauer founded Exuro Medical to bring medical products to the marketplace that focus on improving patient outcomes. In 2012 Exuro acquired BurnFree Products, at the time BurnFree was insolvent, riddled with legal issues, and had not shipped product in nearly six months. In just two years, Jared led the Exuro team to expand BurnFree distribution to 58 countries, managing regulatory, re-working quality systems, and making BurnFree the second largest burn treatment product line in the world.

Bauer is the trustee of the Oliver Fund, a non-profit he founded to help improve the quality of lives for children around the world.

Bauer received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah and his Masters’s Degree from Boise State University. While earning his Master’s Degree, he co-founded and led the Idaho Business Council, a pioneering, non- partisan collaboration between the state’s business community and all of its research universities to promote Idaho-based research and economic development.

Website: www.ApolloDx.com

Social Media Links:

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

Twitter: @apollodxintl

Jim Berlin, Founder & CEO at Logistics Plus Incorporated that has become a leading worldwide provider of transportation, logistics and supply chain solutions joins Enterprise Radio to discuss their 20 years of success.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Jim Berlin discuss the following:

* What gave you the inspiration or motivation to start your own business back in 1996?

* What hard lessons did you learn along the way?

* How have you been able to sustain and build upon your successes over the years?

* What’s different, if anything, in terms of how your run your business today versus 20 years ago?

* What new things are happening with your business that excite you for the year’s to come?

* What advice would you give to new entrepreneurs just getting started with their own businesses that might hope to enjoy 20 years of their own successes?

After a 20 year career in the less-than-truckload (LTL) industry, the majority of that time spent at TNT/USF Red Star, Jim founded Logistics Plus in 1996 with only three employees, one customer and $120,000 in annual revenue. Though he is a New York City native, since relocating to Erie, Jim has invested in the Erie community’s economic development with renovations of an 80-year-old former train station as the company’s global headquarters, and the company actively participates in a number of civic initiatives.

In addition to many company awards, Jim has been honored as a “Most Admired CEO” by the Manufacturer and Business Association (MBA) and Ernst & Young (EY) recognized Jim as Western Pennsylvania’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2004. In 2005 he was named to the lifelong EY Entrepreneur of the Year World Hall of Fame. In addition to his company and community activities, Jim is also a member of the Business Advisory Council for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

Website: www.logisticsplus.net

Social Media Links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Logistics.Plus

Twitter: @LogisticsPlus

Dan Neiweem, Principal and Co-Founder at Avionos a born-digital consultancy focused on the connected customer and the companies who need to create engaging, constantly evolving connections with them joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Dan Neiweem discuss the following:

* For the benefit of our listeners, please give us a summary or some background information about Avionos.

* With regard to technology and the food industry, namely your case study with Bare Naked Granola, how is Avionos at the forefront of this issue?

* What are some of the competitive advantages that Avionos enjoys?

* What is your long-term vision for Avionos?

* What else would you like listeners to know about Avionos?

Dan Neiweem is an Avionos Principal and Co-Founder, with primary responsibilities including Business Development, Partner Alliances and Delivery Management.

Dan leverages over 15 years of experience in running large IT/business strategy, mobile, ecommerce, portal, user experience, digital marketing and IT operations projects for large companies and leading brands. An expert in connected spaces and the Internet of Things, Dan has led solution development for industries including automotive, professional services, retail, manufacturing, healthcare/life sciences, non-for-profit associations, insurance, REITs, banking/finance, education, entertainment and transportation.

Website: www.avionos.com

Social Media Links:

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

Twitter: @avionosllc

A.J. MacQuarrie, Founder and CEO of KarmaBox, a San Diego-based company whose Internet-connected vending machines sell healthy snacks, drinks and care products joins Enterprise Radio to share his entrepreneurial journey.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest A.J. MacQuarrie discuss the following:

* Tell the story of your path to success. It wasn’t a simple or straightforward one but once you got to the right spot, things really took off.

* Explain what KarmaBox is. You’re also careful to say it’s built on a business-opportunity model rather than the very similar franchise model. What makes it unique and how do you make money from these partnerships with local entrepreneurs?

* What were three keys to your success, three things you started doing that have helped bring KarmaBox to its current level of growth and expansion?

* You’re a very young entrepreneur, a Millennial. We always hear complaints by executives at older, big companies that Millennials are very different employees and sometimes cause problems for the established ways that companies work. But you have argued that the traits some big companies’ executives don’t like in Millennials are exactly the traits that can make Millennials great entrepreneurs. What are some of those traits and why do they do work so well in a startup world?

* You’re also a board member of GSDBA (Greater San Diego Business Association), the second largest LGBT business chamber of commerce in the country. What attracted you to get involved with that group? And do you think LGBT entrepreneurs face particular challenges getting businesses up and going?

* You’re working on a book. What’s it about and why are you writing it?

* Do you have a tip or tool for entrepreneurs to help them be more successful?

Not everyone can turn a $20,000 investment into a $1 million business, never mind do it in just one year. That overnight success, of course, took years of work for A.J. MacQuarrie, the 28-year-old founder and CEO of KarmaBox, a fast-growing network of Internet-connected smart vending machines serving healthy snacks and drinks in dozens of U.S. cities.

For MacQuarrie, building businesses has been a passion since childhood.

At 10, he sold family videotapes, Flintstones toys and his sister’s makeup out of their family’s Stoughton, Mass., basement. At 12, he sold subscriptions door-to-door for a neighborhood newsletter he edited. At 17, he started his own community theater company, bringing together performers and backstage talent in a historic 900-seat theater and later the renowned Boston Center for the Arts.

When it was time for college, of course he set off for business school, at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia.

His junior year, entrepreneurial inspiration struck again. He’d already shed his Freshman 15 pounds with better diet and more exercise, but was routinely frustrated in his search for always-available healthy snacks to feed his metabolism. Campus vending machines featured the usual suspects: candy bars, potato chips, soda, but nothing fit his healthy lifestyle.

So A.J. dreamed up what eventually became KarmaBox, a line of environmentally friendly, Internet-connected vending machines serving up healthy snacks.

KarmaBox is now one of the world’s first healthy vending brands. And it comes with a forward-thinking business model, called Karmatunity, that helps other entrepreneurs take part as well, As a result, KarmaBox is the one of the nation’s fastest-growing businesses of its kind.

Back then, MacQuarrie sought a small-business loan from the Canadian government, knowing he needed a solid business plan to get it.

Mr. Jonathan Citrin who is a speaker, author, and financial advisor for over fifteen years again joins Enterprise Radio to discuss improved forecasting for business success & learning from the 2016 Presidential Election.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Jonathan Citrin discuss the following:

* Entrepreneurs and businesses rely on forecasts. And with the upcoming presidential inauguration, it seems fitting to ask if there is opportunity to become better at forecasting by analyzing the 2016 presidential election, the far-off predictions, and therein the unexpected results?

* As we dig into prediction and forecasting, can you take a step back and discuss why we predict in the first place? That is, if there is a possibility of being wrong, why do we forecast at all?

* To analyze the presidential election a bit more, plainly, why were so many polls so wrong with their predictions?

* What about those that predicted the election accurately – who foresaw a Trump victory? What was it about their modeling that proved successful?

* For entrepreneurs and businesses, what is the major take-away from the election insofar as best practices in forecasting?

Jonathan Citrin has been a public speaker since 2004 and has traveled the world giving lectures and presentations to audiences that include multinational conferences, business professionals, students, and private groups. He has spoken to assemblies in locations ranging from Montreal to Amsterdam to Los Angeles and New York City. As an author, Citrin’s writing has appeared in traditional media such as Entrepreneur Magazine and The Wall Street Journal, and in academic publications such as Journal of Indexes and Encyclopedia of Modern Money Management. Additionally, on topics ranging from decision making and the human condition to current events and policy, Citrin regularly contributes comment and analysis for leading media outlets including U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, and CNBC.

Citrin has been a financial advisor for over fifteen years. He began his career managing investment accounts at Morgan Stanley and in 2003 founded his own financial advisory practice currently based in Metropolitan Detroit. Citrin also possesses significant experience as an educator, most recently for seven years as Adjunct Faculty of Finance at Wayne State University’s School of Business.

The underlying theme that runs through all of Citrin’s professional efforts is his belief that cultivating an authentic and deep understanding of the way our brains work and therein the role of emotion and bias in our decision making process is the key to critical progress in business and life.

Website: www.jonathancitrin.com

Social Media Links:

Facebook: facebook.com/jonathancitrin

Twitter: @JonathanCitrin