Enterprise Podcast Network

Stacy Swift, Owner and multi-unit Franchisee with FranNet, an international franchise brokerage and consulting group that can best be described as the “franchise matchmakers” again joins Enterprise Radio. FranNet helps match those looking to buy a franchise with the best franchise options for them, based on skills, goals, interests, and financial capabilities.

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Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Stacy Swift discuss the following:

* What exactly is a franchise? And how is it different than other businesses?

* Who buys a franchise?  Is there a certain type of person who has the best chance for success?

* Would you say that the franchise industry is strong currently?

* How much does it cost to own a franchise on average or with your best estimate?

* What are some of the most popular franchises right now?

Stacy Swift has over 27 years of small business ownership, management, sales, and marketing experience. She has also owned several franchised businesses, in addition to her current FranNet offices.

Stacy opened her first FranNet franchise in Denver in 1996 covering Colorado, Wyoming, & Montana. FranNet Mountain West now includes additional Associates and offices in Las Vegas, Reno, and Salt Lake City. In addition, Stacy serves on the FranNet Board of Directors and is the Chairperson of the FranNet Franchisee Advisory Council.

Stacy conducts free franchise information and business ownership seminars throughout the region; these are conducted in partnership with career transition firms, the SBA, Small Business Development Centers, and regional libraries.

Outside of her work in the franchise industry, Stacy is a long-time volunteer with Denver Kids, Inc. – a mentoring group for at-risk kids; she also served on their Board of Directors for nine years.

Website: www.frannet.com/sswift

Social Media Links:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/frannetcolorado

Twitter: @frannetcolorado

Rosalie Hou, CEO of Elix Wireless Charging Systems that is committed to producing the most unique wireless charging systems in the world joins Enterprise Radio.

ELIX Wireless Charging Systems is known for their innovative work in the wireless space. They are growing to expand into a wider range of applications and markets such as full-scale EV charging, auxiliary battery charging, industrial charging, undersea charging, and medical charging. Named as one of British Columbia’s top 25 most innovative companies in 2014 and with a global portfolio of investors and partners, ELIX has an international team drawing from a range of science and technology fields, committed to producing the most unique wireless charging systems in the world.

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Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Rosalie Hou discuss the following:

* Tell us about ELIX Wireless Charging systems.

* Who can best benefit from your products?

* What are some of the important features that competitors may not have?

* Recently you teamed up with the Zongshen Group. Why Zongshen and tell us about the overall benefit of the partnership?

* Who are some of your other partners in the industry?

* ELIX is one of the safest technologies for public and medical charging. Explain.

* From an overall investment standpoint, you just raised series A funding. What will the investment be used to develop.

* What is your advice to entrepreneurs who are looking to brand a successful product or looking for strategic collaboration partners? Any lessons learned?

Rosalie Hou is the CEO at ELIX Wireless Charging Systems. Ms. Hou has a broad knowledge as a business leader in automation control area. Her success is based on her strong leadership skills in the management of direct reports, customers and third parties. Her communication capabilities supported the active relationship management of cross BU and cross function team.  Her strength is the ability to build up new business out of challenging situations and bring business ideas from the creation to the implementation.

Previously, she was a sales leader and managed a 300 million dollar business with Emerson Process Management China Co Ltd, she also was a business leader for Rosemount Analytical China group at Emerson Process achieving a 12 percent growth in 10 years. She has a Bachelor of Electronic Engineering from Shanghai University of Electronic Engineering. She also is fluent in Mandarin and English.

Website: www.elixwireless.com

Australia’s wealthiest and most successful property investors Kevin Young, the founder of Property Club joins Enterprise Radio to talk about growing a business based on helping others. For over 20 years, he has used his knowledge to help people create wealth from property investing.

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Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Kevin Young discuss the following:

* How did you get started in property?

* When did this become your business and why?

* How hard is it for someone to do what you have done – what do they need to know?

* What are three things people need to know before starting an investment portfolio?

* What are your goals for Property Club?

Kevin Young’s story is not your typical rags to riches story, although he does admit that growing up poor was a powerful motivator for success. His investment journey spans more than 50 years, having tried and tested every possible strategy imaginable.

Success at an early age did not prevent Kevin from making mistakes, but he now confesses that he’s pretty much worked out all the pitfalls in property investing.

Kevin and his wife, Kathy, are now consistently ranked in Queensland’s top 100 Rich List with a portfolio of investment properties approaching 200. Kevin can rightly claim the title of Australia’s largest individual residential property owner.

His ambition is to help everyday people avoid a life of poverty on the pension. By helping them create ongoing wealth through property investment, he is a strong believer in the old maxim: give a man a fish and he eats for a day, but teach a man to fish he’ll eat for a lifetime.

With this philosophy firmly entrenched, Kevin Young is a pioneer for property investors, a crusader for every Aussie taxpayer to get ahead by using the banks and the tax laws to their advantage.

Website: www.propertyclub.com.au

Social Media Links:

Facebook: facebook.com/PropertyClubAus

Twitter: @PropertyClub

Irena Bee who’s known as the message and media magician joins Enterprise Radio to share secrets of getting media attention without anything newsy to say! For over 25 years Irena has worked with CEOs, large non-profits and charities, big companies like banks and on national social health and environmental campaigns to bring the right message to the right media that turns your message into a megaphone.

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Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Irena Bee discuss the following:

* Why did you launch Communications Coach ME?

* Could you briefly explain your system?

* If there was one thing you wanted listeners, entrepreneurs to hear right now about media, what is it?

* What can getting your business or brand into media mean for you?

* Media was important when we had traditional media models like papers, TV news and radio. Is media still important today? We’ve got social media now?

* What do people need to get started? What if people don’t have ‘news’?

* What is ‘media’, what isn’t media?

* What holds people back from giving media a go?

Irena Bee has been featured in countless newspaper articles, television chat shows and radio programs, most often representing other people’s brands. For over 25 years Irena has worked as PR, media and communications advisor and strategist. She has run national and local campaigns that have impacted the outcomes of elections and policies, human behaviour and our health and wellbeing knowledge.

She has university degrees in Journalism, Adult Training, Radio and a Masters in Communications. Over the years working at the C-suite level for corporates, governments, qangos and nonprofits she built a personal contacts book over 3,000.

Irena started at the end of typewriters and the start of the internet. In these 25 years the barriers to media and the number of outlets have grown exponentially meaning anyone with the tools and practice can become their own PR guru.

In 2010 Irena launched her first online business where she realised that in the modern economy small business now had the same access to media as only ‘insiders’ like her once had. She also figured out how to promote yourself without being sleasy or cheesy.

In 2008 Irena hung out her shingle for clients from government bodies, industrial technologies, education, the arts, community, environment and large consulting firms.

In 2016 she has turned her bespoke expertise and created a transparent system anyone can follow to get the same, if not more, success, recognition, authority, customers and cultural change.

Website: www.communicationscoach.me

Dr. Pamela Noel, CEO of HELMT, which is a corporation in place to provide better access to healthcare to the poor in rural areas of Haiti using telemedicine and mobile clinics joins Enterprise Radio to discuss her vision.

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Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Dr. Pamela Noel discuss the following:

* Why was HELMT, Inc created?

* What do you hope to accomplish here and what are the main goals?

* You have mentioned that you are looking to launch in a couple of months, what needs to happen, is it financially or other details/specifics that need to take place to ensure that the launch happens as scheduled?

* What are you currently working on now and for the future?

* Why do you think that the Tampa community can help to offset the project, I understand that you are getting support from the Tampa community.

* Pamela Noel, MD, Graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology in 2003.

* Graduated University Of Miami Miller School Of Medicine 2008

* Internal Medicine residency at Johns Hopkins University/Sinai Hospital in Baltimore 2011.

* Fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at the University of South Florida 2013.

* Graduate certificate in Infection Control in 2013 at the University of South Florida.

* Tentative graduate in Master of Public Health degree in Public Health Practice at the University of South Florida December 2016.

* Board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

* Practices infectious disease in Tampa.

Dr. Noel has participated in several medical mission trips to Haiti during her medical training. She has special interest in global health medicine and providing care to the poor. She is CEO and Founder of HELMT, Inc., which specializes in providing telemedicine and mobile clinic services to the poor in rural areas of Haiti.

Website: gofundme.com/HaitiMobileHealth

Contact: [email protected]

HNTB Corporation’s Bill Brooks, PE, one of the country’s leading aviation experts joins Enterprise Radio who will discuss what airports of the future will provide for travelers, how new technology is influencing future airport design, and his work on the $1.8 billion new terminal at Orlando International Airport.

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Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Bill Brooks discuss the following:

* You’ve been an aviation professional for over 30 years and for over 16 years you have served as the Mayor of the city of Belle Isle in Florida. In addition, you have volunteered as a director to numerous charity boards. Can you tell us about some of your career highlights and your public and community service?

* What emerging trends do you foresee in aviation that are going to be most critical over the coming decade?

* What innovations are being implemented at airports and particularly in terminals that will make the traveler experience more efficient and enjoyable?

* What are some of the top features airport travelers really want to see airports adopt?

* How is new technology influencing the future design of airport terminals? How can airports keep pace with changes in new and emerging technologies?

* What are some key initiatives that Orlando International Airport is undertaking that will further improve and enhance the customer experience?

Bill Brooks is aviation leader of HNTB Corporation’s Southeast Division, which comprises seven of the firm’s 30 aviation offices and 50 of its 200 aviation professionals. Serving clients in Charlotte, Baltimore/Washington, Orlando, Tampa, Ft. Lauderdale and Miami, among others, HNTB currently provides services to 19 of the top 25 airports in North America.

With three decades of diverse aviation industry experience in strategic, financial and master planning, engineering design and construction program management, Brooks has been involved in more than $750 million in construction projects across airports in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, and Kentucky as well as internationally in India, Puerto Rico, Bahamas and the Philippines.

Active in community service, Brooks is a member of the national board of directors of the Children’s Tumor Foundation, and is retiring as mayor of the city of Belle Isle, Florida, where he has served for 16 years. Active in the National League of Cities, he is a past member of its board of directors, and past chair of its Transportation Infrastructure Committee (where he first met former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood). He was appointed by former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters to the National Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission’s Blue Ribbon Panel of Transportation Experts; and by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to the 2025 Florida Transportation Plan Steering Committee.

 

Website: www.hntb.com

Social Media Links:

Facebook: facebook.com/HNTBCorp

Twitter: @HNTBCorp

Linkedin: linkedin.com/company/hntb

David Chambat the Founder and CEO of Villa Finder, an innovative platform for consumers to find and book a villa in Asia joins Enterprise Radio to share one lesson he wish he had known before starting up.

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Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest David Chambat discuss the following:

* Can you tell me a bit about yourself and Villa-Finder.com?

* What is the one lesson you wish you had known before starting up?

* What kind of problems did you face because of that lesson? What did you do to overcome the challenges?

* When one goes to the website Villa-Finder.com, tell our listeners what they can expect by visiting the site…outside of the obvious?

* What’s next for Villa-Finder.com?

* If you have to choose one tip for aspiring entrepreneurs, what will it be?

David Chambat is the Founder and CEO of Villa Finder, an innovative platform for consumers to find and book a villa in Asia. Villa Finder a Singapore-based company, owns and operates Villa-Bali.com – featuring more than 500 private villas in Bali and Villa-Phuket.com, Samui-Villa.com, Mauritius-villa.com and SriLanka-Villa.com; the company leads the villa distribution in Asia-Pacific with more than 1,000 villas for rent. Villa Finder is a technology company developing innovative tools for owners to maximize their villa distribution.

Prior to founding Villa Finder, David managed the development of TVtrip.com, an online video platform for hotel marketing, throughout Asia and Pacific. TVtrip.com is now owned by Travelclick a leading hospitality distribution company.

Previously, David held several international positions within Air France-KLM. He started his career in 1995 in Germany before moving to Asia in 1997 where he held roles in Distribution and Marketing in Singapore and in Japan. In 2001 he was back to Europe to manage Air France’s distribution and on-line policy before moving in 2004 to Amsterdam to lead the integration of Air France and KLM as General Manager for the Netherlands.

David holds an MBA from INSEAD (Fontainebleau, Singapore) and a MSc from EDHEC (France).

Websites:

Villa-Finder.com

Villa-Bali.com

Samui-Villa.com

Villa-Phuket.com

Srilanka-Villa.com

Mauritius-Villa.com

Facebook Links:

facebook.com/VillaBalicom

facebook.com/BookwithVillaPhuketcom

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Jeff DeBenedetti, Director of Golf at Las Positas Golf Course in Livermore, California &  PGA Professional and Owner of the DeBenedetti Golf Shop joins Enterprise Radio to discuss building a business with community connections.

Las Positas Golf Course is a thriving golf course and has various programs that draw the community at a time when many golf courses throughout the U.S. are struggling.

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Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Jeff DeBenedetti discuss the following:

* Why is your golf course successful when throughout the U.S. golf courses are closing at a rate of more than 100/year? That is absolutley stunning.

* How important do you think it is for entrepreneurs to connect to their communities and why?

* What are some of the things Las Positas Golf Course is doing in its community and how has it helped your business?

* How has feedback from your customers helped your business to grow?

* What do you think makes your golf course unique?

* What are some of the business challenges you’ve faced and how have you overcome them?

Jeff DeBenedetti is the Director of Golf at Las Positas Golf Course and the owner of the DeBenedetti Golf Shop Inc.  Las Positas is a municipal golf course in the heart of the Livermore Valley wine country.   As the golf industry has changed so has Las Positas. It opened as a 18 hole course in 1967 and is now a 27 hole course as well as a 9 hole FootGolf course, boasting the best greens in Northern California.

Jeff has been integral in the growth of Las Positas while maintaining its integrity and core customer.  The core values of the PGA, integrity, respect, honesty, perseverance, and professionalism are evident in Jeff’s management of Las Positas.

As Jeff says ‘Golf is the only sport in which you call a penalty on yourself’.  Jeff’s core values mirror this as he trains his employees to exceed the customer’s expectations every day. “People come to a golf course to relax, to get away, to have fun, and it is our job to make sure that is accomplished’.

With a $6 million renovation completed 5 years ago, Las Positas upgraded its bunkers and greens while redesigning several holes and building a new 9 hole par 3 course which hosts FootGolf as well. FootGolf is the newest sport where the soccer ball is the golf ball and your foot is the club.  Ninety-five percent of the customers in the first six months of introducing FootGolf had never been to a golf course.  Foot Golf is bringing a new customer to golf courses and introducing them to the game.

In addition, Las Positas’s involvement in the community encompasses all ages. It has the only year-round junior golf program in Northern California catering to juniors from ages 7-17 and representing all abilities. The Junior League is a top performer, and many golfers from Jeff’s Junior golf program have gone on to receive full ride scholarships at college.

In addition, local civic groups frequent the course, and Las Positas hosts a program that teaches golf skills to mentally and developmentally disabled adults.

Las Positas is owned by the City of Livermore and is proud of the growth it has seen over the years.  As golf courses in the area are closing, Las Positas continues to be financially beneficial to the City. Livermore has 3 of the top businesses in the golf indu...

Adam J. Lazarus, Consultant for Pin Mark Strategic Research and Consulting Center, based in Kuwait and spokesman for the new dynamic book, “Trump: Monster Or Hero, Serious Question – Scary Answer” authored by Mr.  Mohammed Alanjari joins Enterprise Radio.

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Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Adam J. Lazarus discuss the following:

* What prompted Mr. Mohammad O. AlAnjari to write this book about Mr. Trump?

* Can you share some of the most crucial information you discovered in your research that are found in this book?

* Mr. AlAnjari states that the book can prove that what Mr. Trump claims to be solutions, are not real solutions at all, as they don’t address any of the real problems facing the nation and the world. What are your insights on this?

* Why do you believe Mr. Trump became the Republican Nominee?

* Do you foresee increasing global tensions with the USA if Mr. Trump wins?

Mohammad O. AlAnjari is a successful manager of multinational brands based in Kuwait. He has been a published writer of many articles in various newspapers in Kuwait since 1995 until present. He is also a public speaker in Kuwait, Europe and South East Asia. He has closely followed anything related to the USA Presidential election and the history of Trump. Adam J. Lazarus is a consultant for the publisher, Pin Mark Research Center.

Website: www.MonsterOrHero.com

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Andres Vallejo, the Founder of Tennis Trunk, a subscription box that sends tennis players a few cans of balls and other essentials for the courts joins eCommerce Radio.

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Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Andres Vallejo discuss the following:

* How did you come up with the name Tennis Trunk?

* How did you come up with concept of Tennis Trunk

* What are some things you would do differently if you started over again?

* What comes in a Tennis Trunk?

* What is your mission with Tennis Trunk?

* Any additional advice that you would have for other entrepreneurs starting their e-commerce store?

I am a Tennis Pro at the Weston Hills Country Club, I have been working there for the past 4 years as a Tennis Pro and Tournament Coordinator. For the past year I have been focusing my attention on TennisTrunk.com but still coach a few players on the side. I was born and raised in Guayaquil Ecuador, and spent my adolescence in Chicago and Tucson before moving to Florida in 2011.

Website: www.TennisTrunk.com

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