Talking Business Now

By Kelly Scanlon & C-Suite RadioBusiness Entrepreneurship

Talking Business Now episodes

April 24, 2015 Get a Return on your Marketing Dollars and Find Out What Really Works
Michelle Jacobs and Mat Hertig Co-founders of Alight Analytics join host Kelly Scanlon to talk about your marketing dollars. Find out if you’re making the right marketing investments in your company and why Alight Analytics with its unique ChannelMix marketing platform can provide you with the aggregate information you need to boost sales and build your business.
To find out more about Alight Analytics visit them online at: https://alightanalytics.com/about-alight-analytics-marketing-firm/
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29 min
April 24, 2015 Keeping Your Employees Engaged and Happy on the Job with Leigh Branham
Do you know what the number one reason is employees quit their jobs? How about seven?
Discover what the seven reasons are and what you can do to stop the exodus from your company. Leigh Branham, SPHR and the founder of Keeping the People, Inc. joins host Kelly Scanlon to discuss the employment climate in the current economy. Branham is author of three books including,"The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave: How to Recognize the Subtle Signs and Act Before It’s Too Late". They'll discuss the root causes behind employee disengagement and what you can do as a small business owner to retain your staff. Leigh has been interviewed on National Public Radio, published in The Harvard Business Review, and quoted in Business Week, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, and many others through The Associated Press, as an expert on employee retention.
Keeping the People, Inc. is a talent management consulting firm which helps organizations analyze root causes of turnover and employee disengagement, then develop and implement employer-of-choice strategies.
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29 min
April 17, 2015 How do You Fascinate Others? Hall of Fame Speaker & Author Sally Hogshead
Sally Hogshead: Hall of Fame speaker, best-selling author, and the world’s leading expert on fascination joins host Kelly Scanlon on this week's Smart Companies Radio KC. As a world-class branding expert, Sally has discovered a new way to measure how people perceive your communication. Find out what makes you intensely valuable to others, so the world will see you at your best.
Sally and Kelly will discuss her best-selling book, 'How the World Sees You' which is based on Hoghead's decade of research with hundreds of thousands of participants, including Fortune 500 teams, hundreds of small businesses and over a thousand C-level executives.
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26 min
April 17, 2015 Warm and Fuzzy Feelings Don't Hold Water on ABC's Shark Tank

Entrepreneur Liz Bohannon was hoping at least one shark from the popular television show “Shark Tank” would come forward and help finance her company but at the end of the show it wasn’t the case. Bohannon this week sits down with host Kelly Scanlon on Smart Companies Radio to talk about her company Sseko Designs, how it’s nearing profitability in 2015, is putting young women in Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia through college and is becoming one of the largest employers of women in the region. Find out why Bohannon says her goal is to be a lifestyle brand and why she believes it will happen with or without a Shark.

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29 min
April 13, 2015 Emmy Award Winning Chef Lidia Bastianich shares recipes for Business Success
On this episode of Smart Companies Radio you'll meet Lidia Bastianich, an Emmy award-winning public television host, a best-selling cookbook author, restaurateur, and owner of a flourishing food and entertainment business. Discover how Lidia married her two passions in life – her family and food, to create multiple culinary endeavors alongside her two children. Lidia’s cookbooks, co-authored with her daughter Tanya, include Lidia’s Commonsense Italian Cooking, Lidia’s Favorite Recipes, Lidia’s Italy in America, Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy, and Lidia’s Italy—all companion books to the Emmy winning and three time nominated television series Lidia’s Kitchen. Lidia is the chef/owner of four acclaimed New York City restaurants - Felidia, Becco, Esca and Del Posto, as well as Lidia’s Pittsburgh and Lidia's Kansas City. She is also founder and president of Tavola Productions, an entertainment company that produces high quality broadcast productions. She also has a line of pastas and all natural sauces called LIDIA’S.
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30 min
April 10, 2015 Cultivating a Culture of Entrepreneurship to Grow Your Company
On this episode of Smart Companies KC, host Kelly Scanlon visits with Laird Goldsborough, President of Valbridge Property Advisors | Shaner Appraisals, a full-service commercial real estate valuation and consulting firm. While the majority of their work is completed for financing purposes, the firm also has extensive experience in real estate litigation support, property tax appeals, ownership disputes, expert witness testimony, conservation easement valuation, eminent domain and more.
In addition to the real estate industry Laird shares his philosophy of growing your company by bringing a culture of entrepreneurship to your business allowing your employees to be the best that they can be without the risk of going it alone.
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27 min
April 10, 2015 Sorting Through our recent U.S. Jobs Data: Is Washington Slowing the Recovery?
On Smart Companies Radio, Host Kelly Scanlon talks jobs with Diana Furchtgott-Roth, former chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor, director of Economics21 and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. From 2003 to 2005, Ms. Furchtgott-Roth was chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor. From 2001 to 2002 she served as chief of staff of President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers.
Ms. Furchtgott-Roth is the author of Regulating to Disaster: How Green Jobs Policies are Damaging America's Economy (Encounter Books, 2012) and Women's Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America (AEI Press, 2012). She is the editor of Overcoming Barriers to Entrepreneurship in the United States (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). Her articles have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, the Los Angeles Times, and Le Figaro, among others. She is also a frequent guest on FOX Business News, and has appeared on numerous other TV and radio shows, including CNBC's Larry Kudlow Show, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, and PBS’s The News Hour with Jim Lehrer.
Ms. Furchgott-Roth will dissect the latest jobs numbers from Washington and discuss the current economic outlook and its effect on small business.
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27 min
April 03, 2015 Bouncing Back from Business Disappointment; Do You Have the GRIT to Succeed
Ewing Kauffman’s success in building Marion Laboratories is like an entrepreneur’s dream come true. With just $5,000 of borrowed money, he built the company into a $6.5 billion success. How did he do it? Jim McGraw served as Mr. K’s Chief Operating Officer during Marion’s period of explosive growth. As his way of giving back, Jim has developed free programs that outline critical skills he and Mr. K used at Marion during its glory days. These skills are as valuable today as they were then.
In 2015, McGraw has developed a new program that will address other the critical skills that entrepreneurs need to succeed. One of the most important is "GRIT"; the ability to bounce back from disappointment.
To learn more about the free programs offered by Jim McGraw visit: http://leappahead.com/
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29 min
April 03, 2015 Food & Family Marry for Entrepreneurial Success with Chef Lidia Bastianich
On this episode of Smart Companies Radio you'll meet Lidia Bastianich, an Emmy award-winning public television host, a best-selling cookbook author, restaurateur, and owner of a flourishing food and entertainment business. Discover how Lidia married her two passions in life – her family and food, to create multiple culinary endeavors alongside her two children. Lidia’s cookbooks, co-authored with her daughter Tanya, include Lidia’s Commonsense Italian Cooking, Lidia’s Favorite Recipes, Lidia’s Italy in America, Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy, and Lidia’s Italy—all companion books to the Emmy winning and three time nominated television series Lidia’s Kitchen. Lidia is the chef/owner of four acclaimed New York City restaurants - Felidia, Becco, Esca and Del Posto, as well as Lidia’s Pittsburgh and Lidia's Kansas City. She is also founder and president of Tavola Productions, an entertainment company that produces high quality broadcast productions. She also has a line of pastas and all natural sauces called LIDIA’S.
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30 min
March 27, 2015 Finding New Customers and Growing Your Small Business with bizHive's Dave Walker
On Smart Companies KC with host Kelly Scanlon, you'll meet Dave Walker, a 25+ year veteran marketing intrapreneur-turned-born-again entrepreneur who has created, developed, built, and fixed go-to-market strategies for some of the largest, most recognized brands in the country, from Wal-Mart to Toys R Us to Microsoft to Home Depot. In 2011, Dave launched the innovation consultancy, Synthacis, with a handful of product development, marketing and organizational experts from around the globe, on a shared mission to discover, develop and deploy $5-$500Mil new businesses from inside Fortune 500 clients (like Bridgestone/Firestone and Tribune.)
Kelly and Dave will also discuss the launch of his own startup, "bizHive", an intelligent marketplace for millions of Small to Mid-size Businesses to efficiently & effectively shop & buy marketing & advertising resources they need.
To register for the upcoming KC Business Builders Bootcamp on April 8th 2015, go to http://www.Sprint.bizhive.com
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31 min

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