Talking Business Now

By Kelly Scanlon & C-Suite RadioBusiness Entrepreneurship

Talking Business Now episodes

March 08, 2013 Is Your Business an Easy Target for Financial Fraud?
In 2010 Cheryl Obermiller discovered her company accountant had embezzled nearly a million dollars in a scheme that lasted for almost 8 years. The embezzlement caused serious problems for Obermiller Construction Services, and resulted in a federal penitentiary sentence for her accountant. Since then, Cheryl has become a popular speaker on embezzlement prevention and awareness and has designed a comprehensive program to give business owners control of their accounting systems. Her new book, My Accountant’s Drawers--the Small Business Owner’s Guide to Outwitting Embezzlers, Thieves and Scallywags, is due out in the late spring of 2013. Tune in to find out the safeguards you can put in place to keep your business from becoming a target!

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33 min
March 01, 2013 Creating Business Plans That Actually Get Financed
Are you a start-up or small business looking to raise capital? In order to do so, you must have a business plan that investors will love.
Cheree Warrick, author of Creating Business Plans that Actually Get Financed, will be our guest. During our interview, she’ll reveal:
Shocking statistics about how much money is actually out there 6 parts to an investable business plan Biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make when writing business plans Why banks and angel investors say NO to great business ideas How to give a 60-second pitch that’ll have investors pulling out their calendars to schedule time with you Why non-tech companies (or companies outside of the technology field) have better changes of receiving financing from angels The secret to receiving financing offers from multiple sources
Cheree is a national speaker, expert and author of the book Creating Business Plans that Actually Get Financed.
Her strategies are praised by numerous angel investors and commercial bankers, including Barbara Corcoran of the hit TV show Shark Tank and Valerie Gaydos – the founder of the Angel Venture Forum.
If you have a great business and you’re looking to raise cash, you won’t want to miss this interview.

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31 min
February 08, 2013 Julie Weeks: Growing Under the Radar-$10M Women-Owned Firms
Over the past decade, the growth in the number of women-owned firms with $10 million or more in revenues has increased by a startling 56.6 percent. My guest Julie Weeks is the researcher who uncovered the never-before-published data and authored a new report, commissioned by American Express Open. Join us as we explore the achievements of million-dollar women-owned firms, the reasons for the rapid growth, and impact of these women-led firms on the way America does business.
Julie Weeks is the President and CEO of Womenable, a for-profit social enterprise that works to enable women’s entrepreneurship worldwide by improving the systems – laws, policies, programs and research-based knowledge – that support women’s enterprise creation and growth. She is one of the world’s leading experts in the field of women’s enterprise development, with experience in both the private and public sectors in the areas of research, public policy and program management.
Prior to launching Womenable in 2005, she served as Executive Director of the National Women’s Business Council, a federally-funded bipartisan policy advisory body created by the U.S. Congress to serve as an independent voice of women’s entrepreneurship and an advisor to the President, U.S. Congress and the U.S. Small Business Administration on women’s entrepreneurship issues. She has also served as the Director of Research and Managing Director of the Center for Women’s Business Research, the Deputy Chief Counsel for Statistics and Research at the U.S. Small Business Administration, and was VP for Research and Public Policy at two market research firms.
Julie serves on the board of the Global Banking Alliance for Women, and is the chair of the board of the Association of Women’s Business Centers.

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30 min
February 01, 2013 Why Mentoring Matters - Barnett Helzberg Jr.
Barnett Helzberg, Jr., former chair of Helzberg Diamonds, joins us to talk about his new book, Entrepreneurs+Mentors=Success. From 1962, when Helzberg took the reins of the company his grandfather founded in 1915, he expanded it from 15 stores to the third largest jewelry retailer in the country. He sold Helzberg Diamond's to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway in 1995.
After selling the business, Helzberg founded HEMP - the Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program, an organization that connects entrepreneurs with mentors. Helzberg himself was mentored by Marion Laboratories' founder Ewing Kauffman, who also owned the Kansas City Royals and founded the world-renowned Kauffman Foundation.
Helzberg is also the author of several other books, including I Am Loved and What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett. He joins us today to talk about how mentors can help you grow your business and unlock the potential that lies within your business and yourself as an entrepreneur.

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34 min
January 25, 2013 Bob Burg - Do Go-Givers Really Sell More in Today's Economy?
Shifting your focus from “getting to giving” is not only a nice way to live life…but a very financially profitable way, as well.
You cannot control “The” Economy but you can absolutely control “Your” economy.
Join us to find out what Bob Burg, coauthor of the international bestseller The Go-Giver, means when he talks about “giving” — and why it makes absolutely practical sense.
Bob is a sought-after speaker at corporate conventions and entrepreneurial events. He has addressed audiences ranging in size from 50 to 16,000 — sharing the platform with notables including today’s top thought leaders, broadcast personalities, Olympic athletes and political leaders including a former United States President.
Although for years he was best known for his book Endless Referrals, over the past few years it’s his business parable, The Go-Giver (coauthored with John David Mann) that has captured the imagination of his readers.
It shot to #6 on The Wall Street Journal’s Business Bestsellers list just three weeks after its release and reached #9 on BusinessWeek. It’s been translated into 21 languages. It is his fourth book to sell over 250,000 copies.
Bob is an advocate, supporter and defender of the Free Enterprise system, believing that the amount of money one makes is directly proportional to how many people they serve. He is a founding and current board member of Club 100, a charitable organization focused on helping underprivileged local area youths. A lover of animals, he is a past member of the Board of Directors for Safe Harbor, which is the Humane Society of Jupiter, Florida.

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30 min
January 18, 2013 Rey Ybarra on his book with Shark Tank Winners
Rey Ybarra is the author/producer of the multimedia digital book “Conversations With Shark Tank Winners.” The book features interviews with winners/participants from the hit ABC TV show Shark Tank. Rey joins us to discuss how these entrepreneurs landed a spot on the show, what the auditioning process was like, insights into presenting to the Sharks, and how the Shark Tank Effect changed their businesses.
Rey is an experienced talk show host and with more than 14 years of experience and a featured content provider for Social Media Magazine. He’s interviewed some of the Who’s Who of business and social media, including best-selling authors Tony Robbins (Unlimited Power), Dr. John Gray (Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus), Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dan Millman (Way of the Peaceful Warrior), Byron Katie (Loving What Is), David Meerman Scott (Marketing Lessons From The Grateful Dead), Shama Hydeer Kabani ( the zen of social media marketing), Michael Miller (YouTube For Business), Paul Dunay (Facebook Marketing For Dummies).
Rey’s New Media Radio Hour radio program features best-selling authors and innovators in new/social media.

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30 min
January 11, 2013 Meet Peter Strople - Dubbed Most Connected Man in America
PeterStrople of strategic advisory firm Zero2 is on a first-name basis with some of the country's top business leaders and thinkers -- a network that provides him crucial feedback on big decisions and new ideas. It's all the result of authentic networking, and it's a skill you can use to grow your business. Join Peter and Kelly as they talk about ways you can build a powerful network of your own!
Peter has been called “One of the World’s Great Rainmakers,” “The Most Connected Man in America,” and “One of the Most Connected People in the World.”
He's considered one of the top business strategists in the world focused on being the best at "Now." In other words, his strategies and methodologies result in direction changes that immediately put a company on the right path to success.
In 2008, he created "Friends of Peter" to bring business and community leaders together to create "Instant Change" as it relates to the critical business and social needs of a community or country.

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34 min
January 04, 2013 The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave - Leigh Branham
With the job market and unemployment in the shape they're in today, why should employers be concerned about why employees leave? Best-selling business author Leigh Branham's exhaustive research gets to the bottom of that question, and also reveals the seven hidden reasons employee leave - even during bad economic times.
Leigh is the founder and principal of Keeping the People, a talent management consulting firm that helps companies analyze the root causes of turnover and employee disengagement, and then develop and implement strategies to make your company the "employer of choice."
Leigh is the author of three books on employee engagement and retention: Re-Engage: How America's Best Places to Work Inspire Extra Effort in Extraordinary Times (co-authored with Mark Hirschfeld), The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave: How to Recognize the Subtle Signs and Act Before It's Too Late, and Keeping the People Who Keep You in Business.
Leigh has presented internationally to audiences in China, Singapore, Malaysia, Poland, Canada, Argentina, Chili and Paraguay. His articles have appeared in The Harvard Business Review, and he's been quoted in Business Week, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and other magazines and newspapers.

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31 min
December 28, 2012 Ken Segall, the marketing genius who put the "i" in iMac
Ken Segall, the marketing genius who put the "i" in iMac, iTunes and other Apple products, has worked with some of the world's largest corporations, including BMW, IBM and Intel. Join Ken and Kelly as they talk about how focus and simplicity can bring new power to your brand.

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29 min
December 21, 2012 The Commitment Engine: Making Work Worth It - John Jantsch
Smart Companies Radio welcomes international speaker, author and marketing guru, John Jantsch. In his latest book, The Commitment Engine, John looks at what sets truly great businesses apart. Those companies, he found, tend to have a hunger for extreme clarity, a culture of shared commitment and a ridiculous passion for community. Join Kelly and John as they talk about ways you can establish lasting commitment in your employees, customers and community. Seth Godin calls the book "insanely brave and breathtakingly important." John, who has been called the world's most practical small business marketing expert, is the creator of the Duct Tape Marketing System and the Duct Tape Marketing Consulting Network. His blog was chosen as a Forbes favorite for marketing and small business and his podcast, a Top 10 marketing show on iTunes, was called a "must listen" by Fast Company magazine. He is the featured marketing contributor to American Express: OPENForum and is a popular presenter of workshops and webinars for organizations such as American Express, Intuit, Verizon, HP and Citrix. He's often cited in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and CNNMoney.

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39 min

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