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Ask Lita Business Owner Round Table Discussion Business Development Strategies Part 2 continues to address the following question" "When a business owner is brand new with zero or only a handful of personal contacts, what should be done first to generate new business?" Ask Lita featured business owner is successful CEO of New York’s financial district GoldStar Properties and Madison Layne Real Estate Tiana Von Johnson.  Tiana offers business development strategies that highlight the importance of vision, rejects the crippling effect of fear and touts the advantages of going the extra mile. Listen to the entire discussion with Tiana Von Johnson at www.BusinessPeopleConnection.com Business Market Networkpage.  You’ll also find additional tips and helpful information provided by businesses, entrepreneurs and professionals.  Whether you have a business service to share or you need a Business People Connection, ask Lita! info@askLita.com

Moonlight Reflections by Tatiana Zamir.  I was so taken by Tatiana's first production.  I found the performance full of honesty and amazing creative talent.  With only a glimpse of Tatiana's poetic skills that I had come to know prior to the event, I was not at all prepared for the depth with which she embraces dance and the commandment of her choreographic skills that communicate such extraordinarily powerful and intimate thoughts.  Tatiana's production is absolutely intense, uplifiting and beautiful; a definite must see for Tatiana's language of love, trials and hope in dance speaks to everyone with a child, a mother and a father.  I truly thank Tatiana for allowing my family to share in her wonderful expression." .. more Lita Williams, Executive Consultant Owner Business People Connection Along with her dance production, Tatiana Zamir offers a dance workshop and massage therapy in Los Angeles, California to help clients connect to their internal healing power.

Ask Lita Business Owner Round Table Discussion "When a business owner is brand new with zero or only a handful of personal contacts, what should be done first to generate new business?" Join the discussion.  Share your thoughts about how you got started in business.  Provide helpful information for business start ups and entrepreneurs just starting a business venture.  Share new business tips and business develpment strategies for how to build customer traffic at the Business Market Network Ask Lita Business Owner Round Table Prominent Guest Panel shares successful business development strategies.. LisaMarie Dias of LisaMarie Dias Designs works with business owners to leverage social media for profitable growth. Sahar Andrade, MB.BCh is a Diversity, Leadership & Culture Competence Speaker/ Consultant, as well as an International Marketing expert, Certified both as an E-marketer and Social Media Strategist.  Lora Crestan Owner Solstice Group has over 20 years experience in retail leadership, training and development bringing coaching to the forefront as the reason for her success. Jason Falls is an author, speaker and CEO, the latter of Social Media Explorer, a digital marketing agency. Email inquiries:  Info@AskLita.com Lita Williams, Executive Consultant Owner Business People Connection

Featured Business Owner:  Risa Johnson, Founder The Lounge On Wilshire, has been in the salon industry foronver thirty years.  She is well known for her wellness approach to beautifying natural hair.   Ask Lita Business Owner Round Table Discussion "When a business owner is brand new with zero or only a handful of personal contacts, what should be done first to generate new business?" Share your thoughts.  Join the discussion. Prominent Guest Panel: LisaMarie Dias of LisaMarie Dias Designs works with business owners to leverage social media for profitable growth. Sahar Andrade, MB.BCh is a Diversity, Leadership & Culture Competence Speaker/ Consultant, as well as an International Marketing expert, Certified both as an E-marketer and Social Media Strategist.  Lora Crestan Owner Solstice Group has over 20 years experience in retail leadership, training and development bringing coaching to the forefront as the reason for her success. Jason Falls is an author, speaker and CEO, the latter of Social Media Explorer, a digital marketing agency. Email inquiries:  Info@AskLita.com Visit Business People Connection

Executive Referral Echo Daily helps businesses drive sales on demand through mobile technology.  When I consider marketing strategies and business development tools like Google "pay per click" what is apparent is that not all tools drive sales.  Many marketing tools drive awareness, but few truly work to engage clients like the Business Builder and the Customer Loyalty Program offered by Echo Daily.  The Business Builder has a core focus to drive new customers by leveraging the mobile culture to establish customer relations, and the Customer Loyalty Program helps to deepen those relations.  Whether a business owner takes advantage of one or both, employing mobile marketing can make the needed difference for increased sales! Find out more ..   Echo Daily is an Executive Referral.  For a Business People Connection,ask Lita

Ask Lita, is your Business People Connection to valued business services. Tim Meadows Smith posted "Before you have customers you are not a business owner, you are at best a vision holder."   So the question for many just starting out really focuses on how to become a business owner.  I recently posed the following question within my networks: "When a business owner is brand new with zero clients and only a handful of family personal contacts, what should be done first to generate new business?" The response was tremendous.  This show recognizes in appreciation of the business people who provided tips, tools and helpful information for business start-ups and professionals new to the business market. Mentioned: Wayne Miller, Marion E. Gold, Selena Jones, Robert Lewis, Ganesh Doddi, Larry Thompson II, Bryan Redmond, Phil Murphy, Al Kernek Read about more of the responses that I received at business People Connection.com Business Market Network. How to get a new business off the ground successfully?  The general theme reiterated by business people is that planning is key, having a vision is paramount and being able to communicate and reach out to folks based on that vision will make the needed difference. This audio also includes a few points that I want to share about the importance of a business plan.  I stress that a business plan is only as important as it is effective. Email inquiries:  Info@AskLita.com Lita Williams, Executive Consultant Owner, Business People Connection

Many entrepreneurs have great ideas, but fewer are able to develop business plans that get the attention of investors. Having a business plan that is focused from an investor perspective can be the difference in raising capital and draining your personal funds.   Ask Lita for a Business People Connection to investor grade business planning services. Akira Hirai, Founder and Managing Director, Cayenne Consulting helps entrepreneurs gain investor interest by providing strategic consulting to develop high-performing business plans that address investor questions.   Akira's vast industry experience and team of diverse professionals develop high-performance business plans to support entrepreneurial objectives from varied industries with services that include:  VC-grade business plans, financial forecasts, and investor presentations. In a world where perhaps one in 200 business plans ever get funded, well over half of his clients have done so. Before starting Cayenne Consulting in 2001, Akira was the founder of two Silicon Valley Internet companies during the height of the dot-com bubble. Previously, Akira held various management positions at Salomon Brothers, a New York investment bank, most recently as a Vice President in Fixed Income Derivatives Trading. He has also worked in financial risk management; software engineering; sales management; and advertising and graphic design. Akira earned his B.A. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University. "Ten Big Questions" by Akira Hirai can also be found at Business Market Connection Tips:

Ask Lita for a Business People Connection to graphic design services.  Need office art for your office space?  Ask Lita   Business People Connection featured artist: Time constraints don't bother Martine Hubbard because she is accustomed to completing projects successfully within the tightest deadlines.  Whether commissioned for an individual portrait or an abstract painting for a business wall, whether from a picture or a live model, Martine captures the spirit and detail of an expression with truly gratifying results.  Martine Hubbard, a Graphic Designer by day and an Artist by heart creates art on paper, canvass and with clay richly apparent in the connection between subject and her spirit.       For the past 20 years, Martine Hubbard has been a graphic designer and marketing professional for corporations, small businesses, entrepreneurs and other artists, writers and musicians.   Becoming a graphic designer was her second career, after working as a human resources professional in the entertainment industry for ABC’s broadcast of the 1984 Summer Olympics, followed by Columbia Pictures Entertainment.   Over the years Martine has created art sporadically until most recently when she realized that now is the time for her passion to take a more prominent position in her life.    For more information about Martine, ask Lita! Martine@AskLita.com

Need help with cold calling? Ask Lita.   Ask Lita for a Business People Connection to sales trainers specializing in cold calling.  Need sales consultants, ask Lita. Is telemarketing dead?  How do you cold call in a "do not call list" environment?  Some might say, "referrals."  New business referrals are great, especially for quality business.  Yet, anyone experienced in starting a business from scratch or anyone with the need to develop new business leads immediately knows that referrals may not arrive in the quantities and time frame needed.   Over the years, the "do not call list" and caller ID has caused a steady decline in telemarketing.  Today there are varing views on whether cold calling remains a viable prospecting method. Mentioned: Rob Glessner a Promotional Marketing Strategist and Owner of Glessner Promotional Agency LLc and Dean Thedos, President at Livable Art Partners Consulting Group  Featured guest Kendra Lee is a top IT seller, prospect and lead generation expert, sales advisor and business owner who knows how to shorten time to revenue in innovative ways. She is author of the award winning book Selling Against The Goal and president of KLA Group.  Specializing in theIT industry, KLA Group helps companies rapidly penetrate and sell to small and medium sized companies. Clients include such Fortune 500 companies as Apple, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard and numerous small and mid-size companies.

How to improve Klout Score?  Ask Lita for a Business People Connection to social media consultants. Gain valuable insight for improving your online marketing efforts and strengthening your Klout Score.  Lita Williams, Executive Business People Consultant featured guest Cedric Farris, also known as C.F. Hutton, writer, consultant and entrepreneur to discuss brand development through network marketing.   Cedric "C.F. Hutton" Farris is CEO of The Yoriche Group LLC which he started with his business partner Curtis Philpot in 2009.  The company was first formed to acquire real estate, however plans changed as the unstable real estate market presented challenges which required out of the box thinking and strategies.   In his words:  "My story is a simple one that you have heard many times before. The Ups & Downs of Life affect us all.  However I am not going to trouble you with some long drawn out explanation of me.  If you want that you can read my Third & Final eBook "From Almost Nothing to Almost Something: A BN2L Tale of Success" which will be released sometime during the 3rd Quarter of 2012.  For now let's just say I want to help people utilize Free Tools Hidden in Plain Sight which will help them expand their Networks Exponentially while simultaneously Increasing their Active Penetration Percentages. Simply put, if you want more of a response from your following I can show you how to do this without being annoying!"  C.F. Hutton

Business People Connection is your connection to social media experts.  Ask Lita for a Business People Connection to improve your Klout Score. If you frequent social media on even the smallest level, you might have witnessed the latest online social media tool offered by Klout.com   Klout.com utilizes social network tracking and provides a Klout Score based on social activity.   According to Klout.com "Klout was founded in 2008 to help you measure and leverage your influence."  At Klout.com, the belief is "that influence is the ability to drive action."   What is apparent to me is that the end user determines Klout Score value.  The meaning of the score is more perception, for a Klout Score doesn't necessarily represent the goals of one's social interaction.   So really, how much clout should be given to Klout.com?   Consider the varied opinions on the subject.  I've recently had the pleasure of interacting in a discussion regarding Klout scores.  I appreciate the thoughtful and lively points made regarding the following questions:     Whether your Klout Score is 2 or 50, should you care?  What are your thoughts regarding Klout Score?  Is it worth the attention?   Join me to further the discussion about Klout scores, social media tools and Internet marketing with guest Cedric Farris, also known as C.F. Hutton   For ask Lita Blog Talk schedule alerts, sign up for Rss Feed at blogtalkradio.com/asklita.rss

Ask Lita for a Business People Connection to brand consulting services. Guest Host Bob Killian, sought after Brand Consultant, discusses“How can a business ignite growth?”   Bob is joined by guests Jack Trytten, author of The G Point and Management Consultant, Dave Baney.   Since 1987, Bob Killian has led the creative and insightful team at Killian Branding, a Chicago-based strategic agency whose goal is to create brands that are visible, differentiated, and urgent. To build those three dimensions of a powerful brand requires multiple disciplines including company and product naming, design, SEO, SEM and advertising.   Bob is the co-author of Do-It-Yourself Advertising and Promotion (3rd Edition, Wylie Press). His White Papers are taught in a dozen graduate schools of business. He is a frequent guest-lecturer in MBA classes and business seminars around the country. Bob’s branding insight, especially as pertaining to effective “brand findability,” adds an often-neglected perspective to a major business issue.   About Bob's guests: Jack Trytten, author of The G Point, a book focused on understanding your customers’ real needs to become a growth machine.  Dave Baney, a seasoned and respected management consultant who uses socratic-method questioning to help CEOs and management teams become more accountable and effective.

Ask Lita for a Business People Connection to Roberta Kuhleis, quality improvement consultant, located in Brazil. Guest Host:  Roberta Kuhleis Location:  Brazil Language:  Portuguese For English translation topic points, click here Business People Connection Roberta Kuhleis, a Business Consultant in Brazil, guest host on Ask Lita to share in her native language consulting points about quality.   Roberta Kuhleis is Owner and Business Consultant at GesQuali Consultoria em Gestãoin Brazil. Her MBA in Public Management coupled with Quality Development expertise has proven to be an asset for various businesses including hospitals, casting and newspaper companies, retail operations along with trade associations.   For the past few years she has provided consulting to assist business owners with implementing critical changes needed to gain competitively in the marketplace. Through successful employment of quality management tools, Roberta has helped businesses receive quality management awards and attain business goals. As an active volunteer for the Gaucho Quality and Productivity Program in Brazil, Roberta’s passion to help business owners continues to result the improvements needed for businesses to achieve success.   According to Roberta, a focus on quality is always worth the first step toward process improvement and the second is the result of a desire for quality which depends on you!

Ask Lita for a Business People Connection to marketing communication consultants. Ask Lita for a Business People Connection to blog marketing assistance. Worth repeating: Blog marketing to increase website traffic. Susan Payton owner of Egg Marketing & Communications specializes in marketing communications, copywriting and blog posts.  Listen in as Susan shares how she helps clients increase website traffic utilizing blogging for internet marketing.  Susan helped a client advance from zero website traffic to 4,000 clients per month.  Susan also shares insight for managing new internet marketing tools and the ever updating social media sources.  She discusses the value of key words to support blog content and marketing objectives.  Susan suggests that increasing website traffic should begin organically while strategically engaging various forums to demonstrate expertise.  Listen in at Business People Connection Business Market Network.

Ask Lita for a Business People Connection to job search consultants. With unemployment lingering at the highest levels, certainly information about effective job strategies, job search tools and resume tips should be repeated.  Listen in as Rita Ogbeama shares the best way to develop career search strategies, engage job boards and offers points that should be considered when structuring resumes to get noticed. Featuring Rita Ogbeama on job search strategies: Rita Ogbeama, a Career Specialist and CAREEREALISM Approved Expert, helps entry-level, mid and high-level job seekers become more confident and savvy job search strategists. Rita has written for Examiner.com on effective job search strategies and previously sat on the advisory board for Experience.com.  She coaches job seekers to take ownership of their search. She is highly effective at providing coaching on content development on resumes/cover letters, social media profiles, and elevator pitches. Listen in at Business People Connection Business Market Network