NIADA AUTOMOTIVE INTERNET RADIO provides audio programming to help your
business succeed. This channel is produced in cooperation with
Smallbiz America,
a streaming radio and podcasting information service to help entrepreneurs
and small business owners operate their businesses profitably and
efficiently.
AN OVERVIEW OF MANHEIM'S AUTO AUCTION SERVICES AND CURRENT INDUSTRY
CHALLENGES - WITH MANDY SAVAGE
Mandy Savage, Manheim Customer Relations Director,
provides an overview of the company's services, 50-year history, and
current challenges in the auto auction world. Interview by David Wolf
from the NIADA Annual Convention.
MARKETING -
WITH KENT COVINGTON
Our guest on this addition a 15-year veteran radio host
and entrepreneur. He started his first business at age 21, which he
built and sold a few years later. Kent Covington has been providing
radio and marketing consulting services to various organizations ever
since. He currently serves as President of Embark Business
Advancement. Joining us from his offices in Oakwood, GA to talk about
common marketing mistakes that small businesses make is Kent
Covington.
LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE - WITH MARK WALTZONI
No doubt the world and the world of business is in a
constant state of change. Our guest on this segment knows something
about how to help organizations navigate the internal changes in
leadership they may need to make.
Mark Waltzoni is the founder of Effective Leadership Changes, LLC, and
has created a set of unique, time-tested programs and systems to help
guarantee companies a smooth transition, accelerate positive ROI in
your staffing decision’s, protect your investment in leadership talent
and assure a successful trajectory for them.
COLLECTIONS MADE EASIER - WITH LARRY AHRENS
In this interview with Larry Ahrens, we discuss the
plight that many business owners face when unable to keep their
account receivables current. Larry describes how his company helps
business owners solve the issue in an affordable way that preserves
the customer relationship.
Larry B. Ahrens is currently working with Transworld
Systems, a 38-year old company involved in helping businesses manage
and recover their accounts receivable.
WORK EFFICIENT -
WITH GENE MARKS
Gene Marks is one of the country’s leading small
business experts. A nationally recognized speaker, spokesperson,
columnist, and consultant, Gene is the author of four books on small
business, including the best selling Streetwise Small Business Book of
Lists.Gene writes monthly columns for both Forbes.com and
Businessweek.com.
Gene regularly presents his program Quicker! Better! Wiser! Programs
including the popular “6 Secrets For Managing A Successful Business”.
Through his keynotes, workshops, seminars and executive retreats, Gene
helps small business owners, executives and managers understand the
proven strategies for doing things Quicker! Better! Wiser!
SAVE MONEY -
WITH JD HEIDEN
JD Heiden makes his living pinching pennies, and the
economic downturn has business booming at his four-year-old
Miami-based company, a franchise of the global Expense Reduction
Analysts (ERA). The firm specializes in cutting expenses for
corporations in non-core areas, such as telecommunications, office
supplies, merchant credit card fees, freight and much more.
SMALL BUSINESS INITIATIVES -
WITH BRUCE FREEMAN
Nationally known as The Small Business Professor, Bruce
Freeman is a syndicated small business columnist for Scripps Howard
News Service. His column, Ask the Small Business Professor, is
distributed to 400 newspapers in the US and Canada and read by more
than 20 million people.
Today, Bruce is embarking upon a national radio appearance campaign to
inform small business owners regarding President Barak Obama’s Small
Business initiatives and their impact on small business in today’s
economy.
FUNDING ROAD MAP -
WITH RUTH HEDGES
Ruth Hedges is a founder-partner of Unismart Capital
Software Inc .and creator of the Funding Roadmap Electronic Business
Plan and Due Diligence Reporting System. Ruth Hedges created this
system—-the first fully online business planning system alternative,
for planning, benchmarking, and collaborating on a video elevator
pitch for a business startup—-or even a business in a growth stage
that’s looking to raise capital.
THE SMALL BUSINESS COMPANY -
WITH DAVE LARSON
Dave Larson has spent nearly 40 years as an
entrepreneur and worked for such major corporations such as DuPont,
American Express, Kodak, Gerber Scientific and Agfa. He’s the author
of several books and sought-after for his expertise in marketing,
promotions, sales, distribution and operations. Today David is the
President of The Small Business Company. Founded in November 2002, the
company's vision remains to build “the small business brand."
With a new business starting every 3 seconds in America (and every 3.1
seconds, one dies), the Company provides the tools and guidance
necessary for a want-to-be entrepreneurs to quickly start a new
business—-from their home or from a storefront.
HOW TO BE A FIERCE COMPETITOR -
WITH JEFFREY J. FOX
Jeffrey J. Fox has authored more than a half dozen
books on marketing, including “How to Become a Fierce Competitor”
which quickly became a Business Week and Wall Street Journal best
seller. Jeffrey shares his experience and best practices of fierce
competitors and how they gain market share, seize opportunity, and win
when the stakes are the highest.
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