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Upcoming Teleclass: Secrets to a Successful Workshop

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Do you freeze when asked to speak in public?  Do you have valuable information that you’d like to share with others, but aren’t sure how?  Would you like to learn how to deliver compelling content that engages the audience and keeps attendees coming back for more?  Then join us at 10:00 AM EST on September 1st, 2010 for our next live teleclass entitled Secrets to a Successful Workshop. 

Talks and workshops are among the best opportunities to attract new clients, and anyone with valuable information or prominent skills can run one.  But in order to be successful, it’s important to learn a few simple tips and tactics that can help you take the information in your head and turn it in to a workshop you can deliver over and over like a pro.

In this class, you will learn: 

  • How to select the best topic for you
  • How to look for local opportunities
  • How to turn attendees into paying clients
  • How to get rid of the butterflies
  • How to turn your workshop into passive income or other opportunities
  • And much more!

Don’t worry if you can’t attend live–all teleclasses are recorded, and you will automatically recieve the download in your e-mail inbox if you register.  Additionally, this class may apply towards continuing education units depending on your scope of work.

Click here to register now!

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Upcoming Teleclass: The Organized Child

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Why are so many professional organizers in business?  Because organization is not often taught at home or in schools.  Yet organizing skills are important tools a child will take with them regardless of their path and are instrumental to development, teaching children to manage themselves and their time and providing them with the structure they crave.  It doesn’t matter if a child completes his homework if he can’t find the piece of paper when it is due! 

Join us on August 18th at 10 AM EST when we will speak with Laurie Martin of Simplify, a Certified Professional Organizer with a B.A. in Childhood Development.  She has written two organizational manuals for children entitled “Simplify: The Organized Child” and “Simplify: The Organized Teen”.  She’ll help us learn how to help children get and stay organized!

Don’t worry if you can’t attend live, as all teleclasses are recorded!  If you register, you will automatically recieve the audio in your e-mail inbox regardless of whether you were or were not able to attend the call.

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Upcoming Teleclass: The NEW Facebook–Greatest Web Tool

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

With half a billion current users and more joining every day, Facebook is one of the best and easiest ways to get your name out to potential clients.  Are you utilizing this tool to your best advantage?  Whether you’re brand new to Facebook or have been using it for years, join us on Monday, August 2nd at 10 AM EST to learn how to make your fan page more compelling, launch a successful Facebook Ad Campaign, understand recent changes to Facebook, and take advantage of the #1 thing you must understand to win the Facebook Marketing game! 

Our featured guest will be Shama Kabani–president of The Marketing Zen Group, a full service digital marketing firm that serves clients around the world.  She has been dubbed the “master millennial of the universe” and “an online marketing shaman” by Fast Company, and was listed as one of Business Week Magazine’s ’Top 25 Under 25′ entrepreneurs in North America.   

Register here: THE NEW FACEBOOK -GREATEST WEB TOOL!

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Upcoming Teleclass: Step Up Marketing Using Social Media

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Did you know over 400 million people have Facebook accounts and 75 million keep up with friends and colleagues via Twitter? Or that three quarters of global consumers who go online visit social networking sites regularly?

Social media has the capabilities to take your business to new places, but you have to understand how social media interacts with your existing marketing plan. You might be posting to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube many times each day, but do you know eactly how this is benefitting your business? Are you sure that you’re using these powerful social media tools smartly and effectively?

Check out our next live Teleclass on Wednesday, July 28th at 8 PM EST entitled “Step Up Marketing Using Social Media” with social media expert Tia Singh and learn how to take advantage of this amazing technology. Tia has used social media to take her business from the ground up, and will teach you the tips that have made her a success. By the end of the call, you’ll be equipped with 3 social media steps you can implement immediately in your business! Click here to register for our next call.

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Last Day For Buy 2, Get 1 Audios

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Last Chance!   Buy 2 Audio Recordings, Get 1 Free
(2010 Conference Offer, even if you didn’t go to conference)

We’ve opened our conference offer to everyone in our database.  For three more days you can purchase 2 Audio Recordings and get 1 Free.   Offer ends May 31 at midnight and coupon code is Conference2010.
 
We have over 50 Audio Recordings to choose from and many may apply towards your continuing education credits.  Click here to see our audio library. 

Keeping Track of CEU’s? 
Depending on your services and scope of work, A Red Bench Audio Recordings may apply towards your continuing education units.  With each audio purchase you receive a certificate of attendance upon passing the class quiz.  Calls are 75 minutes long and may count as 1 CEU.  

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The Most 100 Valuable Brands In The World

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Millward Brown Optimor has released its fifth annual BrandZ report(.pdf file) that shows the 100 most valuable brands in the world–and it shows just how integral technology has become in our lives. The top spot goes to Google, with IBM and Apple following close behind–and out of the top 10, there are just three non-tech brands: McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, and Marlboro. 

Of the 16 categories, however, it was not technology that posted the biggest rise but, rather, financial institutions, with a 12% growth, compared to half of that for tech. Only beer and fast food, with increases of 10% and 1% respectively, showed positive, with the other 12 sectors dropping. It’s worth comparing the list with Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2010.  

The report–its methodology is explained here–has a lot to say about social media and how it affects a company’s brand–especially for those in the tech sector. The BrandZ list didn’t feature Facebook in the top 100, but it slipped in at 20th in the tech rankings. The site, however, featured large in the report, and is seen as a crucial tool in how the big firms will increase their reach using social networking sites. 

Its advice to budding Jobses, Brin/Pages, and Zuckerbergs is to forget about philanthropy (not something, whisper, that either Apple or Facebook is known for) and embrace responsibility, to see mobiles as the new billboards–RIP Don Draper–and that successful brands are built from the top down.

How does this relate to your small business?  If your branding was as strong as your organizing skills, you could drastically increase your revenue.   Once you create a powerful, compelling brand, business comes to you instead of the other way around.  To create a compelling brand purchase audio recording with fellow organizer and brand expert, Krista Green, called Get Noticed, Be Remembered.  You’ll learn how to communicate your values, personality, talents and unique skills to create your own personal brand and influence the way others perceive you.  Brand is not only for the fortune 500 company, perception is everything.

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Unique Closet Organizing Trick

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

I am the type of person who wears the same clothes all the time because I grab the same clothes from my closet.  Same clothes, same exact outfit every time I wear it.  Boring!  So even clothes I once liked, I now dislike, because I’ve worn them so many times the exact same way.  Last month we had an awesome teleclass (now available as an audio purchase) called Brand Yourself Through Your Appearance and since then I have wanted to implement what I learned on that call with expert Darcey Howard of LifeStyled.  Yesterday two friends came to my house and we went through everything in my closet.  We did get rid of some stuff that did not support my goals and style, but the best part was that we created about 50 new outfits from my existing wardrobe.  I am not kidding.  One pair of pants, I thought didn’t match anything in my closet, goes with almost every shirt I own.  It was amazing! 

It was one of the most fun days ever.  We went through all my clothes, drank wine, laughed and just had fun.  My husband is thrilled because now I don’t have to bother him every morning asking him how the same old outfit looks.  As if it looks any different than the 30 times prior I’ve worn it.  I have a few things I need to buy to complete the wardrobe, but I now with them help of our teleclass and my friends, I know how to put clothes together in a whole new way. 

Additionally, they taught me a little trick that is pretty helpful.  Since I always gravitate to the same item, they said instead of organizing my closet by clothing type and then color to only organize it by color.  So now all my black clothes, or brown or red, or blue, or whatever color are in one place regardless of whether they are a shirt, skirt, jacket or pants.  So the next time to go grab the same blue shirt I wear all the time, I will see the other 10 blue shirts with it and the pants opening my mind to many more outfits.  Its a pretty good idea.

So if you find yourself saying you have nothing to wear, give our teleclass a listen and apply what you learn to your closet.   Darcey says, “If you are your own brand then your wardrobe is your logo.”  Best part, as an organizer, using what you learn on this call you can help them project the image they want to portray and use this class as a CEU.

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Managing Client Expectations

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Very excited that our March 1 continuing education call will be called Managing Client Expectations.  Stay tuned to register for this amazing call withexpert organizer Mindy Godding, of My Space Matters.

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Keep Paper Organizing Simple

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Paper from bills driving you crazy? What’s most important is to keep paper organizing simple and to be consistent.  Here is a simple tip to manage all the paper.  Get an accordion file labeled January thru December. Pay your bills and place the bill only (not the envelope or advertising) in the month paid. You are all set come tax time. At the end of the year, if you don’t need it for taxes, toss it!

To set up a paper filing system in your home or office, we recommend FreedomFiler.  Its the best paper organizing system we’ve found and we’ve used it with hundreds of clients. 

For more help Conquering Paper Clutter, attend our next teleclass on February 17th.  As a follow-up to our January call called Helping Clients Manage The Paper Crisis (available to download on our website,) we want to have a more specific class on paper that tends to cover the desktop, the dining table and kitchen counter.  We call this action paper and there are so many different ways to help your clients deal with their action paper.  Join us on our continuing education call, where we will we will take you through a step by step process to create action files that will Conquer Your Clients Paper Clutter forever.

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Knowing What Paper To Toss

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

The only way to keep paper under control is to let go of anything that is not needed or you will not use.  If you’re not sure if you’ll use it, think about your habits and if you’ve used something in the past.  Like coupons for example, if you have never used a coupon then why are you keeping the ValPak each week?   Every situation is different, so confirm with your accountant regarding your vital or tax papers, but here is a general list of paper you can let go of:

  • Toss ATM, bank deposit slips and receipts for everyday and minor purchases after you’ve checked them against your bank statement. 
  • Product solicitations for things you aren’t ready to buy.
  • Old magazines, books, and articles you haven’t referred to in the last twelve months.
  • Old research materials and literature.
  • Duplicates of documents.
  • Previous drafts of letters and proposals.
  • Information you already know.
  • Business stationery you no longer use.  (Keep one or two sheets in a history file and toss the rest.)
  • Early drafts of creative writing (unless you really do refer back to them).
  • Newspapers.  If they are more than a week old, they are ancient history.
  • Junk mail.
  • Expired coupons.
  • Coupons you won’t use.
  • Outdated schedules or planners.
  • Old greeting cards (unless they contain a very special message, select your absolute favorites).
  • Invitations to past events.
  • Expired warranties and service contracts.
  • Instructions for items you no longer own.
  • Expired insurance policies.
  • Investment and banking brochures that are available online.
  • Business cards from people whose names you don’t recognize.
  • Old tourist brochures from past vacations.
  • Road maps you haven’t referred to in ten years.
  • Solicitations from charities you don’t intend to give to.
  • Recipes you haven’t tried in three years.
  • College notebooks and textbooks.  (If you can’t part with them all, keep a box of your best papers and reports and let the rest go.)

*  A Red Bench is not responsible to lost, misplaced or discarded information.   

Want some additional help managing your client’s paper piles?  Attend Helping Clients Manage the Paper Crisis, attend our next teleclass on January 27th.  There is still time to Register! 

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