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.   

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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.

– Oscar Wilde

Tim was full of incredible information and was very inspiring.  You can learn more from Tim’s books Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends and The Likeability Factor at his web-site.

So…who are three people that you can introduce to each other?  Maybe you have a client who is moving and you can introduce them to mover and a custom closet company.  When you send the e-mail introducing everyone be sure to include the reasons why you thought they might be able to work with each other. 

Here’s to your new habit!

This year’s conference was bitter sweet for me, okay, much more sweet than bitter, but bitter non-the-less.  It was sad because my business partner Christa Wagner could not make it this year.  Oh how I wish she could have been there.  But it was exciting because this year I was going to be on the oh so famous Ask the Organizer Panel.  This was a true treat as I was on the panel with five amazing women!  New organizers and veterans alike asked some fantastic questions with many coming up about social media.  Yes, social media was definitely a hot topic this year. 

The Expo Hall had a mini face lift this year with the addition of the Market Place.  This was exciting as A Red Bench was able to participate in this new venue.

There is so much to talk about I will be posting several blogs over the next few days with my conference highlights.  Including highlights from the Ask the Organizer Panel, the Expo Hall, Opening Keynote with Tim Sanders, and more on trends I observed at conference including Social Media.  So keep checking there’s more to come soon!

Angela

This year’s conference was truly amazing!  I met the most amazing people and learned so much.  I met many people who have taken some of our Red Bench Teleclasses.  It was such an inspiration to hear so many good words about what Christa and I are doing.  We are thrilled that people like the classes and find them beneficial. 

I will be bringing you information in the coming months about products and tools I learned about.  We’ll also be bringing some fantastic guest speakers that I met with at conference.  We are still working with different speakers to finalize a few dates so keep an eye on our calendar for the latest details.

Three cheers for organizers!

Click here  to get a $10 rebate offer from 3M / Post-it ® if you purchase $20 in 3M  Permanent Labels and/or Post-it ® Removable Label products.  It does not appear that the rebate is valid on the popular Post-it ® Notes, but on the labels which include the new Post-it® Removable Labels that you may have seen in recent advertisements.  Click here to see a list of available products. 

This is a great time to stock up on some of your favorite products or try out some new ones.  You may also be able to get additional savings by purchasing your items at Office Max with your NAPO discount card.  If you are a NAPO member look up Office Max under the Industry Exchange section of the NAPO web-site for details.

Enjoy your savings!

These calls are designed to not only help you run your business and make you a better professional organizer, but also to help you teach and transfer the skills to your clients.   Here is our current schedule:

• Helping Your Clients Manage The Paper Crisis
• Reduce Time Spent On Email

Keep in mind in order to receive Continuing Education Credits (CEU’s) you must attend “live” interactive events and A certificate of attendance will be provided to attendees as well as an audio recording of the live call.  Depending on your scope of work, the calls may apply towards your continuing education. 

Register at http://www.aredbench.com/calendar.php

• We kicked off the year as a finalist in the “Most Valuable Educational Resource” category of the 2009 LA Organizing Awards.

• We held more than 25 live teleclass on the topics of organizing, marketing, social media and business development. 

• We hosted our first booth at the NAPO Conference. 

• We hosted our first Social Media Event where 8 trailblazers from this new phenomenon shared their tips and tricks on how to make the most of this amazing technology. 

• We enhanced our Teleclass Membership, adding many new benefits of membership. 

• We kicked off our Become An Infopreneur Program and have a class of organizers creating their very own information product. 

• Christa presented, “From Organizer to Infopreneur,” at the POC Conference.

• Angela was selected as a panelist for the 2010 NAPO Conference “Ask The Organizers” Panel. 

• We were once again nominated in the “Most Valuable Educational Resource” category of the 2010 LA Organizing Awards.

Visit our website for educational tools and resources to grow your business.