Posts Tagged ‘Teleclasses’
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
We all started businesses to have more time and life balance, right? But what they don’t tell you is as a business owner you work harder and many times for less money than having a salary job. I remember the days of working 8am – 6pm, collecting my fat paycheck every two weeks and leaving work at the office every night. Those days have been gone for a while.
That said, I love being an entrepenuer and owning my own business. Sure it takes a lot more time that I had originally thought, and the pay sometimes isn’t as consistent, but the good news is I work when I want and get to travel as often as I like and don’t have to ask anyone for permission. I love that.
Sometimes though, burnout sets in and it;s time for a change. How do you know when its time? Here are a few signs:
- You dread getting up in the morning and have a tough time getting out of bed.
- You dread going to be bed because you have to work again tomorrow.
- You dread Monday and its just Friday evening.
- You just can’t get excited about work or anything related to work.
- You complain about work a lot.
- You are making excuses as to why you’re not making more money, getting new clients, etc.
- You have a hard time imagining what the future holds for you and your business.
- You feel frustrated often due to work related issues and events.
Business owner burnout is common. Even when you love your wo
rk, we all go through times when we just want to quit or give-up. Our next A Red Bench Business Training Expert is Pam Narvaez of Direct Effect Coaching will talk us through Reinventing Your Career.
There are signs to know it’s the right time to make a change, listen to them rather than feeling angry and frustrated. Click here to register.
A Red Bench provides business training and classes to professional organizers and small businesses.
Tags: A Red Bench, Angela Ploetz, Business Training, Christa Patchen Wagner, Christa Wagner, Pam Narvaez, Professional Organizer Business, Professional Organizer Courses, Professional Organizer Education, Professional Organizing Classes, Professional Organizing Training, Red Bench Program, Teleclasses
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
How do you know when it’s time to change your career? Are you looking at your life and business and asking yourself, “Am I doing the right thing?”
If so, don’t miss next week’s teleclass with Success Coach Pam Narvaez. Have all your questions ready as as she discusses of pioneering your own career path and what it takes to get there. Attend this teleclass and stop feeling stuck and frustrated.
Date: September 02, 2009
Time: 4:00pm EST (3:00pm CST, 2:00pm MST, and 1:00pm PST)
Topic: Reinventing Your Career: How to Look Before You Leap
Tags: A Red Bench, Angela Ploetz, Christa Wagner, Managing a business, Pam Narvaez, Red Bench Members, Red Bench Program, Teleclasses
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Has the current economy got you rethinking your career path? Or perhaps it is just time for a change. Many people are looking at their lives and businesses and asking themselves, “Am I doing the right thing?” There are a lot of challenges along the way. How do you know when it’s time to change your path?
On September 2, Success Coach Pam Narvaez will lead a candid discussion of pioneering your own path and what it takes to get there. Stop feeling stuck and frustrated. Kickstart your new project or new direction by attending this teleclass.
Date: September 02, 2009
Time: 4:00pm EST (3:00pm CST, 2:00pm MST, and 1:00pm PST)
Topic: Reinventing Your Career: How to Look Before You Leap
Tags: A Red Bench, Angela Ploetz, Christa Wagner, Managing a business, Red Bench Members, Red Bench Program, Teleclasses
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Are you using social media, but not really sure why and not seeing much benefit? Keep in mind the process can take time and turning friends and followers into clients does not happen over night. But there are a few ways to speed up your results.
Since we offer training to professional organizers, and other service based professionals, we had to get some answers on this new phenomenon that is changing the way small businesses market their business. We had an Embrace Social Media, a TeleSummit a few months ago and it was a huge success and I learned so much on each of the eight expert calls
. How to use LinkedIn to find and make new connection and how to use social media and still manage to get all your other work done.
Our Embrace Social Media, a TeleSummit Audios and Transcripts will be available soon, so stay tuned or email us at info@aredbench.com to be the first to hear of their release. But in the meantime, here are a few of my own takeaways from the event.
- 90% Is Showing Up: One of our experts, Dan McComb on the topic of the The Social Media Phenomenon, said show up and be consistent. If your going to start a blog or post on Twitter then do it consistently. You can decide what that means for you, but show up and be present with your social media usage. By doing so you will more quickly become a trustworthy expert people come to rely on.
- Enjoy It: Like everything else, you don’t have to to anything you don’t want to. Expert Nancy Marmolejo, whose topic was How to Turn Followers Into Fans (and Fans Into Leads!) With Social Networking said be sure you’re enjoying social media or people will not find you genuine. Social media is very transparent and people can see right through you, so be genuine and either like what you’re doing or leave it.
It’s up to you if you want to participate, but there is a lot of opportunity out there and the world has certainly become a lot smaller with so many friends waiting for more information.
We will launch the Embrace Social Media, a TeleSummit Audios and Transcripts one at a time or you can get all eight very soon! More details coming soon!
Tags: Angela Ploetz, Christa Patchen Wagner, Christa Wagner, Dan McComb, Nancy Marmolejo, Professional Organizer Courses, Professional Organizer Education, Professional Organizing Classes, Professional Organizing Training, Red Bench, Red Bench Program, social media, Social Media Training, Teleclasses
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
We are hearing a lot about social media these days. It’s a topic that certainly can stir some emotion. Some people have jumped in with both feet and others are avoiding it like the plague. We have been using social media for a little while now and I have to say I am finding the blog and Facebook enjoyable and worthwhile, but I still have so much to learn.
Since we offer training to professional organizers, and other service based professionals, we had to get some answers on this new phenomenon that is changing the way small businesses market their business. We had an Embrace Social Media, a TeleSummit a few months ago and it was a huge success and I learned so much on each of the eight expert calls. How to use Twitter effectively and not lose your mind, how to create content around keywords and the do’s and don’t of a blog.
Our Embrace Social Media, a TeleSummit Audios and Transcripts will be available soon, so stay tuned or email us at info@aredbench.com to be the first to hear of their release. But in the meantime, here are a few of my own takeaways from the event.
- Engage People and Be Interesting: My best status updates are the ones where I pose a question and get lots of answers from my friends. This has been the beginning stage of several information products I have in the works. By asking interesting questions you get people to engage and participate with you.
- Listen: Don’t just talk all the time, listen to what’s going on, make comments and contribute. A great thing to do is send people Happy Birthday wishes to let them know you are thinking of them.
It’s up to you if you want to participate, but there is a lot of opportunity out there and the world has certainly become a lot smaller with so many friends waiting for more information.
We will launch the Embrace Social Media, a TeleSummit Audios and Transcripts one at a time or you can get all eight very soon! More details coming soon!
Tags: Angela Ploetz, Business Training, Christa Patchen Wagner, Christa Wagner, Embrace Social Media, Professional Organizer Courses, Professional Organizer Education, Professional Organizing Classes, Professional Organizing Training, social media, Social Media Training, Teleclasses
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
We are so excited that our bridge line is nearly full for our Free call on Monday, August 10th called How We Get The Right Things Done (Without Going Crazy.)
Here is what we will share on the class:
- How we run multiple businesses, projects and streams of income (without going crazy).
- How we carve out time for what matters most.
- Our PERSONAL CHECKLIST of what YOU can do to take back your time, right now!
- How you can decide what is most important this and every week.
- We will also share the one action that has made a huge difference to our business and personal life.
Register here and let us know what you think after the call. We look forward to working with you!
Tags: A Red Bench, Angela Ploetz, Christa Patchen Wagner, Christa Wagner, Professional Organizer Courses, Professional Organizer Education, Professional Organizing Training, Red Bench, Red Bench Program, Teleclasses
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
We wanted to thank Lorrie Gazette for her very nice and much apprecaited testimonial. Lorrie purchase and listened to the Powerful Needs Assessment Teleclass. I had to write and let you know how great I thought it was. I’ve taken many Teleclasses since starting my business 3 years ago, and this was one of the most content-rich classes I’ve heard in a while.” 
Lorrie is the owner of Creative Order &
Design in Texas. She is a member of NAPO, a Certified Professional Organizer & Home Stager and Certified Relocation Transition Specialist
Thanks Lorrie. We hope to work with you again soon!
Tags: A Red Bench, Angela Ploetz, Business Forms, Business Training, Christa Patchen Wagner, Christa Wagner, Lorrie Gazette, NAPO, Powerful Needs Assessment, Professional Organizing Classes, Professional Organizing Training, Red Bench, Teleclasses
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Email is is a productivity killer and nearly everyone feels the pain from email. Think about this for a second….
- 50 emails a day
- Times 4 minutes typing up a response
- That over 3 hours each day to email. (And 50 is quite conservative.)
- Factor that number into 5 days a week
- Times 50 work weeks a year = over 866 hours spent on email.
- That’s almost 22 weeks dedicating totally lost to email! Holy cow!
Can you see where all your time is going? A Red Bench, recently had a fantastic teleclass with fellow organizer and email expert, Lauren Halagarda, It was called Detox Your Inbox and one of the questions was how much time should we really be spending with email. Using Lauren’s process she shared on the teleclass she said you can process about 60 emails in 20 minutes. I was blown away by that. How long do you think it’s taking you to process 60 emails?
Here are some suggestions both from the Teleclass and some of my own practices that have become very helpful.
- Process email twice a day or in micro bursts rather than in real time
- Shut off email arrival sounds and the “new mail”
- Use your calendar and tasks features
- Send fewer emails
- Send better emails
Think of your own clients who could benefit from using email more effectively. How can you incorporate this into your services and make a huge difference for your clients. To purchase Detox Your Inbox, visit the Audio Recordings page of our website and consider attending a future A Red Bench Teleclass.
Tags: A Red Bench, Angela Ploetz, Christa Patchen Wagner, Christa Wagner, Email Overload, Lauren Halagarda, Red Bench Program, Reduce Email, Teleclasses
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Half of getting what you want is to ask for it. I learned this valuable lesson at my very first job out of college. I was a straight commission sales person for the bad country station in Pittsburgh, PA. Not the good country station, but the bad one; we had terrible ratings and the station was just not good. We had no listeners which made it tough to get advertisers on the air. 
Anyway to make a long story short I learned two things at the job. To think outside the box and to ask for what you want. I would meet with people and listen to what their needs were and then I would share with them how we could help them achieve a goal or reach a certain audience. And then…. I would ask for the business! I was listening and asking. And you know what? I started to get it. Do you ask for the business you want?
Attend our next Teleclass called “How To Sell Without Being Salesy” with Sales and Marketing Expert Helen Graves, and learn what to say if you hate to sell and selling techniques tips you can use right away. Click here for more info and to register.
Tags: A Red Bench, Angela Ploetz, Christa Wagner, Helen Graves, Red Bench Program, Sales, Teleclasses
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
In last week’s blog Are You Chasing Away Clients, I talked about the rule I learned in telemarketing training back in my college days, “three no’s and you go”. I discussed how in your third attempt to get in contact with a non-responsive client that you should define that you will not be following up with them again but that they can contact you.
But what if you are actually speaking to the client over and over again and you are not getting a “yes”? On our recent teleclass Relationship Marketing with Donna Smallin she shared with us that she called someone 7 times over two years before they agreed to have a meeting with her and then they hired her for a two year time period. Wow! The key to her success was persistence and permission. Each time she called this person she asked him “would it be okay if I check back with you in a couple of months?” Each time the prospect said “yes”. When you get permission to call someone back you don’t feel bad about calling them because they told you it was okay. In last weeks article Are You Chasing Away Clients, that situation pertains to a non-responsive client, or someone who you keep trying to contact and never can get through to them via phone or e-mail. In Donna’s example the situation pertains to a client you are actually speaking to who is telling you that they are not ready to use your services right now. These are two very different situations.
To sum it up, if you have a non-responsive client use the “three no’s and you go” rule of thumb or if you have a client who is not ready to commit you can use the “would it be okay if I check back with you in a couple of months?” technique.
Don’t forget, we’ll be learning more on How to Sell Without Being Salesy from Helen Graves on our August 3rd teleclass.
Do you have a favorite tip? We love to learn and share.
Tags: A Red Bench, Angela Ploetz, Audio recordings, Christa Wagner, Continuing Education of Professional Organizers, Donna Smallin, Helen Graves, Marketing, Professional Organizer Business, Red Bench Program, Sales, Teleclasses
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