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		<title>Week 6: Eric Lofholm &#8211; What Customers Really Want From a Sales Connection</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wackypuppy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eric Lofholm is a Master Sales Trainer who has trained tens of thousands of sales professionals nationwide. He is President and CEO of Eric Lofholm International, Inc., an organization he founded to serve the needs of sales professionals worldwide. Eric &#8230; <a href="http://www.wideawakemarketing.com/week-3-eric-lofholm-what-customers-really-want-from-a-sales-connection/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.wideawakemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Eric-Lofholm1.jpg"><img src="http://www.wideawakemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Eric-Lofholm1.jpg" alt="" title="Eric-Lofholm" width="193" height="222" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-577" /></a>Eric Lofholm is a Master Sales Trainer who has trained tens of thousands of sales professionals nationwide. He is President and CEO of Eric Lofholm International, Inc., an organization he founded to serve the needs of sales professionals worldwide.</p>
<p>Eric has been trained by the top trainers of his time including: Anthony Robbins and Dr. Donald Moine Ph. D. as well as countless others. Many of America’s top companies hire Eric regularly to train, motivate, and inspire their sales teams. His clients have added millions of dollars in sales to their record after attending Eric’s energetic and groundbreaking seminars.</p>
<p><strong>Wednesday, March 28</strong><br />
So many of us believe selling is a naturally acquired skill.  People are either born with it or not.  However, some of the very best at engaging a new prospect or understanding with an existing customer needs next have no formal sales skills and no “natural” skill.  What they do have is the desire to learn what customers want, how they love to be engaged.  In this session, you’ll:<br />
&nbsp;</p>
<ul>
<li>Learn what true customer connections look like</li>
<li>Release yourself from sales, emails and visits that don’t do anything</li>
<li>Invite ease and grace into your sales work</li>
<li>Transcend from being a promoter to a provider</li>
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<p>Join us and learn to make your social media connections meaningful and fruitful.</p>
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		<title>Week 5: John Limbocker &#8211; How Customers Really Use The Internet to Find Businesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wackypuppy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Limbocker is Founder and CEO of Internet Dominators, responsible for over $150 Million in increased online sales for its clients through natural SEO techniques. He knows how people who are ready to buy—not just kick the tires—search using the &#8230; <a href="http://www.wideawakemarketing.com/week-2-john-limbocker-how-customers-really-use-the-internet-to-find-businesses/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.wideawakemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/John-Limbocker.jpg"><img src="http://www.wideawakemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/John-Limbocker.jpg" alt="" title="John-Limbocker" width="193" height="222" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-579" /></a>John Limbocker is Founder and CEO of Internet Dominators, responsible for over $150 Million in increased online sales for its clients through natural SEO techniques.  He knows how people who are ready to buy—not just kick the tires—search using the Internet. His focus—first, last and always—is on delivering the right prospect to your business by crafting a keen understanding of who they are and how they search.  You can only do this when you understand how people really operate when they are searching online.  This is the initial spark that creates explosive results.</p>
<p><strong>Wednesday, March 21</strong><br />
In this class, you’ll discover:<br />
&nbsp;</p>
<ul>
<li>What real buyers do to find companies online</li>
<li>Things your website should be doing…and they’re not</li>
<li>Why offering more expensive products might be the right path</li>
<li>When Google is your friend…and when they just might not be</li>
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<p>With this new perspective, you’ll be able to use the Internet to engage the right prospect and do it more swiftly.  The Internet&#8211;and how businesses succeed using it&#8211;seems to change every five minutes.  John knows the keys to turn your Internet efforts into a customer-engaging experience.</p>
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		<title>Week 4: Loral Langemeier &#8211; YES! Energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wackypuppy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loral Langemeier is one of todays most visible and innovative money experts. She continues to expand her horizons, even through the challenges of today’s economy. Because of her tenacity and absolute confidence in what she teaches, Langemeier is one of &#8230; <a href="http://www.wideawakemarketing.com/week-6-loral-langemeier-yes-energy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.wideawakemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Loral-Langemeier1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-570" title="Loral-Langemeier" src="http://www.wideawakemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Loral-Langemeier1.jpg" alt="" width="193" height="222" /></a>Loral Langemeier is one of todays most visible and innovative money experts. She continues to expand her horizons, even through the challenges of today’s economy.</p>
<p>Because of her tenacity and absolute confidence in what she teaches, Langemeier is one of only a handful of women in the world today who can claim the title of “expert” when it comes to financial matters and the making of millionaires.</p>
<p>She accelerates the conversation about money, sharing how to, not just survive this tough economic climate, but how to succeed and thrive</p>
<p><strong>Wednesday, March 14 </strong><br />
It often feels as if the hardest part in business is staying motivated through the ups and downs of life, the economy and competition. Businesses—and customers&#8211;require positive energy, and yet it’s often so deeply challenging to be “up” when you need to be. Here’s how you tap YES! Energy for your customers and yourself. In this class, you will:<br />
&nbsp;</p>
<ul>
<li>Learn Loral’s Energy Equation to solve the mystery of your life’s true path</li>
<li>Get motivated to put YES! Energy into your daily marketing and sales work</li>
<li>Transform how customers and prospects relate to you</li>
<li>Identify habits that create to keep and tap YES! Energy when you need it most</li>
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		<title>Week 3: Carol McManus &#8211; What Customers Really Want From a Social Media Connection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wackypuppy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carol’s known as America’s “LinkedIn Lady”, and her passion is helping business owners and operators flourish by delivering all the information you need to be successful on LinkedIn. Why? Because she built a 6-figured consulting and speaking business in less &#8230; <a href="http://www.wideawakemarketing.com/week-5-carol-mcmanus-what-customers-really-want-from-a-social-media-connection/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.wideawakemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Carol-McManus.jpg"><img src="http://www.wideawakemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Carol-McManus.jpg" alt="" title="Carol-McManus" width="193" height="222" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-572" /></a>Carol’s known as America’s “LinkedIn Lady”, and her passion is helping business owners and operators flourish by delivering all the information you need to be successful on LinkedIn. Why? Because she built a 6-figured consulting and speaking business in less than 18 months using LinkedIn the right way!</p>
<p>Social media is an essential tool for any business today. Carol advocates the use of any social networking site that will put you in front of the right target audience. Her preference for LinkedIn is because professionals serving direct consumers and business to business markets must have a viable presence on Linkedin in order to build the <em>right</em> relationships for future growth.</p>
<p><strong>Wednesday, March 7th </strong><br />
Do you wonder why some people move forward successfully engaging new prospects and customers on Facebook, Twitter and the like?  They seem to have an ease, inspiration  and confidence—and maybe some underlying secret knowledge—about what people need to hear and connect with.  Meanwhile, you’re stuck, still worrying about and struggling with “the way it should work.” What if you could discover the mysteries of social media as a method of creating a true connection with prospects and customers? How much more wealth and wellbeing could you enjoy?</p>
<p>In this class, you’ll learn to see past all the things that turn off readers and how to use social media to truly connect.  As a result, you will:<br />
&nbsp;</p>
<ul>
<li>Learn what true social media connections look like</li>
<li>Release yourself from blogging, posting and commenting that doesn’t do anything</li>
<li>Invite ease and grace into your social media work</li>
<li>Transcend being a promoter rather than a provider</li>
</ul>
<p>Join us and learn to make your social media connections meaningful and fruitful.</p>
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		<title>Week 2: Jay Conrad Levinson &#8211; The Guerilla Customer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wackypuppy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jay Conrad Levinson is the Father of Guerilla Marketing and the author of more than a dozen books in the Guerrilla Marketing series. He is a former vice president and creative director at J. Walter Thompson Advertising and Leo Burnett &#8230; <a href="http://www.wideawakemarketing.com/week-4-jay-conrad-levinson-the-guerilla-customer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.wideawakemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Jay-Conrad-Levinson.jpg"><img src="http://www.wideawakemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Jay-Conrad-Levinson.jpg" alt="" title="Jay-Conrad-Levinson" width="193" height="222" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-574" /></a>Jay Conrad Levinson is the Father of Guerilla Marketing and the author of more than a dozen books in the Guerrilla Marketing series.  He is a former vice president and creative director at J. Walter Thompson Advertising and Leo Burnett Advertising.  No one knows more about easy and inexpensive strategies for making big profits in a small business than Jay, and in the course of understanding businesses, Jay has mastered the art of understanding the customer.  With the economy up one day, and down the next marketers have been turning to unconventional marketing tactics that are guaranteed to work, when done correctly.  Jay’s that man.</p>
<p><strong>Wednesday, February 29th </strong><br />
The hardest thing for businesses to do is to walk their talk. If all companies would simply make the commitment to actually BE the advocate for customers, to put the initial risk of saying “Yes, I’ll work with you” on their shoulders rather than the customer’s, the whole world would be filled with growing businesses and happy owners!</p>
<p>Get a clear understanding of the value of walking your talk and recognize what you’re missing out on if you don’t! In this class, you’ll:<br />
&nbsp;</p>
<ul>
<li>How To build better relationships with your customers that encourage repeat business and larger transaction sizes</li>
<li>Guerrilla Marketing Weapons you can deploy right away, with more than half being 100% free of charge</li>
<li>Discover what business success really feels like!</li>
</ul>
<p>With these new tools and perspectives, you can activate your customer power, grow to be the most compelling presence for your customers, and truly create the change you’d like to see. </p>
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		<title>Week 1: Rick Frishman &#8211; Reprogram How You Communicate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wackypuppy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rick Frishman, the founder of Planned Television Arts, has been one of the leading book publicists in America for over 30 years. He works with many of the top book editors, literary agents and publishers in America. Rick is a &#8230; <a href="http://www.wideawakemarketing.com/week-1-rick-frishman-reprogram-how-you-communicate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.wideawakemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Rick-Frishman.jpg"><img src="http://www.wideawakemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Rick-Frishman.jpg" alt="" title="Rick-Frishman" width="193" height="222" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-581" /></a>Rick Frishman, the founder of Planned Television Arts, has been one of the leading book publicists in America for over 30 years. He works with many of the top book editors, literary agents and publishers in America. Rick is a Publisher at Morgan James Publishing in New York. He has also appeared on hundreds of radio shows and more than a dozen TV shows nationwide including <em>OPRAH</em> and <em>Bloomberg TV</em>. He has been featured in the <em>New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Selling Power Magazine, New York Post</em> and scores of publications.</p>
<p>He is the co-author of ten books, including national best-sellers <em>GUERRILLA PUBLICITY</em> and <em>NETWORKING MAGIC</em>, co-hosts a radio show, <em>Taking Care of Business</em>, which airs every Thursday from 2:00-3:00 pm on <a title="TCB Radio" href="http://www.tcbradio.com/">WCWP-Radio</a> in Long Island, New York. And as if that wasn’t enough, his Author 101 Conference is the “must attend” workshop for authors and those who want to be.</p>
<p><strong>Wednesday, February 22nd</strong><br />
The hardest thing small business owners need to learn is to speak in the language of the customer. Understanding how to communicate in such an unclear, uncertain place takes some insight. You need to know what customers respond to these days…and what lands on flat ears. In this session, you’ll learn:<br />
&nbsp;</p>
<ul>
<li>Why asking customers what they want is fruitless</li>
<li>How to communicate what they need/want when they don’t know</li>
<li>Communication tips to connect with people who don’t know they need you</li>
</ul>
<p>With these new tools and perspectives, you’ll strengthen your communications so that you can lead your customers unlike ever before.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
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