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Marketing intern wanted for podcast startup

May 19th, 2011 by Michael Surkan   |   No Comments

PracticalPodcasting.com is looking for a marketing intern to help create collateral and build awareness for it’s completely unique vision of using podcasting as a professional networking tool. PracticalPodcasting.com exists to help people build the professional relationships they need to succeed in their business or career through podcasting. The principal is simple: most people will jump at the chance to be interviewed for a podcast.

This marketing internship is a fantastic opportunity to learn how to do podcasting yourself and build fruitful professional relationships with the people you want to know to help in your own career.

Responsibilities include:
-    Developing content for PracticalPodcasting.com, such as how-to videos and articles.
-    Interview business people and thought leaders for podcasts that are published on the site.
-    Promote the podcasts and the site through internet PR and social media.

Qualifications:
-    Writing samples demonstrating excellent command of English.
-    Very understandable conversational English.
-    A passion for meeting new people and learning about them.
-    Must have a Facebook and LinkedIn account.

This unpaid internship will require a minimum 4 hours a week commitment for 2 months. We will provide plenty of help and advice on how to do podcasting, social media marketing, and networking in general. Location is not important. This job will be done via telecommuting. Hours are highly flexible.

If you are interested in learning more about this idea, join www.PracticalPodcasting.com as a free member and watch the video on the “Quick Start Guide” in the Members Only area. If you are still interested in the idea after watching the video please e-mail jobs@practicalpodcasting.com.

Monika Becker – Know Your Path-Realize Your Vision!

May 11th, 2011 by Christine Till   |   No Comments

Monika Becker

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Monika Becker worked for more than 12 years in sales and marketing in the horticultural industry in Europe and Northern America.  Over seven years ago Monik transitioned into the tourism industry here in BC, where she eventually led, motivated and coached a sales team of 25, and provided professional training and workshops to the group.

Due to organizational restructuring Monika lost her corporate job in the autumn of 2008.  She decided to use this new opening in her life to take additional coaching training and pursue entrepreneurship.  She subsequently participated in a self-employment program and started her own coaching business Clear Directions – Consulting and Life Coaching in 2009, where her vision is a world of conscious, peaceful and empowered people.

Monika is a published author, accomplished presenter, communication specialist and translator, fluent in English and German.

An experienced corporate and private coach, Monika is guided by her motto “Know Your Path – Realize Your Vision!”  She works with clients ready to look for answers inside themselves, and assists them with a holistic, pragmatic approach.  Her specialty lies in supporting clients in creating and implementing Life Visions, as well as Living through situations of Loss and Grief.

Regardless of the starting point, Monika’s clients may expect to gain deeper awareness, create a clear vision, and receive committed assistance in moving forward in life – one step at a time.

Monika Becker
604.737.0870
Monika@ClearDirections.ca
www.MonikaBecker.tel

Know Your Path – Realize Your Vision!

 

In Praise of Failure

May 10th, 2011 by Travis Brandt   |   No Comments
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In this Practical Podcasting episode, Travis Brandt interviews the Practical Podcasting founder Michael Surkan to find out what brought him to do podcasting. Michael’s journey has a lot of twists (including a deportation from Germany), but his willingness to stick his neck out stands out.

Failure, and how people deal with it, is one of the things that fascinates Michael the most. It the ability of people to pick themselves up from setbacks which is the most admirable. Success is easy. It’s failure, and the willingness to fail, that is to be admired.

You can check out Michael’s ideas for how to use podcasting to grow your business or find a job at www.PracticalPodcasting.com.

You can learn about Travis Brandt’s Seventh Level Marketing ideas at ???

Preet Pall – Employee Trainer for Benefit Plans

May 7th, 2011 by MarketingMentress   |   No Comments
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What does Preet Pall do that nobody else does?  We discover this in our interview.

Preet  has worked for 4 different insurance companies for a total of 12 years (RBC Insurance, London Life, Blue Cross, The Mutual Group) and an additional 7 years as an Insurance broker.  That’s almost 20 years of experience.  Preet specializes in consulting, designing and implementing both corporate and individual insurance solutions. She prides herself on providing sound advice, innovative plans, customized designs and timely industry updates. Her dedication is excellent customer service, honesty and respect to build lifelong client relationships.

 

·         Since 2009 Preet has been the CEO of Global Change for Children www.gc4c.org :

·         She has been a volunteer at Coquitlam Minor hockey for the past 4 years;

·         For the past 3 years Preet has volunteered at Central City Foundation – feeding the homeless.

·         In 2007 Preet completed an exchange program to Turkey for 6 weeks through the Rotary foundation.  Promoted good will, represented Canada and did 15 presentations in Turkish to various groups.

·         Enjoys backing the world

Contact Preet: Tel: (604) 683-2400 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (604) 683-2400      end_of_the_skype_highlighting    Cell: (604) 908-3445 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (604) 908-3445      end_of_the_skype_highlighting    Fax: (604) 662-3208

·             Email:  ppall@thebronsongroup.ca

·         Website:  www.thebronsongroup.ca and www.profmed.ca

Mat Maybee – Your Friendly IT Guy

May 6th, 2011 by MarketingMentress   |   No Comments
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When you bring Mat Maybee into your firm to help with your IT services, he brings with him a great sense of humour and finely tuned people skills. Mat Maybee

What makes Mat different from all the other IT people is that he takes his time with you, and listens to what you need.  You can understand him because he speaks to you in “Lay” terminology.  Mat has been in “your” shoes himself and understands what it is like not to be “techie”.

As an IT specialist with 20 years of experience, Mat is truly passionate about working with his clients and providing a reputable source of computer help and services. His main goal is to do exactly what he is doing now, except on a much larger scale.

Mat’s company, Critical Support Now, is a local computer support company who provides mobile IT support to home users and small businesses in Vancouver and cities like Burnaby, Coquitlam and New Westminster. A wide range of services are provided from basic home user computer maintenance to the professional services that a business requires like network installs including servers, switches, backups and all the integrated network solutions.

The types of marketing that work best for Mat include using social media and SEO with his websites, but he finds that networking works extremely well for him.  “After all, it is the face-to-face relationships that are the keys to building your business,” Mat says.

Email: mat.maybee@criticalsupportnow.com

Websites: www.criticalsupportnow.com

www.yourfriendlyitguy.com

Phone: 604-825-8946

Roy Osing – Be Different or Be Dead

May 6th, 2011 by MarketingMentress   |   No Comments

Roy Osing

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“Are you the only one who…?”

Mr. Roy Osing speaks about how to be the only business that does … or the company that has the only product that is…    It is all about being different from anyone else out there.

With 3 decades of experience to influence him, Roy now is able to help others be successful with their businesses and their marketing strategies.

A leading executive in the Canadian telecommunication industry and a recognized blogger, speaker, seminar leader, business consultant, educator and personal coach, Roy Osing’s career spans over three decades of singular achievement.

During his distinguished tenure with TELUS, Osing served as chief marketing officer, senior vice president for Strategic Alliance Management, and executive vice president and president of TELUS Advanced Communications. Osing developed multiple strategic partnerships and alliances with major corporations over the years, and was responsible for exponential growth in emerging data and internet businesses, successfully positioning TELUS as a global leader in the industry.

Osing was senior vice president in marketing, of the former BC TELECOM. Under his leadership, the company received the 1998 American Marketing Association’s “Marketer of the Year Award” in British Columbia.

A graduate of the University of British Columbia with degrees in mathematics and computer science, Osing is founding chair and president of the British Columbia Quality Council. He is a former member of the board of directors of the Vancouver Board of Trade, the British Columbia Technology Industry Association, the British Columbia Cancer Foundation, and the British Columbia & Yukon Heart and Stroke Foundation.

Roy Osing is founder, president and chief executive officer of Brilliance for Business, an organization dedicated to providing practical and proven ways to improve both business and personal performance.

Website:  www.bedifferentorbedead.com

Email:  roy.osing@telus.net

Twitter:  http://bit.ly/iiocrY

LinkedIn:  http://linkd.in/dI7WJi

YouTube:  http://bit.ly/bTb3WN

The True Cause of Your Problems and What to do About Them. Sheryl Stanton

May 2nd, 2011 by MarketingMentress   |   No Comments
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Sheryl Stanton of Stress Relief for Life speaks on what’s holding you back from achieving your full potential. SherylStanton2-white.jpg

As recipient of the “Woman of Worth” Health and Wellness Award for 2010, Sheryl exhibits the reason why she won this prestigious award.  She is a Registered Nurse, and has many years of experience practicing in this field.  -But, it was after she, herself was diagnosed with a debilitating, stress-related disease that doctors said was incurable, that she took action and found out how to heal herself.

Stress is behind most illnesses and addictions, Sheryl says.  She has helped many people find the solution to exactly what is the cause of their stress and helps them conquer multiple types of addictions…many of which are visible and most of which are not.  With the help of EFT (Emotional Freeedom Technique), which She found was the most effective in restoring her own health and breaking the negative emotional blocks that had caused her illness, Sheryl Stanton teaches people how to apply them in their own lives.

Come and find out how EFT works, what it does and how to use the techniques to help you in your own life achieve a far greater level of well being.  Find out how these techniques can work for you by registering today for her last Spring event of 2011.

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011, from 7:00pm -10:00pm, in Langley, BC, the last of her Spring workshops is running.  Register now to reserve your seat, while there are still a few seats left, at www.sherylstanton.com, or email her at stressrelief@shaw.ca