Meet the Experts
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ZAK BARRON: Regional Development Director at Constant Contact Website: www.constantcontact.com/local/colorado/index.jsp Constant Contact®, Inc. helps small businesses, associations, and nonprofits connect with their customers, clients, and members. Constant Contact champions the needs of small organizations and provides them with an easy and affordable way to build successful, lasting customer relationships. Constant Contact's leading email marketing, online survey and event marketing tools—supported by its expert personal coaching and support—help all types of small businesses and organizations create professional-looking email newsletters and insightful online surveys and begin a dialogue with their customers. With Constant Contact, small organizations have access to the latest industry information and education to help them learn email marketing and online survey best practices. DU Webinar Training: "Improving Your Email Marketing" Zak's webinar will be available in Destination University in the coming months. |
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RICH CARRARO: President at ClownBike.com Advertising. Website: www.ClownBike.com After spending twenty years on Madison Avenue as a writer and producer, Rich opened his one-man ad agency called ClownBike.com. From concept to completion, Rich does it all. His mission: to bring Madison Avenue creativity to the neglected field of local advertising, while elevating it to an art form. The ClownBike Motto: “Affordable, local advertising that doesn’t suck.” Why so rude? Two reasons: Number one: to get your attention, the first rule of advertising. Number two: because it’s true. DU Webinar Trainings: Applying Madison Avenue Advertising to Your Business, Parts 1-4
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ANDY CORE: President at Core Wellness, Award Winning Life Balance Speaker |
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SHAWNE DUPERON: CEO of ShawneTV, Five-Time EMMY Award winning producer Website: www.ShawneTV.com Shawne Duperon has been in the television business for nearly 20 years. She has taught thousands of people across North America how to dramatically lower their marketing costs while receiving thousands of dollars in free publicity. She's worked at ABC, NBC and interviewed and filmed hundreds of celebrities. She has been featured in newspapers such as USA Today, The Washington Post and The Chicago Tribune to name a few. Shawne was named "Innovator of the Year" and one of the top ten women-owned businesses by The National Association of Women Business Owners. Shawne says Media is the ultimate network. Knowing how to create and navigate strong media relationships is the secret to unlimited marketing power. DU Webinar Training: "How to Get Your Business on Television and Get Through the Media Muck" |
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DEBRA FINE: Professional Speaker, Best Selling Author of The Fine Art of Small Talk Website: www.DebraFine.com Debra Fine is a nationally recognized expert on communication skills. She teaches conversation skills and business social networking techniques for use at networking events and social functions. Do you dread networking events, meeting new people, hospitality suites and business related mingling functions? These business social occasions represent opportunities to develop relationships and broaden social and business networks. Once you master The Fine Art of Small Talk, every conversation will become an opportunity for success. Recent media appearances include the Today Show, the Early Show, NPR, CNN, Fox Business News, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Men’s Health Magazine. DU Webinar Training: "How Small Talk Can Lead to Big Results in Your Business"
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HOWARD HYDEN: President at The Center for Customer Focus Howard Hyden is the founder and President of the Center for Customer Focus and the originator of "Outside-In", a very powerful concept that can transform corporate culture. Howard’s reality-based ideas give a step-by-step approach to improving your business. Howard Hyden's topic areas include customer focus, peak performance, leadership, change, motivation and sales. Howard brings over 25 years of experience, leadership and reality based ideas from major companies. As a corporate executive, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, workshop and roundtable facilitator and author, he has motivated profound transformations using his inspiring Customer Focus tools and methodology at companies worldwide.
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MICHAEL KERR: President Humor of Work, Motivational Speaker Michael Kerr is one of the world’s most in-demand motivational speakers – combining safe, outrageous humor with relevant, practical workplace ideas. Michael is an award-winning Certified Speaking Professional, the author of six books, and a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers’ Hall of Fame. Michael helps organizations become more successful by using humor in the workplace to manage stress, boost morale, inspire creativity, improve relationships and teamwork, enhance workplace communication and improve customer service. Michael also talks about what organizations, leaders and teams need to do to be successful by creating truly inspiring workplaces where a positive attitude and a sense of humor are the end result.
DU Webinar Training: "Using Humor in the Workplace: Create a Stronger Business and a Better Team" |
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MICHAEL MATTIE: President at Success Concepts Group Website: www.CoachedToWin.com Michael Mattie is a leading authority in sales, customer service, leadership, and personal effectiveness. For more than 17 years, he served in the retail industry: a family restaurant, a Coca Cola bottling and distribution business, a candy making business, hotel and banking, and the corporate world of sales. Today, Michael has become a valued teacher to thousands of successful professionals across the country. His skills allow the businesses he serves to maximize profitability in good times, and make it through recessionary times. Michael is known as a “real world” speaker who gives his audiences ideas he has tested in real life.
DU Webinar Training: "Getting Employees to Sell More to Every Customer"
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TERRI NORVELL: Leadership Trainer, Performance Coach & Team Building Website: www.FurtherPerformanceGroup.com Terri Norvell passionately assists people in organizations across the continent to do what they know to do...but just aren’t doing it. For over 13 years her organization has delivered comprehensive programs teaching and inspiring team members to bridge the gap between reality and goal achievement. The result - a more effective and engaged workforce. Terri is an active thinker and seeker of solutions to the issues people face everyday. With 20 years of performance research, she continues to pioneer unique methodologies that translate directly to innovative results. Thousands of people have shifted from limiting habits to energized performance and lasting change. DU Webinar Training: "Improving Business Performance and Attitude in Tough Financial Times"
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DAVID POLLAY: President of The Momentum Project, Syndicated Columnist, Speaker Website: www.BewareOfGarbageTrucks.com David J. Pollay is the creator of the internationally known The Law of the Garbage Truck™. He is a syndicated columnist published in newspapers, magazines, and online news sites worldwide. David is an internationally sought-after speaker and seminar leader whose work has been featured on NPR, Sirius Satellite Radio, ABC television, Univision, Crain’s New York Business, BusinessWeek Small Biz Magazine, and newspapers and books around the world. David is a founding associate executive director of the International Positive Psychology Association and a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. David is president of The Momentum Project, LLC, a consulting organization focused on applying the science of positive psychology to business and life. He has held leadership positions at Yahoo!, MasterCard, Global Payments, and AIESEC. DU Webinar Training: "Gaining Momentum and Moving Ahead When You're Feeling Stuck" |
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LYNN ROBINSON: President at Intuitive Consulting Inc.
DU Webinar Training: "Trusting Your Intuition in Times of Crisis" |
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ANDREA SCHAFER: President and CEO at Andrea Schafer Public Relations Website: http://asprconsulting.com Andrea Schafer Public Relations is a specialty PR firm with with 24 years of unique experience in media relations and strategic publicity campaigns. We can help your company raise its visability among your key audiences. ASPR builds brand awareness through customized public relations tactics designed to market your company's distinctive products and features. We are called upon when standard public relations techniques are not effective. The PR services we offer are diverse, but the foundation of our capabilities is customized media relations strategies, community relations programs that resonate, and astute communications delivered with great timing.
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JON SCHALLERT: Destination Expert, Speaker, Marketing Expert
Website: www.JonSchallert.com; www.DestinationBootCamp.com; www.DestinationUniversity.com
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