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Videos to help you grow your business

Several of my videos on business growth and achieving success have been posted on the World New and Report web site.

This is one place where you can view key videos. The videos and what we cover are listed below. As you can see all are less than 11 minutes (because I know how busy you are.)

Here is the link http://wn.com/rfinklestein

  • Behavior of Successful Business Owners 6:54
  • 7 Secrets to Overcoming Adversity in Business…10:54
  • Anatomy of a Sales Call…6:38
  • How to Grow Sales…9:49
  • What Business Owners Can Do To Grow Their Business…9:56
  • Hey! It is all about taking action…6:57
  • Why Intelligent Self-Interest is Critical to Your Success…5:28
  • Nine Principles for Inspired Action: A New & Targeted Perspective…5:50
  • Only a few ideas…3:39
  • Ownership and Empowerment…2:55
  • Measurable, Repeatable, Predictable…3:12
  • Persistence…3:29
  • Free and inexpensive marketing secrets that works – part 1…9:40
  • It is all about results

These videos can be used in these areas:

Revenue and Profit Enhancement Specialist
Ron Finklestein
ron@ronfinklestein.com
330-990-0788
www.ronfinklestein.com

Business Advisory Board

Business Advisory Board

Would you like to get objective feedback from your peers (business owners)? They have no hidden objective except your success.

Would you like to learn small business marketing strategies that work? We share best practices all the time.

Do you feel overwhelmed because you have so much to do? If so you are not alone. Let us help you prioritize and stay focused on what is important.

Are you looking for an Ohio business coach you can trust? If so, how can you tell? Simple, look for the guarantee.

Are you looking to grow sales? If so call us today for your free consultation. There is no risk to you.


Ron Finklestein

Business Coach

330-990-0788

ron@akris.net

17 Actions Small Business Owners can do to Improve Business Performance

17 action small business owners can do to Improve Business Performance:

1.     Improve people skills. We call all get better in this area.  

2.     Improve your people/leadership skills

3.     Develop the people skills of your managers  

4.     Hire a personal executive coach to get an outside perspective and to hold you accountable

5.     Create effective communication training so everyone in the organization knows the rules for communicating

6.     Manage people and their performance  

7.     Teach people to support performance management

8.     Perform activities that support building an effective team

9.     Understand workplace team building and its impact on your business

10.  Create a team building challenge

11.  Attend management negotiating skills training to create win/win opportunity 

12.  Provide negotiation skills seminar for your team so they can create win/win opportunities

13.  Learn presentation skills tips to improve your effectiveness when delivering your message  

14.  Implement a business coaching program to receive ideas on implementing these 17 actions

15.  Attend a business advisory board to gain feedback from your peers

16.  Take time to communicate & coach communication skills you want in the organization

17.  Celebrate your small business success stories. This keep morale strong. 

 

This is a long list but the good news is you do not have to do them all at the same time. Pick any three and get started.

 

Ron Finklestein

Small Business Coaching

330-990-0788

ron@akris.net

Your Small Business Executive Coach

About AKRIS LLC

AKRIS LLC does both  business and executive coaching for owners and executive in businesses of all sizes.

AKRIS LLC is a results oriented business and technology consulting firm. AKRIS LLC provides interventions for businesses with revenues of less than $50M. AKRIS does this by working with business owners and senior managers and effectively integrating people, processes and technology while minimizing risk.

The AKRIS Vision

Helping successful people make their business more successful by solving tough problems

The AKRIS Mission

Our mission is to get a good night sleep by making sure we do what is right for our clients. If we are sleeping well at night we know we are doing the right things. The right things include: helping successful people eliminate risk while solving tough problems, being open and honest, asking the hard questions, admiting we are wrong when we make a mistake, knowing when not to pursue some business and being good people.

The AKRIS Values

Treat everyone with honesty, integrity and common sense

  • Honesty means always doing what is right for our clients
  • Integrity means doing what we say we are going to do
  • Common Sense means:
    • Doing what’a right (see the AKRIS Mission)
    • Knowing when to say no
    • Following the Celebrate Success Methodology
    • Implementing The Platinum Rule in all we do

The AKRIS Market

AKRIS helps companies with less than $50M in revenue. These companies includes:

  • Startups
  • Companies transitioning from an entrepreneurial environment to a more mature company
  • Mature companies that have specific needs

Who AKRIS Helps

AKRIS addresses the top pains of business owners and senior managers!!

  • We help owners make their business more predictable
  • We reduce, and eliminate where possible, the risk of doing business with AKRIS
  • We teach business owners the Fourteen Attributes of a Successful Company
  • We implement the Fourteen Attributes of a Successful Company
  • We teach classes and workshops using The Platinum Rule Principles
  • We have Business Coaching Programs
  • Akris has a Business Advisory Board for Executives

About Your Business Coach


Welcome to Your Small Business Success Expert Web Site

Finally, a business coach who tells it like it is. What do I mean? Simply this:

If you do not get 100% return on your coaching investment, AKRIS INC. (Your Small Business Success Expert), will Refund the Difference.

I am not sure how I can make this any safer for you. AKRIS does this for coaching and training. To see what training we are doing check: Business Training.

Are you interested in a  business advisory board group?

We live in world of rapid change: markets, customers, employees.

We need to keep up with this change or risk becoming obsolete or worse yet, going out of business.

Yet, who can you trust?

Typically, your accountant and attorney start charging the moment they pick up the phone (and they do not guarantee their advice). Your employees will tell you what they want you to hear, not what you need to hear. So who can you trust?

Many of the successful people I interviewed wanted and preferred paid advice. Why? Because they could be fired if they did not perform.

I like this because that way we both have some skin in the game.

I have been asked why I am doing this. Why offer this guarantee?

After studying more than 500 small business owners, writing four books on leadership, marketing, operations and achievement and testing these principles with my clients, we found nine behaviors all successful business people implement in their business and their life. My clients, who follow the process and implement these principles, are consistently getting a 100% return on their investment and more.

I am just formalizing what these people are already achieving.

This program does have a few rules:

1. You participate in our Business Mastery Advisory Board

2. You must follow the process

3. You must attend all meetings

4. You must perform the accountability items we agree to in the time we agree to

5. You must stay with the program for 12 months.

6. If you do not do rules 1-5, the guarantee is not valid.

7. If you perform these functions and you do not achieve this return, you money will be refunded.

To make this a no brainer, AKRIS INC is offering one month free, just to try out the process to see if it works for you. If it doesn’t, just return all the material and we part friends.

If you still have doubts, call me. Ron Finklestein at 330-990-0788 (ron@akris.net) and I will give you the names of existing and past clients I have worked with. I am not listing them here because I do not want them to receive call from window shoppers.

There are three things we will promise you:

1. You will learn to think differently about your business.

2. You will grow personally and professionally

3. You will reduce the risk associated with the tough decisions you make daily.

Brian Tracy said it best: the thinking that got you here will not get you there.

If you want to change how you think about your business, if those outcomes appeal to you, call me today or send me an email. I will take you through the process to see if it is right for you. If it is, let’s do some business. If it is not, that’s ok to.

Send me an email at ron@akris.net or call me at 330-990-0788.

Using Youtube to Grow Your Business

I wanted to learn more about Youtube and if it could be used to get the word out about my business.

I posted a few videos about my topics that are important to me and posted them. I sent out some links to some people to see if they would view them. I also posted them on my web sites.

On http://www.celebrating-success.com I posted a short video on The Platinum Rule.

On http://www.businessmasterynow.com I posted a short video on the value of business advisory boards.

On http://www.yourbusinesscoach.net I posted a video of 3 behaviors that all businesses must implement to be successful.

What I found is quite interesting. Youtube tracks all the hits; the number of times someone watches a video. All three videos are getting visibility beyond what I expected but the video at http://www.yourbusinesscoach.net is getting the most views. I think this is because it is the shortest and my blog drives the most traffic to this site. The other two sites are newer and do not have the same amount of traffic.

I chose Youtube because: 1. Youtube gives you the HTML code to post the video on my web site. 2. I do not have to do any of the work in posting videos to my site and figuring out how to make them work. 3. Youtube gives you a link to send to your associates to promote the video. 4. Youtube provides statistics for each person who views my video.

Youtube does have some limitations you need to know about. First they allow no video greater than 100 MB in size. Second, they allow no video to exceed 10 minutes and 59 seconds. This a bit troublesome in that I have one video that is 11 minutes and I cannot post it on Youtube.

I would suggest you use Youtube as an additional leg on your marketing and public relations stool to help get the word out. I do not consider Youtube anything more that a way to generate some good contents that I can use to promote my business.

To Your Success,

Ron Finklestein

330-990-0788

info@yourbusinesscoach.net

Do You Need an Business Advisory Board?

Instead of writing a long article on advisory boards and the questions you need to ask yourself to see if an advisory board is right for you, I am posting this 10 minute video that discusses who (uses and needs) advisory boards. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7M0iXJqFnA

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