Business Trainer DeBorah Beatty Is One of Global 100!

April 16, 2008, Walla Walla, WA – Local Business Trainer, DeBorah Beatty has recently finalized her joint venture with Business Expert Webinars going live on Monday, April 21, 2008. Always on the technology cutting edge since moving to Walla Walla in 2001 from Silicon Valley in California, DeBorah says this is a logical step for her business. “Geographic boundaries no long apply in so many areas.” she states, . “If I can be more effective through webinars, shame on me if I miss out on this opportunity.”

Business Expert Webinars (BEW), an international community of business experts, comprising best-selling authors, award-winning speakers, and business gurus, announced its launch today with more than 100 speakers and 700 live business education webinars that begin airing in May 2008.

“We are using webinar technology to deliver business eLearning,” said Lee B. Salz, President and CEO of Business Expert Webinars. Topics include all genres of business –sales, networking, public relations, marketing, real estate, human resources, entrepreneurship, management and many others. Visitors interested in participating can view the extensive schedule and sign up for webinars at BusinessExpertWebinars.com. Each webinar is taught by a live presenter on the phone and is supported by a presentation delivered over the Internet.

“People are frustrated with the free webinar offerings where the price of admission is a sales and marketing pitch. Either the entire webinar is an infomercial or the content is delivered at a high-level in the session and concludes with, ‘if you really want to know how to do this, buy my CD, DVD, book, etc.’ Thus, they aren’t really free,” said Salz.

Business expert and author of “Selling to Big Companies,” Jill Konrath, said, “What attracted me to deliver content with Business Expert Webinars was that the experts pick very specific topics and go deep into the subject matter. This is strictly business education. Participants come away from BEW webinars with actionable information they can implement immediately. It is a great way for adults to learn valuable information inexpensively, without leaving the office.”

About Business Expert Webinars

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Not “Just a Mom” By Author Unknown

A woman named Emily renewing her driver’s license at the County Clerk’s office was asked by the woman recorder to state her occupation. She hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself. “What I mean is,” explained the recorder, “do you have a job, or are you just a… “Of course I have a job,” snapped Emily. “I’m a mother.”

“We don’t list ‘mother’ as an occupation… ‘housewife’ covers it,” said the recorder emphatically.

I forgot all about her story until one day I found myself in the same situation, this time at our own Town Hall. The Clerk was obviously a career woman, poised, efficient, and possessed of a high sounding title like, “Official Interrogator” or “Town Registrar.” “What is your occupation?” she probed.

What made me say it, I do not know… The words simply popped out. “I’m a Research Associate in the field of Child Development and Human Relations.” The clerk paused, ballpoint pen frozen in midair, and looked up as though she had not heard right. I repeated the title slowly, emphasizing the most significant words. Then I stared with wonder as my pronouncement was written in bold, black ink on the official questionnaire.

“Might I ask,” said the clerk with new interest, “just what you do in your field?”

Coolly, without any trace of fluster in my voice, I heard myself reply, “I have a continuing program of research, (what mother doesn’t), in the laboratory and in the field, (normally I would have said indoors and out). I’m working for my Masters, (the whole darned family), and already have four credits, (all daughters). Of course, the job is one of the most demanding in the humanities, (any mother care to disagree?) and I often work 14 hours a day, (24 is more like it). But the job is more challenging than most run-of-the-mill careers and the rewards are more of a satisfaction rather than just money.”

There was an increasing note of respect in the clerk’s voice as she completed the form, stood up, and personally ushered me to the door. As I drove into our driveway, buoyed up by my glamorous new career, I was greeted by my lab assistants - ages 13, 7, and 3. Upstairs I could hear our new experimental model, (a 6 month old baby), in the child-development program, testing out a new vocal pattern. I felt triumphant! I had scored a beat on bureaucracy! And I had gone on the official records as someone more distinguished and indispensable to mankind than “just another mother.” Motherhood…What a glorious career! Especially when there’s a title on the door.

Does this make grandmothers “Senior Research Associates in the field of Child Development and Human Relations” and great grandmothers “Executive Senior Research Associates”? I think so!!! I also think it makes Aunts “Associate Research Assistants”. No matter what it is you do, never under-sell or underestimate yourself.

Enjoy your day, your week and your lives.

Work well, play well, be well,

db

(c) 2007 DeBorah Beatty

Want To Use This Article in Your Ezine or Website? You have my permission, as long as you include this complete notice with it: “DeBorah Beatty publishes innovative tips and resource information in her blog, Opportunity’s Knocking , and is a successful speaker, meeting facilitator, trainer and business coach. If you’re ready to move to the next level, check out her website, DEBORAHBEATTY.COM “

The first call was with a local coach, Shannon Spencer, who had offered a free 1-hour session (as I do, by the way). As an entrepreneur on a shoestring, I take advantage of EVERYTHING I can that’s offered as a free trial. What we discussed primarily is narrowing my focus, identifying my niches and beginning to really get in touch with what I really am up to. It was a fabulous opportunity for me to really hear what it is I’m up to create.

Let me digress here to say that as you probably know, people learn three ways: visual, auditory or kinesthetic (seeing, hearing or touching). I tend to be visual and auditory, so hearing myself speak my dreams into existence to someone who was REALLY listening to me was amazing! I recommend you take advantage of any introductory opportunity to speak with a coach highly. (do you get a broad hint here????????)

So I hung up from talking to her and it was time to dial in to the free teleclass with Shannon Sawa who was featuring Christine Kloser. Now, I had stumbled upon Katrina’s site quite by accident (hah!) and was impressed by her range of experience, but really didn’t know her from Eve. Neither had I heard of Christine Kloser (guess that was when I was hiding under my rock over the last 4 years). Anyway, these two women proceeded to speak about growing a “Conscious Business”, one with spiritual components (not religious, mind you, spiritual. There’s a difference.) Since one of the things I am training people in is conscious languaging, I really sat up and took notice. Hey! They were speaking to me! So much of the content I already knew (as we all do) but hearing it again really activated something within me and lit that fire in my gut all over again. I have been having the time of my life creating this new business, but sitting there quietly listening and writing frantically, I could literally feel my passions igniting, my joie de vivre kicking up a level and my intention firming. It was wild! If you ladies read my blog, thank you. It was just what I needed. I recommend all of you sign up for these two women’s newsletters and everything you can get from them.

I’m also forming some conscious business networking groups here in Walla Walla (or actually, if you’re interested, we can form them online or on the phone. These days with broadband access bundles including unlimited long distance, phone meetings are quite affordable. If you’re interested, contact me now! at deborah@deborahbeatty.com.

It’s amazing to me how many business growth tools and methodologies are incorporating Spiritual concepts and Divine Purpose. Have you noticed that? Your comments, as always, are always welcome.

I took a class recently on identifying and using Dependable Strengths. I’ve mentioned this before, but this is the first time it occurred to me that once you identify just what you are wired to do, cannot not do and what you are called to do, the ways to make that happen are not only a lot easier, but more creative and fulfilling. You can check out the Dependable Strengths site at www.dependablestrengths.com.

That’s it for this entry. Please feel free to add comments. I’ll be writing more about this, you can be sure.

Until then,
Work well, Play well, Be well!

DB

(c) 2007 DeBorah Beatty

Want To Use This Article in Your Ezine or Website? You have my permission, as long as you include this complete notice with it: “DeBorah Beatty publishes innovative tips and resource information in her blog, Opportunity’s Knocking , and is a successful speaker, meeting facilitator, trainer and business coach. If you’re ready to move to the next level, check out her website, DEBORAHBEATTY.COM “

I am a failure at being what other people think I should be.
I am a failure at thinking the way other people think I should think.
I am a failure at looking the way other people think I should look.
And I couldn’t be happier.

Not being what other people think I should be has given me the freedom to explore my life and my opportunitites in different, innovative ways.
Not thinking the way other people think I should think has given me the freedom to explore self-education, alternative education and to have my education actually serve my needs.
Not looking the way other people think I should look as given me permission to be a unique individual with my own style and my own likes and dislikes.

Most of the dictionaries and 99% of society think of failure as a bad thing. I don’t happen to share their opinion. How could you possibly succeed if you don’t know how to fail? How would you recognize success, then? Look at Thomas Edison - he failed 10,000 times to make a light bulb. When asked how he felt about so many failures, he said “I have not failed, I have simply found 10,000 ways not to make a light bulb.”.

Go try something you’ve never done before. Give yourself permission to fail. That way, you get a lot more joy when you succeed! After all, if you’ve never done it before, you have nothing to compare it to and you decide whether you’ve failed at all! Failure is all in YOUR mind. How many people do you know that blow off compliments saying that they could have done better and then list excuses? Especially when they’ve done something you are aching to just achieve a 10th of? It’s all relative and it’s all so very personal.

I give you permission (if you need it) to go try something new this next week. Something you’ve never done before and know nothing about. Go ahead, have fun.

Work well, play well, be well.

DB

(c) 2007 DeBorah Beatty

Want To Use This Article in Your Ezine or Website? You have my permission, as long as you include this complete notice with it: “DeBorah Beatty publishes innovative tips and resource information in her blog, Opportunity’s Knocking , and is a successful speaker, meeting facilitator, trainer and business coach. If you’re ready to move to the next level, check out her website, DEBORAHBEATTY.COM “

Well, here’s a list of some of my favorite shortcuts to have really cool techie stuff without having to hire a programmer or spend hours learning html, xml or any other programs.

1) Turn your blog into a widget and post it anywhere

In computer programming, a widget is an element that a user interacts with such as a button, checkbox, slider, drop-down list, etc. With your blog as a widget (called a blidget), your latest posts are listed and clickable inside a scrollable box. When you update your blog, the blidget is automatically updated everywhere (only my first update wasn’t automatic … about 15 minutes later). A big plus is that it’s also easy for others to create a widget of your blog and promote it for you.

At www.widgetbox.com look down the left side and click Submit a Blidget. This no-cost service is very intuitive and with a few clicks you’ll be finished. You’ll need your blog URL and your feed URL (my feed is with http://www.blogger.com/). I inserted my blidget in my blog and it will go on the website as soon as I get a minute.

2) Have you found Stumbleupon?

http://www.stumbleupon.com/ is a really great way to find a whole bunch of sites that deal with just your area of specialization. The downside of this feature is that you have to download a toolbar and install it but the upside is that you get to rate all the websites you want to (including your own) to bring in more traffic (and isn’t that what we’re all about if we have a site?)

3) Low cost printing

http://www.vistaprint.com/ has been more in the news than it used to be. When I first started using them years ago, they were one of the best kept secrets around. You can get any one of several designs on business cards, letterheads, postcards, rubber stamps, etc. for no more than postage! Then, if you want to customize your card (change the font size or color, for example), or upload your own design (and it’s really easy to do that), and it’s a bit more for 250 full color cards on good quality cardstock. (Don’t forget about the biz card test outlined in a previous post).

4) Get paid for reading emails and get free stuff

http://www.mypoints.com/ is a little secret I’ve kept for awhile now, but I’m sharing it with you now. When you sign up for My Points, you set what information you’re looking for and what you don’t want. Then you get a bunch of emails to read. They all are well identified and they all contain a button to click to go to the sponsors’ websites. You get 5 points for each one you click through. Doesn’t take very long and you get exposed to some really great deals. Yes, you get a bunch more emails, but here’s the good part. You can trade in the points for STUFF! I’ve gotten several gift cards from WalMart, Webcertificate, Home Depot, and Barnes and Noble. And, that’s just for clicking through the buttons! If you take advantage of some of the offers (and they’re mostly great) you can get up to 1000 points in one swell foop! Also, you can order the next goodie through MyPoints once a year and get 250 points, too!

5.) Entertainment Book

Have you found this little nugget? This is a BOGO book for all entrepreneurs! Some of the best restaurants in your area are listed in here and you buy one meal and get the other free. Take a contact out to lunch and impress the you-know-what out of them without breaking the bank! It’s also not that obvious to use the coupons or the plastic card. And, if it’s the right contact, they’ll want one, too! Not only meals, but you can get movie tickets, car rentals, hotel tickets, and attraction tickets at a serious discount.

This has been such fun. I think I’ll stop for now and add another 5 moneysavers next time.

See you all.

Work well, play well, be well

db

(c) 2007 DeBorah Beatty

Want To Use This Article in Your Ezine or Website? You have my permission, as long as you include this complete notice with it: “DeBorah Beatty publishes innovative tips and resource information in her blog, Opportunity’s Knocking , and is a successful speaker, meeting facilitator, trainer and business coach. If you’re ready to move to the next level, check out her website, DEBORAHBEATTY.COM “

I find myself on my very own thrill ride, from my first step out of bed in the morning to finally stretching out at night. So many opportunities to use project management skills, time management, creative delegation, supply chain management, purchasing and materials allocation, doing the creative work for all the posters, booklets, and in-course materials. I’ve never had such fun.

I wanted to let you all know that there are amazing resources “out there” on the internet and on your bookshelves. My dear mentor, Daniel McBride always said, “To Succeed, You Must Read” and he was absolutely right. Millionaire Larry Winget says that over the years he’s read 4000 books. He’s written several as well. Have you heard the man speak? He’s very eloquent and knows his stuff! I found out about his actually by accident, flipping channels and found CNBC’s “Millionaire Inside” program. (http://www.cnbc.com/id/17912006/). It’s really an awesome site and you can go to the individual personalities’ sites to hear them recap their views. I’ve never stopped to count how many books I’ve read in the last 10 years alone, but I know my wishlist at Amazon is pretty impressive!

If you’re willing to do the work it takes to read everything out there on your specialty, you can definitely learn how to maximize your efforts. Daniel also taught me a great way to get through all those books which I’ll share with you another time.

I’m thinking of putting some of these tips and tricks into an eZine. What do you all think? You can sign up on my website under newsletters or send me an email.

Thanks to you all, keep on pushing and all my best in your efforts this week.

Work well, play well, be well

db

(c) 2007 DeBorah Beatty

Want To Use This Article in Your Ezine or Website? You have my permission, as long as you include this complete notice with it: “DeBorah Beatty publishes innovative tips and resource information in her blog, Opportunity’s Knocking , and is a successful speaker, meeting facilitator, trainer and business coach. If you’re ready to move to the next level, check out her website, DEBORAHBEATTY.COM “

I must admit feeling a bit sheepish about having waited so long to join the “feed-read” generation. I didn’t understand it so I wasn’t going to do it. But then I found a great Wikipedia post on RSS feeds, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format). So, I took a deep breath and tried a couple using Google Reader. What a nice surprise. Now I can read through my voluminous web links in a flash.

I’ve rambled on to make this point - to coin a Star Trek phrase, resistance is futile. Technology is, after all, supposed to be our friend. If you take it slow, it works out.

There is a system known as Kaizen. It has as its heart the idea that great changes come with small steps. Toyota used it to become the giant is is today. The smallest changes can have far reaching results. Think of tossing a pebble into a quiet pond = the ripples go on for miles. A single footstep in the Tundra can upset the whole ecosystem there. A whisper of gossip can make or break a career!

Watch for an entry on Kaizen later this month.

That’s it for me for today -

Work well, play well, be well.

db

(c) 2007 DeBorah Beatty

Want To Use This Article in Your Ezine or Website? You have my permission, as long as you include this complete notice with it: “DeBorah Beatty publishes innovative tips and resource information in her blog, Opportunity’s Knocking , and is a successful speaker, meeting facilitator, trainer and business coach. If you’re ready to move to the next level, check out her website, DEBORAHBEATTY.COM “

I thought I was busy before. Hah! I’m on the phone constantly, I am checking emails constantly so those folks who contact me have their questions answered, I’m researching, searching and annotating, all the time trying to keep body and soul together. I have my first three seminars scheduled for September and October and there’s much to do for marketing.

The thing that comes to mind this morning, however, is: no matter how nuts it appears to get and no matter how I think it’s too much work, I chose this insanity. I need to remember I wanted this and quite honestly, I’ve never been happier. I have said for years that entrepreneurship is an amusement park ride that has no equal. I’m living proof.

Now, here’s what I am discovering and I recommend you do this, too.

I need more business cards - time to redesign and get them printed. I recommend Overnight Prints at www.overnightprints.com. They have delivered consistent quality, professional customer service and unquestioning commitment to satisfaction. Their prices are excellent, too. You can upload your own design or use one of theirs.

I need advertising and coverage - time to write an article and submit it to the local paper on the values of coaching in small business. Works much better than a blatant bid for publicity and folks read the articles - they tend to glance through the ads but that’s it. Wish my daughter were still around, she’s now grown with children of her own, but when I did this last time, I had a huge “street gang” (she was very popular in highschool) to put up posters, hand out flyers, etc.

I needed to find a location - the local hotels were out of budget range for my first seminar, but I did find my local church hall and much more doable (not to mention free parking and lots of it).

As an entrepreneur with little or no budget, I have found very creative ways to do what needs to be done. Don’t discount what the experts say to do based on your budget or lack thereof. Sometimes you need to have a Miracle List, sure - that’s the list you have for stuff you want when a miracle happens - you, know, new car, that book/CD series by your favorite guru - those things. We’ll talk about Miracle Lists later. But what I say to you is GET CREATIVE. You have more resources than you think at your fingertips. You really do. Who do you know who can take flyers around town and put them up? Who do you know in radio, newspapers, television, etc. from your other life? One of my best contacts when my daughter was little, was one of her playbuddies’ mom’s who was a publisher. Got my first book sold that way.

TIPS AND TRICKS:

Make a list of your contacts and what they do.
Make a list of what you need to acquire, in your opinion, to be as effective as possible.
Now, take that list and see what you already have at hand if you just tweak and massage the requirement.
ASK, ASK, ASK. People really do like to say “Yes” to questions. Makes them feel needed. Ask for what you need. The worst that can happen is that they say “no”. Best answer, actually, is “No, but…”

Work well, Play well, Be well

db

(c) 2007 DeBorah Beatty

Want To Use This Article in Your Ezine or Website? You have my permission, as long as you include this complete notice with it: “DeBorah Beatty publishes innovative tips and resource information in her blog, Opportunity’s Knocking , and is a successful speaker, meeting facilitator, trainer and business coach. If you’re ready to move to the next level, check out her website, DEBORAHBEATTY.COM “