Free Webinar Wednesdays

The New eLearning Techniques & Tools To Attract New Clients & Accelerate Your Marketing ROI.

Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 @ 1 pm Eastern Time

This week on Free Webinar Wednesdays Eric and Jeff are excited to welcome "The Business Fox", Nancy Fox, to the show to talk about ways technology has changed the way we learn (and how you can leverage it to grow your business. As you may already know, "knowledge is power" and by positioning yourself (and your business) as the expert you can begin to stand out from the rest of your competition and get people to do business with you because of what you know and how you are helping them make more intelligent, well-informed decisions. She'll also share with us a five-step process that will hellp lead to a successful eLearning program.

Nancy is the founder and president of The Business Fox, a business coaching and training company that specializes in helping service-focused businesses and professionals with high-level client attraction, and business and marketing strategy. With over two decades as a marketing executive, she's brought her business development and marketing expertise to companies around the country. She's been featured in Business Week, The Journal News, Accounting Today, has appeared on numerous radio shows and is the author of two books - "Making it Rain Without the Pain" and "THE SIXTY-SECOND COACH: Transform Yourself Into an Outstanding Coach and Transform Your Life."

Now she can add Free Webinar Wednesdays to her impressive resume of appearances and feature coverage! We can't wait to hear what she has to share with us... 

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About Free Webinar Wednesdays:

Free Webinar Wednesdays was created as a community building tool to bring professionals together to share pertinent business development information, provide subject matter experts with a platform to open a learning dialog, and inspire small business owners to reach their professional goals.

Free Webinar Wednesdays is sponsored by Community Bank Consulting, Inc.and WSI Internet Consulting.

The Secrets to Online Radio as a Powerful Medium to Grow Your Business

Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 @ 1 pm Eastern

Are you looking for a new and unique way to rise above the "chatter" when it comes to delivering your message? With e-mail, social networks and various other ways to get the message out, many people are overlooking the power of online radio as a viable business tool.

Louise Crooks, business coach, author and online radio expert, shares the secrets to online radio with us today. Louise has run her own successful online radio show for the last 4 years, interviewing fabulous industry leaders on amazing topics, attracting over 40,000 listens to her shows.  You'll learn how a platform like this can grow your business, you'll learn the basics to get started, and you'll find out if this medium is the perfect match for you and your business.

If you want credibility, respect and amazing opportunities as a leader in your business, you'll want to be on this webinar with us today!

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If you are not yet registered for the Free Webinar Wednesdays series, click here to register. We look forward to seeing you online!

About Free Webinar Wednesdays:

Free Webinar Wednesdays was created as a community building tool to bring professionals together to share pertinent business development information, provide subject matter experts with a platform to open a learning dialog, and inspire small business owners to reach their professional goals.

Free Webinar Wednesdays is sponsored by Community Bank Consulting, Inc.and WSI Internet Consulting.

Working in the Cloud - Tips to Get More Done

Date: September 28, 2011

Greetings Free Webinar Wednesday fans! This week Eric and Jeff are STILL unable to host a live show (booooo), but not to fear. We don't want to make you go without some great ideas for two weeks in a row. So, Eric has created the following myBrainShark presentation (check out the session we did on myBrainShark here) talking about some of the popular "cloud-based" solutions that have helped him (and Jeff) manage their business and get more done (in less time). The good news is that many of the tools talked about in the presentation are FREE (or they have free versions you can use to try them out).

So, sit back... grab something to take notes with and enjoy the show. Oh, and although they are not specifically mentioned in the slides, a big shout-out to the folks at myBrainShark for making this possible. Yet another super-duper "cloud-based" solution that we recommend giving a try. Without them, this would not have been possible.

Hope you enjoyed the session and learned something new (or at least got reminded to give some of these services a try). Eric and Jeff are looking forward to coming back next week LIVE (yes, we will be here) and will be welcoming one of Eric's UK colleagues to chat about some of the trends in online and digital marketing. WSI had their annual Excellence & Innovation conference last week (which was why Eric was unavailable for FWW) and will be sharing some of the new information that was shared during the event!

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If you are not yet registered for the Free Webinar Wednesdays series, click here to register. We look forward to seeing you online!

About Free Webinar Wednesdays:

Free Webinar Wednesdays was created as a community building tool to bring professionals together to share pertinent business development information, provide subject matter experts with a platform to open a learning dialog, and inspire small business owners to reach their professional goals.

Free Webinar Wednesdays is sponsored by Community Bank Consulting, Inc.and WSI Internet Consulting.

Time Management: How to link our most important priorities with the best utilization of our skills, efforts and behaviors. A coaching demonstration with Executive Coach Bea Fields and Eric Cook.

Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 @ 1 pm Eastern

This week on FWW Jeff and Eric are excited to welcome back our good friend (and FWW favorite), Bea Fields. In addition to being an accomplished author, blogging mentor and Gen Y expert, Bea is also an outstanding executive coach and has worked with many top-level executives to help overcome both business and personal challenges to achieve success. This week we will experience one of Bea's Executive Coaching sessions first-hand...

• "I have people to see and places to go."
• "I wish there were 2 of me!"
• "I did not have time to say hello, much less good-bye."
• "Once again, I am late for a very important meeting."  

Sound familiar? I bet it does.

We all thought the Internet would solve ALL of our time management woes and help us be more productive, but as business owners and a society at large, we are all facing a chronic case of not being able to manage our time... so much to do and so little time to do it. In today's fast paced, high tech world, all areas of work have new and emerging strategies that can help people not only manage their time well but can give them the ability to triple their productivity.

But having the strategies and tools are only a part of the puzzle. Being able to manage time well requires a look inward at the key behaviors and derailment factors which stop us from freeing up our time to do what matters most. During this Free Webinar Wednesday call, Executive Coach Bea Fields will coach Eric Cook on the topic of Time Management: How to link our most important priorities with the best utilization of our skills, efforts and behaviors.

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If you are not yet registered for the Free Webinar Wednesdays series, click here to register. We look forward to seeing you online!

About Free Webinar Wednesdays:

Free Webinar Wednesdays was created as a community building tool to bring professionals together to share pertinent business development information, provide subject matter experts with a platform to open a learning dialog, and inspire small business owners to reach their professional goals.

Free Webinar Wednesdays is sponsored by Community Bank Consulting, Inc.and WSI Internet Consulting.

A Conversation With Stephen Gibson - Author, Entrepreneur and More...

Date: March 2, 2011 @ 1 pm EST

Free Webinar Wednesdays - Conversation witih Steve Gibson from Eric Cook on Vimeo.
Note:  Sorry, but the audio for this recording had some problems.

With Jeff gone for this week's session, Eric will be joined by Stephen L. Gibson - a successful entrepreneur, corporate pilot, consultant, and long-time elected servant in his small community. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, however, his natural fascination with belief—epistemology—grew into a journey of introspection and inquiry that has periodically been both invigorating, and painful. Steve’s first book Truth-Driven Thinking was an examination of human emotion-driven thinking and its impact on everyday life.

His most recent was a well-received and well-reviewed novel called A Secret of the Universe: A Story of Love, Loss, and the Discovery of an Eternal Truth. It is an epic story about diverse human beliefs—in God, sexual ethics, morals, medicine, and political ideologies—told through two friends’ struggle to make sense of life’s triumphs and tragedies. Gibson uses that story to bring to life and critically examine the mental constructs and myths that too often exacerbate conflict and stifle human wellbeing, while overshadowing the metaphorical truths about the human condition that various mythologies can illuminate.

Thousands of people have also come to know of Steve’s journey through his self-disclosing blog posts, DVDs, and a popular podcast program, Truth-Driven Thinking. While Eric's original intent of bringing Steve on the show was to discuss perspectives around the concpet of online privacy (or, the lack thereof), sounds like the conversation could take take an number of different turns before we are through.

About Free Webinar Wednesdays:

Free Webinar Wednesdays was created as a community building tool to bring professionals together to share pertinent business development information, provide subject matter experts with a platform to open a learning dialog, and inspire small business owners to reach their professional goals.

Free Webinar Wednesdays is sponsored by Community Bank Consulting, Inc.and WSI Internet Consulting.

Do You Want to Work Harder (or Smarter) This Year? Careful How You Respond...

Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 @ 1 pm EST

Every two days we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization throgh 2003
-Eric Schmidt, Google

With time being one of the most precious (and cherished) resources today, people are finally coming to the realization that this is one commodity that no matter what we do, this is one element that we cannot get more of, no matter how hard we try. So, if you are like most of us and trying to get more done in the same amount of time you have two options... Work "Harder" or work "Smarter". While the former will work on the short term, the most successful out there have realized that working "Smarter" is the key to long-term success (and happiness).

In this week's FWW, Jeff and Eric are joined by fellow WSI Consultant, Gregg Towsley from California (who specializes in local search marketing) to chat about ways that he's found to "do more with less" and embrace the concept of working smarter, not harder to get more done. We'll explore the Pareto Principle (the "80/20 Rule"), which is universally applicable in many cases - 20% of your work generates 80% of your results, but the revers is also true in the sense that 80% of your work is only resulting in 20% of your success. We'll explore how to use this principle to our advantage, and just imagine if you could work less but get more for it!

We'll also talk about a couple books from author Tim Ferris (The Four Hour Workweek and his newest book, The Four Hour Body), which both explore the concept of working smarter and doing more with less. In his recent book, he puts these concepts to work for personal betterment and help to address some of the common goals that people make, but fall short of, such as...

• I am going to lose weight
• I am going to exercise more
• I am going to go to the gym twice a week
• I am going to eat a better diet
• I am going to blog daily/weekly
• I am goign to start a blog
• I am going to drink more water
• I am going to work less
• I am going to get out of debt
• Etc....

We look forward to having you join us for this informational session and hope you come away with many ideas on how to re-invent yourself, your workday and life in general.

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If you are not yet registered for the Free Webinar Wednesdays series, click here to register. We look forward to seeing you online!

About Free Webinar Wednesdays:

Free Webinar Wednesdays was created as a community building tool to bring professionals together to share pertinent business development information, provide subject matter experts with a platform to open a learning dialog, and inspire small business owners to reach their professional goals.

Free Webinar Wednesdays is sponsored by Community Bank Consulting, Inc. and WSI Internet Consulting.

Google Apps - A Lot Has Changed (For the Better)!

Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 @ 1 pm Eastern

It has been nearly six months since we looked at Google Apps in depth on FreeWebinarWednesdays.  A lot has changed in those six months!  Google Apps seems to get better almost weekly as new features and enhancements are added.

Join our resident Google Apps expert, Jeff Simpkins, as he discusses using Google Apps in your business  and outlines some of the changes and improvements that have been added since we last looked at the product.

When most people think of Google and email, they think of personal Gmail addresses.  Google Apps actually offers email hosting using your unique business domain name with their Gmail application in Google Apps.  Gmail in Google Apps is a very feature rich offering at a bargain basement price.  And Gmail is just the tip of the iceburg when it comes to features and functiuonality in Google Apps.

Jeff will share some tips on adding automation to your Google Apps to increase efficiency, reduce errors, and make retention of data effortless.  We will look at offerings from the Google Apps Marketplace.

Jeff Simpkins is President and CEO of Community Bank Consulting, Inc., one of the sponsors of FreeWebsinarWednesdays.

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If you are not yet registered for the Free Webinar Wednesdays series, click here to register. We look forward to seeing you online!

About Free Webinar Wednesdays:

Free Webinar Wednesdays was created as a community building tool to bring professionals together to share pertinent business development information, provide subject matter experts with a platform to open a learning dialog, and inspire small business owners to reach their professional goals.

Free Webinar Wednesdays is sponsored by Community Bank Consulting, Inc.and WSI Internet Consulting.

Success You Can Bank On

Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 1 pm Eastern

Click here to download the handout for this webinar:  Download Success You Can Bank On Handout 090610

Success – you may not know exactly what it is, but the last few years probably gave you the opportunity to know exactly what it is not!  It is from the unusual vantage point of knowing what didn’t work, who you don’t want to work with and for, how you don’t want to use your time that you cultivate the kind of success in your life you can take to the bank.

In this week’s FWW, Jeff and Eric talk with applied positive psychology expert and television personality, Andrea Goeglein, PhD, about the science of success and how to apply who you are to where you want to go next.

“Every external crisis has an internal solution,” says Andrea.  “The challenge is not what has happened to you but what happened to your confidence in you.”

No matter what you may believe or others have tried to convince you, life success is not a formula to be followed but a journey to be experienced.  It is a constant journey back to the greatest resources you possess – your natural behavior, your natural optimism, and your ability to develop relationships with others.  The journey begins wherever you are now and ends only when you stop taking action.

Join us with Andrea as we discuss what the Fed Chairman learned from positive psychology how you to can behave your way to success.

See a preview of the work Andrew does in the video at the bottom os this post.  This is a clip from the Rachel Ray show in early 2010.

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About Free Webinar Wednesdays:

Free Webinar Wednesdays was created as a community building tool to bring professionals together to share pertinent business development information, provide subject matter experts with a platform to open a learning dialog, and inspire small business owners to reach their professional goals.

Free Webinar Wednesdays is sponsored by Community Bank Consulting, Inc.and WSI Internet Consulting.

From Grand Central to Google Voice - Taking Phone Service to the Cloud

Date: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 1 pm Eastern

Note: Due to some "unexplained" technical issue, we were unable to capture the video portion of this week's session on Google Voice. However, GoToWebinar was able to grab the audio portion, which can be listened to by clicking on the link below. Sorry for the inconvenience and hopefully the recording feature will get fixed by next week's session.

Audio Replay - Google Voice

It started out just a few years ago and was known as Grand Central. This innovative service allowed subscribers (that were lucky enough to get in on the private beta) to register one single phone number and connect multiple numbers "behind the scenes". This enabled users to give out one number and have it ring their office, mobile, home or whatever numbers they wanted. This is just one of the many cool features the service offered users.

Fast forward and along comes who else... Google. They acquired Grand Central and renamed the service Google Voice. The kicker was that new users were held at bay while they figured out what they wanted to do with the service. Free Webinar Wednesdays co-founder Eric Cook was one of the fortunate ones to get in with Grand Central before it closed and has been using the service ever since. The other half of FWW, Jeff Simpkins, has also been using the service for a while now, although he and Eric both have different things they enjoy about the service.

The good news for the rest of you that were not able to get in before it closed (or know someone that had the ability to share an "invite" to get you in as well) is that Google just opened their Google Voice service to the masses and it's one more way that you may be able to leverage the power of the Cloud for your phone service. Attend this week's session and hear from two seasoned Google Voice users on how they have used the service over the years and where they think it's headed now that it's open to everyone. If you've ever struggled with managing too many numbers, Google Voice may be just the ticket!

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If you are not yet registered for the Free Webinar Wednesdays series, click here to register. We look forward to seeing you online!

About Free Webinar Wednesdays:

Free Webinar Wednesdays was created as a community building tool to bring professionals together to share pertinent business development information, provide subject matter experts with a platform to open a learning dialog, and inspire small business owners to reach their professional goals.

Free Webinar Wednesdays is sponsored by Community Bank Consulting, Inc.and WSI Internet Consulting.

Our Mac Guru Returns by Popular Demand!

Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @ 1 pm Eastern

In this week's FWW, Jeff will be joined by our friend Gregory McPherson, author of the blog A Day in the Life and former high school classmate of Eric's.  Greg was a guest on FWW in July, and had so many good tips to share that we decided to bring him back by popular demand.

Greg has embraced the "Mac life" both personally and professionally and runs a successful RE/MAX Landmark real estate business. Over the past couple of years, Greg has shared some great tips on technology and other helpful programs with Eric. These tips and tricks will now be shared with our FWW audience and we're certain you'll learn some new ways of getting things done at both work and home.

Join Jeff and Greg as they discuss using the Mac platform for business and other time saving and valuable technology tools than can be used with both the Mac and Windows operating systems.

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About Free Webinar Wednesdays:

Free Webinar Wednesdays was created as a community building tool to bring professionals together to share pertinent business development information, provide subject matter experts with a platform to open a learning dialog, and inspire small business owners to reach their professional goals.

Free Webinar Wednesdays is sponsored by Community Bank Consulting, Inc.and WSI Internet Consulting.