Self Employed Success

Good news! I’ve been selected, out of 240 proposals, to speak at the ICF Conference in November in St. Louis!

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the ICF, it’s the International Coach Federation, the largest professional organization for coaches in the world.

My topic will be on designing workshops and teleclass, using instructional design techniques. In my corporate life, I was an instructional designer of software and computer classes, for 25 years. I’m hoping to bring those tips and techniques to the coaching community in this presentation!

According to the article in MarketingVox, “Internet Radio Audience Grows 50 Percent,” over 12% of Americans have listened to Internet Radio in the past week. And for the “we love you because you buy stuff from us” category of 18-34 year olds, 16% have listened to Internet Radio in the past week.

Also in this article, they mention that these listeners are not necessarily simply listening to their favorite AM or FM radio station streamed over the internet. They’re listening to “authentic” internet-based radio shows.

This is good news for small business owners who want to either be a guest on an internet radio show, or host their own show. As these audience numbers creep upwards, internet radio becomes a viable marketing tool for small business owners marketing on a shoe-string budget.

Some of my favorites are:

Jim Blasingame

Entrepreneur Magazine’s Radio Show

The Coaching Show

While I sometimes listen “live,” I prefer to download the radio show to my MP3 player and listen to it while I’m walking or gardening. I actually had to buy another hard drive to store all the MP3 audio files I’ve collected, because I also download MP3s of teleclasses and interviews! It’s a great way to keep up with what’s going on in the small business world.

Do you listen to internet radio? What channels (websites) do you listen to the most? I’d love to add more to my list!

Ever wonder how to find podcasts and audios of teleclasses? Video clips of movies? I tried through Google, and it was hard to find. Luckily, I stumbled across a great site, which allows you to search for audio and video content on the internet:

http://www.singingfish.com

Colleen Bracken was the guest speaker in the May 2006 “Self Employed Success” teleclass, a series of free teleclasses that Passion For Business sponsors each month.

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Creating Your Signature Presence, with guest Colleen Bracken

Be it in the boardroom, at the podium, with a prospective client, at an interview, or in an employee team meeting: “Presence” counts!

Presence is the foundation for inspiring and influencing those around us, in all kinds of situations. Learn how to boost your natural style to the level of magnetic presence.
Some of the questions discussed include:

1. What IS presence?

2. What are your unique natural building blocks for constructing presence?

3. How does one boost those blocks to the level of a powerful magnetism?

Listen to the recording of Colleen Bracken’s teleclass.

SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) offers from business documents templates for small business owners. These include business plan templates, balance sheet templates, and many more:

http://www.score.org/template_gallery.html