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May6

They said it couldn’t be done, I said, “Oh yeah? Let me show you what I can do.”

Nick-Anthony Zamucen

President & CEO

Bio-One Inc.

http://www.BioOneInc.com

“Nick-Anthony Zamucen” the President & CEO of Bio-One Inc. The first and only successful franchised crime scene cleaning company. Nick-Anthony has done for the “crime & trauma scene cleaning industry” what Mark Zuckerberg has done for social media. He is also a published author, business strategist, and an award winning serial entrepreneur that has had tremendous success in various business ventures. He has recently been named to the list of “Top 40 Under 40 CEO’s” and has lead the Bio-One franchise organization to three national franchise awards in the last year.

Bio-One Inc. is the first and only successful crime and trauma scene clean-up franchise. Our franchises are in 10 different states and we are by far, the leader in bio-recovery worldwide. Bio-One’s marketing campaigns are industry specific, innovative and have proven successful year after year.

MO: How did you come up with the concept for Bio-One?

Apr22

“What you need to do the most is what you do not want to do – successful entrepreneurs are masters of that principle.”

Gail Doby

Design Success University

Founder

http://www.DesignSuccessU.com

Design Success University provides 100% virtual continuing education for entrepreneurs – marketing and business. DSU offers books, classes, coaching and consulting to small businesses that are ready to go to the next level.

Design Success University currently serves over 11,000 interior designers in 51 countries.

MO: How did you come up with the concept for Design Success University?

Mar15

“The game of business is always changing, so running a business is not the same from one year to another.”

Tom Dedin

Constructus International

Founder and CEO

http://Constructus.com/

Tom Dedin is the founder and CEO of Constructus International, a group of professional consultants who help contractors improve their profitability through continued education and the implementation of cutting-edge business practices.

Nov20

“Business is never B2B or B2C. It’s H2H – Human to Human.”

Erika Napoletano

RHW Media

Head Redhead

http://www.ErikaNapoletano.com

Erika Napoletano holds no fancy titles and is an expert at nothing except screwing up royally and learning from her mistakes.

As the person behind the RedheadWriting online persona, Erika’s been hailed by Forbes as a “spinless spin doctor” for her BS-free perspectives on business, marketing, branding, and life in general. She’s a twice-published author, including The Power of Unpopular (Wiley 2012), a columnist for both Entrepreneur Magazine and American Express OPEN Forum, and speaks at conferences across the U.S. on the inherent power of truth in business… or as she refers to it, the power of unpopularity. A recent speaker at TEDx Boulder – the world’s largest independently organized TED event – she’s a gal who’s come to be quite comfortable living in her “unpopular” skin . She lives in Boulder, Colorado and is the Head Redhead at RHW Media, her branding and business strategy consulting firm that helps businesses get UNstuck and over those annoying problems that keep them from being awesome.

MO: What are the most common issues you see plaguing people or businesses that keep them from being awesome?

Oct10

“I’ve found that no matter what a management team tries to implement, a company culture is in reality just the sum of the people in the company.”

Jeremy Ostermiller

Altitude Digital Partners

Founder & CEO

http://www.AltitudeDigitalPartners.com

Altitude Digital Partners is a leader in digital advertising technology. Altitude Digital Partners empowers online publishers to maximize their revenue by optimizing their ad space and eliminating unnecessary ad operations costs. Altitude provides a full scale Supply-Side-Platform for display and online-video advertising.

Jeremy Ostermiller is the founder and CEO of Altitude Digital Partners. Altitude was recently named #54 on Inc. Magazine’s 2012 Inc. 500 list. The ad tech firm’s client roster is in the hundreds and full of the world’s premier online publishers. On average Altitude is able to increase a publisher’s revenue up to 300%.

MO: For those of us who are unfamiliar, can you explain what a Supply Side Platform is?

Aug2

“The idea of life fulfillment is very important to us at Sage Restaurant Group. We are very focused on constant innovation, and embrace change.”

Peter Karpinski

Sage Restaurant Group

Co-Founder & COO

http://www.sagerestaurantgroup.com

Peter Karpinski joined Sage Hospitality in 2005, charged with founding, creating, and launching what has become Sage Restaurant Group. He has overseen the launch of ten award-winning Sage Restaurant Group concepts, including Temple in Providence, The Corner Office and Second Home Kitchen + Bar in Denver, Mercat a la Planxa in Chicago, Urban Farmer, the Original and Departure in Portland, Braddock’s in Pittsburgh, Toasted Oak Grill & Market in the Detroit area and highly anticipated, Kachina Southwestern Grill in Westminster, Colorado set to open in September 2012.

Sage Restaurant Group is a team of passionate, industry-leading restaurateurs who excel in the realm of F&B operations by creating and operating successful concepts that are distinctly branded, innovative, and highly designed.

Our team creates unexpected, playful, and locally-focused food and beverage experiences that connect with the people who live and work in the communities we serve. Whether joining us for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or lingering over drinks, Sage Restaurant Group’s clientele are hungry for life and eager to savor new experiences in which food is an entrée to adventure.

MO: What initially attracted you the hospitality industry?

Apr11

“I call this phase of evolution, Call Center 2.0. By bringing the work to the people, rather than the people to the work, Alpine Access has literally turned the industry on its head.”

Jim Ball

Alpine Access

Founder & CTO

https://www.alpineaccess.com/index.php/

Jim Ball is the co-founder aof Alpine Access, as well as the pioneer of the home-based model. He currently serves as chief technology officer and managing partner of Alpine Access Consulting. Jim also works with the senior management team as the company expands to offer services in new lines of business.

Alpine Access pioneered the employee-based virtual at-home model in 1998. It is a technology-empowered, services company focused on delivering improved customer satisfaction, loyalty and profitability to clients through the use of home-based agents. Alpine Access has operated in a 100% virtual world from inception and uses cloud-based technologies to power its outsourced services. It has been repeatedly recognized for record growth and industry leadership.

MO: What inspired you to create Alpine Access? How has your background and experience helped contribute to the development and success of the company so far?

Apr3

“I’ve never wanted to do anything else, not even more than a hundred novels and 30 book tours later!”

Kevin J. Anderson

WordFire Press

Author

http://www.wordfire.com/

Kevin J. Anderson is the author of more than one hundred novels, 47 of which have appeared on national or international bestseller lists. He has over 20 million books in print in thirty languages. He has won or been nominated for numerous prestigious awards, including the Nebula Award, Bram Stoker Award, the SFX Reader’s Choice Award, the American Physics Society’s Forum Award, and New York Times Notable Book. By any measure, he is one of the most popular writers currently working in the science fiction genre.

Both Kevin and his wife are bestselling authors. They have lived in the Denver/Colorado Springs area for 15 years and have written dozens of novels there; they run their writing business with publicity, speaking engagements, outreach, research, and productivity.

WordFire Press publishes ebook editions of works by such luminaries as Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert, Neil Peart, Doug Beason, and Bill Ransom.

MO: How did you know that you wanted to create fiction when you were just five years old?

Mar28

Steps to Make Your E-Commerce Site Drive Your Sales

Hassan Bawab

Magic Logix

CEO & Founder

http://www.magiclogix.com/

written by MO.com Subject Matter Resource Hassan Bawab

E-commerce sites are booming, and they show no signs of fading as online sales continue to increase. Online shopping is convenient, but the risk for customer frustration is higher since there aren’t employees to instantly grab to assist in finding an item. Keep the customer happy and you’ll both benefit, but stress them out and the whole process is compromised. There are endless options people can make purchases from, so online retailers need to attract customers and distinguish themselves as the company to buy from online. Retailers can achieve this status by creating a comfortable, smooth process for their customers when making purchases.

First, you must identify your site’s current problems with e-commerce.

Mar28

“The identity of the business is inseparable from the identity of the owner and salespeople in customers’ minds.”

Sir Jerry Pradier

Progressive Business Dev Network

President

http://www.probusdev.net/

Sir Jerry Pradier is a nationally and internationally accredited Business Optimization Expert. He is also a course developer and specializes in marketing and instructor and counselor training

Jerry is the author of Financial Success: Ten Shortcuts to a Profitable Business and President of the Progressive Business Development Network, LLC, through which he mentors owners of businesses across the Western Slope of Colorado. He is also an executive coach who works with C-level executives in transition across the country, helping them to increase their effectiveness as business leaders.

Jerry started a YouTube channel, JerryTheFixer, where he presents bimonthly advice on all aspects of business management and growth from experts in their fields. He also publishes a monthly, no-cost newsletter (www.onlinebusinessknowledge.com), in which he provides advice to business owners on how to succeed in business. He is also writing his second book entitled, The Art of the Sales Pitch.

The Progressive Business Development Network (PBDN) was created to serve the growing needs of the small to medium sized businesses in the business management, business development, executive coaching, general consultant, and marketing consultant services.

MO: How have you become known as, “The Fixer?”

Mar26

“My gosh. What is this place? Is this a post office? What exactly is this?”

Brian Spindel

PostNet

Co-Founder

http://www.postnet.com/

Mike: Hey everyone, I’m Mike Sullivan. Thanks for joining me today on MO.com. I’m talking with Brian Spindel today of PostNet. Brian and his partner have done some pretty incredible things with running their own business, consulting with others to open similar types of business, and then ultimately franchising their business. Brian, thanks for joining me today and let’s talk a little bit about how you met your partner and how things got rolling in developing PostNet.

Brian: Yeah, absolutely. Steve and I have been in business together for about 28 years. We met each other in the early ’80s when we were introduced by our fathers who were actually both in the same business, in the water purification business. No connection to what we ended up doing.

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They said it couldn’t be done, I said, “Oh yeah? Let me show you what I can do.”

“What you need to do the most is what you do not want to do – successful entrepreneurs are masters of that principle.”

“The game of business is always changing, so running a business is not the same from one year to another.”

“I’ve found that no matter what a management team tries to implement, a company culture is in reality just the sum of the people in the company.”

“The idea of life fulfillment is very important to us at Sage Restaurant Group. We are very focused on constant innovation, and embrace change.”

“I call this phase of evolution, Call Center 2.0. By bringing the work to the people, rather than the people to the work, Alpine Access has literally turned the industry on its head.”

Steps to Make Your E-Commerce Site Drive Your Sales

“The identity of the business is inseparable from the identity of the owner and salespeople in customers’ minds.”

“My gosh. What is this place? Is this a post office? What exactly is this?”

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