Scottsdale, AZ – Small Business, Entrepreneurs

Apr11

“Assume Positive Intent When Working with Your Team.”

Kristin Arnold

QPC Inc. - The Extraordinary Team

President & Founder

http://www.extraordinaryteam.com/

Kristin J. Arnold, MBA, CMC, CPF, CSP is the President and Founder of Quality Process Consultants, Inc., with offices in Scottsdale, Arizona and Cape Traverse, Prince Edward Island, Canada. As a professional facilitator specializing in high stakes meeting facilitation, interactive speaker and engaging trainer and consultant, Kristin is passionate about teamwork, engagement, action and momentum.

Kristin’s passion for teams is reflected in her writing, speaking, facilitation and consulting. She is the author of several books in the Extraordinary Team Series (Team Basics, Email Basics and Team Energizers), as well as a newspaper columnist and contributing author to a myriad of other team-based books, such as The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation. Her latest award-winning book, Boring to Bravo was published in August, 2010.

Quality Process Consultants, Inc., offers high stakes meeting facilitation, speaking presentations, training and consulting and resources.

They are known for their concrete approach to teamwork and a treasure trove of practical concepts, tools and techniques that their clients can apply immediately to see positive, substantive results.

MO: Where does your passion for teamwork, engagement, action and momentum come from?

Mar28

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“The right products at the right time at the right price.”

Marc Joseph

DollarDays International, Inc

CEO/President

http://www.dollardays.com/

With more than 30 years in the retail and wholesale industry, Marc Joseph is the founder of DollarDays International, a premiere online wholesaler that helps small businesses compete against larger enterprises by offering more than 165,000 high-quality goods at closeout and wholesale prices close to those at which large chains purchase the same merchandise. Products sold through the site are the same kind of categories if you walked into a Macy’s, Target or Wal-Mart. Joseph is confident that the Internet is the next channel for distribution of wholesale and closeout products. DollarDays has over 2.5 Million registered users and averages over 1,100 new customers a day registering with DollarDays.

DollarDays has evolved into the premier B2B wholesale and closeout site selling over 165,000 general merchandise products to small businesses, nonprofit organizations and entrepreneurs.

MO: What were you doing before creating DollarDays? How did your background and experience help contribute to the development and success of the company?

Dec8

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“I am motivated by the excitement of doing what’s never been done before and defying those who say certain things can’t be done.”

Louis Silberman

National Laser Institute

President & Co-Founder

www.nlionline.com

Louis J. Silberman, President and Co-Founder of National Laser Institute, is an entrepreneur known for starting Health4her.com, a women’s health and beauty retailer. Louis launched Health4her out of his garage in 1998, and it quickly became a profitable online retail health company. It was actually the sixth most visited pharmacy site in the world with 500,000 visitors per month, beating out both Walgreens.com and CVS.com. Louis is also the author of “Make it Happen…Online” sold at amazon.com and “Make It Happen” (Motivational DVD helping individuals turn their passions into a business).

National Laser Institute operates the most comprehensive medical aesthetic and cosmetic laser training program in the country; providing accredited courses for physicians, nurses and other health professionals, as well as offering courses for aesthetic professionals and individuals seeking a new career path.

MO: As a serial entrepreneur why did you choose the National Laser Institute as your next venture?

Jul27

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“The idea may morph in directions, into different markets that maybe you weren’t aware of, but hang on to that core belief that you’ve had, no matter what, and it will pay off.”

John Stippick

Super Star Learning

Founder

http://superstarlearning.com/

Mike:
Hello everyone, I’m Mike Sullivan. This is MO.com, where we feature small business owners and entrepreneurs and bring you hints, tips, insights, and perspectives on what it takes to be successful.

Joining us today is John Stippick of Super Star Learning Company. John started the company as a response to social media in education. John, thanks a lot for being with us today. Can you give us some background and kind of take us up to where you started Super Star Learning Company.

John:
Sure. My background, my professional background actually started off in the telco industry back in the early ’90s. What we were doing was that the telephone companies had just gotten deregulated, and so we were selling long distance. What ended up happening right in the ’90s, of course, is when the Internet started to come out and become popularized.

So I got a job with a company. It was called Winstar, and Winstar, their value proposition was to sell Internet access with long distance. I thought, hmm, okay, that looks like the wave of the future, and I jumped into that. Now, little did I know that was going to be the precursor to my education technology career. What ended up happening was…

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“Assume Positive Intent When Working with Your Team.”

“The right products at the right time at the right price.”

“I am motivated by the excitement of doing what’s never been done before and defying those who say certain things can’t be done.”

“The idea may morph in directions, into different markets that maybe you weren’t aware of, but hang on to that core belief that you’ve had, no matter what, and it will pay off.”

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