Patrick Good explains the importance of building a management team and shares his four step plan for hiring and developing a second in command. Can your business survive the “hit by a bus” test? Find out in this episode.
 

For more information visit Patrick’s website.

About Patrick Good

Patrick Good is the Owner of PAG Associates, a Corporation consisting of 5 business units, including AdviCoach of NW Ohio.  Pat founded AdviCoach of NW Ohio in 2010.  AdviCoach is the nation’s fastest growing business coaching and advisory firm.  Pat has an extremely broad business background with over 25 years of experience and success in a wide range of areas including Sales & Marketing, Business Development, Operations, Materials Management, Purchasing, Manufacturing, and Engineering.  His extensive business acumen is rooted in his shop-floor manufacturing and production management experience.  He has led the Materials, Purchasing, Operations, and Sales functions of local and global companies, including Honeywell International, Midwest Stamping, Kelsey-Hayes, William Cook North America, and Toledo Stamping.

Pat’s background includes certifications in Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Theory of Constraints, and Total Quality Management systems, including Facilitator roles.  He is a Lifetime Certified Purchasing Manager and Six Sigma Black Belt.

After serving in the United States Navy, Pat earned his Engineering and Business degrees from the University of Toledo.  He was born and raised in Toledo.  He and his wife of 29 years (Peggy) have two adult daughters and live in Maumee.

Watch more episodes from Patrick Good at Toledo Business Coaching:  Making Your Success a Reality

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Elizabeth Blosh provides 3 tips to improve and maintain great digestive health. The digestive system is where vitamins, nutrients and minerals are absorbed and unfortunately, factors such as poor diet choices can often lead to an imbalance of the bacteria in your digestive tract. Follow Elizabeth’s tips to maintain a healthy digestive system.
  
For more information visit Elizabeth Blosh at her website at Positive Nutrition or at Facebook at Positive Nutrition on Facebook.

About Elizabeth Blosh

Elizabeth Blosh is the owner of Positive Nutrition, a nutrition club offering quick, healthy meal solutions, one-on-one wellness evaluations, personal wellness coaching, weight loss challenges, fit clubs, daily activities, a positive environment and lots of laughs! She is a World Team Member and Independent Distributor of Herbalife.

When a distributor of Herbalife International introduced Elizabeth to some of the company’s nutritional programs, she decided to try the weight loss plan and immediately noticed a change in her energy levels. In a few months, she weighed 31 pounds less, her outlook and energy kept soaring and she knew then that this was a program to change her life forever.

Elizabeth remembers her life at that point — young, beautiful, spirited — but her body was old and her mind depressed. She knew that she wasn’t the only one of her friends who struggled just to achieve the minimum each day; she wanted change and she wanted to help other people like her.

Positive Nutrition also offers yoga instruction and there’s a fitness area where members can exercise.

Watch other episodes by Elizabeth Blosh Positive Nutrition: Eat Well, Feel Great!

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Jenn Wenzke shares her P.O.P.iT Strategy that can improve your results and help you shift from negative to positive self-talk. This terrific strategy can also help you with weight loss. Tune in to watch Jenn P.O.P.iT and discover for yourself how to use this strategy.
  
For more information visit Jenn’s website at, ”Jenn Wenzke.”.

About Jenn Wenzke

Jenn Wenzke is a Certified Motivational & Life Coach, Licensed NLP Practitioner and a Mary Kay Sr. Sales Director of 20 years.  Jenn loves the mission statement of her new venture, SoNow Coaching, which is “Empowering women to FULLY appreciate their gifts, achieve their dreams and LIVE their legacy.” Jenn’s passion is helping women live a life filled with joy, peace, fun, confidence, success, appreciation, spirituality, self-love, and financial independence !

“Make the Leap” is her 5-Step Coaching Sequence that focuses on EMBRACING where you are now and LEAPING toward where you would like to go!  Jenn is also the Founder of a networking group called “So Now.”  It is a wonderful group of women that meet each month to celebrate their successes, network with like-minded women and enjoy a featured speaker.

For fun, Jenn enjoys hanging around with her husband Bob, 5 children, 5 grandchildren and sweet puppy Lacy!  You’ll also find her playing tennis, reading and SHOPPING!

Watch Jenn’s episodes of Jenn’s Coaching Corner.

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Today in our Focus on Non-Profits series you will learn more about the The Arms Forces, a non-profit that helps veterans that have suffered traumatic brain injuries. You’ll hear about the valuable service they provide to our veterans and how you can help them spread the word about their upcoming fundraiser, Dancing With The Military Stars.
 
For more information, visit their website, The Arms Forces.

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Valerie Thompson provides an explanation of how you can use blogs, video blogs and mobile apps to boost your website traffic and interest. Allow your website to work for you 24/7 by using these methods.
 
For more information visit Valerie’s blog post at Website Basics.

About Valerie Thompson

Valerie Thompson is the founder and owner of Leap Graphics, Ltd.  Valerie is a motivated self-starter who recognized her potential to develop a reputable and personable graphic design company that is cutting edge and professional. While a senior in college in 2005, at the University of Toledo, Valerie founded Leap Graphics, Ltd., which is a contemporary graphic design firm in Northwest Ohio that has provided business to clients ranging from non-profit organizations and retail stores to hospitals and publishing houses.

Valerie has experienced significant growth in her business due to her impeccable attention to detail, her professionalism and her inviting customer service approach. The relocation of her business from Toledo to Columbus in 2007 proved to be profitable as her clientele acquisition and financial growth continued to be exponential. Recently relocating back to Toledo, Leap Graphics continues to expand. Her clients are most grateful for her flexibility and straight forwardness.

In addition to graphic design, Valerie has taught ‘Intro to Computer Design’ at Columbus State Community College.  Additionally, her teaching of students about graphic design/marketing, and organizational groups about specialized topics such as church marketing, continue to keep her in demand.

Watch Valerie’s other episodes of Promote Smart: Tips to Effectively Market Your Business.

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Jeanne DeWitt explains some top features of Microsoft Office 2013, which was released to the general public in early 2013.  Now that it’s available we thought it would be a great time to rerun this popular episode of Technology Times which provides information about MS Office 2013 that you might be interested in hearing about.

For more information visit Hire an IT Expert

About Jeanne DeWitt

Jeanne DeWitt, host of Technology Times: Insider Tips for Your Business, and David Hood, started Computer Programming Unlimited, Inc. in 1986 to solve computer problems for small and mid-sized businesses in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan.

Over the years, they have developed a unique company model making IT Hassle-Free and Budget Friendly, deviating from the typical “Break Fix” type computer company where it is standard to wait for something to break and then send out a technician to fix it, basically profiting from your IT failure.  Instead, they have made their success on preventing computer problems from ever happening, virtually eliminating downtime and lost productivity.  To do this they have invested in a myriad of tools, processes and certifications that allow them to provide you with affordable solutions and the type of care that Fortune 500 companies have internally.

Computer Programming Unlimited has expertise in many areas including Cloud Services, Backup and Disaster Recovery, Email and SPAM protection, Managed Firewalls, VoIP, Application and Database Development and Website Design.

Watch Jeanne’s episodes of Technology Times: Insider Tips for Your Business.

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Karen Kiemnec offers three quick ways that you can use to improve your mood. In her last episode Karen discussed using humor to raise your spirits and in this episode she continues her two-part series on how to improve your mood; easy ways to get yourself out of the doldrums.
 
For more information, visit Karen’s website at Karen’s Paths to Wellness..

About Karen Kiemnec

Karen Kiemnec , host of Knock Your Blocks Off, helps her clients, knock their blocks off, those areas in their lives that keep them from success, abundance, and good health.

A transplant from Indiana, Karen moved to Ohio in 1998. She has always enjoyed working with people in various fields. She spent 18 years in historic preservation of old buildings, guiding others in the resources needed to restore historic buildings to their original splendor. She taught exercise classes for cancer patients and survivors for 9 years and also taught crafts classes. Karen began Journey work in March of 2008 and was accredited in January of 2009. She feels nothing she has done in her life up to this point has been as meaningful and as satisfying as working with others to release their emotional blocks through Journey work and to see them blossom! Karen shares her home in Sylvania with her husband, Jerry, (and their greyhound, Dayna) and between them they have 4 children and 4 grandchildren.

Watch Karen’s episodes of Knock Your Blocks Off.

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Ron Brangham, Toledo area Certified Public Accountant, shares information about Section 179 depreciation and bonus depreciation for 2012 and 2013. Congress changed the rules for both Section 179 and bonus depreciation with the passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012.
 
Visit Brangham & Associates Inc. for more information or to set up your FREE 30 minute consultation.

About Ron Brangham

Ron Brangham CPA, of Brangham & Associates, Inc., has over 25 years experience helping small business owners maximize their bottom line, through his accounting and tax services, business consulting, and QuickBooks training and consulting.  He is also a Dave Ramsey Endorsed Local Provider – Tax Services. Ron can answer questions about Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace program and help you to become Debt Free.

Ron and Suzanne, his partner in business and life, serve over 100 businesses and more than 300 individuals. Ron believes that the key to success is building strong and lasting relationships. He and his team are committed to creating a strong partnership by providing close, personal attention to their clients.

With Ron’s extensive knowledge of business taxation, he can minimize tax liability and maximize profit. He is  innovative, conscientious, and self-motivated with an ability to communicate with all levels of an organization.  He offers a no cost consultation to prospective business clients.

Ron is a member of both the American Institute and the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Rotary Club of Perrysburg, and Business Networking International Perrysburg Chapter. Ron enjoys golf, working out, spending time with his family and being actively involved with his local church.

Watch other episodes with Ron Brangham of Business Cents!  Making Sense of the Business World.

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Nikki Lewallen suggests we leverage LinkedIN for networking follow-up since it is one of the world’s best business to business online tools. One of the biggest struggles that we all face in our networking is the follow-up so use Nikki’s tips to make it easier using LinkedIN.
 
For more information visit the Rainmakers website.

About Nikki Lewallen

Nikki Lewallen is the Executive Director of Rainmakers and a passionate public speaker and facilitator. Nikki has been an integral part of Rainmakers explosive growth over the past five years, seeing membership triple and market expansion from Indianapolis throughout the Midwest.

Nikki currently has 14,600 hours into the study of Word of Mouth Marketing and works the Rainmakers Model daily, resulting in: 100% referral business.

Nikki holds a Master’s Degree from Indiana University. Nikki’s passion is to inspire people to their true potential and find a way to make money doing what they love!

Watch other episodes by Nikki Lewallen at Networking With a Process: Maximizing Your Return On Investment.