When you Start With Why everything else will fall into place

Start With Why was recommended to me twice in two days which is usually my cue to buy it and read it right away.  It brought clear some concepts I have been working on for over a year and a half.  If you own a business you probably started with a WHY that was really powerful for you.  Your WHY could have been to help a certain group of people that you thought were being underserved in the marketplace.  Maybe your WHY had everything to do with a passion you had to improve people’s lives through what you offered or were going to teach people.  Whatever your WHY, it was clear to me that we all, in the day to day grind of running a business, forget our WHY’s sometimes and it’s important to not only be clear about them, but to also remind ourselves of them consistently.  Your WHY is the one gift you’ve been given and will share with your customers and employees.  Your WHY is the reason you opened your business in the first place.  Your WHY will make every decision you have to make easier.  It is your filter for what won’t work for your business.

Remember, embrace, and let your WHY steer you towards the level of success you want to achieve.

Winner of tickets to Reba on July 28, 2010!

Congratulations to Lauren McMillan of Virginia Amateur Sports for winning to tickets to see Reba McEntire at the Greenbrier on Wednesday, July 28, 2010!

Winners of Tickets to Todd Buchholz on April 27th at 6pm!

Congratulations to the winners of tickets to the Roanoke Regional Forum event Tuesday night, April 27, 2010, at the Jefferson Center featuring Todd Buchholz, author of Market Shock!

Winners are:  Bettina Altizer, Susan Young, Priscilla Richardson, Karen Moses, Melissa Aker, and Jeff Philips!

Hope everyone has a wonderful time.  If you did win and would like to attend, click here to purchase a ticket.

1 plus 1 equals 3 – That’s Synergy!

Join successful small business owners and executives for Synergy Session groups that will challenge you to reach your highest level goals, make more profit in less time, and create meaningful connections that will grow your business.

David DeHaven of D3 Coaching is fantastic!

You can not build a new enterprise alone.  You just can’t!  You have to have people in your corner willing to help you and your business grow.  The coaching I have received from David has been a key part of building my skills and the Synergy Session program.  David has, on countless occassions, offered me counsel and advice that has propelled the project forward in ways I could not have seen without him.  In fact, in one of our sessions last year he asked me one simple question that was the inspiration for all that was to be created through numerous collaborations that have now been built.

David has also been a strong supporter of Synergy by giving great presentations to our groups last season, at Super Synergy last October, and to upcoming group sessions in 2010.  I love to hear his presentations and learn from each one.  I hope you’ll find time to take advantage of his gift certificate of a free executive coaching session that you’ll receive as part of your new participation package in 2010.  When you do, let me know if you come to rely on him the way I have.

Brian Duvall – coolest internet consultant!

I have to give a HUGE shout out to Brian Duvall of Duvall Media for his help to create this website.  He spent countless hours training and tutoring me at all times of the day and night.  When I thought I was going to loose my mind he would rush in and save my sanity.  He was not only knowledgeable and gave great suggestions on how to set things up, but was also patient and kind in the process (even when I wasn’t!).

I have enjoyed his presentations to the Internet Marketing Synergy Session group and look forward to attending all the future ones.  I am learning a great deal from him and that group.  I am now addicted to recommending and using Brian for assistance with internet marketing through video and the newest tools and techniquest in generated on-line leads for small business owners.  I promise, there’s no way you aren’t going to love this guy!

Website is up!

Finally… I’ve learned how to create a blog!  It’s taken months of instruction from Fredy (our on-site guru for this sort of thing) and our collaborative guru, Brian Duvall.  With their patience and tutoring, we now have the new Synergy Session website up and running.  The reps that have worked so hard to help pull all the groups together have been angels and patient as well.  No – it’s not perfect yet as Fredy has to come back from paternity leave and make it even better and more beautiful, but now Synergy Session participants have a home they can go to and find out: [Read more...]

Live and local training for small business owners

If you own a small business or manage one, and are having any degree of success, you probably don’t have the time to go back to college to learn all the things you need to know to run your business today.  You need to know about internet marketing and how it can effect your bottom line, management techniques and strategies for hiring the right people, sales and lead generation tools that work in today’s marketplace to grow your business quickly, which accounting software works best, etc.

We get that and understand where you’re at!  You also don’t have time to spend hours looked at video on the internet just to find out that you STILL don’t understand what they’re talking about.

Synergy Sessions are for you.  They are live and local!  They are only 2 hours in length and they cut right to the chase on what it is you need to know about the topics that effect you and your business right now.

Click around on the site and learn more.  I promise you’re going to enjoy how much you learn and how quickly you will learn it through the Synergy techniques we use in the sessions.

TO RECEIVE A FREE GUEST PASS TO ONE OF THIS MONTH’S SYNERGY SESSIONS, CLICK HERE.

Contact Lynda McNutt Foster for more information at lfoster@fasttraining.org or call (540) 815-1300.

Get your FREE Guest Pass to a Synergy Session

Receive a free guest pass to attend one of this month’s Synergy Sessions.  RSVP here.

Contact a real live person when you call us at (540) 815-1300.  You’ll reach me, Lynda Foster, Director of FastTraining.org and creator of Synergy Sessions.  If you don’t get me immediately, leave a message and I’ll get back with you asap.  You can also try me at lfoster@fasttraining.org.

There’s lots of great leaders associated with Synergy Sessions and fantastic account executives that are here to help you grow your business.  If you haven’t visited www.fasttraining.org there might be some good reference sites and resources that will help move you forward.  We do believe, though, that the best and quickest way to grow your revenues and profits in 2010 is participanting a Synergy Session group.  In fact, we guarantee it!

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Synergy Sessions: All a small business owner needs in 2010

Synergy Sessions are groups of small business owners and executives.  The sessions are two hours long and focus on education, collaboration and motivation in order to grow the revenue and profits for their companies.  The sessions contain 2 interactive exercises where business owners and executives learn and share with eachother components of the topic for that session. 

Participants of Synergy Sessions choose from groups in Roanoke like Internet Marketing, Social Media, Coaches, Residential/Commercial Services, Speaking/Presenting, Health & Wellness, Home Based Business, Fitness, New Innovators, and Success Synergy in the New River Valley.

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