MVP_Podcasts

On Business Insanity Talk Radio, Zoomerang CEO Alex Terry, and Mike Maddock. Jamie Turner also joins to talk about how to make money with social media.[read more]

The successful approach is simply an advance agent of the appeal, the talking points of what you have to sell. Instead of jumping right in and talking about the features or benefits of your product before you’ve won your buyer’s interest, cloak the points and present them as something the buyer would want. Then you’ve got an...[read more]

Segment 1 – Opening Gun This time around I rip some marketing, public relations, analyst relations firms and read some seriously stupid emails I got from people who claim to represent vendors one way or the other. I also point out that it is a likely fatal mistake to ignore either longstanding industry veterans or up and...[read more]

A well-known coach and writer, Pam is a former corporate manager who also spent years consulting with such corporate leviathans as Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard. So she's witnessed first-hand the angst many corporate employees have experienced as they’ve sought to take the entrepreneurial plunge. Pam blogs about her passion for...[read more]

“We’re optimistic the economy is at or near a bottom and the general signs are things are starting to turn around,” says Steve. The Council of Economic Advisors projects the stimulus package will create 3.65 million jobs, and Steve’s own firm Emerging Research estimates that 1.6 of those will be in small to mid-sized business. “You...[read more]

Dr. Ralf Strauss recently found time in his busy schedule to talk to MyVenturePad about marketing planning. Ralf has been chief marketing officer for SAP in Germany and Central Europe since 2003. Last year he took on responsibility for global product management for all SAP CRM marketing solutions—that is, for solution strategy, product...[read more]

“Business planning” has been on Tim Berry’s mind most of his working life, from his consulting days in Silicon Valley twenty five years ago, when he began gathering ideas that—a decade later—would result in the first version of what today is “Business Plan Pro.”   That’s the flagship product of Palo Alto Software, which Tim...[read more]

The pull of Wall Street and the publishing world is what brought Nicki Gilmour to the U.S from Northern Ireland in 2004. But she quickly became sensitized to the frustrations many women in business experience in their careers, including the difficulties some women encounter when trying to get back into their profession after a hiatus....[read more]

Dr. Jana Matthews, founder of the Jana Matthews Group, has a broad and global experience of entrepreneurship and business, and helps us put the current economic climate into a much-needed context. Listen now: [read more]

Tim Crane, CEO of The Fruit Company, and I talk about his business, which counts many large companies among its customers, and how it is weathering the economic storm. Listen now: [read more]