How's Your Epresence? With Mark Galvin

Today’s guest is Adam Shapiro with SalesReformSchool Since 2004, Adam Shapiro, through his SalesReformSchool™, has been helping individuals, teams and enterprises improve their sales performance.   Using a sales process, messaging and disciplines framework, Shapiro customizes his deliverables to what and how his clients sell resulting in true behavior change.  Several years ago, a friend suggested the name. It seemed kind of edgy and people smile when they hear it, so it’s keeper.  The metaphor works for a number of reasons:  To improve, it helps to embrace learning, change, and practice; and the best practitioners are students of their craft - they don’t believe they know it all and are willing to try new processes and disciplines.   So, SalesReformSchool™ makes sense.   Though Adam began professionally in law, he leveraged his experience with corporate legal departments into a successful software and services sales career.  Adam has held roles in sales, marketing and business development at companies like

This month, Mark hosts Beth Schiavo, Founder & CEO of The Gender Plan. Beth is an executive coach, gender inclusion specialist and financial strategist and is on a mission to help women amplify their voices at work!  Then, help businesses grow by hearing them. As a former CFO, Big 4 Partner and a working mom, Beth learned how challenging it can be to overcome the barriers women face at work. Now she is working to break those barriers down. On Mark's social media update, he talks about the best social media posts for professionals. Also, did you know, that you can schedule an appointment right from your LinkedIn Messenger app?    Mark and Beth talked about: How to promote women in the workplace while not alienating men? How can social media help or hamper this effort? How can workplaces better manage the fear of crossing the line with women in the workplace in relation to the #MeToo movement? How can social media HELP this transitional time in our business cultures?

William Pate, CEO and President of the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau, joins Mark for a talk about Atlanta, the hospitality industry, and how social media helps them bring visitors to the city and frequenting their member businesses.  William has held positions leading Career Sports & Entertainment, Bellsouth, MCI and others.  He has won various awards including Atlanta Magazine's 2019 Most Influential Leaders and Georgia Trend's 2019 Notable Georgians.  The City has hosted the 2019 LIII Super Bowl, 2018 College Football Championship, the SEC Football Championship every December, and the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl--among others.  In 2020, Atlanta will host the NCAA Final Four for Men's Basketball.  Highlights of the talk: 3:30, William talks about what the ACVB does... 4:57: how did William's sports promotion background help him at the Bureau. 11:50: When has Atlanta had to deal with negative news on social media? 14:00: William talks about trolling his competitors to get ideas and how they watch con

Michael Ehrler started his first business at 16. Michael has been developing people and businesses for over 40 years; 25 years in corporate America and over 15 plus years through his own coaching and consulting business. He is a National Award Winning Coach, Speaker, Published Author, University Adjunct Professor and Dale Carnegie Instructor. Michael’s clients have received National and Regional Growth and Business Awards. Michael combines his 40 years of business, speaking, teaching and coaching experience in a straightforward manner that focuses on his clients’ success.  Mark and Michael talked about what is going on in the world of social media: The NBA has recognized how social media is having a negative impact on the moral of their players.  #WSJ published an article about this and it can be found at this link. Social media needs to compliment your overall marketing efforts, not replace it. Did you know that insurance companies may raise your premiums based on your social media posts? Snapchat is launch

Keith is co-founder of Coaching Catalyst, LLC a boutique consultancy and executive coaching firm. He has spent more than 17 years assisting corporate, civic, religious leaders, entrepreneurs and professional organizations to perform BETTER, SMARTER and FASTER. Mark and Keith talked about new social media trends: Should you have a paid plan on LinkedIn?  Listen to this podcast by Mark Williams called LinkedInformed, episode 237.  Williams does a great of describing the benefits of each of the paid plans.   We discussed if social media sites should limit information they deem as incorrect?  Reference a WSJ article titled "Pinterest Blocks Vaccination Searches in Move to Control the Conversation".  LinkedIn goes LIVE!  Are you ready?  Tune in for more on this in the future.  We will have more as it reaches each of our phones! At 17:40, we talk to Keith about how they use social media and what professionals need to know about it.   We also drill into whether business professionals should venture onto social me

Virginia Bowman, with Synergetic Media (previously SouthPrint), joins me for a smart discussion about social media and video.   Bowman is a well known video expert and spent many years as a Professor of Visual Arts with Savannah College of Art and Design, and Technical Director for Sony Imageworks, Santa Barbara Studios and SquareLA.  Her expertise in video, the elements of video (light, graphics, etc.), and how they effectively market your organization is simply astounding.  Listen to this episode to hear about these crucial tips for marketing in the 21st century. We also talked about NEW social media topics: Instagram will let you post to multiple accounts at one time. How authentic and personal material is crucial to success in 2019.

This week, Mr. Tom Ross, CEO of DesignCuts, joins us for a chat. This info is FANTASTIC.  This is a must listen.  By dropping this episode in January we set you up to plan your social media marketing plan for the year! As Founder and CEO at DesignCuts.com, Ross runs an incredible community of 400,000 creatives. They strive to make the greatest design tools and resources affordable for the average designer. They also educate, inspire and mentor with their popular podcast The Honest Designers Show and the Design Cuts Community Forum. Ross loves mentoring fellow entrepreneurs, helping to guide their business strategy, social media marketing and branding. He speaks about entrepreneurship as part of his weekly podcast and video show The Honest Entrepreneur Show. Be sure to reach out to Tom on his Instagram account.  

Join Mark as he talks with Deborah Schwartz Griffin of the Creative Connector and BCN (Business Community Network).  Schwartz Griffin is a business leader in Atlanta that understands the value of relationships in business.  Her tagline is "Connecting people to people and ideas to results."   In this episode we discuss: Tereza Litsa's post on ClickZ, named "Six key social media marketing trends for 2019", and how her thoughts translate for business people for 2019 social media plans: In 2019, engagement is more important than ever Engagement bait is not going to be affective Create interesting, appealing and engaging content How to harness events to provide interesting content How to be a subject matter expert Social Media for sales enablement 55% of respondents who discovered a product through social media proceeded to a purchase later AI and customer service 2019 will see an improved experience Stories are going to be even more important in 2019 440m people are consuming stories Making stories m

This month's guest is Jane Bishop of Take the Next Step.  Bishop is a business coach and offers coaching, consulting, and training services to business owners, new leaders, and team leaders.  With 25 years of experience and two masters, she is the person to call!  Find her at www.takethenextstepcct.com or on LinkedIn.

Ted Cummings, founder and CEO of ONYX MS is our guest today. Ted founded ONYX MS Group in 2006 and serves as the organization’s CEO. ONYX MS offers services in event planning, facilities management, information technology and parking lot management. He serves on various boards including DeKalb County Chamber of Commerce The Ga Minority Supplier Development Council Newton College & Career Academy’s STEM Academy Ga Piedmont Technical College Ga Chamber of Commerce Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, his family moved to the Bronx, Ted often talks about education and how an inquisitive mind saved his life. Ted believes in the FUMIFU approach to life and business – FIRST USE  -   MUST INSPIRE  -  FUTURE USE.

The weeks guest was Jeff Bond who oversees Atlanta's Ledgent Technology (a Roth Staffing Company) and helps business leaders find and hire top talent. Jeff is a UGA grad and is passionate about living out his purpose of "serving others".  This month: What should you do about your passwords since so many passwords have been compromised lately. What password keepers are the best? What are the best formats for passwords? Is video STILL worthwhile even though Facebook is being sued for inflating their effectiveness? What does the data reveal about videos? How does Jeff use video to create an ROI? Who is Jeff trying to communicate with in his videos?  Is there an ROI?

Coming from Salt Lake City, UT at the annual Connect Marketplace conference.  Find out more at http://www.connectmarketplace.com/ or at their website http://www.connectmeetings.com  Andrew is in charge of digital strategy with Tarsus/Connect!  This was a very informing talk. Here are some of the topics Where should businesses spend their money in #DigitalMarketing? What is the best way to grow an #DigitalAudience? What can someone expect to spend on #DigitalAdvertising? With a firm... On your own Should you be worried about #AdFatigue? What is the future of Facebook? What is up with #GDPR in the U.S.? Does Andrew know Andrew Dice Clay? Best practices for companies to apply to their procedures/SOP for employees on social media? Can workers be on SM too much at work? Should companies tell employees what to post on their social media? What do business people and workers need to know as they build a career or a career? How are posts saved on social media even if we delete them from our feed?

My guest today was Jarvis Gray with The Quality Coaching Co. His firm is a coaching, consulting, and training firm specializing in healthcare Quality Management and Organizational Excellence. The company’s mission is to help healthcare organizations deliver on their promise to advance quality, safety, and person-centered patient care. Gray has more than 14 years applying Lean Six Sigma methods to a variety of industries, has personally coached 40+ healthcare leaders and teams in quality improvement fundamentals, has amassed over 2,500 hours in course lectures and training time, and is well known throughout the metro-Atlanta market for his networking events and public workshops that promote foundations of achieving organizational excellence. On the show we talked about What is Lean Six Sigma Goal setting How to better network on LinkedIn How to use the LinkedIn "Find Nearby" function What is LinkedIn's “People also viewed” feature LinkedIn Groups HAVE CHANGED this week.  Why should you use Groups? Finding gr

Chris Lafay founded Classic City Consulting and they build web presences.  They partner with experts in their field to produce outstanding products. This episode covers a ton of ways you can optimize your presence on social media.  What can you learn from this episode? What does it take to build a great website? What are the three components to digital marketing? What are the marketing "spokes on a wheel"? How to grow in Google search? What is SEO and how can you optimize it? How does a blog help the website and social media? Is a stagnant website a problem?  Is a stagnant social media profile a problem?  Why? What is the best way to interact with clients/customer/audiences? What is storytelling and how can it improve your website and social media presence? How can business people find other business people that can help them? Is video important?  Why?  How can you use video on the website and social media? How realtors can use video to connect with their audience. Are business cards going away?  LinkedIn is

Coming from Salt Lake City, UT at the annual Connect Marketplace conference.  Find out more at http://www.connectmarketplace.com/ or at their website http://www.connectmeetings.com  Chris Collinson is the President of Connect Meetings.  He has transformed the company his father founded to a direct supplier of print and digital media opportunities and trade shows for the hospitality industry.  Today, Connect plans around 30 events/tradeshows per year, utilizing a reverse trade show format the company specializes in. As a subsidiary of U.K. based, Tarsus Group (https://www.tarsus.com/), Connect Meetings is poised to continue to grow its market share and, when you listen to Chris, you will understand why.     #ConnectMP

Coming from Salt Lake City, UT at the annual Connect Marketplace conference.  Find out more at http://www.connectmarketplace.com/ or at their website http://www.connectmeetings.com  Matt Johnson is the Executive Vice President of Connect Meetings.  He is the lead drummer of a fantastic team.  (Listen to understand that reference).  He oversees three departments: Sales, Operations, and the Marketing teams.  He started as a sales manager, moved to running the sales team and recently moved into to this new role.  As the "Unofficial" Mayor of the Connect Marketplace, he understands social media more than others.  Listen in as this professional shares how he leverages social media to achieve his and his organization's mission. #ConnectMP

This month my guest is Jim Beach from School for StartUps Radio: Jim has started businesses and has taught entrepreneurship around the world. At the age of 25, Jim founded American Computer Experience and grew the company with no capital infusion to $12 million in annual revenue and to over 700 employees, operating in 39 states and in three countries. Jim taught entrepreneurship at Georgia State University for nine years and ranked number one in the business school for 12 straight semesters. Jim Beach’s first book, School for Startups, was published by McGraw-Hill in June 2011 and went to number 9 on the best sellers list. He has been featured in a UPS commercial, CNN called him the "Simon Cowell of small business," and corporations like Wells Fargo, Toshiba, UPS, and SunTrust have hired him as a speaker and consultant. His award winning radio show is nationally syndicated. - Tampa AM 1630, FM 92.1 - Las Vegas AM 1520, FM 107.1  - Macon AM 810, FM 87.9 - Lancaster AM 1640, FM 102.1  - Boulder FM 100.7  - Mi

Welcome to “How’s Your ePresence?” on Business RadioX. ePresence ,www.ePresence.me or @ePresenceME, manages social media for organizations and independent professionals that desire to enhance and strengthen their personal e-brands through online social media profiles. Mark Galvin, founder and CEO of ePresence hosts the.  This month, our guest is Mark Hayes, formerly of Fox 5 in Atlanta and their morning show “Good Day Atlanta”.  This is a rockin’ interview.  I know you will enjoy it.  On “How’s your ePresence?” we talk about professional social media.  We hope to answer questions like: How can a professional business person leverage social media to help them better succeed? What can an organization do, through individuals on their team, to use social media to help with brand awareness? How can you use social media to grow your business? To answer these questions, we spend time sharing updates from the ePresence research team about changes or news that directly affects your ability to use professional social

Welcome to “How’s Your ePresence?” on Business RadioX. ePresence ,www.ePresence.me or @ePresenceME, manages social media for organizations and independent professionals that desire to enhance and strengthen their personal e-brands through online social media profiles. Mark Galvin, founder and CEO of ePresence hosts the show with Deborah Dietzler, Chief Marketing Officer.  This month, our guest is our team members Phylicia Fair and Shannon Funston. On “How’s your ePresence?” we talk about professional social media.  We hope to answer questions like: ·         How can a professional business person leverage social media to help them better succeed? ·         What can an organization do, through individuals on their team, to use social media to help with brand awareness? ·         How can you use social media to grow your business? To answer these questions, we spend time sharing updates from the ePresence research team about changes or news that directly affects your ability to use professional social media cha

Welcome to this 2018 HOLIDAY EDITION of “How’s Your ePresence?” on Gwinnett Business RadioX. ePresence manages social media for professionals who desire to enhance and strengthen their personal e-brands. Dr. Deborah Dietzler and Mark Galvin and we’re coming to you live from the Subaru of Gwinnett studio inside the Sonesta Gwinnett Place Atlanta hotel. Our guest this month is David Tanner, a Performance Consultant with Dale Carnegie Training of Atlanta.  He joins us to talk about how social media helps professionals succeed on social media. On the "Did You Know" segment, we talk about LinkedIn and how their messaging application shows the availability of other users on the platform and how the LinkedIn messaging app take the place of a texting app. What will happen to LinkedIn in 2018 as discussed by www.SocialMediaToday.com?  1 - It will become a leader for the location of job seekers and companies.  2 - Video content will be the king.  Native LinkedIn video will be even more important.  3 - More Microsoft in