Open Your Mouth and Build Your Business Next Week

A few weeks ago, we had a special guest on our monthly teleclass, Darren LaCroix. Darren is the Toastmaster's World Champion of Public Speaking, competing against 25,000 others for that title.

If face to face is the best way to persuade people why are you only speaking to one face at a time? If your goods and services are so good, and people need them, why aren't you tapping into THE BEST for of marketing in the world...speaking.

It is a revenue stream that funnels leads into your business like a fire hose!

Darren did not start out that way though. He started his business doing a speech in front 12 people and made $99 in his first 30 minute talk. Now he earns hundreds of thousands of dollars and continues to feed his business from in front of an audience. Give him 60 minutes and he'll change the way you look at marketing for small businesses forever!

The audio recording of that teleclass is now available:

http://www.passionforbusiness.com/teleclass/darren-lacroix.htm

Does Your Voice Tell Your Story?

Are you a:

• coach
• speaker
• consultant
• teacher
• teleclass leader

If yes, you'll want to meet Katherine Scott. Katherine is a voice coach who helps people realize the true strength, the true authenticity, of their voice.

Katherine has been a guest on our free monthly teleclass and you can listen to the recording for free here.

http://www.passionforbusiness.com/teleclass/katherine-scott.htm




Katherine has created a five-week teleclass series, and I'm happy to announce that she'll be teaching it through Passion For Business. The teleclass begins June 5.

In this 5-week teleclass you will:

• Understand the importance of your voice and how it affects every level of your communication.


• Tap into the real source of your power and reflect that power in your voice.


• Discover how the knowledge of the four stages of learning will help you reclaim missing aspects of your voice.


• Learn how to be effective on the phone with no facial expression or body language.


• Recognize why your emotions affect your voice and how to work with them, not against them.

To learn more about this powerful and unique class, and for registration information:

http://www.passionforbusiness.com/sounding-authentic.htm

Organizing for the Self-Employed

Last week, we had special guest Jamie Novak on our free monthly teleclass, giving us great tips to Get Organized Today!

Jamie helped us with:

• Time management


• Messy desks


• Piles of paper and filing


• Managing email

The audio recording of that teleclass is now available:

http://www.passionforbusiness.com/teleclass/jamie-novak.htm

Free Teleclass: Internet Security for the Self Employed

As a self-employed small business owner, your data and your website are valuable assets. Are you protecting them?

Join us for a fact-filled teleclass about internet security. Our special guest for this class is John Gontowicz, who knows all about internet security and identity theft problems.

We'll cover such topics as:

• The top security threats a business faces (and we face as individuals)
• The top security tips for small business owners
• How to handle spam and spyware
• Protecting yourself from identity theft

August 7, 2006

1:00 - 2:00 PM eastern

This teleclass will be recorded. If you can't make the class, but would like to listen to the recording, please register and we'll send you a link to the recording as soon as it's available.

To register:http://www.passionforbusiness.com/calendar.htm

Simple Solutions for Busy Entrepreneurs - Free Audio

Recently, Angee Robertson did a great teleclass for us, full of tips on how to work more efficiently in your small business office.

Learn how to deal with:

• email overwhelm
• a great follow up system
• interruptions that drive you crazy

You can listen to the audio of this teleclass here:

http://www.passionforbusiness.com/teleclass/angee-robertson.htm

Susan Klein's "Stress Makes Us Stupid" Class - Free Audio

Recently, Susan Klein gave a teleclass to Passion For Business subscribers entitled, "Stress Makes Us Stupid." Wow! What a great class!

Not only did she tell us why stress makes us stupid (biologically-speaking), but she tells us what to do about it. Great advice, good tips and wonderful stories...listen for free here:

http://www.passionforbusiness.com/teleclass/susan-klein.htm

Creating Your Signature Presence

Colleen Bracken was the guest speaker in the May 2006 "Self Employed Success" teleclass, a series of free teleclasses that Passion For Business sponsors each month.

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Creating Your Signature Presence, with guest Colleen Bracken

Be it in the boardroom, at the podium, with a prospective client, at an interview, or in an employee team meeting: "Presence" counts!

Presence is the foundation for inspiring and influencing those around us, in all kinds of situations. Learn how to boost your natural style to the level of magnetic presence.
Some of the questions discussed include:

1. What IS presence?

2. What are your unique natural building blocks for constructing presence?

3. How does one boost those blocks to the level of a powerful magnetism?

Listen to the recording of Colleen Bracken's teleclass.