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Workshop/Webinar In May

Posted by Mitch Mitchell on Mar 26, 2010

Man, I’ve been busy lately. But I guess I’m also a glutton for punishment when it comes to the real world, so I’m announcing two live presentations upcoming in May.

With my friend Renée Scherer of Presentations Plus, I’ll be doing a two-day presentation on the topic of customer service, and Renée will be doing the topic of Microsoft Excel. On May 6th, we’ll be doing the live workshop at the Homewood Suites in Liverpool, NY on 7th North Street. We’ll be doing both morning and afternoon presentations, and for those who pay to come to both workshops, we’re offering a free lunch.

Then on Friday, May 7th, we’ll be doing a version of the same presentations as a webinar, which of course for folks who might be located in places other than here in the Syracuse, NY area, and for folks who want something a little bit shorter, since the workshops are going to be 1 1/2 hours each, and the webinars at 60 minutes each. These will be recorded and sold as separate entities once they’ve been cleaned up a bit.

If you want more information, you can check out this link, which talks more about what each of our presentations will be about and our brief bios, as well as registering and paying for the events as well.

We’re trying something new when it comes to advertising this thing that’s much different than last year when I did the webinar on social media and SEO. One, the live part is something we didn’t venture to do last year. Two, we’re advertising it way in advance, and I’m thinking about making this a sticky within the last three weeks before the presentation to make sure people see it. How do those of you who run sticky posts do with them?

Three, Renée created flyers, which were set up for distribution at yesterday’s Syracuse Chamber Business Show, which was pretty neat I must say. The flyers were yellow; at long as they weren’t green I was good with it (I hate the color green). Four, we’re going to be getting some advertising on local radio, which is pretty neat, though I have no idea how that’s going to work since she’s handling all of that as well. And five, we’re getting a little bit of support from the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce in the form of some email advertising; that doesn’t upset me one bit either.

Our hope is to get a total of 40 people for the live presentation, and hopefully 10 to 20 for the webinar. That’s a lot of bodies, but the money wouldn’t be depressing. And the topics themselves are based on our survey results, which I posted in December.

Some of you might be wondering what the relationship is between what I’m doing and what Renée is doing. During my talk on customer service, I’m going to mention ways to set up customer service tracking, and Renée will be showing people how to do it in Excel in some fashion. Of course, those will only be peripheral issues for both of us, but I asked a friend of mine who’s an organizer how she pulled off a workshop that was similar last year, when she did office organizing (she has a newsletter also) and her friend did a presentation on Quickbooks. She said she mentioned organizing finances and then her friend could help show how to do that using Quickbooks. Hey, we’re giving it a shot.

So, if any of you are near the Syracuse NY area, we’d love to have you be a part of this; heck, help spread the word, though I know I’m going to talk about it often enough over the next six weeks. And if you’re not, think about participating in one of our webinars.

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Survey Says…

Posted by Mitch Mitchell on Dec 17, 2009

Two months ago I posted a survey here and asked y’all to complete the survey and earn some free tips.

For those of you who didn’t see it, the survey was about training and how people would like to receive training, and many other questions concerning it. Along with a friend of mine, Renee Scherer of Presentations Plus, I did my first webinar earlier this year, which you see the advertisement for there in the second spot at the top left. We plan on doing more, and each of us has certain talents that we give presentations on, as well as a couple of shared things.

For instance, Renee gives presentations on anything Microsoft Office related. She recently gave one to an organization on Microsoft Office tips, and I’ll be giving one to that same group in either April or May on social media.

My topics are a bit more broad because I’m all over the place, as you know. I’m not going to start spouting them all here again, but if you want to just take a look at my one business website and then my other business website to see some of what I do.

Anyway, something that doesn’t happen all that often when someone does a big survey is that they don’t share any of the results of the survey. Y’all know me; I’m all about sharing, thus Renee and I are sharing the results of the survey with you, which I found very interesting overall. And, if you put your name and email in at the bottom to get on our mailing list, you’ll receive two free little gifts for your trouble. Hey, it’s the holiday season, right? Just so you know, the mailing list will be private and protected, and will only be used whenever we’re doing a webinar or seminar of some type, and then to mention the product created from that process. Otherwise, you’ll never hear from us; that’s my guarantee.

By the way, y’all know how I’m always trying to get more publicity. Well, this time around, I’m in a magazine article, the first one quoted, and I even got my picture in it, though it’s in black and white; hey, you take what you can get. If you’re interested, I turned it into a pdf and you can download it. The story is called Webinar Anyone? Enjoy that as well.

And remember, if your group or organization needs a speaker on any of the topics in the survey, and pays, reach out to me; will speak for pay!