LIEG - Long Island Entrepreneurs Group, Inc. http://www.lieg.org Making Business Happen Sat, 10 May 2008 01:00:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 en How Being A Parent Prepares You For Business http://www.lieg.org/how-being-a-parent-prepares-you-for-business-154.htm http://www.lieg.org/how-being-a-parent-prepares-you-for-business-154.htm#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:50:26 +0000 admin http://www.lieg.org/how-being-a-parent-prepares-you-for-business-154.htm LIEG’s Adrian Miller was a guest blogger on ParentTalkToday. She shows how being a parent is great preparation for business. Click here to read her post.

]]> http://www.lieg.org/how-being-a-parent-prepares-you-for-business-154.htm/feed Stay Competitive as a Non-employer: Read the Mastercard Interview with Adrian Miller (LIEG’s President) http://www.lieg.org/stay-competitive-as-a-nonemployer-read-the-mastercard-interview-with-adrian-miller-liegs-president-144.htm http://www.lieg.org/stay-competitive-as-a-nonemployer-read-the-mastercard-interview-with-adrian-miller-liegs-president-144.htm#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:03:04 +0000 Adrian Miller http://www.lieg.org/stay-competitive-as-a-nonemployer-read-the-mastercard-interview-with-adrian-miller-liegs-president-144.htm Stay Competitive as a Non-employer

Solopreneur Adrian Miller explains how she’s used her small solo status to reap big rewards in the marketplace. With a little bit of ambition and a lot of persistence, she says you can do the same.

To read the entire interview, click HERE

]]> http://www.lieg.org/stay-competitive-as-a-nonemployer-read-the-mastercard-interview-with-adrian-miller-liegs-president-144.htm/feed Sell More/Speak Powerfully http://www.lieg.org/sell-morespeak-powerfully-139.htm http://www.lieg.org/sell-morespeak-powerfully-139.htm#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:22:44 +0000 admin http://www.lieg.org/sell-morespeak-powerfully-139.htm To grow your business or promote your career, it takes exquisite presentation skills and high impact, results-oriented sales techniques. And anyone can learn them.

Register here:

http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?inviteId=NNGCJJIVOJONSWZAQMYI

In this fast-paced live audio teleconference experts Diane DiResta (author of Knockout Presentations) and Adrian Miller (author of The Blatant Truth: 50 Ways to Sales Success) will lead you through powerful techniques to increase your confidence and grow your business.

The agenda for this extremely energetic hour will include:

Top 6 sales techniques to ratchet up sales in 2008, including:

  • The good, the bad and the ugly on cross-selling and cross-telling
  • How “provocative” questions can open the door to new and better business
  • Staying on the grid or how touch point management can power your sales funnel
  • Who are you and how your personal brand can be your point of differentiation in a crowded marketplace

Top speaking techniques to ratchet up sales in 2008, including:

  • How to use speaking as the new competitive weapon
  • Learn the Science of Speaking - the look, sound, and language of confidence
  • How to create a compelling message
  • Make your point in less time
  • How to quickly recover from presentation mistakes
  • Create instant rapport with any audience

Presented by:

Diane DiResta

Diane DiResta

Diane DiResta is an International speaker, speech coach, media trainer, and author of amazon’s popular book, Knockout Presentations.

Her firm, DiResta Communications, Inc, works with Fortune 500 companies spanning a wide range of industries and with politicians and sports and entertainment celebrities. Her speeches and seminars are high content, interactive, and entertaining.

Diane is the past president of the New York Chapter of National Speakers Association, winner of the Golden Mic and the Louis K. Miller business awards. She’s been featured on CNN, Bloomberg radio and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Investors Business Daily, Entrepreneur, and others. She’s on the Advisory Board of Enterprising Women magazine.

Adrian Miller

Adrian Miller

Adrian Miller is a sales trainer and consultant, published author (The Blatant Truth: 50 Ways to Sales Success), and highly regarded public speaker.

Her firm, Adrian Miller Sales Training, works nationwide across a vast diversity of industries, in companies ranging from entrepreneurial start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Essentially, she designs and develops results-driven skills programs that get to the heart of selling and are presented in a highly entertaining, participatory and engaging manner.

Adrian is also an active member of many business associations serving on the Board of several and in her share time (hah!), she can be found running, reading or cheering for her favorite hockey team.

DATE: March 28, 2008

TIME: EST: 1PM - 2PM; CST: 12 noon -1PM; MST: 11AM - 12 noon;PST: 10AM - 11AM

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
*Business Owners
*Consultants
*Internal Sales Professionals
*Professional Services Firms

INVESTMENT: Only $39. But wait there’s more!
After the call, you’ll receive:

* A handout with information from the call
* TWO Free tip sheets -

o Top Public Speaking Myths
o The Blatant Truth About Selling

* A free audiocourse - 7 Deadly Mistakes Speakers Make and How to Avoid Them for Maximum Success
* FOR THE FIRST TEN TO REGISTER: A copy of Conversations on Success - the anthology of Successful Speakers including motivator, Les Brown.

REGISTER NOW:
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?inviteId=NNGCJJIVOJONSWZAQMYI

]]> http://www.lieg.org/sell-morespeak-powerfully-139.htm/feed LIEG: Our Next Meeting - March 19 http://www.lieg.org/lieg-our-next-meeting-march-19-142.htm http://www.lieg.org/lieg-our-next-meeting-march-19-142.htm#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:31:31 +0000 admin http://www.lieg.org/lieg-our-next-meeting-march-19-142.htm The next regularly scheduled LIEG meeting is March 19th. The full year’s schedule is here.

LIEG thanks Regus and Stacey Williamson for allowing us to use its meeting room in Rexcorp Plaza. Photo courtesy of Regus. Please contact Stacey for any of your office, meeting or conference needs.

Please note that the regularly scheduled LIEG meetings are NOT open to the public. You MUST contact us if you would like to attend one of our meetings. You can contact us through our online form here. We do sponsor two public meetings each year and these are open to the general public.

]]> http://www.lieg.org/lieg-our-next-meeting-march-19-142.htm/feed Net@Work Named to Crain’s Top NY Software Companies http://www.lieg.org/network-named-to-crain%e2%80%99s-top-ny-software-companies-134.htm http://www.lieg.org/network-named-to-crain%e2%80%99s-top-ny-software-companies-134.htm#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:00:51 +0000 admin http://www.lieg.org/network-named-to-crain%e2%80%99s-top-ny-software-companies-134.htm Jeff Siegel from Net@Work is pleased to announce that for a fifth consecutive year, Net@Work has been honored as one of NY’s Largest Software companies by Crain’s NY Business Magazine. Net@Work jumped from #22 last year to #14 this year; and was cited as among the year’s top 5 biggest gainers. Click here to read the official press release.

]]> http://www.lieg.org/network-named-to-crain%e2%80%99s-top-ny-software-companies-134.htm/feed LIEG: Our Next Meeting - February 20 http://www.lieg.org/lieg-our-next-meeting-february-20-135.htm http://www.lieg.org/lieg-our-next-meeting-february-20-135.htm#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:52:40 +0000 admin http://www.lieg.org/lieg-our-next-meeting-february-20-135.htm Rexcorp Plaza

The next regularly scheduled LIEG meeting is February 20. The full year’s schedule is here.

LIEG thanks Regus and Stacey Williamson for allowing us to use its meeting room in Rexcorp Plaza. Photo courtesy of Regus. Please contact Stacey for any of your office, meeting or conference needs.

Guests:

  • Russell Rapaport  - Network Outsource

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Panel Presentation Information

How to Transform Your Business in 40 Minutes
4 Experts, 4 Topics, 40 Tips in 40 Minutes

Laura Allen (Queen of the Business Pitch)
Marshall Makstein (Presentation Wizard)
Jennifer Shaheen (The Technology Therapist)
Adrian Miller (Sales Diva)

Learn more about the Small Business Summit 2008

]]> http://www.lieg.org/small-business-summit-2008-113.htm/feed LIEG: Our Next Meeting - January 16 http://www.lieg.org/lieg-meeting-information-our-next-meeting-january-16-114.htm http://www.lieg.org/lieg-meeting-information-our-next-meeting-january-16-114.htm#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:04:46 +0000 admin http://www.lieg.org/lieg-meeting-information-our-next-meeting-january-16-114.htm Rexcorp Plaza

The next regularly scheduled LIEG meeting is January 16. The full year’s schedule is here.

Our Guest List for this meeting:

  • Norm Perkel from Formula Flooring
  • Keith Simmons from B2B CFO
  • Kevin Kelly from Big Buzz
  • Lewis Knopf (Senior Care Advisor)
  • Bruce Hellmich from Consult Edge
  • Gary Clementson from Citibank
  • Eleanor Spring from Spring Action Fraud Elimination
  • Kelly Gutradt from Engage Partners
  • Russell Rapaport from Network Outsource
  • Carole Holzmann from Danka Document Solutions

LIEG thanks Regus and Stacey Williamson for allowing us to use its meeting room in Rexcorp Plaza. Photo courtesy of Regus. Please contact Stacey for any of your office, meeting or conference needs.

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]]> http://www.lieg.org/lieg-meeting-information-our-next-meeting-january-16-114.htm/feed Happy New Year! http://www.lieg.org/happy-new-year-116.htm http://www.lieg.org/happy-new-year-116.htm#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:33:18 +0000 admin http://www.lieg.org/happy-new-year-116.htm Happy New Year

We Wish You A Happy, Healthy
and
Wealthy New Year!

]]> http://www.lieg.org/happy-new-year-116.htm/feed 2008 Meeting Schedule http://www.lieg.org/2008-meeting-schedule-112.htm http://www.lieg.org/2008-meeting-schedule-112.htm#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:18:48 +0000 admin http://www.lieg.org/2008-meeting-schedule-112.htm LIEG’s 2008 Meeting Schedule has been posted. Please mark the dates in your calendar. It is highly recommended that you recheck the schedule on a periodic basis for any changes in the schedule.

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