BGS Business Building Library
Look what you would have access to if you were a member!
MICHAEL’S UNPLUGGED TOPICS
Economy Schnononmy – Grow Your Business this year! The four main strategies small business owners need to implement to come out on top of the troubled economy and have the best business year.
Reducing Overwhelm & Loneliness in your business: Being a solopreneur is not easy and humans are not born to be alone. This is a struggle that many of us face in our particular profession whether it be coaches, small business owners, or any of us who work at home and alone. This module discussed the three best ways to overcome this!
Writing & Publishing Your Book : In this module, Michael discusses: Why Do We Write Books?, Get Your Book Out There!, How to Write a Book, Traditional vs. Self-Publishing, Cost & Expected Return on Investment , Myth or Fact?, Five Ways to Get Your Book Sold.
The Law of Attraction…Does it Really Work?
Defining the Law of Attraction
Does the Law of Attraction Really Work?
How to use the Law of Attraction
How to apply it to the growth of your business
Overcoming Objections – What you will learn: There are 7 objections you will hear, The magjc questions for every single objection, How to get the prospect to invite you to ‘sell them, How to handle the money objection, find the person’s ture concern and more!
Marketing Like a Presidential Campaign – Win Like Barack Obama-November- 2008 : Who would think that running a presidential campaign is the same as running our own marketing campaign? Well, it is, in this module, you can learn and model from Obama’s campaign to win the presidency and apply it to ourselves, our products, and our services.
The Formula -
1) Definition of “The Formula”
2) Identifying the eight ways we should spend the majority of our business time
3) How to incorporate and how much time to spend in each area
4) Key marketing strategies and how much time to dedicate and what kind of results you can expect from dedicating that time
Master The Science of Testimonials
1. What are testimonials?
2. The four basic types of testimonials
3. How to get testimonials
4. Benefits of using testimonials
5. How many testimonials do you need?
6. Critical success factors to having effective testimonials
Try Until They Buy or Die! “How Follow-up will make or break you business!” -
Michael’s Goofs, Mikes and Blunders: In this call is you will have fun hearing about some of the big mistakes Michael has made in his career, and take away some lessons and perhaps shorten your learning curve.
How Michael makes $250,000+ a year working from Starbucks!
Michael is at it again! You will learn how to manage your time more effectively and grow your business from anywhere in the world!
Nine Critical Success Factors to Growing Your Business Through Speaking:
In this module, Michael discusses, the nine steps that are specific to growing your business through speaking. A few of the 9 are: your talk relevance, your opening of your talk, how to establish need, how to make a powerful offer and more!
How To Master Group Coaching: June 2009: What is group coaching? What are the benefits to you and your clients? Critical success factors, How to structure the calls and more! This is one of Michael’s most popular topics and this alone is worth the price for the membership!
Time Management To create a thriving business you must stay in action and put time, energy and attention on the things that will generate the results you desire (i.e.: more clients!). Seems fairly obvious, right? Well then why is it so hard to do? Learn our four simple steps!
Grow your Business in 90 Days! - Are you ready to get your business off to a fast start or kick it up a major notch in the next 90 days?- Implement a 4 prong system to significantly grow your business in 90 days
- Learn our famous 3-step “marketing sandwich” guaranteed to get results
- Increase your prosperity consciousness: The more you give away, the more you receive!
- Discover the ONE SINGLE principle that separates winning solopreneurs from losers!
- “The Offer” will be broken down into very specific steps
- How exactly to offer the consultation
- How exactly to get people to register for your newsletter
- How exactly to sell small products such as books and audios on the spot
- The “Big 8″ critical success factors
Topics coming soon….
- “Building Your Dream Team, Truly Earn A lot More” by Michael Charest
- The BIG PUSH Marketing Strategy by Michael Charest
- How to Serve the Service-based Solo and Microprenuer Market by Michael
Charest - LIVE EVENTS…Master the Art & Science of Conducting Fun & Profitable
Workshops & Seminars by Michael Charest - How to Earn Six Figures working with Microprenuers by Michael Charest
- “Teleclass Mastery!”…….A proven system for getting clients using this
terrific strategy by Michael Charest
STRATEGIC PARTNER SERIES
How to Get on the Radio and Benefit from Radio Talk Shows – Dawn Falbe - August 2008
Bloggit!: 15 compelling reasons why you should have a blog Margret Gill - November 2008
Holiday Marketing with Eilleen Redden – November 2008
Marketing Karma – Build your business by giving it away! with Kelly LeFevre – December 2008
Mind Over Business Matters – Karen Rothstein – January 2009
“ Writing effective sales copy!” with Suzy Sharpe. – February 2009
“True Keys to Online Video Success” with Rob Schultz -March 2009
“Match Your Marketing to Your Personality” with Christy Strauch – June 2009
Speaking for Success…How to calm your nerves and tell your story! with Tom Henschel – June 2009
How to Work from Home & Make it Work for YOU- month? Eileen Redden
Experts: Below are just some of our expert coaches
A BGS licensee, Karen Rothstein is President & CEO of Transformation by Design Inc. a hypnosis and personal growth center based in Citrus Heights, CA. She assists hundreds of people annually to tap into the power of the subconscious mind to facilitate personal transformation, growth, and to generate peak performance. Through private consultation, coaching and group classes,Karen inspires small business owners and entrepreneurs to change their way of thinking to substantially increase revenues and profits.
Using her Mind Over Business MattersTM system, she delivers insight and wisdom that promotes change and breakthroughs in the thinking that keeps people from taking action and living their highest calling. Karen teaches hypnotists across the county how to break the “service provider” trance and combine the principles of hypnosis and the mind to build rewarding and successful practices.
During her tenure as the CEO of a non-profit, Karen was dubbed the “Mind Maven” by her associates and colleagues for using principles of the mind to achieve unparrelled results in fundraising and business growth. Using the same principles she now teaches to others, she grew the company from a gross revenue base of $75,000 into a multi-million dollar service provider in under five years.
Margaret Gill (“Mz Margz”) is a proven and effective Personal Mentor and Holistic Business Consultant to the Creative and Wellness Sectors. She brings a unique blend of 15 years real-world corporate experience and ten years spent practicing her own spiritual mastery. After her stint as a ‘rock star’, Margz settled down to a successful business career for several years, working her way up to become a financial controller and, later, a forensic business analyst to major corporations across Australia. But even though she was outwardly successful, she found herself increasingly dissatisfied with life.
Recognizing that outward success does not equate inward satisfaction, Margz travelled the world in search of her reason, and her place, to shine. Luckily for those who have felt her unique glow, she learned where she shone: through her gift and passion for working with people, helping them to find their own ways to be a star.
Margz’s third career – that of Business Coach – saw her shift from a corporate metropolitan lifestyle to a simple country life where, she says, she lives on less than she used to spend on hair care. The road has been hard, but it has been worth it. She has discovered a compelling drive for working with people, helping them to bring out their greatness. She shines from her home base in Hepburn Springs near Daylesford. info@margaretgill.com
Just a little bit about Eileen: Eileen M. Redden, Ph.D. is a small business development coach, trainer and consultant. She is the owner of Successful Solopreneur Coaching & Consulting in New York and specializes in working with self-employed professionals who are ready to take their business to the next level. Eileenmredden@aol.com
Eileen is a Licensee and Master Trainer for Business Growth Solutions. She is also an Associate Coach and Instructor for Coach & Grow R.I.C.H. Eileen has extensive experience in both service and product-based solo businesses. Prior to becoming a coach, Eileen spent 16 years as the executive director of a seven-figure professional practice in the health care sector. During this time, one of her favorite tasks was setting up and overseeing their corporate gifting program. She later established, Presentation Gifts, a home-based business specializing in corporate gifts, promotional items, custom designs and packaging for small business owners.
April Goyer, President of Avancez and Creator of “It’s Not Downhill After 40!” A veteran coach, accomplished speaker, and dedicated athlete, April Goyer delivers focused, motivational, and content rich programs that get results. April has two primary areas of expertise. She works with professionals to help you build thriving, profitable, deeply meaningful business. Your success as an entrepreneur has everything to do with your ability to sell and market yourself. April uses her proven, comprehensive, step by step system to show you what to do to build a successful business, and how to do it. As a result, you will attract more clients, help more people, and enjoy life more.
April also works with women to help you approach your health and fitness as a means of becoming a stronger, more purposeful, more balanced individual. In her work entitled “It’s Not Downhill After 40!” April uses a 4 step system to enable you define your personal picture of health, believe that you can have what you want, create an action plan for realizing your goals, and through powerful coaching, stay on track.
As a young person, April excelled scholastically and artistically. Her accomplishments ranged from High School Senior Class Salutatorian to Walt Disney World dancer. April began her career in medical sales. By her early thirties, she was an executive for Huntington National Bank, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. April left her rewarding corporate career in order to create her own professional coaching business. She graduated from The Ohio State University and the Coaches Training Institute. April is also a Certified Personal Trainer through the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America and a Leader for the *Strong Women Stay Young program.
Dawn Falbe, AKA Astrologer Dawn – www.astrologerdawn.com, “Empowering a billion souls to evolve business successfully.” Dawn works with women who need the tools and resources to turn their inner passion, calling or soul purpose into a business that is successful financially, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, thereby enabling them to live a life of their choice.
Her programs show you how to build a solid foundation, give you tools and resources that grow you and your business, as well as showing you why marketing authentically is the only way to promote yourself! Through Astrology and Coaching she helps individual clients uncover their Soul Purpose Career, their strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and challenges in the upcoming year and how to handle them.
Dawn has been working on a variety of morning radio shows for over 10 years. She hosts a talk show with 2 others on Sunday nights on 92.9 FM, The Mountain in Tucson, AZ. The show Grey Matter discusses everything between black and white. She has been self employed for 19 years, a Business Coach for 9 years and an Astrologer and Metaphysical Practitioner since birth! Dawn has been involved with the BGS programs and Michael Charest for nearly 10 years!
About Kelly L. LeFevre, LMT, MSM kelly@focalpointalliance.com. Kelly is a BGS Licensee, licensed massage therapist and massage marketing expert. She is the founder and creator of Massage and Prosper, the first marketing system designed to teach massage therapists how to create and execute a customized marketing plan to build their ideal practice. In addition, Kelly is a professional coach and published author. Kelly has written multiple articles on the topic of marketing and is a contributing author in the book, Conscious Entrepreneurs: A Radical New Approach to Purpose and Profit, where she co-authored a chapter on “Marketing Karma.” Kelly lives in Newark, Ohio with her husband and two children.
Michael Charest, BGS President, began his private coaching practice 10 years ago. Michael has personally coached hundreds of small business owners and has served thousands through his speaking, audio programs and newsletter. Prior to coaching, he was the general manager of a prestigious country club in Los Angeles, managing 150 employees and serving 1,800 members. Michael has a degree in Management from Arizona State University. Michael lives in Kansas City, MO.