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Bill Ringle Interviews Expert Business Strategist Adrian Ott on My Quest for Best

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Bill Ringle, America’s Business Growth Strategist, talked with Adrian Ott, CEO of Exponential Edge Consulting, on My Quest for the Best about successful business strategy and knowing your customer.

Philadelphia, PA, December 10, 2012 – Business growth strategist Bill Ringle interviewed Adrian Ott, founder and CEO of Exponential Edge Consulting, for My Quest for the Best. In this interview series, Ringle speaks with successful industry experts and outstanding business leaders about their strategies for reaching and influencing significant target audiences, innovative business leadership, breakthrough moments in their career, and the important business and life lessons they’ve gained along the way.

Adrian Ott is the CEO and founder of Exponential Edge Consulting. She was named Silicon Valley Enterprising Woman of the Year 2011 by the National Association of Women Business Owners – Silicon Valley, and called “one of Silicon Valley’s most respected (if not the most respected) strategists” by Consulting Magazine. Ott works with some of the most innovative Fortune 500 and start-up companies in the world to help them gain a market edge in today’s exponential economy. In addition to assisting clients, she writes a popular column at FastCompany.com and Chairs the Strategy & Growth Roundtable for the Harvard Business School Association of Northern California, the largest HBS alumni club in the world. She is also the author of The 24-Hour Customer, a Library Journal “Best Business Book 2010”.

In Ott’s conversation with Bill Ringle on My Quest for the Best, she offered listeners sales and strategy advice from her varied corporate engagements. Their discussion centered around the five triggers that influence to what a customer will give his or her time and attention, information that’s invaluable in any business. Ott also shared tips on how companies of all sizes can capitalize on mistakes or disruptions of service made by their competition, and discussed what led her to write The 24-hour Customer.

“What you’ll learn from listening to this interview with Adrian Ott is a thinking style that allows you to capitalize on the unexpected,” says Ringle. “Adrian’s clear explanations and examples let every leader understand important ways to get deeper insights into what their customers want.”

Bill Ringle, America’s Business Growth Strategist, is founder of the Rapid Rise Business Growth SystemTM, the proven step-by-step system that shows you exactly how to connect and do business with your ideal customers in record time. He works with high performing entrepreneurs and CEOs who want to overcome the five big challenges to business growth so that they can run profitable and rewarding business rather than become stuck and overwhelmed in unfulfilling and draining roles. He has worked on four continents, is the author of four business books, and inspires and educates thousands of business leaders each year through his speaking, coaching, interactive programs, and products.

To listen to Bill Ringle’s interview with Adrian Ott, visit www.MyQuestForTheBest.com/MQ4B-interview-Adrian-Ott. To learn more about Adrian Ott, visit her website, www.ExponentialEdge.com.

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Bill Ringle Interviews Leadership Expert Jackie Freiberg on My Quest for Best

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Bill Ringle, America’s Business Growth Strategist, talked with Jackie Freiberg, bestselling author and award-winning leadership expert, on My Quest for the Best about successful business strategy and leadership.

Philadelphia, PA, December 03, 2012 – Business growth strategist Bill Ringle interviewed Jackie Freiberg, bestselling author and award-winning leadership expert, for My Quest for the Best. In this interview series, Ringle speaks with successful industry experts and outstanding business leaders about their strategies for reaching and influencing significant target audiences, innovative business leadership, breakthrough moments in their career, and the important business and life lessons they’ve gained along the way.

For more than 20 years, Dr. Jackie Freiberg has been helping people build great leadership brands and helping companies become places where the best people can do their best work. She’s on a mission to cure the Dead People Working™ syndrome, and to create a movement of leaders who choose to defy mediocrity, take charge of their success at work, and make a difference in their own little corner of the world. Freiberg was chosen as a “Top 5 Leadership Speaker” by the vote of over 13,000 leaders around the globe, and was named one of the “Top 30 Best Minds on Leadership” by Leadership Excellence Magazine. She is also a bestselling author whose books include Nanovation: How a Little Car Can Teach the World to Think Big and Act Bold; NUTS! The incredible story of Southwest Airlines’ leadership, culture and profitability; and GUTS! The secrets to success from many of the most admired companies in the world. Freiberg has also been an Executiv e Consultant at the Center for Creative Leadership, a Public Speaking Coach to the United States Marine Corps Recruiting Office, and one of only two non-employee members of the Southwest Airlines’ Culture Committee.

In Freiberg’s conversation with Bill Ringle on My Quest for the Best, she offered unique insights and substantive advice drawn from that expertise. Their discussion covered what organizations should do to make strategy part of their culture, how to recognize and avoid “Dead Person Working” syndrome, and what leading companies do to invest in their people. Freiberg also shared her conviction that leadership is really about relationships unfolding and gave tips on how leaders can use feedback as a gift for growth rather than as a destructive tool.

“Jackie Freiberg shares her in-depth knowledge of what really goes on inside companies like Southwest Airlines,” says Ringle. “You’ll find ideas that will make you re-think how your managers and frontline staff relate to customers because many, if not most, companies fail to use customer feedback to improve their internal systems and build stronger relationships. Commercial innovation comes from doing things that haven’t been done before (like injecting humor into the airline safety announcements) and using it to advance your business goals. It takes courage to make some of these changes, and listening to Jackie Freiberg helps you take some of those steps.”

Bill Ringle, America’s Business Growth Strategist, is founder of the Rapid Rise Business Growth SystemTM, the proven step-by-step system that shows you exactly how to connect and do business with your ideal customers in record time. He works with high performing entrepreneurs and CEOs who want to overcome the five big challenges to business growth so that they can run profitable and rewarding business rather than become stuck and overwhelmed in unfulfilling and draining roles. He has worked on four continents, is the author of four business books, and inspires and educates thousands of business leaders each year through his speaking, coaching, interactive programs, and products.

To listen to Bill Ringle’s interview with Jackie Freiberg, visit www.MyQuestForTheBest.com. To learn more about Jackie Freiberg, visit her website, www.freibergs.com

Contact:
Meredith Hegg
LearnWell
491 Baltimore Pike, Suite 209
Springfield, PA 19064
610-626-0175
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http://www.MyQuestfortheBest.com

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Bill Ringle Helps Business Owners Achieve More by Overcoming Negative Self-Talk

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AskBillRingle.com’s open conference call for entrepreneurs and business owners on December 6, 2012 will discuss how to stop talking yourself out of being more successful for entrepreneurs and executives.

Philadelphia, PA, November 30, 2012 – Bill Ringle, America’s Business Growth Strategist, will lead December’s AskBillRingle.com forum, “Stop Talking Yourself Out of Being More Successful,” on Thursday, December 6, at 2:00pm ET. Are you or your colleagues being held back from success? This AskBillRingle.com session – a free seminar that you can join by phone – is designed to help you get out of that trap.

Ringle has tested each of the tips and techniques he’ll cover, both in his own business and with his top clients. These ideas are useful for anyone, but are especially important for executives and entrepreneurs who are responsible for businesses, teams, and the success of others. It’s nearly impossible to inspire other people or grow a business to the fullest when you’re holding yourself back every day, sometimes without realizing it.

Awareness of significant habits and patterns allows you to make changes and upgrades; Ringle will help you put that awareness to use during this teleconference. He’ll discuss practical steps to changing self-talk that limits your achievement, three ways to set up your environments to support your success with more ease and less struggle, and much more.

“What many business leaders know deep down is that we can be our own worst enemies. Each of us has bought into certain specific messages about ourselves that we aren’t good enough, smart enough, or deserving enough (among others) to accomplish the goals we set. That’s a key reason why projects don’t get done on time. I’m looking forward to sharing some great ways of turning down the volume on that inner critic so you can have a bigger vision of yourself and accomplish more right away,” says Ringle.

AskBillRingle.com gives business owners and entrepreneurs answers to their most pressing business growth questions. The website and accompanying conference calls focus on a different subject each month, and give business owners unprecedented access to Ringle’s expertise, experience, and advice. January’s topic, “Leading the Charge,” will provide practical tips for creating and using a business theme for growth with your customers and team members.

Bill Ringle, America’s Business Growth Strategist and Founder of the Rapid Rise Business Growth System, works with entrepreneurs and executives who want to overcome the five big challenges to business growth so that they can run profitable and rewarding businesses rather than become stuck and overwhelmed in unfulfilling and draining roles. He has worked on four continents, is the author of four business books, and inspires and educates thousands of business leaders each year through his speaking, coaching, interactive programs, and educational products.

For more information and to participate, visit www.AskBillRingle.com

Contact:
Meredith Hegg
LearnWell
491 Baltimore Pike, Suite 209
Springfield, PA 19064
610-626-0175
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http://www.askbillringle.com

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Bill Ringle Interviews Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran on My Quest for Best

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Bill Ringle, America’s Business Growth Strategist, talked with Barbara Corcoran, real estate mogul and author of Shark Tales, about entrepreneurship for the interview show My Quest for the Best.

Philadelphia, PA, Septemeber 06, 2012 – Business growth strategist Bill Ringle interviewed Barbara Corcoran, real estate mogul and bestselling author, for My Quest for the Best. In this interview series, Ringle speaks with successful industry experts and outstanding business leaders about their strategies for reaching and influencing significant target audiences, innovative business leadership, breakthrough moments in their career, and the important business and life lessons they’ve gained along the way.

Barbara Corcoran is the Founder of The Corcoran Group and the real estate contributor for NBC’s TODAY Show, where she comments weekly on trends in the real estate market. She’s also a star on ABC’s reality hit Shark Tank, on which she buys young businesses and shepherds them to success. Corcoran is a motivational speaker, as well as the author of several books, including If You Don’t Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails, an entertaining business book that has become a national bestseller, and Nextville, Amazing Places to Live Your Life. Her latest book, Shark Tales, hit the #1 business book ranking on Amazon.

Corcoran’s conversation with Bill Ringle on My Quest for the Best provided a unique perspective on entrepreneurship. She discusses what skills and personality traits angel investors look for in entrepreneurs, what female entrepreneurs need more of in order to stand out and be successful, and the one characteristic that has no substitute in business (or in life). She also talked about the role of luck in business and what people must do to capitalize on that luck.

“In our interview, Barbara shares both the difficult struggles she faced to build her business in the cutthroat Manhattan real estate market as well as behind-the-scenes stories and observations about entrepreneurs seeking to build their businesses today,” explains Bill Ringle. “Listening to Barbara tell her story is inspiring and instructive.”

Bill Ringle, America’s Business Growth Strategist, is founder of the Rapid Rise Business Growth SystemTM, the proven step-by-step system that shows you exactly how to connect and do business with your ideal customers in record time. He works with high performing entrepreneurs and CEOs who want to overcome the five big challenges to business growth so that they can run profitable and rewarding business rather than become stuck and overwhelmed in unfulfilling and draining roles. He has worked on four continents, is the author of four business books, and inspires and educates thousands of business leaders each year through his speaking, coaching, interactive programs, and products.

To listen to Bill Ringle’s interview with Barbara Corcoran, visit www.BillRingle.com/MQ4B-interview-Barbara-Corcoran. To learn more about Barbara Corcoran, visit her website, www.BarbaraCorcoran.com.

Contact:
Meredith Hegg
My Quest for the Best
491 Baltimore Pike, Suite 209
Springfield, PA 19064
610-626-0175
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http://www.billringle.com/MQ4B-interview-Barbara-Corcoran

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Bill Ringle Leads AskBillRingle.com Forum on Ways to Improve Cashflow

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AskBillRingle.com’s open conference call for entrepreneurs and business owners on March 1, 2012 will address the subject “Ways to Improve Cashflow.”

Philadelphia, PA, March 02, 2012 – Nationally known CEO coach Bill Ringle will lead this month’s AskBillRingle.com forum, “Ways to Improve Cashflow,” on Thursday, March 1, at 4:00pm ET. Good cashflow is essential to any successful business, but easily becomes a black hole for time and resources when improperly managed.

Ringle will describe five symptoms that your business has cash flow problems and provide twelve concrete ideas to improve your cash flow. He’ll also discuss how to identify the main causes of delayed payments, ways to be braver asking for payments, and outsourcing collections when all else fails.

“Generating business, operating a business, and growing a business all depend on having funds to spend and invest. Small business owners tell me that they are especially squeezed in a tight economy by delayed payments on one level and rigid credit ceilings on another level, and if you only look at your finances from those two sources, you can find yourself in trouble very quickly,” explains Bill Ringle. “Over the years, my clients have taught me a wide range of new perspectives to identify, anticipate, and ultimately generate win-win situations from no-win situations related to cash flow issues, and that’s what I’ll be sharing on this AskBillRingle call.”

AskBillRingle.com gives business owners and entrepreneurs answers to their most pressing business growth questions. The website and accompanying conference calls focus on a different subject each month, and give business owners unprecedented access to Ringle’s expertise, experience, and advice. April’s topic, “Standing Out From the Crowd,” will provide unique tips for grabbing customers’ attention and increasing visibility in your niche.

Bill Ringle works with entrepreneurs and executives who want to overcome the five big challenges to business growth so that they can run profitable and rewarding businesses rather than become stuck and overwhelmed in unfulfilling and draining roles. He has worked on four continents, is the author of four business books, and inspires and educates thousands of business leaders each year through his speaking, coaching, interactive programs, and educational products.

For more information and to participate, visit http://AskBillRingle.com.

Contact:
Meredith Hegg
LearnWell
491 Baltimore Pike, Suite 209
Springfield, PA 19064
610-626-0175
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http://www.askbillringle.com

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Bill Ringle Interviews Melinda Blau on My Quest for the Best

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Business growth strategist Bill Ringle talked with Melinda Blau, a journalist and author of Consequential Strangers, for the interview show My Quest for the Best.

Philadelphia, PA, February 07, 2012 – Business growth strategist Bill Ringle interviewed Melinda Blau, a prolific journalist and author, for My Quest for the Best. In this interview series, Ringle speaks with successful experts and outstanding business leaders about their strategies for reaching and influencing significant target audiences, innovative business leadership, breakthrough moments in their career, and the wisdom they’ve gained along the way.

Melinda Blau is a journalist who has been researching and reporting about relationship and social trends since the seventies. Her most recent book is Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don’t Seem to Matter…But Really Do, which explores the vast and unsung array of everyday people, on and off the Internet, who have a profound impact on our business success, happiness, and health. She has written more than ninety magazine pieces and a dozen other books, including the best-selling Baby Whisperer series. She also blogs for Psychology Today and More magazines and writes a bi-monthly column for Shareable.

Blau shared her significant insights into the power and importance of consequential strangers with Bill Ringle and listeners during her My Quest for the Best interview, discussing the advantages of striking up conversations with strangers in business and how having consequential strangers in your life adds both variety to your perspective and dollars to your bottom line. For those who usually hesitate to reach out, Blau suggested ways to overcome shyness and other factors that may hold one back, as well as what to do to add consequential strangers to your life when relocating or visiting a new city.

“Melinda has a unique and important perspective on being open to the information, advice, and opportunities that consequential strangers provide,” says Bill Ringle. “Don’t spend another day out of the loop of this powerful network that exists outside your door. While online social media has its place, it’s much more fun to convene a celebratory dinner with old friends and new acquaintances than to prop your Facebook-loaded laptop up on a tv dinner table and share the good news.”

Bill Ringle works with high performing entrepreneurs and CEOs who want to overcome the five big challenges to business growth so that they can run profitable and rewarding business rather than become stuck and overwhelmed in unfulfilling and draining roles. He has worked on four continents, is the author of four business books, and inspires and educates thousands of business leaders each year through his speaking, coaching, interactive programs, and products.

To listen to Bill Ringle’s interview with Melinda Blau, visit http://www.BillRingle.com/MQ4B-interview-Melinda-Blau. To learn more about Melinda Blau, visit her website, http://www.ConsequentialStrangers.com.

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Meredith Hegg
LearnWell.com
491 Baltimore Pike, Suite 209
Springfield, PA 19064
610-626-0175
pr@learnwell.com
http://www.MyQuestfortheBest.com

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Bill Ringle Interviews Mark Sanborn on My Quest for the Best

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Business growth strategist Bill Ringle talked with Mark Sanborn, a leadership expert, Hall of Fame speaker, and bestselling author, for the interview show My Quest for the Best.

Philadelphia, PA, January 08, 2012 – Business growth strategist Bill Ringle interviewed Mark Sanborn, an award-winning speaker and bestselling author, for My Quest for the Best. In this interview series, Ringle speaks with successful experts and outstanding business leaders about their strategies for reaching and influencing significant target audiences, innovative business leadership, breakthrough moments in their career, and the wisdom they’ve gained along the way.

Mark Sanborn is President of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea studio dedicated to developing leaders in business and in life. He is a noted authority on leadership, team building, customer service and change, a member of the National Speakers Association’s Speaker Hall of Fame, and winner of the Cavett Award, the highest honor the Association bestows on its members. Sanborn is also an internationally bestselling author who has written seven books, including The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Make the Ordinary Extraordinary and TeamBuilt: Making Teamwork Work.

Sanborn shared that renowned leadership expertise with Bill Ringle and listeners during his My Quest for the Best interview, discussing how leaders at any level can help rapidly move an organization towards business success and revealing a key question that effective leaders ask daily to build a shared sense of vision and progress. The conversation ranged from the ways Sanborn thinks change itself has changed, to ways to navigate personal and professional uncertainty, to what clients really want to hear from consultants and audiences want to hear from speakers.

“Mark’s ability to distill his observations and insights from such varied work and life experiences into practical action steps is as exciting as it is useful,” says Bill Ringle. “What I especially appreciate about this interview is that even in its short duration, Mark gets to tell some great stories to make his points memorable, just as he does in his books and speeches.”

Bill Ringle works with high performing entrepreneurs and CEOs who want to overcome the five big challenges to business growth so that they can run profitable and rewarding business rather than become stuck and overwhelmed in unfulfilling and draining roles. He has worked on four continents, is the author of four business books, and inspires and educates thousands of business leaders each year through his speaking, coaching, interactive programs, and products.

To listen to Bill Ringle’s interview with Mark Sanborn, visit http://www.BillRingle.com/MQ4B-interview-Mark-Sanborn. To learn more about Mark Sanborn, visit his website, http://www.MarkSanborn.com.

Contact;
Meredith Hegg
AskBillRingle.com
491 Baltimore Pike, Suite 209
Springfield, PA 19064
610-626-0175
pr@learnwell.com
http://www.askbillringle.com