Please click on the POD button to listen to the latest Atlanta Business Radio  show podcast broadcasting live each Wednesday at 10am EDT from Atlanta, GA, USA.   Atlanta Business Radio is sponsored by Fast Pitch! Networking - a one-stop shop for networking and marketing your business online and offline. Please go to their website www.fastpitchnetworking.com. When you sign up, please mention you were referred by Lee Kantor. That will help the show! Thanks.

Here's how to listen to the podcast of our show.

First click on the title of the show you are interested in. Then there should be a player in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Now just press play and the show you chose should start playing. You can also download the show to listen on your mp3 player. We also will soon be in iTunes.

Remember if you want a pretty comprehensive listing of all kinds of Atlanta Events including Business Networking events please check out www.AtlantaEvent.com

Today we had two very special guests. first up Caryn Cook with Dominium Benefits joined us and we talked about all about employee benefits. With talk about health insurance and employee benefits all the rage Caryn was a perfect person to share her vast insight on the subject. Some of the topics we covered were: What is Consumer Driven Healthcare? What are ways employers can control healthcare costs? And ways Dominium Benefits helps its clients providing employee benefit packages.  If your company is dealing with the spiraling costs of employee benefits you will not find a more knowledgeable subject matter expert than Caryn Cook. For more information on Dominium Benefits please go to their website www.dominiumbenefits.com

Our next guest was Kathleen Smart, the CEO and founder of Smarter Ideas, an Atlanta-based business coaching and consulting firm. Kathleen is also a principal partner in International Business Academies Limited or IBAL. Kathleen talked about some of the past IBAL business networking events. She explained that at the events members and their guests exchange ideas, promote their business and discuss key business issues. For more information about IBAL please go to www.ibalnet.com and for more information about Kathleen Smart please go to www.smarterideas.com

Also if you know of a business in Atlanta that we should know about please email Amy Otto at Amy @ atlantabusinessradio.com and we will try and get them on the show.

Please click on the POD button to listen to the latest Atlanta Business Radio  show podcast broadcasting live each Wednesday at 10am EDT from Atlanta, GA, USA.   Atlanta Business Radio is sponsored by Fast Pitch! Networking - a one-stop shop for networking and marketing your business online and offline. Please go to their website www.fastpitchnetworking.com. When you sign up, please mention you were referred by Lee Kantor. That will help the show! Thanks.

On this morning's show Amy Otto and Lee Kantor did not talk about networking like we normally do but we tried to explain how to listen to the podcast of our show.

First click on the title of the show you are interested in. Then there should be a player in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Now just press play and the show you chose should start playing. You can also download the show to listen on your mp3 player. We also will soon be in iTunes.

Sure, we didn't talk about networking today, but remember if you want a pretty comprehensive listing of all kinds of Atlanta Events including Business Networking events please check out www.AtlantaEvent.com

Our special guest today was Matt Montesi, founder and CEO of Global Commerce Group. Matt is an internet marketing expert who helped develop a couple of innovative marketing applications called WebDecoder and NetDecoder. These are patent protected products that use their "Hidden Image Technology System." Matt has conducted over 800 online marketing campaigns for some of the largest beer, movie, beverage, car, electronics companies out there. He has sold or licensed well over 1.5 billion gamepieces for clients all over the world.

If you use direct mail you have to check this out. Matt's WebDecoder generates response rates that put conventional direct marketing to shame. WebDecoder gets response rates up to 30% where traditional direct mail is lucky to get 1-2%. And in addition to phenomenal response rates, Matt's clients benefit from the additional traffic to their websites or stores and the ability to capture important customer demographic data.

For more information about how Matt Montesi with WebDecoder and NetDecoder can take your next direct marketing campaign's response rates through the roof check out their website www.webdecoder.com or www.netdecoder.com

Also if you know of a business in Atlanta that we should know about please email Amy Otto at Amy @ atlantabusinessradio.com and we will try and get them on the show.

Please click on the POD button to listen to the latest Atlanta Business Radio  show podcast broadcasting live each Wednesday at 10am EDT from Atlanta, GA, USA.   Atlanta Business Radio is sponsored by Fast Pitch! Networking - a one-stop shop for networking and marketing your business online and offline. Please go to their website www.fastpitchnetworking.com. When you sign up, please mention you were referred by Lee Kantor. That will help the show! Thanks.

On this morning's show Amy Otto and Lee Kantor started out by discussing some of the upcoming networking events happening in the Atlanta area. We mentioned the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and their website www.metroatlantachamber.com. We also gave a shout out to our friend Sandy Richardson from the Gwinnett Chamber and her website www.gwinnettchamber.com.

We talked a little about Powercore and BNI, closed contact business networking groups. For more information about them please go to their websites www.powercore.net and  www.bniatlanta.com And for a pretty comprehensive listing of all kinds of Atlanta Events including Business Networking events please check out www.AtlantaEvent.com

Our special guest today was Brent Leary co-owner of CRM Essentials.

Brent shared some great tips that will help get more eyeballs to your website. And make you more relevant to your customer. He said to start blogging. Try to post 3 to 5 times a week with thought provoking content for your readers. He also said to participate on business social networking sites like: LinkedIn, Fast Pitch Online and Facebook. He had a lots of other great tips but you'll have to listen to the show to get them.

For more information about how Brent Leary and CRM Essentials can help you create loyal customers for life please check out his website www.crm-essentials.com. Also take a look at his very popular blog www.brentleary.com and his Atlanta-based radio show www.businesstechnologyradio.com

Also if you know of a business in Atlanta that we should know about please email Amy Otto at Amy @ atlantabusinessradio.com and we will try and get them on the show.

Please click on the POD button to listen to the latest Atlanta Business Radio  show podcast broadcasting live each Wednesday at 10am EDT from Atlanta, GA, USA.   Atlanta Business Radio is sponsored by Fast Pitch! Networking which is a one-stop shop for networking and marketing your business online. Please go to their website www.fastpitchnetworking.com and when you mention you were referred by Lee Kantor when you sign up you will be helping the show! Thanks.

On this morning's show Amy Otto and Lee Kantor started out by discussing some of the upcoming networking events happening in the Atlanta area. We mentioned the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and their website www.metroatlantachamber.com. We also gave a shout out to our friend Sandy Richardson from the Gwinnett Chamber and her website www.gwinnettchamber.com.

We talked a little about Powercore and BNI, closed contact business networking groups. For more information about them please go to their websites www.powercore.net and  www.bniatlanta.com And for a pretty comprehensive listing of all kinds of Atlanta Events including Business Networking events please check out www.AtlantaEvent.com

Our guest today was Stephen Jones owner of Growth Strategies. Growth Strategies has been helping businesses grow since 2001. They provide "hands on" Sales and Marketing consulting services - with a Guarantee! According to Stephen, Growth Strategies will increase your sales by at least 25% within 6 months - or he'll refund your money. 

Stephen explained that he is an expert at providing a Process, a System and a Structure for his clients' marketing in order to systematically grow their businesses. He starts off each relationship with a "get to know you" creative strategy session where they explore the current state of the business, some history and learn the vision of the business owner. The business owner is then asked to complete a thorough questionnaire to determine the owner's strengths, weaknesses and goals. It isn't until this point that Stephen formulates the sales and marketing plan, along with all the action steps needed for it to succeed. Listen to the show and learn some of the common mistakes that business owner make and simple ways to correct them.

For more information about how Stephen Jones and Growth Strategies can help you mine the gold that is currently being hidden within your company please check out their website www.growthstrategies.us. His website has lots of great information that you can download and immediately use. You can reach Stephen  by phone at 770-601-0949 or toll free at 800-261-5034 or by email at sjones @ growthstrategies.us.

If you know of a business in Atlanta that we should know about please email Amy Otto at Amy @ atlantabusinessradio.com and we will try and get them on the show.