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Will 2012 be your year…or will it be more of the same?

No change means no change.

Join Sara Hand for

Setting Goals and Making “IT” Happen

Because setting goals is not enough!

Thursday, December 1st 8 am-9:30 am AND

Thursday December 8th 8 am-9:30 am

For many people they simply dust off last year’s goals and change the date and are ready to face a new year. Somewhere they heard that if you simply get those goals on paper, that’s “most” of what it takes. For some people it happens that way. But what about all those people that write goals year after year and it doesn’t happen for them?

Could there be more?

In this 2 sessions workshop series we are going to deal with 5 components to setting and achieving goals:

Priorities …Life Values …Goals …Action Plans …AND Accountability

“This workshop needs a disclaimer, it’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever done and I set goals with clients all the time.” Professional coach workshop attendee

Cost $99        Pre-registration is necessary at: www.sphandworkshop.eventbrite.com

Questions Call 941-228-4033 or Info@SPHANDandAssociates.com

Networking at 7:40 am Sessions start promptly at 8 am

2300 Bee Ridge Road #305| Sarasota, FL 34239

This workshop is for you if you want to accomplish and complete the goals you set and are prepared to deal with belief systems, whether conscious or unconscious, that currently stand in the way.

If you missed Focus the first time…

If you missed Sara’s “Focus: A  Value proposition for business growth” workshop, don’t worry you have one more chance this year. Starting on Thursday, November 10th Sara will be repeating this favorite 2 session study.

If you have wondered what you could do to take your business to the next level and found the choices overwhelming. this might be the place to start.

Focus is about fine tuning your message. It is about understanding your market and deciding to strategically grow your business by identifying which segments of your market to pursue and when.

The cost for the 2 sessions is $99 and pre-registration for this limited group is required. Contact Sara at 941-228-4033 or Sara@SPHANDandAssociates.com  to reserve your place today.

Networking starts at 7:40 with sessions starting promptly at 8am.

Thursday, November 10th 8am-9:30am and Thursday, November 17th 8am-9:30am.

First of Fall Workshop Series – FOCUS: A value proposition for business growth

Hitting the Mark!!

Two session workshop with Sara HandThursday 8am-9:30am October 27th and Thursday, November 3rd

Whether your company is new or has been around for a while, a strategic approach to marketing with a practical plan for implementation can revolutionize your cash flow.

What will you learn?

Focus: Where do you provide the most value? What makes you unique? 

Everyone is not your prospect, so…

  • Getting your message out is important.
  • Getting your message out to someone who could be your prospect is more important.
  • Getting a message out that distinguishes your business as unique and different to someone who could be your prospect is essential if you don’t want to compete on price alone.

Market: Who are your potential prospects? Of all your potential prospects, where do you start?

 A segment is a portion, a particular group within your potential prospects that share similar characteristics.

  • Your ideal prospect is the best potential prospect for your purpose.
  • Your value proposition is a stance on how you provide value and what makes you unique, combined with the needs of the prospect that can most benefit from what you provide, AND can reward you profitably for providing this VALUE!

Eliminate excuses and begin to take control of what and how much business is coming into your company.

“Pick the biggest market you can successfully dominate, the biggest slice where you can get through the Dip and be seen as the best in that world. If you can become number one in your niche, you’ll get more than your fair share of profits, glory, and long-term security.”                                                        Seth Godin

SUCCESS starts by showing up. For most this is too early, too much work or just too much money!

Sessions start promptly at 8am, refreshments and networking at 7:40am

Cost to attend $99 Payment accepted: check, Visa, Discover, MasterCard, and American Express

Call 941-228-4033 to pre-register or email sara@sphandandassociates.com

What could happen if you could produce better results and optimize your time, money and intellectual efforts? What would it be like if your business made more money from the same amount of effort you were currently putting in? What would that look like! It won’t just happen; you are going to need to do something different. No Change equals No Change. If you think, if I only work harder…if I only had more money to throw at it…STOP! The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results. To get different results, do something different. Try it; you will be glad you did!

FOCUS: A value proposition for business growth

Sara Hand Speaking at Jax Code Camp

Two session workshop with Sara Hand

Thursday 8am-9:30am September 22nd and Thursday, September 29th

 Whether your company is new or has been around for a while, a strategic approach to marketing with a practical plan for implementation can revolutionize your cash flow.

What will you learn?

Focus: Where do you provide the most value? What makes you unique? 

Everyone is not your prospect, so…

  • Getting your message out is important.
  • Getting your message out to someone who could be your prospect is more important.
  • Getting a message out that distinguishes your business as unique and different to someone who could be your prospect is essential if you don’t want to compete on price alone.

Market: Who are your potential prospects? Of all your potential prospects, where do you start?

 A segment is a portion, a particular group within your potential prospects that share similar characteristics.

  • Your ideal prospect is the best potential prospect for your purpose.
  • Your value proposition is a stance on how you provide value and what makes you unique, combined with the needs of the prospect that can most benefit from what you provide, AND can reward you profitably for providing this VALUE!

Eliminate excuses and begin to take control of what and how much business is coming into your company.

“Pick the biggest market you can successfully dominate, the biggest slice where you can get through the Dip and be seen as the best in that world. If you can become number one in your niche, you’ll get more than your fair share of profits, glory, and long-term security.”                                                        Seth Godin

SUCCESS starts by showing up. For most this is too early, too much work or just too much money!

Cost to attend $99 Payment accepted: check, Visa, Discover, MasterCard, and American Express  Pre-registration required!

 What could happen if you could produce better results and optimize your time, money and intellectual efforts? What would it be like if your business made more money from the same amount of effort you were currently putting in? What would that look like! It won’t just happen; you are going to need to do something different. No Change equals No Change. If you think, if I only work harder…if I only had more money to throw at it…STOP! The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results. To get different results, do something different. Try it; you will be glad you did!

Bee Ridge and Shade Professional Courts   

2344 Bee Ridge Suite 115      Sarasota, Florida      34239

SEO…There is more than one way to get page one – Tracy Ingram

As a founder of BarCamp Sarasota, one of the things that falls under my responsibility is choosing our monthly Lunch and Learn topics and the speakers who speak to these topics. I have often said people don’t know what they don’t know, which is exactly WHY our August 19th topic is “There is more than one way to page one.”

I  hear people discussing their challenges or strategies  to gain influence online. In my positions with BarCamp Sarasota and some of the other organizations I am involved with; my take on this is somewhat different.  Many people or companies will talk as if they have the “magic pill” for search engine rankings. I have seen new sites hit page one in less than a week and seen others never get there.

Tracy Ingram, a co-founder of BarCamp Sarasota and a brilliant SEO strategist will be sharing on a variety of tools that could get you to page one, which page one you want to get to and what to do when you get there.

Friday August 19th at the Mad Crow Brewery staring at 11:30.

Guest contributor – Tracy Ingram  – Be Seen Seo

With all the competition on the Internet, getting top rankings can seem like an overwhelming task. Join Tracy Ingram as he discusses what works and your most effective options for consistently high ranking in search engine results.

  •  Time: August 19, 2011 from 11:30am to 1:15pm
  • Location: Mad Crow
  • Street: 1525 4th St.
  • City/Town: Sarasota, FL
  • Website or Map: http://www.meetup.com/Barcamp…
  • Event Type: lunch, and, learn, barcamp, sarasota, tracyingram, seo, rankings, page1

 While Google is not the only search engine out there,  it is the biggest search engine and with the most traffic. You will find at this Lunch and Learn that there is more than one way to get to page one out there.  Social media and  Videos as just one way to get to page one. Even inside Google there are many ways:  PPC, Local, Long tail, and Video Images. Tracy will discuss all of these and more in an open discussion on how to actually get to page one and what that means. You may even come away with the knowledge of not only where you want to be on page one but what for!

 SEO – Stands for Search engine optimization and is the focus of this talk. If you do not know what search engine optimization is don’t worry, this will still be a fun informative lunch and learn for you and an opportunity to learn about how people find things on the internet.

Page one means: “first page of the search results. ” With more than one way to get to page one,  we are going to show  you how to get ranked in search engines and how to show up on that very important page one.

Who is looking for you on page one?

What is it that they are looking for?

Well that’s where the work comes in. Knowing where and how to show up for a term is sometimes more important than showing up for your brand. So whether you are an expert at search or just found Google yesterday, this is an exciting and fresh presentation sure to generate conversations, while giving you insight into how your customers interact with you on the web and how you can get in front of your customers.

Tracy Ingram - Be Seen SEO

Tracy Ingram has been in the Technical field for over 20 years. At the age of 17, he started his own IT consulting company.  While he was in college, Tracy was recognized regionally as a top computer sales associate. Continuing his education, he went on to get a Bachelors degree in Management Computer Information systems from Florida Gulf Coast University and pursued Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer credentials. During this time, Tracy also worked full time as PC LAN administrator at Walden University. After graduation, Tracy’s responsibilities at the university grew to include external and internal help desk management internationally. Upon leaving Walden, Tracy moved into international tech support for biomedical devices company. Currently Tracy is in the marketing field assisting companies with lead generation and in-bound marketing efforts through Search Engine Optimization.