Cloud storage provides organizations with the ability to store nearly unlimited amounts of unstructured data in a safe and convenient way, while fulfilling the business needs for lower capital investment and utility costing. Cloud storage provides elastic storage for a wide variety of use cases and can be accessed via standard drive mounts, http, and API protocols. This webinar will provide ways you can leverage VISI's new cloud storage platform.

Register at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/902044354.

The move to cloud computing is changing the landscape of IT in significant and far-reaching ways. Traditionally when you buy computing power you pay for that power whether you use it or not. Cloud computing offers substantial economic advantages because you only pay for the computing resources that you actually you. And you dynamically increase or decrease those resources as your needs dictate. VISI is in a unique position to deliver cloud computing services to our customers. We are the largest Minnesota-based provider of data center and hosting services and have big network pipes and tons of Internet bandwidth. Most importantly, we have experienced technologists that are building the largest cloud computing infrastructure in Minnesota. Jason Baker with VISI will provide an overview of VISI's cloud services and how they can help your business succeed. He will also provide a live demo of how it will work.

Register for free at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/223681226.

Prerequisties: None

 Register at:  http://kgcstrategic1.eventbrite.com/

Cost: $59

Instructor:  Kim Gaskins, MBA is President and Owner of K. Gaskins Consulting.  She provides strategic and operational planning for small businesses and nonprofit organizations which focus on passion, productivity and prosperity.  For more information visit www.kgaskinsconsulting.com

Description:  This two hour online workshops is designed to help business owners and executive directors prepare a 2010 Strategic Plan for their organization.  Attendees will get the foundation for completing the documents provided in the Strategic Planning Workbook. 

 Topics:  Strategic Planning Process

Upon completion of the course you will receive a voucher for a 30 minute teleconference to go over your strategic plan and answer any questions you may have.

 Register at:  http://kgcstrategic1.eventbrite.com/

Prerequisites: None

Register at:  http://kgcblueprint1.eventbrite.com/

Cost: $360 (Save $100 when you register by December 29, 2009 use discount code:  earlybirdspecial_sn2). 

Instructor:  Kim Gaskins, MBA is President and Owner of K. Gaskins Consulting. She provides strategic and operational planning for small businesses and nonprofit organizations which focus on passion, productivity and prosperity. For more information visit www.kgaskinsconsulting.com.

Description: This online workshop is designed for people interested in starting a business.  Over a 10 week period we will explore all the aspects of starting a business and prepare a functional business plan with financial projects for 3-5 years. 

Access for the course will be forwarded after registration is completed.

Topics:

January 2010 

4th - Week 1: Introduction and Overview of Entrepreneurship

11th - Week 2: Essentials of Planning and Research

18th - Week 3: Management & Legal Structure

25th - Week 4: Marketing Analysis

February 2010

1st -  Week 5: Marketing Strategies and Tactics

8th - Week 6: Financial Review and Planning

15th - Week 7: Financial Statements

22nd - Week 8: The Future of Your Business

March 2010

1st - Week 9: Business Systems

8 th - Week 10: Funding and the Finishing Touches

You will submit your final business plan for review by 15th.  You will also schedule a 1 hour teleconference to go over your business plan and get any questions answered you may have. 

Do you want to find your true calling, but aren't sure how? Are you feeling unfulfilled in your business or career? Have you made a career move, but still aren't satisfied?

In this 1-hour Webinar, Leila will introduce you to the concepts from her forthcoming book, Driving to Success: Let Your Spirit Take the Wheel. The Webinar is also an introduction to the 3-part series which goes in depth on these concepts.

Learn why your Personality can keep you from reaching your goals
Learn how to involve your Spirit in your professional life
Create an action plan for getting your Spirit in the driver's seat

NOTE: Long distance charges may apply to access the bridge line. Or, you may use your computer speakers and microphone to participate in the audio portion.

Classes are held on the third Thursday of each month from:

5:30 to 6:30 PM Pacific
6:30 to 7:30 PM Mountain
7:30 to 8:30 PM Central
8:30 to 9:30 PM Eastern

Registration Link: http://www.spiritdriving.com/store/webinars/your-spirit-driving-your-business-or-career

Cost: $10.00

Do you want to find your true calling, but aren't sure how? Are you feeling unfulfilled in your business or career? Have you made a career move, but still aren't satisfied?

In this 1-hour Webinar, Leila will introduce you to the concepts from her forthcoming book, Driving to Success: Let Your Spirit Take the Wheel. The Webinar is also an introduction to the 3-part series which goes in depth on these concepts.

Learn why your Personality can keep you from reaching your goals
Learn how to involve your Spirit in your professional life
Create an action plan for getting your Spirit in the driver's seat

NOTE: Long distance charges may apply to access the bridge line. Or, you may use your computer speakers and microphone to participate in the audio portion.

Classes are held on the third Thursday of each month from:

5:30 to 6:30 PM Pacific
6:30 to 7:30 PM Mountain
7:30 to 8:30 PM Central
8:30 to 9:30 PM Eastern

Registration Link: http://www.spiritdriving.com/store/webinars/your-spirit-driving-your-business-or-career

Cost: $10.00

Do you want to find your true calling, but aren't sure how? Are you feeling unfulfilled in your business or career? Have you made a career move, but still aren't satisfied?

In this 1-hour Webinar, Leila will introduce you to the concepts from her forthcoming book, Driving to Success: Let Your Spirit Take the Wheel. The Webinar is also an introduction to the 3-part series which goes in depth on these concepts.

Learn why your Personality can keep you from reaching your goals
Learn how to involve your Spirit in your professional life
Create an action plan for getting your Spirit in the driver's seat

NOTE: Long distance charges may apply to access the bridge line. Or, you may use your computer speakers and microphone to participate in the audio portion.

Classes are held on the third Thursday of each month from:

5:30 to 6:30 PM Pacific
6:30 to 7:30 PM Mountain
7:30 to 8:30 PM Central
8:30 to 9:30 PM Eastern

Registration Link: http://www.spiritdriving.com/store/webinars/your-spirit-driving-your-business-or-career

Cost: $10.00

Do you want to find your true calling, but aren't sure how? Are you feeling unfulfilled in your business or career? Have you made a career move, but still aren't satisfied?

In this 1-hour Webinar, Leila will introduce you to the concepts from her forthcoming book, Driving to Success: Let Your Spirit Take the Wheel. The Webinar is also an introduction to the 3-part series which goes in depth on these concepts.

Learn why your Personality can keep you from reaching your goals
Learn how to involve your Spirit in your professional life
Create an action plan for getting your Spirit in the driver's seat

NOTE: Long distance charges may apply to access the bridge line. Or, you may use your computer speakers and microphone to participate in the audio portion.

Classes are held on the third Thursday of each month from:

5:30 to 6:30 PM Pacific
6:30 to 7:30 PM Mountain
7:30 to 8:30 PM Central
8:30 to 9:30 PM Eastern

Registration Link: http://www.spiritdriving.com/store/webinars/your-spirit-driving-your-business-or-career

Cost: $10.00

Do you want to find your true calling, but aren't sure how? Are you feeling unfulfilled in your business or career? Have you made a career move, but still aren't satisfied?

In this 1-hour Webinar, Leila will introduce you to the concepts from her forthcoming book, Driving to Success: Let Your Spirit Take the Wheel. The Webinar is also an introduction to the 3-part series which goes in depth on these concepts.

Learn why your Personality can keep you from reaching your goals
Learn how to involve your Spirit in your professional life
Create an action plan for getting your Spirit in the driver's seat

NOTE: Long distance charges may apply to access the bridge line. Or, you may use your computer speakers and microphone to participate in the audio portion.

Classes are held on the third Thursday of each month from:

5:30 to 6:30 PM Pacific
6:30 to 7:30 PM Mountain
7:30 to 8:30 PM Central
8:30 to 9:30 PM Eastern

Registration Link: http://www.spiritdriving.com/store/webinars/your-spirit-driving-your-business-or-career

Cost: $10.00

Do you want to find your true calling, but aren't sure how? Are you feeling unfulfilled in your business or career? Have you made a career move, but still aren't satisfied?

In this 1-hour Webinar, Leila will introduce you to the concepts from her forthcoming book, Driving to Success: Let Your Spirit Take the Wheel. The Webinar is also an introduction to the 3-part series which goes in depth on these concepts.

Learn why your Personality can keep you from reaching your goals
Learn how to involve your Spirit in your professional life
Create an action plan for getting your Spirit in the driver's seat

NOTE: Long distance charges may apply to access the bridge line. Or, you may use your computer speakers and microphone to participate in the audio portion.

Classes are held on the third Thursday of each month from:

5:30 to 6:30 PM Pacific
6:30 to 7:30 PM Mountain
7:30 to 8:30 PM Central
8:30 to 9:30 PM Eastern

Registration Link: http://www.spiritdriving.com/store/webinars/your-spirit-driving-your-business-or-career

Cost: $10.00

Do you want to find your true calling, but aren't sure how? Are you feeling unfulfilled in your business or career? Have you made a career move, but still aren't satisfied?

In this 1-hour Webinar, Leila will introduce you to the concepts from her forthcoming book, Driving to Success: Let Your Spirit Take the Wheel. The Webinar is also an introduction to the 3-part series which goes in depth on these concepts.

Learn why your Personality can keep you from reaching your goals
Learn how to involve your Spirit in your professional life
Create an action plan for getting your Spirit in the driver's seat

NOTE: Long distance charges may apply to access the bridge line. Or, you may use your computer speakers and microphone to participate in the audio portion.

Classes are held on the third Thursday of each month from:

5:30 to 6:30 PM Pacific
6:30 to 7:30 PM Mountain
7:30 to 8:30 PM Central
8:30 to 9:30 PM Eastern

Registration Link: http://www.spiritdriving.com/store/webinars/your-spirit-driving-your-business-or-career

Cost: $10.00

Do you want to find your true calling, but aren't sure how? Are you feeling unfulfilled in your business or career? Have you made a career move, but still aren't satisfied?

In this 1-hour Webinar, Leila will introduce you to the concepts from her forthcoming book, Driving to Success: Let Your Spirit Take the Wheel. The Webinar is also an introduction to the 3-part series which goes in depth on these concepts.

Learn why your Personality can keep you from reaching your goals
Learn how to involve your Spirit in your professional life
Create an action plan for getting your Spirit in the driver's seat

NOTE: Long distance charges may apply to access the bridge line. Or, you may use your computer speakers and microphone to participate in the audio portion.

Classes are held on the third Thursday of each month from:

5:30 to 6:30 PM Pacific
6:30 to 7:30 PM Mountain
7:30 to 8:30 PM Central
8:30 to 9:30 PM Eastern

Registration Link: http://www.spiritdriving.com/store/webinars/your-spirit-driving-your-business-or-career

Cost: $10.00

Do you want to find your true calling, but aren't sure how? Are you feeling unfulfilled in your business or career? Have you made a career move, but still aren't satisfied?

In this 1-hour Webinar, Leila will introduce you to the concepts from her forthcoming book, Driving to Success: Let Your Spirit Take the Wheel. The Webinar is also an introduction to the 3-part series which goes in depth on these concepts.

Learn why your Personality can keep you from reaching your goals
Learn how to involve your Spirit in your professional life
Create an action plan for getting your Spirit in the driver's seat

NOTE: Long distance charges may apply to access the bridge line. Or, you may use your computer speakers and microphone to participate in the audio portion.

Classes are held on the third Thursday of each month from:

5:30 to 6:30 PM Pacific
6:30 to 7:30 PM Mountain
7:30 to 8:30 PM Central
8:30 to 9:30 PM Eastern

Registration Link: http://www.spiritdriving.com/store/webinars/your-spirit-driving-your-business-or-career

Cost: $10.00

Looking for a white collar professional home based franchise business that will allow you to achieve financial independence?

The hour you invest to attend this webinar will provide you an inside view as to how a current WSI Franchisee (owner - Kevin Dean) left the corporate world (x- 20 year Semiconductor manufacturing executive) and in 4 short years attained financial independence in a recession proof industry. Kevin will be showing how he leverages the WSI systems on a daily basis to provide high value internet marketing based solutions to help his clients achieve their business goals.

If you are looking for a new career in a high growth industry, then don't miss this opportunity to get an inside view of how a typical WSI franchise operates and makes money.

WSI is the largest internet marketing consulting company in the world with over 1500 franchise offices in 87 countries. WSI has also been ranked by entrepreneur.com as the #1 franchise for the Internet Services industry category for the last 10 years straight.

Webinar registration information:

Topic: WSI Franchise Opportunity Webinar

Next Event: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PDT
http://bit.ly/c4nyVi

Hope you can make it!

Kevin Dean

*WSI franchise opportunities are not available in India or China.*

This webinar series outlines the process and key tools that you can use to publish your written creations on your own.  The first webinar is a FREE 45-minute webinar that outlines what you need to prepare for publishing - ideas, writing, and editing.  This is set for Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 7 p.m.

You don't want to miss it! 

In the remaining four webinars, Lauri Elliott, a journalist, strategic consultant, and publisher will walk you through the process she uses to bring products to market in each of the platforms - blogs, ebooks, audiobooks, and print books.  And doing it virtually for free. Each of the follow-up, 90-minute webinars will discuss:

• What you need to get started for each of the publishing formats
• The step-by-step process to follow to get the best publishing results for each of the publishing formats
• Tour of key (mostly free!) tools specific to each publishing format

For example, in the DIY Publishing: Blogs webinar you will learn how to write a book by developing a blog and build your audience at the same time, so you are ahead when you get ready to publish the book.  In DIY Blogs, we will share basic tools, e.g., SocialOomph, for streamlining management of your blog and getting the maximum performance.  Each DIY Publishing webinar segment is $35. If you attend the free webinar, you get a 25% discount on the cost of each remaining seminar.

You will receive follow-up instructions and webinar details a few weeks before the event.  Join us and enjoy!

You must REGISTER (FEW SEATS LEFT) Click here:

http://diypublishing1.eventbrite.com/

Dr. Brad Semp will be hosting a free webinar for Entrepreneurs. He is offering the Entrepreneur CashMap (Process Map) free for download at his site http://bit.ly/cshmp. Download the maps and join the discussion live on 1/5/11 at 9:30pm EST / 6:30pm PST. Ask questions and join in on the conversation

Come discover what SEO (search engine optimization) is and why it is critical to web success. You will learn why Search Engine Optimization is an absolute must if you want to have a successful website. You will understand what the search engines are looking for, and how SEO techniques help them find you in the right way.

This course will give you the tools required to implement your own SEO campaign and dramatically improve your search engine ranking within 3 months. Using the techniques of professional SEO experts, you can optimize your website and hone your web presence so you can achieve greater visibility when people search online.

Session 1: Why You Need an SEO Internet Strategy
You will learn what Search Engine Optimization is an absolute must if you want to have a successful website. You will understand what the search engines are looking for, and how SEO techniques help them find you in the right way. You will walk away with a simple formula you can use for implementing an SEO strategy that won't take tons of time or effort.

Session 2: Keywords and How to Use Them
Learn about the importance of choosing the right keywords. Utilize research techniques to determine the best keywords to optimize your SEO practice. 3 random participants will walk away with a list of keywords to start their SEO optimization. Everybody will gain the tools required to choose the keywords to optimize for.

Session 3: Optimizing Your Website for SEO
In this session you will learn what is and is not important for optimizing your website for SEO. Learn what techniques are most important to the search engines, and what techniques no longer matter. You will walk away knowing how to optimize your pages, and how to create pages that will attract traffic for your target keywords.

Session 4: Get Fast SEO Results!
Discover the easiest and quickest way to get to page one of Google. Learn a simple technique for tracking how often you come up in search results, and how to use that information to hone your SEO plan. Learn to easiest way to gain the highest quality links, no matter what industry you are in!

Session 5: Using Social Media for SEO Points
What social media outlets provide rich opportunities for enhancing SEO? How do you utilize these outlets to reach out and connect with the Internet community? Learn about key opportunities that Social Media provides to boost SEO on your site.

Do-it-Yourself SEO Part 2 includes sessions 6-10 of SEO instruction. This course will give you the tools required to implement your own SEO campaign and dramatically improve your search engine ranking within 3 months. Using the techniques of professional SEO experts, you can optimize your website and hone your web presence so you can achieve greater visibility when people search online.

Session 6: Local Search for Optimum Results
What is local search and how can you focus your SEO efforts to capture this often-forgotten gem? Learn how to define optimum local search for your business to get a quick result in search engine rankings.

Session 7: Blog Writing for SEO Points
Blogs provide an easy means of achieving a lot of SEO points. Find out what your blog should say and how to maximizes it\'s use in your SEO strategy. If you don't have time to blog, learn about alternatives that can provide results without significant time investment.

Session 8: How Your Competitors Can Help Your SEO
Discover how to use your competitors' efforts can help you design an excellent SEO strategy. You will learn specific research techniques that you can utilize to uncover a wealth of SEO opportunities.

Session 9: Why you need Google Analytics to help your SEO strategy
Google Analytics is a free tool that provides a wealth of information about your website. It can help you determine SEO directions to take, and it can provide feedback on how effective your SEO campaign has been.

Session 10: Aggregate Information Sites Can Enhance Your Web Presence & SEO
An often-forgotten piece of SEO campaigns are aggregate information websites. Find out how you can be included and how to build up profiles that become marketing cornerstones while also increasing your search engine results.

This course will help you to create a phenomenal LinkedIn profile so that you can utilize it to expand your online presence and generate leads to grow your business.

Session 1: What makes a robust LinkedIN Profile?
Learn the essentials of completing your LinkedIN profile. We will show you step-by-step how to fill in the pieces so your profile is representative of your scope of talents. In addition, we will discuss strategy for putting your best foot forward in LinkedIN.

Session 2: LinkedIN Applications: How They Enhance Your Profile
LinkedIN Applications can bring your profile to the next level. Learn how to interconnect your social media outlets so your LinkedIN profile provides greater exposure to all your social media activities.

Session 3: How Groups & Answers are Key to Expanding Your Online Presence
Learn why groups and answers provide a wealth of opportunities for sharing your expertise and expanding your reputation. Discover how to find the perfect groups for you, and gain some tricks to minimize time spent while maximizing the return on participation.

Blogging has become a mainstream method for reaching out to potential customers. But many small businesses do not have the time to invest in a regular blogging routine. So how do you capture the opportunities it has to offer if you donÕt have the time to participate?

Join us for an hour and find out how blogging can help you build your online reputation and create an ongoing connection with existing and potential clients. Learn about the various types of blogs, and walk away with ideas that you can implement in order to create a successful blog for your company.