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Positively Pittsburgh Small Biz Saturday Showcase 4-26-14 Communications Businesses

Positively Pittsburgh Small Biz

Saturday Showcase 4-26-14

Communications Businesses

Linda Richardson

Expert Translations and Interpreting Executive All Clear

Translations

is committed to helping businesses expand their markets globally and grow sales. Translations of marketing materials, websites, software and more. Video sub-titling in many languages, Video voice-overs in many languages. Telephone Interpreting in over 180 languages! We have the experts to help you deliver a fast, cost efficient, localized message. Magnify your company’s potential globally with All Clear Translations.

Working with my clients to build their sales through translations and interpreting. We offer telephone interpreting and translations in over 180 languages.

Unique process that can include Plain English translation helping increase understanding and comprehension in English while reducing translation and production costs.

Goal: to help companies realize great growth through global sales. To educate through speaking engagements the value of international communication for manufacturers in the US and abroad.

Specialties:telephone interpreting, video translation, voice-overs and subtitling in many languages, marketing translations, website localization, software localization, technical translations, Plain English resource for technical and safety writers, using our process can save money for English manuals and translated materials. Speaker for educational seminars on Global Commerce and Marketing.Presented at LISA, SBDC workshops...

Points of discussion.

Linda started All Clear Translations at the end of 2010. Her passion is helping companies take their brand globally. Helping them through translation, connections, education is exciting. Watching them grow and prosper is so rewarding.
Last year she was accepted into the eCenter Technology Incubator in Hermitage. She opened that office in April.
Since starting as a language translations company All Clear Translations has added telephone interpreting, transcription and video closed captioning to answer the needs of our clients. For example, local companies selling globally now need help fielding calls from people everywhere. One of my clients, LockHouse has added Hindi sub-titling to their informational video and presented at an International Conference in India. The video has created much talk and interest in their cutting edge technology.
Next month, Linda will be on a panel discussion with the WIB (Women in Biology) discussing how social media can help you brand and build your business. She will also be speaking at an eCommerce event in Erie with the Ben Franklin Technology Partners. Linda will be discussing adding languages to your website and the impact on eCommerce for our U.S. companies looking to grow internationally.
She was accepted into the SBA Emerging Leaders Initiative in Youngstown, OH. She is honored to participate and wants to thank the SBA for creating this program for Small Business. This is offered in only 27 cities across the country.

Translation Services

‣ Manuals

‣ Marketing

‣ Legal Documents

‣ Websites

‣ Software

Interpreting

‣ Over the Phone

‣ 24/7

‣ 180 Languages

‣ Expertise in medical

‣ HIPAA Certified

Video/Audio

‣ Transcription

‣ Translation

‣ Audio voice-over

‣ Closed-Caption

TIP for Listeners: Highest converting websites have multiple languages and video on their landing page. By 2016 Global Video Traffic will be 55% of all internet traffic. Link the video it to YouTube, add closed caption it and your sales will grow!

Any company who sends All Clear Translations a new project will receive the book “Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands” a guide for international business etiquette.

Linda Richardson | President

Direct: 412.496.5105 | 866.489.9109

3580 Innovation Way Suite 108

Hermitage, PA 16148

linda@allcleartranslations.com | www.allcleartranslations.com

Kelli (Morgavo) Robbins

President of Contact One Communications, a firm that specializes in 24/7 Call Center and Telephone Answering Services

Kelli is an author, trainer, speaker, entrepreneur and former president of the Pittsburgh Business Development Alliance. She leads a firm that delivers information and business results through better communication. For over 25 years, Kelli has worked across the country and, over her career, has set up thousands of clients that range from political leaders, to CEOs, to small business.

Kelli’s work has helped thousands of business leaders develop strong communications management strategies. She works with clients on every aspect of communication from the development of vision and strategy, to the preparation and delivery of marketing plans, web presence and communications management.

Programming Chairperson, Membership Chairperson

Pittsburgh Rotary Club

2012 – Present (2 years)Downtown Pittsburgh, Omni William Penn Hotel

Business Development Administrator

Advertisers Associates Inc

January 2009 – Present (5 years 4 months)

Advertisers Associates is a 60 year old firm that specializes in marketing, printing, direct mail, fulfillment, graphic design and warehousing. Our ten story building is bursting with energy and new marketing ideas and materials each and every day!

Kelli Robbins is the owner and President of Contact One Communications. Founded in 1985, Contact One specializes in telephone answering service and custom call center applications for commercial, medical, e-commerce and web applications for companies in the Pittsburgh region and all across North America. Her firm’s clients are top leaders in business, from Fortune 500 to small and midsize companies and professional services firms.

In addition, Kelli works in the arena of marketing, advertising and branding with entrepreneurs of all sizes. Her special emphasis is on creating and printing collateral materials; direct and electronic mailings; web design and product fulfillment. Kelli’s firm provides top corporate clients - and budding entrepreneurs alike - with a total communications solutions package for rapid business growth and development.

Kelli at Rotary Gala

Kelli holds board and leadership positions in many organizations. Nationally, she serves as the Membership Chairperson for the Association of Teleservices International; the Government Relations Committee (including a recent trip to Capitol Hill to promote legislation for the Private Sector Critical Response Centers (PSCRC); and the ATSI Marketing Committee. She is also a member and frequent speaker for GLTSA (Great Lakes TeleServices Association). In addition, she had previously held the position of Convention Chairperson for a National Call Center Equipment Association, NAEO. Kelli also is a regular featured Customer Service writer and track master for the National Call Center Publication “Answer OnLine”.
A native Pittsburgher, Kelli is the Programming Chairperson and Membership Co-Chair for The Downtown Pittsburgh Rotary Club; The Secretary of the Board for the Golden Triangle Executives Club; serves on the Community Development Board for Animal Friends; Pittsburgh Coalition for Homeland Security; a member of the Pittsburgh Rivers Club; and a singer for the Mother of Sorrows Church Choir.

Kelli was also honored to be appointed Membership Chairperson under incoming District Governor Herb Diekman ("Dike-man") beginning June 30, 2013.

The Downtown Pittsburgh Rotary Club is one of the oldest in the world. It is the 20th chartered Rotary Club globally, and has spawned 52 clubs in the Pittsburgh region, making up our Rotary District 7300. We have over 1500 members in the region!

Fun Fact: Did you know that there are 35,000 Rotary Clubs WORLDWIDE, and that Rotary is the second largest service organization in the world: Second only to the CATHOLIC CHURCH!!!

Kelli founded First Contact with the mission to get my Contact One Client's telephones to ring even more with new business opportunities!

3 company mottos:

"A missed call is a missed opportunity! "
"Opportunity Doesn't Knock.... It Rings!"
"Your Business Image Is On the Line"

Kelli started my traditional telephone answering service business around my family dining room table at 21 years old, and how we survived and morphed into who we are today.... CELEBRATING 30 years in business!

Try Contact One Answering Service for one month free service as PositivelyPittsburghLive Listener

Hank Walshak is Founder and President of Walshak Communications, Inc., a company he launched in 1984.

He is known as The Communications Expert for Experts. As the name suggests, he works with business and professional experts to develop and communicate their marketing vision and content.

His ultimate role with the people and companies he works with is to enable them to stand apart from their competitors in highly distinctive ways as they communicate with their audiences through traditional and social media.

Hank has written three books and coauthored two. His most recent

book—Driven: A How-to Strategy for Unlocking Your Greatest Potential, a

work of creative nonfiction, was written with Razi Imam and published by

John Wiley & Sons.

He also writes on business and healthcare for national media under his byline and the bylines of clients.

Hank Walshak Talking Points

· Many of my clients have difficulty integrating public relations, social media, and content marketing.

· I make them aware of what I call “The werewolf marketing myth”: trying to do all their communications through a single channel.

· Integrating marketing communications is like taking care of toddlers. You have to adapt yourself to the personalities of multiple communications vehicles—public relations, social media, content marketing, presentations, and the like.

· The dinosaurs aren’t dead yet. Traditional publicity still works. You have to master the art of the query or the pitch.

· News releases are practical if used for real news and selectively.

· And let’s not forget what I call the PR aftermarket.

· Facebook is good for things like conversation starters, items related to a company’s blog posts.

· Linkedin is great for business development, linking in real life with prospects.

· Twitter is wonderful for short messages, newsy items, and the like.

· If you’re marketing content, you’re in the publishing business. Publishing rides on content. Keep to an editorial schedule. Make it frequent, consistent, and regular. Publish opinions on news, trends, and business developments.

· Master the art of the short.

· The big question nobody asks: Where do your clients and prospect go for their information?

· Ya gotta have a written communications strategy. Target audiences. Communications objectives. Media program. Budget and resources, Analyze and assess results.

· Remember: Your website and your blog form your communications hubs.

· If listeners want to reach out to me: www.hankwalshak.com. hankwalshak@verizon.net 412-831-3023

Hank’s final tip for prospective customers:

Write your communications plan first. Then follow your plan. The end game: Be read. Be heard. Be seen. Be known.

Hank’s special offer for PositivelyPittsburghLive listeners and blog readers:

For the first five listeners or readers who send an email with the subject line, “Lend a Hand,”Hank will provide an hour of coaching free on integrating their PR, social media, and content media.

Hank Walshak

The Communications Expert for Experts

Founder and President of Walshak Communications, Inc.

www.hankwalshak.com

hankwalshak@verizon.net

Sunita Pandit, Mrs. Cardiology

Sunita started her website mrscardiology.com two years ago

Sunita and husband Dr. Santosh Pandit

with a passion to dissipate information to patients that were and are today seeking information they cannot get from their own doctor due to reasons including time limitations and just not knowing what to ask.

The site now is evolving to include her Mrs.Cardiology podcasts from TalkShoe where she covers topics on nutrition and healthy living and my take on how you can make your doctor successful with your care.

(412) 367-9104

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EmilHeintzinger

For 35 years Emil was a Sheet Metal Worker member of Local 12 as a Foreman/Superintendent/Estimator/Project Manager.

9 years ago Emil was introduced to the LegalShield product and opportunity and finally saw what he wanted to be when he grew up.

He is an expert in helping small business owners grow and protect their business with premium identity theft and legal protection plans.

Emil has written articles for First Commonwealth Bank, Breaking Ground Magazine and SMC H.R. Update helping to clarify some misconceptions on Identity Theft.

He is presenting a seminar called “What Me Worry? The Mad, Mad World of Identity Theft” at the monthly meeting of the North

Suburban Builders Association on April 17^th

To schedule an identity theft workshop for your business organization contact Emil @ 412-860-5540 or Emil@EmilHeintzinger.com

To learn more about how LegalSheild works go to www.EmilHeintzinger.com for information

This is not an offer but a tip. We have a huge misconception about the legal system. Most corporate entities that we deal with have a legal team, why? Because every decision that is made is checked for legalities to protect the corporation. Who protects the average citizen; who looks out for you and me? At LegalShield our mission is to make the legal system available to everyone, not just the rich and famous!

Presentation offer:

Identity theft educational presentation to groups that want to learn more about the Fastest Growing Crime in America.

EmilHeintzinger.com

412-860-5540

emil@emilheintzinger.com

Daryle Crew Roboch – Image-Thinking

Image-Thinking is the Business of Visual Literacy. IT takes Art and “kicks it up a notch” so that Art becomes a language. This

Right-Brain, Left-Brain, Whole-Brain approach to Information Processing has educational, social and technological benefits. Resources are becoming available on-line.

LEARNING ROADMAP FOR TEACHERS, PARENTS and

Adult LEARNERS

ART, WELLNESS AND LEARNING ABILITIES

This is a 3-dimentional motivational and language development

approach to thinking and learning. The three dimensions include:

1. visual and other stimulus

2. body-mind relaxation

3. speech-writing-language development

which in turn creates a mind-body methodology

The program involves mentoring for relaxation and communication, motivation using imagery for thinking and learning, and methods to enhance language development.

Through her 40+ years of teaching and research, Dr. Crew mastered the power of alternative learning skills. This was done by mainstreaming unique learning talents and visual and mental asset discovery.

Dr. Crew has turned the love of beautiful imagery that comes from the heart of every learner, into the beauty of expression in the form of drawing, writing, poetry and other art forms. She is able to increase a student’s learning ability through better in-put and out-put experiences…..and she shares this with you in this easy to understand learning road-map.

Many of the products were designed with the help of her grand-daughter’s needs:

to relax
to learn to read
to love and respect Art.

Amusement parks, dancing, Gymboree, balloons, just jumping on the bed can all be learning experiences. What you need as the parent or teacher is the ability to extract the lesson learned! Image-thinking reflection sheets and happy cards do exactly that.

This program helps:

1. toddlers/young children learning to write the words that they are experiencing

2. older children experiencing a “learning lag”

3. visual-thinking learners in an “academic world” that primarily rewards verbal acuity

4. people with learning problems and/or disabilitites

5. any age visual-thinking learners in an “academic world” that primarily rewards verbal acuity

6. brain injury patients

7. trauma victims

Pictured learning is as old as hieroglyphics. Today it can help the writing process, eliminating the stigma that visual thinkers feel. “Everybody did it”, starting with the caveman.

“Dr. Crew gets it!” Despite her disability (as described in her book entitled “Image-Thinking”) , Dr. Crew a.k.a. Grand-Ma Rainbow, was able to earn a Doctorate of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work has, in addition, achieved various publications and the prestigious National Christa McAuliffe Fellowship for Pennsylvania from the US Department of Education. This financial award enabled the expansion of her program of Visual Literacy into a legitimate and respected entity.

As her personal journey illustrates, this approach can give visual-thinking students “the power of possibility” as much, or more than anyone else.

Her Tip:

The A B C's for improving concentration, memory and writing through this Visual Litracy Program are;

A. Draw a picture of a feeling or idea

B. Add color to the picture

C. Ad words on it somewhere

Image-Thinking
4304 Venango Ave
Munhall, PA 15120-3061

Business Website Address:www.image-thinking.com

Business Phone Number:(412) 983-7189

JoAnn R Forrester

JoAnn R. Forrester is founder, president and owner of S I Business Associates, a business growth management firm established in 1975. Over 75,000 hours of experience in teaching, consulting, financing, human relations, speaking, writing and business development classes, writing and public relations, seminars and individual consultations have made her a prominent woman on the business scene in Pennsylvania.

As a financial consultant and growth management specialist, JoAnn has specialized in helping small businesses grow and prosper. She has raised over 40 million dollars in business capital for her business and not-profit-clients.

A number of her clients have won local, regional and national recognition for their achievements as small business owners.

In 1998 she co-developed the PRICE IT PERFECT(TM) Cost Management and Analysis program for small business. Through the use of the cost analysis and projections of the Price It Perfect. Jo Ann Forrester has been able to secure loan proposal approvals of over 40 million dollars in capital for small business owners.

In recognition of her contributions and advocacy of small and woman owned business JoAnn is a recipient of the prestigious 2010 Greater Pittsburgh YWCA Tribute to Women in the Entrepreneur category.

JoAnn has been twice recognized by the SBA as a Women Business Champion in 1989 and 2000.....Concentrating on small businesses, Jo Ann's experience includes developing over four hundred business plans and being the on-site consultant for the Women's Entrepreneurial Training Program for the City of Pittsburgh and the State of Pennsylvania. From 1991 to 1995 she served on a Pennsylvania Governor's Task Force for the development of a strategic growth plan for women business owners. A member of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Small Business Advisory Council for the Western Pennsylvania District, JoAnn was appointed the first woman in Chair of the Council in May of 1993. Co-author of STEPS TO OWNING YOUR OWN SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS and the DAVID Vs GOLIATH MARKETING WORKBOOK.

JoAnn has also been a guest columinist for the Pittsburgh Business Time writing on growth issues for small business

JoAnn has led thousands of men and women into an understanding of the often confusing world of business. Jo Ann is a nationally certified trainer for the National Foundation of Women Business Owners and on site reviewer for the National Business Women Owners Corporation. She has shared her expertise with many organizations and institutions, including Carlow College, Chatham University, Robert Morris University, and Community College of Allegheny County. JoAnn has served as 5 times as regional President of the National Association of Women Business Owners, and has served on the 2008-09 National Nominating Committee for NAWBO.y.

In 1999, JoAnn received recognition as one of the Top 50 Women Business Owners in Pennsylvania and in 2000 she was awarded the SBA Women in Business Advocate Award for the state of Pennsylvania. In March of 1996, Jo Ann was elected to the Pennsylvania Honor Roll of Fame and in 2000 JoAnn was installed in the National Women Hall of Fame. ...JoAnn is co-founder of Celebrate & Share, an organization, which supports and highlights the achievement of women business owners. JoAnn's advocacy and support of small business has led her to be appointed to a number of board positions, including the Business Loan Review Committee of the URA of the City of Pittsburgh, and Program Manager for the Allegheny County Working Capital Loan Fund.

Tip for the show: Keep your word. Your reputation is built on your actions...not just your words.

JoAnn R. Forrester
"Empress of Biz" TalkCast Host

http://tinyurl.com/EmpressofBiz

www.EmpressofBiz.blogspot.com

Price it Perfect

www.priceitperfect.blogspot.com
Celebrate & Share Women of Achievement

2010 YWCA Tribute to Women Honoree
SBA PA Woman Business Champion 2000/1989
Office: 412-440-6969 Cell: 412-670-4322

Sid Pandit

Sid Pandit is a young entrepreneur who specializes in marketing any product or service via the Internet.

He is a leader at the ASF Movement (Abundance Success and Freedom) where he coaches and consults other entrepreneurs and business owners on their web presence – anything from generating leads, sales, building relationships with customers and much more.

He also works in a tight nit entrepreneurial mentorship society comprised of young aspiring entrepreneurs and those who want to be the absolute best in whatever field they are already in.

Sid also just launched a coffee business!

1. Sid started his own business at 20 because h saw that he did not want to enter the corporate world.

2. He is a Leader at the ASF Movement (Abundance Success Freedom) with his partner Fraser and the two specialize in helping promote small businesses via the Internet

3. Every business is different. So they utilize Entrepreneurial training for mindset and wisdom, along with online marketing training for specific online marketing activities

4.They work closely with their clients and make sure they are doing the right steps towards executing the right strategies to achieve the results they want to achieve

5. Their specialties lie in Attraction Marketing via Facebook, Youtube, and Blogging.

Tip: Think in your customers shoes when it comes to anything and everything. Most business owners DO NOT think in their customers shoes when they approach their online marketing efforts. But when they do, they see their sales/conversions/opt-ins skyrocket

Offer: Send an email at sidpandit.com@gmail.com with the subject line: I Love Coffee! And receive a free 5 day supply of the coffee of your choice!

In the body, include the following information:

Name

Email Address

Phone Number

Choice of coffee: Black, Latte, Mocha

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