A businessman speaks about business problems and solutions, difficulties and rewards.

by Craig Jennings, Entrepreneur

 

Topics I’m frequently asked to speak on:

Running your own business:  10 traps for the unwary entrepreneur which can keep your small business small.

 

What’s critical are three issues:  Your self-knowledge, your vision, and your mission.  Setting S.M.A.R.T. goals and using models from Microsoft, Google, and Christopher Columbus, we’ll learn how to get the gun pointed right before we pull the trigger.

How does the enginerr persuade the artist, or vice versa?

 

This quick but powerful analysis, called the Color-Q, will help you communicate where you never could before.  Key to successful sales, and management.

 

Time Management is impossible.

 

But you-management is possible.  Learn why the difference is important.

Testimonials and referrals for your business.

 

What happens when your customers say how great you are!

In this talk, you’ll learn 3 referral and testimonial strategies which will produce glowing referrals and testimonials with ease.  Learn why testimonials are so important, and how to ask for and get them.

 

Why most entrepreneurs don’t have a working business plan, and how to get one.

 

Forty % of small businesses are gone in 1 year, 80% in 4. What are the steps critical to survival?  Hint:  A working business plan is one!

 

Networking – there’s a very simple secret to successful networking.

We’ll practice it – it will work wonders.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other related topic headings:

Finding out what your real strengths are.  Most of us don’t know.

Why knowing your strengths is step one in the Job Hunt.

Mastery and Greatness.  They’re available.  Want some?  It begins, not with striving, but with self-knowledge.

How to open doors you didn’t know were closed to you.

Customer Service – there’s a reason why so many think they’re doing well, and aren’t.

Accountability.  Why it really counts!  Why you can’t be accountable to yourself.

What Clients Are Saying:

Class Evaluations:

Run, don’t walk to hear this man.  He will save you thousands of hours of agony, and thousand of dollars of mistakes and time.

Arthur Rambeau,

The Learning Annex

Thanks so much for bringing your “hot” course to my graduating class.  The students love your humor, your real-world approach and your honesty.

Appreciation, Audry Cohen College, from Professor Deborah Gonzalez, PhD

Craig Jennings 516 944-6454

www.craigjennings.com

www.caringforthecaregiver.org

craig@craigjennings.com


Professional Speaking Testimonials:

 

“The conversation afterward integrated things into my life. I’m a planner and I discovered that there’s a time to stop planning and get into action, and I was missing that action. I knew this was true about me but I have never confronted it before.”

Ilian Saat, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce

 

“As the president of the Gold Coast Business Network, I would like to thank you for the terrific presentation you gave us. The whole group was enthusiastically involved. I think you have plenty to offer to business professionals, and you really do make a difference!”

Gabor Karsai, Gold Coast Network

 

I am thankful to you for the presentation to our networking

group this morning. We all learned that this presentation would definitely increase sales close ratio by 20 to 30%. Thanks again and I look forward to more such opportunities”

Rakesh Bhargava, One-on-one Networking

Craig, Thanks again for taking the time to share your wisdom with people at Shelter Rock Church on Saturday.  We really appreciated it. My wife took the Q Color test and the results helped us understand some of the challenges we’ve been facing.  You know the story.

John Morse. Small-Business CEO, Manhasset, NY

 

Your presentation went over extremely well.  This particular audience had a tremendous amount of entrepreneurs and they don’t get the chance to brainstorm or think about things differently when they are running day to day events.  Along with the presentation, Craig was kind enough to prepare a hand-out which summarized and amplified his presentation.

I would encourage any company or organization that is interested in learning more about Craig to give me a call at (973) 335-4400.

Michael Kirkwood, Kirkwood Communications, Montville, NJ

Executive Summary

I graduated from Harvard (a very long time ago!) and did graduate work later on at Columbia.  I have worked in a wide variety of fields – advertising, marketing, sales, broadcasting, marine construction and deep-sea diving, computer training, IT consulting, day trading, etc.

I’ve started eight businesses on my own, including a hi-tech computer training center, an award-winning advertising agency, and a deep-sea diving business in Africa.

As a professional coach, I am a member of ICF, a founding member of Coachville, a founding member of The Graduate School of Coaching,  a Certified Graduate of Coachville, a Certified Toastmaster, and the founder of the NYC Midtown Coaching Center.

I’m a past president of a BNI chapter, was  a Certified Facilitator for TAB for 7 years, and a Certified Facilitator for 2Young2Retire.

Today, as a business coach, I work with about 25 entrepreneurs every month, publish articles and give webinars on topics of entrepreneurship.

 

In my spare time I’m the founder pf Caring For The Caregiver, an organization creating support for caregivers.  If you’re a caregiver, call me – I’ve created some help for you.

Areas of Expertise:

Marketing

Small Business Training

Day Trading

Entrepreneurship

Motivational (Business)

Networking

Branding

Advertising

Sales/Consulting

Commercial Deep Sea Diving

 

Education:

Harvard, BA, English

Columbia, Graduate Work IT

Professional

Certifications and

Awards:

Andy Awards for Advertising

Excellence (3)

Board of Directors, Literacy Nassau

Professional School of

Diving of NY

President and Founder,

Caring For The Caregiver.

Certificates:

Microsoft NT 4.0

SQL Server 7.0

MS Sales Specialist

Coachville Charter Member,

Certificate of Graduation

The Alternative Board

Certified Facilitator

2Young2Retire

Certified Facilitator

Toastmasters

Competent Communicator
Advanced Communication

 

Hobbies are backgammon and chess, choral singing, guitar and banjo, plus mountain-climbing with my son.

 

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