Dale's Guest Line Up For October 2008
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Ron Finklestein - co-author of The Platinum Rule for Small Business - owner or AKRIS, Inc. - Business Coach & Consultant Extraordinaire.

After a successful consulting career providing solutions to Fortune 1000 accounts, Ron has spent the past 6 years building his business AKRIS INC and helping entrepreneurs and business owners build their businesses by helping them solve the tough problems that hold them back.
Ron has experience in working with businesses across a wide range of industries and on every aspect of a business, from information technology to marketing, leadership to sales, allowing him to offer practical and proven ideas and strategies to
improve any business.
Ron knows and understands that all successful people exhibit nine behaviors and he has build products to help implement these behaviors in businesses of all sizes. Because of the depth of breadth of Ron's experience, he can quickly and decisively see and identify business and personal challenges, identify innovative solutions and create opportunities out of most any problem.
Ron is well known in the business community for his leadership abilities, creativity, innovation and energy. Finklestein has an established reputation for building strong relationships and using those relationships to help others enhance their own personal and professional success.
Ron has owned his business since 2002, AKRIS INC. AKRIS INC focused on helping grow and improve small businesses:
- Twenty-five years of Fortune 1000 consulting experience
- Author of Celebrating Success! 14 Ways to Create a Successful Company (www.yourbusinesscoach.net), coauthor of The Platinum Rule for Small Business Mastery (www.celebrating-success.com), 49 Marketing Secrets (THAT WORK) to Grow Sales (www.49marketingsecrets.com).
- Owner of AKRIS INC, which provided business coaching and consulting services to business with revenues below $50M.
- Creator of The AKRIS Business Mastery Advisory Board (www.businessmasterynow.com). This board allows business owners to learn from, grow and prosper by understanding that multiple minds are more effective in making effective decisions than any single mind.
He spends his time consulting, coaching small business owners to greater success, writing and speaking about how to implement success strategies in business. Over the years Ron has spoken to or for business groups and conducts in-house training programs to improve business performance.
If you are interested in learning how Ron can help you in your business or to have Ron speak to your business, team, organization, association or group, contact him at:
(330) 990-0788 or ron@akris.net / www.rpfgroupinc.com.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Michael Librizzi Founder of Briz.com, the most synergistic FREE small business empowerment system online.

(Editors Note: If you are looking for a feature rich solution to empower your small business online without it costing you anything, then Briz.com is the answer - DS)
Michael Librizzi is from Long Island and the NYC area. He founded and launched Briz.com in March of 2008. Passionate about entrepreneurship and new/emerging technologies, Mike has built an amazing platform to help small business entrepreneurs empower their businesses online. Mike formally worked at Morgan Stanley in the foreign exchange markets. He has BS in Finance, Entrepreneurship, and IT from Syracuse University.
Briz.com is about empowering small businesses. It’s where businesses can
share their local “Buzz”. Businesses can communicate, network, market, and stay in the contact with their local consumers and business contacts. Briz gives businesses the ability to manage their complete online presence and customer relationships completely for free. Consumers can find, follow, and interact with what’s hot locally from local businesses.
(One more Editor's note: My partner, Mike Claggett has brought it to my attention that without doing one more thing in the time between when Google last spidered the Entrepreneurs On Call web site, the next spidering by Google but take about 30 minutes to put up our free EOC Web Presence on Briz.com. Some how we magically moved from a PR Rank with Google of PR-3 to a PR-4. Coincidence? I think not.
Dale Stefancic)
Wednesday, October 15th 2008
Gary Schoeniger - Founder of "The Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative, LLC Developer of the Entrepreneurship Education Program For The Cisco Entrepreneur Institute
After more than 15 years of studying and working with entrepreneurs, author, educator and entrepreneur Gary Schoeniger has become an innovator and leading advocate in the field of entrepreneurship education. Combining his own life experience with the first-hand knowledge and experience gathered from a wide variety of successful real-world entrepreneurs, Gary has developed a unique and powerful approach to learning that captures the essence of innovation, entrepreneurship and the unlimited opportunities it provides.
Gary founded The Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative, LLC to provide entrepreneurship education programs and consulting services for academic institutions and organizations worldwide.
ELI has recently developed an entrepreneurship education program for The Cisco Entrepreneur Institute, which is being distributed throughout Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia as well as the US. His company has also been named one of three US distribution and training centers for the Cisco Entrepreneur Institute.
Gary has also established a non-profit organization and is currently working with academic and entrepreneurial advisors to develop an entrepreneurship education program for high school students in the US.
Gary is a popular speaker, writer and blogger and has published numerous articles about the insights and exploits of real-world entrepreneurs. An active member if the entrepreneurial community, Gary is certified as an instructor by the National Foundation For Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) He is also a member of The Ohio Venture Association and The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education.
Wednesday, October 29th 2008
Glenn Dietzel - Founder of Awakened, LLC
Awakened, LLC, a leading thought company in the Recommendation Age. He has been at the forefront of authoring and business coaching/consulting now for several years. Insuring his clients all over the world author their own book in record time, Glenn teaches them to simultaneously building a profitable business using the power of the Internet.
Glenn has been called the Internet’s “best kept secret” and “the profit master” by his peers and experts in the authoring and publishing industry. Today he is even mentioned in the same breath as Tony Robbins and Donald Trump.
Moreover, Bery Wolk, the founder of the infomercial and the secret behind many billionaire success stories including Donald Trump has just recently created a partnership with Glenn’s company to produce the world’s first infomercial in the authoring and publishing industry.
As a former Vice Principal with two post-graduate degrees Glenn set two Internet records 3.5 years ago replacing both his income and his wife's income in record time—127 days off an 18 page digital download—with a system he now teaches his clients. He went on to set another Internet record making his first $100,000 from this same 18 page digital download on a list of under 500 people in less than 3 months and with no Joint Venture partners.
From Hong Kong to Hawaii, Glenn teaches people how to appropriate the specific attitudes, skills and knowledge not taught in any MBA program using the power of Entrepreneurial Authoring with its focus on rapid business acceleration using the power of Web 2.0. The success of Glenn’s authoring and business profit system provides a first in the authoring and publishing world: Instant access to a New York Publisher.
Glenn’s Entrepreneurial Authoring program has been recognized throughout the entire industry some of whom include:
- The marketing company to leading e-publishing giant, ADOBE
- Internet marketing experts Alex Mandossian, Armand Morin, Stephen Pierce, Joel Comm, Jim Edwards, Rick Butts and many others
- Beryl Wolk, founder of the infomercial, the newspaper insert, Cable Guide magazine etc.
- PR experts Rick Frishman and Dave Lakhani
- Personal Development Organizations including Bob Proctor, Harv Ecker, and Rudy Reuttiger
- Imal Wagner (publicist to Mark Victor Hansen and Robert Allen),
- The leading T.V. show, ‘Call For Help’ with Leo Laporte
- Consultants to two U.S. Presidents
- Many mid-tier companies (under NDAs)
- Professionals from every organization including doctors, lawyers, dentists, chiropractors…
- Self-publishing guru, Dan Poynter
- Clients from more than 90 countries!
- And many, many others!
If you are ready to challenge your assumptions about the steps you must take to market yourself in The Recommendation Age…if you are ready to become more than an expert…if you are ready to become the Intentional Choice where your clients only choose you over and over again…you’ll be glad that you met Glenn. Your personal and professional success has never been closer at hand.




