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Emile Paradis with RPM Advisors and Global Network ATL, Geoff Smith with Assurance Financial, Terrance Ross with RITA-TECH INC – Buckhead Business Radio

November 4, 2014 by buckheadintern

Buckhead Business Radio

Emile Paradis with RPM Advisors and Global Network ATL, Geoff Smith with Assurance Financial, Terrance Ross with RITA-TECH INC - Buckhead Business Radio

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Terrance Ross, Geoff Smith, Emile Paradis

Emile Paradis/RPM Advisors – Global Network ATL

Owner/Founder

Emile Paradis is currently the Owner of Referral Institute Atlanta and Founder of Global Network ATL. Referral Institute helps clients build a business of ideal customers. Global Network ATL is an international business development initiative, promoting Atlanta as a hub in the Global Network. Our mission is to provide education, resources, and implementation for a successful strategy to take your business international. We utilize technology and our networks to assist client companies in preparing for and entering international markets. As the Managing Partner of RPM Advisors, and a franchise owner of the Referral Institute, my focus is on new business development through strategic relationships. That means clearly identifying your market and creating connections to it through an integrated use of appropriate media.

GlobalnetworkATL.com RPMadvisors.com LinkedIn Twitter

Geoff Smith/Assurance Financial

Loan Officer

Started out as a business news reporter covering news in the north metro area. Was a nationally certified firefighter. Earned the Sons of the American Revolution’s Award for Citizenship. Worked 8 years on the North Fulton Board for the March of Dimes WalkAmerica Committee. Currently sit on the Great North Fulton Chamber of Commerce’s Education Committee where I chair the Partnership In Education Subcommittee.

www.lendtheway.com LinkedIn Twitter

Terrance Ross/RITA-TECH, INC

President and CEO

President and CEO of RITA TECH and Chairman of RITA Software. RITA-TECH, INC “Where Nonprofits Come to Grow” is a social engineering software company that specializes in working with nonprofit organizations using enterprise ideas to address social problems, create sustainability, and promote social responsibility. RITA TECH’s mission is to teach nonprofit organizations how to sustain themselves financially, through social enterprise activities rather than relying solely on grants and donations. Since there are no shareholders in a nonprofit organization, the revenue from the business related activities are completely re-invested in the work of the organization thereby teaching nonprofit organizations how to use a business solution to solve a social problem. Terrance has earned many certificates and awards recognizing his outstanding contributions toward improving the lives in his community. These awards include: Outstanding Young Men in America, Top Ten Outstanding Young Alabamians, Georgia Trend Magazine 2004 Top 40 under 40, Who’s Who of Black Atlanta. Terrance has trained hundreds of small businesses worldwide and was featured in Rolling Out Magazine for his unique way of inspiring entrepreneurs to start a business. Terrance has also contributed his talents to writing two books: If You Don’t Like Your Harvest, Change Your Seed and the RITA Social Engineering Model “the act of using social enterprise activities to address social problems while promoting social responsibility”. Terrance the “Dean of Nonprofits” as he is commonly known, has created a number of business initiatives for entrepreneurs and nonprofit founders ready to go to the next level which includes: RITA 2.0 Software, The RITA Social Engineering Model, Georgia Business Institute, National Association of Social Engineering (NAOSE), and National Association of Micro Business Owners (NAMBO) just to name a few. Availability Terrance Ross is available as a motivational speaker and to conduct business workshops and seminars.

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Jeff Sheehan with Sheehan Marketing Strategies, Emily Rowell with Crowne Office Suites, Charlotte Merritt with Offices at 1100 Peachtree, Jim Silverman with Vienna Beef Ltd. and Emile Paradis with Referral Institute – Buckhead Business Radio

February 4, 2014 by rhondachale

Buckhead Business Radio

Jeff Sheehan with Sheehan Marketing Strategies, Emily Rowell with Crowne Office Suites, Charlotte Merritt with Offices at 1100 Peachtree, Jim Silverman with Vienna Beef Ltd. and Emile Paradis with Referral Institute - Buckhead Business Radio

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Inaugural episode of Buckhead Business RadioX!

Host Rich Casanova, guest co-host Jeff Sheehan, Charlotte Merritt, Emily Rowell, Jim Silverman and Emile Paradis

Jeff Sheehan/Sheehan Marketing Strategies

Jeff is a marketing consultant and job search mentor, as well as the volunteer director of the Holy Spirit Catholic Church Career Ministry in Atlanta. Jeff Sheehan ranks in the top 1% of people on LinkedIn. With over 260,000 followers on Twitter, he has been recognized as the #1 Marketer In The World To Follow On Twitter #2 in Social Media and #1 in Sales. Ranked number 6,481 out of 554,000,000 users on Twitter, Jeff is ranked number 23rd in Atlanta right after The Weather Channel, ahead of both Diet Coke and the music group Collective South. He is the co-author of the upcoming book “HIRED! Paths to Employment in the Social Media Era.”

www.SheehanMarketingStrategies.com Linkedin Twitter Facebook

Jim Silverman/Vienna Beef Ltd.

Jim Silverman was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA and has lived in Cobb and Cherokee counties since 1988 and is proud to be a resident of the Metro Atlanta area. He took a voluntary transfer to the Metro area when he was working with the franchise expansion of the Bain’s Deli chain. Jim has been in the food business for 35 years and currently resides in Canton with his wife Brenda and their dog Katie Jo.

Linkedin: Jim Silverman Twitter: @jimsilverman Facebook: jamespsilverman

Emile Paradis/Referral Institute Atlanta

Emile combines his experiences as a Marine, forester, financial advisor, and director of a nonprofit, to bring a unique perspective to marketing and sales. His approach to creating business success through building lasting relationships resonates with many sales professionals.

He is currently the owner of Referral Institute Atlanta and is the managing partner of RPM Advisors. Emile is also certified as a DISC Practitioner by Personality Insights, Inc. and has conducted DISC training for businesses both large and small.

Emile is the also Executive Director for Fast Forward Restart, a nonprofit organization which works with small businesses and nonprofits in their recovery from major disasters.

Emile’s fundamental principle of marketing is the belief that to know me is to love me

www.ReferralInstituteAtlanta.com Twitter: @emileparadis

Emily Rowell/Crowne Office Suites

Crowne Office Suites started in Atlanta, in 1979 by a friend of the family’s, Lydia Howren. Lydia and Emily’s mom, Bonnie, were Girl Scout leaders together. It started as a secretarial service and turned into an Executive Office Suites business within the first year.

Throughout college, Emily answered phones for Lydia at several of the locations and also did administrative work. In 2000, Lydia had sold offices to several Dot Com businesses and then lost the majority of her clients after the Dot Com boom. By 2002, Herb, Emily’s father, bought the 3 locations inside the perimeter.

Emily was in the restaurant business as well from her senior year in high school until she got married in 2000. She quickly made it to the top in sales, won several contests and was head wait and front of the house manager. When she got married, she became a stay at home mom and also homeschooled for 2 years. In 2008, she ended up at NYL. (long story) Emily began earning top sales awards within 6 months of starting in the business. She became “Agent of the Year for NYL in 2010.” This was a huge accomplishment being that she was in a “foreign land” (didn’t know anyone) and didn’t know anything about the business.

Herb soon snatched her up to start building the business he was going to leave to her anyway. Today, Emily and her sister Julie work together to build the business and get their parents to the beach, permanently. Emily knows she’s exactly where she is supposed to be helping people build their business and succeed.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/crowne-office-suites-inc

Twitter: @officesatlanta Facebook: www.facebook.com/CrowneOfficeSuites

Charlotte Merritt/Offices at 1100 Peachtree

Offices at 1100 Peachtree is a new expansion/partnership of Crowne Office Suites.

www.OfficesAt1100Peachtree.com

Email Marketing Tips From Simms Jenkins. Plus Atlanta Networking Tips from Connectors Katy Gillis and Emile Paradis

February 9, 2012 by lee kantor

Atlanta Business Radio

Email Marketing Tips From Simms Jenkins. Plus Atlanta Networking Tips from Connectors Katy Gillis and Emile Paradis

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We opened the show with Simms Jenkins with BrightWave Marketing. He asked if email was dead yet? Hardly. With new business models centered on email as the “product”, the return on investmentstill surging and innovation occurring in the email channel, email marketing is the go to marketing platform for anydigital marketer. Simms spoke about the innovations of the hot again email channel and talked about where email is headed in the future. He is the author of “The Truth About Email Marketing” which presented how top brands and technology are making email marketing go beyond customer retention, loyalty and sales.

Simms also covered how email plays a crucial role in emerging digital platforms, such associal and mobile. The questions of how email and social live together was not only addressed but real examplesof how to better leverage the channels for the sake of your brand and sales were demonstrated as well.

Next up we had on a couple of Atlanta’s Best Connectors Katy Gillis with eWomen Network. Katy serves the Atlanta business community as the Managing Director of the Atlanta Chapter of eWomen Network, where she not only does her own networking to the tune of 80% of her new business growth, but connects local women in business with the access to connections, resources, andopportunities to promote their services and in doing so, create more business transactions. She is serious about being a business connector, and schedules 5 hours each week specifically to connect people. Her personal mission is to meet and connect with 100 new people, both locally and nationally, every month to constantly add new value to her network base with new connections. Since accepting the role of Managing Director in February 2011, the Atlanta chapter has grown by 300%.

We closed the show with our good friend and legendary business connector Emile Paradis with Referral Institute Atlanta. Emile explained that networking and referrals have become an integral part of new business development strategy for most small businesses. Yet so many have been only marginally successful at tapping into the valuable resources they have developed. Learning some basic truths about utilizing your networks and developing key referral sources can make a huge difference in the amount of business you consistently obtain through referrals. Be sure to check out Emile’s monthly networking luncheons to learn more.

A special shout out to our sponsor – the Business Marketing Association – Atlanta Chapter. Please go to their website to register for their monthly networking events www.bmaatlanta.com/events

Also . . . if you know of a business in Atlanta that we should know about, please email Amy Otto at Amy@ atlantabusinessradio.com and we’ll invite them to appear on the show.