Business Development Seminars
Dr. Barnsley Brown and Spirited Solutions™ give you and the members of your company or organization wings to soar into success, personally and professionally.
The following business development programs are available as a half- or full-day seminar, lunch and learn, business speech, keynote, and break-out session. If you don’t see what you need, ask us and we’ll let you know if it is within our areas of expertise. If not, we’ll be pleased to refer you to another keynote speaker or trainer who fits your needs.
WINGS FOR WEALTH AND WELLNESS
“How SMART™ Professionals Beat Stress and Burnout!”
Would you like 2+ extra hours every day for who and what you enjoy? We talk about energy sustainability and its importance to our environment, but what about your own personal and professional store of energy? How can you beat stress, banish procrastination, and find fast methods to renew and sustain your energy? Learn to get SMART™ in 
this high-voltage keynote or training session!
NEW! “Get Help and Get Stuff Done! Outsourcing, Time Management, and Productivity Secrets for Your Start-Up or Established Business”
Discover how to create 2+ more hours every day for who and what you love. Find out how to use the HBDO formula to create a strategic marketing and self management plan that lets you focus on what is most essential in your small business development–and life. In this fun, energizing keynote, Dr. Barnsley will share how to leverage the help of interns and other professionals to grow your business, get off the hamster wheel, and get your life back NOW!
NEW! “Power Up Your Prosperity with Principles that PERFORM in Life and Business”
Do your bills outnumber your profits? Would you like to learn money-saving techniques and principles that grow and prosper your work or small business development and let you lead an opulent life? Start wiping out debt and raking in wealth with this fun, interactive business speech guaranteed to help you achieve more success and prosperity in your life and work.
“Stop Selling Yourself Short and Start Selling Like a Pro”
To have success in any business, you’ve got to know how to sell your product or service. Come learn how to convert even difficult prospects into paying (and happy!) customers using credibility marketing, recommendation selling, and proven methods that enable you and the customer to enjoy the sales process. Get ready for your sales to soar as you hone your natural ability to engage, persuade, advise, and serve others in this vital seminar!
“Double Your Contacts, Double Your Income!: Networking Secrets of the Pros”
What are the secrets of effective, enjoyable networking? How can you attract everything you need? Learn how the GAB principle and relationship building strategies can market you and your business more powerfully than any job search or advertising campaign you could launch. Become a smart socializer and leverage your contacts with prospects, clients, colleagues, and co-workers to create the success you desire right now!
“Loving Your Job!”
Let yourself and your colleagues be inspired and motivated to do the best job possible and enjoy it! In this high-energy keynote or seminar, you’ll complete a detailed self-assessment of your attitudes towards work/business and learn sixteen powerful strategies to make the most of what you do, becoming a successful professional or “passionpreneur.”
WINGS FOR WOMEN
“How SMART™ Women Beat Stress and Burnout!”
Are you feeling overworked and overwhelmed? Is taking care of yourself last on your list of things to do? Find out what you can do to simplify your work, beat stress and burnout, and create time to recharge your batteries. It’s time to get SMART™ and learn proven methods that will help you take care of yourself and take care of business!
“The Top Traits of Highly Effective Women”
Discover what it takes to be a phenomenal woman in this seminar version of our very popular keynote! You’ll take away practical strategies to take charge of your time, energy, and life, as well as an action plan for success. Join the ranks of women who balance their personal and professional responsibilities while actively pursuing their individual dreams and business development.
WINGS FOR WORK AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT / ENTREPRENEURSHIP
“Turning Your Passions into a Livelihood: Creating the Small Business of Your Dreams!”
Tired of the nine to five work world? Laid off? Looking for opportunities? Create them for yourself with the help of this exciting workshop geared for those at the exploration or start-up phase of a new business. Learn strategies for success, low-cost or free resources available for small business development, the qualities of successful entrepreneurs, and more for your and business (ad)venture!
“Creative Marketing and Branding for Your Home Town Business”
Want to learn proven, practical methods to market your business in a small town? In this seminar, you’ll learn why branding and credibility marketing are so vital to becoming known in your community/industry, and you’ll come away with concrete feedback and tactics to help you do both successfully. As an added bonus, you’ll learn secret strategic marketing tips that help you think big in your small town!
“Creative Marketing for Your Small Business”
Does your marketing plan need some life breathed into it? Do you want to attract customers in innovative, cost-effective ways? Would you like to actually enjoy marketing your business? If so, this informative, dynamic seminar is for you. Get the scoop on creative strategic marketing strategies that make you and your business stand out in a competitive economy.
NEW! “Creative Online Marketing Part I: How to Leverage Blogs, Ezines, and Article Marketing to Showcase Your Business with Style!”
Learn to leverage the power of internet marketing methods to position you and your business as tops in your field. Compete with the big dogs on a Chihuahua budget. This down-to-earth, fun seminar series is free of “Geek Speak” and will help you package your service or product into exciting low-cost or no-cost formats. Discover how to delight your customers, get your website in front of qualified prospects, and generate new leads while you sleep.
NEW!“Creative Online Marketing Part II: How to Leverage Internet Radio, Video, and Social Media to Showcase Your Business with Style!”
This companion seminar to Part I focuses on how to position yourself, provide value, and attract new business using the mediums of internet radio, video, and social media. You’ll discover how and why you must repurpose intellectual capital to boost your position in the search engines and keep your clients and prospects engaged and excited about what you do. Attendance is not required for Part I but is strongly encouraged so you will have a wide range of online strategies to integrate into your strategic marketing and small business development.
“Creative Marketing for Artists and Crafters Part I: How to Plan Your Prosperous Marketing Palette”
Come find out why marketing your work is as exciting and creative as the process of making art! Learn the top ten strategic marketing methods of over twenty-five artists-painters, sculptors, folks artists, jewelry makers, musical instrument makers, theater artists, writers, crafters, etc.–who make their livings from their art. Stop suffering from starving artist syndrome and instead become a marketing maven in this fun, invigorating seminar!
“Creative Marketing for Artists Part II: 33 Creative Ways to Show and Sell Your Art and Have Fun Doing it!”
Are you running out of ideas for what to do with your art? Come to this fun, invigorating seminar and get a taste of thirty-three free or low-cost ways you can get your art out there, get it seen, and get it sold! Be sure to bring some of your art along too so we can brainstorm what will work best for you and your particular talent/medium!
NEW! “Public Speaking Secrets to Market Yourself and Your Business with Pizazz”
Do your presentations put people to sleep? Do they put you to sleep? Learn dramatic methods to jazz up even the most boring business topic and market/sell your service or product with pizazz! Master your fear of public speaking, learn presentation skills that persuade tough audiences, and find out how to use credibility marketing to outperform your competitors in this energizing seminar!
“Market Your Business, Save Big Bucks, and Boost Sales–BARTER!“
Explore the best way to create new customers, increase referrals, build relationships, and assemble a team of experts you can rely upon while you save mega business bucks! Learn how to initiate, finalize, and fulfill barter agreements using your personal and professional network, the internet, and other resources. Explore win-win barter agreements that contribute to your small business development and catapult you and your barter partners to success.
“Customer Service Secrets and Skills”
It’s much easier and cost-effective to keep a current client or customer than to find a new one. What policies and practices do you have in place to keep your customers happy? Find out the secrets of superior customer service and how to leverage your contact and follow-up with those you serve. Learn a referral method that motivates them to recruit new clients for you and accelerates your business development!
NEW! “Team Building and Motivating for Leaders”
When you think of a “team” do you automatically think sports? Think again. You are surrounded by teams everywhere you go, in everything you do. Learn to inspire others to action, to be a leader who motivates rather than dictates, and to lead your family, club, church group, business mastermind, colleagues, employees, and other groups you are a part of to excellence. Become a master motivator and join forces with those around you to create home run results in a collaborative, can-do context.
“The Top Traits of Highly Effective Leaders”
It has been said that great leaders are not born but made. Which counterproductive leadership styles are sabotaging your impact and success? Come learn the top traits of highly effective leaders and how to develop these in yourself and others. Whether you are a new or experienced leader, this fast-paced seminar or business speech will get you on the way to becoming the leader you want to be.
“No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.”
–William Blake
