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Web Live Series Features Start-up Entrepreneurs Innovation AI/ML Products Go-to Market Strategy

Founder for kodou.io Yves Jean has developed a microservices platform that makes hard integration challenges simpler. It solves the technical debt load that many operations and financial professionals face in their typical duties. He’ll talk with Doug Skinner about his Go-to Market strategy, lessons learned and quest to grow the business.

Getting Paid to Speak Publicly as a Professional Accountant

meetupJoin speaker, best-selling author and radio personality, Tony Wilkins as he shares his best tips for making money as an accounting professional speaker including:

*The tips for connecting with meeting planners
*Finding organizations that book speakers on a regular basis
*How to craft a one sheet that gets you booked
*How to turn speaking into revenue
*Sales conversion tips
*How to use speaking to get more clients faster and with less effort
*What meeting planners look for when booking speakers

 

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About our Workshop Leader

Tony Wilkins is one of the premiere authorities on connecting people of influence to one another. His popular Internet radio show, Small Business Forum Radiowww.blogtalkradio.com/tonywilkins reaches over 250,000 business owners globally and is one of the top business shows on the network. His workshops not only educate business leaders on a better way to connect, but offers valuable and available resources for building powerful business connections. He is a master networker whose global connections span multiple industries including film, media, art, literary, political, small business, start-ups and culinary; with ties to organizations like the Small Business Administration, Public Speakers Association, NAWBO, BNI, various business chambers, San Francisco City Hall and the Golden Gate Business Association. Tony is the author of several books including the best-selling Telemarketing Success for small and mid-sized Firms, The Single Person’s Cookbook (www.amazon.com) and Surviving the economy. His new book, The Career Whisperer: Behind the Podium is a step by step guide for anyone looking to launch a career as a public speaker or for sales professionals looking for a better way to reach more prospects faster and easier.  Mr. Wilkins is also the publisher of Small Business Forum Magazine, Foodie Quarterly, and Podium Magazine and speaker’s directory. In addition, he has launched a very successful booking service for authors and speakers and is the creator of the annual Small Business Empowerment Conference and the Women of Influence Summit.

“Whenever I meet new people I always ask 2 questions. What do you need and how can I help?” -Tony Wilkins

Also host for blogtalkradio.com/tonywilkins

Your Event Host Doug Skinner

New Productivity Approach For Accounting Professionals

We’re learning about the features and benefits of Mobile and Cloud Technology. We realize there are many capabilities in the services where we have subscriptions.  We have a nagging impression that much remains untapped, in the way we use the devices and access to vital information. Accounting Professional

Please Attend the Seminar and Receive CPE Credits

You’re welcome to attend our seminar, the evening of November 20 in San Francisco, with Accounting Finance Women’s Alliance (AFWA).

doug skinner presents to accounting and financial women

Insights are Critical

For AFWA we will bring insights to enable them to boost their skills and knowledge of Office and Cloud tools.

What I’ve noticed is that there are some critical trends impacting accounting professionals.

  • You’re aware there’s a need to be faster and better than you did in the past
  • You need to be agile and respond quickly to collegues and changes in corporate policy and business conditions
  • You have associates and management depending on you and you don’t want to have fragile systems and errors that can push deadlines, and negatively influence how they view you
  • You want to adopt the latest technology that can help you work smarter

Doug Skinner and Roger Nakayu Excel tips and tricks

About the presenters:

Author for the Business Technology Program, and founder at Intentional Management. At Microsoft, Doug Skinner organized the most effective group of professional services partners to deliver software solutions in the US.

Doug’s career has been marked by a quest to develop and execute plans for increasing top line sales, engage principal executives with compelling solutions. He formed partnerships between customers and subject matter experts in various areas: mobility solutions, software development, security technicians, network engineering teams, financial & legal executives, and marketing professionals.

Roger Nakayu recently produced an Excel 2013 video series on its new features.  He is a Certified Microsoft Office Specialist in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. He holds an MBA and is experienced in Financial Analysis, Process Improvement, and Forecasting.  He engages executives and business owners that need to make better decisions using software tools they already own.

He is a financial analyst at Primary Eyecare Network, catering nationwide to optometrists and ophthalmologists.

He has a passion for helping others and training people to become power Excel users.

6 Strategies to Manage Data in Excel

In this seminar, Roger Nakayu and Doug Skinner, will lead you on a set of demos to learn practical tips and shortcuts to improve efficiency and productivity using Excel spreadsheet software.  We meet near BART 19th Street Downtown Oakland station, and there’s easy street parking too.  Register NowOffice 365 and Excel Strategies Seminar Location

Here’s What You Will Learn:

  1. Adding functions to your Quick Access Toolbar for use in the class
  2. Shortcuts and tips to increase your productivity
  3. The reason to use Excel Tables
  4. Using functions in Excel to Split or Combine data
  5. How to use Vlookup to combine data from files
  6. How to use Excel mailing lists to create personalized letters and emails in Word and Outlook

Mastering Data in Excel

7 Keys To Improving Your Excel Productivity Seminar

With Roger Nakayu and Doug Skinner, you will learn practical tips and shortcuts to improve efficiency and productivity using Excel spreadsheet software.

Here’s What You Will Learn:

  • What’s on Roger’s quick access toolbar, how it saves him time
  • Managing data more efficiently with Excel Tables, including 2013 features
  • Managing email and customer address lists
  • Copying data from web pages, using Excel to transform into filterable formats, sorted, used for personalized merge letters and emails in Word and Outlook

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