Joel D Canfield is an author and award-winning speaker. He has written three business books, 49 Commonsense Business Observations, The Commonsense Entrepreneur which more fully explores these commonsense business observations, and The Commonsense Virtual Assistant: Becoming An Entrepreneur Not An Employee (with co-author Sue L Canfield) and a mystery, Through the Fog, which takes place in the Irish countryside.

Joel wants to teach business folks how to use storytelling effectively as a marketing tool. Now that he has published three of his own books in the past 18 months and plans to release three more this year, his goal is to help everyone with the audacity and intelligence to go into business for themselves to use that audacity and intelligence to write and publish the book they've got in their 'someday' box. He has created a coaching program designed to make that fun and easy.

As if that weren't enough, he is also, in no discernable order: a husband, father of seven, musician and songwriter, and a genuinely polite person. Oh, and he wants to live with his Best Beloved and their children in the west of Ireland someday.

You can visit Joel's other websites or email him at Joel@BizBa6.com. Or if you prefer the telephone, call 530.268.5635.

Jerry Kennedy is a selling professional and former sales manager in the petroleum industry. He has taken this experience and combined it with the latest research in sales, business and personal development to create powerful sales training programs with an emphasis on motivation and personal improvement. Jerry works with small to mid-sized business to help them augment their sales efforts through a combination of training, coaching and "surrogate sales management", a concept he created to assist business owners who cannot afford to hire a full-time sales manager.

Jerry is the author of "Selling Points", a bi-monthly column that appears in TLT Magazine, published by STLE. You can read all of Jerry’s published articles online.

Jerry is also the co-host of the Sales Management 2.0 podcast, a weekly podcast series for sales managers, selling professionals and small business owners, online at Jerry's SalesManagement20 website or on iTunes.

Jerry recently released his first audio program, entitled "Motivation 101: Five Steps to Activate Your Potential in Any Economy", which is available at Jerry's website or on Amazon.

Visit Jerry's website Inside Out Business Solutions or email him at Jerry@Inside-Out-Solutions.com

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