Expert Insights: Business Gurus Share Tips to Accelerate Your Business Growth

From cold calling to entrepreneurship to negotiating to writing effectively, and more, business gurus share their expertise on the Accelerate Your Business Growth radio show, and within this book. We've gathered the wisdom of the best business minds in the world in an effort to provide you with insights you can use. You'll find invaluable information to help you grow your business with the details of some of the most listened to episodes. Read on, tune in, and embrace success.

Diane Helbig As a child, I didn't just have a lemonade stand - I had a candy and beverage business. From there I graduated to running a babysitting/summer day camp when I was 14 years old. From setting up the structure to recruiting customers to the daily operations, it was business at its best. After graduating from Michigan State University with a B.S. in Social Science, I spent the majority of my adult work life in management and sales with small, privately held businesses. From Supervisor to Director of Operations, I have successfully grown teams of people in manufacturing and service companies. I've conducted employee orientations and trainings. Throughout my sales career, I've bested the quotas set by management. More importantly, I've developed invaluable relationships with customers and peers. I excel at networking and believe that relationship building is the key to sales success. Coupled with my business acumen are strong intuitive skills and a genuine desire to help other people excel. That's probably why, throughout my life, people have sought me out, knowing I would listen carefully and offer them insight and guidance that made good sense and produced positive results. As a certified, professional business and leadership development coach, I evaluate, educate, and encourage my clients; helping them build and grow successful, thriving, profitable businesses. Working with as few as one person to as many as 100+, I create an environment that is cooperative and interactive. I work with clients throughout the United States, helping them launch their business or overcome the obstacles they face. I've taken my simple, no-nonsense approach to sales and business and have created programs, workshops, and speeches around it. Business may be work, but it doesn't have to be difficult. My coaching style is centered on learning about the client's strengths, goals, values, and challenges. Together we develop and implement a plan that is designed to help them achieve success as they define it. I believe that the key to real happiness and success is being true to your authentic self. When you know what you want and have identified your strengths, you can put the two together. I write business and sales related articles for Small Business Trends and serve as a COSE Mindspring Expert. I volunteer with the COSE Arts Network Roundtable as well and am proud to be a member of the experts panel of Top Sales World.