Certified coach, owner of Clarity To Business and author of the valuable and very hands on book Passion, Plan, Profit: 12 Simple Steps to Turn Your Passion into a Solid Business, Christy Strauch, shares tools with creative people and small business owners to help them better understand the purpose their ideas and business serve in the world. The concepts will help to serve customers and clients better. At the same time, the techniques help a business person understand what their business itself is saying to them. Christy shows right brained people how they too can operate successful businesses, including understanding the numbers, and the formulation of an effective business plan.
Christy Strauch is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on Blog Talk Radio.
The show airs live on Thursday, January 28, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
Certified coach and author of the valuable and very hands on book Passion, Plan, Profit: 12 Simple Steps to Turn Your Passion into a Solid Business, Christy Strauch, shares tools with creative people and small business owners to help them better understand the purpose their ideas and business serve in the world. You will learn:
* Why creative, right brained people can operate successful businesses
* The importance of a business plan in developing a vision
* The critical need for clarity and accountability
* How to make marketing exciting and fun; and not a chore.
Christy Strauch (photo left) Christy Strauch, took a job in 1989 as a sales representative for a small IT company with $50,000 a year in sales. Christy had an MBA in finance and marketing from UCLA and a dream of making a difference in business. Fifteen years and 3 mergers later, Strauch was a partner, took the company public and sold it.
In 2005, with over 9 years experience working for nationally known companies such as IBM, Carnation International and Capitol Records, Christy decided that it was time to follow a lifetime calling to help small-business owners learn to prosper doing the work they love. Considered an expert in small business, Christy has been interviewed by the Los Angeles Times and the Scottsdale Daily Progress, among others.
Throughout her career, Christy has received numerous honors. She won several regional managers awards during her tenure with IBM, has been honored by the Arizona Small Business Association, received the advanced Toastmasters Silver designation and earned her Certified Professional Co-Active Coaching (CPCC) certificate from the Coach Training Institute and her Associate Certified Coach (ACC) certificate from the International Coach Federation.
In 2005, Christy formed Clarity To Business, a coaching and consulting practice. To date, she has worked with over 300 small-business owners, from artists to real estate agents, helping them to both do what they are passionate about and to make a profit.
Christy is the author of Passion, Plan, Profit: 12 Simple Steps to Turn Your Passion into a Solid Business. This user-friendly book shows people who are passionate about their work how to succeed in the business side of business. She is currently at work on You Hate to Market, and What To Do About It, which will be available Fall 2010.
My book review of Passion, Plan, Profit: 12 Simple Steps to Turn Your Passion into a Solid Business by Christy Strauch.
Listen live on Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.
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To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832
Let's talk with certified coach, owner of Clarity To Business and author of the valuable and very hands on book Passion, Plan, Profit: 12 Simple Steps to Turn Your Passion into a Solid Business, Christy Strauch, as she shares tools with creative people and small business owners to help them better understand the purpose their ideas and business serve in the world. The concepts will help to serve customers and clients better. At the same time, the techniques help a business person understand what their business itself is saying to them. Christy shows right brained people how they too can operate successful businesses, including understanding the numbers, and the formulation of an effective business plan on Blog Business Success Radio.
