Calling the Shots, Finding Lies and Innovating in a Recession

Posted by Barry Moltz on October 1, 2010

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On Business Insanity Radio today, we had an amazing line up of guest for our expanded show.

Cameron Johnson started his first business at the age of nine and before graduating high school, he was recognized as one of the most successful young entrepreneurs in the world. As a teenager he started a dozen profitable businesses and at 15. Cameron was a finalist on Oprah Winfrey’s , The Big Give, which aired on ABC. Most recently, he hosted Season 4 of Beat the Boss which airs on the BBC in the UK. We talked about:

1. Why he started a business at 9 years old and how he asked his parents for the order!

2. How gaining education and knowledge to being successful.

3. Are we doing a better job of teaching entrepreneurship in schools?

4. What is the best advice you can give young entrepreneurs?

5. How he met Donald Trump and how it was working with Oprah.

6. How being naive can be an advantage when starting a business

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Pamela Meyer is founder and CEO of Simpatico Networks, a leading private label social networking company that owns and operates online social networks. She holds an MBA from Harvard, an MA in Public Policy from Claremont Graduate School, and is a Certified Fraud Examiner. Her great new book is called: Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception. We talked about:

1. Why do people lie in business?

2. How you improve relationships by spotting lies.

3. How to get to the truth in your business dealings!

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Gian Fulgoni is Executive Chairman and Co-founder of comScore Inc. From 1981 to 1998, Mr. Fulgoni was the CEO of Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), the leading global supplier of retail scanner data to the CPG industry, where he grew the company’s revenues at an annual rate of 40% to more than $500 million annually and its market value to $1.5 Billion. We talked about:

1. What differentiates the successful public businesses from the unsuccessful ones.

2. What are the biggest internet trends he is seeing on the Internet?

3. How good are the measurement systems on the web now?

4. How is social media measurement integrating with your business?

5. How does online advertising effect offline sales?

6. How the recession has affected customer loyalty and what businesses can do about it!

Listen now!

Republished with author's permission from original post by Barry Moltz.

Barry Moltz

Barry Moltz has founded and run small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than 15 years. Barry is a nationally recognized expert on entrepreneurship who has given hundreds of presentations to audiences ranging from 2 to 2,. His third book, BAM! Delivering Customer Service in a Self-Service World shows how customer service is the new marketing.

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