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The programs listed below are designed  for delivery in a classroom environment at colleges, universities, Adult Schools, and similar venues

They are ALL configured as three (3) hour training sessions

They call all be adapted and modified to meet other formats, times, etc.

 

Are You the NEXT American Inventor?

Want to learn the proven ways to cash in on your inventions?

If your idea works, it’s a GREAT idea but now you need to know-how to make money with it.

Television programs like American Inventor and Everyday Edisons have shown that people, just like you, are creating and selling their ideas and inventions for big money!

If you want to secure the rights to your ideas and learn the proven way to CASH IN on your inventions, this program will show you how to:

  •  Make your invention intellectually safe and profitable

  •  Protect your ideas with patents, trademarks, and copyrights

  •  Evaluate your ideas for marketability

  •  Find potential buyers for your invention

  •  Offer it for sale in the safest method possible

This is NOT one of the television invention marketing hypes. This program delivers the most accurate and relevant information available for inventors to cash in on their expertise.

A $30 fee for the manual How to Sell Your Inventions for Cash (2nd Edition) (1-891440-27-6) and Contracts and Agreements for Inventors CD is payable in class.

Presenter:

Nancy Miller has trained thousands of inventors with this program at the famed Invention Convention in Pasadena California and a host of colleges throughout California, Arizona, and Nevada.

She has written over a dozen books and articles on the invention process and continues to assist inventors in their marketing and solicitation efforts. Her trademark is Clutterology® and she has numerous copyrights.

Mike Rounds is a patented, successful and profitable inventor and the author of several books, audios, and videos on the subject of profitable inventing. He has addressed thousands of inventors in such locations as the Harvard School of Business, the University of California, and inventor’s workshops throughout the country.

Build Your Own Web Site for $5 a Month

You can have your own Web site for as little as $5 a month. You don’t have to be a programmer to design professional looking and cost effective Web sites, but you do have to decide what you want the Web site to do, what you put on it, and how you promote it.

Don’t be deceived by Web site designers that insist that creating a Web site will take thousands of your dollars, weeks to complete and insist that they be paid ongoing charges for changes that only they can make.

This workshop requires no prior Web site development experience and is suitable for:

  •  Web site beginners

  •  Web experts

  •  Managers

  •  Web designers

We GUARANTEE that you’ll learn how to:

  •  Improve your business with a Web site

  •  Analyze your needs and select the best Web design criteria

  •  Make the site user friendly

  •  Get a FREE shopping cart that only costs if sales are made

  •  Promote your Web site and link with search engines to make sure you can be found

When you complete this seminar, you’ll have the confidence and tools to create your own Web site or hire someone to do it …. with solutions that don’t cost more than $5 a month.

 A $30 fee is payable in class for, Fishin’ With A Net How to Create Web Sites That WORK (7th edition) (978-1-891440-55-7), and How To Develop An Effective Web Site CD (978-1-891440-43-4).

Presenter:

Mike Rounds has been called by Turner Communications: “one of the country’s most knowledgeable individuals on the topic of effectively creating Web sites for business.” He has written over a dozen books on the Internet. His ability to explain Internet technology simply guarantees that you’ll understand exactly what you need for Web success

 

 Clutterology® How to Eliminate Clutter in Your Life and Get Organized

If you’re tired of searching for that lost something or stumbling over stuff throughout your house, Clutterology® will change your environment to work for you.

You CAN change your surroundings to work for you with simple, easy and practical ideas on how to remove clutter from your life and get organized.

If your stuff is controlling you, then attend this fun filled, interactive, non-confrontive program, where you’ll learn:

  •  How to remove clutter from your life

  •  The difference between organized and neat

  •  How to change your environment to work for you

  •  The true and destructive cost of stuff

  •  How to be removed from junk mail lists immediately

  •  How to decide which reading material to keep and which to toss!

Please bring the following charitable donations to class:

  •  old cell phones;

  •  empty printer cartridges,

  •  books (hard or paper);

  •  an item from your kitchen; and

  •  two items from your closet.

A $30 fee is payable in the class for Clutterology® Getting Rid of Clutter and Getting Organized (978-1-891440-50-2) and Highlights of Clutterology (978-1-891440-44-1).

Presenter - Nancy Miller

As the daughter of a family that owned a small town garbage service, Nancy learned early in her life that clutter wastes time and money. She is the author of Clutterology® Getting Rid of Clutter and Getting Organized, is a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO), a member of their Golden Circle, a member of the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization (NSGCD), has won the Golden Microphone Award for Speaking Excellence at the National Speakers Association Greater Los Angeles Chapter (NSA/GLAC) and has been a professional organizer for over 15 years.

Nancy delivers over 150 public presentations each year and offers private in-house consultation (personal or business). Her practical, easy to apply advice has helped individuals and organizations get organized, save time, and find more empty space in their lives.  

 

 Coaching, Consulting and Training

How to make a six-figure income with what you know

  •  Worried about being downsized or laid off?

  •  Looking to achieve financial independence?

  •  Interested in working for yourself, part or full time?

  •  Want to cash in on your knowledge and experience?

If you have special skills or knowledge learned through your employment or life experience, you can become a highly paid coach, consultant, or trainer.

You’ll leave the seminar being able to:

  •  Become a coach, consultant or trainer

  •  Promote and advertise your services with low-cost, NO-cost methods

  •  Structure your fees to maximize your potential and profit

  •  Prevent legal and tax problems

As a part-time or full-time coaching, consulting or training business you get independence, freedom and financial gain. After this seminar, maybe if you get downsized, it will be the best thing that could happen to you!

A materials fee of $30 is payable in class for the book Marketing the One-Person Business (2nd Edition) (1-891440-29-2) and the DVD Marketing with Postcards (978-1-891440-34-2).

Presenter:

Mike Rounds has been a full-time consultant for over 30 years. His work allows him the freedom and financial independence to work as a consultant, author and professional speaker.

He travels and addresses both large and small firms in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines, Argentina, Mexico, Columbia, Costa Rica, USA and Canada.

His impressive list of clients includes Lucent Technologies, the Harvard School of Business, Columbia University, the Los Angeles Public Library, and Miller Brewing Company. He has written over 150 books and manuals and has over 50 of them in distribution.

 

How to Create a 2nd Income with a Home-Based Business

 f you’re like most people, you’re worried about rising costs, whether your employer is going to survive, or if you’re going to be downsized.

What you need is a way to enhance and increase your income from your home!

Starting and operating a home-based business doesn't take a lot of money to get started but it does require street-smart, how to material that you can use right away to build your own business.

In this practical program, you'll learn the basic information needed to either start a business or improve an existing one including how to:

  •  Legally form a business

  •  Accept your customer’s credit cards

  •  Keep bookkeeping and tax records

  •  Calculate sales tax on product or from the Internet

  •  Advertise and get customers

  •  Use your Web site as an effective business tool

This seminar is not a get-rich scheme. It is designed to give you the tools for you to find a business that fits you. You will not be sold a franchise, business opportunity or an eBay store. You will be given resources to find legitimate businesses.

This seminar is especially useful for individuals that are employed, have a W-2 job and are looking for ways to have more after-tax dollars. If you already have a business, this class might be tax-deductible for you.

A materials fee of $30 is payable in class for the book Mechanics of Starting a Home-Based Business (978-1-891440-52-6) and the DVD Marketing with Postcards (978-1-891440-34-2).

Presenter:

Nancy Miller grew up with a successful home-based entrepreneurial family so her approach to business is practical, bottom-line and real world. She has been a successful home-based business entrepreneur for 20 years. Her business endeavors have included organizational consulting, professional speaking and training, mail order sales, accounting, scheduling, book shepherding, and authorship.

 

 

Professional Speaking for the Clueless®

Want to make six-figures talking about what you know?

 

If you want to enter the highly lucrative business of seminars, workshops, and professional speaking, this workshop is for YOU!

Because of the rapid changes in our world and the need to know more about different things, professional speakers and trainers are more in demand than ever before.

You can profit by sharing your expertise with people who are willing to pay for it.

 

In this dynamic program you’ll learn how to:

  •  Make six-figures talking about what you know

  •  Make the correct choices that affect your success as a speaker

  •  Apply as a trainer with seminar companies

  •  Book over 100 paid engagements in your first year of business

  •  Work with bureaus and agents

  •  Create profitable support products like books and audio products

A $30 fee is payable in class for the CD Professional Speaking for the Clueless® (978-1-891440-53-3) and the CD Marketing Your Speaking Services.

Presenter:

Mike Rounds has the phenomenal track record of averaging over three paid engagements per week for over 22 years! He is well qualified to train people to become a full-time professional speaker.

He’s a past president of the National Speakers Association Greater Los Angeles Chapter and the author of several books and audio products on professional speaking including the Professional Speakers Marketing Handbook (1-891440-18-7) and Professional Speaking for the Clueless® (978-1-891440-53-3).

Mike addresses thousands of speakers each year and has coached over 500 people to full-time speaking success.

 

 Protect Yourself and Your Work With Copyrights and Trademarks

A program for trainers, authors, speakers, Web designers, and graphic artists

  •  Do you understand copyrights and trademarks?

  •  Are you concerned about whether your work is protected?

  •  Are you worried about what you can use of other’s work without plagiarism?

From infringement suits over plagiarism of material from books and audio recordings to major incidents involving Bittorrent, Napster, and iTunes, concerns over copyright violations are now a part of our world.

Learn what you can legally do, copy, protect, and use in this entertaining and informative session that promises to clear away the mystery and simplify the processes for yourself and your staff.

In this informative and entertaining program, you’ll receive understandable explanations of what:

  •  Trademarks and copyrights are and how they’re used

  •  You can legally steal and use for yourself

  •  Materials are restricted

  •  Materials are protected

  •  Materials are legally useable

  •  To do to protect your own materials from infringement

Presenter:

Mike Rounds is a professional speaker, trainer, author, associate professor for the University of California, and acknowledged expert on intellectual property law.

With over 30 years of teaching inventors and other creative people about the law, Mike has literally written the books on the subject including Inventing for the Clueless® (978-1-891440-32-8), How To Sell Your Inventions for Cash (2nd Edition) (1-891440-27-6) and Trademark™ and Copyright© for the Clueless® (978-1-891440-30-4).

He has presented his programs to such prestigious organizations as Columbia University, the Harvard School of Business, the Los Angeles Public Library, and the world famous Invention Convention.

  

 Proven Techniques for Entrepreneurs to Survive Tough Times

  •  Running your own business?

  •  Worried about business slowdowns?

  •  Concerned about cash flow?

  •  Need more business?

Entrepreneurs feel the pressure of economic slowdowns faster than many big businesses but when the economy slumps you have the ability change your strategies to be profitable even when big business can’t!

Mike Rounds shows you how to get more business through better marketing! Period!

In this program, you’ll learn:

  •  The seven elements of successful marketing and how to use them

  •  Low-cost and no-cost methods for advertising and promoting your business

  •  How to locate the cost wasting elements and eliminate them

  •  How to balance the getting, running, and doing parts of your business

A materials fee of $30 is payable in class for the CD Marketing for the Clueless® (978-1-891440-54-0) and the DVD Marketing with Postcards (978-1-891440-34-2).

Presenter:

Mike Rounds has been a full-time consultant for over 30 years. His work allows him the freedom and financial independence to work as a consultant, author and professional speaker.

He travels and addresses both large and small firms in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines, Argentina, Mexico, Columbia, Costa Rica, USA and Canada.

His impressive list of clients includes Lucent Technologies, the Harvard School of Business, Columbia University, the Los Angeles Public Library, and Miller Brewing Company. He has written over 150 books and manuals and has over 50 of them in distribution.

 

Self-Publishing for the Clueless®

  •  Have you dreamed of being published?

  •  Are you ready to be published now?

  •  Do you want to see your book on Amazon.com?

Writing the great American novel may take years but writing an impactful and useful book about your area of expertise doesn’t – it just takes know-how to put it all together into a finished piece of work.

Since our culture equates an author with being an expert, why not advance your career by becoming an author in your area of interest or expertise? Think of the impact on your career by being the one that literally wrote the book!

In this informative and entertaining class you’ll learn everything you need to know to create your own books, booklets, audio CDs and e-books including how to:

  •  Be published—quickly and easily

  •  Create marketable e-books for FREE

  •  Create booklets and quick tips products in a single day

  •  Turn PowerPoint into products with a 20:1 markup

  •  Produce audio products in 30 days

  •  Protect your work with copyrights and trademarks

  •  And much more!

Once you’ve completed your work, you’ll be part of an important group of people who are now known as published authors and who profit from their writing and command the respect of their peers as a writer, author, and the person who wrote the book!

A $30 fee is payable in class for Profitable Publishing for the Clueless® (978-1-891440-51-9).

Presenter:

Mike Rounds is a professional speaker, trainer, and author with over 200 published works to his credit and has over 35 of them currently in distribution in locations like Barnes and Noble, Borders Books, Amazon.com, and Baker and Taylor.

Mike currently delivers over 150 seminars each year to packed audiences who have gone on to publish over 2,000 information products. He is the author of Self-Publishing for the Clueless® (978-1-891440-36-6), Trademark™ and Copyright© for the Clueless® (978-1-891440-30-4), and Book Marketing for the Clueless® (978-1-891440-49-6).

 

7 Steps to Beat Today’s Tough Times Through Marketing

 

It’s tough times—but it’s during these times the greatest growth and profits are made by people who know-how to advance when others are retreating! Money isn’t disappearing; it’s just hiding and waiting for the right marketing efforts to entice it back into circulation.

To make profitable business reappear, you need to know-how to find the hot spots in your market and eliminate the non-productive efforts to make sure that you get the biggest share of the available market.

Mike Rounds, author of Marketing for the Clueless®, will share the secrets of locating where to look for business, what to sell, how to sell it, and how to make a fortune when the market is down.

Mike Rounds shows you how through better marketing that gets more business! Period!

In this program, you’ll learn:

  •  The seven elements of successful marketing and how to use them

  •  Low-cost and no-cost methods for advertising and promoting your business

  •  How to locate the cost wasting elements and eliminate them

  •  How to balance the getting, running, and doing parts of your business

 A materials fee of $30 is payable in class for the CD Marketing for the Clueless® (978-1-891440-54-0) and the DVD Marketing with Postcards (978-1-891440-34-2).

Presenter:

 Mike Rounds is a successful marketer with over 40 years of experience. His impressive list of clients includes Lucent Technologies, the Harvard School of Business, Columbia University, the Los Angeles Public Library, and Miller Brewing Company. He has written over 150 books and manuals and has over 50 of them in distribution.

 He travels and addresses both large and small firms in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines, Argentina, Mexico, Columbia, Costa Rica, USA and Canada.

  

 Survival Skills in the Office

Many companies, even large companies are going broke, relocating or downsizing. Where will you be a year from now? Do you feel swamped and overwhelmed with all the data of the information age? Do you have the skills to stay employed or even get promoted?

Are you:

  •  Overwhelmed by the amount of paper in your office?

  •  Often looking for documents you’ve filed away?

  •  Sometimes forgetting appointments, commitments, promises or meetings

  •  Desperate for a system to help manage your time and paper better—improving your work and personal habits?

  •  Wanting to be more productive?

  •  Interested in increasing your chances of promotion?

 Clutterology® is just the answer you have been looking for! Clutterology® provides simple processes so you can effectively manage your life.

 In this program, you’ll learn:

  • How to get off of annoying and time consuming lists (mailing, fax, e-mail and telemarketing)

  • How to organize your reading materials

  • What filing tools to use and how to apply them

  • How to switch to an information age based work environment

  • How to prioritize projects

  • How to get those pesky reminder notes off your desk and computer monitor
     

You will get clear, concise methods and processes to protect your future income and enhance your career. You will leave the seminar knowing how to get rid of paper congestion and learn how to turn yourself into being indispensable to your boss.

 A $30 fee is payable in the class for Clutterology® Getting Rid of Clutter and Getting Organized (978-1-891440-50-2) and Highlights of Clutterology (978-1-891440-44-1).

Presenter:

Nancy Miker is the author of Clutterology® Getting Rid of Clutter and Getting Organized, is a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO), a member of their Golden Circle, a member of the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization (NSGCD), has won the Golden Microphone Award for Speaking Excellence at the National Speakers Association Greater Los Angeles Chapter (NSA/GLAC) and has been a professional organizer for over 15 years.

Nancy delivers over 150 public presentations each year and offers private in-house consultation (personal or business). Her practical, easy to apply advice has helped individuals and organizations get organized, save time, and find more empty space in their lives.

 

The 99¢ Gourmet

How to feed a family of four (well) for $10 bucks

 

THE PROBLEMS:

  •  Food prices have increased by 10 percent in the past year

  •  We’re concerned about food cost vs. quality

  •  Fast food prices are on the rise … but we want food FAST

What to do?

The answer is to find good food at lower prices and prepare it the way we want it. It’s simple and once you know-how, you can easily feed your family high-quality, good tasting, well balanced, and nutritious meals on a tight budget.

In this crazy-if-you-miss-it class you’ll go away being able to:

  •  Find GOOD food at really cheap prices!

  •  S-t-r-e-t-c-h your food budget

  •  Prepare your own FAST meals that are far superior to fast foods

  •  Plan delicious meals for under $2.49 per person

  •  And munch, munch more!

You will take home a workbook/planner with shopping tips to stretch your food budget, including low-cost recipes.

A $20 fee is payable in class for the workbook (978-1-891440-60-1) and a tasting based on what is prepared in class.

Your Head Chef:

Mike Rounds has been cooking and training domestic cooks like you for 40 years. He has expanded his skills by studying formally at locations like Ramekins, Le Gourmet, and the California School of Culinary Arts/Le Cordon Bleu. As a world traveler, he has had the opportunity to experience a variety of cuisines and cooking styles so that you can also enjoy his gastronomical yet economical delights in your own kitchen.

 

The Clutter Bug Attacks Files and Papers!

Do you:

  •  Find your tabletops, files and desktop cluttered with paper?

  •  Get overwhelmed by the amount of paper in your office?

  •  Forget things once you've filed them?

  •  Need help managing your time and paper?

Information comes via paper, voice mail, e-mail, PDAs and fax. As a result, we are faced with more paper and information in a single day than most people encountered in a lifetime a mere 50 years ago.

But paper is still the most frustrating clutter to deal with and you need to get a handle on it and get it under control! Once you do, it will feel like you’ve gotten your life back.

Learn how to make it easy to attack your papers in this informative program where you’ll learn:

  •  The five possibilities of what to do with information

  •  How to setup filing systems that work and control the paper in your life

  •  How to get off of mailing lists immediately

This presentation provides clear, concise methods and processes for getting rid of the obstacles that are causing paper congestion.

A materials fee of $30 is payable in class for the book Clutterology® Getting Rid of Clutter and Getting Organized (3rd Edition) (978-1-891440-50-2) and The Clutter Bug Attacks Files and Papers (978-1-891440-59-5).

Presenter: 

Nancy is the author of Clutterology® Getting Rid of Clutter and Getting Organized, is a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO), a member of their Golden Circle, a member of the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization (NSGCD), has won the Golden Microphone Award for Speaking Excellence at the National Speakers Association Greater Los Angeles Chapter (NSA/GLAC) and has been a professional organizer for over 15 years.

Nancy delivers over 150 public presentations each year and offers private in-house consultation (personal or business). Her practical, easy to apply advice has helped individuals and organizations get organized, save time, and find more empty space in their lives.

 

Using Your Computer to Make Money

Some eBay Power Sellers are making hundreds of thousands per year. Other businesses, including information brokers, are making even more! The great thing about working from your home computer is that your starts up costs are so low, but profitability can be so high!

With hundreds of different businesses that you can run from your home computer, you are bound to find one suitable to generate profits from home.

This seminar shows you over 120 businesses which are hot, including information on dozens of computer businesses based on:

  •  Skills you have

  •  Skills you can teach yourself

  •  Software or hardware you can purchase

  •  Skills that require formal training

In this practical program, you'll also learn the basic information needed to start a business including how to:

  •  Legally form your business

  •  Accept your customer’s credit cards

  •  Keep basic bookkeeping and tax records

  •  Advertise and get customers

  •  Use your Web site as an effective business tool

A materials fee of $30 is payable in class for the book Mechanics of Starting a Home-Based Business (978-1-891440-52-6) and the DVD Marketing with Postcards (978-1-891440-34-2).

Presenter:

Nancy Miller grew up with a successful home-based entrepreneurial family so her approach to business is practical, bottom-line and real world. She has been a successful home-based business entrepreneur for 20 years. Her business endeavors have included organizational consulting, professional speaking and training, mail order sales, accounting, scheduling, book shepherding, and authorship.

 

Write Your Way to Career Advancement

If you’re someone on the way up and don’t make yourself stand out in your industry, you’re just another me too trying to get ahead.

Since our culture equates an author with being an expert, why not advance your career by becoming a published author in your area of interest or expertise?

Think of the impact on your career by being the one that literally wrote the book!

Writing the great American novel may take years but creating an impactful and useful book about your area of expertise doesn’t – it just takes know-how to put it all together into a finished piece of work.

In this entertaining and informative program, you’ll learn how to:

  •  Be published—quickly and easily

  •  Create marketable e-books for FREE

  •  Select printers that will get you published quickly and inexpensively

  •  Locate royalty-free graphics for use in your work

  •  Create booklets and quick tips products in a single day

  •  Turn PowerPoint into products

  •  Produce audio products in 30 days

  •  Protect your work with copyrights and trademarks

  •  And much more!

Once you’ve completed your work, you’ll be part of an important group of people who are now known as published authors and who command the respect of their peers as writers, authors, and the people who wrote the book!

Presenter:

Mike Rounds is a professional speaker, trainer, and author with over 200 published works to his credit and has over 35 of them currently in distribution in locations like Barnes and Noble, Borders Books, Amazon.com, and Baker and Taylor.

Mike currently delivers over 150 seminars each year to packed audiences who have gone on to publish over 2,000 information products.

He is the author of Self-Publishing for the Clueless® (978-1-891440-36-6), Trademark™ and Copyright© for the Clueless® (978-1-891440-30-4), and Book Marketing for the Clueless® (978-1-891440-49-6).

 

How to Become a Professional Organizer

If you like to organize both your and other people’s stuff and enjoy watching the organizing programs on TV for more tips, you’re probably a good candidate to become a professional organizer!

If you have a talent for helping others get their stuff in order and are interested in starting your own business, you’ll definitely want to attend this program created by an experienced organizer about the topic of professional organizing.

In this informative program you'll learn:

  •  The types of organizational skills you can offer for a fee

  •  How to prevent legal problems including business licensing and taxes

  •  Basic business laws concerning the operation of a home-based business

  •  How to structure your fees to maximize your profitability

  •  How to promote your services including secrets of advertising and marketing with postcards

This class will not cover methods of organizing or how to organize people. This is not for a person wanting to get organized.

A $30 fee is payable in class for the manual How to Become a Clutterologist A Guide to Becoming a Professional Organizer (978-1-891440-56-4) and the book Clutterology® Getting Rid of Clutter and Getting Organized (3rd Edition) (978-1-891440-50-2).

Presenter: 

As the daughter of a family that owned a small town garbage service, Nancy learned early in her life that clutter wastes time and money. She is the author of Clutterology® Getting Rid of Clutter and Getting Organized, is a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO), a member of their Golden Circle, a member of the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization (NSGCD), has won the Golden Microphone Award for Speaking Excellence at the National Speakers Association Greater Los Angeles Chapter (NSA/GLAC) and has been a professional organizer for over 15 years.

Nancy delivers over 150 public presentations each year and offers private in-house consultation (personal or business). Her practical, easy to apply advice has helped individuals and organizations get organized, save time, and find more empty space in their lives.

 

 

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