Wendy Moore Returns for Another Delicious Dose of Social Media Advice on This Week’s Red Tent Radio

This week on Red Tent Radio, Ludwina Dautovic’s featured guest is Wendy Moore of Savvy Web Women. If you caught her advice from the first time she was a guest on the show (episode #6 – April 22nd, 2011), you’ll be just as excited as we are that she has returned for another visit. She brings her arsenal of advice back again and delivers information about social media for your business like it’s Christmas in February.

For the “What’s Hot” segment, Ludwina covers a smart list of ways to stay laser focused on your business. Do you procrastinate? Do you sometimes have a hard time getting things done or choosing what to work on first? Your answers are revealed in this episode.

In the "My Biz Your Biz" segment, Indra Chandon also returns for Part Two of her interview with Ludwina. Indra Chandon is a website and SEO specialist (Search Engine Optimisation). In other words, she knows all of the tricks to use for making sure your website ranks as high as possible in search results on sites like Google, Yahoo! and Bing.

Wendy has also released the DIY Social Media for Business program that shows you how to "Do" Social Media. Simply watch and learn. If you want the best visual course available for teaching you how to use social media to create extra revenue for your business, Click HERE.

Posted by Ludwina Dautovic on 2nd February, 2012 | Comments | Trackbacks | Permalink
Tags: Red Tent Radio, Ludwina Dautovic, Small Business, Wendy Moore, SEO, Social Media, DIY Social Media for Business, Indra Chandon, Conversion Leadership

Learn How to Put the Sizzle into Managing Your Business and Website on This Week’s Red Tent Radio - Pete Williams & Indra Chandon

This week on Red Tent Radio, Ludwina Dautovic’s featured guest is Pete Williams. Pete, who is commonly referred to as the Richard Branson of Australia, talks about how to get things done and better manage yourself in your business. Pete is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, and marketer from Melbourne, Australia. At the young age of 21, he sold the Melbourne Cricket Ground (Australia’s version of the Yankee Stadium) for under $500. Since then, he’s made the pages of numerous media publications. Pete is also an international speaker, marketing consultant and a faculty member of one the world's largest Internet marketing training academies ‘Thirty Day Challenge.’

In the "What's Hot" segment, Ludwina shows you two simple, free online tools that you can use with your team members for project management.

In “My Biz, Your Biz”, Indra Chandon, from Conversion Leadership, shares some tips about using SEO to get your website ranked higher in Google's results. She also shares some of the recent changes that Google has made and how they use those formulas to determine how they rank sites.

The show is available on demand, for free, at RedTentRadio.com, on iTunes (under the podcast category) and also airs every week in the United States on Jackalope Radio 105 FM in Kansas City, Missouri, USA (Fridays at 6pm EST). New episodes become available every Friday (Australian time) on the website and iTunes.

Don’t forget that you can always access past episodes of Red Tent Radio for free on our website and through Apple’s iTunes.

Red Tent Radio is produced every week by The Red Tent Woman, which is a small business run by Ludwina Dautovic. She runs a business network for small business owners and offers advice, business coaching and resources for other owners and entrepreneurs. She is a multi-award winning business coach with over 20 years of experience and success.

Video Tutorial for HiTask

Posted by Ludwina Dautovic on 23rd January, 2012 | Comments | Trackbacks | Permalink
Tags: Google, SEO, Conversion Leadership, Preneur Cast, speaker, marketer, author, entrepreneur, Indra Chandon, Pete Williams, Ludwina Dautovic, Red Tent Radio, HiTask, Google Docs

Shellie Hunt Dares Everyone to Design Their Own Success on This Week’s Red Tent Radio

Synopsis: Ludwina Dautovic is joined by Shellie Hunt and Belinda Cook on this week’s episode of Red Tent Radio. One woman shares a successful innovative business design and the other one dares you to design your business success.
 
This week on Red Tent Radio, Ludwina Dautovic’s featured guest is Shellie Hunt. Shellie is known for quite a few things. She is a lead mentor in the Billionaire Adventure Club. She has appeared on national talk and radio shows with audiences in the millions. She proudly belongs to the Alliance of Women in Media. Shellie Ann Hunt is the executive producer and presenter of the reality TV show "ReMake My Life" and the founder of ‘Success is By Design’. She has even been mention in Forbes.com. As a prestigious business person, she is passionate about women's empowerment, female entrepreneurial leadership and business structure. Nobody wakes up one morning and instantly finds that they are successful. The true success stories are achieved through design. Her interview will unquestionably motivate your eager, inner enterpriser.

Shellie realized very early in life that there are two types of people: the happy, balanced and successful individuals and then the hoi polloi, who are slaves to the business. Hear her intriguing story and how she started her journey to success at the age of six. She and Ludwina also discuss the current explosion of women in business and in entrepreneurial positions.

In the "What's Hot" segment, Ludwina is inspired by a quote from the late Steve Jobs. Discover how to differentiate your good ideas from your GREAT ideas. This part is definitely thought provoking and a great way to kick start 2012.

And, in “My Biz, Your Biz”, Belinda Cook drops by to share her story which illustrates, once again, how necessity truly is the mother of innovation.

We will be on a holiday vacation for a few weeks after this episode, so after you have listened to this one, take some time to go back to any past episodes of Red Tent Radio you might have missed. “It’s a wealth of information”. And don’t worry. We’ll be back with a cornucopia of more brain pumping business tips and incredible interviews to start 2012 right

The show is available on demand, for free, at RedTentRadio.com, on iTunes (under the podcast category) and also airs every week in the United States on Jackalope Radio 105 FM in Kansas City, Missouri (Thursdays at 6pm EST). New episodes become available every Friday on the website and iTunes.

Red Tent Radio is produced every week by The Red Tent Woman, which is a small business run by Ludwina Dautovic. She runs a business network for small business owners and offers advice, business coaching and resources for other owners and entrepreneurs. She is a multi-award winning business coach with over 20 years of experience and success.

Posted by Ludwina Dautovic on 22nd December, 2011 | Comments (1) | Trackbacks | Permalink
Tags: great ideas, Good ideas, Steve Jobs, B Fragrances, Belinda Cook, Ludwina Dautovic, Red Tent Radio, Remake my Life, Success is by Design, Shellie Hunt

Learn How to Become a Rockstar in Your Industry on This Week’s Red Tent Radio

Synopsis: Kane Minkus and Zahrina Robertson join host Ludwina Dautovic on this week’s episode of Red Tent Radio which is themed around building your personal brand.

This week on Red Tent Radio, Ludwina Dautovic interviews the featured guest Kane Minkus. Kane is one half of the Dynamic Duo “Jeff and Kane”. Often referred to as “Tony Robbins on steroids”, together they have trained over 60,000 coaches, speakers, consultants, content creators, health & service professionals and entrepreneurs and have also coached executives and teams at many Fortune 500 companies Including Disney, Warner Brothers, Sony and Apple. Kane lives by creeds such as “Monetize Your Passion” and runs many seminars with Jeff including “The Industry Rockstar Intensive”.

In the “My Biz, Your Biz” segment, Ludwina is joined by Zahrina Robertson. She owns and operates Zahrina Photography based out of Sydney, Australia. Known for making the "Ordinary Extraordinary”, Zahrina specializes in Digital Branding for Entrepreneurs by capturing the essence of people and events with her camera. She was nominated for Telstra Business Woman of the Year and has photographed high profile celebrities including Sir Richard Branson. She knows how to appropriate a person’s “X factor” and how to pull out the true spirit inside of the people and places that she photographs. In this episode, she shares with us the most important aspects of digital branding and why it is significant.

In “What’s Hot”, Ludwina takes us through the top 15 reasons why podcasting makes a great marketing tool. Yes, podcasting can be very lucrative for your business. Find out why.

The show is available on demand, for free, at RedTentRadio.com, on iTunes (under the podcast category) and also airs every week in the United States on Jackalope Radio 105 FM in Kansas City, Missouri (Thursdays at 6pm EST). New episodes become available every Friday on the website and iTunes.

Red Tent Radio is produced every week by the Red Tent Woman, which is a small business run by Ludwina Dautovic. She runs a business network for small business owners and offers advice, business coaching and resources for other owners and entrepreneurs. She is a multi-award winning business coach with over 20 years of experience and success.

Posted by Ludwina Dautovic on 16th December, 2011 | Comments (1) | Trackbacks | Permalink
Tags: women in business, red tent radio. the red tent woman, Ludwina Dautovic, professional head shot, digital branding, personal branding, business branding, industry rockstars, jeff and kane, Kane Minkus

A heartfelt testimonial from a person I've never met...

As I go into “active” retirement, I thought the first vote of thanks needs to go to you.    
 
Even though we have not met; I have not attended any of your seminars/training sessions/information evenings, I have read your emails and attachments and gained considerable business savvy.    Why didn’t I attend any of your functions – because I am not a white collar worker and don’t have the fancy black dress/business suit and stockings that I perceived was necessary.     I am an Animal Masseuse, so wear shorts and t-shirts and work outdoors 90 percent of the time – and get covered in animal fur!!!     I am also way, way over 55 and this is my first business.   A Seniors Card awaits next year!
 
I started my business after completing the NEIS program, which I thoroughly recommend.   Then a friend in the USA gave me your website details and said I must participate/read.    I did read and gained insight into not only my business, but myself and what I wanted from my business and life.
 
In summary:  In 2005 I was on NEIS and earning A$15,000 under the NEIS program, plus anything I earnt in my business that year.   NEIS said my business would not survive.    I was somewhat determined that it would give me and my pets a good living.    I read your emails and adapted them from white collar worker to hands on worker “attitude”.    I am a basic person – no frills or fancy – just a deep love of the animal kingdom.
 
Each year my business gained more and more clients because I ‘value added’ like you advised me to, e.g., taking their dog for a walk and coming home to rain and seeing washing on the line – I took the washing off the line and left it on the back door step or bringing in the rubbish bins (or putting them out if forgotten).   Small things like that.    Ludwina, you taught me to do that.    
 
You once spoke/wrote about adding different streams to our business – I did – I added pet sitting; I added pet taxi service to my already well established dog walking and animal masseuse business.    I grew and grew,  both personally and professionally.    My clients became my friends because they trusted me with their pets.   I attended family celebrations – 18th; 21st; engagements; weddings and now christenings because you taught me how to become a part of my client’s family (but not intruding) – I was like their animal’s nanny – they counted on me for advice about their pets.
 
In 2009, the fires struck and I lost my business and many, many clients (both human and animal).    I was saddened for I had lost what I had worked very hard for.      Again an email from you talking about starting afresh (and definitely not aimed towards the fire victims).   I felt your email was written personally to me.
 
Yes, I rebuilt and broadened my area of service – I travelled to where the need was.   Your emails gave me that encouragement.    However, I did need a lot of tissues (wish I had shares in Kleenex!!)
 
Two (2) years down the track and I have sold my businesses.    I once attended a Small Business function run by my local Council and it was by the Tax Department.   He asked who wanted to pay more tax and I put my hand up – the solitary hand in the hall.   I was intimidated.     I felt I had made a fool of myself.     I was the only “correct” person in that hall – to pay more tax, you have to be earning more money.   Ludwina, you have taught me how to earn more money; you have taught me how to honour my clients; you have taught me how to honour and respect myself and my business.
 
I sold my business for an amazing amount of money recently.   I enjoyed paying GST and filling in BASS statements; I enjoyed paying Provisional Tax and Accountants fees;  thank you for that – you stepped me through the process of having a business; working in the business; being an employer in my own business.  I remember your words in the email – “baby steps all the way”.    Now I have a great caravan and an even better car; am preparing to travel ‘a little bit here and a little there’; return home for a while; catch up with some clients and share the good times.  
 
I can’t wait for the Seniors Card.
 
My heartfelt thanks for your guidance both business-wise and personal where you shared your health worries with us all.
 
Thank you, Ludwina, for being such a pivotal part of my business.   
 
Warm Wishes:   Mary-Ann and my animals, Daisy and Darby
 

Posted by Ludwina Dautovic on 13th December, 2011 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks | Permalink
Tags: testimonial, business coaching, women in business

You’ll Be Glad to Get Mad With Melina Schamroth on This Week’s Episode of Red Tent Radio

In this week’s episode of Red Tent Radio, our host, Ludwina Dautovic, is joined by Melina Schamroth as the featured guest interview. Melina is the founder of M.A.D. Woman, which stands for Making A Difference. Through her interview you will find out how some businesses are still in it for the better good of humanity instead of solely for making greedy profits. And, she will tell us how she advertises without a marketing budget. Once again, this is an interview that is not to be missed. The world is changing when it comes to how we view businesses. We, as consumers, are wanting, more and more, to interact with companies that do more than just ‘live for profits’. M.A.D. Woman is an excellent example of that. Melina is also the recipient of numerous business awards including the most recent National 2011 Telstra Business Award.

In this week’s segment of “What’s Hot”, Ludwina will be giving us advice about creating a communications plan for 2012 and the value that comes from that strategy. Incorporating a proper plan will make certain that your business is one that people are noticing in the sphere of the online world.

The “My Biz, Your Biz” portion of the show features a short interview with Luanne Simmons from Goddess on Purpose. She is the “Chief Goddess” of her company where her goal is to show women the path to living their dreams to their highest potential. You’ll also get a different angle into business from this interview.

The show is available on demand, for free, at RedTentRadio.com, on iTunes (under the podcast category) and also airs every week in the United States on Jackalope Radio 105 FM in Kansas City, Missouri (Thursdays at 6pm EST). New episodes become available every Friday on the website and iTunes.

Red Tent Radio is produced every week by the Red Tent Woman, which is a small business run by Ludwina Dautovic. She runs a business network for small business owners and offers advice, business coaching and resources for other owners and entrepreneurs. She is a multi-award winning business coach with over 20 years of experience and success.

Ludwina Dautovic will also be hosting another free webinar on Wednesday, December 14th entitled “How To Podcast Like a Pro”. You must register for this free webinar. To do so, simply visit www.HowToPodcastLikeaPro.com.

Posted by Ludwina Dautovic on 10th December, 2011 | Comments | Trackbacks | Permalink
Tags: new media, online, communications plan, video, audio, how to podcast, how to podcast like a pro. podcasting, passion, purpose, Goddess on Purpose, Luanne Simmons, Social Responsibility, Make a Difference, Melina Schamroth, MAD Woman

How to Podcast Like a Pro Free Webinar Thursday 1st December @ 1pm

This December 1 st at 1pm (Australian time), Ludwina Dautovic – Founder of The Red Tent Woman and host of Red Tent Radio – will be conducting a free, live webinar called “How To Podcast Like a Pro”. During this free webinar, Ludwina will be showing you how to use your own podcast show to: get a massive amount of leads for your business; get a continual flow of clients and customers; gain more exposure for your products and services; obtain a global voice and an online presence; build a list of industry connections; garner VIP tickets to gala events, award ceremonies and film premieres and much more.

This free webinar is even for those people who might say, “I just think that the technology and processes needed to create my own podcast show would be too overwhelming and complicated”. Ludwina will make all of those fears and apprehensions melt away. If you can talk… you can create a podcast.

To take advantage of this free, one-time only event, you must register before all of the available spaces fill up. Registering is easy. Simply go to www.HowToPodcastLikeaPro.com and click on the “Register Now” button.

Remember, this is a one-time only event. It only lasts an hour and you will be able to watch, listen and learn as Ludwina takes the guesswork out of “How To Podcast Like a Pro”.

[To see what time this live webinar will be taking place in your time zone, go to the website listed above and click on the appropriate link]

Go to: www.HowToPodcastLikeaPro.com to register now!

Posted by Ludwina Dautovic on 24th November, 2011 | Comments | Trackbacks | Permalink
Tags: podcasting, podcast, how to podcast, video, audio, new media, press release, Ludwina Dautovic, business branding, small business, entrepreneur

Press Release: Red Tent Radio Ep 35 featuring Maureen Houssein-Mustafa

This week’s featured guest on Red Tent Radio is Maureen Houssein-Mustafa, expertly interviewed by the show’s host Ludwina Dautovic. Maureen founded The Australasian College Broadway 17 years ago with only $1,600. Today, her business is worth over $35 million, they have a staff of over 100 and more than 300,000 students have graduated from the college. Find out how she did it and how her company has managed to win numerous awards along the way. We’ll give you one hint: She does some things in her business that most other companies don’t do anymore.

This week’s segment, “What’s Hot”, covers Ludwina’s upcoming live webinar series that will show you, step-by-step, how to use multi-media in your business (including producing eBooks, video, audio, online marketing strategies, managing SEO and more). The first webinar will be free and will air ‘live’ via the internet on December 1 st in Australia (which is actually November 31 st in America and other countries). You will need to sign up for this free event, so make sure to look into it now.

The “My Biz, Your Biz” portion of the show features a short chat with Banika Smee. She is a mother, wife and small business owner from Northern Beaches, Sydney. Her company, Witjuti, produces an innovative line of bamboo loungewear that is designed for yoga, maternity or just lounging around. Banika is also a co-founder of a networking group for mothers in small business called Mumpreneurs Northern Beaches Network. Listen to this week’s episode to find out more.

The show is available on demand, for free, at RedTentRadio.com, on iTunes (under the podcast category) and also airs every week in the United States on Jackalope Radio 105 FM in Kansas City, Missouri (Thursdays at 6pm EST). New episodes become available every Friday on the website and iTunes.

Red Tent Radio is produced every week by the Red Tent Woman, which is a small business run by Ludwina Dautovic. She runs a business network for small business owners and offers advice, business coaching and resources for other owners and entrepreneurs. She is a multi-award winning business coach with over 20 years of experience and success.

Posted by on 17th November, 2011 | Comments | Trackbacks | Permalink
Tags: Maureen Houssein-Mustafa, Australasian College Broadway, Banika Smee, Wijuti, Red Tent Radio, Press Release, Ludwina Dautovic, Podcasting

#33 Red Tent Radio featuring Stephen Langsford, CEO Quickflix and Tim Molloy General Manager of MYOB

Featured Guest Interview - Stephen Langsford CEO Quickflix

Stephen Langsford is Founder and Executive Chairman of Quickflix, Australia’s leading online movie company.
Stephen has an entrepreneurial and business management background having commenced his career with an international accounting firm and later a funds management group.

In 1998 Stephen founded Method + Madness, a pioneering internet and e-business company which was later acquired by ASX listed Sausage Software (later renamed SMS Management & Technology). In 2002 Stephen founded Change Corporation a consulting and technology Services Company of which he was Executive Chairman until it was acquired by ASX listed CSG Limited in December 2007. Stephen founded Quickflix and listed the company on the Australian Stock Exchange in 2005 (ASX: QFX).  Stephen is also a board member of Western Australian film funding agency Screen West.

What's Hot

How to make free phone calls using two mobile phone applications - Skype and Viber PLUS an extra bonus app - Dictate Dragon

By Biz, Your Biz

Today I'm talking with Tim Molloy - General Manager of MYOB about how MYOB can save you time and money in your business.

Posted by Ludwina Dautovic on 27th October, 2011 | Comments | Trackbacks | Permalink
Tags: Stephen Langsford, Quickflix, Tim Molloy, MYOB, mobile phone apps, dictation dragon, viber, skype, red tent radio, Ludwina Dautovic

Press Release: Quickflix enters Sony PlayStation®3 streaming deal

SYDNEY: Quickflix (ASX: QFX), Australia's leading online movie rental subscription company, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Sony Computer Entertainment to stream its subscription movie service to PlayStation®3 (PS3™) starting later this year.

Announcing the deal, Quickflix Chief Executive Officer Chris Taylor said: “Having entered a streaming agreement for Sony Bravia in July we’re very excited to now extend the partnership to PlayStation via its game console platform.

“Over 1.3 million Australian consumers who own an internet connectable PlayStation 3 will have access to Quickflix’s on demand movie streaming service. This is a significant moment in the evolution of IPTV delivered entertainment in Australia and a major development for our company,” Mr Taylor said.

Globally, PlayStation 3 is the game console platform most consumers connect to their TV screen at home to stream movies. In the US 1 and UK, PlayStation 3 is estimated to account for over 30 percent of movie streaming by the leading online movie subscription providers in those countries.

The Quickflix movie streaming service on PlayStation 3 will provide unlimited viewing of movies from a constantly changing catalogue, complementing its online DVD and Blu-Ray rental by mail service which provides unlimited rentals each month from Australia’s largest movie and TV series library that features more than 50,000 titles.

According to Quickflix Founder and Executive Chairman Stephen Langsford, connected devices are key to the company’s growth strategy. “Combined with our rapidly growing DVD-by-mail business the PlayStation 3 deal strategically positions Quickflix to become the most popular movie streaming service in Australia,” Mr Langsford said..

Sony Computer Entertainment Australia & New Zealand Managing Director Michael Ephraim said: “This exciting agreement with Quickflix will further enhance PS3’s already strong entertainment on demand credentials across TV, games, music and now, an even larger range of movie options. If you love games, and your family loves movies, quite simply there is no better choice of device for your home than PlayStation 3, which is also one of the most highly awarded Blu-Ray players.”

The Quickflix movie subscription service will feature on the PlayStation 3 Xross media bar (XMB) interface to enable viewers to watch movies instantly. The console also features a DVD Blu-ray player, 3D playback capability and two existing on demand services: PlayStation Network Video Delivery Service (PSN VDS) and MUBI.

1. As reported by Sandvine, May 2011. -END-

Posted by Ludwina Dautovic on 24th October, 2011 | Comments | Trackbacks | Permalink
Tags: quickflix, red tent radio, ludwina dautovic, playstation

Red Tent Radio Ep #32 Louis Lautman, Executive Producer of the 'yes' movie. Founder of Supreme Outsourcing

I'm your host - Ludwina Dautovic and I'd like to invite you to access our FREE weekly Business Podcast Show for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs at www.RedTentRadio.com. Each week we feature a successful business owner who will share their experiences and insights and show you how you, too, can create a successful business. We have a business coaching segment where we create solutions to small business problems and a techy segment teaching you technology tips to make your business experience easier. You can download all past episodes including this week's show at Red Tent Radio

Louis Lautman
Transformational Artist, Lifestyle Designer 

Originally from New Jersey and a graduate of Towson University in 1999, Lautman immediately moved to New York City after college and began his full time, professional selling career.  A “born salesman,” Louis accelerated at his craft and quickly became a company leader for a competitive telecommunications company, knocking on at least 50 doors a day.

After sweeping the streets cold calling NYC for 2 years, Lautman moved to Tampa, Florida to hire, train and manage a sales office for the next year.  After realizing his true passion of helping people, Louis traveled the country training executives for Anthony Robbins and Tom Hopkins. 

In 2003, Lautman started a Training and Development Company (www.InternationalSalesU.com) working with top Fortune 500 Companies, and hosting public seminars. His audiences call him "Moving,” “Motivating," "Energizing" and "Inspirational."  Louis designed the entire curriculum in his training and produced five books and over 50 hours of training material.  In Lautman’s young life, he’s made over 10,000 cold calls in person and on the telephone and has given over 1,500 presentations, workshops and seminars.

In the summer of 2007, Lautman created a virtual society of young like-minded motivated business people, The Young Entrepreneur Society (www.YoungEntrepreneurSociety.com).  As Louis wanted to create a platform for young people who were looking for more in their lives he created The YES Movie (www.theYESmovie.com) as a launching pad to motivate and inspire others around the world.  This enlivening documentary is impacting the lives of millions of people and becoming the catalyst for inspiring still greater passion in business and life.

In 2011, as Lautman’s business and life were officially virtual, he found himself traveling globally and managing over 20 virtual employees.  People’s fascination began growing about how Lautman could manage this team, and naturally Supreme Outsourcing (www.SupremeOutsourcing.com) was born.

Today Lautman travels the world, helping entrepreneurs free up their time, do more of what they love and accelerate revenues by sharing his inspirational and transformational message of empowerment through conscious entrepreneurship.
 

What's Hot - software and resources to help you in your business productivity: Podcasts and Audio Books

MyBizYourBiz with your Business Coach Ludwina Dautovic: I’ll be chatting with Heather Porter Co-Founder of Autopilot Your Business. We will be talking about membership sites and how you can generate a recurring income stream for your business.

To subscribe to the show go to: Red Tent Radio

 

Posted by Ludwina Dautovic on 19th October, 2011 | Comments | Trackbacks | Permalink
Tags: Louis Lautman, 'Yes' movie, Supreme Outsourcing, The Red Tent Woman, Red Tent Radio, Women's Business, Small Business Podcast, Ludwina Dautovic

Red Tent Radio Ep #31 featuring Carren Smith, Bali Bombing Survivor and Motivational Speaker

I'm your host - Ludwina Dautovic and I'd like to invite you to access our FREE weekly Business Podcast Show for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs at www.RedTentRadio.com. Each week we feature a successful business owner who will share their experiences and insights and show you how you, too, can create a successful business. We have a business coaching segment where we create solutions to small business problems and a techy segment teaching you technology tips to make your business experience easier. You can download all past episodes including this week's show at Red Tent Radio

Carren Smith
Well known as one of Australia’s most exciting and dynamic speakers, Carren captivates her audience with humour, energy and genuine engagement!

Having spoken for groups from 20 to 2000, Carren leaves her audience feeling inspired to take action and make positive changes in their life, business and relationships.

Through working with numerous well known companies and thousands of individuals, Carren has developed phenomenal tools for delivering success through, leadership, authenticity, responsibility and productivity enhancement techniques.

As a survivor of the 2002 Bali Bombing along with many other challenges which include the suicide of her De Facto and the personal impact of the 2004 Tsunami on her family, Carren’s comprehension of the value of time, creativity and the meaning of life charges her presentations with passion, credibility and a deep and genuine commitment to extraordinary achievements for people.

Now the founder and CEO of the Quantum Leadership Group, Carren provides personal and professional development seminars and coaching, focusing on mindset, wealth, relationships, sales, business and management.   These seminars are based on neuroscience, professional speaking and communication, all designed around research and education and the principles of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

It is Carren’s unique combination of professional experience and personal life lessons that are now leading thousands to find their voice, their message and the breakthrough distinctions of responsibility, choice, purpose, integrity and congruence!
 

What's Hot - software and resources to help you in your business productivity: Audio Acrobat - Cloud storage for your audio files and video files.

MyBizYourBiz with your Business Coach Ludwina Dautovic: I’ll be chatting with Vicky Johnson from O3 Office. O3 Office is an online portal where business owners and entrepreneurs can find boardrooms, office space and meeting places anywhere in Australia online.

To subscribe to the show go to: Red Tent Radio

 

 

Posted by Ludwina Dautovic on 12th October, 2011 | Comments | Trackbacks | Permalink
Tags: Bali Bombing Survivor and Motivational Speaker, Carren Smith, The Red Tent Woman, Red Tent Radio, Women's Business, Small Business Podcast, Ludwina Dautovic

Red Tent Radio Ep #30 Bernadette Schwerdt from The Australian School of Copywriting

I'm your host - Ludwina Dautovic and I'd like to invite you to access our FREE weekly Business Podcast Show for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs at www.RedTentRadio.com. Each week we feature a successful business owner who will share their experiences and insights and show you how you, too, can create a successful business. We have a business coaching segment where we create solutions to small business problems and a techy segment teaching you technology tips to make your business experience easier. You can download all past episodes including this week's show at Red Tent Radio

Bernadette Schwerdt
If you want to learn the secrets to successful small business advertising, then Bernadette Schwerdt is the woman you need to speak to. Bernadette is an accomplished advertising copywriter and entertaining public speaker who guides small businesses on how to create maximum marketing impact with minimal dollars.

Not only is Bernadette one of Australia’s leading authorities on small business marketing, she is also an accomplished actress appearing regularly on our TV screens in some of Australia’s leading shows like Blue Heelers, Neighbours, Backberner, Halifax fp, The Games, Round The Twist and more.

Bernadette’s presentations are packed full of theatrics, humour, compelling stories and of course heaps of hints and tips about how to market your business without spending a fortune. She provides useful, practical and results-orientated content and is passionate about helping business owners understand how advertising works.

As the founder of the Australian School of Copywriting, Bernadette has trained hundreds of individuals, business owners and advertising agency staff in the art of writing copy. She is intimately familiar with the pressures, constraints and obstacles small businesses face every day in getting known, getting seen and getting sales.

Bernadette is well credentialed to speak on marketing and advertising for small business with the following attributes:

• Specialist marketing reporter for Channel Nine’s ‘The Small Business Show’

• Regular guest on ABC Radio

• Columnist for ‘Working Woman’ magazine

• Senior Account Director with Wunderman Cato Johnson, a division of one of the world’s   largest advertising agencies, Young & Rubicam

• Publicist with the Harry M. Miller Group

Bernadette is also a corporate trainer who’s in high demand. She has trained thousands of senior executives in Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Japan and India in Presentation skills, Leadership, Negotiation, Customer Service, Team Building and much more.

Bernadette, one of the most dynamic, entertaining speakers you could book for your business group or association is highly qualified and has won many awards:

• 2007 Winner Bendigo Bank Business Excellence Award

• Bachelor of Business (Majoring in Marketing)

• Gold Medal Winner for Strategic Marketing from the University of Adelaide

• Certified Meta-NLP Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)

• Accredited instructor of Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), DiSC and PADI

• Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment

• Recipient of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Trust for Young Australians

• Classically-trained actress (Victorian College of the Arts, 1995-1997)

What's Hot - software and resources to help you in your business productivity: Today I’ll be showing you how you can increase your online profile, back links and traffic to your website by submitting online press releases.

MyBizYourBiz with your Business Coach Ludwina Dautovic: I’ll be chatting with Mark Bowness from Big American giveaway on how giving in business is the best way of receiving.

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Posted by Ludwina Dautovic on 4th October, 2011 | Comments | Trackbacks | Permalink
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Red Tent Radio Ep #29 featuring Brian Keen from Franchising Made Easy

I'm your host - Ludwina Dautovic and I'd like to invite you to access our FREE weekly Business Podcast Show for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs at www.RedTentRadio.com. Each week we feature a successful business owner who will share their experiences and insights and show you how you, too, can create a successful business. We have a business coaching segment where we create solutions to small business problems and a techy segment teaching you technology tips to make your business experience easier. You can download all past episodes including this week's show at Red Tent Radio

Brian Keen
Brian has 40 years experience nationally and overseas as a business owner and company director, focusing on business growth, particularly sales & marketing in the franchising industry.

Brian is from Uxbridge on the outskirts of London where he qualified as a quantity surveyor. He emigrated to Blantyre, Malawi in 1966 where he soon left quantity surveying behind to start his career as an entrepreneur when he established a building and development company. He continued this business direction when he and his family moved to Perth in 1975.

By the early 80’s, Brian left building behind and joined the franchising sector when he became a franchisee with the then new BedShed group, opening and operating seven stores in five years. It didn’t take him long to realize he wanted to be involved with creating franchises for himself. So he left BedShed and established a national franchise consultancy and sales group, the Franchise Alliance.

While he was with the Franchise Alliance, it was involved with developing franchise business systems and sales strategies for over 40 businesses including household names such as Ultratune, Jim’s Mowing and Donut King. The Franchise Alliance also operated internationally with groups such as Expense Reduction Analysts. Within the first five years, Brian also built his own six franchise groups with over 120 outlets. The Franchise Alliance still operates successfully in five states and New Zealand.

Today Brian has established a new franchise business, ‘How To Franchise Simply’ which delivers a simpler step-by-step franchising system in a number of different media including the internet and through workshops.

Brian is also the founder of MicroLoan Foundation Australia, a charity providing small business loans to impoverished women in Malawi.
 

Business to Business with your Business Coach Ludwina Dautovic: New segment kicking off today featuring Sue Murphy from Red Hot Seminars and Events. Sue will be talking about how she can help you to better promote your events and workshops.

Social Media Matters with special guest Aaron James Lee: Some ideas (outside of the box) to post on your Facebook business page.

To subscribe to the show go to: Red Tent Radio

Posted by Ludwina Dautovic on 27th September, 2011 | Comments | Trackbacks | Permalink
Tags: Ludwina Dautovic, Small Business Podcast, Women's Business, Red Tent Radio, The Red Tent Woman, Franchising Made Easy, Brian Keen

Small Business Owner and Kidney Cancer Patient Devises a Successful Online Marketing Strategy she can do in her Pyjamas!

After two days of pain, Ludwina Dautovic was diagnosed with a 14cm cancerous tumour on her left kidney. Left to deal with the fallout for her and her family, Ludwina also had to devise a plan to keep her business afloat and her customers believing she was still in business. However, with an 8 – 12 month recovery time and feeling lethargic and weak, Ludwina had to come up with a strategy that she could do in her pyjamas. Red Tent Radio was born and has now become one of the fastest growing Small Business Podcast Shows on ITunes.

Red Tent Radio consists of weekly one hour episodes made up of 3 segments: Business Coaching Tip, Social Media Matters and the featured 40 minute interview with a high profile, successful business owner or entrepreneur. Guests have included authors, speakers, owners or large corporations, film directors, an Olympian and Online Marketing Experts.

“As the saying goes, ‘Necessity is the Mother of Invention’. I couldn’t go to networking events or get out and meet people, so I had to come up with a solution that would appear as though business was operating as usual. Little did I know that it would become my core marketing strategy? It’s also provided me with incredible business opportunities that might never have come my way.” says Ludwina Dautovic, founder and host of Red Tent Radio.

After episode 6 Red Tent Radio was picked up by Jackalope Radio Station in the mid USA where they have on average 2000 listeners per week.  Now at episode 27 there are an average of 500 – 1000 downloads per episode in Australia and rising. Red Tent Radio is now seeking  sponsorship opportunities to help take it to the next level.

15 months after the diagnosis, Ludwina is completely well. The Cancer had contained itself within the kidney. After a successful 7 hour operation, the kidney was removed along with the Cancer then a long journey of recovery followed. What has remained is a successful global podcast show whose future looks bright and rosy.

The show is available midday every Friday and can be found at www.RedTentRadio.com or you can subscribe via ITunes.

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Posted by Ludwina Dautovic on 22nd September, 2011 | Comments (1) | Trackbacks | Permalink
Tags: Business Ideas, Small Business Help, Innovation, Red Tent Radio, Small Business Podcast Show

Red Tent Radio Ep #28 featuring John McDonald founder of Proactive Resolutions

I'm your host - Ludwina Dautovic and I'd like to invite you to access our FREE weekly Business Podcast Show for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs at www.RedTentRadio.com. Each week we feature a successful business owner who will share their experiences and insights and show you how you, too, can create a successful business. We have a business coaching segment where we create solutions to small business problems and a techy segment teaching you technology tips to make your business experience easier. You can download all past episodes including this week's show at Red Tent Radio

John worked as a teacher in NSW for eight years and became a consultant to the New South Wales Department of Education for their New Arrivals Refugee Program for two years. He subsequently lived and worked in Portugal before returning to Australia and becoming the Principal Adviser to the NSW Police Commissioner on youth and juvenile justice, a position he held for ten years. John has an extensive record of affecting positive and lasting change from within state and federal government agencies and as formal recognition of his pioneering work, he was honoured with the prestigious Fairfax Leadership Award in Ethics for his work in policing.

He then worked for the Australian Federal Police and with the Australian National University as a consultant on the establishment of an alternative approach to conflict in the community.

John became a founding Director of ProActive ReSolutions in 2002 and his optimism and interest in finding resolution to the most complex and difficult human conflicts, be they in the workplace or the community, has lead the ProActive approach to transforming complex and difficult conflicts into plans for change and cooperation. His pioneering work in introducing restorative justice conferencing into justice systems in four countries continues to provide those affected by crime the opportunity to understand the experience, acknowledge the impact, and get on with their lives. He has likewise introduced the same ideas and products into the workplace in Australia and Canada and is currently leading the ProActive expansion into markets in the UK, Europe, and the USA.

John lives at Bondi Beach in Sydney. When not at work he keeps busy as a family man and in his spare time participates in triathlons and rides his surfboard. 
 

Five Minute Marketing Tip with Ludwina Dautovic: This weeks five minute marketing tip is making sure your website url and any special offers you have are visible to your market. There are a lot of low cost and no cost strategies you can implement to make that happen.

Social Media Matters with special guest Aaron James Lee: How to get more people to ‘like’ YOUR Facebook business or fan page

To subscribe to the show go to: Red Tent Radio

 
 

 

Posted by Ludwina Dautovic on 20th September, 2011 | Comments | Trackbacks | Permalink
Tags: Workplace Conflict Solutions, Proactive Resolutions, John McDonald, The Red Tent Woman, Red Tent Radio, Women's Business, Small Business Podcast, Ludwina Dautovic

Red Tent Radio Ep #27 featuring Multi Award Winning Australian Film Director, Michael Rymer

I'm your host - Ludwina Dautovic and I'd like to invite you to access our FREE weekly Business Podcast Show for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs at www.RedTentRadio.com. Each week we feature a successful business owner who will share their experiences and insights and show you how you, too, can create a successful business. We have a business coaching segment where we create solutions to small business problems and a techy segment teaching you technology tips to make your business experience easier. You can download all past episodes including this week's show at Red Tent Radio

A native of Melbourne, Michael Rymer studied directing at the University of Southern California where his short films earned him the Warner communications scholarship for directing. He made his directorial debut with his screenplay Angel Baby wich premiered at Sundance in 1996 and earned seven AFI awards including Best Picture. Best Direction, Best Screenplay as well as best actor and actress. Other credits include In Too Deep, Queen of the Damned and Battlestar Gallactica.

Michael’s current work is Face to Face, an independent, feature length film from Australia’s most acclaimed playwright David Williamson. The film has won 20 international film awards including best independent feature at the Santa Barbara international film festival, best movie at Monaco, Mexico, Newport Beach and the list goes on.
 

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

Michael Rymer

Be warned, this is a little movie, with big ideas. With all the strife in the world, human nature being what it is, and history not really offering any positive examples, I’ve often wondered if there’s any way out.  

When I see the terrible violence that’s inflicted on one generation against their enemies, ensuring the next generation will dish out the same in kind. I just look at neighbours and work colleagues and wonder, “If we can’t get past these smaller grudges and animosities, what hope do we have for the bigger ones?”

I came upon this when an old friend was trying to explain this revolutionary work he was doing – he then emailed me a copy of a play that David Williamson had written on this very material.   When I read the play, I laughed, I cried – I couldn’t believe that I could ever care so much about such an ordinary scenario.   I said to my friend “This is really amazing, but the ending’s a bit hard to believe.   There’s no way these things work out so... completely.” My friend responded, “Actually, they almost always do.   And if not so completely, at least the individuals take away some new personal skills and understanding”.   “But if this really works, then you’ve cracked the way to solve global conflicts.” My friend shrugged humbly, “That’s what we’re hoping, yes.”

Here is a system that actually works. By systematically exposing each person to one other and forcing them to see the consequences and effects of their actions, the characters are able to transcend their own subjective view, and understand that they are part of a “tribe” where everyone’s actions affect everyone else.

I grew up watching David Williamson movies, Don’s Party, The Club, Traveling North, Gallipoli, Emerald City, and this particular play, Face to Face , I believe, is one of his best. Using real cases, David somehow transmuted this wonderfully raw, real material into an almost perfectly structured play that unfolds with enough twists, reversals, and surprises to fill three movies.   He has created a gallery of characters that are so real, so recognisable, yet never stereotypical or pat.

The paradigm for a picture like this is Twelve Angry Men : a film I first saw in high school.   Twelve guys in a room, but with some great, great acting and blocking, you never feel claustrophobic, because you’re seeing a great story unfold, well told.

We’ve opened up the play, with flashbacks to the key events – but we want to keep the focus on what’s happening psychologically. But I’ve resisted going too far, because I want to preserve the pressure-cooker intensity necessary for these characters to open up.   This is a film that demands the camera go from face to face – the landscapes of this film are the actor’s faces – the special effects are the emotions rippling across their eyes and mouths.   Not all films have to be the same – there’s room for very visual films and there’s room for films like this. If I do my job right, no one will even notice.

The people who showed up for Kenny and The Castle will come to see an Australian film about authentic Australians.   In the international market, I see round the festivals, markets and art houses, that there’s an increasing appetite for stories that don’t rely on sensationalism, prurient excesses and gimmicks.   But our real hope for this film is that, like Twelve Angry Men , Face to Face will have a long life in Law Schools, Civics Classes, high schools and community centres around the world. And who knows?  Maybe a small movie can change big things.


Social Media Matters & Business Coaching Segment:
Instead of our usual Social Media Matters and Business Coaching Segments, we’re going to do something a little different. Aaron James Lee will be interviewing me about how I market and promote red tent radio. It’s filled with strategic marketing strategies that have helped to get Red Tent Radio on page one of Google.

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Posted by Ludwina Dautovic on 13th September, 2011 | Comments | Trackbacks | Permalink
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Red Tent Radio Ep #26 featuring National Telstra Business Award winner 2011 Melanie Summer founder of Flash Fotos

I'm your host - Ludwina Dautovic and I'd like to invite you to access our FREE weekly Business Podcast Show for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs at www.RedTentRadio.com. Each week we feature a successful business owner who will share their experiences and insights and show you how you, too, can create a successful business. We have a business coaching segment where we create solutions to small business problems and a techy segment teaching you technology tips to make your business experience easier. You can download all past episodes including this week's show at Red Tent Radio

Melanie Summer was born and raised in Germany. After travelling around the world on a sailing boat, a journey that took her three years, she chose to call Australia home.

As a busy single mum Melanie recognised she needed to re-organise her life in order to be flexible enough to care and create security for her young daughter, so she started her own business on the Sunshine Coast, Flash Fotos.

Melanie Summer’s decision to go into business was, as for so many other small business owners, to gain a more flexible lifestyle as a single mum, more independence and to create wealth. But things turned out differently. Within 2 years her business Flash Fotos was in $250,000 debt, and Melanie was stressed to the limits, over-worked and close to bankruptcy. It was her dramatic learning curve. On turning her business into the ongoing success that it is today. She says, “I always knew I’d land on my feet but I just wasn’t sure if I’d be wearing high heels or running shoes”.

Land on her feet is exactly what she did. In 2009 she co-founded the Mind Design Centre and continues to inspire and motivate as an engaging speaker and writer. Melanie won the National Telstra MYOB Small Business Award 2011 for her achievements with Flash Fotos and now inspires and helps other business owners to transform their companies into award winning businesses.

In an amazing journey she changed her business around to the success it is today. Flash Fotos now employs 23 staff and has more than 2,500 customers per year throughout regional Australia. In recognition of their achievements Flash Fotos won the National Telstra MYOB Small Business Awards 2011 in August 2011.
 

Flash Fotos professional team enhance and capture your true essence. When you look good, you feel good, your confidence soars and you gain the inner strength to step out and achieve your dreams and goals.


 

Business Coaching Tip with Ludwina Dautovic: This week Ludwina will be talking with Victoria Ugarte from Postcards from Millie, helping her with a problem she has in her business.

Social Media Matters with special guest Aaron James Lee: Aaron and I will be talking about  'How to optimise your LinkedIn profile'.

To subscribe to the show go to: Red Tent Radio

 
 

Posted by Ludwina Dautovic on 6th September, 2011 | Comments | Trackbacks | Permalink
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Red Tent Radio Ep #25 featuring Daniel Prokop Author of 'Leaving Neverland'

I'm your host - Ludwina Dautovic and I'd like to invite you to access our FREE weekly Business Podcast Show for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs at www.RedTentRadio.com. Each week we feature a successful business owner who will share their experiences and insights and show you how you, too, can create a successful business. We have a business coaching segment where we create solutions to small business problems and a techy segment teaching you technology tips to make your business experience easier. You can download all past episodes including this week's show at Red Tent Radio

Red Tent Radio Ep #25 Featuring Daniel Prokop Author of 'Leaving Neverland'
Available for download this Friday 2nd September
Daniel Prokop is a script writer, comedy show radio host, an  inventor, a parent educator, keynote speaker, Rites of Passage leader, high school basketball coach, MC and a stand-up comedian.

In this paragraph Daniel describes himself: “I’ve been around the block a few times, nearly fifty times if you call one year a block. I have studied little boys in their “natural” corporate environment, as a boy myself within the belly of an oily beast”  

The beast was the biggest corporation in the world at the time.  It was a vast, big budget sandpit where Daniel played at a senior level for 13 years, which still surprises him. Daniel owned a franchised business in a major shopping centre and employed twelve staff for 9 years and also worked for a harm prevention charity. Three vastly different sandpits all linked by similar childish behaviour, some of it his own.

Daniel’s family migrated to Australia from the US in 1973. He had been a labourer at the Port Kembla Steelworks, made pizzas, cleaned pub toilets, washed dishes, shovelled turkey poo, picked kiwi fruit in NZ and put himself through University.

On the topic of personal development Daniel says “been there, still doing that”. He is also a devoted father of two children and a husband.
 

Daniel has been a leader on many Rites of Passage programs and has also had the privilege of taking his son through his Rite of Passage. Daniel’s experience as a Dad was quite different to his experiences as a leader. Daniel’s son came back a few years after our camp, as a returning young man and he then helped his father run a Rites of Passage program. When asked how it has been having his son on board Daniel says “It has been such a gift to watch how much he has grown as a result of participating in this work and it has helped me grow up too”.  

 
“In many tribal cultures, it was said that if the boys were not initiated into manhood, if they were not shaped by the skills and love of elders, then they would destroy the culture. If the fires that innately burn inside youths are not intentionally and lovingly added to the hearth of community, they will burn down the structures of culture, just to feel the warmth…But the
most certain signals for lighting the fires of destruction are sent when the old people of a
group lose their memories, consume like youths, and neglect the rites of grieving and burial.”
(Meade, Michael. 1993. Men and the Water of Life…Initiation and the Tempering of Men. Harper San Francisco USA)


“Too many fathers are AWOL, missing from too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families [and our communities] are weaker because of it…. any fool can have a child... It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.” President Barrack Obama, New York Times, June 16, 2008)
 
 

Business Coaching Tip with Ludwina Dautovic: This week we have two mini interviews I recorded at the Tesltra awards with Melanie Summer from Flash Fotos who won the Tesltra Myob Small Busienss Award and Ravi Mahajani from Darwin Day Surgery who won the News Limited Micro Business Owner award.

Social Media Matters with special guest Aaron James Lee: 'How to create lists in twitter'. We talk about Streamlining Your Twitter Streams (and WHY to do it).

To subscribe to the show go to: Red Tent Radio

 

Posted by Ludwina Dautovic on 31st August, 2011 | Comments | Trackbacks | Permalink
Tags: 'Leaving Neverland', Daniel Prokop, The Red Tent Woman, Red Tent Radio, Women's Business, Small Business Podcast, Ludwina Dautovic

The Marketing Puzzle – How to get PR for your business.

Ludwina Dautovic walking on broken glass at the Essentially for Women
'Secrets to Success in Business and Life Event' in Melbourne