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    Chef Mel is Known as The Happy Chef in Australia and Brings Her Brand of Fun and Sexy Food to the US

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    Monica Abbott
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    Chef Mel is Known as The Happy Chef

    Food is one of the great joys of life. From the smell to the taste to the health benefits, pleasure and presentation, it’s something to enjoy with friends and pursue endless variations on.

    Chef Mel, aka ‘The Happy Chef,’ couldn’t agree more. The celebrity chef from Australia is known down under for her signature brand of fun and sexy food. Mel Alafaci is dedicated to creating dishes as gorgeous as they are delicious — and many of them are simple to make as well!

    After snagging the coveted International Book Award for her first cookbook, Culinary Quickies, she performed a whirlwind series of pop-up events around the world in celebration. She found an enthusiastic audience in the US.

    Today, while writing her second cookbook, she’s also taking America by storm, teaching Californians how to make their calamari seductive and Floridians how to serve up fettuccine that fetches compliments.

    Chef Mel has always believed that food can create happiness and that tasty treats can spread good vibes. Her impressive recipes satisfy, and her carefree kitchen attitude makes her a hit with everyone from first-time chefs to seasoned professionals.

    A Well-Seasoned Pro

    Lest you think she’s just an author, Chef Mel is the founder of a famous cooking school in Australia, Vanilla Zulu Culinary Adventures, which also functions as a team building facility, that employs six chefs, 9 assistants, and serves over 350  passionate foodies and wanna-be foodies each week.

    Need more convincing of her prowess? Head over to her YouTube channel to learn fantastic kitchen shortcuts that will have your family and friends — or hot date — begging for more.

    “I want to share hope and joy with my cooking. We can cook with love and enthusiasm every day, especially armed with all of my shortcuts,” said Chef Mel, “We can make our family, our friends, or our judgemental mother-in-law impressive meals created from simple, inexpensive, everyday ingredients.”

    When you add her cheeky smiles and disarming sense of humor to the mix, you have all the makings of America’s next celebrity chef. Interestingly, she doesn’t aim to create kitchen prodigies but rather to teach everyday cooks how to elevate with small tricks, simple twists, a bit of storytelling, and killer presentations.

    “I hope to bring my culinary lingo, simple, clever cooking fun into American kitchens next,” she said.

    Selling Your Spaghetti

    In The Happy Chef’s world, great taste is only half of a chef’s job. The other half is down to storytelling and serving. So sharing a few sultry details about the heirloom tomatoes in the sauce or the imported cheese in the ravioli is key to getting your guests’ mouths watering.

    “Serve it up with a wink and a smile, and you’ll have them eating out of the palm of your hand, ” said Chef Mel, “Well, not literally. Unless you’re into that!” she said with her trademark hearty laugh.

    Her best kitchen advice is to begin with the basics before adding your personal flair to a dish. And unlike many other celeb chefs, she doesn’t insist on the most expensive ingredients. Instead, buy what you love and can afford. She believes that a well-presented and prepared dish can be made for pennies — but never needs to look that way.

    “Suppose you’re cooking dishes that stress you out and make you hate cooking. In that case, you are cooking the wrong thing,” she said, “By gaining kitchen confidence, you will actually enjoy cooking again, you’ll start to succeed, and live happily ever after in your kitchen.”

    Cheese Platters that Flatter

    As is her way, Chef Mel always makes sure to add instructions on plating every recipe that she shares across her cookbook, YouTube, and live events. In her opinion, it’s a waste of time to spend hours on a dish only to present it sloppily.

    She believes in plating that is akin to art. She knows her color wheel and the art of mixing textures, styles, and elements. “Use beautiful bright colors and refine your presentation with a sexy plate. For example, I love the color of a slate slab against pink parma ham. It just pops,” she said.

    Chef Mel is already making waves with American chefs that are hoping to learn some down-under secrets from this enthusiastic cooking wunderkind.

    About Chef Mel

    Chef Mel, aka The Happy Chef, works to teach new and seasoned chefs how to be happy in their kitchens again by cooking with happiness, confidence and love. Her cookbook, Culinary Quickies, won the International Book Award and was a top finalist in the United States. To learn more about booking opportunities, please visit https://chefmel.me/

    AI Pioneers: Unlocking the Potential of Machine Learning for a Sustainable and Prosperous Future

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    Victor Brink
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    Neelesh Mungoli, a FAANG engineer
    Silicon Valley: A Hub of Innovation and Development in the Field of AI

    In an interview with EntrepreneurialMag, we had the opportunity to speak with Neelesh Mungoli, a FAANG engineer, AI and machine learning expert, and Irvine resident, about his groundbreaking research and its implications for California’s future. Mungoli is well-known for his innovative work in the field and his dedication to fostering a culture of openness and collaboration. In this article, we delve into his personal journey, the details of his research, and his vision for the future of AI and machine learning in the Golden State.

    Mungoli’s path to becoming a software engineer began with a passion for technology and an unwavering curiosity about the possibilities it could unlock. After obtaining a solid foundation in computer science, he embarked on a career at a leading FAANG company, where he honed his skills and gained valuable experience in the industry. As an Irvine resident, Mungoli has witnessed firsthand the transformative power of technology in shaping the city’s landscape, which has further fueled his drive to contribute to the field.

    The motivation behind Mungoli’s transition from a software engineer to an AI researcher can be traced back to his fascination with the potential of machine learning to revolutionize industries and improve lives. He recognized the power of AI to solve complex problems, drive innovation, and create new opportunities for growth, and he was eager to explore the uncharted territory that lay ahead.

    In his research, Mungoli has focused on developing novel machine learning algorithms and techniques that can be applied to a wide range of problems, from optimizing energy consumption to predicting disease outbreaks. He has published numerous papers on these topics, showcasing his ability to tackle complex challenges with innovative solutions. By making his work freely available on platforms such as Amazon, ResearchGate, and arXiv, Mungoli aims to foster a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing that will ultimately benefit the broader community.

    Mungoli is excited about the prospect of collaborating with fellow engineers and researchers at renowned institutions like Caltech. He believes that by working together, they can combine their collective expertise and push the boundaries of what is possible in AI and machine learning. These collaborations have the potential to unlock new discoveries and breakthroughs that will shape the future of technology and the world around us.

    California stands to benefit immensely from Mungoli’s research, as it can be applied to various sectors, from agriculture to healthcare, transportation to education. His work in optimizing energy consumption, for example, could contribute to the state’s ongoing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote sustainable development. Similarly, his research on disease prediction models could enable public health officials to respond more effectively to outbreaks, ultimately saving lives and resources. By harnessing the power of AI and machine learning, Mungoli’s work has the potential to transform industries and improve the quality of life for Californians.

    In our discussion with Mungoli, we delved into the details of his research, exploring the breakthroughs and innovations he has achieved. He shared insights into the development of novel algorithms and techniques, as well as the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. By making his books and research papers freely available on platforms like Amazon, Mungoli is committed to ensuring that his work reaches the widest possible audience, fostering a spirit of collaboration and driving further innovation in the field.

    To ensure that the benefits of AI and machine learning are accessible to all, Mungoli believes that California must take steps to make these fields more appealing to students and the general public. He suggests that universities and educational institutions should offer comprehensive, interdisciplinary courses that provide students with a strong foundation in AI and related disciplines. By equipping the next generation with the skills and knowledge they need to excel in these fields, California can cultivate a robust pipeline of talent and innovation that will drive the state’s economy and technological prowess forward.

    Mungoli is a firm advocate for the accessibility of knowledge, recognizing the crucial role that it plays in fostering a culture of innovation and curiosity. While he acknowledges the wealth of resources available at institutions like the Irvine Library, he emphasizes that much of this knowledge can also be found online. Platforms like YouTube, ResearchGate, and arXiv offer valuable opportunities for students, researchers, and enthusiasts to access research-based information and stay abreast of the latest developments in the field. By relentlessly pursuing breakthroughs and sharing his knowledge with fellow researchers, students, and the public, Mungoli is helping to drive innovation and foster a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and progress. His commitment to advancing the field of AI and machine learning will not only benefit Californians but also contribute to a brighter, more sustainable, and prosperous future for all.

    How Fabiola Barinas Does it All and Still Helps Others: The Secret to Balancing Motherhood, Health, Entrepreneurship, and Marriage

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    Monica Abbott
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    Fabiola Barinas

    Fabiola Barinas makes up one half of the Unstoppable FitCouple, alongside her husband and business partner, Alan Rodriguez. Both she and her husband have helped guide thousands of clients to find the best versions of themselves and achieve optimal health. In conjunction with being a full-time wife and entrepreneur, she is also a mother of three, fitness influencer, mindset coach, and mentor. The question she gets asked the most is: How does she do it?

    We caught up with Fabi to garner her take with hot tricks of the trade when it comes to juggling motherhood, marriage, managing a business, and maintaining optimal health — both physically and mentally.

    Rule Number One: There is No Balance

    To begin, Barinas explains that everyday works on a sliding scale. One day she will be giving her all to her family and significant other, then realize that she neglected housework, her fitness regimen, or the tasks of her business. The next day, or that same evening, she will turn 100% of her energy to one of the latter areas, effectively creating a blocked-out balancing system wherein all energy goes towards one area over the others.

    That is the key: One must be able to embrace the chaos, love the process, and count their blessings each day.

    “My relationships with my clients, for example, are just as important as those I share with my family,” said Barinas. “The ability to make myself available to everyone and everything that I deem important in my life is a skill I had to learn. You can’t do everything all at once, you have to focus on one thing at a time, and give yourself grace.”

    Get Organized

    Come up with a detailed agenda and stick to it. Having a plan on how one will approach the day can be the determining factor as to whether everything gets done. Barinas emphasizes to her clients the importance of being willing to adapt, because things happen and sometimes it’s necessary to change course or switch it up altogether.

    Don’t Give Up

    Things are not always easy. Barinas stresses to her clients to never give up on themselves and what success means to them. One must look inside, get inspired, and see what’s possible.

    “Before we got married my husband did not make it as far as he wanted in becoming a Major League Baseball player and later, I was not securing the kind of acting roles I had hoped for,” said Barinas. “Rejection is a part of life. We had to pivot in order to create the life we wanted. It is important to keep going. But not only that, we wouldn’t be in the amazing position of success, health, and love that we are in today without giving up some past dreams. Now, we are exactly where we are supposed to be, with the ultimate dream life for our family.”

    Remain Focused and Centered

    It is important to remember that we need to put ourselves first. That doesn’t mean we don’t show up for the ones we care about, but we have to feel safe in our own space, mentally, physically, and professionally. It is key to have a release, like physical activity and exercise. However, having the ability to block out the noise is just as important.

    “Work to live, not the other way around. You can get the worst advice from someone who may have the best intentions, but you have to remember their fears and insecurities are not your own,” Barinas said. “What we have built has surpassed our wildest dreams and is proof that you can come from nothing. Just dream big, do big, and never give up!”

    Mindset Shift

    We have to show up everyday for both ourselves and our loved ones. That also means that we sometimes might have to step out of our comfort zones and do things or make decisions that we might otherwise not want to do. Barinas’ mentality behind it all is that she gets to do these things, not that she has to do them.

    “A tree is going to grow to its maximum potential without much effort. But for humans, the smartest beings in the world, this does not happen naturally,” she said. “Most people settle. There’s always more we can get better at and improve on. Don’t fall for comparing your chapter 1 to my chapter 100.”

    About Unstoppable FitCouple

    Fabiola Barinas and Alan Rodriguez, better known as the Unstoppable FitCouple, are health and mindset coaches helping others achieve their ideal lives. Fabiola and Alan have partnered with thousands of individuals to overhaul their health and general happiness. Having achieved the top sales ranks in their organization, Fabi and Alan continue to change lives daily. Find out more about the Unstoppable FitCouple at www.unstoppablefitcouple.com

    Arsenal NFT Founder Scott Kapun’s Top 5 Steps to Investing in Crypto

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    Melinda Luce
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    Scott Kapun
    The founder of Arsenal NFT (ANFT), Scott ‘Kap’ Kapun

    The founder of Arsenal NFT (ANFT), Scott ‘Kap’ Kapun, is a cryptocurrency, NFT and blockchain expert and will soon unveil the industry’s first-ever Crypto NFT DeFi ecosystem, one which pays in stablecoins and sees 100% of all community profits go back to its token holders.

    His goal is simple: listen to the community, create a ‘safe place’ for all investors and help guide the ecosystem to generate a passive revenue stream and find success. His ANFT ecosystem will pay in USDC.e on a monthly scale to all holders of the platform’s native token.

    “The more ANFT you hold the more you earn. Not only is ANFT a governance token but it also acts as an IOU that correlates directly with the amount of USDC.e that a holder is owed,” said Kapun. “The Arsenal NFT ecosystem utilizes a bonding system which offers shareholders  ANFT tokens at a premium, via the dAPP in exchange for USDC.e.”

    Kapun founded Arsenal NFT because of some of the noticeably disappointing occurrences in the DeFi space, as well as the unfortunate scamming that has sometimes overshadowed the industry.

    We caught up with Kapun and asked him what he felt were necessary ‘guidelines’ to getting started or continuing when it comes to investing in crypto.

    Top 5 Things to Consider Before Investing in Crypto

    Kapun is certainly familiar with both the ups and downs of investing in crypto. He has seen his digital wallet reach great heights and seen some coins wash under the pressure. Having launched Arsenal NFT, and in soon rolling out the industry’s first ecosystem, it is important to him that everyone benefit from the constantly fluctuating digital coin market. Below are his tips for getting started, but also make for good advice for seasoned investors as well.

    Always Do Your Homework!

    “If you’re trading or thinking about joining a crypto project — do your homework. It’s all about the homework,” said Kapun. “Know who and what you are dealing with. Join the associated Discord channel, if there is one, and ask plenty of questions. This way, you can gauge the legitimacy of the project you are thinking about backing.”

    Never Rush into Anything!

    “Sit back and study for a bit before you ‘APE’ into anything. Never do anything with money on impulse,” he stated. “When trading, it’s good to learn basic patterns that could dictate certain market trends. There are a lot of tools at everyone’s disposal, like the Internet, so use them. Trading view, as well as Altfins, are good platforms to start with.”

    Do NOT Listen to the General Consensus!

    “There are plenty of people out there who ‘shill’ anything they can, or gamble, swindle or hawk crypto,” he said. “Do your own research and arrive at your own conclusions. It’s alright to ask for other people’s opinions, but never let anyone make the choice for you.”

    Always Trust Your Gut!

    “If something feels off, it probably is,” he mused. “As we all know, in crypto, there are certainly plenty of possible perils and pitfalls out there.”

    Become Familiar with Your Assets!

    “Before you make any crypto-related decisions, take time to learn and become familiar with the assets you are planning to deal with and how they work. It is also important to learn about the platforms you are planning on utilizing so you can make informed decisions in regard to potential risks versus rewards,” he said. “Not knowing how something works and fumbling through it all just because you think the reward will be worth it, may be your greatest downfall when you find out you didn’t fully comprehend the mechanics. At that point, it may be too late.”

    About Scott ‘Kap’ Kapun

    Scott ‘Kap’ Kapun is the creator, owner and project lead at Arsenal NFT. He has over eight years experience in network engineering and over a decade in cryptocurrencies. His goal is to change the way Crypto/Defi projects interact with their communities while providing the tools and groundwork for all who participate to earn passive income from the Arsenal NFT Ecosystem. For more information and to get involved with the community, please visit https://arsenalnft.org/

    A Home with Heart: Franchise Marketing Agency ChoiceLocal Dedicates Habitat for Humanity House to Cleveland Family

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    Jeannie Contreras
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    Joe Soltis
    Joe Soltis, CEO and the founder of Cleveland marketing agency ChoiceLocal

    CEO Joe Soltis runs a purpose-driven, faith-based business as the founder of Cleveland marketing agency ChoiceLocal. Since he pairs doing good with every project he takes on, it should be no surprise that his team recently completed a new project with Habitat for Humanity.

    The Hulda Avenue house they built was dedicated to a local family on May 14. The ChoiceLocal team was there to celebrate, take pictures, and enjoy the day with the recipient family, who they had gotten to know over months when they built the house together.

    “The ceremony was on a Saturday morning, and it was a fun and moving time for our team. We got to see all of the hard work pay off, admire the finished home, and celebrate with Bri’s family as we dedicated their new house to them,” said Soltis.

    Projects such as partnering with the international aid organization are natural for Soltis and ChoiceLocal. The CEO believes that you can’t call yourself a true success if you are not giving back and making the world a better place while also making profits.

    Building Something Meaningful

    The team broke ground on the property nine months ago, beginning on the day that the recipients and the ChoiceLocal staff completed a house blessing on the lot and started planning volunteer schedules that would take them through the summer.

    At the dedication event, the team looked back on the building period as a time that brought them closer. The colleagues worked side-by-side, learned new skills, and proved that they could build something meaningful while laughing and sweating together.

    And that was the actual point of the project. It was designed to serve the community while strengthening their own bonds.

    A documentary was made of the entire process which showed from the day of the ground breaking to the day of the house dedication for Bri and he 3 beautiful boys.  This documentary can be watched on the Mission and Culture page of the ChoiceLocal website.

    As Soltis states about the amazing team at ChoiceLocal that made this possible, ““It’s long been a dream of Becky and me to give a home to a family that needs one.  This was one of our dreams when we founded ChoiceLocal and our great company was nothing more than an idea. Today, we are so appreciative of the ChoiceLocal family for creating the economic success of Choicelocal that enabled us to make this dream come true to Bri and her 3 awesome boys, as well as Becky and myself.  Once again our team has proven that out of pain can come great purpose in making lives dramatically better.  It feels to great to live with purpose and see dreams become a reality. The ChoiceLocal family is so amazing!”

    An Ongoing Partnership For Good

    After all, doing good in the community is at the core of what Soltis and the ChoiceLocal team does. His company also sponsors local families at Christmas each year, providing holiday gifts, and cheerful decorations that ensure the families can make excellent memories.

    Since Soltis and his wife lost a child of their own, they are also active in providing bereavement assistance to children who have had a family member pass away. ChoiceLocal also regularly raises money for summer camp scholarships, pays for school meal programs for underprivileged students, and helps families with members suffering from cancer.

    Purpose-driven for Growth

    While it’s easy to see how being purpose-driven plays into ChoiceLocal’s charity work, its tie to business success and profit-making may seem less clear. But not toSoltis. In his mind, being purpose-driven is what drives the exponential growth that ChoiceLocal has enjoyed since opening its doors in 2014.

    Providing the top performing franchise growth engine to franchise systems, through marketing, franchise development, recruiting, web development, and sales enablement, is only half of the company’s mission. The rest is tied up in philanthropy — the company assists 10,000 children each year and funnels approximately 10 percent of profits into charitable contributions.

    Instead of seeing the drive toward making profits and the desire to give back as separate, Soltis sees them as a uniquely intertwined model for exponential growth. “At the end of the day, monetary profits are only so enticing, but doing good for others never loses its motivating factor. People always need your help, and their stories always compel me to carry on doing good, faith-based work,” he said.

    Soltis sees this with his clients too, choosing to take on only customers with similar values as his team. “Integrity in everything we do and a mission built on helping others is what truly drives us forward,” he said.

    A business model where success and good deeds go hand-in-hand is worthwhile and a model that many businesses can learn from.

    About ChoiceLocal

    ChoiceLocal is a purpose-driven and results-focused franchise marketing agency that only serves franchisors and franchisees. They are the 1st and only franchise marketing agency to offer a money-back guarantee. They are a member of IFA (International Franchise Association), named on the Inc. 5000 list, and rated as a Top Workplace for the last five years. To find out more about their franchise growth engine, please visit https://choicelocal.com/

    Jonny Havey – Co-Founder of eLearning Partners

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    Jeannie Contreras
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    • Tell us about yourself? (Open-ended question)

    My name is Jonny Havey and I grew up in a family with three major values.

    1) If you do one thing in life you should treat everyone with kindness and respect.

    2) Life is about how you spend your time, so having kind and loving people around you to spend time with is paramount.

    3) Hardwork always pays off.

    These 3 values are instilled in me and even more important to me today. I embrace all 3 in everything that I do – with my family and friends, my business, eLearning Partners, that I founder with my best friend from college, and with my love for health, fitness and the outdoors.

    When I am not working with clients or building remarkable eLearning video content to educate people and businesses on our YouTube channel eLearning Simplified, you will find me training. I am constantly pushing the limits of fitness – usually in the elements outside.

    You see, along with growing up with the 3 aforementioned values, I was diagnosed with Asthma and told that I would need to take steroids for my lungs. I was also

    • Where did the idea of eLearning Partners come from?

    My business partner, Hector and I have been entrepreneurs for more than a decade stemming back to when we were in collage. The number one things we have learned from our time as entrepreneurs is that you should continuously gather feedback from your customers. To take this further, you should gain feedback from your ideal customers and your favorite customers. With that in mind, we started VP Legacies back in 2014 and renamed it to eLearning Partners at the beginning of 2021 based on getting feedback from our top customers. They told us that the name eLearning Partners was a very clear and fitting name to who we are as a company so we went with it.

    • What makes eLearning Partners different from other companies in the eLearning industry?

    eLearning Partners believes that eLearning should actually be called e-learner-ing because it should be all about your learners. The biggest challenge we have seen in the eLearning and online course industry is too big of a focus on technologies like learning management systems, authoring tools and learning experience platforms. eLearning Partners is just that a partner for you and most importantly your learners in the eLearning and online course industry. Everything we do revolves around your learners.

    eLearning Partners is a digital learning company that simplifies elearning and online course development for you so that you can focus on the most important part of elearning – your learner.

    • What was the most important part of your professional journey?

    I have always heard that it is the lows in business and being an entrepreneur that makes you and like a lot of businesses and business owners, we were greatly impacted by the state of the world in 2020 and 20221. However, instead of it being the end of the world for our business, we believe that what we learned from our business going from making $50K+ a month to literally $0/month for 6+ months allowed us to rebuild out business into something we actually wanted.

    We were burned out. We built what on paper looked like a successful business, but the business itself was not what we wanted longterm. When we went from making $50K+/month to literally $0/month we learned that what we had built wasn’t sustainable and it gave us the opportunity to rebuild our business how we wanted it. A business that today is making less per month than we were pre-2020, but is making significantly more profit.

    This story illustrates that the most important part of being an entrepreneur is creating a company that you love to work for every day. Sometimes this means walking away from large sums of money so you can create more time for yourself. This is how we have built eLearning Partners and you know what, we are shifting how we operate our company once again to simplify things even further. In turn, we are creating an even more sustainable business.

    • What are the best and worst purchases you’ve ever made?

    The best purchase I have ever made was my Australian shepherd. Best investment I have ever made in my life. From a business perspective the best purchase I have made was very recently. It is an online course all about the challenges and successing of building a business from 6 figures to 7-figures and beyond. Absolutely amazing.

    The worst purchase I have every made was on pay per click advertising because we had no strategy in place when we did it. Now that we have a proven strategy, pay per click advertising is actually a good purchase. The lesson here is just because you have the money doesn’t mean you should spend it without a plan.

    • What takes up too much of your time?

    Refusing to delegate tasks takes most of my time. Therefore, this year I am 100% focused on delegating everything that I can. This has been a complete game changer. My goal in life is to help more people while working less so I have more time for myself, family and friends.

    • What three pieces of advice would you give to an individual or a company looking to create an eLearning program, online course, or virtual training?

    #1 Build what your learners want, not what you want.

    What does this mean? This means that when you are looking at building an eLearning program or online course, all you really have to do is build a program that addresses the biggest challenges that your learners have. If you do that you will be successful because your learners will be successful. How do you do that? Ask your learners and be extremely observant of what they need and want.

    #2 Your Learning Management System and other eLearning technology really isn’t that important.

    Yes, you heard what I said. Your LMS doesn’t matter. Your learners matter. eLearning should really be called e-learner-ing. Even though the “e” in eLearning stands for “electronic” and without it eLearning wouldn’t exist as an industry, this doesn’t mean that technology is the most important part of it.

    Without engaged learners who are actually using your online courses and eLearning programs, what is the point in paying for the development or license of an LMS? We actually recommend using a free or lowcost LMS alternative until you actually prove that your learners want the content that you are creating for them.

    #3 The majority of eLearning programs fail because they lack a distribution strategy.

    Most people go into building an eLearning program or online course without even thinking about how they are going to distribute it to their learners. They select the “perfect” learning management system and build the most “beautiful” content. Then they package is all together and wait ask what’s next?

    Companies employ the “Build it and they will come” strategy with their employees. Sorry this doesn’t work. And also hope that their customers are ready to buy their new online course product. This also doesn’t work. We recommend that before even building your eLearning program you need to figure out how you are actually going to get your learners to take the program.

    What do you need to do to get your employees to engage? And what is your sales and marketing strategy to get your customers to buy?

    • Who has impressed you most with what they’ve accomplished?

    My dad went from grinding it out as a car mechanic to running his own green building commissioning company working with the biggest name companies in the country throughout his career. He dealt with a lot of ups and downs in between, but now is one of the biggest if not the biggest name in his respective field and its because he lives be the motto – “if you helped someone today you did something good” (which is something his grandfather, my great grandfather has always said)

    • What drives you to keep going when it’s really tough?

    I don’t want to work a 9-5 job ever. I am lucky I only worked a 9-5 job (well actually a 7-7 job) for less than 6 months of my professional career. Before being an entrepreneur I went and worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as an IT Auditor and Risk Assurance advisor. While I loved the people and the company, I was not too thrilled about the work. So I left and continued my entrepreneurship journey.

    There is no other way for me. Its either be an entrepreneur and that’s it. I will make it work and have made it worked multiple times at this point from multiple lows.

    Also, my business partner, Hector, who has literally been my business partner in every business I have started since the beginning of my entrepreneurial career spanning more than a decade.

    • Where can people find more information about you and eLearning Partners?

    On our website https://www.e-learningpartners.com/. We also have a Youtube channel called eLearning Simplified.

    How Christian Santiago, a Former Pastor Turned High-Performance Coach is Helping Entrepreneurs Become Inspirational Leaders People Want to Follow

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    Jeannie Contreras
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    Christian Santiago

    Christian Santiago is the founder of The Greatness Institute, a high performance coaching company whose mission is to help faith-based executives, investors and high-achieving entrepreneurs become inspirational leaders people want to follow by mastering six habits.

    Santiago helps them tap into their skillset and better understand who they are, what they are known for and ultimately helps them target the next strategic steps in making progress and achieving their dreams.

    His reputation and notoriety has been built on his status of guiding faith-driven business leaders, professionals, C-level executives, and companies to better shape their infrastructure, mentalities and overall well being, both personally and professionally.

    He has lent his services to individuals and companies, via his client-coaching program and e-courses, which include a clientele of a combined $369 million in net worth. Each of his courses and writings aim to light a fire in his clients and inspire them, while helping them surpass their limiting beliefs and find success and in holding fast to one’s faith, but not exclusively.

    The former pastor has written numerous successful publications, including three books, among them, Born To Rule: Reclaiming Your God-Given Birthright To Rule On Earth. He also has applied his expertise to his popular step-themed transformational publications like, 8 Biblical Pillars of Rapid Transformation, 6 Keys of the Kingdom and 6 High-Performance Habits.

    How to Become a High Performer People Want to Follow

    Results from a study conducted by Brendon Burchard, who runs a high-performance research company, found that the six most-important habits of high performers were: clarity, energy, necessity, productivity, influence and courage. The study was tallied as part of an extensive interview process involving leaders from 198-different countries, 90,000 coaching sessions and two million online students.

    Santiago has made it his mission to master these habits and create his own distinct determinations behind combining these science-backed, high-performance habits, in conjunction with biblical principles, to further them, via his ‘Kingdom High Performance’.

    Clarity, according to Santiago, is vital for high performers because it dives into who they are, but also in who they are becoming. He believes that clarity requires one to know what to do now, but reaching the next level of this habit is all about the future.

    “Without clarity on who God wants them to become, there’s only room for confusion and burnout,” stated Santiago. “This is because there’s no meaning attached to their success.”

    Energy, per the study, stated that 5% of people are 40% more likely to exercise at least four times each week. Santiago believes that, if mastered, along with the mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of one’s self, makes for a successful ‘quadfecta’ to one’s being. Santiago found that when the spiritual component is activated, people’s energy levels in the other three areas rise to dynamic levels.

    Necessity is one area in which high performers are far more advanced than the ‘average Joe’. This is because they make projects a must-complete rather than a preference. According to Santiago, necessity is raised when people operate out of their God-given obsessions, rather than their fleeting passion.

    Productivity is key as high performers allocate their time properly. The magic behind their Prolific Quality Output (PQO) is that they can out-produce an average person because they are laser-focused on outputs that matter most in completing projects.

    Influence comes naturally to a high performer as people want to follow them. The innate abilities to teach others, challenge them to grow and serve as a role model play into this habit.

    Courage matters for a high performer and is really the backbone of their habitual skillset. This habit allows them to target their inner conversations, make bold moves and turn impossibilities into possibilities. Others will essentially follow the lead of one with this habit. This habit requires people to lean into faith, because operating out of courage will require a greater trust in God than ever before.

    “The greatest part about the six high-performance habits is that you don’t have to focus on each and every one of them all at once,” said Santiago. “When you focus on one, the other five tend to increase, naturally, as a result. When performed correctly, Christian entrepreneurs and executives can step into higher levels of performance that inspires people to follow them like never before.”

    About Christian Santiago

    Christian Santiago is Greenville’s #1 high performance coach, who founded his company, The Greatness Institute, where he serves as a coaching and culture specialist for Christian entrepreneurs, high-end executives, high net worth investors, and 9-figure companies. Santiago strongly believes in showing people what they’re really capable of doing, as no person or organization is ever stuck or powerless to change the situation they are in. To become the best leader and high performer that is already inside of you, go to www.christianpsantiago.com

    Enopoly CEO Vlad Varizhuk on Creating an Ecommerce Business and Which Platforms and Business Models to Utilize

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    Victor Brink
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    Vlad Varizhuk
    Vlad Varizhuk

    When it comes to creating, establishing and launching an ecommerce business as a means to generate passive income and actually profit from the store, Enopoly is the leading automation choice for most. The company guides clients along what platforms might be best-suited for their goals, as well as what business model, either wholesale or dropshipping, might work best.

    Two of the more popular platforms in which budding ecommerce sellers are utilizing are Amazon and Walmart. Both still utilize two business models in dropshipping and wholesaling. There are certainly benefits as well as negatives to using both. Enopoly CEO Vlad Varizhuk dishes on the ins-and-outs of the two platforms and business model practices.

    “For new ecommerce store owners, dropshipping will probably sound like the better option, but there are both pros and cons to each of the business models,” mused Varizhuk. “Quite frankly, with dropshipping, you can make money and scale faster. At this point, you may be thinking that you do want to do the dropshipping model, but first a quick dive into each model.”

    Wholesale

    There is more upfront risk in utilizing this traditional business model, which requires more skill and can be time-consuming. This method typically requires storeowners to purchase inventory and basically sit on it.

    “With wholesaling, you have to actually buy the products upfront,” Varizhuk stated. “This requires you to do the research on the items you want to sell and then buy the inventory to meet demands, which will typically be in bulk. You then will send your items to either Amazon or Walmart so that they can fulfill your orders.”

    If you are not entirely sure you can move all the products, making up for the costs of products, services, etc., can be an uphill battle. If executed correctly, this model will always be welcomed across the platforms because of its ability to stay within policy guidelines.

    “This method ultimately requires ecommerce store owners to put in 10 times the research as the products are going to be purchased upfront. With wholesale, it can sometimes take 2-3 times more effort to turn a profit and scale, than with dropshipping.”

    Dropshipping

    This business model is actually quite popular on both Amazon and Walmart, but is being phased out for two reasons. First, there is no quality control being practiced. The second, boxes are arriving with competitor logos on them. Many stores are still using these methods, along both platforms, however, they are beginning to go away from this practice.

    “This model requires you to find suppliers and items you want to sell, take your pictures, write descriptions and upload them to your Amazon or Walmart store dashboards,” said Varizhuk. “From there, when a customer makes a purchase, you will get a notification and then you can go and reach out to the supplier who will ultimately ship the item directly to the customer.”

    “Dropshipping requires no inventory purchases upfront and that certainly presents less risk when it comes to your inventory, because you can upload hundreds of products each day and the ones that don’t sell, it doesn’t matter as you didn’t put any money into them already. The ones that do sell, obviously make you money at the end of the day.”

    “Many people are guilty of breaking policies when it comes to how shoppers receive their products. If the items arrive at their home and it isn’t branded with the Amazon or Walmart logos, or just simply in a blank box, it violates both platforms in regards to procedure. When dropshipping, boxes can be branded with individual store and company logos. If you are caught by the platforms, they will suspend your account and hold your funds. Trying to come back from that is usually quite difficult. They can be locked up for sometimes up to many months.”

    Moral of the story, if one wants to continue using the dropshipping business model, they are encouraged to sell on platforms like Facebook or Shopify. Both Amazon and Walmart are regularly attempting to go away from this model. When you wholesale, you are abiding by all the regulations and procedures by the latter two while ultimately playing it safer.

    About Enopoly

    Enopoly was founded by CEO Vlad Varizhuk. The company prides itself on serving as the e-commerce industry automation leader, while doing the ‘heavy lifting’ for its clients. Enopoly grants clients the opportunity to invest in an automated e-commerce business of their own, while its employees have a collective decades of experience and millions in sales. For more information, please visit https://www.enopolyautomation.com/

    Artificial Intelligence Explained Simply And How It Can Help Your Business

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    Monica Abbott
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    Artificial Intelligence Explained Simply And How It Can Help Your Business

    Artificial intelligence is something that has long been disrupting various industries across the world. It’s a hot topic which has been thrown around board rooms and innovation teams across a swathe of different companies, and rightfully so with all the benefits and uses that accompanies it. However, do people really know what they’re talking about? Is artificial intelligence something that can be easily understood, considering the technology behind it and its huge amount of different applications? Well, we are here to put artificial intelligence into simple terms, and explain how this technology can be used to help your business.

    What Is Artificial Intelligence?

    Simply put, artificial intelligence aims to complete tasks that are normally completed by humans, but more efficiently and effectively. At the core of the topic, a computer or an algorithm will always be able to complete something better than a human will, as long as it is told exactly what to do, how you would like it done. The primary purpose of artificial intelligence is to take a complex task and find the most efficient way to complete it. A subcategory of artificial intelligence is machine learning, which is where a program is able to take information and learn from it, without any external assistance. It is obvious to see how artificial intelligence could be used for a number of different purposes within the business world.

    How Can It Be Used?

    Artificial intelligence and an AI consultant can be used for many purposes in the business world. One of these is process automation. Often, there are tasks which need to be completed by workers which are menial, time consuming and can take up precious time and productivity. With artificial intelligence, you are able to automate these processes, so that a program will complete them in an efficient and effective manner every single time. These tasks are usually prone to human error, especially if the tasks are repetitive. With artificial intelligence, you can sure that no errors will occur, and completely eliminate this risk.

    Another way it can be used is to gain insight from data. Data is everywhere, and being able to pull insights from large amounts of data can help you to make important and effective decisions. It can also help you to understand your target demographic, which can positively influence the way you run your business. Artificial intelligence is especially good at using data and turning it into information, and is used for this very purpose in the business world.

    Where Is It Used?

    Artificial intelligence is used in many different industries, including finance, marketing and technology. Finance involves a lot of analysis of data, especially when it comes to trading, the stock market and so on. Artificial intelligence is regularly used to analyse data in real time to help traders make important decisions. In marketing, artificial intelligence is used to help collect consumer data, and can be used to analyse consumer behaviour and demographics. Artificial intelligence is even used in customer support, where it can act as an virtual assistant to help customer enquiries without requiring an actual employee. This can help save on costs, and helps to reduce unnecessary labour and increase productivity where possible.

    Overall, artificial intelligence can be used for many different purposes. It works to take complex tasks and complete them in the most efficient and effective way possible. Many solutions use artificial intelligence, including virtual chat assistants, stock market algorithms and market demographic algorithms. The modern day requires modern solutions, and for your business, artificial intelligence should be considered for any industry.

    ‘Copy Queen’ Tarla Makaeff is Teaching Women How to Go From Female Content Creators to Female Entrepreneurs with New Course: Direct Response Launch

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    Zachary Draeger
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    Copy Queen - Tarla Makaeff
    Tarla Makaeff , aka The Copy Queen

    Direct Response Launch is an advanced online business course for serious women looking to step up their entrepreneurial game. Tarla Makaeff, the Copy Queen, published author, and Founder of multiple business courses, worked at marketing agencies and as a freelancer for over 13 years, writing for some of the biggest brands in the world.

    “I created this course to support women in transforming from ‘female content creators’ to ‘female entrepreneurs,’” Makaeff explained. “These are higher-level thoughts that most women only figure out after years of being online. I cultivated these behind-the-scenes concepts from my combined 17 years as a direct response copywriter and online entrepreneur and tailored them to suit an educational format.”

    Makaeff’s Heart-Centered Mission

    Makaeff has a long resume in the marketing, advertising, and copywriting spheres. Her calling now is to empower other women as she has come a long way and has much to share.

    Her ‘Big Why’ is that life is short. Makaeff had an extensive career, but she worked so hard that she felt depleted. Makaeff didn’t want to spend all her time working. She wanted the time and lifestyle freedom to do something that mattered and made a difference in others’ lives.

    “My mission is to support creative women who want to sell their heart-centered products and services with confidence,” said Makaeff. “The intention behind my courses is to give women the game-changing gift of not only living out their fullest, truest potential but also becoming untouchable to the economic shifts that happen at least four times throughout the life of their careers,” Makaeff continued. “You do that with a product or service that solves a problem for people and the marketing strategy and copy to back it to predictably make income.”

    About The Course

    The Direct Response Launch course supplements Makaeff’s Social Star course with marketing and advertising strategies that go beyond the foundational work she teaches in Social Star. Direct Response Launch is a series of advanced audio trainings that cover modern marketing strategies using direct response, a form of marketing that prompts an instant response by inspiring those prospects to take a specific action.

    “My program is unique because it is based on timeless principles with insider knowledge from my years of personal experience writing for household names,” said Makaeff. “This takes direct mail concepts and applies it to the online world.”

    If you are wondering whether this course is one size fits all, it is an advanced marketing and advertising blueprint that you can tailor to your unique needs.

    Suppose you are used to being mediocre on social media, not bad, but know there’s more available to you. In that case, this course provides you with advanced methods for more substantial influence, impact, and profits — positioning you to become the number one authority in your niche.

    “We will go over developing a manifesting mindset, growing a massive fan base, getting as many customers as you can dream of, and writing words that sell,” Makaeff shared. “Then, we’ll continue with building a profitable business with product and service launches, taking your business to the next level with funnels, and exploding your brand with social media ads.”

    Her experience and knowledge bring clients to Makaeff, but her exuberant passion for her craft keeps them coming back for more.

    About Tarla Makaeff

    Tarla Makaeff, The Copy Queen and Founder of the Iconic Copy Course is bringing her vast experience as a 7-figure copywriter to help others learn how to craft their strategy and messaging for ultimate growth. Leveraging her decade plus of agency and freelance copywriting experience, Makaeff is helping hundreds of creative, heart centered female entrepreneurs start their purpose-filled businesses online and grow their brands with copy that converts. To learn more, visit www.tarlamakaeff.com.

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