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Simon Says

by Business RadioX ®

Al Simon of Sandler Training by Simon interviews local business owners and sales professionals about some of the sales challenges they face and things they can do to increase sales for their organizations.

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Episodes

  1. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Chris Lindenau with Fusus

    Chris Lindenau/Fusus Fusus is the most widely used and trusted real-time crime center platform in U.S. Law Enforcement. The Fusus platform is an open ecosystem that integrates and enhances all public safety and investigations assets. It can integrate with any data source, pull in public and…

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  2. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS:  Tim Yoder with Duratec Roofing Solutions and J.C. Laurent with Penon Partners

    Tim Yoder/Duratec Roofing Solutions Duratec Roofing Solutions is a commercial roofing company specializing in the coatings and restoration industry along with single-plys. Located in Monticello, GA they service all of Georgia and surrounding states. Their goal is to provide service and quality…

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  3. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: David Dodd with GeoVax

    David Dodd/GeoVax GeoVax Labs is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel therapies and vaccines for cancers and many of the world’s most threatening infectious diseases. The company’s lead program in oncology is a novel oncolytic solid tumor gene-directed therapy, Gedeptin®,...

  4. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Audrey Bell-Kearney with Noise Media Network

    Audrey Bell-Kearney/Noise Media Network Started in 2019, Noise Media Network is a media and marketing agency focused on helping business owners leverage the power of streaming media to help them create global brand awareness. The company does this by helping companies start their own media…

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  5. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Julbert Abraham with AGM

    Julbert Abraham/AGM AGM is a digital agency specializing on LinkedIn Training and LinkedIn Ads. AGM is based in Kearny, NJ and Atlanta, GA. The founder of the company Julbert Abraham is a Haitian native who has helped over 700 companies globally leverage the power of LinkedIn to grow their...

  6. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: The 3 Habits of High Performers

    On this special episode of “Simon Says, Let’s Talk Business“, host Al Simon and former NFL player Harper Lebel discuss the 3 habits of high performance sales professionals, and the similarities between top salespeople and successful pro athletes. Harper LeBel/Former NFL Player Harper LeBel played...

  7. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: James Gasson with Georgia Roof Advisors

    James Gasson/Georgia Roof Advisors Georgia Roof Advisors is your trusted roofing company and the best local choice for your roof repairs or replacements. Based in Marietta, GA, they have been working on both commercial and residential roofs for over 13 years. They are experienced, licensed, and...

  8. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Shawna Woods with Atlanta Divorce Law Group and Billy Van Eaton with Cumberland Landscape Group

    Shawna Woods/Atlanta Divorce Law Group Family law is about helping individuals and families manage the emotional struggles of facing an uncertain future. It is about their legal team being human and sensitive and empathetic to this big change that is occurring in their clients’ lives. The Atlanta...

  9. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Chris Weissman with TopRight

    Chris Weissman/TopRight TopRight is an Atlanta-based marketing agency focused on deepening the way customers care, listen, engage, buy, and ultimately stay. They accomplish this by crafting stories, told with ruthless consistency, and building strategies that bring them to life

  10. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Ken Fee with Business Technology Architects (BTA)

    Ken Fee/Business Technology Architects (BTA) The mission of Business Technology Architects (BTA) is to meet customers where they are to simplify complex technology deployments that accelerate business objectives and enhance overall security posture. Their areas of specialization are Security...

  11. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: FinListics Solutions, Fulfillment Strategies International (FSI), Effortless Mining, and Vanran Communications

    Melody Astley/FinListics Solutions For nearly two decades, FinListics Solutions has been helping enterprise sales organizations harness and leverage the power of insight-led selling to engage prospects with value-driven narratives that create competitive separation, and build trust and…

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  12. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Billy Gray with Gray Contracting

    Billy Gray/Gray Contracting Gray Contracting is an owner-operated company that has been in business for over two decades. When Billy Gray started the company, he was a one-man team passing out flyers door to door. Since he opened the doors, he has grown Gray Contracting to over 250 full time...

  13. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Travis Giles of McMahan’s Clothing and Marty Gildemeyer of Pro Tech Mechanical & Praxis Group

    Travis Giles/McMahan’s Clothing McMahan’s Clothing is your premier men’s custom clothing destination. They offer custom suits, jackets, shirts, trousers, belts, and more. Their Full Canvas jacket construction and Bespoke process makes McMahan’s the best value in the custom industry. Marty...

  14. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Beth Fleck with Brenau University

    Beth Fleck/Brenau University Brenau University challenges students to live extraordinary lives of personal and professional fulfillment. As students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees or non-degree programs at Brenau campuses and online, each prepares for a lifetime of intellectual...

  15. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Matthew & David Barranco with Barranco Enterprises

    Matthew & David Barranco/Barranco Enterprises The highly skilled staff at Barranco Enterprises is trained to service and install all of your food and beverage equipment, including ice machines (both remote and air-cooled), fountain machines, bubblers, chillers, FCB/FUB, coffee, tea, cappuccino,...

  16. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Heather Fleming, Greg Hayes and Trent Cloer with MST

    Heather Fleming, Greg Hayes & Trent Cloer/MST MSTiller, LLC (“MST”) celebrates its 65th anniversary this year. The firm has four offices with three located in Georgia and one in New York. They have over 130 staff members serving clients in a variety of industries. MST is noted by Accounting Today...

  17. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Richard Kirby with Decision Point Executive Coaching and Christian Brown with Visionary Writing

    Richard Kirby/Decision Point Executive Coaching With 25 years of corporate experience and 19 years of coaching experience, Richard Kirby with Decision Point Executive Coaching provides executive coaching services for small business owners and corporate executives, aimed at improving their incomes...

  18. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Arthur Jenni with Switch Global

    Arthur Jenni/Switch Global Switch Global is a full service AV-IT integration firm with a passion for helping their clients communicate and connect with their audiences more efficiently and effectively.

  19. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Frank Williamson with Oaklyn Consulting

    Frank Williamson/Oaklyn Consulting Oaklyn Consulting is a different kind of investment banking firm for privately-owned companies. They help clients complete mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic transactions; arrange financing; and manage investor relationships. By working as...

  20. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Gene Harrison with Business Wise and Joe Godfrey with Oconee State Bank

    Gene Harrison/Business Wise Business Wise does what no other company does: local research. For over 40 years, Business Wise has researched the markets of Atlanta, Charlotte and Dallas-Fort Worth. Daily updates of the business demographics by local researchers provides subscribers the key decision...

  21. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Sales Prospecting Tips and Advice

    In this special episode of “Simon Says, Let’s Talk Business“, host Al Simon answers listeners’ questions and offers the best tips and advice for successful sales prospecting. Al Simon/Sandler Training by Simon Sandler Training by Simon specializes in training and coaching in the areas of sales,...

  22. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Nick Masino with Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce

    Nick Masino/Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce The mission of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce is to “champion business”. It’s vision is to be the leading advocate and innovative resource for businesses to connect and thrive. Established in 1947 as a rural chamber of commerce serving farmers and banks,...

  23. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: David McMullen with Luckie and Company

    David McMullen/Luckie and Company Luckie and Company is the marketing solutions agency that combines data, technology, strategy and creativity to bring you closer to your customer, spot new opportunities, and achieve results luck can’t explain.

  24. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Tony Rushin with Network 1

    Tony Rushin/Network 1 Network 1 designs, builds and supports the IT you need to run your business more securely, productively and successfully. Whether you want to outsource all of your IT needs to a reliable, responsive, service-oriented company or need to supplement the work of your internal IT...

  25. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Gil Madrid & Jonathan Shaw with Ermi, and Cally D’Angelo with the Gwinnett Chamber

    Gil Madrid & Jonathan Shaw/Ermi LLC Ermi is a medical services and technology company founded by Thomas Branch, MD in Atlanta, GA. For over 25 years, the Ermi Program has rescued over 150,000 patients that have struggled with their recovery and suffered from a severe range of motion issue. Range…

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  26. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Jan Heybroek with MDoutlook

    Jan Heybroek/MDoutlook MDoutlook is the power behind life sciences brands, giving them tools and resources to achieve their full potential. They help brand experts, market research and medical affairs teams make better decisions by providing market insights, clear answers on complex questions and...

  27. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Ethan King with Zeus’ Closet

    Ethan King/Zeus’ Closet From starving artist to owning multiple million-dollar brands, Ethan King believes YOU have the power to transform your life in every area – financially, spiritually, physically, intellectually, in relationships, and in fun/lifestyle. Ethan was once a struggling artist…

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  28. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Tricia Houston of MMR LIVE Experience Design, Josh Sweeney of FounderScale, and Larry Talbert of Talbert Insurance Services

    Tricia Houston/MMR LIVE Experience Design MMR LIVE is an experience design consultancy that puts human emotions at the core of their work. They believe that everything about a brand communicates, and that staying relevant requires consistent adaptation. Their focus is closing experience gaps...

  29. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Kip Rapp of Concora and Saurel Quettan of exeQfit

    Kip Rapp/Concora Concora is a purpose-built Digital Experience Platform that helps manufacturers sell more products by providing a first-class web experience, technical content, and valuable tools for their design community. Saurel Quettan/exeQfit exeQfit exists to transform leaders from managers...

  30. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Dan Wells with Signarama Buford/Duluth and Jeff Lantz & Brian Boston with C. L. Services

    Dan Wells/Signarama Buford & Duluth Signarama Buford and Duluth is a full-service sign shop that can help any business with their visual marketing needs. They do interior and exterior signage, vehicle graphics and wraps, promotional items with your logo of all kinds. If you can put your logo on…

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  31. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Dennis Hoffman with Community Management Associates and Arthur Salus with Duluth Travel

    Dennis Hoffman/Community Management Associates Community Management Associates began in 1989 with 7 Associations and 4 employees. Today we manage over 900 Associations located throughout the southeastern United States (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee). For the past 16…

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  32. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Lauren Gall and Melanie Ammerman of VaVa Virtual Assistants

    Lauren Gall & Melanie Ammerman/VaVa Virtual Assistants VaVa Virtual Assistants provides remote administrative and marketing solutions to growth-oriented business owners. They build long-term relationships with their clients, offering efficient, expert-level assistance at a fraction of the cost of...

  33. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Kara Brown of LeadCoverage

    Kara Brown/LeadCoverage LeadCoverage executes B2B marketing, sales, and PR on behalf of clients in the supply chain, heavy industrial, and technology industries. The LeadCoverage team executes lead generation through targeted marketing and sales strategies and media coverage that drives inbound...

  34. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Elliot Holland of Guardian Due Diligence and Nick Keller of Prinovus International

    Elliot Holland/Guardian Due Diligence Elliot Holland is the founder of Guardian Due Diligence, a boutique firm that leads due diligence processes for family offices, investors and private equity firms. Their focus is finance, accounting, operations, and legal diligence. They’ve helped companies...

  35. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Stephanie Sokenis with SmallBiz Ally, Joe Morrison with Adams Keegan, and Branden Lisi with Object 9

    Stephanie Sokenis/SmallBiz Ally Now more than ever, small businesses face unique challenges. Having been there, SmallBiz Ally brings a unique understanding and empathetic perspective of the day-to-day challenges you face to everything we do with you. From hundreds of small business consultations...

  36. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Juan Pablo of 100 Percent Financed

    Juan Pablo/100 Percent Financed 100 Percent Financed helps real estate investors fund and find a multi-unit property so they can be financially free. They offer real estate education, funding, and credit repair services, so real estate investors can become financially free. Their mission is to…

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  37. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Emma Reynolds-Middleton of Soft Skills Zone and John Lauth of Courier Connection

    Emma Reynolds-Middleton/Soft Skills Zone Soft Skills Zone spends their time investing in people to close the soft skills gap. They have over 20 years of experience teaching courses in professionalism, team work and collaboration, communication, DISC personality profiles, critical thinking,...

  38. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Jon Ostenson of 10XBrands and Sharon Catter of Catter Design Group

    Jon Ostenson/10Xbrands 10Xbrands provides investors with unique franchise investment opportunities through two avenues: Equity funds that allow for passive investments across franchise businesses run by 10Xbrands. Direct purchase of franchises from across 400 vetted brands, representing the those...

  39. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: John Loud of Loud Security Systems

    John Loud/Loud Security Systems Founded in 1995, LOUD Security Systems is one of Atlanta’s leading security companies, providing sales, installation, service and monitoring of residential and commercial security systems — such as intrusion and fire alarm, access control, video surveillance, and...

  40. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Kelli Clay of Kelli Clay, Inc., Will Nobles of Vector Choice Technology Solutions, and Javier McIntosh of McIntosh Bros Productions

    Kelli Clay of Kelli Clay, Inc. Kelli Clay, Inc. helps businesses and individuals increase productivity to achieve goals, become engaging presenters, and improve employee retention. Kelli’s signature program “Train Your Brain to Stress Less and Thrive” teaches people mind management to overcome…

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  41. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: David Aferiat of Avid Vines, Mac Cregger of Angel Oak Home Loans, and Glade Johnson of Advantage Protective Services

    David Aferiat/Avid Vines Avid Vines puts French & European clean, sustainably crafted wine within walking distance of desire. AVID Vines was started to solve the problems experienced the next day after celebrating – which is why their selections are characterized by lower alcohol, fewer sulfites,...

  42. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Brett Deloach of Sonesta Gwinnett Place, Natalie Cheney of MemberSuite, and Faith Broderick of Eastern Data, Inc.

    Brett Deloach/Sonesta Gwinnett Place Located in Duluth, GA, in the greater Atlanta community, Sonesta Gwinnett Place Atlanta is in the heart of Gwinnett County. The recently updated 17-story hotel is the largest in the county and is top-ranked on TripAdvisor. Sonesta Gwinnett Place Atlanta…

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  43. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Scott Francis with Trust Stamp

    Scott Francis/Trust Stamp Trust Stamp captures any biometric or other identifying data from any source and irreversibly transforms it into a non-PII hash. Although the hash is anonymized and tokenized data, their AI creates a probabilistic match on a one-to-one or a one-to-many basis and each…

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  44. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Skot Waldron with Skotwaldron.com, Allen Read with M3, and Steve Phillips with Northwest Exterminating

    Skot Waldron/Skotwaldron.com For the past 18 years, Skot Waldron’s work for clients such as J.P. Morgan Chase, CDC, Georgia Tech, Royal Caribbean, Sesame Workshop, Chiquita, and The Coca-Cola Company has included national and international branding campaigns as well as positioning, naming,...

  45. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Armand Hammer with Candy Mountain Sweets & Treats and Chris Maier with Green Circle Demolition

    Armand Hammer/Candy Mountain Sweets & Treats Candy Mountain Sweets & Treats has been making kid’s candy for over 25 years utilizing the Too Tarts brand name. The appeal of healthy candy for kids became apparent to Armand Hammer, the president and CEO of the company. The sugar was removed from all...

  46. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Alexandra Radford with The Edge Agency and Joyce Bone with Anxiety-Free Selling

    Alexandra Radford/The Edge Agency The Edge Agency brings peace to like-minded business professionals through a marketing partnership, creating and overseeing your brand, design and marketing strategy. Alexandra Radford creates marketing plans and implements business strategies that bring…

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  47. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Mark Galvin with ePresence, Tim Fulton with Small Business Matters, and Caleb Stevens with Corners Outreach

    Mark Galvin/ePresence ePresence launches and manages your personal social media. ePresence, is a professional social media management firm for individuals. Mark and his team take care of YOUR online personality, so you do not have to. There are many people who do not have the time, know how, or...

  48. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Lorraine Edwards with Lorraine Communications, Inc.

    Lorraine Edwards/Lorraine Communications Lorraine Communications is a strategic communications company. They apply integrative and often non-traditional approaches to solve client communications and marketing issues with work based on extensive research and detailed measurement of results. They...

  49. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Rich Bartolotta with Schooley Mitchell Atlanta and Jeff Waller with 7 Mindsets

    Rich Bartolotta/Schooley Mitchell Atlanta Businesses are bombarded with offers on the latest technology, service or application every day. That’s why Rich Bartolotta of Schooley Mitchell helps his clients make sense of their merchant services, telecom, and small-package shipping expenses…

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  50. SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Wes Littlejohn with Marathon Financial Strategies and Derek Harp with The CyberList

    Wes Littlejohn/Marathon Financial Strategies Wes has been in the financial services industry since 1996. He began his career providing audit and tax services, including jobs at Ernst and Young and The Coca-Cola Company. For over 14 years he has focused on providing financial planning services to...

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Al Simon of Sandler Training by Simon interviews local business owners and sales professionals about some of the sales challenges they face and things they can do to increase sales for their organizations.

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