Friday, September 21, 2012

Where Did Steve Jobs Steal iPhones Design From – Lessons For Business Coaching Firms?

Apple has already sold over two million iPhone 5. Pretty much everyone who needs a mobile phone already has one. Some people even have two or three mobile phones. So why is Apple still succeeding in selling every new edition of it iPhones?

Manchester (Sharewellnewswire.com) September 20 , 2012 -  Apple has already sold over two million iPhone 5. Pretty much everyone who needs a mobile phone already has one. Some people even have two or three mobile phones. 
So why is Apple still succeeding in selling every new edition of it iPhones? 
Answer: Apple understands the concept of ‘Next Generation Demand’ than any other company on planet earth. 
Do you want to learn how to infuse the concept of ‘Next Generation Demand’ into the blood stream of your business coaching firm?
 
Download your FREE copy of: How to Market and Manage a Business Coaching Firm on Monday 24/09/12 by clicking the below link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0090OOH74
 
  • Facts: nine out of ten business coaching Firm are struggling to survive
  • Facts: nine out of ten business coaching Firms do not have a good marketing system 
  • Facts: nine out of ten business coaching Firms do not have a vision of their finished business 
  • Facts: nine out of ten business coaching Firms do not have a good operational system
  • Facts: nine out of ten business coaching Firms do not have a good business model 

  • Do you struggle to attract new clients to your business coaching firm? 
  • Do you struggle to retain existing clients? 
  • Do you struggle with seasonal work overload? 
  • Do you have a secession plan? 
  • How do you measure staff productivity? 
  • How do you measure your marketing ROI? 
  • Do you know the bottleneck preventing the growth of your business coaching firm?  
A new book has been published entitled: How to Market and Manage a Business Coaching Firm. The book published by The Business Education Center contains the latest business coaching firm marketing and management strategies. 
 
Retail price $102 but download it for FREE from the 24th to the 28th of September by clicking the below link:http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0090OOH74
 
Every successful business, whether it is the HSBC Bank in the City of London or a cleaning business in a New Delhi ghetto has five things in common:
 
Visionary leadership
Great people
Good marketing system
Good system 
Good business model
 
Visionary Leadership
Ray Kroc is known to most people as the founder of McDonalds but as business students know, the McDonalds brothers founded McDonalds. However, the McDonalds brothers knew how to make hamburger. When Kroc came into the business, he saw a vision that was beyond hamburger preparation, he saw an effective business system that could be replicated. 
Like the McDonald brothers, most businesses coaches are experts in their areas of expertise. However, they lack the vision to see the finished business. Every successful business has within its walls a visionary leader who is capable of envisioning the final product even in its formative stages.
 
Steve Jobs envisioned changing that world – indeed Apple has changed the world. 
Bill Gates envisioned a computer on every desk, which has come to fruition.
Henry Ford envisioned building car for the masses, today car is a necessity not a luxury.
 
But something like vision is intangible. You have to feel it and see it in your mind’s eyes. So how do you create a vision for your business coaching firm? Where do you start the envisioning process? The answer is in: How to Effectively Market and Manage a Business Coaching Firm.  
 
In: How to Effectively Market and Manage a Business Coaching Firm, you will learn:
 
Questions to ask and answer in the vision creation process
How to communication your vision to others to solicit buy-in 
 
Retail price $102 but download it for FREE from the 24th to the 28th of September by clicking the below link:http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0090OOH74
 
Great People
Bill Gates once said “Take our best 20 people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft would become an unimportant company.” Microsoft has almost half a million staff yet Mr. Gates concedes that taking away just 20 will render Microsoft irrelevant. 
 
Those 20 people that Bill Gates spoke about are what Seth Godin called Linchpins: the indispensables. Or those Brad Smart described as ‘A talents’. 
 
Who are ‘A talents’?  They are the people with the ability to change the fortune of any organisations. We see them in sport teams. They are the glue that holds the teams together. They are those with the ability to change a game with a single move. 
 
‘A talents’ are difficult to find. All of them are already employed, so how can a business coaching firm seeking to add ‘A talents’ to its ranks find them? The answer to this question is in the book: How to Effectively Market and Manage a Business Coaching Firm. 
 
David Parker the co-founder of HP stated that “No company can grow revenues consistently faster than its ability to get enough of the right people to implement that growth and still become a great company. If your growth rate in revenues consistently outpaces your growth rate in people, you simply will not-indeed - build a great company”.
 
“The ability to make good decisions regarding people represents one of the last reliable sources of competitive advantage, since very few organizations are good at it” Peter Drukker the management guru. 
 
Do you want to learn how to attract Linchpins to your business coaching firm? Then you will need to read: How to Effectively Market and Manage a Business Coaching Firm.
 
In: How to Effectively Market and Manage a Business Coaching Firm, you will learn:
How to recruit ‘A talents’
Where to find ‘A talents’
How to create conducive working environment to attract ‘A talents’
How to create metrics for performance measurement  
 
Good Marketing System
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted: the trouble is, I don’t know which half.” 
 
The above quotation is attributed to John Wanamaker the merchant king sometimes between 1838 – 1922. It is more than a hundred years since he uttered those words, yet they are still being used by advertising and marketing agencies as an excuse for not being able to demonstrate the return on investment of their services. 
 
In 1923 Claude Hopkins wrote in ‘Scientific Advertising’: “The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science. The causes and effects have been analyzed until they are well understood. The correct method of procedure have been proved and established. We know what is most effective, and we act on basic law. Advertising, once a gamble, has thus become, under able direction, one of the safest business ventures”.
 
Pause for a moment and reflect on the fact that those words were written in 1923 when the parent of the Google two were not even born. Thanks to Google we now have the ability to measure our advertising within hours, yet advertising and marketing agencies still cite a quotation of the 1800 as an excuse for not being able to provide an accurate return on investment to their clients. 
 
Do you know why?
 
Answer most professional entrepreneurs such as business coaches do not know a thing about marketing. You have to inspect what you expect. However, you cannot inspect something if you do not know what result to expect. 
 
Marketing fundamentals have not changed since the dawn of time because human behaviour has not changed. You cannot run a successful business coaching firm if you do not understand marketing fundamentals. 
 
This is not to say you have to do the marketing yourself, but you need to understand marketing fundamentals so that you know what result to expect either from your in-house sales team or marketing agency. You will learn those marketing fundaments in: How to Effectively Market and Manage a Business Coaching Firm.
 
In: How to Effectively Market and Manage a Business Coaching Firm, you will learn: 
How to position your business coaching firm
How to create new market for your Business coaching firm
How to spy on your competitors
How to effectively use social media
How to know what constitutes value to your clients
How to conduct value pricing of your coaching services
 
Retail price $102 but download it for FREE from the 24th to the 28th of September by clicking the below link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0090OOH74
 
Good System
“I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to proportions something like this: 94% belong to the system (responsibility of management); 6% special” Edward Deming
“We believe that there was one major quality breakthrough in the 1980s… It was not statistical process control, employee involvement, just-in-time, or total quality… It was the realisation by management that the business and manufacturing processes, not the people, is the key to error-free performance”. H. James Harrington. 
 
The above quotations endeavour to highlight the importance of system in any business. At the commencement of any business venture, the entrepreneur is the system. The entire business operation rests on his shoulder. 
 
However, as the business grows, most entrepreneurs fail to grow along with their businesses. They remain the person who responds to the 911 call. The moment they are out of the office, the entire operation grinds to a halt. 
 
No business that depends on a single individual or a handful of people will ever grow. For a business to grow, it requires systems that are divorce from the founder or a handful of senior managers. 
 
How is such as system created? 
 
The answer is in: How to Effectively Market and Manage a Business Coaching Firm.
 
In: How to effectively Market and Manage a Business Coaching Firm, you will learn:
How to create an effective coaching business system
What systems are best suited for business coaching firms
When to begin the process of system creation 
 
Retail price $102 but download it for FREE from the 24th to the 28th of September by clicking the below link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0090OOH74
 
Good business model
Before Google, there were other search engines. Before Facebook, there were other social media sites. So what did Google and Facebook get right that the rest of the search engines and social media sites got wrong? 
 
Google and Facebook had better business models. 
 
In Value Migration, Adrian Slywotzky stated that “A business (model) design is the totality of how a company selects its customers, defines and differentiates its offerings (or responses), defines the tasks it will perform itself and those it will outsource, configures its resources, goes to market, creates utility for customers and captures profits. It is the entire system for delivering utility to customers and earning a profit from that activity”.
 
In: The role of the business model in capturing value from innovation, Chesbrough and Rosenbloom stated that there are six specific functions of a business model:
 
Articulate the value proposition – the value created to users by using the product.
 
Identify the market segment – to whom and for what purpose is the product useful; specify how revenue is generated by the firm.
 
Define the value chain – the sequence of activities and information required to allow a company to design, produce, market, deliver and support its product or service.
  • Estimate the cost structure and profit potential – using the value chain and value proposition identified.
  • Describe the position of the firm with the value network – link suppliers, customers and competitors.
  • Formulate the competitive strategy – how will you gain and hold your competitive advantage over competitors or potential new entrants.
  • The key to the success of any business is the type of business model adopted from the formative stages of the business. Business coaching firms that fail to grow are struggling because they did not create a good business model in their formative stages. 
What is the best way of developing a good coaching business model? The answer is in: How to Effectively market and Manage a Business Coaching Firm. 
 
In: How to Effectively market and Manage a Business Coaching Firm you will learn:
The functions of business model in your business coaching firm
The best business model for a business coaching firm  
How to create a coaching firm business model 
 
Retail price $102 but download it for FREE from the 24th to the 28th of September by clicking the below link:http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0090OOH74
 
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If you are a partner in a business coaching firm or you own a business coaching firm and you want to learn how move your business coaching firm from perpetual start-up to a 7 Figure per annum business, click on the link below to order your FREE copy now: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0090OOH74
 
You can download the entire summary of the book for free by clicking on the below link:http://www.theprofitexperts.co.uk/Market_Manage_Coaching.pdf
 
The Business Education Center is the business intelligence hub for professional businesses. The Business Education Center provides business development information to businesses such as private medical practices, dental practices, accounting firms, law firms, consulting firms, business coaching firms, private security firms, corporate training firms and retail organisations. 
 
The Business Education Center produce educational materials such as books, audio books, DVDs, home study course and workshops and seminars. For more information about The Business Education Center, please visit: www.theprofitexperts.co.uk 
 
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Contact Info:
Romeo Richards 
0161 945 1754
romeo@theprofitexperts.co.uk
http://www.theprofitexperts.co.uk 


Amazon Reviews For Pushing Upward, By Andrea Adler

 A Fresh & Healthy Read
“I’ve never read a book before that blended humor and drama and empowerment AND a very fresh use of the Eastern philosophies. The protagonist is a young, attractive dying-to-be-actress American girl. On the book’s one-year journey, in 1974 L.A., she finds the help she needs in an aged woman with a great and young spirit and in the even more ancient Oracle of I-Ching. Both helpers are blended into this dramatic, and sometimes comedic, time of her life. And she needs help, because of some dark struggles in her past that challenge her and because she is estranged from a family that doesn’t accept her. We are drawn in and pulling for her. It’s a brave book.

And a healthy brew for the young and not young.” Read’ em Cowboy

 Definitely A Good Read
“Sandra Billings is really all of us–at one time or another in our lives: searching for meaning, for the next step, for the right person and the right part to play. And like all of us, she’s got demons to work through and angels, in strange and surprising shapes, to guide her. It’s a thoroughly enjoyable journey, filled with surprises and the ineffable wisdom of the I Ching. I highly recommend it.” Barbara Marks .


Northwest Bio Proceeding With A Phase I/Ii Clinical Trial Of Dcvax®-Direct For All Solid Tumor Cancers

New Treatment for Tumors That Are Considered Inoperable

BETHESDA, MD (Sharewellnewswire.com) September 20, 2012 - Northwest Biotherapeutics (OTC.BB: NWBO) (NW Bio), a biotechnology company developing DCVax® personalized immune therapies for cancer, announced today that it is in late stage discussions with medical centers in the U.S. and Europe to proceed with a Phase I/II clinical trial with the Company’s third major product line, DCVax®-Direct, for all types of solid tumor cancers (i.e., cancers in any tissues). The Company previously received FDA approval of the clinical trial. 

DCVax®-Direct offers a potential new treatment option for the wide range of clinical situations in which patients’ tumors are considered “inoperable” because the patient has multiple tumors, or their tumor cannot be completely removed, or the surgery would cause undue damage to the patient and impair their quality of life. A large number of patients with a variety of cancer types (including lung, colon, pancreatic, liver, ovarian, head and neck, and others) are faced with this situation, because their tumors are already locally advanced or have begun to metastasize by the time symptoms develop and the patients seek treatment. For these patients, the outlook today is bleak and survival remains quite limited.

DCVax®-Direct is administered by direct injection into a patient’s tumors. It can be injected into any number of tumors, enabling patients with locally advanced disease or with metastases to be treated. DCVax®-Direct can also be injected into tumors in virtually any location in the body: not only tissues at or near the surface of the body but also, with ultra-sound guidance, into interior tissues.

The Phase I/II trial with DCVax®-Direct will treat 36 patients in two parts. In Part 1, 24 patients with any type of solid tumor cancer will be treated in groups with escalating dose levels. Then, in Part 2, an additional 12 patients with any selected cancer will be treated with the optimal dose.

When DCVax®-Direct was administered in pre-clinical animal studies, existing tumors regressed. Importantly, the tumors that regressed included not only tumors that were injected with DCVax®- Direct but also tumors on the opposite side of the animal’s body which were not injected, indicating a systemic immune response. Further, when the animals were subsequently challenged (i.e., injected) with cancer cells, the animals did not re-develop cancer, indicating immune memory. Notably, the Company’s proprietary activation step for the dendritic cells appeared to be essential for these results.

“This broad Phase I/II trial, allowing DCVax®-Direct to be used for all solid tumor cancers, is a very significant development for us and will enable us to make faster and more efficient clinical progress for multiple cancers than would usually be the case” commented Linda Powers, CEO of NW Bio. “Based upon the pre-clinical studies showing regression of existing tumors, DCVax®-Direct may offer a much needed new treatment option for patients suffering with inoperable tumors today.”

DCVax®-Direct is based upon the same platform technology as the Company’s first two major product lines (DCVax®-L and DCVax®-Prostate). This technology utilizes the patient’s own dendritic cells – the master cells of the immune system. Each product line involves two key ingredients: the dendritic cells (which are activated to mobilize the immune system to attack the patient’s cancer), and biomarkers of the patient’s tumor (which identify the targets for the immune system to attack).

For DCVax®-Direct, the dendritic cells are activated in a special proprietary manner, to enable them to be directly injected into the patient’s tumors, and to pick up the biomarkers of the tumors onsite in the tumor. The “educated” dendritic cells then proceed to mobilize the immune system to attack any tumors bearing those biomarkers.
DCVax®-Direct is the Company’s third major product line. The Company’s first product line, DCVax®-L, is potentially applicable for all solid tumor cancers in which the tumors can be surgically removed. DCVax®-L is currently in a 300-patient randomized Phase III clinical trial for Glioblastoma multiforme brain cancer.

The Company’s second product line, DCVax-Prostate, is for hormone independent prostate cancer, and has previously been cleared by the FDA for a 612-patient randomized Phase III clinical trial. The Company plans to enter into a partnership in order to proceed with this Phase III trial program.

For further information about the Company and its programs, please visit the Company’s website atwww.nwbio.com.

About Northwest Biotherapeutics
Northwest Biotherapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on developing immunotherapy products to treat cancers more effectively than current treatments, without toxicities of the kind associated with chemotherapies, and on a cost-effective basis, in both the United States and Europe. The Company has a broad platform technology for DCVax® dendritic cell-based vaccines. The Company’s lead program is a 300-patient Phase III trial in newly diagnosed Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). GBM is the most aggressive and lethal brain cancer. The Company also previously received clearance from the FDA for a 612-patient Phase III trial in prostate cancer, and clearance from the FDA for Phase I/II trials in multiple other cancers. The Company has also conducted a Phase I/II trial with DCVax® for metastatic ovarian cancer.

Disclaimer
Statements made in this news release that are not historical facts, including statements concerning future treatment of patients with GBM using DCVax® and future clinical trials, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as “expect,” “believe,” “intend,” "plan," "continue," "may," "will," "anticipate," and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statement. Specifically, there are a number of important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated, such as the Company’s ability to raise additional capital, risks related to the Company’s ability to enroll patients in its clinical trials and complete the trials on a timely basis, the uncertainty of the clinical trials process, uncertainties about the timely performance of third parties, and whether the Company’s products will demonstrate safety and efficacy. Additional information on these and other factors, including Risk Factors, which could affect the Company’s results, is included in its Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filings. Finally, there may be other factors not mentioned above or included in the Company’s SEC filings that may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statement. You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or developments, except as required by securities laws.

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Contact Info:
Les Goldman 
202-841-7909
lgoldman@nwbio.com
Beverly Jedynak - 312-943-1123
http://www.nwbio.com
Northwest Biotherapeutics 


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