SpotLight on Success
126 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSpotLight on Success - Hosted by Rob Thrasher - New York Times recognized Digital Media Guru, Founder of SEO Secrets & former commercial real estate agent.
SpotLight on Success is an ongoing documentary in business, entrepreneurship and success in general. Our typical target for our research is self promoters. We sometimes point out to the actual entrepreneur that they are an entrepreneur. Authors frequently are not aware of the fact that they are entrepreneurs. The total number of media consumers for SpotLight on Success is derived mostly from readership. The listeners via Blog Talk Radio over each year accumulate to over 40,000 per show, and the cumulative readership via my vast social network is over three million media consumers. The SpotLight media consumer comes through our iTunes Channel, Blog Talk Radio, CyberVillage Social Network and our 50,000+ social sphere. Lastly, all our social sphere links and pages are search optimized by me, Rob Thrasher, 1 20+ year founding father of the search engine optimization industry as cataloged in the New York Times in 1996.
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Episodes
Funny Business - Bova, Thrasher & Coe
March 31, 2011 23:00 - 53 minutes - 12 MBMike Bova and Phil Coe are business guys who are funnier than hell. We make a great team and you will laugh your ass off. If we're lucky we'll get some business done. Get biz advice and laugh your troubles away in these tough times. Sundays and Thursdays at 7pm. CU there!!
Qenny Quan (lol) - Master Self Defense Expert
March 31, 2011 13:30 - 3 minutes - 549 KBQenny (a.k.a. Kenny) will kick crap out of you and you whore famiry. Learn serf defense and protect you entire famiry.
Bova, Thrasher & Coe - Clever Biz Guys - Funny Sht
March 27, 2011 23:00 - 44 minutes - 9.89 MBMike Bova and Phil Coe are business guys who are funnier than hell. We make a great team and you will laugh your ass off. If we're lucky we'll get some business done. Get biz advice and laugh your troubles away in these tough times. Sundays and Thursdays at 7pm. CU there!!
Upstate NY News: Madison County Job Promotions: 02-19-2011
February 20, 2011 02:00 - 1 minute - 14.8 KBJob promotions from the Madison County Courier. Also find the MCC in the Mohawk Valley CyberVillage and at MadisonCountyCourier.com . . .
Interview Mike Bova, Publisher, Madison County Courier, Entrepreneur
January 14, 2011 00:00 - 14 minutes - 3.11 MBInterview Mike Bova, Publisher, Madison County Courier, Entrepreneur. Announcing some news as well.
Life and Homes Expands Franchise to McKinney Texas
November 29, 2010 20:00 - 31 minutes - 21.1 MBWe will interview David Lisi, Founder LifeandHomes.com about his business model, his plans for the future and for McKinney as well as recent breaking news about their sold franchise count and which other areas are opening and might open by Q1 2011. They are indeed growing and do in fact need employees! GR8 stuff!
Using Googles Algorithm to Predict Election Results
November 02, 2010 01:30 - 30 minutes - 7.89 MBSo I made up a formula to try to see if we could use the Google algorithm to determine outcomes of elections based upon certain search phrases. Using the fact that more people use the search engines to do research I thought we could have some fun.
SpotLight on Success: Mike Bova & Madison County Courier
October 28, 2010 23:00 - 30 minutes - 14.2 MBMike announced the launch of the Oneida County Courier in print form coming Q1 2010. Mike is a second round founder/publisher at Madison County Courier and a VP/Partner at M3P Publications. Mike will discuss his journey and make a big announcement here on BTR: SpotLight on Success before he releases the news to the public and media in Upstate New York. Mike uses New Millennium Marketing Tools to fuel the rapid growth of his business and six newspapers in Upstate New York. Mike is a dynamic a...
SpotLight on Safer Water: Coliform, E-coli & Well Water
June 18, 2010 17:00 - 16 minutes - 1.43 MBIn Safer Homes (Water & Air) we will be talking about water and air issues, contaminants, well water, purification, water softening and more. We will even discuss fun water topics like water parks and other water recreation. You are supposed to test your water for pathogenic bacteria every year as recommended by the EPA. Do you?
SpotLight on Success: Graham Sclater: Tabitha Music
June 18, 2010 16:00 - 11 minutes - 2.44 MBGraham Sclater is the founder of Tabitha Music Limited. He has many books published and we discuss his books and his story. He lived in Germany for five years back in the sixties where he was a professional musician playing the Hammond organ. After returning to England he worked in London as a session musician playing with James Taylor, who had just signed to the Beatles’ Apple Records, as well as working with Elton John and many more. Graham played on dozens of records.
SpotLight on Success: Military Tribute - Steve the Nuclear Guy
April 29, 2010 13:00 - 30 minutes - 8.69 MBStephen Natarelli, a.k.a. Steve the Nuclear Guy is a former Navy Nuke and current civilian nuke turned comedian. Stephen is on the second half of his life where he is “Living his dreams after living his life.” Steve is a product of an Italian American family and twelve years of Catholic education. After nine years in the US Navy Submarine Service, Steve spent more than twenty years as an operator at the R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power plant in Ontario, NY, leaving in April of 2007 to pursue a career...
SpotLight on YOUR Novel: John DeDakis
April 27, 2010 13:00 - 30 minutes - 12.5 MBJohn DeDakis is an editor and writer on CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.” John began his journalism career by getting tear gassed while covering an anti-Vietnam War riot for a campus radio station while still a student at UW-Madison in 1970. During his award-winning, 40-year career in journalism (21 years at CNN), John has been a White House Correspondent, interviewed such luminaries as Alfred Hitchcock, and taught journalism and writing at American University in Washington, D.C. ...
SpotLight on Success: Military Tribute Series: Drew MacEwen
April 15, 2010 16:30 - 30 minutes - 8.41 MBDrew MacEwen, a former Navy “Nuke” is founder of his own financial firm, Falcon Financial Inc., based in Union Washington and also in downtown Seattle. Drew had a very strong business, sales and financial background in his family. He would research for his Dad and call him with research that his Dad would use as intelligence to trade stocks based upon Drew’s data. Drew is from the small town of Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, with a population of about 8,000. Drew, like many successful business...
SpotLight on Laura Allen - 15 Second Pitch
April 01, 2010 23:00 - 30 minutes - 10 MBThe events of September 11th, 2001 led Laura to become an entrepreneur. She, and everybody she knew, was unemployed. She started out just helping friends brainstorm to gain employment. They would meet at a local Starbuck's in New York City and she inspired her friends, and later, friends of friends. They began meeting weekly and Laura was working for free for friends and friends of friends for the first year. She grew more confident and began charging $30 an hour. She continued to expand and ...
Mike Bova
March 18, 2010 23:00 - 30 minutes - 13 MBSecond round founder of Madison County Courier and Publisher for MP3 Publications. Mike uses New Millennium Marketing Tools to fuel the rapid growth of his business and six newspapers in Upstate New York. Mike is a dynamic and funny speaker and you can learn a lot from Mike. BREAKING NEWS! We are breaking the news that the Madison County Courier will be seen in a blockbuster movie which has signed actors Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Ewen McGregor and Channing Tatum, to name a few. It is...
Therese Jensen-Lacey
March 05, 2010 01:00 - 30 minutes - 6.45 MBTherese was recently included in the new Chicken Soup book, "Older & Wiser: Stories of Inspiration, Humor, and Wisdom about Life at a Certain Age" and we're talking about book networking and the Chicken Soup series.
Eric Lorri: Executive Director & Founder Freedom Guide Dogs
March 03, 2010 19:30 - 30 minutes - 9.65 MBEric is the founder of Freedom Guide Dog and his is another business that has managed to survive and even thrive through the recession. The company trains dogs to assist blind and otherwise challenged people so they might live their lives with a much higher quality of life. These dogs are amazing and so is the company. http://www.FreedomGuideDogs.org
SpotLight on Success: Kate Brodock
February 05, 2010 00:00 - 30 minutes - 8.21 MBKate is Founder and Principal of the Other Side Group. Her expertise is in marketing strategy, new media marketing, and brand management. She works with clients to develop solid marketing strategy plans, bridging traditional and new marketing concepts to enhance brand image and take marketing programs to the next level. During her tenure in Product Marketing at Bose Corporation, she was responsible for marketing of the Lifestyle product line, customer satisfaction analysis, and implementatio...
CyberVillage SpotLight: New Millennium Marketing
January 22, 2010 00:00 - 30 minutes - 7.39 MBTonight we will discuss New Millennium Marketing which includes search engine optimization and marketing, pay per click, and building what I call an AlphaMatrix of external referring websites that you have partial or full control of. Also, we explain that without a strong keyphrase strategy, much like without a focused business strategy, you are likely to fail. Reach for the stars but keep your feet firmly attached to the ground. Better said, hope for the best keyphrase, but plan for the wors...
SpotLight on Andy Kurtzig - CEO & Founder JustAnswer.com
January 15, 2010 00:00 - 30 minutes - 7.29 MBSpotLight on Success. Andy has a great entrepreneurial story. He is almost a perfect case study in founding and growing a business. Andy grew up in an entrepreneurial home and explains how his many mentors helped be successful in business. Andy also tells us a pretty cool story about Steve Jobs.
John Brown - Entrepreneurial SpotLight on Real Estate
December 18, 2009 00:00 - 30 minutes - 7.8 MBJohn has one of the best entrepreneurial backgrounds I have ever seen. His family comes from Greece, he is 100% Greek, we'll explain the name thing later, started, grew and sold a restaurant at a significant profit, then got into real estate. He is ranked very high on a list of nationwide agents and his out-of-the box approach includes telling you NOT to sign him as your agent. John would rather see you go to another agent rather than take you as a customer on the wrong terms to avoid having ...
SpotLight on New Millennium Marketing
December 17, 2009 00:30 - 1 hour - 1.05 MBWe have a guest booked to discuss driving traffic using New Millennium Tools like YouTube, Social Networking, etc. Ryan Yezak recently drove a million views using YouTube and we'll find out how. We'll also explore if this can be replicated for business use.
Writing and Getting Published: An Expert Author Panel
November 25, 2009 00:30 - 1 hour - 13.2 MBOur panel of published authors is very diverse. We have a Washington D.C. beltway insider working for CNN, a contributing author for the Chicken Soup for the Soul books from Alabama who is also part Native American, A Ph.D. in English Lit from Canada and a former undercover state investigator and author of books about Chicago and Las Vegas based Mobsters. Lou Allin - Born in Toronto, Canada, raised in Ohio. She has a Ph.D. in English Renaissance literature and teaches at Cambrian College. Sh...
David Lisi: Life and Homes
November 13, 2009 15:00 - 30 minutes - 6.81 MBDavid and Kim Lisi founded CNY Life and Homes in Upstate New York just a few years ago. They're adding regional locations and we wanted to take a closer look at, and chat about, this "New Millennium" biz plan. From what I have seen I believe this new-age business plan, this "new newspaper," will accomplish three things.
T. Jensen Lacey - Author SpotLight
November 11, 2009 15:00 - 30 minutes - 6.84 MBT. Jensen Lacey will be my first guest on CyberVillage SpotLight. TJL has many published books and is one of the co-authors of some of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books.
Introduction to CyberVillage SpotLight
November 06, 2009 19:00 - 15 minutes - 3.36 MBSo, what is this new show about anyway? I will define the CyberVillage SpotLight, our mission and what we hope to accomplish through this radio show. I will also talk briefly about the articles that precede the talk show. I, Rob Thrasher, have been analyzing businesses, leaders and creative careers for over a decade and have planned to bring the content to a radio show for almost that same decade. Here it is. Let's see how it goes!