Video Stars Wanted for Small Business Webinars

Calling All Trainers and Subject Matter Experts

Bizperity is producing small business webinars and providing COMPLIMENTARY professional video production for a webinar library for pilot program for a local chamber of commerce and later distribute to regional non-profit business organizations.

They are looking for experienced professional speakers and trainers with credentials to deliver original training content that is useful to business owners of start-ups to medium-sized businesses.

Would you like to be considered?

Bruce May, the president of Bizperity, would like speakers to email him their resume and professional training experience along with three business topics they would like to deliver.  May will also be pre-screening, approving, and consulting speakers.

Contact him right away at:

bruce@bizperity.com

www.bizperity.com

 

 

About Bizperity

 

President Bruce May has more than 30 years of business experience, as a consultant, a business executive, and entrepreneur. His career includes over 20 years of experience in both traditional and interactive media. His broad background includes expertise in many disciplines that impact business management including business development, marketing and sales, training and development, partnership development, and systems management. He is a recognized expert in business systems, performance excellence, marketing & sales, social marketing, and digital media solutions.

From 2003 to 2008, Bruce worked with a pioneering online broadcast platform creating customized solutions for multiple markets including television, radio, film distribution, corporate communications, distance learning, and emergency communications. Bruce worked with many clients and partners that included a custom distribution system for EROS, the largest "Bollywood" film company; live broadcasting for the Indy Racing League delivering the Indy 500 to over 88 countries; live broadcasting of Aviation Nation, the largest Air Show in the world (produced in association with the U.S. Air Force); a customized player design for Autism Speaks; integrated video services for satellite based emergency communication systems; and online broadcasting services for the Missouri School Board Association among many others.

In 2012, Bruce founded Bizperity which has quickly evolved into a media and marketing company providing content production services with a special focus on online media services and solutions. In 2013 he transitioned Bizperity by building the management team featured below in order to form a comprehensive service company blending the wide range of expertise needed to fulfill the vision for Bizperity as both an online media service provider and content production company with blended expertise in video and interactive production.

Bruce has written many books on business practices including Marketing Fundamentals (2008), The Eighth Criteria: Market Focus (2010), The Content Graph (2012), covering social marketing theory and strategies, Building a Performance Improvement System (2008) (co-authored with Richard Laramy, a Baldrige examiner and advisory board member to the University of Texas Center for Performance Excellence). His two most recent books are The Bizperity Business System Guidebook, an easy to follow guide for building a business system and The Bizperity Marketing and Sales Guide, a comprehensive guide for building an integrated marketing system.

Bruce has spoken at many industry events, both as a panelist and as a presenter and continues to write, currently working on his next book.
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Workplace Violence: Surviving a Gunman in Office on ABC's 20 / 20

This past Friday, 20/20's "When Life Changes in an Instant" shared an office exit plan and drill when confronted by a gunman.   John Bruner, a 20-year law-enforcement veteran who is the former Chief County Detective with the Greene County (Pa.) District Attorney's Office, shares how to survive an aggressor in an office setting and how muscle memory can enable you to react to save your life.

Office Video:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/run-hide-fight-11-tips-survive-shooting/story?id=18990573

Full Show:  (Learn how to protect yourself and your family in many dangerous situations)
http://abc.go.com/watch/2020/SH559026/VDKA0_l1ueyrqo/2020-426-life-changes-in-an-instant

Prepare

In emergencies, Bruner said, "neurologically we go through a fight or flight process. Our frontal cortex, which is our deliberate thought that we experience every day, that shuts down."
That often causes tunnel vision and auditory exclusion -- impaired hearing due to the fight-or-flight state.
"But what kicks in is your ventral striatum," Bruner went on. "That's where your muscle memory is stored. So if you train for these situations, and you train properly, you will strengthen that muscle memory."
Bruner advocates widespread frequent drills akin to the frequent fire drills in the 1970s and bomb shelter drills in the 1950s.
"We have to practice this every eight months or so, especially with businesses with high turnover," Bruner said. "You've got to get a plan together."

 

Run -- and Take Others With You

Some people's first instinct may be to freeze and hide, but if possible, you should fight it and get yourself and others out, Bruner said.
"If you know the shooter is pretty far away," Bruner said, "encourage people, Hey, join us, we have a shooter down the hall. Let's exit over here."
If there's an elderly person who may be disoriented, grab him or her if he or she is within arm's length, Bruner added.

Leave the Cellphone

"You want to go," Bruner said. "The last thing you want to worry about is your cellphone. You want to leave that building."

Can't Run? Hide

"If you can't exit, and you know your threat is in between you and the exit, then you're going to have to hide," Bruner said.
Then do all you can to prevent the shooter from entering the room and causing injury, Bruner said. Lock the door and use a doorstop if there is one. Put a chair, a sofa, and even a desk in front of the door. Turn the lights off.
The more weight and objects, the greater the distraction to the shooter trying to get in. This not only makes it harder for him to shoot at you, Bruner said, it lets time be your ally.
"Two or three minutes in an active shooter [situation] is a lot of time," Bruner said. "[It] allows our police to come in and do their job."

Silence Your Cellphone

"When you get everything set up, you're going to ... silence your cellphone," Bruner said. Use a landline and call 9-1-1 and, whispering, let them know what floor you're on and what you're seeing and hearing, Bruner said.

Why the Landline?

"If you're calling from a landline, and something happens and you drop the phone, [the address] is going to pop up in your dispatch center," Bruner said. "If you call on your cellphone, that information isn't going to pop up on their computer screens. So that may buy an extra 15 seconds if they can say, Hey, we have an unknown problem at whatever this address is."

Fight

If it comes to that, "you have to fight for your life," Bruner said. "You have to develop a survival warrior mindset ... and you're going to utilize everything you can as a weapon."
Scissors, hot coffee, the coffee carafe, other glass objects from an office pantry, for example. Fire extinguishers, either engaged or as a weapon to inflict blunt force trauma, are good.
"Maybe you keep a pen on you. You back it with your thumb so you can really make it an effective tool to help save your life," Bruner said.

"Most people who are shot by a gun survive. So understand that and cling to that. Just keep fighting. ... You want to buy time. You want to distract this person, because it's going to take police three or four minutes to get [there]."

Aim High

"You go for any piece of body you can," Bruner said. "The most important and most dangerous part of that man is his hands and the gun."
If you can't do that, aim for the eyes, face, shoulder and neck, Bruner said.

Fight as a Group

"You want to distract him. If there's other people [around] that can assist you, that's where this mob mentality has to come in."

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Whatever You Do, Do Something

"The first five seconds of an active shooter incident [are] paramount," Bruner said. Don't freeze in disbelief. "React immediately."
"The game has changed," Bruner said. "This country is experiencing a lot of traumatic incidents, as we well know, so you have to be prepared."

Reach 4,200+ HR Professionals When You Sponsor Texas HR Pros' Networking Events

LinkedIn Group Texas HR Pros

 

• Announcement from Founder
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• The Benefits of Sponsoring Networking Mixers

Our group should come close to reaching 5,000 members by year’s end and our mixers have seen more and more people attend each time. 

 

If you want to capitalize on that growth and start putting your name out there in front of the growing number of HR professionals in our group, reach out to Eric at texasatty@gmail.com about securing one or more of the mixers in Houston, Dallas, and/or Austin.

 

Here are the four remaining Houston mixers scheduled for 2013:

• Thursday, May 30

• Thursday, July 25

• Thursday, September 26

• Thursday, November 21

 

(Dates for Dallas and Austin mixers TBA) 

 

Our sponsors will receive--

1. Posting mentions on our LinkedIn Groups which are cross posted on other LinkedIn Groups,
2. An advertisement on the home page of our blog,
3. Thank you mentions on Twitter and Facebook,
4. A blog posting feature about your products and services, and 
5. A monthly feature and annual thank you with your company hyperlinked on the Sponsor page of our blog. 

Being featured on our LinkedIn Group reaches a target audience of 4,200 HR and recruitment professionals across Texas.  Our social media mentions on our blog, Twitter, and Facebook also increase your company's website's SEO.  If you have any ideas, promo requests, or questions, please contact me...we can get creative.

 

I would also like to take the time to thank the following sponsors again:

2013 Sponsors and Partners

• Southern Charm Photography
• Personalysis
• Burnett Staffing
• Reddy & Neumann, P.C. 
• Career Connections at Second Baptist Church
• Search4U, Inc.
• Fort Worth Career Search Network
• Several Job Ministries  

 

Thank you in advance for your support and for providing networking opportunities for HR and Recruitment to connect and form professional and community-centric relationships.

Please contact:

Eric Griesel

Founder of Texas HR Pros

texasatty@gmail.com

713.459.1045

 

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