"Do as I say...not as I did" with Carol Frank

When you pursue your dreams with passion, integrity, hard work - and a sprinkle of divine intervention - anything is possible. Carole knows. A relentless campaign by a much-larger competitor to put her out of business brought her days away from bankruptcy. How did she overcome this huge setback and bring her company back to a highly profitable status? More importantly, how could she have avoided getting into that situation in the first place?

Bookstop and Hoovers.com; and Joe Croce, founder of CiCi's Pizza; overcome their business mistakes? This keynote teaches universal principles for avoiding and overcoming even the worst adversities.

Mistakes are the first steps toward wisdom. Most business speakers deal with the virtues and successes of various techniques and strategies. Carol provides a lively story-driven format for the delivery of education about critical business failures and pitfalls.

There are many sources for inspirational stories about successful ventures, but here the listener will hear stories of brave entrepreneurs baring their souls about how they got hit and lived to tell the tale. The sometimes gruesome, often incredible details will have audience members shaking their heads in disbelief, and in thanks that it wasn't them!

Attendees will learn:

• Three core values shared by entrepreneurs and business people universally
• How your passion and value system will help keep you focused, reduce stress and overcome adversities in your business ventures
• Universal truths about business, illustrated through real-life stories
• How to stay on the profitability path
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Carol also shares the stories behind these truths:

• Success can be an entrepreneur's biggest enemy.
• What to do when good partners go bad.
• Verbal contracts are not worth the paper on which they're printed.
• Intellectual property protection may be your only barrier between POVERTY and PROSPERITY.
• Delegation without accountability is a reciper for disaster
  About Carol Frank, MBA