If you have found it difficult to get good business training and professional development in bite-size and time-wise pieces? Blue Ribbon Business Bits (BRBB) offers a solid solution. BRBB is a free podcast series that focuses on topics related to horse business and non-profit start-up, management, marketing and leadership.
These audio segments are downloadable so that you can listen to them while you muck stalls, clean tack, or drive to your next client’s barn.
Blue Ribbon Business Bits can be found at http://blueribbonbusinessbits.podbean.com
You’ll find educational topics as well as interviews with experts that share their knowledge on these topics. Listen to Deb Balliet, Executive Director of Equine Land Conservation Resource talk about land issues and their impact on the industry.
Patti Bartsch, Ph.D, of Naturally Unbridled shares how balanced living impacts your horse business. Kelly O’Neill, Green Gate Farm, discusses how she identified retired horse care as a market niche. Nanette Levin, Halcyon Acres and BookConductors, explains the value of diversified revenue streams as part of your horse business.
Other segments include: Business Basics for Equine Non-Profits, Business Planning Tips for Success, Stages of Business Growth, Internal and External Issues Your Horse Business Encounters, Design Insights for Marketing Your Horse Business, Horse Business Newsletters, Website Basics for Your Horse Business, Horse Farm Management Software, Working with Virtual Assistants, and more. New segments are added monthly.
Blue Ribbon Business Bits is provided as a free resource to the horse business and non-profit community by Lisa Derby Oden, Blue Ribbon Consulting. Lisa Oden has been providing business development, marketing, and non-profit consulting services to the horse industry since 1995 and is author of "Growing Your Horse Business" and "Bang for Your Buck: Making $ense of Marketing for Your Horse Business."
She has received awards at the state and national level for her work in the horse industry, and can be reached at lisa@blueribbonconsulting.com, http://www.blueribbonconsulting.com