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Accelerated Learning and Marketing Articles and Tips
for Trainers, Meeting Planners, Professional Speakers, Facilitators, & Event Planners

Marketing for Trainers, Speakers and Consultants Series

There are many steps to start and grow your own training and development business. These articles, part of our Marketing Series for Trainers Speakers and Consultants series. They will give you some ideas to start and market your training, speaking and consulting business. I realize that some of what you are about to read, goes against conventional wisdom. My goal here is to share some of the lessons I've learned through trial and error in the school of hard knocks. I hope that this saves you some time and money. These are some of the things that I wish I had known when I lanched The Training Oasis 10 years ago. I hope that it will prevent you from going down some blind alleys and help you generate the results you desire.



Starting a Training and Development Business.....
Launching a Career as a Consultant

Lessons from the School of Hard Knocks

by Anne Thornley-Brown
President, The Training Oasis, Inc.

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In this turbulent economy, with huge fluctuations in the economy, it can be particularly challenging to launch a training, consulting or speaking business. In short, it's not for the faint of heart. In this issue of Spice of the Month Accelerated Learning Ezine, I tell the story of how I launched The Training Oasis over 10 years gao and the valuable lessons that I learned in marketing and growing the business. Based on this experience, I will share some of the lessons I learned along the way. I hope that you find them useful as you launch your own training and development business.



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The Training Oasis, Inc. is a Toronto based consulting firm specializing in team building and accelerated learning for rapidly changing organizations in Canada (Toronto, Ontario), Jamaica, Dubai, and Asia (Malaysia, Singapore, India, Thailand). When the pace of change accelerates organizations need strong and effective teams that are all pulling in the same direction and it's time for accelerated learning. Our team building simulations range from You're the Boss, our Apprentice teambuilding session and 3 Survivor team building simulations to Inc. Inc.: Breaking Down Silos and Over the Rainbow which helps teams unleash their creativity. Clients of The Training Oasis, Inc, have included CIBC, Telus Mobility, Manulife Financial, Wurth Canada, the Royal Bank of Canada, and IKEA. Anne Thornley-Brown has toured Asia 9 times and offered seminars to over 1300 executives, managers and HR professionals in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, Kuching, Penang), Singapore, Thailand (Bangkok), and India (Mumbai). Petronas, Malaysian Airlines, Digi, Mobil/Exxon, Perodua, and Dell Computers are among the organizations that have sent delegates to her sessions in Asia. Anne is available as a facilitator for team building sessions and seminars, keynote speaker for conferences.




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