Making Virtual Meetings Feel More Personal

Welcome to the New Workplace, a future-focused webinar series, is brought to you by Verizon. Join us for our 5th installment, "Retail Reimagined," as founder and chief creative officer of Coal and Canary, Amanda Buhse joins us to explore how technology is reshaping retail in today's World.

Key takeaways will include:

• Where the retail experience stands today and what the future looks like for physical stores
• How the need for safe yet socially interactive connections has grown along with omni-channel strategies
• The new tech that can help drive the experiences customers crave in tomorrows world

Meet your speaker & host:

Amanda Buhse is the founder and Chief Creative Officer of Coal and Canary. She's also worked as a marketer for companies both large and small in retail and more.

Host Ramon Ray is an entrepreneur, author and speaker, as well as the founder of Smart Hustle Media.

Welcome to the New Workplace, a future-focused webinar series, is brought to you by Verizon. Join us for our 4th installment, "Small Business Change Makers," as Technology Strategist Crystal Washington joins us to explore change that worked for businesses like yours.

Key takeaways will include:

• How to rethink the way your small business operates, communicates and offers value
• How to ensure your workforce is flexible and has the right tools to function securely from anywhere
• How to implement adoption plans so you can transition to new technologies and stronger networks

Meet your speaker & host:

Crystal Washington is a technology strategist, one of Forbes' 50 Leading Female Futurists, and the author of the books "One Tech Action" and "The Social Media Why"

Host Ramon Ray is an entrepreneur, author and speaker, as well as the founder of Smart Hustle Media.

Welcome to the New Workplace, a future-focused webinar series, is brought to you by Verizon. Join us for our third installment, "What's on the Horizon for Construction?," as expert Natalya Cappellini joins us to explore new trends and opportunities shaping the construction world.

Key takeaways will include:

• Strategies that connect workforces from design firm to suppliers and the job site
• New solutions including digital collaboration, scanning, wearables, drones, and more
• The importance of security while staying connected in real time during projects

Meet your speaker & host:

Natalya Cappellini is a construction expert, the founder of Curato, and a popular TV contractor who's worked with HG TV's Build Me Up and Animal Planet's Animal Cribs.

Host Ramon Ray is an entrepreneur, author and speaker, as well as the founder of Smart Hustle Media.

Welcome to the New Workplace, a future-focused webinar series, is brought to you by Verizon. Join us for our second installment, "Big leaps for small businesses." In this interactive webinar, we will explore how small businesses can evolve to meet new workplace challenges and opportunities.

Key takeaways include:

• Ensure your approach to cyber security is holistic with dedicated resources
• Transform your approach to helping employees with your customer journey
• Put empathy into action to build a sense of community for remote workers

Meet your speaker & host:

Sophie Wade is a workforce innovation specialist, founder of Flexcel Network, speaker, author, and authority on future-of-work issues

Host Ramon Ray is an entrepreneur, author and speaker, as well as the founder of Smart Hustle Media

Welcome to the New Workplace, a future-focused webinar series, is brought to you by Verizon. Join us as we kick off the series with Seth Mattison and Ramon Ray for "Making it Work" an interactive webinar where we explore how to support your remote employees' well being.

Webinar series key takeaways:
- The technology you need to build team connection and engagement
- How your employees' mental health affects the health of your business
- What this past year has taught us about workplace relationships

Meet your speaker & host:

Seth Mattison is Founder and Chief Movement Officer of FutureSight Labs
Host Ramon Ray is an entrepreneur, author and speaker, as well as the founder of Smart Hustle Media

Videoconferencing can go further the company meetings - it can also help support your customer base and your bottom line.

Watch to see how Amicus Therapeutics leveraged BlueJeans to continue their vital medical work.

Our Family Encounter & BlueJeans by Verizon

Big ways to digitize your small business.
Shifting your brick and mortar to the virtual marketplace?
Want to support your customers and your bottom line?

Tune in to see how Our Family Encounter used BlueJeans to create their 100% virtual, small business.

Making Virtual Meetings Feel More Personal - A conversation with Opus Interactive.

A webinar series brought to you by BlueJeans, by Verizon.

Rhonda Abrams is an author, entrepreneur and USA Today columnist. An expert on small businesses, her new book, “Now What?!” focuses on how to recession-proof your business. Join us as she shares how you can start and keep your business lean with smart advice you can use now. Plus, the first 500 people to sign on to the live webinar will receive a free e-copy of Rhonda’s new book*!

You’ll learn how to cut waste and make the most of every dollar by:

Cutting costs — Know what costs to cut and what to keep
Firm negotiating — Set the terms of your lease and consider going virtual
Managing inventory — Strategically reduce your inventory and save

*This offer excludes webinar participants within the public sector.

A producer in film, TV, and music, Jeff Hoffman has won both an Emmy and a Grammy. As a successful entrepreneur, speaker and author, Jeff has a passion to support fellow entrepreneurs and joins us to share keys on how your small business can ignite new growth.

Mari Smith is a premier Facebook marketing expert and author of “The New Relationship Marketing.” Hired by Facebook to teach programs throughout the US, she’s returning to our series by popular demand to share how you can run your social media like a pro with another valuable topic for small businesses: how to create a content calendar and utilize powerful scheduling tools.

Everything has changed. Now, every business has to now function like a startup. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been in business for 5 years or 50 years, you have to fundamentally REWIRE the relationships between your organization and your customers. That’s why how you handle the
marketing, customer experience, and customer service in your business over the next 6 months will have a MASSIVE IMPACT on your success over the next 6 years. Over the last few weeks, Jay has collected dozens of brand-new examples of how to steady your business and then move
forward and GROW, even during these crazy times. Jay built a whole framework for this approach for this special event:
✔ Brand new research showing how customer expectations have shifted since pandemic
✔ Brand new research showcasing how customer loyalty is moving
✔ How to rebuild your customers’ knowledge
✔ How to unlock word of mouth (which is now a requirement)
✔ Tons of concrete examples (a few of them are hilarious) that will help you
In all, Jay will show you the 6 specific steps you need to take to regain customer and staff confidence.
If you’re in marketing, customer services, sales, operations, or business management this session is a MUST.

Mari Smith is a premier Facebook marketing expert and author of “The New Relationship Marketing.” Hired by Facebook to teach programs throughout the US, she shares her experience on how your small business can tell its story and shine on social media during this new era.

Peter Shankman, entrepreneur, best-selling author and founder of Help A Reporter Out, joins us to share radical new ways to rethink the customer experience for your small business. Plus he’ll also explain why embracing neurodiversity and working remotely can become your advantage.

Jeffrey Shaw, speaker and author of “LINGO” joins our host Ramon Ray in this webinar to share how the right language can help attract your ideal customers.

Return to Business as Unusual: A Webinar Series

Organizations are struggling today to keep employees motivated and energized in a dispersed work environment. Without social interaction, personal connections and shared experiences, some workers feel disenfranchised and less productive.

Come hear host Ron Insana and workforce trends expert Seth Mattison discuss:

- Networking and relationship management in isolation
- Scaling workloads and priorities while preserving value and contributions
- Applying neural network science to improve communication and execution

Karen Tiber Leland, president of Sterling Marketing Group and bestselling author, joins us to share how you can pivot your business, build a currency of trust and create a new offering for a changing world.

Up next! Ramon Ray hosts Rhonda Abrams to help your small business navigate tough times and plan a money management strategy for the long term.

Yancey Strickler, co-founder of Kickstarter and author of “This Could Be Our Future”, joins us in this webinar to share how the power of creativity can transform your business.