LovePong™ is a free, fun, online game for couples that helps improve communication and enhance your relationship.
Bio
Bill Weil is a Principal at Socius Partners (www.socius-partners.com), specializing in helping emerging technology companies. He has founded 6 companies and has 23 years experience in marketing and software development. Bill helps companies with marketing and business development strategies, and creates websites, email newsletters and web marketing solutions for all industries. He can be reached at bweil@socius-partners.com.
LovePong
Ever feel like you and your partner are speaking different languages? With so much divorce, unhappiness, or just lack of passion in long-term relationships, do you feel like you're just "hoping" yours will last?
Relationships are easy at first, but most of us fall into habitual patterns that allow the love and passion to degrade over time.
LovePong™ is a fun way to keep the communication, love and passion flowing.
It takes about two minutes a day.
How It Works
LovePong™ works by giving you and your partner small, easy communication tasks, and provides online coaching on how to communicate most effectively.
Sometimes you'll find great surprises. Other times you'll discover things that might have festered - and get an opportunity to nip it in the bud.
EXAMPLE OF HOW IT WORKS
First, you are given a task, such as:
• List things for which you'd like to be acknowledged, or
• Complete the sentence: "Sometimes I get upset when you..." or
• Make a very specific request about something you would like from your partner
• Etc.
As you fill in blanks that state and further clarify the communication, LovePong™ provides coaching, tips and examples to help you communicate powerfully and responsibly.
When you are done, this information is sent to your partner. We call this a "ping."
Next, your partner receives an email that you have "pinged," and is invited to login.
Your partner reads your communication and then is guided to respond. LovePong™ provides gentle coaching and tips to help your partner respond powerfully and responsibly.
Your partner's response is then sent to you in an email. We call this a "pong."
Is that all? Yes and no. LovePong™ has two objectives:
1. Help bring issues to the surface and encourage the free and ongoing exchange of communication.
2. Provide guidance to make your communication as effective as possible.
Future versions of LovePong™ will maintain and track open items (i.e., items which you or your partner do not feel are fully resolved), so that, at your leisure, the two of you can revisit, and ultimately resolve, them. There will also be ways to win "points" as a couple.
Bill Weil
Socius Partners, LLC
(412) 690-0703
http://www.lovepong.com
http://www.socius-partners.com
This show was recorded on October 13, 2008 and the archived version can be heard at www.talkshoe.com or www.positivelypittsburghlivemagazine.com
Techno Granny Show blog is an additional way for Techno Granny Talk Cast fans to keep up with Techno Granny. She is a 61 year old single grandmother who also hosts four Talk Casts on the Talk Shoe network. The Techno Granny show is designed to bring baby boomers and others up to snuff with 21st Century technology. TechnoGranny Talks is more than that, it is technology finds and opinions of a tech savvy grandmother who is a power user of technology.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Techno Granny Show, Women-Drivers.com
Guest on October 20, 2008 show, Anne Fleming of Women-Divers.com
Fleming has been a pivotal leader in brand development and strategic product planning for international companies like American Eagle Outfitters, Atlantic Luggage and Cresswell & Baldwin Lighting.
With over 20 years of corporate marketing, Flemings’ various roles have embraced corporate brand identity, market research, consumer intercepts and application, product design management, trend and color forecasting, trade show management and ecommerce.
Fleming and her business partner launched www.women-drivers.com, a bilingual social networking site in July, 2008. Women share and rate their Purchase, Browse, and Service experience at 21, 000 new car dealerships in the United States. These real time reviews empower members to locate certified women-friendly dealers in their city. The Company collects and sells the experiences, data and demographics via Women Satisfaction Index (WSI) INSIGHTS ™ to the industry. The analytics, provided in weekly, 24.7 reports, empower dealerships and educate them on how to shift Browsers into Buyers.
The mission of Women Drivers ™ is that women be receive the best experience at dealerships leaving her as well as the auto professional empowered and satisfied with the entire process.
Outline of the interview:
Why did you start Women Drivers.com?
95% of car salesmen being men, there is this Venus-Mars thing that goes on at the dealership that is so threatening that 9 out of 10 women take a man with them simply to “balance” things out.
Women Drivers collects the data and sells Women Satisfaction Index (WSI) INSIGHT ™ reports to the dealership and industry to educate them on women’s experiences at their dealership & provide tools for them to improve their level of service to women in our country.
Women’s Buying Power at the Dealership?
- Women buy 53% of all automobiles, but influence the purchase up to 80%
- Women buy $80 Billion of new cars and have 65% of all service work done at the dealerships
- Women buy 43,200 cars every day of business (mon-sat)
The Mission of Company
The mission of Women Drivers ™ is that women be receive the best experience at dealerships leaving her as well as the auto professional empowered and satisfied with the entire process.
What are the criteria for being a certified Women-Friendly dealership?
For each review written a rating is auto-calculated and posted. Ratings range from a 5.0 (Excellent) to a 1.0 (Marginal). Each review will appear under one category - Browsing, Purchasing or Servicing. Certified Women Friendly dealership scores are:
What motivates women to go to a Women-Friendly dealer?
What motivates a dealership to be Women-Friendly certified?
Anne Fleming
Women-Drivers.com
412-327-2604
www.women-drivers.com
Fleming has been a pivotal leader in brand development and strategic product planning for international companies like American Eagle Outfitters, Atlantic Luggage and Cresswell & Baldwin Lighting.
With over 20 years of corporate marketing, Flemings’ various roles have embraced corporate brand identity, market research, consumer intercepts and application, product design management, trend and color forecasting, trade show management and ecommerce.
Fleming and her business partner launched www.women-drivers.com, a bilingual social networking site in July, 2008. Women share and rate their Purchase, Browse, and Service experience at 21, 000 new car dealerships in the United States. These real time reviews empower members to locate certified women-friendly dealers in their city. The Company collects and sells the experiences, data and demographics via Women Satisfaction Index (WSI) INSIGHTS ™ to the industry. The analytics, provided in weekly, 24.7 reports, empower dealerships and educate them on how to shift Browsers into Buyers.
The mission of Women Drivers ™ is that women be receive the best experience at dealerships leaving her as well as the auto professional empowered and satisfied with the entire process.
Outline of the interview:
Why did you start Women Drivers.com?
95% of car salesmen being men, there is this Venus-Mars thing that goes on at the dealership that is so threatening that 9 out of 10 women take a man with them simply to “balance” things out.
Women Drivers collects the data and sells Women Satisfaction Index (WSI) INSIGHT ™ reports to the dealership and industry to educate them on women’s experiences at their dealership & provide tools for them to improve their level of service to women in our country.
Women’s Buying Power at the Dealership?
- Women buy 53% of all automobiles, but influence the purchase up to 80%
- Women buy $80 Billion of new cars and have 65% of all service work done at the dealerships
- Women buy 43,200 cars every day of business (mon-sat)
The Mission of Company
The mission of Women Drivers ™ is that women be receive the best experience at dealerships leaving her as well as the auto professional empowered and satisfied with the entire process.
What are the criteria for being a certified Women-Friendly dealership?
For each review written a rating is auto-calculated and posted. Ratings range from a 5.0 (Excellent) to a 1.0 (Marginal). Each review will appear under one category - Browsing, Purchasing or Servicing. Certified Women Friendly dealership scores are:
What motivates women to go to a Women-Friendly dealer?
What motivates a dealership to be Women-Friendly certified?
Anne Fleming
Women-Drivers.com
412-327-2604
www.women-drivers.com
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Techno Granny Hosting Social Media Entrepreneurs at Entrepreneurial Thursday
Firewater's Grill, 412.323.4688
LIVE RHYTHM, JAZZ & BLUES
Musical Networking Happy Hour
EVERY THURSDAY!!!
5:30 PM - 8 PM
Firewater's Grill,
120 Federal Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Across from PNC Park
Hosted by Jazz/R&B Vocalist - Jessica Lee
Cover Charge: Only $10.00!
Hors d'oeuvres included
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The "ENTREPRENEURIAL THURSDAYS" Happy Hour Show
Live Music by City's Great Jazz/R&B Artists!
Interviews @ Musical Break with City's Leading Entrepreneurs/Innovators!
Great Business & Professional Networking!
November 6, 2008
"Social media Entrepreneurs"
Featuring Interviews with:
Joanne Quinn-Smith, CEO - Dreamweaver Marketing Associates & Publisher - Positively Pittsburgh Live Magazine (www.positivelypittsburghlivemagazine.com)
Bill Weil, LovePong International, LLC
(www.LovePong.com)
Jill Kummer, President - Blacktie-Pittsburgh
(www.blacktie-pittsburgh.com)
Donna Baxter, Founder & Web Mistress - The Soul Pitt (www.thesoulpitt.com)
Dave Nelson, Founder and CEO - TalkShoe (www.talkshoe.com)
www.jessicaleesong.com
"Entrepreneurial Thursdays" Partners
Gold Sponsors
Pittsburgh Gateways
ABG Capital
Marketing PartnersMarketing Partners
AFTRA
BarSmart
BIOSAFE, Inc.
Chrysler Corp. (SBDC) Duquesne University
Eagle Ventures Inc.
George Mendel Photography
HDJ Assoc., Inc.
Help Startups
Human Connections
Latin American Cultural Union
MAKK Strategies
MIT Enterprise Forum
National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO)
Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Pittsburgh Technology Council
Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project (PUMP)
Pittsburgh Young Professionals
Positively Pittsburgh Live
Sales Star Enterprise
Seton Hill University's E-Magnify®
Sigma Pi Consulting
STAAR Funds
Technical Products & Supply
TiePGH-Pittsburgh Chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs
Vistage
Women's Independent Press
LIVE RHYTHM, JAZZ & BLUES
Musical Networking Happy Hour
EVERY THURSDAY!!!
5:30 PM - 8 PM
Firewater's Grill,
120 Federal Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Across from PNC Park
Hosted by Jazz/R&B Vocalist - Jessica Lee
Cover Charge: Only $10.00!
Hors d'oeuvres included
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The "ENTREPRENEURIAL THURSDAYS" Happy Hour Show
Live Music by City's Great Jazz/R&B Artists!
Interviews @ Musical Break with City's Leading Entrepreneurs/Innovators!
Great Business & Professional Networking!
November 6, 2008
"Social media Entrepreneurs"
Featuring Interviews with:
Joanne Quinn-Smith, CEO - Dreamweaver Marketing Associates & Publisher - Positively Pittsburgh Live Magazine (www.positivelypittsburghlivemagazine.com)
Bill Weil, LovePong International, LLC
(www.LovePong.com)
Jill Kummer, President - Blacktie-Pittsburgh
(www.blacktie-pittsburgh.com)
Donna Baxter, Founder & Web Mistress - The Soul Pitt (www.thesoulpitt.com)
Dave Nelson, Founder and CEO - TalkShoe (www.talkshoe.com)
www.jessicaleesong.com
"Entrepreneurial Thursdays" Partners
Gold Sponsors
Pittsburgh Gateways
ABG Capital
Marketing PartnersMarketing Partners
AFTRA
BarSmart
BIOSAFE, Inc.
Chrysler Corp. (SBDC) Duquesne University
Eagle Ventures Inc.
George Mendel Photography
HDJ Assoc., Inc.
Help Startups
Human Connections
Latin American Cultural Union
MAKK Strategies
MIT Enterprise Forum
National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO)
Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Pittsburgh Technology Council
Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project (PUMP)
Pittsburgh Young Professionals
Positively Pittsburgh Live
Sales Star Enterprise
Seton Hill University's E-Magnify®
Sigma Pi Consulting
STAAR Funds
Technical Products & Supply
TiePGH-Pittsburgh Chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs
Vistage
Women's Independent Press
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