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Philadelphia Organizational Performance Expert Jane Hartman Frankel Appearing on “Let’s Talk Sales Culture” BlogTalkRadio Internet Talk Show, February 12 at 4pm

CHERRY HILL, NJ – February 10, 2009 – Philadelphia-based organizational performance coach Jane Hartman Frankel, founder of The Art of Performance LLC, will be the guest on this week’s episode of “Let’s Talk Sales Culture,” the Internet based live call-in radio show hosted by Todd Cohen, the Philadelphia-based president of Sales Leader LLC.

Frankel, who founded her consultancy in 2006, will discuss “The Concept of the Customer” and take questions from the show’s audience.

Listeners can hear the show at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/toddcohen, and can call in with questions for Frankel at +1-646-929-1341. The show airs live on Thursday, February 12, at 4 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, and a recorded podcast is available about an hour after the show concludes.

Frankel’s unique approach to building organizations for sustainability places primary importance on internal and external customer relationships and capabilities. She has also managed several alliances between large and small companies resulting in new business models and significant revenue generation. Jane recently published a five-part series: Empowered Employees: An Organizational Learning Model. She has also written several articles on how organizational leaders can create cultures that foster outstanding performance.

She holds Master’s degrees in Education and in Organizational Dynamics, and is an Adjunct Professor of Business Communications and Entrepreneurship at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA and of International Organizational Behavior at Arcadia University in Glenside, PA. Her firm’s website is http://www.artofperformance.net, and her email address is janehfrankel@artofperformance.net.

Cohen, an expert in creating high-performance sales cultures that achieve significant improvement in a company’s sales performance, launched the talk show program December 18 on the popular Internet talk radio service, BlogTalkRadio. Cherry Hill-based Professional Podcasts LLC is assisting Cohen with technical production of the broadcasts.

“We’ve admired and respected Jane Frankel’s expertise for years, and I’m absolutely thrilled that she has agreed to be a guest on “Let’s Talk Sales Culture,” said Cohen. “Sales people need to understand as much as they can about their customers, and I can’t think of a better guest to help our audience gain insight into the most effective ways to deal with customers than Jane.”

Listeners to the Todd Cohen “Let’s Talk Sales Culture” radio show can also share sales experiences and questions with Todd, either via email (todd@toddcohen.com), the ToddCohen Blog (www.toddcohen.com/blog) or by listening to the live show. There is also a “chat” room function at the www.blogtalkradio.com/toddcohen page that can be used to communicate with Todd during the live program.

“As an effective sales leader and team coach, Todd has already recognized how podcasts would extend the reach of his training and management expertise to a global audience of sales practitioners with portability and convenience,” said Steve Lubetkin, managing partner of Professional Podcasts. “Todd is now taking his expertise into the next channel of social media, Internet talk radio, to broaden the exchange of information with his colleagues in a real-time live Internet conversation.”

About Todd Cohen

Todd Cohen is a high-energy, high-performance sales leader. Since he began his career in 1984, Todd and his sales teams have delivered more than $300 million in revenue for leading equipment, education, e-learning and information companies, including Xerox, Gartner Group, Pensare, Thomson, and LexisNexis. Todd’s successful career has progressed from proven individual contributor and repeat President’s Club winner, to innovative sales manager, to accomplished sales executive. Most recently he was Vice President of Sales for LexisNexis.

In 2009, Cohen will launch a series of seminars and workshops on sales culture on a national basis. The schedule will be available at www.toddcohen.com.

More information and a photo of Todd available at http://toddcohen.com/about/pages/about-todd-cohen/.

About Professional Podcasts LLC

Professional Podcasts LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lubetkin Communications LLC, is an award-winning provider of Internet-distributed audio and video content production services for corporations and professional organizations. The firm also produces its own podcasts focusing on public relations, computer technology, bond ratings, and interviews with book authors.

More information is available at http://www.professionalpodcasts.com/, and the firm’s video feed is at http://professionalpodcasts.blip.tv/.

About BlogTalkRadio

BlogTalkRadio is a free, web-based platform which allows any user with a phone and a computer to host a live, interactive Internet broadcast. Hosts call into the service by phone, managing callers on the web-based host dashboard. Shows stream live directly from the host’s BlogTalkRadio web page with archives available for all past shows. BlogTalkRadio has been featured on ABC News, The Washington Post, Portfolio, Talkers Magazine, and TheStreet.com. The citizen broadcasting network can be found at http://www.blogtalkradio.com.

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EDITORS NOTE:

Todd Cohen is available to speak about how he is integrating social media like Internet talk radio, blogging, and podcasting into his sales training, coaching, and mentoring activities. He is also available to discuss his wide experience in producing effective sales teams and cultures and to discuss his forthcoming workshop series on sales culture.

Steve Lubetkin is available to discuss how social media and podcasting technology can help organizations communicate effectively with their audiences. Copies of the Todd Cohen Sales Leader Podcasts are available on CD on request.

To arrange to speak with Todd or Steve, please call Steve Lubetkin at (856) 751-5491 or email steve@professionalpodcasts.com.

Todd’s current series of podcasts is available through several channels. On his website, www.toddcohen.com, scroll down to the heading “Listen to Todd’s Podcasts!”

Other channels

RSS feed

(http://feeds.feedburner.com/ToddCohenSalesLeaderPodcasts

Apple iTunes Music Store

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=269675599

or by entering this link in your web browser:

http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=269675599

About Podcasting

Podcasts are digital audio or video recordings distributed using Internet technology. Visitors to an organization’s website can download podcast programs for review on their desktop computers, or synchronize them with a portable digital media device. Software programs called “feed readers” or “podcatchers” allow users to “subscribe” to podcasts at no cost, and receive new programs in a podcast series automatically.

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