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NEW TALK TV VIDEO PODCAST GIVES VIEW INTO CUSTOMER ASTONISHMENT
Makau Corporation and Grapevine Talk Radio Network Partner to Provide Consumers with a New Learning Talk TV Video Podcast
Orem, UT – April 11, 2007 – Makau Corporation, your iPod training experts and the Grapevine Talk Radio Network, announced their partnership to launch their new Talk TV Video Pod Cast, “Learning it Now,” created to introduce training courses available through Makau for convenient training downloads to video iPods.
The first segment of “Learning it Now” will introduce author and Customer Astonishment expert, Darby Checketts. Checketts will soon launch his first course available via video iPod this spring through Makau Corporation.
The “Learning it Now” Talk TV Program is delivered in a 24 minute video podcast hosted by Kim Power Stilson, five year talk radio host of Healthy Wealthy Wow and Natalie Smith, radio host and Makau training advocate. The program visually shares a brief look into the training course Darby Checketts offers through the Makau Learning Library.
According to Dan Smith, CEO of Makau Corporation, people want the training skills Makau offers and an increasing number of learners’ desire convenience. To meet this demand Makau is converting training courses that are able to be downloaded, to the video Ipod. The “Learning it Now” show was created to introduce learners to the courses as they become available on for the video Ipod.
“Learning it Now” is a great way to get a glimpse of the courses Makau is offering,” said Smith. “Learners can watch the entertaining Talk TV cast at their convenience to decide what courses they want to take next.”
According to Darby Checketts, customer loyalty is the crowning achievement in business. This is the age for BOLDNESS. The goal is to achieve the three D’s: to distinguish yourselves, to provide products that are distinctive, and to be different from “all the others.” “There is no more important preoccupation at this moment than to determine what will make you extraordinary, to stand out from the confusion of the “mass market” and to create that WOW experience for your customers,” said Checketts. “Customer Astonishment is the next level. It is to “strike with awe and wonder.” You are astonishing. Begin with you.”
Makau, which made national news at the beginning of this year with its FREE iPod training, decided to launch this show to share with iPod users how convenient and effective elearning training can be when converted to be delivered via download to a video iPod.
According to Chad Stilson, president of the Grapevine Talk Radio Network, the 21st Century Style Grapevine created to connect people with helpful information from around the globe, they produce daily talk radio shows for internet talk listeners and a big interest is online training.
“Our mission is to share information, reaching listeners through Learning it Now this Talk TV Video Pod Cast is the next step in sharing information people are looking for,” said Stilson. “Makau is the expert in delivering learning, we are proud to be associated with them and their amazing library of training skills people need.”
To access Makau's Video Podcasts and “Learning it Now!” simply browse to their homepage, www.makaucorp.com, and click on "Video Podcasts."
Or you can browse directly to www.makaucorp.com/podcasts.
Makau provides all levels of PowerPoint and Word training that teaches you everything you need to master PowerPoint and Word, downloadable to the iPod, now available on DVD’s, CD’s, and online at www.makaucorp.com.
To get the training you need, iPod accessible, go to www.makaucorp.com. The training is also available as part of the Makau Learning Appliance, a learning management system and library loaded on a server that resides behind an organization’s firewall.
### ABOUT DARBY CHECKETTS
Darby Checketts is the president of Cornerstone Professional Development of Mesa, Arizona, which he founded in 1985. He is known as the proponent of “Customer Astonishment” and for his ability to help his clients discover greater leverage. His work has influenced hundreds of organizations and millions of individuals around the globe. His corporate career includes management positions at Ford Motor Company and Digital Equipment corporation. He is the author of seven books including the next-generation book on Customer Astonishment and his latest book, Leverage, which is the accumulated wisdom from more than 20 years of interacting with organizations and individuals who are determined to lift their worlds and make a difference.
For more information please visit www.customerchampion.com or call 1-866-654-0811.
### ABOUT MAKAU
Makau provides all levels of PowerPoint and Word training that teaches you everything you need to master PowerPoint and Word, downloadable to the iPod, now available on DVD’s, CD’s, and online at www.makaucorp.com.
To get the training you need, iPod accessible, go to www.makaucorp.com. The training is also available as part of the Makau Learning Appliance, a learning management system and library loaded on a server that resides behind an organization’s firewall.
Makau Corporation, Your Training Partner, specializes in custom training solutions that meet ‘your’ needs. Makau offers enterprise-wide, 24/7 delivery of next-generation & custom training courses in partnership with training professionals, to convert cost centers into revenue streams. Not only does Makau provide world class training, Makau provides a full featured learning management system (LMS) to manage all of your training needs, from simply tracking scores and progress, to managing complex organizational training infrastructures. Combining all these solutions onto a single server that resides inside your companies firewall and managed internally, you have the Makau Learning Appliance.
Makau Corporation is a private company established in 2002.
For more information please visit www.makaucorp.com or contact 801-224-9449 or pr@makaucorp.com.
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ABOUT THE GRAPEVINE TALK RADIO NETWORK
The Grapevine Talk Radio Network is a knowledge-sharing talk radio network founded to reach women and their families all across the globe 21st Century Style across the World Wide Web. The first broadcast of the 24/7 talk network was in March 2005 by five women who felt they wanted the opportunity to decide what is broadcasted to them and their friends in the grapevine. All interested in sharing their stories and information on the grapevine are invited to listen, plog©, email and talk back on the grapevine. Listen blog or plog at www.grapevineradio.com. Please call in to talk to us, win prizes or talk back by calling 866-377-1737.