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Unfortunately the audio quality makes it hard to listen to. There should be another rating category for "production." Next time, get a lapel mic, or do a voiceover on a studio mic.
Great video and great advice for those entrepreneurs trying to succeed in this economy and provide value to our communities! Inspiring :)
Very good video and Message. You deserve to win because of all the hard work you do. Good Luck
Good job guys----I am a partner in 3 small business' and am always looking for new ideas on how to improve our sales; open more hours, specials, discounts and etc.
Very nicely said. Good luck.
VERY GOOD VIDEO. INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE. ALSO INSPIRING. IT IS REALLY GREAT HOW YOU HAVE GROWN YOUR COMPANY, ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE ECONOMY. WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR ACHEIVEMENTS. LOVE, GRAM
Great job, Steve and Savance! Good points. Inspiring and Useful ... all 2 minutes and 51 seconds. Stick to your passion! Work your butt off. Your Mom must have taught you well. ;-)
Tom, OSU
You just nailed michigan to a tee. Very informative and inspiring. In any field you are in at this time of economic problem you have to fight and make things work for you as best as possiable. I am very happy and proud of you for having such success in your life with home life and also in the business world of hard times here in the state of Michigan. Good luck to you and Savance and keep fighting for what you have worked your butt off for!!!!!! Love, Cousin Brandy :)
Great Job :)
Great video Steve really inspiring
Great video!
This video is a wonderful depiction of the current state of Michigan’s current economic attitude. It is good to hear positive rhetoric promoting successful ventures.
Well done. This is a great way to just tell people to go make it happen. Our future is in our hands.
Great advice. This area has been in decline since the '70s. Even the Detroit Three (no longer BIG in the eyes of the world) left Michigan over the years - their headquarters are still here, but the manufacturing end is nothing like Detroit's hayday. Entrepreneurs are part of the new hope for Detroit and Michigan. Entrepreneurs in thought AND invention. The time is now to remake ourselves. Not just re-branding, but creating. The world is moving forward and we must stay ahead and lead that change.
Nice work!
Very good thoughts and ideas. Just Do It! Very nice.
good luck! great video
Good Luck Savance!
Great advice, in this type of economy only action will see results (heck, it's the ONLY way to get results)
Steve and his company's work ethic and the quality of his product are the reason that we sign up as a partner and use the Order Savant product. I am confident that these qualities will help all of us to make it through these tough times and come out of this economic funk stronger for having looked it straight in the eye and stared it down. People like Steve are the reason we will all get through this. We can be proud of what we accomplish and we will prevail.
Some good thoughts you've shared here. It's not easy wearing so many hats, but you do it well, and we're all rooting for Savance!
Great work, Steve! Keep it up...let me know if there is anything else I can do to help the cause. Eric Head
Good job Steve, Goes right along with what my wife and I are doing..building relationships,communities and helping others succeed..
Good attitude to have during troubled times.
Steve.
May Savance prosper in spite of all the negatives we are experiencing in Michigan right now. You guys have the right attitude and strong work ethics. We are proud of you.
Lydia Mickey
Great Video Steve, Like the advice provided.
Keep it up
Wow, a lot of votes in short period of time.
WOW STEVE! Weren't you almost in last place yesterday? Over 800 votes the day before the contest ends... Sorry, but it's pretty clear and obvious... (it must help that you are familiar with computer technology) I'm sure you have a few tricks up your sleeve ;) There's just no way.
Very inspirign indeed !
Sound needs to be improved, but other than that it's cool
Where is Jay disappearing? :)
Keep up the good work. GO Savance :)
Good video...good message!
Got a lot of votes quickly there considering how far behind you were even last night, how are you networking?
Our area, Michigan, needs lots of help...keep up the good work!!
Excellent...Best Of Luck!!
I got a lot of votes for you by sending a message to all of my connections in LinkedIn asking them to take a look at your video and vote for you if they liked what they heard! I guess they did! Go Savance!!! :-)
Totally agree. the "victim" syndrome is a sure cop-out. life is hard for a lot of people. we all get out of but working through it. there are no guarantees but sure beats sitting around waiting for someone else to fix things. there is no them.. it is all us.
This is inspiring for everyone.
so true.
thanks.
Nice work, good luck!
Nicely done. Best of luck to you and to Savance!
Great video! You've come along way since we partied at the Hard Rock in Vegas:)
It was interesting to see your entry go from almost no ratings to 900 in an hour yesterday with such a small number of page views, and then see the ratings come to a sudden halt when people started to comment on their validity. It is disheartening to see this kind of activity when there are other finalists on here who have obviously been working hard since the first day to obtain raintings fairly and play by the rules. I have been paying a great deal of attention to this contest. I hope that all of those who are running scripts for votes or giving themselves hundreds of ratings in the middle of the night learn from those who are playing fair in this contest and from Intuit's work to build a small business community. Being honest and ethical in business is crucial.
A couple people have made comment to how and why we're able to pull so many votes out. I can say that I have sent out more social networks posts and e-mails to those who I know - and asked more people for favors to send out to everyone whom they know - then I have EVER done in my past. I'm sure every small business owner is well aware of the difference nights and weekends can make - and how a full court press at the end of the game can make all the difference.
From nearly last to 4th !?!, I have noticed that you nearly only got votes during the night and i also thought this was for smaller buisness companies. Your in a cumputer company and that is not something small to start with. And i see that your good with computers ......
If i look through the rules i thought i saw that creating e-mail addresses was against the rules.....
Also you said you sold something that made over the 250,000 $ profit. That is not something small. 250,000 $ is something that small buisness owners would die for getting it. And the 250 grand is 10 times as big as the 25 grand. So what do you need it for? I think your already pretty large and sorry but what do you need the money for? If you can make 250 grand then 25 grand is nothing big is it?
I also sent it out to my entire social network. So did my wife and my family and their family and so on. I also sent it to friends over seas as well. All in different time zones so your night could be their day. Try to think outside the box.
Well JasonP friends overseas will have disqualified votes since the rules explicitly state only people in the US may vote, so that might be a problem.
Never said they voted, just said I sent it to everybody I know. I am sure Intuit would know that they were coming from overseas and be able to tell them that they are not able to vote. Just trying to point out the fact that people live in different time zones. You really seem to have a bad attitude here. I sure hope you are not in the contest. You are definately not the type of person who should win.
Why did you just comment back from 2 different names? Ryan31, and JasonP. Not SteveBardocz...
because i am not stevebardocz. i am jasonp. i commented back from ryan31 because i was on my roommates computer and he was still logged in from voting a few days back i guess so when i went to submit the comment and expected to be able to login, it just posted the comment.
Not in the contest, just a voter who's watching the massive amount of blatant cheating. Also, I wouldn't really characterize it as a "bad attitude" I was just simply stating the rules actually in favor of steve so he could tell his overseas people to not vote.
How can you honestly sit there and vote for yourself? you have SUCH a small amount of views compared to your ratings, and as much as I would love to believe that you have all these family members and friends voting for you, it is impossible that you have had THIS much of a success rate. So wrong.
...i'm sure that intuit is watching this carefully as well. the people running the contest aren't stupid.
also, ever since someone mentioned the low view counts, those have started skyrocketing along with the votes. huh. & by the way, what is your business? i can't really figure it out from your video or your story!
It appears as though Mr. Bardocz is auto-registering emails and voting for himself. I talked to 3 friends this evening who got spammed by the social networking email and all of them mysteriously got "Thanks for registering with Intuit" emails with random user names. None of them had registered or voted. Way to make Michigan and Small Businesses proud by blatantly cheating and abusing people's email addresses. Nice job.
I got drift that someone "helped" me. Now I don't know how effective my networking was and how many true votes we received. I do know that I had a lot of people take their time to comment and to vote. Personally, I wish Intuit/ePrize would have made you have to confirm your e-mail after registering and come up with a better way to have the contest voted on instead of just going off of a pass it on method. Maybe Intuit/ePrize has a way to filter out "invalid" votes to put everyone on the same le
Maybe Intuit/ePrize has a way to filter out "invalid" votes to put everyone on the same level. I do appreciate all those who did take the time to comment and vote for Savance, Michigan, and me. And I know the person who "helped" meant the best and wanted us to win, but sometimes winning isn't everything.
I am sick and tired of getting emails saying that I have 4, 5, and 6 ID's on this site. I never voted for this company and don't understand how my email ID was harvested by "a friend". In my eye's this is not a good example of work ethic, but instead it's what's wrong with our country today. If this company is responsible for the creation of the ID's belonging to my email they should be disqualified and anything they may have won previously should be taken back. Shame on you!!!
One more thing. If you know about how "invalid voting" works you probably are guilty of something. SHAME ON YOU!!!!
I don't think you have to ge a genius to know how "invalid voting" can occur. Intuit sent out an e-mail detailing how to "Have more than one person vote from the same computer".
I thought you had it dude. What Happened.
Finalist story from SteveBardocz:
Negativity, that’s all I hear these days. The Michigan Economy is one of the toughest ones in the entire United States. So making a small business thrive here is almost as hard as selling eight track tapes to people who don’t even like music! This economy can either get the best of you or really make you shine. Fortunately for us, the ladder of the two was the course we’ve taken.
We focused our energy on the global marketplace and the core competencies that we knew best. Instead of investing in printed materials, we put all of our energy into our website. Instead of spending gobs of money on advertising, we turned to search engine optimization. Instead of chasing after several new, great ideas, we focused on our existing great ideas that we could quickly bring to market and sell today.
The plan has worked out beautifully. Sure, could we use 20 more people to do it better, heck yeah. But we face the same problem that every self-funded small business faces, the more you invest, the less you personally make and the more you have to sell just to stay in business. I can say without a doubt that without these proactive steps, we’d have a “For Lease” sign on the door just like everyone around us:
1. Invest a lot of time and money in your website and Internet marketing. We sell one of our products exclusively on the Internet and it brought in more than $250,000 in profit last year alone and continues to grow year over year.
2. Focus on what you have now and what makes money. For entrepreneurs, a great idea passes through your head daily. It’s hard to forgo this and focus on the same old thing for so long.
3. Leverage help, you can’t do it alone. We realized that we couldn’t keep writing our own software, marketing it, selling it, and supporting it. So we turned to a company to handle all of our programming along with a technology sales firm to help us sell. The companies have now turned out to be just an extension of our company but for a price we could afford.
4. Diversify with overlapping expertise. We are good at software, IT, and automation controls. So we do it all but specifically where they overlap. The key is that together they keep our company very stable.
5. Leverage Relationships. It’s all who you know. That’s so true – and who you know is built up from your own reputation and your dedication to making people happy. But it takes work to keep up that network. Facebook and Linked In are not just for play anymore.
So get out there. That’s my best advice. Don’t sit around and wait for things to happen. You have to make them happen. Don’t wait for the economy. Don’t wait for that big break or that loan. Now is the time. Stick to your idea. Stick to your passion. Don’t put things off. Work your butt off and seriously, just do it.
I totally agree with you Steve! It's wonderful to hear someone who has such good work ethic. That attitude should serve you and Savance well!