What People Are Saying

Erik Royer
Juice Creative

Joining a Make-it-Fly® Advisory Board has been the smartest decision I have made with my business. Each session I come away with a refreshed motivation, armed with new tools that I’m excited to apply to my business. In small business, one often feels like an overworked one-man show, but surrounding oneself with the experience and comprehensive knowledge of the advisory board has proven an effective remedy.

Aside from the insight and feedback, I’m someone who works to deadlines, so the accountability aspect has also proven invaluable.

Terri Starck
Point B Strategies

Participating in my Make-it-Fly® Advisory Board 101 and my Make-it-Fly® Alumni Board has given me business direction, personal stability and confidence, a sounding board for issues, more clients than I imagined, and a group of people that I trust and consider my friends. It has changed my perspective in life from how can I get more to how can I give more.

Mark Berkowitz
Empower Consulting

The culture of Make-it-Fly® is genuinely one of unselfish giving. The energy of the leaders and members is contagious, and it’s extremely rewarding to do business with friends who are excited about introducing you to others who can benefit from your services and vice versa. Make-it-Fly® is not just a business group, it really is a lifestyle. It is life changing in ways you can’t imagine. I owe much of the growth of my business to the relationships I have developed through Make-it-Fly®.

Jon Terry
Intero Real Estate Services

Each member of my alumni board has become my trusted advisors. I benefit because each person on my board really knows me and has broad context in helping me solve problems, resolve issues and think through challenges. More than that, I have been helped tremendously by the board members’ skills. I have been through branding sessions, strategic coaching, website development, marketing and advertising plan reviews, and so many other things that have helped me to be more successful. It’s about idea generation, plan creation and implementation, and my alumni board helps me with all those things.

Joan Schlaefer
Gift To It!

Make-it-Fly® is a forum for individuals engaged in business is incredible. Beyond the fact that you meet so many interesting and wonderful people, the opportunity to interact with energized business people is extremely enlightening. Make-it-Fly® is so much more than a networking opportunity – a great place to seek help for yourself and offer help to others.

Russell Louie
Optimum Choices, LLC

I started in a Make-it-Fly® Advisory Board in 2003, when my business revenues were flat. I wanted to take my business to the next level, but I knew the traditional business courses were inadequate in this new Internet economy. I told Dave Block that as a holistic Internet business I needed to know what is successful today, not what has worked during the past 5-10 years as a ‘proven business model.’ Make-it-Fly® has always delivered a creative and innovative solution when I needed it.

Since 2003, my average monthly revenues have increased 42-fold as I continue to take advantage of the wealth of resources available from my Make-it-Fly® Alumni Board and Dave's and Victoria's network. One cannot be successful alone in this dynamic, fast-moving Internet economy.

I don't believe in competition and the advice from Make-it-Fly® has allowed me to position my Internet company as the #1 retailer of our holistic animal product in the world, with an abundance of backorders. I couldn't have done it without Make-it-Fly®.

Jonnelle Leimbach
Seniors ETC

The Make-it-Fly® Alumni Board certainly takes the oneness out of small business entrepreneurship. I have built great relationships and a team of advisors who are phenomenal.
This gives me the opportunity to share business ideas and challenges with some of the most talented, intelligent, creative and authentic people.

Paul Kreins
Have Big Fun Entertainment (Bowl-ero Lanes)

The Make-it-Fly® program is a tremendous concept. For me, being new to the community, it was a great way to get to know other entrepreneurs and receive critical feedback and support from a group of individuals who could look at my business and my work habits objectively yet with a critical eye. Personally, it helped me get focused on high-return tasks at a time when I was feeling pretty overwhelmed.

Karen Susman
Remarkable Associations!

I’ve learned so much from my Make-it-Fly® board. My jaw has dropped many times due to the vision, wisdom, creativity I’ve shared over a cup of coffee. I’ve focused more, and Make-it-Fly® has forced me to give up lots of my “Yes, buts.”

Barbara Brannen
Ener-Cast Human Resource Strategies

“My Make-it-Fly® colleagues and Dave and Victoria have all helped keep me focused, answered my questions, offered new brilliant ideas and referred help to me on a regular basis. It creates the much-needed ‘board of directors’ that most small businesses are missing.”

Bob Heavers
Priority Management & OmniBus

"Thank you for the profound difference you have made in my life and I will recommend you without reservation to everyone who is fortunate enough to learn about Make-it-Fly®. Every business person deserves time to stand back and have a strategic look at her/his business … time for working on the business, not just in the business.

Make-it-Fly® is so successful because you two practice very effectively everything you teach and because you take such a personal interest in the success of each of your clients. I never expected any personalized attention when I signed up; so it was an incredible surprise to have you and the rest of the class focusing on nothing but my business and my success at times. I found the accountability networks you set up are like having a third-party board of directors for a short time. Everyone learns how to become a giver; even more importantly, how to be vulnerable enough to ask for help and receive invaluable perspectives and new ideas for accelerating performance."

Geri Bigum
Staging Denver

"Make-it-Fly® has made a phenomenal difference in my life and my business! The real estate home staging industry has become one of the hottest careers of this century. Staging Denver has one of the longest track records in the industry in Colorado.

My business has greatly benefited from having a trusted board of advisors who help keep me focused on our company's goals and dreams. They have talked me through some challenging business decisions, given me the courage to take risks I might not have taken and given me insights I wouldn't have had. Not only that, having the opportunity to do the same for each of their businesses has caused me to grow personally in ways I never would have imagined. Sharing vision with like-minded people isn't something that is readily found in our culture. More often it is, ‘Every business for themselves.’ My board members make themselves available whenever I have something pressing that needs input. We care about each other's success in all areas of life. I couldn't have grown my business to this place without the assistance of these invaluable people. It's great fun being me right now, and I would love to hear other entrepreneurs saying the same thing!"

Andy Cleary
Orbit Design

"As a newly graduated Make-it-Flyer, I thought the process was positively stunning. The benefits of the mutual advisory board far exceeded what was promised, and what's more, I fully expect the advantages to compound in the future. Being able to get advice and an objective sounding board from my peers is so instrumental in making good decisions, that I now realize I could have made much greater progress if I had found Make-it-Fly® earlier.

In addition, I enjoyed three unexpected benefits from my Make-it-Fly® experience. First, I have formed business relationships with a majority of my fellow board members. The quality of the participants is such that I was able to connect as a vendor/customer with most of the group—this would not happen even in the best of leads groups. Second, the open sharing of resources helped me improve our own business process. Third, the level of trust and connectedness heightens during the board process so that new business opportunities seem to arise spontaneously.

If you are an entrepreneur and are used to carrying the whole weight of the business on your shoulders, I can't recommend the Make-it-Fly® experience more highly—to quote a famous energy drink ‘it gives you wings.’"

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Beth Boen
CreativeXchange Marketing

“Being part of a Make-it-Fly® Advisory Board gave me many 'aha’s.' These realizations have accelerated my business and taught me tremendous lessons. I have met terrific people who are so giving and helpful. I have great enthusiasm to assist my peers as well. I see Make-it-Fly® as an ongoing program in my business’s success.”

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Jim Rohrer
Customer Care Partners

"After spending most of my working years with a very large corporation, many of the lessons learned at corporate America were vitally important as I contemplated launching a second career with my own business. There were some holes in my experience however, so I decided to get some help to fill them. Being captain of a 777 is quite different from flying a small plane. The small plane is much less complex, but you are all alone in the cockpit. You soon learn the phrase, ‘If it’s to be it’s up to me.’

I joined Make-it-Fly® to address these needs. Any business plan, big or small, has modular parts that all have to be successfully executed. If one part is unsuccessfully accomplished, there’s a good chance the entire business plan will not succeed. That’s probably the reason so many new small businesses fail.

For me, when I joined Make-it-Fly®, I was lacking in each of the many parts of my business plan. Product development, marketing that product, selling that product and product delivery were all work in progress. I’m not sure I fully realized how much work was needed.

The Make-it-Fly® process separates each piece of the business plan, requiring you to think through each. It provides resources to help you strengthen each step in your business plan. Then, there is the accountability piece of the Make-it-Fly® process. You have to answer to your Board of Directors. If your thinking is incomplete, they will tell you.

Remember, ‘Flying is not dangerous. Crashing is.’ You better get some flying lessons before you attempt take-off."

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Steve Doherty
Professional Speaker
American Champions Publishing

“I have known Dave and Victoria Block and have been part of the Make-it-Fly® family for over four years. The personal and professional support, mentoring and coaching have meant more to my success and happiness than any other professional program I have ever undertaken.

To be so caring, supportive, and professional at the same time takes truly committed and dedicated practitioners. Dave and Victoria represent the pinnacle of support and partnering. I could not recommend two people or a program more enthusiastically. Bottom line? THEY MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN YOUR SUCCESS AND PROFESSIONAL GOALS AND OBJECTIVES."

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Kelly Stangel
Denver Business Journal

“I benefited from Make-it-Fly® in multiple levels: my ‘web’—network of contacts, the sharp thinking of building ideas, brainstorming, advisory board, accountability, friendships, etc. The Make-it-Fly® program helped encourage me to step up execution and excellence. I was encouraged to find my inner confidence with myself and the ideas that I can create. I found it to be wonderful!

Make-it-Fly® has single-handedly grown my business! It was a great decision to invest in myself and my company in this manner. Grateful I did it.”

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Sheila Hentges
Hentges Design, Inc.

"My Make-it-Fly® Advisory Board has been the perfect solution for what I was lacking in my business—a team of business-minded people who are there for me, work with me and guide me through my business decisions. As a one-person shop, I spend a lot of time by myself doing the work in my business as well as working on my business. Not having a team of people was really putting me into a rut, and I didn’t even realize it until it was almost too late.

Having an advisory board—a team of business owners—brings other perspectives, ideas, unforeseen problems and solutions to the table for discussion. I save time, have a better view of the issue at hand and can investigate alternatives recommended by my team. I make better decisions. The best part is that I help my team as much as they help me. Giving is just as important as receiving, and it feels even better."

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