Welcome!

You have reached the web site of Iterative Listening, LLC. I expect 2009 to see a number of additions to the website. A couple new information products to be released, updates on the "Barriers of Faith" book, some free content. And of course additions to the "Iterations" blog.

In the meantime, however, don't hesitate to get in touch if I can help you with your listening problems. Just e-mail or give a call. Or if you'd prefer, use the form below.

I look forward to serving you.

Wade

About the company:

Iterative Listening, LLC serves primarily small and emerging enterprises that seek to sell their innovation. With the company's cutting edge listening services, you can:

Dig deep inside the needs and values of your prospective customers.
Get teaching techniques used by cutting-edge master teachers, techniques that will help you better:

present your ideas more effectively at conferences, trade shows, seminars, and workshops.
increase your innovations' viral potential in just about any networking situation.
connect with what your customers need (as opposed to what you hope they want)
educate your employees, and help you keep them focused where you want them to be focused.

Develop the "listener mindset" that makes it easier to

teach prospects about the value of your innovation.
deal with the aggravating behaviors that even your best clients sometimes exhibit.
sell innovation to those who don't yet see a need to do something different.

The company offers a full line of tailored consulting services. No one-size-fits-all template here; whether its a confidential white paper, or a hands-on deep listening workshop for three or fifty-three, the tools of Iterative Listening are chosen for, and focused solely on, the individual needs of your company. Your customers. Your prospects. Your employees. Your organization. You.

Successful innovators change the world. Behind the tools of Iterative Listening is a simple mission: to help you do just that.

Change the world.

About the principal:

Wade Shilts has spent the last 30 years studying, teaching, and being a small businessperson. Along the way, he collected degrees in economics (Luther College and the University of Iowa), law (Washington University), and economic history (also Iowa).

He's managed a small town hardware store, practiced law, and, since 2007, been doing business as Iterative Listening, LLC.

In over two decades as a professional listener (i.e., teacher), Wade's classrooms have seen close to 2500 students. He's taught economics, history, law, and the humanities. He's listened to economics, history, and law with undergraduates at a major research university (Iowa), two liberal arts colleges (Central College, Luther College); and he's listened to the humanities with truck-drivers-in-training and non-traditional students at Kirkwood Community College. He's even spent a semester on-site listening with the employees of Iowa's only nuclear power plant.

Wade has published and presented dozens of papers, most of them on the economics of language and listening. He's observed hundreds of public presentations ranging from small academic conferences presenting preliminary work-in-progress to high-powered, multi-media conferences charging thousands of dollars per head. He's lost count of how many student papers he's read, but estimates the number passed 10,000 some time ago.

He believes in drawing lessons from wherever he can. Not to worry, though: he promises to bring up his passions for ancient Roman teachers of rhetoric and for novels of speculative fiction only when those passions will benefit you.

Wade’s free audio, “Teaching Skills for Copywriters,” can be downloaded from www.ListenMoreSellMore.com. Another, multiple-CD audio, “Selling the New: How Your Small Business Can More Effectively Market Its Innovation” will be available soon.

His e-book, Copywriting for the Small Business market: How to Find the 'Acres of Diamonds' in Your Own Back Yard, can be purchased by clicking here, then clicking through on the link to "Copywriting for the SOHO Market."

Phone: 563-380-6317
Fax: 563-562-3276
E-Mail: wade@thelisteningphd.com

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