Mastering the work from home reality we are in can be challenging for folks used to going to an office. There are things leaders can do to help their staff thrive in this new environment. Daniel Ramsey, founder and CEO of MyOutDesk joins me to share great insights around this. MyOutDesk is the highest-rated Virtual Assistant company in the marketplace with hundreds of 5-star reviews, and over 12 years of experience, serving more than 5000 clients – including over half of the RealTrends™ Top 10 t...
Apr 30, 2020•31 min
Spoiler alert: being a ‘hustling’ entrepreneur is the fast track to burnout, plateaued revenue, and boredom. James P. Friel explains how to jailbreak the overhyped grind to become a Visionary CEO. Extract yourself from day-to-day operations so you can work ON your business and focus on the future. James is an entrepreneur, consultant, and author who helps entrepreneurs systemize, grow, and scale their businesses by getting them out of the day-to-day operations of running their companies leaving ...
Apr 27, 2020•32 min
The business world has no shortage of baggage holding back growth. Micah Rowland joins me to talk about five of the most common problems businesses face today, and how you can turn those into growth opportunities. Micah isn’t your everyday builder. Maybe because he doesn’t build homes, cabinets, or even the software that he built during the earliest stages of his career. As Chief Operating Officer of Fountain, Micah builds people, teams, and processes that have taken multiple companies from 50 t...
Apr 23, 2020•40 min
Today I’m joined by Gerri Detweiler from Nav to talk about the funding programs for small businesses being offered by the government. Gerri breaks down each program, who’s eligible, and how to go about applying. Gerri is a leading, nationally recognized financing and credit expert, with more than 20 years of experience. During the 2008/2009 financial crisis, Gerri was interviewed hundreds of times, providing insightful expertise and actionable advice for traversing the turbulent landscape and un...
Apr 20, 2020•43 min
Lisa Magnuson shares valuable insights about what 41 Sales VP's have to say about their greatest challenges, especially when it comes to building a 5X deal engine. She’ll answer some questions like: Why is pre-call planning one of the most powerful tools in a seller's arsenal? Are 'War rooms' the norm in your company? If not, find out why they should be. Lisa has walked in the shoes of sales leaders, including small business owners. She was an award-winning sales manager and led the charge as a ...
Apr 20, 2020•44 min
The Cogent Analytics Profit Platform is comprised of the 4 interconnected pillars that directly contribute or detract from a businesses profitability. The four pillars include Business Development, Organizational Engineering, Operations, and Measurement. Rob Braiman, CEO and Founder of Cogent Analytics will discuss how Cogent Analytics uses the Profit Platform to help small to mid-market businesses across America become more profitable. Rob has a long-standing reputation as an entrepreneur. He h...
Apr 16, 2020•47 min
Stephen King joins me for another special episode of Accelerate Your Business Growth. He’s sharing some great insights for dealing with today’s business challenges. GrowthForce is providing a webinar that goes into greater detail on these steps. From bootstrapped tech founder to billion-dollar executive to non-profit fundraiser, Stephen brings a unique combination of vision, foresight, and experience to the world of CPAs. Regarded as one of the accounting industry’s top thought leaders, he’s cur...
Apr 13, 2020•35 min
We are in a very competitive job market. Unemployment rates are at a 50 year low. And more and more businesses are having difficulties recruiting the right talent. In this episode Atta Tarki will discuss how businesses can attract the right talent when "post-and-pray" job ads are no longer working. Atta is the author of the book Evidence-Based Recruiting and the CEO of ECA, a data-driven executive search firm helping private equity firms with their talent needs. Prior to founding ECA, Atta worke...
Apr 09, 2020•38 min
Randall LaVeau and Greg Shepard share valuable tips and ideas for guiding your business through the COVID-19 pandemic. They are also offering a free webinar series titled, Entrepreneur Crisis Management – COVID-19. In this series they will provide information and resources specifically for entrepreneurs and small businesses who are being impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Randall is a “Growth” expert with nearly 20 years of Sales, Marketing and Support leadership roles. As Chief Marketing Office...
Apr 06, 2020•41 min
If you’re a business professional or an entrepreneur wanting to supercharge your career or business, become financially prosperous, and make a huge impact in the world, this episode is for you. Victoria Lioznyansky will show you how to finally stop feeling like an imposter and to step in front of any audience with confidence, passion, and brilliance. Victoria teaches introverted entrepreneurs and business professionals how to overcome their fear of public speaking and become confident, compellin...
Mar 30, 2020•1 hr
As we all become adjusted to working remotely and meeting remotely we will also be presenting remotely. Getting it right is critical. But what does that mean? How do we look and sound our best? If we’re using visuals, (PowerPoint, Keynote, etc.) do they play a bigger role? (hint: YES THEY DO.) Join us as presentations coach Debbie Fay gives us the low-down on what it takes to create and deliver a remote presentation that gets and keeps the audience’s attention – and gets you the results you seek...
Mar 26, 2020•43 min
According to Return Path, more and more email correspondence is falling in to spam and promotions. And Matt Barnett tells us that to keep your brand relevant and your customers connected to your vision, personalized video is a medium any business can use to improve customer evangelism and conversions. Matt is a serial entrepreneur based out of Sydney AU, with a passion around changing conventional business communications through the power of personalized video messaging. His business, Bonjoro, i...
Mar 26, 2020•53 min
Taking the time to think thoroughly to establish a company's North Star will fundamentally change the approach to starting a business, from the initial steps you take to get it off the ground to how you approach and prepare for the eventual exit. Greg Shepard explains this and more in today’s episode. Greg is the CEO and founder of BOSS Capital Partners. He is a serial entrepreneur, author, speaker and angel venture capital investor with a legacy of building and running sustainable growth busine...
Mar 23, 2020•53 min
Known as the Disaster Avoidance Expert, Gleb protects leaders from disasters by developing the most effective decision-making strategies via his consulting, coaching, and training firm Disaster Avoidance Experts. He joins me to share valuable information about how to deal with our current challenges for the long term. Get ready – some of what he has to say is a little chilling. However, reality matters. Gleb shares not only why we tend to deal with these kinds of things for the short term instea...
Mar 21, 2020•41 min
Jason Bay joins me and shares his thoughts on how to nail your messaging, and grow your outbound sales. Jason is the Chief Revenue Officer at Blissful Prospecting. He does not believe that prospecting is “just a numbers game” or that it has to suck. The crew at Blissful Prospecting helps sales teams remove the mystery of what to say in their outbound calls and emails. Get a copy of what to say in an email by visiting Blissful Prospecting. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is ...
Mar 19, 2020•50 min
Geoff Atkinson joins us to explain the importance of optimizing our websites and focus on SEO consistently. Geoff is the former SVP of Marketing at Overstock.com where he introduced SEO and grew the organic channel from $0 to $300 million in the late 2000s. He is now the Founder-CEO of Huckabuy, a software company based in Park City, UT that is disrupting the $80B SEO services industry with a technology-based approach to the organic channel. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com ...
Mar 16, 2020•41 min
There are three ways to increase profit in business. More sales, higher prices, or lower costs. Each of those depend on leadership. Mike Lloyd shares some great insights and ideas about leadership. After 10 years as a professional photographer and educator, Mike took his knowledge of leadership, communication, and education to the commercial clients he shot for. He led sales trainings, worked on safety program reforms, and helped develop empowering team cultures and eliminated siloing among depa...
Mar 12, 2020•44 min
What if you could avoid some of the pitfalls of business ownership and growth? Wally Gustafson joins us to talk about this very thing. Wally is a small business owner with 19 years of entrepreneurial experience. He had investors in a startup company that eventually failed. He created without investors a basement business that turned into a multi-million-dollar online retail business. Wally has seen a 10-year trend of 25% YOY growth be followed by 4 years of 30% decline. He’s learned more about b...
Mar 09, 2020•41 min
Vlad Edelman joins me to discuss marketing automation, entrepreneurship, and productivity for small business owners. Vlad is the founder and CEO of Targetable, a marketing automation company that uses machine learning to program social campaigns for restaurants. Targetable has 20 employees, is projecting 3M in revenue for 2020, and a big contact with a globally recognized brand, Buffalo Wild Wings. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entert...
Mar 05, 2020•32 min
Gain access to funding even with personal credit challenges. Stephanie Lawrence provides us with specific steps to creating a business credit score. Stephanie is a Credit Specialist with 12 years of experience working on improving personal credit and building business credit. After struggling with her own credit challenges and paying double-digit interest rates, she said enough is enough and went on a mission to improve her own credit score over 200 points. Now it’s her mission to help small bus...
Feb 27, 2020•50 min
Time management expert Julie Morgenstern shares how to organize your day from start to finish to make the most of your time inside and outside of the office. Through her tips and strategies, you will learn how to create an environment that helps you thrive and avoid burnout. For over 30 years, Julie Morgenstern has been teaching people all around the world and at all stages of life how to overcome disorganization to achieve their goals. Her mission is to free each individual to make their unique...
Feb 24, 2020•59 min
Many CEOs and executives aspire but struggle to achieve work/life balance, leading to stress and guilt. Ari Rastegar joins us to share how hiring friends and family is the ultimate solution to finding this balance. Ari Rastegar is known for his specialized expertise in real estate and his contrarian investment strategies. He is considered a leader of the next generation of real estate managers. He founded his first real estate investment firm in 2006 while still in law school. He’s been recogniz...
Feb 20, 2020•39 min
As of 2019, 66% of companies allow their employees to work remotely while 16% of companies are fully remote. Ariel Schur helps us understand how employees can navigate working remotely, as well as how employers can maximize this concept. Ariel Schur, LCSW is the CEO and sole founder of ABS Staffing Solutions. Her high-touch, service-oriented approach has been a refreshing change to the industry. Ariel prides herself on developing highly customized relationships with clients so that they can find...
Feb 17, 2020•49 min
Dolores Hirschmann shares her thoughts on how to align your marketing, sales, and overall communication tactics to the CORNERSTONE IDEA of your business. Find out why it is important to move from talking about what you do to talking about what you stand for. Dolores Hirschmann is an internationally recognized STRATEGIST & COACH. She helps clients clarify their “idea worth sharing”, design their communication strategies, and implement business growth systems. Her clients become speakers and a...
Feb 13, 2020•45 min
In the digital age, video content is no longer exclusively controlled by traditional media. Anyone can record video and publish it across various social media platforms, but few are doing it. Rob Deptford shares why it's important for individuals and businesses to get on board, and how to do it well. Rob Deptford is a video creator, presenter and on-camera speaking coach with a background in broadcasting, marketing and communications, education management and leadership. He helps his clients lea...
Feb 10, 2020•32 min
Why do businesses fail? What kind of actions can we do right now to give us the best chance of success? Businessman and author Dan Cooper offer us some real-life, practical advice drawn from his own experiences and those leaders he serves in his KC based organization, Acumen. Dan Cooper is the co-author of a new book, Sharpen: A Guidebook for Business Ownership and Adventures in Leadership. He is also the co-founder of Acumen, a Kansas City area organization that exists to give business leaders ...
Feb 06, 2020•44 min
Sales technology is growing faster than ever before and sellers have a wide variety of tools available to them. Gessie Schechinger joins us to talk about the power of the tools in the market today and what will be available to your business in the next 5 years. Gessie Schechinger is the laziest salesman in America as well as Chief Revenue Officer for the OnCourse Sales Engagement Platform. Gessie is passionate about leveraging technology and automation to surpass revenue targets. He spends his t...
Feb 03, 2020•45 min
Oscar Trimboli joins me to share how listening is contextual and relational. Oscar is on a quest to create 100 million Deep Listeners in the world. Oscar is on a quest to create 100 million Deep Listeners in the world. He is an author, Host of the Apple Award winning podcast — Deep Listening and a sought-after keynote speaker. He is passionate about using the gift of listening to bring positive change in homes, workplaces and the world. Through his work with chairs, boards of directors and execu...
Jan 30, 2020•49 min
Scott Miller shares his tips on how to be the best manager and leader possible to bring out the best in your team no matter what level you are in your company. Scott serves as FranklinCovey’s executive vice president of thought leadership. He is the host of On Leadership with Scott Miller, a weekly leadership webcast, podcast, and newsletter that features interviews with renowned business titans, authors, and experts. Scott also authors a weekly leadership column for Inc.com and is a regular con...
Jan 27, 2020•47 min
Entrepreneurs start with a great idea and drive to succeed, but they are all faced with common challenges like gaining access to capital, gaining access to top talent, and meeting the needs of their customers. David Ciccarelli, CEO and co-founder of Voices.com, shares how the discipline of being intentional is the key to moving your company forward. David Ciccaarelli is an entrepreneur at heart. For the last decade, David, with the help of his team, has grown Voices.com from the ground up to bec...
Jan 23, 2020•57 min
