Jennifer Peek discusses with us how to maximize business value to sell it profitably. Jennifer provides clients with key strategic insights while helping them develop plans to execute on their visions - profitably. At Peek Advisory Group, she consults with executives and business owners to identify business gaps and opportunities to increase value and prepare them for the next stage of business evolution - from growth to varied exit strategies. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com and Gusto....
Aug 26, 2019•59 min
Tune in to hear John Warrillow share a new wave of research into business owners and their readiness to exit their business. Today, 3 in 4 owners end up regretting the decision to exit their company just one year after the sale. Why wouldn’t they be happy as clams? Owners are likely to skip four preparation steps they need to complete well in advance of selling to have a happy (and lucrative) exit. John is an entrepreneur and author with over 20 years of research experience into the small and me...
Aug 22, 2019•47 min
Accelerate your business growth through finding the government contracting opportunity that is right for you and your business! Jean Kristensen shares powerful information about how to successfully work with the government. Jean is a founder, advocate and minority and women business enterprise growth specialist, on a mission to help others achieve their mission by supporting budding entrepreneurs, government agencies, and prime contractors as they bring their businesses to the next level. In add...
Aug 19, 2019•37 min
Bradley Benner shares some amazing and free google tools for small business. Bradley is a self-proclaimed addict when it comes to digital marketing. He’s the co-founder of Semantic Mastery, as well as owner/founder of Big Bamboo Marketing. With a unique skill set, Bradley provides digital marketers and business owners with the tools, training, and insights they need to make more money, get better clients, and work less. Together with his team at Semantic Mastery, Bradley consistently delivers pr...
Aug 15, 2019•1 hr 2 min
If your employees aren’t happy, your customers won’t be either! Developing strong relationships with employees is essential to fulfilling the mission of your organization. Ed Leigh will share the following top tips: providing low- and no-cost rewards to motivate people, handling difficult employees, using clear and concise in communication and developing wellness programs to keep employees healthy and alert! Edward Leigh is an expert on employee engagement and customer engagement. He focuses on ...
Aug 12, 2019•44 min
Trivinia Barber joins me to talk about the best practices to hire a virtual assistant, how to ensure they're the right fit for your team, and the importance of outsourcing outcomes, not tasks. Trivinia is a straight shooter who uses her talents to help entrepreneurs maximize their time by effectively outsourcing. Founder/Owner of Priority VA, host of Diary of a Doer and mom of 4, Trivinia has mastered delegation and teaches others how to achieve success through this skill. Check out her podcast,...
Aug 08, 2019•44 min
Ali Smith joins us today to discuss how this can be done in the most simple fashion, along with unveiling some of the most common trademark misconceptions. Ali Smith is the Product Marketing Manager for Trademark.com. She has worked on intellectual property SaaS solutions for the last several years of her marketing career, and believes in making world-class resources available, accessible, and affordable to businesses of all sizes. Based in Boston, MA, Ali holds an MBA from the University of War...
Aug 05, 2019•49 min
Learn the simple secret to being your own publicist. Not only CAN you do your own PR, the skills you learn in the process will make you a better businessperson in the process, and our next guest believes every entrepreneur SHOULD hold their own highly valuable media relationships. Heather Hawkins is a visibility coach who helps entrepreneurs build wildly visible personal brands using earned media awareness. Over a 20+ year career, she's helped catapult massive brands like Sony, Sega, divisions o...
Jul 29, 2019•48 min
Kim Dawson, host of the Sassy Strategist, joins me to talk about effective pricing, the value of niching, and pricing strategies that work. Kim is a business strategist specializing in helping creative and professional service-based business owners and solopreneurs connect their ambition to their results by focusing on revenue generation, pricing, sales, niching, business development, and growth. By working hand-in-hand with clients to create more efficient businesses that generate higher profit...
Jul 25, 2019•1 hr
Wondering how to grow your business by connection and collaboration? Tune in to hear what Maria Dismondy has to share about working with influencers in your market. Award-winning author and founder of the publishing company, Cardinal Rule Press, Maria Dismondy inspires and educates others in the book industry. When Maria isn’t working, she can be found embarking on adventures throughout southeast Michigan and beyond, where she lives with her husband and three book-loving children. Today's show i...
Jul 22, 2019•49 min
Mario Nawfal joins me to share his insights about how to not only deal with challenges and adversity, but to succeed in spite of it. Mario is the founder of Athena Group of Companies, a business conglomerate operating in more than 40 countries. He had bootstrapped his first business at the age of 22, with $300 in his bank account, selling blenders door to door which led to Froothie Australia. He made his first million in year one and 8 figures by year 2. Mario has since then scaled to over 30 co...
Jul 18, 2019•49 min
While strategies and business principles are important, it's also critical to build a company culture based upon integrity and extend these core values to clients and their businesses. Businesses thrive on transparency and trust. Rob Braiman joins me to share how core values will help your business become more successful, and how you can make an impact on the business world at large. Rob has spent the past 15 years working with business owners to improve strategic planning, operations, growth, a...
Jul 15, 2019•55 min
In this lively and engaging ‘conversation starter’, Liz Dederer joins me to break down the social and emotional barriers that prevent us from feeling powerful in life’s most important conversations and leave you excited and prepared to talk about money with confidence, authority and ease!! Liz Dederer is Disrupting Sales For Good™. As Founder & CEO of Selling With Service, Liz and her team have helped clients increase close rates from 0% to 80% in 30 days, end the year 50% over plan and have...
Jul 11, 2019•42 min
There are 4 distinct phases of entrepreneurship, and knowing which phase you're in is crucial to business growth. In this episode, author Chris Cooper will teach you how to identify which entrepreneurial phase you're in, and how to move on to the next one quickly. When his first business almost went bankrupt, Chris sought a mentor and began chronicling his turnaround. That experience led to his first book, Two-Brain Business. After thousands of hours spent one-on-one with business owners, hundre...
Jul 08, 2019•54 min
Tap into the power of your breath & mindset for success using fast, simple and powerful tools in the moment, to enhance clarity, creativity and productivity. Sandy Abrams joins us to share how to breathe through workplace challenges, reach your goals, and how the simple practice of breath can lead to success.. Sandy Abrams is the founder of Moisture Jamzz, the author of Your Idea, Inc., and Breathe To Succeed. She is a contributor on HuffPost and Thrive Global. She credits her entrepreneuria...
Jul 01, 2019•55 min
Do you know the 7 phases of transformation? You need to! And Willard Barth joins me to fill us in. From ignorance to influence, discover the phases we all must go through to succeed. Willard Barth has been involved in the field of human behavior, personal and professional development for close to 30 years. The biggest lesson Willard learned from his time developing numerous businesses in various industries (retail sales, entertainment, software development, marketing, real estate, event manageme...
Jun 24, 2019•47 min
Discover what you need to know to ensure you are growing and succeeding in your business. Monte Wyatt shares the 5 disciplines as well as other important guidance in this episode. Monte is one of the top coaches at ActionCOACH®, the largest and most successful global business coaching franchise. He brings over 25 years of remarkable leadership, business and personal development experience to business owners. Monte is also CEO of ADDING ZEROS whose sole propose it to work with executives to achie...
Jun 20, 2019•43 min
It’s the picture of the future that drives strategy and goals for a company. And it takes everyone embracing the vision in order for it to become reality. This is Jill Valdez’s strategy for helping companies get everyone inspired to action for the shared accomplishment of achieving the vision. And she joins us to share her views. Jill Valdez has been helping corporations for over 18 years create systems and develop efficient processes. Her passion for people living a life of purpose compelled he...
Jun 17, 2019•46 min
To e effective, everyone in an organization needs to influence others. From selling ideas to gaining consensus to handling difficult people, persuasive people get more done. Mike Schmidtmann provides great insights into how to be persuasive without being pushy. Mike Schmidtmann has led Information Technology sales teams for over 20 years. He currently works with organizations across the US on sales recruiting, new business development, and profit growth. For the past five years, Mike has facilit...
Jun 13, 2019•55 min
Digital marketing works well when the audience is there. Sometimes it makes sense to combine marketing venues so you maximize your efforts. Ryan Cote joins us to share some ideas on this topic. Ryan Cote is the Director of Digital Services and Partner at Ballantine, a third generation family-owned direct mail and digital marketing company based out of Fairfield, NJ. With Ballantine since 2003, a family-owned business started in 1966 by his great-uncle, Ryan now manages the growing digital market...
Jun 10, 2019•41 min
In this episode, our guest Brad Sugar will give us some tips for starting a small business in the right direction. He will also give us advice on how to avoid losing our company and what it takes to become the best version of our business. Brad Sugars is the founder of ActionCOACH®, the largest and most successful global business coaching franchise. As leaders in business coaching, he and his team work with tens of thousands of business owners and entrepreneurs in more than 70 countries helping ...
Jun 03, 2019•52 min
Monica Shah joins me to talk about how we can overcome any difficult relationships with have with money so we can become debt free and grow our revenue. After getting her MBA from Kellogg School of Management and in her first year as a business owner, Monica was $25,000 in debt. After paying close attention to her numbers and identifying what made money the fastest she was able to end up with no debt and $12,000 in savings. Since founding Revenue Breakthrough, Monica has become an expert at help...
May 30, 2019•47 min
Mark Willis is a man on a mission to help you think differently about banks, Wall Street’s abuses and from financial uncertainty. After graduating with six figures of student loan debt and discovering a way to turn his debt into real wealth as he watched everybody lose their retirement investments and home equity in 2008, he knew that he needed to find a sane way to meet his financial objectives and those of his clients. Mark is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, a #1 Best Selling Author and the ow...
May 23, 2019•45 min
There are over 20 ways that companies' policies, procedures and practices drive customers away to alternatives. David Arvin provides a multitude of strategies and tactics that businesses can use to attract and retain new customers. David Avrin, CSP has become one of the most popular speakers on customer experience in the world today. In recent years, David has presented for enthusiastic organizations and audiences in 22 countries on 6 continents. A former CEO group leader and an in-demand speake...
May 20, 2019•54 min
Entrepreneurs who create products through crowdfunded campaigns sometimes have problems determining how and where to sell their products. There are ways for creators to develop a strategy to sell their products both in the U.S. and internationally. We The People’s Nison Chan shares tips on how to take a crowdfunded product global. Nison Chan is a co-founder and managing director of purchasing & brand management for We The People and is responsible for new product acquisition and creator comm...
May 16, 2019•28 min
Gerri Detweiler, joins us to talk about the importance of building business credit. Credit expert Gerri Detweiler is the Education Director for Nav, which provides businessowners with tools to build strong business credit and financially healthy companies. She’s been interviewed in more than 3000 news stories. Her articles have been widely syndicated, and she is the author or coauthor of five books, including Finance Your Own Business: Get on the Financing Fast Track. She has hosted her own radi...
May 13, 2019•50 min
Using the social platforms to grow your business is a great idea. Of course, that's provided you do it well. Jonathan Soares joins us to share his strategy for social selling. Jonathan Soares is the Founder & CEO at Agency Labs. Founded in 2011, the firm is a trusted engineering partner to leading digital, creative and advertising agency teams. The foundation of Agency Labs’ business stems from a disciplined approach to open source technologies, technical advisory, quality development, thoro...
May 09, 2019•35 min
Discover the 3 must-do steps that are universal to all business exits with Ashley Micciche. This episode will inspire you to get unstuck and make progress toward a successful exit. Ashley Micciche is the CEO of True North Retirement Advisors, an independent financial advisory firm managing $230 million in client assets, and located just outside of Portland, Oregon. It's a family business, that she owns with her father. Ashley specializes in helping small business owners exit their business &...
May 06, 2019•44 min
Studies prove that companies ranked high for ethics grow faster and outperform companies that don't. What’s more, half a trillion dollars in productivity is lost every year in the United States because of employee disengagement and workplace conflict. Yonason Goldson will join me to discuss how and why organizations that radiate ethical values automatically generate enthusiastic employees, loyal followers, and higher profits. Yonason Goldson is director of Ethical Imperatives, LLC, teaching prof...
Apr 29, 2019•1 hr 1 min
Learn the tips and tricks to scoring free publicity for your business or brand without wasting time or money. Heather Saffer shares the secrets your competitors won't tell you and publicists don't want you to know. Heather Saffer is the founder of Dollop Gourmet; a better-for-you frosting brand sold in thousands of major retail stores. Heather is a winner of Food Network's Cupcakes Wars and author of two bestselling cookbooks. Heather has been featured on Shark Tank, QVC, Forbes, Huffington Post...
Apr 22, 2019•40 min
