Eric Holtzclaw joins us to explain how, much like those awkward teenage years, companies experience an awkward growth phase where they need solid strategies in place to move them successfully from adolescence to maturity. Eric is a serial entrepreneur with 30 years of experience turning business concepts into revenue-making realities. Eric helped found of one of the first profitable Internet enterprises and a company that appeared on Inc.'s 5000 Fastest Growing list three years in a row. Eric is...
Jan 20, 2020•51 min
Matt Baker joins us to talk about how to make sure you have the money you need to be sustainable and grow. Matt is a money strategist and business coach who’s passionate about helping entrepreneurs solve their most challenging problems. As VP of Corporate Strategy and International Expansion at FreshBooks, Matt is helping millions of self-employed pro’s grow their businesses and get paid faster. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertain...
Jan 16, 2020•52 min
In this episode Ethan Beutet explains why adding video to your prospecting email is such a powerful tool. Learn how to start incorporating video into your prospecting process to dramatically enhance your results. Ethan is Chief Evangelist at BombBomb, a software company that helps working professionals rehumanize their businesses. Ethan believes that business relationships should be built upon conversation - active listening and honest feedback. Through BombBomb, he and his partner Steve are dis...
Jan 13, 2020•59 min
Rylee Meek shows us how dinner seminar campaigns bring both sale success and help business owners take their marketing to the next level. Rylee spent years working in sales and, although he was successful at it, he was selling things that he wasn't excited about. So he founded the Social Dynamic Selling System, a thriving company that has generated over $80 million in the past eight years. His passion is to teach business owners how they too can obtain predictable, sustainable and scalable incom...
Jan 09, 2020•36 min
Chris Shipferling joins me to uncover myths and share tips for successfully selling your business. Chris is the Managing Partner at Global Wired Advisors, where he advises and supports organizations of all sizes as they sell their digitally native or e-Commerce businesses. Chris and his team have built multiple online and e-commerce platforms and completed hundreds of business sales ranging from $1M to $40M+. Through personalized service and strategic planning, Chris and his team leverage their ...
Jan 06, 2020•45 min
Maria Pesin joins us to share some ideas on building your business through bootstrapping. Maria is a fashion industry consultant and senior apparel industry executive with more than 25 years of field experience. She is the author of 14 Essential Truths Everyone in the Fashion Business Should Know and the CEO of Vibe Consulting. She has constructed and implemented business plans for New York apparel giants like Fleet Street and GIII Apparel Group. Maria has a history of building multi-million-dol...
Dec 19, 2019•41 min
Kelly Glover shares how to build your brand and get more clients by being a guest on podcasts. Kelly is the CEO of The Talent Squad: a podcast booking and publicity agency, and has spent almost two decades working in media as a talent agent, radio host, podcast producer, and celebrity interviewer (I'm talking John Travolta and Joaquin Phoenix level). Her myriad experiences in media have allowed her to strategize like a marketer, act like a publicist, and teach business owners how to get from pit...
Dec 16, 2019•51 min
Did you know that multinational companies are looking to buy goods and services from woman, minority, LGBT, veteran and disability-owned businesses? Some business owners don’t realize these opportunities are out there; others get certified but don’t take advantage of the opportunities. This episode gives business owners practical tools for identifying opportunities for their diverse businesses and making the most of them to win new business. Liz Whitehead is the CEO of 12PointFive, a business de...
Dec 12, 2019•43 min
Research shows that strategic thinking is the most valued leadership skill in business, yet only 32% of organizations teach their managers how to facilitate strategic conversations. Rich Horwath, New York Times best-selling author, CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute, Trainer and Coach, shares how managers can shift from tactical to strategic thinking to set a clear strategic direction for their teams and succeed. As the CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute, Rich leads executive teams thr...
Dec 09, 2019•49 min
In this episode, Justin Goodbread shares tips and stories to help the listeners increase their business's value and determine the business's worth. Justin Goodbread, CFP®, CEPA®, CVGA®, owner of Heritage Investors and FinanciallySimple.com, is a nationally recognized financial planner, financial educator, wealth manager, author, speaker, and entrepreneur. Armed with 20+ years of experience starting, buying, growing, and selling businesses, Justin spends most of his time helping fellow business o...
Dec 05, 2019•48 min
There are steps you can take to protect yourself, your business, and your data. Computer scientist, Brian Gill, joins Diane in this episode to provide you with valuable tips to protect yourself from hackers. Brian is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and angel investor. As an expert in data recovery, he has spent the last 15 years digging people out of data disasters and helping businesses recover from cyber and storage disasters. Brian has dedicated himself to educating small business owners,...
Nov 25, 2019•58 min
Defining what’s “passed the startup stage” is challenging. Companies need to prove to their customers, partners and employees that they’ve moved on from the startup phase and are now a sophisticated business ready to take on more opportunities. To do so, they need to follow a few best practices, such as establishing formal HR policies, processes and training, and looking at potentially rebranding the company to reflect its growth and sophistication. Sean Chou serves as Chief Executive Officer an...
Nov 21, 2019•43 min
Kris Kluver joins me to discuss how to think like a client to distinguish oneself in the market and solve a problem better than anyone else. Niching down on opportunities to address client’s pain points using your own unique skill set is the key. Kris is a seasoned solopreneur who started his first company at age nineteen in Omaha, Nebraska. Since then, he has been directly involved in the creation, operation, growth, and occasional sale of more than twenty successful businesses raning from comm...
Nov 18, 2019•38 min
Author and Entrepreneur Chris Meroff discusses why alignment is so important in building a great organization where employees and team members are not only engaged, but fulfilled. Chris has spent more than 25 years supporting leaders in education at both the campus and district levels. Through his work in 17 states and across thousands of school districts, he’s seen firsthand the frustration administrators feel when their efforts don’t produce the alignment they desire. He’s made a career of tes...
Nov 14, 2019•31 min
Steve Kosch joins us to share some practical advice on how to present yourself to others. Steve knew what he wanted to do at an early age. That was to talk about the weather. He became a TV weatherman at age 15. Ten years later he was forecasting for ABC in Los Angeles, then Daily Reports on CNN. Now off the air, Steve guides CEOs, executives, and entrepreneurs to look and sound their best in presentations, in a speech or while giving the media an interview. Check out his YouTube channel. Today'...
Nov 11, 2019•57 min
Rob and Kennedy are with us today to share how to create deeper relationships with every subscriber on your list, and some creative campaigns that you can use to make more profit per subscriber – whilst making your list love you more. While surveys represent the ‘dead-end' in almost every business on the planet, Rob and Kennedy will share with you how you can use surveys as an incredible segmentation tool to make more sales, and shorten the time it takes you to get an ROI for every subscriber. R...
Nov 07, 2019•54 min
Aviv Shahar joins me to talk about leadership. He offers great insights and ideas around how business leaders can be more successful. Aviv Shahar is president of Aviv Consulting and a member of the Million Dollar Consulting Hall of Fame. For more than two decades, Aviv has helped leadership teams at Fortune 500 companies including Hewlett Packard, DuPont, Procter and Gamble, General Mills, Lufthansa, and Cisco create new futures. Aviv guides strategy and innovation efforts in ways that build bre...
Oct 31, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Brant Pindivic explains how weaving your most crucial points into a compelling, concise narrative structure can make or break your pitch, particularly with today’s “hyper-savvy” consumers. His methods have helped him sell projects and ideas in three minutes or less and can be applied to all aspects of your life from your job to your household. Brant Pinvidic is an award-winning film director, veteran television producer, C-level sales and presentations coach, keynote speaker, top-rated podcast h...
Oct 28, 2019•51 min
You are a Media Company is a marketing strategy that is focused on 3 things, your target market, understanding of your resources and your goals. Gresham Harkless joins me to explore. With more and more options to choose from businesses and organizations are bombarded with the latest and greatest shiny object (e.g. marketing platform or silver bullet). The secret is not that you should focus on every platform but follow this process to accomplish your goals. Gresham “Gresh” W. Harkless Jr. is the...
Oct 24, 2019•38 min
Kevin Lawrence brings what he’s learned from his extensive work with high-level achievers to today’s conversation. When a CEO begins to unravel, addictions start to kick in to escape the stress and their physical and mental health suffers. If you want to play the bigger game, you just need better tools. CEOs typically place their first call to Coach Kevin with a crisis to solve. They stay because of his business acumen and no-holds-barred, tell-it-like-it-is style. Kevin’s career spans 20 years,...
Oct 21, 2019•44 min
Bill Bice joins me today to talk about tackling effective marketing as a technology problem to drive business growth and compete with larger businesses. Having built or invested in over 25 companies, Bill has noticed some of the most common marketing pitfalls that companies have fallen into, and today he’s going to share how to avoid these. He will also give insight on why word of mouth marketing is so effective, and how to optimize the use of tools such as LinkedIn. Bill Bice is a serial entrep...
Oct 17, 2019•42 min
Thomas Young shares some great thoughts on the options we have to make our companies safe, secure, and fast to invest. Thomas is the Co-founder & VP of Marketing Ops at Rocket Dollar, a self-directed investment company that assists clients in invest securely and easily in real estate, precious metals, and more. Thomas is a marketing professional with years of experience in the start-up community. Young's close contact with many self-directed investors led him to identify a strong need for a ...
Oct 14, 2019•41 min
Keren Eldad joins us to talk about how overachievers can stop sabotaging their own success—or level of satisfaction after attaining superstar status. Certified Personal and Executive Coach, Organizational Leadership Consultant and Speaker, Keren Eldad, founder of With Enthusiasm™ Coaching. Eldad is an executive (leadership/career) coach of superstars famed for her work with overachievers, is a trusted advisor to industry-leading executives, acclaimed entrepreneurs who are setting records at the ...
Oct 10, 2019•51 min
Mark Ritter is here to discuss aspects of business lending and investments through credit unions. Mark is committed to providing you with alternative strategies for financing and lending through a credit union. Mark is the CEO of MBFS and specialist in credit unions and business lending. Aftre building Members 1st Federal Credit Union’s business lending programs into the top ten in the nation in the number of loans and balances outstanding for federal credit unions, ark took on the challenge of ...
Oct 07, 2019•48 min
Bill Coletti joins us to share how to prep your company and employees for a crisis, even if one never happens. If you are prepared for a crisis, the fallout won't be as bad, if there is fallout. Every company should be prepared for a crisis, big or small, in order to keep its positive reputation with the community. Bill Coletti, CEO, and Founder of Kith, is a reputation management, crisis communications and professional development expert, keynote speaker, Wall Street Journal Risk & Complian...
Sep 30, 2019•45 min
Bill Gallagher shares learnings on leadership and pitfalls gathered from 225 coaches working worldwide with leaders from over 2,000 businesses on rapid growth. Learn how to begin to overcome these common pitfalls. Bill Gallagher is an international business coach with over 30 years of entrepreneurial and executive experience. Bill has coached and trained others for the last 15 years and led 4 companies of his own. He was also a partner and executive in 2 others. Today, he coaches teams across ov...
Sep 23, 2019•56 min
Career expert Ariel Schur explains why you should avoid drama in the workplace and provides tips for rising above the gossip. She shares how it affects you internally and professionally, strategies to avoid it, and more. Ariel Schur, LCSW is the CEO and sole founder of ABS Staffing Solutions. Ariel prides herself on developing highly customized relationships with clients so that they can find the right employee matches for any and all employment needs. Ariel has set a new standard for the "bouti...
Sep 19, 2019•58 min
2/3 of Americans want more regulation of their personal data. Consumers are losing trust in businesses managing their data. Global privacy laws such as GDPR, the new EU privacy law that just celebrated its 1st anniversary, are sweeping the globe. California Consumer Privacy Act, affectionately known as CCPA, is effective in January 2020. Jodi Daniels explains that companies who comply with privacy laws and take privacy seriously, will earn customer trust and have a competitive edge over their co...
Sep 16, 2019•56 min
Obinna Morton joins the podcast to share information and tips for creating six kinds of content an entrepreneur can use to market their business: website copy, newsletters, blogging, news releases, infographics and e-books. Obinna is a content writer and entrepreneur. She has a freelance writing business called Turns of Phrase, where she helps businesses to tell their stories with content. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment a...
Sep 09, 2019•32 min
Damian Mason shares insights from his new book Do Business Better. Damian is a self-made businessman, agriculturalist, speaker, podcaster, author, consultant, and occasional TV news guest. He knows about starting a business from scratch because he chucked his “normal job" in 1994, creating a business of political comedy after winning a costume contest. Damian Mason reinvented himself multiple times, through successes and failures. He travels the world teaching people how to adapt their business ...
Aug 29, 2019•49 min
