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Accelerate Your Business Growth

Featured on Inc.com's list of 100 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter, Better, and Wiser, MSNBC's Your Business, and on the Fit Small Business list of best small business podcasts, this show is designed to help small business owners, salespeople, and new entrepreneurs with the various aspects of business success. We have a great lineup of guests and topics scheduled. We’ll be talking about everything from sales to employee issues; from technology to social media; from work-life balance to exploring uncharted territory. The host, Diane Helbig's goal is to help you remove challenges so that you can realize your own success with your business. Be sure to subscribe to the iTunes channel or follow this podcast so you never miss an episode! Small business owners face challenges in a variety of areas throughout their ownership journey. For some the challenge is creating a sales strategy that brings results. For others dealing with employees can be very challenging. Growing pains come up at startup, growth, and exit. Marketing and branding are two topics that can be confusing for businessowners. Leadership and communication are also areas where leaders struggle. Finding answers, ideas, resources, and tools can make the journey easier. The guests who join Diane are experts in their fields. They provide actional expertise so the small business owner, leader, or salesperson can put those ideas into action. The host, Diane Helbig, has over 20 years of experience in business leadership and sales. She advises small business owners and trains professionals on leadership, selling, customer service, and time management. The podcast provides her with another way to get valuable information in front of businessowners, sales professionals, and business leaders. No matter what country you are in, from the United States to Canada to Australia to the European Union, the answers in each episode are valuable. Leaders in every industry can connect with the experts and learn from them. What’s your pain? Succession planning? Marketing? Business growth? Hiring? Legal and/or accounting issues? Family business challenges? Sales? Strategic planning? Dealing with employees? Creating structure and process? Networking successfully? Prospecting? Account management? Using discovery to grow? If it’s a business topic we have the guests who can help you. Many guests are bestselling authors and offer free resources or promotions on their products or services. Some of them have podcasts as well so you can tap into their guests as well. The guests have been curated from all over the world to bring you relevant, timely ideas you can implement immediately. Some evergreen topics include: podcasting, branding, marketing a small business, social media marketing, business systems, entrepreneurial dreams, leaving a legacy, team building, servant leadership, SEO, cashflow, emotional intelligence, cold outreach, cold calling, investing, ideal client, bottom line, sales development, adaptive leadership, feedback, workforce development, decision making, profit, goal setting, trust based selling, personal brand, mindset, scale small business, fear of selling, marketing strategies, LinkedIn, revenue generating, click funnels, lead generation, how to sell more, negotiation, digital marketing, small business tax, culture.
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Mastering Your Mindset

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Dec 28, 202039 min

How To Create 1 Year Of Marketing Content In 5 Days

Do you feel overwhelmed with marketing? What if you could eliminate social media anxiety? Are you confused by email funnels and SEO? Elizabeth Pampalone joins me to share the elements of her Absolute Marketing™ system. Elizabeth Pampalone is an International Speaker, Successful Entrepreneur, and Expert Marketer with over 20 years of experience. Her innovative approach helps overwhelmed business owners and burnt out nonprofit directors to achieve success and freedom through the power of Absolute ...

Dec 21, 202051 min

How To Make A Plan To Achieve The Financial Year Of Your Dreams

Mark Butler joins us to speak to the connection between fear and your financial future. In addition to the mindset work, Mark shares practical tips on how you can start looking at your business's financial information as a roadmap to help you predict and influence your future revenue! Mark is the founder of the accounting startup Let's Do the Books, as well as the bookkeeper and CFO to top online entrepreneurs like Brooke Castillo. Before working in finance, Mark co-founded three online business...

Dec 17, 202039 min

Create A Championship Team of Advisors

In this episode, Al Zdenek explains how the guidance and advice you receive from your advisors like your CPA, Attorney, Insurance Agent, Banker, members of your Board and others can determine whether your business thrives or fails. They can help determine how long and how hard you work in life. They can help determine the cash flow you have to live the life you want now and in the future. How does your expert team stack up? A nationally acclaimed speaker, best-selling author, and industry-leadin...

Dec 14, 202039 min

The Good Culture

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Dec 10, 202046 min

Autopilot Your Business

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Dec 07, 202042 min

Why Everything Leaders Are Taught About Growth Is Wrong

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Nov 30, 202044 min

Succeed Without Selling

This is a special episode featuring me, Diane Helbig, and my new book, Succeed Without Selling. I'm sharing my goals for writing the book as well as what you'll find in between the covers. Know a small business owner or salesperson? Share this episode with them. And get them the book as a gift. They'll thank you for it! There's no need to struggle with a sales process. Get the results you are looking for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Nov 23, 202010 min

What PPP Revealed About Small Business Loans

In this episode, Nav CEO and small business expert Greg Ott will discuss the tough lessons that many business owners learned in the past few months, how that’s impacted SMB financing as a whole, and how business owners can position themselves for a more secure financial future. Greg is the CEO of Nav, a fintech company that helps small businesses access capital and make informed financial decisions. Greg has over twenty years experience leading both startups and Fortune 1000 corporations. He’s b...

Nov 23, 202044 min

Why Having a Business Mentor is Essential to Success

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Nov 19, 202034 min

Simplify Your Strategy

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Nov 16, 202048 min

Artificial Intelligence For Sales

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Nov 12, 202046 min

How To Grow Your Business

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Nov 09, 202048 min

Using YouTube To Build A Brand

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Nov 05, 202052 min

How To Take The Guesswork Out Of Growth

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Oct 29, 202043 min

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Oct 26, 202048 min

How to Avoid the Silent Business Killer

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Oct 22, 202040 min

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Oct 19, 202050 min

Grappling with the Gray

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Oct 15, 202043 min

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Oct 12, 202046 min

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Oct 08, 202053 min

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Oct 05, 202040 min

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Sep 28, 202036 min

How To Generate High-Value Leads On LinkedIn

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Sep 24, 202040 min

Marketing To Gen Z

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Sep 21, 202051 min

Abandon Your Vision

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Sep 17, 202038 min

The Dignity of Work

When people matter, business problems are no longer a barrier. Audie Penn joins me to explain the value of communicating what is important and participating in creating a flourishing organizational community. Audie Penn is the Principal & Owner of AUDIE PENN CONSULTING. Audie has been working and consulting for over 30 years providing different services to several Fortune 50 companies in diverse industries and organizations. His approach is a lean transformation by applying training, coachin...

Sep 14, 202057 min

How to Automate Everything

Using software to automate basic functions can save you time and money so you have one less thing to worry about in a time where the most important thing is to be with family, not worried about how or even if you are going to be able to do your job. Dan Moore shares some great ideas on how to accomplish automation that works. After brief stints in Enterprise and mid-market data center service providers, Dan co-founded Vaporware to help entrepreneurs take their software ideas to market. Over the ...

Sep 10, 202042 min

5 Often Overlooked Business Mistakes

In this episode Patricia Stallworth joins Diane to explore five costly mistakes business owners make that can not only cost them money but possibly their business as well. The discussion includes strategies to avoid or mitigate these mistakes so business owners can not only build sustainable businesses but thrive. And, with proper planning they can do this regardless of what’s going on in the economy. Patricia Stallworth, a.k.a. the profit coach, teaches business owners how to get back to basics...

Aug 31, 202038 min

Automation In Business

Will Christensen joins Diane to discuss the pros and cons of automation, how automation can help you get back time from repetitive processes and the tests to use when you are deciding whether a process can or should be automated. With over a decade of business development experience, it's safe to say Will Christensen has an elevated passion for fulfilling what the end user desires and efficiently working towards faster iterations. He is the co-founder of DataAutomation and also heads up business...

Aug 27, 202057 min
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