Hey guys Ken Courtright here with Today’s Growth Growing Business Today. I’m in my office in beautiful Minooka it’s Memorial Day and what a beautiful day. I want to take a moment to recognize our veterans and the people that risk their lives on a daily basis in our armed services. We just got done doing a 3 part series on the “ask is everything” and I want to piggyback that idea and transfer it to the interview or hiring process. After speaking to all of the business owners we’ve spoken to espec...
Jun 01, 2016•14 min
Hey guys Ken Courtright from Today’s Growth Growing Business Today. This episode 59 part three of the ask is everything with a subtitle of Build it First. We are hitting every possible angle that can effect a business. I think we can agree that the book Think and Grow Rich was the book that started the age of the mastermind group. It was a book about collective wisdom, get you in the challenge, can’t get you out of the challenge. That being said I believe there is a lot to be said about seeking ...
May 30, 2016•8 min
Hey guys Ken Courtright here with Today’s Growth Growing Business Today. We are trying to hit every small aspect of what it takes to grow a business. Today we have are second part of a series called The Ask Is Everything. I wasn’t real clear on how to earn the right to ask for the order. So I want to take some time to clear that up before I jump back into the meat of the topic. When it comes to earning the right to ask for the order I call it the “right to sell” and it’s based on our websites “r...
May 27, 2016•12 min
Hey guys Ken Courtright here from Today’s Growth Growing Business Today. This the podcast that takes a look at everything and anything that affects businesses from every angle. This one is gonna be an awesome podcast. This one is titled “The Ask Is Everything”. My next book Guerilla Marketing will be my longest and it is titled “The Success Wheel” and I have a podcast that will be dedicated just to that book. The following book will be titled “The Ask is Everything”. I’m gonna do a series on thi...
May 25, 2016•11 min
Hey guys Ken Courtright here with Todays Growth Growing Business Today. This is episode 56 and I’m dealing with a bit of allergies today so bare with me. The name of this podcast is “Customers Need to Connect” In the early 1960’s ABC was the newest network TV channel and they landed their biggest contract at the time; NCAA Football games. The problem was is that no one watched college football at the time. If you lived in Ohio you did watch what Illinois was doing. People went to the games. They...
May 23, 2016•9 min
Hey everyone Ken Courtright here from Today’s Growth Growing business today. This podcast is called Need To Be Heard. After being on Bill McCluskey’s excellent customer service podcast which will be out in June. After being on the podcast the question’s Bill asked made me go back and want to change this one. This podcast revolves around your customer’s and your clients “need to be heard”. It’s a physical need. Many of you know we have two sides to the company, one side builds authority sites for...
May 20, 2016•15 min
Hey folks it’s Ken Courtright with Today’s Growth Growing Business Today. Todays episode is called the Power of Belonging. Of the top 10 reasons why a person stays at a job for more than two years the 7th reason is pay. There are 6 more important reasons for longevity. A few of them are being part of a team, having their voice heard, being respected and having their opinions matter. So which reasons are heavier the amount of money they make or being part of a team? Being part of a team obviously...
May 18, 2016•9 min
Hey guys Ken Courtright here with Today’s Growth Growing Business Today this may be my world record shortest podcast. Sometimes the devil is in the details. I was just reminded this week that we set an appointment at 6:35am awhile back. The gist of the story goes something like this. We were running a radio ad on the East Coast, a person heard the ad, went to the domain call the number on the domain and called. Low and behold we had a live operator and we set up an appointment for the next day a...
May 16, 2016•6 min
Hey guys Ken Courtright from Today’s Growth Growing Business Today this is episode 52 titled “Do It Your Way” This episode is about doing your own business your way. I’ve been talking over the last 51 episodes about mentorship, leadership, reading books, branding yourself and I was really looking forward to this podcast to counterbalance the last 6 podcasts where I talked about the Four Hour Work Week, reading your emails at a certain time. I realize not everyone is wired that way, sometimes peo...
May 13, 2016•10 min
Hey guys Ken Courtright here with Today’s Growth Growing Business Today, I wanted to do a series on some things I see out there. Some of these nuggets aren’t for everyone but for some I think they can really help. This one in particular is for the larger business out there. One of the biggest mistakes we are seeing as growth consultants from the bigger businesses out there is that these particular business aren’t starving yet. Businesses get soft after generating revenue for so long. Sometimes i...
May 11, 2016•11 min
Hey guys Ken Courtright here with Today’s Growth Growing Business Today. This is episode 50 titles “Mentorship” I just spent the last few days with New Peaks Global Mastermind Group. 40 Amazing people. I found myself as I sat listening to people a few common themes. There were a number of books that I continued to recommend that were ten to 30 years old. At the time they were best sellers. I’m sensing a shift to real fundamental business practices but I’m also sensing that people think the inter...
May 09, 2016•13 min
The #1 Industry that will be around until the end of time? The digital industry that keeps growing– Digital Marketing, the world wide web– We use it every day, so why not bite into it a little more and dissect and learn what the number one industry is? For a full transcription of this Podcast, you’ll want to see below for all the details. Hi everyone Ken Courtright here from Today’s Growth Growing Business Today. This is episode 49. I am calling this the Number One Industry World Wide. This is p...
May 06, 2016•15 min
Hi Everyone. Ken Courtright here from Today’s Growth Growing Business Today. This is episode 48. It’s called don’t called “Don’t get good, get done.” This is in response, as a matter of fact, these next 3 podcasts are in response to spending last week in Las Vegas. I spent it with GNP. New Peaks Global Mastermind Program. They have a group of people that put some money in and collectively get together a few times a year and they bring in mentors and coaches. It’s a tremendous week long master mi...
May 04, 2016•10 min
Hey Guys…Ken Courtright here from Today’s Growth Growing Business Today. This is part 2 of our Time is Money series. Part 2 of a 2 part series. So I am going to jump right in. Our last podcast on Time is Money hit home on our three methods or three approaches as to how to tackle what goes into your time. I think I did Method 1. Anything and everything approach that inevitably leads to people being efficient and effect. Method 2: Causal Management. That is where you physically cause things to hap...
May 02, 2016•15 min
Hey guys. Ken Courtright here from Today’s Growth Growing Business Today and as usual I am loving this podcast. Let’s call it. Time is money. This podcast speaks to entrepreneurs out there. It speaks to leaders, heads of sales departments, quite frankly anybody responsible that a dollar amount is hit or an amount of revenue comes in. Not only comes in but keeps on coming. So this is a very sensitive topic for me because I wrestled with it my first decade in business. I would say I won sometimes....
Apr 29, 2016•18 min
Hey guys. Ken Courtright here from Today’s Growth Growing Business Today. This is gonna be a pretty cool podcast because we just did a 4 part pod cast series if you will on motivation. Now that we are all motivated to act we are ready to rock and roll. Where do we go next? Let’s assume you are business but you want to fine tune things. Or you are in business, but the numbers aren’t quite there. Or you are in business and you know you should have done 3 to 4 times more business and you cannot fig...
Apr 27, 2016•25 min
Hey guys, Ken Courtright from Today’s Growth Growing Business today. This is part 4 of the 4 part series. It is what I am calling the Oreo sandwich of purpose and dreaming and your Why. Sandwiched around the struggles in business and struggles in life. So I started the first one, talking about purpose, dream and how my wife just blew the audience away last week at Digital Footprint. Then I went into some pretty cool things about struggles and how I personally stacked verticals to stay focused an...
Apr 25, 2016•18 min
Hey guys. Ken Courtright here from Today’s Growth Growing Business Today. This is part 3 of a 4 part series. It’s kinda of an oreo cookie. It’s a sandwich starting off with purpose and dream and the Why. In the middle of it, the frosting, basically is struggles. Are they necessary? Who struggles? How many people struggle? What types of struggles are out there in business? The other side of the cookie is again, purpose, dream and why. We are still in the center of this cookie. Instead of sweet st...
Apr 22, 2016•20 min
Purpose | Dreams | Struggles Hey guys. Ken Courtright from Today’s Growth Growing Business Today. This is part 2 of the 4 part series on what I am going to call Purpose Dreams Struggles, the Why. All motivational type of stuff. Just got done with our digital footprint Philadelphia and I was very swayed by my wife’s talk that I took out a few of the upcoming podcasts. We can do those later. They were very tactical and it is critical that I put into this podcast series we are on podcast 41 or 42. ...
Apr 20, 2016•15 min
How Many of You Have Been Susceptible To The Negative Influences of Other People Hey guys, Ken Courtright here from Today’s Growth Growing Business Today. I am completely adjusting the next 4 part series in this podcast. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking coming off our digital footprint in Philadelphia. We had some incredible speakers and I had a 3 part episode lined up on selling . How to sell how to ask for the order, how to overcome objections, things like that. And I just can’t help that I h...
Apr 18, 2016•13 min
He guys Ken Courtright here it is Friday April 15th one week after our Friday session of our Digital Footprint Conference in Philadelphia. I wanted mention several nuggets and I thought one of the best came from Jeff Hoffman founder of Priceline.com. He was waiting in line for about an hour for a boarding pass some years ago. When he got up to the ticket person the person pressed a button and printed a boarding pass. It took 5 seconds. Jeff Turned to the growing crowd behind him and asked if I c...
Apr 15, 2016•19 min
I am in the middle of a series on how the internet creates blind spots. This podcast is dedicated to really just exposing some of the larger websites out there and what they have done for the people that have started them. Like Lynda.com, LinkedIn just bought this for 1.4 billion. Then there is WebMD. It was started by a couple people. It ended up having 3 writers to 500. I just checked I think it 562 million dollars last year. That is a half a billion dollars for a single website. How Did The M...
Apr 13, 2016•13 min
Story Of The Barefoot Spirit Hey guys. I love the title of the podcast. Today’s Growth Growing Business Today because it forces me a couple times a year to look at are we growing businesses today? Or am I using techniques from the 80’s 90’s and even 10 years ago. I caught myself a couple weekends ago telling a story that I have told about 100 times. We have a number of website partners. A lot of them have achieved greatness. One of our partners, Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey are one such co...
Apr 11, 2016•16 min
Why “Tell More – Sell More” no longer works. Pre-Internet, a case could be made that if a given sales rep simply made the most calls in the office, chances were that they would end the month on top. There’s many reasons for this, such as, * The “deserve factor” leading to transference of feelings… * Law of #’s * Experience… whoever makes the most calls fields the most questions, thus, builds up a war chest of perfect responses to questions from the absurd to obvious. * “Making the most calls” is...
Apr 08, 2016•14 min
Why “Tell More – Sell More” no longer works. Pre-Internet, a case could be made that if a given sales rep simply made the most calls in the office, chances were that they would end the month on top. There’s many reasons for this, such as, * The “deserve factor” leading to transference of feelings… * Law of #’s * Experience… whoever makes the most calls fields the most questions, thus, builds up a war chest of perfect responses to questions from the absurd to obvious. * “Making the most calls” is...
Apr 06, 2016•15 min
CEO Space and Secret Knock With Greg S. Reid Hey guys. This week’s podcasts are dedicated to a couple weeks I spent at CEO Space and Secret Knock. And I was at these events, both speaking but most importantly, really listening. I had the Q-Tips out. So, this podcast would be called getting paid for stuff you are already doing. I got the idea for this podcast cuz I was sitting at Secret Knock and I was overhearing Bernie Doorman the founder of CEO space talk about he was taking counsel. I want to...
Apr 04, 2016•14 min
Hey guys, Ken Courtright here, hittin’ a podcast from a pretty different angle than usual. I am going to call this podcast “The Room for Improvement.” I hinted on something like this a couple weeks ago, but again, I am coming off a two-week tour of CEO Space for a week and Secret Knock for a few days and spending a lot of time with a lot of intelligent people, but more importantly, spending a lot of time with very driven, very aggressive entrepreneurs that are what I believe tilted or slanted a ...
Apr 01, 2016•15 min
Hey guys, Ken Courtright here from Today’s Growth: Growing Business Today. I am in the middle of a series right now; I am podcasting right now about stuff that I am paying very close attention to while I am away. If I am out there speaking or teaching at CEO Space, when I get done teaching, I am going right into the audience to listen to the next round of speakers, teachers, and mentors coming in. I am there with notepads, and I am taking notes. Most importantly, I am sitting there paying as clo...
Mar 30, 2016•17 min
Hey, Ken Courtright here after two weeks on the road. I went to teach at CEO Space in Lake Las Vegas as I do five times a year, but I also spoke on Secret Knock, Greg Reid’s invite-only, exclusive club based on his international best-selling book Three Feet from Gold. I spoke there, and as I was sitting in the audience listening to all the other speakers, something hit me. I was listening to Brian Smith, the founder of UGG Boots. I was listening to Greg Reid, the international speaker. I was lis...
Mar 28, 2016•19 min
This podcast is called “Sales Gold.” I decided this week, I am going to go through a lot of my old meeting notes, conference notes, and anywhere I found a nugget of some kind, a good tip or a good piece of information, that I remember specifically where I put it in play. I remember the results. And I wanted to talk about it. There is no theory here. These are just time-tested nuggets that I think you might hear a piece of a story and figure out how to adapt it to your company. Love the show? Sub...
Mar 25, 2016•26 min
