This week Cut The Crap Podcast features an interview with Joel Semeniuk the Chief Innovation Officer at Imaginet. Ryan talks to Joel about his biggest takeaways from The Startup Owners Manual and how he used his biggest takeaways in his role to drive innovation. You can connect with Joel on Twitter . ----------- Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and signup to receive a summary from each episode that will highlight all of the golden nuggets shared in the podcast. ----------- Hosted on Acast. See acast....
Oct 20, 2016•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the business book, 'The Startup Owners Manual.' The Startup Owners Manual unlocks the secrets to startup success - walking you through the tested and proven Customer Development process. I took 3 Golden Nuggets away from this book. Was pretty sick recording this one, hopefully it doesn't bother you too much! ---------- Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and signup to receive a summary from each episode that will highlight all of the golden nuggets shared in the p...
Oct 17, 2016•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features an interview with Neil Hopkins an expert communications professional. Together Ryan and Neil talk about how the book, Story for Leaders, and discuss his most important takeaways that impact how he communicates with story! You can connect with Neil on LinkedIn , Twitter , or his personal website . ----------- Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and signup to receive a summary from each episode that will highlight all of the golden nuggets shared in the podcast. ---...
Oct 14, 2016•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the business book, 'Story for Leaders.' Story for Leaders outlines the must-have techniques to create a compelling story and deliver it with power. I took 3 Golden Nuggets away from this book. I also included a pretty long story that I felt was fitting for this episode...it's one of my favorites as told by Tony Robbins! ---------- Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and signup to receive a summary from each episode that will highlight all of the golden nuggets sha...
Oct 10, 2016•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features an interview with Corey Grusden, Co-Founder of SoFetch.io, a Ruby on Rails and iOS development firm. Together Ryan and Corey talk about how the book, Built to Sell, made an impact on this growing company! You can connect with Corey on LinkedIn or Twitter . ----------- Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and signup to receive a summary from each episode that will highlight all of the golden nuggets shared in the podcast. ----------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...
Oct 06, 2016•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the business book, 'Built to Sell.' Built to Sell details key strategies for growing a small service company. There were 3 Golden Nuggets taken from 'Built to Sell.' ---------- Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and signup to receive a summary from each episode that will highlight all of the golden nuggets shared in the podcast. ----------- Follow Ryan on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and SnapChat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...
Oct 03, 2016•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features an interview with Derek Hopfner, Co-Founder of Law Scout, a company that lowers the cost of high-quality legal services. Together Ryan and Derek talk about how the book, Blue Ocean Strategy, made an impact on Derek's innovation strategy. You can connect with Derek Hopfner on LinkedIn or Twitter . ----------- Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and signup to receive a summary from each episode that will highlight all of the golden nuggets shared in the podcast. ---...
Sep 29, 2016•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the business book, 'Blue Ocean Strategy.' Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than a hundred years and thirty industries, Kim and Mauborgne argue that tomorrow's leading companies will succeed not by battling competitors, but by creating “blue oceans” of uncontested market space ripe for growth. There were 4 Golden Nuggets taken from 'Blue Ocean Strategy.' ---------- Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and signup to receive a summary from each ep...
Sep 26, 2016•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features an interview with Jonathan Larocque, a technology consultant based out of Montreal, Canada that used the book The 4 Hour Work Week to help him become more efficient in his business and even take what's called a "mini-retirement"! You can connect with Jonathan Larocque on LinkedIn . ----------- Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and signup to receive a summary from each episode that will highlight all of the golden nuggets shared in the podcast. ----------- Hosted...
Sep 22, 2016•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the business book, 'The 4-Hour Work Week.' The 4-Hour Work Week tells readers how to increase their time and financial freedom giving them more lifestyle options. By automating a passive income and liberating yourself from unproductive tasks you can live the lifestyle of the ‘new rich’ – one defined by having, doing and being what you want. There were 4 Golden Nuggets taken from 'The 4-Hour Work Week.' ----------- Cut the Crap Podcast Stakeholders Modern E...
Sep 19, 2016•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the business book, 'Never Eat Alone.' In Never Eat Alone, Keith Ferrazzi, a successful businessman and marketing expert, takes us through the secrets to successful networking. He focuses on building lasting relationships rather than merely exchanging business cards, which seems to be many people’s idea of networking today. He summarizes his findings in a system of tried and tested methods. There were 4 Golden Nuggets taken from 'Never Eat Alone.' ---------...
Sep 12, 2016•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features an interview with Michaela Alexis, a marketing professional that used the book UnMarketing to help drive her to gain attention and grow a loyal follow on LinkedIn! Most notably, one of her post went viral attracting more than 100,000 views! You can connect with Michaela Alexis on LinkedIn , Twitter , and Instagram . ----------- Cut the Crap Podcast Stakeholders Modern Earth Web Design does much more than custom web design! No matter what your business - as...
Sep 08, 2016•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the marketing book, 'UnMarketing.' If you're ready to stop marketing and start engaging, then welcome to UnMarketing . The landscape of business-customer relationships is changing, and UnMarketing gives you innovative ways out of the old "Push and Pray" rut. Instead, draw the right customers to you through listening and engagement, enabling you to build trust and position yourself as their logical choice when they need you. There were 4 Golden Nuggets take...
Sep 05, 2016•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the management book, 'Make it All About Them.' Make It All About Them reveals the truth behind the traditional rules of presentations and offers sales professionals a new way forward. It explains why focusing on three key points trumps a presentation full of details, why plain English always wins over jargon, why the audience doesn't need to know how important you are but how important they are, and other effective tactics. There were 4 Golden Nuggets take...
Aug 29, 2016•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the management book, 'Million Dollar Consulting.' In Million Dollar Consulting , author Alan Weiss shares with readers his best advice and guidance for growing a million dollar consulting firm. There were 4 Golden Nuggets taken from 'Million Dollar Consulting.' ----------- Cut the Crap Podcast Stakeholders SierraSil Health was founded in 2003 to market SierraSil®, a clinically tested and shown, safe and effective mineral supplement. The company is committe...
Aug 22, 2016•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the management book, 'Think and Grow Rich.' In Think and Grow Rich , author Napoleon Hill investigates the methods of the 500 most successful people of his time, including the world’s richest men, top politicians, famous inventors, writers and captains of industry. First published amidst the Great Depression, Think and Grow Rich has sold over 100 million copies. There were 7 Golden Nuggets taken from 'Think and Grow Rich.' ----------- Cut the Crap Podcast ...
Aug 15, 2016•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the management book, 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.' In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity--principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunit...
Aug 08, 2016•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the management book, 'Grit to Great: How Perseverance, Passion, and Pluck Take You from Ordinary to Extraordinary." In Grit to Great, Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval tackle a topic that is close to their hearts, one that they feel is the real secret to their own success in their careers--and in the careers of so many people they know and have met. And that is the incredible power of grit, perseverance, perspiration, determination, and sheer stick-to-it...
Aug 01, 2016•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the management book, 'The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity." The 5 Choices shows us that extraordinary productivity isn’t actually about working harder; it’s about working better. By learning how to streamline your decision-making process, focus on important work and manage your energy, you’ll see an enormous difference in your level of productivity and work quality. There were 5 Golden Nuggets taken from 'The 5 Choices: The Path to Extrao...
Jul 25, 2016•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast ***As you will learn, I am not a fan of this book, however I feel I still need to include the books I read...good or bad.*** This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the marketing book, 'The IT Marketing Crash Course." The IT Marketing Crash Course will help you grow your technology business. If you provide managed services, web and mobile application development, software development, cybersecurity or network services, this book will show you how to generate more qualified leads and close more s...
Jul 18, 2016•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the marketing book, 'Made to Stick." Some ideas are “stick-worthy” while others are not and the traditional advice to make ideas stick, such as knowing your audience, making eye contact, practice, and repetition, tends to have limited effectiveness. In Made to Stick, authors Chip and Dan Heath argue that people remember ideas that contain a simple, proverb-like message, are unexpected, are concrete in description, credible in nature, evoke emotion, or are ...
Jul 11, 2016•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the marketing book, 'The Tipping Point." The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illumi...
Jul 04, 2016•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the marketing book, 'The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing." There are laws of nature, so why shouldn't there be laws of marketing? In The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, Al Ries and Jack Trout offer a collection of twenty-two innovative rules for understanding and succeeding in the international marketplace. From the Law of Leadership, to The Law of the Category, to The Law of the Mind, these valuable insights stand the test of time and present a clear path ...
Jun 27, 2016•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the management book, 'Quality is Free." This is a book about doing things right in the first place so you won't have to pay to fix them or do them over. Whether you manage department or run your own small business, applying this simple principle of quality control will boost your profits and your career. There were 2 Golden Nuggets taken from 'Quality is Free!' ----------- Cut the Crap Podcast Sponsor SierraSil Health was founded in 2003 to market SierraSi...
Jun 20, 2016•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the innovation book, 'The Lean Startup." Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new innovations are launched. Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a For...
Jun 13, 2016•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the management book, 'Essentialism." Essentialism, by Greg McKeown is about applying a more selective criteria for what is essential, the pursuit of less allows us to regain control of our own choices so we can channel our time, energy and effort into making the highest possible contribution toward the goals and activities that matter. There were 5 Golden Nuggets taken from 'Essentialism!' ----------- Cut the Crap Podcast Sponsor SierraSil Health was found...
Jun 06, 2016•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the management book, 'Eat That Frog." Brian Tracy explains in Eat That Frog!, that options abound in life, but so does procrastination. People simply cannot do everything they need or want to do. Instead of attempting to complete everything, productive people select the most important things and prioritize them. Mark Twain said that if people eat frogs first thing in the morning, it will be the worst thing they do all day. There were 4 Golden Nuggets taken...
May 30, 2016•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the strategy/innovation book, 'The Attacker's Advantage." The Attacker's Advantage, by Ram Charan, is a book that will teach you what skills are needed to be able to spot the disruption that is coming in your industry, and what you can do to take advantage of these changes to win! There were 6 Golden Nuggets taken from 'The Attacker's Advantage'. Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and sign up to receive Mind Maps from each episode that will highlight all of the g...
May 23, 2016•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the classic book, 'How to Win Friends and Influence People." How to Win Friends and Influence people, by Dale Carnegie, is a book that will teach you exactly what the title says. Using a combination of strategies and advice, Carnegie teaches you how to become someone of influence by understanding human nature and ways to appeal to our best sides to win! There were 14 Golden Nuggets taken from 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'. Go to CutTheCrapPodca...
May 16, 2016•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the marketing book, 'The Thank You Economy." The Thank You Economy, by Gary Vaynerchuk, encourages executives, marketers, sales professionals, and entrepreneurs to rethink how they use social media and challenges many of the beliefs we have about using certain platforms. This book was directly responsible for TWO innovations that I am now running with, so I hope you are able to take something incredibly insightful from it as well! There were 4 Golden Nugge...
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