Accelerate Your Business Growth

As we all become adjusted to working remotely and meeting remotely we will also be presenting remotely. Getting it right is critical. But what does that mean?  How do we look and sound our best? If we’re using visuals, (PowerPoint, Keynote, etc.) do they play a bigger role? (hint: YES THEY DO.) Join us as presentations coach Debbie Fay gives us the low-down on what it takes to create and deliver a remote presentation that gets and keeps the audience’s attention – and gets you the results you seek. Debbie Fay is founder and president of bespeak presentation solutions, llc, providing high-stakes presentation development, public speaking coaching, and presentations training to businesses worldwide. Bespeak’s clients include: Fiserv, the Hay Group, US Fund for UNICEF, NYC Economic Development Corporation, Tauck World Discovery, Sabra Dipping Products and many others.  An award-winning trainer and teacher with a lifelong involvement in theater, Debbie helps her clients present themselves with confidence, convict

According to Return Path, more and more email correspondence is falling in to spam and promotions. And Matt Barnett tells us that to keep your brand relevant and your customers connected to your vision, personalized video is a medium any business can use to improve customer evangelism and conversions. Matt is a serial entrepreneur based out of Sydney AU, with a passion around changing conventional business communications through the power of personalized video messaging. His business, Bonjoro, is focused around helping businesses use personal video to convert more clients, create more customer evangelism and get more brand ambassadors. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taking the time to think thoroughly to establish a company's North Star will fundamentally change the approach to starting a business, from the initial steps you take to get it off the ground to how you approach and prepare for the eventual exit. Greg Shepard explains this and more in today’s episode. Greg is the CEO and founder of BOSS Capital Partners. He is a serial entrepreneur, author, speaker and angel venture capital investor with a legacy of building and running sustainable growth businesses. Driven by a transformational leadership style, Greg has spearheaded multiple company exits in the BioTech, TransitTech, AdTech and MarTech space, winning various awards as a result. Most recently, he has been authoring a book titled: ‘Meet the BOSS - The Agile Playbook for Startups’ slated to publish soon. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign u

Known as the Disaster Avoidance Expert, Gleb protects leaders from disasters by developing the most effective decision-making strategies via his consulting, coaching, and training firm Disaster Avoidance Experts. He joins me to share valuable information about how to deal with our current challenges for the long term. Get ready – some of what he has to say is a little chilling. However, reality matters. Gleb shares not only why we tend to deal with these kinds of things for the short term instead of long, but he provides specific ideas for what we can do right now. Hear his #1 piece of advice for starting NOW. And be sure to get his new book - Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters. #coronavirus #disasteravoidance #smallbusiness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason Bay joins me and shares his thoughts on how to nail your messaging, and grow your outbound sales. Jason is the Chief Revenue Officer at Blissful Prospecting. He does not believe that prospecting is “just a numbers game” or that it has to suck. The crew at Blissful Prospecting helps sales teams remove the mystery of what to say in their outbound calls and emails. Get a copy of what to say in an email by visiting Blissful Prospecting. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Geoff Atkinson joins us to explain the importance of optimizing our websites and focus on SEO consistently. Geoff is the former SVP of Marketing at Overstock.com where he introduced SEO and grew the organic channel from $0 to $300 million in the late 2000s. He is now the Founder-CEO of Huckabuy, a software company based in Park City, UT that is disrupting the $80B SEO services industry with a technology-based approach to the organic channel. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are three ways to increase profit in business. More sales, higher prices, or lower costs. Each of those depend on leadership. Mike Lloyd shares some great insights and ideas about leadership. After 10 years as a professional photographer and educator, Mike took his knowledge of leadership, communication, and education to the commercial clients he shot for. He led sales trainings, worked on safety program reforms, and helped develop empowering team cultures and eliminated siloing among departments. Mike knows how to motivate teams, clean up inefficient systems, and create an environment where everyone is actually excited to show up and crush it. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if you could avoid some of the pitfalls of business ownership and growth? Wally Gustafson joins us to talk about this very thing. Wally is a small business owner with 19 years of entrepreneurial experience. He had investors in a startup company that eventually failed. He created without investors a basement business that turned into a multi-million-dollar online retail business. Wally has seen a 10-year trend of 25% YOY growth be followed by 4 years of 30% decline. He’s learned more about business through his failures than he has his success. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vlad Edelman joins me to discuss marketing automation, entrepreneurship, and productivity for small business owners. Vlad is the founder and CEO of Targetable, a marketing automation company that uses machine learning to program social campaigns for restaurants. Targetable has 20 employees, is projecting 3M in revenue for 2020, and a big contact with a globally recognized brand, Buffalo Wild Wings. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gain access to funding even with personal credit challenges. Stephanie Lawrence provides us with specific steps to creating a business credit score. Stephanie is a Credit Specialist with 12 years of experience working on improving personal credit and building business credit. After struggling with her own credit challenges and paying double-digit interest rates, she said enough is enough and went on a mission to improve her own credit score over 200 points. Now it’s her mission to help small business owners establish the credit needed to fund their business so they can double their purchasing power and increase their cash flow. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Time management expert Julie Morgenstern shares how to organize your day from start to finish to make the most of your time inside and outside of the office. Through her tips and strategies, you will learn how to create an environment that helps you thrive and avoid burnout. For over 30 years, Julie Morgenstern has been teaching people all around the world and at all stages of life how to overcome disorganization to achieve their goals. Her mission is to free each individual to make their unique contribution to the world—by helping them design their own systems for managing time and space that feel natural and are easy to maintain. This "Inside Out" approach to organizing everything gives readers, listeners, and clients the energy and knowledge they need to get (and stay) organized. Through practical, dynamic workshops and coaching sessions, Julie and her team help organizations around the globe identify what's holding their people back and get on the road to fulfilling their mission quickly. Past clients in

Many CEOs and executives aspire but struggle to achieve work/life balance, leading to stress and guilt. Ari Rastegar joins us to share how hiring friends and family is the ultimate solution to finding this balance. Ari Rastegar is known for his specialized expertise in real estate and his contrarian investment strategies. He is considered a leader of the next generation of real estate managers. He founded his first real estate investment firm in 2006 while still in law school. He’s been recognized for his specialties in recession-resilient strategies and commercial real estate investments. Ari is a longtime support of charitable organizations like Save The Children and Big Brothers Big Sisters. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon

As of 2019, 66% of companies allow their employees to work remotely while 16% of companies are fully remote. Ariel Schur helps us understand how employees can navigate working remotely, as well as how employers can maximize this concept. Ariel Schur, LCSW is the CEO and sole founder of ABS Staffing Solutions. Her high-touch, service-oriented approach has been a refreshing change to the industry. 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 boutique approach to staffing. Her work model is time-intensive, specifically tailored to her clients' specific needs, and all-encompassing to provide the highest quality experience. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at a

Dolores Hirschmann shares her thoughts on how to align your marketing, sales, and overall communication tactics to the CORNERSTONE IDEA of your business. Find out why it is important to move from talking about what you do to talking about what you stand for. Dolores Hirschmann is an internationally recognized STRATEGIST & COACH. She helps clients clarify their “idea worth sharing”, design their communication strategies, and implement business growth systems. Her clients become speakers and authors and take their message to larger audiences like TEDx and beyond. She works through group coaching, workshops, one on one coaching, as well as public speaking. Dolores is a writer, TEDx Organizer, and participant in TED conferences. She is a CTI certified and ICF accredited coach and has a business degree from the Universidad de San Andres, Argentina. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and whereve

In the digital age, video content is no longer exclusively controlled by traditional media. Anyone can record video and publish it across various social media platforms, but few are doing it. Rob Deptford shares why it's important for individuals and businesses to get on board, and how to do it well. Rob Deptford is a video creator, presenter and on-camera speaking coach with a background in broadcasting, marketing and communications, education management and leadership. He helps his clients learn to use video to reach their audience and resonate  - making connections, not commercials. From strategy development to teaching effective message delivery, Rob is changing the way social video marketing is done so it does a better job of building customer trust. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/b

Why do businesses fail? What kind of actions can we do right now to give us the best chance of success? Businessman and author Dan Cooper offer us some real-life, practical advice drawn from his own experiences and those leaders he serves in his KC based organization, Acumen. Dan Cooper is the co-author of a new book, Sharpen: A Guidebook for Business Ownership and Adventures in Leadership. He is also the co-founder of Acumen, a Kansas City area organization that exists to give business leaders and owners a safe place to discuss their issues and find answers. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sales technology is growing faster than ever before and sellers have a wide variety of tools available to them. Gessie Schechinger joins us to talk about the power of the tools in the market today and what will be available to your business in the next 5 years. Gessie Schechinger is the laziest salesman in America as well as Chief Revenue Officer for the OnCourse Sales Engagement Platform. Gessie is passionate about leveraging technology and automation to surpass revenue targets. He spends his time educating sales leaders to utilize the most effective sales tool in the world. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oscar Trimboli joins me to share how listening is contextual and relational. Oscar is on a quest to create 100 million Deep Listeners in the world. Oscar is on a quest to create 100 million Deep Listeners in the world. He is an author, Host of the Apple Award winning podcast — Deep Listening and a sought-after keynote speaker. He is passionate about using the gift of listening to bring positive change in homes, workplaces and the world. Through his work with chairs, boards of directors and executive teams in local, regional and global organisations, Oscar has experienced firsthand the transformational impact leaders and organisations can have when they listen beyond the words. He consults to organisations including Cisco, Google, HSBC, News Corp, PayPal, Qantas, TripAdvisor helping executives and their teams listen to what’s unsaid by the customers and employees. Oscar lives in Sydney with his wife Jennie, where he helps first - time runners and ocean swimmers conquer their fears and contributes to the cure

Scott Miller shares his tips on how to be the best manager and leader possible to bring out the best in your team no matter what level you are in your company. Scott serves as FranklinCovey’s executive vice president of thought leadership. He is the host of On Leadership with Scott Miller, a weekly leadership webcast, podcast, and newsletter that features interviews with renowned business titans, authors, and experts. Scott also authors a weekly leadership column for Inc.com and is a regular contributor to Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global and the American City Business Journal. He is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of FranklinCovey’s Management Mess to Leadership Success: 30 Challenges to Become the Leader You Would Follow, and Everyone Deserves A Great Manager. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at a

Entrepreneurs start with a great idea and drive to succeed, but they are all faced with common challenges like gaining access to capital, gaining access to top talent, and meeting the needs of their customers. David Ciccarelli, CEO and co-founder of Voices.com, shares how the discipline of being intentional is the key to moving your company forward.  David Ciccaarelli is an entrepreneur at heart. For the last decade, David, with the help of his team, has grown Voices.com from the ground up to become the leader in the voice-over industry. As Chief Executive Officer, David is responsible for setting the vision, executing the growth strategy, creating a vibrant culture, and managing the company on a day-to-day basis. David is wholeheartedly dedicated to growing the company to become a world-class organization and leading the industry in the digital age. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wh