Business Growth

Josh Rossi was just named as one of the top Dad’s in People magazine and his photography work is going viral worldwide. He’s the Dad and creative genius behind the little girl Wonder Woman and the most recent Beauty and the Beast hit. He shares what work he did to go viral and how he’s using it to grow his business. Show Notes: 00:05 Summary highlights of our interview 01:27 Josh’s background 03:3...

Karen Waksman of Retail MBA talks about getting your product into major retail stores like Wal-Mart, Costco, CVS or Walgreens. She explains how retail is not selling and is a well thought out formula. She also explains the #1 thing retail buyers care about when looking at new products and debunks the myth that you need social proof and sales to start. The retail world has some shocking upsides tha...

Travis Chambers is the founder of Chamber Media , an agency that makes scaleable social videos. Over the past 2 years Chamber Media has had experienced massive growth and worked on the world's largest business marketing videos. He shares what it’s been like seeing the company grow, how he pivoted and saw skyrocketing growth, and what it takes to assemble a world class team. Show Notes: 00:13 Intro...

Craig Garber joins us on the podcast to talk about creating your USP aka unique selling proposition. The USP is the core differentiator of your business and he shares how to find that message and avoid the trap of making your business different by price or other low value ROI tactics.   Show notes: 00:31 Introducing Craig Garber 02:12 Getting to know and meet the legendary copywriter Gary Halbert....

Primoz Bozic is the founder of Skyrocket Your Productivity and has mastered the habit of taking massive action. He’s from Slovenia and went from being a computer programmer making $7hr to making over $400hr within a short couple years because of his ability to find good mentors and his dedication to taking action quickly. He was on episode #35 of the podcast and this is a excerpt from that convers...

Patrick Combs is a master storyteller and has a fascinating past of having a show on HBO, consulting with Google and selling out theaters doing a one-man show. Patrick shares the mechanics of a good story so business owners can raise more capital, hire better employees, and convert more prospects into customers. Spencer runs a real time experiment and shares his story for doing the podcast while P...

Ty Crandall from CreditSuite.com talks with Spencer about business funding and business credit in today’s episode. On BGP episode #49 Spencer interviewed Gerri Detweiler from Nav.com and talked about building your business credit, so in this episode we dive deeper into another approach to business credit and financing.   Show Notes: 00:30 Introducing Ty Crandall 02:31 Where to start with your busi...

Garrett Robins is currently working on a venture in the home automation industry. They talk why you can’t do it all as a business owner and how putting yourself out there by creating a good ole boys club sets you up for success. Show Notes: 00:30 Introducing Garrett Robins 03:29 What he’s working on right now 03:52 From making $100k a summer selling home security systems to making $8/hr to learn i...

Business owners that know their credit score are 41% more likely to be approved for a business loan. In this episode we talk with Gerri Detweiler the Head of Market Education at Nav where she shares insights on how business owners can establish and build their business credit. You can get your business credit score from www.nav.com for free.   Show Notes: 00:28 Introducing Gerri Detweiler 03:08 On...

Miguel Hernandez is the founder of Grumo Media . They talk about his fascination of learning and then deconstructing the information and applying it to creating online courses. You can see some of his best courses on the Udemy platform . This is a special interview because Miguel was in BGP Episode 20 a couple years ago.   Show Notes: 00:29 Introducing Miguel Hernandez 03:08 How Miguel learns and...

Joel Widmer is the CEO of  Flux Digital Marketing and talks about his success as a content creator and teacher. They dive into the Udemy platform and share insights on creating high quality courses with different strategies for marketing your material.   Show Notes: 00:29 Introducing Joel Widmer 01:38 How to find a topic to teach 03:10 Using reviews to get ideas 04:10 Why most people don’t do the...

John Michael Morgan is one of the most inspiring individuals you will meet. He’s worked with some of the greatest companies in the world and authored a best-selling book. In our conversation we talk about how to overcome self sabotage, create a massive turnaround and set up each day for success. If you check out his blog www.johnmichaelmorgan.com  you’ll see he writes engaging articles about goals...

Kevin Davis is the best Facebook Ad expert in the world and he shares advanced strategies to understand your audience and to grow and E-Commerce business. He’s explains where to get priceless market research data, how to start ad sets, and strategies for growing your business with Facebook ads. Some of these advanced tips he’s sharing have changed businesses overnight. You will walk away with a cl...

We’re talking about that one bank account that all of us business owners have but never talk about… the emotional bank account. 0:48 Quote from Gene Simmons “Self-confidence is your greatest business partner. An enormous, almost delusional sense of self-confidence. It is neither genetic, inherent, nor for sale. But it is learnable and 100 percent essential to success.” 1:25 I’m borrowing the term...

Spencer Shaw shares the exact template he uses to grow his personal and business network. This episode came from a conversation with Allison Harden our Social Media Manager at PodKick . 0:58 The warm introduction and cold introduction template 1:23 I learned this approach from Ramit Sethi of I Will Teach You To Be Rich 2:16 A world class connector I met through Ramit’s group was Naveen Dittakavi 2...

Jeff Poulton is the co-founder at Rocketmade and talks the importance of having a founding team. Spencer connected with Jeff through Scott Paul’s feeder network strategy. 01:29 Describing the startup personality element 03:42 Explanation of the management success 05:44 Benefitting with a founding team 07:23 Exploring Jeff’s partnership with Scott Paul 11:14 Scott’s desire to build a feeder network...

Steve Daar says any business can experience business growth through Profit Hacking by focusing on 3 core areas: Traffic, Conversion, and Economy. The Profit Hacking principles will get you focused on the right KPI’s with the ultimate goal of growing your business and making more money. Make sure you pick up a copy of Steve’s book Profit Hacking on Amazon

Peter Sage is truly a limitless serial entrepreneur and has created multiple million dollar companies and continues to coach and inspire entrepreneurs around the world. His latest venture is a multi-billion dollar company in the clean energy space so he has built businesses in many different sizes and verticals. In this episode Peter shares lessons on how you can get that winning mindset you need...

Dan Peña is the 50 Billion Dollar Man who mentors high performance people to take quantum leaps with their business. By the end of this interview you will either love Dan Peña or hate him. There is no middle ground. He has no filter. He says things as they need to be said, and has the goal to bring you and me across the finish line of success. This has been edited with bleeps for the harsh languag...

In our interview Matt talks about using stories to grow a business, meet new people, develop stronger relationships, and be more interesting. Most people just rattle off facts, but normal people forget the details and only remember the stories… even if you’re one of the weirdos who remembers obscure stats you’ll get something out of this interview too. Matthew aka Turndog talks about the 3 parts t...

Gary Zaydman talks about having sales conversations with your prospects and customers that are fun and grow your business. He shares why changing the context of the sales conversation can make you stick out and break through the inbox clutter. One specific thing Gary does is use text messaging at the start of business relationships. This works best for referrals and he created a template showing y...

Conrad Egusa the founder of Publicize.co shares how to get press for your startup and how to get noticed by journalists. He’s been featured in TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and Huffington Post. Say thanks to Conrad and ask him your questions at Publicize.co To get your questions on the show message me on Twitter @spencershaw

Primoz Bozic talks about creating systems and success habits. He also shares the process for surrounding yourself with top performers. He wrote a 22 page guide on creating bulletproof habits that you can access on his website www.skyrocketyourproductivity.com/habits it’s definetly worth reading. He also wrote one of the most EPIC posts about how to surround yourself with successful people www.skyr...

Shane Snow and I talk about accelerating business growth and use examples from his recent book Smartcuts. In this episode we talk about how he raised $11M in funding for his business Contently. Shane explains why it was easier to raise $11M in funding than raising $100k for his startup. We also talk about how you can 10X your business growth by applying lateral thinking. We take a listener questio...

After running the Business Growth Podcast for over a year it was hard to choose the top lessons. Overall these 5 conversations had the greatest impact on me, so they made the cut. I want to thank all the guests who have been on the show. They are all innovative, inspiring and have helped so many other business owners. Thank you. Today’s Show: In this special episode you’ll learn from Davis Smith o...