Small Business Growth School

What sort of morning routine should you be doing to maximize your business success? Some folks will tell you to meditate, run for a few hours, drink a coffee, do a ice bath, etc... Im not here to say that any of those things above are bad, but I will go through the routine I've been using the last 6 years that I can say 100% has brought me success personally. Enjoy! Welcome to Small Business G...

Do have serious FOMO that your going to miss out on all the customers you could grab from the newest social media platform you have clue about? What about dreading the day when your top performing marketing strategy no longer works because of the newest technological changes? Don't worry one bit, I'll cover both of these topics and more in today's episode! Welcome to Small Business Gro...

Feel like your running your business without direction and your stuck with no real growth? Could be a lot of factors behind not having a business reaching its full potential, but today Im going to teach you about a simple principle that can get many folks out of this funk. When I opened my first business it really accelerated how quickly I could raise profits and automate. So listen up and see if...

I've literally spent thousands in sales courses over 10+ years, and even invested hours & hours to digging into the books of the greatest copywriters of all time. So today Im compiling all of that into a nice neat package of 10 minutes of the BEST headlines to use for your social media posts (...and all other marketing). Enjoy! Welcome to Small Business Growth School, If you're a small...

What if you could read minds, you'd be the greatest sales person on planet Earth! You'd be able to see what a person actually wants with 100% accuracy, and what sort of objections they really have. Then if your service or product could give them that solution you could then easily address the real reason why their saying no. Unfortunately I won't be able to teach you how to read minds....

What if a random person walked up to you and said they wanted to make children with you? Hopefully you would run very far and very fast away from them! It's because they don't know you and you haven't built up a relationship to get to that point. The same is true with business. Expecting to walk up to a stranger and for them to just buy your stuff is crazy. For this reason that's w...

If I could time travel and tell myself about the biggest threats to my early businesses would I do it.... OF COURSE! Now you don't have the ability of time travel, but lets go with the next best thing... Having multiple small town businesses myself and coaching small town business owners all over the US, I've picked up on what the biggest threats are to these types of businesses in 2024. S...

Do you need to have a website to get a small business profitable... or course not! A big problem small business owners come across is they think they need to have this big fancy website before they can ever dream about marketing. Today's episode will challenge that thought process, show you how to market without a website, and how to actually grow your small town business so you can start maki...

I'd say that 99% of traditional manners are actually a good to practice, but in business it really does pay to not have manners! We're going to cover today how to relentlessly follow up with customers and be "pushy" in a way that will not only get you more customers but maintain a great relationship along the way. Also their is ONE exception to this rule, and we're going to l...

Looking to grow your small business or even start one in the first place, but have just one big problem? Having established competition.... It's a very common threat for small town businesses and it can be daunting one to overcome. Because lets face it, those competitors have more customers, more reviews, more word of mouth, and just more time in the market. So the entire town knows about them...

Did you know that even if you pick the right marketing platforms your business could still crash pretty hard and go bankrupt? Its very much true, and I've seen it happen countless times with many small town businesses. The secret ingredient of a successful business lies in the offer. You have to make your offer to new leads irresistible. And today we're going to cover how to exactly do tha...

Who doesn't love Costco? Endless free samples, enough food to prep for the apocalypse, and of course those tasty $1.50 hot dogs.. its a clear winner! As small town businesses we can take lessons from big chains like Costco, because they started as single location mom & pop businesses. And they've kept many of the strategies that gave them so much growth from the early days. So today we...

What if for every new customer you got another one completely free... That would be a pretty sweet deal wouldn't it? Today we're going to go over two very easy and powerful strategies to make this happen in your own small town business. And I can almost promise you that your competition down the street isn't doing it! Welcome to Small Business Growth School, If you're a small town...

Want to figure out the newest platforms or marketing approaches that can bring your small town business in loads of high quality leads? If your answer was "Yes", then your going to love this podcast. I always keep up to date with the newest marketing approaches. One thing I love to do is test them in all of my own small town businesses. Im going to do that very thing with LinkedIn Group...

Every heard of analysis paralysis? Its a common thing that a lot of us business owners deal with. It's a thought pattern where things have to be "perfect" before we can do the next thing. This could be with starting a business or heck even just getting momentum/growth in your small town business. Today we talk about how to overcome this paralysis and what are the 3 actual things you...

In today's episode we're going to go over the biggest fears that small town business owners have that literally haunt them at night. These things are the reasons why not everyone starts up their own small business. But even more important than this, we're going to cover 3 things you can do to stack the odds in your favor to get rid of these fears and reduce your risk of failing. Welcom...

Is it looking like no one around your small town can afford your stuff? Should you slash prices, open another business, or even move to another town!?! Im here to say theres another "more pleasant" way to solve this problem :) ... If that sounds of interest to you then enjoy the show, and turn me up nice and loud to listen to me walk you through it! To get some extra help with your marke...

Are you in a small town and just worried you and your competition have reached out to all the potential customers? Or even worried that your marketing on say Facebook, Google, or even the Newspapers is maxed out as well? Im here today to give you a bit advice I give all of my private coaching clients, that's helped pull them out of this hole and capture another big chunk of their small town ma...

[*UPDATE*] Their are some massive changes to Google & Yahoo starting January 2024. If your listening after this date then this episode is a must see. I'll run through whats happening and what two changes you can make to allow you to continue to email your leads and customers without it going into the spam folder. (Recent estimates say 50-75% of business emails will go to customer spam fold...

I think we oftentimes forget that a HUGE company like Mcdonalds, started off as a small business. And today Im going to talk about a strategy they used when they first opened as a small business that was so effective that their still continuing to use it today to bring in millions of dollars In today's episode I'll point out what this secret strategy is and how any small town business can...

I see a mistake that so many younger business owners make that's really holding them back from getting the momentum they're looking for in their small town business. To be completely honest I was 100% guilty of this too when I started my first business. We eventually grew the business to the 200-300k after tax profit range, but what if I could have done it two or even three times as fast?...

Facebook still holds onto the market pretty tightly going into 2024, they have the most potential customers for you out of every other social media platform! So out of the top three Facebook marketing strategies I teach, their is only ONE that will give you the most amount of leads in 2024. We'll go over what that exactly is in today's episode! If that sounds of interest to you then enjoy...

Did you know that for most people, all that extra cash they have from their small business disappears overtime? This is due to many factors, one of them includes inflation. This episode goes over whats causing this, and where you should store your extra cash to protect & grow it over time ( hint hint.. its NOT keeping it in the bank). If that sounds of interest to you then enjoy the show, and...

Wondering why all of your Facebook posts, Google ads, newspaper ads, etc. lead to ZERO new customers? I’ve heard a few excuses from owners out there… 1. No one “in my town” can afford my stuff 2. I just need more time for the marketing to work…even though it’s been months and their still not break even 3. They need to try the newest social media platform and that should fix everything 4. Or the wo...

Often times the focus with a website is to "beautify" it with pretty colors, nice stock images, and great fonts. I can't even count how many times I've seen a business on the brink of going bust that has a website like this. A super ugly website though with the right set up, will get a business loads of new customers easily. This is so important that we dig into this specifically...