Accelerate Your Business Growth

With decades of experience, seeing dark days and light days, Justin has run several companies with very lucrative exits. His experience with fear, failure, perseverance and success, and how failure is essential for the growth of any entrepreneur and business, is what he will discuss.   A serial entrepreneur, Justin Hartzman, understands what it takes to guide a startup from concept to funding to a...

Michael Haynes joins us to talk about the value of pursuing B2B customers as a means of business growth. Michael is a B2B Customer Strategy Specialist. He has over 20 years’ experience working with companies in Australia, Brazil and Canada helping them to develop and implement customer driven strategies and programs to drive business growth and improve performance. Michael has worked with start-up...

The future belongs to individuals ready to think differently about  success and  who are ready to use ordinary resources in extraordinary ways. Vindya Vee joins us to share her thoughts on this subject.   Vindya is a high-performance coach specializing in rapid results for entrepreneurs, business owners and other high achieving individuals.  Her big turning point came when she was hired to coach l...

Kevin Eikenberry shares his thoughts on what it takes to effectively lead a remote team – even when that team consists of one person. Kevin is the Founder and Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. He’s been named one of Inc.com’s Top 100 Leadership and Management Experts in the World and is the author of several books. His latest book, The Long Distance Leader is  the foundation f...

Defining one's story as well as fully understanding the intended audience is paramount to a business's success. This principle is the same for individuals looking for opportunities, or an entrepreneur looking for funding. Ira Gostin joins us to discuss the value of story telling. Ira is an entrepreneur, marketer, communications strategist and business storyteller who specializes in creating busine...

There are three things every business owner needs to get clear before they start marketing. Listen in as Jonny Cooper explains what they are. British entrepreneur, piano player, international racing driver and business coach Jonny Cooper is the founder of Jonny Hates Marketing, helping transformation professionals find more of their ideal clients, more easily. Since growing a business to 8-figures...

Which systems are absolutely non-negotiable? Systems for managing money? Time? Communications? In this episode Marina Darlow joins me to talk about designing and implementing essential systems to run a small business, and about building resilience by putting *good* systems in place.  Marina Darlow is a systems' expert and a productivity geek. She sees her job as helping impact-driven entrepreneurs...

Andrew Lermsider joins us to share 3 proven strategies to grow your online business faster. He’ll also tell us why posting endlessly on social media has become less and less effective. Andrew Lermsider knows the exact steps needed to rapidly increase the sales of any company selling a product or service online. Lermsider, a renowned marketing and conversion expert, has been featured on the cover o...

All business improvement concepts rely on one assumption, the business leader has a healthy relationship with feedback and is able to confront reality. Alex Vorobieff joins us to share his thoughts on this subject. If you’ve ever wondered why companies tend to become more frustrating over time for everyone involved… and what you can do about it whether you own, lead or work in it… our guest today...

Winning new customers and securing more business from current customers is the lifeblood of your company. In this fun, freewheeling session, I discuss some surprising secrets of landing business with David A. Fields, whose Guide to Winning Clients has become a blockbuster. David A. Fields is a consultant, author, and possibly one of the most influential voices in consulting and consultative sellin...

Whether you're just starting out or are looking to pivot your business toward a new market, these real-world strategies can help you avoid common pitfalls. Kim Chernecki shares ideas on using corporate clients to grow. Kim is CEO and Founder of Freedom Street, a global training and coaching company that helps high-performing consultants, coaches and other experts land lucrative corporate contracts...

We’re already making over 35,000 decisions daily and nearly half the time our minds are wandering . . . “We get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of tasks we have to complete daily, so instead of jumping from one thing to another, take a step back,” says Corporate Psychologist, Patricia Thompson PhD. The episode would focus on how using the principles of mindfulness can enhance your productivity, em...

Ty Crandall provides some very valuable information about this important topic. Ty is an internationally known speaker, author, pod show host, and business credit expert.   With over 16 years of financial experience Ty is recognized as an authority in business credit building, business credit scoring, and business credit repair.  Ty is the author of two popular books on credit named Perfect Credit...

Reputation management is about ensuring that potential customers see your business for what it truly is, instead of what a vocal minority puts online. By using reputation management, it makes your other marketing efforts easier. In today’s episode, Elizabeth Engen shares actionable ideas. Elizabeth is an online business strategist and Founder of Premier SEO Ninjas, a digital marketing agency that...

Organizations benefit from having a healthy corporate culture and strong communication skills. Employees who think from the broader perspective found with CTS (critical thinking skills) are better able to maintain these organizational skills. Dr. Lynette Reed shares how this more comprehensive perspective also expands the possibilities for creativity and problem-solving. Dr. Lynette Reed has mento...

John Jonas has scaled his business by outsourcing as much of the supplemental work for his business as possible. This freed up plenty of time to focus on revenue generating activities. In this episode, he shares his process with us. John is based in Utah and is the founder of the largest marketplace for finding Filipino workers, OnlineJobs.ph, with over 150,000 Filipino workers on their database....

Trevor Throness’ business task is to be a support, guide and friend to leaders—to help them shoulder some of the stress that comes with leading a business that is in growth. He helps these leaders think through tough people issues and joins us to share his ideas. Trevor is a veteran coach who specializes in working with growing businesses from $2 million to $2 billion in sales. He has helped hundr...

Chris Field will not only inspire you to step and step out and do something, he'll show you how. In life there are Dreamers and there are Doers. Some people, like Chris Field, are blessed to be both. He launched Mercy Project in 2010 to combat child trafficking in Ghana’s fishing industry. To date, Mercy Project has rescued, rehabilitated, and reintegrated more than one hundred children back into...

We skim emails, watch the first few seconds of videos, and scroll through headlines, looking for just a quick hit, just the gist, so we can move on to the next thing.  So how can we, as individuals, make a lasting impression? How can we be more memorable in a quick-hit culture? Find out in this episode when Dana Kaye joins me. Dana Kaye is the founder of Kaye Publicity, Inc., a boutique PR company...

Nigel Green makes the case that listening is everything when it comes to serving your customer. Good listening is a crucial piece of the communication puzzle, but what determines what is actually considered good listening and are you really listening to begin with? Nigel shows us how to really listen to your customer and change the way you communicate. Nigel Green builds businesses. He's built a c...

Ed Eppley joins me to discuss the six disciplines of focused management pros. He recommends we make a “Stop Doing” list and offers actions that someone could take today to get a sense of where they are as a leader and what they need to improve. Ed is a leading global expert in professional management, sales strategy, and performance management. He is a principal consultant for the Table Group, a P...

Treat them with respect, involve them in problem solving, and grow together. Ned Parks joins me to talk about this very important subject. Ned Parks is a business consultant who draws on his background as a U.S. Army Warrant Officer helicopter instructor pilot and business owner to provide owners and management-level executives strategies to improve their operations and strengthen their business g...

Steve Acho (rhymes with macho), his staffing company and his staffing platform help companies, recruiters and job seekers connect in a more human way with the use of today’s technology. His book Why Technology Recruiting is Broken and What to do About ithas helped put into perspective the problem with recruiting and hiring today. Steve believes at the heart of successful recruiting and team buildi...

Join us today on a reality check as Stefan Pretty shares his beliefs why today's perception of effort vs success is so sickeningly wrong. He is talking about the ways to achieve more with less, on how one can bootstrap his business and succeed in what he is doing without the need to depend on someone else's money, explaining how story of a castaway is pretty much the story of a modern tech entrepr...

Join me for a conversation with Derek Lidow when he’ll share what he’s learned through research and observation. Derek is the former CEO of International Rectifier and the founder of iSuppli, a leading market research firm, which he sold in 2010 for $100 million to global information leader IHS. He has written two books on entrepreneurship, the latest being Building on Bedrock: What Sam Walton, Wa...