Button Up Podcast| Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Growth, Sales Training, Improve Srategy Processes, Faith-led entrepreneur, Improve Sales, Small Business Finance

When Daddy Got Sick, God Was There. Not in loud ways. Not in dramatic ways. But in the quiet, holy moments that carried us through the hardest season of our lives. I didn’t always understand what God was doing, but I never doubted that He was near. His comfort became the anchor I held onto when everything else felt unsteady. If you’re facing sickness, grief, or a season that feels too heavy to car...

This podcast is a brief discussion on the importance of having solid internal organizational practices in place, so that you can deliver consistency with your clients. 

The podcast show today is a conversation about how to run successful daily huddles with your team, while assuring you have the correct team.  It's an encouragement to hire those who are better than you and fire those who are not performing quickly, so your team will be more successful. 

The impact employee theft is having on business profits.  Employee theft is often unrecognized until the profits of the company have lowered so significantly that an audit is required.  

Let’s review a few methods to identifying productivity killers every business should utilize to determine if you have inefficiencies negatively impacting your profit growth.     They are as follows:  listen to employee feedback, perform observations on processes, implement software for evaluation, assess business technology needs and evaluate KPIs. 

Successful Business Years don't just happen, they must be planned out.  Today's episode is a discussion on the thought process and things you should be thinking about in the planning process and then encouragement to implement your business goal plans, so you may achieve success. 

This podcast is a discussion covering the challenges businesses face when they allow other businesses to charge for the services they provide, rather than collecting for those services upfront.  We'll dive into alternative options to avoid the crisis of an out of control accounts receivable balance. 

During our podcast today, we will be discussing a couple reasons why performing a cost analysis is important.  Given my manufacturing engineering background, I think more in those terms sometimes where others forget about the need for performing a cost analysis.  It's a critical point on impacting the profit growth potential or making a bad financial decision within your business. 

Today's podcast is a conversation discussing the risk of not paying attention to the potential consequences of someone performing internal fraud against your business. 

This podcast is covering the benefits of ensuring you have the correct sales professional within your organization.  We'll review the top three common mistakes frequently made by new sales professionals.  The first being talking too much, the second being showing up and spewing all your knowledge and the third being never asking for the sale. 

Today's podcast is a discussion on being thankful and the legacy we leave behind.  I'm going to have an open conversation about a personal experience and the loss of my uncle.  I'll share with you the experience of a memorial service I attended with my uncle's passing at the John 3:16 Ministries in Batesville Arkansas.  I'll also talk about the legacy my Uncle left behind and the wonderful mission...

This podcast is a review of twelve steps every business should focus on if they are to achieve sustainable growth.  We'll cover everything from establishing clear goals or objectives, market research, customer focus, strong team and efficient processes, financial management, innovation and adaptability, marketing and branding, data-driven decision making, risk management, regular performance revie...

Today's podcast I'm sharing my grandson's voice as an introduction to our discussion.  Today we'll be reviewing the risks businesses need to consider when contemplating taking on debt. 

This podcast is providing an outline and in depth details on steps to take for three methods to improve customer retention.

This podcast is a guide of five steps to avoiding common business mistakes which limit profitability.  These are the 5 most common steps I believe we should avoid in our business endeavors, if we want to continue our progression of positive revenue growth.  Inside this podcast we identify the five common mistakes to avoid, discuss why they should be avoided and the steps business owners should tak...

Today's podcast is a review on finding the hidden revenue stream within your business.

This podcast is addressing proper forecasting of sales to achieve budget growth targets within the business.    

This podcast is a guide for reviewing and analyzing your sales pipeline to determine the largest limiting success factor within your business. 

This podcast is exploring three of the most commonly missed opportunities costing business owners growth potential losses.  The three missed opportunities being explored today are innovation and adapting, customer retention, and data utilization. 

This podcast episode is based on a question received from a podcast listener who wanted to know some methods for recognizing when their pricing might be set too low within the business.  

This is a review of five critical items for business owners to focus on to increase profit margins.  We'll review digital transformation, data-driven insights, sustainable practices, customer centric mindset and approach and diversification and innovation.  This discussion will include reasons business owners need to be innovative with their offerings to develop additional growth opportunities and...

There are various risk factors which influence profit growth for any small business.  Today we are reviewing the top five risks to profit growth which small businesses should be anticipating and preparing to mitigate those risks.  We will be discussing the impact market volatility and economic conditions, competition, pricing pressures, cash flow challenges, regulatory changes and supply chain dis...

In today's podcast we are talking about the financial impact employee theft is having on the business profit. I'm going to utilize a real example of a situation where I saw witnessed devastation a business sustained through a lack of proper procedures being implemented to protect their financial interests. 

Today we're discussing the number one mistake that many sales professionals make and how this impacts business owners profit growth outcome.  This is why it is so important that business owners learn sales or have someone work directly with their sales teams to ensure they are meeting the needs of the clients daily, to keep your business growing.  Customers are the heart of your business.

Today's episode will be diving into three different goal setting methods to help business owners achieve desired target growth results.  We'll review the traditional annual review goal setting method, the semi-annual goal setting method and then my individually designed mini-year, mini-goal process development method for goal setting and achievement.