Carl Gould #70secondCEO

Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here, author of The 7 Stage Growth Method and your #70secondCEO, a little more than a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Today's topic: Stage 3.  Give yourself a rank on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 low, 10 high. Stage 3 is the Synergy Stage. This is where you're building your implementation team. If you have a great plan, you're an authority in your niche....

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.  The challenge that you have here is that, most of the time, the business runs the owner in stage two; this is an area of concern. Part of your focus needs to be implementing your MVP plan, working with your strategic partner, your advisor, building those credentials...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Stage one: strategic planning. If you look down at the graph, you'll see in front of you what the personality of this particular stage is. Well, your major focus is going to be drive; your other major focus is going to be income and interaction because, remember, we...

What are the 7 Stages?. Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So what are these 7 stages? We've been talking about them a lot already. Let me give you an overview of each of the 7 stages before we get more into it. Stage one is the strategic planning stage. This is where your dream is born; you're going...

Your Business Mirrors You: How Owner Strengths Create Business Blind Spots  Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. As we've said many times, the business mirrors the owner's personality; it must. In order for this business to get off the ground, it must mirror your personality and your personal strengths....

Build the Right Team: Match People to Their Strengths, Roles & Your Business Vision Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. When you create your organizational chart, you'll match people to their styles. And that's step number one: most people are going to gravitate towards the jobs that they're good at al...

Build a Better Organizational Chart: Track Your Tasks, Improve Cash Flow & Scale Your Business - Pt. 3 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Once you have gone through this exercise, you will have done a number of things. First, you will have created all the job descriptions within the business because y...

Build a Better Organizational Chart: Track Your Tasks, Improve Cash Flow & Scale Your Business - Pt. 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. This is a surefire way to build your business structure because you will learn which tasks you can delegate and which you cannot, and soon you will start handing th...

Build a Better Organizational Chart: Track Your Tasks, Improve Cash Flow & Scale Your Business  Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You'll notice as you look at the organizational chart, there's you on top, the CEO; you're the CEO of Me Incorporated. And on the left-hand side, as you look at your page,...

Set Smarter 90-Day Goals: Turn Continuous Improvement Into Measurable Business Growth - Pt. 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Ah, 9 ½, great! What are we gonna do to make it a 10? Here's what we got to do: bam... bam... bam... bam. Those are goals, and then when you double that, you would say, "we'...

Set Smarter 90-Day Goals: Turn Continuous Improvement Into Measurable Business Growth - Pt. 1 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.  90-day goals that have–that are actual destinations, and then separate that from what we call categories of improvement or just the roles you play in your life. So, for exa...

Build Better Business Systems: Create Predictable Processes, Empower Your Team & Scale Successfully  Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.  That's a system: an activity or group of activities you can remove yourself from. Now, remember way back when we were talking about the discovery process, and we sai...

Avoid Business Complacency: Strengthen Systems, Improve Cash Flow & Increase Company Value Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.  Complacency and cruise control can happen here. It is a blind spot. It is a functional problem, but you need to get back to it right away. If you're having cash flow problems,...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.  Now, what are some blind spots for stage five? And it's a bit of a paradox, because there really should be no blind spots at stage five. So let me discuss a bit of why franchises fail. Whether you bought one or built it to this point, the number one reason franchise...

From Expert to Leader: How Delegation, Team Building & Structure Grow Your Business Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. As you move into late stage two, you want to be an expert in your field; you want to be among the highest paid in your area; you want the highest acclaim or credentials in your partic...

Build a Stronger Business: Improve Product Quality, Brand Credibility & Customer Loyalty Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. And you also want to build the quality of your product and your service, build your credentials, and you're gonna have a minor focus on sales. You need to keep that cash coming i...

Design It Before You Build It: The Power of Strategic Planning Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Stage one, the strategic planning stage. Whether you are a new business, a startup business, or an existing business that is seeking to launch a new product, a new division, or bring in a new brand to you...

Your Strength Is Your Blind Spot: Build a Stronger Business by Knowing Both - Pt. 3 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. In your personality, you have blind spots, and everyone does because no one person is all things to all people. Your business cannot have blind spots, if you have blind spots that's w...

Your Strength Is Your Blind Spot: Build a Stronger Business by Knowing Both - Pt. 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So for example we're making a lot of money that's the I. and the C part of the business says "yes, we're losing a lot, we're not taking a lot home because we are making a lot of mista...

Understand your strengths & identify your weaknesses. It will build a stronger, healthier business. Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You're very strong at direction, you'll struggle in the area of systems, it will be your blind spot. It's not where you would normally gravitate towards. If you're str...

 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO.  Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. And so here's what I learned. What I learned was if people value what you do, if they really value what you do, and if they have a need, they want to go with an expert. I had built a reputation as the guy who came in, banged out a job, and got the heck out of there...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. That's a system where you have an activity or a group of activities that you can remove yourself from. Now, you remember way back when we were talking about the discovery process, and we said, Every job has a personality. Every industry has a personality. Well, in yo...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. That's a system where you have an activity or a group of activities that you can remove yourself from. Now, you remember way back when we were talking about the discovery process, and we said, Every job has a personality. Every industry has a personality. Well, in yo...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Take a moment right now to write down what the top five complaints are about your industry- maybe not about you as a company, maybe you as a company, but maybe not- about your industry? So how would you know that? So think of a customer- a negative customer- customers....

Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO - just a little over a minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Our topic today is -  Are you a Muddy Fish or are you a Clean Fish? I wonder.    So, a muddy fish. Are you the kind of person that is fast-paced and outgoing? You're not very detail-oriented. You're results-driven.  You like things new, trendy, flashy. You tend to be on the business...