Stories Worth Sharing with Ray Binkowski

Grow Your Business Today by Going where Your Competitors Can’t and Won’t Go! In a recent conversation with a client this was the advice. The client was working on year end marketing and planning for the new year. My advice was that simple. Go where your competitors can’t and won’t go with content showing how your customers problems are solved with your service. Build the year and new year plan aro...

Steps to Grow Your Business when You are Slow There is a seasonality to most businesses. Some months are busier than others. In contrast, sales are slower at other times and from a revenue standpoint these months can look like valleys. To grow your business there are two steps to take. You must take action and spend time working on your business when you are busy. I commonly hear from clients that...

A Better Way to Set Goals and Grow to 7 Figures and More, Today! 1. Set the Goal 2. Be Held Accountable 3. Involve Your Staff or Team 4. Measure Progress in Real Time Check out the video and see how I put this in action with my staff and grew 20% year over year and how I would do it BETTER today! Give you a hint… Involve your staff and team, give them ownership and a piece of the action…They often...

Get Ready to Lose Your Biggest Customer... and When you Do How to Keep the Doors Open! Every business has those one or two customers... the ones that represent most of your revenue... money... sales. Every business does not have a plan for when those customers leave. It happens. Customers close, they get sold and sometimes go bankrupt and stiff you with MILLIONS in receivables you will never colle...

These Posts Get the Most Attention on Social Media! Personal Interest!🔥💰🚨 Pics and Videos of you and your family, pets and the likes.😮🧐🙄 Our clients see 5-10X the response when we include content like this.😁 Hence, it is part of our content strategy for clients and our own operations.👍 Make sure this is PART of your social media strategy. The holidays are a GREAT and easy time of the year...

Make pursuit of perfection your goal. Not perfect. Things are never perfect. Waiting and trying to be perfect will slow you down.

Brandon Gaydorus shares his path form college student to Top 50 Golf Fitness Pro to Author to a Mission with his Warm Heart Life to help 21 People make $21,000 per month in the next year!

We sat down and shot a video webcast with Business Coach and Mentor Brandon Gaydorus. Check out this clip where Brandon shares his Top 3 Must Do’s and Must Not Do’s in business… Must Do’s 1. Think Big 2. Network=Networth 3. Build the PROPER Habits Necessary to Get What You Want Must Not Do’s 1. Stop Limiting Your Beliefs 2. Stop Thinking You Can Do Everything Yourself 3. Find a way to CALM the dai...

Business is about sales, revenue and profitability... these are the corporate report cards.💰💰💰 With many working a hybrid on site and remotely... it is NOT about being seen digitally. It is about productivity! 🛑 Don't make the mistake of encouraging staff to busy and visible. 😁 Encourage them to be productive per the job description for their position. Speaking of Job Description…make sure wh...

You Won’t Know if You Don’t Go If you GO You will KNOW “You Won’t Know if You Don’t Go”… my former director of sales said at lunch. Every year he and some friends took an annual fishing trip. He and one other guy would always go up to the boundary waters early and scout for the best place to cast a few lines on the upcoming trip. Without miss the other guys ask, “how the fishing was at all of the...

Possible Million Dollar Return on this ONE Investment, Relationships! Relationships are no different than a piggy bank. Just like putting pennies, nickels and quarters in the bank ensure the day you bust the bank open there is money… relationships need a consistent investment for the same reason. The day you want to leverage that relationship there must be something there. Make a point to pick up...

How to Make More Money Turning Lemons to Lemonade Start with how you look at things. Choose to see the problem or the opportunity. Garth Brooks has a great way to see problems... like your hand... on one side the problem. the other side, the opportunity. Flip the script and see things as opportunity. 😎By Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs…🔥

Small business owners pay tuition through taking risks, making mistakes and paying attention to the outcome.   Joe Walsh has been an entrepreneur for decades.  From owning a bar and restaurant, to a stint as a racehorse owner and eventually earning an MBA and becoming the owner of an award winning financial planning business…. Joe has seen a done a lot in business.   We sat down wit...

Want More Sales and to Grow Your Business? 1) Ask for the Sale. Most people just won't. 🙄 So ASK!💰 2) Turn No's into Not Today's and follow up. Some suggest it can take 7, YES SEVEN impressions before a customer buys. So you have to keep showing up. 💰 Technology makes the latter easy... so leverage tech.😎 😎By Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs…🔥

If you are a Small Business Owner, Entrepreneur or Executive you have get used to being uncomfortable. 🤗 The successful already understand and embrace this. 🔥 The stretch, reach and movement outside of your comfort zone is where the magic happens. It is live and where the growth happens. 👀 Doing something that scares you (not something stupid and dangerous) daily basis makes it easier to reach...

What is Your Pivot? There will be another recession, bubble that bursts or pandemic. You can count on it. Which and when are unknown. Your business having plan to pivot is the oxygen that will sustain your business for years to come. So what is your Pivot?

Walk Away from Bad Deals... 🤔After watching a super successful business mentor crushing it... I realized his secret was to walk from bad deals.👀 It was that easy... no ego... no emotional attachment... if the deal was not in his favor he walked....🙌 💰 Last deal I watched him do was for $50MM.... 💰 😎By Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs…🔥

🤔No one is noticing you or your content on social media. 🎬You share videos, that get no views. Posts are ignored. No likes or comments. 🥷Your killer content is missed....crickets. Keep at it. 👀 Remember ONE is better than NONE. 💰💰💰 ask @garyvee Be consistent... ONE is better than NONE... and ONE will lead to TWO... Two will lead to one thousand (literally just peeped our YouTube channel tha...

6 Simple Strategies to Get Everything You Can Out of Social Media Today 1) Define Who Your Customer Is 2) Understand Where they Spend Time Digitally 3) Be Consistent 4) Don't Try and Be on EVERY Platform, but be on the RIGHT Platform for Your Biz 5) Create Content List, Generate 2-3 Weeks of Content, Video, Text, Blogs, etc. 6) Engage with others on the platform BONUS: 7). Once Consistently postin...

Find yourself overwhelmed trying to Grow Your Business? 👀Looking at other entrepreneurs wondering how they did that? 🥸Staring at social media amazed at killer video content but clueless as to the process to produce similar content? 🤓ASK!!! 🔥The power of simply asking cannot be understated. Yesterday, literally yesterday I helped someone with how to create BETTER videos... 🤔Why? 🤠Because she...

🚨Half of All Businesses Fail in the first 5 years.🚨 Half. If you are a business owner or entrepreneur that should SCARE you! 😱 There are two reasons for this 1). Time... and being patient enough to allow time to run its course. Things do not happen overnight. That successful business in your space or industry has likely been consistently working at it for some time. Be patient and be consistent...

Owners of 65 Year Old Family Business share their Top 3 Must Do's and Must Not Do's in Business. Pizza Villa is more than just a pizza place.

Best practices from owners of a 65 year old family business. Pizza Villa has been providing the BEST pizza to the DeKalb Illinois market for decades. Learn how the owners turn out a premium pizza consistently and efficiently. There are many tips you can take and put to work in your business today!   They cover secrets to pro active equipment maintenance, family business almanac, and how to ma...

Don't let the pursuit of perfection lead to procrastination and keep you from getting things done.