Product Discovery Consulting Featuring Jim Morris
Jim Morris co-founded PowerReviews which grew to 1,200+ clients and sold for $168 million. He product-managed and architected one of the first ecommerce engines at online retailer Fogdog.com which had a $450 million IPO.
We discuss:
- The need for product discovery [02:06]
- Choose your own adventure [05:42]
- Why product discovery is so important for the software industry [07:30]
- The secret behind Zoom’s success in a time of pandemic [09:43]
- The time is now for every company [11:18]
- The best companies where product discovery works well [12:52]
- The wrong things product teams focus on [14:37]
- A reflective process with multiple solutions [17:08]
- From shepherding a concept through a process to becoming a subject-matter expert [21:56]
- A pattern-matching ability that translates theory into practice [23:38]
- Unlocking innovation in companies and potential in employees [25:46]
These days, he coaches Product teams and Product leaders at startups and corporations to replicate this success. He’s created a custom curriculum and training program that pulls from his 25 years of experience and the best minds in Product Management. He graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Computer Science.
Learn more about Jim at https://productdiscoverygroup.com and Twitter.
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A free 15-minute review of your website or app prototype
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Higher Level Transformation is More Profitable Featuring Jennie Nash
Jennie Nash is the founder and CEO of Author Accelerator, a company on a mission to raise the bar on book coaching.
We discuss:
- A writer’s approach that makes all the difference [01:54]
- Helping a dream come true with no promises [04:05]
- The outcome is usually not the thing itself [07:10]
- Why [sports] people need a coach [09:53]
- How to charge as a business owner versus as a friend [11:20]
- How to have a ridiculously successful hit rate [15:03]
- Why it gets better after breaking through the one-million-dollar plateau [20:02]
- The opportunity that lies in what you’re angry at [22:31]
Author Accelerator has trained more than 60 book coaches to support writers through the entire creative process. Her own coaching clients have landed top New York agents and six figure book deals with Big 5 houses. Jennie is the author of 9 books in 3 genres, including Read Books All Day and Get Paid for It: The Business of Book Coaching.
Learn more about Jennie at https://jennienash.com/ and https://www.bookcoaches.com/.
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Top ten tips for writers
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Creating Opportunities that are Grounded in Your Principles Featuring Merritt Minnemeyer
Merritt Minnemeyer, ACC, CPC, ELI-MP, is the Founder of Master of One Coaching, which serves visionary founders transforming into powerful leaders of purpose-driven movements.
We discuss:
- Choose well, choose wisely, choose love [2:01]
- A guiding principle that creates a third option [12:25]
- Walking the walk of social entrepreneurship [14:25]
- How to turn around an employee’s mind and get them invested in the longevity of the company [18:39]
- Freedom to fail as a way to navigate a transition [20:24]
Merritt is a highly trained coach and speaker who employs 20 years in business, education, social justice, and the arts to create high-touch leadership programs for every client. Passionate about social entrepreneurship, Merritt is committed to contributing to the health, wealth, and harmony of the world. She shares her life with her remarkable husband, their three vibrant boys, and a menagerie of critters.
Learn more about Merritt at www.masterofonecoaching.com.
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A free seven-day leadership journal
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Top Communication Skills for Consultants Featuring Meredith Bell
Meredith Bell is co-founder and President of Performance Support Systems, a global software company. Their award-winning assessment and development tools help leaders and team members become more effective performers. Many clients have done business with her company for more than 20 years.
We discuss:
- Lack of communication skills in a time full of communication tools [2:12]
- The foundational skill that will make your interactions amazing [5:20]
- The consequences of not listening effectively [7:42]
- Asking questions versus offering opinions [9:43]
- What most effective consultants do [11:43]
- How to improve someone’s listening skills without criticizing them [13:33]
- The confidence to start a conversation over again [19:23]
- The balance necessary to form relationships based on openness and honesty [22:02]
Meredith is author or co-author of two books. Her solo book is Strong for Performance: Create a Culture with Learning & Development Programs That Stick. She co-authored Connect with Your Team: Mastering the Top 10 Communication Skills, with Denny Coates, her business partner of 30 years.
Learn more about Meredith at https://growstrongleaders.com/.
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A free e-book, Listen Like a Pro
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Why Audio Quality Is Important for Creatives Featuring Zachariah Moreno
Zachariah Moreno is the co-founder, CEO and CTO of SquadCast. He is a technologist, podcaster, author, and co-founder of SquadCast. Zach and his team are on a mission to connect creatives.
We discuss:
- Why developing only a product is not enough [1:34]
- A side project that turns into a unique tool focused on quality and reliability [3:54]
- When you don’t know that you’ve actually found a product fit [7:14]
- A big leap of faith [8:41]
- How audio quality impacts credibility [12:30]
- Major differentiators for improving audio quality [16:00]
- Creative opportunities to foster collaboration outside the studio [19:39]
Learn more about Zachariah at https://squadcast.fm.
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A promo code to get 10 dollars off your first month in addition to a 7-day free trial – STP2020
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Improve Your Influence Featuring Stacey Hanke
Stacey Hanke is author of the book “Influence Redefined: Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be, Monday to Monday”. She has trained and presented to thousands to rid business leaders of bad body language habits and to choose words wisely. She’s worked with leaders at FedEx, Nationwide, Boeing and Oracle. She is a Certified Speaking Professional – a valuable accreditation earned by less than 10% of speakers worldwide.
We discuss:
- Why most people believe they’re more influential than they really are [1:56]
- How to understand how influential you really are [3:27]
- The importance of silent observers for getting an honest feedback [7:20]
- The gift you don’t want to receive [9:06]
- The best way to grow and develop for free [10:50]
- The three key drivers of influence [12:07]
- The true test of a leader’s influence [14:19]
- How consultants and coaches can achieve an athlete’s level of awareness [16:15]
- The big step is momentum and repetition [20:01]
- The video camera doesn’t lie [22:46]
Learn more about Stacey at https://staceyhankeinc.com/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/staceyhanke/, and YouTube.
How to Use Hype When You Hate Self-Promotion Featuring Michael F. Schein
Michael F. Schein is the founder and president of MicroFame Media, a marketing agency that specializes in making idea-based companies famous in their fields.
We discuss:
- What marketing is really all about [3:53]
- The Hype man: reverse-engineering as a way to make people take an action [8:22]
- Milk before meat [10:13]
- Hustle, hustle, hustle [13:50]
- If only people saw how good your product is [15:57]
- What makes negative hype artists so good at what they do [19:55]
- Why you need to make sure you don’t gravitate only toward people like you [23:33]
He is also the author of The Hype Handbook: 12 Indispensable Success Secrets from the World’s Greatest Propagandists, Self-Promoters, Cult Leaders, Mischief Makers, and Boundary Breakers, published by McGraw Hill, that will appear everywhere books are sold on January 12, 2021.
Learn more about Michael at www.microfamemedia.com, www.michaelfschein.com and TheHypeHandbook.
Multiply Your Success with Interns Featuring Matt Zinman
Matt Zinman is a difference-maker devoted to personally enrich the lives of at least 100 million people by 2025.
We discuss:
- How interns could be helpful when going through a major transition [1:32]
- Putting earned confidence in action [6:27]
- Hiring interns versus hiring virtual assistants [8:30]
- Ways to use interns as a multiplier [9:30]
- Overcoming business challenges with a no-quit attitude [12:56]
- Why it’s important to have a Plan B [14:14]
- The impact plan: changing the lives of at least 100 million people by 2025 [15:10]
- A snapshot of your life [18:10]
His new book, “Z-isms: Insights to Live By” is based on his experiences as an entrepreneur, athlete, single parent, caregiver and nonprofit founder. He is also the host of “Insights to Live By,” a podcast that invites guests to share their own pearls of wisdom. In addition, Matt is CEO of The Internship Institute, which he established in 2007 to “Make Experience Matter.”
Learn more about Matt at https://mattzinman.com, www.internshipinstitute.org and www.isazinman.com.
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Free Self-care Report Card
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The Unstoppable Startup Featuring Uri Adoni
Uri Adoni is the author of the book “The Unstoppable Startup – Mastering Israel’s Secret Rules of Chutzpah”, published by Harper Collins.
We discuss:
- The secret sauce of the Israeli high-tech companies [1:53]
- Summarizing your 30-minute talk to a tweet [4:07]
- The six principles behind the mindset of chutzpah [6:34]
- Why you need a good musical ear to dominate your niche [17:48]
- How to validate a product before you even build it [21:15]
- Foreseeing the future: the hypothesis startups should come up with [22:25]
Uri has over 20 years of experience in high-tech as the CEO of Microsoft Networks Israel, a venture capitalist at JVP (Jerusalem Venture Partners), one of the leading VC’s in Israel, an angel investor, a board member in numerous companies and a speaker.
Learn more about Uri at https://www.theunstoppablestartup.com/ and LinkedIn.
Business Success in an Age of Disruption Featuring Mark Monchek
Mark Monchek is the Founder and Chief Opportunity Officer of Opportunity Lab, a strategy consulting firm focused on conscious growth.
We discuss:
- A new way to think about disruption and opportunity [1:57]
- How a non-unique company thrives during a pandemic [3:21]
- The key frameworks necessary to build a culture of sustainability [5:56]
- The wider lens of the collective intelligence [7:45]
- A respectful back and forth between employees and employers [13:50]
- Steps to do a better job of managing through disruptions [18:10]
- The humility of interdependence [19:53]
Mark has worked with leaders from Google, Apple, JPMorgan Chase, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Adorama, Feltsberg, The New York Times, Wharton School of Business, New York University, Columbia University, NBC, Time Warner, and the United Nations. He’s the author of the Amazon nonfiction bestseller Culture of Opportunity: How to Grow Your Business in an Age of Disruption.
He’s been featured in Real Leaders, The Better Business Book, the Organization Development Review Journal, Lifetime Network, WPLJ, WCBS, Newsday, Working Women Magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Learn more about Mark at https://opplab.com/ and YouTube.
Control Your Future as an Entrepreneur Featuring Craig M. Chavis, Jr.
Craig M. Chavis, Jr. is an author and coach that specializes in helping working professionals launch profitable businesses and successfully transition into full-time entrepreneurship.
We discuss:
- Planting the seeds of becoming an entrepreneur [1:55]
- None of us are self-made [5:18]
- A mentorship that turns things around [6:52]
- The most important variable in the PIE formula [9:07]
- The entrepreneur of your life [11:05]
- Bucket number one and Bucket number two [12:40]
- The roadblocks to creating something from nothing [17:04]
- The best form of security there is [19:06]
He is a serial entrepreneur, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, former division-1 collegiate athlete, and received his BSBA from Samford University and MBA from the University of Tampa. Craig is also a super foodie, world traveler, and lifelong learner.
Learn more about Craig at https://www.cre8ivecraig.com/ and https://www.burdensofadream.com/.
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A signed hardback copy of Craig’s book – Burdens of a Dream
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Using LinkedIn to Find High Value Clients for Consultants and Coaches Featuring Trevor Turnbull
Trevor Turnbull is the CEO of Linked Into Leads and Founder of the transformative Expert Selling programs where he empowers B2B SOLOpreneur consultants and coaches to connect with their “Most Valuable Prospects” using the LinkedIn LINCHPIN Method.
We discuss:
- The mistakes consultants and coaches make that cause them to be stressed and overworked [2:31]
- The less daunting perspective on scaling your business [4:25]
- All the different ways that a person could get in front of their ideal clients [6:14]
- It always starts with the profile [7:13]
- Why you should not be afraid to go niche [8:49]
- How to relate your personal story to your potential clients [12:15]
- The reason to work with certified coaches and consultants [14:16]
- How to take opportunity of the situation before marketers ruin it [16:39]
- Change your thoughts, change your mind, change your life [19:53]
He has served over 26,000 people with his Repeatable, Predictable, Measurable Client Acquisition System and has shared his story and methods in numerous media publications including Forbes, Entrepreneur, Time, Money and Business Insider about how to go from being stressed, frustrated and over-worked to confident, empowered and profitable.
Learn more about Trevor at http://expertselling.com, http://linkedintoleads.com and http://trevorturnbull.com.
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Trevor’s LinkedIn LINCHPIN Method
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Preparing for Adversity Featuring Susan Drumm
Susan Drumm is a CEO Advisor and a Leadership Coach with over 20 years of experience leading teams and senior executives to achieve their potential.
We discuss:
- What makes a true resilience [2:27]
- A fire drill for adversity [5:32]
- Three centers of leadership intelligence [7:13]
- Coherence: shifting from anxiety and stress [8:26]
- How to keep your glass of water always full [13:30]
- A simple yet powerful practice to move you from a state of crisis to a state of resilience [20:23]
- Greater stamina in the middle of your lunch [25:31]
Her firm, Meritage Leadership, focuses on leader and team effectiveness by helping develop the capacity and mindsets to lead in today’s disruptive environment. Susan draws on many disciplines. She has graduate degrees from Harvard Law School, Carnegie Mellon University and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Susan obtained the highest level of coaching certification as Master Certified Coach (MCC).
Learn more about Susan at www.meritageleadership.com.
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A two-page handout on building resilience
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Thinking Differently Featuring Neil Sahota
Neil Sahota is an IBM Master Inventor, United Nations AI Advisor, author of the book Own the A.I. Revolution., and Chief Innovation Officer the University of California.
We discuss:
- Why it is so difficult for people to think differently [2:31]
- The trap of long-term consultant-client relationships [4:46]
- Why executives should get out there more often [6:38]
- What we forget about assumptions [9:27]
- Understand different: why consultants should fall out of love with their idea [12:32]
- Be different: how to avoid having a superior product fail [15:57]
- Own different: Why Tesla succeeded with electric cars while others failed [18:13]
- A little, disruptive, entrepreneurial piece within a big bureaucratic organization [19:57]
Over his 20+ year career, Neil worked with enterprises to launch business ventures by creating next generation products/solutions powered by emerging technology as well as helping organizations create the culture, community, and ecosystem needed to achieve success, like the U.N.’s AI for Good initiative. Neil also actively pursues social good and volunteers with nonprofits like the Zero Abuse Project to prevent child sexual abuse.
Learn more about Neil at https://www.neilsahota.com/, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.
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Influencing with LinkedIn Featuring Tamar Hela
Tamar Hela is an entrepreneur based in Shanghai and the COO of the digital agency Genius Encel. She helps Fortune 500 companies in Asia generate leads through LinkedIn.
We discuss:
- What about LinkedIn makes it a great opportunity in China [2:05]
- The benefits of practicing what you preach [4:50]
- Approaching community as a good way to pivot, evolve and get feedback [6:32]
- Why you should use English content on LinkedIn regardless of your location [8:49]
- What large companies most need on LinkedIn [10:08]
- How to use a lead magnet to capture people’s attention [13:33]
- The firms that manage really well in webinars [16:26]
- It’s all in the follow-up [18:38]
As the Co-President of LinkedIn Local Asia, Tamar has created a network of communities made up of LinkedIn lovers, embracing the original idea of LinkedIn Local: getting to know “the person behind the profile.” Tamar founded the LinkedIn Local Shanghai community, which has more than 3000 members, making it one of the most professional and active networks in China.
Learn more about Tamar at www.geniusencel.agency and LinkedIn.
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Demographics and Marketing Featuring Kenneth Gronbach
Kenneth Gronbach is president of KGC Direct, LLC and is an internationally respected demographer who has been able to forecast societal, commercial, economic, cultural and political phenomena with uncanny accuracy.
We discuss:
- An unusual blend of marketing savvy and common-sense demography [2:23]
- The power of shifting demography [5:04]
- The connection between the millennials and the current protests [5:55]
- Why businesses should focus on the need of shelter [7:09]
- Endless opportunities based on a single generation [9:14]
- Shifts coming up from the current pandemic [11:09]
- Why there will be better cops in the future [12:47]
- A kinder business climate: how millennials change the way people work [14:16]
- Barbie Dolls, Hot Wheels, and Latinos [16:02]
Ken is predicting that the United States and the Americas, because of their superior demographics over any other continent, will excel culturally and economically in the post corona era.
He keynotes all over the United States and the world. His company does high value, customized demographic research. Ken is the author of the current best-selling book The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm. His first book Common Census: The Counter-Intuitive Guide to Generational Marketing was released in 2005. Ken’s 2011 book Decades of Differences: Making It Work is a comprehensive guide to coping with three generations in the workforce. Ken’s newest book Upside: Profiting from the Profound Demographic Shifts Ahead was published in April 2017.
Learn more about Kenneth at www.kgcdirect.com.
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How to Find Corporate Sponsors Featuring Arline Warwick
Arline Warwick shows businesses, entrepreneurs and nonprofits how to find large sums of money to build their businesses and organizations.
We discuss:
- Why you don’t need to be big to have sponsors [2:30]
- The myth of sponsorship being a donation [5:28]
- The good guy: How to approach a sponsor [8:19]
- The best place to start making connections with potential sponsors [11:22]
- Why a big car company would sponsor a small charter fishing boat [16:34]
- The importance of following up on a “No” from a sponsor [19:24]
Arline teaches people how to partner with local businesses and corporations so they can work with them and get paid handsomely to do so. After learning from her own experiences and years of research, Arline now guides businesses through a system that reveals the easiest approach to finding the best partnerships so they can grow, blossom and bloom.
Learn more about Arline at Facebook.
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A list of 100 corporations and contact information
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Send an email to info@findcorporatesponsors.com with “100” in the subject line
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Marketing in COVID Times
Geri Mazur is an award winning brand and marketing strategist. Before starting Geri Mazur Marketing, she was Executive Vice President, Director of Strategic Planning at Saatchi and Saatchi.
We discuss:
- When the best marketing happens [2:00]
- The worst thing you can do in an economic downturn [5:30]
- How great disruptions breathe new opportunities [8:45]
- What awaits you at the end of the hell [11:50]
- The most important input in any communications campaign [13:30]
- How to figure out where to invest money in outside resources to gain the most right now [16:58]
- A trade-off between money and your own energy [20:52]
Over her career Geri worked with many Fortune 500 companies in many different product categories, ranging from Purdue Chickens, to Princess Cruises to Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. Today Geri works exclusively with smaller companies helping them tackle today’s complicated marketing environment.
Learn more about Geri at www.gerimazurmarketing.com and LinkedIn.
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Free access to Introduction to Marketing webinar
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Business Success as a Fundraising Consultant Featuring Laurence Pagnoni
Laurence was recently introduced at an Association of Fundraising Professional meeting as, “Our Fundraising Guru.” The fundraising dilemmas of nonprofits consume his thoughts each and every day, and he writes about them offering real world solutions: books, white papers, training videos, and his weekly free blog post.
We discuss:
- Why fundraising resources often aren’t deep enough [3:42]
- How non-profits could get to know their donors better [6:15]
- Pay it forward: a career commitment to public education [7:28]
- Half a dozen ways to get overhead cost paid for [9:30]
- Laurence’s magic of being a consultant [11:10]
- Relief plans for organizational adaptability [14:22]
- How are you indispensable to your clients? [17:54]
- The merits of having consultants employed on a short-term basis [20:23]
- The next generation of fundraisers [21:31]
Laurence has served as the executive director of three nonprofits. He has been a faculty member of the New York University Heyman Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising, and has coached groups of nonprofit executive directors at New Jersey’s Rutgers Business School’s Institute for Ethical Leadership. He writes, teach and consults in order to help advance the nonprofit’s fundraising program. Celebrating 25 years as a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), he has served on their Planning Committee for Fundraising Day in New York City. He earned three graduate degrees all related to public service. He teaches workshops and offers webinars on fundraising all over the country, across Europe and SE Asia. In response to CV19, he launched special webinars called Our Time to Shine which draw upwards of 500 attendees.
Learn more about Laurence at http://www.lapafundraising.com and www.laurencepagnoni.org.
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A 30-minute free phone consultation about fundraising if you are staff or board member of a nonprofit
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How to Free Yourself from Running Your Business Featuring David Jenyns
David’s entrepreneurial journey begins back in his early 20’s when he sold Australia’s most loved sporting ground, the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Since then, his business experience spans from franchising retail clothing stores to founding one of Australia’s most trusted digital agencies, melbourneSEOservices.com.
We discuss:
- How not to end up locked into the machine you’ve created yourself [2:29]
- The line you need to draw in the sand [4:57]
- The hardest piece of a business owner’s world [8:06]
- How to deliver a core product without the business owner involved [12:38]
- A little extraordinary example of a business systemized [16:04]
- Healthy and unhealthy systems in life and business [19:12]
- The worst person to systemize in a business [21:10]
In 2016, David successfully systemized himself out of the business, hired a CEO and stepped back from the daily operations. Through this process he become a systems devotee – founding systemHUB™ & SYSTEMology®. Today, his mission is to free all business owners worldwide from the daily operations of running their business.
Recognized as a high achieving entrepreneur, you will find many of David’s keynote presentations on YouTube including: TEDx, WordCamp and Problogger.
Learn more about David at www.systemology.com.
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Preview chapters of David’s coming book
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Incremental Steps Lead to Long-Term Sustainability Featuring Catherine VanVonno
Catherine VanVonno is the President and CEO of 20four7VA, one of the most trusted remote staffing companies in the eCommerce industry.
We discuss:
- The result of teaching and helping others replicate your business [2:52]
- A natural fit between eCommerce and remote work [5:14]
- How to have customers develop a new company with you [6:06]
- Strategies for achieving a balance between flexibility and stability [9:04]
- How to start adding virtual assistants to your business [14:40]
- The times when local staffing is better than remote [17:25]
- Combined hiring approaches that could save businesses money [18:23]
- What it takes to trust a person who is half a world away [20:34]
On any given day, you’ll find Catherine managing her global team of 40+ right from her kitchen table, demonstrating one of the biggest perks of remote work. Before starting 20four7VA, Catherine worked in the healthcare management industry. She has a Master’s degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and a Ph.D. in Research and Evaluation Methods with a cognate in Applied Statistics from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Catherine resides in Berlin, Maryland and enjoys traveling with her husband in her free time.
Learn more about Catherine at https://20four7va.com/hire-a-va/, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
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Waiving of 50% of the setup fee
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Why You Should Join a Peer Advisory Board Featuring Ray Silverstein
Ray Silverstein is a small business expert and author with more than three decades of experience and a somewhat unusual approach.
We discuss:
- Why it’s time to start breaking things [3:01]
- Unbiased thoughts on surviving tough circumstances [4:53]
- Hidden opportunities in thinking differently [7:23]
- What makes people move forward [9:13]
- The dos and don’ts of who should fit within a group [11:23]
- How to blend sophistications when a person naturally outgrows a group [13:55]
- The correlation between risk-taking and thriving [15:12]
- Some type of groups, in some place, somehow [16:43]
He gets most of his ideas, not from books and theories, but from in-the-trenches entrepreneurs who pool their collective wisdom in peer advisory board meetings. Ray has facilitated more than 1,500 such meetings since 1993 when he found that PRO (Presidents Resource Organization). This is a peer advisory board network based in Chicago and Phoenix and in addition they also offer online advisory boards.
In his monthly forums small business owners meet to share challenges and solutions, create accountability and offer support.
Ray is the author of two books “The Great Secrets of Great Small Businesses” published by Source Books in 2006 and the newly released “The Small Business Survival Guide: How to Survive and Thrive During Tough Times”.
Learn more about Ray at http://peeradvisoryboard.com/ and LinkedIn.
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A digital of copy of “The Small Business Survival Guide: How to Survive and Thrive During Tough Times”
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How to Be a Serial Entrepreneur Featuring Nathan Hirsch
Nathan Hirsch is an entrepreneur and expert in remote hiring and e-commerce.
We discuss:
- Entrepreneurship has a funny way of throwing you around [2:19]
- The internal job it takes to do small, consistent things every day [3:49]
- Key ingredients for working with virtual assistants [6:52]
- Making a decision to sell that’s a win for everybody [8:22]
- Cracking the VA code [11:26]
- Helpful resources to make an informed decision when selling your business [13:39]
- The challenges and opportunities that come with opening a business during a global economic disruption [15:09]
- The name of the game: systems and processes [17:30]
- How to add value to a client when you’re not an expert at what they ask for [21:34]
Nathan co-founded FreeeUp.com with 5k and grew it to 12 million a year in revenue. FreeeUp was then acquired in 2019. It is a marketplace that connects businesses with pre-vetted freelancers in e-commerce, digital marketing, and much more. Nathan has sold over $30 million online and regularly appears on leading business podcasts around the world.
Learn more about Nathan at outsourceschool.com, his personal Facebook, his business page on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
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Free tool for seeing how many virtual assistants you can afford
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Selling Your Expertise Online Featuring Monika Mileva
Monika is a marketing consultant helping entrepreneurs scale fast by building social proof and expert status, and blending automation, organic and paid marketing for faster growth.
We discuss:
- Achieving a larger reach in a noisier Internet space [1:37]
- Every pivot makes you better at what you do [4:23]
- How to make your [financial] business visible online [6:58]
- Three online sales strategies that low-budget business owners can immediately implement [9:01]
- How to overcome the agony of getting your first piece of content out there [13:21]
- Swap [15:37]
- Why speaking online might give you more traction than speaking in your neighborhood [17:44]
- How social proof beats experience and skills [18:24]
- The perseverance one needs to start and keep up with the global online trends [19:39]
- The next level of online marketing [20:39]
Learn more about Monika at https://theexpertimpact.com/opf and Facebook.
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Publishing for Consultants and Coaches Featuring Steve Feld
Steve Feld is a coach, author, professional speaker, and award-winning business management executive. He has with over 30 years of extensive senior-level experience in highly competitive industries. An expert in all aspects of business, Steve has a large passion for everything business.
We discuss:
- A great relationship of giving back [1:37]
- The collaborative method: the power of mastermind groups [4:54]
- The problem with new consultants and coaches trying to jump the cubicle [6:28]
- Why you should “use” a sniper rifle when targeting your customers [8:34]
- Top three problems of small business owners [9:20]
- Building a strong niche business in less than a month [10:23]
- It’s hard to see all the trees in a forest [13:30]
- How being a published author changes clients’ perspectives [16:18]
- The importance of having systems and processes for thriving in challenging times [19:37]
- Why nobody is going to steal your idea [20:53]
Steve created and owned six-figure businesses and operated three others. He managed divisions for three brand name Fortune 500 companies. Steve has written three books about business. He co-owns a publishing company geared to coaches, consultants, and experts. Steve also conducts workshops and training on a variety of subjects for business owners.
Learn more about Steve at https://www.bizcoachsteve.com.
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