Accelerate Your Business Growth

Trivinia Barber joins me to talk about the best practices to hire a virtual assistant, how to ensure they're the right fit for your team, and the importance of outsourcing outcomes, not tasks. Trivinia is a straight shooter who uses her talents to help entrepreneurs maximize their time by effectively outsourcing. Founder/Owner of Priority VA, host of Diary of a Doer and mom of 4, Trivinia has mastered delegation and teaches others how to achieve success through this skill. Check out her podcast, Diary of a Doer, to learn how to “Chase Slow” and improve your personal life without sacrificing your business. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth.

Ali Smith joins us today to discuss how this can be done in the most simple fashion, along with unveiling some of the most common trademark misconceptions. Ali Smith is the Product Marketing Manager for Trademark.com. She has worked on intellectual property SaaS solutions for the last several years of her marketing career, and believes in making world-class resources available, accessible, and affordable to businesses of all sizes. Based in Boston, MA, Ali holds an MBA from the University of Warwick (UK). Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com and Gusto. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Gusto offers modern, easy payroll to benefits to small businesses across the country. They were even named best online payroll by PCMag. As a listener, you’ll get three months free when you run your first payroll. Sign up and give it a try at Gusto.com/accelerate. That’s gusto.com/accelerate

Learn the simple secret to being your own publicist. Not only CAN you do your own PR, the skills you learn in the process will make you a better businessperson in the process, and our next guest believes every entrepreneur SHOULD hold their own highly valuable media relationships. Heather Hawkins is a visibility coach who helps entrepreneurs build wildly visible personal brands using earned media awareness. Over a 20+ year career, she's helped catapult massive brands like Sony, Sega, divisions of Apple, CLIF Bar-- even David Bowie and Maroon 5. Two years ago, she left city life, moved to the mountains and started her own agency. Shortly thereafter, she had an epiphany: The "PR Industrial Complex" has been perpetuating myths to keep solo business owners from claiming their rightful place in the media spotlight. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com and Gusto. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Gusto offers modern, easy payroll to benefits to small businesses across the country. They were even named best online payroll by PCMag. As a listener, you’ll get three months free when you run your first payroll. Sign up and give it a try at Gusto.com/accelerate. That’s gusto.com/accelerate

Kim Dawson, host of the Sassy Strategist, joins me to talk about effective pricing, the value of niching, and pricing strategies that work. Kim is a business strategist specializing in helping creative and professional service-based business owners and solopreneurs connect their ambition to their results by focusing on revenue generation, pricing, sales, niching, business development, and growth. By working hand-in-hand with clients to create more efficient businesses that generate higher profits while maximizing their offerings, and developing successful sales strategies, she teaches clients how to make more money while having more time to live a fulfilling life. She is also the author of Passion To Profits. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth.

Wondering how to grow your business by connection and collaboration? Tune in to hear what Maria Dismondy has to share about working with influencers in your market. Award-winning author and founder of the publishing company, Cardinal Rule Press, Maria Dismondy inspires and educates others in the book industry. When Maria isn’t working, she can be found embarking on adventures throughout southeast Michigan and beyond, where she lives with her husband and three book-loving children. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com and Gusto. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Gusto offers modern, easy payroll to benefits to small businesses across the country. They were even named best online payroll by PCMag. As a listener, you’ll get three months free when you run your first payroll. Sign up and give it a try at Gusto.com/accelerate. That’s gusto.com/accelerate

Mario Nawfal joins me to share his insights about how to not only deal with challenges and adversity, but to succeed in spite of it. Mario is the founder of Athena Group of Companies, a business conglomerate operating in more than 40 countries. He had bootstrapped his first business at the age of 22, with $300 in his bank account, selling blenders door to door which led to Froothie Australia. He made his first million in year one and 8 figures by year 2. Mario has since then scaled to over 30 countries and launched many other companies, including a consulting business bootstrapped to 7 figures in less than 6 months. Mario has been through extremely difficult black swan events that would break down any entrepreneur and bankrupt a business. He is now bootstrapping another 7-figure business and documenting the entire process from the beginning to allow entrepreneurs full access to all marketing, logistics, product, operational and financial decisions, including both failures and successes. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth.

While strategies and business principles are important, it's also critical to build a company culture based upon integrity and extend these core values to clients and their businesses. Businesses thrive on transparency and trust. Rob Braiman joins me to share how core values will help your business become more successful, and how you can make an impact on the business world at large. Rob has spent the past 15 years working with business owners to improve strategic planning, operations, growth, and profitability. He founded Cogent Analytics to improve and build main street businesses across the country. It’s his mission to bring tools of better management, organization, and profitability to privately held, small to mid-sized businesses; and to deliver his services with integrity and transparency. The foundation of his value system started in the U.S. Military as a young man serving with SOCOM. His deeply-rooted personal code is what he demands of himself every day, and is what he ask the employees of Cogent to embrace. Service to others under this code is at the very core of the entrepreneurial spirit and of which is a foundational pillar at Cogent. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com and Gusto. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Gusto offers modern, easy payroll to benefits to small businesses across the country. They were even named best online payroll by PCMag. As a listener, you’ll get three months free when you run your first payroll. Sign up and give it a try at Gusto.com/accelerate. That’s gusto.com/accelerate

In this lively and engaging ‘conversation starter’, Liz Dederer joins me to break down the social and emotional barriers that prevent us from feeling powerful in life’s most important conversations and leave you excited and prepared to talk about money with confidence, authority and ease!! Liz Dederer is Disrupting Sales For Good™.  As Founder & CEO of Selling With Service, Liz and her team have helped clients increase close rates from 0% to 80% in 30 days, end the year 50% over plan and have turned around an underperforming sales team from under $300K to $1.2M in 6 months! Liz has been featured on the International Women and Money Summit, and is currently only her 2nd speaking tour on The Currency of Conversation empowering women sales teams and business owners to Close Clients Quickly™! Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth.

There are 4 distinct phases of entrepreneurship, and knowing which phase you're in is crucial to business growth. In this episode, author Chris Cooper will teach you how to identify which entrepreneurial phase you're in, and how to move on to the next one quickly. When his first business almost went bankrupt, Chris sought a mentor and began chronicling his turnaround. That experience led to his first book, Two-Brain Business. After thousands of hours spent one-on-one with business owners, hundreds of blog posts, and more interviews than he can recall, Chris now shares his lessons learned with over 2,000 business owners worldwide through his mentoring business, twobrainbusiness.com. You too can take the test to see which phase you are in. Be sure to check out his new book, Founder, Farmer, Tinker, Thief. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com and Gusto. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Gusto offers modern, easy payroll to benefits to small businesses across the country. They were even named best online payroll by PCMag. As a listener, you’ll get three months free when you run your first payroll. Sign up and give it a try at Gusto.com/accelerate. That’s gusto.com/accelerate

Tap into the power of your breath & mindset for success using fast, simple and powerful tools in the moment, to enhance clarity, creativity and productivity. Sandy Abrams joins us to share how to breathe through workplace challenges, reach your goals, and how the simple practice of breath can lead to success.. Sandy Abrams is the founder of Moisture Jamzz, the author of Your Idea, Inc., and Breathe To Succeed. She is a contributor on HuffPost and Thrive Global. She credits her entrepreneurial success to her nearly 30 years of yoga and breath practice. She has consulted as a small business thought leader, content curator, and social influencer for brands like Capital One, LegalZoom, Sage software, and Marriott. Sandy also leads Breathe Like a Boss! and C.E.’Om workshops to share the power of breath for success. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com and Gusto. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Gusto offers modern, easy payroll to benefits to small businesses across the country. They were even named best online payroll by PCMag. As a listener, you’ll get three months free when you run your first payroll. Sign up and give it a try at Gusto.com/accelerate. That’s gusto.com/accelerate

Do you know the 7 phases of transformation? You need to! And Willard Barth joins me to fill us in. From ignorance to influence, discover the phases we all must go through to succeed. Willard Barth has been involved in the field of human behavior, personal and professional development for close to 30 years. The biggest lesson Willard learned from his time developing numerous businesses in various industries (retail sales, entertainment, software development, marketing, real estate, event management, consulting and coaching) was that for a business to be successful, they had to follow a repetitive cycle which he labels “The Anatomy Of Transformation”. He co-founded and was the President of “The 7th Power” which is a New Jersey based Non-Profit organization promoting empowerment and charitable support to the community, and he currently sits on the boards of two other Non-Profits (LatinosNYC and The Fine to FAB Foundation). Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com and Gusto. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Gusto offers modern, easy payroll to benefits to small businesses across the country. They were even named best online payroll by PCMag. As a listener, you’ll get three months free when you run your first payroll. Sign up and give it a try at Gusto.com/accelerate. That’s gusto.com/accelerate

Discover what you need to know to ensure you are growing and succeeding in your business. Monte Wyatt shares the 5 disciplines as well as other important guidance in this episode. Monte is one of the top coaches at ActionCOACH®, the largest and most successful global business coaching franchise. He brings over 25 years of remarkable leadership, business and personal development experience to business owners. Monte is also CEO of ADDING ZEROS whose sole propose it to work with executives to achieve exponential growth by providing the perfect tools for success. Besides conducting workshops and seminars, he's now releasing his latest book 'Pulling Profits Out of a Hat’. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth.

It’s the picture of the future that drives strategy and goals for a company. And it takes everyone embracing the vision in order for it to become reality. This is Jill Valdez’s strategy for helping companies get everyone inspired to action for the shared accomplishment of achieving the vision.  And she joins us to share her views. Jill Valdez has been helping corporations for over 18 years create systems and develop efficient processes. Her passion for people living a life of purpose compelled her to develop strategies for employees to be engaged and perform at a higher level. She is now committed to helping small to mid-size companies design efficient processes and establish engaged employees. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com and Gusto. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Gusto offers modern, easy payroll to benefits to small businesses across the country. They were even named best online payroll by PCMag. As a listener, you’ll get three months free when you run your first payroll. Sign up and give it a try at Gusto.com/accelerate. That’s gusto.com/accelerate

To e effective, everyone in an organization needs to influence others. From selling ideas to gaining consensus to handling difficult people, persuasive people get more done. Mike Schmidtmann provides great insights into how to be persuasive without being pushy. Mike Schmidtmann has led Information Technology sales teams for over 20 years. He currently works with organizations across the US on sales recruiting, new business development, and profit growth. For the past five years, Mike has facilitated peer groups for Sales Leaders in the IT industry. Members consistently out-perform the industry in sales growth, profitability, and innovation. Mike produces the award-winning Trans4mers webinar series, and writes frequently for IT publications on sales and automation topics. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth.

Digital marketing works well when the audience is there. Sometimes it makes sense to combine marketing venues so you maximize your efforts. Ryan Cote joins us to share some ideas on this topic. Ryan Cote is the Director of Digital Services and Partner at Ballantine, a third generation family-owned direct mail and digital marketing company based out of Fairfield, NJ. With Ballantine since 2003, a family-owned business started in 1966 by his great-uncle, Ryan now manages the growing digital marketing division. From lead generation to marketing strategy for small businesses, Ryan and his company rise above the get-featured-quick schemes so often attributed to digital marketing. He loves to geek out on technical marketing talk as well as work with real-world business owners about growing their book of business in today’s online world. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com and Gusto. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Gusto offers modern, easy payroll to benefits to small businesses across the country. They were even named best online payroll by PCMag. As a listener, you’ll get three months free when you run your first payroll. Sign up and give it a try at Gusto.com/accelerate. That’s gusto.com/accelerate