Accelerate Your Business Growth

Revenue is still the most powerful form of capital as we face the reality of a global depression. It is crucial at this time for small businesses to pivot, adapt and implement the right income streams, the right pricing model, the right selling strategy, in order to survive and get through COVID. Carissa will explore crucial questions business owners should be asking themselves to keep selling, generate new revenue in this "new" normal. Carissa Reiniger started Small Business Silver Lining with a mission to help small businesses become more profitable and sustainable. She created the SLAP methodology, the Silver Lining Action Plan, a 13-month growth program which is technology-enabled, data-driven and based in behavior change science, helping small business owners develop the right habits and take the right actions to grow their business. She also regularly writes, speaks and advises on small businesses. 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. 

Ready to love your life again? Delegating is the key to so many things, and when you learn to do it the right way and allow yourself to “let go” of those pesky tasks in your personal and professional life that are weighing you down, you’ll be surprised at the changes and growth you’ll experience. Laura Licursi of Elite Virtual Assistants joins me to talk about delegating dos and don’ts. Laura has been in the virtual assistant space for 23 years helping busy professionals, attorneys, and small business owners go from overwhelmed to structured and productive. Laura worked as a VA after leaving corporate america in 1997 and opened her agency, Elite Virtual Assistants in 2015 in an effort to offer the same schedule and work flexibility to other professional women so they can live a life that’s rewarding and fulfilling. 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.

Chris Yoko joins me to discuss how your web presence is your company's most powerful asset. He educates on how your web presence can help make the world a better place and how to keep your web platforms secure during this chaotic time. Chris is the Founder, and CEO of Yoko Co. Chris focuses on helping people, and the organizations they belong to, pave the road to a more Utopian world. He empowers heroic organizations to build and champion themselves using their most powerful asset, their web presence. Chris is an expert in web design and accessibility, digital marketing, company culture, and social responsibility. His goal for himself and those he aids is to be driven by a purpose beyond profit. 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.

In this episode, I talk to Matt Clark CEO of The Virtual Edge about how he uses LinkedIn to get 2-5 high-quality leads per day without ads. In the conversation, we cover everything from crafting your LinkedIn pick up line to optimizing your profile. We even talk about the exact steps Matt uses to convert connections into lifelong customers. Matt is co-creator of The Rainmaker System – an online marketing system that helps entrepreneurs get 2-5 high-quality leads per day without ads. Matt and his partner have helped thousands of businesses in 26 countries grow exponentially. They are now on a mission to reach 10,000 businesses worldwide and build a vibrant community of Rainmakers along the way. 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.

Today, Gen Z (ages 13-25) makes up 2 in 5 American consumers! Yet it's harder than ever to scale with this demographic, who boasts an 8-second attention span and is constantly evolving. These are new consumers—ones you need a fresh strategy to reach. Walk away from this episode with guest Sarah Weise empowered to shift your marketing strategy for this new consumer. Sarah Weise is the CEO of award-winning market research firm Bixa and the bestselling author of InstaBrain: The New Rules for Marketing to Generation Z. For 15 years, Sarah has been a guide to hundreds of leading brands including Google, IBM, Capital One, Mikimoto, PBS, and U.S. Army. Sarah helps brands achieve a laser-focus on their customers to scale their businesses. She lectures at Georgetown University and speaks at conferences worldwide (when there's not a pandemic!). 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.

Brant Cooper explains how to ignite entrepreneurial action within organizations by educating, enabling and empowering people to be closer to the customer, move faster and act bolder.  Brant is author of NYT Best-Selller, "The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate With New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets."  With over two decades of expertise helping companies bring innovative products to market, Brant blends agile, design thinking and lean methodologies to ignite entrepreneurial action within large organizations. 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.

When people matter, business problems are no longer a barrier. Audie Penn joins me to explain the value of communicating what is important and participating in creating a flourishing organizational community. Audie Penn is the Principal & Owner of AUDIE PENN CONSULTING. Audie has been working and consulting for over 30 years providing different services to several Fortune 50 companies in diverse industries and organizations. His approach is a lean transformation by applying training, coaching and project facilitation with local teams securing a solid foundation. Audie has been most notable as a Global Consultant where he combines tactical leadership skills with process focus improvements. Some of his clients are Caterpillar, John Deere, Martin Marietta and HON 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.

Using software to automate basic functions can save you time and money so you have one less thing to worry about in a time where the most important thing is to be with family, not worried about how or even if you are going to be able to do your job. Dan Moore shares some great ideas on how to accomplish automation that works. After brief stints in Enterprise and mid-market data center service providers, Dan co-founded Vaporware to help entrepreneurs take their software ideas to market. Over the past 6 years, he has helped Vaporware deliver thousands of iterations across dozens of apps in 4 main industries (Healthcare, HR, Real Estate, and IT) - ranging from the first MVP versions to modern iterations on mature solutions. 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.

In this episode Patricia Stallworth joins Diane to explore five costly mistakes business owners make that can not only cost them money but possibly their business as well. The discussion includes strategies to avoid or mitigate these mistakes so business owners can not only build sustainable businesses but thrive. And, with proper planning they can do this regardless of what’s going on in the economy. Patricia Stallworth, a.k.a. the profit coach, teaches business owners how to get back to basics – to plan to make the money they had in mind when they first started their business. She says that 4 out of 5 businesses will fail and the majority of the failures will be related to money issues. Patricia is the CEO of PS Worth, the author of The Profit Handbook and the host of the SO BOSS 360 podcast. 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.

Will Christensen joins Diane to discuss the pros and cons of automation, how automation can help you get back time from repetitive processes and the tests to use when you are deciding whether a process can or should be automated.  With over a decade of business development experience, it's safe to say Will Christensen has an elevated passion for fulfilling what the end user desires and efficiently working towards faster iterations. He is the co-founder of DataAutomation and also heads up business development for RoundSphere, a tech incubator dedicated to developing new opportunities through software. He enjoys tinkering with cutting-edge technology, apps and systems, and loves to create innovative solutions for businesses and individual clients. 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.

In this interview, Sallie Holder will share her 4 strategies for revenue growth during this uncertainty.  She's an expert business coach focused on helping entrepreneurs earn more money. Her tactical strategies will give you a guide to pivoting and innovating or simply creating a new revenue stream for your business. You won't want to miss this opportunity to learn from the best!  Sallie Holder, acclaimed bestselling author of “Hitting Rock Middle: The Roadmap From Empty Success To True Fulfillment” (Advantage 2020), podcast host, and founder of The BRIMM. She is a sought after coach, speaker, trainer, and guide to her clients breaking out of their silent scream in success and into true fulfillment. 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.

Transitioning employees back to work after the COVID-19 crisis will involve much more than unlocking the doors and turning on the lights. You'll need to adjust practices and procedures to comply with new legislation, take extra measures to ensure employee safety, and prepare for the "new normal" that has formed as a result of the challenges faced by the pandemic. Join me for a conversation with Catherine Mattice Zundel as she shares valuable information that will help all of us reopen safely. Catherine is CEO of Civility Partners. Clients include Fortune 500's to government to small business - she's served almost every industry you can think of. She's appeared on or in NPR, CNN, USA Today, Forbes, and more as an expert and is a best-selling author of three books. 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.

With upwards of over 70% of foreign ventures failing due to cultural differences, Kyle Hegarty shows how anyone can beat the odds by harnessing the power of cross-cultural data and learning new skills to adapt in today’s fast-paced, technology-driven planet. Due to Covid-19, he argues, globalization has just accelerated rapidly, and these skills are needed now more than ever while Americans face entirely new challenges of doing business digitally at an unprecedented rate with cultures around the world. Kyle Hegarty is the Managing Director of Leadership Nomad, part of TSL Marketing, where he focuses on helping companies such as IBM, Lufthansa, GSK and Oracle expand across the globe. Kyle looks at how companies connect with themselves and their customers with a concentration on communication, sales and marketing and management leadership. He has trained thousands of executives, a faculty lecturer for Singapore Management University (SMU) and is a frequent speaker at business and management conferences around the world. Kyle has a great online course you should check out. 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.

We should stay connected. We should communicate. The to do list says, communicate. There's nothing to say though. What do we do as leaders? Jim Canterucci joins me to explore this important topic. Jim is the founder of Transition Management Advisors and is CEO of the software company Constituent Hub. Jim works closely with executive teams to help implement the strategies developed in the boardroom. Jim is the author of Change Project Management – The Next Step, The Skill Sets of a Change Leader, 7 Essentials for Emerging Leaders and is also the author of Personal Brilliance. He writes to leaders every Saturday morning. 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.

With the steeply rising unemployment rate, near-sighted companies view the available candidate pool as a buyer's market. But smart companies playing the long game see it as a builder's market. Learn how to leverage the candidate market to build a profitable, sustainable company. Claire Chandler, SPHR, helps growing organizations attract and retain the right talent to accomplish their mission. She leverages over 25 years of experience in business leadership, human resources and communications to boost leadership alignment and effectiveness. She holds a certificate in strategic HR leadership from Cornell, a master's degree from NJIT and a bachelor's degree from Fairfield University. She is the author of The Whirlpool Effect. 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.