Accelerate Your Business Growth

John Jonas has scaled his business by outsourcing as much of the supplemental work for his business as possible. This freed up plenty of time to focus on revenue generating activities. In this episode, he shares his process with us. John is based in Utah and is the founder of the largest marketplace for finding Filipino workers, OnlineJobs.ph, with over 150,000 Filipino workers on their database. He is also the founder of "Replace Myself"  - a site that teaches you everything you need to know about outsourcing to the Philippines. 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.

They can give you the confidence to step away from the day to day options, or expand operations, all while positioning your business to increase the value in case you decide to sell it…. Or not. Kevin Monaghan joins us to share his views on this subject. Kevin founded Intuitive Compensation Group where he uses his skills of working with American business owners to help retain key employees, develop buyout strategies and navigate working family business partners. He loves to teach entrepreneurs to help protect, incentivize, and compensate other owners and/or key employees. 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.

Trevor Throness’ business task is to be a support, guide and friend to leaders—to help them shoulder some of the stress that comes with leading a business that is in growth. He helps these leaders think through tough people issues and joins us to share his ideas. Trevor is a veteran coach who specializes in working with growing businesses from $2 million to $2 billion in sales. He has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs, organizations, and business families across North America fix people problems, enhance communication, attract top talent, and build exceptional cultures. He is also the author of The Power Of People Skills. 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 Field will not only inspire you to step and step out and do something, he'll show you how. In life there are Dreamers and there are Doers. Some people, like Chris Field, are blessed to be both. He launched Mercy Project in 2010 to combat child trafficking in Ghana’s fishing industry. To date, Mercy Project has rescued, rehabilitated, and reintegrated more than one hundred children back into their families. Their innovative process to end child slavery has garnered them national awards. Chris has broken multiple Guinness world records, run dozens of marathons, organized enormous fundraisers, created viral internet campaigns, taught himself to auctioneer, and brought down walls. He travels the country speaking on how each of us can be disruptors for good. Chris is also the author of Disrupting For Good. 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 skim emails, watch the first few seconds of videos, and scroll through headlines, looking for just a quick hit, just the gist, so we can move on to the next thing.  So how can we, as individuals, make a lasting impression? How can we be more memorable in a quick-hit culture? Find out in this episode when Dana Kaye joins me. Dana Kaye is the founder of Kaye Publicity, Inc., a boutique PR company specializing in publishing and entertainment, the author of Your Book, Your Brand: The Step-By-Step Guide to Launching Your Book and Boosting Your Sales, and the creator of Branding Outside the Box where she helps driven entrepreneurs and aspiring leaders become more memorable. 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.

Nigel Green makes the case that listening is everything when it comes to serving your customer. Good listening is a crucial piece of the communication puzzle, but what determines what is actually considered good listening and are you really listening to begin with? Nigel shows us how to really listen to your customer and change the way you communicate. Nigel Green builds businesses. He's built a career in sales & marketing and currently serves as the vice president of sales & marketing at Relode  a healthcare platform that allows the marketplace to connect top healthcare professionals to healthcare’s best jobs. From 2012 to 2015 he served as vice president of sales at Foundations Recovery Network, where he helped grow the business from $94M to $350M before selling it to Universal Health Services. In 2016 he served as the CEO at StoryBrand, helping teach businesses how to communicate with clarity. He writes on leading and building sales teams at www.findevergreen.com, and his work has been featured in Inc. Magazine and Business Insider. 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.

Ed Eppley joins me to discuss the six disciplines of focused management pros. He recommends we make a “Stop Doing” list and offers actions that someone could take today to get a sense of where they are as a leader and what they need to improve. Ed is a leading global expert in professional management, sales strategy, and performance management. He is a principal consultant for the Table Group, a Patrick Lencioni Company, and operates The Eppley Group. He has trained managers at multinational companies across the U.S., Europe, China, Japan, and Australia. His clients include a “Who’s Who” of business category leaders such as BMW, DSW, Sara Lee, Bloomberg, Battelle, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Speedway, Steamboat Ski & Resort Company, Value City Furniture, PSA Airlines, Emerson Electric, NECCO, Safelite Auto Glass, and others. As a facilitator of the Course for Presidents at Aileron, Ed helps owners of private businesses apply a system of professional management to identify and correct workplace problems. Learn more about Eppley and The Eppley Group at http://www.TheEppleyGroup.com. Download the first chapter of Ed’s new book “Let’s Be Clear,” at http://www.letzbeclear.com. 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.

Treat them with respect, involve them in problem solving, and grow together. Ned Parks joins me to talk about this very important subject. Ned Parks is a business consultant who draws on his background as a U.S. Army Warrant Officer helicopter instructor pilot and business owner to provide owners and management-level executives strategies to improve their operations and strengthen their business goals. In 2000, Ned opened Aegis 360 Consulting, a firm focusing on corporate culture, leadership development, and business strategy. Certified as a Registered Corporate Coach, Ned’s expertise includes the areas of strategic planning, leadership development, and coaching. He guides leaders to connect with their teams and combine personal and organizational objectives to achieve their goals, offering proven business strategies with creative approaches, practical methods, and unique execution applications. Ned is a Lean 6 Sigma Green Belt training. He is also certified in Everything DiSC®, The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team program, and PXT Select. Ned is the author of The Simple and Easy Manager. 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.

Steve Acho (rhymes with macho), his staffing company and his staffing platform help companies, recruiters and job seekers connect in a more human way with the use of today’s technology. His book Why Technology Recruiting is Broken and What to do About ithas helped put into perspective the problem with recruiting and hiring today. Steve believes at the heart of successful recruiting and team building is a conversation, and technology can help facilitate a better experience. Steve earned his MBA while living in Japan and working for the CEO of Mazda. The published author has consulted CEOs of Fortune 100 companies, and currently operates the Detroit Michigan-based technology staffing firm Solstice Consulting Group. He is passionate about using technology to be more human, and helping “change the conversation” in the market, so that organizations can find better fits, and job-seekers can find more meaningful work. 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.

Join us today on a reality check as Stefan Pretty shares his beliefs why today's perception of effort vs success is so sickeningly wrong. He is talking about the ways to achieve more with less, on how one can bootstrap his business and succeed in what he is doing without the need to depend on someone else's money, explaining how story of a castaway is pretty much the story of a modern tech entrepreneur. Stefan is a Scottish tech entrepreneur, currently residing in Los Angeles. He has given birth to 5 different business since the age of 18. His current brainchild, Subbly, has grown to be a 6 figure business in less than 2.5 years while staying entirely bootstrapped. Stefan is passionate about helping people succeed, doing more with less and rock and roll. Be sure to grab is guide to starting a subscription box 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.

Join me for a conversation with Derek Lidow when he’ll share what he’s learned through research and observation. Derek is the former CEO of International Rectifier and the founder of iSuppli, a leading market research firm, which he sold in 2010 for $100 million to global information leader IHS. He has written two books on entrepreneurship, the latest being Building on Bedrock: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and Other Great Self-Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies. He is currently a professor at Princeton University, teaching entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. 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.

Craig Cody joins me to share some of the known, and less known items you can write off legitimately. Craig is a Certified Tax Coach, Certified Public Accountant, Business Owner and Former New York City Police Officer with 17 years experience on the Force. In addition to being a Certified Public Accountant for the past 15 years, he is also a Certified Tax Coach. Craig has co-authored an Amazon best seller book, Secrets of a Tax-Free Life.   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.

Join me for a conversation with Hugh Littleton about what it means to communicate effectively. Hugh provides us with some terrific, actionable information. Hugh, President of Hugh Littleton Consulting, LLC, is an International Corporate Leadership Trainer known as the Leadership Guru.  Hugh is the author of the book “Legacy Building through Extraordinary Leadership”.  He has provided leadership development to more than 25 organizations in Northeast Ohio, across the United States, and in the United Kingdom.  In addition, he is the winner of the 2010, Cleveland Business Connect Magazine, Best Speaker and Facilitator Award. Named the Keynote Speaker of the Year in 2014 by the CBC Magazine. 2016 finalist for CBC’s Keynote Speaker of the Year. 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 reviewing over 1000 brands over the past decade and working with startups to household brands, Derek Champagne has identified 5 common crisis points in branding and marketing and how to build campaigns that get results. Derek is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience developing effective marketing campaigns. Derek shares his story of growing up from humble beginnings, on stage at age of 3, his years as a Hollywood musician, and his diverse journey to get where he is today. He is the Founder & CEO of The Artist Evolution, a full service agency building memorable brands, marketing tools and campaigns for startups to household brands. Derek is also the author of the best-selling marketing book Don’t Buy a Duck and the host of the popular Business Leadership Series podcast, that also airs as a weekly business show on ESPN radio regionally. 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.

Everyone’s had a bad boss. But how can you avoid becoming one? In this podcast, we will discuss using creative storytelling to be a better leader with Stephanie Taglianetti and Brian Harman. Stephanie M Taglianetti is an Italian-American creative writer from NY, a master of fine arts, literally, and she has a masters degree in fine arts from CalArts, the school founded by Walt Disney. She is also a brilliant musician, illustrator and jazz singer. Brian M Harman, is an American businessman who has been working in corporate leadership and supply chain management since 2004. He has studied global finance and management science at the University of Oxford and Pepperdine University, earning his MBA degree and currently finishing his PhD in Global Leadership and Change. Their book How To Avoid A Huge Leadershit is a must read. 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.