Accelerate Your Business Growth

Jeremy Ring was there at the beginning. He shares his views on how and why businesses succeed, or fail. Jeremy has enjoyed success in both public and private arenas. After graduating from Syracuse University, he eventually landed in what proved to be a life-changing role with a recently-launched Yahoo!. For the next 5 years, he would be a part of business history, with a 50 yard-line seat. He saw the good and the bad decisions, the missteps and the triumphs. It was a business and life education of the highest order, and he learned much from the experience. Since leaving Yahoo!, Jeremy has been a successful entrepreneur, a Florida state Senator, and he is currently running for the office of the CFO for the State of Florida. He has also been a champion for students with his Students United with Parents and Educators to Resolve Bullying. Jeremy is also the author of We Were Yahoo! 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.

Buyers are bored with canned needs assessment questions. There is a way to get the information you need while also giving buyers a positive experience. Deb Calvert joins us to let us in on this all-new needs assessment, a simple shift you can make right away!  Deb is President of People First Productivity Solutions. She is also the author of Stop Selling & Start Leading® and DISCOVER Questions®Get You Connected (one of the “Top 20 Most Highly-Rated Sales Books of All Time”). Deb has been named one of the "65 Most Influential Women in Business" and a top 50 Sales Influencer. She is also founder of The Sales Experts Channel and a Berkeley Instructor on Sales Development Principles, a certified Master of The Leadership Challenge® and Certified Coach, Sales & Leadership Speaker, Trainer.  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 not just your attention that’s being stolen—-it’s also your employees’ attention, your organization’s attention, and the attention of your customers. We have entered an age of distraction. Today, we only average three minutes of sustained work before an interruption comes along to distract us. And once we’re interrupted, research shows that it takes us twenty-three minutes to fully return to our original task. Curt Steinhorst talks with us about these distractions and how to regain our focus. Curt Steinhorst is on a mission to rescue us from our distracted selves. Having spent years studying the impact of tech on human behavior, Curt founded Focuswise, a consultancy that equips organizations to overcome the distinct challenges of the constantly-connected workplace. He is a leading voice on strategic communication, speaking more than 75 times a year to everyone from global leadership associations and nonprofits to Fortune 100 companies. Curt is the author of the book Can I Have Your Attention? Inspiring Better Work Habits, Focusing Your Team, and Getting Stuff Done in the Constantly Connected Workplace. 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.

 Successful business leaders have a methodological approach to decision making.  How you decide is as important as what you decide.  On this episode Brit Poulson will help us learn a powerful decision-making tool to make effective decisions more quickly and effectively. Brit Poulson, PhD, author of The Clarity Compass, has coached business leaders in applying the Clarity Compass to be more efficient and effective decision makers. Thirty years of listening to the deepest struggles of clients has allowed Brit to unlock the mystery of why some people excel in leadership and others struggle with conflict and lack of influence.  He says leading doesn’t have to be filled with struggle and stress anymore.  Improving your decision-making skills is key. 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.

A point is something more -- it's a contention you can propose, argue, illustrate, and prove. Through simple exercises based on his unique and popular workshop, Joel Schwartzberg will show you how to identify your point, sharpen it, and sell it to create meaningful impact.  Currently the Senior Director of Strategic and Executive Communications for a major nonprofit organization, Joel Schwartzberg has been teaching effective presentation and messaging techniques to corporate, group, and individual clients since 2006, and is the author of Get to the Point! Sharpen Your Message and Make Your Words Matter, which was released in October. His clients include American Express, Comedy Central, Blue Apron, the American Jewish Committee, and the Brennan Center for Justice. 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.

Learn the power of asking 3 great questions each evening just 5 minutes before you go to sleep and how this simple and easy technique will change the lens you view your life, your business, and literally every relationship you have from now on out.  James Colburn joins us to let us in on this great ritual for growth. James Colburn is a franchise consultant and sales trainer at John L. Scott, one of the most successful real estate companies in the country.  More than just the obvious advice that you might expect from a high-achieving sales professional, James can share with your listeners the mindset shift that allowed him to Resucceed and gave him his life and his happiness back. 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.

Even small businesses need to be on top of their cyber security. As a matter of fact, our guest Adam Anderson tells us that small business is where many cyber criminals are focusing their attention. Adam is a long-time small business owner who also happens to be one of the leading authorities on small business cyber security. He is a serial entrepreneur, author, and founder and Chairman of  Palmetto Security Group (PSG), an IBM Premier Cyber Security  Business Partner.   He recently launched Element Security Group. With 20 years in cyber security, and 13 as a small business owner, Adam is positioned to understand both sides of the cyber security equation  in a way most aren’t. Adam got tired of  answering all his business owner friends’  questions about cyber security, so he  co-authored a book and created some  tools for them. The book is called Small  Business Cyber Security: Your Customers  Can Trust You...Right? Adam is on a mission  to help fellow business owners fnd the  answer to the question, “Should I even  care about cyber security?”   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.

Corey Poirier joins us to share what he’s learned from interviewing 4000+ of the world’s top business leaders. He’ll share ideas you can implement today. Corey is a multiple-time TEDx Speaker. He is also the host of the top rated ‘Conversations with PASSION’ Radio Show, founder of The Speaking Program, and he has been featured in multiple television specials. A columnist with Entrepreneur Magazine, he has featured in/on CBS, CTV, NBC, ABC, is a Forbes Coaches Council member, and is one of the few leaders featured twice on the popular Entrepreneur on Fire show.   Corey has interviewed over 4,000 of the world’s top leaders. One of his most recent talks took him to New York City where he had the extreme pleasure of speaking to At-Risk Youth at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Boys & Girls Club. 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.

Get ready for this great conversation around the topic of email prospecting. There comes a time when you have to do some sort of cold outreach. Ryan O’Donnell joins us to give us an interesting view of using email to prospect. He actually used his method to get on this podcast, so I can honestly say it works! Ryan is Co-Founder/CEO ?of two tech platforms used by thousands of companies, both large and small, for generating a consistent sales pipeline.  SellHack is a Chrome browser extension to build targeted prospect lists and Replyify automatically sends out your cold emails so you’ll never forget to follow-up again. He is a growth marketer obsessed with helping sales professionals and business owners sell like a robot while still sounding like a human.  Ryan implements the software platforms he’s built to consistently generate over $1M in revenue. 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.

The law has long lagged behind the evolution of the online world. For better or worse, countries and courts are now catching up quickly.  Richard Chapo is here today to discuss legal issues and developments every site and app owner needs to be aware of. Richard Chapo is a lawyer in San Diego who advises online businesses on topics ranging from copyright to privacy law and other subjects every online business owner should know. He's been practicing for 25 years and believes in practicing preventive law designed to limit the legal risks his clients face. Richard is also an avid traveler and hockey fan.  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 Dayley joins us to discuss why many websites and business owners struggle to convert more of their traffic, and some proven methods you can use to learn about your website visitors. Chris is passionate about helping businesses learn what their users want on their website, through psychology based testing, and analytics. He started his Conversion Optimization agency Dayley Conversion in 2014, which he later merged with Disruptive Advertising, where he currently works as VP of site testing and optimization. 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.  

Science teaches kids about failure, and learning to embrace failure is key to entrepreneurial success. Dr. Glangchai explains how this translates to into future innovation. Cristal Glangchai, PhD, is a scientist, entrepreneur, and mentor with a passion for teaching and engaging kids, especially girls, in technology and entrepreneurship. She is the Founder/CEO of VentureLab, a non-profit that runs experiential learning programs in youth tech entrepreneurship. She is also the Director the Blackstone LaunchPad at UT and the Director of The Texas Entrepreneurship Exchange at the University of Texas at Austin. 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.

This model is based on establishing trust, integrity and rapport by understanding the customer’s needs, then selling to those needs without using closing techniques of the past. Terry Ogburn joins us to share his views on this important topic. Terry Ogburn is the renowned owner and Lead Business Coach of Ogburn’s Business Solutions. His proprietary coaching system and personal devotion to the development of others has contributed to the success of hundreds of small to large business ventures.  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.

Joni Fedders, President of Aileron, a national non-profit committed to unleashing the potential of small businesses across the country, joins the podcast to share her thoughts on how to overcome certain challenges when starting your own business. Joni will provide best practices on how to turn a setback into a success and ways in which small business owners can turn roadblocks into growth opportunities. Every business faces challenges early on. But it’s what you do as a business when you face these challenges that will determine your success after that. Joni Fedders serves as President of Aileron. Joni oversees Aileron's strategic direction, culture and operational activities. Her leadership and energy inspire and motivate the Aileron team and the community as they strive to raise the quality of life, one private business at a time. As a past business owner, Joni understands the risks, rewards and challenges that ownership and professional management bring.  She had the opportunity at Iams as a Brand Manager to live in a professionally managed organization where she saw first-hand how strategy, strong leadership and culture can fuel a company to do great things. 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.

Based on his 20 years of hands-on experience hiring thousands of employees, Adam Robinson shares how any business can transform its hiring process from a liability into a source of sustainable competitive advantage. This proven system can help you improve your success rate in hiring decisions, allowing you to reap the rewards in growth and profitability. Adam Robinson is the author of The Best Team Wins and co-founder and CEO of Hireology, where he’s on a mission to help business owners make better hiring decisions using predictive data and innovative technology. He is a noted recruiting industry expert, speaker, and author with over 20 years of experience in the field of hiring and selection management. In 2016, Hireology was #94 on the Inc. 500 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies. In The Best Team Wins, Adam shares real-world examples from his 20 years of hands-on experience hiring thousands of employees to explain how any business can transform its hiring process from a liability into a competitive advantage. This proven system can help readers improve their success rate in hiring decisions, allowing them to reap the rewards in growth and profitability. 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.