Thu, 22 December 2016
Pratima Aravabhoomi, a former Apple consultant, founded Craft Street Design Co and sells motivational posters and wall art to get you inspired to achieve your dreams, make a difference, and be happy. Pratima shares why she didn’t just go get a job at a startup and started a home business instead Top Quote: “What is the best that can happen?” This week I got a chance to visit with Pratima. Through a dark time in her life . She got inspiration from a motivational quote that actually gave her a new lease on life Throwing up her hands while thinking about coming to the end of her rope. There was a motivational quote on the wall of her kitchen that transpired her to literally walk away from a bad situation and move toward a good situation quickly, She started her own business Craft Street Design figuring that if motivational quoted could Help transform her life those motivational quotes just might transform others’ lives also they just might be able help other also and thus craft street design took off.
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Thu, 15 December 2016
I have an awesome guest today Chris Dayley and he's going to talk about some fantastic things about website conversions and optimizations and actually Chris Dayley has a passion for helping business online after spending years of driving tap traffic through SEO and PPC efforts Chris turned his attention to the user experience with their website to see it he could influence traffic to convert better after running successful test he fell in love and began focusing on helping businesses test their website experience and he started his own website conversion optimization and starting his own full-service agency helping business discover what will convert best on their sites for testing and then in 2016 he merged his company with Disruptive Advertising.at http://www.disruptiveadvertising.com Chris won an award for a 97 % opt in rate he knows what need to be done Everyone talks about getting on the 1st page of google if no one calls you or you can’t convert the lead the question is WHY?
The key is getting customers to convert not just getting them to show up . You have to know what they want in order to get them to be interactive on your website Chris says its Interesting most people don't actually know what they want on the web so we ran a we ran a survey to some potential customers a while back and we asked we gave our survey audience two different website experiences and we asked them which one they wanted to you know which one they like better and the overwhelming majority like eighty-five percent of them voted for let's just call it version 1 and only 50 cent voted for version two but when we ran the test on line we tested both of the pages at the same time with real traffic with our real audience and it turns out that the overwhelming majority preferred version 2 when it when it came to a real web experience and so what that's what else was the majority of people didn't actually know which one they would want.
So it comes down to testing and knowing what your customers want. Also its how your potential clients see your mobile website is it too wordy or straight to the point . Stop by the website and get their free report http://www.disruptiveadvertising.com Contact Chris on LinkedIn
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Thu, 8 December 2016
Today we ae going to be talking with Tom Hopkins goal setting.
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they have to really sit down and like a blueprint which is how you build a building.
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Thu, 1 December 2016
Local Window Cleaner Cracks the Code on Reoccurring Monthly Business with Chris Martinez 150
Today I have a special guest Chris Martinez from Houston Texas . Chris has window-washing company and Chris has been gracious enough to join the show and we are continuing that side special about Reoccurring monthly income. Going over our conversation we cover a ton a ton of nuggets that really could be helpful to your business and I hope you get a lot out of it. I had a lot of fun with Chris today and we enjoyed the talk and we're just hoping everyone gets a value out of the today’s episode. Chris: It’s not about how many jobs you can do; it’s about the customer you can attract that has the money to spend on your services. Chris started his monthly income window washing for 2 main reasons one to fill a need to his customers and as marketing tactic to be in certain communities each and every month. The nice thing about that tactic it looks like you have a big service company because the community is always seeing your trucks. One of the other things the monthly reoccurring services does is it compounds your customer life time value. And were not talking about any referrals here either. So let’s run the numbers for the reoccurring monthly business You have a customer that originally spends 450.00 for the initial service and they take the monthly reoccurring service at 65.00 for the 12 months they have spent 1185.00 with a life time value of just 5 years that’s 5800.00 that is worth the customer is worth to you the day you preform you initial service. Now you can ad in referrals the chances for referrals are greater because you ae on there You exponentially grow your life time value and now the happy client sees you every month they can’t forget about you because they see you and your charge on their credit card statement. You own that customer for life. You have to something pretty bad to lose that customer. No one is going to take that customer away . One other thing about reoccurring monthly business is that when you go to sell your business potential buyers look at your business differently and businesses with reoccurring business sell faster, and 3 to 5 times more than traditional businesses.
So seriously look at your business and see how you can start creating an extra profit center by creating reoccurring monthly business. It’s a smarter and more profitable way to do business. Check out our other episodes about creating reoccurring monthly business.
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Thu, 24 November 2016
...how long will you put off what you’re capable of doing just to maintain what you’re currently doing? The mindset that enabled him to develop the attributes so fundamental to success in any walk of life, was incubated in an environment of seemingly innocuous music lessons. The environment that builds and develops anyone’s mindset, as it has for others, could be sports, literature, sales, teaching, studying, trades, or profession...anywhere. The letter that Changed Kory Livingstone’s Life and nudged him to write his book “Dear Kory I have admired your persistent quiet determination and attention to details. It is more than talent; it's a mature determination. I could do well to apply the same to my life. May God bless all of your efforts?" Neil S. Neil was the manager of the venue where I was giving the concert. Apparently I had caught his attention as I worked away at my chores that afternoon. He was so impressed he was moved, a week later he sent me that succinct & profound note. It was scratched it out on a little yellow 3x3 post-it note. Neil was obviously impressed by Kory the person, as opposed to Kory the musician. It’s the fear of failure. Fear is what causes many of our dreams to fail. Mistakenly most people think that if they take a “risk”, try something new, or do something differently, people will think less of them if it doesn’t work. People are scared to death of that time worn phrase. !” On the positive side, a failure is only another opportunity to learn, to improve on what you know, and to take another step toward success There’s an old quote that says,“ Behind every successful man is a woman”. What people don’t realize is that the woman behind the man is actually a “talent whisperer”. A talent whisperer is someone who is in your corner encouraging you, supporting your dreams and aspirations regardless of what others may say. Another word for talent whisperer is “coach”. In Kory‘s book his story is about how he was trained to be accountable. The little things our parents do to make us accountable in this case Kory’s mom each day would help him be accountable by keeping him on task with his music lessons. This was the actual beginning of his over al task to become successful. Everyone has a dream of some sort, somewhere in the back of their mind. The number 1 reason dreams remain unfulfilled is fear. Fear of failure. This fear is masked by a million different excuses, all of them masquerading as reasons. Success is built one brick at a time. These bricks have many names. Some use the name attitude or mindset, others will say bearing, temperament or behaviour. Kory calls his bricks “quiet determination.”
We often don’t recognize that we’ve been SNIOPed, and attribute our apparent lack of success to a list of imagined excuses, short comings The worst negative influence may be your own overly self-critical, self-talk, that’s holding your back from pursuing your own dreams. For more information contact: Kory Livingstone Kory@korylivingstone.com 905-669-0728
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Thu, 17 November 2016
Crazy Conservations About Customers at the Paint Store. 148 Today were are going to have some fun Went to the paint store today and was standing around and started talking with some of the painters in the store and somehow we started talking about some of the crazy things customers say and ask when we go to give an estimate or proposal. You know how when you tell a story someone always says I’ve got a better story. It like that fish you caught it was huge and someone always caught a bigger one, This is just of the tip of the iceberg and probably nothing that you have come across in your business. And I’m sure you can relate on some level. So just sit back and listen to some of the funnies and some of the crazy. As you listen to some of these stories think about the interaction that took place and also think about the customer and what actually could be going on in their head,. Everything that happened in your business is some sort of a learning experience; hopefully it’s to make you better on many levels .A belter business person, an all-around better person,. Always try to have fun with your business people are really a hoot.
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Thu, 10 November 2016
Turn Up Your Cash Flow by Stopping your Profit Leaks Anne Dickinson 146
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Thu, 3 November 2016
The Business Mechanic Tuning Up Small Businesses for Higher Performance Many small business owners know that something is wrong with their business, but they don’t know what! Vaughn Sigmon is the coach that gets to the root of the problem and then creates a solution so that the business runs better…and more profitably too. As Regional Vice President at the largest used auto store chain in the US, he realized that the way sales people were being trained for highly effective customer engagements, was very inadequate. Vaughn went to work and developed a sales process and training program that became a true game changer. Within 18 months of creating and implementing his new program at CarMax, closing rates zoomed up more than 50%. And, even more impressively, Vaughn’s training system was adopted company-wide boosting company revenues to over $13 billion in sales! The People and Your Pit Crew Are the Answer At Kohl’s as a District Manager in charge of opening Nashville-area stores, Vaughn again recognized that investing in people and processes were the octane for success. His mentoring and coaching led to the most effective store openings in the company’s history. He expects to help his clients have turbo charges results. Your employees are so important to making your company a higher performance company. Vaughn suggests if you take care of your employees properly ,they will ultimately take care of your customers so let's just put it this way happy employees makes a happy customer which create a healthy profitable business A key to a tuning up your business into a high-performance business is working on your business and of course not working in your business and as we all know this is not the easiest thing to accomplish. Some of the things that make it easier is to actually make an appointment with yourself to put it on the calendar and work at your calendar like it's an important event and do not cancel that event because that appointment is worth more to you than any 10 or 15 or $20 an hour job you may feel that you have to pick up the slack on. Want to make that yourself can be diligent on keeping yourself and work on your business so it may start off with just two or three hours a week and then multiplying that or adding to it but you'll find it you'll really see things in a different light. Actually sit down and take a look at what your hourly worth is to the company and now double that or triple that. When you stray from working on your business to do hourly work you are actually giving up future profits. Next how about what makes you special and different, what's that sets you apart from your competition What draws those customers to you and get s them to refer you. . What is it that do you do that makes you memorable so that they continue to do business and don’t forget who you are We all have competitors think about ways to stand out?
Want to have Vaughn Sigmon help you tune up your business Contact him Email : vcsigmon@tabhuntingtonbeach.com
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Thu, 27 October 2016
Growing Your Business by Getting Out of the Dumpster with Dr. Reggie Padin 145 Reggie explains that you have to get the trash out of your head to become more. And we all have trash it is a continual process just like taking the trash out of the house every day so the house doesn’t get all smelly. So it is with the trash in your head you have to get rid of it so your world doesn’t get all smelly.
Dr. Reggie R. Padin’s mission is all about helping people overcome their “Dumpster Moments” and go beyond their limitations. An award-winning speaker, his story has inspired many to believe in themselves and recognize their God-given potential. In his new book, Get Out of the Dumpster!
A True Story on Overcoming Limitations, he narrates the story of how he went from being a high school dropout, working for pennies hauling garbage by hand out of a dumpster, to become a successful educator, author, entrepreneur, executive coach and spiritual leader. A story of determination and belief, determination in knowing that it was going to be an ongoing process to attain that which he wanted to attain. And a belief in realizing that he could be whatever he wanted to be it was his choice.
Identify your "dumpster" moments and deal with them individually one at a time Why you must find your purpose so you have the energy. There is nothing worse than trying to do something you weren’t meant do. Focus on the solution - not the problem that seems simple but our brains don’t seem to be wired that way sometimes you have to force yourself to focus on the solution. How to overcome FEAR sometimes it is just doing that which you fear Limitations are only a self-imposed illusion think about what an illusion is (not real) Everyone WANTS to be a success...but few want to put in the effort Finding your passion are you chasing the right thing You CAN do hard things! Because it gives you fulfilment and a sense of accomplishment
Contact Dr. Reggie Padin
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Thu, 20 October 2016
Discover the 10 Most Expensive Tax Mistakes Contractors Make with Diane Gardner Are you over paying your taxes more than likely, so STOP overpaying your taxes? Diane Gardner is an expert tax coach, Quilly award recipient, and best-selling author whose proactive planning approach gives clients a leg up on Uncle Sam and helps them dodge the tax bullet. Diane saves small business clients between $5,000 and $50,000 in as little as 60 minutes!
Toda y we get a chance to spend some time with Diane Gardner a certified Tax coach And go over some outstanding ways to keep more of the money that we make in our business the legal way, Actually keeping more of the money legally means, in reality more profit and isn’t that what we all go in for is to make a profit. And Diane is there to join our team to help us keep as much as is legally allowed.
In our interview Diane spills the beans on some rather unique ways as business owners to keep some of that money we’ve been paying maybe needlessly to the government.
And why do we do that? Pay more than we should. Maybe it’s because we are afraid it’s going to cost us money to hire a professional, It’s a good thing none of our customers feel that way or all of us would be out of business.
Now on a serious note we are spending a fortune on taxes doesn’t it make sense to have someone on your team, yes your team that help you plan and in many cases redirect that out go of money to a better place your bottom line .
We always talk about increasing your profits and marketing to get more business, raising your process to make more profit. Now we are talking about profits in a different way and actually keeping those profits with the proper tax planning.
Even if your raise your prices if your don’t have the proper tax planning in place then all you are doing is giving more to the government and by passing your bottom line.
So stop the madness ,check with Diane Gardner and see how she might be able to help you keep more of your money and pay les taxes legally
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