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🎧 Ep221: Finding Meaningful Ways To Hack The Podcasting System – Heather Servin

Break the barriers and get out of your comfort zone like Heather Servin. Take the necessary steps and learn from her experience of starting a podcast show, being a first-time guest, and setting up goals to succeed in this feat. Check out this episode and hit play! WHAT TO LISTEN FOR No co-host vs.

🎧 Rocketship your business with… Twitter?! – Acquisitions Anonymous Episode 86

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by JK Molina (@OneJKMolina) for this Twitter masterclass episode. We talk about how SMB owners & Founders can leverage the platform, Twitter best practices, keys to writing a good thread, how to build a network, visible vs invisible scorecards, and much more. —– * Do you love Acquanon and want to see our smiling faces.

🎧 CMO Talks with Nate Gilmore, CMO, PandaDoc

This episode, featuring PandaDoc’s CMO, Nate Gilmore, is the age-old story of how David is taking on Goliath in the world of SaaS dynamic documents with a focus in the SMB space. This is also a story of hyper specialization and how you use such a differentiator from a marketing perspective to go from a start up to a super scale up. And don’t forget how you are using your technology stack to drive growth.

🎧 201: From managing a small business, now helping entrepreneurs become more successful in growing their small business through Market Mentoring.

In this episode, I interview Franziska Iseli C0-Founder of Basic Bananas based in Sydney, Australia. Franziska has set up her business to help entrepreneurs enhance their marketing knowledge and strategy from different parts of the world through online platforms. From managing a surfing business, Franziska has decided to explore and pursue new opportunities by creating a marketing mentoring organization.

🎧 Episode 222: Building A Wildly Profitable Design Biz In Under 20 Hours A Week

Over the 10 years I’ve been in business, I’ve had hundreds of conversations about the time creatives are spending into their business and the amount of revenue they’re generating. Your time is a valuable resources—you need to protect it. In today’s episode, I’m sharing how you can reclaim your time in your business by building a profitable design business in under 20 hours per week.

🎧 How The Future of Work Is Set to Impact SMB Platforms with Pedram Afshar #173

Pedram Afshar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Amaka, a tech startup specialized in accounting integrations and business daily data automation. Started in 2015, Amaka now has a worldwide customer base and a over 45+ person team. He is an expert in creating innovative technology solutions, where before starting into entrepreneurship, Pedram had a career in commercial banking, credit risk and portfolio management, where he acquired experience in the SME landscape that he then used to become a startup founder.

🎧 What the Holidays Mean for SMB’s Featuring Kiel Harkness

The Opportunities and Challenges Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMB’s)Will Face This Holiday Season Shep Hyken interviews Kiel Harkness, Head of Global Marketing and Business Intelligence at UPS Capital®. They discuss how SMB’s can compete with giant brands when it comes to problem resolution for delays, theft, and problems during the holiday season.

🎧 Your Business Systems Are Alive

There’s a common misconception that you can organize operating procedures for complex, diverse business systems as one and done tasks. And oftentimes, much too late after they’re needed. Join Sandra Halling as she discusses why it’s actually quite the opposite, and why standard operating procedures and systems must be treated as living, evolving parts of your business.

🎧 Wrapping up 2021 and kicking off 2022 with the SMB Alliance

In this special As the Gears Turn edition, Devaughn Bittle and Patrick Cash look back at what happened in the SMB Alliance in 2021 and look ahead at what’s to come in 2022. To do that, they speak with Kellie Fox, senior business development executive, Kelly Sander, SMB sales director, and Darren Gottesmann, SMB executive sales director, all with Ingram Micro, about: – The history of the SMB Alliance – The events of 2021 – What’s coming in 2022 – Important information to keep in mind about the SMB Alliance Visit the SMB Alliance portal.

🎧 The Global Business Automatically Capturing & Sharing Internal Processes w/Jennifer Smith Ep#166

Strategy & Leadership Podcast Ep.166: Jennifer Smith is the CEO & Co-founder of Scribe, a software company that helps organization analyze, optimize, their standardize processes. Previously, Jennifer held positions at Greylock Partners and McKinsey. On this episode of the Strategy & Leadership Podcast, Jennifer joins us to discuss how Scribe helps organizations, lessons learned from consulting and VC, the different stages of company growth, & much more.

🎧 Ted Lindsley On In The Trenches Strategies To Optimize A Liquidity Event (#117)

“The wisdom that I have today as a result of the path that I’ve chosen.” – Ted Lindsley Ted Lindsley is a serial startup, CEO, and technopreneur with three successful ventures under his belt and two exits, including one to a $2.5 billion NASDAQ traded company. He has a proven track record of recruiting exceptional talent and leading those teams to achieve success.

🎧 He helps small small businesses: Tom interviews Steve Fredlund

Steve Fredlund is here with 30 years of corporate experience. Steve has launched his own business, helping entrepreneurs, micro businesses and nonprofits and other smaller organizations. And as part of his overlapping 20 years of nonprofit leadership experience, he’s started an effort bringing a transformation to a community in northern Rwanda, where he traveled four times in his volunteer role of executive director.

🎧 #295: A New Style of Private Equity that Plays the Long Game with Trish Higgins

WATCH THE INTERVIEW ON YOUTUBE: Intentional Growth™ Podcast   Private equity gets a bad rap when it comes to owners thinking about their legacy. Thankfully there is a new wave of PE players coming in who are focused on the long game and what it takes to see a company through multiple decades, not just years.

🎧 Shahar Erez on How to Create a Hybrid Workforce

If you’ve been curious about how to attract the right freelancers and talent while keeping them engaged, this podcast episode is one you won’t want to skip over! While we’ve talked about talent acquisition before on the podcast, this one is going to be a very powerful and interesting conversation on attracting and holding positive relationships with contracted freelancers in your business.

🎧 E33: Brain Soo – Fire Fighter Industry – Get on Tik Tok, Your Superpower, Defining Good Content, Marketing Strategy, Sales and More

How do startups, family business and SME’s relate? Brian Soo’s experience tells us exactly how. As Chief Innovation Officer of Malaysia’s oldest fire safety company, Fire Fighter Industry, Brian is constantly driving change and value in it’s 47 years old business. In this episode we learn how Brian has leveraged his super powers, what defines good content, why you should be on Tik Tok, his approach to “re-founding” and how a SAAS company can sell to SME’s. Firefighter industry is a great case study for anyone who has an interest in innovation, SME’s, or family business. 

🎧 86. How to Sell With Love – Jason Marc Campbell

In this episode I am speaking with Jason Marc Campbell about selling with love. How to get rid of the fear of selling? How to start loving this process? We are talking about this and much more in this episode. Jason Marc Campbell is the author of Selling with Love: Earn with Integrity and Expand your Impact.

🎧 Successful Rural Women Entrepreneurs in India | Amit Jain, Co-Founder, Mitti Ke Rang – A Social Venture for women through an Ecommerce Platform

Starting a small business is hard, but starting a business as a woman is even harder. Women are less likely to have access to the same capital as their male peers. They also face more scrutiny, especially when it comes to online businesses. This episode is to help empower women entrepreneurs. Amit Jain, Co-Founder, Mitti Ke Rang – A Social Venture for women through eCommerce, will tell you the stories of women who have been successful in running a small business.

🎧 Is Your Business Sellable? with Mike Finger

Is your small business sellable, and what you need to have the freedom to sell your small business when and if you choose to, with Mike Finger, a successful small business owner and the founder of Exit Oasis – providing coaching services and resources to help small business owners prepare for the sale of their business. Henry Lopez is the host of The How of Business podcast – helping you start, run and grow your small business. The How of Business is a top-rated podcast for small business and entrepreneurs.

🎧 71: Establishing And Building Credit For Your Business Whether You Are Starting A Business, You Are Self-Employed, A Solopreneur, Entrepreneur, Busin

Obtaining credit for a business, is critical so that they can borrow additional funds if needed. Establishing and building business credit is essential for any business owner, whether they are looking to expand and grow their company with financing or even if they don’t intend on utilizing any financing.

🎧 Ep 66 : Gautham Vadakkepatt on Retail Transformation,Sustainable Retailing, Responsible Marketing

Can advertising benefit women’s development? Could you share few insights with  our audiences from your paper? How is ‘Centre for Retail Transformation’  supporting retailers esp. startups, SMBs. What is  role of technology and data in retail transformation ? What is the path forward for Sustainable Retailing .

🎧 Analytik Duleba: Iba Rusko a USA vedia odpáliť 1 000 jadrových rakiet naraz [Diskusný Klub]

V najnovšej epizóde Startitup Diskusný Klub sme sa rozprávali s analytikom Alexandrom Dulebom. Ako dopadli rokovania medzi Ruskom, USA a NATO ohľadom usporiadania bezpečnostnej situácie? Rusko má na hraniciach s Ukrajinou 100 000 mužov. Hrozí vpád ruských vojsk do Ukrajiny? Mali by sme ako Európa budovať vlastný systém obrany a malo by pre NATO význam zaútočiť na Rusko.

🎧 E-tika špeciál

Hosť: Miro Pikus V podcaste E-tika sme si dali za úlohu otvoriť témy spoločenských dopadov digitálnych technológií. Počas uplynulých dvoch sezón sme sa spoločne s našimi hosťami pýtali, kde vidia hranice toho, kam by sme ešte pri vývoji a nasadzovaní nových technológií a predovšetkým tých inteligentných mali zájsť.

🎧 The Future of Wellness

Dr. Scharmaine Lawson joins Say Hi to the Future to talk about her journey as a nurse entrepreneur, the urgent need for health equity, and the future of wellness.    Let’s keep in touch! 😊 Know someone who is clever, inventive, and original? Reach out to us at sayhi@spyder.

🎧 David McFarland On Raising $75 Million To Simplify Small Business Insurance

David McFarland has raised tens of millions of dollars to improve the insurance industry, and in turn, empower brokers and their small business customers to survive and thrive. His venture, Coterie Insurance has attracted funding from top-tier investors like Weatherford Capital, Alpha Edison, Group 1001, and RPM Ventures.

🎧 Starting a Business with Bryan Clayton

Bryan Clayton is CEO and co-founder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day. Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc.

🎧 765: Reese Spykerman – Having a Saner Schedule

Being self-employed can often feel like everything rests on your shoulders. Nobody wants to feel like a hamster running on a wheel. Once overwhelm and stress sets in, it destroys the freedom, creativity, and fun of being your own boss and running the show. That’s why Reese Spykerman is here today to talk about having a saner schedule and optimizing how you are in your business.

🎧 Should You Expand Your Service Area? | The 5 Mile Rule

Want to grow your business and thinking about expanding into other parts of town or new towns or cities?  Before you decide to chase sales in new areas, make sure you are focusing on your ideal customers. I promise you, you are only tapping the surface of what you can tap into in your own community.

🎧 WCP160 Setting freelance writing goals, Vol. VI: 5W1H goal setting

The fundamental 5W1H questions you use when reporting are just as handy for examining your freelance life.  When it comes to setting writing goals, WHO will you become in the process of achieving your goal? Is your goal setting process setting you up for success? Have you chosen goals that are distracting you from the writing you really want to be doing.

🎧 #64 – Fed (Founder @ Hive Index) on things that great online communities do well, why community-focused businesses are here to stay, and the rise of t

This week we had on Fed (@foliofed) with Hive Index. Hive Index is an aggregation tool that let’s anybody find the right online communities to join. Fed is a nomad, a bootstrapped founder, and he also runs another software company when he’s not busy with Hive Index. In this talk, we cover: Things that great communities do well Community-focused businesses The rise of the solopreneur Want more content like this delivered straight to your inbox? Subscribe to our newsletter.

🎧 Soltesz: Ak by sme hľadali Biľaka dneška, našli by sme Žilinku. Fico sa vidí skôr ako prokremeľský gubernátor

„Mor ho“ je jeden z našich najsmiešnejších národných mýtov. My sme tu v podstate nikdy za nič nebojovali a keď už nás znásilňujú, ešte aj násilníkovi podáme lubrikant, tvrdí na margo debaty o obrannej zmluve s USA spisovateľ a novinár Arpád Soltész. A aká klíma nás čaká tento rok.

🎧 #117 How to execute your sales strategy properly and invest time with the right tasks as a sales leader with Oliver Manojlovic, VP of Sales at Personi

Oliver is leading >100 salespeople in the SMB business of Personio and was an integral part of building that team. This episode is for aspiring and working sales leaders. The priority of a first-line sales leader is coaching their salespeople to become the best version of themselves. However, many leaders are focusing on strategy and projects instead of training. What about you?

🎧 Dávanie ako tajomstvo

Hosťom poslednej tohtoročnej epizódy je Marek Roháček, ktorý je zároveň jedným z tvorcov tohto podcastu.  Rozprávali sme sa o význame názvu Pomáhať znamená rozumieť. Hovorili sme o pomáhaní ktoré je súčasťou identity človeka. Premýšľali sme, ako si vyberáme tých ktorých chceme podporovať a čo na to vplýva. Bavili sme a o dávaní ako o hľadaní, objavovaní a tajomstve.  Ale hovorili sme aj o páchaní dobra a o tom ako sa z pomáhania môže stať priemysel.    

🎧 Angelique Barniak, President & CEO, One Call Staffing, Inc, A DotCom Magazine Interview

About Angelique Barniak and One Call Staffing: One Call Staffing, Inc. founded in 1999 is a Certified member of the Alliance for Ethical International Recruitment Practices, a Nationally Certified Small Woman Owned Business (SWOB) and a New York & New Jersey state dually certified MBE/WBE (Minority and Woman Owned Business Enterprise).

🎧 Employee Turnover Eating into Your Profits? Learn To Hire Right

Employee Turnover Eating into Your Profits? Learn To Hire Featuring Dr. Sabrina Starling Employee turnover has far-reaching implications for your business. There is the monetary cost, the toll it takes on other employees, and the negative effect it can have on your customers. Far too often business owners think it is the price of doing business.

🎧 #083 Pavol Šurda – Lekárom v Londýne (návod, ako na to)

V dnešnej epizóde sme sa rozprávali s Paľom Šurdom, špecialistom ORL, ktorý pracuje v Londýne. Aj keď sme sa moc nerozprávali o ORL, spomenuli sme, ako sa dostať do Londýna, ako to vyzerá v jednej z najväčších nemocníc vo Veľkej Británii. Povedal nám, cez aké rôzne pozície si musí začínajúci lekár prejsť.

🎧 What Should Come First – Website or Social Media with the Business Besties

One of the biggest questions small business owners face is what should they have first – a website or a social media account? Katie said she started with a website but later on found her social media accounts can also serve as her mini websites. According to her, Facebook is one of the most indexed sites by Google.

🎧 Disasters – planning for the worst

This country of fire, drought and flooding rains has certainly lived up to its reputation in recent years, and according to scientists, things could get a lot worse. We hear a lot in the news about households that have been affected by natural disasters, but what about small businesses? The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman, Bruce Bilson, has recently toured Australia’s regional disaster zones to answer that very question by holding 36 community consultations.

🎧 Alica Jančoková: Kedysi bolo bežné, že matky pochovávali svoje vlastné deti

„Minulosť je i súčasnosťou, či vari nie? A je i budúcnosťou. Chceme si nahovárať, že to tak nie je, ale život nám to nedovolí,“ tvrdí slávny americký dramatik Eugene O Neill. Práve včera sme si pripomenuli – niekedy s bolesťou a niekedy s láskou a nehou všetkých našich blízkych, ktorí tu už nie sú medzi nami.

🎧 EP 102: 7 Simple Business Models For Small Business Owners with guest host, Tara McMullin

When I started working on starting my online business, it was because I was running away from the business that I already had.Essentially, I was breaking up with my current business and my online business was a bit of a rebound. What I wanted out of my online business was flexibility and freedom. I wanted to know how to make as much money with as little effort as possible and in those rebound days, I was susceptible to anything that sounded like what I was looking for.

🎧 Episode 136-Everything you need to know about managing money as a coach with Tanya Taylor and Hanna Hermanson

Taxes, investments, crypto, savings, debt… How does money work? Today I’m sitting down with Tanya Taylor-CPA-MBA to break down everything coaches and small business owners need to know in order to financially support their dream life. Tanya has spent the past 23 years on Wall Street working for or with some of the largest international banks and insurance companies.

🎧 Now®️ – The Tech Supporting Small and Minority-Owned Businesses

Lara Hodgson is the CEO and co-founder of Now®️, a fintech startup enabling minority-owned small businesses to grow through its invoice payment solution that redefines how and when companies get paid. Lara also serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard Business School and is an internationally recognized speaker, leading seminars on creativity, innovation, and access to capital.

🎧 How Intuit builds embedded finance around customer benefits

Welcome to the Tearsheet Podcast. I’m your host, Tearsheet’s editor in chief, Zack Miller. This following is part of a new series we’re running. It’s called the Big Bank Theory, and it’s all about the future of banking. We see three options going forward: in the march towards digital, people will gravitate towards the digital arms of incumbent banks, give their business to new upstart challenger banks, or the biggest opportunity, which is to bank with the brands they love.

🎧 612: What You Call Yourself Matters: If You’re a Creative Small Business Serving B2B You’re Missing This Shift

There’s a problem that we’re seeing in this space and it’s causing people to miss massive opportunities! You’re losing out on revenue and you’re losing out on tapping into familiar industry terms, and so much of this can be solved by simply re-labeling who you are to become well-known to the rest of the world.

🎧 SHARE_talks 44: Čo znamená odkúpenie Blizzardu pre hry na PlayStation?

Obaja sme si pozreli nového Spider-Mana a hodnotíme ho. Na konci aj so spojlermi. V 44. časti dnes rozoberáme akvizíciu Activision Blizzard Microsoftom a čo to znamená pre hry na PlayStation a hodnotíme nového Spider-Mana, na konci aj so spojlermi. POZOR SPOJLER: Spider-Mana rozoberáme najskôr všeobecne.

🎧 Speaking To More Profits with special guest Justin Glover

YES! You can make money from speaking. A lot of money! You can also lose money from speaking…a lot of money! That’s not where most speakers want to be. Most speakers, whether they be coaches, consultants or other business professionals, don’t plan to fail. Sometimes it happens. Today’s guest explains how to stay out of the red while ramping up profits.

🎧 Veronika C. Ostrihoňová: Chcela by som vidieť farebnejší svet

“Mnohé štúdie, ktoré hovoria o rodovej rovnosti, vyrovnávaní platových rozdielov, alebo o zlepšovaní podmienok pre vylučované komunity, prinášajú záver, že spoločnosti bude po zrovnoprávnení lepšie. Ak už teda zmeny nerobíme pre nič iné, urobme ich pre seba. Tento argument sa občas stráca v preklade.

🎧 42. Emma Cownley on using side projects to grow your freelance business

It’s a freelancing podcast–YouTube crossover! Emma Cownley is a freelance copywriter, heavy metal hobbit (her words), and host of the irreverent freelance writing show on YouTube, Kiss My A’s.  On this episode, she shares her experience of building an audience on YouTube, the ups and downs of creating a side project, and how a side project can help you attract freelance clients who really get you.

🎧 How Do You Determine the Sales Process for B2C and B2B?

What does the sales process look like when you’re selling in a B2C and a B2B environment?    Is a one-call close better? Or when is a two-call close more favorable?    We got this question from one of our group members and we’d like to address this topic in this podcast episode.    You’d be surprised that there is no one-size-fits-all approach when selling in both B2C and B2B environments but the right sales skills will help you determine what sales process is the best to take.

🎧 WBSP273: Grow Your Business by Learning To Implement Customer-Centricity Framework w/ Paula Courtney

What comes to mind when you think of loyalty erosion? Do you currently have a formal loyalty plan, measurement, or metrics in place? Well, most SMB companies don’t even understand how to take advantage of customer-experience-driven innovations. The customer experience is certainly an untapped area for most organizations and where bigger companies have a true edge.