Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Common Ground Wins: Why Similarity Builds Instant Trust Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You meet somebody for the first time, what is it you look for? Things in common, right? Because once we have something in common, we can then like each other. Now, not like each other in the way you're thinking, meaning we are like each other on some level. That is the basis on which we will allow somebody else to be in a relationship with us, or we influence them, or they influence us, okay? And...
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Adapt Your Style to Influence Anyone Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Why do we care that we have rapport? Why do we care that we have influence? Well, first off, we need rapport because we need to build a relationship. I'm going to ask you a couple of questions in a moment, but we need to build a relationship with other people. And there are only three styles out there. You're one of them. There are two others. And for our purposes, you are basically wired like one-third of the population...
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Goal Setting That Works: Align Daily Actions with Long-Term Success Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Now let's do our goal setting. Very simply, what do we hope to achieve as a business? And as an employee or individual within that business in the following timeframes? In the next 24 hours, what do I hope to achieve? What am I committed to achieving? How about next week? What do I want to achieve in the next 30 days in the next quarter, in the next one year, in the next three years, in the...
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Your Marketing Plan: From Message to Momentum Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Next, you'll do your marketing plan. What means of advertisement will we use to launch our product? What means of promotion? Will we use to build our product name? Who is our ideal customer? What is our message? What is our brand? What is our image? And how do we want to be perceived by the marketplace? What businesses or brands will we align ourselves with strategically in order to build our market recognition?...
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The Business Plan Blueprint: Answer These Questions or Stay Stuck Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Next, the business plan. Who are we? What is our product? Or service or idea? Who are our customers? What is our market? Who is our competition? Where will we operate? How will we advertise? How will we market ourselves? What is our unique selling proposition? What is our business identity? What size will our company be? And what size will our company eventually become? How long do we plan to...
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Vision + Values: Define the Future Your Business Will Be Known For Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. The vision statement: where will we be in five years? 10 years, 20 years from now? Where will we be in one year? Where will we be in three years? What does the future look like for the business in our mind's eye? When we close our eyes and think about our business? What do we see? I know what do you see. Next, our values statement, what do we hope our business will be remembered? As what are...
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Potential Feels Good—Performance Proves Everything Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Potential is wonderful place to be. I got to tell you in potential, you are a legend. It's amazing–I can't believe how good I am. You know, in potential, I can make no mistakes every idea I have is freaking brilliant, right? And my god, I gotta tell you, not only am I charming and handsome, but boy I’m smart in potential, but performance is very messy. Performance is risky. You can get it wrong, or...
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Build an Implementation Team That Believes—Not Just Works Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Now it's time to build a team, right? You now–you're so busy, you enter the synergy stage and you need an implementation team, you're so busy at what you're doing. You need other people to work elbow to elbow, side by side with you, and to do the work together. If you're an accountant, you need more accountants, if you're a lawyer, you need more lawyers. If you're a consultant, you need more...
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Rapport Wins: People Buy From Those They Relate To Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Somebody to like you and follow you. They have to believe on some level that they are like you. Okay? Does anybody know the definition of rapport? What would you say? What's a working definition of rapport? How would you call? (understanding, it to create a common bond and interest). He's a smarty pants, a common bond. Okay, very good at what else is rapport often defined? Values, connection, comfort, a...
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Bad News First: The Rule That Builds Trust and Accountability pt. 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. I have found that that has made the team feel very safe to bring me just about anything. And to be honest, the people who don't bring me what they should are the people that shouldn't be there anyway, you know, because you'll find out either way, but even still, like, they're just afraid to tell you, they're, you know, what I tell my team is, I said, look, you're packing my parachute. If...
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Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of result.
I mean, there's a ton of reasons why you would buy a business, again, this is another side Gibbons we can spend the whole week on why you would do this but for our purposes, and when you're thinking about a down market strategy and how you can move quickly, you know, these are some of the things you would want to look at immediately and say I want to get in the game and be a buyer. We suggest everyone one right now get in the game and you want to be a buyer. And stay in the game, stay in the game for the next five to nine years, right? Because this is the time you buy, you buy low and manage for cash flow.
Yeah, right and this is going to give you an opportunity to grow, hit your revenue targets in a down market because right now you're looking at it you say no we're going to be down in a bad year, you know, I'm losing this client. This one's cutting back fine go out and buy more revenue. I don't got that money. Well, you might not have to we just had an expert on one of our internal calls that says, you know in many cases the seller holds the note you buy off of cash flow. You put a little bit down, bank funds a little bit. They fund the rest. This is not a lot of money out of your pocket
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