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 results.
Now one of the quickest ways you can impact your sales function, is to understand who are your sellers and who are your closers, so when that sales book that I told you about, Biz Dev Done Right and again I’m happy to get you guys a copy so let me know in the comments and I’ll send you a copy. We distinguish between two sets of skills, there are sellers who are the relationship builders, they're the door openers, they're the lead generators, they’re the ones that work the booth at the trade show and then there’s the closers. Closers are the ones that ask for the money, negotiate terms and conditions and force you to make a commitment. Those are opposing skills and what makes you good at one gets you on the way of being good at the other and we are all more wired one way than the other, we are wired more like a seller or more like a closer. And what we find, and we evaluate sales teams, is we find out sellers are doing closing, closers are doing selling. One of the quickest ways to accelerate your funnel is to get the sellers doing selling, closers doing closing and if you could separate the two that would be great but if not then team them up.
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