CarlGould-#70secondCEO-Foretelling the post COVID Business Future
Release Date: 05/05/2021
Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Pay You If Nothing Changes
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Why Pay You If Nothing Changes? Hi, everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Why do I need to pay you to be around you so my life stays the same? Yeah, thinking not. However, what can you bring to our relationship where I can say, ooh, I like it, we have similar values, but you're playing that part of the game higher than I am, I wanna learn from you, I wanna be around you. Okay, and we all have that. We all have it in our particular way. That's why it's so important for you to understand who your everyday...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-You're a Interruption Until You Deliver Value
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
You’re a Interruption Until You Deliver Value Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You are an interruption to your client's day until you bring them value, okay? Like, if you're worried, like, oh, cold calling, I don't know, will they not like it if I cold call? They're not, they're gonna hate it until you give them value. Yeah, but those emails are kind of intrusive, do I really wanna send them? You're right, if they suck, you're an interruption to their day. Yeah, but my social media, you're...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Failure Can Be Fuel for Growth
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Failure Can Be Fuel for Growth Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. That's how you find out what you're all about. But that's okay, you don't have to succeed at everything. As a matter of fact, failing at times is part of the growth and will endear you to your audience even more because now you're relatable. You know, Oprah's audience rises when she had her show. It would increase and decrease with her weight. When she was heavier, she had a higher audience. When she would lose weight, it would go down a bit. She was more relatable when she was struggling with her weight to the...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Bigger You Grow the Bigger the Challenges
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
The Bigger You Grow, the Bigger the Challenges Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. When you get into performance, it's going to start to challenge and push on the edges of your belief systems. Your BS, if I may, right? And your BS, you're gonna have to deal with. And so what we need are some strategies in order to deal with that as it comes up. Because as Peter said, you know, as you grow, your problems will grow with you. So we're not playing a game where our problems get smaller. We're playing...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Potential to Performance Bigger Growth Bigger Challenges
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Potential to Performance: Bigger Growth, Bigger Challenges Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. When we're learning something but we haven't tried anything yet, We're unlimited, right? What's our potential? Unlimited, we could do anything, right? And we could do no wrong, everything is right, every idea is brilliant, right? Don't most bad ideas start out as a good one? Right? Don't they? Like, wow, that was a really bad idea. Like, but before it was like, that was amazing, that was really good, right? And so in potential, you could do no wrong, you're a legend. In performance...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Slowing Down Speeds Up Growth
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Let’s talk about systems. A true system is when an activity—or group of activities—can run without your direct involvement. That’s when you know you've built something sustainable. Remember back in the discovery process, we said every job and every industry has its own personality? Over time, each role in your business starts to take on its own rhythm and identity. That’s a good thing—it’s the sign of a maturing company. By nature, systems are...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Tangibles Intangibles and Targeted Growth
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Let’s talk about benchmarking. The tangible side of your business—your numbers—make up about 28% of its value. When you benchmark, you're comparing your financials to the industry averages. Why? Because it gives you clarity. It gives you a target. Whether or not your goal is to be number one in your industry, you need to know what the top looks like—and how far you are from it. Benchmarking helps you understand your competition, and understanding is the...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why We Choose Starbucks The Power of Systems Over Price
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Consider this: the average Starbucks customer, during a 20-day work month, visits Starbucks 18 times. That same customer often drives past multiple other vendors offering similar coffee for a fraction of the price—sometimes less than a dollar. So why do they still choose Starbucks? It’s not just the coffee—it’s the system. Starbucks isn’t dependent on a charismatic owner or a one-time promotion. Their success is built on consistency, predictability,...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Stage 4 When Your Business Starts to Breathe Without You
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You’ll know you’ve entered Stage 4 when every role in your business begins to take on a life of its own. Things start happening without your direct involvement. The pace of the business slows down—but in a good way. You might walk into the office and find it calm, almost quiet. That’s not a bad sign—it’s a sign of growing efficiency. This is a big shift from the hustle of Stages 1 and 2. It’s not that your business is moving slower; it’s that...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Stage 2 Where Most Businesses Live And How to Thrive There
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. As your business develops, you need to focus on improving the quality of your product or service and building your credentials. While sales remain important—especially early on to keep the cash flowing—your major focus should be developing your core competency. Now, every stage of business has three phases: early, mid, and late. I bring this up because Stage 2 is where most businesses spend the bulk of their time—even the Rolling Stones are still in Stage...
info_outlineWant to thrive the next 2 years? Recalibrate now. Carl says we are already post-COVID. Listen to this!
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Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.
So, yeah COVID I think, we're telling our clients right now, guys let’s assume we are post-covid right now, meaning the pandemic is gonna continue, mass and social distancing and hand sanitizing that’s gonna be around for the next 2 years, easy 2 years. The pandemic is not all of a sudden gonna come to a close, it’s gonna take a long time, probably the next 2 years to work its way through society. So, as business owners we have to assume we are post-covid. In other words we have to assume that, the way the buyers are acting right now, they are gonna act for the next 2 years. On top of that we are in the business season of winter which is, winter comes around every 80 years in business, it’s a 20 year to 25 year cycle and for the next 5 to 9 years we’re gonna be in this business season of winter where we are re-calibrating. The markets are re-calibrating flushing out extra equity and extra value out of the markets and they’re correcting, happens every 80 years, we’re in the middle of it. So, if you take what’s going on right now, you should expect the volatility and the way we do business with buyer preferences, that’s gonna be around for the next handful of years for sure. So we have to respond to that, we have to kind of rejig and rethink and redefine the customer relationship to match where the buyers are right now.
Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.