Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Think of Your Business as an Exclusive Club Pt. 2
Release Date: 04/25/2023
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Flexible Consumption: Stop Making It Hard to Buy from You Part 1 Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. This one is called flexible consumption. This is another way that you can start to generate revenue in your business. My father always used to say to me when I would complain, ugh, my sales cycle’s taking too long Dad, I’m not getting the clients I want, they’re not paying what I want. He said, “Carl, Carl, it’s really simple, you’re not making it easy enough for them to say yes. You make it easy for...
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Winter Buyers Want Experts—Here’s How to Be One Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. So, the internet has leveled the playing field in business, everybody has the same access to the customer and it’s for free. Think about this for a minute, everybody is a penguin and everybody is making noise. So, one thing to know, if you’re on social media and you aren’t saying anything significant, you aren’t adding to thought leadership you aren’t saying anything that is really relevant to your audience, you’re...
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Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. So, if I steal, within your range of mismanagement, you won’t even look, or you would rarely question. Rarely question. Ok, so, we had a client who was a forensic accounting company and I remember talking to them and I said, so I said, when you get called in and there’s suspicion of fraud like, how often do you find it? And they said every time! And I’m like oh, I know, really like how often? He goes no, 100%, 100% if you suspect it, it’s happening. I’m not saying...
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Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. So, let me ask you a question. I’m going to give you 3 scenarios, tell me what you would do. First scenario, you give me, let’s imagine I worked for you, you give me $5000 expense budget, marketing, whatever. You gave me $5000 and then I went out and spent all $7500 of it! What would you say to me? What the hell? You would ask questions would you not? Maybe it was a worthwhile spend, but you’d want to know why I went over. So, if you gave me $5000 and I spent...
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Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. You want me to ask about the cost of goods? Gross margin? Net margin, right? So, your percentage difference between the two is what we would call your range of mismanagement. In other words, in other words, if we go over that number you’ll take notice, your team way outperforms, or if your team way underperforms, you’ll take notice. That’ll wake you up, that’s your thermostat. That’s your management thermostat. If it goes too low the air conditioning kicks on, if it...
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Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. I do this thing, remember I said I could show you how much money I can steal from you? And you’d never know it, ok? So, without looking at any reports please, write down, year to date, as of close of business yesterday to the dollar, what is your collective revenue in your business as of yesterday, close of business? Write down the number no rounding up, no rounding down. Before I even, before you even attempt to pretend to know. How many people know? Exactly, write down...
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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. Go on 10 appointments per month, for six months. What they've learned in this organization called the Institute for Independent Business, they had business mentors in 50 countries, so there are about almost 7,000 of them. What they learned was, if you go on 10 appointments per month, a lot of things happen. You get really good at your pitch, you really understand your ideal client, you understand what works and doesn't, you figure out how to close, you...
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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. What happens in your career is, you know, when you're younger as a CEO or a founder, an entrepreneur, your risk tolerance tends to be higher. You're willing to take more risks, you're willing to change more. You know, I say that CEOs fall in two categories. They fall in the category of, I wanna make a mark. I wanna change the world. My product or service is amazing, I wanna do that. Or, I don't wanna screw it up. I've had some success, I've got...
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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. Business is simple, and it's elegantly simple, but it's not easy, right? Because of what you have to overcome, if you are in a service business, you are doing your service so your clients don't have to change their behavior, okay? What do I mean by that? I had a landscaping company, right? If you owned a building, I'd do a service of cutting the grass so you don't have to go out and do it. You don't have to change your behavior and become a lawn cutter. I cut my...
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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. Your business will only travel as far and as fast as your worst system. And any frustration you have in your business is because you lack a reliable and a consistent system in that area, right? So what you, in your business, your goal is to build an assembly line. That's it, to build an assembly line. So today, you and I are doing the interview, right? You already know what you're gonna ask me.And to be honest, since the interview is going to feature...
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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.
Years ago, when I was working with Tony Robbins, he was trying to do a deal with a guy in Australia, who's the largest promoter of motivational and personal development seminars in the world. This guy will happen to be in the US to meet with Tony and do a firewalk. I was running the training for the firewall team. And then I was assigned a lane. Well, I didn't know this. But this guy came to my lane to walk the firewall and we have a rule. If you smell alcohol on anyone's breath, they're not allowed to walk. And apparently the guy had a drink or a beer beforehand, wasn't drunk, but he had a beer. I didn't let him walk. I denied him entry, denied him. I didn't know who he was. But I denied entry. He goes back to Tony and says, Can you believe–you know, he was half impressed, half pissed off. But he went right back to Tony and said, Hey, this guy, the lady next to you didn't let me in. So I get the phone call while I get the call. We're all together. Hey, did you deny entry to so and so like, oh, I don't know how that's what he was. And they described them like, Oh, I remember that guy. I smelled alcohol on his breath. I told him he can't walk. And they were like half mad like, Oh my God, what do you do and you blew the deal. And the other half of him was like, by the way, he was impressed, right? Make your business an exclusive group.
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