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Carl Gould #70secondCEO

Release Date: 07/31/2024

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Carl Gould #70secondCEO

Cut Through the Clutter   Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.   I eat a very plant-based diet. Whenever I go to a restaurant,  I can tell if they know how to serve a vegan, basically.  Are they just, did they Google it and say,  okay, anything that's not this? Or do they actually know? And I can tell you a lot about the difference. You know, so if somebody's passionate about a subject or passionate about a project, product, or service, they're gonna know the...

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Understand Who is Your Ideal Avatar 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. If you were a college, if you were a university, you would look at someone like  you, someone like me and say, Oh, well, they're a good candidate.  They have kids or they are part of a family, or they live in a certain area or they make a certain amount of money. So they would target me. I'll just take myself. They would target me and say, Oh, that guy, Carl, we should start really marketing to him right...

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Understand Who is Your Ideal Avatar   Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. One exercise that every business owner has to do is make sure that they take a step back and understand who their ideal client avatar is, right?  So if you get an ideal client, and you know what's going on in their life right now and what would trigger them to call you or accept your call right now, that's the key, right?  I'll use myself as an example in just a minute. Still, we want to identify who is the...

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Decide Where You Are as an Entrepreneur 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. You have two slightly different approaches. Apple in the beginning, when they first started out, I mean their commercials were throwing hammer balls at TV sets and blowing up the status quo. Well, they're the establishment now. You know what I mean? Like they're not running around saying we want to blow up the universe, right? They're trying not to screw it up right now.  But in the beginning, they were...

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Decide Where You Are as an Entrepreneur Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.First off, decide where you are because when you're trying to make a mark, it's time to be bold, it's time to be provocative, it's time to take risk. You know, if you're trying to make a mark, you're not trying to just get customers. That's not your goal. Because you think you can do it better, so you are out to poach customers, right? If I've got cupcakes, I'm going to try to find people who like cupcakes. Well, guess...

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Entrepreneurs Fall into Two Catagories  Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Entrepreneurs tend to fall in two categories. First category I call is they want to make a mark. They have an idea, they've got a dream,  there's something that they want to do,  they want to put their stamp on their community or in their industry or in the world, right? I have a better way to make cupcakes. I just make cupcakes better. I want to show the world how good my grandma's cupcakes were. So you open...

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What Stage can The Owner Step Back Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.  It starts in stage four to some degree, stage three, right? If you are, let's say you run a real estate office and you don't want to be the one going out, sitting at somebody else's kitchen table on the evenings and weekends,  trying to get listings and, you know, showing houses on the weekend. You can hire a bunch of realtors that will do that for you. And you're like the managing partner, right? Or if you're a law...

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The Majority of Businesses are Stage 2 & 3 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.  The overwhelming majority of businesses are in stage two and three, right? 98.6% of businesses have less than 20 employees. 96% of businesses are under 1 million, and they tend to be stage two and stage three businesses. Once you get into stage four and above, these are businesses that do well over a million dollars. To go from stage three to four, you have to have a layer of employees called management, and...

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 The Diagonal Opposite Quadrant Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results We actually have a formula that will help somebody understand what their blind spots are. There are four quadrants in a business: strategy, business development, operations, and finance. There are subcategories underneath those, but those are the four main ones.  And you tend to be strong in one. You tend to be okay in the other two. There tends to be one that you have a blind spot in.  And we call it the diagonal...

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Benchmark Your Business Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.  You always wanna know what your competitors are up to because that's how you'll be compared for sure. One of the things that we like to do with our clients is to have them say, "I want to be different." How do I differentiate myself? How do we stand out? We've found that innovation in one industry comes from the front lines of another industry. So I want to find out, I want to benchmark myself against my competitors. I want to...

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The Pandemic Excelorated What Was Already Coming in Business

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

So I said there's two dynamics that are coming out of the pandemic and in this season of winter that's really important to us.

One is those pesky pain in the ass requests that we got from our clients and that you gave your vendors during the pandemic are not temporary. They are permanent. All the pandemic did was accelerate what was already coming.

That was coming, curbside, same-day delivery, you know, same-day pickup, contact-free, you know, off-peak services and, you know, being able to pay a little more to cut the line. Those are all permanent. So if you offered something during the pandemic, but now you're like, ah, the world's fine now.

We're back to normal. We're not doing that. That was a pain in the butt telling you your clients want it, right?  They want it and the company who's willing to offer these customized services to them is going to win.

And the company that does not will fall behind. Let's recognize that those were not temporary requests. They are permanent requests.

Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould, and this has been your #70secondCEO.