Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO- The Like Factor Building Rapport, Trust & Influence
Release Date: 03/20/2025
Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Mastering the Last Mile: The Future of Delivery and Convenience
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. Target and Walmart especially have done a really good job.And it's funny, you have that app too? I have that husband mode as well. That's really good, it's getting around. Target and Walmart especially have done a really good job with what is called the last mile. Amazon struggles in most delivery services, UPS, USPS, FedEx. They struggle with the last mile, meaning they can deliver that product all the way but can't get it quite to your doorstep because you're...
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CarlGould-#70secondCEO-The Real Value of Your Business: It's Not What You Think
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi, Everyone. Carl Gould, here is your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. There was a study done in 1974 by the Sloan School of Business, and they said, “What drives value in a business? And 95% of what drove value 40 and 50 years ago, was the TANGIBLES of the business, its physical assets. Well, let's fast forward to today. A follow-up on those 10,000 companies and the second part of the study showed that 72% of what drives value in business is its INTANGIBLES. Its intellectual property, it's brand equity, its brand promise. Toms shoes- is it...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Buyers Pay More for Certainty in Volatile Times
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. During volatile times, people defer to experts.They listen to experts. Think about this. If you were in a rush to get to the airport, like, oh my God, I've got to get there. It's an hour away, and I have 50 minutes to get there. So you don't want to take a chance, and you order Uber, and you order Lyft at the same time. Whoever gets here first, I'm, oh man. And they both say they can get here at the same time. Oh my God, I just got to get there. And you run...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Client Now vs. Client Later: Staying Engaged & Sealing the Deal
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. If somebody is a client now, for me, I call every week. I call, text, follow up, and even if they say, listen Carl, I'm going to be gone for two weeks, let's pick up when I get back. Oh, where are you going? Oh, I'm going to the Amalfi Coast, I'm going on a trip to Italy, I'm going to the Poconos, I'm going to see my mother-in-law, whatever. Next thing I'm going to do is, top 10 things to do when you go visit your mother-in-law. I don't have to...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Price Test: How to Know If Your Clients Will Pay More
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. I'm going to ask you a question. You tell me in the answer of a number, think of a number for a moment based on my question. My question to you is if you were to go out to your clientele right now and set aside the ones that you already have contracts with that where the pricing is already fixed. But if you basically went out to your clients and your prospects and you raised your pricing 1%, just 1%, what percentage of your clients would abandon you? They would...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Premium Pricing Wins: Becoming the Go-To Expert in Volatile Times
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. So we want to be obnoxious in our offering for most of us, most of the people in the room.I know in my businesses, it's easier to be the highest higher priced in the niche than the lower priced. That's such a volume game. That one's hard to win. You might not be big enough or well-funded enough to do that. So, in our niches, the higher price is usually the easier one to attain. And we need to have that premium offering because we need to be thought...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Clients Base 70% of Purchases on Top 2 Complaints
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. Your buyers make 70% of their purchasing decision based on your ability to solve their top two problems, okay? For me, it was start date and finish date in contracting. Why start date? Well, any of you commercial real estate owners know that you get paid on progressive payments.So the day I show up and my materials show up on the site and I put my shovel in the ground for the very first time, you can get to go to the bank and you get a check. So the start date...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Power of Promises: How Commitment Commands a Premium
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. For those of you that either know New Jersey or ever lived in the Northeast or the North, you know that it's a seasonal business. So that's right. In November and October, I was guaranteed I would start on a certain day, even if we got a snowstorm, even if there was a late frost, right? I would start no matter what, I would finish no matter what. And that meant working in the rain the whole bit. So you will be making promises at times that, you know, that you're...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Pricing, Authority, and the Power of Bragging Clients
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Let Your Customers Spend Their Way to The Front Row 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 buy something you're passionate about and you spend the premium on it, do you complain about it or do you brag about it? You brag about it. How many of your clients are bragging that they pay your premium amount? How many do you have currently? Zero. Zero. It's not because you're not, you don't like them, it's just you don't have the mechanism for it. Let's put the mechanism in place. Now don't...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Turn Complaints into Opportunity: Understanding Your Industry’s Pain Points
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Take a moment, write down what are the top five complaints about your industry, maybe not about you as a company, maybe you as a company, but maybe not, but about your industry? So how would you know that? So think of the customer, negative customers review you’ve gotten, or competitors have gotten, the sales objection you get from a prospect when your telling them about your product or service and when you win a project and they tell you why they choose you...
info_outlineThe Like Factor: Building Rapport, Trust & Influence
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 often you define rapport? Values, connection, comfort, a harmonious relationship, trust, and how can we build trust? rapport is the relationship of sameness, lightness, and commonality, sameness, lightness, commonality, the more that someone feels they are like you, the more they can allow themselves to like you, right? And there's always something you can find in common. And you can build that relationship by performing on that, but we now need to influence them right? On some level, in order for somebody to follow you, to buy from you, to want to be associated with you is that on some level, they have to admire you.
Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.