Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Power of Promises: How Commitment Commands a Premium
Release Date: 04/15/2025
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. What are your benefits and bonuses worth? They are worth something to your clientele. Think of the Mastercard commercial, great commercial, if I want to buy this 20 bucks, if I want to get that 30 bucks, peace of mind? Priceless! Peace of mind is priceless to people who don’t have peace of mind. Yeah, like us right? You ask the kids, peace of mind how much is that worth? They’re like, I’m already there Dad. There’s nothing to, there’s no cost there. It’s...
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The Rolex Effect: Why Higher Prices Build Perceived Value Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here, your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. We’re talking about increasing your fees. Now wouldn’t that be nice? Just take your prices and charge more? And you’ll just make more money. Isn’t that great? Well, you know what, it’s actually necessary. We have been talking about not just being another penguin, about standing above, about being an expert, about differentiating yourself. Wel,l guess what? People judge your quality based on your fees. Think...
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Flexible Consumption: Stop Making It Hard to Buy from You Part 2 Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. If I have an airline mileage account, here would be my IDEAL point system, ready? Ready? Take this down, you’re going to want to know this one. Earn them, use them! Yeah! Alright see you everybody. No, I’m just kidding. It is so hard to use my damn mileage account. Like I’ve got, it’s like an act of congress to be able to cash these damn things in. They’re ridiculous. It’s too hard to be your...
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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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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 going to say, Ooh, hope, you know, that one's a little shaky. It does happen at times, but the upside is so tremendous. You will get, you know, think about it.I was getting paid a 35% premium for the same work.
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