Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Price Test: How to Know If Your Clients Will Pay More
Release Date: 04/18/2025
Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Flexible Consumption: Stop Making It Hard to Buy from You Part 1
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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Carl-Gould-70secondCEO-Winter Buyers Want ExpertsHeres How to Be One
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
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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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO- The Revenue Blind Spot: How Much Are You Really Making? Part 4
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
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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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Revenue Blind Spot: How Much Are You Really Making? Part 3
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
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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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Revenue Blind Spot: How Much Are You Really Making? Part 2
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
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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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Revenue Blind Spot: How Much Are You Really Making? Part 1
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
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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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO- Trial by Fire: What 10 Meetings a Month Will Teach 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. 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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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Risk vs. Preservation: The Two Mindsets of a CEO
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. 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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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Business of Behavior: Service vs. Product
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. 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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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Your Business is Only as Strong as Its Weakest System
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 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...
info_outlineHi 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 leave. You were at a hundred dollars. You're now at one Oh one. You were at 3%.
Now you're 3.03%. What percentage of attrition would you experience? Do you think? Okay. Zero. So 3%. If you raise your prices 3%, what level of attrition would you experience then? Zero. Okay. 5%. Right. 5%. How about 5%? Would some of you start to get attrition at 5%? Yeah, probably. Right. So maybe you're from one to four Let's just call it that.
If there was any number where you felt you could raise your pricing and you would have close to if not zero attrition, that's a signal from your clientele that they love you for something more than just the utility of your product or service. They like you for some other reason. You're a professional.
You're based in the U S you're a local company. You're, you know, the same faith as them. You believe in the same charity. I don't know. Whatever it is. You're just nice on the phone. Whatever. You write good emails. Whatever it is. Okay. But for whatever that is, they love you and are willing to pay you more than you're charging them.
Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould, and this has been your #70secondCEO.