Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Buyers Pay More for Certainty in Volatile Times
Release Date: 04/22/2025
Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Stay Focused on Your Core Audience
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Stay Focused on Your Core Audience Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You bring somebody in that's really not as passionate or you're not in the core audience. I'd be like, what are they doing? Letting this person in. If they do that, they must be lowering their standard. Do what I mean? So you've got to maintain your standards at all costs. Companies in winter that do that win the companies that don't lose. And right now, Walmart, John Deere, Bud Light, all these, they're all...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Protect Your Core Audience and Be Vocal About Saying No
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Protect Your Core Audience and Be Vocal About Saying No Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. We can't have anybody mad at us, so we have to try to include everybody. But that's not the way to do it, right? You need to protect your core audience and be vocal and proactive about saying no to the rest. Right? I thought Tim Scott, Tim Scott from Apple, gave a great interview and somebody said to try to catch him out, and they said. Does it upset you that you are too expensive for certain...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Winter Is Not the Time to Discount
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Winter Is Not the Time to Discount Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. There are two categories you fall into as a provider. You are either number one or you are invisible. There is no in-between in winter. What a lot of you are doing is you are using what I would call fall or autumn pricing strategies. You are discounting, major no-no in winter. Not discounting, okay? You don't want a discount. You have promotions and you can have tiers of pricing. You don't want a discount. Here's...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Customers Must See Your Commitment
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Customers Must See Your Commitment Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. What we wanna do is we wanna understand consumer preferences so we can match what we do to how they buy. Because it'll, now, and here's one of the areas your consumers can sniff you out. So I've had a few one-on-one conversations with a number of you yesterday, and I can sniff you guys out, right? They're so easy to find, and consumers can sniff you out as well. They can tell are you running your business from convenience or...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Winter Cycles Favor the Experts
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. Winter, we all seek out authority and we listen to them and we listen to everything they do and we ignore every other red flag because they're an authority and we beg for it during winter. So do consumers. So we want to run our businesses knowing that we can understand that what people are looking for in leadership, got to be authentic, right? Technology has educated consumers to the point that they can smell bullshit a mile away, right? If you're not really...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Find Money in Your Blindspot
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Blind Spots: Where Your Business Leaks the Most Money Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. Results people sometimes struggle with their system’s people. Relationship people sometimes struggle with the detail’s people. Now again, I’m pretty sure this doesn’t happen in any of your businesses, but again you have heard a rumor this can saddle some other companies. Ok, and so, we want to be aware that we’re not saying we’re not in the camp of work on your weaknesses all day long so you can become a...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-It’s Not About Millennials or Gen Z—It’s About Commitment
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
It’s Not About Millennials or Gen Z—It’s About Commitment Hi everyone. Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one -minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. No employee is bigger than the business, right? And think about this for a moment. You know, when you hear people talk about hiring and getting good talent, they say, well, millennials are so entitled and Gen Zers, they don't even come to work, right? They've never made a mistake. They've never showed up, right? But think about it. How many employees do you have? 10? 20? How many of you...
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Carl Gould-#70secondCEO-Getting Past the Gatekeeper The Owner Always Answers
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Getting Past the Gatekeeper: The Owner Always Answers Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. So hard to get through the gatekeeper. Who's not there? The employees? Who is there? You are. I said you want to find the owner? Just call off-peak hours. Because the phone probably rings to them anyway. Because no one else will own it and they don't want to miss a sale. I said the owners are easy to find. It's the employees that are harder to find. So we need to get past that. Never was there a better example than when Elon Musk bought Twitter. On the day that Elon Musk...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Real Difference Between Owners and Employees
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
The Real Difference Between Owners and Employees Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here, your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. So, a main question we’ll ask an owner is, ‘What keeps you up at night?’ Oh my God, and the list is like this long! You know when we ask your team, ‘What keeps you up at night?’ You know what the number one answer is? ‘I sleep fine.’ Seriously, they’re like, ‘What keeps me up at night?’ Nothing, I don’t know, what are you talking about? ‘Well, I got kids, you mean that?’ No, I mean what keeps you...
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Carl Gould - #70secondCEO - Find the Weak Link in Your Business Chain
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Find the Weak Link in Your Business Chain Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO just over a one minute investment each day for a lifetime of results. Here we go, let’s talk about your operations. To what degree are your operations running like a finely tuned machine? Give yourself a score, one being, ‘it’s a train wreck!’ And 10 being, a ‘finely tuned machine.’ I want to hear about that. Now, you are only as good as the worst part of your process so you can only move as fast as the toughest constraint in your business. So, take a moment, write down: What is the...
info_outlineHi 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 outside and they're both there and you say, oh my God, I've got to get to the airport.
I've got to get to the airport, and I don't have a minute to spare. And the Lyft driver says, "Hey, listen, set aside the Lyft thing for a second." I know it's going to cost you 80 bucks to get there. I'm going to charge you a hundred, but I guarantee you get there on time. And if you miss your flight, I'll reimburse you the hundred and the flight. And then you're like, wow.
Then you look at the Uber drive,r and you say the Uber driver, Uber driver, do you know where the airport is? Yep. Would you guarantee I'd get there as well? I can't guarantee that.I don't know the traffic. I mean, what, you know, I mean, yeah, I mean, I think I'll get you there. I've been taking you there many times, but I can't guarantee it. Who are you going with? The Lyft or the Uber? First one or the second one? Go ahead. Who are you going with? Number one.Right. Why? He added a 30% premium, but what did he do? He guaranteed the outcome.
Now, I'm not suggesting you guarantee the outcome, but did you have more confidence in the Lyft driver? Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould, and this has been your #70secondCEO.