Carl-Gould-70secondCEO-Breaking the Feast-or-Famine Cycle in Business
Release Date: 04/25/2025
Carl-Gould-70secondCEO-Breaking the Feast-or-Famine Cycle in Business
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. Because what happens in that, because it's a perfect analogy for business because there's a feast or famine, roller coaster that businesses get on. So in other words, when you're a small business and you don't have any business, (0:20) you go out and you get all clients. Now you have all this work to do. You're like, oh, I'm really busy. I better go and build my widget or do my service or whatever it is. And you stop marketing at the time because you're so...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Mastering the Last Mile: The Future of Delivery and Convenience
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
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Carl Gould #70secondCEO
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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
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
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
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Carl Gould #70secondCEO
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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...
info_outlineHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.
Because what happens in that, because it's a perfect analogy for business because there's a feast or famine, roller coaster that businesses get on.
So in other words, when you're a small business and you don't have any business, (0:20) you go out and you get all clients. Now you have all this work to do. You're like, oh, I'm really busy.
I better go and build my widget or do my service or whatever it is. And you stop marketing at the time because you're so busy fulfilling. So you get done with that engagement or you build that product and you ship it off.
You're like, oh, that was good. Now, as soon as you're done, you're like, wait a minute, we don't have any more projects, right? So what do you do? You pedal back and you start working hard on sales and marketing. And so you get on this roller coaster where if you're doing sales and marketing, you're not fulfilling.
And when you're fulfilling, you're not doing sales and marketing. That is a hard roller coaster to get off. And it never ends.
Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.