CarlGould-#70secondCEO- Stage 4- Why Systems Fuel Scalable Growth
Release Date: 02/12/2026
Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Now Is the Time to Raise Your Prices
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Why Now Is the Time to Raise Your Prices Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Your good clients expect your prices to go up. So put them up, right? And I get you might have a certain cadence to it, but I would encourage you all, and if you wanna talk offline about how to do it, I'm happy to do it, but I would encourage you guys today, look at what segment of clientele or what segment of services or what segment of product and raise those prices today. I don't care if you just...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Progress Beats Perfection
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Progress Beats Perfection Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Or in business history, have you been rewarded for just trying, right? So more than ever, we–we have the opportunity to just get out there and be (unclear follows), right? Not only is it okay that you make a mistake, but it's actually rewarded when you do, because you're not perfect, right? Social Media for the most part, is the highlight reel is like, you know, when you see somebody at a networking event, how's it...
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Carl-Gould-70secondCEO-Why Letting Go Is the Hardest Part of Growth
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Why Letting Go Is the Hardest Part of Growth Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. I was just reading an interview, an old interview with Bill Gates where he said in the early days of microsoft he--he wrote all the code and then when they bought in coders, he had to sign off on all the code before it went out and then they bought in Steve Ballmer and Steve was like Bill does anything happening that’s it, you’re not doing that anymore and--but Bill Gates had a hard time letting go of the...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Schedule It or It Disappears Part 2
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Schedule It or It Disappears Part 2 Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. Sometimes when you’re in the jar, you can’t read the label, alright, so I know it sounds silly, but we’re out here reading the label for you. Ok, so do yourselves the favor of holding each other to getting it on your calendar. So, if we wrote November 1st, 2023 at 12 oclock put it in your calendar as an appointment and invite the person you’re doing it with to that appointment, that’s our weekly meeting to talk about PTO...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Schedule It or It Disappears Part 1
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Schedule It or It Disappears Part 1 Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. This is the one thing, the main thing that trips up your progress is scheduling conflicts. That’s why we developed the Annual Milestones Planning the way we do. Where you put it on the wall, and you step back and you’re like, you’re going to do that? At the same time, we’re doing that? That sounds crazy! That’s just a macro example of how you’re not managing the resources. This is just a micro example, alright? So, absolutely have...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Exit or Evolution—You Need a Plan-Part 2
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Exit or Evolution—You Need a Plan-Part 2 Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. You’re gonna say, you’re gonna say, all you’re gonna say is, “There’s a seat for every one of you on the bus.” And over your head on this, over this shoulder is going to be today’s organizational chart with all the names in it, and tomorrow’s, or your five or ten-year plan, or whatever. And, for example, the job you’re in right now you won’t be in that in five years. Alright, so if you’re a CEO now, you might be a...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Exit or Evolution—You Need a Plan - Part 1
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Exit or Evolution—You Need a Plan - Part 1 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. An exit strategy. As a matter of fact, when I first started my business, my landscaping company, very community-based, very local, I never left 30-50 miles of radius around my house. And I used to do snow removal as well, and that’s Latin for, you never get to take a vacation, ‘cause you never know when it’s gonna snow. Right? So, I could never go anywhere, it’s very very local. But, since then, since I started...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why People Must Feel Safe Before They Act
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Why People Must Feel Safe Before They Act Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Let's talk a little bit about how we can influence another person. Because at the end of the day, we're gonna go from potential to performance. But the idea here is that you will be influential to another person, alright? Now building rapport and ultimately influencing something, somebody, it's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, that’s a bit of an automatic reflex. In other words, wired into our central nervous...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Success Puts You in Uncharted Territory
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Success Puts You in Uncharted Territory Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You know, one of the first things I learned as a coach was that there are two types of distress you're going to deal with a lot as a coach. And the number two type of distress is, I know what I want. I haven't gotten there yet and I'm not either. I'm not sure or lack of strategy, or I don't have the resources, or whatever the number one type of distress is, I've achieved my goals, I set out to achieve certain...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Writing a Book Isn’t About the Book
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Writing a Book Isn’t About the Book Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Okay, so you write a book for three reasons, one of three reasons: I want to get rich, I want to get famous, or I want to get something off my chest, right. So most of the people I believe you're working with are trying to get rich or trying to get famous. Some might be writing something to get off their chest, but I suspect that's probably not the case. I want to get rich, meaning not just from the book, but I want to use...
info_outlineStage 4- Systematize for Growth
Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here, author of The 7 Stage Growth Method and your #70secondCEO, just a little bit more than a one minute investment per day for a lifetime of results. Today’s topic - Stage 4.
Rank yourself on how well you have created your systems. This is the Systems Stage, where you decide on the ecosystem or the type of business you’re going to be. Up to this point you’ve been an entrepreneurial-run business; now we’re making the switch to a professionally managed business, where you systematize every single aspect of your business. Little hint, start with the most frustrating part of your business and work your way back from there, because any frustration in your business means that you lack a consistent and viable system in that particular area of your business. Give yourself a rank, 1-we haven’t figured out what we want to be when we grow up, 10- we’ve nailed it! Put your score in the comments section below.
Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.