Stop Letting Scheduling Conflicts Steal Your Success
Release Date: 08/18/2026
Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Your Strength Is Your Blind Spot Build a Stronger Business by Knowing Both - Pt. 2
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Your Strength Is Your Blind Spot: Build a Stronger Business by Knowing Both - Pt. 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So for example we’re making a lot of money that’s the I. and the C part of the business says “yes, we’re losing a lot, we’re not taking a lot home because we are making a lot of mistakes, we’re not collecting all the money, we’re not getting full value, had we just planned this up a little bit more, we could have charged more”. So, if you're strong in income you...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Your Strength Is Your Blind Spot: Build a Stronger Business by Knowing Both
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Understand your strengths & identify your weaknesses. It will build a stronger, healthier business. Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You're very strong at direction, you’ll struggle in the area of systems, it will be your blind spot. It’s not where you would normally gravitate towards. If you're strong in systems you may struggle in the area of big picture planet, you’ll focus on the smaller picture and won’t always nurture the big picture, if you're down to the bottom right hand...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Become the Expert They Can’t Afford Not to Hire
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. And so here's what I learned. What I learned was if people value what you do, if they really value what you do, and if they have a need, they want to go with an expert. I had built a reputation as the guy who came in, banged out a job, and got the heck out of there. And we demanded that we had access to your property from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week. Really? Like you're going to be at my house on Sunday? You want the guarantee or not? Right? I...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Your Business Needs Systems, Not More of 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. That's a system where you have an activity or a group of activities that you can remove yourself from. Now, you remember way back when we were talking about the discovery process, and we said, Every job has a personality. Every industry has a personality. Well, in your business, each job is going to start to assume its own personality. Systems, by their very nature, are predictable, they're consistent, they're reliable, they're scheduled, and they're very...
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Systems Slow the Pace—But Speed Up the 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. That's a system where you have an activity or a group of activities that you can remove yourself from. Now, you remember way back when we were talking about the discovery process, and we said, Every job has a personality. Every industry has a personality. Well, in your business, each job is going to start to assume its own personality. Systems, by their very nature, are predictable, they're consistent, they're reliable, they're scheduled, and they're very...
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Turn Customer Complaints Into Your Biggest Competitive Advantage
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Take a moment right now to write down what the top five complaints are about your industry- maybe not about you as a company, maybe you as a company, but maybe not- about your industry? So how would you know that? So think of a customer- a negative customer- customers. Now add what’s going on in their life right now that makes calling you a must. What was the trigger event or events that may calling you a must not a nice to have but a must like its origin I...
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Discover Your Business Personality: Muddy Fish or a Clean Fish?
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO - just a little over a minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Our topic today is - Are you a Muddy Fish or are you a Clean Fish? I wonder. So, a muddy fish. Are you the kind of person that is fast-paced and outgoing? You're not very detail-oriented. You’re results-driven. You like things new, trendy, flashy. You tend to be on the business development and visionary side of the business. Or are you a clean fish? You like the water clean. You like systems, processes, predictability,...
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Your Clients Don't Hate Contracts—They Hate Bad Ones Pt. 2
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. So Jim, what I would do is I would look at what would be favorable, what would be the terms and conditions of the contract that you would be willing to say to a customer: I'll eat the price increase if it comes up in the next whatever 12 months, 24 months, 36 months, whatever. Here's what I would need in order to guarantee it. And here's what they would need in order to sign the contract. And you work it back and forth until you have...
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Your Clients Don't Hate Contracts—They Hate Bad Ones Pt. 1
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. So Jim, what I would do is I would look at what would be favorable, what would be the terms and conditions of the contract that you would be willing to say to a customer: I'll eat the price increase if it comes up in the next whatever 12 months, 24 months, 36 months, whatever. Here's what I would need in order to guarantee it. And here's what they would need in order to sign the contract. And you work it back and forth until you have...
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The 3 Cash Flow Questions Every Business Owner Must Answer
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hey Everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO, just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Today’s topic is - Cash Flow. All right, so give yourself a ranking here: To what degree are you cash flow positive on a monthly basis? Do you have at least six months of operating expenses in reserve to weather a storm? Do you have enough buying power in order to take advantage of an opportunity should it present itself? One is low like, ‘Oh my God, help!’10 is high, were really good there. Anything 7.9 and below, and we've got to...
info_outlineHi 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: 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 your device with you, go to that time; if it’s November 1st on this day, make sure there’s nothing else going on. I guarantee for a number of you, you’re going to find out there’s a scheduling conflict. I want to spend more time with my family, cool! What time’s your family home? Oh, 4-6. I want to hit the gym, got to go to that class, what time’s the class? 5 o'clock….You see a problem? No, put it on your calendar...oh, right...oh, ok, so, unless we make you do it, one of them is just going to fall off. Well, I can’t do that because that’s right in the middle of family time. Well, did you think about putting it on in the morning? That’s a good one, good one. Good one, 5, yeah, got a lot of time in the morning.
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