#129: The Impossible List
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It’s hard to pick between more than one priority when you believe in each of them. In a perfect world you can delegate things. Bring in more people and accomplish more than you can do alone. Unfortunately there are things that you just can’t delegate. Some things are yours and yours alone. This podcast is one of those things for me. I get plenty of help with the editing and the promotion but I’m the one on camera. As summer approaches and I look at all the things on my plate I have to make some hard choices. Listen to this episode to hear...
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#128: Speak in Flow owner, Melinda Lee.
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Melinda Lee realized that her entire family line was full of silenced women. That realization led her to follow a calling as a communications and presentation coach. Melinda saw that a lot of the challenges we all have to clear communication and public speaking were things that had nothing to do with memorizing the words. In this interview we talk about dealing with “the inner critic”, how our bodies are living in the past, and the special needs that entrepreneurs have for presentation skills. Melinda also shares some practical tips for public speaking that include what...
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#127: Liz Wilcox makes your emails better.
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Email is still the best way to market to your audience. It builds familiarity, establishes authority and trust. It can also be horribly misused and cause a lot of ill will when done wrong. This week I talk to Liz Wilcox who teaches online business owners how to make email genuinely effective. Liz shares how to build a great welcome series. Explains why we should stop using the word “copy” and shows me that I’ve been making email much too complicated. This talk was a big help to me and I hope it saves you as much time as it’s saving me. ...
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#126: Nathan Hirsch, Founder of AccountsBalance.com
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Nathan Hirsch runs a bunch of companies. In college he bought and sold textbooks until the school hit him with a cease and desist order. Then he became a drop-shipper and sold millions of dollars of baby products. Later he and a partner would sell their company and walk away with life-changing money. So is he relaxing? Nope. Today he has a company that teaches small business owners how to hire, train, and use VAs and freelancers and another pair of companies that provide bookkeeping services to digital businesses. Nathan talks about how quickly he’s been able to get out of the...
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#125: Delegation "HOW-TOs"
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Delegation is one of my most talked about subjects here on the pod. There's a good reason for that; I’ve spent a lot of time and energy thinking about it and building practices I can rely on to delegate effectively. The other thing is that when you run an agency you’re essentially a middleman between the delegation your clients use you for and the things you delegate to your team. In this episode I break down some best practices on delegation. Things you should be thinking about from the moment you want to hand something off, to the way you can build practices to...
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#124: Lydia Lee- This is how you Reinvent Yourself
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What do you do when you have a breakdown after working for a tyrant of a boss… but the boss is you? That happened to this week’s guest Lydia Lee, who we spoke to in Bali where she spends half her year. It turns out that a breakdown like that is a real wake up call. Now Lydia coaches mid-career professionals who are looking for something different from the rest of their work life. This is a great conversation about building the work life you want to live with; not a bigger career or a smaller career, just the right one for you. We talk about entrepreneurship,...
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#123: Kristina Pierce- What to Do Before You Pay For Ads
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Ads! The average American sees between 4000 and 10,000 every day. Most of them are junk. Some of them work. Marketing isn’t black magic, it’s a process you can be better or worse executing. Today I talk to Kristina Pierce who, for 25 years has been crafting, buying, and monitoring ads across a wide variety of media. From her HQ in upstate New York, Kristina now runs Pierce Media, an ad agency specializing in social media ads for service based businesses. Kristina knows a tremendous amount about advertising and happily shares with me details...
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#122: "Profit First" featuring Jenni Davis
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Let’s talk about money! How much money should your business have put in reserve? How much in profit? How much money should you save in taxes? Should these bundles of cash be stored in one place or many… and where? Lots of businesses out there struggle to make the right moves with their cash. Many even struggle with the idea that there ARE right moves to make. Yet clearly there are better and worse ways to manage your company’s cash. One of the better ways is to follow the “Profit FIrst” model which this weeks’ guest Jenni Davis is an...
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#121: Jen Szpigiel tells us to eat the eggs & drink the bubbles.
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Jen has a lot going on. Like many entrepreneurs, this daughter of teachers was driven to business ownership by life events. In a twist of fate it was the forced choice to run her own company that convinced Jen she doesn’t have to make choices like that ever again. Yes, you can have it all. Jen publishes the Becoming Iconic magazine, coaches business owners, and runs an agency which provides branding, marketing, and operations support to the female entrepreneur who refuses to compromise. Jen and I explore a bunch of different corners of business ownership...
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#120: Systems Shouldn't Feel Like Bureaucracy
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Bureaucracy. Even the word makes some people groan. I had a realization the other day that a lot of small businesses don’t see any daylight between good systems and unnecessary bureaucracy and frankly that’s a shame. Just because you’re a startup doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be developing systems for doing things efficiently. Just because you’re an established company doesn't mean your systems are efficient. Your goal as the business owner is to make sure that your business can run without you. IT’S ALSO YOUR JOB to see that your business runs the way you...
info_outlineSo today is 100.
If you have listened for a while you've heard lots about where we have been already and right now I'm so focused on looking forward that I can’t wrap my head around looking back. I've actually been avoiding recording this episode for days and I think it’s just that I didn’t want to look back. There's too much excitement about what’s to come.
But first I want to celebrate. 100 episodes is a really big deal.