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Charlie Gilkey on His New Book: The Small Business Lifecycle

Are you ready to grow your small business? My guest is here to help!

Charlie Gilkey is a successful entrepreneur, and a well-respected speaker and advisor on small business growth and business strategy.

Charlie has recently written an important book. (I consider it to be a must-read for every consultant and business coach.) It’s called The Small Business Lifecycle: A Guide for Taking the Right Steps at the Right Time to Grow Your Small Business

The Small Business Lifecycle provides insights that are easy to understand and implement. Each lifecycle stage that Charlie describes presents specific challenges and exciting opportunities that you’ll want to know about.

Listen to Charlie Gilkey — learn what you can do to make the most of the stage you’re at — and then grow your business your way! (Scroll down to the Podcast Player to enjoy this content-rich interview.)

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More Money With Less Stress: Belinda Wasser on Effective Project Management

Have you been feeling a time crunch lately?  I definitely have.

Of course, I am running two businesses, so that has something to do with it. But it’s more than that.

I want to find better ways to manage my projects. If you can relate to this, then you’re going to love today’s guest.

Belinda Wasser is a business workflow and logistics expert with 25 years of experience. She works with both startups and established small businesses with a focus on helping them to make more money, more efficiently and with less stress.

Over the years, Belinda has also worked with a range of high-profile companies, including Digitas, EDS, and The Center for Quality Management.  She’s been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, and other national and local media. When Belinda talks, people listen.

Here are some of the key topics that Belinda covers for us today:

  • The first thing that a small business owner needs to define before starting a new project
  • The relationship between task lists and “manageable buckets”
  • Selecting (and working with) contractors that won’t drive you crazy
  • How to clarify and prioritize the elements of multiple projects
  • Why she moved her business processes (including accounting, contact management, etc.) to the cloud

If you’d like to “make more money, more efficiently and with less stress”… then you need to hear what Belinda has to say. Scroll down to our Podcast Player and have a listen now!

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Meredith Bell on Why Clients Don’t (or Do) Follow Through

As consultants and business coaches we’re in the business of helping our clients to improve their performance. Of course, improvements in client performance (aka results) happen only through implementation. So, what can we do to ensure that our clients actually implement what we recommend and get the results that they’re paying for? My guest today [...]

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Patrick O’Malley: How to Use LinkedIn as a Powerful Sales Search Engine

If I ranked my guests based on their expertise, plus energy and enthusiasm, then my guest today would probably be at the top of the list. Patrick O’Malley, aka 617-PATRICK,  clearly loves teaching. Today he’s here to teach us how to find and win more ideal clients by using LinkedIn as a powerful search engine [...]

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August Turak on Business / Personal Transformation

My guest today is the one and only August Turak.  By any standard, August has lived an adventurous life. His fascinating career experiences range from being a protégée of Louis R. Mobley (Founder of the IBM Executive School), to spending 14 years working alongside the Trappist Monks of Mepkin Abbey. August has worked in sales [...]

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Ian Brodie: Cracking The Authority Code

I have a very special guest from the United Kingdom on the podcast today! Some background: In 1994, my guest earned his MBA from Manchester Business School. Over the course of the next 13 years, he worked for a number of world-class consulting firms, including the mighty Capgemini (a firm with a presence in 40-plus countries around [...]

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Susan Gunelius on LinkedIn Strategies That Win More Clients

Today marks a first for the podcast – having a guest back for a second interview. Then again, my guest today is so interesting and knowledgeable that it was an easy choice to make! Susan Gunelius is a dynamic entrepreneur who has written a very useful book on how to make LinkedIn a powerful part [...]

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Alli Polin: Break The Frame

Why start a business in the first place if it doesn’t give you more freedom to express your true values? Many independent consultants and business coaches aren’t doing that nearly as well as they’d like. What’s holding them back? Today we’ll answer that question and offer some solutions. My guest today is Alli Polin. She’s devoted [...]

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Gerry O’Brion Reveals What Big Brands Know

Would it surprise you to know that you can use a powerful process developed by some of the world’s biggest brands – to market your services?  My guest today is here to show us how that works. Gerry O’Brion is a marketing consultant, speaker and author who translates big brand strategies into knowledge that any [...]

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Robert Terson on Selling Fearlessly

Bob Terson is on a journey, and so are you. Over his 40 year career in small business and sales, he’s seen and done it all. He was the brash new kid on the block, publically announcing lofty goals and then driving himself to capture them. Later, he was the seasoned entrepreneur, fighting through adversity [...]

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