Business
639: Enhance Performance and Efficiency In Your Organization Using Assessments, Scoring, and Software with Natasha Davis
Natasha Davis, is a Registered Nurse, Branding Strategist and Corporate Trainer. As a certified expert in email & social media marketing and branding, she thrives on fixing problems and eliminating frustrations for companies and their executives. Over the past 15 years, Natasha has worked with several companies and professionals to assist them in enhancing their business potential, brand equity, brand loyalty, cash flow, customer satisfaction and marketing strategy through the power of impactful branding. Because she uncomplicates the most complicates aspects in business, her clients affectionately refer to her as "The Chief Visionary" Natasha has the ability to quickly identify issues, find solutions, get results and improve outcomes.
Resources
- Impact Branding Consulting (official site)
- Natasha E. Davis, MBA-M, RN-MSN, CSMA, CEME (LinkedIn)
- 205: Branding: Strategically Focus Your Pricing, Content, Client Acquisition, Company Culture, Business Model, Customer Experience, and Identity with Natasha Davis (Appearance)
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630: LaunchPad Co-Working Spaces in Newark, Nashville, Memphis, and New Orleans: Move Your Business into a Distraction-Free, Productive Environment with Chris Schultz and Anne Driscoll
Today, we're talking about co-working spaces with Anne Driscoll (President & COO) and Chris Schultz (CEO) of Launch Pad. Co-working is a great solution for you if you're looking for a more professional appearance, to achieve more focus, productivity, networking, and inspiration. Plus, we cover many aspects of co-working you've probably overlooked. Example: co-working space networks, rentable conference rooms (and podcasting booths), as well as trial periods and multiple packages. Tune in and discover what you need to know about co-working.
Resources
- Launch Pad (co-working workspace & community)
- Launch Pad (Twitter)
- Proximity.space (co-working software)
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609: Make the Leap into Entrepreneurship, Narrow Focus, and Find the Right Partner with Business Plan Answer Man David Brown
Dave Brown is a leader in business planning. His message is designed to help entrepreneurs understand the need of a business plan and remove the fear and pain of writing the plan. An in-demand speaker and consultant who have helped many clients write their business plan to meet the requirements of lenders and operate their business. Sharing his 25+ years’ experience owning and operating a business he saves entrepreneurs time and money.
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His first book From the Bottom Up: The Ultimate Guide for Business Planning to Profitability is a step-by-step guide for writing a business plan in a no nonsense format. His second book, Journeys to Success: 21 empowering stories inspired by the success principles of Napoleon Hill released in March of 2016 became an international bestseller on its release. Both books have received stunning reviews from a wide range of leaders in the business, marketing and sales.
His work has been featured on Blog Talk Radio, Bold Radio, Partners in Success, Journey to Success Radio Network and others.
Resources
- David L. Brown: The Business Plan Answer Man (Official Site)
- 497: Create a Simple Strategy to Hit Goals and Make Important Decisions with Business Plan Answer Man David Brown (Previous Podcast Appearance)
- From the Bottom Up: The Ultimate Guide for Business Planning to Profitability (Book)
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582: Niche Down and Play Bigger: Evangelize and Redesign the Problem, Market Differently, and Master Category Design with Christopher Lochhead
Christopher Lochhead, author of Play Bigger (and now, Niche Down) is THE person to listen to if you're looking for the courage to stand out (in your life and business) using what's called "category design."
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If you'd like to become LEGENDARY by carving out your own category -- in the same way Apple, 5 Hour Energy, CarMax, Goldiblocks, and The World's First Arcade Bar (Barcade) did -- then you'll need to market AND redesign the problem you're solving so you can't be compared to anyone else.
Teach the world to think in a different (NOT better) way!
Resources
- Legends and Losers (Podcast)
- Niche Down: How To Become Legendary By Being Different (Book)
- Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets (Book)
- Christopher Lochhead (LinkedIn)
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569: Build Wealth Through Franchise Opportunities and Replace Your Income with Mariel Miller
Mariel Miller has 27 years experience in the franchise sector. She uses her rich background to provide franchise-related advice and coaching to potential entrepreneurs and educates them on thoroughly vetting franchise opportunities through her firm The Franchise Advisor. Her in-depth coaching is free of charge for the curious to the serious candidate. Popular with those seeking semi-passive, scalable and quality of life opportunities, she expertly guides clients through a personal yet efficient discovery process, education and franchise search.
Resources
- Contact Mariel directly: mariel@thefranchiseadvisor.com
- Phone number: 732-298-0900
- The Franchise Advisor (Official Site)
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564: Task and Project Management Using Asana, PipeDrive and Slack with Business Productivity Consultant Paul Minors
Paul Minors has a lot to say about productivity, business, self-improvement, automation, optimising your time and income to live life on your own terms. He’s a “virtual consultant” and helps businesses setup and use tools like Asana, MailChimp, Pipedrive and Zapier. He's here to explain how to transition from an unorganized "slap-dash" email-based system into a tool like Asana, how to train your team to use it AND roll it out.
Resources
- Paul Minors (Official site, Asana/PipeDrive/Zapier/MailChimp Consultant)
- Asana (Task Tracker)
- PipeDrive (Customer Relationship Management System for Sales)
- MailChimp (Email Marketing Platform)
- Zapier (Workflow Automation)
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554: Master Your Customer Avatar, Scale Internal Processes, Scale an Agency, and Make Sales on Amazon Merch with Penji Founder Johnathan Grzybowski
Johnathan Grzybowski is the founder of Penji, an on-demand design service that gives marketing teams quality design at an affordable monthly cost. Penji uses the "service as a service" or "all you can eat" model -- which means you can get an UNLIMITED number of graphic designs for everything from social graphics to Amazon Merch designs for one monthly fee.
Resources
- Penji: Unlimited Graphic Design, Unlimited Revisions, One Flat Monthly Rate (Official Site)
- Johnathan Grzybowski (LinkedIn)
- Johnathan Grzybowski (YouTube)
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549: Respectology: Separate Your Business From Your Competition and Beef Up Your Customer Support Interactions with Brian Baker
Brian Baker from Respectology is a motivational speaker -- more accurately, a social & emotional intelligence training coach. He's based in the Sacramento area and provides corporate training to help business run with civility, manners, courtesy, and respect. He helps to "debug the system" in your business.
Resources
- Brian's phone number: 916-834-0292
- Respectology (Official Site)
- TedX AT&T Talk from Brian Baker: Manners and Civility (Youtube)
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540: Customer Relationship Management Tools, Artificial Intelligence, Work-Purpose Alignment, and Workflow Automation with Scott Gellatly
Scott Gellatly is a former slave to his own business. Since systemising his company using Podio, he’s created both freedom and a lifestyle for himself and his family. Along the way, Bollo Empire, his former company, became a top Podio education and development agency.
He's here to talk about how to digital transform our businesses using workflow automation, customer relationship management systems, and artificial intelligence.
Resources
- Scale My Empire (Official Site)
- Scott Gellatly (LinkedIn)
- Scott Gellatly (Twitter)
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527: Innovate, Strategize, Believe, and Implement: Provide a New Solution to Tired Customers with Fitness Business Coach Ryan Ketchum
Ryan Ketchum is passionate about helping people change their bodies and change their lives. He has coached hundreds of fitness professionals and trained with thousands of clients. In addition to serving as the Executive Director of Fitness Revolution, he is also a recognized thought-leader and speaker in the fitness business. Ryan experimented his fitness & nutrition regime on himself after graduating college and became a finalist in the Precision Nutrition challenge by dropping from 330 to 220 lbs in 18 months.
Resources
- Fitness Revolution (Official Site)
- Elite Fitness and Performance Summit (Site)
- Ryan Ketchum (LinkedIn)
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