Is feeling sluggish and tired having an impact on your business? In this candid interview, Zach describes how he was successful as a Financial Planner, and had everything that should have made him happy, but he wasn’t. He was, in fact, pretty miserable. And that discontent got him fired. Being fired became the door which […]
Mindset
Sales Series Part 4: How to Have the Best Sales Conversations with Customers
For this fourth video in my mini series on how to improve your sales, I share how you can structure a sales meeting. When having conversations with customers, it’s important to make the most out of your time together. With the right structure, you can make all of your sales conversations more effective for everyone […]
Sales Series Part 2: What You Should Know About the Customer Buying Cycle
Today’s video in our series on improving your sales is about the customer buying cycle. Essentially, this is the customer decision making process that leads to someone making a purchase, and it includes several criteria that are important to understand so you can improve on your sales process. First of all, there’s the time frame […]
Sales Series Part 1: The Effective Mindset to GROW YOUR SALES
Recently, I’ve been asked by many people how to get improved sales figures. The key thing is to prioritize customer goals and solve customer problems. In this video, I discuss the importance of having the RIGHT and EFFECTIVE MINDSET when it comes to approaching customers for sales. This 5-part video series will help you attain […]
Do You Have the Right Team in Place to Grow Your Business?
Today we’re talking about whether you’ve got a high-performance team or… perhaps need to get one. Now, we know that as our businesses grow, we have to upgrade. We have to upgrade our processes, our systems, our equipment, sometimes our location, and our people, right? As the business grows, not everybody’s going to be able […]
Lonely at the Top: Mental Health Strategies for Business Owners. An Interview with Brian Janes
As a business owner, do you ever feel like it’s lonely at the top? Many business owners do, but don’t always know how to handle the stress that comes with business ownership. Especially these days. That’s why I reached out to interview my colleague and Registered Psychotherapist Brian Janes about mental health for business owners. […]
Supporting Your Staff – Interview with Karen Van Luven, HR Consulting
Karen Van Luven is an HR Consultant I’ve known for a long time, who helps owners of small businesses with their employee challenges. The pandemic brings unique situations with their staff that many business owners haven’t encountered before – mental health, restructuring, working from home, to name a few. One of my biggest take-aways from my conversation […]
What’s Your Relationship With Money? Interview with Sarah Milton, Financial Education Specialist
Are you a Saver, Spender, Avoider, or a Money Monk? In my interview with Sarah Milton, a financial educator, she shares her insightful perspective on our “Money Personality” and how our relationship with money affects how we manage and grow it. Some of the areas we cover:– Why people think managing money is difficult– How people come […]
How to Stop Working So Hard in Your Business (what we can learn from turkey vultures)
Are you working too hard in your business? Today I’m going to share with you a lesson I learned from a bird on how to run a business more effectively and more easily. I decided to go for a walk in the forest today. Great timing because I’m getting rained on now *light sarcasm* but […]
How to Reduce Your Stress
This week, I want to introduce you to kind of a friend that’s going to help reduce your stress levels. So who is this friend? Well, as it turns out, you already know them very, very well but I’m going to get to the introduction in just a moment. First off, let’s define what stress […]