Best Awesomers.com Podcasts (2024)

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CHAIRMAN'S CIRCLE: Rants that help Reinforce Leaders 20:04

1+ y ago20:04

20:04

We are launching this episode called "Chairman's Circle" - a circle created 10+ years ago. These episodes will talk or discuss random rants about important topics that help reinforce important lessons for leaders and build value in the concept of the Chairman’s Circle.The goal of the Chairman Circle is for Steve to help Companies with a strategic v…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: TIME MANAGEMENT FOR THE WIN | Steve Simonson 37:26

1+ y ago37:26

37:26

It is sad to say goodbye but we know this is not a Goodbye for us. This is last episode to wrap up 2022 - saying goodbye to 2022 and saying hello to 2023.Time Management is one of the valuable ways to say hi and hello and welcome 2023 with a bang!in this last and final episode of Founder Foundations, Steve talks about Time Management as the process…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: POWER DELEGATION & CONFLICT MANAGEMENT | Steve Simonson 27:32

1+ y ago27:32

27:32

"CONFLICT MANAGEMENT is the process by which disputes are resolved, where negative results are minimized, and positive results are prioritized. This critical management skill involves using different tactics such as negotiation, and creative thinking, depending on the situation."In this 2nd to the last episode of Founder Foundations, Steve talks ab…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: BUILDING POSITION AGREEMENTS | Steve Simonson 31:04

1+ y ago31:04

31:04

We are coming up near the very end and today's episode is the first of the last three.Steve will talk about Building Position Agreements inside the Company. This is intended to be far looking and in fact, there may be some positions that are still empty or does not exist yet. Creating a 5-year objective for the Business will help you create Positio…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: COACHING AND MENTORING SYSTEMS | Steve Simonson 19:42

1+ y ago19:42

19:42

Coaching and Mentoring - What does that mean?In this episode, Steve will share with us what his thoughts are about Coaching and mentoring an employee and why it will make them more valuable to your organization so they can develop, hone and enhance their skills—both professionally and personally. By being interested in the growth of your staff, you…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MEETINGS | Steve Simonson 20:28

1+ y ago20:28

20:28

What are Business Development Meetings (BDM) and Why are they important?In today's episode, Steve will walk us through what BDM's are and why it is so important in every emerging organization and teams. The goal of each meeting is to discuss other matters with the employee or team members the plans they have for each week, roadblocks that hampers t…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS 101 | Steve Simonson 25:14

1+ y ago25:14

25:14

WHAT IS A FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION AND ITS TYPE?In this episode, Steve will walk us through the different types and functions of an organizational structure and why is it important to organize a company into different departments based on the area of expertise.The main advantage of having a Functional Organization is that each department focus on on…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: SYSTEMIC MANAGEMENT 101 | Steve Simonson 11:01

1+ y ago11:01

11:01

In today's episode, Steve talks about SYSTEMIC MANAGEMENT that will help every Founder and manager achieve the desired goals in most aspects of the business.Is it reasonable that everything on Planet Earth can be a system? YES!Building a system = reasonable and predictable results, a Formula that Steve shared in Seller Systems and Seller Cruise to …

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS OVERVIEW | Steve Simonson 17:10

1+ y ago17:10

17:10

What is management system?According to https://www.iso.org › management-system-standards, "A management system is the way in which an organization manages the interrelated parts of its business in order to achieve its objectives".In Today's episode, Steve will share with us his thoughts about Management system and why it is important to have an eff…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: STRATEGIC FINANCE SYSTEMIZATION | Steve Simonson 25:03

1+ y ago25:03

25:03

What is Strategic Financial Management and why is it important?According to https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/strategic-financial-management.asp, "Strategic financial management means not only managing a company's finances but managing them with the intention to succeed—that is, to attain the company's long-term goals and objectives and maximize…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: CONTROL LEVELS SYSTEMIZATION 101 | Steve Simonson 19:27

1+ y ago19:27

19:27

According to Brian Tracy, "Your business will be successful, generating steady, predictable sales and cash flow, to the exact degree to which you develop systems that put as much of your business on autopilot as possible". Until our business control level is systematized, it exists largely in the mind of the individual who knows how to do it. As a …

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: CASH FLOW SYSTEMIZATION 101 | Steve Simonson 15:58

1+ y ago15:58

15:58

Most businesses fail because the lack of Cash Capitalization and “Cash Flow Management and Systemization” is not the most exciting aspect of their business.In today's episode, Steve talks about Cash Flow in the deeper sense of it as this is the fuel that operates the business. Businesses stand a better chance of surviving critical business juncture…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: BUDGET SYSTEMIZATION 101 | Steve Simonson 17:52

1+ y ago17:52

17:52

Budget Systemization - What is it?In this episode, Steve talks about a very "sexy" topic. We often discuss budgeting in our firm, and I often write about budgeting because it is such an important topic in any company. Good news: Valuable strategic element of the businessbad News: IT TAKES WORKHaving a budget will help you manage your business and w…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 101 | Steve Simonson 15:25

1+ y ago15:25

15:25

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS are dashboard of your business as the data or numbers tells you where your money is going, where it is coming from, how it is spend, how much profit and loss is in the business.In today's episode, Steve will show us granular information in the operation and how to analyze them and how each of these financial statements work tog…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: FINANCE SYSTEMIZATION | Steve Simonson 14:21

1+ y ago14:21

14:21

Finance Systems provide Businesses with an accurate and complete information in one place.Join Steve today as he talks about how Finance Systemization forecast future cash flows and helps you, the Founder and Leaders help your leaders to better manage working capital and further optimize your daily, monthly and year cash flows. For more Awesomers p…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: FINANCE SYSTEMS OVERVIEW | Steve Simonson 12:21

1+ y ago12:21

12:21

In today's episode, we are moving towards learning Finance Systems and Steve shares a blueprint on the Financial modules which is critical and important but often ignored by Entrepreneurs.Financial systems are scoreboards than albatross, a stress or a pain because it often shows us the status of the business and how well Entrepreneurs understand th…

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Founder Foundations MIni-Series: STRATEGIC MARKETING SYSTEMIZATION | Steve Simonson 17:06

1+ y ago17:06

17:06

In this episode, Steve will talk about Strategic Marketing Systemization.- Who are market- Who are Customer- X number of leads that needs to be generated this year and next years based on our conversation rate- Average Order Value (AOP) or Average Sales- Cost per acquisitionSteve will walk us through a more strategic system that allows us to be mor…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: YOUR BRAND IDENTITY & IMAGE | Steve Simonson 13:27

1+ y ago13:27

13:27

Steve is taking us to a topic that builds loyalty and trust. BRAND IDENTITY - is an essential part of building a good and lasting relationship with your customers. Brand identity plays a significant role in differentiating your business from our competitors in the market. The uniqueness of your brand enables you to stand out of the crowd to potenti…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: BRAND POSITIONING & DIFFERENTIATION | Steve Simonson 14:43

1+ y ago14:43

14:43

In the previous episodes, Steve discussed the core components of marketing and topics that pushes the business to scale up.In this episode, Steve will talk about Branding and Positioning and the differentiation of the brand so you can tie the whole story together.Brand positioning - What is it and why you need it? What is your Unique Selling Propos…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: CUSTOMER BIAS & BEHAVIORS | Steve Simonson 15:25

1+ y ago15:25

15:25

Today's segment is part of the longer version of the Founder Foundations Mini-Series. Steve gives a top-level inputs to get bases of understanding of our core mission and behavior as well as tasks that we must accomplished to produce strategic objectives.We will often look into the gaps that creates problem and the competition that will inspire you…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: DEFINING YOUR GEOGRAPHIC TARGETS | Steve Simonson 12:32

1+ y ago12:32

12:32

In this episode, we will talk about your Geographic Targeting. In business, geographic targeting is vital. When building a brand, you have to take into consideration why you need to make careful mapping of the market and locations and where you can better position your brand and strategize your plans in each areas. Geographic Targeting is a compone…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: FINDING YOUR CUSTOMER AVATAR | Steve Simonson 14:38

1+ y ago14:38

14:38

What is a Customer Avatar and Why is it Important?In today's episode, Steve walks us through the marketing functions. As a leader, the key factor is to help our leaders identify and understand our perfect customer - the type of person who want to purchase our products and services. As we define our Customer Avatar, we can have a clear understanding…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: INTRODUCTION TO MARKETING | Steve Simonson 11:22

1+ y ago11:22

11:22

For today's episode, Steve will provide us insights about our Company structure, leading our team and a brief introduction of Marketing and help us understand why Marketing is important.Marketing is not necessarily advertising buy it is a form of communication between a business house and its customers with the goal of selling its products or servi…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: TIME MANAGEMENT | Steve Simonson 12:20

1+ y ago12:20

12:20

What is Time Management and Why is it Important?In this episode of Founder Foundations series, Steve shares with us why Time Management is so important and why it is the key skill as a Founder and Entrepreneur to personal and business success. Time clicks away every second of every day and it is not something we can buy. Time must be considered pre…

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Founder Foundations: REAL WORLD SYSTEMIC MANAGEMENT | Steve Simonson 15:39

1+ y ago15:39

15:39

In this episode of the Founder Foundations, Steve will talk about how we can grow our business using system and having people manage these systems.Real World Systems. What does that mean? It means that we are going to deal about the realities of being a Manager - in fact, it is challenging it's the hardest thing.By bringing in complementary resourc…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: SOLVING KEY FRUSTRATIONS SYSTEMICALLY | Steve Simonson 11:07

1+ y ago11:07

11:07

In this episode, Steve will talk about Key Frustrations and how we can solve them. believe it or not, there is always that systemic ways to solve these frustrations and avoid mistakes that will frustrate us more.Creating systems to solve frustrations may sound weird but frustrations come because either there is no system or the current system does …

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS | Steve Simonson 11:37

1+ y ago11:37

11:37

In today's episode, Steve explains the importance of having a Company with a solid foundation so that a Founder don't have to be the solution for every problem that comes up.What is a Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and how do we make sure we measure and manage the business correctly?If we do not measure our business, we are not managing it. Key p…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR COMPANY ORIGIN STORY | Steve Simonson 9:46

1+ y ago9:46

9:46

We have been going through some of the things not only for Founders but also for the Leadership team that are working with the Founders so we can get on the same page.In this episode, Steve shares important experiences and powerful lessons that gives personal clarity and we can do so if the Leadership team understands the expectations and objective…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: FINDING YOUR COMPANY STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE | Steve Simonson 7:32

1+ y ago7:32

7:32

What is the Strategic Objective?Essentially it is helping define a more objective terms and articulation of what your objective is.The idea of having a highly flesh out strategic objective is largely non-sense. We started our Entrepreneurial journey as a side-hustle or as a necessity but the idea of adding formality or making giant proclamations ab…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: FINDING YOUR WHY | Steve Simonson 10:58

1+ y ago10:58

10:58

In this episode of the Founder Foundations Mini-Series, Steve will be talking about the importance of Finding Your Why - Why it is important, how to start it and how to discover your purpose for yourself and for your team.Finding your "Why" is a statement of purpose that will describe why you do what you do and why you live life with a mission. You…

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Founder Foundations Mini-Series: THINKING | Steve Simonson 7:54

1+ y ago7:54

7:54

Today we are going to do about a little bit of episode about Systemic Thinking.Systemic Thinking is really intended to help you break the paradigms of normal - meaning things you normally do, you should stop doing. Many times, Entrepreneurs have this core method that they do things with. They call it working on your business not in your business - …

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Founders Foundations Mini-Series Introduction with Steve Simonson 6:51

1+ y ago6:51

6:51

When we think of Executive or Leadership training, we only think of ourselves?In this Episode, we are beginning today a new series as Steve's holiday gift for everyone. Whether you are listening now or in the future, Steve wants to provide you 31-days of trainings on how to train Executives in our Company.Sit back and relax and enjoy the next 31 da…

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Sourcing in Vietnam | Steve Simonson 10:43

1+ y ago10:43

10:43

Here we are, one more time to talk about - the WORLD that we live in.We will be specific with a part in the World - Vietnam and why Steve thinks that Vietnam is important, why it is underutilized and misunderstood why it fits in the Global Supply Chain.Listen to this full episode and learn more from Steve. Watch this full episode and learn more fro…

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Steve Announces Retirement 2.0 20:05

1+ y ago20:05

20:05

In this Episode, Steve makes a special announcement that is known to a few folks around him. Retirement.The first retirement began in 2012 and went on a vacation, more time with himself and his love ones but that retirement gave a negative impact on himself.What Retirement 2.0 looks like for Steve? He will do everything he can to eliminate the thin…

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Mentor Monday Top 7 Vietnam Sourcing Mistakes 46:58

1+ y ago46:58

46:58

Every wonder why we make mistakes? Life mistakes? Personal Mistakes? What if that mistakes is a sourcing mistake affecting our business and our clients? What will you do?In this episode, Steve shares 7 powerful Vietnam Sourcing Mistakes that anyone can commit in sourcing eCommerce Products. With these 7 powerful mistakes, Steve also shares how one …

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Negotiation 101 For Amazon FBA Sellers 29:50

1+ y ago29:50

29:50

In this episode, Steve walks us through Negotiation techniques that will help Amazon FBA Sellers learn the basics, terms and the importance of NEGOTIATION.More information that you can use as reference:INCO TERMS: https://empowery.com/2020-inco-terms/Join Empowery Mastermind and surround yourself with the best!www.empowerymastermind.comPoorly Made …

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Company Origin Story 23:46

1+ y ago23:46

23:46

Steve Deep dives a topic close to his heart - Company Story. He will also be taking us to the different Company stories like of TOMS SHOES, WARBY PARKER, CHIPOTLE, and BACK RUB.This Episode applies to all that are building your brand - your Company story. At the end of the episode, you will learn the importance of:- Your Story is just as valuable (…

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Finance 101: How Cash Moves 25:57

1+ y ago25:57

25:57

In this episode, Steve talks about Finance deep dive and the important points when setting up a Finance or accounting system.Steve will concentrate on the Post-Sale process using Parsimony to explain how the DocWalk - Order to Cash process works (it works for us - hopefully it will for you)To learn more about Parsimony.com, visit https://parsimony.…

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Sourcing 101 from Product Savants 28:19

1+ y ago28:19

28:19

In this Episode, we will talk about Product Sourcing as a process. The objective is to share with the audience is the mechanisms that we have.Steve shared a presentation to help the viewers and listeners understand the process of Product Sourcing and why it is important:- Product Sourcing 101- Product Discovery- Supplier Qualification- Item Selecti…

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Inspections Done Right 17:26

1+ y ago17:26

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In this episode, Steve wants to give a time to express the "frustrating old Steve" where he saw posts in Social Media channels like Facebook. The posts reflects somebody's inexperienced and looking for some solutions. Steve will shallow dive and discuss how to get high quality products in China and how to check and inspect the quality - the RIGHT w…

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How To Use SinoSure? 15:47

1+ y ago15:47

15:47

In this episode, Steve talks about Who and How to Use SinoSure.1. What is it?2. How it works?3. How it applies to other Countries?Steve also mentioned that he rarely trust Companies that they do not know SinoSure - a State-Owned-Enterprise (SOE) in China. SINOSURE promotes Chinese exports of goods, technologies and services, especially the exportin…

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Festivus Live! 17:39

1+ y ago17:39

17:39

Steve is giving us an overview with us the lay-out of the upcoming Festivus event on December 8-11, 2022.1. For those are are planning to attend, a Deep Preview into it and decide to get on board2. For those who are attending, a better overview to help you plan your daySteve made some shoutouts to those who made and are making the Festivus event PO…

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One Ecom EPIC Fail And One Ecom EXTRAORDINARY Success... 29:03

2y ago29:03

29:03

Why does one company fail and another succeed if they both sell online? Let's dig in and talk about that for a few minutes. SURVIVOR said it well: OUTWIT, OUTPLAY, OUTLAST!Don't forget to grab your https://Festivus.live tickets now.Use promo code AWESOMERS50 to get 50% off General Admission or VIP tickets. Limited quantity and restrictions apply.…

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How to Market Your Business and Yourself with Chelsea Cohen 49:05

2+ y ago49:05

49:05

In this Episode, Chelsea Cohen, the Co-Founder of SoStocked.com shares her story on how she started the business and her journey towards making SoStocked.com the First Amazon Inventory Management and Forecasting Software That'sFully Customizable and Fully Understandable.Learn more from Steve and Chelsea in this Podcast episode!To know more about So…

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Investigating How Amazon Disclosed Business Practices 17:02

2+ y ago17:02

17:02

In this Episode, Steve share’s his point of view on the investigation of Amazon’s business practices as gives the context on how Empowery sees the world and how to adopt good business practices.There is always something great in seeing the good in every bad. It allows us to reflect in ourselves our own and our business’s integrity. Discover more wa…

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Permission-Based Problems and The E-Commerce Community 34:22

2+ y ago34:22

34:22

In this Episode, Steve share's his point of view on the interesting and momentum-shifting in the E-Commerce and Amazon Selling Community.Explore more about the China Lockdown and the concept of Aggregators and the ability to execute your business.Learn more from Steve and this Podcast episode!By Awesomers.com

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Steve Simonson Masterclass: The Entrepreneurial Mindset 14:03

2+ y ago14:03

14:03

In this Episode, Steve share's his point of view on the driving factors and challenges affecting businesses because of the impact of Politics, GeoPolitics, and other issues affecting businesses around the World. He thinks that to create a strategic approach, every business must be: Logistics Driven, Product Driven and Sales Driven. Learn more about…

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Awesomers Origin Story: Steven Pope - My Amazon Guy 45:16

2+ y ago45:16

45:16

Steve and My Amazon Guy, Steven Pope talks about their eCommerce Vision, Seller Central, Technical advice to improve sales. With more than 300 brands consulted for, Steven Pope sees trends and speaks about how to improve traffic and conversion and grow sales faster.#empowery #fba #fbaseller #amazonseller #amazonfbaseller #ecommerce #entrepreneur…

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I am Challenging YOU! - Yes YOU! 17:10

2+ y ago17:10

17:10

Steve talks about the 50-50 10-10 2-2.com Challenge. Let's not talk about New Year's Resolution and failures. Let's talk about how you can rise up and be more engage by joining this Challenge for your business and personal success. #empowery #fba #fbaseller #amazonseller #amazonfbaseller #ecommerce #entrepreneur…