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A quick daily hit with Carl Gould to achieve a lifetime of results. #70secondCEO your micro-podcast...GO! Carl is the creator of the 7 Stage Growth Method, which has propelled over 75,000 companies worldwide. In this micro-podcast Gould shares actionable, practical tips to grow your business. You're too busy to be reading this, start listening!
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We all want to get to the next level of our business, but so many of us get stuck. The WorkSmart Podcast is specifically designed to help established entrepreneurs get the guidance, accountability, tools, and methodologies needed to accelerate their growth and create a sustainable lifestyle. Executive and entrepreneur, Morgan DeBaun, takes you inside real-life advising sessions and behind-the-scenes interviews with CEOs talking about how they overcame challenges and grew as business owners.
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Delivery Services Struggle with "The Last Mile" Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Target and Walmart especially have done a really good job.And it's funny, you have that app too? I have that husband mode as well. That's really good, it's getting aroun…
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Retailers Responding to Customer Absense Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results I do, because if you read the articles, they'll say, well, we're responding to customer demand. Well, customers are always going to demand lower prices. They're always going to …
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If it Does Not Work For You its Time to Move On Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Most states are, and there are a few that are not, but most states are at will, which means I can fire you without cause as long as it doesn't violate public policy or a…
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Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. I would say it's all of the above just because of the sheer volume, but where most people are landing is with the hybrid work environment. Three days in the office, two to three days in the office, and two days outsid…
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Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. The term flexible and how we achieve flexibility has changed over the years. So flexibility has always been among the top of the list of employees as to what they've wanted. And it used to be, I want to be flexible so…
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Working Remote or Working in The Office - Both Come with Challenges Hi, everyone. Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Policies are good for everybody except for the person with the open door, because they get interrupted. So you have to have boundaries, whether it's…
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The Productivity is Better When Working in The Office Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. There's no doubt having your team in the office is a better way to build a company. Before the pandemic, nobody was sending all of their employees home and saying,…
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The Competition for Remote Employees is Every Gig Working in The World Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. From an employee standpoint, that's your biggest threat. You know, when you went into work, your competition for your job was the local workforce.…
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The Issues that Happen When a Non Compete is Not Present Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So it'll come from two places. One, and one thing we haven't talked about yet, is what this will do to the franchising industry as well because this will be ver…
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We have the Present. We Need You to Create a Future. Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. I'll date Dave and I for a second. When Dave and I were young, there was no internet. There was no iPhone. I grew up with a black and white TV and I got a color TV …
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The World Values Problem Solvers Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. The world values problem solvers, right? And you can agree with his style or his politics or whatever. But if you think about it, what has this guy done, right? When he started PayPal,…
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Attitude and Effort Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Yeah, I'll tell you, and people appreciate the effort. Now, obviously at some point, you have to get the result. Like, if you're in sales, you gotta make a sale eventually. If your job is to clean …
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The World Values Problem Solvers Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. And they say to me like, well, you were just the only dude who showed up and I didn't take that the way it was meant the way they meant it was you hustled, you were there first, you ke…
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It is Not Enough to Keep the Malls Going Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. I'm gonna really age myself now because I, in New Jersey where I live, I grew up in the town that had one of the first big malls, it was called Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, New J…
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The Last Mile Advantage Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. If you think about it for a moment, Gen Zers are the first digital natives. They grew up on it. Right to them. A magazine is just a broken ipad.Like I, I put my finger on this thing and nothing…
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Best Laid Plans……Part 4 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. It was the intersection of my what, my why, my how, right? Like I said my what wasn’t very strong, my how, why wasn’t very strong, so I take that box and then the what went away. I figure out t…
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Best Laid Plans... Part 3 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Why I can’t say it was terribly strong, I was on some mission or cause, if my big goal was to make more money then I wouldn’t have just taken the job or I shouldn't have taken the job in the …
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Best Laid Plans... Part 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. After three months in traction, three months learning to walk again I started figuring out what I’m gonna do with my life, where am I going. So, I had to figure out what was going on for me, …
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Best Laid Plans... Part 1 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So imagine for a moment you’re doing pretty good, things are going alright for yourself. You’ve got a pretty stable family, got a pretty stable life, decent finance and decent job for busines…
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The Competitive & Creative Plane Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Your business can operate on one of two planes, the competitive plane where you are literally fighting with all the same people for the same dollar, or the creative plane where you cre…
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What are the 7 Stages?. Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So what are these 7 stages? We've been talking about them a lot already. Let me give you an overview of each of the 7 stages before we get more into it. Stage one is the strategic planning stag…
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Turn Your Client Relationship on its Head Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. We need to turn the traditional customer client relationship on it’s head a little bit. Pre-COVID you had a certain agreement, a certain culture, a certain engagement type with …
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What's Going on in The Clients Life NOW, That Makes Calling You Urgent? Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Take a moment, write down what are the top five complaints about your industry, maybe not about you as a company, maybe you as a company, but maybe…
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Organizational Chart - Part 3 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Once you have gone through this exercise, you will have done a number of things. First of, you will have created all of the job descriptions and within the business because you've listed …
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Organizational Chart - Part 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. This is a surefire way of creating the structure for your business because you will learn what are the tasks that you can delegate and which you cannot and soon you will start handing off…
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Organizational Chart - Part 1 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You'll notice as you look at the organizational chart, there is you on top, the CEO, you're the CEO of me Incorporated. And on the left hand side, as you look on your page, that's all the…
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Is Business Rocket Science - Part 3 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. In order to get that maximum lift, in order for you to maximize the launch of your business, you want to become what we call an MVP organization. How do you do that? You complete th…
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Is Business Rocket Science - Part 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So, what is mass? Mass is the amount of internal strife or misalignment or lack of alignment in the business, meaning the more internal strife, the more in fighting, the less alignm…
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Is Business Rocket Science - Part 1 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. And that analogy is that business is rocket science. I was speaking once to a group of entrepreneurs and I did not realize we had a rocket scientist in the audience and I said “come…
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The Real World-Part 3 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So they joke with me and (unclear) like so did you take your vitamins today or you know whatever–so I put in on there because the smart phones I think I’ve been and the recurring appointment and …
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The Real World-Part 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Get up in the morning and I have a couple of routines. I do some stretching, I got some challenges with my back, I had an inversion table at home that I use but I’m listening to my goals, what’s …
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The Real World-Part 1 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. And I have spoken all of my goals into my phone, into my audio recorder, I get up and I could tell you it’s 9 minutes long, I put on my wallet in a shower and I listen to every goal I have for th…
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Career Change-Part 3 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. That’s when we have the hashtag hang up the hammer, I said “we got to hang up the hammer”, I—this is exhausting, it’s killing me and so that was the process we went through, I mean I own that busi…
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Career Change-Part 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So, there are was he’s laughing–he couldn't back under it’s like yeah they got you. Yeah, I could–I’m here to tell you I know how hard it is to get line paint out of your hair you know. So, it was…
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Career Change-Part 1 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. I’m driving one of my dump trucks like 60 miles with a load of junk on it cause I’ve got to get to an appointment to deliver a proposal to try to get the next job, right? The drive shaft on the U …
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Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. You get the point with leverage, right? Or you take something you love to do. Your punishment is I'm taking the podcast off the air until I get back on track with these activities. You know what I mean? Like you would have to do somet…
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Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. So now we've got leverage. Now it's game on. So money that would hurt and you disappoint somebody you love that you're trying to help. So now what you do is you would say, “I'm never gonna let that happen.” One, that was a good kick i…
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Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. So let's imagine you're my coach. So here's what I would do is I would say, I would ask you for a number, a dollar amount of number that if you had to write a check for today, it would hurt. So let's just say that's a 5-figure number,…
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You Know What You’re Selling, But Do You Know What The Owner is Buying? Part 2 Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. Now, what people are after is, the only thing that they really care about is THEMSELVES, that’s the entity that is most important to them. What they care a…
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You Know What You’re Selling, But Do You Know What The Owner is Buying? Part 1 Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. The 4 Entities of the Sale, so now let’s think about this, we talked about this earlier, you know what you’re selling, but do you know what the owner is bu…
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Post Relevant Content For Your Clientele That is TIMELESS Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. In your messaging you need 2 things, you need: TIMELINESS and.. TIMELESSNESS. Let’s take the TIMELESSNESS first. So, in your messaging, you want to have the core foundation, fo…
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How do we judge value? Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. We’re talking about increasing your fees. Now wouldn’t that be nice? Just take your prices and charge more? And you’ll just make more money. Isn’t that great? Well, you know what, it’s actually necessary. We hav…
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What will your customer PAY for? Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. What Titan of industry or celebrity or performer or entrepreneur would you pay to go see? Or pay to travel to go see? Right, because that person or what they represent or their achievements or their va…
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What's Important to your CUSTOMER? Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. Because people place value on the intangibles and they place value on some of the other benefits and features that these brands offer. They are luxury brands for a reason because they are brilliant a…
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The Problem Solving Engine Part 2 Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. So, the Problem Solving Engine will punish you dearly in coaching. And so, what has gotten you to this point today, being a really rock star consultant, and solution provider, will get in the way of y…
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The Problem Solving Engine Part 1 Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. You call yourself a business coach, but are you really? You know the skill of coaching is one of the hardest skills to develop over time because it can’t be about your agenda, you can’t direct somebod…
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Focus and Reframe for Success Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just a little over one minute of investment every day for a lifetime of result. You know there are plenty of things I do that I love. I love my work, I love what I do, how I do it, and who I get to do it with. But there are also some things I don’t enjoy doing, I’m starti…
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Getting Others to Perform - Empower Them Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. You need to get others to perform at a high level. That means you have to empower them, that means you have to coach them, guide them, and mentor them. So let me give you a couple of statistics…
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Making Your Voice STAND out Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. Remember the story about the March of the Penguins? We thought it was a penguin movie in the beginning but what it really was was a dating movie. Our stars, the first penguin in the beginning, in the first …
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