You’ve already got a Google Drive graveyard filled to the brim with courses and PDFs, get-rich-quick tactics, and other people’s strategies that didn’t live up to the hype. You don’t need another podcast of rags-to-riches stories to inspire you or 7-step frameworks you’ll never implement or expert opinions on what your business needs next from someone who’s never met you. You’ve been taught that knowledge is power and the right piece of information, tactic or trendy strategy might just be th ...
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Just a few of the folks that we’ve interviewed on Chicago’s Black Business RADIO Network: Reverend Wheeler Parker (Emmett Till’s Cousin), Tuskegee Airman (The Original), Actor and Producer Charles S. Dutton, Cook County Clerk Dorothy Brown, Mayoral Candidates William "Dock" Wall and Patricia Van Pelt-Watkins, Illinois Senator Donne Trotter, Ms. Chantay Bridges (Real Estate Agent to President Clinton), Turtel Onli (Father of da Black Age of Comics), and Ms. Khalilah Camacho Ali (Former wife o ...
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2020 Visions is a six part series presented by Rys Farthing and K. Biswas charting Britain's future. Episode 1: The Political Future. Guests: Labour’s Jon Cruddas MP; human rights activist Peter Tatchell; ConservativeHome editor Jonathan Isaby, psephologist Professor John Curtice; Dr Madsen Pirie, Director of the free-market Adam Smith Institute; LibDem Voice editor Stephen Tall; David Babbs of campaign organisation 38 Degrees, and the New Statesman’s Laurie Penny. Episode 2: Poverty, inequa ...
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We changed our name from Stonecrest Weekly. STONECREST, Georgia Residents STAND UP!!! The Stonecrest Podcast is our community’s podcast. We will scour Google on your behalf to find hot topics about the city. But…We are also opening the mic to all of our listeners. Yep you!!! CHECK THIS OUT!!! Every Monday we will cover:* The Weather* Real Estate * Crime Trends* Yard Sales (if you guys tell us about it)* Community Events* And More!! What’s the more?????You get to SOUND OFF 🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊!!!We have a c ...
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Scott Beatty chats with area newsmakers, artists and more on his daily 4-5pm show.
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Welcome to The Power of 52 Podcast. A unique project that shines the spotlight on 52 women in business, projects, and movements from across the globe. By celebrating their journeys, sharing their legacy, and inspiring future generations, this podcast seeks to empower women everywhere. Whether you're a woman in business or simply looking for inspiration, The Power of 52 is sure to move you. Join us as we awaken to the power of collaboration and celebrate the accomplishments of women around th ...
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Your Prospects Vote For Your Pricing With Their Wallets
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Without looking at your competitors, you have no information about your current market position to inform your pricing strategy. That's a data point that is readily available and you're wasting itBy Diane Mayor
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There is nothing new in the world but there can be different. Let's expand our definition of creativity in business.By Diane Mayor
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We're an industry that prides ourselves on our sales and marketing metrics but that is only half the picture. If you're not measuring your operations, all that revenue could be dripping out the door and you're left with nothing in your pocket at the end of the day.By Diane Mayor
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Just because you have the best idea for the thing your people really need, doesn't mean they'll want it and if they don't want it they won't buy.By Diane Mayor
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Summer is a classic time for entrepreneur brains, free of the day to day grind, to come up with a miliion new small ideas. Imagine if you used that mental capacity to come up with one really big one instead.By Diane Mayor
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Being able to assess where you have a skills gap or an attitude problem is a key skill for a small business leader. As your business grows, skills gaps are to be expected but attitude problems cannot be tolerated.By Diane Mayor
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While Plan B might have felt like a lack of commitment when you were starting, not thinking through the risk in your established business is just irresponsible.By Diane Mayor
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Software, apps and tech solutions run our online business and with more coming on the market daily, the marketing hype and affiliate fee driven advices is powerful. Make sure the you are investing in what your business needs and not just keeping up with the Joneses.By Diane Mayor
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When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Stay On Track
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We should be pretty good at facing challenges as entreprenuers as they come with the territory. Unfortunately we're not great at being proactive about thinking through our behavior in the face of a challenge and that can lead us off courseBy Diane Mayor
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You Gotta Spend Money To Make Money Is Only Part Of The Story
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Being cost efficient doesn't meant you cut your costs to the bone and struggle on. It means you get better at assessing where to spendBy Diane Mayor
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In a marketplace packed full of other businesses selling similar services to yours, how do you stand out? Not just to stop the scroll but to win the businessBy Diane Mayor
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Long term success means a resilient business and resilience comes from diversifying how you can make money so that if one drops the others catch it.By Diane Mayor
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The only thing more certain (and immediate) that death and taxes is change. And yet we always seem to be surprised when it happens and scrambling to adapt.By Diane Mayor
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No matter how focused your goals are, if your implementation isn't just as focused, you'll waste time, money and energy.By Diane Mayor
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Even smart goals can be silly when you set to many of them. Select fewer squirrel-proof goals and focus in one them to get further faster.By Diane Mayor
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Your Numbers Will Tell You A Story If You Know How To Listen
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Reviewing your financials should be more that than the revenue goals you set in the past. Understanding the drivers of your financials will help you make better strategic decisions for the future.By Diane Mayor
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Whether you like systems or think you hate them, you're using them day in and day out in your life and in your business so you might as well make them the most helpful systems you can.By Diane Mayor
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A successful team is measured not only by their performance or hitting of goals and targets but in the way they did it.By Diane Mayor
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We spend a lot of time working out how to market to people who might one day pay us. We need to spend at least as much time understanding how the people who have paid us experience those offers.By Diane Mayor
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Are Your Offers Internally and Externally Aligned
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It's not enough to evaluate your current offers on their profitability alone. That only show us if they work externally. We need to consider if they work internally as well.By Diane Mayor
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Create A Leadership Development Plan For Yourself
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If you're the same leader you were at the end of last year you might need to try something new. As your business evolves, you, its leader, need to evolve as well.By Diane Mayor
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If you're feeling burnt out and overwhelmed, you might need to focus more on joy in the second half of the year. It's easier than you think as you need surprisingly little joy each day to make you feel fulfilled and satisfied at work.By Diane Mayor
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A mid-year business review is not just comparing your revenue number with half your revenue goal. Let's start with the baseline check up and go deeper from there.By Diane Mayor
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Countdown to Election Day with Yolanda Mack: Your Next State Court Judge
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As we approach the final stretch of the election season, The Stonecrest Podcast is honored to host Yolanda Mack, the dynamic candidate for State Court Judge. With the last day to vote on June 18th, Yolanda joins us to remind everyone of her powerful message and discuss why she’s the right woman for the job. Tune in as she shares her vision for just…
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Designing any new offer in your business needs to start with the end in mind to ensure that what you build can withstand the growth you're planning.By Diane Mayor
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A budget is a strategic tool that helps you manage your whole business but it doesn't need to be as complex as you think it does.By Diane Mayor
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Surprise and delight is such a newb strategy for your customer experience or journey. If you've not added anything since then, now's the time.By Diane Mayor
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When CEOs get bored they start breaking things or chasing new ideas in the name of fun. What if instead, we introduced a little controlled fun with a passion project.By Diane Mayor
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Stress is a constant companion for the small business CEO and we can stop seeing it for what it really is - a symptom of something that challenging.By Diane Mayor
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No matter how clear and concise you are or how pretty your slide deck is or how many times you repeat yourself, you'll be wasting your breath if you don't start you communication strategy like this.By Diane Mayor
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The problem with steamlining processs is that it sounds hard and dull and the pay off is boring old efficiency and cost saving. That's because you've been only been taught part of the streamlining process.By Diane Mayor
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In a world of value stacks, charge your worth and just raise your prices, it's little wonder that the average small business owner is terrified of making the wrong move in pricing their offers. We need fewer slogans and more strategyBy Diane Mayor
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The number one reason I hear small business owners give for starting a business is freedom or flexibility. So if it is so important, why are we so bad at it?By Diane Mayor
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Balancing Emotion and Objectivity in Business Decisions
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When you feel torn between what you deserately want to do and what you know is the right move for your business, there are some simple check in you can use to make a strategic decision for you and the business.By Diane Mayor
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Evolution Beat Reinvention In Small Businesses
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Don't throw your business baby out with the bathwater because you got bored, had a fun idea or felt like burnout was creeping in.By Diane Mayor
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Feeling like you're constantly being pulled into the details or being asked questions by your team? This is a you problem, not a team problem.By Diane Mayor
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Is Your CEO Compensation Strategically Thought Out Or The Leftover Scraps?
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When a team member is paid fairly and incentivized based on performance, that team member is motivated to show up and hit those long-term goals. When they are not, that team member gets frustrated and angry and stops going the extra mile. You, the CEO, are THAT team member.By Diane Mayor
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Sometimes To Go Far, You Have To Go Slower Than You'd Like
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If your business is not ready for your goals, you risk your reputation, your team and your own peace of mind by pushing it too far too soon.By Diane Mayor
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Remember when ChatGPT was just fun novelty tool? How things have changed! But did you go along for the ride or strategically integrate AI in your business?By Diane Mayor
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It's hard to find a small business owner who doesn't have tons of ideas every day. So why is there so little innovation?By Diane Mayor
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As The Team Pendulum Swings Back Make Sure It Doesn't Hit You In the Business
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The trend right now is to go back to solopreneuring. But the outsourcing that requires has some risks that are often ignored in the time, cost saving and flexibility benefits.By Diane Mayor
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How do you transform the core values that you so lovingly came up with into a useful framework for your team and business?By Diane Mayor
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We are not born thinking. We learn how to think and what to think about for the people and world around us. But we rarely takethe time to think about how we could think better in our business.By Diane Mayor
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When you think about your contribution to the financial success of your business, do you automatically think sales and marketing and maybe amazing delivery to your clients? If so, you're missing a key piece of the puzzle.By Diane Mayor
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CEOing is hard so we need to find as many ways to motivate ourselves as we can so that when one fails another steps in.By Diane Mayor
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Your Strategy Is Not About Drawing a Straightline
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If you want a strategy that compunds your results from each move you have to pay attention to the connections and these are far from linearBy Diane Mayor
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We all want a team that can work without needing us…just as ling as they do everything exactly like we would have and don't make any mistakes in the process. Time for a reality checkBy Diane Mayor
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Considering the many faces of a CEO and the numerous factors that will influence the future of business, what skills and qualities will you need to develop to lead effectively in the next5 to 10 years?By Diane Mayor
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We've been taught that we need to keep our eyes on the prize, stay in our own lane and keep our eyes on our own work. But what if that is hurting you more than it's helping?By Diane Mayor
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There's a whole lot of risk in your business and choosing to ignore it and just stay positive is not a great strategy.By Diane Mayor
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