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Coffee, Contracts and Confessions

Jamie Lynn Crist and April Shepard

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Sit back and enjoy a cup of coffee (or wine) with experienced Real Estate Agents Jamie and April as they discuss and rant about this crazy Real Estate market and how they balance family, work, and all the sh*t in between. Nothing is off limits! You will hear insane stories about their client interactions, parenting, relationships and about products they are currently enjoying. Join them every other Thursday for Coffee, Contracts & Confessions and how they do (or don't) survive each day.
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Button Up Podcast| Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Growth, Sales Training, Improve Srategy Processes, Faith-led entrepreneur, Improve Sales, Small Business Finance

Polly Ingram | Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales Training, Homebased Business Consultant, Profit Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Mentor, Executive Leadership Skills Trainer, Entreprenurial Supporter, Process Leader

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Welcome to the Button Up Podcast show, focused on Sales to Profit Growth, I’m Polly Ingram! Have you been searching for a way to improve sales, modify your process strategies and have an impact on profit growth? Are you feeling like you are working too many hours in your business, without seeing the profits you anticipated? Do you need to sharpen your sales training skills, so you can develop your team members? Could there be a hidden revenue method within your business that you haven’t thou ...
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This podcast is a brief discussion on the importance of having solid internal organizational practices in place, so that you can deliver consistency with your clients.By Polly Ingram | Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales Training, Homebased Business Consultant, Profit Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Mentor, Executive Leadership Skills Trainer, Entreprenurial Supporter, Process Leader
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The podcast show today is a conversation about how to run successful daily huddles with your team, while assuring you have the correct team. It's an encouragement to hire those who are better than you and fire those who are not performing quickly, so your team will be more successful.By Polly Ingram | Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales Training, Homebased Business Consultant, Profit Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Mentor, Executive Leadership Skills Trainer, Entreprenurial Supporter, Process Leader
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The impact employee theft is having on business profits. Employee theft is often unrecognized until the profits of the company have lowered so significantly that an audit is required.By Polly Ingram | Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales Training, Homebased Business Consultant, Profit Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Mentor, Executive Leadership Skills Trainer, Entreprenurial Supporter, Process Leader
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Let’s review a few methods to identifying productivity killers every business should utilize to determine if you have inefficiencies negatively impacting your profit growth. They are as follows: listen to employee feedback, perform observations on processes, implement software for evaluation, assess business technology needs and evaluate KPIs.…
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Successful Business Years don't just happen, they must be planned out. Today's episode is a discussion on the thought process and things you should be thinking about in the planning process and then encouragement to implement your business goal plans, so you may achieve success.By Polly Ingram | Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales Training, Homebased Business Consultant, Profit Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Mentor, Executive Leadership Skills Trainer, Entreprenurial Supporter, Process Leader
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This podcast is a discussion covering the challenges businesses face when they allow other businesses to charge for the services they provide, rather than collecting for those services upfront. We'll dive into alternative options to avoid the crisis of an out of control accounts receivable balance.By Polly Ingram | Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales Training, Homebased Business Consultant, Profit Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Mentor, Executive Leadership Skills Trainer, Entreprenurial Supporter, Process Leader
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During our podcast today, we will be discussing a couple reasons why performing a cost analysis is important. Given my manufacturing engineering background, I think more in those terms sometimes where others forget about the need for performing a cost analysis. It's a critical point on impacting the profit growth potential or making a bad financial…
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Today's podcast is a conversation discussing the risk of not paying attention to the potential consequences of someone performing internal fraud against your business.By Polly Ingram | Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales Training, Homebased Business Consultant, Profit Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Mentor, Executive Leadership Skills Trainer, Entreprenurial Supporter, Process Leader
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This podcast is covering the benefits of ensuring you have the correct sales professional within your organization. We'll review the top three common mistakes frequently made by new sales professionals. The first being talking too much, the second being showing up and spewing all your knowledge and the third being never asking for the sale.…
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Today's podcast is a discussion on being thankful and the legacy we leave behind. I'm going to have an open conversation about a personal experience and the loss of my uncle. I'll share with you the experience of a memorial service I attended with my uncle's passing at the John 3:16 Ministries in Batesville Arkansas. I'll also talk about the legacy…
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This podcast is a review of twelve steps every business should focus on if they are to achieve sustainable growth. We'll cover everything from establishing clear goals or objectives, market research, customer focus, strong team and efficient processes, financial management, innovation and adaptability, marketing and branding, data-driven decision m…
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Today's podcast I'm sharing my grandson's voice as an introduction to our discussion. Today we'll be reviewing the risks businesses need to consider when contemplating taking on debt.By Polly Ingram | Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales Training, Homebased Business Consultant, Profit Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Mentor, Executive Leadership Skills Trainer, Entreprenurial Supporter, Process Leader
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This podcast is providing an outline and in depth details on steps to take for three methods to improve customer retention.By Polly Ingram | Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales Training, Homebased Business Consultant, Profit Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Mentor, Executive Leadership Skills Trainer, Entreprenurial Supporter, Process Leader
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This podcast is a guide of five steps to avoiding common business mistakes which limit profitability. These are the 5 most common steps I believe we should avoid in our business endeavors, if we want to continue our progression of positive revenue growth. Inside this podcast we identify the five common mistakes to avoid, discuss why they should be …
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This podcast is addressing proper forecasting of sales to achieve budget growth targets within the business.By Polly Ingram | Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales Training, Homebased Business Consultant, Profit Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Mentor, Executive Leadership Skills Trainer, Entreprenurial Supporter, Process Leader
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This podcast is a guide for reviewing and analyzing your sales pipeline to determine the largest limiting success factor within your business.By Polly Ingram | Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales Training, Homebased Business Consultant, Profit Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Mentor, Executive Leadership Skills Trainer, Entreprenurial Supporter, Process Leader
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This podcast is exploring three of the most commonly missed opportunities costing business owners growth potential losses. The three missed opportunities being explored today are innovation and adapting, customer retention, and data utilization.By Polly Ingram | Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales Training, Homebased Business Consultant, Profit Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Mentor, Executive Leadership Skills Trainer, Entreprenurial Supporter, Process Leader
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This podcast episode is based on a question received from a podcast listener who wanted to know some methods for recognizing when their pricing might be set too low within the business.By Polly Ingram | Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales Training, Homebased Business Consultant, Profit Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Mentor, Executive Leadership Skills Trainer, Entreprenurial Supporter, Process Leader
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This is a review of five critical items for business owners to focus on to increase profit margins. We'll review digital transformation, data-driven insights, sustainable practices, customer centric mindset and approach and diversification and innovation. This discussion will include reasons business owners need to be innovative with their offering…
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There are various risk factors which influence profit growth for any small business. Today we are reviewing the top five risks to profit growth which small businesses should be anticipating and preparing to mitigate those risks. We will be discussing the impact market volatility and economic conditions, competition, pricing pressures, cash flow cha…
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Today we're discussing the number one mistake that many sales professionals make and how this impacts business owners profit growth outcome. This is why it is so important that business owners learn sales or have someone work directly with their sales teams to ensure they are meeting the needs of the clients daily, to keep your business growing. Cu…
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Today's episode will be diving into three different goal setting methods to help business owners achieve desired target growth results. We'll review the traditional annual review goal setting method, the semi-annual goal setting method and then my individually designed mini-year, mini-goal process development method for goal setting and achievement…
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Welcome Friends!Are you spending numerous hours working inside your business only to feel as though you are barely making a profit, if that, at the end of each month? Wondering if your company might have a hidden revenue stream and you’re just to close to it, to identify it yourself? If this sounds like your situation, join me for Button Up Sales t…
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Do you need a laugh today? Join April and Jamie, as they share how they navigated through recent family gatherings, graduations, and drama. From the Pretty Punch cocktail served at a birthday party, to PTO roles they are stepping away from, and end of school year fights, this episode is filled with relatable stories and laughter. As summer approach…
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Welcome back!! These girls are so busy with life that they had to take a break from recording! But they are back in full swing to talk about what they have been up to, what new products they are using, and the forever changing home décor trends. This episode if full of opinions, some popular and some not so popular. When discussing trends, its very…
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Spring has sprung and we went on vacation! What's the worst part of planning a vacation? The packing!! Well, April and Jamie have you covered with a few packing tips and tricks for different types of vacations. If you have been listening to our podcast long, you know that something crazy always happens when the girls go on vacation! So, maybe April…
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Do you ever just have one of those days when anything and everything goes wrong? Well, Jamie and April do too. Time to discuss drinking, husbands leaving, and Real Estate Icks. This episode is full of bloopers that we decided not to edit out, just so you can laugh and/or cry right along with us. To keep the silliness going, the girls' share their R…
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Have you heard what these crazy girls did for New Years? Grab your a glass of wine (or beverage of choice) and relive Jamie and April's holiday antics. Then, switch over to coffee and let's talk budgeting and goal setting for the new year. If you are thinking about buying a home, let us help you break down the steps. It's never too soon to budget a…
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From Christmas Parade float planning, to Christmas shopping, to clients and relationships... Jamie and April discuss all the things that go through their head while performing these everyday tasks. Sometimes we think we are crazy and sometimes we think other people are crazy! Either way there is a lot of overthinking going on. We realize it's mostl…
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How many more things can these girls fit into their schedules?? If you need a laugh and some time management tips, listen to how Jamie and April fill their schedules and still have time for family and fun. They have time for quick trips to Virginia, shooting guns, and shopping sprees, all while still getting shit done! Check out a couple of our lin…
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Join the girls this week as they play "Never have I ever" and hear all about the unpredictable world or real estate. Each day is a new and exciting adventure! Jamie and April make some bold and daring confessions and dish the tea on topics real estate agents rarely share with the world. After you finish your Thanksgiving meal, sit back, play along,…
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Vacation, Vacation, Vacation...If you are thinking about going to Jamaica any time soon, listen to Jamie's traveling story first. She can give you so many pointers on what NOT to do! Join us in this episode for some of the funniest things that happened to Jamie and April while on vacation. Then, switch gears and learn all about the difference betwe…
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Have you ever been super confused on where to start when buying or selling a house? There are so many terms that are important to understand during the transaction. It can be overwhelming without the help of an experienced agent to guide the way. Jamie and April take you through all of the vocabulary, steps and processes required to buy or sell a h…
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Even though the ladies have been super busy with real estate work, they still find time to party. It's all about that work/life balance...making it happen. If you are thinking about listing your home for sale, join this week's discussion and learn a few tips on how to get your home ready for the market. There are so many little things that can real…
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Jump in this week as Jamie and April discuss the things they wish they knew before they went into real estate. April also recounts the emotional process of getting her daughter moved into college while Jamie is planning a lavish vacation in between being super busy with real estate. You can also find Jamie and April on Facebook at Coffee, Contracts…
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What annoys you? Join Jamie and April as they chat about some joyful and tragic events that took place this week. Then, the ladies list a few of their personal and professional pet peeves. We all have them. What are yours? This episode's product of the week includes a link from Jamie, be sure to check it out on our social media sites below. You can…
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What's in your car? As Jamie and April recap their week, you'll hear all about April's vacation and Jamie's crazy real estate shenanigans. The ladies also discuss their favorite products and why they love them. Then, dive into the weird and practical items they keep in their car as real estate agents. So, grab your coffee (or wine) and settle in fo…
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In today's show we talk about symbols and their power. We thank the creators of many of the samples used in this show: http://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/https://freesound.org/people/kwahmah_02/https://freesound.org/people/Asotus/https://freesound.org/people/Ev-Dawg/https://freesound.org/people/FillMat/…
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