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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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Wouldn't it be amazing if you had access to subject matter experts anytime you wanted? You do! The Carl Gould Collective Podcast offers you top subject matter experts who share their expertise on relevant subjects to help you reach your business goals. Hosted by Carl Gould, the author of 7 books on business strategy, leadership and sustainable growth. A sought-after international keynote speaker, Gould created the farthest-reaching business mentoring organization in the world, his methodolog ...
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Welcome to the Opportunity Makers Podcast, hosted by Jim Padilla, a global impact strategist, and his team. Jim will dive deep into companies to provide systems strategy, support and connect you to the people that you serve, in your communities and around the world. If you're seeking to thrive in a contracting market, this podcast is for you. Join us as he explores the strategies, tips, and techniques for creating exponential opportunities in areas of investing, coaching, consulting, and bus ...
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Journal Everything Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment everyday for a lifetime of results. I want to give you an exercise that has 100% foolproof guaranteed results. Are you ready? Take a pen out; here we go. What I would like you to do for the next two weeks is I would like you to take out a journa…
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Getting Other to PERFORM 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 here to play a…
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What drives Value? Hi, Everyone. Carl Gould, here is your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. There was a study done in 1974 by the Sloan School of Business, and they said, “What drives value in a business? And 95% of what drove value 40 and 50 years ago was the TANGIBLES of the business, its physical a…
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Wasting minutes - Part 2 Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. Do you think your company or your team wastes one minute a day? Yeah? Alright. If that's the case, take a hundred dollars, put it on the table, and light it on fire. Because all you did was, you just pissed aw…
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Wasting minutes - Part 1 Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. So you have your overheads. If you do, remember your non-core operations and your NO systems. This is all the work that has to happen whether you have a customer or not. Those are your OVERHEADS: your fixed ov…
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Productize Your Business Hi Everyone, this is Carl Gould I am your #70secondCEO, a 70 second investment each day for a lifetime of results. Today’s topic is - Intellectual Property, where to look for it in your business and how to build it. You know you’re a phenomenal business and a visionary entrepreneur; you get things done, and you have great i…
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Becoming the Best Version of Yourself Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #7osecondCEO a one minute investment for a lifetime of results. In a recent video, I asked you to write down who you admire and what that person or historical figure's admirable traits, rules, and principles are. And you just introduced yourself to what you believe is your…
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What Are You to Your Prospects Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. During volatile times, people defer to experts.They listen to experts.Think about this. If you were in a rush to get to the airport, like, oh my God, I've got to get to the airport. It's…
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Client Now or Client Later Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. If somebody is a client now, for me, I call every week. I call, text, follow up, and even if they say, listen Carl, I'm going to be gone for two weeks, let's pick up when I get back. Oh, whe…
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Traffic & Offer Cody's on the list. He's, you know, he was very thankful that Justin Bieber got his Ferrari and then modified it. So they kicked him off the list. So now Kurt, Cody's moved up. The wait list is now only 17 years, right? You moved up from 18 to 17 years. He's making progress, but imagine I can make you an offer right today. Cody is I…
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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. So we want to be obnoxious in our offering for most of us, most of the people in the room. I know in my businesses, it's easier to be the highest-priced in the niche than the lowest-priced. That's such a volume game. …
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You Need to Have Premium Pricing Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. My suggestion is don't wait. Even if you do your annual increase, raise it again. Raise your prices, whatever you think you can, where you get close to zero attrition. You need to have…
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How Much Can a Business Raise Their Pricing Without Attrition 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 going to ask you a question. You tell me in the answer of a number, think of a number for a moment based on my question. My question to you is if you w…
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Sometimes Your Proposal Guarantee Can Be Risky Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. For those of you that either know New Jersey or ever lived in the Northeast or the North, you know that it's a seasonal business. So that's right. In November and October…
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1303. Problems We Solve Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. The first part of the language is your pricing, but the communication language of your pricing is the complaints. So here's what I would suggest that you do. So, you wrote down the top five com…
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1302. Let Your Customers Spend Their Way to The Front Row Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. When you buy something you're passionate about and you spend the premium on it, do you complain about it or do you brag about it? You brag about it. How many o…
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The Guarantee Option with a Proposal Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. If I was putting in a proposal and I had the guarantee option and you had other contractors just on the proposal alone, let's just assume we're both reasonably responsible people o…
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Who Has The Guts to Take on The Complaints Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.. Is it hard to come up with what the complaints are? Nah, everybody knows what they are. The key isn't what are the complaints, the key is who has the guts to take them on, r…
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How You Communicate Your Authority Has Changed Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. How you communicate your authority has changed a bit. And it changed dramatically after the mortgage meltdown in 2008 and the time that's come through it, right? You saw …
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The Language of Experts 2 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 impose your values on your customers, the chances that your value system and their value system will be in alignment is very, very low. It's very low, right? But your pricing attaches …
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The Language of Experts Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. The language of expertise has always been pretty similar over the years, but it's been magnified exponentially during this time. And the way that you articulate your expertise certainly has shi…
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The Pandemic Excelorated What Was Already Coming in Business Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So I said there's two dynamics that are coming out of the pandemic and in this season of winter that's really important to us. One is those pesky pain in th…
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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. Cycle of business or a season of business that they call winter, which started in 2005 and is estimated to go to 2029. And the hallmark of the winter business season is volatility. You get all of the ups and downs and…
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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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