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Rich Gee & BJ Flagg
As a small business owner, you’re living in the middle of a battlefield—strategies, tech, and advice are coming at you faster than ever. It’s chaos out there, and it’s only getting crazier. The question is: How do you cut through the noise and WIN?
That’s where we come in. Rich Gee, one of the world’s top business coaches, and BJ Flagg, a brand marketing legend, are here to help you crush it. We keep every episode short, sweet, and PACKED with the insights you need to dominate your market and explode your growth.
Tune in, level up, and get back to business with a whole new arsenal of ideas to grow your company to the next level. Let’s make it happen.
225 - 4 Things To Keep In Mind When Starting Your Own Business
There are so many details and steps to start your own business. It can seem overwhelming for someone doing it for the first time. Let's break it down into four actionable steps to start off the new year.
10:0310/01/2022
224 - Set Your Business Up For Success In The New Year
January is here, and it’s back to business as usual. Or is it? After a holiday break filled with eating, drinking, and being merry, chances are you may be feeling the winter blahs. Psychologists attribute the post-holiday blues to a number of factors including the lack of social events on our calendars, days short on daylight, cold weather, and fatigue. But duty calls—it’s time to take action and snap out of it. Your business needs you!
08:4403/01/2022
223 - Growing Your Network - Goals for 2022
It’s been hard to grow your network over the past 18 months the old way - let’s discuss the 2022 way of networking. Think of your network as your bank account - we've been slowly draining our networking bank accounts.
11:1727/12/2021
222 - One Year Plans Are Better Than 5 Year Plans - Goals for 2022
20 years ago - we all talked about our 5-year plans -- projections, quotas, large binders, 8-hour offsites in stinky hotel ballrooms. Things change much faster now -- let's talk one-year plans!
09:1720/12/2021
221 - How To Find Purpose & Meaning In Our Work - Goals for 2022
It’s been almost 2 years with Covid and it has fundamentally changed our lives and how we do business. In fact, many business owners have been running full-tilt the entire time, reacting swiftly to each crazy course correction - shut-downs, supply-chain issues, resignations, hybrid working. Today we want to help you ‘reset’ for 2022 and find a more proactive position to take to grow your business.
12:3413/12/2021
220 - Is Your Social Media Ready for a Shake Up? Goals for 2022
Today's episode dives into social media from a year-long perspective and gives you action steps to push your sales & marketing goals.
13:2306/12/2021
219 - Gratitude Should Be a Year-Long Habit
Today's episode is all about the feeling of gratitude. With our second holiday season in pandemic and we have to step up our connections with our employees, clients, and ourselves.
12:5030/11/2021
218 - How To Get More Clients - Business Jui-Jitsu For Beginners
We all want more clients -- better clients, affluent clients -- and we chase them daily. Why not try to step back and make them come to you?
13:0922/11/2021
217 - How To Overcome Supply Chain Issues
We answer how we got here and how to get real about demand, inventory, and sell-through.
18:4515/11/2021
216 - Website Refresh or Website Overhaul - When Is It Time?
Do you ever feel like you don’t want to show other people your website out because it's outdated?
13:2908/11/2021
215 - The Great Resignation - How To Hold On To Your Best People
In the last several months, businesses have seen a tidal wave of employees leaving. How can you retain your top people in the face of this tidal wave of resignations?
10:2901/11/2021
214 - Who Are The Real 'Time Vampires' That Drain Your Business
People, tasks, clients, and personal priorities get in the way of your business success. Let’s take a look at those ‘Time Vampires’ and figure out how to bury them for good.
10:0125/10/2021
213 - Developing Mental Toughness - A Gift from the Pandemic
What have you learned from the pandemic and the impact on your mental health -- it's an integral part of your entire business health assessment.
12:0218/10/2021
212 - You Need To 10X Everything In Your Business
Making it through a pandemic - you 10X’d your business. Now you need to continually 10X your next actions.
08:5511/10/2021
211 - How To Raise Your Rates
Are prices going up? YES, THEY ARE! Do you feel comfortable raising your fees? If you do, great! If you don’t, keep listening.
11:5204/10/2021
210 - Having Tough Conversations With Your Clients
Everyone HATES having THAT conversation with your client. Raising prices, unexpected costs, bad behavior, client procrastination -- And the worst: Firing your client.
17:0427/09/2021
209 - Having Tough Conversations With Your Employees
These are the people you have vetted, approved, hired as the best. Act in the interest of maintaining that 'best' in them.
14:2320/09/2021
208 - FOUR YEARS! How To Stick To It & Make It Happen!
So many people go to all the effort of identifying the goal, breaking it down, getting the best resources only to self-sabotage.
13:5713/09/2021
207 - Getting Older & Staying Relevant
Over HALF of business owners are Age 55 and older - learn their secrets to success on how to work smarter and not harder.
12:2406/09/2021
206 - How To Find The Best Employees Today
Microsoft research found that 41% of the global workforce is weighing leaving their current employer this year. Learn some quick tips to help you hold onto your best employees.
14:0030/08/2021
205 - How To Build A Community Around Your Business
Givers gain - the more you give back to your community - the more your community gives back to your business.
11:5624/08/2021
204 - Why Are Customers Getting Worse Today?
Rich & BJ talk with their business clients all the time about this topic.
13:2416/08/2021
203 - Are You Letting Your Inner Critic Sabotage You?
Most of the time, what REALLY holds us back is just in our heads. We all have a small Stephen King writing horror stories that tell us we’re going to fail. Rich & BJ help you eliminate that voice.
12:0409/08/2021
202 - How To Run A Successful & Drama-Free Family Business
Roughly 60% of the U.S. workforce works for a family-owned business AND family-run businesses create 78% of all new jobs and contribute 57% to the U.S. GDP. Rich & BJ help you manage a drama-free family business.
15:5202/08/2021
201 - 4 Tips To Effectively Brand Your Business
Your brand needs to not only reflect your values but also it has to appeal to your customer base. This is one of the hardest things to do - but if you do this first, everything else will fall into place.
12:0926/07/2021
200 - How To Do A Podcast - After 200 Episodes, Here’s What We’ve Learned
It's been a wild ride over the past 3+ years - learn what we've done right and where we've gone WAY off the rails with our podcast.
20:0719/07/2021
199 - Close The Deal - Deliver Proposals that SELL
Most people email their proposals and hope for the best. Rich & BJ show you how to energize your proposals to ensure they close the sale.
13:4212/07/2021
198 - How To Give An Effective Sales Presentation
Can you talk about your products and services comfortably? Learn how to give better presentations and proposals to close the sale faster!
19:2705/07/2021
197 - How To Make Your Customers NEED You
Learn how to move your prospects and customers from a 'nice-to-have' mode into a 'must need' relationship.
20:3628/06/2021
196 - Why Your Marketing Isn't Working
Sometimes your marketing might look like a barrel full of monkeys. Figure out why it's not performing as well as it should and take key steps to make it hum again.
16:1421/06/2021
195 - Website Essentials for 2021
Rich & BJ present the most overlooked essentials you need to make your site bulletproof in 2021.
20:2914/06/2021
194 - Take Friday Off - Make It Your Most Powerful Day
Rich & BJ help you master your attention, ignore distractions, and get more done in less time.
16:1507/06/2021
193 - Invest In Talent To Grow Your Business
Too many business owners take their people for granted, and then whine when they leave.
15:5431/05/2021
192 - Return To The Office & How To Acclimate Your Employees
As the CDC lessens regulations pertaining to COVID, business owners need to re-evaluate how to ‘bring back’ employees to on-site status at their location.
20:2924/05/2021
191 - When You Need To Take A Sabbatical
BJ and I help you re-energize your business after taking some time away.
16:3517/05/2021
190 - Understanding and Reducing Friction In Your Business
The concept of business friction isn’t new―it’s anything that prevents or dissuades YOUR customers from buying products or services. For customers, friction can be long wait times on hold, products that are out of stock, or a bad experience with a company’s website. And friction is just as big an impediment to business transactions as it is to consumers. So if you have FRICTION, you are probably turning away or losing key clients/customers.
19:4510/05/2021
189 - Major Forces Will Impact Your Business (Tesla, Bitcoin, SpaceX, etc.)
Self-Driving is almost here, different ways of paying are being developed daily, we’re sending men and women into space and planning for Mars! HOW is this going to affect YOU?
15:2103/05/2021
188 - Grow Your Business With An Accountability Team
Sometimes you need to bounce ideas, strategies, and decisions off of people you trust - accountability teams are great because YOU build them and they’re FREE!
17:1726/04/2021
187 - How To Organize Your Desk, Business, and Life
It’s amazing how organized we are with some things and a total mess with others. If you organize your desk, then it impacts your business and your life. Then again, have you ever considered a flamethrower and just start over?
17:0119/04/2021
186 - Find Out Who Are Your Business's Feeders
Connect with key professionals who bring the best clients to your door and help you attract only those who are interested in what you sell.
18:2512/04/2021
185 - Your Brand Is Everything
Today, we’ll be asking BJ a number of questions to help you strengthen your brand.
20:1705/04/2021
184 - Get Ready For The Summer Tsunami!
We’re turning the light on Rich today! Rich wrote the best article which he prompted me to read from an email. Let’s get him to elaborate more on this amazing topic: What’s next!!!
17:0829/03/2021
183 - Look at the Data - Insight Intuition in Digital Times
Today, most businesses are awash in data. From Quickbooks to PayPal, CRM systems to POS scanners, including our websites, we collect a tremendous amount of data.
13:2022/03/2021
182 - If You Own A Business, You're A Salesperson
We have found there are two types of people who go into business ‘for themselves.’ Those who want to be a solo entrepreneur and the person who wants to grow an idea into an entrepreneurial success. They have one thing in common - they're both salespeople.
14:2315/03/2021
181 - Planning Your Social Media Marketing - Yeah That's a Thing
We all know that social media is a crucial part of promoting our business - but with all those options out there, we don’t know which one to choose.
15:1208/03/2021
180 - Forget The 100-Page Business Plan!
If you are a small business, you originally made a large business plan to attain financing or attract talent. Then you promptly put that in a drawer to gather dust. Today we are going to talk about a one-sheet action plan that will propel your business forward.
12:1401/03/2021
179 - You Planned to Retire in 10 years, the Economy had a Different Idea
Many businesses have been hit hard - some have been decimated by the pandemic -- Travel, Conferences, Events, Hotels, AirBNB, etc. We’re going to help you recover with a few insights and ideas that we’ve used with our clients.
13:2022/02/2021
178 - Forward Leadership - No, It's Your Problem, Fix it!
We’re going to show you how to get your team to FIX their own problems - they will grow, mature, and be able to handle more complex problems in the future.
10:3415/02/2021
177 - Forward Leadership - How Does Your Team Reflect on You
Most businesses focus on everything else -- but they don’t understand that keeping the client happy is paramount for any business. Your team is the perfect tool to help you do that.
13:1108/02/2021
176 - Forward Leadership - What Acts Will Define You as a Manager
BJ & Rich rocket off on a new series called 'Forward Leadership' where they will be tackling management issues small businesses face every day. This week we will be focusing on what specific acts you can do to make you a better leader.
13:2001/02/2021