Leadership

Are you a good Leader? How do you know? Are you developing Leaders within your organization? Are you growing as a Leader yourself? We often find one of the biggest things holding a business back is poor leadership from the owner. Leaders aren’t born they’re made. When you own a small business you’re the top Leader in the business whether you want to be or not.
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A Turnaround Mindset Can Help You Not Only Survive, But Thrive in the Coronavirus/COVID-19 World

One of the things we have a lot of experience with is turnaround situations in business.  A turnaround situation in our books is simply defined as taking a company that is losing money and turning it around to making a profit.  Why is this important in the current Coronavirus/COVID-19 world? 

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How Do I Plan In Uncertain Times?

To say we live in uncertain times might be an understatement given the recent and ongoing changes to lives worldwide as we all wrestle with the fallout caused by the Coronavirus and COVID-19.  As a business owner, it can be twice as difficult as you are dealing not only with your personal situation, but also your business.  So how do you plan in uncertain times?
As you can probably appreciate, many folks don’t like to plan under normal circumstances.  But when it comes to uncertain times and your business, as the owner you really have no other choice but to pull a plan together.  The key is where do you start and how do you do it in a way that you can take action quickly?

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How Do I Hold An Effective Web Meeting – Sheri Jeavons of Power Presentations

we are thrilled to be joined on this week’s show by Sheri Jeavons, the President and Owner of Power Presentations).  Sheri started Power Presentations in 1993 and is a leading expert when it comes to all things related to presenting whether it be in-person or virtually.

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Scott Sofer of Bickford Flavors

We are joined by Scott Sofer the owner of Bickford Flavors, a provider of over 200 stock flavors to the food and beverage industry.  Scott is a 3rd generation entrepreneur, has owned several companies, and is passionate about giving back and helping young people learn about entrepreneurship.

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Episode 200! The Endless How Questions!

We are feeling old as we celebrate another Dirty Secrets of Small Business milestone with our 200th episode!  Who would have though 4 years ago that a couple of radio/podcast novices like us would still be going strong?  It’s been a fun ride and we feel like we’re just starting to hit our stride!

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Elisabeth Sapell of All City Candy

We are joined in studio by Elisabeth Sapell of All City Candy who shared her story of jumping from the non-profit world into the business world to start her own company in 2013 after growing up with parents who were business owners.  Elisabeth is also a graduate of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program (https://www.goldmansachs.com/citizenship/10000-small-businesses/US/) and shared her experience with the program as well!

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Cristina Bertero of Fully Promoted Cleveland

This week we were joined in studio by Cristina Bertero of Fully Promoted (http://www.fullypromoted.com/cleveland-west-oh) who is an immigrant from Brazil who came to this country several years ago not speaking a word of English.  After her kids grew up she decided to launch her business and she shared her great story  with us tonight!  Cristina is also a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program and she shared with us some of her key takeaways from that program in our monthly Goldman 10 for 10 segment including how it helped relieve her solitary feeling as a business owner and got so close with folks in her class.

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Family Business Issues – When Is It Time To Leave? (Part 1)

Family can be a blessing and a curse.  That’s true whether you are talking about real life or your business.  At times we can become too “familiar” with each other.  Usually when that happens with family in the business we will overlook things that we wouldn’t otherwise overlook in our employees or business partners who aren’t family.  Too often, it comes to the point where someone needs to leave.  So what do you do?

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Family Business Issues – What’s Best For The Organization?

Small business can be emotional.  This isn’t a good or bad thing.  It’s just a thing.  It can be a great thing if you can get your team emotionally connected to the business where they start to take ownership of their decisions and activities.