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Small Business Trends Radio features interviews and open discussions with today's small business experts on a variety of topics. Guests include a mix of influential individuals who speak on issues of the day important to the small business market; and business owners who speak from a \"been there, done that\" point of view, offering insider tips and advice.Small Business Trends Radio is broadcast LIVE every Tuesday from 1:30 PM until 2PM EST.
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The Business Trendsetter Podcast

Adam Hartung, Manny Teran, Spark Partners

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Ready to create lasting and sustainable business growth? Join our weekly show with hosts Adam Hartung & Manny Teran of Spark Partners. Combined they have created over $3 Billion in customer value and leverage Adam’s deep domain expertise on Disruptive Innovation to teach business leaders how to transform their businesses. Do you want your business to be a market leader or a market laggard? Discover business trends and learn how to leverage them to create lasting business success and become a ...
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PKF Mueller's monthly accounting, business advisory, and finance podcast for business owners, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders. Join us as we discuss a broad range of timely accounting topics related to audits, taxes, business consulting, industry news, legislative changes and other hot button subjects and business advisory. Our goal is to provide business decision makers with the key insights to be up-to-date and equipped with the knowledge of ever-changing accounting updates and practic ...
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Our podcast aims to discuss tips and strategies that small business owners can use to maximize their digital footprint and help bring in more visitors to their businesses. We will touch on a variety of marketing, branding and even web design ideas that will help give direction towards maximizing your digital marketing and branding efforts. Visit https://sharptackmedia.com for more small business tips and techniques.
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This podcast interviews Tom Koulopoulos, Founding Chairman of Delphi Group, Executive Director of the Babson College Center for Business Innovation, past Director of the Dell Innovation Lab and contributor to Inc Magazine as well as many other journals. We overview his latest book (#14) “GIGATRENDS” offering insights to the major trends creating op…
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GE was founded on April 15, 1892. On April 2, 2024 there will be no more GE. This podcast explains that what took 108 years to build, culminating in Jack Welch’s huge growth spurt from 1980 to 2000, was systematically destroyed by CEO Jeff Immelt and his successors. How? By focusing on earnings rather than growing revenues. This week Boeing was put…
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There is a lot of immigrant bashing in the USA these days. Somewhat ironic, given that almost all Americans have an immigrant background. Nonetheless, there is a perception among a lot of people – business leaders included – that immigrants are bad for the economy. This podcast sets out to reverse that thinking. Reviewing ample data from the Congre…
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Starting next week Amazon.com will replace Walgreens on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA.) This 100+ year old index may seem out of date, but it does still have meaning. Being selected for inclusion means a company is relevant and growing, and being opted out is the opposite. We discuss in this podcast how changes in the DJIA and the Dow Tran…
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Fed Chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen have both confirmed we will have a commercial real estate debacle on our hands soon. Great, they finally figured out what Manny and Adam have been saying for over a year! Better late than remaining ignorant! So what does this mean for you? This podcast explains the risks this is creating f…
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Trends are long-lived customer behavioral changes. Trends cause customers to develop new needs and allow companies to supply new solutions. Thus, trends are loaded with opportunity, and the source of obsolescence. But far too few companies use trends in their planning. This podcast overviews how we verify trends, identify trend reinforcers, and the…
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Do you know WHY people should want to do business with your start-up, without discussing HOW you do it? This #Podcast interviews Jordan Shepley founder of The Headling Lounge. In this interview Jordan describes exactly why people should want to buy her products. Over and again she describes the benefits customers receive, short and long-term. We al…
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Despite the reliability of demographic data, and projections, few business leaders use demographics as part of their future planning. Because most leaders assume demographics won’t change much, and they need to appeal to today’s marketplace. But we are facing a global shift in demographics that is changing business conditions in every market – righ…
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US businesses are struggling to find workers, a topic this podcast has discussed many times. And political divisiveness has been making it hard to implement policies to grow the economy. To grow your business now could well be a good time to consider Mexico, as a final market or as part of your supply chain. This podcast overviews Manny’s recent tr…
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Demographics are one of the most important trends for business forecasting. They are extremely predictable, and offer tremendous insight to future markets. From the 1980’s onward it was clear there would be a demographic problem of aging in the developed world which would create conflicts as major countries started to suffer declining populations. …
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Planning for 2024 and beyond, the biggest factor determining your success is where you invest your resources. Most of us invest in doing more of the same thing, only better, faster, cheaper. But that has diminishing returns, and for most of us will have low payoff. Greater success comes from investing in future trends, breaking out of our Lock-in t…
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Often leaders push their organizations to be “cost conscious.” This almost always leads to bad customer service, which can really, really hurt your business. This podcast digs into how some companies have bad service for years, like Comcast and United Airlines, while profits stall. Others, like Sears and ToysRUs completely fail. Yet other companies…
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Well, McKinsey finally did it. After a full year of analysis they figured out what we’ve been saying on this podcast all along – that a growth strategy outperforms a defensive strategy, even in recessions. Wow, pop the champagne corks. All of you readers already know this, and that their #1 method of growing in 2024 is (wait a minute) using automat…
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Rising Healthcare Costs, Rising Wages – Are American Employers Prepared? Healthcare in America is changing – but oh so slowly. Only in the last year or two has telemedicine become viable. And costs for so many procedures are wildly out of line with costs for similar procedures in foreign countries. Meanwhile, only in America do employers pay for he…
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What can the Heavy Equipment industry tell us about trends? In today's podcast, we talk with Louis Fernandez, an expert in the heavy machinery industry with years of helping companies find expense-side savings from the operations of a company. We draw from his expertise in the industry to learn more about how important heavy machines are to the eco…
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Exxon is making a huge acquisition of Pioneer. Chevron is buying Hess. Kroger bought Albertsons. Cedar Fair and Six Flags are merging. These will all grow the revenues of the acquirer, and revenue growth is a good thing. So are acquisitions a good strategy? This podcast explains why the bulk of acquisitions are done for the wrong reason. They are c…
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If you know how to analyze trends you can get more “bang for your buck” with expenses and investments. This podcast explains how to analyze the performance of Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat and Twitter in order to figure out where the best place is to run ads. After you understand the analysis, the answer becomes really clear. This podcast also ana…
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Often we hear people say that headlines make trends hard to understand. One headline pitches a view, then another headline pitches an opposite view. Leaders become confused. This podcast explains how leaders can move beyond headlines to really understand trends, so they can undertake successful scenario development and make smarter investments. Foc…
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Over and again we see big companies, often leaders in their industries, fail. Despite having vast resources, ability to hire top talent, and legions of customers they “blow it bigtime.” Sears, Hostess Baking, Kodak, Xerox, Fannie Mae, GE – how could they end up a failure? And if they blew it, how can you avoid a bad outcome? The podcast explains ho…
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War in Ukraine. War in Israel. Threat of war in Taiwan and South China Sea. Near war in Kosovo & Serbia. A House of Representative with no Speaker. It seems like one of the biggest trends is incredible conflict. How can business deal with this? This podcast explores how conflicts begin due to differing beliefs based on historical experiences. In bu…
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There is nothing more important to a sustainable business than revenues. Revenues are the barometer of how you are doing compared to all competition. If you aren’t growing your revenues, you are dying. Even if you are making profits. Nobody ever saved their way to prosperity, but you can thrive on growing revenues even when earnings are shallow and…
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Reflecting on U.S. Labor Day, the work world has been impacted incredibly by the Baby Boom Generation. That large group of workers meant supply of labor exceeded demand for some 4 or 5 decades, which nearly killed unions. But now that the demographics are upside down, with demand for labor consistently exceeding supply, union activity is up, suppor…
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Are EV’s still a long time away from becoming mainstream? Will regulators and developers take action any time soon to correct the imbalance in commercial real estate vs residential? Is the aging demographic in the USA – and elsewhere – really going to matter in the short-term? How you answer these questions depends quite a bit on your understanding…
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At least 100 dead, and over 1,000 missing going into 2 weeks post fire on Maui. It is an unmitigated disaster. Although Mother Nature played a role, there is much business leaders can learn from how the fire developed and how Maui’s leaders reacted, failing to mitigate bad outcomes. All businesses need good scenario plans accounting for impending e…
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As we ended July and start August the media has largely reported that the EV market is not meeting expectations. Companies like Rivian and Lucid are not meeting analyst expectations for sales. Tesla and Ford are dropping prices, and inventories are up while gross margins are down. Reading this news would lead you to think the EV trend has gone bust…
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We all get trapped in our daily world. Our location, our contacts, our responsibilities can often create a commonality to what we do and the decisions we make. And we often fail to realize how this localization creates an internalization which makes it hard to think creatively. We do more of the same because of the rut we’re in. This podcast was re…
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Meta just launched Thread as a competitor to Twitter. This makes enormous sense, because it is a natural sustaining innovation Meta can add as a platform extension to generate new revenues. This was proven when Thread became the fastest growing app of all time (beating ChatGPT.) And Twitter has weakened as advertisers have lost faith in the new CEO…
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Predicting trends isn’t nearly as hard as people think. This podcast explains the foundational elements that help any forecaster understand the impact of a trend and develop accurate future scenarios. We know that AI (Artificial Intelligence) is creating a Punctuated Equilibrium in business practices. Just like the pandemic and the emergence of the…
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Centric Commemorates presents a conversation about understanding and celebrating Juneteenth in this special edition of our Couch Convos: Biz and Tech Talks podcast. Monday, June 19, marks the celebration of Juneteenth, which became a federal holiday in 2021. The holiday now reflects an even more widespread recognition. Team members Maurice Faison, …
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All 3 have had recent disruptions that required rethinking their future. And wins went to those good at Scenario Planning. This podcast overviews how Spark Partners scenario, planning even before the pandemic, predicted that crypto-currencies would face a difficult reckoning in the future. That there was enormous risk, with limited upside, for gamb…
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Tesla and Ford made a deal to let Ford use the Tesla charging standard (NACS) on their Mustang Mach-E and other electric vehicles. Why would Ford want to use Tesla’s technology? That’s the content of this podcast – and the lesson it can teach small businesses. We often have a great idea. But then it doesn’t seem to sell. This podcast explains why. …
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There’s been a lot of confusion about what ChatGPT and other AI tools can do. Some people think it’s the end of humanity. Others think it will be greatly productive. The important thing to know is that, like the internet, this is a big advance in technology that will create a lot of opportunities for better business operations and growth. ChatGPT i…
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Peloton went from a crowdsourced start up to a billion dollar Unicorn in 6 years. 6 years later and the company is teetering on failure. How could management have blown it so badly? This podcast overviews how most management teams during good times focus far too much energy on improving their single Value Delivery System. They over-invest, and then…
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You can use trends to build highly accurate scenarios improving decision-making. The last podcast discussed how demographic trends mean that Millennials and Zoomers will be running companies soon. This podcast dives into the impact on workplaces. Specifically the radical decline in needs for commercial office space. Nationally nearly half of all co…
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Understanding Millenials and Gen Z To Predict Workplace Trends Millenials and Gen Z (Zoomers) already make up half the workforce. By 2025 Zoomers will be 25% on their own. Despite the outsized voices of Baby Boomers (who mostly are out of the workforce) this means the work world will change dramatically. And it’s not even hard to predict how. Just …
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Demographics drive more societal change than anything else. Or should we say everything else. And demographics are extremely predictable. Yet we tend to ignore demographics because there’s little we can do to change them. In this podcast we explain how to use demographcis to make better decisions. For 40 years America, and most of the developed wor…
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Customers won’t buy from you if they don’t trust you. The very minimum is you must promise to your customer what you will deliver, and then make good on that promise. If your product and/or service doesn’t deliver on its promise, you won’t have trust and you won’t have sales. Surprisingly, companies often fail at this very bottom level. They fail t…
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The world’s richest people are all self-made billionaires. None started with great family wealth, nor corporations. But can we identify what made them billionaires while others only wish for wealth. This podcast explains how the path to $1B is available to everyone. But most of us don’t focus on the right things. First and foremost, it takes a very…
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We are inundated with statistics. But most of us have no idea how to apply the vast majority of them to our business. This podcast explains how you can use reported statistics to make better business decisions – with specific examples about megatrends that are shifting today. Surveying Americans you will discover that the importance of patriotism h…
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Last week Gordon Moore died. In 1965 he wrote a paper saying the number of transistors on a chip would double every 2 years (at that time, to 65,000). That was not a new physics law, it was a trend. And it turned out to be a powerful trend – today powerful microprocessors have 114 billion transistors. By seeing how manufacturing could improve, Moor…
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Tech companies are undertaking massive layoffs. Economists say inflation is out of control. Interest rates are skyrocketing. Banks are failing. Investors and bondholders are being wiped out, and deposits are at risk. Lenders are unwilling to lend. The news is full of stories, quoting business leaders, saying now is the time to retrench. Don’t inves…
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The biggest risk of myopia is unintended consequences. We set out to do one thing, and we don’t see the after-effects that happen – on customers, suppliers and employees. Also, by focusing intently on our existing business we don’t see how unintended consequences of things outside our business can have enormous impact. And, if we don’t see it comin…
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Manny’s back from France, and in this podcast we discuss the difference in adoption rates of various trends in France versus the USA. Work from Home, Gig economy, electrification of the auto fleet – we cover a lot of ground about the differences. Doing so we discuss how local issues affect trends, as well as regulations. The big trends apply, but w…
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With Manny in Grenoble, France this podcast focuses on global business. First and foremost, it focuses on how every business – large or small – gains by having a better understanding of foreign markets. Instead of thinking offshore is a way to export American business models, learning from foreign businesses new ways to compete. Opening our minds, …
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By 2010 the internet was everywhere. Most everyone had a Blackberry or iPhone. Young and old alike knew what Amazon.com was, and doing Google searches. But, most businesses still saw fully integrating their business onto web-based technology as unnecessary. Even a waste of money. While they processed orders manually, and did sales tracking manually…
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This podcast talks frequently about individual trends. Global trends that affect all parts of life, like environmental awareness, electrification and the aging population. And global trends that impact work like mobility, asynchronous work tools, Gig work and AI. While these are interesting, the greatest value from understanding these trends lies i…
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