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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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Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. That's a system when you have an activity or a group of activities that you can remove yourself from. Now, you remember way back when we're talking about the discovery process, and we said, Every job has a personality…
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Is Business Ownership Lonely and Stressful? Do you wish it were more enjoyable? Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. And that's what we're after. It has been said that being a business owner is the toughest and loneliest position in business. Wouldn't yo…
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Understand the “how, what and why” of your business Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. In the Business Discovery Process, there are three areas of discovery. There are your behaviors, which we call the DISC, how you do what you do. There are the values…
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Doing The Rights Task, Starts With Knowing Yourself. Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. To summarize where we’ve been in the business discovery process, you must know yourself, you're the owner, you're leading this, you need to know yourself, then you …
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Before you can have alignment, you need assessment. Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. And you'll notice as we delve deeper in stage one about what is required, and what are the power tools at each stage where your focus should be, you'll notice that a…
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What Motivator Drives You? Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You share your vision with all of the mirrors you're going to hire in your business. By sharing your vision, they will pick the areas that they are very good at to start with. And that's why…
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Operation Challenge Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Same operation challenge in stage 4,5,6 and 7 that’s a dysfunctional problem, that’s a–you should have solved already, so if I were to say cash flow, good problem, bad problem, the answer is it dep…
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Up Strategy - Premium Price- Part 3 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. What kind of buyer would pay for the guarantee? Somebody who needs you to start on a certain date,somebody who needs you to finish by a certain date, they’re undertime distress, and y…
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Up Strategy - Premium Price - Part 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Cause you know what I did, I took the top five complaints. You keep on never show up on time, you don’t start on time,you don’t finish on time, you change orders us to death you tell…
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Up Strategy - Premium Price Part 1 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So in our pricing strategy we need to have our Up strategy. A premium strategy that’s turn key that comes with a premium price. Now you may not end up doubled and double again you migh…
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Why is 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 right down what is that--what is the top five complaints about your industry, maybe not about you as a company, maybe you as a company but maybe not, but about your industry so h…
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Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO - just a little over a minute investment everyday for a lifetime of results. Our topic today is - Are you a Muddy Fish or are you a Clean Fish? I wonder. So, a muddy fish. Are you the kind of person that is fast-paced and outgoing? You're not very detail-oriented. You’re results-driven. You like things new, tr…
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The Client Picked You Because You Are the Best Option Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO - just a little over a minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. They're not going to pay a whole bunch of money on the off chance you're good. They're going to think you're really good already. They're going to think and by the way, if you fir…
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Consumers Categorize Themselves by The Pricing They Pick Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Wouldn't it be nice to know and be able to categorize your clients based on their pricing? So I offer a success fee option and I offer a retainer option. Rememb…
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Invisible Pricing - Need a Better Offer Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. A year, that means you're one in 600 people. That is 10 million or more, and we need to walk into a building that has 12,000 people in it to meet a peer. What we do is not easy,…
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Consumers Value an Expert Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. And so here's what I learned. What I learned was if people value what you do, if they really value what they do, and if they have a need, they want to go with an expert. I had built the reput…
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What Kind of Buyer Buys Your guarantee Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. What kind of buyer buys the guarantee? What about that buyer buys the guarantee? They really need it. They're under some sort of distress. What else? They got the money. How woul…
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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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Business in The Early Stage Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. In the early stages you’re focusing a lot on marketing, developing your product, you're taking–you're reinvesting in your business. You should not have mountains of cash flow in the early s…
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Goal Setting -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. Ah 9 ½ , great! What are we gonna do to make it a 10? Here’s what we got to do bam..bam..bam..bam those are goals and then when you double that you would say “we’re better podcasters”, you know wh…
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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. 90-day goals that have–that are actual destinations and then separate that from what we call categories of improvement or just the roles you play in your life. So, for example, it will be hard to imagine that you coul…
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Finding Peers is Extremely Important Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. Some statistics for you, 1 in 15 people are business owners, if you, if you do a million dollars or more, you are, you are 1 in 600 people. So, for you to walk in a room, there’s only 4% of busines…
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BONUS Offerings Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. What are your benefits and bonuses worth? They are worth something to your clientele. Think of the Mastercard commercial, great commercial, if I want to buy this 20 bucks, if I want to get that 30 bucks, peace of mind?…
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Overpaying Why do We do it? Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Years ago, I took my daughter to a concert. She was so excited and she was just happy to get in the door and I remember calling up and getting the tickets and they said, Where do you want t…
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Get Out of Your Comfort Zone Hey Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a one minute investment per day for a lifetime of results. So, I am at 4000 feet elevation above the elevation I am used to. That was my bed, a little more rough than I am used to, a little bit of rain last night as well. I rappelled down that mountain, a little…
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Playing Above the Line Hi Everybody, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO - just 70 seconds a day for a lifetime of results. Today's topic is - Playing Above the Line - living, working, and playing above the line. What is the line? The line is your standard. You create your metrics, your dashboard, your goals your ranking, your score or rating th…
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Find Someone in The Room That Sells to Like Customers Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Find someone in the room who is not in the same business but sells to the same kind of customer. Who here sells any services to people who own homes? Raise your ha…
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How do You Become an Authority 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. You can't do that. You're a dentist. You can't pull that many teeth. If you're an attorney, you can't argue that many cases. You just couldn't do it. It's way too much volume. It'…
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How do You Become an Authority 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. Among the top priced in your niche, or among the lowest. Walmart is thought of as the best logistics company in the world. They charge the lowest amount, and they have taken most …
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Perception of Quality Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. What are you getting for the other $9,900? Brand, ego, anything you can put in a wheelbarrow? It's all intangibles, right? Now, I gave this talk to a jewelry association, and I said, what was a b…
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Your Fee is Your Quality Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Increase your fees, because your fee is your quality. Your pricing is the number one way you talk to your clientele, bar none. Bar none. It is the number one language. No, but wait, I'm a PhD,…
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Refresh Your Message Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. I've been to all of your websites. No, I'm better. I'm really good. I'm amazing. You're all saying the same stuff. When people search, other than tacos near me, what do they search for? Do they se…
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Be Flexible The Smallest Thing You Can Sell Pt 1 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. What is the absolute smallest thing you can do for your clients that you could charge for an hour of your time, but what would 15 minutes cost? I know, you want them to…
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Offer What Your Industry is Not Offering Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Giving a five to one ROI, who are you competing with? Nobody, see what I mean? You thin the herd very quickly with the right promise. Now, whatever your industry's not offering…
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Your Guarantee Stinks 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 sorry to tell you. Whatever your guarantee is, if you want to tell me what We live in a world of risk reversal.Your clients want to know that it's going to hurt you as much as them if things …
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When the Market is Going Down Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You just lost your job, or someone you know lost their job. So, just to stock up while they're gonna be unemployed, they go out and buy a new car, stop at Best Buy, pick up a new TV, and …
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Sideways Market Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. When it's sideways, people are paralyzed, right? I was in Los Angeles one time when there was an earthquake. I was like, what was that? We don't get those on the East Coast, right? And all the native C…
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Premium, Risk Free and Create a Club Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You need to raise your fees and have a premium, platinum. We're going to think like a restaurant for a moment. Second, when the market is going sideways, you need to have a risk-fr…
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Pricing is the #1 Way to Communicate Your Quality 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. Absolutely must position ourselves as an authority willing to pay more for your products or services if they believe you're an expert. And it's not because they…
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Pricing is the #1 Way to Communicate Your Quality Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. We are going to need to have a couple of different pricing strategies and the reason for that is because pricing is the number one way that you communicate with your c…
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Fall 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. 1985 to 2005, now I don't care who you are, but doing business in 1985 to 2005, you can do no wrong. You can't get anything wrong; everything you try works. So you say, I'm going to open up a retail s…
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Summer - Sweat Equity Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. We hit 1965. 1965 to 1985, who was born during that time? I was. Gen Xers, right? All you Gen Xers out there. This is why we're always so pissed off, right? This is why we're always upset at the …
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Industry Problems You Solve Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. When somebody comes to your website, they're looking to solve two problems. If you are addressing the top problems of the industry, they're going to say, wow, this person really gets me. Th…
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Spring 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 spring, the last spring, was 1946 to 1964, okay? Who was born during that time? Don't raise your hand; I'm not looking to out anybody. What demographic was born during that time? Baby boomers, no…
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Coaching? Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. People come into coaching because they have a ceiling somewhere, right? There are some belief systems or rules or values or principles that has got them to a certain level but is preventing them from getting…
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Coaching & Mentoring -What's the Value? Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Coaching and mentoring is made me, you know, probably one of the largest impacts I’ve had in my life, I mean when--I valued--you know, I played lots of sports when I was a kid, …
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Discounting - Big Mistake! 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. Whether you’re 1 day in business or you’re 10 years in business or 100 years in business, that’s not the mark of your value. What is your mark of value? How much value are you bringin…
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Discounting - Big Mistake! 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. One of the big mistakes that early-stage entrepreneurs make is that they try to discount their way to market share and then once they have a critical mass and then like, “okay now I’m…
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Carl's Marketing Rule of Thumb - 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. Use this as honest feedback as to what area of networking or promotion you need to work on, alright? Yeah, maybe explain a little bit more, spend a little bit more time, and get…
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