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It's Your Business, Your Livelihood...Certify Your Business Decisions! Hello Everybody, welcome to another episode of ClickAI Radio. All right, so we have been hearing a lot about certifying elections recently. But what about certifying your business decisions? Now certainly our businesses are the things that provide for our families and deliver service and value to our customers. But what does it mean to certify business decisions? Well, let's step back. What does it mean to certify something right? Generally, as you know, it means Hey, we're gonna compare something to a framework, right? We're gonna look for alignment or compliance with that framework. So I used to ski a lot, years ago. And at one point I took a bunch of tests was while I was in college and became certified as a ski instructor, at a local ski resort. There you go, certifications, simple enough. So what if there is a framework for certifying your business decisions? What does that mean? It means that, we would have a way in which we could lo

What if the problems facing your business could be solved with ONE INSIGHT? What would you do to gain the Insight You Needed to move your business forward? If the INSIGHT YOU GAINED required you to make changes to your business...would you do it? Hey, welcome everybody to another episode of ClickAI Radio. My name is Grant Larsen. Alright, so today we are talking about insights one insight away. So there's many of you know, Russell Brunson, he uses this phrase a lot called one funnel away. I'm sure a lot of us have heard that. And what I like about that idea is that it keeps us moving forward, right? It's this notion that, alright, I've got a problem I'm trying to solve. And what I'm really looking for is just that next funnel, right, that next opportunity, and that could be the tipping point that helps me solve some problem and grow the business. Well, it's similar in terms of AI. So with AI, it's one insight away, how many insights will it take for us to actually solve a problem for our business? So to do th

Getting the right amount of AI in your business is critical. If you pursue predictions that are too far reaching it can over burden your business, ultimately losing customers. But, if you don't use AI now, you are late, and are already behind your competitors. This isn't a game of leap frog, this is pivoting your business towards high-probability targets with greater insights, at an increased rate. Okay, Hey, everybody, welcome. This is Grant, welcome to another episode of ClickAI radio. All right, so bite size, right size AI for your business. What does that mean? Well, when you think about the continued pool right on time and resources for the small to medium business owners, it's no good to get AI predictions that are way beyond our reach, right? I mean, if the size of the effort and the work to accomplish that prediction is too big or too much, that doesn't do us any good. All it does is frustrate us. So we need to course be able to grow our business one step at a time. And in fact, we often will call tha

With AI in Your Chips, Your Pics, and Your Clicks the Opportunities to Optimize Your Business Has Grown Dramatically. All right, so today it's AI in your chips, your picks in your clicks, how that's going to save your business? If you could use AI earlier in your business processes, would you do that to benefit your business? So recently I was looking at an interview that was between the CEO of Micron Technology and Adobe, the CEO of Adobe. And they were talking about how both of those companies were using AI. Now micron develops computer chips. Alright, so the things that make your your phones and your computers and other things run. So in fact, I think they're the only the only computer chip manufacturer in the United States actually, most are in Asia. All right, so they were talking about the use of AI and the micron team, who I actually have some friends over there, but the micron team is using AI that they talked about to detect anomalies and flaws in computer chip design, right? So I'm not talking abou

When it comes to YOUR BUSINESS...Optimize, Transform, or Become IRRELEVANT!! The technology and business climate have changed; at one point it was more costly to apply AI to Your Business. However, today it is MORE COSTLY to NOT APPLY AI to your business to help you pivot and succeed with your Business. Hey, this Grant thank you for joining another episode of ClickAI Radio. Okay, so today we're talking about optimizing transforming or becoming irrelevant. I think those are three Critical choices that we have for our businesses. You know, it seems that if we adapt our business to changing conditions, then we tend to maintain our relevance. I've been involved with four startup companies over the years, the first startup company was right out of Chicago, excuse me, right out of college, my wife and I loaded our brand new baby up and moved to Chicago. We were developing solutions for healthcare organizations. We couldn't quite pivot that one fast enough to keep up with need. So very important lesson learned. Then

What can AI do to help small businesses with so many business failures taking place with COVID-19? There are plenty of stats around that quantify the number of businesses dropping. Understanding these stats is useful, but, it leaves us to ask: Therefore What? Therefore, what can AI do to help the business owner mount a massive plan to rebuild, and pursue the business vision that was once your?? Hey, welcome everybody. This is Grant thank you for joining another episode of ClickAI Radio. All right, so been thinking again, still this is really part two of AI combating COVID when you when you think about all of the all of the carnage, if you will, in terms of the impact of businesses, definitely the impact to human life has been horrific. But also the impact to the businesses as well. And all the people's lives affected by that. You start asking the question least I have, I've been thinking, what can I do to help small businesses with so many business failures taking place? due to COVID-19? Oh, here we are in t

We know that AI is being used in certain healthcare scenarios and impacting business supply chains. But, what are the REAL lessons, and do they apply to me and my business?? Hey, this is Grant thanks for joining another episode of ClickAI Radio. So I've been thinking about could there be some lessons learned from AI's use during COVID-19. Could those lessons be applied to help our business? So to do that, I wanted to first start at what are some things that AI is doing to help combat COVID-19. I saw a report not long ago from the World Economic Forum, they were talking about some ways in which they've seen it applied. And it's areas that of course, if you're watching the news at all you're fully aware of, obviously, AI is being used in the healthcare industry, certainly with research labs and hospitals. They're using AI and machine learning, which is a component of AI in multiple ways. One of those ways that's interesting is in the use of chatbots. And sometimes we love to hate those things, right? Because

AI-AI-O...oh oh!! What are the real AI problems and the threats to your business, or even to YOU!?? Should I not use AI in my business? What does that an AI problem or threat look like? So, to get started with this, I looked at what several organizations were saying on this. Here's one this came from an article out of tutorials point they were claiming that AI is growing at such a rapid pace. It seems magical magical is the term they indicated the researchers note that AI could take over human jobs. Alright, there's certainly some truth to that. I don't know about the magical part. Probably because while I'm in AI, and I build AI stuff and doesn't feel so magical, but Okay, here's some threats. All right. So there's one threat to privacy mail to privacy, right privacy of humans, right. So an AI program that recognizes your speech and understands your language is theoretically capable of understanding your conversations on emails and telephones, right. Okay. So that's it. Here's another AI Oh Oh, it has to do

If there were 5 things You Could Do to GROW YOUR BUSINESS...WOULD YOU?? A recent report discussed 5 reasons a business fails...but, what IF there were 5 Things to Grow Your Business!! I had an opportunity recently to review this report from a group, I was thinking about small to medium businesses that are struggling things that are going on with COVID, and so forth. And and this particular report laid out, I think, five things that that that small businesses run into that causes them to fail. And here's the list is that first one was said 79% fail because they start with too little money, right? That's one of them. Number two, they said was 78% fail because they lack a well designed, or well developed business plan. All right, sell and then the third one was 77% fail because they didn't price things properly, or they fail to include all the necessary factors when they determine prices. All right, number four, they said 73% fail because they were overly optimistic about achievable sales. And then the last one

What a pain in the neck!! What are the major pain points for YOUR business? What opportunities are you missing because of them? In this episode we will discuss several major, common pain points and techniques to overcome them... Thank you for coming to another episode of ClickAI Radio. So today we're talking about pain, right? Something that well, we often Try to avoid I know I do. So we're talking about pain in our business and what that means and the different elements of pain that drive us. When it comes to your small to medium business. The question is, what are your pain points? What are the problems that you face? So I have an opportunity to talk with a lot of companies. And the list of pain points certainly has some common themes across industries actually, across the world. There are certainly unique characteristics of pain to each organization, but there is some common threads threads, what I find tends to change is the prioritization that we put on mitigating those pain points. Sometimes we get shin

What does it take to adopt AI in my business? What does it mean to prepare my business to leverage AI? The answer may surprise YOU!! Hey, welcome everybody. This is Grant, welcome to another episode of ClickAI radio. As you know, my previous podcasts had an opportunity to have my son Steve Larsen join. That was a real treat; I have another interview coming up with another business entrepreneur, I look forward to having them involved as well. Okay, so after talking with Steve, I was thinking through what what are some of the things that each organization needs to do to prepare your business to take on AI. And as you know, typically, as a small to medium business owner, you don't have a lot of time. And so what you need is to have the benefits and the luxury of AI. And at the little or the least amount of effort on your part, right. So as I started thinking through how have I seen the supplied, how have I applied it, what have been some of the best practices, and so I ended up coming away with seven items or se

So you got your business running, and COVID-19 is hitting you hard. How can you work smarter, using the assets already at your fingertips? Steve J Larsen joins Grant to discuss how to Evergreen your business using artificial intelligence!! Grant Larsen Alright everybody welcome. This is Grant Larsen on click AI radio. Welcome to another episode. I'm very excited today because I've got this person in my life and he came into my life over 30 years ago, who would this be? Who would be in my life over 30 years ago? Well, I'm happy to announce it's my son Steven. Well, Mom and mom and dad we call you Steven. Right? I think your your show name is Steve Jay Larson. Right? Tchaikovsky, Steve or psychology Steven. Steve Larsen Either is fine. You brought me into this world! Grant Larsen I might slip back into Stephen node now and then Okay. All right. Okay, so Steve, or Steven has been really successful in business. He's done a fantastic job starting up businesses and applying technology. And as I started to think ab

How do I go about using Artificial Intelligence in MY BUSINESS?? How many steps does it take to use AI? Okay, welcome everybody. My name is Grant thanks for joining another episode of click AI radio. All right, so on topic today, I wanted to spend some time discussing What are the things that we do as a small to medium business owner? To prepare our businesses for AI? What are the steps that we go through in order to accomplish that? I remember one of the very first startup company companies as involved with out of college, we had zero control over our data there is we in fact, we didn't even know what data we had. And that was really, really the biggest problem, right? We didn't know what information was available to us, let alone Even if we knew what the information or the data that we did have, we would know how to have extracted any value out of that. So the fact of the matter is, you know, this, I know this is a business owner. Over time we we collect a lot of data from our businesses, right. In fact, ov

The small business owner said, "Grant, I am working twice as hard and earning half as much...what can I do???" Okay, so I have an opportunity to talk with quite a few small to medium as well as large actually business owners last week. I was talking with a small business owner, I think he's got about five people in his company. And he made a statement. We were talking about the current context around COVID, and the impact of small, small and medium businesses. And he said, Hey, basically, I'm working twice as hard and earning half as much in the current in the current current context with COVID. It made me think about all of the things that it takes to become a successful business owner, a successful entrepreneur, especially during COVID. Right? Is there a set of things that are most meaningful? I started looking at different polls, what different research groups have talked about this one I found was on inc.com. They had done this, this research where they had found that, hey, as an entrepreneur, you're goin

Hey everybody, this is Grant Larsen. Thank you for joining ClickAI Radio. Okay, so COVID-19 has certainly been on all of our minds and it has radically impacted our businesses. But to talk about that, I want to back up and tell you just quick story. So one day, my kids were building something that they called a moving landmass. Now, it was a platform of wood and nails, and duct tape. And the idea was to ride the platform, this this moving landmass down the street. So it did okay, until the actual framework fell apart. Because the duct tape was not the answer, right? Although duct tape is the answer to a lot of things. I myself am a duct tape fan, but it didn't have the properties that were needed for this particular purpose. So sometimes in our businesses, we apply duct tape, right? And and sometimes that's just fine. It's the right answer when we just got to hold something together whether it's a quick business process or minor adjustments or changes in some messaging, gotta hold it together so that we can p

What does it mean to make money!!?? That's That's a big question on a lot of our minds, right? What what does that actually mean, especially for all this going on with COVID-19 and such? Wow, small to medium businesses are just getting hammered. I'm sure a lot of you have been seeing the small to medium business loans, the SBA loans that are coming out. And obviously, some of those are even grants, if you will. What I wanted to talk about was some of the secrets that we've learned in terms of making money or earning more money in our businesses. It actually kind of goes back to some of the things that we've done with our kids. So, so quick, quick little story here. So we have a large family. We have six kids. And we basically have started each of our children with running their own business in our home. I call it the yard manager. So as each of our children were growing up, they each took turns being the art manager, and over the years well, first of all, I should probably explain why What What it means is th

"What do you mean we only have 4 weeks of money left in the business??!!!"" Do we need data transparency in our small-to-medium business...?? You bet we do... All right. Hey, this is Grant Larsen. Thank you for joining another episode of ClickAI Radio. So all right. I was thinking about data right how important data In data is and I was talking with one of the one of the entrepreneurs that I know, he's been running his business here for several years, doing a fantastic job knocking it out of the park. But I was doing some AI work with him, right. And, and he was pointing out something I thought was really critical, which was He's like, Hey, you know, Grant, he's like, a lot of us, you know, small to medium business owners. We're just trying to keep the lights on, right? We're trying to get stuff done trying to keep things going. And the fact of the matter is, we don't always have the ability, or the opportunity to go back and really look at our data. In fact, lots of times we're making a lot of decisions by i

Let's look at some of the key elements of biohacking and apply it to finances, investing, and trading. Genetics - Are you born to invest well? Oxygen - Do you feed your brain with oxygen when making financial decisions? Attention - What is your ability to stay focused on your financial goal? Memory - There must be some discipline applied when making financial decisions...like muscle memory, we have to develop brain memory Sleep - You cannot invest, trade, or balance your budget without taking care of this Environment - Know the best environment for making financial decisions; I know some traders who will not trade when their in-laws are visiting Audio - The right music is food for the brain Light - Choosing the right light is critical to stimulating your brain waves Nutrition - You are influenced heavily by the food you partake, would you feed a $1 million race horse a bunch of junk? You are worth more than $1 million Movement - Get the blood flowing and get moving Stress - This can reduce the blood flow and

What if finances and investing was like biohacking?? A biohacker knows that to take control of your body’s output, you need to first control what is input - beginning with what nutrients it receives. Ok, so what if we said that to control your financial output (meaning your investment growth), you need to first control what is input (your financial insight and acumen!!). Recently I was reading a beginners guide to biohacking. https://blog.bulletproof.com/beginners-guide-to-biohacking-101/ 1. Gut Punch Your Posture 2. Eat The Right Nutrition 3. Rewild Yourself With Nature 4. Expose Yourself to Sunlight 5. Go Outside 6. Hack Flow A theme of this year’s conference was the elusive “flow state”. Flow is that optimal state of consciousness when we feel and perform at our best. Time slows down, you forget yourself, and you perform at a higher level than ever before. 7. Show Gratitude  

So you are working a day job and you are wondering what can you do to get to your financial freedom sooner, rather than later!??!! I met Ryan who is living that life. He has a great day job, but he also wants to do something on the side to help build his financial foundation. Ryan not only figured that out, but he created a system that makes it possible to use his discretionary time wisely. Tune in on this interview as Ryan shares his secret!! Grant: Welcome to another episode of financial investing radio, so I'm very excited because I have in the house with me today, a visitor that I just recently met through someone that I know online and they pointed me to this person. They said, Grant, you need to talk to this person because he's doing a kind of investing that I know a lot of people in the corporate world think about, which is this uncertainty of what's gonna really happen to what's going on in my life, but without going any further. Well let me back up and stop and say, welcome. Ryan. Would you take a m