Accelerate Your Business Growth

The best teams on the planet are the ones that work together, communicate and function as one horde, and even when facing a setback, remain optimistic and confident that together, they'll be able to get back on track and move mountains. Joshua Davidson joins Diane to discuss this important topic. Since founding his company in 2009 at the age of sixteen, Joshua has been on a mission with his team at ChopDawg.com to make a difference and impact as many entrepreneurs as possible. Joshua and his team help clients turn their brilliant ideas into beautiful applications  and powerful brands. Joshua is also the author of The Entrepreneur’s Framework: How Businesses Are Adapting in the New Economy. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a

John Warrillow discusses how to build a resilient, and valuable business. Entrepreneurs and small business owners will want to listen in to find out how to build a business that can thrive without you. John Warrillow is an entrepreneur and author with over 20 years of research experience into the small and medium business market. He founded The Value Builder System™ to level the playing field for business owners as they approach their exit. John’s best-selling book, Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You, was recognized by both Fortune and Inc. Magazine as one of the best business books of 2011 and has been translated into four languages. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Twenty five year NASCAR industry veteran, Mike Mooney, offers his wisdom drawn from his real life experiences in the white hot and pressure packed world of motor sports.  It would be easy to say that Mike’s career has been going in circles for the last 25 years in the motorsports industry.  Mike has built a reputation for creating brand, athlete, and sports property distinction by launching and leading award-winning marketing and communications campaigns.  He is also recognized for his work in crisis and reputation management, having led dozens of crisis recovery efforts over his career.   His book, Reputation Shift – 5 High Performance Truths for Success, delivers practical and ready-to-use personal branding and reputation-building strategies for people who want to ensure personal and professional success. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you s

Congress cut taxes! The last time they did that was in 1986. Ronald Reagan was President, Matlock was on TV, Challenger exploded, and we sang along with We are The World. Yes, it’s been a LONG time. So, what do these historic changes mean for you, your family, and your business? Diane Gardner knows the answers! She’s back to translate the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 so you can legally take advantage of every new deduction, credit, and loop hole. Diane Gardner is a Certified Tax Coach, Quilly award recipient, and best-selling author whose proactive planning approach gives clients a leg up on Uncle Sam and helps them dodge the tax bullet. Diane’s expertise lies in the area of tax planning. Her goal is to make sure successful entrepreneurs across the United States are paying the least amount of income tax they can legally pay. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a fr

Imtiaz Patel brings extensive, well-rounded experience in business growth to this episode. He shares growth strategies based on competitive thinking and change management. Imtiaz is a strategy and business development executive with a strong track record in building, growing, and turning around businesses. He spent a number of years as a management consultant for companies such as Dow Jones and The Children’s Place, where he developed growth strategies based in digital expansion, market entry, cost reduction, and rightsizing business. Imtiaz now runs his own consulting firm, Accelerated Growth Solutions, that specializes in helping companies achieve aggressive growth rates. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What got us here might not get us there! From crypto-currency to blockchain, there’s a lot more to understand to ensure business success. Scott Carter joins us to unravel some of the mystery around the future of finance for business owners. Scott has always had to make his own way with no excuses. Born in tiny New Hampshire, Ohio, he went from elementary to senior high school with the same 40 people. He played every sport in high school and during college was drafted by the New York Yankees.  He taught himself piano and made food money playing in the local piano bar while playing summer league baseball. At every stop in his unique life he has gleaned everything possible. That’s what learners do. Today, he is a successful executive, author of You Got This, and much sought-after voice of reason and practicality in the business world. With thirty years of experience in scaling start-ups into industry leaders and growing Fortune 500 businesses, Scott knows how to make money, build on it, and protect it. He’s be

Here’s a dirty little secret that every lawyer knows: most business lawsuits and investigations, and their damages, fines and expenses, are entirely preventable if a company follows some simple pre-emptive steps. In this talk, Alex Gertsburg will pass along some proven “behind-the-curtain” strategies for saving companies boat-loads of money. Alex has worn four hats in his 17-year legal career, including serving as a business litigator with large law firms, in-house counsel with a large corporation, and an officer with a line-haul truck company in the Army with a year of combat deployment in Iraq. He is currently the CEO of CoverMySix and head of the Gertsburg Law Firm in Chagrin Falls. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic

We talk with Farnoosh Brock about how to focus on genuine serving, to go from your own agenda to a priority on trust and relationships, and to create the outcomes you desire for your small business or company. Farnoosh Brock went from electrical engineer and project manager at a Fortune 100 to business coach, entrepreneur and CEO of Prolific Living Inc. She shows business owners and leaders why and how to choose serving over selling to build profitable sustainable businesses. In addition to The Serving Mindset: Stop Selling and Grow Your Business (2018), she’s also the author of The Healthy Juicer's Bible (2013) and The Healthy Smoothie Bible (2014), as well as The Big Book of Healing Drinks (2019). Find out more at http://www.farnooshbrock.com. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth

If you are not where you want to be in your business, ask yourself what your intention was when you started.  If you don't have a clear answer, this episode with Peter Mehit will give you a guide on how to reset, or if you're just starting a way to launch with better chances of success. If you have a dream, a business or both, Peter Mehit can help you realize it.  After a successful career in the Fortune 100, he has helped over 2,500 clients start, grow and expand their businesses. Their business plans have raised over $160,000,000 for his clients.  He is the co-author of Killer Business Plan, a book that can help you choose the business that is right for you. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many business owners forget this method and neglect an opportunity that can increase their business by 30, 50, even 100% overnight. In this discussion with Jessica Fialkovich, we will explore key takeaways as disseminated by a serial entrepreneur and M&A expert who has bought/built, and sold a number of companies during her decade+ long career. Jessica Fialkovich is a M&A expert, keynote speaker, small business advocate, award-winning business owner, and Springsteen fan whose mission is to help business owners leave their legacy and exit successfully. Over the past 5 years, Jessica oversaw $55 million in transactions, was involved in 150 deals, and mentored 1,900+ business owners on buying and selling a business. Currently, she’s the President & Co-Founder of Transworld Business Advisors—Rocky Mountain, Colorado’s top business brokerage firm. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever

Most people give up on LinkedIn - because when they scroll their home feed of other people's posts, they wonder, "Who are all these people?!" After all, 80% of your results come from only 20% of these Connections. Vik Rajan joins us to share some valuable insights around how to really gain referrals. Vikram Rajan is the co-founder of phoneBlogger.net, and is also the creator of Inner Circles, the free LinkedIn networking add-on. Vik started Practice Marketing, Inc., as he realized attorneys, CPAs, and related professionals required specialized marketing help that complies with clients' professional code of conduct, ethics, and model rules. Vik has been a columnist for AICPA's largest publication for accountants, Forbes online, and frequently helps to present CLE lectures through various Bar Associations. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign

As a business grows from high 6 to 7 and 8 figure revenue entrepreneurial ways of working can start to hinder a business rather than advance it. The very skills and qualities that drove start-up and build-up success can actually stall a business breaking through to the next level. Shane Spiers joins me to talk about this important subject. Shane is a Business Scaling Strategist based in the UK and accomplished leader with SME, mid-sized and FTSE 250 success. His business track record is dominated by leading 7, 8 & 9-figure rapid growth companies. His roles have included CEO of a 25m company providing services to UK central government and CEO of a 240m business unit responsible for leading a team of over 1000 people operating in 135 sites in 23 cities. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/busines

Mike Adams explains how to learn and practice this crucial skill. We discuss the critical elements of a business story, the types of stories sales and business people need to tell and how to become a master storyteller. Engineer turned salesman, Mike taught himself storytelling while selling and managing sales teams throughout the world for international corporations Schlumberger, Siemens, Nokia and Halliburton. With each industry change landing him on the wrong side of a steep learning curve, Mike learned to seek out and share specific persuasive stories. Now he finds stories and teaches storytelling for a consulting client base as diverse and international as his own sales career. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice

Richard Nongard joins us to talk about getting the growth and sales targets you want by getting the core of what leadership (and the pysychology around it) is all about. Richard is an expert in business leadership and business psychology. He started out in car sales in the early 1980's and parlayed his sales experience into leadership experience by moving on as an entrepreneur and executive in both the healthcare and educational sectors. He is a licensed psychotherapist who views his training in counseling as a degree in "problem-solving". Richard has written over 15 books in psychology and business leadership. Richard is a serial entrepreneur and has owned several restaurants and e-commerce platforms. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m

A business owner's core beliefs around cybercrime impact how they respond to the risk.  Typically, these responses are motivated by fear and result in buying a bunch of software and services from well-known brands or from IT service companies the owner is already doing business with. Adam Anderson joins us to offer realistic ideas for dealing with it security. Adam is a long-time small business owner who also happens to be one of the leading authorities on small business cybersecurity. This serial entrepreneur is also an author, writing several books on cyber security and cyber crime to help other business owners understand and navigate the digital world. Adam is on a mission to help fellow business owners find the answer to the question, “Should I even care about cybersecurity?” His newest book, The Monster Within, shows business owners that cybersecurity isn’t something reserved for only the nerds in Silicon Valley - we all have a stake in this. Visit elementsecuritygroup.com/AYBG to get some great informa

Brent McClure joins me to discuss the role of the Virtual CFO in your business. He offers actions that someone could take today to get a sense of where they are as a business owner and what they need to improve upon. In 2010, Brent opened McClure Consulting, a firm focusing on CPA Services, Business Strategy and Virtual CFO Services. A results-oriented Senior Executive and Consultant with more than 20 years of success, Brent crosses many business verticals. He brings clarity and perspective to clients. His vast knowledge across a multitude of industries and expansive toolbox can help you and your business achieve new potential. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

But what are the crucial elements to consider when responding to an RFP and writing a winning proposal? As head of the association that's dedicated to helping companies navigate this world, Rick will unlock the mystery behind proposal writing and offer practical advice that will resonate with any business leader. He'll share proven tactics from all aspects of the proposal development process, including the role creativity and writing play.  Rick Harris is the Executive Director of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP), the association for professionals who pursue business through proposals, bids, tenders, and presentations. He and his members advance the arts, sciences, and technologies of winning business - in virtually every major industry such as IT, telecom, software, healthcare, consulting, finance and the federal government. They keep business in business. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Li

If you’ve ever wondered how you can get booked on a show, Katrina can tell you! In this episode she shares her must H.A.V.E. formula to make the media call you! Katrina Cravy is an author and Emmy award-winning TV media veteran. As a former investigative reporter and TV host for FOX, NBC, and ABC affiliates, she’s now helping clients get on TV and deliver a winning message. Katrina is also a wife and mother. Her greatest joy is raising her 12 year old son to be a good human! She’s also the author of On Air - Insider Secrets to Attract the Media and Get Free Publicity. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Philip Williams has a unique and valuable viewpoint regarding business growth. He has a great deal of experience helping people grow their small businesses and focuses on the people side over the financial aspects. He was hired as a CEO by a company that didn't know how they were going to pay him. He took this failing business and helped grow its revenue by 50% every year WITHOUT even setting goals. Philip’s business education started at the family dinner table when he was about 8 years old. He was raised by a Barber Shop and Auto Salvage Yard owner then climbed the corporate ladder outside the family business. He’s worked in manufacturing, distribution, engineering consulting, and professional services. He's a 3-time Inc5000 honoree after becoming the CEO who took the helm of a 17 year old cash strapped company and grow it at 50% a year for 5 straight years. That resulted in two nearly simultaneous acquisition offers from two publicly traded multi-national corporations. He accomplished it all by bootstrapp

In this episode Louis Gudema tells us about a contrarian but intuitive approach to marketing that prioritizes the fastest, least expensive programs. Louis helps companies from MIT startups to the Global 2000 increase their revenue by focusing on the fastest, least expensive and most cost-effective programs to get more leads and sales. He is the founder and president of marketing consultancy, Revenue & Associates, and previously founded and grew a marketing agency into one of the top three or four in its national market before a successful exit. He is the author of Bullseye Marketing, available on Amazon. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices