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Franchise Bible Coach Radio: Keith Paul with HandyPro

June 19, 2020 by angishields

Denver Business Radio

Franchise Bible Coach Radio: Keith Paul with HandyPro

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Keith Paul is a Founding member of HandyPro.

HandyPro is a professional handyman service for residential, senior and people with disabilities home modifications, & commercial improvement and repair services.

HandyPro provides a broad range of services including grab bars, walk-in tubs, door widening, carpentry, painting, drywall, ceramic tile, plumbing, electrical, gutters, doors, and much more.

Connect with Keith on LinkedIn.

About the Show

The Franchise Bible Coach Radio Podcast with Rick and Rob features no-nonsense franchise industry best practices and proprietary strategies that franchisors and franchise owners can implement to improve their profitability and operational efficiencies.

Our show guests are franchise superstars and everyday heroes that share their tips for growth and strategies to survive and thrive during the current challenges.

About Your Hosts

Rick Grossman has been involved in the franchise industry since 1994. He franchised his first company and grew it to 49 locations in 19 states during the mid to late 1990s. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and primary trainer focusing on franchise owner relations and creating tools and technologies to increase franchisee success.

Rick developed and launched his second franchise organization in 2003. He led this company as the CEO and CMO growing to over 150 locations in less than three years. He developed the high tech/high touch franchise recruiting and sales system.

Both companies achieved ranking on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Franchise 500 List. During this period Rick served as a business and marketing consultant to small business and multimillion dollar enterprises. He also consulted with franchise owners and prospective franchisees, franchisors, and companies seeking to franchise.

Rick had the honor of working with his mentor, Erwin Keup as a contributing Author for the 7th edition of Entrepreneur Magazine’s Franchise Bible published by Entrepreneur Press.

Mr. Grossmann has been chosen as the new Author of Franchise Bible and his 8th Edition was released worldwide in January of 2017. He currently serves as an executive coach and strategist for multiple franchise clients.

Follow Franchise Bible Coach on Facebook.

Rob Gandley has served as SeoSamba’s Vice President and Strategic Partner since 2015.

With 25 years of experience in entrepreneurship, digital marketing, sales, and technology, he continues to focus on leading the expansion of SeoSamba’s product and service capabilities and US market penetration. SeoSamba specializes in centralized marketing technology built for multi-location business models and continues to win industry awards and grow consistently year over year.

Concurrent with his work at SeoSamba, Gandley is a strategic growth consultant and CEO of FranchiseNow, a digital marketing and sales consulting firm. Gandley consults digital businesses, entrepreneurs, coaches and multi-location businesses across diverse industries. Prior to SeoSamba, he built an Internet Marketing business and platform responsible for generating over 100,000 qualified franchise development leads used by more than 400 US-based franchise brands for rapid business expansion.

Gandley also held various senior sales and management positions with IT and Internet pioneers like PSINet, AT&T, and SunGard Data Systems from (1993-2005) where he set sales records for sales and revenue growth at each company. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University’s Smeal Business School in 92’ with a BS degree in Finance and emphasis on Marketing.

Connect with Rob on LinkedIn.

BRX Pro Tip: Understand Your Weaknesses

June 19, 2020 by angishields

BRX Pro Tips

BRX Pro Tip: Understand Your Weaknesses

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BRX Pro Tip: Understand Your Weaknesses

Stone Payton: [00:00:00] And we’re back with BRX Pro Tips. Stone Payton and Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, we spend a considerable amount of time talking about capitalizing, doubling down on your strengths, but we’re not saying to ignore your weaknesses, right?

Lee Kantor: [00:00:16] Right. You have to understand what your weak spots are and what your weaknesses are in order to kind of prevent yourself from making the same mistakes over and over again. So, you can’t grow until you identify what those weaknesses are, and you put processes or people in place to help you minimize or alleviate them. That’s the important lesson from this tip, because you should focus on your strength. That’s where you should be spending your time for your learnings. But you have to know you have weaknesses and you have to put processes in place in order to get past the weaknesses, because if you don’t, you’re just going to be making the same mistakes over and over again. And it just becomes Groundhog Day.

Lee Kantor: [00:01:00] So, it’s important to just say, “Okay, I’m not good at this and I’m hiring this person to take care of that,” or “I’m putting in this automation to take care of that.” Otherwise, you’re going to just make the same mistakes over and over again. So, that’s my recommendation. Get clear on what those weaknesses are. And then delegate either automation or people to make them go away.

Stone Payton: [00:01:24] Well, that’s an important distinction. I guess maybe this is coming from my own self-awareness that I hope is growing, but it’s not, “Okay, there’s a weakness. I’m gonna go get better at that.” That might be the choice but,really, for you, the plan A on this is find a way to get it off of your plate to delegate it, right?

Lee Kantor: [00:01:45] Right. I mean, I’m not saying to advocate it. I’m just saying to delegated. So, you’re not ignoring it. You’re just putting in a process in place that’s going to make sure that that gets done, that something else is watching your back, so you don’t have to spend the mental energy or time doing something you’re not good at or you don’t like doing because you’re not saying that that activity isn’t important. You’re saying it is important, you’re just not good enough to do it, so find someone who is.

Stone Payton: [00:02:12] And now, I can go double down on something that I do enjoy and that I am good at.

Lee Kantor: [00:02:16] Right. Then, you’ll have growth.

Lori Brewer with LBA Ware

June 19, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Lori Brewer with LBA Ware

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Lori Brewer is an accomplished entrepreneur and technology leader who has manifested her forward-thinking visions into the development of award-winning fintech applications including CompenSafe™, the premier incentive compensation management platform, and LimeGear™, a revolutionary business intelligence platform.

As an officer in the U.S. Air Force, she designed an inaugural website for the C-130 Hercules, organizing and presenting crucial information for troops around the globe. As a civilian software developer, she was hired by a mortgage lender and found similar challenges: disorganized and disparate data, a clear need for improved processes, and the opportunity to show high returns on technology investments.

Now with over 20 years of mortgage banking experience, Brewer is an indispensable technology leader in the industry founder and CEO of LBA Ware™, an Inc. 5000 company, and recipient of the prestigious Tech All-Star award by the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Follow LBA Ware on Facebook and Twitter.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

How did LBA Ware start? How much has your company grown since?
What current projects are you working on at LBA Ware? Why is this important to the mortgage industry?
What makes LBA Ware stand out against the competition?
What qualities in your work ethic have helped you to get this far and stay relevant?
How has your business been impacted by the current pandemic? What business practices will look different for your organization moving forward?
As a small business owner, what is one piece of advice you want to share with other individuals starting a business right now?

About Our Sponsor

OnPay’s payroll services and HR software give you more time to focus on what’s most important. Rated “Excellent” by PC Magazine, we make it easy to pay employees fast, we automate all payroll taxes, and we even keep all your HR and benefits organized and compliant.

Our award-winning customer service includes an accuracy guarantee, deep integrations with popular accounting software, and we’ll even enter all your employee information for you — whether you have five employees or 500. Take a closer look to see all the ways we can save you time and money in the back office.

Follow OnPay on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

John R Hightower with Arch + Tower

June 18, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

John R Hightower with Arch + Tower

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John Hightower is the CEO of Arch + Tower | an FD Company . John co-founded the company and led the firm from inception through acquisition. Arch + Tower has served firms across various industries and sizes, notably Chick-fil-A and alongside the Founder of the Ritz-Carlton – Horst Schulze.

In 2019, Arch + Tower was acquired by Frazier & Deeter, a national ranked accounting firm, with offices across the United States and a budding footprint in the United Kingdom. John has worked with leading brands in their respective industries: SAP, Ritz-Carlton, Coca-Cola, Leadercast, Chick-fil-A, Spanx, Home Depot, McDonald’s as well as many start-ups and nonprofits.

Connect with John on LinkedIn and follow Arch + Tower on Twitter.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

The Arch + Tower story
The CxExOx framework
Client case studies
What typical client engagement looks like for Arch + Tower
The acquisition by Frazier & Deeter
Current trends John is seeing in the marketplace

About Our Sponsor

Follow OnPay on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

SBBV E18: Tabitha Danloe, Empower Others to Conquer

June 17, 2020 by angishields

Tucson Business Radio

SBBV E18: Tabitha Danloe, Empower Others to Conquer

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Tabitha Danloe, Owner
The Divine Sophia
(520) 409-2988
tabitha@thedivinesophia.com
https://www.thedivinesophia.com/
SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram|

As a Professional Certified Coach & Certified Professional Integrative Coach, Tabitha loves to empower others to conquer fear, let go and trust, and to embrace being courageously authentic. She does this by helping busy executives & leaders, entrepreneurs, and men and women all over the world to create measurable results towards their goals in their companies, careers, businesses, and lives. She believes that everyone has tremendous wisdom that lives within, and as a Certified Coach it is her job to help you hear that wisdom.

About Your Host, Stephanie Rising

A business coach and author, Stephanie Rising has helped over 100 small business owners achieve greater proficiency, profitability, and sanity. She specializes in navigating the complexities of family-owned companies and partnerships with 5 to 25 employees. An expert small business advocate, she provides objective problem solving and accountability that has led many of her clients to award-winning achievement. Her clients have represented a total of over $60M in annual revenues and 1,000 employees.

Stephanie specializes in DISC behavioral analysis and her book, DISC: Leverage Your Nature, Increase Your Sales, is available on Amazon. She outlines step-by-step tactics for building a marketing plan that is sustainable for each reader’s personality and speaks to their specific target market. Stephanie has led numerous well-received workshops on DISC-based marketing and applying behavioral analysis in business.

As an extension of her belief in promoting an educated and healthy community, Stephanie is a monthly sponsor of Youth On Their Own, which provides stipends, supplies, and mentorship to Tucson teens who are homeless through no fault of their own.  She also supports Temwani Children’s Foundation, which provides education, food, and hope to orphaned children impoverished by the effects of HIV/AIDS in Lusaka, Zambia in Africa.

Stephanie’s podcast, Small Biz, Big Voices, is broadcast monthly on Tucson Business Radio X. Show notes, interview questions, and additional coaching tips can be found on her small Biz, Big Voices Facebook page.

Stephanie is available for executive team coaching, strategic planning retreats, and public speaking.

Dayton Business Radio: Dr. Pamela Ellis with Compass Education Strategies

June 17, 2020 by angishields

Dayton Business Radio

Dayton Business Radio: Dr. Pamela Ellis with Compass Education Strategies

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Pamela Ellis, MBA, PhD—also known as The Education Doctor®—has helped hundreds of young people find and be admitted to best-fit colleges so their parents save time and avoid over-paying. As CEO of Compass Education Strategies, she brings combines 15+ years of expertise with the education system to offer educational advising services and programs to school districts, busy families, and companies who value their employees who are parents.

For school districts, Compass provides research-based, thoughtful college and career-readiness curriculum and professional development services.

For families, we help teens find a college that feels like home and partner with parents to avoid overpaying. Compass saves families time, money, and their relationships.

For employers, we are pursuing opportunities to offer educational services as an employee benefit to businesses in Ohio with over 5000 employees. We will help these employers offer a benefit that results in improved employee productivity and stress management for their employees.

Dr. Pamela is a highly sought-after speaker and author of the best-selling book What to Know Before They Go. In the first of this series, College Edition, coined “the how-to guide for the teen years”, she shares actionable insights and tips to help parents, caregivers and mentors navigate the high school years with less worry.

Dr. Pamela graduated from Stanford University and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, and she earned a doctorate from the Stanford University School of Education.

Connect with Dr. Pamela on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

BRX Pro Tip: Remember Your True North

June 17, 2020 by angishields

BRX Pro Tips

BRX Pro Tip: Remember Your True North

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BRX Pro Tip: Remember Your True North

Stone Payton: [00:00:00] Welcome back to BRX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, it is so important, I’ve come to believe, and much of it from hanging out with you, I think, to remember our true north. And I can’t think of anybody better to ask about a brief conversation in this regard than the founder and the CEO of the company. So, can you speak to this general idea of finding and remembering true north? And maybe a few words about your true north for Business RadioX.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:35] Yeah. In times of crisis, this is really important because you have to remember the reason you’re doing what you’re doing. And in our case at Business RadioX, we’ve grown. Right now, there is a crisis happening in terms of a pandemic that’s impacting the world, and we can’t lose sight of the reason that we got involved with Business RadioX. We think it’s important to use our service to help people meet and serve the people most important to them, that our service helps them do that.

Lee Kantor: [00:01:10] Now, historically, we’ve done that face to face in the studio. That’s how we used to go about. And then, that was our big selling point. And if people wanted to meet more people face to face, then our system works extremely well to help them do that. We’re not saying stop doing that. In our case, the media is an essential service, so we’re able to do that, and we’ve been doing it through the entire time. So, I’m not saying stop doing that, but what I’m saying is that just remember that part of what we’re trying to do is to be the voice of business in the marketplace as well, and that we can do that virtually, and we can help create these relationships between our clients and their guests virtually.

Lee Kantor: [00:01:52] It’ll be a different way of doing it, or it might require more services for us to provide in order for them to help facilitate those relationships. But at the heart of what we’re trying to do is that every Business RadioX studio is to become the voice of business in their community and every Business RadioX sponsor is trying to become the voice of business to the constituents that are important to them. That has not changed. That is still the same. That is our true north.

Ben Brunt with Noble Investment Group

June 16, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Ben Brunt with Noble Investment Group

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Ben Brunt is a principal with responsibility for sourcing and underwriting new investments encompassing individual asset and portfolio acquisitions, land, and new development opportunities, market, and investment analysis and brand positioning.

Prior to joining Noble in 2005, Mr. Brunt held senior executive investment roles at Songy Partners and Hardin Capital. He has more than 23 years of hospitality industry experience and began his career in hotel operations.

Mr. Brunt received a B.A. from Trinity College and an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University. He is a former professional violinist and spent two years as a member of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Brunt currently serves as a board member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Atlanta Midtown Alliance. He is also a member of the AHLA Lodging Investment Council and a member of the Urban Land Institute.

Follow Noble Investment Groupon LinkedIn and Facebook.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode