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Episode 60: Driving Salesforce Effectiveness – Don’t Lose Sight of the Mission and Purpose of Your Business

In this episode, David and Eric discuss the current drop in consumer sales across the country. They remind us to focus on not just selling “widgets”, but to go deeper and to demonstrate to customers how your business or product can improve their lives. David and Eric also share tips for monitoring monthly sales goals…

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Episode 59: How to Forecast Seasonality…and…Does Shadowstats.com Give a Better View of Inflation Than the CPI?

In this episode, David and Eric discuss how to incorporate seasonality into your revenue forecast. They give reasons why you should do this and a practical guide on how to do it. They also discuss the September CPI and question its accuracy in tracking how expensive American life has become. They look at www.shadowstats.com as…

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Episode 56: Does Your Business Scenario Planning Include the Inverted Yield Curve and the SLOOS Report? It Should.

In this episode, we look at current and historical data from the Federal Reserve and discuss what the inverted yield curve tells us about the state of our economy. The SLOOS Report is a quarterly survey of senior loan officers of banks. According to their date, over 50% of banks are seeing a decline in…

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Episode 53: Housing Crash in 2023? You do need to know.

Are you following the housing market? All business owners and managers should. While other industries only affect us if we are in them or related to them, housing affects all of us. Will there be a housing crash in 2023? Or is the crash cancelled? Eric and David weigh in on where the year is…

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Episode 46: Is Stagflation Here? Making a Plan for the Future.

Today we’re broaching a topic that’s been on everybody’s minds, which is inflation. This is a crazy time we are living in, and it’s no different in the business environment. For the first time, the Federal Reserve has actually publicly warned that there is a mild recession. The prices we see increasing every day are…

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Episode 42: Bank Failures – Financial Crisis or Isolated Incidents?

There’s so much going on these past few weeks that affects business owners, so today we’re taking a pause from our recent topics to talk about this current environment instead. Suddenly banks are failing, so we’ll get into what’s behind those along with the continuously increasing interest rates. When looking back at the past 50…

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Episode 36: Growing Your Business Through A Downturn – Are More Price Increases Coming? The CPI isn’t telling you what you think it is telling you.

In this episode, the series on growing your business through a downturn continues. This topic is very relevant to what’s happening in the current economy. Planning strategically and looking ahead will help you stay proactive so that you don’t just survive economic hardship, but thrive throughout it. What people need to know is that whether…

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Episode 34: Growing Your Business Through A Downturn – Setting the Stage

Can you continue growing your business through the downturn? It would be great to be able to predict what’s going to happen in the economy next week, next month, and next year. But when it comes doesn’t matter—the fact remains that at some point, there will be a downturn in the economy. The real-time, first…

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Episode 33: Wrapping Up Web 3.0

In this episode of Emerge Dynamics, we’re wrapping up our discussion about Web 3.0. You can be sure that Web 3.0 is going to be impacting business owners everywhere in a very real way, especially when it comes to creating contracts, decentralization of technology, and other digital expansions. What is a smart contact? A smart…

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