Entrepreneurship

Episode 43: How to Make $5,000 Per Hour

We’re continuing our conversation about how us business owners can improve as individuals, and today’s theme is that how you spend your time really matters. We’re bringing in two concepts: The Rainmaker’s Dilemma, and the “Value Ladder” from the book “Time Really Is Money: How to Work for $5,000 Per Hour” by Rob Slee. Rob…

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Episode 40: Business Processes – How To Clone Yourself

Curious to know what helps businesses emerge from their peers? Documenting your processes is key. This requires discipline by looking at the consistent application of processes within your business. You must have full documentation, and then train off of that to systematize the way your processes flow. This is optimal for growth.   Looking deeper,…

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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 26: Use Business to Fight Poverty? Partners Worldwide Thinks So.

Partners worldwide is an organization that has a mission of fighting poverty with business. If we believe we are doing something good for the community with our business then it would be a natural extension of that thought that business can also do good for those living in poverty. Eric recently attended Partners Worldwide’s annual…

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Episode 22: Making the Banks Come to You

In this episode, David and Eric link the discussion of financial analysis to making banks want you. There can be good cases for using other people’s money to help accelerate your growth. There is so much confusion with businesses about what banks’ objectives and restrictions are. We clarify this before diving into financial analysis. If…

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Episode 15: Are Your Customers Satisfied? Are You Sure? Really, Are You Sure?

In this episode, David and Eric wrap up their coverage of Value Builder (https://valuebuilder.com/for-business-owners/) drivers with Customer Satisfaction. Do your customers promote your business on your behalf? A lot of business owners assume their customers are satisfied. We discuss some interesting dynamics that often make that not the case. Created by Fred Reichheld and a…

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Episode 13: Monopoly Control and Recurring Revenue Can Be Your Most Powerful Value Drivers

This episode of Emerge Dynamics is a continuation of our series about understanding how much your business is really worth. This time, we’re discussing recurring revenue and monopoly control. Recurring revenue and monopoly control are drivers of your business valuation just like Switzerland and hub and spoke, as discussed in the previous episode. First and…

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