Management

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 35: Growing Your Business Through A Downturn – Which Industries Thrive and Which Get Hammered

Curious to look ahead at how an economic downturn might impact your business? Looking ahead is the first step to being prepared. When a downturn starts, the mainstream narrative explains that a recession begins when consumers stop spending, as if all consumers suddenly wake up one day and decide not to spend money. Looking deeper,…

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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 31: Money Mechanics For Owners and Managers of Businesses – Part 3: From Fiat Central Banking to Bitcoin

Today we’re concluding a three-part conversation focusing on money. If you missed parts one and two, you’ll want to go back to previous episodes for a deeper understanding of money mechanics. This topic is so important to be familiar with if you run a business. For a long time, societies have run on a central…

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Episode 30: Money Mechanics for Owners and Managers of Businesses – Part 2: From Gold to Fiat Central Banking

This episode of picks up from the last one where we began a discussion about money and Web 3.0. Alternatives to traditional money have been increasing in popularity, and if business owners want to stand out from their competitors, it’s important to know why and how they work. Gold was the top choice to use…

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Episode 29: Money Mechanics for Owners and Managers of Businesses – Part 1: The Road to Gold

In this series of episodes of Emerge Dynamics we’re diving into a new, highly relevant topic: Web 3.0. The next level of the internet and how it influences transactions is going to have a large impact on business owners everywhere. Within this evolution, you’ll hear other possibly new terms such as blockchain, decentralized finance, smart…

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Episode 28: Customer Service and Doing The Right Thing (Even When It Hurts)

One of the most impactful aspects of business is customer service. It’s a topic with depth, and therefore may be unpacked further in later episodes. In today’s episode, David leads with a story he recently shared with his kids that relates to this topic. If you go to YouTube and search “United Breaks Guitars,” you’ll…

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Episode 25: Is Now The Right Time To Buy A Competitor?

In this episode, David and Eric will be discussing if now is a good time to start thinking about buying that competitor you’ve been thinking about. This episode builds upon our previous series on valuation and the current economic situation.  Today we are seeing more mainstream articles about how we are either already in a…

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Episode 24: Austin Sherman, Co-Founder of Big Easy Bucha, Shares Some of The Benefits Of Working With Equity Investors and Getting Your Numbers Straight As He Recaps His Journey To A Successful Exit

In this episode we’re joined by the charismatic and creative Austin Sherman, who co-founded a kombucha business from scratch. Like any business owner, he’s seen his share of ups and downs, but they led to an exit to a large multinational company. Austin shares his entire journey building and exiting from Big Easy Bucha. As…

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Episode 23: The Pros and Cons of Bringing in Equity Investors

Today we discuss working with equity investors. Small business owners can be hesitant to bring in equity investors, but there can be good reasons to consider this path. Equity capital is almost always more expensive than debt capital, but it can enable you to grow much faster than you otherwise would have. Join us as…

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