Carl Gould #70secondCEO

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

That's a system where you have an activity or a group of activities that you can remove yourself from. Now, you remember way back when we were talking about the discovery process, and we said, Every job has a personality. Every industry has a personality. Well, in your busine...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

That's a system where you have an activity or a group of activities that you can remove yourself from. Now, you remember way back when we were talking about the discovery process, and we said, Every job has a personality. Every industry has a personality. Well, in your busine...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

Take a moment right now to write down what the top five complaints are about your industry- maybe not about you as a company, maybe you as a company, but maybe not- about your industry? So how would you know that? So think of a customer- a negative customer- customers. Now add ...

Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO - just a little over a minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Our topic today is -  Are you a Muddy Fish or are you a Clean Fish? I wonder.  

 So, a muddy fish. Are you the kind of person that is fast-paced and outgoing? You're not very detail-oriented. You're results-driven.  You like things new, trendy, flashy. You tend to be...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. 

 So Jim, what I would do is I would look at what would be favorable, what would be the terms and conditions of the contract that you would be willing to say to a customer: I'll eat the price increase if it comes up in the next whatever 12 months, 24 months, 36 mont...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. 

 So Jim, what I would do is I would look at what would be favorable, what would be the terms and conditions of the contract that you would be willing to say to a customer: I'll eat the price increase if it comes up in the next whatever 12 months, 24 months, 36 mont...

Hey Everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO, just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Today's topic is - Cash Flow.

All right, so give yourself a ranking here:

To what degree are you cash flow positive on a monthly basis? 

Do you have at least six months of operating expenses in reserve to weather a storm? 

Do ...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

And that, you know, remember, I'm seventh grade. I'm 11 years old, and I just got called what I now think is a swear word. So that whole night I remember it sitting with me, and I was thinking, you know, what was she implying? Was she saying I was disgustingly objectionable? ...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

 They don't make obnoxious like they used to. I remember the first time I was called obnoxious. I was in the seventh grade. And I was joking in class with some of my friends. We were probably just being louder than we should have been, probably in a more inappropriate ma...

Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here, your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results.

 If I have an airline mileage account, here would be my IDEAL point system, ready? Ready? Take this down, you're going to want to know this one. Earn them, use them! Yeah! Alright, see you, everybody. No, I'm just kidding. It is so hard to use my damn mileage account. Like I've got- it'...

Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here, your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results.

This one is called flexible consumption. This is another way that you can start to generate revenue in your business. My father always used to say to me when I would complain, " Ugh, my sales cycle's taking too long, Dad. I'm not getting the clients I want; they're not paying what I wan...

1825. Stop Letting Scheduling Conflicts Steal Your Success 2

Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here, your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. 

Sometimes when you're in the jar, you can't read the label, alright, so, I know it sounds silly, but we're out here reading the label for you. Ok, so do yourselves the favor of holding each other to getting it on...

Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here, your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results.

This is the one thing- the main thing that trips up your progress: scheduling conflicts. That's why we developed the Annual Milestones Planning the way we do. Where you put it on the wall, and you step back, and you're like, you're going to do that? At the same time, we're doing that? That s...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

Low performers who complain about not being accountable. Low performers, you're getting it, right? Go to battle with those that you could do that. All right, so now I'll give you some of the trends that I'm seeing. All right, so we do business, and we've advised companies in 78 countries. One of the a...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. 

So, now, business owners, I won't embarrass you by asking you to stand up if there's somebody in your business you would need to fire, because you would all stand up, but you need to let that person go. Who you say no to on your team is equally as important to who you say yes to on your t...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

 In sales, yes, there are times when you get the lucky one, right? We have a franchisee who thought they were calling our competitor.

And they said, Oh, I remember the three calls we had; they were so good. Meanwhile, I'm going through my records, I'm like, do...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

Between 7 and 9 a.m. The reason I do that is to minimize the gatekeepers that keep me from my prospects. I know that at 7 a.m., business owners and decision-makers get their phones; they're at arm's length, and they can't help themselves. They'll see that phone ring, and they're like, Oh, my assistant...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

Too good at what you do to not have the lead flow that you need. You're too good at what you do. So I know darn well if you went to every trade show and if you were at every event and you were typing in every time I asked and you were going for it 100%, you'd have your leads, right? And so Ju...