Carl Gould #70secondCEO
A quick daily hit with Carl Gould to achieve a lifetime of results. #70secondCEO your micro-podcast...GO! Carl is the creator of the 7 Stage Growth Method, which has propelled over 75,000 companies worldwide. In this micro-podcast Gould shares actionable, practical tips to grow your business. You're too busy to be reading this, start listening!
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A successful plan starts with asking the right questions. #70secondCEO
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Next, the business plan. Who are we? What is our product? Or service or idea? Who are our customers? What is our market? Who is our competition? Where will we operate? How will we advertise? How will we market ourselves? What is o...
Where do you want your business to be in a year? How about 10? Here’s why those questions are important…
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The vision statement, where will we be in five years? 10 years, 20 years from now? Where will we be in one year? Where will we be in three years? What does the future look like for the business in ...
Why does your business exist? Who does it serve? What’s its unique idea? Carl helps you through these questions and more…
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We talked about our outcome, what is our outcome for stage one? Our outcome is to design our future and we're going to do this using our seven stage power tools, designing our ...
Some of the world’s most successful companies spun familiar products into industries of their own. Carl explains the Creative Plane.
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Your business can operate on one of two planes, the competitive plane where you are literally fighting with all the same people for the same dollar, or the creative plan...
Formulate your vision. Design your success. Carl explains Stage 1.
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Stage one, the strategic planning stage. Whether you are a new business, a startup business or an existing business that is seeking to launch a new product, a new division, or bring in a new brand to your product offerings, you need to...
One reason to start a business is to sell it. Carl explains the succession stage.
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If you choose to go through to stage seven, whether you choose to sell your business or not, it is still part of the success cycle to position your company that it is sellable. Because in the end, the business is its own...
Stage 6 is the saleability stage: When new products sell themselves and you can expand into new locations.
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When you bring your business to the sustainability stage, you can now expand open up new locations, introduce new products, because your business is now sustainable and that leads you to stage si...
The stage of exponential growth is almost unfairly rewarding! Here’s why…
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The average Starbucks patron, given a 20 day work month, goes to Starbucks 18, out of those 20 days, most of those people will pass multiple vendors that sell the same product for a fraction of the cost. Yet people will pass by ...
When a business becomes a franchise, you’ve reached the sustainability stage.
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Stage Five is called sustainability stage. A franchise is born, a franchise is born, whether it's informal or formally called a franchise. You are at the point now where the systems of your business become the Rockstar....
Here’s when improvements begin to pay off!
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As you move through the mid to late part of this particular stage, sales will start to grow exponentially, because in the mid part, you're improving the systems and this is where we talked about our intelligent, incremental improvements to quality. As you...
You know you're in Stage 4 when things happen without you. Here’s what to expect…
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Every job starts to develop its own personality. That's how you know you're in stage four, where things happen without you, the pace of your business will actually slow a little bit, you'll come into the ...
Hear what I'm saying now, because we're saying that there are no systems yet we do not want systems, it's too early. But we want a structure. And we need to be flexible. And we need to place trust in others, even when we watch and...
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You are your toughest client. And stage three is the graveyard for most businesses, most businesses will fail in stage three, it is the toughest 1% of growth in your business. And we say that if you make it through this, you have made...
Stage three is the synergy stage.
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Because as you move into late stage two, you want to be an expert in your field, you want to be among the highest paid in your area, you want to have the highest acclaim or credentials in your particular field. You want to be known as the master in that particular are...
The quality of your product determines your expertise in a field. #70SecondCEO podcast
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And you also want to build the quality of your product and your service, build your credentials and you're gonna have a minor focus on sales, you need to keep that cash coming in early on especially. So you want...
How do you know when your business has left stage 1?
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If your goal is to have at least one paying customer, then you have the minimum goal of getting to stage two. And remember, we said that I'm not here to tell you what stage is the right stage for you and unless you're in this for the exercis...
Where’s your business right now? Carl gives an overview of the 7 stages.
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So what are these seven stages? We've been talking about them a lot already. Let me give you an overview of each of the seven stages before we get more into it. Stage one is the strategic planning stage. This is where your dr...
Do you find business ownership lonely and stressful? Do you wish it were more enjoyable? Then don’t miss this podcast!
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And that's what we're after. It has been said that being a business owner is the toughest and loneliest position in business. Wouldn't you agree? You don't make it tou...
Startup to seven figures in just 3 years? Sound too good to be true? It’s not!
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How do you go from startup to seven figures in just three years? That might seem like an incredibly daunting task and it's really not. It is about synchronizing and aligning your activity, your very effective day to day...
We all define “success” our own way. And your definition will determine what your “dream business” looks like.
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.
Keep in mind, your business needs to be nurtured. Just as you would have a pet just as you would have a baby. For this dream to remain a dream for you to achieve your vision, you have to have...
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