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. Your usefulness is over. Cause you gave them the price. Right? Now they can decide, am I going to go with the price?

Am I not going to go with the price? Is the price worth it? Is it not? Right? And you guys, I'm sure you've heard it. Finish the sentence for me. Once the pr...

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

 Perfect example. I have a Jeep, I got those aftermarket tires on, right? It says inflate the tires between 35 and 40 pounds. So I go into the place, and the guy says to me, I go into the oil change place, and he says, oh, your tires could use a little air. I'm like, all...

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

 When you ask them what you would do, right? Test this, if you wanna test this out, next time you go out to dinner, ask the server, what should I get tonight? Oh, well, it depends. It depends on what you're in the mood for, and like, oh my God, I don't know. I just see m...

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

Here's a question not to ask, here's a question to ask. Because that's like risk, I'm going to lose my job, if I get this wrong, you're going to blame me, right? Ask them, if it were you, what would you do? That's a totally different question.

If that were you, what ...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So our objective is we want them to solve problems independently with minimal input from you other than approval, minimal editing, and then an authorization to go forward with the proposed solution, right? Or if they can't solve it all the way, maybe the problem is way beyond their scope ...

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

We want them to come to us with a variety of solutions,  but in a structured way.

Because you, as the manager, you wanna know how they arrived at that solution. So you can give the tweaks. So it's not just enough to say, hey there's a flat tire, I'm gonna re...

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

We're talking about increasing your fees. Now wouldn't that be nice? Just take your prices and charge more? And you'll just make more money. Isn't that great? Well, you know what, it's actually necessary. We have been talking about not just being another penguin, about standing above, about ...

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 complains about not being accountable. Low performers, you're getting it, right? Go to battle with those whom 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...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a 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 ...

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

Why do we care that we have rapport? Why do we care that we have influence? Well, first off, we need rapport because we need to build a relationship. I'm going to ask you a couple of questions in a moment, but we need to build a relationship with other people. And there are only three style...

Guarantee the Outcome: Prove You're Committed to Results 

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Here's another one if you have recurring services; your gym, you have membership for subscription services, go back to your clientele offer that, if it's fifty bucks a month offer them sixty-five dollars a month. At...

Win the Day Early: 7–9 AM Is Your Sales Advantage

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 why I do that is that I minimize the gatekeepers that keeps me away from my prospects. I know at 7 a.m., business owner, decision makers, get their phone, it's arm's distance away, and the...

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? A...

Committed vs. Convenient: The Choice That Drives Results

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Are you in the committed mode? Are you in the convenient mode? And here's what we find out almost 100% of the time. You're not getting the results you want, you probably fell into the convenient mode. And I understand....

The 5-Meeting Referral Strategy: One Intro Every Time 

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

Now I'm trying to make it sound fun, like, yay, referral party, but we also call it a one-to-one house call. It's a meeting with somebody where you sit down and you say to them, Here's what's going on in...

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

I don't know where the universe or the volcanic activity that regulates this is, but when I have 12, I get no leads. When I have 36 or 48, leads, the quality of them goes down. Somewhere in that bubble of 24, and here's what I think, I think it's because I stay in touch with ...

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

 What can we bring in? What are other activities? So if you look at the second one right there, one of the things that I like to have is I like to have I found over the years, I don't know what the magic science is behind it.

I don't know how the planets rot...

The Truth About Staying Consistent

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

So we come to the middle of the year.

You're either out of inspiration, or motivation is struggling, or the activities have been up and down or not as consistent. I saw this great infographic recently, and it says, ...

Discipline Over Inspiration—Every Time pt. 2

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

We need to put that same level of discipline into our daily activities so that when we do get an inspiration or we do get a motivation, that only fuels the fire.

You all probably follow some sport on...