Carl Gould #70secondCEO

Avoid Business Complacency: Strengthen Systems, Improve Cash Flow & Increase Company Value

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

 Complacency and cruise control can happen here. It is a blind spot. It is a functional problem, but you need to get back to it right away. If you're having cash f...

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

 Now, what are some blind spots for stage five? And it's a bit of a paradox, because there really should be no blind spots at stage five. So let me discuss a bit of why franchises fail. Whether you bought one or built it to this point, the number one reason franchises fa...

From Expert to Leader: How Delegation, Team Building & Structure Grow Your Business

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

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 the highest acclaim or credentials in your pa...

Build a Stronger Business: Improve Product Quality, Brand Credibility & Customer Loyalty

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

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 ...

Design It Before You Build It: The Power of Strategic Planning

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

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 Strength Is Your Blind Spot: Build a Stronger Business by Knowing Both - Pt. 3

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In your personality, you have blind spots, and everyone does because no one person is all things to all people. Your business cannot have blind spots, if you have blind spots that...

Your Strength Is Your Blind Spot: Build a Stronger Business by Knowing Both - 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.

So for example we're making a lot of money that's the I. and the C part of the business says "yes, we're losing a lot, we're not taking a lot home because we are making a lot of mista...

Understand your strengths & identify your weaknesses. It will build a stronger, healthier business.

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

You're very strong at direction, you'll struggle in the area of systems, it will be your blind spot. It's not where you would normally gravitate towards. If yo...

 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO.  Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. And so here's what I learned.

What I learned was if people value what you do, if they really value what you do, and if they have a need, they want to go with an expert. I had built a reputation as the guy who came in, banged out a job, and got the heck out of ther...

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'...