Business Owners Freedom Formula With Paul Maskill

  90% of the time when you ask someone how they're doing or how they've been, their answer is "busy." Well isn't everyone busy. On the flip side, very few are productive. It's time to look at how you're actually spending your time.

  If you're still handling any signed documents with paper and pen, you're wasting time and money. Check out SignRequest.com...my go-to for electronic signatures.

Ulli Appelbaum has vast expertise in marketing and brand strategy. His international experience in coming up with fresh perspectives to position a brand, product or company as well as in innovation has helped companies, large and small, go from zero to success, without breaking the bank. Ulli's unique way of approaching business problems and helping businesses strategize has developed into a technique he calls Positioning-Roulette. Ulli's system of flashcards helps executives and teams overcome their mental barriers and see their company in a different light, uncovering fresh and actionable insights that trigger action, identify innovative ideas to stimulate brand growth and inspire fresh perspectives on businesses and categories. Ulli loves to solve business and marketing problems big and small, tap into the global economy to create and produce new products, rediscover the world through the eyes of his children and ride his Russian sidecar through the Midwestern countryside dreaming of a trip to Mongolia.

  How many times have you heard someone that's on the verge of burnout say "well, nothing I can do, that's just the way it is." WRONG! Just because other business owners in your niche are miserable, doesn't mean you have to be. There are plenty of successful businesses and franchises proving this wrong...and if they can do it, so can YOU!

  Here’s the scenario…you’re working online and don’t know what dimensions to make something. Whether it’s FB cover photo, picture on your website, something on social media, etc. So you keep trying to guess and go back and forth w/ 10 iterations of the image Until you finally get it to be “good enough” Well, with the Chrome Extension Page Ruler, you can figure it out in 2 hot seconds.

Gavin Zuchlinski is the founder of Acuity Scheduling, the slickest way for businesses to automate and manage their appointments online, allowing clients to schedule themselves. Gavin is a self-professed tech geek and espresso maniac (a word he does not use lightly) who wholeheartedly believes that business should be fun. Acuity Scheduling supports over 50,000 businesses of all sizes, from people working for themselves to major corporations with thousands of employees. Their Customer Support is unmatched in this industry as they focus on easy & pain-free scheduling with one on one support as they help their client’s businesses grow and thrive. In my inspiring conversation with Gavin, we learn about his journey to creating Acuity Scheduling. Just like most entrepreneurial journeys, it started with a need. His mom was spending way too much time trying to schedule and reschedule clients for her massage business. So what did Gavin do? Create Acuity Scheduling! The rest...as they say...is history.

  You want to know a HUGE secret to success? It's super simple yet hard for most people to do consistently. That is...respect other people's time. Basically, the golden rule. That's it! Treat others the way you want to be treated.  

They say a happy customer tells one person and an unhappy customer tells the world. Truth. What's also true is usually that unhappy customer doesn't tell you, the business owner. Until now!  

Co-founder & CEO of Cerius Executives and Cerius Advisors, Pam Wasley is a serial entrepreneur with multiple decades of knowledge and experience. She has personally sold companies, led a management buyout, and advised hundreds of companies on strategies for growth and higher shareholder value. Pam has served on several private boards and is a highly sought after speaker. She’s been featured in prestigious publications such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek on the topics of mergers and acquisitions, the workforce of the future, and global contingent workforces. In my interview with Pam, we focus on building long-term value. There are too many business owners out there who are solely focused on the profit today instead of the long-term value of their business. We spend so much time and energy on starting and growing our business while spending so little time planning the exit...when really we should be starting with the end in mind.

  Yes, negative feedback sucks. Your business is your baby. But don't take it personally. Negative feedback is one of the BEST ways to improve and grow your business...for 3 reasons.

  Have you ever wanted to speed up a video because the person talking speaks toooo slow? Or maybe you just don't have enough time to watch the video you want to watch. The Video Speed Controller Chrome Extension is your solution!

Tim Fulton is a nationally recognized small business consultant and advocate. He has been involved in the field of Entrepreneurship for the past thirty years as a successful business owner, a small business counselor, and as an adjunct university professor. In 1994, he started Small Business Matters, an independent management consulting and training practice. During this time he has worked with companies such as Lucent Technologies, Carlson Companies, Insignia ESG, and Georgia Power.  Tims past work experience also includes serving as the assistant director of the Small Business Development Center at Clayton State University and the Director of the Family Business Institute at Florida International University. He has worked with thousands of business start-ups and existing business entities as a catalyst for starting and growing their business enterprise. Tims own entrepreneurial experience includes the ownership and operation of several fast-growing retail and service businesses. Each of which resulted in

  If you think your employees work for you, you're wrong. You work for them. Throw your "Boss" ego out the window and stop using "I"...it's all about "WE".

Looking for a way to save time, streamline your calendar while increasing productivity? Looking to take control of your day instead of letting the day run you? Check out AcuityScheduling.com/BOFF

From years of experience as the founder of a financial firm, Court Creeden's life was forever changed after seeing the truth of the lives people are really living. Now he uses his coaching skills, background in finance, and love of personal connection to help people design a life they actually want to be living. From the overwhelming response to his book Blue Goat, Creeden created a company, Blue Goat Life, to help engage and connect people that want to be a part of a global community of like-minded people. Court has spoken to CEOs, parenting groups, high school students, college students, and professionals of all ages. Through his speaking and one on one coaching, Court helps each person uncover the core of who they truly are. Embracing each person's unique gifts, talents, and passions and creating a strategy to thrive in the moments that make up their lives. In my interview with Court, we learn about the financial struggle that so many new parents go through...the ones nobody tells you about in all of the

  Time is our most valuable asset. Luckily, we have more time than we think. 168 hours in each week - how are you going to spend them?

  Have you ever been on a website and thought to yourself - "That's awesome! How did they do that?" And then you spend hours trying to figure it out...or you don't do anything at all? With BuiltWith, you're able to tell exactly what they built their website with!

Inventor of telesummits and founder of Telesummit Academy, Milana Leshinsky is teaching everything you need to know about hosting profitable online summits and virtual conferences. Milana originally came up with this idea in response to having two small kids and being unable to travel to industry conferences and events, so she decided to create her own. Since then, thousands of telesummits have been hosted in hundreds of industries, bringing peers and experts together to learn from each other.   A telesummit allows you to build your list, become a celebrated expert, get into the big leagues, and accelerate your business growth like no other marketing strategy out there. As the “queen of simplicity”, Milana simplifies the entire process of organizing a telesummit so that anyone, even a complete newbie, can hold one successfully. In my chat with Milana, we go through her journey to America and how she broke the norm of her family to become an entrepreneur. Not only did she make it to 6-figures pretty quickly b

Business ownership can be a lonely world but it doesn't have to be. You don't need to figure everything out on your own if someone else already has. Throw your ego out and start learning from people that are more successful than you.

Do you own a service-based business? Do you have a CRM system? If you own a service-based business and don't have a CRM system, then LISTEN to this podcast :)