Ken Courtright: Today's Growth | Growing Business Today, Marketing Your Business For Growth And Success

Steering away from the typical can be the best decision of your life. This is the idea of this episode’s topic which is SWOT versus OTSW. Typically, you would look at your own company’s opportunities first, threats second, and then strengths and weaknesses. Ken Courtright believes that changing its order can be more beneficial for any company and cites some example of organizations who could have benefited more had they looked at opportunities and strengths first. Ken suggests a reordering and re-focus on the last two letters. Find out why in this episode.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

Ken Courtright has proven once again that you just never know until you ask. Ken owns Income Store which operates about 1,000 revenue-generating websites. He has set a goal two years back of getting a CEO for the company, and not just any CEO but one that his people would immediately respect. Having been introduced and worked on a quick packet with a gentleman introduced by a common associate, Ken never thought that he would call upon a person of such impressive resume to come out of retirement to run Income Store. He did ask anyway and his offer letter was accepted. That just goes to show once again that you never know who should be leading your operation until you ask.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

Rewards are forms of motivation. You should make it a habit to go out there and do something for yourself after achieving a goal or doing something prize-worthy. In leadership, rewards are very necessary for leaders to commend themselves and their employees. In his shortest episode ever, Ken Courtright tells you to write a one-week goal and do it for a huge reward.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

Better employee compensation is what makes a company grow bigger primarily because employees are the fuel that keeps everything going. Ken Courtright talks about how you can go about paying your employees or independent contractors. Gathering real-life success stories from companies like Netflix and people like Jack Welch, Ken shows why raising employee compensation also raises the company.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

Shaking hands is always a good sign for good business. In this episode, Ken Courtright talks about the importance of pressing the flesh and shaking hands before and after an opportunity and a relationship has been cemented. Learn the places to find these opportunities, the ways you can do it in the next twelve months, and why big businesses grow from this simple act.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

In this episode, Ken Courtright reintroduces you to an age-old concept that is not taught much these days – triangulate growth. He breaks down this concept and shares the two fundamental questions that you need for it. If you have a product or service that you’re proud of, then why not grow through a third party? Find out how and why it could help you.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

We work on our businesses by goals. We plan it out and track it out. For some, it can be difficult to do, causing some tasks to turn red and spiral down into delays. Eventually, without noticing it, our business growth drops. In this episode, Ken Courtright shares a software that can help you graph everything and keep them right on track. If you can’t afford it, then no need to worry since he has another back-up for you.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

So much has changed in how people buy and consume products. It used to be just about the three Ps – products, pricing, and placement. Now, people want the story behind it. For businesses, this is a game changer, because in this world, stories sell. Ken Courtright takes you into this discovery and how you can implement it in how you present your brand, products, and company.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

A sacred cow is a belief, a custom, or a person that people support and do not question or criticize. It could be something as simple as spending two hours a day on Facebook. You could be doing it during work hours or when you’re off work, but it’s aggressively distracting you from your downtime. As a business owner, you have to turn your brain off at times because if you’re always in work mode, performance eventually suffers. Kill that sacred cow, whether it’s a time suck or a money drain, and see yourself or your company grow from its death.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

Many professors have been teaching and using the same course and syllabus for a decade and a half. It’s no wonder they don’t have a pulse on the current curriculum from the students’ perspective. In the same way, the managers, leaders, and owners of companies who have been leading the same way or teaching the same things for more than even twelve months and are not stepping into the user’s side are missing everything. Tap into your users’ experience and grow your company from their side.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

There is a lot of talks these days about submission in business, and a lot of it has to do with the management submitting to the culture of the organization. There is actually so much strength and power in that, but it takes a while to build up that trust with your direct reports and the people above you to be able to take directives and deliver it to your team. As Ken talks about submissive growth, he covers the power of submitting to a system or a tool in listening to your company’s culture and how your employees want to be led.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

There are four cultural values that all companies run under. As Ken covers the four cultural values of clan, adhocracy, hierarchy, and market – see if what he describes is taking place inside your company. And if it is, discover the tools and the knowledge to fix it or finish it. He also touches on a phenomenal book by Kim Cameron and Robert Quinn called Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

UPS and FedEx used to offer three days guaranteed delivery. Now they’re offering next day and same day guaranteed delivery. General Motors is competing with Ford with one-year warranty, two-year warranty, three-year warranty, five-year warranty, and now even lifetime powertrain warranty. This climb of commitment or this leapfrog over competitors’ commitment is going to happen in your industry with or without you. The question is, do you feel like playing leapfrog? Ken shares how you can find your competitors’ commitments to their customer and what to do with that.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

Have you ever been in a situation where you found yourself having to lead a group of strangers? You’re the captain, you’re the boss, and all of a sudden you’ve got 10 to 50 complete strangers under your wing who hardly know anybody. Ken walks us through how we can transform that team into a well-oiled machine producing results in a very short window of time.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

There is an endless curiosity about the brain. How much ATP do we use up? How many calories and hour does the brain eat up? What methodology should one take up when they are presented with different tasks at work? These are all answered in the must-read book, Your Brain At Work, which we slightly touch on.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

Many times we find ourselves in the middle of a storm that we end up thinking, “How are we going to get out of this?” “What are we going to do?” or, “When is this going to end?” When something’s wrong at work or at school or with the kids, you feel like you’re staring hopelessness in the face. However, time goes by, as they always do, and not only do you get out of the storm but when you look back, you grew tremendously. Never waste a good crisis. Crisis can be good, and you’ll be honestly glad that you went through it.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

As the business starts growing, you will come to a point where your words as the leader won’t have the same effect on your team anymore. In this episode, Ken speaks directly to the entrepreneurs who are in this dilemma or will soon be as they struggle to get their point across to their team and can’t seem to be getting a buy-in. Overcome this challenge through the power of edification as Ken introduces the technique of having a third-party consultant.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

When the Notre Dame burned down, the Parisians raised $700 million to resurrect it. Relating this back to business, Ken asks this question – what is a dollar amount that overwhelms you? If you receive this huge amount of money, what would you do with it? Would you invest in people, inventory, product, or consultants? Read about what Ken has to say as you think through the possibilities and make proper decisions.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

To what degree are you paying attention to every little detail in your business? Things like how your people answer the phone, what they wear to work, or what time they show up? Ken and Kerri share an experience they had touring top-tier vineyards and wineries – going over their precision and attention to detail and the personal pride of their facilities that seems to be perfect in every square inch. Learn how you can take that same vision and use that lesson to help you grow your business.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

There are people that are working hard every day and every week but they’re technically sitting, as Jim Collins says, on the wrong seat on the bus. In this episode, Ken and Kerri look at a couple of things they’ve done in the last ten years that are hurting and slowing down their growth. Kerri also sheds some light on how 20-person, 100-person, and 300-person plus companies can avoid making bad decisions.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn