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

In this day and age, we can’t be too stuck with one thing; otherwise, we may just find ourselves on the losing end. This is especially true when it comes to the platforms we present our business from. Ken tells us about how a talk by Michael Dublin, founder of Dollar Shave Club, inspired him to go 2.7 touches across three different platforms, reaching out and going with “we” and not “I.”   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

It is not a good idea to eat alone, most especially in businesses where you have to constantly reach out to people. Ken shares a story of how the philosophy in Keith Ferrazzi’s book, Never Eat Alone, impacted his business and the way he looks at attending events.

Moving on from previously learning about statusing for growth and hitting a goal, Ken takes you to the next step: adding more and stacking up on a couple of goals. Continue to dive and drive for growth as you learn about how you can hit your goals in a row without leaving things to an eventual breakdown. Ken shares how you can think of the critical numbers of your company as he asks you to look into the things that are affecting your gross sale.   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

Achieving growth means having to agree on a goal that your company, your business partner, or your client agreed upon. This agreement is called statusing back in the day from Jack Welch of Six Sigma. Ken shares the goals of Income Store, what he is statusing, and what their critical drivers are. Laying out the processes, he guides you into getting a good view on how you can do the same for your business to also propel you forward to growth.   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

You’ve probably heard the cliché, “If you want to get everything you want in life, just help other people get what they want in life.” A lot of people don’t have a vehicle to help other people get what they want in life, so they let that one roll off. Ken shares a different way you may be able to do that. Discover what this strategy is because this is one of the things that can be done with the least amount of energy and that can produce the greatest amount of both physical and financial 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

Brian Tracy, author of Eat That Frog, believes if a goal isn’t in writing, it’s not real because you’re afraid of it. The fact of the matter is, you don’t have to go to the dramatic effect of pulling the goals out every hour, every day, or every week and read them out loud. It may be true to some degree, however, Ken wants to put forward a few things that have happened in his life and then some stories that he’s vetted and found to be true that are cool about goal setting. He also touches on some simple fundamental concepts of writing a goal down.   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

Bill Hybels, one of the greatest leadership coaches and mentors in the world has a concept that he started decades ago called “take a flyer.” It means doing something way outside of the norm. Bill runs one of the biggest churches in the world, and he’s a walking grey matter when it comes to leadership and problem-solving. Ken shares the four different growth flyers for your business or product line. 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

For some companies, if they want to grow their company quickly, using interns is not optional. If you want to grow overseas, sometimes an intern is a great way to go. There are a lot of overseas companies using interns in the US. It’s a cool concept, but it’s not actually new. The interns have been around for hundreds of years. When you bring in these young interns, they have a vision into this world that you don’t have. Ken shares why interns are an inside key to growth as Kaci differentiates paid and unpaid internships. 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

It’s not that you can’t give gifts throughout the year, but there is something magical and special about giving clients a gift around Christmas time. Ken goes through some of the psychology of why you would want to give gifts at Christmas. His daughter, Kaci, joins him and walks through a gift that one of her employers is using. Learn some great ideas for your own business from Ken and Kaci. 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 part two of Growth Every Time, Ken gives out principles number six to ten for having guaranteed growth. We highly recommend you go back to the previous episode for principles one to five. 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

Some of us in business may not find anything that is sustaining. In one way or another, we find ourselves going back to zero and then building it up – sometimes only to see it fall again. Sharing a presentation to a group of Global Mastermind students, Ken gives out the first five slides on the principles he found for having growth every time. He lays down the five things that he saw that made his businesses propel forward. Get down into the steps and learn ideas about selling, brand promise, and your audience. 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 his book, The Psychology of Selling, Brian Tracy wrote, “If your goal is not in writing, it’s not real. You’re probably afraid of it.” If you have a goal but don’t put that in writing, either you’re afraid of the work it’s going to take to get it done or you’re afraid of the result or the lack thereof. If we put all major goals in writing, growth appears to happen instantly. It’s because all of a sudden, we have to start doing what we say. The simple act of writing it and posting it forces us to walk through the week with a magnifying glass for ourselves and other people to see what we have committed to. It truly is that simple. 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

With so many information online, it has become so easy to get lost among the advice and tips about how to grow a company quickly. Ken lays down his top choices of mechanical changes that companies can make to explode their sales. How can you adjust your website? What marketing tools should you use? What are some physical techniques that you could do to affect the psychology of potential customers? Get the answers to these and more as you learn about black velvet selling, how Google works, and the impact of running your business with your checkbook. You’ll find valuable nuggets on credibility, popularity, author equity, content, marketing, and pricing. 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 competitive world, it has become extremely important for businesses to stand out. Otherwise, they just might find themselves get stuck, left behind, and eventually cease out of existence. That is one nightmare that nobody wants to see. So what can you do to avoid this? Well, Ken lays down his three choices to give any size company a clear competitive advantage over other businesses today. Learn how to read your customer’s mind. Find out how social proof relate to business websites and how to transform them. Get in touch with the law of growth—what it means to walk through life backwards and how you can move your product, brand, and company. Ken gets down into business as he provides the techniques that will give your company a slight edge, that when you keep up, will stack up and bump your way to the top. 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

Most businesses that are still starting and are in the process of growing can empathize with the question: “how can we compete with the big boys?” With so many well-established companies out there, it may seem hard to fathom how to bump up your business alongside them—most especially if you are just a small company. Fortunately, Ken has the answers. He breaks down some mechanical techniques that a smaller company could implement immediately and allow themselves or their company to compete tomorrow with the big shots. He covers the importance of credibility and how you can make sure the world knows you’re an expert in your field, how to take some of the data that Google tools provide to turn you from a rookie to an expert, and how to connect and build relationships the right. 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

Rounding off the three-part series on growth techniques, Ken shares a great tool that will help you build relationships among people who have massive influence: BuzzSumo. Nowadays, it is not as easy to trust people and let them into your world, most especially if you are someone who holds influence. That is why for those who wants to start connecting, it is a must to appeal by being genuine and sincere. Through BuzzSumo, Ken talks about how he challenges his wife to create those relationships, to befriend them, and have them start connecting; ultimately growing your business and elevating yourself into a true expert. 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

This is part two of a three-part series of growth techniques. We all agree that to control your own destiny financially, one of the ways we go about it is to make sure that you have the highest degree you can get coming out of school, you get mentored by the highest person you can find, or in some way, shape, or form, you read and absorb everything in the field you want to master. But here’s the key. There is a direct proportion of income to expertise. The more expertise, the more in demand. The more in demand, the more income you can command. There is a technique that we have used over the years that is awesome where you assign five tasks to five different people. Learn how it works here. 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

First things first. What do you need to eliminate either in your to-do list, your activities, your habits, your relationships? What needs to leave? What ribbons do you need to cut to allow you to focus and perform at a very high level? There’s a phrase that has been said by many, and it goes like this, “Deliberate disregard is every bit as important as conscious concentration.” Learn how you can deliberately disregard the ones that only work a little bit and crush the ones that work for you to grow. 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

The Law of Entropy says that anything man-made or God-made is built to go from order to disorder. Everything is built to break down. Everything, including your checkbook and your business, is built to go from order to disorder. Some people, because of their expectation of entropy, don’t ever get going and they don’t put the gas down until done. They expect that they’re going to get wiped out. Part of it is they witnessed those that have gone before them fail time and time again. Entropy is going to come, but learn how to navigate it and not fight it so it doesn’t destroy 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

There are certain laws around money that if you’re not into keeping up with the Joneses and you don’t care what other people think, you can apply delayed gratification. Having a good take on money, having a good understanding of it and how to apply it will help you stay in the business making profit. Over the years, Ken has scratched out some clear laws and fundamentals as well as some large misunderstandings about money. Discover real details of how to grow a business using money as leverage and have a family and stay sane and profitable. 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