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This one time, in band class A or B? Today knock-knock jokes, tomorrow double dactyls For whom Danielle's fave entry tolls What Mike liked, what sat well with Danielle Driving (with) Ms. DaniBy Mike Gips
What's in a name? Fair use disclaimer This is Jeopardy! Or is it the Chase? Being Abigail Adams What Mike Liked and What the Guest BlessedBy Mike Gips
The Auteur's Process The True Story Behind the Hidden Penis Jabots, and Other Fancy Staake Art The Best Art You've Never Seen Confusing the Pope with Marilyn Monroe Mounting Abe The Big List Of... A MADe Man What Mike Liked/What the Guest BlessedBy Mike Gips
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SquareSpace Member Areas, YouTube Shorts, and Facebook Marketing Strategy Discussed – Web and Beyond Live – December 7, 2020
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All the Stories! (From Snapchat Stories to Twitter Fleets) – Web and Beyond Live – November 23, 2020
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Winning On His First Entry Chuck the Menace Off-Off Broadway: Albuquerque The Other Queen's Gambit Lending An Ear That No One Reads Sprachgefuhl The "Easy" Years What Mike Liked/What Stuck with Chuck Ann Coulter's Secret PleasureBy Mike Gips
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI_38GRvBuA How to Find Your “Perfect Fit” Franchise with Franchise Coach Faizun Kamal Our first interview with franchise coach Faizun Kamal in “Is a Franchise Right for You? What Can You Learn From Franchising? With Faizun Kamal” (Episode 014) discussed how to determine if franchise entrepreneurship is good for you …
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New Web Analytics Tools from Microsoft and Cloudflare – November 2, 2020
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqbA8j0vmxY New Web Analytics Tools from Microsoft and Cloudflare Each week, President of W3 Consulting and Managing Director of W3C Web Services (https://web.w3cinc.com/) Ray Sidney-Smith broadcasts live to update you on the latest small business digital marketing and business productivity technology updates you nee…
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Bringing Your Business Into the Digital Age Securely with Vince Crisler, CEO of Dark Cubed
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0WM6YdFr7A When you start a business cybersecurity is not usually top-of-mind. However, have you considered how good digital security practices can be a business’s competitive edge? If not, listen in on this episode! W3 Consulting’s President/CEO Ray Sidney-Smith, in honor of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (…
Origins of the SI Favorite entries and contests How ingenious editors saved the SI The Worst Contest Ever The real reason the Czar abdicated Who's That? It's Pat What Mike Liked/What the Guest Blessed Parting WisdomBy Mike Gips
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Keeping Business Owners and Staff Safe Online with Attorney and Cybersecurity Expert Michael Gips
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https://youtu.be/E1q56iTRT9Q Keeping Business Owners and Staff Safe Online with Attorney and Cybersecurity Expert Michael Gips While today there’s a great deal of focus on what cyber-attacks can do to Small Business, there is equally as much business owners can do to protect themselves. Moreover, keeping your business, your personal and your employ…
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Introducing Duncan Stevens - The Church Calls Him to the SI - Winning Strategies - Favorite Contests - Favorite Entries (His and Others') - That's One Awesome Ciderhouse! - Duncan Sings! - Duncan's Secret Weapon - HOW many entries??? - What Mike Liked/What Dunc ThunkBy Mike Gips
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What Mike Liked/What the Guest Blessed SI/NRARS Origins Secret Connection Between NRARS and NRA! My, What Nice Knockerballs You Have Homer Simpson: Fool with a Purpose ISO Little Stat Nerds The Stats Engine The Warm Heart of nrars.org Who Arrogated Gopher Drool?By Mike Gips
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Chris Woos His Wife With Wordplay Pre-SI Contests Going All in on the SI Contests Chris Won't Enter Favorite Contests Is It Harder to Ink Now? There Once Was a Chris from Pawtucket Chris's Secret Anagram Tool Chris Explains His Contest Strategy Where In the World Is Chris Doyle? What Mike Liked/What the Guest Blessed Final Words of Wisdom…
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Is a Franchise Right for You? What Can You Learn From Franchising? With Faizun Kamal
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On today’s episode, we are going to be talking about franchising and how it fits into the economic development landscape. Franchising is a form of small business ownership that doesn’t get a lot of attention by economic development agencies around the States and I think it could use a bit of love. So, hopefully this will spark some conversations in…
-- Most Popular Contests -- The Biggest Loser -- The Origins of the SI -- How to Please the Empress -- 70s Show Tunes Vs. Gangsta Rap -- Putting the Ass in Assonance and the Zoo in Zeugma -- The E's Succession Plan -- What Mike LikedBy Mike
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Each month, I cover the latest in G Suite and Google on a larger scale, and what changes affect Small Business. What’s New at Google, July 2020 Edition, my main topic I explore is how Google is integrating social features in Google My Business, after I cover all the updates to G Suite and changes among Google products and services that affect you. …
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This is an unconventional article on a conventional topic - getting loans. Without knowing your business situation I will assume using cash instead of borrowing is an option. Here was my first lesson in small business finance - cash is your rarest resource and only use it to (1) buy an appreciating asset (building) or (2) something that generates r…
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Part 5 of the Finance Series focuses on three options: Payment Processing Factoring Simple Borrowing One of the biggest complaints I hear from clients and read about on online landscape forums is getting paid on time. This creates serious problems that negatively affect: Meeting payroll. Hiring new employees and not add pressure to existing staff. …
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The last Green Industry Pros podcast (GIP14) covered Accounting & Invoicing with a reference to ABC or Activity Based Costing. Putting together an effective budget doesn’t require ABC but sure helps. We start this discussion with the types of budgets available to a landscape business owner and then focus on where to start. One last thought, a budge…
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In Article 1 we over viewed the documents you should receive monthly; whether provided by an accountant or from a software package. Article 2 focused on Staying Profitable. This article starts at the strategic level on the types of accounting and then moves to how to make it work for you. There are 2 types of Accounting, Financial and Managerial. F…
We are sure the following are universal rules for maximizing time at training, however if the people running the session are less than professional, the following will force theem to make it work your time. Questions: What is the major obstacle to your business being successful today?If you solve #1, what is the major obstacle to being successful i…
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Show 5.18 Understanding the Core of Landscape Business Success
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Although this show is dedicated to landscape companies, these 4 cores are applicable to all businesses. The focus is on those landscape business owners planning to attend one of our upcoming Boot Camps in February. 4 CORES; CORE 1: Guiding the BusinessCORE 2: Running the BusinessCORE 3: Getting the BusinessCORE 4: Doing the Business Look for tomorr…
Staying Profitable builds on Article 1 and drills down on 9 essential management disciplines for profitability. GIP Show 14 details the first Management Discipline - Line of Sight to Business Goals. Terms variable costsfixed costs Mindset On or Under BudgetFrugality Methods Hold a training session and educate everyone on how they affect profitabili…
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Part of our Market Services offer is an ongoing research service. Part of this process requires a close examination of the economy to decide what forces are affecting your customers, and how will it affect their buying decisions. We combined several approaches (contained in our Business Primer) including stock picking; we built this economic cycle …
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The essence of business success is the ability to assess market conditions and the competition, create a winning strategy that your current resources can perform, and then executing it right the first time. What impact is the economy going to have on our business? How are our customers going to respond? How are our competitors going to respond? Wha…
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Although this reads for the new company, the intent is your phoenix rising from the ashes - the company built on the same ground as the old. There 4 Operating Principles that provide the foundation for success and growth: Accountability Feedback on Results Peer Support Planning as the CEO’s (you the business owner) Job 1 Why? Over my 4 decades of b…
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Instead of hiring a Turnaround Artist or leaving your company to someone to do it for you, what if you DIY? Season 5 is "DIY Turnaround for the Business Owner" that wants to fix their own mess. Show 5.1 is an overview of the 13 shows and where you can can access to the materials.By eastman
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This the last show of Season 4 - Owner as Executive and for the 2018 Growth Year. Next year - 2019 is also focused on growth and starts with Season 5 - DIY Turnaround for Biz Owners. The purpose: you are dissatisfied with the performance of your business and want to fix it yourself with a little help from your friends (Joe Cocker in the background)…
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What is an ESOP: Employee Stock Option Plan? ESOP is a kind of employee benefit plan, similar in some ways to a profit-sharing plan; Shares in the trust are allocated to individual employee accounts; Over a $1m in sales, owners want to sell, minimum of 10 employees, profit greater than $200k a year, must be a Sub-chapter S or C Corporation...…
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Biz Growth Radio SHOW 4.11 Chapter 11: Sales = Capacity
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When You Leave or Die – What is the Legacy Start with Profit, Not Revenue Expand Capacity Through QualityBy eastman
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Today's Topics: Start with Profit, Not Revenue Expand Capacity Through Quality Today’s show and the next 3 are focused on bringing the topic of Owner as Executive to a close. Since our first show (SHOW 4.1 Chapter 1: The End Game – A Self Managing Organization), everything has been about your mindset as a business owner. Seasons 1-3 in 2018 focused…
This our final article in the series of Growing Managers. We started with the Discipline of Management, covered Promoting Smart, and the last edition was running a Manager Nursery. We identified the difference between management and leadership, what attributes to look for when promoting, and how to develop from within instead of hiring from the out…
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3 Topics for today’s show: When and How Do You Plan to Depart Maximizing the Value of the Business Building Operational PlansBy eastman
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GIP13 Overview Landscape Biz Owner Financials
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This article (and podcast) starts a new series on Finance for Landscape Business Owners of all sizes. The series is based on feedback the staff at Green Industry Pros Magazine received from its readers in 2018. We start with a summary of the basics for looking at your business and the next 10 articles.…
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Biz Growth Radio SHOW 4.8 CHAPTER 8: Build Around You
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Now that you have built a position that plays to your strengths, create positions around you that cover your weaknesses.By eastman
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Based on your assessment profile or strengths and weaknesses, build your position description first.By eastman
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Biz Growth Radio SHOW 4.6 CHAPTER 6: The 20 Year Plan
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This is a continuation of Show 4.2 - Chapter 2: Who Are You? We discussed are you a member of the .0025 club, the elite business owner who innately has all of the tools required to build a market dominating company? I don't and haven't met that person yet. Therefore that leaves you with 2 choices..By eastman
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Our approach to research is pragmatic - find out what is working and then explain it. Here are the best of the best: Ichak Adizes and the Process of Growth Nassim Taleb and Antifragile GrowthWorx and the Theory of EverythingBy eastman
Hello there, Small Business owners, entrepreneurs, and community! Welcome to Episode 12, of Web and BeyondCast. This episode is part of our new Business Startup Series on Web and BeyondCast, where we’ll discuss issues specifically related to small business startup and management issues. To do that, I’ll be bringing on startup experts from around th…
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A Self Managing Organization - Start of Season 4 and introduction of the book - Owner as Executive. Show Notes: http://www.ownr.life/2018/10/season-4-book-owner-as-executive.html Linkedin Article #1: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/self-managing-organization-part-1-william-eastman/ Linkedin Article #2: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/self-managing-or…
Welcome to Season 1, Episode 011, of Web and BeyondCast, “GDPR for Small Business.” (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit http://webandbeyondcast.com/011 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.) According to Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report, “58% of malware attack victims a…
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Welcome to Season 1, Episode 010, of Web and BeyondCast. On this cast, we will be discussing marketing video production–what it takes to get the marketing videos you need for your business created. And, to do that, I’ve brought in my go-to expert on video production, Sharon Sobel of Picture This Video. We are going to learn about what questions you…
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009 The State of Small Business Technology, September 2018 Edition
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This is the first episode of our new monthly series, The State of Small Business Technology, September 2018 Edition. During the last week of each month, I’m dedicating a whole episode to news and happenings in small business technologies. This will lend heavily on the side of Web, Mobile and Social Media marketing content for Small Business, but I’…
Branding 101 for Small Business Welcome to Season 1, Episode 8, Branding 101 for Small Business, of Web and BeyondCast. What is Branding? Why Should Small Business owners care? That’s the goal of this episode. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit http://webandbeyondcast.com/008 for clickable links and the full show notes…
On this episode, we are going to be discussing a topic near and dear to my heart, and a little bit meta, podcasting for Small Business; more specifically, the business case for podcasting. And, more importantly, why should you start a podcast for your business? And, to do that, I’m letting the cat out of the bag here with my co-author of our forthc…
