Business Processes Simplified Podcast

Today’s GuestMeryl Johnston Meryl is a Chartered Accountant who worked in commercial accounting roles and as an auditor and lecturer before a friend and fellow entrepreneur playfully challenged her to redefine the future of bookkeeping. Seven days and a thousand dollars later, Bean Ninjas was born and has since gone from strength-to-strength.​You can follow Meryl on the Bean Ninjas podcast and blog where she shares her ideas about entrepreneurship, surfing and building a thriving global business that supports the freedom of its founders, staff and clients. Website: beanninjas.com Gain Business Financial Control Step 1: Implement a cloud-based accounting system. Step 2: Create your business bank accounts. Step 3: Have a look at your chart of accounts. Step 4: Establish your bookkeeping timetable.Support the show: https://www.systemhub.com/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s GuestDen Lennie Den is a former Video Producer and DOP who has worked with major brands to create launch films and other video content for the last 25 years. He’s worked with celebrities and sporting stars and has managed budgets ranging from several hundreds of thousands down to a few thousand dollars and everything in between. He now helps filmmakers to grow their businesses. His mission is to help committed filmmakers around the world who want to generate more business and develop a more commercial mindset, attract more clients and create more revenue by embracing a strategic approach to their marketing, sale process and business systems to allow them to have the life they desire for their family without working 80+hrs per week. Website: denlennie.com Automate Your Video Production Business Step 1: Create your organising chart. Step 2: Map your Critical Client Flow. Step 3: Add the details into your critical client flow. Step 4: Consolidate processes into your project management tool. Step 5: Keep learning.Support the show: https://www.systemhub.com/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s GuestNancy Bleeke The two words most used to describe Nancy Bleeke are driven and practical. Her first foray into entrepreneurship was at age nine when she and her brother bought old textbooks for five cents from their grade school and then proceeded to open a “summer school” in their basement for the neighbourhood kids. Sales is definitely part of Nancy’s genetic make-up. She has spent years in the trenches as a sales professional, sales manager, a sales coach, and wrote the gold medal-winning book Conversations That Sell which has been declared a “must-read” for sales teams around the world. In 1998, Nancy left the comfort of a “regular” job and founded Sales Pro Insider Inc. – a company whose mission is to help other businesses grow sales, create raving fans for customers, and encourage employee engagement through customized training, consultations, assessments and tools that just plain work! Her Genuine® branded training modules support superior sales initiatives and help generate cohesive sales teams that succeed. Now that Nancy, and her husband, Jon, are “empty nesters”, they split their time between the warm spring and summers at their home in Wisconsin and relax near the water in sunny Florida in the wintertime. Website: salesproinsider.com Consistently Scale Your Sales Step 1: Start with the process. Step 2: Get to know your people. Step 3: Create your playbook.Support the show: https://www.systemhub.com/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s GuestBin Teo Bin Teo’s journey started in his early 20s where he sold tickets to meditation retreats. There he started to develop a deep fascination for buyer’s psychology and market positioning. As a marketing consultant, he has helped industry experts launch books that rank #1 on Amazon, companies generate 6 figures of additional revenue and received numerous awards (including the AFR 100 Fast Starters). Through executing and learning from hundreds of growth experiments, he discovered his passion for optimising B2B sales processes. Today he helps B2B sales teams speed up their sales cycles through strategically crafting compelling customer stories and sales enablement assets. Build Compelling Case Studies Step 1: Create your strategy. Step 2: Get the client buy-in. Step 3: Do interviews. Step 4: Create a persuasive customer story.Support the show: https://www.systemhub.com/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest’s Background: Nik Thakorlal develops technologies to automate persuasion. Website: leadshook.com System Steps: Step 1: Identify your lead magnet. Step 2: Extract the nuggets. Step 3: Turn the nuggets into answers. Step 4: Create the question and fake answers. Step 5: Create a decision tree.Support the show: https://www.systemhub.com/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest’s Background: Michael is a productivity guy – he’s the founder and CEO of Nozbe – a project management and collaboration tool for busy professionals and their teams. Nozbe is a web-based tool with apps for all the major platforms. Michael is also a speaker, author of a few best-selling books, a podcaster and a blogger. He is happily married to his wife Ewelina and they have three daughters. Michael is known for his unorthodox way of running Nozbe – our company doesn’t have any physical office (#NoOffice) and we dedicate Fridays to weekly reviews and personal development (#TGIF). Website: nozbe.com System Steps: Step 1: Deep Work. Step 2: The feedback loop. Step 3: Real-time chat. Step 4: One-on-one conversation. Step 5: Meetings.Support the show: https://www.systemhub.com/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s Guest Marissa Brassfield Marissa Brassfield is Ridiculously Efficient®. She’s an operational efficiency specialist with a passion for supercharging small, entrepreneurial teams working on projects with global impact. Marissa co-founded and oversees Abundance 360, Peter Diamandis’ 25-year entrepreneurs’ mastermind, and is the Operations Goddess for Diamandis’ internal “strike force” of millennial entrepreneurs — all from her backyard headquarters. Through Ridiculously Efficient Inc., she’s coached 100+ solopreneurs and small teams around the world on work-life alignment, team communication, personal productivity, and remote team optimization. Her Massively Transformative Purpose (MTP) is to help entrepreneurs create the lives of their dreams by leveraging small teams. Marissa doesn’t do it alone, behind her she has her own team of uniquely talented super-heroes that leverage her abilities from every angle. Together, they fight complacency and rule the productivity universe. Website: ridiculouslyefficient.com Turn Visionary Ideas Into Projects Step 1: Gather the data and understand the ideal outcome. Step 2: Design your Justice League Step 3: Create a Dashboard. Step 4: Proactively communicate changes. Step 5: Create a dashboard for recurring updates. Step 6: Manage the final. Step 7: The experience transformer. Step 8: Celebrate the result.Support the show: https://www.systemhub.com/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s GuestSteve Baker Steve Baker is Vice President of The Great Game of Business, Inc. Steve co-authored and voiced Get in the Game: How to Create Rapid Financial Results and Lasting Cultural Change. He also co-authored the update of Jack Stack’s #1 bestseller, The Great Game of Business – 20th Anniversary Edition. Known for his engaging and irreverent style, Steve is a top-rated, sought-after speaker and coach on Open-Book Management, Strategy & Execution, Leadership and Employee Engagement. His audiences range from Harvard University to the Department of Defense and is a regular at Inc Magazine’s Inc5000 Conference. He has served on the Board of the National Center for Employee Ownership and SRC Holding’s Ownership Culture Initiative. Before his tenure at The Great Game of Business, Baker spent two decades working for privately-held companies, struggling to help owners reach their goals without access to the true metrics of business success. Learning to play the Great Game of Business at SRC changed his life both at work and at home. Steve is an award-winning artist and lives in Springfield, Missouri, with his trophy wife JoAnn and three above-average children.Support the show: https://www.systemhub.com/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s GuestLinh Podetti Linh started her first business in 2009 and built multiple successful businesses using the outsourcing model. With nearly a decade of experience in outsourcing, she saw an opportunity in the market to provide offshore staff directly to companies and hence started Outsourcing Angel in 2015. Linh grew up in Vietnam and moved to Australia when she was 9 years old. With first-hand experience living in a developing country, she is on a mission to help reduce poverty in developing countries like the Philippines. Since its inception, Outsourcing Angel has always reinvested its profits to charitable projects because Linh believes in business with purpose, not just profit. Website: outsourcingangel.com Recruit Rockstar Virtual Assistants ​Step 1: Create a job brief. Step 2: Post the job on different platforms. Step 3: Review the applications. Step 4: Panel Interview.   Step 5: Hire and Day 0 Orientation.Support the show: https://www.systemhub.com/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s GuestDonna Leyens Donna Leyens, MBA, CPC has been a Wall Street executive and a small business owner. In 2009 she completed coach certification training and melded her business and coaching skills to follow her true passion – helping entrepreneurs create their dream business and their dream life. Donna is currently the President and co-founder of Pumpkin Plan Your Biz. She is on a mission to save small businesses from extinction, by providing business tools, strategy, training and support to business professionals who want to make a big impact by becoming small business growth strategists. This mighty team of strategists uses The Pumpkin Plan Action Guide, a business growth program she developed based on the methods in the book The Pumpkin Plan, written by her Co-founder Mike Michalowicz. Pumpkin Plan Strategists help small businesses to not just stay afloat, but to scale and grow in both profitability and size while allowing the owner to take back control of their time and enjoy life as well. At the end of the day, Donna believes entrepreneurs make or break the economy. Her goal is to make sure they grow, thrive, and have the opportunity to create their own destiny. Website: www.pumpkinplanyourbiz.com The Pumpkin Plan System Step 1: Identify your top clients. Step 2: Identify your unique offering. Step 3: Your systems.Support the show: https://www.systemhub.com/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.