The Small Business Radio Show

Segment 1: This segment is full of smart money tips you will not want to miss. We dive into how you can stop the cycle of living paycheck to paycheck, how to create a budget that works for you and your family, and how to live debt free. Avery Breyer is a multiple best-selling author, freelance writer, and real estate investor. She is passionate about helping people take control of their money and create the life they earned. The first book in her popular Smart Money Blueprint series is “How to Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck”, a #1 Bestseller on Amazon. Her second book in the series is “How to Raise Your Credit Score” and the third is “How to Be Debt Free”.Segment 2: One of the biggest areas that small business owners neglect is training for their staff. But what kind of training is effective and how can you do it? Juliana Stancampiano is the author of the book “Radical Outcomes”, is an entrepreneur and the CEO of Oxygen. For more than fifteen years, she has worked with Fortune 500 companies, both in them and for them. Segment 3: All over the country, the gender gap between the number of females in leadership positions and their male counterparts is still very wide, especially in technology companies. We talk about what the gender gap looks like at Chicago technology companies specifically and what companies can be doing to be mindful about closing the gap. Julia Kanouse is the CEO of the Illinois Technology Association (ITA) and has worked with the organization for nearly four years. Julia leads the overall strategic direction and management of the association. ITA’s mission is to drive the kind of investment, talent and innovation that makes Chicago a leading tech ecosystem. Sponsored by Nextiva, Corporate Direct, MAKO and Web.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-small-business-radio-show--3306444/support.Listen to all the episodes of The Small Business Radio Show at www.barrymoltz.com

Segment 1: What is it really like to succeed as a woman in the toughest business environment in the world – Silicon Valley? We dive into stories of women in Silicon Valley navigating interactions with their predominately male colleagues and the choices they made that paved their way to success. Julian Guthrie spent twenty years at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she won numerous awards and had her writing nominated multiple times for the Pulitzer Prize. She is the author of “ALPHA GIRLS: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley’s Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime”. ALPHA GIRLS is being adapted for television by Academy Award-winning producer Cathy Schulman.Segment 2: Big data has been a buzz word that small business owners have heard about for a long time. But can small business owners actually use it? Our next guest says yes. We show you how small businesses can use machine learning and advanced analytics to help their company. Alex Bordei is the VP of Product and Engineering at Lentiq, a Chicago-based company offering a multi-cloud, production-scale data lake as a service platform. He has over ten years of experience in building cloud products as Head of Product Management at Lentiq.Segment 3: Just about everyone has had an idea for a new product. But how do you go from having an idea to having an actual product that consumers want to buy? We talk to the founder of a product development company about what you need to know to bring your invention to life. Kevin Mako is the founder of Mako Design and Invent, a product development firm that helps inventors and startups bring their invention ideas to life. Kevin’s strong sense of community building enabled him to collaborate with Shark Tank’s Robert Herjavec, Cobie Smulders, PepsiCo and Frito Lay to develop a nationwide competition called Dreamvention for young inventors. Sponsored by Nextiva, Corporate Direct, MAKO and Web.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-small-business-radio-show--3306444/support.Listen to all the episodes of The Small Business Radio Show at www.barrymoltz.com

Segment 1 with Ilyce Glink: Despite this being the best economy in generations, almost 80% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Why is this? We discuss what’s causing these financial stresses and why the financial stress of our employees are actually hurting our businesses. Find out what we can we do as small business owners to dial down this stress on our team and our business. Ilyce Glink is an award-winning financial journalist, television and radio personality, syndicated columnist, and the founder of four Chicago-based companies. Her latest company is Best Money Moves, a cloud-based, mobile-first financial wellness platform that employers give to their employees use to measure and dial down financial stress, lowering turnover and absenteeism while fostering engagement, productivity, and better health outcomes. Segment 2 with Max Yoder. Growing a business is all about leveraging your team. A challenge small business owners have, especially over a long period of time, is how to keep your company energized and your people motivated to achieve more. We show you the keys to teams doing better work. Max Yoder is the CEO and co-founder of Lessonly, the online training software that helps teams learn, practice, and as his new book is called, “Do Better Work”. Segment 3 with Rick Snyder: I have asked many small business owners over the last 25 years how they make decisions. I get everything from doing extensive analysis to they just went with their gut or their intuition. Which is the right decision making method for you? My guest argues that we don’t use our intuition enough. He shows us the 6-step process for leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs to harness their intuitive intelligence in decision making. Rick Snyder is the CEO of Invisible Edge™. He is the author of “Decisive Intuition: Use Your Gut Instincts to Make Smart Business Decisions”. Sponsored by LinkedIn, Nextiva, Corporate Direct, MAKO and Web.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-small-business-radio-show--3306444/support.Listen to all the episodes of The Small Business Radio Show at www.barrymoltz.com

Segment 1: We have a statistic that is going to shock you. According to the SBA, of the 30M businesses in the U.S., only 64% of small businesses have a website. How could that be? Small business owners often say things like: “I don’t know where to start”, “it’s too hard-” or “it’s too expensive.” Well, that all changes today. Beth Thouin is the Vice President of Digital Marketing of Web.com. We show you how building and maintaining your own website just got a whole lot easier.Segment 2: For the small business owner, your best friend this past month has probably been your accountant. It has been a whole new ballgame with the new tax code for 2018. Millions of small businesses, which make up half the economy, filed their full-year taxes under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act for the first time. We summarize how the new tax law helped small business owners and how the NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business) helped make it happen. Juanita D. Duggan is President and CEO of NFIB, the nation’s leading small business advocacy group. A native of Alabama, Duggan built an extensive career, serving at the helm of multiple, high-profile trade associations and in the White House during both the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations.Segment 3: Meetings – it’s a word that can either bring to mind incredible collaboration or a total waste of time. We talk about the surprising science of meetings and give you practical tips for how you can hold effective meetings. Steven G. Rogelberg is Chancellor’s Professor at University of North Carolina, Charlotte, for distinguished national, international, and interdisciplinary contributions. He has well over 100 publications and recently won the highly prestigious Humboldt Award for his research on meeting science. His work has been profiled in the Harvard Business Review, CBS News, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, National Geographic, and Scientific American Mind. He is the author of the book “The Surprising Science of Meetings”. Should you distribute an agenda? Should you sit or stand? How long should the meeting be? We answer all of your questions!Sponsored by LinkedIn, Nextiva, Corporate Direct, MAKO and Web.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-small-business-radio-show--3306444/support.Listen to all the episodes of The Small Business Radio Show at www.barrymoltz.com

Segment 1: The number one thing that small business owners struggle with by far, is sales and marketing. They either they don’t do sales and marketing at all because they are afraid, they don’t have the skills, or they do sales like a pushy used car salesman. Andy Paul has sold everything from women’s shoes to complex communications systems that sold for tens of millions of dollars. Drawing on 18 years of experience as a consultant helping CEOs transform their company’s sales efforts, and from his interviews with more than 700 CEOs, founders and world-class thought leaders on the biggest challenges facing sellers today, Andy launched The Sales House in late 2018. We show you how to amp up your sales by sharing why people are thinking about sales the wrong way, how to use sales automation software appropriately, and what you can be doing to invest in your personal development. Segment 2: Written communication through email and over the Internet has become critical to any small business owners success….but mostly, we all suck at it. Marissa Corcoran is a copywriter and messaging strategist that helps coaches + creatives craft compelling copy that attracts clients, makes money, and creates a massive movement online. She's also the creator of the wildly popular Copy Chat masterclass series bringing together 20+ experts in copywriting, business coaching, and online marketing. We show you how you can become more authentic and specific in your writing so you can write compelling copy that attracts clients. Every small business owner should be able to write effectively for their business.Segment 3: Over the past 11 years, we have had a lot of people on to help small business owners grow their companies. Today, why not have a hypnotist help us? Jason Linett is a hypnotist who has hypnotized over 250,000 people. He has used the principles of rapport and modeling to track what top business performers do differently to build his own million-dollar brand. He is the author of the book “Work Smart Business". We show you strategies from hypnosis (beyond “you are getting very sleepy…”) that can actually help you be more successful in business.Sponsored by LinkedIn, Nextiva, Corporate Direct, MAKO and Web.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-small-business-radio-show--3306444/support.Listen to all the episodes of The Small Business Radio Show at www.barrymoltz.com

In segment 1, we talk about disruption. Disruption is dangerous because most often it comes from outside the industry (think Uber and Netflix). We show you how you can become the next disruptor and make sure that your competition doesn’t beat you there (including the competition you never saw coming)! About the guest: Mike Maddock is the founder of an internationally recognized innovation consultancy, Maddock Douglas, which has been engaged by more than 25 percent of the Fortune 100. He has written three books about innovation, which have been rated No. 1 on Amazon. His latest book is called “Plan D: Lessons from the World's Most Successful Disruptors”.In segment 2, the topic is franchising. A lot of unsuspecting future franchise owners think that everything they need to be successful is in the owner’s manual of the franchise. Nothing could be farther from the truth. We talk about what you need to know about running a franchise before you decide to buy one. About the guest: Christy Wilson Delk is a business professor at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, as well as a contributing franchise industry writer. She is the author of the book “Adventures in Franchise Ownership”.In segment 3, we talk to an entrepreneur about his experience with creating and selling a very niche product. How do you get it produced and, more importantly, how do you get people to buy it, especially if it’s in a new category or niche product? About the guest: Jordan Barnett is the founder of Kapow Meggings, an online only retailer of men’s leggings. In segment 4, we introduce you to an in-venue marketing platform that combines the TV in any brick and mortar business location with your smartphone and social media to drive engagement with the company. About the guest: Adam Hirsen is the CEO and co-founder of UPshow, the consumer engagement platform that’s changing the way businesses think about in-venue marketing. Launched in 2015, UPshow’s plug-and-play technology transforms a venue’s TVs into engaging and promotional experiences. UPshow has gone from helping local small businesses to large national brands such as Hooters, Buffalo Wild Wings, Crunch Fitness, and ATI Physical Therapy.Sponsored by Nextiva, Corporate Direct and LinkedInBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-small-business-radio-show--3306444/support.Listen to all the episodes of The Small Business Radio Show at www.barrymoltz.com

Segment 1: .Most small business owners don’t realize that their personal credit score and business credit score are different, and you actually have more control over the latter. We show you what factors into your business credit score and what you can be doing to keep it in the upper range. Steve Ely is the CEO of eCredable, a credit bureau that is changing the way you establish business credit. Steve was formerly the President of Equifax Personal Information Solutions, which provides credit-related products to consumers that help them manage their credit health and protect themselves against identity theft.Segment 2: We discuss the most important sections in a business plan and what you can do to make them as strong as possible to impress investors, but also to give yourself a roadmap. Garrett Sutton is a corporate attorney, asset protection expert and bestselling author who has sold more than 900,000 books to guide entrepreneurs and investors. For more than 30 years, Garrett has run his practice assisting entrepreneurs and real estate investors in protecting their assets and maximizing their financial goals through sound management and asset protection strategies. The companies he founded, Corporate Direct and Sutton Law Center, have helped more than 10,000 clients protect their assets and incorporate their businesses.Segment 3: Thanks to the advancement of technology, it is now becoming commonplace to deal with clients, customers and employees from all over the world. We discuss how to deal with the cultural and racial conflicts that may arise within companies as a result. Jesmane Boggenpoel is an experienced business executive and former Head of Business Engagement for Africa at the World Economic Forum. She has served on the boards of various South African and international organizations. She is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Master’s degree from Harvard University’s JFK School of Government. She is the author of the book “My Blood Divides and Unites”.Sponsored by Nextiva, Corporate Direct and LinkedInBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-small-business-radio-show--3306444/support.Listen to all the episodes of The Small Business Radio Show at www.barrymoltz.com

Segment 1: We first talk about the secret weapon that small business owners are starting to discover: mindfulness and meditation. It’s already catching on at the New York Times! We’ll show you how mindfulness and meditation can be the key to being happier and more productive in your company. David Gelles is the Corner Office columnist and a business reporter for the New York Times. At the Times, he previously covered mergers and acquisitions for DealBook. Before joining the Times in 2013, he spent five years with the Financial Times. At the FT, he covered tech, media and M&A. In 2011, he conducted an exclusive jailhouse interview with Bernie Madoff, shedding new light on the $65 billion ponzi scheme. He is the author of “Mindful Work: How Meditation is Changing Business from the Inside Out”. Segment 2: Taxes. It’s a word that sends a shiver down the spine of every small business owner, especially this year with the change in the tax law, none of us really know what to expect. We speak with a tax attorney about the biggest tax changes affecting small business this year and what tax deductions you can potentially take advantage of. Steve Moskowitz, CPA is a tax attorney and respected authority on a variety of tax, legal and accounting matters and has been quoted by Forbes, the New York Times and CNN Money. Segment 3: What is it like to start an SAP business during the Great Recession and then 9 years later sell it? We talk to a small business owner about his lessons learned running his SAP start up. Yosh Eisbart has been an entrepreneur his entire life. At the beginning of Great Recession in 2009 with co-founder Michael Pytel, Yosh started NIMBL with $2000 – an SAP Business Software Consulting firm – and grew the business without any external funding to over 100 consultants for an eventual sale in 2018 to a global SAP Strategic buyer. Yosh is currently writing a book called “Start-up Sutras” – reflecting on 108 nuggets of experience gained during the NIMBL experience.Sponsored by Nextiva, Corporate Direct and LinkedInBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-small-business-radio-show--3306444/support.Listen to all the episodes of The Small Business Radio Show at www.barrymoltz.com

Segment 1: We talk about how to transform your company and create a winning culture. My first guest says that it has to do with “the hero factor”, i.e. having the qualities of a hero. We’ll show you what that means in a business context and how you can adopt it in your company to take your business to the next level. Jeffrey Hayzlett is a primetime television host of C-Suite with Jeffrey Hayzlett and Executive Perspectives on C-Suite TV. He is a well-traveled public speaker, former Fortune 100 CMO, and author of four best-selling business books of which his newest is “The Hero Factor: How Great Leaders Transform Organizations and Create Winning Cultures”.Segment 2: I thought that when the internet came out, we would be able to easily identify the truth, but I could not have been more wrong. With the internet, people can now find their own truth! As the Buddhists have said for a long time – there is no truth outside yourself…. We discuss how to do business in a post-truth economy and how can companies make their products or services trustworthy in a distrusting world. Sean Pillot de Chenecey has over 20 years’ experience as a brand expert, combining marketing consultancy with ethnographic activity and trend research around the world. His clients have included Unilever, Swatch, Heineken, General Motors, and Starwood. He is the author of the book “The Post-Truth Business”.Segment 3: I have been saying for a long time we need to niche down our businesses. A problem for many entrepreneurs is that they cast a wide net to capture any customer so they can get some revenue in the door and be busy, but success really lies in targeting one niche and owning it… we show you how. Brandon Hull is an entrepreneur and small business advocate. For decades he has helped small businesses ranging from restaurants, to consultants, to creatives, build practical digital marketing brand campaigns and strategies to engage and convert their target audience. Sponsored by Nextiva, Corporate Direct and LinkedInBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-small-business-radio-show--3306444/support.Listen to all the episodes of The Small Business Radio Show at www.barrymoltz.com

Segment 1: We first talk to Clayton Morris, a former FOX News Anchor and member of the Fox and Friends team. We talk about how he left his successful job and quit his high profile Network TV News Anchor career because he saw there was a way to financial freedom, and now he’s helping others find financial freedom too. Segment 2: How many times a day do you say you don’t have enough time to get everything done. Well, this is a lie you tell yourself. The problem is you spend so much time being busy but not productive. Lindsay Anvik is a fourth generation entrepreneur and CEO of See Endless, Inc. She travels the world giving seminars on productivity, leadership and marketing to everyone from Fortune 500 companies to major museums to mom and pop companies. We show you how to make the important distinction in your life between "busy" and "productive" and what you can do to make fully productive days a reality.Segment 3: One of the many sales methods that companies never use to market and sell their product are partners. What if other people and companies were out there selling your products or services? Marcus Cauchi is a Sandler sale trainer located in the southeast region of the United Kingdom where he has been successfully serving his clients since 2004. He has served clients successfully in over 450 segments of the market. We discuss what’s involved in establishing sales channel partners.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-small-business-radio-show--3306444/support.Listen to all the episodes of The Small Business Radio Show at www.barrymoltz.com