Toptimizers: Recent Episodes
Samantha Holschuh
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When you start researching steps to take when opening a new business you’ll see so much hype about finding your niche, narrowing your focus, or only talking to your target audience. And we understand that. You definitely want to know who it is you’re trying to work with. But sometimes it’s not so obvious who exactly will need the services you are offering.
When we first started Toptimizers we went in with open minds saying that we would work with any business but in the back of our minds we assumed we would be working with professional services since that’s what we knew best based on our past experiences. But if you talk to any business coach or consultant they will tell you that thinking anyone can be a client is a horrible idea.
What we found was that our target market came to us. Since we had a skillset and business model that could work across most any industry we didn’t want to limit ourselves in the beginning. All too often we hear stories of new businesses thinking they will go one direction and end up heading an entirely different direction. So rather than having to do a total overhaul on our brand when that happened, we decided to start broad and let our niche find us.
And that’s exactly what happened.
Today we will talk you through that journey and introduce our new brand, new podcast, and new direction.
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Ama Brew has perhaps the most important lesson of all time for entrepreneurs. Take care of yourself. Sounds simple but we all know that taking time to unwind and giving ourselves a little TLC from time to time is the most difficult to schedule. Ama experienced burnout in the corporate world as well as in her first business. She quickly learned that taking time for herself and learning to set boundaries was of such great importance that she turned it into a business. Today, Ama helps others through the journey of taking time to schedule time for yourself. And yes it is a journey and takes time to develop into a habit. Enjoy the show with Ama Brew!
Resources:
Empowered For Balance Website
Empowered For Balance Facebook
Empowered For Balance Instagram
Empowered For Balance Pinterest
Get in Touch with Toptimizers:
Buy Our Book - Optimization of the Entrepreneur
Be a Guest on the Show
www.toptimizers.com
www.facebook.com/toptimizers
www.linkedin.com/toptimizers
www.instagram.com/shelli.toptimizers
www.pinterest.com/toptimizers
www.youtube.com/toptimizers
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You don’t know what you don’t know. Doug Collins speaks with us about taxes and business ownership. He has a wealth of knowledge about all the ins and outs of tax write-offs that most people are unaware. At a young age, Doug’s dad was always pushing books on him regarding business matters. That really gave him his start and passion toward working for himself. From corporate to entrepreneurship, the economy helped him make the leap. The change of mind was fascinating to him and he has 18 takeaways that he shares in a blog. Doug Collins is full of information you need to know! Enjoy the show!
Resources:
Doug’s Book
Doug’s Course
“18 Things I Learned” Linkedin Blog
Get in Touch with Toptimizers:
Buy Our Book - Optimization of the Entrepreneur
Be a Guest on the Show
www.toptimizers.com
www.facebook.com/toptimizers
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www.instagram.com/shelli.toptimizers
www.pinterest.com/toptimizers
www.youtube.com/toptimizers
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Ann Regan Kearns founded Odyssey Public Relations in June of this year, 2020. Formerly she was a publicist and, unfortunately, laid off due to COVID. Instead of searching for a new job, she launched the public relations business that she had wanted to do. Admittedly, she had to be pushed off the ledge from security into the abyss of entrepreneurship! And miraculously that ‘little’ push actually gave her the confidence to jump ship from the corporate world. Now that Ann Regan is helping companies with their public relations, she has no plans of looking back. She did sign up with a business coach who helped change her mindset and gave her the confidence she needed. Her advice for all people who are considering taking the leap is to do it now or never, there is never a ‘right’ time, have faith, listen to that little voice in your head, and listen to your instincts. Ann Regan loves her working hours because those hours are for her, she can work when she wants, and she works for her business and not for someone else’s business. She is so glad to be back into her own life and what fits her schedule. Enjoy your time with Ann Regan. We know you will love it!
Resources:
Odyssey PR Website
Odyssey PR Facebook
Ann Ragan Kearns Linkedin
Get in Touch with Toptimizers:
Buy Our Book - Optimization of the Entrepreneur
Be a Guest on the Show
www.toptimizers.com
www.facebook.com/toptimizers
www.linkedin.com/toptimizers
www.instagram.com/shelli.toptimizers
www.pinterest.com/toptimizers
www.youtube.com/toptimizers
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Lowell McKelvey with MKB Lawyers feels he doesn’t quite fit the definition of entrepreneur because he isn’t innovative like Elon Musk. And that is what makes Lowell a great attorney, always questioning every definition of a word. Attorneys who break away from traditional corporate law to hang their own shingle by nature innovative as they share greatly in the entrepreneur dilemma! How to do what you love or your practice and still run the business side of things is the universal question being asked by every business owner every day of every minute. Like so many, Lowell was comfortable in someone else’s firm, financial security was everything. However, it took a friend to kick him in the caboose to take the leap as the big corporate firm began to decline as the aging partners started to retire. Although uncertain, Lowell started to write down his goals and in that seemingly small act he found that his big goals got him through the bumps and it’s the big goals that keeps his focus. He loves the freedom and will never look back even though there are ups and downs. Freedom is what drives him. He was told it would take a good five years to really get to a comfortable place and he now believes it. Five years seems like a long time but Lowell encourages all to just do it. “Just freaking do it!” Enjoy Lowell and let your hearts not be troubled as you take the leap into freedom or as you struggle with holding onto freedom.
Resources:
MKB Lawyers Website
MKB Lawyers Facebook
Lowell McKelvey Linkedin
Get in Touch with Toptimizers:
Buy Our Book - Optimization of the Entrepreneur
Be a Guest on the Show
www.toptimizers.com
www.facebook.com/toptimizers
www.linkedin.com/toptimizers
www.instagram.com/shelli.toptimizers
www.pinterest.com/toptimizers
www.youtube.com/toptimizers
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Dare to be seen, find your voice, and get accountable. Laura Fravel with Laura Fravel Studios is a personal brand expert and that is exactly what she will help you do. Laura inspires us to brand ourselves because it is a great way to market our business. She emphasizes the need to tell our stories, own our stories, and scream our story to the world. Laura’s process for helping others find their story starts with getting clear. The first step is to write down what you liked about every job. You will start to see a trend and that is where your story begins. Next, she advises to interview past friends and colleagues. Ask them to describe you in three words. You will start to pinpoint what you are good at and what makes you memorable to the world. Use these tools to find your story and start putting it down on paper. Get it out to the world and make a powerful unique digital imprint that the world will never forget. Great advice from Laura Fravel! Enjoy the show.
Resources:
Laura Fravel Studios Website
Laura Fravel Instagram
Laura Fravel Linkedin
Get in Touch with Toptimizers:
Buy Our Book - Optimization of the Entrepreneur
Be a Guest on the Show
www.toptimizers.com
www.facebook.com/toptimizers
www.linkedin.com/toptimizers
www.instagram.com/shelli.toptimizers
www.pinterest.com/toptimizers
www.youtube.com/toptimizers
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Try anything for one year. That is the advice from Mindie Kaplan with Maleroom who our guest is today. Starting her career in structured corporate America she took the leap into entrepreneurship intentionally choosing to live her life outside of her comfort zone. Mindie took to the road and travels for a living, ambushing men for dating advice. She believes it is better to get dating advice for women from men and has a great time learning that men might not be so simple after all. It took a long time for Mindie to jump into entrepreneurship, but it came down to a final question, “What if I never do it and someone else does it, would I regret it?” The question ate at her so she started to take small steps toward her goal until the day came when she turned in her two weeks’ notice. At first, she was a little scared as she grew up in a family of entrepreneurs. So, she was very familiar with the ups and downs and the many unknowns. Mindie’s success embeds her lesson to try something for one year. She teaches us to analyze what it is we want to undertake, reach out to our existing network of people and get their input. Next, weigh the personal risks that include hard costs, financial risk, and strategize. Ask ourselves who and do we need to produce the product or service. If it looks like a business is a go, build a great diverse advisory team. We are sure you will learn so much from Mindie – enjoy!
Resources:
Maleroom Website
Maleroon Instagram
Get in Touch with Toptimizers:
Buy Our Book - Optimization of the Entrepreneur
Be a Guest on the Show
www.toptimizers.com
www.facebook.com/toptimizers
www.linkedin.com/toptimizers
www.instagram.com/shelli.toptimizers
www.pinterest.com/toptimizers
www.youtube.com/toptimizers
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Case Lane with Ready Entrepreneur is our dynamic guest today. She loves to travel and right now spends her time planning travel. She is from Canada and has a vast background in travel and international diplomacy. She always had in the back of her mind that she wanted to be an entrepreneur. Although she had fascinating jobs and became an attorney, she still chose to do her own thing and that is being an entrepreneur. She helps people who are ready to stop working for someone else’s vision, who have always had it in the back of their minds that they want to be their own boss, and who have ideas put together a business action plan. A business action plan lists out all the activities a person will need to do in order to achieve their goal. From there she helps people figure out what is missing from their knowledge or skill base so that they can research and gain the missing information in order to fill in the blanks. After that she gets them to take those next steps in actually opening the business. Case reminds us that business is dynamic and always changing. So, it is important to keep learning, keep trying, keep going until you find that right message that will find the right people. Case has a new book out called Recast and is available on Amazon.
Resources:
Ready Entrepreneur Website
Free Reader's Summary
Amazon book page
Email Address: contactcase@readyentrepreneur.com
Get in Touch with Toptimizers:
Buy Our Book - Optimization of the Entrepreneur
Be a Guest on the Show
www.toptimizers.com
www.facebook.com/toptimizers
www.linkedin.com/toptimizers
www.instagram.com/shelli.toptimizers
www.pinterest.com/toptimizers
www.youtube.com/toptimizers
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Elizabeth Pampalone made it a whole eight months in a cubicle before she said, “no way not for me I’m not sitting in a box” and entered the world of entrepreneurship! Her vast experience with computers, networking, building businesses all include marketing and that is what brought her here today. Elizabeth builds brands in a week! That’s right, she will spend one of those days with you creating and scheduling a year’s worth of social media posts. Can you imagine having that dreaded task done for a year? Her energy is huge, and she has what it takes to get the job done. When Elizabeth isn’t branding businesses, she is traveling and ballroom dancing. You can find Elizabeth here:
getabsolutemarketing.com
familytrivialive.com
Get in Touch with Toptimizers:
Buy Our Book - Optimization of the Entrepreneur
Be a Guest on the Show
www.toptimizers.com
www.facebook.com/toptimizers
www.linkedin.com/toptimizers
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www.youtube.com/toptimizers
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Brandon Turner about how creating processes in your business leads to maximum efficiency. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Brandon Turner
- With a mom for an entrepreneur and a dad in IT Brandon’s journey into being an IT entrepreneur was written in the stars
- Always fascinated with entrepreneurship and wealth but unaware that he could be one of them
- Procedure Sheets
- It took about 2.5 years after starting Procedure Sheets before Brandon quit his 9-5 job
- Procedure sheets documents processes so people can duplicate themselves and delegate easily
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- Doing everything yourself in your business is not feasible if you’re looking for business growth
- Focus on the outcomes that your skills offer
- Decide if You Want to Own a Job or a Business
- If you own a job you’re doing all the work yourself
- If you own a business you own the systems that others can complete
- Do It, Delegate It, Do Away With It
- Will I enjoy it? Is it income generating? Is it an obligation?
Resources:
Brandon's Website
Be a Guest on the Show
Get in Touch:
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www.facebook.com/toptimizers
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Nicholle Overkamp about overcoming obstacles in life and business. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Nicholle Overkamp
- Nicholle became an entrepreneur almost immediately after college
- Owner of PowHERhouse Coaching, Wilcox Financial Group, and author of Money Bitch
- PowHERhouse Money Coaching
- Be resilient and open to opportunity during the pandemic - a pandemic just speeds up what was already in motion
- PoweHERhouse focuses on real financial planning rather than just pushing sales
- Licensed financial advisers and fee based financial planning combined create the holistic model of PowHERhouse
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- Accepting the mindset of success and financial freedom for women can be more extreme than for men
- What does it take to create the confidence needed to become successful?
- Be confident enough in yourself to ask for help where you need it
- When you stop learning your start failing
- Stay Humble, Be Open Minded
- It’s okay to coast if you’re really and truly happy otherwise keep challenging yourself and facing those fears to move forward
- Accept the fact that you will fail and be okay with it
Resources:
PowHERhouse Instagram
PowHERhouse Facebook
Wilcox Financial Group Facebook
Wilcox Financial Group Website
Money Bitch Book
Be a Guest on the Show
Get in Touch:
www.toptimizers.com
www.facebook.com/toptimizers
www.linkedin.com/toptimizers
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Jackie Bertolette about her journey into entrepreneurship through unconventional times. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Jackie Bertolette
- From corporate to stay at home mom to entrepreneur
- Haute Ohio Magazine
- Ohio and Midwest talent in the fashion industry
- Using low self-esteem to build a fashion brand empire - a lifelong journey
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- Sometimes you need that outside perspective to push you in the direction of your dreams
- Being self-employed gives Jackie the flexibility she needs to homeschool her son and work on her business
- Even though becoming an entrepreneur wasn’t planned, the reward of being able to give back is 100% worth it
- Drop the Need for Routine
- Being an entrepreneur requires a level of flexibility
- Be honest with yourself about what your shortcomings are - learn to outsource what you don’t want to or can’t do
- You may not understand the path you’re taking but things will happen as they should
Resources:
Haute Ohio Website
Haute Ohio Facebook
Haute Ohio Instagram
Haute Ohio Twitter
Haute Ohio Youtube
Be a Guest on the Show
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www.facebook.com/toptimizers
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Mads Singers about the importance of good management to ensure business success. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Mads Singers
- Having a great manager put Mads on the path to entrepreneurship
- Mads Singers Management Coaching
- Helping new business owners or management teams learn how to manage a team and a company
- Helping to reduce the amount of physical work needed - from 60 hours a week to a manageable work week
- If you’re working in something you should be living it - Mads also runs a virtual assistant business and a media publishing business
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- Remote work is one of the biggest trends right now - if you’re a bad manager then going remote is going to hurt your team and productivity
- Companies will be able to hire the best people rather than the closest with the remote work trend
- Choose a specific niche to get started so that you can become proficient before growing
- Don’t forget yourself in your entrepreneurial process - make sure that you take care of yourself just as much as you take care of your business
- assistant business and a media publishing business
- Stop Answering Questions
- When you start hiring staff, stop answering questions
- Don’t get hung up on the power of managing others - don’t be the bottleneck
Resources:
Mads Singers Website
Be a Guest on the Show
Get in Touch:
www.toptimizers.com
www.facebook.com/toptimizers
www.linkedin.com/toptimizers
www.instagram.com/toptimizers
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www.youtube.com/toptimizers
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Creighton Wong about building the mindset needed to become an entrepreneur. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Creighton Wong
- Running a business as a digital nomad
- A former attorney in California but switched paths to entrepreneurship when the economy dropped and jobs were hard to come by
- Exponential Clients
- Helping businesses scale their operations
- More people are looking to take control of their financial situation through entrepreneurship
- There’s a gap between those businesses who are struggling from COVID and those who are exploding
- Consumers care about where they spend their money and who they spend it with
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- Be really honest with yourself and your relationship with money - grit and perseverance are the keys to becoming a successful entrepreneur
- Build a business as if you’re going to sell or franchise it - create systems as you go to understand how your business works and operates
- The skills needed for entrepreneurship can be innate or learned so long as you have the desire to make it happen
- Entrepreneurs will trade a 40 hour week to work 100 hours a week so balancing family life can be a little challenging
- Learn to balance all aspects of your life as you start your entrepreneurial journey in order to be at peak performance for your business
- The First Step is the Easiest
- The mindset to start day 1 is not the same that you need for every other day
- Pick the one thing you can do today to move the needle forward and make today a good day
Resources:
Creighton Linkedin
Creighton Website
Be a Guest on the Show
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Ryan Stanley about being the creator of your own life and building yourself into the best version of you that you can be. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Ryan Stanley
- Being an entrepreneur is like being an artist - you start off with a blank canvas and end up with something beautiful
- Working with startups helped spark an interest in entrepreneurship
- MLM helped with building networking skills as a young entrepreneur
- Ryan went from owning a daycare to owning an artist management company and finally into coaching
- Ryan Stanley
- Helping people become the best version of themselves they can be
- IPEC certified life coach - worked with IPEC for a time and moved back into his own business
- Working with organizations and individuals
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- What made you decide to become an entrepreneur?
- What kind of trends are you seeing in your industry right now?
- Don’t let fear hold you back - fear lies
- Get clear on who you’re spending your time with - friends, family, information from the internet - and spend time watching and learning from those who inspire you and already do what you want to do
- Entrepreneurship takes patience just like any new skill - learn from every day’s activities and keep getting better
- Learn to adapt in life and business - you may have an idea what path you want to travel but be open to change and new possibilities
- What advice would you give your past self? Be less concerned with what others think of you and focus on what you can do for your future self
- Be intentional in everything that you do - whether you’re working, spending time with family, connecting with friends
- Lesson for Entrepreneurs
- Decide who you want to be and go be it
- Don’t let what others think or your past define what you can be
- Work every day toward being the best you can be
- Be a creator, create patience, create presence, create joy, keep going
Resources:
https://www.ryanstanley.com/
https://www.ryanstanley.com/be-patient-be-present-be-joyful
https://teachmetosell.com/
https://www.facebook.com/RMS.Life.Coach/
https://twitter.com/RMS_RyanStanley
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmslifecoach/
https://www.instagram.com/rms_ryanstanley/
Be a Guest on the Show
Get in Touch:
www.toptimizers.com
www.facebook.com/toptimizers
www.linkedin.com/toptimizers
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www.youtube.com/toptimizers
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Kristen Fulmer about sustainability in architecture and building your network. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Kristen Fulmer
- Kristen was born to parents that loved sustainability and sports
- Sustainability and architecture in undergrad and graduate schools
- Sustainability and consulting for strategies in sustainability within architecture
- Recipric
- Taking the leap into entrepreneurship due to the WeWork collapse
- How did you come up with the idea for Recipric?
- What does sustainability in sports really mean?
- Health is a huge trend this year in our unprecedented times which includes sustainability within businesses and buildings
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- What mental change did you have to go through to become a business owner?
- How are you balancing your time, family life, and timing of opening your business?
- What advice would you give aspiring entrepreneurs that may have something holding them back?
- Do you feel that passion in your business is essential to keep you going?
- What advice would you give your past self?
- What advice would you give to your future self?
- Successful Virtual Networking
- Reach out to those who are more successful than you
- There’s no such thing as a bad connection
- Linkedin is a powerful tool for connecting either for new jobs, new contracts, or general networking
- Utilize the current situation to your advantage of people being more willing to meet new people and socialize virtually
- Be human and make it conversational rather than overly salesy
- Focus on the other person rather than yourself
Resources:
Recipric Website
Recipric on Instagram
Recipric on Twitter
Recipric on Linkedin
Kristen’s Forbes Article
Be a Guest on the Show
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www.toptimizers.com
www.facebook.com/toptimizers
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Dr. Benjamin Hardy about personality, why personality tests are harmful, and how you are in control of defining your personality. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Dr. Hardy
- The journey to writing Personality Isn’t Permanent
- Personality
- Personality tests can be harmful to your mental health
- Taking on labels through tests or diagnosis
- How personality tests almost prevented his marriage
- Past decisions have brought you to where you are now but new decisions can move you in a new direction
- What’s the best way to make radical changes in your life?
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- How do you make the mental change to become a business owner?
- What advice would you give future entrepreneurs?
- What advice would you give your past self?
Resources:
Buy Personality Isn’t Permanent
Benjamin Hardy Website
Be a Guest on the Show
Get in Touch:
www.toptimizers.com
www.facebook.com/toptimizers
www.linkedin.com/toptimizers
www.instagram.com/toptimizers
www.pinterest.com/toptimizers
www.youtube.com/toptimizers
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Donna about using external resources to make your visions turn into a reality. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Donna
- Working in Uganda for care, treatment, and prevention of HIV
- The impact of COVID-19 on advocacy efforts in Uganda
- Sproutly Support Services
- Adopting self-development strategies
- CV and resume review to quantify employment impact
- Dealing with trends of entrepreneurs losing work and needing to find employment for the first time in years.
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- How do you balance your full time job with business ownership?
- What advice would you give future entrepreneurs?
- What advice would you give your past self?
- What advice would you give your future self?
Resources:
Sproutly Support Services Website
Sproutly Support Services on Linkedin
Sign up for Virtual Networking Events
Be a Guest on the Show
Get in Touch:
www.toptimizers.com
www.facebook.com/toptimizers
www.linkedin.com/toptimizers
www.instagram.com/toptimizers
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www.youtube.com/toptimizers
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Casey Jourdan about rolling with the punches, because there are punches, and growing along the way. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Casey Jourdan
- Joining the military pre-9/11
- Deploying to and getting injured in Iraq
- Disabled women veteran advocacy
- Deciding to move and become a business owner
- Casey’s Business
- Working with small businesses and solo-preneurs
- Helping businesses grow
- Being a cheerleader/troubleshooter for business owners
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- What trends are you seeing right now with everything we’re going through?
- What mental change did you have to go through to become a business owner?
- How do you deal with imposter syndrome?
- What advice would you give future entrepreneurs?
- What advice would you give your past self?
- What advice would you give your future self?
Resources:
Casey Jourdan Instagram
Casey Jourdan Website
Sign up for Virtual Networking Events
Be a Guest on the Show
Get in Touch:
www.toptimizers.com
www.facebook.com/toptimizers
www.linkedin.com/toptimizers
www.instagram.com/toptimizers
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www.youtube.com/toptimizers
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Tatum Skipper about how she decided to break away from a perfectly planned life to live a gypsy life as an entrepreneur. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Tatum Skipper
- From med school to social media
- Just say yes to everything
- Taking risks leads to big rewards
- Bon Voyage Babes
- Taking the leap into entrepreneurship
- Travel planning
- Overcoming fear through travel and adventure
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- 3 F word mindset exercise
- What advice would you give future entrepreneurs?
- What advice would you give your past self?
- What advice would you give your future self?
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Stacey Sorgen about building a community culture and a brand that listens to their consumers through entrepreneurship. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Stacey Sorgen
- From English major to the medical field to health and fitness
- How can we help people learn about their bodies before it’s too late?
- MODYBODY Fitness
- What made you take the leap into entrepreneurship?
- Tell us more about MODBODY fitness and how you’re pivoting with COVID19
- What comes next with online training?
- What trends are we seeing in fitness for 2020?
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- What mental change did you have to go through to become a business owner?
- What advice would you give future entrepreneurs?
- What advice would you give your past self?
- What advice would you give your future self?
- How are you balancing entrepreneurship with the new COVID19 situation?
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Julie Johnson about believing in yourself and not letting stereotypes hold you back from reaching your potential. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Julie Johnson
- Utilizing the current pandemic situation to become an entrepreneur
- Building a company at a young age
- Julie Johnson Creative
- Starting with YouTube at a young age learning about content creation
- Julie focuses on YouTube and Instagram social media management
- When building a business start with what you’re good at and expand from there
- How did you turn a passion project into a business?
- Find someone that inspires you and ask for mentorship
- What does Julie Johnson Creative offer?
- What trends are you seeing for 2020?
- Building community online through the pandemic
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- What mindset do you need to manage being an entrepreneur at such a young age?
- How are you balancing school, family, being 16, and running a business?
- The misconception of working with teen entrepreneurs
- What advice would you give your past self?
- What advice would you give your future self?
- What advice do you wish you were given when you first started your YouTube channel?
- Do you help people with influencer marketing?
- What’s next for Julie Johnson Creative?
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Tom Matzen about scaling your business strategically to avoid business failure. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Tom Matzen
- Everyone should spend time in the service industry
- Learn how to treat people
- Stop targeting everyone as your audience
- Becoming an Entrepreneur
- Taking the leap into entrepreneurship
- Moving away from reactive strategies to proactive strategies
- Make sure your business is aligned with your strategies and passions
- You can’t grow your business if you’re only driven by money
- Create raving fans, not just loyal customers
- Big ticket items are the ones that lead to actual profit
- Stop selling courses that don’t include skill building, mentorship, or accountability
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- What mental change do people have to go through to become a business owner?
- What trends are we seeing for business in 2020?
- What advice would you give your past self?
- Smart people learn from their mistakes, geniuses learn from others
- What advice would you give your future self?
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Alison Katschkowsky about choosing the path that is right for you while breaking expectations and following your passion. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Alison Katschkowsky
- From being waitlisted for PT school for 3 years to making the decision to pursue a career in fitness
- A classic lesson in faith to make the leap away from her designated path
- Making the transition from being an employee to an entrepreneur
- CU Fitness
- Wanted to make an impact for people on a personal level
- Don’t ever live with regret - if it doesn’t work at least you’re going to learn something
- CU Fitness works with those who need accountability both in person and online
- Self care isn’t selfish
- Courses seem to be the biggest trend so developing courses is the next trend to help the most people possible
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- How do you balance finding the personal touch with working virtually?
- What advice would you give future entrepreneurs?
- What advice would you give your past self?
- What advice would you give your future self?
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Miha Matlievski about failure and how to bounce back bigger than ever to overcome any obstacle you may face. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Miha the Fail Coach
- Miha loves cooking, dancing, supporting animal rescue, and his Failures Anonymous non-profit
- Life Before Fail Coach
- Miha has always been an entrepreneur
- Miha dropped out of high school at 17 which made him almost unemployable - the perfect storm to become an entrepreneur
- Miha faced a big failure in 2009 from real estate
- He was able to turn it around and build a startup in 2014 where he scaled up to multiple 9 figure years before exiting the company and starting Fail Coach
- The Big Failure
- Miha was given an opportunity to be a big investor in a real estate project
- There was no doubt that the project would be successful
- The housing market bubble of 2008/2009 crashed the project
- Miha went from $15M to -$5M in personal debt overnight
- From feeling optimistic to feeling suicidal
- Fail Coach
- What sets you apart as a business coach?
- Balancing logic and emotion in business
- Use your morning routine to practice mindfulness and emotional intelligence
- When planning your week, plan your life before your business - fit your business in where there is time
- You don’t find your passion, you find your freedom
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- Working 16 hours per day is not freedom, build your business to promote your own freedom
- What advice would you give your past self?
- What advice would you give your future self?
- What advice would you give those who want to open their own business?
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Emma Garrison about creating a management team that really leads their team and how to overcome self-doubt when being an entrepreneur. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Emma Garrison
- Feedback culture from Target
- Lack of culture embodiment at Mortgage Company
- Taking the gap between great and awful culture to build a business and become an entrepreneur
- Garrison Growth
- Taking the leap into entrepreneurship
- Garrison Growth teaches management to become leaders
- Overcoming fear and learning to be flexible in their missions
- Life as an Entrepreneur
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What mental change did you have to go through to become a business owner?
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Having a coach that could shift the negative belief patterns into positive patterns
- What advice would you give future entrepreneurs?
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Just do it but bring a coach along with you to keep you motivated and centered
- What advice would you give your past self?
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Get support quicker - support can be a game-changer in productivity and process development
- What advice would you give your future self?
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Always be learning - you are always a student
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Lucas Root about developing systems to make your personal and business life more efficient. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Lucas Root
- Starting Urban Paleo Chef was Lucas’s first taste of entrepreneurship
- Learning that you can influence the lives of others
- Taking responsibility for your own business decisions
- Creating Systems
- Learn your biorhythms and utilize your peak performance time to get through those tasks/activities that require the most brain power
- Create a morning routine - workout, meditate, learn
- Create a post-work routine
- Create a flow to your day to keep your brain engaged
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- What mental change did you have to go through to become a business owner?
- What advice would you give future entrepreneurs?
- What advice would you give your past self?
- Stop giving away all of your knowledge for free
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When you open a business you essentially take on two job roles - running the business and working in the business.
When you have less work, you become really good at getting all of the business activities done which leads to an increase in work. But when the work increases, the business activities fall behind. This creates a cycle of high and low income.
We work through automating your business, creating processes, and building a business that runs efficiently without being on the cycle of good and bad months.
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Building a cohesive team that fits your company culture and ensures employment longevity can be a real headache. We have some tips to make the hiring process more efficient and successful.
We also discuss what kind of perks employees are looking for and how you can really embody your culture both within and outside of your company.
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Maria from Dabar Couture about following your dreams into entrepreneurship and finding your passion. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Maria from Dabar Couture
- Be stylishly you
- Following your dreams
- Who were you before Dabar Couture?
- Where did your name come from and how do you use it as a conversation starter for your business?
- Style branding, closet organization, personal styling.
- What trends are we seeing when it comes to branding your style?
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- What mental change did you have to go through to become a business owner?
- What would you tell future entrepreneurs who may be holding themselves back?
- What advice would you give your 15 year old self?
- How does fashion fit in to being a business owner?
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Business coaches can help you become solution-oriented rather than problem-focused in your business. We walk you through the Problem Solving Process where we learn how to identify problems and build solutions.
We take quite a few steps to reach a solution from identification including - define, analyze, identify, choose, plan, implement, explore, challenge, plan.
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Business coaches are your cheerleaders to keep you moving forward. We help you set goals, stay on track, and keep you motivated to reach those goals.
Business consultants are more hands-on. If you need more help, need more knowledge, or are out of time to get more done, then consultants come in to make change actually happen by doing the work for/with you.
We can help you decide which is right for you.
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Suz from CarpenterOne80 about the curve balls that life can throw at us and how we can use entrepreneurship to adjust and build the life we want. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Suz from CarpenterOne80
- You say you would die for your kids, but would you change for them?
- When Life Flips 180 Degrees
- Changing jobs, health issues, moving across the country.
- Finding work after being a stay at home mom.
- Opening CarpenterOne80
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- CarpenterOne80 programs.
- Advice that you would give your past self.
- What would you tell future entrepreneurs who may be holding themselves back?
- How do you feel we can overcome imposter syndrome?
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Remote teams open up your candidate pool so that you can find the right person instead of just the closest person. When you hire remote workers you still have all of the same options when it comes to employment type - full-time employee, contractor, or freelancer.
You may save on overhead or find higher levels of productivity as well. Remote teams may be dispersed around the globe by allowing team members to work from home or centralized in one remote office.
And even though the skills to oversee a remote team are different than those in office, all of the software available sure makes it easier. Programs like Slack, Trello, Google Docs, and more allow you to work in one way throughout any location.
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A project is an activity outside regular business operations that has a defined beginning and end.
A project manager should be the person overseeing these projects instead of passing off the project to the operations department.
Each project has a project lifecycle that includes initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & controlling, and closure.
Join us today to learn more about project management and why you should have a contract or freelance project manager associated with your company.
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With our new reality crashing down all around us, we’re facing high levels of fear in our society.
Is this something we have to learn to deal with for months to come?
Are we overreacting?
How can we make this experience more positive?
Join us today to talk about our thoughts on reacting to the coronavirus.
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Lyn from Couch to Active about getting stuck in a corporate career and what it takes to make a rational choice to become an entrepreneur. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Lyn from Couch to Active
- Exercise should not be dreadful but getting off the couch is the hardest part of all.
- Leaving the Corporate World
- Before you started Couch to Active you were overworked, sleep-deprived and battling chronic illness - can you tell us more about what attracted you to leaving the corporate world?
- Did you experience any burnout or did you just have the opportunity to leave and become self employed? What challenges did you find?
- What advice do you have for those experiencing burnout but are too scared to get out?
- Starting Couch to Active
- Tell us more about Couch to Active and where that passion came from.
- How to create motivation to exercise and keep that motivation?
- Do you think you can be in business if you’re not passionate about it?
- What drove you to this industry and how did you know that this was your passion?
- You have a podcast, a book, and a fast-track program - can you tell us about each?
- Do these skills transfer well into other areas of life?
- What’s next for you and Couch to Active?
- Thoughts on Entrepreneurship
- What advice do you have for balancing fitness into an entrepreneur lifestyle?
- What’s one thing you would like to tell yourself 20 years ago?
- Keeping your business and personal lives separate.
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Ashleigh from One Village Media about how she was able to turn burning out of her job into the motivation she needed to become a successful entrepreneur. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
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Introduction
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Meet Ashleigh from One Village Media
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Burning Out of Animal Welfare
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Before you started OVM you were pretty set on working with animals for your whole life - can you tell us more about where that started and the path you took into animal welfare?
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You were in the animal welfare industry for so many years - when did you start noticing the burnout in the industry and what made you finally decide it was time to move on?
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Opening One Village Media
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How did you decide that marketing and specifically social media management was the right path for you?
- What are the services you offer to your clients?
- What trends are we seeing in social media for 2020?
- What overall marketing trends do you see for 2020?
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What are some of the main questions people ask you when it comes to your job?
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Thoughts on Entrepreneurship
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Tell us about the mental change that you had to go through in order to become a successful entrepreneur.
- What advice do you have for those out there who want to open their own business but may have something holding them back?
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If you could go back, what advice do you wish you were given before you started on your entrepreneurship journey?
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Community Involvement
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As a social media manager people may think that you’ve completely cracked the code on how to work 100% online but it’s clear that you see the value in face to face networking. What can you tell all of our listeners about the importance of being part of the community and getting to know people personally?
- It’s also clear from some of the ways that you continue to give back to the community that you’re still involved with animal welfare. Has your relationship with that industry changed? And how have you been able to balance giving back without experiencing that same burnout that you felt before?
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Businesses can fail for a variety of reasons. We typically hear about lack of capital, bad location, and so on.
But what about all of the other reasons your business may be struggling that you're not thinking about?
This episode goes over 6 not so obvious reasons your small business may not be succeeding.
Check it out and let us know which others you would add to the list.
What to expect in today’s show:
- 6 Reasons Why Businesses Fail
- Find the Article Here
- Inadequate or no business plan
- Insufficient Mission and Vision Statement
- Lack of Management
- Failure to Create Culture
- Lack of Business Processes and Systems
- Resistance to Change
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What to expect in today’s show:
- Coronavirus Outbreak Prompts Employers to Review Sick Leave Policies
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- Remote Work
- CDC Recommendations
- Employee Retention
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What to expect in today’s show:
- Time Management Is About More Than Life Hacks
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- Awareness
- Arrangement
- Adaptation
- Tips for training yourself into time management
- Tools we use
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Anna from Anenome about building a business that you’re passionate about and why finding your happy is so important. We hope to see you at the top! What to expect in today’s show:
Introduction
Meet Anna from Anenome
Anna’s Path to Anenome
What inspired Anna?
What was your path to this business?
Why is it so important to be happy with what you do?
Anenome
Services Anenome offers
Book launch
Workshops
What comes next
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Welcome to Table Talk with Toptimizers. Table talk is our ramblings about awesome articles or topics we find that we want to share with you. Join us for these bonus episodes outside of our regular show dates. We’ll see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- 2020 New Business Trends to Inspire You
Find the Article Here
- Peer Groups
- Machine Learning and AI
- Professional Organizers
- Sustainability
- Experience vs Product
- Veteran Owned Businesses
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Show Notes
Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Today we are talking about all of the options you have available when you and your business are no longer compatible.
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Sometimes our businesses don’t go as planned - we may need to rebrand, sell the business, close our doors, or even file bankruptcy.
- Before making any quick decisions, take these steps to consider where your business falls.
- Pivot
- Can you rebrand your business for higher consumer engagement?
- Are there other markets that you’re not reaching?
- What areas could your business branch into?
- Where’s the market demand?
- Sell
- Would someone else be better suited to run this business?
- Is your business marketable?
- Why should you stay quiet during a business sale?
- Close
- How do you walk away from a business without a loss?
- Is there really a successful way to close a business?
- What considerations should you take before you close?
- Bankruptcy
- Is bankruptcy a good option?
- What types of bankruptcy can a business file?
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Welcome to Table Talk with Toptimizers. Table talk is our ramblings about awesome articles or topics we find that we want to share with you. Join us for these bonus episodes outside of our regular show dates. We’ll see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
What is Table Talk?
5 Trends in Entrepreneurship You Can’t Afford to Ignore in 2020
Find the article here
How to Guarantee Success in Your Business (Seriously!)
Find the article here
Resources:
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Get in Touch:
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www.youtube.com/toptimizers
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today for an overview of why goals are so important, how to prioritize your day, and various techniques for setting actionable goals. We’ll see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Setting goals isn’t as straightforward as just writing down a list of all the things we want in life. So how do you turn all those dreams into actionable goals? That’s what we’re here to talk about today!
- Why is goal setting so important?
- We keep telling you that goals are important. But why are we placing so much emphasis on them?
- Resolutions are destined to fail - don’t let your goals meet the same fate
- Urgent-Important Matrix
- Overview
- Important & Urgent
- Important & Not Urgent
- Urgent & Not Important
- Not Urgent & Not Important
- Goal Setting Techniques
- SMART
- WOOP
- HARD
Resources:
54 Questions for Finding Your Passion& Purpose in Business: https://toptimizers.com/?p=290
3 Goal Setting Techniques That Actually Work: https://toptimizers.com/?p=355
Urgent-Important Matrix - Prioritizing Your Day: https://toptimizers.com/?p=381
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Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today for an introduction to Toptimizers, our founders, and our business. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Sam and Shelly
- Our story for opening Toptimizers
- Why Toptimizers?
-
Toptimizers assist company decision-makers
- improvement opportunities
- goal setting
- profit improvement
- definition of objectives
- We are result-oriented
- We believe it is imperative to do it now and do it right
- Our Services
- Business Consulting
- Operational Planning
- Business Formation
- Performance Management
- Organizational Assessments
- Turnaround Management
- Interim Management
- Business Coaching vs Consulting
- Our Show
- Learn more from fellow entrepreneurs
- Business success and setbacks
- Tips and tricks to reach the top
- Virtual Networking Opportunity 1st and 3rd Thursdays at 6 pm EST
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Resources:
Business Coaching vs Business Consulting https://toptimizers.com/?p=96
Choosing Your Business Structure https://toptimizers.com/?p=339
Business Failure Rates: https://www.bls.gov/bdm/us_age_naics_00_table7.txt
https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/Business-Survival.pdf
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www.youtube.com/toptimizers
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