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186: Rebel Talent – Featured Interview with guest expert Francesca Gino

Francesca Gino, author of Rebel Talent: Why it Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life Francesca Gino and Bill Ringle discuss Rebel Talent – what it is and how to cultivate it to achieve greater success in your small business. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories … Read more

185: Getting Grit – Interview with guest expert Caroline Miller

Caroline Miller, author of Getting Grit: The Evidence-Based Approach to Cultivating Passion, Perseverance, and Purpose Bill Ringle and Caroline Adams Miller discuss the different types of grit that business owners can adopt – good grit, faux grit, poor grit, and stupid grit. Getting the right grit makes all the difference! >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes … Read more

184: Soul Health – Interview with guest expert Dr. Katherine T Kelly

Pioneer of Soul Health Bill Ringle and Katherine T Kelly discuss the “Soul Health Model” of gaining insight and strength to apply in our business and personal life. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small … Read more

182: Total Health Mastery – Interview with guest expert Arnoux Goran

Arnoux Goran, founder of Total Health Mastery USA and author of Why You Don’t Lose Weight and How You Can Bill Ringle and Arnoux Goran discuss the high costs of emotional baggage that we and our staff carry and the freedom and better performance that await once we release those burdens. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete … Read more

181: Guide to Winning Clients – Interview with guest expert David A. Fields

David A. Fields, author of The Irresistible Consultant’s Guide to Winning Clients: 6 Steps to Unlimited Clients & Financial Freedom David Fields and Bill Ringle discuss proven methods to winning clients for consultants. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for … Read more

180: Cadence – Featured Interview with guest expert Pete Williams

Pete Williams, Entrepreneur Advisor, Marketer, and author of Cadence Pete Williams talks with Bill Ringle about how to add repeatable, understandable 10% wins in your business growth based on Cadence: A Tale of Fast Business Growth >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. … Read more

179: Back in Control – Interview with guest expert Dr. David Hanscom

Orthopedic Spine Surgeon at Swedish Medical Center, Co-director of the Swedish Neuroscience Specialists Prehab Program Bill Ringle and David Hanscom discuss how to overcome the true underlying causes of workplace anxiety to get back in control. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. … Read more

178: The Efficiency Paradox – Interview with guest expert Edward Tenner

Edward Tenner, author of The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can’t Do Bill Ringle and Edward Tenner discuss the “Efficiency Paradox” and how it impacts business owners in practical ways. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is … Read more

177: Meltdown: Interview with guest expert Chris Clearfield

Chris Clearfield, founder of System Logic and Co-Author of Meltdown Bill Ringle and Chris Clearfield discuss the remarkable simplicity that can avert catastrophic business disasters, applicable to organizations of all sizes. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best … Read more

176: A Life Worth Living – Interview with guest expert Carla Feagan

Carla Feagan, author of A Life Worth Living: The Journey of an Authentic Soul Bill Ringle and Carla Feagan discuss going beyond your comfort zone to create a life worth living and a business worth leading. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My … Read more

175: Life’s One Law – Interview with guest expert Dr. Philip Agrios

Philip Agrios, author of Life’s One Law: Nature’s Blueprint for Repeatable Success in Life and Business Dr. Phillip Agrios and Bill Ringle discuss a novel 6-step problem-solving blueprint that guides business owners away from past troublesome decisions and tendencies and towards better closing rates, healthier management communications, and stronger business relationships. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete … Read more

174: 99 Wows of Creativity – Featured Interview with guest expert Randi Brill

Randi Brill, Chief Creative Officer for QuaraCORE and author of 99 Creative WOWs Words of Wisdom for Business Randi Brill and Bill Ringle discuss the practical aspects of creative design for small business owners. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest … Read more

173: How to Hire A Players: Featured Interview with guest expert Eric Herrenkohl

President of Herrenkohl Consulting Eric Herrenkohl talks with Bill Ringle about how to hire A-Players for Small Business Leaders. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and … Read more

171: H3 Leadership – Featured Interview with guest expert Brad Lomenick

Brad Lomenick, author of H3 Leadership: Be Humble. Stay Hungry. Always Hustle.: Be Humble. Stay Hungry. Always Hustle., and President of Catalyst Brad Lomenick talks with Bill Ringle on My Quest for the Best about H3 Leadership’s implications for small business leaders and their teams becoming more effective. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and … Read more

170: Getting out of our own way with guest expert Dr. Ron Stotts

Ron Stotts, PhD, Author of Overscheduled by Success Dr. Ron Stotts talks with Bill Ringle on My Quest for the Best about how very successful leaders recognize the Hero’s Journey and make internal adjustments to create outstanding external results. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small … Read more

169: The One Percent Edge – Interview with guest expert Susan Solovic

Entrepreneur and New York Times Bestselling Author of The One Percent Edge Susan Solovic and Bill Ringle discussed how business leaders can find and exploit the one percent edge to stay relevant to their markets and outpace the competition on My Quest for the Best. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert advice … Read more

161: Sell with Authority – Interview with guest expert Mike Saunders

Positioning Authority Coach at Marketing Huddle Authority Positioning Coach Mike Saunders talks with Bill Ringle on My Quest for the Best about marketing hurdles, learning from failure, and the phenomenon of creating “Done for You” assets. >>>Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business. My Quest for … Read more

160: Thinking Right Side Up – Featured Interview with guest expert David Fields

David Fields, Founder of Ascendant Consulting >>>Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission … Read more

158: Overcoming Diversity Fatigue – Featured Interview with David Livermore

David Livermore talks with Bill Ringle about how awareness of values diversity drives business value.

Key points that you’ll learn from this interview:

The importance of taking inventory of your company culture.
How to recognize and overcome “diversity fatigue.”
The role of diversity metrics in business.
The key ingredient of shared objectives.
What Jeff Bezos missed with his “empty chair” technique

157: Striking Up Conversations with Strangers – Featured Interview with Melinda Blau

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The advantages of striking up converstations with strangers in business.
  • How having consequential strangers in your life adds both variety to your perspective and dollars to your bottom line.
  • What to do to add consequential strangers in your life when you relocate or visit a new city.
  • How to overcome your shyness and other factors that have held you back from reaching out.

Melinda Blau talks with Bill Ringle about how interactions and relationships with consequential strangers matter to business owners even in the age of social media.

155: Get Yourself Published – Featured Interview with Adam Witty

Founder and CEO, Advantage Media Group >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. Adam Witty talks with Bill Ringle about how to build your business through book publishing. Listen to this interview to learn: The advantages you gain by being a published author. What … Read more

153: Make the Most of Your Strengths – Featured Interview with Stefan Swanepoel

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • Marketing secrets from a prolific, bestselling author.
  • How he designed his book to have wide appeal through social media and traditional channels.
  • Lessons about becoming comfortable with who you are and making the most of your strengths in business and in life.

Stefan Swanepoel talks with Bill Ringle about using our innate strengths to overcome challenges in business and in life.

152: Putting People First – Featured Interview with guest expert Jonathan Raymond

Jonathan Raymond, Owner of Refound Jonathan Raymond talks with Bill Ringle on My Quest for the Best about the culture of accountability, the proper way to give feedback, and developing an organization that puts people first. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My … Read more

150: Walking the Halls – Featured Interview with guest expert Thomas Barta

Thomas Barta, Speaker, Author, and Consultant  In this episode of My Quest for the Best, Thomas Barta talks with Bill Ringle about the difference between doing marketing and leading marketing, and the challenges faced by both CMOs and customer-facing employees alike. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel … Read more

148: Defining Data Breaches with guest expert Fred Wilf

Dorriah Rogers talks with Bill Ringle about the principles and benefits described in Decide to Profit.
 
Key points that you’ll learn from this interview:
The impact a mentor had on Rogers’ life and career, and how he inspired her to be her own person.
How the Lego company used a single, unified goal to really turn things around.
The importance of not only giving everyone in the company or organization, not just the decision makers, a voice.
How to teach employees to tie their ideas to the overarching goal: making money.
Rogers’ 9 steps to a better bottom line.

146: Building the Mobile Future with Chuck Martin

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How business is being transformed by mobile technology and access.
  • Why a mobile app is not a strategy!
  • What companies like Best Buy, Macy’s, and Apple are doing to engage with the mobile customer.
  • What Lowe’s did to build a competitive advantage through buying iPhones for each employee and getting suppliers to change their box coding.
  • What small business owners can do with QR codes to bond with customers through mobile technology.

Chuck Martin talks with Bill Ringle about how companies are using mobile technology to accelerate growth and outmaneuver competition.

145: Following Small Business Trends – Featured Interview with guest expert Anita Campbell

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How she made the successful transition from the corporate world to being a successful entrepreneur.
  • What other entrepreneurs want from learning materials and networking.
  • Four trends that are driven by different forces and are shaping what tools and strategies entrepreneurs use to grow.

Anita Campbell talks with Bill Ringle about small business trends and success.

144: 9 Steps to a Better Bottom Line – Featured Interview with guest expert Dorriah Rogers

Dorriah Rogers talks with Bill Ringle about the principles and benefits described in Decide to Profit.
 
Key points that you’ll learn from this interview:
The impact a mentor had on Rogers’ life and career, and how he inspired her to be her own person.
How the Lego company used a single, unified goal to really turn things around.
The importance of not only giving everyone in the company or organization, not just the decision makers, a voice.
How to teach employees to tie their ideas to the overarching goal: making money.
Rogers’ 9 steps to a better bottom line.

142: Focus on WOM – Featured Interview with Joe Calloway

Joe Calloway, author of Magnetic, talks with Bill Ringle about being intentional about attracting new business and satisfying your existing customers.

Key points that you’ll learn from this interview:

The importance of committing to make every business experience to be a positive one for all involved
How to get more positive WOM (word of mouth)
The single most important strategic asset for many companies and how it relates to your relationship with your customers.
What he said to correct a misunderstanding, even when it came at significant out-of-pocket expense to replace 600 of the wrong title books sent to the meeting planner

141: Tell Better Stories – Featured Interview with Mark Satterfield

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How stories are a powerful tool to help people understand what you do
  • Ways to differentiate yourself effectively in a competitive market
  • Some of the best ways to find your authentic voice
  • How to use stories to grow your business, whether you work for a Fortune 500 or a small business

Mark Satterfield talks with Bill Ringle about the underappreciated value of stories for driving business growth.

140: The Magic Number – Featured Interview with Chris Zane

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The impact that taking full responsibility has on the culture of Zane’s Cycles.
  • Factors that are used to successfully differentiate from competitors.
  • Why free lifetime service is included with every bicycle sold.
  • How the “magic number” helps his team members remember to treat customers with great care and respect.
  • His philosophy of “not being in the bike business, but in the customer service business” and how that can benefit your company, too.

Chris Zane, owner and founder of one of the largest national bicycle companies, Zanes Cycles, talks with Bill Ringle about the singular focus on customer relationships and other guiding principles of business growth.

139: SNAP Selling – Featured Interview with Jill Konrath

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • That successful sales work is a learnable skill set, not an innate trait.
  • Practical steps to set up meetings with key decision makers.
  • How proper sales training led to a morale boost in a client company.
  • What SNAP selling means.
  • How certain assumptions help you in sales, rather than hurt you.

Jill Konrath talks with Bill Ringle about proven methods for reaching decision makers in a tough economy through SNAP selling.

138: The Most Significant Trait of a Company Culture – Featured Interview with Randy Pennington

Randy Pennington talks with Bill Ringle about how to make company culture work to increase productivity and morale.

Key points that you’ll learn from this interview:

The importance of company culture in attracting talent.
The risks of not changing fast enough as a team or company.
The 6 choices that need to be made regarding how a culture develops.
The single most significant trait of a company culture.
How structure and process are the building blocks of habits.
The executive team that rolled out training to emphasize its importance to the company.

137: Purpose More, Transform Less – Featured Interview with Julie Williamson

Vice President of Strategy & Research for Karrikins Group >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. Julie Williamson talks with Bill Ringle about overcoming the obstacles to growth so you can create a company that matters to its employees, customers, and the larger community.   Key … Read more