My Quest for the Best with Bill Ringle

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Clear Your Focus

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Russell Bishop talks with Bill Ringle about alignment and empowerment within organizations as key growth drivers.

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • What it means to have a solo focus rather than an organizational focus
  • Why strategy and objectvies DON’T matter
  • A perspective on complaining that can transform the conversation into one of contribution
  • How good questions provoke clear thinking
  • Two simple questions to ask yourself to stay on track and productive
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How Good Managers Become Great Leaders

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mike figliuolo2

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The distinction between managing and leading, advocated by Admiral Grace Mary Hooper
  • Stages to building a profitable, scalable training company
  • What leaders did to deepen trust and improve communications at a Fortune 100 company
  • Why boundaries are so elusive for leaders and how to make them work better
  • The mindset needed to grow your company in a short period of time

Mike Figliuolo talks with Bill Ringle about the importance for leaders of understanding people as individuals in an organization. 

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What Do You Really Want?

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Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit, talks with Bill Ringle about how to strengthen your management effectiveness by giving less advice.

Key points that you’ll learn from this interview:

What it means when managers create an environment to stay focused, engaged, and learning as the standard
How to avoid being an advice-giving maniac
Tactics to get beyond the first answer to a deeper question (which is not the only answer and rarely the best answer)
Why your organization will become more productive when there is less of a rush to action
What makes up 50% of our waking behavior and rarely gets the attention it deserves

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Ubertrending

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Turning the Coin Over

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Doug Conant2

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How getting fired can lead to new and better opportunities
  • What it means to “turn the coin over” when presented with a problem
  • The two top qualities of mind that set exceptional leaders apart from well-intentioned leaders
  • How you can use the criteria to win in the marketplace in your own business
  • What resulted from combining the social agenda with the value agenda at Cambell’s Soup for employees and other stakeholders

Doug Conant talks with Bill Ringle about proven leadership principles that apply across the board, from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups.

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Share Your Code to Become a Better Leader

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mette norgaard

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • What leaders who care about the human side of business can be observed doing regularly
  • How the Finnish Broadcasting situation was turned around one lunch conversation at a time
  • What distinguishes a conversation from a Touchpoint opportunity
  • Why sharing your “code” with your team can make you a better leader
  • How to combine your words and energy in an interaction to produce extraordinary impact
  • What you can do to sidestep the myth of “no time to slow down” 

Mette Norgaard talks with Bill Ringle about Touchpoints as a transformative tool in business.

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Building Great Relationships

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Elaine Pofeldt

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • Keys to building great relationships with clients
  • How the criteria you use for evaluating opportunities changes as you change your business vision 
  • The central role of courage for succeeding as an entrepeneur 
  • How trusting your observations and taking action leads to success
  • Important networking advice for corporate managers and leaders

Elaine Pofeldt talks with Bill Ringle about succeeding as an independent journalist focused on careers and entrepreneurship.

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The Perpetual Wealth System

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johnjamiesonheadshot

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • An insider’s view of how to make money like your bank does
  • How you can make monthly payments to yourself to earn tax-free income
  • Why it is better to buy a car than to fund your 401 K when you follow the right system
  • How putting together an action plan makes you more productive
  • The 4 wealth drains to plug up in your personal finances

John Jamison talks with Bill Ringle about creating a perpetual wealth system to benefit entrepreneurs, their children, grandchildren, and generations beyond.

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Silent Language of Leaders – Interview

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Carol Goman

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The two channels of non-verbal communication that we want leaders to use 
  • Gender differences and how they impact non-verbal leadership signals
  • Cultural views of time and tips on how to be respectful when traveling abroad
  • How emotions are common across cultures, but what can be shared, displayed, or shown differs
  • What makes our brains default to negative interpretations of any news under certain circumstances

Carol Goman talks with Bill Ringle about the silent language of leaders that each of us can speak more fluently.

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Digital Convergence Marketing – Interview

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fred catona 

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The most memorable lesson he learned from Priceline founder, Jay Walker
  • Why having a message foundation is the critical step to get right for a marketer
  • How to leverage the speed and feedback advantages of direct response radio advertising
  • What role the trust agent plays in marketing for businesses that range from medical practices to travel, especially if you have a skeptial audience
  • What specific criteria you can use to decide if radio advertising can help you grow your business

Fred Catona talks with Bill Ringle about achieving large-scale success in business based on direct marketing principles and paying attention to what works. 

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Selling Against the Goal

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kendra lee

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How to set criteria for overcoming your self-doubt
  • Who to ask for business advice (and who can’t give you helpful advice, even if more convenient)
  • Looking beyond cold calling for lead generation
  • How a $5 MM lab simulation company got out of their own way and doubled revenue
  • The big breakthrough for a $100 MM security company 
  • Why campaign success cannot be measured after a single event or e-mail, and how to really make it work

Kendra Lee talks with Bill Ringle about what happens to your business growth once you really start to believe in your talents and abilities.

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Guerilla Selling

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orvel ray wilson

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How insisting on a meeting with a decision maker led to a great friendship and business partnership with Jay Levinson
  • What Red Bull did to break into the London bar scene
  • Economic trends that every business owner can use for growth
  • The business growth leverage opportunity in upgrading the skills of your team

Orvel Ray Wilson talks with Bill Ringle about Guerrilla Marketing and conquering overseas territories.

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The Power of Unpopular – Interview

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erika napoletano

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The business mindset of caring about the success of your clients first
  • The perspective of major brands that don’t mind being unpopular with given market segments
  • The power of having your audience spread your message for greater impact and reach

Erika Napoletano talks with Bill Ringle about the uncommon advantages of being unpopular.

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The Leaders Climb – Interview

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paul heagen

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How an early start in news radio led to a career in executive coaching
  • What to do when you find yourself going too fast and fighting too many decisions
  • The similarities of a movie script to a life script
  • How having a professional code of behavior makes it easy to be consistent and credible
  • How publishing a book creates a public standard and personal challenge for congruence

Paul Heagan talks with Bill Ringle about how to succeed by creating an environment where you can do your best thinking and leading.

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Leadership from the Inside Out – Interview

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kevin cashman

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The value of both outer tools (strategy, communications, teambuilding, finance,…) and inner tools (self-awareness of values, character, talents, vision,…) for great leaders
  • What it takes to transform the volitility, unpredictability, complex, and ambiguous elements to those of vision, understanding, clarity, and agility
  • How it took 9 years of research and 1 year of writing to create The Pause Principle book
  • What steps Kevin took to add a “pause environment” in his home 

Kevin Cashman talks with Bill Ringle about using the Pause Principle to develop yourself, others, and to create a culture of innovation. 

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18 Minutes – Interview

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peter bregman2

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The right environment to train business leaders who must have dangerous conversations
  • What makes the “You can have it all” myth so important to burst
  • How to use 5 boxes on your daily planner to accomplish the most important objectives each year

Peter Bregman talks with Bill Ringle about the benefits of finding your focus.

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Having your excellence speak for you

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cal newport

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How “follow your passion” can be counterproductive advice
  • The value and necessity of systematic practice to developing deep skills
  • The two prime characteristics of the most marketable skills
  • Why “mission” creates meaning and opportunities for leverage if sequenced properly
  • That the solution to a mystery is not that complex, unless we oversimplify or overcomplicate it
  • Key steps to selling more than 120,000 copies of his first 3 books

Cal Newport talks with Bill Ringle about the underlying patterns of success in both business and academia.

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Change Friendly Leadership – Interview

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rodger dean duncan

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • What newscaster Jim Lehrer taught Rodger about good interviewing
  • Why it is important to set up and maintain an environment to challenge the status quo
  • How an losing agra business turned itself around in 12 months and yielded a $252 million profit 
  • Points of effective communication with a change initiative
  • The importance of being wiling to be influenced

Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan talks with Bill Ringle about change-friendly leadership.

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A Slice of the Pie

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nick sarillo

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The most important aspect of a business is not it’s product or people or process, but another “p” word
  • The importance of making your company values current and present to each employee so that employees can use values in day-to-day decision making
  • The case of the burned bottom pizza, and the broader lessons any business owner can draw from it
  • Why you need to oversee multiple health dimensions of a business for all stakeholders
  • What exceptional factors drives higher profits and lower turnover in a traditionally slim margin and low commitment business that you can model in your business

Nick Sarillo talks with Bill Ringle about creating an empowered work culture for small businesses.

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How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things – Interview

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neil smith

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • Identifying the structural and human obstacles to change

  • About how Bank of America generated 150,000 ideas for improvement and engaged on the path to improvement through this process

  • Why the fear of the unknown is always a give with change programs, and how to handle it
  • Examples of how to create the right environment for change

Neil Smith talks with Bill Ringle about overcoming the hidden barriers to success for entrepreneurs.

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Predictable Success

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les mckeown

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The causes of complexity in a growing business
  • The 7-stage lifecycle of a business
  • How to achieve the key balance between systems and processes vs.  creativity and innovation
  • Overcoming the arithmetic extension myth

Les McKeown talks with Bill Ringle about creating predictable success in business.

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Take the Stairs

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rory vaden

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The paradox principle, in which easy short-term choices lead to difficult long-term consequences.
  • Why balance is not something that high performers make a top priority.
  • What to focus on to have great fitness, great relationships, and great finances.
  • The perspective of peace as a form of wealth that is undervalued in society.
  • Daily habits that lead to high focus and productivity.

Rory Vaden talks with Bill Ringle about key principles for succeeding in business and in life described in Take the Stairs.

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For Better or for Work

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meg hirschberg

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How telling the truth makes you feel less alone, and that being a founder is lonely journey at times
  • That business, like marriages, goes through distinct phases
  • Your partner or spouse really wants to know how you are feeling, not just the “good” or “great” response you give to your colleagues and team
  • Being authentic about every aspect of the journey together is critical to the success of both the business and the relationship

Meg Hirshberg talks with Bill Ringle about navigating the challenges of building a business while making a marriage (with children) successful.

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Take the Cold Out of Cold Calling

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sam richter

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How information gives you a competitive advantage with your own confidence.
  • Tips and tricks for accessing specific sites and finding important file types online.
  • Where to go to access exclusive and very expensive database resources at no charge.
  • The importance of recognizing and developing your skills with both the art and science of online research.

Sam Richter talks with Bill Ringle about overcoming the excuses to taking advantage of the rich resources for business relationship development available on the Internet.

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Why the Future of Business is Sharing

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lisa gansky

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How successful companies are built on incredibly talented, committed people
  • An early insight about how the Internet would level the playing field led to forming a startup acquired by AOL
  • Implications of how technology advances have lowered the barriers to entry dramatically
  • Where to find entrepreneurs creating new ideas and companies in major cities
  • Where on the balance sheet many companies can find underutilized and undervalued assets
  • How the meshing.it database became the foundation for both the book as well as an open source resource
  • Clues and tips for finding life-work balance

Lisa Gansky talks with Bill Ringle about the profound implications “meshing” will have on business and society.

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Leveraging your creativity for competitive advantage

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josh linkner

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How creativity is the new currency of success
  • The most exciting news about creativity (hint: it’s something we can all tap within ourselves)
  • What one corporation did to encourage calculated risk-taking among all employees
  • What creating an arch enemy does for boosting creativity at all levels in a company
  • A novel technique for overcoming timid ideas in brainstorming sessions

Josh Linkner talks with Bill Ringle about the need to re-awaken and develop our creative abilities no matter what role or industry you serve to propel growth and innovation.

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Best Practices Are Stupid

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stephen_shapiro

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • What a difference it makes to realize that all businesses are in the marketing business
  • How cracking the PR code boosts your visibility to prospects
  • A secret of running a profitable business is keeping your overhead low
  • What it means to “think inside the box” and to “define a better box”
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“Will Your Passion Endure?”

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barbara_corcoran

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • What skills and personality traits angel investors want entrepreneurs to have
  • How investing in an entrepreneur is like hiring a great sales person
  • What luck does and what the person must do to capitalize on any lucky break
  • The one characteristic that has no substitute in business (or in life)
  • What women entrepreneurs in particular need more of to stand out and be successful

Barbara Corcoran talks with Bill Ringle about her mindset and models for success, as well as behind-the-scenes Shark Tank secrets.

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Wired for Care

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dev patnaik

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How his first job unlocked new ways of thinking about design
  • What most businesses miss in terms of making strategy pay off
  • Why the learner’s mindset matters more than most realize
  • Components of an innovative work culture
  • Why Target refers to its customers as “Guests”

Dev Patnaik talks with Bill Ringle about turning ambiguity into opportuntity for his clients.

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Cross Cultural Selling

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michael_lee

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The secret to listening to your customers to meet their real needs, not what you assume they want/need
  • Three practical tips to avoid insulting prospective customers that many United States business people do automatically and unintentionally
  • Some of the key cultural differences used in negotiating
  • A subspecialty of the medical industry that is very entrepreneurial
  • What to do instead of ignoring someone’s culture to build a genuine bond and relationship

Michael Soon Lee talks with Bill Ringle about embracing the multicultural market and building long-lasting, profitable relationships with your customers.

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Nanovation

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jackie_freiberg

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How leadership is really about relationships unfolding
  • What organizations do to make strategy part of their culture
  • How to recognize and avoid “Dead Person Working” syndrome
  • What leading companies do to invest in their people
  • How to use feedback as a gift for growth rather than as a destructive tool

Jackie Freiberg talks with Bill Ringle about what it really takes to create a culture of leadership and initiative.

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Get Along – Interview

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arnold_sanow2

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How a marketing director for the marine corps became a nationally known communications expert.
  • What to do when your business “moment of truth” arrives.
  • The importance of being observant and what to pay attention to in order to effectively connect in business.

Arnold Sanow talks with Bill Ringle about the factors that tip business interactions in your favor.

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Simpler Living

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jeff_davidson

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How our culture steals our breathing space – and what we can do about it individually
  • The simple cure for a scattered workday
  • The truth behind the multitasking myth
  • How to get others to support you in your work
  • The hidden psychological driver that makes people reluctant to “unplug” and the related productivity and health costs
  • Tips for managing your energy as you organize your life for better balance

Jeff Davidson talks with Bill Ringle about breathing space – what it is and how to create more of it in your business and personal life.

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Innovation, Courage, Connection – Interview

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jason_howell

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The formula you can use to make your contribution.
  • Why Walmart was interested in Patriotic Contribution for its employees.
  • Historical examples of how individuals band together to make a difference.
  • How innovation, courage, and connection combine to create the environment for you to leave your legacy.
  • Other creative ways you can leave your legacy.

Jason Howell talks with Bill Ringle about how professionals of all ages can contribute to their families, community, and country using patriotic development.

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The Simple Elegance of Shibumi

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matthew_may

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How Matt’s career took off with the publication of his book.
  • How the refinement of a loom design factors into Toyota’s heritage and culture.
  • What shibumi means for business leaders.
  • How to combat crippling complexity in organizations.

Matthew E. May talks with Bill Ringle about innovation and the ability to achieve the maximum results with the minimum means.

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Creativity is for Everyone

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lisa bodell

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The reality behind how innovation occurs in business.
  • What makes leadership harder than it has to be for some.
  • The importance of mindset in approaching solutions.
  • How you can unlock creative energy in your company by killing stupid rules.

Lisa Bodell talks with Bill Ringle about insights gained from leading innovation initiatives in major companies around the world.

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Systems that Succeed

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tom_searcy

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How to build systems that allow you to repeat your successes.
  • How to minimize risk in going after big sales.
  • The advantages of tracking your success through the measurable success of your clients.

Tom Searcy talks with Bill Ringle about the advantages, risks, and transformative successes of big sales.

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Cultivating Radiance

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tamara-gerlach

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How to take yourself lightly and your business seriously
  • The rapid business boost a successful book can provide
  • What interviews and focused networking can do for your business growth

 

Tamara Gerlach talks with Bill Ringle about connecting with our inner radiance and sharing it with the world in a big way.

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Maintaining Networks of Knowledge

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brian reich

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • Qualities of a successful info strategist and how that can help your business
  • The importance of avoiding the shiny object syndrome
  • The big challenges on which we can be focusing our talents and technology to improve quality of life now and in the future
  • The key to tackling challenging problems
  • Tips you can use to avoid information overwhelm

Brian Reich talks with Bill Ringle about perspectives from an info strategist that can help your business grow.

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Ditch the Pitch

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Steve Yastrow

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • Placeholding 1
  • Placeholding 2
  • Placeholding 3
  • Placeholding 4
  • Placeholding 5

Steve Yastrow talks with Bill Ringle about the need to placehold placeholders.

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The Shifting Marketplace

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scott klososky

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How a dyslexic boss showed how to find a willing market and build a business from the ground up
  • What it took to sell to larger companies as a startup
  • Mistakes made and lessons learned from overly ambitious business expansion
  • What CEOs need to know now about leadership skills in the age of digital marketing and social media 

Scott Klososky talks with Bill Ringle about practices for becoming a smarter business leader using technology and your core strengths.

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Total Body – Interview

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joan_pagano

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The importance of continuous marketing.
  • How measuring concrete results really does make a difference to business growth.
  • That there really is time in your busy workday to exercise well.

Joan Pagano talks with Bill Ringle about how staying in touch and being responsive has led to great opportunities.

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Idea Haus – Interview

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kevin_popvic

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The evolution of a business based on fitting a passion and skillset into an eager marketplace through video and event production.
  • Secrets behind the vital sequence of developing the strategy, plan, executing, and then measuring the results.
  • Insights behind the scenes with satellite marketing.
  • How Kevin leveraged his video interviews to build a powerful brand and bottom line success for his clients.

Kevin Popović talks with Bill Ringle about a comprehensive approch to succesful marketing.

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Linked Strategies

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nathan_kievman

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • Some of the standards you must clear to be considered a thought leader
  • The power of saying “no” to opportunities and how it helps you grow your business
  • What “platform maturity” allows you as an expert to do to serve even a larger customer base
  • How to convey trust, authority, and credibility using your LinkedIn profile
  • Emerging trends with LinkedIn that will allow businesses to build a larger platform in even less time than before

Nathan Kievman talks with Bill Ringle about growing a business and a brand based on the business social media network, LinkedIn.

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