My Quest for the Best with Bill Ringle

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189: Set Your Standards Higher with guest expert JJ Ramberg

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • Tactics she uses to thrive as both a journalist and an entrepreneur
  • The importance of having clear criteria for building your team
  • The one question you can ask a new hire to send the message that you care about high standards
  • How to prepare a response to the question, “How can I help?” so that the result is win-win
  • Keys to building good business relationships
  • Book marketing secrets to share your message widely 

JJ Ramberg, host of MSNBC’s “Your Business,” talks with Bill Ringle about transforming and marketing your small business.

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148: Defining Data Breaches with guest expert Fred Wilf

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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.

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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.

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125: Never Let Them See You Sweat – Featured Interview with Gerald Chertavian

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • What he is doing to redefine who is talented. 
  • Why you should never “let them see you sweat.” 
  • How sensitivity and respect lead to opportunity.
  • What skills companies are in demand of and how we can give those skills to America’s young adults.
  • That turning your avocation into your vocation is possible.

Gerald Chertavian talks with Bill Ringle about his journey to close the “opportunity divide” that exists in our nation. 

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124: Designing Innovative Ecosystems – Featured Interview with Victor Hwang

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • Why some places thrive and others struggle with comparable levels of talent pool and opportunity.
  • What is a trust network and why it matters.
  • The surprising key to an innovative ecosystem
  • A simple belief to cultivate that makes an ecosystem systainable

Victor Hwang talks with Bill Ringle about creating and growing sustainable ecosystems for startups.

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117: Ubertrending – Featured Interview with Michael Tchong

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114: Building Great Relationships – Featured Interview with Elaine Pofeldt

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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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110: Digital Convergence Marketing – Interview with Fred Catona

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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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100: A Slice of the Pie – Featured Interview with Nick Sarillo

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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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97: Predictable Success – Featured Interview with Les McKeown

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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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95: For Better or for Work – Featured Interview with Meg Hirshberg

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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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92: Why the Future of Business is Sharing: Featured Interview with guest expert Lisa Gansky

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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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89: “Will Your Passion Endure?” – Featured Interview with guest expert Barbara Corcoran

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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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79: Cultivating Radiance – Featured Interview with guest expert Tamara Gerlach

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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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76: The Shifting Marketplace – Featured Interview with guest expert Scott Klososky

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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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