Business Growth

Explore the gap between capturing attention and genuine business acumen, focusing on the often-missed distinction between visibility and viability. Learn to distinguish between mere noise and true depth in the digital age, seeking leaders who deliver real value beyond getting noticed.

The delicate balance between accelerating growth and consolidating gains in entrepreneurship. Learn why speed is crucial for gaining rapid feedback, allowing informed decisions on when to scale up or refine strategies.

Discover how artificial intelligence (AI) revolutionizes business growth by driving efficiency and fostering innovation. Learn practical strategies to integrate AI across customer service, market analysis, operational tasks, and personalized experiences.

Unlock competitive advantage through creative pricing strategies that align with customer success and drive profitability. Learn how skipping free trials, embracing recurring revenue, and pricing based on customer outcomes can transform your business, creating strong, lasting relationships and stabilizing cash flow.

Discover how consumer insights fuel innovation by shaping products that truly meet market needs. Learn from a real-world example where simplifying a tech app in response to freelance needs led to significant success, emphasizing the importance of engaging directly with consumers and being ready to pivot.

Explore how to nurture creativity in a data-driven world, balancing analytics with intuitive decision-making. Learn from a tech team's story where stepping beyond data to innovate led to a breakthrough, highlighting the need for risk-taking and cross-departmental collaboration to spark true innovation.

Master the mindset for innovation by expanding your vision beyond your industry. This episode illustrates how curiosity and openness to ideas from diverse fields can lead to breakthroughs.

Discover the transformative power of essentialism in business: focusing on what truly matters to achieve more with less. This episode shares the story of a startup founder who learned to streamline efforts for greater impact, showing how simplifying can lead to significant gains.

As a business owner, you know that access to capital is essential to keeping your business afloat and growing. But what are the best ways to get business credit? And what are the biggest mistakes that owners make when it comes to their credit scores? In this episode, Spencer sits down with Gerri Detweiler, Gerri is an internationally recognized expert on personal and business credit and business finances and has been featured in major media outlets, courses, and podcasts. She talks about building your business credit even as a solo entrepreneur, as well as the different things to keep in mind when buying a business. Gerri also clears out the confusion on accessing capital, getting additional capital, and credit scores in the business world. Who’s the Guest? Gerri Detweiler is a writer, speaker, and author who’s passionate about helping small business owners and consumers make better credit and financial decisions through education and advocacy. She helped develop educational programs and materials to teach consumers and small business owners through website articles, print materials, radio, podcasts, courses, and videos. Gerri’s specialties include personal credit, small business finance, and business credit education. She has written five books: Finance Your Own Business: Get on the Financing Fast Track (2016) with attorney Garrett Sutton; Debt Collection Answers: How to Use Debt Collection Laws to Protect Your Rights (updated 2014); Reduce Debt, Reduce Stress: Real-Life Solutions for Solving Your Credit Crisis (Good Advice Press, 2009); Invest In Yourself: Six Secrets to a Rich Life (Wiley), The Ultimate Credit Handbook (Plume 1993, rev. ed. 2003). Episode Highlights Links and Resources Finance Your Own Businesshttps://www.gerridetweiler.com/https://www.nav.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerridetweiler Call to Action https://www.nav.com/blog/which-credit-cards-can-help-me-build-business-credit-25633/https://www.nav.com/resource/net-30-accounts/https://corporatedirect.com/business-credit-reporting-tool-book/ Subscribe and Share Find us on Apple Podcasts Follow us on Spotify Listen on Stitcher Say hi on Twitter @spencershaw If you like what you hear we’d love for you to leave a review and tell us what you think. Your support is the fuel that keeps us going!

When it comes to taking your business to the next level, outsourcing is key. But with so many different moving parts, it can be difficult to know where to start. That is why FreeUp is here to help! In this episode, Spencer welcomes Mackenzie Lepretre, the Director of Operations for the FreeUp Marketplace, a top-rated marketplace for businesses to find and connect with the best remote professionals. Together, they talk about the three big areas that all business owners should keep in mind when it comes to outsourcing. Mackenzie also narrows down what makes FreeUp different from other marketplaces and how business owners can benefit from their unique pre-vetting system. FreeUp is committed to helping you find the right person for the job at a price that fits your budget. Since they vet all of their freelancers, you can be confident you're working with only the best talent. Episode Highlights Links and Resourceshttps://freeup.net/ FreeUp Report TemplateSchedule a Meeting with a FreeUp Account Managerhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mackenzielepretre Subscribe and Share Find us on Apple Podcasts Follow us on Spotify Listen on Stitcher Say hi on Twitter @spencershaw If you like what you hear we’d love for you to leave a review and tell us what you think. Your support is the fuel that keeps us going!