Business Growth Café

5-Minute Break: Consistency

Take a short break from your day to listen to how consistency is key in your marketing.

Jason Locklin, CEO of CloudCompli, shares the lessons learned in growing a business

Jason Locklin, Founder and CEO of CloudCompli joined me at the Business Growth Cafe for a frank conversation about the ups and downs of starting and growing a business.  

Don’t wait until you have a cybersecurity issue to implement a risk mitigation plan

Krista Hollingsworth, Chief Revenue Officer for Consilien, joins me at the Business Growth Cafe to talk about CyberSecurity, Risk medications and Ransomware, and how to protect yourself.

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When is the right time for a sales coach with Leslie Groene

Is there a right time to bring in a sales coach/trainer for your organization? Joining me at the Business Growth Cafe is Leslie Groene, President of Groene Consulting. Leslie's company has been helping companies for over 24 years set up, train, and manage sales organizations. In this episode, we'll explore various strategies, tips, and recommendations to get your sales team heading in the right direction for success.

To learn more, visit: http://www.groeneconsulting.com/

To learn more about the Business Growth Cafe and Craft Marketing Architects, visit www.craftmarketingarchitects.com

 

Disrupting or creating a new category with John Pham

INBRACE CEO John Pham joins me at the Business Growth Cafe to discuss how his company focuses on improving people’s lives.

We explore his experience launching startups helped him to build a new kind of company; integrating advanced orthodontic methods, practice development, healthcare software systems, lean manufacturing, systems management, and marketing & sales excellence to innovate purposefully and nimbly. His efforts have been recognized in 2018, 2019, and 2020 when INBRACE was one of Orange County’s Top Workplaces and in 2019 and 2020 when he was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist.

Join us as we explore his journey to build this highly successful company.

Every journey begins with the first step, join Leilani Quiray on her year long business and personal journey

Leilani Quiray, CEO of be the change HR joins me once again on the Business Growth Cafe to bring her year-long journey as she traveled the US while growing her business, and personally as well.  As a regular guest on the show, Leilani shares life and business lessons that everyone can benefit from.

 

www.bethechangeHR.org

Building a strategic relationship between Sales and Marketing with guest Rich Cocuzzo

Sales and Marketing are your growth engines for your business.  That's why it's important that the relationship between sales & marketing are in alignment to drive business growth and profitability. 

Today my guest, Rich Cocuzzo, President of Sales Velocity Advisors, and I discuss the relationship between sales and marketing, as well as our own challenges in growing our individual businesses.

 

Visit www.salesvelocityadvisors.com to learn more about Rich's services

Visit www.craftmarketingarchitects.com to learn more about my services

The power of storytelling and animation to communicate complex ideas with Karl Pontau

Karl Pontau, founder of Squash and Stretch Productions joins me at the Business Growth Cafe to discuss the power of storytelling and animation to communicate complex ideas, simply. 

Karl’s mission is to improve the lives of people around the world by telling engaging stories that build empathetic connections and inspire positive change. 

You can find Karl’s LinkedIn profile here: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kpontau

As a special free offer to Business Growth Cafe listeners, Karl is offering you a 30 minute Exceptional Brand Storytelling coaching session over Zoom. Click this link to schedule your session now!

www.squashandstretch.net

Creating a world where consumption leaves no footprint, one single-use plastic at a time!

Five hundred million plastic straws are used daily, and with many states and cities issuing bans on single-use plastics, what's the alternative?  Well, it's UrthPact! UrthPact is now the leader in compostable manufacturing focused on developing products from earth-friendly materials.

UrthPact CEO Paul Boudreau joins me at the Business Growth Cafe to discuss his mission to keep 25 billion plastic pieces from reaching the oceans and landfills by the year 2025 and how UrthPact straws can help, one sip at a time!

Exploring the world startup accelerators with Steve Hoffman

Steve Hoffman, CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators, with over 50 partners in 22 countries joins me on the Business Growth Cafe to explore and discuss the world of startups.

Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. Hoffman is also a venture investor, founder of three venture-backed and two bootstrapped startups, and author of several award-winning books. These include “Make Elephants Fly” (published by Hachette), “Surviving a Startup” (published by HarperCollins), and “The Five Forces” (published by BenBella).

www.foundersspace.com/10 to download the 10 Commandments of raising venture capital