We can plan for the best year, set the most strategic goals, heck, even hire the greatest team. However, if you don't know how to evaluate your business correctly along the way, you are doomed this year!  Join in on the conversation where Andrew Fay and I discuss how to evaluate your company on a week-to-week basis so that at the end of the year, you achieve!

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How to "KNOW" Your Business is on Track in 2020

As an entrepreneur you need to believe in yourself that you can overcome adversity and there is always light at the end of the tunnel. However, one of the biggest mistakes we make as entrepreneurs is turning a blind eye to the facts. Numbers don't lie, people do (even if its unintentionally).  In this episode, I explain how to evaluate the hard truths of your company, expose the issues and improve them by establishing metrics.  

How to Expose Issues and Improve Your Business - Metrics

If you are operating in the Service Industry and dealing with residential clientele, this episode is for you.  In this episode, I share a decade of authentic sales wisdom on how to flat out close more sales. This is not an episode with Gimmicky tactics to persuade people into buying from you. Its quite the opposite.  Implementing these strategies into how you present your services to your clients will be a game changer. Check it out!

Sales - How to Double Your Closing Rate (no gimmicks)

If you are a business owner, you know that delegation is important; but what exactly do you delegate, when do you do it, to whom to you delegate and how?  This is a jam packed episode full of what I've learned over a decade of improperly delegating. This episode is sure to help you lead your team more effectively!

The Truth of How to Delegate!

This episode is piggy-backing off of Episode 13. My goal is to bring you simple practical advice based on the mistakes I've made as a young entrepreneur.  Here is what you need to focus on and prioritize as an early Entrepreneur. Check it out!

How to become an Entrepreneur - Simple Practical Advice

Looking back on your entrepreneurial journey, you are sure to realize that there were some mistakes you could have avoided. In this episode, I'm pretty honest about some early entrepreneurial mistakes of my own. My goal is to bring you value to help you avoid making some of these early entrepreneurial mistakes as well as bring you value with a few simple concepts that you can directly implement into your business. If you are in the trenches of your business or even if you haven't started yours yet, check out this episode. 

Early Entreprenurial Mistakes to Avoid

Do you have problems in your business that continue to occur? Does your team work together on a unified front or against one another? Do you have a hard time running meetings or even see no value in them at all? Do you have goals? Vision? Does your team have proper expectations? Do you ever find yourself yourself dreading coming to the workplace environment that you've created? In this episode Jeremiah Campbell brings the heat on these common questions with his experiences from the trenches in running his own business! As we dive into process, culture, managing people, and much more; if you don't leave this episode with a full page of notes you aren't listening! Applying just a few of these key concepts will dramatically improve not only the growth of your business but also your success as an entrepreneur. Check out Jeremiah's lessons from the trenches!

The Critical Components you may be Missing in your Business

Have you ever wondered what it would be like venturing into Real Estate BEFORE the success came? In this episode, JJ Bradley, owner of Bradley Dream Homes Renovation shares his current experiences with brutal honesty.  This episode may seem a bit dark but it is sure to give you some real-life insights to some good... but... mostly the bad and ugly of house flipping. These are the lessons from the trenches that only a truly gritty entrepreneur could have the stomach to bare.    Check it out!

Real Estate Survival Tactics from the Trenches

Most Business Podcasts focus on us as the entrepreneurs, as the interviewees. We can talk a big game but in this episode I am putting the mic in front of my team to put our company culture to the test! These lessons from the trenches are sure to give you a unique perspective on: motivating your team proper delegation leadership how your decisions truly affect your team how to wrestle with the mindset of quitting overall company culture and much more This is a jam packed episode that any manager or employer needs to hear!

How to Put Your Company Culture to the Test!

Episode Summary: In Episode 9 Mike sits down with Sean Lowery of Lowery Brands and discusses systems, processes and lessons from the trenches of a succesful retail company.  Topics Covered: Sean’s biggest adversity Laying off 50% of the workforce Importance of understanding metrics that keep your business healthy Overspending On This Can Cripple Your Business Training Yourself To Be Honest Most Dangerous thing you can do as an entrepreneur Hiring More Responsibly How do you responsibly Balance Growth? The most important attribute to look for when hiring? Tips to Combat Negative company culture The power of starting with why when communicating with your team The importance of utilizing the experts on your team Sean’s unique outlook on being insulted Sean’s Cash Flow Management system Sean Shares His In Depth Business Systems Power of being Honest About your Success through every stage of business Sean's Best Advice for focus in the early days Sean's Final Lesson From The Trenches Where to Find Sean:  Personal Instagram: @seanlowery20 Business Instagram:@unitedmonograms Webiste: https://www.united-monograms.com/

Systems, Ad Spend and Everything About The Retail Business (Sean Lowery)

Mike Cessna is Mike Farrell (our host) business partner and co-owner of a company called My Auto Care, a full service traveling auto repair service. My Auto Care has seen steady growth in its infancy of business but Mike has dealt with his fair share of adversity already! These are Mike Cessna's lessons from the trenches! Don't Forget To Subscribe To The Show!   Mike Cessna    Mobile Auto Service Company   Mike’s big risk when starting My Autocare with a baby on the way. Difference between the Fake Entrepreneurs and the Real ones The near Knockout Early on for Mike ( Communication Mistakes As The Owner (12:40) Should You Hire Workers Smarter Than You? (17:00) Unique Accounting Method that Keeps Consistent Cash in the Bank (19:00) Best Strategy to Attract Quality Team Members During Labor Crisis  (29:00) Dealing With Low Expectations During the Labor Crisis (31:00) The Deception of Entrepreneurship in 2019 (37:00) Major Lessons of Being Too Soft (40:00) Dangers of Talking Too Big (47:00) Choosing Marriage or Business    (53:00) Mike’s Vision for The Future (56:00)  

Punching The Early Entrepreneur In The Gut (Mike Cessna)

Episode Summary:  Looking to get the edge in new-age business? In Episode 7, Mike's interview with Pastor and Business Consultant, Travis Davenport, covers culture, vision, and everything in between to help you get the edge in business and in life.   Episode 7 Topics Covered:   Travis’s Gritty Struggles (6:00) How to Handle Anyone Distracting You From Your Company Vision (7:33) Three Powerful Reasons Why The Vision Cannot Be For Sale (10:23) Biggest Thing That Limits Leaders (11:24) Defining and Leveraging Relational Currency (12:09) Making The Hard Decisions To Keep Your Company Culture Thriving (16:43) One Major Sign Of Weak Leadership You Might Be Doing ( 18:32) Answering Where Your Weaknesses In Your Business Stem From (21:57) The Missing Piece To Building a Great culture (23:36) What Your Business Must Have to Authentically Survive (24:28) Free Ways To Show You Really Care About Your Teammates (35:00) Examining Old School Leadership (39:04) The Danger Of Buzzwords As Your Company Core Values (45:13) Can You Grow Someone Who Doesn’t Want To Grow? (46:54) Travis’s Business Superpower (52:53)    

Company Culture & Vision Are Not For Sale (Travis Davenport)

Episode Summary: With a single ladder strapped to the top of his purple Saturn and an air compressor in his trunk, learn how this former hot head leader deals with daily bed ridden illness, and has managed to grow his roofing company to a multi-million dollar operation in the midst of a labor shortage. Episode Topics: Unique hiring strategies in solving the national labor shortage Grit & Leadership in the face of  sudden divorce and bed ridden illness Innovative strategy for seasonal businesses Investing in the growth of your teammates What Caleb will never let happen again in his business Unique disciplinary practices for your team Advice to hot heads in business Guaranteed way to fail The value of taking the time to learn individual teammate motives The most important system for Caleb’s business Unique ways to manage millennials 

Blue Collar Grit & Innovation (Caleb Gouge)

Would you have enough GRIT to put everything on the line for a business that wasn't guaranteed to succeed? Would you have enough GRIT to continue after four days on life support and a broken neck and back that forced you to re-learn the basics of walking again? Do you have the GRIT to build an 8 million dollar company 6 years later?   Meet Andy Ross.      

Overcoming Near- Death Adversity (Andy Ross)

Episode Summary: If You want to go broke, do what broke people do, if you want to be successful do what successful people do!  But what do successful people have that broke people don’t? In Episode 4 of Business Grit, Mike uses 4 realizations to nurture this concept. When you are faced with challenges do you make decisions like broke people or successful people? Mike dives into how to make it happen and ultimately breaks down the 4 realizations that build the mindset of a successful person.

Successful People Have It, Broke People Don’t

Make no mistake about it, BUSINESS IS TOUGH! You didn't give up working 40 hours a week for your old boss to work 80+ hours for yourself and barely make ends meet! You want to WIN IN BUSINESS! Join Mike Farrell and other top entrepreneurs as they share their adversities; and the tools, tactics, and grit that got them through it! How is this podcast relevant to you? Because each of these entrepreneurs are teaching lessons from the trenches of their own businesses! And Oh yeah.. they all have mad BUSINESS GRIT! If you own a small business, Don't miss this!.Subscribe now!

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