Episodes of the Small Business Show
Being Transparent in your Small Business can be a key tool to gaining customers, attracting the best talent, and building your personal brand. Make transparency part of your company culture: For your Employees For your Customers For your Suppliers For your Partners and Advisors Join us Read more…
Join us for a fresh-squeezed edition of the Small Business Show as we dive into a grab back of topics today including Defined Benefit Plans that can help both employees and employers lower tax liability, a look at how some employees feel about their relationship with your Small Business and Read more…
Small Business owners want happy and productive employees. Can you get those types of employees by giving them everything they say they want? Do your employees really know what they want and if you plan on asking them, what’s the best way to phrase the question? Join us today on Read more…
You can’t do it all. As Small Business owners, we may have started out taking on every role and doing all the work but the only way we can build a successful business is to create teams and delegate tasks. Join your hosts Dave Hamilton and Shannon Jean as they Read more…
We have done a few episodes recently about how to manage cost increases and how to raise your prices. Dave recently came across the concept of Decoy Pricing that is worth looking at. What is Decoy Pricing? Decoy pricing is a strategy that aims to guide a potential customer towards Read more…
One of our favorite sayings on The Small Business Show is “Don’t make fear-based decisions” – Brian Friss from Digistor But we want to take another look at fear and how it may help guide you to what you SHOULD do. If you are afraid of it, that may be Read more…
You may not be fond of meetings at your Small Business, but they can be productive and serve a purpose. Today your hosts Shannon Jean and Dave Hamilton jump back into this topic to discuss strategies that can help to make your meetings less painful and perhaps even useful. Join Read more…
The power of focusing on results instead of effort. Join us today as your hosts Dave Hamilton and Shannon Jean share their experiences with getting your team focused on systems that produce results instead of those that reward hard work without achievement. 00:00:00 Small Business Show #368 for Wednesday, February Read more…
It’s a grab bag of topics for episode 367 of The Small Business Show this week! First, we jump into a discussion of Wordle and their business model, then we talk about the Problem-Solving Mindset and how to develop it if you don’t already have it. Join your hosts Shannon Read more…
Your employees are the life of your business. But what happens when you must operate in a tight labor market with increasing costs? How do you attract and keep employees during a labor shortage? Let’s look into the reasons we are having a labor shortage in the first place, then Read more…
It’s a new year and a good time to reflect on how things went for your business in 2021. If your company is structured as a corporation or LLC, you will also want to create notes (AKA minutes) from the annual meeting requirement of your managing board. An Executive Summary Read more…
Small Business owners are forced to play all kinds of roles in their company. They must be leaders to attract talent and to create a vision for the business while at the same time they need to understand the importance of managing people to get things done. Are leadership skills Read more…