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Engineering Calmer Agencies & Consulting Firms: Calm is the New KPI

Can you build a business based on… “calm?” Host Susan Boles looks beyond the usual metrics of success to help you build a business where calm is the new KPI. With over 15 years of experience as an entrepreneur, CFO, and COO, Susan shares the business strategies that lead to a business with comfortable margins—financial, emotional, energetic, and scheduling margins. Join her and her guests as they counter the prevailing “wisdom” about business growth, productivity, and success to provide a framework

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66:33

When Your Values & Opportunities Collide with Nancy...

Engineering Calmer Agencies & Consulting Firms: Calm... ·

2020/09/15

How do you decide what to invest in? How do you examine the opportunity costs of that investment? How do you make sure you're giving your investments every chance to succeed? That's what we've been talking about in the Is It "Worth It"? Series. In the last part of this series, I spoke with Michelle Mazur about how to approach investments in your business and with Beryl Young about deciding WHAT to invest in. In this episode, I want to talk about when an investment seems like a pretty

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41:21

How Do You Decide WHAT to Invest In? with Beryl Young

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2020/09/03

When you're deciding what to invest in, examining the opportunity cost of your potential investments is a crucial part of the decision making process. Every option includes a cost associated with it because any opportunity requires an investment of time, money, or resources—or all of the above! And if we invest them in one initiative? Then they're not available for other opportunities. We all have a process we go through when we're thinking through new investments in our business. Whether

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36:39

How to Approach Investments in Your Business with...

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2020/09/01

Deciding whether or not to make an investment in your business — whether it's hiring a consultant, enrolling in a course, getting a new piece of software — is always a bit of a gamble. You're trying to manage your risk, manage your cash flow, predict the future, evaluate the opportunity cost, and a million other parts and pieces. All to answer the question, "Will it be worth it"? Because when it comes to return on investment, that's the question we're really trying to answer. Many

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53:20

How Your Team Impacts Your Business' Ecosystem with...

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2020/08/25

Hiring the RIGHT people in the RIGHT positions with the RIGHT mix of skills makes your business more efficient, more effective, and more profitable. And having just one wrong team member can tank the whole thing. Getting this right is all about your strategic—and every day—decisions. Your decisions on who you hire touches everything in your business. Decisions about what your process looks like affect your software choices. Decisions about your business model affect your marketing strategy

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42:59

How Your Software Impacts Your Business' Ecosystem...

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2020/08/18

Software is the lifeblood of any modern business. Software keeps projects on track and helps clients pay you. Software is how we communicate with each other. Software allows you to operate leaner and smaller than ever before. And every piece of software involved in your business has a role to play—an integral part of your business’ ecosystem. It has a job description and it's a core member of your team, just like any human. That’s why it’s even more important that you have the right tool,

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36:08

How Your Process Impacts Your Business' Ecosystem...

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2020/08/11

Do you know the secret to scaling profitably and effectively? In reality, it’s not much of a secret. It’s just something that not a lot of companies prioritize: building a solid process and making sure it's documented.It’s unfortunate, really, because creating well-documented processes is the one thing that I consistently see that makes a huge difference in growing lean, resilient companies. It's not necessarily sexy but documented processes affect every area of your business ecosystem and

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59:18

How Your Default Decisions Impact your Business'...

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2020/08/04

Every decision you make in your business impacts every other area of your business. Yet, we often tend to think of the different areas of our businesses—marketing, finance, operations, team—as if they’re disconnected from each other.In actuality, business doesn’t work that way. Your business is an ecosystem. Every part of your business is interconnected with other areas of your business. The decisions you make about the kind of business model you have affects how you market your business

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39:27

How to Build a Community Around Your Business with...

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2020/07/28

Right now, building a community around your business is more popular than ever.You might even be considering adding one to your business—perhaps to save you time, to add another income stream, or to make you more accessible to your clients—or all of the above.No matter why you might consider adding community to your business model, you might wonder—a business owner who does the same thing is already doing this. So how can I do it, too? Should I do it at all? Seeing someone beat you to the

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39:53

Evolving Toward a Community Business Model with Margy...

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2020/07/21

Thinking about shifting your business model is one thing… Actually doing it? Well, that’s a whole other thing. You might wonder: do I burn the old one to the ground? Do I make a gradual shift? Or do I just tack on one more service to my offerings? Maybe you do start from scratch… or maybe you take a more nuanced approach to shifting your business model from one to another… or maybe you add more value to your existing model. Whatever your path, it’s crucial to examine the risks in your

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45:32

Where Community Belongs In Your Business Model with...

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2020/07/14

It seems like everyone is adding a community or membership to their product lineup these days. It’s a great idea for three reasons: it diversifies your revenue stream, allows you to be in direct conversation with your customers, and scales pretty easily. But is adding a community right for YOUR business? And what makes a good community anyway?And how might a community reduce your risk as an entrepreneur?We've been talking about how you can manage risk and build resilience into your business

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49:28

Using Your Intellectual Property To Pivot & Build...

Engineering Calmer Agencies & Consulting Firms: Calm... ·

2020/07/07

Your business model might already have some inherent risks built into it because of the choices you've made about how you want to run your business. For example, maybe you only want to work with high-value retainer clients. Totally valid choice! But it’s inherently riskier than other models where you might have several sources of income. If you only work with 2 or 3 of those clients at a time, what happens when you lose one of them? That's a pretty big blow to your income all at once. As

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47:29

How to Better Understand Your Numbers & Your Tax Risk...

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2020/06/30

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.Except that taxes are very rarely certain—and in the U.S., taxes are a labyrinth of confusion. Our tax system is founded on the idea that the government knows how much we owe them... but they're not going to tell us—we have to guess. And if we guess wrong? We either pay more or go to jail. It’s not really the friendliest system. That might be why taxes are a bit of an afterthought for small business owners. For most, having a “tax strategy” means

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40:18

The Risk of Inconsistent Cash Flow with Priya Malani

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2020/06/23

Consider this: the number one reason why businesses go under is because of cash flow issues (with number two being a lack of access to capital.) While there are a ton of different kinds of risks that can impact your business, financial health is still the most pressing because of the threat they pose to the health of your business if you don’t get it right. More often than not—no matter your business model—sales don’t show up consistently on the same day, month after month, even though your

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57:28

Identifying Financial Risks & Building Resilience...

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2020/06/16

You can never completely eliminate risk. It's something you just have to live with. But risk doesn't have to consume you.In fact, identifying and addressing risks in your business is one of the main ways to build resilience into it. You can't fix what you can't see and if you don't understand what's most likely to break, it's pretty hard to build that trampoline of resilience right where you need it most. That's what building resilience in your business REALLY means: you're building systems

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41:34

Procrastination and Why The Bootstrapper Mindset...

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2020/06/09

Busy, busy, busy.We are all so busy.And that makes it really easy—too easy, in fact—to come up with excuses not to do the work that’s most important to us. Because that’s also usually the work that’s the scariest.For the last month, we’ve been talking about all the ways that founders get in their own way and the practical tools you can use to get OUT of your own way. In the first episode of the series, Michelle Warner talks about the critical importance of setting up systems and how process

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37:41

Patience & Purposeful Experimentation with Jason Van...

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2020/06/02

Often, we come up with new ideas, launch them, and then get disappointed that they don't work. So we shift to something else, create something new, and run through the whole cycle again. But what if it was a great idea and you just didn't give it a chance to succeed? Maybe you didn't give it enough time? Or devote enough resources to it? Or tell enough people about it? Maybe you didn't market it to the right people or in the right way. Maybe this thing you created is actually a great thing

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36:04

How Trauma & Perfectionism Affect Your Business with...

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2020/05/26

What kind of relationship do you have with your business? Are you ride-or-die BFFs? Or is your business a mean, demanding boss that makes you dread going to work?Like any relationship that we are in, the relationship that we have with our business can be complex and they take understanding, consideration, and work. This month, we've been talking about the various ways that business owners get in their own way, the different ways this shows up, and some practical strategies to avoid making

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51:36

How Your Money Story Impacts Your Business with Agnes...

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2020/05/19

Money. You earn it. You spend it. Maybe you even save or invest it. But do you know how your personal feelings and beliefs around money affect your business growth?Our feelings about money color every part of our businesses and it’s the #1 way I see my clients getting in their own way.How we approach our finances, both personally and professionally, is heavily impacted by our feelings about money and the stories we tell ourselves about it. Those stories are often rooted in our childhood

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50:42

How To Prioritize When EVERYTHING Is Important with...

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2020/05/12

Hustle culture tells us that in order to gain ground, we have to grind it out. That putting in the long hours day after day will bring us success.But that just doesn't work for real people. Real people need rest. Rest increases your productivity, your effectiveness, your problem-solving skills, and your creativity. We NEED rest to do our best work and to be able to bring our best selves to our businesses. But when there's SO much going on and the to-do list is SO long, how do you create the

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34:54

The Competitive Edge of Process With Networking That...

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2020/05/05

This week, someone asked me about the main thing my clients struggle with – the one thing I would fix for them if I could. I think my answer surprised them.All my clients are working towards the same goal -- profitable, efficient, resilient businesses. But how you go about creating that is specific to each business because each business is a reflection of the owner or the founder. Our businesses take on our characteristics. Our weaknesses become weaknesses in our business. Our strengths are

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