Influence and marketing expert Nat Schooler chats with Wendy about how importance of producing strategic content online. Nat spends his time writing for fun. Their chat turns to the importance of building relationships with the people.
Meet Jenny Procter, a marketing expert and introvert, with her own podcast show. We discuss running our own business as an entrepreneur. Jenny shares her love for conversation and how powerful it is in connecting to our audience.
How are you on your sense of self belief? Do you wake up with pride about what a true rock star you are? Do you do your daily affirmations? If you answered any of these questions with, "no", you might want to listen to this
When you connect with your next life move from a church pew it's a seriously real driver. Kim Walsh Phillips has become the number 1 Social Selling Strategist, knowing there is no such thing as overnight success, only serving people.
When you hear John you know there's a bigger story than his accent gives away. John's successfully built a business community to help fill spare capacity and exchange services. It is a brilliant concept, get in touch to find out more
Dr Ivan Misner, Founder of BNI, the largest global Networking group joins Wendy Harris in conversation. Topics include networking and a latest book title Ivan has released but they also touch on how fear can be a driver or worse
We're chatting about the elements that make up a great debate. You're not gonna want to miss the observations with Taz Thornton and Asha Clearwater around questioning, opinions, debate and discernment that makes for colorful conversations.
Every business owner knows there's an aspect of lead-generation that nobody likes. That to win new customers, you have to bite the bullet and get your cold-calls done. We hear a story of when a cold-call actually panned out well.
Can you speak another language other than your native tongue? Wendy "Conversations Queen" Harris admitted to the "Making Conversations Count" team that she doesn't, and we can't help but feel she's definitely not alone.
Larger than life Larry Long Jr is blessed, his father was a professional sportsman. You can imagine the childhood work ethic. There's something about a team that wins and fails together. It's what you do to motivate yourself that counts.
It's common for business owners to make mistakes. Sometimes obvious and other times they're easy-to-miss. One such business mistake that's most detrimental, is not creating goals and not having a vision or a path in mind to reaching them.
There's a video. And THERE'S a video. Actually, no, there's not always video out there, everywhere you look. Not yet at least. It may sometimes feel like that when scrolling through your social media but that's because of the algorithms.
How to use buckets for sales. What, how to measure and how to increase their effectiveness. Barnaby Wynter shares the advantages of using a bucket approach to conversions, than a funnel, and why it might be a great option for your business
You're a small business or company and you want to do marketing but don't know how. You've been told by agencies that in order to get results, you need to invest large sums of money into their services. This is not always the case.
Why should you be answering all your customers questions? Marcus Sheridan wrote 'They Ask, You Answer' driven by his own passion to share his philosophy. A mini masterclass in how to create content for impact.
"Social media is not where we test markets. Unless you have the following of your perfect clients, your target market, you are not testing on social media." Michael Buzinski, Making Conversations Count
Cirque du Soleil's training program was led byJay Guilford, working with creative performers showing how teamwork and leadership creates impossible feats. Learn from Jay as he shares his skills from being the front man in the big top.
Is excellent academic leadership possible in the education system? "We recognise students are different; backgrounds, skills, abilities, ambitions. If universities were what people accuse us of, we wouldn't give that level of choice..."
The man who invented content marketing talks about becoming a content entrepreneur "It takes time. Of course, you're always going to have those outliers that just make it right away. But generally, that doesn't happen...."
The latest of our conversations is with a man who could have easily written a Hollywood movie starring Michael Keaton Making Conversations about discernible deeds Count.
Do you want to learn how to be bold and confident? "Nobody gets a compliment and goes, oh, you're completely wrong, and I am hideous or stupid. I'm insulted by the fact that you suggested that I'm attractive."
Do you have a small business? Thought about collaboration? Making Conversations about collaboration Count. "I think, particularly when you're really busy, it's the commercial piece, but also the fun piece. Are you going to enjoy it?"
Do you lose sleep over artificial intelligence? Do you think it will win the battle with human intelligence? It doesn't have to be scary. We talk about How to keep up with Allister Frost
"You have dozens of podcast booking agencies, and I'm friends with a lot of them. They stepped into a problem and built a solution. But by doing that, there was another problem generated, which was that the podcaster wasn't getting paid."
"You do need to connect with people on a human level. I'm not a fan of spamming and doing just cold call where you just pitch them right away, none of that. But it is also a numbers game."
Looking for legendary emotional support? Who better to get it from than a man who overcame self-sabotage, twice? Best selling author of Legendary Tommy Breedlove
Are you spraying and praying with your marketing? It's time to stop that. To succeed with your business, and actually scale it, you need to get some things figured out first. One of those things is your ICP. Your ideal customer profile.
If you want to play at the top level, you've got to also give yourself periods to recover, regroup, rethink and all those lovely re prefixes that are really important.
There are a lot of voices out there, that are speaking on leadership. There are Ted talks, YouTubers and even multi-million dollar platformed public speakers and authors who all have their own perspectives to share on leadership.
Have you noticed silence in sales calls? If you're in business, and want to grow, listen to this. That's all there is to it. Because it reveals something a lot of people get wrong when it comes to doing their sales outreach.
There's a shady side of Amazon. There's sellers using black hat tactics, including going after other sellers. It can be a difficult place. Selling on Amazon is not quite the mystery that the successful sellers would have you believe.
How public speaking coaches can change your life. Public speaking is one of the most terrifying things you can do - Or so a lot of people believe. But they haven't spoken with Sean Tyler Foley.
We discuss how etiquette seems to have become less of a priority for the increasingly informal younger generations that are coming up. Is the use of politeness in the office and business environment still as relevant now in the modern age.
Are you looking for a way to take control of your life? Are you struggling with negative thoughts or behaviors holding you back? Blaine Oelkers teaches us how easy it is to take control of our lives by getting rid of our head trash.
Avoid digital junk food and make REAL human connections. What are you doing to maintain the connections in your life? Are you hiding behind your device's screen all day or are you taking steps to move your conversations into the real world
Do you have the perfect book inside you? Have you ever thought to yourself that you'd love to get cracking on writing the perfect book to showcase your knowledge and skills as an author? We explain how to get over what stopped you.
Sharing the 3 things you need for a successful business "There is so much to running a business that doesn't affect us as individuals, or the people that we work with and the people that we live with."
When it comes to loved ones handling money matters, it doesn't mean you shouldn't still be treated with dignity and consideration by those helping you.
When you post a video, does it get views? When you publish a podcast episode, do people listen to it? When you type out your thoughts in a blog, do people read them? This is the subject of this week's conversation.
During your sales calls, are you giving it the hard sell? Stop. Sales calls get a bad rap from people that largely don't understand them. Or how to make them. John Barrows is a man who worked with Jack Welsh and Jay Baitler