Talking Business Now
Get the inside scoop on how America’s most successful entrepreneurs are transforming their industries. On each episode of Talking Business Now, you'll meet one of your fellow business owners, founders or entrepreneurs who's "been there done that." Along with host Kelly Scanlon, guests delve into a specific challenge they've dealt with, their strategies for handling it and how it changed their company. You'll be inspired by each guest's entrepreneurial journey—and, through their experiences and examples, you'll gain insights into innovative ideas you can put to work immediately to increase productivity, improve processes, expand your market share and generate more revenue. Tune in , , , it’s time to talk business!
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Bulletproof Employees! with Cy Wakeman
Join me and my guest Cy Wakeman. Cy advocates a revolutionary new approach to leadership: Reality-Based Leadership. Instead of working to perfect the circumsta
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Crowdfunding, VCs and Angels - Can't We All Jus...
Thanks to last year's JOBS Act, crowdfunding is creating new opportunities not only for small businesses, but angel investors, venture capitalists and others in
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Be Your Own Boss with The Small Biz Lady Melind...
“The Small Biz Lady” Melinda Emerson joins us to talk to us about how she built a national reputation using social media, her book Become Your Own Boss in 12 M
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Turn Every Customer Into a Fan - Ruby Newell Le...
In today’s competitive landscape, you don’t want customers. You want fans. You want people who are almost as crazy in love with your company as you are. Consist
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Helping Business People Unlock Their Inner Genius
Most people agree that for businesses to compete globally in the 21st century, we must be innovative. We must be creative. Yet, most of today’s workers continu
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Is Your Business an Easy Target for Financial F...
In 2010 Cheryl Obermiller discovered her company accountant had embezzled nearly a million dollars in a scheme that lasted for almost 8 years. The embezzlement
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Creating Business Plans That Actually Get Financed
Are you a start-up or small business looking to raise capital? In order to do so, you must have a business plan that investors will love. Cheree Warrick, autho
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Julie Weeks: Growing Under the Radar-$10M Women...
Over the past decade, the growth in the number of women-owned firms with $10 million or more in revenues has increased by a startling 56.6 percent. My guest Ju
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Why Mentoring Matters - Barnett Helzberg Jr.
Barnett Helzberg, Jr., former chair of Helzberg Diamonds, joins us to talk about his new book, Entrepreneurs+Mentors=Success. From 1962, when Helzberg took the
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Bob Burg - Do Go-Givers Really Sell More in Tod...
Shifting your focus from “getting to giving” is not only a nice way to live life…but a very financially profitable way, as well. You cannot control “The” Econo
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Rey Ybarra on his book with Shark Tank Winners
Rey Ybarra is the author/producer of the multimedia digital book “Conversations With Shark Tank Winners.” The book features interviews with winners/participant
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Meet Peter Strople - Dubbed Most Connected Man ...
PeterStrople of strategic advisory firm Zero2 is on a first-name basis with some of the country's top business leaders and thinkers -- a network that provides h
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The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave - Leigh Br...
With the job market and unemployment in the shape they're in today, why should employers be concerned about why employees leave? Best-selling business author L
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Ken Segall, the marketing genius who put the "i...
Ken Segall, the marketing genius who put the "i" in iMac, iTunes and other Apple products, has worked with some of the world's largest corporations, including B
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The Commitment Engine: Making Work Worth It - J...
Smart Companies Radio welcomes international speaker, author and marketing guru, John Jantsch. In his latest book, The Commitment Engine, John looks at what se
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Just in Time For the Holidays: How to Crowd Fun...
This week's guest is Shaul Weisband, one of the entrepreneurs behind Jifiti, a new app that lets users create a wish list for pretty much any store in the ent
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Leveraging Entrepreneurs to Build Communities, ...
We welcome serial entrepreneur Seth Meinzen, co-founder of EvisThrive, a company that helps communities across the country develop their own "entrepreneurial ec
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Sales Tips from Legendary College Coaches - wit...
Great football coaches know more than pass defense and offensive strategy: they also tend to have a strong understanding of sales and marketing. Kelly's guest
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Surviving Cancer in the Workplace
Kelly talks with her guest Barbara Unell, the founder of Back in the Swing, about how business owners can help their employees—and themselves—get back into the
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Mastering Quick Change in Business: Brent Glees...
Having a plan is important, but if you can't adapt quickly and confidently when business conditions change, you could be putting your company at risk. This wee
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Join the Revenue Revolution! Third Door author ...
Best practices and “back to basics” were forged during a different economic time--and have no place in the New Normal. Sean Stormes is helping companies around
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The Secret Fast Track to Business Success - Sco...
As an entrepreneur, do you ever feel like you're losing your "edge?" Kelly's guest, Scott Halford, says that might actually be a good thing if you want to impro
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Financing for Women-Owned Businesses - Susan Co...
Women-owned businesses constitute a large and growing part of the U.S. economy, and nobody understands these kinds of companies quite like University of Hartfo
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Toilet Paper Entrepreneur - Mike Michalowicz
Join Kelly and her guest Mike Michalowicz (pronounced mi-CAL-o-witz), who, with no experience, no contacts and no savings, systematically bootstrapped a multi-m
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Turning Power Loss into Power Surge - Dr. Linda...
Few things feel worse than a lack of control over your own life. But the good news is that if you've lost your sense of personal power, it's possible to reclaim
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