Square Peg Round Hole Small Business Massive Action

On this special New Year’s Day episode Matt and Dan gather and discuss some tips from previous podcast guests designed to get your 2018 off to a roaring start! Find out what David Greenwood, Erik Wahl, Jake Thompson, Larry Winget, Matt Young, Philip Williams, Salvador Briggman, Shannon Giordano, Rick Clemons, Stan Peake and Will Russell have to say about what your small business should try in 2018! You can get in touch with Matt and Dan through the Square Peg Round Hole Podcast website, email and social media platforms: Email: sprhpodcast@gmail.com Website: sprhpodcast.com Twitter: @sprhpodcast Facebook: SPRHPodcast --- Do you want to build your business? Do you want maximum value, MASSIVE ACTION and MASSIVE RESULTS? Then join the waitlist because SPRH Podcast is creating a unique event to help you grow and scale your business! Start your day with the right positive affirmations by joining Dan’s The Success Happens Movement Facebook group. Are you taking massive action in your life? Want to share your succe

Tom Abbott is an author and speaker on Sales Optimisation. He has delivered hundreds of motivational sales keynotes, kickoffs, presentations and workshops in over 10 countries throughout Asia-Pacific and is a pioneer of evolving the sales processes of organizations worldwide. He is the author of The SOHO Solution and Social Selling and is a contributor to Singapore Business Review, Singapore Marketer and The Singapore Straits Times. Tom shares the story of how he moved from Vancouver, B.C. to Singapore and started a business from scratch. He created his own opportunities by cold calling organizations offering his services in a country where he knew no one. He tells us why it’s important to do work in an area you are passionate about and how he has used his passion to grow the number of attendees at his speaking gigs from a small room of 10 people to arenas filled with thousands of people! His philosophies and approach to business are a valuable lesson for any small business especially, those starting from scr

Craig Cody is a Certified Tax Coach, Certified Public Accountant, Business Owner and Former New York City Police Officer with 17 years of experience on the Force. In addition to being a Certified Public Accountant for the past 15 years, he is also a Certified Tax Coach. As a Certified Tax Coach, Craig belongs to a select group of tax practitioners throughout the country who undergo extensive training and continued education on various tax planning techniques and strategies to become, as well as remain, certified. With this organization, Craig has co-authored an Amazon best seller titled, Secrets of a Tax-Free Life. Craig shares some valuable insights on how your small business can save on its tax bills. He shares tips on how you can get the best value from your accountant, some overlooked deductions for your home office (you will NOT believe some of them!) and, some mistakes that your small business make that may cause the IRS to come knocking on your door! If you’re a seasoned business owner or starting up a

Dr. Michael Hudson is a keynote speaker, business strategist, and message coach. Michael spearheaded two major business programs, one at Cornell University and the other at the University of Illinois. Since then, he has moved on to follow his passion in helping experts, entrepreneurs, and executives create impact with their ideas and get their message heard. Michael is the host of the Get Your Message Heard podcast, author of the book Public Speaker Secrets: 52 Ways to Increase Your Impact Every Time You Speak, and a frequent keynote speaker at conferences and conventions.  Michael discusses with Matt and Dan how to get more clarity in the message that your business is sending out to your customers as well as potential customers. How do you do that? Well, Michael shares a few unique ways on how to ask the right questions and gather feedback from your existing customers on the experiences that your services provide for them. Understanding how your business adds value to your customers’ lives will also help you

Austin LaRoche loves to explore. With a “run like hell and apologize later” attitude, Austin has built a career out of “going for it.” Austin came to digital marketing in 2008 with the Chicago Tribune when he stumbled into a job doing something called “social media.” He parlayed this experience with his passion for helping small businesses and started a content marketing agency, the Exacta Group, in 2009. Exacta was acquired in 2014 by ATAK Interactive, where Austin currently sits as the Chief Marketing Officer. In three years with ATAK, he has spearheaded the company’s growth, quadrupling its annual gross revenue from 2013 to 2016 and overseeing 25 clients monthly. A website is key to your small business, especially if you do not have a physical storefront or office. In this episode Austin, Matt and Dan discuss how to have the best experience when you, as a solopreneur or entrepreneur, engage a web development company. Austin provides tips on when you should engage a web development agency, how to pick the r

Antoine Dupont has made it his business to make the phone ring. As CEO of Katapult. Marketing, he brings his sense of competition to his client’s businesses. Katapult is an Internet Marketing company that manages the web presence for business owners, helping them grow their business. They create websites that generate leads and increase their credibility. Antoine leads a team of playful, yet serious professionals specializing in generating leads for businesses and organizations through internet marketing. Antoine shares valuable insights on how to use videos to grow your small business. He shares tips on making a successful video, how to market it and the biggest mistake businesses make when it comes to their videos. He also dispels some of the most commonly believed myths for videos created for YouTube. You can get in touch with Antoine through the following website and social media platforms: Website: www.antoinedupont.com and www.katapult.marketing YouTube: Antoine Dupont Twitter: @adupont65 LinkedIn: Anto

Tara Whitney is a CPA, business owner, speaker, writer and executive coach. She is the founder and owner of RGA Financial Solution, a firm that helps small businesses get keen financial insight with strong accounting processes and financial reporting. Tara also coaches professional women to make bold steps by tuning in and trusting themselves. In this episode, Tara re-defines massive action and shares how her definition has allowed gain that momentum in her business. She shares how gaining clarity in what she wanted to achieve and her true purpose has allowed her to get past hurdles that many entrepreneurs usually get stuck at. She talks about how her success in her business has come from being able to shift her focus to the right things and learning to adapt her mindset, processes and methodologies. You can get in touch with Tara through the following website and social media platforms: Website: www.rgafinancialsolutions.com OR www.tara-whitney.com Twitter: @Tara_whitney11 LinkedIn: Tara Whitney   ---- Do y

Joe Buhlig is a full-stack developer, avid podcaster, and Discourse expert who is hooked on entrepreneurship and pursuing ideas. When he’s not writing code he thrives on helping people take control of their analog and digital tools on the Productivity Guild. Joe, Matt and Dan discuss why businesses need communities, strategies on how to build them and how to keep them engaged. Joe provides insights into why he doesn’t use Facebook to create communities but also shares tips on how leverage on Facebook if you do use it to build communities to market your small business and add value to your customers. You can get in touch with Joe through the following website and social media platforms: Website: https://joebuhlig.com OR https://productivityguild.com Twitter: @JoeBuhlig Instagram:  @joebuhlig OR  @prodguild LinkedIn: Joe Buhlig Podcasts: Bookworm, Theoretical Accountability & Whims that Work ---- Do you want to build your business? Do you want maximum value, MASSIVE ACTION and MASSIVE RESULTS? Then join th

Rick Clemons is a bold move expert, entrepreneur, author of Frankly My Dear I’m Gay, host of The Coming Out Lounge podcast, certified life coach, TEDx Speaker, world record holder, and a guy who’s helped thousands of people in over 50 countries across the globe come out of the closets of their lives and make bold moves to escape their BS., explore their fears, and elevate their self-expression (3E’s). In this episode, Rick shares with Matt and Dan how he came up with the 3E’s through his personal journey of coming out and how he finds the process can relate to just about any issue faced by individuals or businesses. He also explains how his 3E’s technique can help small business owners make their own bold moves to grow their businesses. You can get in touch with Rick through the following website and social media platforms: Website: http://rickclemons.com Twitter: @RickClemons Facebook:  Rick Clemons - Speaker, Podcaster, Life Coach, Author LinkedIn: Rick Clemons Podcast: The Coming Out Lounge You can get Ric

Philip Williams started his business education when he was 8 years with various family businesses. He then went on to climb the corporate ladder and has worked in manufacturing, distribution, engineering consulting, and professional services. He's a 3-time Inc5000 honoree after becoming the CEO who took the helm of a 17-year-old cash-trapped company growing it at 50% a year for 5 straight years. He accomplished it all by bootstrapping the business. He's bought and sold a couple of companies and been through the highs and lows you can only experience through small business ownership. Today, Philip helps small business owners build profitable and well-respected companies through his consulting firm. Philip speaks to Matt and Dan about how to get a different perspective on the problems that you think are plaguing your business and how to prevent getting yourself and your employees overwhelmed with the daunting idea of growing 50% or even 10x more! You can get in touch with Philip through his website, social medi

Steve Lishansky is the CEO of Optimize International, the company he founded in 1992 specifically for successfully maximizing the development of top leaders and high performing executive teams in the US and internationally.  He has worked with leaders and top performers from over 40 countries. Optimize International was one of the first firms in the world pioneering leadership development through high-level executive coaching, and strategically aligning senior management teams.  In 2012, he was elected to the International Coach Federation of New England’s Hall of Fame for his contributions to his clients’ success and the coaching profession. Steve speaks to Matt and Dan about the most important driver of effectiveness in life and business - adding value. He speaks about how adding value can ensure you have a solid foundation as a start-up, create valuable networking opportunities and bring in more clients or customers for your business. You can get in touch with Steve through his website, social media platfo

A serial entrepreneur since her early 20’s, Lisa has created, owned and managed a variety of businesses including a travel agency, a real estate company and even a road construction supply company. Lisa has a M.S. degree in Nonprofit Management and Strategic Fundraising and a B.S. degree in Applied Behavioral Science with a focus on organizational behavior. She has served on countless boards for nonprofits and associations, including being president of the Westlake Chamber of Commerce in Austin, Texas. Lisa is now a full-time business coach serving small businesses.   Lisa talks about how systems and processes can make or break your business. If you find yourself constantly saying you have no time then you really need to make time to listen to Lisa, Matt and Dan’s views and experiences on how implementing systems in their businesses saves them a boatload of time. You can get in touch with Lisa through her website and social media platforms: Website: http://zubaacademy.com/ Twitter: @lisakellyzuba Facebook: Z

Howard Shore is the founder of Activate Group, Inc and he is one of the country’s premier business and executive coaches who has helped hundreds of executives and teams to inspire change and growth in companies. With more than a 20-year track record of exceptional results, he has held various leadership positions in multinationals, public and private companies and businesses that range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. His clients work in family-owned, multinational, public and private companies with revenues ranging from US$1 million to over US$1 billion, spanning most industries. Over the years, Howard has owned and founded 5 businesses. In his new book, Your Business is a Leaky Bucket, he details how millions of dollars disappear from businesses every year and what can be done to remedy those losses. Howard shares an essential framework to ensure your business moves forward in this rapidly changing and competitive economy. He talks about the three guiding elements - strategy, execution and people -

Scott MacKenzie is a husband, father, and passionate industry educator. From humble beginnings as a lathing contractor and certified journeyman/lineman to an Undergraduate and Master’s Degree in Business Administration, he has applied every aspect of his education and training to lead and influence. He believes in serving and adding value whenever he is called upon. He has led a team onto the NASDAQ Stock Exchange while serving as President of a multi-national terminaling corporation. He says that the purpose that drives him is people. He believes that accomplishments are rungs of a ladder, tasks undertaken are to prove one’s abilities while changing lives and building futures are the destination and the reason we climb. Scott’s own company, Leaf Services LLC, provides labour for the industrial market. He shares why traditional marketing methods, such as billboards, did not work for his company and how he has used his podcast instead to become an industry educator as well as find more business. His experience

Dorie Clark is an adjunct professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the author of Entrepreneurial You. She also authored Reinventing You and Stand Out, which was named the #1 Leadership Book of 2015 by Inc. magazine. A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, the New York Times described her as an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.” A frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, she consults and speaks for clients including Google, Microsoft, and the World Bank. Dorie begins by recounting an inspiring example of how she focused all her energies and took massive action over a two day period which ended in her being invited to write a regular column for Forbes. Drawing from her experiences in cultivating multiple income streams she shares with Matt and Dan how all businesses can identify and create new revenue streams by synchronising their service and product offerings. This is the focus of her new book Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Exper

Jeffrey Ritter currently serves as an External Lecturer at two of the world’s great universities for computer science, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Oxford, where he teaches graduate-level courses in privacy engineering, information governance, and information security policy design. His career includes legal services to global corporations, leadership in the work of the United Nations and the American Bar Association, and ongoing academic research and writing on digital trust. Jeffrey shares what trust means in business, how it is calculated and how digital trust can be built. He gives some insights into making digital trust a competitive advantage for your small business especially when you have a new product on the market. You can also get in touch with Jeffrey via his website, email and social media platforms:      Website: www.jeffreyritter.com      Twitter:  @Jeffrey_Ritter      Facebook: Jeffrey Ritter      LinkedIn: Jeffrey Ritter      YouTube: Jeffrey Ritter You can get Jeffrey’s

Anthony Iannarino is an international speaker, an author, and entrepreneur. He is the Managing Director of B2B Sales Coach & Consultancy, a coaching and consulting firm he started in 2007. Anthony has worked for and spoken to global giants like Accenture, Abbot Laboratories, Toro, TransUnion, Wells Fargo, GE, RR Donnelly and CH Robinson. Anthony also owns part of his family’s temporary and contingent staffing business, a company he has grown from 3M to 45M with a small sales force of 8 people. Anthony teaches Professional Selling, Persuasive Marketing, and Social Media Marketing at Capital University’s School of Management and Leadership. He has also recently released his second book on sales titled, The Lost Art of Closing. Anthony shares how you can make a difference in your business once you understand that all businesses are essentially sales organisations. He elaborates on what he means by this and also how the sales world has changed over the years and what you need to know to keep up sales for your

Monique Mills is the Founder of Making Waves Sailing, a private charter company providing eco-friendly sailing adventures. Her mission is to use sailing to connect her guests to the ocean in the hopes for greater understanding and appreciation of the ocean ecosystem, its inhabitants and conservation. She captains her 46ft yacht through the Windward Islands of the southern Caribbean Sea, island hopping her guests between Grenada and Martinique and has recently expanded her fleet to include a 47’ft catamaran, operating out of Columbia and Panama. Monique tells us the story of how she quit her corporate career to pursue something else. She had no idea what this something else was when she quit but she just knew she wanted something different. She shares how she had many ideas, all of which “terrified” her but how she took charge and turned them into successes. Monique truly lives by her motto, “Dream the impossible dream and then live it” and is an inspiration for anyone who has an idea and may be afraid to take

Matt Young is a passionate health, recreation and sports servant leader who believes that supporting quality athletic achievement is good for our children, communities and society. He has 25 years of experience in the allied health care sector where he was recognized as one of British Columbia & Canada's Top 40 U 40 business leaders of the year and has 15 years of experience in coaching at the grassroots level. Matt now consults with sports organizations locally, nationally and internationally on physical literacy, long term athlete development resources, and tools and support.   Matt saw a flaw in the system of youth sports and decided to fix it. He shares how his observation of youth sports led him to develop a service which looks beyond traditional success measures for teams and athletes. The idea for his system was born out of a great passion for sport and desire to add value to youth involved in sports. His unique idea and value proposition may give you a thing or two to think about when it comes to

In this special episode, Matt and Dan get personal. They dig into why small business owners experience periods of funk. They share their own funk stories, how they pulled themselves out of them and got back on track. Matt shares what he calls his “US$6,000 mistake” and Dan shares the hypnotic techniques he uses to help clients regain confidence and get going again. You can also get in touch with Matt and Dan through the Square Peg Round Hole Podcast  website, email and social media platforms: Email: sprhpodcast@gmail.com Website: sprhpodcast.com Twitter: @sprhpodcast Facebook: SPRHPodcast Amy Cuddy’s book Presence can be found here. Conference Highlight Jeff Walker’s Launch Con http://launchcon.com/ Dallas, TX: 27 - 29 October 2017   SPRH Podcast is sponsored by: Knight Dik Insurance http://www.knightdik.com/