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141: Small Business Finance – Joan Sotkin

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Joan Sotkin – Small Business Finance

Small business finance is no easy matter. In fact, there are many who believe as my guest today, that unless you get your emotional relationship with money under control, you will never find the success you want in business.

Joan Sotkin is THE expert when it comes to understanding how emotions learned in early childhood can affect a person’s earning capacity as an adult. For over 25 years she has helped entrepreneurs and practitioners experience freedom from struggle personally, professionally, and financially. Thousands have benefitted from Joan’s groundbreaking book Build Your Money Muscles:Nine Simple Exercises for Improving Your Relationship with Money and her ongoing support programs. Joan is a dynamic, inspiring speaker and coach who brings a depth of knowledge plus a huge dose of empathy and compassion to her work.

Small Business Finance – Joan Sotkin

132: The Results Map – Kimberly Alexander

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Kimberly Alexander – The Results Map

After over 20 years of a flourishing corporate executive career, Kimberly Alexander launched her company as a Transformational Speaker and Mentor for Women Entrepreneurs. Kimberly has worked with several multi-million dollar organizations as an expert in leadership and professional development. Kimberly has worked strategically with Entrepreneurs to identify opportunity and take action for further growth. With a passion to make a difference, Kimberly trains to retreats, individual mentoring and transformational speaking. Her direct, pin pointed approach to learning establishes trust, humor and produces long term results. Kimberly launched her best-selling series in 2014, first with The Results Map: Business and Life strategies to get what you want. Written from her own experiences, Kimberly has guided companies and hundreds of individuals to immediate success with her simple and direct fundamentals.

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Author of The Results Map – Kimberly Alexander

131: The Membership Economy – Robbie Kellman Baxter

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Robbie Kellman Baxter – The Membership Economy

Robbie Kellman Baxter is the founder of Peninsula Strategies LLC, a management consulting firm, as well as the author of the Amazon Hot New Release in Sales & Selling, The Membership Economy. She coined the popular business term “Membership Economy”, which is now being used by organizations and journalists around the country and beyond.

Her clients have included large organizations like Netflix, SurveyMonkey and Yahoo!, as well as dozens of smaller venture-backed companies. Over the course of her career, Robbie has worked in or consulted to clients in more than twenty industries.

Before starting Peninsula Strategies in 2001, Robbie served as a New York City Urban Fellow, a consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton, and a Silicon Valley product marketer.

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Author of The Membership Economy – Robbie Kellman Baxter

120: New Business Next Steps-Ed Goodman

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One of my favorite ways to learn is through examples. That is what I believe is so important about this episode guest’s book, New Business, Next Steps.

Ed Goodman is a business start-up mentor who’s worked with over 10,000 start-ups to successfully build their knowledge of financial management, social media, networking and more. Through independent consultancy and mentoring, along with aligned partnerships, he has worked with multinational corporations including Barclays, Google, Sage, Intuit and more. In 2012, Ed co-founded the Cambridge Business Lounge, a co-working space and support hub for start-ups and small businesses in the historic and beautiful city of Cambridge, UK. He also regularly blogs on small business topics, as well as being a contributor on the BBC, podcasts as well as other established business blogs. January 2015 saw the release of Ed’s first book “New Business, Next Steps – The All In One Guide to Managing, Marketing and Growing Your Small Business.”

Contact Ed: cambridgebusinesslounge.com
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New Business Next Steps–Ed Goodman

113: Rapid Business Growth Lessons – Matthew Pollard

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Matthew Pollard – The Rapid Growth Guy

Rapid Business Growth eludes the vast majority of entrepreneurs. The problem is often lack of systems and knowledge on how to implement those systems. Enter – Matthew Pollard!

Matthew Pollard is the Rapid Growth Guy! A serial entrepreneur, published author, international speaker, coach and consultant. Matthew has been characterized as a true differentiation, niche marketing, and sales systemization powerhouse. He now offers online sales, niche marketing and business seminars through MatthewPollard.guru and DanandMatt.com. He is also a founding member of soon to be launch SalesScripting.guru and TheSeminarReview.com, the world’s first independent and unbiased seminar review website.

Hear Matthew Pollard on his podcast: Better Business Coach Podcast

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Rapid Business Growth Lessons – Matthew Pollard

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106: Small Business Trends 2015 w/ Laurie McCabe

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Laurie McCabe

It’s a New Year… and that means new trends. Business is always changing and to keep up, we need an expert to keep us on track. My favorite business trends 2015 specialist Laurie McCabe is here to talk about trends in the Small to Mid-sized business space as we move into a new year.

Laurie McCabe brings more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry to her current role at SMB Group. Laurie has built widespread recognition for her capabilities and insights in the small and medium business (SMB) market in several areas, including cloud computing, mobile solutions, business solutions, social networking and collaboration, and managed services. Continue reading →