Building Better Businesses

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S1 Episode 18: Building Bigger and Profitable Businesses with Mikk Maal Apr 13, 2021

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Mikk is an entrepreneur and currently a partner at Comistar International, which has offices in four countries. The company helps startups and SMEs to launch and grow their businesses out of Estonia and under the e-Residency program. Mikk is founder of ProspectusApp, SendQu and BankApply. He also is founding partner of the Digital Renaissance Foundation, which builds a bridge between Nordic blockchain projects and the Chinese-speaking blockchain community.

In this episode, we discuss:

· How digital nomads and other entrepreneurs can benefit from the Estonian e-Residency program.

· Why it’s critical to properly position your business.

· How to make your business work for you, not the other way around.

· The ripple effect of hiring a good team to support your business.

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Connect with Mikk Maal

Website: https://comistar.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikkmaal/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/comistar/

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @ SteveEschbach

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S1 Episode 17: The Key to Running Multiple Businesses with Ryan Kugler Apr 06, 2021

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Ryan Kugler is an entrepreneur and strategist with over 25 years of experience in building profitable businesses from conception within both Fortune 500 organizations and newly launched startups. He operates on a few key principles: “Be nice to everyone, always return phone calls, and stay in communication with everyone.

Since 1998, Ryan has launched several companies. These include Plan B, which helps manufacturers liquidate excess inventory; A5 Events, which organizes corporate events for large corporations and nonprofit organizations to help raise funds with charity events; and Ideal Content, which works with Fortune 500 companies producing new and unique high-end marketing products.

As a public face for the entertainment industry, Ryan has landed coverage both on broadcast outlets and in print. TV appearances include the CBS Early Show, ABC7 News, and KTLA Prime Time News. He also has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Business Journal, Moviemaker Magazine, and the New York Times.

In this episode, we discuss:

● Why entrepreneurs must react quickly in a constantly changing business environment.

● How diversification can help insulate you from negative market conditions.

● Why it’s important to look for opportunities in every challenge.

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Connect with Ryan Kugler

Website: www.theplanbinc.com

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @ SteveEschbach

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S1 Episode 16: Connecting with Your Market Through Swag with Andrea Pereira Mar 30, 2021

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Andrea Pereira started Rocket Science Branding in 2019 to help organizations cultivate their communities through branded merchandise. Having observed many organizations purchasing swag because that's what their competitors did, selecting the wrong items because it's what was trending, or simply struggling to communicate their ethos to their community, Andrea decided it was time to step in and step up.

Her team takes a true marketing approach to understand an organization's goals, people, and purpose and then translates this into the tangible touchpoints to develop their community and brand love. A team of marketers for marketers, the Rocket Science Branding folks thrive on telling a brand's story through strategic ideas and creative design to create lasting engagement.

In this episode, we discuss:

· How Andrea turned an interest in connection into a brand marketing company.

· Why having a set brand – colors, words, logo – is important for new customers and returning ones.

· Creating a community with your brand.

· How to think of branded products as a gift to employees or customers so you don’t purchase the wrong product.

I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have. Andrea knows it’s better to purchase no swag than to purchase the wrong swag.

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Connect with Andrea Pereira

Website: https://www.rocketsciencebranding.com/

Instagram: http://instagram.com/rocketsciencebranding

Facebook: http://facebook.com/rocketsciencebranding

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rocketsciencebranding/

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @ SteveEschbach

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S1 Episode 15: Branding A Business with Michelle Bottino Mar 23, 2021

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Michelle Bottino is the is the owner of Fully Promoted of St. Charles. She has the privilege of helping other businesses grow by building a strategy for sharing their brand. Whether it is logoed apparel for the frontline sales team, swag to give away at trade shows, employee or customer appreciation gifts, or uniforms. Whatever the need is, Fully Promoted can design a plan to build up the brand and Brand Recognition is what helps a business prosper and grow.

Partnering with businesses to determine the best items to use, the timing, to stay ahead of deadlines, to really become a part of the marketing and human resources teams allows Michelle to use her sales and marketing degree and skill set along with her desire to help others.

In this episode, we discuss:

· Transitioning from having a travel-heavy job to finding a job with a community impact.

· The benefits of working with independent business owners that each have a unique experience can create unique, great products.

· Why branding is so important when it comes to customer experience, because recognizing a brand makes a person comfortable.

· Being vulnerable and letting people is the key to owning a business.

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Connect with Michelle Bottino

Website: https://fullypromoted.com/locations/st-charles-il/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FullyPromotedofStCharles

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellebottino/

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @ SteveEschbach

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S1 Episode 14: Creating Communities Through Food with Carson Sweezy Mar 16, 2021

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Carson Sweezy is the Chief Nourishment Officer at Sweetz&Savorys. He partners with B2B companies and small businesses in the U.S. to offer Sweetz&Savoryz gift boxes as a simple way to nourish their client relationships. Carson creates authentic communities by connecting people through food and entertainment, as well as donating to local charities.

In this episode, we discuss:

· The importance of community through shared interest, in this case locally-made food.

· Building a brand with the idea that food is the vehicle to all kinds of nourishment.

· How community ties can lead to returning customers and revenue even when you spread nationally.

· Why business relationships are so important when building something that can be so personal, like someone’s relationship with food.

I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have.

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Connect with Carson Sweezy

Website: https://www.carsonsweezy.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carsonsweezy/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carsonsweezy/

TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeeR2W1k/

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @ SteveEschbach

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S1 Episode 13: Great Business, Good Life, and Giving Back with Paul Higgins Mar 09, 2021

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Paul Higgins is a high-performance business mentor, podcaster, and author who helps service-based business owners struggling to strike a balance between life and work adopt a hands-off management approach and improve profits to fund their lifestyles.

To aid other service-based business owners like himself who have come to the conclusion that having a business so reliant on them is just not going to work, Paul developed a mentoring program—Build Live Give—that helps such business owners take control and implement an end-to-end sales and operations system that can easily generate profits.

In this episode, we discuss:

· Paul’s start in the hardcore sales world working for Coca-Cola and what he learned to bring to his own business.

· How he builds business on a smaller, more diverse scale.

· How to study the numbers of buying and selling a business so you know what you’re getting into.

· The importance of helping businesses give back to their communities and employees.

· Never being afraid to ask an expert for advice.

I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have.

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Connect with Paul Higgins

Website: https://www.buildlivegive.com/

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @ SteveEschbach

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S1 Episode 12: Developing a Business Journey Through Your Content Strategy with Veronica Sagastume Mar 02, 2021

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Veronica Sagastume is a Virtual CFO, content strategist, and remote operations manager. She has been a successful CFO/COO Consultant and entrepreneur with over 20 years of Accounting/Finance & Operations experience before starting a consulting practice 10 years ago.

She's worked with multiple CEOs at Start-Up and Emerging Growth companies, before deciding to expand her business online to help other Accounting/Finance/Tax business owners to scale their businesses online.

In this episode, we discuss:

· How Veronica married her traditional accounting expertise with new and emerging software technology.

· How the care of an ailing family caused the shift from fast-paced corporate life to consulting- therefore, developing the virtual CFO.

· Why a network of contacts should be utilized for growing client businesses.

· Developing a plan with clients to scale businesses through comprehensive content marketing within their financial means.

· Taking marketing off the plate of business owners so they can get back to doing what they love.

I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have. Veronica is in a very niche market that everyone in business could profit from.

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Connect with Veronica

Website: https://www.veronicasagastume.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SuccessfulConsultants/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veronicalsagastume/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/veronicalsagastume/?trk=linkedin

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @ SteveEschbach

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S1 Episode 11: How Growing Your Business Helps More People with Tristan Bond Feb 23, 2021

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Tristan Bond is an entrepreneur, business owner, consultant, and marketing specialist. As CEO and Founder of Practice Acceleration, a business coaching company, he shows business owners how to create predictable, profitable, and scalable businesses by utilizing his Market.Rebook.Manage™ system.

The step-by-step framework shows businesses how to double their profits, halve their hours and build a practice that doesn’t depend on you. The system has been implemented by solo startup businesses to clients doing over $20 million in annual revenue. Tristan Bond is also the author of The Practice Acceleration Method, an international best-seller in four business categories in six countries.

In this episode, we discuss:

· How Tristan moved from healthcare to business ownership and coaching

· The adversities faced in a small business looking to grow and expand

· How to mentally prepare yourself from being hands-on with clients to taking an administrative role as your business grows

· The framework of business scaling and how any kind of marketing can help

I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have.

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Connect with Tristan

Website: https://practiceacceleration.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/practiceacceleration/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/practiceacceleration/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/healthcare-business-coach/

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @ SteveEschbach

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S1 Episode 10: When to Open the Door to Exit Planning with Ashley Micciche Feb 16, 2021

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Ashley Micciche is the CEO at True North Retirement Advisors. She helps business owners exit their business and retire with financial security, letting them focus on running their business while she plans the exit.

Ashley is a second-generation family business owner, so she understands the plight of the day-to-day business owner trying to do everything. Her first career plan was to be a river raft guide, but then she went to business school and discovered helping people retire is where she wanted to be.

In this episode, we discuss:

· How exit planning looks different for every business and business owner

· Starting to think about exiting your business even 10 years before you want to

· Working with an advisor to take care of all the details is important in order to keep running your business

· Building a team to work on the exit with you- not leaving it all up to one advisor

I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have.

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Connect with Ashley

Website: https://truenorthretirementadvisors.com/

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @ SteveEschbach

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S1 Episode 9: Scaling a Real Estate Business from the Ground Up with Reed Goossens Feb 09, 2021

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Reed Goossens is the founder of Wildhorn Capitol, a real estate firm that syndicates large multi-million dollar deals all across the United States. In 2012, Reed quit his job in Australia and moved to the United States with no assets with a dream to grow a real estate business, starting with one small duplex.

He is also a podcast host of Investing in the US, where he interviews leading real estate investors and entrepreneurs to speak about their success and help guide other investors who want to live successfully in the United States. He is a best-selling author two books on real estate and living the American dream.

In this episode, we discuss:

· How Reed moved across the world and dove into the real estate market in the United States.

· How being an engineer by trade helped build his own business and solve problems efficiently.

· Getting the right team members and mentors to guide you through the mistakes and on to better things.

· Being the key person of influence in your community and your business will grow anything you do, because people will do business with those they trust.

I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have. Reed is a genuine success story in terms of the American Dream.

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Connect with Reed Goossens

Website: reedgoossens.com

email: info@reedgoossens.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reed-goossens/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reedgoossens/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/reedgoossenspage

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/