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Brilliant Breakthroughs Business Podcast

275 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratings

Brilliant Breakthroughs Business Podcast is where Maggie Mongan hosts interviews with Brilliant Practicing Experts(TM), who are Business Experts and Authors in the #1 Bestselling Book Series for Small Business, “Brilliant Breakthroughs for the Small Business Owner: Fresh Perspectives on Profitability, People, Productivity, and finding Peace in Your Business”. A new way of win big for Small Businesses is here!

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BB125: Your Second Salesperson Should Decrease Costs featuring Keith Klein

March 12, 2020 15:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MB

Your Second Salesperson Should Decrease Costs featuring Keith Klein The focus of the first draft of Your Second Salesperson was on time and money cost savings of websites as marketing tools. A client reviewed that first draft and said, "You're embracing a scarcity mentality." He was right. The web allows you to do so much...for so little.   Taking another tack, I emphasized the benefits as much as the savings of Your Second Salesperson. This podcast is meant to explore and expand on that ...

BB124: Differentiate Your Brand Using Automation featuring Tamara Burkett

March 05, 2020 17:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MB

Differentiate Your Brand Using Automation featuring Tamara Burkett “The customer journey becoming your company’s brand.” Twilio CEO and founder Jeff Lawson. Providing consistent, connected experiences across all different points of interaction between you and your network, as their needs change over time, is the best way to turn attention into trust. In this episode, #1 Bestselling Business Author, Tamara Burkett who is a Customer Relationship Management consultant, will discuss how aut...

BB123: Do What Scares You! featuring Debbie Leoni

February 26, 2020 15:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MB

Do What Scares You! featuring Debbie Leoni Debbie Leoni, #1 Bestselling Business Author, Being Fearless Coach, Consultant and Facilitator, shares insight on how fearlessness will empower you and expand your business. Learn how fear prevents Small Business Owners from taking the necessary risks needed to stand out from the competitors. Debbie will share stories of clients who shifted their mindset from fear into fearlessness and how it positively impacted their business. Doing what scares ...

BB122: Introducing The Planting Peace and Harvesting Profit Plan featuring Atty Diane L Mader

February 20, 2020 17:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MB

Introducing The Planting Peace and Harvesting Profit Plan featuring Attorney Diane L. Mader Cultivating peace in our businesses supports humans and our profit margin simultaneously. When we embrace peace, we have peace seeds to plant. Businesses are perfect places to plant peace. As Small Business Owners we are constantly challenged. During this episode, #1 Bestselling Business Author, Atty. Diane L. Mader share her Six Step Action Plan for Embracing Peace (for an individual). Next, Dia...

BB121: Setting Second Salesperson Goals featuring Keith Klein

February 12, 2020 10:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MB

Setting Second Salesperson Goals featuring Keith Klein Listen in for goal setting tips, tricks, and techniques to set goals for your Second Salesperson... your website.  Also learn the 3 assessment points for selecting a website supplier (partner): technology, creative design, and marketing capabilities. This episode is a continuation from Keith's other episodes: BB107 and BB111. Questions Answered: How do Business Owners go about choosing a supplier to work with us on our "Second Salesp...

BB120: Supercharge Your Approach to Networking featuring Maggie Mongan

February 07, 2020 19:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MB

Supercharge Your Approach to Networking Maggie Mongan interviewed by Nancy Lucchesi Maggie Mongan, #1 Bestselling Business Author, Master Business Coach & Small Business Trainer, reveals a new way to approach your business networking to find your golden nuggets. Learn how we screw-up networking and how to simply correct this action. Maggie will define what networking is and what relationship-building is, as well as how these two very different activities support one another. Networking req...

BB119: Diving Deep into Your Employee Experience Situation featuring Danny Hadas

January 31, 2020 08:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MB

Diving Deep into Your Employee Experience Situation featuring Danny Hadas If you want to improve your people, performance, and profit, this is the right episode for you! Danny Hadas is the master at helping us dive deeply into understand the journey we need to make for our people (staff or teams, internally, or outsourced).  Danny has research to validate we need to focus more on just our customers... we must first take care of our people. He reveals the one questions we should constantly ...

BB118: Introducing the Digital Flow Framework featuring Kerrie Hoffman

January 23, 2020 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MB

Do you feel the pace of business speeding up? Not only is the pace of business speeding up, the way we operate our businesses and utilize talent are changing dramatically. An exponential growth in technology is driving these dramatic changes and catapulting us out of the Industrial Age and into The Next Age™. In this podcast, we’ll explore the differences between Traditional Business in the Industrial Age and Digital Business in The Next Age™. Questions Answered: Why is the pace of busine...

BB117: Mastering the 3 Stages of Networking featuring Maggie Mongan

January 17, 2020 19:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MB

Mastering the 3 Stages of Networking featuring Maggie Mongan Every business needs to network AND strengthen their relationship-building activities. In this podcast Maggie addresses: The difference between networking and relationship-building. How to make networking a winning business activity. A brief introduction to your XYZ Statement. Breakdown of the 3 Stages of Networking (Preparation, Show-up, and Follow-up).  Maggie also shares some golden nuggets of networking experts she inter...

BB116: Believe In Yourself featuring Debbie Leoni

January 08, 2020 17:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MB

The Small Business Owners (SBOs) who believe in themselves are the ones who are willing to take risks for the sake of success. Successful SBOs believe their product or service IS good enough. They've learned to let go of self-doubt and take the necessary actions they need to take without allowing their fear to get in the way.  This podcast will address how SBO's can be their most unique self that will attract even more business.  In this episode, #1 Bestselling Business Author, Debbie Leon...

BB115: How to Leverage Your Network for Business Success featuring Tamara Burkett

January 04, 2020 16:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MB

As we kickoff the first quarter of 2020, optimizing lead generation, increasing revenue, and improving win rates are at the top of prioritizes for most business owners. Chances are you've create various strategies to meet your sales goals and you're ready to execute. Yet does your plan include leveraging your network?  "Relationship building is a long-term game that pays dividends in the long run. Yet we often struggle to optimize for anything other than short term gains.” Zvi Band, the CEO...

BB114: Your Business's 2 Most Important Questions featuring Danny Hadas

December 24, 2019 01:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MB

Join us as Danny Hadas, #1 Bestselling Business Author, shares the 2 most important questions every business owner or leader should be asking themselves about their business. Before Danny shares the 2 questions, he first shares why it was important for him to write this chapter. Danny shares about his company's methodology for driving bottom-line results through employee experience innovation, which is called Emovation. Episode Take-Aways: - People Power Performance. If we understand it...

BB113: Moving Beyond Negativity featuring Debbie Leoni

December 18, 2019 16:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MB

One of the biggest obstacles of a Small Business Owner is bitterness. Bitterness is anger and disappointment at being treated unfairly and it leads to resentment.  Unfortunately, Small Business Owners are not aware of how their mindset is resulting in bitterness. This perpetuates a pattern of anger at themselves, their employees and their business. Learning how to be aware of any fear-based mindset liberates Small Business Owners from repeating these ineffective patterns.  This podcast aim...

BB112: 5 Aspects of a Digital Expanded Mindset(TM) featuring Kerrie Hoffman

December 10, 2019 15:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MB

Business is speeding up, we all feel this.  We tend to expect it in our personal lives and resist it in our business. For example, we expect our Amazon order arrive within 24 hours – or even 4 hours. We know we need to make changes in our business to move faster and connect customers more deeply, but if it involves change, we resist.  Business acceleration is caused by an exponential growth in technology  Exponential technology gained momentum 20 years ago  Technology has catapulted us ...

BB111: The Dollar Cost of Your Second Salesperson featuring Keith Klein

December 04, 2019 13:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MB

All Small Business Owners are focused on minimize costs, while amplifying capability. Today's episode focuses on your business's profitability. Our guest:  #1 Bestselling Business Author Keith Klein, who is a sales and website expert, reveals how it's more profitable to have a rocking website that sells for you than a salesperson. This is going to give you a fresh perspective of how to gain more revenue via your website. With all the capabilities a site has (podcast links, videos, litera...

BB110 The Flow of Follow-ups featuring Tamara Burkett

November 26, 2019 11:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MB

We all heard the fortune is in the follow ups and statistics prove this saying true. With 87% of won deals happening after the 5th encounter, you’d think business owners would make it a priority to reach out to prospects multiple times. We know follow ups should be priority, and they are but most become trapped in focusing on 3% of buyers or those people who are ready to buy. That means for every 100 potential customers who encounter your brand for the first time, only 3 people are ready to ...

BB109: Bringing Peace to Work featuring Attorney Diane L. Mader

November 21, 2019 12:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MB

Bringing Peace to Work  Spend time imagining a fulfilling work life. What brings you joy in day to day life? What brought you joy as a child? If there were no limits, how would you spend your life? Have you discovered your life purpose? What were you meant to do? If the world ended tomorrow, what would you wish you had contributed? What would you be most grateful for? How does your business support your dreams and how does it impede them? Do you create opportunities for your employees to ...

BB108: Introducing Networking and Relationship-Building Expert Maggie Mongan

November 11, 2019 09:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MB

During this episode, #1 Bestselling Business Author, Master Business Coach and Small Business Trainer, Maggie Mongan is interviewed by Stacy Kaat. Maggie explains why she wrote a chapter specifically for Small Business Owners about how to supercharge your networking and relationship-building activities.  Maggie reveals how ineffective networking is common. She also shares how there is a very different way to build relationships in the 21st century and busts a myth that surely won't serve yo...

BB107: Introducing Sales and Website Expert: Keith Klein

November 10, 2019 01:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MB

Listen to Sales Expert of Website Master, Keith Klein, as he shares why a website is a forgery.  If this doesn't blow your mind, Keith then explains why your website should be your second salesperson, after you, the business owner. Keith helps Small Business Owners understand why your web presence provider should be a partner of your business. He also provides examples of good websites.   Keith discusses what 3 key elements you want your website to accomplish for you and your business's p...

BB106 Introducing Employee Experience Innovator: Danny Hadas

November 06, 2019 16:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MB

In this episode we sit down with Danny Hadas, Brilliant Business Author of Chapter 4 in Vol. 3 of "Brilliant Breakthroughs for the Small Business Owner: Fresh Perspectives on Profitability, People, Productivity, and Finding Peace in Your Business" (releasing November 13th, 2019 - the Ruby Red cover). Danny shares about his company's methodology for driving bottom-line results through employee experience innovation, which is called Emovation.  Tune in to learn why you should be emovating i...

BB105: Introducing Evolutionary Transitions with Digital Transformation Expert Kerrie Hoffman

November 04, 2019 13:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MB

Do you feel like you can't keep up with your workload and with all the new technology? If so, you aren't alone. Digital Transformation and Human Potential Expert, Kerrie Hoffman, shares how the rate of which technology is advancing is staggering and humans are required to adapt to a new speed of adoption. Kerrie Hoffman is an expert who guides large corporations and small business owners to find new ways to adapt to better technology and productivity experiences. During this episode, Kerr...

BB104: Introducing the Being Fearless Expert: Debbie Leoni

October 31, 2019 16:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MB

Have you ever wondered how to be unstoppable? As a Small Business Owner you are called to step into the unknown on a regular basis. We have an expert to help you manage your fear instead of it managing you! During this episode we introduce the topic of fear and how to quite playing small. Debbie Leoni is an expert in helping others bust through their fears. She is a speaker, coach, and author on this all important topic. Debbie is also an author in the #1Bestselling Business Book Series for...

BB103: Introducing Conflict Resolution Expert Attorney Diane L. Mader

October 28, 2019 03:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MB

Introducing Master of Conflict Resolution and Bringer of Peace: Attorney Diane L. Mader Diane Explains the power of being mindful of other perspectives, how conflict resolution is crucial to create favorable outcomes for all, how being congruent with our approaches is a peaceful way of being. Additionally, Diane talks about what makes a strong tapestry for favorable relationships. She furthers the conversation of how stress creeps into our day to day operations as Small Business Owners and...

BB102: Introducing Client Retention and Customer Loyalty Architect Tamara Burkett

October 25, 2019 12:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MB

Introducing Master of Relationships, Client Retention, and Customer Loyalty Architect: Tamara Burkett Tamara explains how we are experiencing a chronic issue with not having the right tools and processes to manage all the relationships we are able to create. Thus, we are weakening our business's performance.  She explains how this impacts our sales process with customers and potential customers, business allies, as well as staff.  Tamara shares what a CRM is and what it can do to advance ...

BB101: How to Stay Relevant with Marketing in Times of Change featuring Kelly E Andrew

October 23, 2019 23:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MB

Inbound Marketing Expert, Kelly E Andrew, does a quick recap of the phases of 21st century marketing. Kelly explains the importance of consistency and how accumulative content entices our audience to fall in love with us.  Kelly also discusses how creating a clear marketing message is primary to your marketing efforts. She explains the power of "being kind" to your potential customers. Kelly explains the why you should have a marketing strategy and how to measure your results to learn if y...

BB100: Highlights of the First 100 Episodes of the Brilliant Breakthroughs Podcasts

October 15, 2019 14:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MB

Happy 100th Episode Brilliant Breakthroughs Podcast! During this episode, #1 Bestselling Business Authors Dave Rebro and Maggie Mongan recap highlights from the first 99 episodes. Additionally Dave and Maggie share more about how the #1 Bestselling Business Book Series for Small Business, "Brilliant Breakthroughs for the Small Business Owner: Fresh Perspectives for Profitability, People, Productivity, and Finding Peace in Your Business" began and why it exists. If you want to learn more ab...

BB98: How to be an Influencing Author featuring Becky Norwood

August 21, 2019 13:00 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MB

Are you ready to be an influencing force for your audience and customers? Listen to Becky Norwood, publisher of over 200 #1 Bestselling Books, share what Influence Marketing is and how to become an influencer. She shares what it takes to do this well and become what Becky dubs an "Impactful Social Influencer". Learn how you can differentiate yourself and your message in a noisy marketing world. Want to here more from #1 Bestselling Business Author Becky Norwood? Check out podcast episodes: ...

BB99: Creating a Business with Heart featuring Susan McCuistion

August 21, 2019 12:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MB

Want to learn how to make better business relationships in your Small Business? Listen to Susan McCuistion, unconventional diversity and inclusion expert, as she reveals how you can think more clearly and connect better with others by preparing for, recovering from, and adapting - via shifting how you process and share information. Susan shares the science and the power of using your heart to guide you and support you becoming more resilient. Learn the benefit from when we "give eachother mo...

BB97: The Benefits of Cross Training featuring Clive Extence

August 15, 2019 14:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MB

Cross training isn't a new concept to fortify a business's capabilities, but it hasn't been a focus for the past 5 years - and it should be! Could this simple and practical approach to developing your team be your competitive advantage for success? Clue: Yes, it can be! It will also have people wanting to work for and with you. This is how you attract, develop, and retain good people. Want to here more from #1 Bestselling Business Author Clive Extence Check out podcast episodes: BB63, BB70,...

BB96: The Love Phase of Marketing featuring Kelly E Andrew

August 09, 2019 18:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MB

Don't overlook this part of your marketing pipeline! This can be oodles of fun. You've just engaged your marketplace to connect with you. Now what? This episode introduces some ways you can "give your customers love" to expand their visibility. Ultimately, making you look like a super-hero! Want to here more from #1 Bestselling Business Author Kelly E Andrew? Check out podcast episodes: BB59, BB67, BB79, BB87, BB101

BB95: How Your Energy Impacts Business by Nancy Clairmont Carr

July 11, 2019 13:56 - 26 minutes - 17.9 MB

BB94: Forget Politcal Correctness by Susan McCuistion

July 03, 2019 03:39 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MB

BB93: Lessons For Every Entrepreneur By Mike Raber

June 26, 2019 07:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MB

BB92: Supporting Quotes To Boost Your Willingness By Susan White

June 19, 2019 07:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MB

BB90: The Power of A Great Story For Business With Becky Norwood

June 05, 2019 07:00 - 32 minutes - 22.7 MB

BB89: Why Are You Motivated To Build Your Business By Mike Raber

May 29, 2019 07:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MB

BB88: The Power of Taking Productive Pauses With Maggie Mongan

May 20, 2019 17:07 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MB

BB88: The Power of Talking Productive Pauses With Maggie Mongan

May 20, 2019 17:07 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MB

BB86 :The Power of Stand For by Susan McCuisition

May 08, 2019 07:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MB

BB85: What Motivates Humans To Work By Clive Extence

May 01, 2019 07:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MB

BB84: Business Owners and Their Willingness With Susan White

April 24, 2019 07:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MB

BB83: The Math Equation To Achieve Financial Goals With Mike Raber

April 10, 2019 07:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MB

BB82 Impact of Stress On Performance With Nancy Clairmont Carr

April 03, 2019 07:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MB

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BB81: The Impact of The Author Effect With Becky Norwood

March 19, 2019 07:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MB

BB80: You Are Creating Your Own Burn-out With Maggie Mongan

March 13, 2019 07:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MB

BB79: Converting Visitors Into business Leads By Kelly E Andrew

March 06, 2019 08:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MB

BB78: Diversity Experience While Visiting Disney With Susan McCuistion

February 27, 2019 08:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MB

BB77: Management By Walking Around & Away (MBWA) With Clive Extence

February 20, 2019 08:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MB