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Small Business Answer Man

329 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 41 ratings

Wondering how you can become better at running your business? Entrepreneurship can be stressful. There is too much to do and not enough time.

If you’re isolated in your daily decisions, have no fear! Success and balance are possible. The Small Business Answer Man podcast is here to help you grow your business without losing your mind.

We interview experts and find solutions so your business grows and you get your time back. Join the Small Business Answer Man podcast with Gary Wilbers, where you master the art of running a successful business, using practical advice from experts who want to help you succeed.

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Ep: 028 Debbra Sweet

July 30, 2018 09:30 - 55 minutes - 82 MB

Debbra Sweet is a catalyst for growth. She is  trailblazing a transformation trifecta in body, mind and business. Because what good is one without the others?She’s an expert in leadership skill set development and entrepreneurial education.  Her teachings provide you with a proven path to create a better business, a better future, and a better foundation upon which to Thrive! She’s Dynamic, Engaging, Substantive, Magnetic, Authentic, Purposeful and Driven.Blazing the trail, she guides othe...

Ep: 027 Mark Steiner

July 23, 2018 09:30 - 51 minutes - 80.5 MB

Mark Steiner is the co-founder and CEO of GigSalad. As chief visionary, he leads the company’s business and marketing strategy, focusing on building a strong customer-centric team and connecting with strategic partners. His career in the entertainment industry has spanned more than thirty years, including a decades-long stint booking high-level talent for performing arts centers, festivals, concerts, and corporate events through the agency he founded. Mark is the recipient of the Goodwill Ga...

Ep: 026 Liane Davey

July 16, 2018 09:30 - 41 minutes - 63 MB

Liane Davey is a New York Times bestselling author and a frequent contributor to popular publications such as Harvard Business Review and The Atlantic's Quartz. As the Co-founder of 3COze Inc, she works with executives at leading organizations such as SONY PlayStation, TD Bank, and Amazon. Liane has served on the executive of the Canadian Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology and as an evaluator for the APA Psychologically Healthy Workplace Awards. She is currently a member of t...

Ep: 025 Seth Bauman

July 09, 2018 09:00 - 44 minutes - 69.7 MB

Seth Bauman was born and raised in Missouri. He is a first generation college graduate, who received a B.A. in Religion from Central Methodist University and a Master’s of Public Administration from the University of Missouri Columbia. Seth has worked with community advocates and leaders all across the state to increase positive outcomes for youth and families and to Empower underserved individuals through economic and employment opportunities.

Ep: 024 Season 2 Recap with Benjamin Struemph

July 02, 2018 09:00 - 22 minutes - 36.7 MB

Here is the recap of the second season of the CHARGE Podcast. Check out our show notes at CHARGEPODCAST.COM for more information. 

Ep: 023 Laura Vanderkam

June 25, 2018 09:30 - 40 minutes - 68.1 MB

Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management and productivity books, including the new Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done. She is also the author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast and 168 Hours. She is the co-host of the podcast Best of Both Worlds, and blogs at LauraVanderkam.com.

Ep: 022 Doberman Dan

June 18, 2018 09:30 - 45 minutes - 74.6 MB

Doberman Dan is a 33-year serial entrepreneur, A-list copywriter and three-time international best selling author. In his spare time he's also a professional musician and composer. He has started numerous info product businesses and four different nutritional supplement businesses. He is regularly hired to write sales copy for some of the most successful direct response marketers and publishers in the country.  Dan has been publishing The Doberman Dan Letter since 2011 and has many of th...

Ep: 021 Josh Turner

June 11, 2018 09:00 - 43 minutes - 71.2 MB

Josh Turner is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, and theFounder & CEO of LinkedSelling, a marketing coaching, consulting &training firm that has been name #252 on the Inc 5000 list, the pasttwo years in a row. He is widely considered as a worldwide leadingauthority in using LinkedIn to generate leads, appointments andClients.

Ep: 020 Tony Mayo

June 04, 2018 09:00 - 45 minutes - 71.8 MB

Tony Mayo is an experienced executive coach to business owners and their teams. He is a master of analogy and anecdote whose illustrations are as likely to come from his studies of brain science, high energy physics, or eastern philosophy as from his years of management and sales in high-technology. Whether speaking from a platform, coaching one-on-one, or facilitating a workshop, Tony maintains a laser focus on his goal of helping people realize their dreams.   Tony earned his MBA from ...

Ep: 019 Jeremy P. Ämick J

May 28, 2018 09:00 - 42 minutes - 63.2 MB

Since 2010, Jeremy P. Ämick has been sharing the stories of service and sacrifice of our nation's veterans. His work has been featured in several newspapers, in national magazines and on the website War History Online. He has compiled 8 military history books, 2 more of which will be completed this year. He makes his home in Russellville, Mo., with his wife, Tina and their Irish Terrier, Sherman. In his spare time, he enjoys reading about the Cold War, collecting comic books and listening to...

Ep: 018 Koran Bolden

May 21, 2018 09:00 - 46 minutes - 64.8 MB

Koran Bolden is a national award winning speaker, author and the Chief Motivational Officer of Dream Success World Wide located in Phoenix, Arizona. He is mostly known for his work in the areas of resiliency, technology and entrepreneurship which has garnered him numerous awards and national media recognition.

Ep: 017 Mike Ganino

May 14, 2018 09:00 - 47 minutes - 77.5 MB

Mike Ganino is a culture + storytelling expert who helps executives, teams, and thought leaders communicate, connect, and engage. He is the author of Company Culture for Dummies and has been named a top 30 Culture Speaker by Global Guru. Organizations love Mike’s high energy, high engaging workshops and keynotes that fire them up to rewrite the stories happening in their culture. They leave with real-life strategies they can begin implementing immediately for improved culture that drives emp...

Ep: 016 Annette Pieper

May 07, 2018 08:30 - 47 minutes - 72.1 MB

Annette Pieper, lovingly known as the Badass Business Chick, is a Business Results Coach, Author, Speaker and Trainer. She is President of the High Impact Success Training firm, Vision 2 Reality Training. Annette has over 20 years of coaching, consulting and training expertise, is author of the upcoming book Conquer Success Mountain Like A Badass and co-author of the bestselling book Step Into Your Vision. She has helped thousands of people across the globe through her powerful programs.

Ep: 015 Drew Manning

April 30, 2018 07:00 - 43 minutes - 66.2 MB

Just for you, a listener of the CHARGE Podcast we are offering our 7 Days of CHARGE program for FREE! Just head over to http://positiveculturewins.biz/ to get started today!  Drew Manning is the NY Times Best Selling Author of the book, Fit2Fat2Fit and is best known for his Fit2Fat2Fit.com experiment that went viral online. He's been featured on shows like Dr. Oz, Good Morning America, The View and many more. His experiment has since become a hit TV show, called Fit to Fat to Fit, airing o...

Ep: 014 Jeff Raver

April 23, 2018 07:00 - 50 minutes - 73.3 MB

Jeff Raver is a John Maxwell Certified National Sales and Leadership Coach, motivational speaker, as well as the founder and president of Begin To Win. Jeff previously held the position of Director of Training for over 20 years, as well as the position of Vice President of Sales and Marketing, at CVS Systems, a national electronics distributor. He recently spent 2 1/2 years growing an electronics retail company from a small start up to one of the fastest growing Dish retailers in the Midwest...

Ep: 013 Season 1 Recap with Benjamin Struemph

April 16, 2018 07:00 - 39 minutes - 62.7 MB

Here is the recap of the first 12 episodes of the CHARGE Podcast. Check out our show notes at CHARGEPODCAST.COM for more information. 

Ep: 012 Shawn Burcham

April 09, 2018 07:00 - 36 minutes - 54.8 MB

Shawn Burcham is the founder and CEO of PFS Brands. Shawn spent his childhood in the small southeast Missouri town of Farmington. His parents moved to that area when he was 6 months old, and Farmington became home for him until he graduated high school 18 years later. After working for a couple different corporations in sales related roles, he chose to start his own business in 1998. They moved from Willard, MO to Holts Summit, MO in 1999, where he currently lives. PFS brands has gone on to ...

Ep: 011 Eric Lofholm

April 02, 2018 07:00 - 42 minutes - 72 MB

Eric Lofholm is a Master Sales Trainer who has taught his proven sales systems to thousands of professionals around the world. He is President and CEO of Eric Lofholm International, Inc., an organization he founded to professionally train people on the art and science of selling.   Eric began his career as a sales failure. At his first sales job he was put on quota probation after failing to meeting the minimum quota two months in a row. It was at this point that Eric met his sales mento...

Ep: 010 Carrie Tergin

March 27, 2018 12:11 - 44 minutes - 71.6 MB

Carrie Tergin is the mayor of Jefferson City, lifelong resident of Jefferson City, owner of Carrie's Hallmark Shop, currently chairs the Board of Governors at her Alma Mater, Missouri State University. Her knowledge of business and strong ties with her family are what she says shapes her vision for the city. Carrie helped her family run their Jefferson City business as a child. Now, Carrie says learning customer service from her parents has given her a sense of pride, but she also has a gr...

Ep: 009 Sherry Phelan

March 19, 2018 07:00 - 43 minutes - 68.5 MB

Dr. Sherry Phelan is a High Performance Coach. For over 25 years, she has coached business owners, teams and those who face setbacks and challenges to use adversity and even disappointment as a catalyst to higher levels of success. Her trademark is Turnaround Thinking™. It's a mental reset button she pushes daily, herself, to improve relationships, health, happiness and success. It can work for you, too.

Ep: 008 Drew Hudgins

March 12, 2018 07:00 - 46 minutes - 65 MB

Drew loves dogs, recycles, plays several instruments, can't keep his eyes off his wife and 75% of his family was adopted. Drew's professional life started in the public school band room and evolved into stringing lots of artsy areas together—like design, music, and film—to tell a good story.  As a digital media artist, he's won all kinds of awards that few have ever heard of. For years though, he knew he was leaving his clients with a big problem: nobody was seeing (or caring about) their pr...

Ep: 007 Charly Caldwell

March 05, 2018 08:00 - 43 minutes - 60.2 MB

Charly Caldwell II began his journey in the late 80's helping people, businesses and organizations use the power of computers to connect and communicate - before the Internet and the World Wide Web became popular in the mid 1990s. On October 10, 2000 he sold my first business and retired at the age of 29, after realizing he needed to create a business foundation of recurring revenue, and then simply go out and SERVE, purposefully, ending the conversation with (if they wanted to know) how h...

Ep: 006 Shep Hyken

February 26, 2018 08:00 - 48 minutes - 72.3 MB

Shep Hyken is a customer service and experience expert and the Chief Amazement Officer of Shepard Presentations.  He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author and has been inducted into the National Speakers Association Hall of Fame for lifetime achievement in the speaking profession.   Shep works with companies and organizations who want to build loyal relationships with their customers and employees. His articles have been read in hundreds of publications, and he i...

Ep: 005 Matt Ward

February 19, 2018 08:00 - 38 minutes - 62.7 MB

Matt Ward, is the founder of Breakthrough Champion.  He helps companies get more referrals and eliminate procrastination within the business.Matt is the author of of the book Making Your Website Effective.  His company has been awarded a Top 10 Web Firm 6 years in a row.  He was the member of the 2013 Forty Under 40 Class and he was honored as the 2015 Small Business Owner of the Year. He helps companies get more referrals.  He does this by sharing information associated with the consisten...

Ep: 004 Tom Ziglar

February 12, 2018 08:00 - 40 minutes - 62.9 MB

As CEO of Ziglar, Inc., Tom Ziglar shares not only a last name with his father, Zig Ziglar, but he also carries on his philosophy, which is simply, You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. Prior to being named CEO, Tom began his career in retail and direct sales. He joined the Zig Ziglar Corporation in 1987, learning every aspect of the business as he climbed from working in the warehouse, to sales, to seminar promotion, to sale...

Ep: 003 John O'Leary

February 05, 2018 08:00 - 52 minutes - 85.8 MB

What if one message could change your life? What if one man could provide hope that the best is yet to come? This man is John O’Leary. As a nine-year-old boy, John was burned on 100% of his body and given less than one percent chance to live. His amazing journey of survival illustrates the incredible power of the human spirit. John and his family kept their experience private until his parents wrote a book, Overwhelming Odds, to thank the family and friends who supported them on thei...

Ep: 002 Clyde Lear

January 29, 2018 09:00 - 36 minutes - 54.8 MB

Clyde Lear is the retired Chairman and CEO of Learfield Communications, Inc. a company he started in 1972 as an outgrowth of his master’s project at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. For competitive reasons, the company changed from a radio company to a marketing company in the mid-1980s.  It now exclusively handles stadium and arena signage, game day activities with advertisers, game program printing and sales, corporate hospitality and—in many venues—food and beverage sale...

Ep: 001 Antoine Dupont

January 29, 2018 08:30 - 39 minutes - 63.8 MB

Antoine Dupont knows how to make people want to watch your videos. Antoine has spent the last 5 years studying video marketing and in the process has created 100's of videos for his clients. Antoine's client are seeing a 3 to 5 time increase in their social media engagement while others have experienced a +37% increase in sales in 2017  because of their video marketing strategies. As CEO of Katapult.Marketing, he brings his sense of competition to his client’s businesses. Katapult is an Inte...

Ep: 000 Welcome with Ben Struemph

January 23, 2018 02:36 - 3 minutes - 2.8 MB

You may be asking as the listener why should I be interested in listening to this podcast?  Let me share with you why I think you will be interested in listening, it goes back to what I said earlier we can all learn each day and when we are willing to hear other people’s struggles, challenges and successes we can find ways to implement new habits into our own life.   The message of CHARGE is two fold. First, I love rhinoceros because they are known for CHARGING.  My belief is when we charg...

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