Small Business Saturdays
170 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSmall Business is an always-changing landscape of challenges. Looking for the best slices of education, thought and concepts to help your small business succeed? Join Aaron Montgomery as he visits with Small Business from all over the share the education you need to thrive!
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Small Business Saturdays: From Funnel to Flywheel
October 22, 2022 12:56 - 34 minutes - 77.9 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! The marketing funnel has been a popular tool of many marketing folks to drive more leads into the organization that are more likely to be closed by the sales team. The “Bro Marketing” people have billed the funnel as the one true marketing model. But […]
Small Business Saturdays: Understanding ROI
October 15, 2022 12:59 - 50 minutes - 69.2 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! ROI or Return on Investment is a term used pretty freely in business. It means what do you get in return for an investment you have made into something. So if you spend $10, you might expect to get $100 worth of value to serve […]
Small Business Saturdays: Business Owner’s Mindset
October 08, 2022 12:28 - 1 hour - 89 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! What is a business owner’s mindset? Why is it important and why not just focus on the nuts and bolts of your business? Aaron is going to be joined by his wife Kylene, another success principles certified trainer, to recap a recent seminar they did […]
Small Business Saturdays: Why You Need a Niche
October 01, 2022 12:58 - 54 minutes - 74.5 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! You probably have heard Aaron talk about Niche Marketing countless times, so you might be thinking, “here we go again.” But as garment and personalized product decorators, having a niche is imperative unless you have an unlimited marketing budget? What? Oh, you don’t have an […]
Small Business Saturdays: Determining the Next Step
September 24, 2022 11:05 - 38 minutes - 53.1 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Entreneurpership is a challenging prospect, and many times leads to confusion, anxiety, and paralysis? How do you know what fancy guru-driven strategy to employ? The statistics are grim on the surface, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. See the cause of […]
Small Business Saturdays: Daily Habits
September 17, 2022 12:40 - 1 hour - 104 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! This is the final week of the 13 week series about the FUNdamentals of Business Success. If you put all these fundamentals to work for you, your business and life will become exactly what you desire. The final key is to make practices a daily […]
Small Business Saturdays: Track Success
September 10, 2022 12:56 - 40 minutes - 55.4 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! We have a purpose, we have wants, we have goals, and all the tools to take productive actions when you are implementing the FUNdamentals of Business Success. Now it is time to keep score so we can manage our actions and better understand what is […]
Small Business Saturdays: Feedback is The Key
September 03, 2022 11:12 - 47 minutes - 64.9 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Feedback comes in all shapes and forms. Learning to read and understand the feedback so you can continue to grow and make improvements is of vital importance to the FUNdamentals of success. First, we have to understand what feedback really is especially when it comes […]
Small Business Saturdays: Surround Yourself with Success
August 27, 2022 13:31 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Jim Rohn famously said that we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with. In our next step on the FUNdamentals of business success, we need to create an environment around us that is conducive to success. All the people […]
Pediatric Sports Medicine Podcast: Time to Detail the Sideline Bag…
August 20, 2022 14:47 - 49 minutes - 67.8 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! I remember the excitement I had receiving my first sideline team bag as a fellow at Vanderbilt. It was certainly a sturdy bag as I still have it and it has held up better than any bag I’ve purchased since then. It was stocked with […]
Small Business Saturdays: Conquer Fear & Thrive
August 20, 2022 13:09 - 45 minutes - 62 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Fear is a powerful deterrent to success, but fear is also something that can be managed. For small businesses, we face a lot of new challenges daily and come face to face with both the fear of failure and of success. But to move our […]
Small Business Saturdays: Mastermind Your Way to Success
August 13, 2022 12:57 - 43 minutes - 59.5 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! The power of the mastermind was first made famous in the modern world by Napoleon Hill in his book, ‘Think and Grow Rich.’ A mastermind is 2 or more people working towards a common goal, making the sum of their parts greater than the whole. […]
Small Business Saturdays: Be Willing to Do the Work
August 07, 2022 02:44 - 28 minutes - 39.6 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! This is where the rubber meets the road. You have the right mindset, are focused on your goals, and are starting to take action. But are you really willing to do the work? Are you willing to show up every day and be ready to […]
Small Business Saturdays: Take Productive Action
July 30, 2022 15:38 - 1 hour - 86.5 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! With the clarity we have from FUNdamentals 1 to 5, it is now time to take action. We need to find a way to spend the bulk of our time moving towards the goals we have set for ourselves. The most important thing is to […]
Small Business Saturdays: Be a Goal Getter
July 23, 2022 13:08 - 1 hour - 86.5 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Most of us think that we set goals, but the reality for many is that you are really just wishing and dreaming. While that is a great place to start, being a goal-getter is what you need to reach your idea of success. Goal setting […]
Small Business Saturdays: Reignite Self-Trust
July 16, 2022 13:08 - 47 minutes - 64.6 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! For any real success to happen we first have to believe in ourselves. The person you spend the most amount of time with in your life is YOU! Yet the person you are the most critical of is you. To be successful in business you […]
Small Business Saturdays: Decide What Your Require
July 09, 2022 13:10 - 47 minutes - 64.7 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Our “wants” are the roadmap leading you to your idea of success. Without a clear understanding of what we require we don’t have a clear target. The problem arises when we try to specify what we want, we feel greedy, selfish, or materialistic. But I’m […]
Small Business Saturdays: Find Your Purpose
July 02, 2022 13:09 - 35 minutes - 49.1 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Whether you have discovered it or not yet, we all have a purpose and areas of significance in our lives. When we are operating in alignment with that, everything is better. When it comes to our business we have to go deeper than just for […]
Small Business Saturdays: Empower Yourself
June 25, 2022 13:08 - 40 minutes - 55.9 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! This is the start of a 13-week series where we will explore the FUNdamentals of Business Success. Though we have talked about taking 100% responsibility many times before, Aaron is going to break it down even further. Aaron wants to talk about have we can […]
Small Business Saturdays: After the Marketing
June 18, 2022 13:06 - 25 minutes - 34.9 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Aaron is excited to welcome back to the show his friend, Mike Wilkerson. Mike has provided the SBS Community with great information on Podcasting in the past, but he is also a wealth of information when it comes to marketing. Aaron and Mike are going […]
Small Business Saturdays: Learning to Say No
June 11, 2022 13:01 - 31 minutes - 42.7 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! How hard is it for you to say “no”? It’s one of the most difficult exercises and one many of us avoid. Instead of running the risk of disappointing someone or losing out on that order, we say yes to things that take up our […]
Small Business Saturdays: 5 Characteristics to Cultivate
June 04, 2022 13:08 - 38 minutes - 52.2 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! We are all capable of the success we desire. BUT we are not all willing to cultivate the traits and characteristics needed to gain that success. In today’s episode, Aaron is going to walk you through 5 areas that you need to cultivate to become […]
Small Business Saturdays: Benefits For Your Business from Gratitude
May 28, 2022 13:07 - 24 minutes - 33.6 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! We many times think of gratitude as something that benefits us personally. TRUE. But do you think enough about how gratitude can benefit your business? We will discuss the proven benefits of being thankful. Then we will explore the tangible way you can practice more […]
Small Business Saturdays: How to Create a Compelling Story
May 21, 2022 13:07 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! When you share your business as a unique identity through storytelling, you’re building a bridge between you and your audience. Storytelling inspires engagement. It’s also a great chance to show the human side of your business and share your mission, vision, and values. I want […]
Small Business Saturdays: Where to Start
May 14, 2022 14:02 - 36 minutes - 50.4 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Whether you are an established business or a brand new start-up, answering the question “Where to Start?” is an important one. Going back to the basics and building from (or rebuilding from) a solid foundation is crucial. This week Aaron will discuss some critical business […]
Small Business Saturdays: Working Hard, But Not Getting Results…
May 07, 2022 13:08 - 43 minutes - 59.2 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! You have watched the training, listen to the suggestions, and started taking action, but you are just not getting results. You’re still not satisfied. Your goals remain elusive and your dreams seem as far beyond reach as they’ve ever been. So what do you do […]
Small Business Saturdays: Fear or Instinct
April 30, 2022 13:09 - 51 minutes - 71 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Let’s talk about fear. You know the feeling. I’m talking about the prickles that crawl up your spine when you’re faced with what appears to be a great opportunity and a voice inside you warns you against it – and you’re not sure whether to […]
Small Business Saturdays: Dealing with Challenges AND Winning
April 23, 2022 12:54 - 56 minutes - 77.1 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! There is no shortage of challenges in a small business owner’s day. And with new issues, like supply chain disruption, finding employees, and the continued divisiveness of the world in which we live, it can seem overwhelming. Our default is to want to commiserate and […]
Small Business Saturdays: Discussing E + R = O with Erich Campbell
April 16, 2022 12:59 - 1 hour - 98.1 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! The number 1 success principle and foundation that we all need to have in our lives and business is to take 100% responsibility for our results. In the book the Success Principles by Jack Canfield, he gives us an easy-to-remember formula, E+R=O. The event PLUS […]
Small Business Saturdays: Feedback Cues
April 02, 2022 13:02 - 39 minutes - 54.8 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Feedback is a huge part of growth and prosperity. We must actively ask for feedback to be able to make adjustments and reach our goals and objectives. But most feedback doesn’t show up in the form of direct feedback. We will talk about how to […]
Small Business Saturdays: 4 Steps to Getting Your First $1000 in ECommerce Sales
March 26, 2022 12:29 - 30 minutes - 41.6 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Maybe you’re stalled out, maybe you have a failure to launch. Aaron Montgomery is going to share 4 easy steps to get your first $1000 in sales on your e-commerce site. You can even use these steps to kick start a new campaign or just […]
Small Business Saturdays: What Type of Business Owner are You? Contender or Pretender
March 19, 2022 16:11 - 42 minutes - 58.9 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! I recently heard an industry consultation say “Everyone deserves to start a business, not everyone deserves to stay in business.” I like you was a little jolted by this statement, but quickly my problem-solving side jumped out and I began thinking about what is it […]
Small Business Saturdays: Overcoming “What will people think?”
March 12, 2022 16:08 - 43 minutes - 59.9 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! “What will people think of me?” How often do you hear these words in your head? And how often have they stopped you from doing what you need to do to achieve your idea of success? We stop ourselves from speaking out or taking action […]
Small Business Saturdays: Small Changes that Make Big Differences
March 05, 2022 16:00 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! In this week’s SBS episode, Aaron is going to share with you several small changes you can make to your company image that will make a big difference. As people go from a hobby to a business, they keep some of the “hobby” looking tools […]
Small Business Saturdays: 1 Simple Exercise to Make You MORE Successful
February 26, 2022 15:57 - 25 minutes - 34.9 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Week in and week out we discuss ideas, techniques, and processes to make you more successful. Success is an art form, but there is one simple thing that you can do that will make you more successful if you have it as a foundation. We […]
Small Business Saturdays: Going From Frantic to Strategic
February 19, 2022 15:52 - 44 minutes - 61.2 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Are you busy? Do you feel overwhelmed? As I have talked about in the past, time management really is not time management, but rather, priority management so this week on SBS I would like to explore 3 questions that will take you from frantic to […]
Small Business Saturdays: Act as If and See Things Happen
February 12, 2022 15:49 - 51 minutes - 71 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Sometimes the simple step of ‘Acting as If’ is all we need to push us where we want to go. When you dress the part, speak the part, and do what others who have done what you want you can achieve great things. When you […]
Small Business Saturdays: Unleash The Power of Goal Setting
February 05, 2022 13:12 - 50 minutes - 68.7 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Goal setting is not something we learn in school. It is typically not modeled by our parents. But yet, it has been shown that writing down goals increases your chance of success by 1100%! I want to break down the exact method for setting […]
Small Business Saturdays: Take Action -The Power of Doing!
January 29, 2022 13:09 - 37 minutes - 51.3 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! I spend a lot of time sharing concepts for creating success, templates, and roadmaps for planning and proper foundations. I always get great feedback but then scratch my head when people continue to struggle. But what I have determined is people end up stuck […]
Small Business Saturdays: 99% is a Bitch. 100% is a Breeze.
January 22, 2022 13:09 - 49 minutes - 67.6 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Startling right? Most of our struggles and challenges come from the fact that we only 99% commit to something we want. We give ourselves that 1% out, and the cheat day, and the “I don’t feel like it today” when it comes to our […]
Small Business Saturdays: 5 Things Keeping You From Success
January 15, 2022 13:08 - 48 minutes - 66.6 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! What’s *really* stopping you from the business you desire? The answer may not be what you think. This week let’s explore what is really holding us back. I want to show you how to overcome your biggest obstacles so your business can thrive or […]
Small Business Saturdays: Online Parties/Live Events
January 08, 2022 13:08 - 1 hour - 115 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! We are finally getting back out to some live vendor fairs, and in-person events. But the world has gotten used to the virtual space, so let’s take advantage of that. On this week’s Small Business Saturdays, Aaron is going to be joined by his […]
Small Business Saturdays: Creating & Using a Priority Matrix
January 01, 2022 06:05 - 1 hour - 113 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! This week we welcome Alison Banholzer. She recently taught us about looking at our bottom line sanity numbers and using the data to make business decisions on the OSG Training from May 5th, 2021. One of the ideas she shared was a Priority Matrix. […]
Small Business Saturdays: Basic Facebook Ads for Beginners
December 25, 2021 05:07 - 1 hour - 86 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! It’s time to get into the nuts and bolts of Facebook Ads. Teaching Facebook ads is always a challenge because your “Facebook” is going to look different from mine because there are well over 60 some odd versions of Facebook and there is no […]
Small Business Saturdays: Change Your Environment, Change Your Life
December 18, 2021 13:08 - 55 minutes - 76.8 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Are the environments in which you live your life and operate your business supporting your success goals – or thwarting them? Here are some simple tweaks you can make to the physical space that will boost your energy and help you stay focused on […]
Small Business Saturdays: Questions to Find Your Life Purpose
December 11, 2021 12:07 - 1 hour - 93 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! The Japanese believe that when you live in alignment with your “ikigai” (or “reason for being”), you will experience deeper satisfaction and meaning in your life. The same hold true for our business, when we put it in alignment with our zone of greatness, […]
Small Business Saturdays: Ways to Get Unstuck
November 27, 2021 13:08 - 57 minutes - 45.8 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Wake up! Hibernation season is over. It’s time to get comfortable with being uncomfortable and take brave action toward your dreams this spring and summer. Here’s how to do it. Ready to get moving? Click the Player Above to Listen to this Program now […]
Small Business Saturdays: Great Alternatives to Paid Online Advertising
November 20, 2021 13:08 - 1 hour - 50.4 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! When we think of advertising as a small business in 2021, we think of paid advertising online. Google Ads, Facebook Ads, etc. But there are some great free and low-cost alternatives we should also be looking at in our overall marketing strategy. As the […]
Small Business Saturdays: Fake It ‘Til You Make It
November 13, 2021 13:08 - 36 minutes - 29.2 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Some days it is hard to believe that we are the expert in our field. Mistakes, challenges, and uncertainty is something small business owners must face down daily. But here is the good news, you only have to be a step or half step […]
Small Business Saturdays: The Art of Upselling & Cross Selling
November 06, 2021 13:08 - 43 minutes - 35 MBSubscribe to & Connect with The Host of This Podcast! Often at Our Success Group, we support businesses in their marketing efforts and finding new customers. But there is another great way to increase your sales that you might not have spent enough time working on or planning out. It is the Art of […]