Business Growth
by Spencer Shaw
Spencer Shaw interviews business owners about what it takes to run and grow a business. These aren't conversations about raising millions of capital or scaling to become the next billion dollar venture. Our message is for normal, hard working people that want insights to grow their part-time or full time business.
Episodes
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An Empty Can Makes the Most Noise
Explore the gap between capturing attention and genuine business acumen, focusing on the often-missed distinction between visibility and viability. Learn to distinguish between mere noise and true depth in the digital age, seeking leaders who deliver real value beyond getting noticed.
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When to Grow and When to Hold
The delicate balance between accelerating growth and consolidating gains in entrepreneurship. Learn why speed is crucial for gaining rapid feedback, allowing informed decisions on when to scale up or refine strategies.
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Using AI for Business Growth
Discover how artificial intelligence (AI) revolutionizes business growth by driving efficiency and fostering innovation. Learn practical strategies to integrate AI across customer service, market analysis, operational tasks, and personalized experiences.
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Creative Pricing to Unlock a Competitive Advantage
Unlock competitive advantage through creative pricing strategies that align with customer success and drive profitability. Learn how skipping free trials, embracing recurring revenue, and pricing based on customer outcomes can transform your business, creating strong, lasting relationships and...
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How Consumer Insights Drive Innovation
Discover how consumer insights fuel innovation by shaping products that truly meet market needs. Learn from a real-world example where simplifying a tech app in response to freelance needs led to significant success, emphasizing the importance of engaging directly with consumers and being ready…
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Cross-Pollination of Ideas
Master the mindset for innovation by expanding your vision beyond your industry. This episode illustrates how curiosity and openness to ideas from diverse fields can lead to breakthroughs.
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Focusing on Less to Achieve More
Discover the transformative power of essentialism in business: focusing on what truly matters to achieve more with less. This episode shares the story of a startup founder who learned to streamline efforts for greater impact, showing how simplifying can lead to significant gains.
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How To Get Business Credit with Gerri Detweiler - Episode 137
As a business owner, you know that access to capital is essential to keeping your business afloat and growing. But what are the best ways to get business credit? And what are the biggest mistakes that owners make when it comes to their credit scores? In this episode, Spencer sits down with Gerri...
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Growing Through Virtual Experts with Mackenzie Lepretre - Episode 136
When it comes to taking your business to the next level, outsourcing is key. But with so many different moving parts, it can be difficult to know where to start. That is why FreeUp is here to help! In this episode, Spencer welcomes Mackenzie Lepretre, the Director of Operations for the FreeUp...
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Family Wealth Manual - Episode 135
If I’m going to ask you now: What is your family tradition? What sets your family apart from others? For today’s episode, Spencer excitedly shares all about the Family Wealth Manual. Inspired by Clint Fiore, Spencer shares why having a personal family manual can help families not only in growing...
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Are You Ready For An Acquisition? - Episode 134
Acquisitions are a great way for businesses to grow. They can help you expand your reach, increase your market share, and add new products and services to your portfolio. But acquisitions can also be complex and time-consuming, so it's important to be prepared before embarking on the process. For...
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The 4 C's of Leverage In Your Business - Episode 133
As a business owner, you're always looking for ways to grow your business. Leverage is one of the most powerful tools you have at your disposal. Spencer describes what the 4 C’s of leverage in a business are: Collaboration, Capital, Code, and Content. He shares how each of these plays a huge role...
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Using Constraints to Grow - Episode 132
When faced with a problem, many people try to find the quickest and easiest solution. However, this may not always be the best option. For today’s episode, Spencer proves how constraints can actually be used to help you grow. Constraints force us to focus and get the job done quicker and produce...
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Breathe Life Into Your Business - Episode 131
Age is just a number — Does it apply even when running a business? Spencer proves his point about feeling young, vibrant, and youthful by sharing his recent experiences through his conversations with his mother and friend. He shares what most people want to feel in the product and project that…
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Do You Load The Tip Jar? - Episode 130
How can a business grow and gather more customers in the long run? Other than marketing and advertising their business, one of the key ways to spread the word around is with five star reviews. And that surrounds Spencer’s talk for today. He describes the lessons he’s teaching his employees every...
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Creating Additional Revenue Streams - Episode 129
For a business to be more profitable, creating additional revenue streams should be on top of any business owner’s list. Creating multiple income streams should maximize your business’ potential. Looking back at his vacation in South Mexico, Spencer shares the incredible business lesson he…
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Hiring An Operator - Episode 128
To drive your team to fulfill your company’s vision, having an operator for your business is a must. If you’re a business owner, one of the key things you should look for is someone you can trust to help with your operation. Spencer talks about not only about finding an operator, but also his own...
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Unlocking Entry Level Employees Potential with Shelby Scarbrough - Episode 127
When you’re hiring employees, do you think of their future in the company? Are you picturing them as the future supervisor or manager? This is the case for Shelby Scarbrough. Spencer interviews Shelby Scarbrough to talk about how she started working as an all-around skilled worker for their...
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Growing Your B2B Sales with Patrick Baynes - Episode 126
Increasing your B2B sales is tough and challenging: From generating leads, talking to your potential customers, and pushing the sales, not all strategies that work for others might work for you. So how exactly can you grow your B2B sales? To share his experiences handling different B2B companies,...
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Creating Value by Simplifying the Path with Dave Zumpano - Episode 125
Who is the person in your life who can make complex things look effortless and simple? What do you think are the processes and systems that they follow? These are just two of the many questions that Dave Zumpano answered with Spencer. Dave is an entrepreneurial attorney who does not only help...
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Stop Growing Your Business in Your Head - Episode 124
How do you decide whether to pursue your business idea or not? Spencer shares an important lesson for entrepreneurs and those who are planning to start their own business: You need to stop growing businesses in your head. He reiterates the importance of taking the first step of action…
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Understanding Your Employees with Lynn Thomas - Episode 123
After experiencing working from home, a lot of employees refuse to return to work, especially after the scare of COVID-19. As an employer who prefers working on location, what are the ways you can encourage your team to enjoy working back in an office? In this episode, Spencer and Lynn Thomas…
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The Land of Opportunity with Jeff Badu - Episode 122
We’ve all heard the phrase: “America, the land of opportunity” and this episode is all about it! Spencer had a conversation with Jeff Badu, who is from Ghana, Africa. He tells us how he grew up, and what it was like. Even though he is still young, he has made his mark as a real estate…
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Overcoming Communication Fears with Janice Dean - Episode 121
This podcast is for business owners that are out there, that did good but they missed great. This episode is a little different than most, we’re getting into the psychology of communication, specifically about overcoming communication fears. We talk with Janice Dean about some techniques and…
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From Virtual Assistant to COO with Ana Santiago - Episode 120
Having good operators in your business is a MUST. If you’re looking to acquire a business and you don’t have an operator, listen to this episode as we spoke with Ana Santiago, the COO of Outsource School. Her story is very special as she started as a general VA and today she is the COO of a...
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Running a Business WITHOUT Salespeople with Dan Rogers - Episode 119
Spencer shares the simple way of doing business, but it is more complex than that. Listen to this interview with Dan Rogers, who has a really unique story. Learn how to do business the simple way! Episode Highlights Not being trained as a sales person Changing the mechanics of the business…
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Hiring A-List Players with Ugis Balmaks - Episode 118
Hiring new employees, and team members… It's work! There’s a lot of filtering in the process, there’s a lot of uncertainty. Spencer interviewed Ugis Balmaks, who has a company called Recruiter Mill. In this episode, you’ll learn a seven-step process for hiring people. Episode Highlights Who is…
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Signal vs Noise with Justin Breen - the Ultimate Connector - Episode 117
Spencer talks with Justin Breen, who has a unique ability, and unique skill sets that you definitely need to listen to. Justin is a connector and has the ability to find the unseen material, the unseen relationships, connect things together, and make things happen faster than anyone else. Episode...
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Build a Solid Exit Strategy for your Business with Ashley Micciche - Episode 116
Spencer talks with Ashley Micciche, the CEO of True North Retirement Advisors. They discuss business, finance, and some of the essentials that will help you out in your business. Ashley is an outstanding, brilliant business thinker and business mind. Episode Highlights How Ashley explains what…
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Taking Action with Your Ideas - Episode 115
Spencer shares a story on how his daughter taught him a lesson in business, she is only nine years old and this lesson is something that really opened his eyes. Episode Highlights In business, it is good to get a no The difference between a prospect and a customer A service that could be valuable...
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Are You Solving the Right Problem? - Episode 114
Are you solving the right problem in your business? This episode comes from a Twitter thread from Shreyas Doshi. He has great leadership skills that could help you! Episode Highlights Starting to understand the problem Trying to solve the wrong problem Understand the fundamentals of your business...
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Hiring and Outsourcing with Nathan Hirsch - Episode 113
This is a special episode of Business Growth because Spencer talks with Nathan Hirsch who has been on the podcast before, but today Spencer is totally impressed with Nathan as he is “Mr. Systems and Mr. Processes” he is the SOP king! You’ll learn how to hire great people, the processes for doing...
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Understanding Your Customer LTV - Episode 112
What’s the lifetime value of your customers? Spencer explains it from a Twitter thread from Elizabeth Yin. Episode Highlights What is the lifetime value Retaining customers Lifetime value is your best lever The lifetime value of your customer Understand your metrics Links and Resources...
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2020 Year In Review - Episode 111
It arrived: the 2020 year in review! Spencer dives into some of the most important things that happened during the year for him. Episode Highlights A different year Having Zoom conversations Seeing people grow during these challenging times Time is the most important thing that we have Spend your...
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Become the Buyer of Your Business - Episode 110
Spencer is taking some favorite Twitter threads and some of his favorite blog posts and relaying them to you! This one comes from Andrew Wilkinson: four types of people that buy internet pieces. Think like the buyer and become the buyer of your business. Episode Highlights Become the buyer of…
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SMB Accounting Basics - Episode 109
We are tackling the different SMB questions to grow your business. These are all about accounting basics and this all started from a tweet that Spencer read recently in the Brent Beshore Twitter account. Episode Highlights Do you need to understand accounting to invest? Three things that will…
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Why Your Business Needs Recurring Revenue - Episode 108
Several of the next episodes are shorter podcasts where we will be talking about some of the most important fundamental pieces within business. This podcast is for a specific audience, the world of small and medium business owners, so if you’re a business owner, you should ask yourself why your...
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How to Spot and Avoid Financial Fraud in Your Business - Episode 107
Stephen King of www.GrowthForce.com explains how you can avoid having an employee commit financial fraud against your business. You'll learn the things to be aware of, where it originates, and then how to prevent it. Episode Highlights How to reduce risk Who to trust Reducing the risk of fraud...
About this show
Spencer Shaw interviews business owners about what it takes to run and grow a business. These aren't conversations about raising millions of capital or scaling to become the next billion dollar venture. Our message is for normal, hard working people that want insights to grow their part-time or full time business.
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