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Direct Sales - 5 Advantages

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Sealing the Deal & Adding Value (Contract Creation)

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A System For Getting to YES!!!

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Killer Quotes = Closed Sales

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7 Steps to a Killer Sales Presentation

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Killer Sales Presentation = More Sales!

7

Sales Presentation 101

8

Don’t Keep Grinding Alone

9

How to Say No to a Job… and the One Exception

10

Million Dollar Script - Qualifying Customers

11

New Series Begins & Happy 4th!

12

The Easiest Way to Grow Profit

13

Daily Dollar Demand Part 3: From Theory to Implementation

14

Hug 'em if you got 'em!

15

Stop, Just Stop! (Then Pause and Reflect 😊)

16

Scheduling Profit not Square Feet

17

Was Your Stone Shop Profitable Today?

18

Never a Good Time to Leave

19

Top 10 Coaches in the World: Interview With Michael Bungay Stanier

20

Why Your Shop Is Busy But Not Profitable – Ed Young on The Goal

21

Toxic Employees - Remove Them Like a Sliver!

22

Why Delegating is so Hard - The Neuroscience of Delegation

23

Gap, Trap, Map

24

Who is Deming? And Why We Need To Know

25

Interview - Co-hosts of the Stone Chatter Podcast

26

Part 2 - Full Self-Driving Stone Shop

27

Full Self Driving - Stone Shop Mode

28

Keep Grinding

29

The Fab Lab Is Back!

30

A Bit More History

31

Banking Crisis Protection - Stone Shop Owner Edition

32

The Best Business Model in the World!

33

5 Reasons a Side-Hustle Makes Sense

34

A Bit of History

35

A Riff on an IDEA That Would Make the Stone Business Less Hard!

36

The Stone Business is HARD, Here’s What to Do About It

37

Why Is This Business So $#@! HARD?!?!?!?!?!?!

38

5 Best Gifts For Stonecutters (AKA Your Employees)

39

3 Tips to Getting Paid - Economic Storm Series - Collections and Receivables Strategy

40

Storm Tactics - 3 Part Plan for Preparing for an Economic Storm

41

3 Massive Mistakes I Made During the Great Recession - Economic Storm Stories - Pt 1

42

The Neuroscience of Gratitude (Happy Thanksgiving 2022!)

43

The 1000 Pound Problem – The Risk and Reality of Full Slab Islands

44

The MILLION Pound Problem & The Effects

45

Interview – NSI’s Mark Meriaux on OSHA and Silicosis

46

Near Misses and Close Calls – It’s a Dangerous Business

47

Friends in low places

48

Dream Small

49

The 6 Stages (AKA the 6 D’s)

50

Part 2 – Simple Path to Taking Time Off (Without Interruptions!!!)

51

The Simple Path To Taking Time Off (Freedom Today Instead of Later)

52

Freedom Now or “Maybe” Later – Blowing Up Conventional Wisdom

53

#1 Danger in Delegating – Giving Up (Not Letting Go)

54

Remind, Insist, Demand – Real World Implementation of the PROcess

55

Trust the People – Trust the Process

56

Turn Stress into Strength!

57

What’s the best solution? - Guest Host Ed Young

58

Guest Host Ed Young - Interview with Gina Gardner

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What’s the Octane of Your Business? - Guest Host Ed Young

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How to Close More Biz Doing Fewer Quotes

61

Beat Your Competition to the Punch – 3 Simple Steps to Turn Existing Quotes into MORE Sales!

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How to double your profits without adding another job (or grinding your suppliers or buying more equipment)!

63

Interview – Pricing Your Work with Ed Young – Fabricator Coach

64

Redlined to Relaxed (Are you redlined? Pt 2)

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Are you Redlined? – Pt 1

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Your Business – Engine For Wealth Creation

67

Shrink and Grow Rich

68

Leading Indicators and Crystal Balls

69

Interview – Economist Eric Post of ITR Economics

70

Costly Mistakes - Reaction vs Response

71

Interview – All Slab Fabber Founder – Chris Hildebrand

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A Tale of Two Owners

73

Interview – Slippery Rock Gazette Editor - Larry Hood

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Mindset for Mistake Management

75

Reducing Costly Mistakes

76

The Psychology of Selling a Stone Shop

77

How I Sold My Stone Shop

78

I Sold My Stone Shop and Why

79

The Fab Lab is Back! Update and New Season Teaser

80

Sacred cows make the best burgers. - Guest Host Ed Young

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Part 2 -Interview with Ed Young - FabricatorsCoach.com

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Part 1 -Interview with Ed Young - FabricatorsCoach.com

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How to Help Your Employees!

84

Defining YOUR Success

85

Big Risks If It's Not Written Down

86

My First Week in the Stone Business

87

How to Know What you Want and Get It!

88

Interview on Marketing with Lorenzo Marquez of the Marqet Group.

89

Can Should Must

90

Is your stone shop a means or the end?

91

Interview with Rick Stimac

92

Origin of Results

93

Interview with Michael Bungay Stanier

94

Episode 100! Interview with EMyth Coach Steve Edkins

95

Interview Update with financial analyst Taylor St. Germain of ITR Economics.

96

3 Challenges with Fixed Turn Around From Template to Install

97

The Rhythm of All Rhythms

98

Why Routines, Rhythms, and Patterns are Essential to Business Success

99

Interview with Aaron Crowley

100

Economic Forecast with Taylor St. Germain