Carl Gould #70secondCEO

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

Target and Walmart especially have done a really good job.And it's funny, you have that app too? I have that husband mode as well. That's really good, it's getting around. Target and Walmart especially have done a really good job with what is called the last mile.

Amazon str...

Hi, Everyone. Carl Gould, here is your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results.

There was a study done in 1974 by the Sloan School of Business, and they said, “What drives value in a business? And 95% of what drove value 40 and 50 years ago, was the TANGIBLES of the business, its physical assets. Well, let's fast forward to today. A follow-up on those 10,000 compani...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. 

During volatile times, people defer to experts.They listen to experts. Think about this. If you were in a rush to get to the airport, like, oh my God, I've got to get there. It's an hour away, and I have 50 minutes to get there. So you don't want to take a chance, and you or...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. 

 If somebody is a client now, for me, I call every week.  I call, text, follow up, and even if they say, listen Carl, I'm going to be gone for two weeks, let's pick up when I get back. Oh, where are you going? Oh, I'm going to the Amalfi Coast, I'm going on a trip to Italy, ...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. I'm going to ask you a question.

You tell me in the answer of a number, think of a number for a moment based on my question. My question to you is if you were to go out to your clientele right now and set aside the ones that you already have contracts with that where the pric...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. 

 So we want to be obnoxious in our offering for most of us, most of the people in the room.I know in my businesses, it's easier to be the highest higher priced in the niche than the lower priced. That's such a volume game. That one's hard to win.

You might not b...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Your buyers make 70% of their purchasing decision based on your ability to solve their top two problems, okay? For me, it was start date and finish date in contracting.

Why start date? Well, any of you commercial real estate owners know that you get paid on progressive paymen...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

For those of you that either know New Jersey or ever lived in the Northeast or the North, you know that it's a seasonal business. So that's right. In November and October, I was guaranteed I would start on a certain day, even if we got a snowstorm, even if there was a late fr...

Let Your Customers Spend Their Way to The Front Row

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

When you buy something you're passionate about and you spend the premium on it, do you complain about it or do you brag about it? You brag about it.

How many of your clients are bragging that they p...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

Take a moment, write down what are the top five complaints about your industry, maybe not about you as a company, maybe you as a company, but maybe not, but about your industry? So how would you know that? So think of the customer, negative customers review you’ve gotten, or co...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

Your business can operate on one of two planes, the competitive plane where you are literally fighting with all the same people for the same dollar, or the creative plane where you create something new or you perfect something that is existing to the point where people seek y...

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70sec0ndCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

How many of you have hired a contractor who said, if I don't perform, if you perform as the client, but I don't perform as the contractor, you get to keep the whole thing, and I give you all your money back? How many of you have hired contractors that have done that? Buy a show of hands. No hands, do...

Leaders Need to Get Work Done Through Others

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

In order to does through other people that you get done through yourself. I’m saying if I were a coach, you still have to get things done to other people. That's the mark of a leader. Well, how much do other people do ...

The Entrepreneur vs. Employee Mindset

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

So, a main question we’ll ask an owner is, ‘what keeps you up at night?’ Oh my God, and the list is like this long! You know when we ask your team, ‘what keeps you up at night?’ You know what the number one answer is? ‘I slee...

Operations: Streamlined Success or Total Chaos?

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

Here we go, let’s talk about your operations. To what degree are your operations running like a finely tuned machine?

Give yourself a score, one being, ‘it’s a train wreck!’ And 10 being, a ‘finely tune...

Building a Successful Business: Structure Before Systems

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

Now that you have this understanding of what your style is, what function of a business you might gravitate towards or what industry you might resonate with most, what type of business to be in, how do you ...

Muddy Fish or Clean Fish: Understanding Your Business Style

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Our topic today is -  Are you a Muddy Fish or are you a Clean Fish? I wonder.  

1. So, a muddy fish. Are you the kind of person that is fast-paced and ...

Goals to Greatness: Mapping Your Path to Success

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

 Now let's do our goal setting. Very simply, what do we hope to achieve as a business? And as an employee or individual within that business in the following timeframes? In the next 24 hours, what do I hope to achi...