Lions Roar

This podcast takes a look at how your business should plan for a catastrophe and some of the steps you can take to help you mitigate a disaster.

Take a look at your business – whether you own one or a leader in one – and all the people that are involved in making it a success. On the face of things each person plays a key role and their individual effort is important. The key differentiating factor between your business surviving or thriving is how well those individuals operate as a team. Everyone, including yourself, must acknowledge and believe that they can only succeed if they help their partners succeed.

Sales it the life of any business. It is what drives the cash-flow for a business. Sales is the face, voice, and primary interaction between businesses and their customers. Successful salespeople pre-call plan, practice, anticipate, and create powerful questions to create great conversations instead of sales presentations. Successful salespeople seek to build lasting relationships and enhance networks for the improvement of all involved. This podcast seeks to give you tips and tools to become a successful salesperson!

Social Media is a fantastic means for businesses to connect with their markets and customers. Like all things in business you must have a plan to be successful. This podcast discussing components for a successful social media plan and how to get started. These items along with other articles can be read here: http://vongehrconsulting.com/Finding-Answers-Blog/category/social-media/ 4ZBJBEAMU3M5

Leadership. It means different things to different people. It is the most sought after trait that employers look for. It is a topic that has countless tomes have been written about it. This podcast discusses fifteen rules each leader must follow to be successful. Peer leadership - one of the toughest forms of leadership to achieve - is given three hints to do it right. Leadership in Social Media… how does one define it? measure it? and execute it successfully? These items along with other articles can be read here: http://vongehrconsulting.com/Finding-Answers-Blog/category/leadership/

The volcano in Iceland will have an impact for months, if not years, on the economies of Europe and Africa. More importantly, the volcano is a great lesson in how the use of social media helped those trapped communicate and find other means of transportation. You business can draw from the lessons learned. Additionally if you are thinking about or already have tinkered with Social Media, it is time you get authentic!

Social media is the buzz these days for businesses both large and small. As a medium it allows, for an investment of time, companies to engage with customers and potential clients. Whole departments are being built and new companies are being founded to help guide messaging into the social media realm. The focus is on listening to the customers, engage with them, and then convert them into a sale, a referral, or a fan. There are lots of ways to build plans to do all of this. Yet, in all of those methods none of them, so far, has addressed the customer experience. What do they expect the experience of the customer to be? Plus, we had bad sales call happen to us. It is so heart breaking when that happens.

There are many articles out there that discuss how to discover a business coach. These articles describe where to find a coach and how to determine which ones are right for you. The articles also tell you what you can expect. Yet there are few that tell you want not to expect, until now. Second part of this episode discusses deposits to your relationship account, what it is, and how to manage it.

Customers want value when they purchase goods or seek out services. Organizations want value for the effort they put forth to get customers. This podcast discusses the four secrets to ideal customer service and how to avoid the activity trap making sure your company is getting value. There is a lot of bad customer service out there. Make an effort to be exceptional and you can sweep up more customers than you can count. Likewise make sure your activities to get customers are measured against a value metric.

No dream is invalid as long as it fills a need. This episode we discuss how Sheila Sale, founder of Rocky Mountain Roots Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine, started in her profession and how she decided to open her own business. She also discusses why she chose a business coach. This is from the Lions Roar Radio on BlogTalkRadio that was broadcast on 11 February 2010.

Your mind has to be free of limitations and sacred cows. You have to free your mind in order to find all the opportunities that are available to you. The Von Gehr Consulting Group business coaches go over how you can free your mind to have exceptional planning sessions.

Many great plans fail at execution because they try to be all things to all people. This results in too many moving parts, complications, and lack of focus on the end result. The reality is that companies that succeed focus on a few things and do them incredibly well. This video discusses that.

Many forms of employee praise come from the top down. This helps with productivity and can bring about a healthy internal competition. Conversely is can lead to employees not sharing best practices and the organization as a whole suffering from its inability to exploit such practices. A peer-to-peer system of praise can foster cross communication, increase productivity, and create a new level of accountability. This presentation discusses how.

Your ideal customer is influenced by your competitors, market forces, and their friends and families. It is one thing that you know who your ideal customer is and another thing to know how they make their decisions. Each of them has a circle of trust that they go to when it comes time to make a decision. Our business coach walks gives you tips on how to identify that circle and become a part of it.

Your Ideal Customer will buy more from you, rave about your services, and refer new customers. If you do not know what they look like, you run the risk of missing them when they walk through your door. In this video our business coach goes over how to brainstorm who your ideal customer is and put that knowledge into practice.

Having a business plan that is long ranging but not updated frequently can blind you to opportunities. Conversely frequently adjusting plans can cause confusion and create chaos in your organization.

A question was posted recently in one of the groups on LinkedIn asking users to define leadership. The definition of leadership always brings up an interesting question, “how does one truly define leadership?” This podcast will not pretend that it knows the complete total answer to the question, instead it proposes that you look deep inside yourself to find the answer to question, “Can you do leadership?”

In this episode we discuss the concept of backwards planning and using the 30 60 90 day planning tool.  When you have a specific date in mind for a goal, the backwards planning tool will help you define your milestones to success and allocate resources with ease.  The 30 60 90 day planning tool is used to keep you on your path.  Both tools are living plans that need to be updated regularly to make sure you are on course.  Each can be written on a 3x5 card.  Understanding the concept is the path to using these tools successfully!

This podcast covers the power of women and content when it comes to social media. Women are movers and shakers in the the social media realm. Their power as marketers and buyers is beyond what is considered traditional marketing. Without valuable content there is no need for anyone to listen to what you have to say. Powerful content drives traffic to websites and makes potential customers want to learn more about you and your services.

This episode we discuss some of the hard data about business coaching. Who, Why, and What to expect when you engage a business coach.

This episode talks about the differences between hosting vs. deployed software solutions. We touch upon some of the results from the ICF Coaching study.

We mention a recent article and a client case study on setting pricing. We touch on three concepts you can use to determine how you price your value and quality.