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Brick and mortar retail is taking a huge hit right now. We are all trying our best to adjust and weather the storm. In the midst of this crisis there is still room for hope, connections, and there is an opportunity to serve like never before. All of this of course requires decisive and consistent action and to help motivate as we take those actions we are hearing from the worlds leading expert on brick and mortar retail, Retail Doctor himself, Bob Phibbs! Bob Phibbs has helped thousands of businesses in hospitality, manufacturing, service, restaurant and retail since 1994. His clients have ranged from multi-national luxury brands to small businesses. With over 30 years of experience beginning in the trenches and extending to senior management positions, Phibbs has been a corporate officer, franchisor and entrepreneur. A frequent guest on MSNBC's Your Business, he and his work have been featured in Entrepreneur magazine, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. In addition, Phibbs provides business makeovers for the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of three books including "The Retail Doctors Guide to Growing your Business" Today he is going to be sharing with us some straight talk on taking actions to not just get through this hard time but to thrive, connect, serve, and be prepared for what comes after this has passed. I think Bob has some incredible insights here and hope you put them into practice in your business. We will be discussing: The opportunities of this moment Believing the best as an owner Power of "Yes, and" Modeling confidence "How" vs "Why me" Optimizing with Hospitality Being brilliant on the basics Serve now you can sell later Links: www.retaildoc.com Tell me Something Good About Retail Podcast Earl Nightingale, "The Strangest Secret" Related Episodes The Future of Retail w/ Doug Stephens 10 Reasons to Love the Customer Raising the Bar on your Customer Experience w/ Michael Butterworth 30: Matching your Service to your Quality w/ Casey Underkofler The BEST in commercial coffee equipment www.prima-coffee.com/keys Want the best plant based beverage for your coffee drinks? www.pacificfoods.com/food-service
Sherry Bonelli, owner of early bird digital marketing, is a digital marketing industry expert with 20 years’ experience. She is a columnist for leading digital marketing websites like Search Engine Land, MOZ, SEMrush, BrightLocal, SCORE and others. She received Search Engine Land’s 2018 SEO Contributor of the Year Award, and her local search engine optimization blog posts are among the most shared and read online. For two years in a row her blog posts were among the top 10 most read articles on Search Engine Land’s website. She is a recognized speaker, presenting at leading digital marketing events, webinars and podcasts like Traffic & Conversion Summit, MozPod, Edge of the Web, SCORE, SEMrush, The Local Business Leaders Podcast, Local Marketing Institute and others. She has appeared on the TODAY Show, CNN, ABC News, has been interviewed by JJ Ramber for MSNBC's Your Business show, among other media outlets. Sherry also holds a Master of Internet Marketing. Sherry is also a SCORE Mentor for the East Central Iowa chapter in Cedar Rapids, IA. One of her SCORE clients won a national award thanks to Sherry’s digital marketing advice. You can find out more information by visiting https://earlybirddigitalmarketing.com.
Retail is evolving — gone are the days when a company needed was a good product or service. Now they need to create an experience, a brand and a community. To learn about how the most successful entrepreneurs do this, we talk to JJ Ramberg, the host of MSNBC's “Your Business” and the Been There. Built That. podcast. Learn more at retailgetsreal.com.
If you’ve ever wondered what advisory board members are, how to tell when you need them, or where to find them, you’re in the right spot. You should also stick around if you’re looking for tips and tricks on how to get your startup noticed -- straight from an angel investor focused on women entrepreneurs. Today’s guest is Alicia Syrett, founder of Point 25 Initiative, a mentorship program for women entrepreneurs seeking advisory board members. She is also the founder and CEO of Pantegrion Capital, an angel investment vehicle focused on seed and early stage investments. Alicia and I have worked together on CNBC’s Power Pitch, and have bonded over our mutual passion for helping women entrepreneurs. She's also been on MSNBC's Your Business, is a contributor for Inc. magazine, and an instructor for Steve Blank's Lean LaunchPad course at Columbia University. Notable Moments: Learn what to do if you’re not sure if you’ll need investor dollars or not. Find out how to look at advising as a career path. Hear Alicia’s story and how she returned to the “dynamic” energy of a startup. Listen as Alicia identifies the trap a lot of startups fall into when looking for investors. Find out what the vast majority of companies spend too much time on (and what they should be focusing on). Links Mentioned In This Episode: *this post may contain affiliate links...for more info, please see my full disclosure* Angel Financing for Entrepreneurs: Early-Stage Funding for Long-Term Success by Susan Preston Point 25 Initiative Alicia Syrett on Social Media: Twitter | LinkedIn
JJ Ramberg is a founder of Goodshop. She's also the host of the program Your Business on MSNBC and bestselling author of It's Your Business. JJ is also the host of the podcast Been There. Built That, the show features in-depth interviews with successful founders, CEO’s and decision makers about the challenges and triumphs of building and growing a business and answers questions like how to turn a no into a yes and how to pivot in a crisis. itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/been-there-built-that/id1319500545?mt=2 The Inventors Launchpad – Roadmap to Success Series is presented by Inventors Launchpad in beautiful Tampa Bay, FL and hosted by Carmine Denisco. Carmine is an accomplished Author, Entrepreneur, Inventor and Co-founder/Managing Partner of Inventors Launchpad. Along with his business partner Rick Valderrama has changed the face of the invention industry and look forward to helping inventors from all over the world move their ideas forward. For more information please visit www.inventorslaunchpad.com
An in-depth conversation with JJ Ramberg, host of msnbc’s “Your Business”, a television show dedicated to the issues affecting small business owners. JJ Ramberg is the host of msnbc’s “Your Business,” the only television show dedicated to issues affecting small business owners and co-author of It’s Your Business: 183 Essential Tips that Will Transform Your Small Business, available October 16th. Now in its seventh season, the program has profiled hundreds of small business owners and offered advice from countless small business experts and investors. In addition, Your Business guests have included Senate and House Small Business Committee members, the head of the Small Business Administration, and members of the Cabinet. As a leader in this field, Ramberg has been called upon to moderate town halls, including one during Washington D.C.’s Small Business Week. Ramberg is a regular contributor to the TODAY Show on small business and financial issues. She is also msnbc’s small business expert and occasional on-air anchor. In addition, she is a financial columnist for Cookie Magazine, Conde Nast’s parenting magazine. She has also written columns on social entrepreneurship for Entrepreneur Magazine. Sponsored by Drexel University’s Rudman Institute for Entertainment Industry Studies, LeBow College of Business, Close School of Entrepreneurship and the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design.
Rieva Lesonsky is CEO of GrowBiz Media, a content and consulting company specializing in covering small businesses and entrepreneurship. Before co-founding GrowBiz Media, Lesonsky was Editorial Director of Entrepreneur Magazine. A nationally known speaker and authority on entrepreneurship, Rieva has been covering America's entrepreneurs for more than 26 years. Lesonsky has appeared on hundreds of radio shows and numerous local and national television programs, including the Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, Fox Business News, The Martha Stewart show and Oprah and can regularly be seen on MSNBC's Your Business. Lesonsky wrote the bestselling book Start Your Own Business, currently in its 4th edition, and has co-authored several other books about small business and entrepreneurship. Many organizations have recognized Lesonsky for her tireless devotion to helping entrepreneurs. She served on the Small Business Administration’s National Advisory Council for six years, and was honored by the SBA as a Small Business Media Advocate and a Woman in Business Advocate. The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization honored her for helping drive "the entrepreneurial revolution in secondary education." The ASBDC awarded her a “Champion of Small Business” award.