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Sometimes the words other people associate with you are different from what you think. To attract your ideal clients, it's important to know your audience's interpretation of your reputation. Are you aware of how your audience describes you? Your very own Sales Maven, Nikki Rausch, is here to offer tips, techniques, and strategies to master your sales conversations. Discover methods to place yourself in the position to thrive in business and produce true value for your audience. Today, learn about customer-centric marketing and attracting your ideal clients during this Sales Success Story on this episode of the Sales Maven Show. Jen Hope is an accomplished leadership coach with over a decade of experience in helping entrepreneurs and tech leaders thrive. With a background in high-growth marketing and extensive knowledge in executive coaching, she has built a reputation as one of Seattle's best business coaches. Her client list includes companies like Tenable, Amazon, Uplevel, DocuSign, Avalara, Compass, Simple Bank, Trupanion, and TomboyX. In today's episode, Nikki and Jen talk about understanding your authentic leadership brand. Jen shares how her process using data research around human behavior looks at a leader's reputation and impact to improve future operations. Listen as Nikki and Jen talk about ways to research reputation, reasons why being skilled doesn't mean someone is a great leader, and tips to rethink your brand. Nikki invites you to join the Sales Maven Society, don't miss this opportunity for you and Nikki to work together. Bring your questions, concerns, sales challenges, and she provides answers and guidance to boost your confidence. Join the Sales Maven Society here, click add to cart, and then checkout and use coupon code: 47trial to get your first month for $47.00! In This Episode: [00:27] - Welcome, and thank you for listening! [00:45] - Jen Hope helps you understand your authentic leadership brand. [03:37] - How do leaders figure out when to focus on their brand? [05:41] - Having good skills doesn't mean that someone's meant to be a leader. [08:18] - What's the difference between identifying as a leader and identifying as a manager? [10:55] - Vision is part of achieving. [12:55] - Jen says Nikki inspired her to leverage data to articulate her own brand. [14:56] - Are you aware of how your audience describes you? [16:46] - Nikki and Jen recall a memorable strategy session they both benefited from. [19:16] - Jen appreciated the timely responses and community in the Sales Maven Society. [21:17] - Thank you for listening. Nikki is so grateful you are here! Find Nikki: Nikki Rausch nikki@yoursalesmaven.com @yoursalesmaven Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram Sales Maven Society To download free Resources from Nikki: www.yoursalesmaven.com/maven Find Jen: Jen Hope Instagram
“Be kind to yourself by starting with little baby steps and it will build overtime.” Jen Hope By being empathetic and being kind to self, leaders gain the ability to demonstrate similar empathy towards other people. This is according to our guest today, Jen Hope, who says that leaders need to take the much needed pauses to reflect on their actions and what it means to their productivity and performance. Jen Hope is a Business and Executive Leadership Coach who leans on more than 20 years of executive experience, business acumen, and empathy to create a safe coaching environment where leaders can grow and thrive. Before launching her executive coaching practice in 2013, Jen held marketing leadership roles at B2C tech companies. As Head of Marketing, she led the Cheezburger humor network through stages of rapid growth. At Trover, a lifestyle travel app, Jen was Vice President of Marketing and engineered the rise of the brand from startup to acquisition by Expedia in 2015. Jen has a degree in Marketing from Arizona State University and is a GXCP USA Executive and Leadership Coach. Jen partners with leaders responsible for scaling organizations and has a wealth of experience in growing start-up companies. Her business acumen and hands-on executive experience allow her to create a culture of courage in high-performance environments, hone leadership skills and empower the next generation of leaders to maximize business outcomes. Jen has experience in growth marketing and is an expert at scaling businesses. She keeps coaching clients and teams moving forward with clarity, focus, humor and structure built on trust and positivity. Her clients include leaders and managers from Amazon, Trupanion, and Simple Bank. In addition to coaching, she is a workshop facilitator and speaker for organizations like Microsoft, F5, Moss Adams and Infoblox, as well as conferences like Seattle Startup Week and the Women in Tech Regatta. In today's episode, Jen will be discussing the importance of business leaders balancing work and their personal lives. She will also highlight the factors that have enabled her to grow and achieve her business success. Listen in! Social Media Website: https://heyjenhope.com/ Contact Info: jenniferhopekellum@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coachjenhope/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heyjenhope LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heyjenhope/ My business is one that started from wanting to live in a world where we had more kindness and then understanding that it starts from self. [3:28] One of the outcomes of our work is empathy. [3:53] I come from the world of digital marketing with a experience of 20 years as a marketing leader. [4:06] The other thing that I talk about a lot, and what is at the center of my business is skill building that we can all use to be more effective and more aware. [7:22] We can create that kindness for ourselves by taking care and managing ourselves. [8:08] How do we get to the place where we can pause and move on to do something that's more effective. [13:05] We need to identify the planning that we can do around the pauses so as to be able to have some more flow in that versus this kind of jerky stop-start. [14:55] Commercial break. [18:06] One of the biggest things I have learnt is managing my expectations, and even being aware of them. [21:27] Coming from the world of being a marketer working with many parts of organizations, as well as having lots of resources, managing my expectations aided me when I became my own entrepreneur. [22:08] I called myself a recovering perfectionist because I really had to reset my expectations and embrace some of the challenge. [23:15] To help my clients, I use some data such as assessments that have been used studying human behavior for hundreds of years. [25:55] Because we start with behavior, it makes it easy to get comfortable with some of the vulnerability of looking inward. [26:25] It's never about getting in and poking holes or jabbing, but rather about holding up the mirror and observing with tiny bits of tenderness. [28:00] Judging ourselves into behavior change never really works. [28:42] Be kind to yourself by starting with little baby steps and it will build overtime. [30:29] ………………………………………………… Thank you to our January Sponsor: www.businessmiracles.com or Heather Dominick Are you a highly sensitive individual? You can learn to be in charge of yourself physically, spiritually and financially in a way that honors your highly sensitive self. Heather Dominic is the founder of Business miracles.com. and she's been training highly sensitive entrepreneurs and leaders since 2010. 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In this episode I interview Shamir Karkal, Founder and CEO of Sila, a Banking and Payments API platform, leveraging blockchain technology and issuing its own stablecoin, backed ot the US Dollar, to make the transfer of money quick and easy. Shamir has spent the majority of his career across different areas of the banking sector, from consulting and McKinsey, founding Simple Bank, being acquired by BBVA, and launching Sila. Shamir shares some history on the banking system and digital money, how we send money and payments, the recent downturn in the economic markets, what this means for the banking sector, and how COVID-19 has impacted the economy and timeline for recovery. This conversation was timely for today’s current economic state, with lessons that will live on.
Shamir is a software engineer from India who moved to the U.S. and pursued financial technology and banking. He founded Simple Bank, which sold to BBVA for $117 million. Before Simple, Shamir was a consultant with McKinsey & Co. where he focused on strategy consulting for financial institutions in Europe, the Middle East, and the […] The post #5 Shamir Karkal appeared first on Cryptographic Asset.
Why I don't use the cash envelope system and how I use the Cashapp card + Simple Bank. Huge shout out to IG accounts: @accordingtomycalculation and @mywealthdiary!
On today’s episode, I’m sharing everything you need to know about high-yield savings accounts: the good, the bad, and why you NEED to have one. High-yield savings accounts typically pay a higher interest rate than traditional savings accounts and almost ALWAYS offer better returns than checking accounts… but that doesn’t mean that they don’t have some drawbacks! Also, I wanted to send a big thank you to everyone who has been listening to I Don’t Do Budgets so far! We hit a big milestone that I discuss in today’s episode. Be sure to review the show on iTunes and tag me on Instagram if you enjoyed it! Accounts Mentioned: Marcus by Goldman Sachs (2.25%) Ally Bank (2.20%) Simple Bank (2.02%) Synchrony Bank (2.25%) American Express (2.10%) Discover (2.0%) Social Media Info: I Don’t Do Budgets IG: @idontdobudgets Email: hi@idontdobudgets.com Website: www.idontdobudgets.com Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/idontdobudgets/ #IDontDoBudgets #IDDB
It's already the second quarter of 2019 - I hope you haven't fallen off your goals already! But if you have, don't worry - there's still time to get back on the proverbial horse. In this episode, I share my progress with my goals + what I'm working on now. Mentioned in this episode: Simple Bank: simple.com Stash Invest: https://get.stashinvest.com/courtneu5ftj The Surrendered Wife: https://amzn.to/2GrUdQ4 Keep Your Love On: https://amzn.to/2Xgfu4Y "That Girl": https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_x_rBKngtFHQeuMXYvpSgDuXgoyLNFuYUgNaZXHUtew/edit?usp=sharing Related Episodes: Better Than Goals: How to Really Succeed in the New Year and Beyond: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/049-better-than-goals-how-to-really-succeed-in-new/id1264659520?i=1000426927105&mt=2 Ballin' On a Budget: How to Build Wealth on a Small Salary: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/051-ballin-on-budget-how-to-build-wealth-on-small-salary/id1264659520?i=1000427768646 Divine Downloads: How to Hear From God: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/048-divine-downloads-how-to-hear-from-god/id1264659520?i=1000423777576 Bad Business Advice I No Longer Follow: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/056-bad-business-advice-i-no-longer-follow/id1264659520?i=1000431621665 *** Looking for a supportive community of women who are all about building a big yet *balanced* life? If so, join my private community, The More Than One Club (your first 14 days are free!): http://morethanoneclub.com Follow me on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/courtneylsanders/
Our hosts Simon and Jason are joined by three great guests: Joost Lobbes, Product Manager at Rabo Bank, and Diana Paredes, CEO of Suade Labs. First up, CYBG cans Virgin Money deal with Anthony Jenkins startup. The new owner of Virgin Money has canned a long-term deal with a digital banking start-up launched by Anthony Jenkins, the former Barclays chief executive. Not entirely unexpected, since David Duffy, CYBG's chief executive, had hinted since securing a £1.6bn deal to buy the bank that it was likely to use its own technology platform. Confirmation that CYBG is ditching the 10x deal may deal a blow to Mr Jenkins, who has been in talks with investors for several months about a substantial new funding round for his venture. Virgin Money is understood to have committed tens of millions of pounds to creating a digital platform with 10x's support, and CYBG's decision to terminate the deal is likely to trigger a sizeable payment to 10x. Fintech startup Revolut is in talks to raise $500M from Softbank. Several sources have told City A.M. that the deal is set to close early next year, as Revolut tries to launch its banking app in the US, one of fintech’s most notoriously hard to crack markets. Comes less than seven months since Revolut closed its last funding round at $250m, which valued the London startup at $1.7bn as a so-called unicorn company. Not known if previous backers such as Index Ventures, Draper Esprit and DST Global will sign on to this round. Softbank said earlier this year that it was looking to deploy around $200m into fintech from its $100bn Vision Fund, and was reported by Sky News to have explored a similar investment in UK challenger bank Oaknorth. We spoke to Emily Nicolle, the author of this article for City AM to give us her thoughts on this story. Digital bank Starling to roost on the high street. Digital bank Starling is heading to the high street, announcing a tie-up that will enable its personal and business customers to withdraw and deposit cash over the counter at all 11,500 Post Office branches nationwide. Despite falling cash use across the UK, the app-only challenger bank said it was responding to customer needs. “Our customers still want to pay in cash and take money out,” said Julian Sawyer, head of banking services at Starling Bank. “The Post Office has more outlets than all the other banks combined, so it became a very obvious channel to link up with.” The digital bank’s move to the high street comes as larger banks shift customers online, closing hundreds of high street bank branches and free-to-use cash machines in the process. We caught up with Megan Caywood at Xerocon yesterday to tell us more about this announcement and what it means for their users. Simple attracts Amazon exec as new CEO. US neo bank Simple has named a former Amazon executive as its new CEO, in a rare example of talent returning from Big Tech to the banking industry We interviewed the Co-Founder of Simple Bank, Shamir Karkal in ep. 254. David Hijirida moved from Washington Mutual to help build Amazon’s online payments business in 2007 before acting as a director of AWS. Hijirida takes over from Dickson Chu who was working as the interim chief executive of the bank after founding CEO Josh Reich who quit in May. Fluidly raises £5M in Series A Funding. Fluidly is an applied AI business that combines machine learning and financial modelling to automate the forecasting and management of cashflow for SMEs. The £5m Series A funding round was led by New York-based fintech investor Nyca Partners. Existing investors Octopus Ventures, Anthemis and tech angels including Simon Murdoch and Charlie Songhurst also participated in the latest financing round. We caught up with Fluidly CEO Caroline Plumb at Xerocon yesterday, to find out more about what this money will be used for. Alibaba sets new Singles Day record with more than $30.8BN in sales in 24 hours. Alibaba smashed through its Singles Day sales record on Sunday. The gross merchandise value (GMV) hit over $30.8 billion in sales in the 24-hour shopping event. That topped the $25.3 billion record set in 2017. Singles Day got off to a strong start with sales hitting $1 billion in one minute and 25 seconds. BofA faces trademark suit over Erica chatbot. Bank of America has been sued by a man over the use of the name "Erica" for its in-app AI-powered virtual assistant chatbot. Rolled out to BofA's millions of customers over the summer, Erica helps users with a host of simple transactions such as money transfers and balance enquiries. Erik Underwood registered his own virtual assistant, called E.R.I.C.A (electronic repetitious informational clone application) in Georgia in October 2010. PFM app Fintonic to fund interest-free deferred payments at Amazon. Financial management app Fintonic is collaborating with Amazon to provide Spanish clients with the option to fund interest fee purchases at the e-commerce store. Under the agreement, Fintonic's 500,000 Spanish users will be able to defer payments ranging between €200 and €1,000 for up to four months. Marketed as taking 3 minutes and users are given a reusable gift card for Amazon.es that lasts up to 10 years max PayPal bans Tommy Robinson from its platform. PayPal has told the former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon it will no longer process payments on his behalf. The online payments system said its services cannot be used to "promote hate, violence, or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory". Online petitions calling for companies like PayPal to stop processing his payments have gained thousands of signatures. All this and so much more on today's episode of Fintech Insider! Subscribe so you never miss an episode, leave a review on iTunes and every other podcast app. Spread the fintech love by sharing or tweeting this podcast. Let us know your thoughts @FintechInsiders and join the discussion by signing up at www.fintechinsidernews.com This week's episode was produced by Laura Watkins, written by Dhanum Nursigadoo and edited by Alex Woodhouse. Special Guests: Caroline Plumb, Diana Paredes, Emily Nicolle, Joost Lobbes, and Megan Caywood.
Our hosts, Simon Taylor and Ross Gallagher are joined by two great guests: Bill Gajda, Head of Global Strategic Partnerships at Visa and Dr Sian Lewin, The Reg Doctor. First up, Gambling Blockers aren’t just a gimmick. Monzo and Starling’s gambling blockers have gained praise in the BBC for helping addicts kick the habit. More than 25,000 customers have signed up to Monzo’s block since it went live in June. "Not all of those were problem gamblers [but] about 8,000 people did have a history of gambling," says Mr Blomfield. We have a great interview with Simon Vans-Colina, Engineer at Monzo to hear more. ‘Starling is now the Amazon of banking. Come get an account’. Telegraph article gives an overview of Starling and Anne Boden’s achievements, and clearly followed her about for the period of time where she was pitching to billionaires for funding. Somehow this leads onto a discussion of their marketplace APIs and how this makes them akin to Amazon in the banking world. This is a VERY flashy headline, but is there substance to it? Funding Circle’s shares plummet as they float. Share prices fell by a quarter on their first full day of trading. The flotation valued the company at £1.5bn but by the end of Wednesday its market valued had fallen to £1.25bn. The collapse wiped millions from the paper fortunes of the company’s three founders, who owned 17% of the firm. Klarna raises $20M from H&M, will build financing and payment services for the fashion retailer. H&M invests $20M in Klarna to build an “omni-channel” payments service across both physical and online store fronts. Klarna says the deal will cover “frictionless” in-store, mobile and online payments across the company’s whole footprint, a better delivery and return process, and more flexible payment options, including “try before you buy” pay later services, to be delivered through H&M’s app and its Club loyalty program. We have an illuminating interview with Aoife Houlihan, VP Communications and Public Policy at Klaran to learn more. I spent 53 minutes in Amazon Go and saw the future of retail. There are no cashiers, cash registers, or even self-service checkout stands. You simply walk in, grab what you need, and go. Amazon bills your credit card as you pass through the turnstile on your way out. Moments later, an app in your phone provides a receipt detailing what you've bought, what you paid, and even how long you spent inside. Ireland vs Google on data breaches. At least two U.S. states and two European Union member states are investigating a breach at Alphabet Inc’s Google that may have exposed private profile data of at least 500,000 users to hundreds of external developers. The investigations follow Google’s announcement on Monday that it would shut down the consumer version of its social network Google+ and tighten its data-sharing policies after a “bug” potentially exposed user data that included names, email addresses, occupations, genders and ages. £9bn pulled from UK company funds since Brexit vote. According to figures from the Investment Association, retail investors have pulled large sums from UK equity funds on a monthly basis since the vote in June 2016. Figures for August 2018 also show the first net loss of investment, on aggregate, across all funds available for sale in the UK since the referendum, including those invested overseas. Investors pulled £217m from UK authorised funds over the month. Got £20 a month to spare? Santander has a robo-advisor just for you. The bank's Digital Investment Adviser (DIA) guides people through straightforward questions about their current financial position, what they want to achieve and assess the level of risk they are prepared to take with their money. Customers can choose to select specific long-term investment goals, such as paying for a child’s wedding or a property. Sila - the new venture from the creator of Simple Bank. Shamir Karkal, Co-founder of Simple, is the CEO of newly created Sila, whose mission is to “empower developers by providing open-source infrastructure for the fintech companies of tomorrow” What they are: an API platform and suite of developer tools supported by a new regulatory-compliant, fiat-backed tokenized means of exchange — the Sila Token — that allows developers to rapidly build fintech applications and bring them to market. And finally, In top hat and tails, Spanish debt agents prosper. “El Cobrador del Frac”, the name of a company which specializes in sending men dressed like extras from a 1930s Fred Astaire movie to humiliate debtors into paying up. Its business is booming. All this and so much more on today's episode of Fintech Insider! Subscribe so you never miss an episode, leave a review on iTunes and every other podcast app. Spread the fintech love by sharing or tweeting this podcast. Let us know your thoughts @FintechInsiders and join the discussion by signing up at www.fintechinsidernews.com This week's episode was written and produced by Laura Watkins. Edited by Michael Bailey. Special Guests: Aoife Houlihan, Bill Gajda, Sian Lewin, and Simon Vans-Colina.
Shamir Karkal is Co-Founder of Simple Bank, he was the CFO during his time there and is now the CEO and Co-Founder of Sila. Sarah and Shamir talk about the genesis of Simple Bank and how it developed into a unique banking proposition that delivers a minimum loveable product. They also talk about the journey that Simple had to navigate in order to achieve its success and how frustration with an issue no-one else was paying attention to led to a successful business. We hope you enjoyed the show! Don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode, and follow Fintech Insider on Twitter or Facebook. If you really loved it, please leave us a review, we love reading them! This episode was produced by Laura Watkins and edited by Michael Bailey. Special Guest: Shamir Karkal.
In this 2 Minute Tip, we'll look at the importance of having a separate bank account for your speaking or performing business. Even if you're just starting out—it's good to start out right. There are some easy, online options for setting up a bank account, too. Check out Simple Bank it's a great, and simple way to organize your business. You can also check with your current bank about opening another checking on savings accounts. Be careful, though. If you want to open a business account—you'll have to have the official documents, licenses, and more. This can be a crazy road to go down. And, someday, you'll need to do it. Maybe that day is today. Always get the advice of a CPA when it comes to this stuff. You'll be glad you did. Thanks so much for listening! Please subscribe and review on iTunes. Also, you are looking for ways to get more bookings, you should most definitely check out The Quick Course On Booking Yourself. You can get the first lesson, free, here. Two Minute Tips are recorded by me, Scott Humston, and are copyright ©2018 by NDE, Inc. For more information on what I do, check out scotthumston.com and follow me on Twitter or Instagram @scotthumston and my hashtag is #sharewonder Here's To Your Success!
On this episode Jim discusses why he believes that Bitcoin it poised for a major spike in value, the coming Bitcoin ETF, and the surge of interest in the digital currency. Also, a new bank that has no fees, how to get free airfare to China, Snapchat's $22 billion dollar IPO valuation, and 11 more retailers reportedly on the brink of insolvency.
Mr. Joshua Reich has done the impossible, or nearly impossible when he started the app based bank, Simple Bank. Joshua speaks with me about his journey with the starting point being in Australia and his journey from Brooklyn to Portland to disrupting the Commercial Banking industry.
Marty Ward known as the Kiss Procrastination Goodbye Expert. She is a straight-forward, no-holds-barred, innovative Personal Success Coach and noted author of Get Clear Get Confident Get Going. Clients describe Marty's coaching as “miraculous” and “extraordinary.” In just one session, many transformed long held beliefs into empowered action that turned their businesses around, saved families thousands, went from procrastination and no sales in months to doubling their number of clients and increasing business by 20% in a week Alicia Caswell through coaching, training, speaking, and writing, she helps individuals and teams Be Their Best Success in their lives, work, or business. A certified and credentialed Coach, Alicia specializes in leadership and transition. No matter what goal you are trying to reach or challenge you are trying to overcome, you truly CAN accomplish amazing things and that's what Alicia helps her clients do Ann Michael Dorgan CEO of GumballEnterprises, a leadership development company where making the serious business of leadership is fun. For the last 10 years Gumball has served Fortune 500 companies, non-profit, government and start-ups world-wide. Some of the esteemed organization she and her teams have served in the last two years alone are General Electric, Juno Theraputics, Whitepages, Microsoft, Amazon, SIMPLE Bank, and Electronic Arts