Employer Blueprint Podcast

The Formula for Small Business Success w Alison Vidotto

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Have you ever wish there was a formula to help you succeed in business? There are many statistics out there that talk about when and why businesses fail.  It’s been said that 50% of businesses will fail in the first five years, and 70% in the first 10 years, and many business owners try hard not to land in one of those statistics. Today’s guest on The Employer Blueprint Podcast has created a 6 step process to avoid being one of those statistics. In this episode Kyle and Allison Vidotto break down a couple of the six areas, and really dive in to how Alison helps Small Businesses avoid these pitfalls. 

According to her website https://pushbusinesstraining.com, Alison has a goal to help other small business owners to have long term success through business training and mentoring offered by her companies, Vidotto Group and Push! Training, where she is the CEO. Alison Vidotto is a business trainer and mentor, published author, professional speaker, and the founder of the Australian Charity for the Children of Vietnam. On January 21st 2020, Alison will offer a free training webinar that will cover Small Business success strategies, and you can join that webinar by visiting the website above and clicking the pop up link for the free webinar. 

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Re-Defining Your Brand with CEO of Your Brand by Design, Amber Griffiths

This weeks guest is Branding Strategist, Speaker, Branding Rock Star, and CEO of Your Brand by Design, Amber Griffiths. According to Amber’s LinkedIn page, Your Brand by Design was launched in 2007 in order to help entrepreneurs convey their message through their own unique voice. Your Brand by Design seeks to attract clients to businesses by allowing it to be authentic to the business owner, and strives to help business owners create a RockStar Brand. 

Amber graduated from Southern Utah University with a bachelors degree in Marketing, Public Relations, and Interpersonal Communications. After spending seven years as the VP of Marketing for Prudential Utah Real Estate, Amber founded Your Brand by Design in 2007. 

”The reason your business is different is because you are your business.” ~ Amber Griffiths.

you can find more information and connect with Your Brand by Design and Amber Griffiths at http://www.yourbrandbydesign.com. 

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Kyle Gorman with a Special Happy Holidays Message and a Free Gift!

Thanks for turning into this weeks episode of the Employer Blueprint Podcast. In the short episode Kyle would like take the opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We appreciate everyone of you who tune in to the podcast every week, and we hope that you find value in each and every episode. In this episode Kyle also announces a free giveaway. By going to https://www.ebinfluencers.com/greatleaders you will be able to download the free PDF titled “The Four Principals to Great Leadership”. This guide will help you discover how great leaders are successful at leading, developing, and retaining high performing teams while also creating loyalty amongst their teams. Along with the download you will also receive a coupon code that will allow you to be a part of the Influencers Academy at 75% off the normal price. Thanks again to our listeners and if there are any topics you want covered on the podcast or through a video seen on LinkedIn or Facebook in 2020, please feel free to reach out! 

The Value of Networking w. SJ Barakony

This week on the Employer Blueprint Podcast, we will be talking with SJ Barakony about the power of networking in our business. We have all been through it, there are 1 million different networking events available. Some are formal and others are informal. Often networking meetings are available to those that sign up as members for a fee, and others are community driven by way of a non profit or local chamber. For some people, the idea of attending an event where they are able to work a room and meet new people is a dream come true. This is the situation for an obvious extravert, however the opposite is true for someone who is an introvert. This can be a dreaded moment, when an introverted person has to go to a networking event, because they are forced to be removed from their comfort zone. Whatever your outlook, networking in any capacity is very valuable if you rely on relationships with others to do business. It is also important to add that networking properly is the key to developing solid relationships. 

Employer Blueprint Podcast is proud to present the Founder of Service Before Self Leadership, SJ Barakony. SJ is a Consultant, Mentor, and Advisor to those that have found themselves to be unsuccessful with traditional educations methods. SJ is an edu-prenuer with nearly 8 years experience and has been involved in groups such as the Young Entrepreneur’s Academy, and Teen Entrepreneurial Camp. SJ is also involved with H7 Network, a networking group that was started in Ohio, and in this episode he will talk about the importance of networking and how to be effective in your networking efforts. It is always important when networking to build depth of relationship. It is very easy to walk into a networking event, see everyone in the room, meet everyone in the room, but never build a relationship with anyone. When that happens it takes away the opportunity to really connect, which then hinders the ability to gain new clients or make any money. We hope you enjoy as topics like these and many more are covered in the podcast. Thanks, and be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss an episode. 

You can find out more information about H7 Network and SJ Barakony by visiting the websites below. 

Www.h7network.com

Www.Servicebeforeleadership.com

Identifying Your Needs Before You Hire w. Sasha Laghonh

One of the many challenges a company faces when they begin the hiring and recruiting process, is understanding the true needs they have. We often times looked at things that we want and try to figure out what’s going to fit into those wants, but rarely do we take a step back and look at what we actually need in order to make a successful hire. Typically a company will bring in someone to fill the space that they want to fill. After three months, six months of being on the job, they discover it isn’t what they needed. We are going to unpack some of this on today’s episode of Employer Blueprint Podcast. As you listen to the episode there are three things that you should really be thinking about, and these will help you when trying to uncover the needs of your organization. These three tips will help you as you begin the hiring process and you look to fill a position in your organization. 

 

1. Find the gap’s. Where are the spaces in your organization that aren’t getting filled in? What are the tasks that you have on your plate that are not being taken care of but someone needs to be focused on?
2. If you are the hiring manager or owner, do not try to replicate yourself. Often times a business owner or leader will think that the best thing for their organization is a clone of themselves. Instead do an assessment of your strengths and weaknesses and hire someone who’s strengths fill in where you are weak. 
3. What is going to benefit your company most? What is going to benefit your company, and fill a long-term need?

 

The Employer Blueprint podcast is proud to present Sasha Laghonh. Sasha is a Business and Lifestyle Strategist, Founder, Speaker, Coach, Consultant, Entrepreneur, and Author. Sasha comes from a Management, and Administrative background that also focused on Marketing, however over time she found that Human Resources discovered her. Sasha is an MBA with an emphasis on Organizational and Human Behavior with more than 2 decades of experience in helping businesses with their people. Sasha has multiple shows that can be listened to such as “Sasha Talks” and “Moving Mountains With Sasha”. Sasha has also written multiple books including Kashing Karma, and Departures:  Smart Packing, of Life's Essentials, for On-Time Arrivals. To find out more about Sasha Laghonh, be sure to visit www.sashatalks.com. 

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The Value of a High Performing Team w. Kelly Ann Harris Team

After the announcement of some exciting news from the Kelly Ann Harris Team, we have decided to re-share a previous episode of The Employer Blueprint Podcast. Recently Kelly Ann Harris and Kelsey Jarboe announced on Facebook that they have partnered to become the Harris Jarboe Group. Be sure to visit the Kelly Ann Harris Team Facebook page at the link below to find out all the details! 

https://www.facebook.com/kellyanneharristeam/

On this weeks episode of the Employer Blueprint Podcast, we are excited to present The Kelly Anne Harris Team of Keller Williams Elite. 10 years ago, Kelly Anne Harris was a single mom living off credit card debt, had recently lost her job, and was about to lose her home. As she was trying to find employment during a terrible time in our country’s economy, Kelly Anne decided to become a Realtor for a best friend who was trying to find homes to flip for profit. During the first year in her new career path, as Kelly Anne recalls in the podcast, even though things were tough, she worked diligently to succeed and knocked on every door in her town. This continued until three years later Kelly Anne Harris was the number one Realtor in the area. The story of Kelly Anne Harris could end there with success and a happy ending except success wasn’t happy. In fact it was the opposite, when even though she managed to do 142 transactions that year with only herself and an assistant, Kelly Anne’s life was spinning out of control. She knew she had to do something because her health and her family life were suffering, and that was when Kelly Anne learned about a team concept being adopted by other Realtors while she was on a trip at a realtor convention. Kelly Anne decided to pursue this ideas of having a team of Realtors and she began doing research and visiting other offices who had already adopted the business model. One of Kelly Anne’s very first team members is also a guest on this weeks podcast, Kelsey Jarboe. After the addition of Kelsey, within a year and a half, the new Kelly Anne Harris Team was able to double the previous year to 242 transactions and 40 million dollars in production. The team concept has also allowed Kelly Anne to pursue other ventures such as an independent brokerage with multiple locations and a property management company. Currently the Kelly Anne Harris Team has multiple agents and two are on this weeks Employer Blueprint podcast with Kelly Anne. Kelsey Jarboe has been with the Kelly Anne Harris group since the beginnings of the team forming, and Denise Jarboe has been with the team for a year. Both Kelsey and Denise tell their stories from different perspectives on how they became involved in Real Estate and how much the Leadership of Kelly Anne Harris has changed their lives. You don’t want to miss this episode as Kyle dives into a lot of great topics while interviewing some very successful entrepreneurs who work by the motto, “you can teach skill all day, but you can’t teach hustle.” 

To find out more about Kelly Anne Harris and the Kelly Anne Harris Team, or if you are looking to potentially start a new career in Real Estate and think a team environment would be right for you, visit 

https://www.owensborokyrealty.com where you will find resources available including a careers section of the website. 

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Special Episode Featuring Kyle Gorman, Recruiting and Coaching Advice

Good morning everyone, happy Monday and you are tuned in to the Employer Blueprint Podcast. My name is Dedrick Jackson and I will be your host today. We have a very special episode and something I have been wanting to do for a long time now. Being that Kyle is away wrapping up some business after the Thanksgiving Holiday I have decided to put together a mashup of some of the regular content that is distributed to our social media platforms. As many of you know, Kyle often posts short educational videos to his LinkedIn and Facebook Pages covering a range of topics from How to Aquire Top Talent For your organization, How to Retain Employees, to even How to know when it’s right to Fire Employees. In this episode of The Employer Blueprint Podcast, you will hear the audio from some of these videos that have become so popular on social media. 

Before we jump into that I would like to add something from my own personal experience. I met Kyle in 2013 when I interviewed for  job at what was then Gorman Recruiting and I feel like I not only acquired a boss that day but also a mentor and a friend. As many of you know, who have seen Kyle in person or on a video, he has a very recognizable feature being his beard. As I was setting in front of him during the job interview in 2013, I said to Kyle that if growing a beard was a requirement for the job, I was not his guy because I was not able to grow one. This doesn’t sound like something someone should say in a job interview and it could have been very weird, however the next week I found myself working in Business Development for Gorman Recruiting. During my time with Gorman recruiting I found a love for Marketing and content creation on social media, and even though this was not what I was hired for, Kyle supported me and encouraged me to follow my passion while still allowing my skills to play a role in his organization. Most importantly Kyle even supported me when I came to him and told him I didn’t want to work for him any longer and I wanted to start my own business. I say all of that to say this, Kyle is not one of those bosses that constantly pours Gatorade over his own head celebrating his victories. He is very human in his decision making, as noted by even hiring me in the first place, and he is a servant leader in how he manages his team. The bottom line of his business comes second to supporting his employees and making sure they are able to fulfill their dreams and accomplish their goals. Oftentimes Coaches and content creators fill their 1 to 2 minute spots with things they don’t practice, and if your like me you often wonder if they really believe in what they are talking about, or if they are trying to get likes and views by saying something that sounds good from an article they read. Let me met you know, and this is from someone who has seen him when the cameras are off, Kyle Gorman definitely practices what he preaches, in life, an in business. So enjoy the episode and be sure to search Kyle Gorman on LinkedIn for more weekly content, and also search Employer Blueprint on Facebook and LinkedIn as well to follow the pages and connect with Kyle. Thanks, my name is Dedrick Jackson owner of JustU Marketing and I approve this message!

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/realkylegorman/

https://www.facebook.com/employerblueprint/

Song credit- Out of the Grey by Stephen Keech

https://app.soundstripe.com/songs/5535

 

 

Keeping Your Personality in Your Business with Ken Greene

Today’s guest on the Employer Blueprint Podcast is the Founder of Greene Finance and Insurance, Ken Greene. Before starting Greene Finance and Insurance, Ken worked as an engineer and had a plan of retiring when he was thirty years old. At 33 years of age, Ken did just that, and had done really well for himself. Ken had a house with 40 acres he owned outright, as well as a portfolio of investments. Just like everyone else though, Ken experienced 2008 during the U.S. Great Recession. Ken had done well for himself by acquiring land and multiple investments, but had no money for liquidity, so when Wall Street took a beating, so did Ken. It was also found during this time that there were no Engineering jobs to be had, and Ken needed to make some money, so he decided to change careers and went into the insurance and finance industry. Ken found himself surrounded by brokers who only cared about closing the next deal, and very little about educating clients. Because of the experiences Ken had went through before joining the insurance and finance industries, he had a passion for wanting to help others to not share the same fate. This is what led Ken to “manically study” ways to help his clients better. 

According to Ken’s website, www.greenfi.com, Greene Finance and Insurance pride themselves on not doing the traditional methods of investing that have been done for years on Wall Street. Below you will find a notable section on the Greene Finance and Insurance website. 

“We provide our clients with “aha” moments when it comes to finance, investing, insurance, making money and living free. We believe in simplifying these things in ways you may have never experienced before—we’re breaking the norm that finance needs to be complicated to be effective.

So let’s pull back the curtain put up by the major banks and investment firms and look inside; we think you’ll feel elevated learning there’s a different way to play the financial game.

Greene Finance and Insurance … Only Different”

~above quoted section from www.greenfi.com in the About section. 

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Data Driven Growth with Meaghan Connell and AJ Yager

Welcome to The Employer Blueprint Podcast and on this week’s episode we are proud to present Meaghan Connell, and AJ Yager, Founders of Praxis Metrics. Companies produce tons of data, and often times that data is presented and never followed up on. It is always important for a company and its leaders to get information about their business, however knowing what actions to to take afterward can be difficult. This is exactly why AJ Yager and Meaghan Connell founded Praxis Metrics. When beginning their journey together it was through a digital marketing agency that focused on data driven marketing. Through this they realized the need for companies to be able to act on the data they were acquiring and produce results from that data. 

Meaghan Connell is an international speaker and expert in reducing resource waste by capitalizing on information intelligence. Meaghan has spoken in over 22 countries to organizations like Loblaw, NBC Universal, and DigitalMarketer on the power of data to drive human behavior. She has been featured in dozens of online and print media publications, is both NLP and Domo certified, and last but not least, she sits on the board of directors for Apeiron Society of Human Performance.

AJ Yager is a data-driven digital marketer and productivity expert who uses data to drive new behavior in people and companies. He is an Amazon bestselling author, host of the Data Rich Show, and helps companies turn their data in growth. AJ has founded 8 highly successful companies over the course of his life, and today he works all over the world. He has worked in over 22 countries

with organizations such as NBC Universal, Organifi, Keller Williams and many others ranging from start- ups to companies worth billions.

He is NLP, Domo, and Microsoft certified and has been featured in Inc magazine, Business Week, CNN, and was voted Top 30 Under 30.

You can find out more about Praxis Metrics, Meaghan Connell, and AJ Yager at https://praxismetrics.com. 

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Maintaining Culture Through Growth with Eric Taussig

The Employer Blueprint Podcast is excited to present Eric Taussig on this week’s episode. Eric is the CEO/Founder of Prialto, Inc, a virtual assistant company based in Portland, Oregon with offices in San Francisco, Guatemala City, and Manila. Established in 2009, Prialto designs and powers business and administrative processes in support of business professionals. 

Eric speaks and writes about globalization and the future of work, as well as about employee happiness and empowerment across cultures and borders. His ideas have been featured on National Public Radio, and in places like Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, and the Huffington Post.

As Prialto founder, Eric focuses on coaching professionals to leverage remote staff for enhancing productivity and furthering businesses growth. He also spends much of his time working to foster lasting, positive customer and employee experiences amidst a globally distributed workforce. 

Before founding Prialto, Eric worked at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Citicorp Securities in both New York and Hong Kong. He is a graduate of Wharton, the University of Chicago, and Lewis & Clark College. 

When Eric is not working multiple, global time zones, he's cycling, running, and spending time with his wife and their three young children in the wide-open spaces of Oregon. 

 

SAMPLE ARTICLES

Patriotism and Globalization: How International Commerce Helps all Workers – Dialogue & Discourse

Why Human + AI Partnerships Will Deliver the Best Customer Experiences - Hubspot's Think Growth  

Virtual Assistants Pave the Way for The Future of Work - Huffington Post 

3 Ways Virtual Workers Make Organizations More Effective - Entrepreneur Magazine 

3 Trends That Will Change the Way We Work in 2017 - Inc. Magazine 

 

SAMPLE INTERVIEWS

So Near, So Far - KQED Radio Perspectives

Where Authenticity Meets Transparency - B2B Growth podcast 

Cross-Border Challenges of Working With a Distributed Team - Business Rockstars podcast

Should Sales Professionals Have an Assistant? - The Salesman podcast 

 

You contact Eric and find and find out more at www.prialto.com 

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