Welcome back to BizQuik! On today’s episode, Julie talks about the foundational pieces that you leverage in order to build a strong business. A business plan acts as the guardrails of building your business. Having the right pieces in place is important so that when you are ready to scale, grow, you are prepared. The foundations of your business establishes your core values, go-to-market strategy, competitive analysis, branding, and ideal customers.

Themes: Strengths and weakness. Opportunities and threats. Disaster planning.

Support our show by visiting our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/BizQuik)

Shout out to FeedSpot (https://blog.feedspot.com/small_business_podcasts/) - The internet's largest human curated database of blogs and podcasts.

Need some help with customer service or social media management?  Check out Certivium (https://www.certivium.com/)

Find out everything you want to know about us and our businesses on our website SBPACE.com.  You can also find us on the following social media platforms:

Facebook (SB PACE)

Instagram (@sb.pace)

LinkedIn (@sb-pace)

TikTok (@sb.pace)

YouTube  (SB PACE)

If you like our intro, hit up Pat Hilton on Instagram (@pathiltonlive)

You can buy our book, Seriously?  Now What?!  A Small Business Guide to Disaster Preparedness, on Amazon.

BizQuik is a Traxler-Harris production.

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Welcome back to BizQuik! On this week's episode, Julie talks about the benefits of creativity and how it is a valuable asset to you and your business. Creativity produces innovative solutions to problems and challenges in the workplace. It also leaves opportunities for cross-functional collaboration wide open. Creativity provides new resources, support, and critical thinking skills that will help in developing unique products and services. Most importantly, creativity allows for exceptional customer service to form.

Themes: Problem-solving. Marking and branding. Differentiation. Collaboration. Adaptability. Open Communication.

Support our show by visiting our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/BizQuik)

Shout out to FeedSpot (https://blog.feedspot.com/small_business_podcasts/) - The internet's largest human curated database of blogs and podcasts.

Need some help with customer service or social media management?  Check out Certivium (https://www.certivium.com/)

Find out everything you want to know about us and our businesses on our website SBPACE.com.  You can also find us on the following social media platforms:

Facebook (SB PACE)

Instagram (@sb.pace)

LinkedIn (@sb-pace)

TikTok (@sb.pace)

YouTube  (SB PACE)

If you like our intro, hit up Pat Hilton on Instagram (@pathiltonlive)

You can buy our book, Seriously?  Now What?!  A Small Business Guide to Disaster Preparedness, on Amazon.

BizQuik is a Traxler-Harris production.

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Welcome back to BizQuik! On today’s episode, Julie talks about reducing friction in your business in order to make things easier for your clients/customers. Less friction means more revenue and creates a superior business flow for you and your customers. A healthy flow state equals better efficiency, high productivity, and profitability. Flow is important internally and eternally. Less friction and more flow will garner a more solid reputation with your customers, thereby creating a more loyal relationship between your customers and your business.

Themes: Efficiency. Productivity. Profitability. Customer retention. 

Support our show by visiting our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/BizQuik)

Shout out to FeedSpot (https://blog.feedspot.com/small_business_podcasts/) - The internet's largest human curated database of blogs and podcasts.

Need some help with customer service or social media management?  Check out Certivium (https://www.certivium.com/)

Find out everything you want to know about us and our businesses on our website SBPACE.com.  You can also find us on the following social media platforms:

Facebook (SB PACE)

Instagram (@sb.pace)

LinkedIn (@sb-pace)

TikTok (@sb.pace)

YouTube  (SB PACE)

If you like our intro, hit up Pat Hilton on Instagram (@pathiltonlive)

You can buy our book, Seriously?  Now What?!  A Small Business Guide to Disaster Preparedness, on Amazon.

BizQuik is a Traxler-Harris production.

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Welcome back to BizQuik! In today’s episode of BizQuiker Julie talks about the utility of a good partnership. It is not enough to have an easy, harmonious connection with your business partner. But a good “business marriage” also has the ability to have hard conversations upfront, and understands the importance of an amicable relationship. 

Business partners should have the same goals, be supportive, hear each other, and be honest with one another. The alignment between partners having the same values and vision is not only great for business by the partnership itself. Compatibility is key to success. And a solid partner will go the distance with you and your shared business, creating opportunities for growth as you evolve.

Themes: Relationship congruency. Shared support. Vision. Cooperation. Operating Agreements.

Support our show by visiting our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/BizQuik)

Shout out to FeedSpot (https://blog.feedspot.com/small_business_podcasts/) - The internet's largest human curated database of blogs and podcasts.

Need some help with customer service or social media management?  Check out Certivium (https://www.certivium.com/)

Find out everything you want to know about us and our businesses on our website SBPACE.com.  You can also find us on the following social media platforms:

Facebook (SB PACE)

Instagram (@sb.pace)

LinkedIn (@sb-pace)

TikTok (@sb.pace)

YouTube  (SB PACE)

If you like our intro, hit up Pat Hilton on Instagram (@pathiltonlive)

You can buy our book, Seriously?  Now What?!  A Small Business Guide to Disaster Preparedness, on Amazon.

BizQuik is a Traxler-Harris production.

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Welcome back to BizQuik!  In today’s episode of BizQuiker Julie talks about simplification and its use to grow and scale your business. Many business owners make the mistake of continuing a process or service for the sake of profit despite it not creating any joy for them, and not making their business any easier for customers/clients or employees. 

Saving time, energy, and struggle through simplifying aspects of your business will create happiness and a better environment for you, customers, and employees. Because money freedom ≠ time freedom.

Themes: Manageability. Rescaling. Time. Processing. Passion. Happiness.

Support our show by visiting our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/BizQuik)

Shout out to FeedSpot (https://blog.feedspot.com/small_business_podcasts/) - The internet's largest human curated database of blogs and podcasts.

Need some help with customer service or social media management?  Check out Certivium (https://www.certivium.com/)

Find out everything you want to know about us and our businesses on our website SBPACE.com.  You can also find us on the following social media platforms:

Facebook (SB PACE)

Instagram (@sb.pace)

LinkedIn (@sb-pace)

TikTok (@sb.pace)

YouTube  (SB PACE)

If you like our intro, hit up Pat Hilton on Instagram (@pathiltonlive)

You can buy our book, Seriously?  Now What?!  A Small Business Guide to Disaster Preparedness, on Amazon.

BizQuik is a Traxler-Harris production.

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Welcome back to BizQuik! In today’s episode of BizQuikie Julie talks about the importance and necessity of competitive analysis. Knowing your business competition and targeting the potential void you are attempting to fill with your business are the first steps you should take when starting a business. Competitive Analysis is what will better shape your business plan and signify opportunities to be taken with your targeted customers. 

The who, what, where, and how when starting a business are the building blocks of the most important question: “SHOULD I START A BUSINESS?”

Themes: Competition. Demographics. Marketing. Compare and contrast. Competitive Imitation. 

Support our show by visiting our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/BizQuik)

Shout out to FeedSpot (https://blog.feedspot.com/small_business_podcasts/) - The internet's largest human curated database of blogs and podcasts.

Need some help with customer service or social media management?  Check out Certivium (https://www.certivium.com/)

Find out everything you want to know about us and our businesses on our website SBPACE.com.  You can also find us on the following social media platforms:

Facebook (SB PACE)

Instagram (@sb.pace)

LinkedIn (@sb-pace)

TikTok (@sb.pace)

YouTube  (SB PACE)

If you like our intro, hit up Pat Hilton on Instagram (@pathiltonlive)

You can buy our book, Seriously?  Now What?!  A Small Business Guide to Disaster Preparedness, on Amazon.

BizQuik is a Traxler-Harris production.

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Welcome back to BizQuik!  In today’s episode of BizQuiker Julie talks about the importance of building a community both inside and outside of your business. It’s incredibly important to surround yourself with community, factions, in your business. Community changes lives for the better! And a strong community brings forth a return on your investment as a business owner. Structuring, rethinking, and respect are all ways of retooling and benefiting your brand.

Especially for women within the business sphere.

Themes: Structure. Empowerment. Commonality. ROI. Respect. ohfckyeah.com. 

Support our show by visiting our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/BizQuik)

Shout out to FeedSpot (https://blog.feedspot.com/small_business_podcasts/) - The internet's largest human curated database of blogs and podcasts.

Need some help with customer service or social media management?  Check out Certivium (https://www.certivium.com/)

Find out everything you want to know about us and our businesses on our website SBPACE.com.  You can also find us on the following social media platforms:

Facebook (SB PACE)

Instagram (@sb.pace)

LinkedIn (@sb-pace)

TikTok (@sb.pace)

YouTube  (SB PACE)

If you like our intro, hit up Pat Hilton on Instagram (@pathiltonlive)

You can buy our book, Seriously?  Now What?!  A Small Business Guide to Disaster Preparedness, on Amazon.

BizQuik is a Traxler-Harris production.

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Welcome back to BizQuik!  In today’s episode of BizQuiker Julie talks about disruption, and what it’s doing to your brand.  Consumers today are served up over 1500 advertisements per day. These come in all forms, written, video, audio, online, television, newspaper, magazines, billboards.  The barrage on our brains is nearly endless.  

In fact, we are so used to being bombarded by ads that we are trained to ignore almost all of them.  So, how do you get your ideal customer's attention without being an asshole?

Build trust.  Be transparent.  Be respectful of their time.  Communicate clearly.

Themes: Marketing, Branding, Disruption, Advertising, Communication

Support our show by visiting our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/BizQuik)

Shout out to FeedSpot (https://blog.feedspot.com/small_business_podcasts/) - The internet's largest human curated database of blogs and podcasts.

Need some help with customer service or social media management?  Check out Certivium (https://www.certivium.com/)

Find out everything you want to know about us and our businesses on our website SBPACE.com.  You can also find us on the following social media platforms:

Facebook (SB PACE)

Instagram (@sb.pace)

LinkedIn (@sb-pace)

TikTok (@sb.pace)

YouTube  (SB PACE)

If you like our intro, hit up Pat Hilton on Instagram (@pathiltonlive)

You can buy our book, Seriously?  Now What?!  A Small Business Guide to Disaster Preparedness, on Amazon.

BizQuik is a Traxler-Harris production.

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Welcome back to BizQuik!   Julie is coming in hot today talking about the protection that entrepreneurs most need, but seem to overwhelmingly fail to consider.  No, she isn’t talking about guns or condoms, she’s talking about legal protection.  Master Service Agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Contracts…

Not always the sexiest of topics (but honestly, so little of being an entrepreneur is actually sexy), but one that is necessary.  You only have to be burned once to know that a contract is important.  Early on in the life of SB PACE, Julie and Corey got burned for over $50,000 - and that’s a lesson Julie never wants to learn again, and a lesson she wants every entrepreneur to avoid.

You know how you can avoid it?  With a contract.  Tune in.

Themes: Legal, Contracts, Entrepreneurs, Failures

Support our show by visiting our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/BizQuik)

Shout out to FeedSpot (https://blog.feedspot.com/small_business_podcasts/) - The internet's largest human curated database of blogs and podcasts.

Need some help with customer service or social media management?  Check out Certivium (https://www.certivium.com/)

Find out everything you want to know about us and our businesses on our website SBPACE.com.  You can also find us on the following social media platforms:

Facebook (SB PACE)

Instagram (@sb.pace)

LinkedIn (@sb-pace)

TikTok (@sb.pace)

YouTube  (SB PACE)

If you like our intro, hit up Pat Hilton on Instagram (@pathiltonlive)

You can buy our book, Seriously?  Now What?!  A Small Business Guide to Disaster Preparedness, on Amazon.

BizQuik is a Traxler-Harris production.

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 Welcome back to BizQuik!   Today Transformational Coach Michelle Fuller is taking over BizQuik.  Julie is getting drunk in Vegas for her birthday (seriously, that’s what is happening right now!) and Michelle has taken over the mic to talk about changing your life.

This episode is a departure from most conversations on BizQuik, as this one is all about developing yourself personally.  It’s about changing your life by changing your mindset.  Taking control (responsibility!) of your decisions, and how you are just a few decisions away from transforming your life!

Tune in and enjoy the show!

Themes: transformation, love, self-discovery, vulnerability, growth

Support our show by visiting our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/BizQuik)

Shout out to FeedSpot (https://blog.feedspot.com/small_business_podcasts/) - The internet's largest human curated database of blogs and podcasts.

Need some help with customer service or social media management?  Check out Certivium (https://www.certivium.com/)

Find out everything you want to know about us and our businesses on our website SBPACE.com.  You can also find us on the following social media platforms:

Facebook (SB PACE)

Instagram (@sb.pace)

LinkedIn (@sb-pace)

TikTok (@sb.pace)

YouTube  (SB PACE)

If you like our intro, hit up Pat Hilton on Instagram (@pathiltonlive)

You can buy our book, Seriously?  Now What?!  A Small Business Guide to Disaster Preparedness, on Amazon.

BizQuik is a Traxler-Harris production.

#Podcast #entrepreneurship #startup #businessowners #businesscoach