Building Better Businesses

Paul A. Dillon is a Certified Management Consultant with more than 46 years of experience in the professional services industry. He is the president and CEO of Dillon Consulting Services LLC, a Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, based in Durham, NC and Chicago, IL. Paul is the creator of the concept for a veteran startup incubator in Chicago, called Bunker Labs, as well as the creator of the concept for a veteran entrepreneur support organization in North Carolina, called VetStart, which was recently rebranded as Bunker RDU. Mr. Dillon created and teaches a course on veterans' issues at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, where he is an Adjunct Instructor. Paul represents the nation's veteran community on the Kennedy Forum on Mental Health, and is a member of the Leadership Council of the Kennedy Forum Illinois. His articles and quotes on veterans' issues have appeared in Forbes, HuffPost, Chicago Tribune, Crain's Chicago Business, US News & World Report, Investor’s Business Daily, the Times of Israel, Kiplinger Today, U.S. News & World Report, Arianna Huffington's ThriveGlobal, We Are The Mighty, and USAA Magazine. He is a sought after commentator on national veteran matters on numerous radio programs, podcasts, and TV programs, including CBS Radio's !Eye on Veterans” program, Bloomberg Business Radio, Westwood One Radio Network, Spectrum1 TV News, WRAL-TV and WUNC-TV in Raleigh, NC and WBKB-TV ABC 11 in Michigan. He is a former trustee of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, and a former Public Member and Commissioner of the national Commission for Case Manager Certification.

In this episode, we discuss:

·      The attributes that make veterans built for entrepreneurship

·      Being flexible to find an underserved area and going after it

·      Integrity as a cornerstone of success

·      Thorough due diligence and ignoring the fear of missing out

·      Any client as an ideal client

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Connect with Paul Dillon:

Website: www.dillonconsult.com

Email: [email protected]

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Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/ 

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/ 

Twitter: @SteveEschbach

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 Ryan Kugler is an entrepreneur and strategist with over 25 years of experience in building profitable businesses from conception within both Fortune 500 organizations and newly launched startups. He operates on a few key principles: “Be nice to everyone, always return phone calls, and stay in communication with everyone. 

Since 1998, Ryan has launched several companies. These include Plan B, which helps manufacturers liquidate excess inventory; A5 Events, which organizes corporate events for large corporations and nonprofit organizations to help raise funds with charity events; and Ideal Content, which works with Fortune 500 companies producing new and unique high-end marketing products. 

As a public face for the entertainment industry, Ryan has landed coverage both on broadcast outlets and in print. TV appearances include the CBS Early Show, ABC7 News, and KTLA Prime Time News. He also has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Business Journal, Moviemaker Magazine, and the New York Times.Top of Form

In this episode, we discuss:

●     Why entrepreneurs must react quickly in a constantly changing business environment.

●     How diversification can help insulate you from negative market conditions.

●     Why it’s important to look for opportunities in every challenge.

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Connect with Ryan Kugler

Website: www.theplanbinc.com

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @ SteveEschbach

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Susanne Mariga is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Tax Coach specializing in business and personal tax planning. Over the past two decades, Susanne worked for Big 4 accounting firms and, in her own firm, has helped thousands of clients achieve their business goals. A Certified Profit First Professional (PFP) at the Mastery Level, she is also a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA), as designated by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). She is the host of the Profit Talk Podcast and the author of Profit First for Minority Business Enterprises.

In this episode, we discuss:

·      Evening the playing field for minority owned businesses

·      Determining what type of business to start

·      Following your heart and passions into business

·      Strategies when dealing with government contracts

·      Top strategies for increasing business profits

·      Tax accounting systems to make your business more efficient

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Connect with Susan Mariga:

Website: www.marigacpa.com

Facebook: @profitfirstmasterclass

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/ 

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/ 

Twitter: @SteveEschbach

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Robert Patin is an international best-selling author, financial consultant, and agency expert. He is also the founder and managing partner of Patin & Associates, a Los Angeles-based business management and consultancy firm.

Robert Patin offers results-oriented executive financial professional services with extensive expertise in financial review, budget development, cash flow management, debt restructuring, asset liquidation/purchase, and corporate audit for both large and small businesses. With Patin’s consulting services his clients have optimized their sales processes, generating more than $30M in additional revenue. His two decades of proven success in finance make him an invaluable asset to any business, and his clients.

In this episode, we discuss:

·      Robert Patin’s background and how that influenced him to where he is today.

·      How he started his business and grew it overtime.

·      Processes to help your business streamline and increase profits

·      How to restructure your debt to be primed for future growth

·      Managing your cashflow

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Connect with Robert Patin:

Website: https://www.cfofinancialstrategies.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CreativeAgencySuccess

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creativeagencysuccess/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/creative-agency-success/

Forbes Contributor: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesfinancecouncil/people/robertpatin/

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/ 

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/ 

Twitter: @SteveEschbach

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Shawn McBride is an attorney and business consultant at The Our Shawn and McBride for Business. He is a business nerd with a legal practice and consulting firm that focuses on issues related to business ownership and maximizing the value of that ownership (preparing for the future of business). 

Shawn has 14 years of experience and is licensed in 12 states and DC, as well as being a licensed CPA. He has appeared in many major publications and radio shows. He is the author of Business Blunders! which covers common business issues giving powerful themes of protection to add to the message for your teams. He also hosts his own podcasts, McBride for Business LIVE!

In this episode, we discuss:

·      Melding together knowledge of law with the pursuit of business to develop something unique

·      How planning ahead in your business can extract the best outcomes

·      Why going through the fundamentals of a business can help a new owner transition seamlessly

·      The blunders you do not want to make in business

·      Why having the right team on your side can make or break a new business acquisition

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Connect with Shawn

Website: http://www.mcbrideforbusiness.com/

Website: www.planningdoneright.com 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rshawnmcbride/

Podcast: http://www.mcbrideforbusiness.com/podcasts/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-h9QeZYahVQrREgtGmGCIQ

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @ SteveEschbach

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Jonathan Goldhill is a masterful business coach and personal strategist specializing in guiding next-generation leaders of family businesses to scale up their business as they take control over the leadership and ownership of the family business. Based in the Los Angeles metro area, Goldhill Group has been serving closely held and family business clients in the lower-middle market nationwide since 1987. Jonathan left New York for California at age 20 after his family’s large, privately-held men’s apparel manufacturing company—started by his great-grandfather—sold to a conglomerate in its third generation of family ownership. Within ten years, Jonathan had established himself as the go-to expert for entrepreneurs looking to find their freedom. Today, Jonathan brings thirty years of experience advising, coaching, consulting, training, and guiding entrepreneurial and family businesses to grow their revenues, profits and people’s leadership. 

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Connect with Jonathan Goldhill:

Website: www.thegoldhillgroup.com

Podcast: www/thegoldhillgroup.com/podcast

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Websites:

https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/

https://eschbachassoc.com/ 

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA 

LinkedIn:

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

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/ 

Twitter:

@ SteveEschbach

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Steve Carr is a senior communications consultant with experience in public relations, crisis communications, investor relations and capital-raising for private and publicly held companies. Sectors in which he has particular experience include financial services (commercial and investment banking, property insurance), business services, energy including sustainable energy, and industrial goods.

Steve holds a J.D. from John Marshall Law School, has served on non-profit boards for North Park University and Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, and been a long-serving officer and director of the National Investor Relations Institute.

He is a frequent guest lecturer and author of Compliance & Ethics Professional, Ethikos, ACG Journal, a book-length work on reputation management to be published in 2020.

In this episode, we discuss:

·      Steven’s background in investor relationships and law shape the way he deals in his business brokerage

·      How an introvert can use acting like an extrovert to be an excellent communicator and work well with clients

·      How to start thinking of starting a business, buying a business, and building a business plan to get there

·      Why business owners often forget to have an exit plan, and that they are still attached to the business even after it is sold or closed

I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have. Steven has a unique approach to business brokerage and understands how to communicate well with business owners.

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Connect with Steven Carr

Website: https://www.tworld.com/agent/stevencarr/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrsteve/

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Website: https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ or https://eschbachassoc.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/

Twitter: @ SteveEschbach

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Paul Higgins is a high-performance business mentor, podcaster, and author who helps service-based business owners struggling to strike a balance between life and work adopt a hands-off management approach and improve profits to fund their lifestyles.

To aid other service-based business owners like himself who have come to the conclusion that having a business so reliant on them is just not going to work, Paul developed a mentoring program—Build Live Give—that helps such business owners take control and implement an end-to-end sales and operations system that can easily generate profits.

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In this episode, we discuss:

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Connect with Paul Higgins:

Website: https://www.buildlivegive.com/ 

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Websites:

https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/

https://eschbachassoc.com/ 

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA 

LinkedIn:

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

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/ 

Twitter:

@ SteveEschbach

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Tristan Bond is an entrepreneur, business owner, consultant, and marketing specialist. As CEO and Founder of Practice Acceleration, a business coaching company, he shows business owners how to create predictable, profitable, and scalable businesses by utilizing his Market.Rebook.Manage™ system. 

The step-by-step framework shows businesses how to double their profits, halve their hours and build a practice that doesn’t depend on you. The system has been implemented by solo startup businesses to clients doing over $20 million in annual revenue. Tristan Bond is also the author of The Practice Acceleration Method, an international best-seller in four business categories in six countries.

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Connect with Tristan

Website:  https://practiceacceleration.com/  

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/practiceacceleration/   

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/practiceacceleration/   

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/healthcare-business-coach/    

Connect with Steve Eschbach

Websites:

https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/ 

https://eschbachassoc.com/ 

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speschbach/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/ 

Twitter: @ SteveEschbach

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George is the CEO of Taxhub. He has a Master’s degree in taxation from Webster University and began his career in public accounting. Twelve years in, he transitioned to controllership for an engineering firm in New York City.

As a controller, he learned a lot about the business side of finance and tax, and the idea for Taxhub took shape. Determined to bring customers a better tax experience, George began assembling a team that could help bring his idea to fruition to serve a broad segment of the private tax-payer market, which then became Taxhub.

In this episode, we discuss:

·      Looking at a business from an accountant’s point of view

·      Fulfilling areas of need with your business

·      Working with small businesses on a digital platform

·      Creating tax advantages for your business

I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have. George’s platform TaxHub is a real asset for small business owners and contractors to keep track of their financials and tax information.

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Connect with George Birrell

Website: https://www.gettaxhub.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-birrell-867845a/

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Websites:

https://www.tworld.com/locations/naperville/

https://eschbachassoc.com/ 

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqgICqaSI8xE2GRYY1HWJA 

LinkedIn:

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

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/steveeschbach/ 

Twitter:

@ SteveEschbach

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