Businessing with Pat Miller

I almost impaled a guy in the front row at my TEDx talk, and somebody's alarm went off during my big finish. Here are the eight things my second TEDx taught me, for anyone with a TEDx talk coming up, or any big presentation: the pitch, the sales call, the chamber intro.

This week on Businessing: what TEDx taught me (again). Plus Tom Gaumond from G2 Insurance on the question every owner using AI should be asking: if my AI makes a mistake, who pays? And one more thing on grace and engineering, the re-entry plan for the day after your big thing.

Businessing is the weekly show where small business owners figure out what to do next. New episode every Monday morning.

Join the Small Business Owners Community: smallbusinesscommunity.com

In this episode:
00:00 - The card that almost impaled someone
00:24 - Welcome to the new Businessing
01:48 - The Big Story: what my second TEDx taught me
02:43 - Lesson 1: honor the moment
03:52 - Lesson 2: you choose how you experience it
05:34 - Lesson 3: say something that matters
07:14 - Lesson 4: practice, then edit
08:19 - Lesson 5: talk to one person (and skip the slides)
12:32 - Lesson 6: slow down
13:23 - Lesson 7: expect the unexpected (the emcee, the card, the alarm)
19:02 - Lesson 8: you're going to be nervous, because you care
21:47 - The Guest: Tom Gaumond on AI and your insurance
23:10 - Why AI liability isn't general liability
29:13 - The $2.3 million AI screening settlement
32:10 - The 90-day renewal notice, and the one question to ask your agent
33:51 - One More Thing: grace and engineering
41:49 - That's the show

Resources mentioned:
G2 Insurance Services: g2ins.com
The 2024 SafeRent Solutions tenant-screening settlement ($2.3 million)

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Getting booked on more stages starts with the one thing almost nobody does, which is asking. Pat runs a conference, so he sits on the other side of that inbox, and today he walks through what makes him say yes to a speaker and what gets the email deleted. Point of view, the takeaway for the audience, video of you speaking, references from other organizers, and a weekly system so the asking actually happens. Then the Idea Slam mailbag on what you should have stopped doing months ago, and the AI story of the day: Claude Opus 5.5 landed, and the new Projects changed how Pat works in a single afternoon.

Businessing is the weekly show where small business owners figure out what to do next. New episode every Monday morning. Hosted by Pat Miller, founder of the Small Business Owners Community. The Small Business Owners Community is where small business owners get help from other owners: every week, a room full of owners works your problem with you. Owners only, nobody pitching, $19 a month. Any member can bring any business owner to one Idea Slam as their guest: https://smallbusinesscommunity.com/idea-slam/

In this episode:

00:00 - Cold open and welcome

01:01 - Big story: how to get booked on more stages

02:08 - Nobody is going to chase you, so ask

03:20 - Have a point of view, not just a topic

04:34 - Tell the organizer what the audience walks away with

05:31 - Have video of you speaking

07:41 - References from other event organizers

08:24 - Systematize the ask and collect testimonials

11:39 - Idea Slam: what you should have stopped doing months ago

13:25 - Prune the rooms and events you go to

15:17 - AI story: Claude Opus 5.5 lands

17:15 - Claude Projects, live show and tell

24:45 - What is coming next in AI

26:36 - New members and this week in the community

28:24 - No show next week, back October 5th

Resources mentioned:

Talkadot - https://talkadot.com

Wispr Flow - https://wisprflow.ai

Claude - https://claude.ai

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They liked the whole thing right up until the number. Then came "I can't afford it," and the first instinct is to apologize for the price and start cutting. Don't. That sentence usually means one of two things, and there are two questions that tell you which one you're dealing with. Today: those two questions, five ways to save the deal without giving up your profit, and how to walk away clean when it really is a no. Plus the Idea Slam mailbag on following up after a prospect goes quiet, and the fight between Meta and Amazon over who owns the recommendation.

Businessing is the weekly show where small business owners figure out what to do next. New episode every Monday morning. Hosted by Pat Miller, founder of the Small Business Owners Community. The Small Business Owners Community is where small business owners get help from other owners: every week, a room full of owners works your problem with you. Owners only, nobody pitching, $19 a month. Any member can bring any business owner to one Idea Slam as their guest: https://smallbusinesscommunity.com/idea-slam/

In this episode:

00:00 - Open and what's on the show today

01:55 - Big Story - they just told you they can't afford it

02:46 - What "I can't afford it" actually means

03:27 - The two questions that tell you which problem you have

05:41 - Five ways to save the deal without cutting your price

09:28 - When to walk away from a client who can't pay

10:58 - Idea Slam - how many follow-ups before you look desperate

16:03 - AI story - Meta's Muse agent and Amazon blocking it

23:31 - Vegas, new members, and what's on this week in the SBOC

Resources mentioned:

Grab an Idea Slam spot: https://event.smallbusinesscommunity.com/idea-slam-pat-miller

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A small business conference is either worth the money or it isn't, and the answer shows up in the hallways, not the sessions. SBOC26 is in the books: about 125 owners, three days in Brookfield, and 45 first-timers who walked in nervous and walked out with a table full of people who knew their name. Here's what stuck with me, what the keynote did when he went off script, and the part you can steal whether you were in the room or not. Plus an Idea Slam on the question you're scared to ask, and an AI story about turning history class into short-form video.

Businessing is the weekly show where small business owners figure out what to do next. New episode every Monday morning. Hosted by Pat Miller, founder of the Small Business Owners Community. The Small Business Owners Community is where small business owners get help from other owners: every week, a room full of owners works your problem with you. Owners only, nobody pitching, $19 a month. Any member can bring any business owner to one Idea Slam as their guest: https://smallbusinesscommunity.com/idea-slam/

In this episode:

00:00 - Open, and what's on the show today

01:17 - Looking back at SBOC26

02:55 - What Mike Michalowicz did when he went off script

04:32 - Why the first-timer night is the one that matters

06:05 - The education lineup, from professional presence to AI

06:53 - Are we going to have a job in 12 months?

09:35 - The Friday VIP session with the Hug Sleep founder

11:18 - Idea Slam: should you ask the question that feels dumb?

14:25 - AI story of the day: turning history into short-form video

18:41 - The homework: make what you sell snackable

21:32 - New in the community, and what's on this week

Resources mentioned:

SBOC26 and next year's conference: https://event.smallbusinesscommunity.com/26conference

The Small Business Library, so your AI knows what we know: https://smallbusinesscommunity.com/library

Money Masters Bookkeeping: https://www.moneymasters4biz.com/

Athena Legal Solutions: https://athenalegalsolutionsllc.com/businessingwithpatmiller

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What to say at a networking event comes down to three words: clear, curious, and kind. Nobody ever handed you those words, so here they are.

You walk in, you scan the room, and then you're standing by the food table hoping somebody talks to you first. That isn't a confidence problem. Nobody ever taught you how to open, how to keep it a conversation instead of a monologue, or how to leave without stepping in it. Pat walks through all three, including the networking tennis trick he actually uses.

Money Monday with Lisa Raebel: chasing the sale is the thing that costs you the client. Lisa walks the whole client experience timeline, from the first intake call to the renewal ask, and explains the panicked friends and family discount you should stop giving. If a prospect's budget is short, cut the scope, not the price.

Idea Slam: how do I get clients to stay longer? Cards are great. Gifts are great. The only thing that actually keeps a client is getting them the result you promised, then telling them what you were going to do, telling them while you're doing it, and telling them once it's done.

Two AI stories: Grok is turning a swarm of bots loose to research, build, launch and monetize a small business live over three days, and Businessing got written up on claude.com in Anthropic's piece on what 1,000 small business owners taught them about AI.

Businessing is the weekly show where small business owners figure out what to do next. New episode every Monday morning. Hosted by Pat Miller, founder of the Small Business Owners Community. The Small Business Owners Community is where small business owners get help from other owners: every week, a room full of owners works your problem with you. Owners only, nobody pitching, $19 a month. Any member can bring any business owner to one Idea Slam as their guest: https://smallbusinesscommunity.com/idea-slam/

In this episode:

00:00 - Good morning and what's on the show

01:23 - The big story: what to say when you walk into a networking event

03:08 - Be clear: how to answer “so what do you do?”

04:51 - Be curious: how to play networking tennis

07:05 - Be kind: why complaining in the room costs you business

10:12 - Money Monday with Lisa Raebel: when chasing revenue costs you clients

14:46 - How to stop giving away the store to get the yes

16:18 - How to audit your client experience step by step

23:08 - Idea Slam: how do I get clients to stay longer?

26:12 - AI story: Grok turns a bot swarm loose on building a business

29:20 - AI story: Businessing gets written up on claude.com

32:44 - SBOC26 starts tomorrow, and the show schedule ahead

Resources mentioned:

SBOC26 Conference: https://event.smallbusinesscommunity.com/26conference

Money Masters Bookkeeping: https://www.moneymasters4biz.com/

Foureva Media: https://fourevamedia.com

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessingShow?sub_confirmation=1

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/businessing-with-pat-miller/id1870663109

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Small Business Owners Community: https://smallbusinesscommunity.com

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Host your own event and every advantage moves to your side of the table. You pick the room, you pick the topic, you pick who's in it, and you're the one standing in the middle of it.

Pat runs the math out loud. A qualified lead from a big conference booth can run you four hundred dollars. A morning spread from Panera and a couple jugs of coffee for eight or ten people runs under two hundred. Then he walks through how he actually builds an event, starting with the test every event has to pass before you invite anybody: does it save them time, make them money, or build their network. Plus picking your format, curating the room to owners only, why you have to over-invite because 20% of your yeses don't show up, and the difference between hosting a community and hosting an audience. He started with the Breakthrough Breakfast. Three people, some bagels, ninety minutes. Six years later it's a conference.

Idea Slam Mailbag: I'm terrible at telling my story on social media, so how do I do it without sounding like a sales pitch? Pat's answer is to quit using your own words. Ask your clients to describe what you did for them, then go say that. Nobody cares about your why. They care about what changes when they hand you a credit card.

The AI story of the day is the one nobody wants to answer out loud. Forty-six percent of Gen Z workers say leaning on AI is making them less sharp, and half of employees say they're too dependent on it at work. Pat's take: working with a thought partner is fine, handing over your judgment is not, and telling those two apart is going to be the whole game.

Businessing is the weekly show where small business owners figure out what to do next. New episode every Monday morning. Hosted by Pat Miller, founder of the Small Business Owners Community. The Small Business Owners Community is where small business owners get help from other owners: every week, a room full of owners works your problem with you. Owners only, nobody pitching, $19 a month. Any member can bring any business owner to one Idea Slam as their guest: https://smallbusinesscommunity.com/idea-slam/

In this episode:

00:00 - Nobody taught you how to run a business, and today it's building your own room

01:15 - Why not host your own event instead of standing around at somebody else's

02:01 - You went to the chamber breakfast and left with nothing

02:39 - The math, and the $400 lead at a conference booth

03:37 - Do it in the morning, because breakfast is cheap to cater

04:04 - When's the last time you had a bagel with an ideal client

04:56 - The Breakthrough Breakfast: three people, coffee, ninety minutes

06:13 - The test every event has to pass before you invite anybody

07:01 - Pick your format, then curate the room

07:50 - Only the people who sign the checks understand the people who sign the checks

09:02 - Over-invite, because 20% of your yeses won't show

09:29 - Community or audience, know which one you're throwing

11:05 - Ten minutes of presentation, then let them grill you

11:50 - Don't let them leave without selling the next one

13:04 - Barbara asks: host it alone, or partner up

16:27 - Money Masters Bookkeeping

17:56 - Idea Slam Mailbag: telling your story on social without the sales pitch

18:48 - Nobody cares about your why

19:13 - Ask your clients to describe what you did, then use their words

22:38 - Mitchell asks: how do you do the math on a sponsorship

25:58 - Foureva Media

27:27 - AI story of the day: are we forgetting how to think

29:43 - AI is a junior employee, and a thought partner isn't cheating

30:36 - Collaborate all you want, but keep the judgment

32:36 - I walked into the conference venue this morning and saw the whole thing

34:26 - This week in the SBOC, and Monday is the last show before the conference

Resources mentioned:

SBOC26 Conference, September 15-17 in Brookfield: https://event.smallbusinesscommunity.com/26conference

Money Masters Bookkeeping: https://www.moneymasters4biz.com/

Foureva Media: https://fourevamedia.com

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessingShow

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/businessing-with-pat-miller/id1870663109

Listen anywhere: https://businessing.captivate.fm/listen

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Small Business Owners Community: https://smallbusinesscommunity.com

#SmallBusiness #Entrepreneurship #PatMiller #SmallBusinessEvents #Networking #EventMarketing

Somebody in your town is getting recommended by AI right now, and there's a good chance it isn't you. There's no magic to how it picks. It reads what the web already says about you, then answers three questions: can it find you, can it trust you, and can it quote you.

Pat walks through what actually moves the needle on each one. The Google My Business profile nobody updates, claiming Bing in fifteen minutes, getting your name said in rooms you're not in, and putting the answer in the first paragraph of a blog post instead of burying it. Then the piece he didn't see coming: describing yourself the exact same way everywhere on the web, because years of old titles and old brands turn you into a jumbled up mess an AI can't trust. And the reality check, Google still sends 89% of the traffic and AI chatbots send about 1%, so you're not behind.

Idea Slam Mailbag takes a question straight out of the community. Somebody's thirty minutes late to your meeting, so how long do you wait? Pat's answer is ten minutes and an instant reschedule, plus the line that changed how he shows up: your punctuality is directly proportional to how important you think the meeting is. The last story is the NFL playing in Australia tonight, which is a lookalike audience play you can run at your size, without a stadium.

Businessing is the weekly show where small business owners figure out what to do next. New episode every Monday morning. Hosted by Pat Miller, founder of the Small Business Owners Community. The Small Business Owners Community is where small business owners get help from other owners: every week, a room full of owners works your problem with you. Owners only, nobody pitching, $19 a month. Any member can bring any business owner to one Idea Slam as their guest: https://smallbusinesscommunity.com/idea-slam/

In this episode:

00:00 - Nobody taught you how to run a business, and today it's getting found by AI

00:41 - How do you get your business recommended by AI

01:51 - SEO, AEO, GEO, and why the letters barely matter

02:39 - You're not behind, Google is still 89% of the traffic

03:30 - The three questions: can it find you, trust you, quote you

04:13 - Can it find you, and the Google My Business profile nobody updates

05:24 - Can it trust you: reviews, citations, and other people's pages

07:06 - Can it quote you: put the answer in the first paragraph

10:14 - The trust signal nobody mentions, describe yourself the same way everywhere

12:12 - Here's the homework, go search yourself in an incognito session

13:06 - Google Search Console now shows which AI are recommending you

14:32 - Money Masters Bookkeeping

16:20 - Idea Slam Mailbag: they're thirty minutes late, how long do you wait

17:45 - The ten minute rule, then it's an instant reschedule

18:30 - Your punctuality says what you think the meeting is worth

20:57 - The NFL is playing in Australia tonight, and it's a business decision

21:48 - Foureva Media

24:03 - Lookalike audiences, and how to run one at your size

25:45 - Partner up, change the geography, productize the side thing

29:29 - This week in the SBOC, and tomorrow we build a conference

Resources mentioned:

Claude training for small business owners: https://ai.smallbusinesscommunity.com

SBOC26 Conference, September 15-17 in Brookfield: https://event.smallbusinesscommunity.com/26conference

Money Masters Bookkeeping: https://www.moneymasters4biz.com/

Foureva Media: https://fourevamedia.com

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessingShow?sub_confirmation=1

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/businessing-with-pat-miller/id1870663109

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Small Business Owners Community: https://smallbusinesscommunity.com

There's something on your to-do list that hasn't moved in weeks, and it isn't because you're lazy. Five faces of inaction keep small business owners stuck, and today Pat names all five: high standards, worrying what people will say, plain old procrastination, money ghost stories, and hunting for validation before you move. Then he hands you the one rule that beats all of them. You can just do things.

Michael Rampolla of Fortum Advisors joins to talk conference strategy, how to actually get an R on your I, and why the follow-up plan you build before you go is the whole ballgame. Idea Slam takes on the hardest thing in small business, which is saying the price out loud and then shutting up. And the AI story of the day is show and tell. Pat spent two days with Claude cleaning up six years of conflicting information about his business online, and he walks through what changed and how to run the same thing on yours.

Businessing is the weekly show where small business owners figure out what to do next. New episode every Monday morning. Hosted by Pat Miller, founder of the Small Business Owners Community. The Small Business Owners Community is where small business owners get help from other owners: every week, a room full of owners works your problem with you. Owners only, nobody pitching, $19 a month. Any member can bring any business owner to one Idea Slam as their guest: https://smallbusinesscommunity.com/idea-slam/

In this episode:

00:00 - The five faces of inaction, and the thing on your list that never moves

01:37 - High standards, or waiting until the work is flawless

02:01 - What will people say

04:12 - Procrastination, because hard work is hard

04:58 - Money ghost stories, and how they stop you on both sides

06:44 - Hunting for validation before you act

07:26 - You can just do things

09:41 - Foureva Media

11:17 - Michael Rampolla on conference strategy and the R on the I

15:58 - Working the elements: Coaches Row, meals, and breakfast meetings

19:12 - Building the relationship without coming off as a creep

20:46 - The number one conference failure is no follow-up plan

26:52 - Idea Slam: you said the price, now stop talking

29:29 - First to speak loses

30:35 - Minuteman Press of Brookfield

32:34 - AI story of the day: six years of conflicting information online

35:44 - What Claude did to 280 blog posts, the RSS feeds, and the invisible stuff

40:42 - How to run this on your own business

42:00 - SBOC news and the conference is seven days out

Resources mentioned:

Michael Rampolla, Fortum Advisors

SBOC26 Conference, September 15-17 in Brookfield: https://event.smallbusinesscommunity.com/26conference

Foureva Media: https://fourevamedia.com

Minuteman Press of Brookfield, 20% off your print order through November 13: https://minutemanbrookfield.com

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Not every referral partner is ready to send you business yet, and that's fine. There are four ways to move a new partnership forward without either of you selling to the other one's list.

I start with the five steps that make you a good referral partner in the first place. Know exactly what you do and who you serve. Know who else sells to that same audience. Be an actual human being on the first call. Find one slice of the business to work on together instead of the whole thing. Then build something fresh rather than trading names. Part two is what to do when you like the person but you're nowhere near ready to put them in front of your clients: asset trades, co-branded test events, link swaps for AEO and GEO, and case studies. Topgolf just pulled off the asset trade of the week with an arcade game company, and there's a version of that sitting in your business right now.

Also today: every major AI tool went down this morning, and that is not an inconvenience anymore, it's missed labor. And the AI story of the day is the restaurant that put AI-generated shrimp on its menu and got its window graffitied for it.

In this episode:

00:00 - Building collaborations that are more than swapping referrals

01:54 - The five steps that make you a good referral partner

07:53 - Part two: partnering when you're not ready to refer

08:16 - Asset trades, and what Topgolf just did with arcade games

10:34 - Co-branded webinars and low-stakes test events

11:31 - Link swaps, AEO, GEO and trust signals

12:33 - Case studies as a way into someone else's audience

13:48 - Your homework: work one intro without asking for a sale

15:26 - Sponsor: Foureva Media

16:56 - When Claude, ChatGPT and Grok all go down, that's missed labor

19:59 - AI story of the day: the AI slop backlash is real

26:24 - Sponsor: Minuteman Press of Brookfield

27:55 - Do not spend Labor Day weekend getting ahead

31:09 - This week in the SBOC: new member meetup, Idea Slam, Friday Finish Line

33:50 - The SBOC26 Conference is 12 days out

36:09 - Sending my son to Japan for a year

Resources mentioned:

SBOC26 Conference, September 15-17 in Brookfield: https://event.smallbusinesscommunity.com/26conference

Forever Media: https://fourevamedia.com

Minuteman Press of Brookfield: https://minutemanbrookfield.com

The Money Habit by Mike Michalowicz

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Most owners stall out on AI because they're trying to hand off the whole business at once. Start with one small task instead.

Think of everything you have to get done in a week as a deck of 52 cards. A few of them are aces, the work only you can do. Most of them are twos of diamonds, the small repeatable stuff that eats your week and grows nothing. Every time you teach your AI to handle one of those little cards, you get to fold it and never deal with it again. Pat walks through his own two of diamonds, the weekly receipt filing he handed off to Claude, and the ten minutes it takes to find yours. Then in the Idea Slam mailbag, four steps to recover when you're burned out and can't find your love for the business anymore. Plus what's new in Claude Fable 5.1, and why using the wrong model on a small job is bad resource management.

In this episode:

00:00 - What's on the show today

00:37 - Why owners get stuck trying to use AI

01:02 - Your week is a deck of 52 cards

02:51 - How to find your two of diamonds

03:39 - The weekly receipt filing Pat handed off to Claude

07:05 - The ten minute exercise to do today

08:16 - SBOC26 Conference update, 13 days out

11:46 - Idea Slam mailbag: I'm burned out and I need to find my love for the business again

12:14 - Step one, create the time

13:12 - Step two, actually step away

13:58 - Step three, do something you love

15:17 - Step four, run a time audit before you go back

18:08 - AI story of the day: Claude Fable 5.1

20:09 - What's cheaper and smarter in Fable 5.1

23:00 - Stop wasting your premium model credits

25:12 - Pick the right AI model for the job

26:36 - What's happening in the community this week

Resources mentioned:

SBOC26 Conference, September 15-17 in Brookfield: https://event.smallbusinesscommunity.com/26conference

Minuteman Press of Brookfield: https://minutemanbrookfield.com

Forever Media: https://forevermedia.com

🎙️ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessingShow?sub_confirmation=1

🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/businessing-with-pat-miller/id1870663109

🌐 Listen anywhere: https://businessing.captivate.fm/listen

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👥 Small Business Owners Community: https://smallbusinesscommunity.com

#SmallBusiness #Entrepreneurship #PatMiller #AIForSmallBusiness #Burnout #ClaudeAI