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How to grow any company in any industry at any time. We have, we can and we will continue to do so. Don’t miss what over 2000 companies have used to improve and grow their businesses, from the mom and pop shops to Fortune 500 companies.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

Find out what the very best companies do to keep growing. There is a reason why 90% of all Fortune 500 from 1955 are gone. Follow Ken’s step by step plan to grow and keep growing.Don’t be a casualty of business war, listen now!   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

Question Of The Day: Are you breaking “The Law of Authority”? Join Ken and over 10,000 listeners as he talks about his proven method to turbocharge your business by changing your perceived credibility.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

Are you seeing a ton of people? Are the leads coming in from multiple channels? Are you churning bid after bid, quote after quote but there is very little revenue coming in? Listen to the Ken’s podcast and put on your catcher’s mitt so you can start to catch your lost sales.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

Are your sales at a standstill? Do you feel like you’re fighting against yourselves? The Law of The Rope says you might be. Listen to Ken as he explains how a game of internal tug of war may be going on in your company right now preventing you from achieving your dreams.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

Don’t let your company flatline. Past growth is not an indicator of future growth but failure to grow is not an indicator of certain company death. Are there other companies growing in your space? If so listen on to find out how you too can propel your company to new heights.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

What four fundamental business principles do you need in place to grow your business? 439 of the fortune 500 companies that existed in 1955 are no longer in business. Why? Leadership is the single biggest factor in the success and sustained growth of your business.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

We use internal guide maps to not only grow our business but also other businesses for consulting purposes. The next few podcasts will be dedicated to going over how we do it. You will be able to find these charts up on the website.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

In our last episode we talked about going 6 wide for service. Today we talk about reaching out and casting our net by going 6 wide for products.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

Hey folks Ken Courtright here with Today’s Growth Growing Business Today. This is episode 61 we’re calling this “Going 6 Wide”. I want to start out by saying thank you. I was looking at the stats in Bluebrry and the podcast listeners have tripled since the end of February. We have done zero marketing it is strictly word of mouth, a viral effort. What does going 6 wide mean? It means that I’ve asked myself 6 times how are we going to double business, how are we going to double sales. Not only that, when I go into a client’s office there is always “how are we gonna” question. Like How are we going to do “X”. This takes me to our Digital Footprint event and by far the most popular segment that occurs on Sunday is the “What would you do exercise?” We create a listing of chairs and we have a panel of our experts that run a global business, have a industry leading business or are know business mentors answering question about business challenges from the audience. Listen on for more about Ken and how he thinks 6 wi

Hey guys Ken Courtright here with Today’s Growth Growing Business Today. I’m in my office in beautiful Minooka it’s Memorial Day and what a beautiful day. I want to take a moment to recognize our veterans and the people that risk their lives on a daily basis in our armed services. We just got done doing a 3 part series on the “ask is everything” and I want to piggyback that idea and transfer it to the interview or hiring process. After speaking to all of the business owners we’ve spoken to especially ones that realize explosive growth there isn’t a single one of them that doesn’t have an exceptional team behind them. I know we do. There is a certain protocol, a certain set of questions we ask of potential employees that really weed the would be hire from the people we do take on. I think all starts with Dr. Steven Covey’s notion that you should seek to understand before you are understood. Quite often in an interview we are so eager to make sure the prospective employee knows our company and our overall plan

Hey guys Ken Courtright from Today’s Growth Growing Business Today. This episode 59 part three of the ask is everything with a subtitle of Build it First. We are hitting every possible angle that can effect a business. I think we can agree that the book Think and Grow Rich was the book that started the age of the mastermind group. It was a book about collective wisdom, get you in the challenge, can’t get you out of the challenge. That being said I believe there is a lot to be said about seeking and asking for mentorship. There is a right way and a wrong way to ask for that mentorship no matter who you are. Mentors don’t come to you, you have to ask for it. Here is a comparison, 90% of all business loans require you to write a business plan. Lots of times the bank never reads them however, you have to build something before you ask for the loan. After you forecast, speculate, dream you give the plan to the bank and ask them for the money. Listen on as Ken recounts speaking to a high end marketer about getting

Hey guys Ken Courtright here with Today’s Growth Growing Business Today. We are trying to hit every small aspect of what it takes to grow a business. Today we have are second part of a series called The Ask Is Everything. I wasn’t real clear on how to earn the right to ask for the order. So I want to take some time to clear that up before I jump back into the meat of the topic. When it comes to earning the right to ask for the order I call it the “right to sell” and it’s based on our websites “right to succeed” motto. I think if I frame it around that you’ll better understand the concept. What give you the right to sell, right now with how information moves trust factors are the key. It is imperative that we give our potential customers what they need to buy from us. Websites need to have third party endorsements, local press media and a well done sketch cartoon or video helps as well. Listen on as Ken dives deeper into “The Ask”.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How &ra

Hey guys Ken Courtright here from Today’s Growth Growing Business Today. This the podcast that takes a look at everything and anything that affects businesses from every angle. This one is gonna be an awesome podcast. This one is titled “The Ask Is Everything”. My next book Guerilla Marketing will be my longest and it is titled “The Success Wheel” and I have a podcast that will be dedicated just to that book. The following book will be titled “The Ask is Everything”. I’m gonna do a series on this subject and they are about how you ask for something dictates everything. In the old days when someone put on their suit, went to the phone book, booked an appointment and did a presentation. You built value in that presentation until the value equaled two times the price. The questions you asked, the feedback you got built value and when you thought it was worth two times the price you were trained to ask for the order or AFO. Listen on as Ken talks about the art of asking for the order in the days of hyper connecti

Hey guys Ken Courtright here with Todays Growth Growing Business Today. This is episode 56 and I’m dealing with a bit of allergies today so bare with me. The name of this podcast is “Customers Need to Connect” In the early 1960’s ABC was the newest network TV channel and they landed their biggest contract at the time; NCAA Football games. The problem was is that no one watched college football at the time. If you lived in Ohio you did watch what Illinois was doing. People went to the games. They were very excited about the potential but they knew it was a challenge. There was one young employee that thought he was up for the challenge and his name was Roone Arledge. He wrote a 2 page letter to ABC brass about why people didn’t care about watching college football on TV but added suggestions on how he thought the newtwork could change things around. Listen on as Ken explains how customers, viewers, listeners need to connect.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » J

Hey everyone Ken Courtright here from Today’s Growth Growing business today. This podcast is called Need To Be Heard. After being on Bill McCluskey’s excellent customer service podcast which will be out in June. After being on the podcast the question’s Bill asked made me go back and want to change this one. This podcast revolves around your customer’s and your clients “need to be heard”. It’s a physical need. Many of you know we have two sides to the company, one side builds authority sites for authors, professionals etc. and the Income Store takes people who are not necessary an authority but they could be, we take their investment and buy a website that is already earning money and split the profit 50/50. In both of the these companies we overlay an operating agreement with a guarantee of a 12% to 22% profit. In 2009 when we first got into the authority site side of the business I made it a point to model Google’s customer service division. The funny thing is Google doesn’t have a customer service division

Hey folks it’s Ken Courtright with Today’s Growth Growing Business Today. Todays episode is called the Power of Belonging. Of the top 10 reasons why a person stays at a job for more than two years the 7th reason is pay. There are 6 more important reasons for longevity. A few of them are being part of a team, having their voice heard, being respected and having their opinions matter. So which reasons are heavier the amount of money they make or being part of a team? Being part of a team obviously. How do we look at this fact of business in the year 2016? Listen on as Ken dives into what makes employees tick and how you can improve your team leadership skills.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

Hey guys Ken Courtright here with Today’s Growth Growing Business Today this may be my world record shortest podcast. Sometimes the devil is in the details. I was just reminded this week that we set an appointment at 6:35am awhile back. The gist of the story goes something like this. We were running a radio ad on the East Coast, a person heard the ad, went to the domain call the number on the domain and called. Low and behold we had a live operator and we set up an appointment for the next day at 6:35am, 7:35 EST. The moral to this story is that we had just taken this website from a mobile ready website to a fully mobile reactive site. The theme is call Avada. No matter what platform you are on, phone, iPad, Samsung Tab you can see all of the pertinent information. Videos, ads, lead gen are all available via mobile. When this person was driving because of how simple it was to navigate they were able to call and make an appointment with us. We ran the ad in a west coast time zone which was a cheaper rate but b

Hey guys Ken Courtright from Today’s Growth Growing Business Today this is episode 52 titled “Do It Your Way” This episode is about doing your own business your way. I’ve been talking over the last 51 episodes about mentorship, leadership, reading books, branding yourself and I was really looking forward to this podcast to counterbalance the last 6 podcasts where I talked about the Four Hour Work Week, reading your emails at a certain time. I realize not everyone is wired that way, sometimes people truly love working, they love getting up early and staying up late. So I want to take the time to give those people some tips for those on the fanatical side. This podcast is the day in the life of two very successful entrepreneurs. Listen more to Ken talk about Jordan Zimmerman of Zimmerman advertising and billionaire Mark Cuban.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtri

Hey guys Ken Courtright here with Today’s Growth Growing Business Today, I wanted to do a series on some things I see out there. Some of these nuggets aren’t for everyone but for some I think they can really help. This one in particular is for the larger business out there. One of the biggest mistakes we are seeing as growth consultants from the bigger businesses out there is that these particular business aren’t starving yet. Businesses get soft after generating revenue for so long. Sometimes it takes extreme starvation to grow a new revenue stream. They are so used to cash flow leveraging audiences. Ken talks about strategy in the workplace, leveraging your greatest asset against your weakest point for the greatest gain.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn