Episode 764 – Hire Higher with Andrea Hoffer

Andrea knows that great businesses are built on strong teams. That’s why she founded AHA! Recruiting Experts, a company dedicated to helping leaders attract and retain the best people for their companies so they can focus solely on what really matters–growing their business. Andrea is a businesswoman with over three decades of experience. She’s managed…

Episode 759 – How To Land The Right Client (Hint: It’s About Connections)

I don’t know about you, but the past two years have been a challenge for everyone, and we are no different. It’s not only made working from home more acceptable but an embraced lifestyle. People are transitioning from living to work to working to live. Now, I know this is a business blog so I…

Episode 757 – It’s People… Making Green Takes PEOPLE!

Past Bacon Podcast Guest Ryan Weiss, gave a presentation and workshop last week to a larger audience. The constant them and the biggest takeaway was that your processes have to align your purpose, people, and processes to achieve success. All three of them are intertwined in a way that has to work for you, your…

Episode 755 – How To Document Success? What Gets Captured – Gets Updated (With A Nudge)

How do you people feel about your CRM? Is it a Bankers’ Box in the basement, or is it a loved and actively used tool? CRMs are often thought of as managing data, but in the middle of Customer & Management is RELATIONSHIP! You have humans in your sales team who are building and maintaining…

Episode 753 – How To Give Your Sales Team A Little Empathy To Share With Your Customers?

It’s hard to believe that two years ago we went from a kind of normal to total chaos in our businesses. We were mostly all chugging along, filled with hope for a new year, and BOOM. One thing has become clear. The change was becoming a constant accelerating fact of life. Some of us (a…

Episode 752 – How To Avoid A Great Resignation At Your Company with Mark Babbitt & S. Chris Edmonds

Mark S. Babbitt is President of WorqIQ, a community and change management consultancy that helps organizations understand leadership’s impact on culture and the company’s collective level of Workplace Intelligence (WQ). Mark is also CEO and Founder of YouTern. This career-focused community enables college students, recent graduates, and young professionals to find their first or next…

Episode 726 – Overcoming The Red Tape Of Filling Jobs With Foreign Workers with Jacki Lentini

The Law Offices of Jacqueline Lentini, LLC is certified by the State of Illinois Central Management Services as a Women Business Enterprise (WBE), a part of the diversity compliance opportunities within the State. For more information, please see Diversity Compliance: https://www2.illinois.gov/cms/business/sell2/bep/Pages/default.aspx. Jacqueline Lentini focuses her practice on immigration law and compliance, handling all matters of…

Episode 722 – Creating One Million Jobs Through Collaboration with Dennis Yu

Dennis Yu’s mission is to create a million jobs. CEO of BlitzMetrics, a digital marketing company that partners with schools to train young adults. We offer courses, implementation, and consulting. My personal mission centers around mentorship from my experience with helping people from all walks of life grow their expertise in digital marketing, sharing his…

Episode 709 – Want To Sell Your Business? Use Marketing To Increase Your Valuation

In an upcoming expert interview, Marks S A Smith tells us that “A Ready To Sell Business is a GREAT Business”. What he means is, if you increase the sales by improving the processes, your business should be more profitable and better suited for suitors. If your marketing messaging is better, it will help you…

Episode 706 – Best Of – Timbits Selling and Delivering Value with David Priemer

Like most of us, David Priemer never thought he’d end up in sales! He started his career tinkering with test tubes and differential equations as an award-winning research scientist before spending the next 20 years leading top-performing sales teams at high-growth technology companies including Salesforce, where he was the Vice President of Commercial Sales and…