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EP 294: Refining Your Offer With SpeakEasy Cooperative Founder Michelle Markwart Deveaux
Refining the product or service you already offer can be as good—or even better—for giving your business a shot of energy as offering something new. When you refine or repackage your offer, new people might notice it who passed it by before.
BONUS: Why We Chose Productized Services For YellowHouse.Media
In This Episode: Why Sean and Tara McMullin chose to “productize” their full-service podcast production offer at YellowHouse.Media… and what productized services actually are What’s included in the package they offer–and why they don’t often custom or ...
EP 293: Offering Bespoke Services With Flaunt Your Fire Founder India Jackson
Offer development is an incredibly important part of running a service-based business. Without a careful strategy and thoughtful process behind how you create value, you are likely to get stuck in the trap of trading time for money or wind up overwork ...
BONUS: How I Created 2 New Offers When People Asked Me, “What’s Next?”
This is a special bonus episode of What Works--the show that takes you behind the scenes of how small business owners take decisive action to build a stronger business. This is the first episode in a three-part series taking a closer look at what's wo...
EP 292: Figuring Out What’s Next For Your Offer With LOE Collective Founder Alisha Robertson
This month, we’re focusing on how small businesses create & deliver value. How do we develop new offers? Put together new packages? Build new products? We’ll be deep diving into 3 businesses and how they create & deliver value.
EP 291: Reply Hazy. Try Again.
The future is hazy. It's unknowable. And that makes taking decisive action to build a stronger business much more challenging. But we have a choice. We can either fight it--and metaphorically try to shake that damn ball until we have a complete pictu...
EP 290: Discovering Your Vision With Ginkgo Public Relations Founder Cher Hale
My guest is Cher Hale, the founder of Ginkgo Public Relations. Cher is full of incredible stories of figuring out what she wants and taking action to make it happen—from making a big personal moving, to going full-time with her business,
EP 289: Leading Through Uncertainty with &yet CEO Sarah Avenir
I wanted to dig into what leading a team or community through a crisis can look like, and I could think of no one better to talk to about this than my friend Sarah Avenir. Sarah Avenir—who you might know better as Sarah J.
EP 288: Rethinking Your Business Amidst Change With Second Breaks Founder Lou Blaser
We are all facing uncertainty--as we do every day. So I wanted to talk with business owners who have their own stories about embracing uncertainty this month and the first person I thought of was Lou Blaser, the founder & host of Second Breaks.
EP 287: The Things We Thought We Knew About Money
This week, we asked members of The What Works Network to share one thing they thought they knew about money but later discovered wasn't true. Each shared a narrative or bias that held them back from fully embracing their business and their earning pote...