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Zack Oates of Ovation on Building Business Connections through Digital Storytelling
Soliciting feedback from customers often seems like a daunting task. However, Zack Oates and his team at Ovation have cracked the code with a proven strategy that not only encourages guest feedback, but also establishes a personal connection for exceptional results.Zack Oates and the guest feedback platform Ovation have taken a radically different approach to hearing from customers, which stems…
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Why Most Businesses Overcomplicate Their Marketing Strategy
Let's be real: Most founders don't need more marketing tactics. There is a ton of content out there about how to handle your marketing — so much that it's overwhelming.Marketing also accounts for a large part of business budgets, adding up to nearly 10% of the cost for the average…
Jesse Itzler and Devon Levesque on the Mad Fun of Runningman
Every week on our show, How Success Happens, I get to talk to incredible people who accomplish amazing things in the face of great obstacles. Most entrepreneurs wish they could avoid big obstacles, but others seek them out.Such is the case for Jesse Itzler and Devon Levesque, the one-two punch…
Inclusion Isn’t Just a Checkbox Anymore — It’s What Investors Are Looking For
Here's what I've learned from over a decade advising, navigating and building businesses across some of the most complex markets in the world: The real risk is rarely what's visible; it's what's missing. Not the numbers in the spreadsheet, but the name that wasn't on the invite list. Not the…
Autonomous Agents Are Revolutionizing Software As We Know It
Let's be honest, most SaaS updates today are still "smarter features." Better dashboards, improved AI summaries and predictive filters that shave off seconds from workflows. They're helpful, but … they're still passive.However, most of these features still depend on users knowing what to do. Autonomous agents change this equation. Let's…
She Bought a Franchise in 6 Weeks. Now It’s a $1M Business.
Rochelle Hendricks moves fast.In 2022, a decade after opening her own insurance brokerage, she decided to try her hand at the siding business — fast-tracking the purchase of an Ideal Siding franchise in Ontario, Canada, in less than two months. Over the next two years, she opened three more locations…
Why Your Cash Reserve Is Probably Hurting More Than Helping
If one of your employees didn't have a clear role or goals, you'd probably take immediate steps to fix that. You'd define what success looks like for that individual and make sure they had the necessary tools to do their job. So why not give your capital the same attention?Too…
Stop Building a Business That Traps You and Start Climbing the 5 Levels to Financial Freedom
Most entrepreneurs chase freedom, but end up building businesses that trap them.They leave the 9-to-5 in pursuit of autonomy, flexibility and financial independence. Yet somewhere along the way, the dream gets replaced by a demanding reality: a business that can't function without them, inconsistent income and the gnawing feeling that…
VCs Are Focusing More on Purpose and Less on Profits — Here Are the 5 Things They’re Looking For in Founders
Venture investors are adapting to the times, and are increasingly open to working with Al technologies and investing in both new and emerging sectors such as longevity and wellness, areas of the global economy which have seen over 75% more funding in 2023 and projected to reach $8 trillion by…
10 Things That Separate Successful Founders From the Unsuccessful
Success isn't an accident. It's the result of deliberate, consistent habits practiced day in and day out. Over the course of my five-year Rich Habits study, what I discovered was a clear divide in habits that successful entrepreneurs embraced and unsuccessful ones ignored.If you're an entrepreneur aiming to build a…
How This Entrepreneur Built a Bay Area Empire — One Hustle at a Time
A tycoon is defined as a powerful, wealthy figure in business — someone who's achieved dominance in their field. Few in hip-hop embody that term more than Earl "E-40" Stevens, the legendary Bay Area rapper often credited with bringing it into the culture's vernacular.Before he built a wine empire, launched…
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