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On this episode of The Small Business Radio Show…
SEGMENT 1 with Greg Powell, starting at 0:00: This year, a lot of your small business success is how effective you are at finding, hiring, and training your new employees. Greg Powell is here with tips and tricks for hiring faster and more efficiently so you can run and grow your business.
SEGMENT 2 with Michael Kurland, starting at 17:45: There is a great saying that anyone can be a captain in a calm sea–but what happens when things get rough in your business? Are you ready to lead? Michael Kurland helps small business owners prepare.
SEGMENT 3 with Bill Reiman, starting at 34:45: In the world of business, family businesses are unique because they are based on personal relationships that have so much history attached to them. That can be a good and bad thing, and it certainly makes family business especially tricky to operate. Bill Reiman is here to share his story of growing up in a family business, then returning to it later in life.
Sponsored by Truly Financial.
More on each segment below.
Segment 1: Greg Powell is the Senior Director of SMB Experience Marketing at Indeed, where he helps grow the lifetime value of small and mid-sized businesses by helping them see the benefit in Indeed’s full scope of offerings. Prior to Indeed, he held marketing leadership roles at fintech startup Fundbox and Intuit.
- Labor Market Trends & the impact to small businesses
- How Indeed is automating hiring to help SMB employers
- Hacks/Tricks for using and maximizing automation to help hire faster & more efficiently
- Tips to Elevate Job Postings & Engage Candidates
- The Indeed Hiring Fund
Segment 2: Michael Kurland is the award-winning founder and CEO of Branded Group, a company dedicated to delivering exceptional facility management for multi-site commercial facilities. He is a well-established author of thought leadership articles and is well-known for his philosophy for personal and professional success known as #BeBetter. Michael writes about what it takes to be a successful leader in his new book Broken to Better: 13 Ways Not to Fail at Life and Leadership (Houndstooth Press; July 19, 2022).
- How to create an empowering, nurturing, and purpose-driven organization
- #BeBetter in all aspects of your life—to be a better CEO, manager, employee, friend, coworker, or whatever shoes you fill
- The 13 principles for being a successful leader in an evolving business climate
- The most valuable lesson Michael has learned as an entrepreneur and CEO
- Best advice to new entrepreneurs
Segment 3: Bill Reiman grew up in the construction business where he learned every aspect there is to know about a house inside and out. But after an injury ended his college football career, he changed course. He wanted something different than construction, so he pursued a sales job at a car dealership. After quick success, he decided this was not the actual path that he wanted. He decided to go back to college, and he finished with a degree in business management and marketing from the University of South Florida.
- Bill’s family business story
- Why did you leave the family business that your dad started?
- Why did you return to the family business?
- What did you discover your talents were?
- Why not start your own business instead?
- Family business dynamics
