Rate Your Authority in Your Niche | Stage 2: Specialty

Hi Everyone, this is Carl Gould, author of The 7 Stage Growth Method and your #70secondCEO, just a little over a one-minute investment each day for a lifetime of results. Today's topic is stage 2: the specialty stage.

Alright, here we're judging how much of an expert in your niche you are. How much of an authority? Give yourself a ranking on a scale of 1 to 10. One: nobody knows who I am. Ten, I'm an ABSOLUTE authority in my niche. Here's how you know. Somebody unsolicited comes up to you at an industry conference, or somebody in the industry contacts you and says, "hey, can I can I bug you a little bit can I ask you a few questions? Buy you a cup of coffee and pick your brain because you've figured out some things that I just haven't been able to figure out, and you seem to really have that worked out."

So, how often does that happen to you, and how much of an expert are you in your niche? One, you're a Houdini; nobody knows who you are; you're a disappearing act; 10, you're a celebrity in your niche. Put a comment at the bottom let me know what your score is.

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Hi Everybody, Carl Gould here, author of The 7 Stage Growth Method and your #70secondCEO, where you invest a little more than one minute a day for a lifetime of results. Today's topic is: Stage 7, The Succession Stage

We're ranking your business right now. Where are you in this growth trajectory? 1 is, huh? 10 is, we got it! Alright, The Succession Stage: to what degree do you have:

• Management team in place?

• Tight controls?

• Solid operations?

• You're running like a finely tuned machine?

• You have a lead generation machine?

• A sales team that's closing it?

• Are clients happy?

• And you're on the leading edge of product development?

This is rarefied air, folks. We gotta make sure that you're fully there; if not, put a comment at the bottom: what do you need to do to maximize your 7th Stage here? Rank yourself on a scale of 1-10, tell me your score, and where is your area of improvement?

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Build a Better Organizational Chart: Track Your Tasks, Improve Cash Flow & Scale Your Business

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

You'll notice as you look at the organizational chart, there's you on top, the CEO; you're the CEO of Me Incorporated. And on the left-hand side, as you look at your page, that's all the activities of the business that bring in customers and cash. That's the D and the I side of the organizational chart- anything that brings it in and on the right side is the S and C part of the organizational chart, and that's everything that keeps it in. So the dominant and income side brings it in and the systems and controls size–side. Make sure you keep it in the business and then along the bottom. There's one large box with a bunch of lines in it. Here's the assignment. For the next two weeks. Write down everything you do in brutal detail and be honest with yourself, write down every task that you do, and how long it takes.

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