Elite Business Advice Podcast
The Elite Business Advice Podcast's goal is to help educate business owners in all areas of business and life. We want to help entrepreneurs both personally and professionally to make sure they have a healthy balance of how their business is serving their life!
We cover very tactical topics like morning routines, marketing & tax strategies, and systems to have in place for your business, as well as big picture items like designing your life, planning out your business each year, and how to grow your leadership.
While the niche our company serves is focused on the painting industry and painting contractors, the advice shared in this show will translate across all of the trades and home service industries as well as many other business categories.
Episodes
228 episodes
Case Study: Clemson – Creating a Culture of Excellence
Clemson, South Carolina isn’t just known for its legendary football program — it’s known for its powerful sense of culture, community, and loyalty. Whether you’ve experienced Clemson firsthand or just heard the buzz, there’s something truly spe...
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Season 5
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Episode 41
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25:57
Topgolf Case Study - Building a Sustainable Business
How do you ensure that as your business is growing and becoming more popular, we keep making the right decisions to do it in a healthy way? Hindsight is always 20/20 in any business and in life decisions, but what are some core philosophies we ...
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Season 5
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Episode 40
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25:33
Leveraging AI and Technology in Your Business
Do you ever wonder how you should be leveraging AI and different technology in your business? Do you also feel lost on where to start or where to think about beginning with the vast array of things available and rapidly changing the last few ye...
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Season 5
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Episode 39
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43:19
Sales 401 Series – Part 4: Handling Objections and Building Lifelong Customers
We know that objections are going to happen in sales, the question is are you prepared for them? Or more importantly how you can handle them in your process before they even come up! In this episode, we’re going to cover how to handle some comm...
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Season 5
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Episode 38
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37:22
Sales 401 Series – Part 3: Building Your Sales Framework and Process
It’s important to have a repeatable process for every estimate that you do. This helps breed consistency in the customer experience, sets your production team up for success, and helps create a duplicatable system to teach others as you grow. I...
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Season 5
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Episode 37
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36:05
Sales 401 Series – Part 2: Sales Psychology
One misunderstanding we hear from painting contractors is that sales psychology is just manipulation of the customers. But it’s actually not! It’s understanding the way they’re thinking so we can communicate how to solve their problem or satisf...
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Season 5
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Episode 36
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28:49
Sales 401 Series – Part 1: Why Fundamentals Matter to Keep Your Business Moving
Everything in a painting business rises and falls on sales. It’s often referred to as the cog in the wheel or the bottleneck in the business flow. Today, we kick off a 4-part series on sales covering the fundamentals needed in selling. From kno...
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Season 5
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Episode 35
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30:16
How You Should Organize Your Crews
Do you know the impact of what having set structured crews can have in your business? Do you know how you would even organize your teams? In today’s episode we’re going to share why this can be so impactful, how to think about organizing your t...
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Season 5
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Episode 34
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22:15
3 Questions to Answer in Your Business
There are 3 questions that you should be able to answer in your business off the top of your head, and if you answer yes to all 3 you are on track and should carry on! If you answer no to any of them, it’s well worth taking some time to slow do...
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Season 5
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Episode 33
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16:38
Marketing Systems For Consistency
Everyone knows they need to build a consistent lead flow for their business, but few people know what that actually looks like. In this episode, we break down how to build marketing systems for your business into 3 areas: Time Intervals, Trigge...
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Season 5
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Episode 32
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19:45
An Attitude of Gratitude
It’s not hard to see the negative things in the world and in people around us. It is a lot harder to find the positive in things though. Usually you have to actually look for it. In today’s episode we share how having an Attitude of Gratitude c...
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Season 5
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Episode 31
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26:03
Opportunities Are Everywhere
As an entrepreneur, having opportunities all around you can be a very freeing and exciting thing, but it also can be a dangerous thing along your entrepreneurial journey if you don’t guard your golden goose and make smart decisions. In this epi...
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Season 5
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Episode 30
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19:07
Don’t Pierce the Corporate Veil!
Keeping your business and personal finances separated sounds like a pretty simple and easy thing to do right? Unfortunately what seems easy and become tough in some day to day realities of running a business. In this episode we share some commo...
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Season 5
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Episode 29
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20:11
What Are Your Inputs?
What you put into your brain is what you will see each and everyday in our lives. In this episode we share a few common areas that can make or break our mindset, the psychology behind why this is so impactful, and how to change if you don’t lik...
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Season 5
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Episode 28
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24:28
Your Customers Experience Makes or Breaks Sales
How good do you believe your customers experience is with your company? Do you have any benchmarks or feedback to back up that feeling? In this episode, we’re going to cover how your customer experience makes or breaks sales for you, the common...
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Season 5
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Episode 27
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28:03
A Desire Mindset vs a Mindset of Lack
Do you ever catch yourself going down a negative slippery slope in your business? You quickly turn one little thing into a negative monstrosity that is hard to bounce back from? How do you view the overall satisfaction of your business? Are you...
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Season 5
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Episode 26
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27:24
Building a Resilient Business
Are you a painting contractor trying to prepare for the unexpected in your business? In this episode, we explore four critical areas where every painting business owner should build resilience to handle challenges like sudden employee turnover,...
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Season 5
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Episode 25
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20:19
KISS: Keep It Simple Stupid
Have you ever found yourself looking at things through a complicated lens in your business when in reality, you need to take a step back, look at it from a bigger picture and draw out a new plan? It’s easy to overcomplicate many things when run...
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Season 5
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Episode 24
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28:06
Your North Star Metric
What if there was one metric, one KPI, one identifiable number that if you focused on only that, it would give you success in your business? There is actually! And this metric drives all decisions in your business based on it and can almost gua...
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Season 5
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Episode 23
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28:08
5 Marketing Strategies Working Right Now
In a world of “Money solves problems” it’s easy to throw a lot of money at your lead-gen problem and hope it solves it. However, we see that fail more times than not. In today’s episode we share what we’re seeing work across the board for our c...
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Season 5
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Episode 22
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25:18
Declutter Your Life
It’s easy to miss the things that are draining you mentally or are overstimulating without realizing the root issue. Many studies have brought to light the role that “clutter” plays in our lives and our brains ability to process things. In toda...
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Season 5
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Episode 21
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22:26
Protect Your Culture at All Costs
While culture seems to be a buzzword among business owners, it’s actually the lifeblood of your business! There’s nothing worse than an employee that kills the morale and culture in your business and creates a negative ripple effect. In today’s...
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Season 5
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Episode 20
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22:55
Surfprep: Hiring People Better Than You
It’s hard for entrepreneurs to admit that in order to scale their business they need to hire people better than themselves in each area. But man is it a great feeling when you hire that person that thrives in a position better than you did… if ...
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Season 5
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Episode 19
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42:21
12 Pieces of Advice for Success
In this rapid fire episode, we cover 12 pieces of advice that has been either instrumental on our journey or for our clients in helping their business succeed. Be prepared, there may be a few spicy ones! Remember our intentions are from a place...
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Season 5
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Episode 18
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20:19
What Legacy Are You Leaving?
Did you know the average funeral sees about 30 to 60 people at it? While we often times associate legacy to the passing of someone, legacy is about impact on those you are interacting with everyday and the ripple effect it creates in the world....
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Season 5
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Episode 17
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22:27