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Why Best Practices In Your Industry Are Keeping You Small—With Bill Prater

Best practices are overrated. For years we have been taught that the key to business growth is following methods that have been proven over and over again in your industry. However, a quick look at the elite rungs of any industry will show you that what binds the top players together is their penchant for being different, even outrageously so. Suffice it to say that if you want to break the barriers to your growth, you don’t want to be lumped among the ordinary. Few people understand this better than Bill Prater, founder of Business Mastery and Scaleology. In this conversation with Meny Hoffman, Bill unpacks the essential things that business owners need to keep in mind as they prepare to scale. He also shares practical advice on how leaders can bring their team onboard with their vision. Join in and stick to the end as Bill shares a ton of important information and incredible resources.

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LTB 73 | Marketing Plan

How to Achieve Maximum Growth with a Simple Marketing Plan—with Mostafa Hosseini

Your marketing plan is one of the most important plans you will ever develop. A well-thought-through and executed marketing plan can make or break your growth ambitions. Joining Meny Hoffman in this episode is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, and business coach Mostafa Hosseini. An expert in marketing, sales, business transformation, and strategic planning, Mostafa has been coaching and consulting entrepreneurs for over ten years, helping businesses in various niches and industries grow, scale, and become more profitable. Today, he shares how he helps coaches, consultants, and experts create and implement their one-page marketing plan in seven days or less.

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SPECIAL EPISODE: An Exclusive Interview With Our Host, Meny Hoffman—Part 2

Coming back to the interviewee’s seat in his own show, Meny Hoffman rejoins Chava Shapiro for the second part of their exclusive interview. In this episode, they talk about all things leadership – from its broad definition to the nitty-gritty of what every contemporary leader needs to be aware of as they play their role in today’s changed and changing world. Whether you’re leading a Fortune 500 company or a small business with fewer than five employees, these leadership principles are going to resonate with you and change the way you lead. Leadership certainly isn’t easy, but it’s significantly easier if you’ve got someone by your side teaching you the ropes. Listen in and let Meny be your guide for today.

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SPECIAL EPISODE: An Exclusive Interview With Our Host, Meny Hoffman—Part 1

In today’s special episode, we turn the table on Let’s Talk Business host Meny Hoffman as Chava Shapiro puts him in the hot seat.

As many in the business world know, Meny is the CEO of Ptex Group, an award-winning branding, and marketing agency, and the Founder of the Let’s Talk Business (LTB) platform, a movement to provide entrepreneurs with the powerful tools they need to grow and thrive. In the first part of this interview series, we will find out about the history of Ptex Group, as well as what Meny is all about and what his goals are.

Are you ready to learn, grow, and lead? Be inspired by his story right here.

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LTB 70 | Career Path

Discover the Career You Love—with Shaina Keren

Do you LOVE your career? It’s such a simple question, but I doubt most people find it easy to answer.

If you’re struggling to find what’s missing in your professional life, I’m excited to share this interview with my guest, Shaina Keren. Shaina is a career consultant specializing in helping people discover and create careers that truly align with their natural talents, deepest interests, and lifelong goals. She also advises business owners on how to find and hire the most qualified individuals for their team, and how to keep the right people in the right positions. The more I learned about Shaina’s win-win approach for growing companies and aspiring job-seekers alike, the more I realized it’s time to bring her on the show.

In our interview, Shaina shares some tried-and-true methods that help her clients discover their best career paths. She also explains how anyone already employed can add more value to their company and move up the corporate ladder. Finally, Shaina addresses the employer’s perspective on hiring, how they can ensure they’re interviewing and onboarding the right candidates, and training them to achieve success.

I gained so much from this interview that I cannot wait to share it. Listen and enjoy!

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How to Use Video to Boost Your Team’s Productivity—with Matthew Pierce

Are you spending too much time trying to get your team to understand what needs to be done, how to do it, and why they should care?

If you’re looking for a better way to lead your people, I’m excited to share my interview with Matthew Pierce, a highly experienced instructional designer, training manager, speaker, and multimedia creator. Matthew manages training and development at TechSmith Corporation (creators of Snagit and Camtasia), and oversees their instructional design, documentation, training, and technical support.

Matthew discusses how you can start using video today to communicate with your team faster and more clearly. He breaks down crucial ways that visual media boosts productivity, from aligning your team with your values to onboarding new talent. Finally, pay close attention to how Matthew shares the dos and don’ts of creating “screencasting” or videos for visual training purposes. Listen and enjoy!

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How to Build a High-Performance Virtual Team—with Leah Faul

Are you struggling to lead a stay-at-home virtual workforce?

This week Meny Hoffman interviews Leah Faul, the Founder and Owner of 15000 Cubits—a digital marketing agency based out of Houston, Texas that she built from the ground up with an entire team that works remotely. Leah explains how you can cultivate an innovative culture that motivates and unifies your virtual workforce around your core values. She covers some of the newest trends in digital marketing that you can leverage to get the leads you need from online media. Finally, Leah gives practical advice for making sure your website is SEO friendly. Listen and enjoy!

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How to Grow and Scale Through Servant Leadership—with Naftali Tessler

Servant leadership is more than just a buzzword at Hamaspik of Kings County.

As one of the organization’s core values, it reflects not only in the way they’re helping their beneficiaries, but also in the way their leadership team deals with their employees. An integral part of this amazing leadership culture is Naftali Tessler, the organization’s Chief of Staff.

Joining Meny Hoffman for this podcast’s anniversary special, Naftali talks about the leadership culture and core values at Hamaspik. He also talks about how the Leaders Forum helped his personal development as a leader.

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