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In The Box Podcast

Episode 25: Feedback, Stopping Business Growth, Convincing Vs Converting And More – Podcast

Garth Beyer

On this episode of In The Box Podcast, we chatted about when you should stop growing your business (Yup, STOP growing it), the tiers of keeping in touch with people, the difference between convincing and converting as well as the difference between being defensive and seeking to be understood. As always, we had a bonus topic (bonus in the sense of always random, thought of in the moments before starting the podcast) where we talked about what advice we would give someone who has a tough time asking for or receiving feedback.

Enjoy. Then enjoy some more.

Episode 25: Feedback, Stopping Business Growth, Convincing Vs Converting And More

Growth – What is one indicator that you should stop growing your business?

Keeping in touch – Is sending an email considered “keep in touch”? or does one need to meet another face-to-face to keep a strong relationship?

Facts – What is the best way to convince someone to accept a fact is true?

Defensive vs Understanding – What is your interpretation of the difference between being defensive and seeking to be understood?

Bonus – What advice would you give someone who has a tough time asking for/receiving feedback?

 

Stay Positive & Experience Trumps Facts And Figures

 

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Episode 24: Serial Project Creator, Getting A Read Of Someone, One Word To Grow By And More – Podcast

Garth Beyer

On this episode of In The Box Podcast, we talked about creating multiple projects versus one solid quality project every now and then. We also dove into what it means to turn from a freelancer to an entrepreneur, the mindset to have when loaning money, what to do when you simply can’t get a read on someone, and Michael shared one word to grow by (and why) Enjoy.

Episode 24: Serial Project Creator, Getting A Read Of Someone, One Word To Grow By And More

To be successful – Generally speaking, to be successful do you always need to be serially creating projects?

Freelancer to entrepreneur – What’s one way you can go from a freelancer to an entrepreneur?

Pay back – At what point (how much money) do you ask someone to pay you back?

Get a read – What’s the first thing you do when you can’t get a read on someone?

Grow – What is one word to grow by?

 

Stay Positive & What’s Your One Word To Grow By?

The What Will Change, Will You Let It?

The What Will Change, Will You Let It?

Garth Beyer

Startups

I’ve learned from a friend, founder of Bicad, that while the why, where, when, and how of a startup needs to stay the same, the what can often change. And that’s okay. It should…at first.

When you’re resistant to changing your what, you’re preventing yourself from growth, and ultimately success.

Many startups start with the mindset at being remarkable at one thing, their thing, and that’s it. The reality is as they grow and connect with others, clients will ask for different things.

The challenge of startups is to not stretch too thin by taking on whatever is asked, but at the same time not dispel the common needs of potential clients.

It’s much more difficult to instill a need than it is to fulfill a need that is already there.

 

Stay Positive & Find The Best What

Can You Do More?

Garth Beyer

For most, doing more doesn’t matter.

In fact, if you go to pitch to a client, they’re likely not to notice if you had two more strategies than planned. What’s the point when you can say quality over quantity?

The thing is there’s so much evidence showing those who do more (without sacrificing quality) succeed faster, grow more, and move forward past those who just do enough. On top of that, the most important judge knows if you did all you could do. That judge is yourself.

Wouldn’t want to get on the judge’s bad side, right?

 

Stay Positive & Impress Yourself

 

Seeing Is Doing

Garth Beyer

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Milton Glaser said, “The great benefit of drawing is that when you look at something, you see it for the first time.”

I like to think this applies to me and my writing the same as it does to you and your form of art.

I could read everything that Malcolm Gladwell has written, then, if I were to type out a story, word-for-word, from one of his articles, I would still be seeing that story for the first time.

Of course, seeing is something much more than observing the image of something, it’s more like seeing into it.

You could craft the same business plan Jeff Bezos has written for Amazon and even after studying every part of it, transposing it would still allow you to see it for the first time.

This concept of fundamental to education. You can be told of a technique or an idea, but you won’t truly see it until you apply it or do it yourself.

 

Stay Positive & Seeing Is Doing, Doing Is Seeing

Garth E. Beyer

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Talent, Finishing, Conversing, And Starting

Garth Beyer

You have no clue just how talented you are.

The two best things you could be doing with your talent is finishing and conversing. These two actions not only compliment you by expressing how talented you are, but they precede growth.

You learn best from finishing. When you finish something, you have the choice to keep it quiet, stick it in the drawer, erase it entirely… or share it, talk with people about it and get feedback. (Both are positive, but you know which produces the greater result.)

The tragedy is that you may also not know how untalented you are. The fear this ignites when faced with being part of a group is enough for you to stop considering it all together.  So, you finish and that’s it.

That was okay to do prior to the connection economy we are in now. 25 years ago, you could stockpile your art and still leave a legacy. Now you never hear of a person who kept everything to herself and became a legend.

I encourage you to get together with someone or a group of people.

In a world that demands you to finish, don’t forget to start something incredible along the way. Eight people getting together to converse about what they have finished. That in and of itself is incredible.

 

Stay Positive & Go

Garth E. Beyer