BS With Bob Schmidt

Sales is that simple, it isn't that complex. You have a product or service and someone wants it. That's as simple as sales is. If you think about it, you walk into a grocery store and they sell things to you all the time. You walk out, but you don't know you've been sold, right? So sales is very simple. But what becomes complex is once you throw humans into it and our emotions, so our emotions lead us and tell us so many different things and there's perceived most of the time, like we're afraid someone's not going to like us because maybe we don't speak, write or say the right thing. Maybe we get embarrassed. Our mind isn't open, so now we do screw up even more, or say that something bad happens. The emotions of what happens on both buyer and seller are the ones that can make it complex. https://www.amazon.com/Sales-Its-That-Simple-Dave-Slain/dp/158736901X/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=bswithbob-20

Talked about Social Entrepreneurship and Recycling with Brian Tippetts. First of all, most of us don’t think about making money when looking at a recycled product, the product is clearly a resource that has value. Just look at and you just innately know that. And when you find out nobody's doing stuff with it it's like that's wrong and you look at the option as landfilling it that's really wrong it's just it just strikes you as wrong. Before waste was looked at as a waste, now there's a mindset shift that waste really is a low value or overlooked resource. If you waste it that's exactly what you've done you've wasted it. And should you be wasting it. The mindset of not wasting things, but creating things with Social Entrepreneurship and Recycling.

Michael Gelb -The Art of Connection:7 Relationship-Building Skills Every Leader Needs NowBy Michael J. Gelb,  When people connect, when they are attuned, in rapport, they are much better at generating, and implementing, new ideas. The Art of Connection is a guide to creating, and maintaining, genuine rapport with others. Connection is the key to building relationships, resolving conflict, and making creative dreams come true. Gelb outlines seven skills distilled from decades of practical experience. These seven skills are all timeless, but they are also especially timely, and essential for leaders now. Each chapter includes illustrative stories, relevant scientific research, and practical exercises to help readers apply the skills in their life now.His website is www.MichaelGelb.com. @MichaelJGelb

Jackson Janzen is the creator of CPR Revolution, creating positive ripples revolution. It requires bravery in the face of fear, compassion, and love in the face of anger and hate. It's this desire to create a strong community in support of inspiration, to energize a collection of individuals seeking to make a tangible, positive, impact. Those words there. Jackson says a lot. How can we all create positive ripples and a positive ripple revolution.

What Justin Loeber says about Communication, "it's practically the be-all and end-all of everything we do in life. If you think about it, people get all tied up in a bad pass or an email and it's not real. If you talk to the person, all of the nuances that you think were negative could actually be positive because when you talk with people, you actually hear the tone and the passion in which that person is communicating with you. If you're caught in a text, if you have a text that's more than five words, you better pick up the phone and talk to a person because it's horrible. Nowadays. People break up with others on texts. How helpless is that? How weak is that, Bob? " The book is called "Get Out Of Your Own Way Guide To Life"

Mark L. Walberg is a Multi-time Emmy nominated television personality and has been a favorite of television audiences all over the world for years. Mark is host of PBS highest rated, prime time original, "Antiques Roadshow". We talked about Game Theory, Playing Poker, when to bet when to fold, the seceret to a happy marriage and how to be successful

Andy Temte, talks about how you can go from a high school dropout to the president of Kaplan Professional Education, and lead singer and guitar player for The Remainders, a classic rock cover band to a philanthropist . As president of Kaplan Professional Education , Andy oversees and leverages assets, capabilities, and talent across Kaplan’s global footprint. Kaplan Professional Education offers a large portfolio of professional development programs and helps individuals earn industry-recognized licensures, certifications, and designations. Based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Kaplan Professional Education maintains operations throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. In this episode of BS’ing with Bob Schmidt, Andy talks about the importance of family, education, and giving as well as some failures and regrets along the way.

Gary John Bishop on naming the book Unfu*k yourself are you glad that is what you named it? I'm glad, but I think I think that was enough people look at the content of the book is what really got people going. And I know that the name pisses some people off and they don't like it, I appreciate that and I get that. But you know if you can't read a book because the title then you really really need to go on F yourself. I'm I'm not a fan of self-help. I'm a big fan of self growth. I'm a big fan of personal growth and development and I think I think everybody if you're not working on yourself then you've got your eye on the wrong stuff. You work on your Self, you got it. It's ok.

Former "Fortune Small Business" editor Elaine Pofeldt talked many successful one person million dollar businesses and wrote the book “The Million-Dollar One-Person Business” Make great money, work the way you like and have the life you want. Find what you like, work hard, make money. Not only has Elaine written about it, but has lived it as well for over 10 years as an entrepreneur.

Megan Smith Gill is a transformational teacher, speaker, author and coach who has reverse engineered happiness and abundance. Megan spent nearly twenty years as a marketing executive and agency owner before discovering her true life’s calling. Outwardly successful, Megan lived a life that lacked deep fulfillment on the inside and she set out on a quest to find meaning in purpose in her life. Along the way she discovered the secrets to living a life with more abundance than she ever dreamed of, and created a 10-step process for herself that she is now sharing with the world called Give A Shift ™: 10 Simple Steps to an Abundant Life. Megan is an avid lover of nature, especially the ocean which she calls her “love potion.” She lives in a small New England town in Connecticut with her husband, Michael, two small daughters, Molly and Maisey, and their white fluffy dog named Pippa. Megan is also the founder of Give A Shift Academy, her online learning community designed to fast track her students on their path towards higher states of consciousness and prosperity. Our conversation includes, how to live the life of your dreams with more abundance than you ever thought possible, and the 10 steps to help you to “Give a Shift”

Small Business Hacks: 100 Shortcuts to Success – This conversation with Barry Moltz has quick tricks, work arounds, and simple solutions for all the problems that small business owners face (but don’t really want to). Including the big one how to get someone to answer your phone call or email. Sit back grab a pen and paper for notes and enjoy the 11th episode of BS With Bob Schmidt and his guest Barry Moltz.

In the new book by Areva Martin “Make it Rain” she breaks the silence and reveals the power of media, and helped me to focus on my brand and can help you with your brand. Areva uses the media to build her platform and talks about how to expand the influence and power of your brand. The Areva Martin brand has grown exponentially, with appearances on Dr. Phil, Anderson Cooper 360, The Doctors, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, and the BS with Bob Schmidt podcast. This podcast will help you focus on your brand and get your core message out to the people who need it most.You'll learn how to:Match your brand to the right audience and media venuesAmplify every interview with social mediaTurn appearances into the platform and become a rainmakerInfluence the influencersWhether you are in media, own a small business, run a non-profit, are an author or the executive of a corporation, if you have a business to build, and are in search of media, you will want to listen to the podcast and buy the book. Are you ready to Make It Rain!?

This episode of BS with Bob Schmidt features Chip Lutz author of the book “Get Past the Crap” we talk about how life s a big crap sandwich at different times in our lives and we basically have three decisions and you can take it in and we can ignore it, but most of the time if we do it just gets worse. It sits there and festers and get worse. We can take in and go and complain you know it may eventually consume us. But if we think of it truthfully, take option three, which is just take a big bite and you push through it, you know, push through it wherever you're face to face it, head on to be. A lot of times, you know, we're looking at something that might be negative, but for me I tried to twist around like, all right, this is a really crappy situation. What's the positive in the situation? You know, what can you maybe didn't learn out of this? Want to know more? Listen to the podcast. Featuring Charles “Chip” Lutz

This week’s episode features Timolin Langin - Money magnet, teacherpreneur and author of the book “Mind Over Money, How to Live Like a Millionaire On Any Budget”. Timolin talks with me about how financial success is not a gift. It's a habit, just taking little tiny steps every single day doing little things, little habits, and one of the little habits I talk about in terms of savings, when you start talking about saving, just take your coins your pennies, your nickels or dimes, your quarters and put them in a piggy bank and you'll be surprised at what you have at the end of the year. Start doing the small and you will Live like a Millionaire.

When author, Mark DeWayne Combs started his own business in the fall of 2007 there was no local networking group to join and the local Chamber of Commerce only offered monthly, meet & greet, social events. The opportunity to start a group from scratch was just too appealing to pass up. With the help of a few local business owners, the Amelia Business Network was born. In just over a year, the group grew from six original members to a thriving membership that included over eighty small business owners. As group membership expanded, Mark started a bi-weekly newsletter and began writing a weekly Monday Morning Motivational Blog.

E16 features Ruth King. Ruth is a seasoned entrepreneur who has over 25 years of experience running businesses as well as coaching and training fellow business owners so they can reach their goals. She's written four books covering various topics on managing businesses, managing people, and how to get an stay profitable.Twitter: @RuthKingLinked In: /ruthking1Websites: http://www.TheCourageToBeProfitable.com and http://www.profitabilityrevolution.comEmail: rking@ontheribbon.comamzn_assoc_tracking_id = "bswithbob-20";amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual";amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart";amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon";amzn_assoc_region = "US";amzn_assoc_design = "enhanced_links";amzn_assoc_asins = "1610059352";amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit";amzn_assoc_linkid = "2591ae42c136c6c03b85cc902c9239b7";

Dusty Staub is an author who has motivated audiences through his words and his keynote speeches, in this podcast we talked about many things from Brainstorming, to having the courage to stand up to your boss and the courage to be vulnerable. As you know that some organizations have senior executives who are afraid to confront peers or to speak up to their CEO or superior. We talked about how we are wired to go negative when people tell us stuff we don't really hear or we were asked to make changes. We also talked about listening and of course speaking in a positive way, and how both are really critical skills, and how to be a person who is willing to go down a positive pathway rather than negative and how that's part of the artfulness and the courage to confront.Robert "Dusty" StaubCEO/Lead Consultant, Staub Leadership International336-587-5903 | dusty@staubleadership.comhttp://staubleadership.com/| Link to Dusty's TEDxTalk: https://youtu.be/U_lZGF6or4oStaub Leadership International: Liberating the Purpose, the Passion and the Power of Individuals, Teams and Organizations since 1990.

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Episode 20 features Marcus Bales an entrepreneur that since 2013, has been paid to speak in front of people; doing the thing that most people despise is what he built a career out of. From a social anxious kid who never thought his life would have turned out like this. In his new book Speak-Confident he explains the tips and techniques used to overcome his social anxiety. We all have a beautiful, unique, confident voice inside of us. Marcus's hope is that this book will help you let it out!Contact: info@speak-confident.comwebsite: Speak-confident.com