Posts tagged Frances Schagen

The Three Common Myths that keep smal...

The Three Common Myths that keep small business owners struggling more and more for less and less profit

The business environment is changing and if you have been in business for more than 5 or 10 years, you, like everyone else, are making less profit for more effort. It’s been slow and insidious. Think about small business owners 20, 30 and 40 years ago. They built our communities, made a great living and […]

BOSC Podcast #6 The Offering

BOSC Podcast #6 The Offering

Build your business from your strengths, clarify what your clients (tribe/fans/pals) need and decide how to help them. Then make the offer. Under lean startup principles, the offer is made before the solution is fully built. That way, you aren’t building something no one wants. You aren’t wasting resources on parts that don’t matter. More […]

BOSC Podcast #5 Designing your busine...

BOSC Podcast #5 Designing your business around what your customer needs

This is a longer podcast, and worth it. Shaun Whynacht of Blue Cow Creative joined us to talk about customer needs and designing a business around that. Thank you, Joe Schagen for recording, editing and adding your music.  

BOSC Podcast #4 Design your business ...

BOSC Podcast #4 Design your business around your strengths

Gary Morton and Frances Schagen explore what it means to design a business around your strengths. When we don’t, we struggle and you’ll hear how I made this mistake and struggled with my business. As always a great big thank you hug to my son, Joseph Schagen for sound engineering and for the original music […]

How To Grow Yourself

How To Grow Yourself

This is paraphrased right out of my book Your Effortless Business. The whole premise of my book is that business isn’t this thing that needs to be set up in a certain MBA kind of way. It is a living, messy servant to you. The things you work on in your business need to serve […]

BOSC Podcast #2 – Vision

BOSC Podcast #2 – Vision

Gary Morton and Frances Schagen talk about vision. Big Thank You to Joe Schagen for sound engineering and the original music.