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Time Management Techniques

robjager — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:58:07 +0000

How Do You Manage Your Day? How Do You Prioritize?

Rob Jager and John Barbar talk about some techniques any business owner can use to improve their time management techniques. There is no silver bullet to being a task master or time management guru, but using your strengths and what you like to do will improve your procrastination quotient.

Topics discussed:

Tasks
Time Wasters
Email/Phone/People
Customers & Employees waste my time

Guests:

Rob was a guest on the Live Passionately Blog Radio Show

Hosts:

Rob Jager – Hedgehog Consulting – South Florida Business Consulting and Management
Adam Steinhoff – DedicatedIT – South Florida Managed Services Provider
John Barber – Barbar Financial Services

Technicians versus Managers

robjager — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:42:57 +0000

Manager or Technician?

Today’s podcast is a brief overview about the technician in all of us business owners. How easy would it be if we didn’t have customers or employees?!?! It would be so much simpler! Unfortunately, those with the technician attitude will have a hard time growing for a long time. It’s so much easier to just do the work.

Topics Discussed:

Challenges of the technician
How can a manager help?
What to do about it

Host:

Rob Jager - Hedgehog Consulting – South Florida Business and Management Consultant

Team Communication Problems?

robjager — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:06:27 +0000

Understanding communication problems can reduce your frustration as a business owner by a large amount. Rob Jager discusses an article for a few minutes to help you better understand the generational differences in what’s important to each group. Great tips you will probably find useful!

Topics

Generation Gap
Seniors, Baby Boomers, Gen X’ers, and Gen Y’ers
What’s the difference?

Websites:

Community Involvement and Bartering

robjager — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:23:27 +0000

Rob Jager and Jessica Clasby (from the Palms West Chamber) talk about being a part of the community as a business owner. They talk about using all the resources you can to identify opportunities to get the mileage and the assistance for the community or charitable organization.

Topics:

Use the chamber to help you create partnerships
Community Events
Give Back to the Community
Guest: Larry Ingwell – Talks to us about NuBarter.com
Using the barter system to save your business money

Guest:

Larry Ingwell – www.NuBarter.com

Hosts:

Rob Jager – Hedgehog Consulting – South Florida Business Consulting and Management
Jessica Clasby – Palms West Chamber

Web Links:

Which Personality Type Are You In Your Leadership Style?

robjager — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:00:45 +0000

How Do You Manage Your People? Are You a Performer? A Commander?

Rob Jager and Adam Steinhoff talk about the Six Personalities and Motivations of managers. Based on the book The Achievers, the discussion quickly moves from one style to the next discussing the likes and dislikes of each personality. These personalities are not the normal Myers-Briggs Personalities, rather based on the inner motivations and desires an individual has.

Topics discussed:

The Commander Style
The Avoider Style
The Pleaser Style
The Achiever Style
The Performer Style
The Attacker Style

Guests:

No guests this week….Just Adam and Rob.

Hosts:

Rob Jager – Hedgehog Consulting – South Florida Business Consulting and Management
Adam Steinhoff – DedicatedIT – South Florida Managed Services Provider

Managing Your Sales Team

robjager — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:00:02 +0000

Rob Jager and Adam Steinhoff discuss ways to manage your sales team. Many managers take a more hands off approach. Rob suggests you should be more hands on using these four pillars of thought to guide you and your sales team to higher levels of sales and success.

Topics:

Sales techniques that work
How to think of a cold call
Use of preparation resources
Creating a Sales Process

Guest:

No Guests this Week

Hosts:

Rob Jager – Hedgehog Consulting – South Florida Business Consulting and Management
Adam Steinhoff – DedicatedIT – South Florida Managed Services and Cloud Provider

Web Links:

www.HedgehogConsultingInc.com
www.DedicatedIT.com

Branding Your Company the Right Way

robjager — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:25:16 +0000

This week we invited Sandi Quigley to discuss tactics and tips to smarter marketing. We discuss some pertinent questions to ask yourself before contacting a marketing company. Learn how to set up your marketing campaign to make it more measurable.

Topics:

Target market
Who Are You (Or Who Do You Want To Be)?
Use of tracking mechanisms
When should you make a change and how often?
Brand = Logo x Actions x Impressions

Guest:

Sandi Quigley - Quigley Marketing Group

Hosts:

Rob Jager – Hedgehog Consulting – South Florida Business Consulting and Management
Adam Steinhoff – DedicatedIT – South Florida Managed Services and Cloud Provider

Web Links:

www.QuigleyMarketing.com

Preparing for Disaster – Is Your Business Prepared?

robjager — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:51:13 +0000

Everyone has seen the natural and man-made disasters that have struck just this year. We have seen 6 earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.0 or greater just this year! Now is a great time, especially if you’re in South Florida, to prepare for a potential disaster. Be prepared now for potential natural and man-made disasters by following a couple of quick steps highlighted here on Business 360.

Businesses that didn’t plan for a disaster go out of business within the first 3 years of the disaster!

Topics:

First 4 Months of 2010 – Lots of disasters!
Types of disasters to prepare for.
What to do, how to prepare, and developing a plan
How will your business be impacted?
Risk Assessment
Ready.gov/business

Guest:

No Guests this week!

Hosts:

Rob Jager – Hedgehog Consulting – South Florida Business Consulting and Management
Adam Steinhoff – DedicatedIT – South Florida Managed Services and Cloud Provider

Web Links:

www.ready.gov/business

Bad Boss? Me? Really?

robjager — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:11:46 +0000

Everyone loves their boss if they’re a great boss. What if the boss is a bad boss? How would I know if I’m a bad boss? Maybe you know, maybe you don’t. Today we discuss what bad bosses we’ve worked for and what they did to be placed into the “bad boss” category.

Adam and Rob talk to a previous show guest Jassica Clasby from the Palms West Chamber about some of the traits of a boss she used to work for that she has deemed “terrible to work for.”

Topics:

Adam talks about his bad boss. This is rather interesting.
Jessica talks about a boss you would never want to work for.
We take a call from a listener who wants to know what to do with his bad boss.
Rob discusses tips and tricks to talking to your boss. Remember bosses: It’s your responsibility to know if you’re good or bad.

Guest:

Jessica Clasby, Palms West Chamber

Hosts:

Rob Jager – Hedgehog Consulting – South Florida Business Consulting and Management
Adam Steinhoff – DedicatedIT – South Florida Managed Services and Cloud Provider

Web Links:

www.palmswest.com

Building Business Credit – Where to go when your Bank Says “No”

robjager — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:00:54 +0000

In order to get loans that do not require a personal guarantee, your business needs good credit. Building business credit is not anywhere as easy as building your personal credit. There are very specific things that you must do to make good business credit.

Adam and Rob talk to Mark Kane from Credit Wise Advisors about what steps every business must take to get great credit for your business. Listen carefully, take notes, and notice, there is a special offer hidden within the show!

Topics:

You need an 800# and a fax number to get good credit. Really?
5 – 3 – 1 rule for building business credit.
Out of the 500 business credit cards companies, only 40 of them will issue without a personal guarantee.
Special offer from Mark and a 100% money back guarantee.

Guest:

Mark Kane, Credit Wise Advisors

Hosts:

Rob Jager – Hedgehog Consulting – South Florida Business Consulting and Management
Adam Steinhoff – DedicatedIT – South Florida Managed Services and Cloud Provider

Web Links:

www.creditwiseadvisor.com