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  • HACK: Use Gmail To Get More Leads — $110,000 Case Study

    HACK: Use Gmail To Get More Leads — $110,000 Case Study
    Nov 9 2020
    Houston Business Growth Podcast Host: Brian Webb Episode 5: HACK: Use Gmail To Get More Leads — $110,000 Case Study _____________________________________________ Description: LISTEN TODAY, as the host, Brian Webb, discusses how you, like most business leaders, might be unaware of how much more you could be leveraging your very own Gmail account, paired with other power boost third-party apps, to grow your business and generate more leads. ____________________________________________ Helpful Links: Gmass: https://www.gmass.co/ MailGun: https://www.mailgun.com/ Mailshake: https://mailshake.com/ Nine Word Email Strategy: https://www.hatchbuck.com/blog/implement-9-word-email-marketing/ Dean Jackson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfnwrw-axYw Digital Marketer: https://www.digitalmarketer.com/ _____________________________________________ Podcast Sponsored By: SERVPRO® Disaster Recovery Team Houston Find and Follow our Sponsor, SERVPRO® Disaster Recovery Team Houston Web: www.disasterrecoveryteamhouston.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/servpro-disaster-recovery-team-houston/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SERVPRO9734 Intro Video:  https://youtu.be/YH1GXKrRUTU _____________________________________________ Connect w/ Brian Webb Web: https://cmo.webbmarketing.solutions/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thebrianwebb/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebrianwebb Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brianwebb/ ____________________________________________ Click on this link for a full transcript of the podcast:   _____________________________________________ Like what you hear? Want to Subscribe? Connect with Houston Business Growth Podcast on Apple Podcasts - Subscribe and leave us a review. Your participation helps us grow and reach more business owners and leaders just like you. _____________________________________________ Transcript: Brian Webb: Hey there everyone. Welcome to the Houston Business Growth Podcast. I'm your host, Brian Webb. This podcast is designed for entrepreneurs, just like you, that want to grow your business faster and make better decisions with fewer regrets. We're here to help you grow by bringing you tools, tips, and tricks, along with success stories and industry expert interviews that will help you to grow your business and your team while helping you to avoid the pitfalls and mistakes that cost you so much money and wasted time. With no further ado, let's jump into today's episode. Brian Webb: Like most business leaders, you might be unaware of how much more you could be leveraging your very own Gmail account, paired with other power boost third-party apps, to grow your business and generate more leads. You can achieve 100% personalized one-to-one email conversations and fully automated follow-ups with Gmail. Case Study Nitin Chhoda sends 4,000 emails daily and achieves a 30% open rate, 1,200 opens daily, with a 6% click-through rate (CTR), resulting in approximately 72 clicks per day. His appointment booking rate climbed to nearly 10%, resulting in an average of 7 appointments daily. He closes roughly 10% of those appointments, delivering an average of 1 new client every day. Secret Sauce His secret sauce is a Google Chrome plugin called Gmass. You can use Gmass to send automated personalized follow-up emails through Gmail. If your recipient clicks on a link in the email, they will be added to a drip automation sequence to take their prospect through an indoctrination sequence. You can literally use Gmail’s servers with a sending limit of 2,000 emails per day. Or you can use your own email server with a service like Mailgun, which has no sending limit. Mailshake is another viable option. This is a great way to set up appointments with your B2B leads. This could also be an effective hack for mastermind businesses and high-end ($1k+) sales. Brian Webb: Today's episode is brought to you by team Meacham at SERVPRO Disaster Recovery Team Houston. Whether you know it or not, your business needs an emergency response plan. We see it on the news all the time, another business owner who experiences tragic loss due to fire or extreme storms like hurricanes or flooding. And we all hope it will never happen to us. But research shows that up to 50% of all businesses shut down after a major disaster. And if the property damage isn't bad enough, the business downtime and loss and revenue only makes it worse. So should your business be devastated from a fire flood or storm damage, how do you minimize the downtime and frustration of getting back to normal as soon as possible? Brian Webb: Here's the answer. You need an emergency response plan. How do you achieve this? It's easy and it's free. Once you reach out to SERVPRO Disaster Recovery Team Houston, one of their ERP specialists will set up a time to meet with you or someone from your team. When the specialist shows up, they will walk through your facility with you and make a concise profile ...
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  • The Myth of Perfection

    The Myth of Perfection
    Nov 2 2020
    Houston Business Growth Podcast: Host: Brian Webb Episode 4: The Myth of Perfection _____________________________________________ Description: LISTEN TODAY, as the host, Brian Webb, talks about the myth of perfection. It's easy for any of us, our businesses, our organizations, to end up in a stall because we can become helplessly paralyzed by our desire for perfection.  Listen as Brian walks you through how to do everything you can to help your organization to grow and not let the perfect ruin the good. ____________________________________________ Helpful Links: Patrick Lencioni: The Five Temptations of a CEO -  _____________________________________________ Podcast Sponsored By: SERVPRO® Disaster Recovery Team Houston Find and Follow our Sponsor, SERVPRO® Disaster Recovery Team Houston Web: www.disasterrecoveryteamhouston.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/servpro-disaster-recovery-team-houston/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SERVPRO9734 Intro Video:  https://youtu.be/YH1GXKrRUTU _____________________________________________ Connect w/ Brian Webb Web: https://cmo.webbmarketing.solutions/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thebrianwebb/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebrianwebb Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brianwebb/ ____________________________________________ Click on this link for a full transcript of the podcast:  _____________________________________________ Like what you hear? Want to Subscribe? Connect with Houston Business Growth Podcast on Apple Podcasts - Subscribe and leave us a review. Your participation helps us grow and reach more business owners and leaders just like you. _____________________________________________ Transcript: Brian Webb: Hey there everyone. Welcome to the Houston Business Growth Podcast. I'm your host, Brian Webb. This podcast is designed for entrepreneurs, just like you, that want to grow your business faster and make better decisions with fewer regrets. We're here to help you grow by bringing you tools, tips, and tricks, along with success stories and industry expert interviews that will help you to grow your business and your team while helping you to avoid the pitfalls and mistakes that cost you so much money and wasted time. With no further ado, let's jump into today's episode. Brian Webb: Hey there everyone. This is Brian Webb. Welcome to this week's episode of the Houston Business Growth Podcast. Today I want to talk to you about something that you have seen, you might even struggle with it. I can tell you that at times, if I don't have my guard up, if I'm not being self-aware, I can struggle with it, and it's a little thing called perfection. And what I want to do today is speak to you about the myth of perfection. It's easy for any of us, our businesses, our organizations, to end up in a stall because we can become helplessly paralyzed by our desire for perfection. I read Patrick Lencioni's book many, many years ago called the Five Temptations of a CEO. And he warns about the temptation to always choose certainty over clarity. Many times in my experience, the best tactical move is simply to move. Do something, avoid the trap. This is my encouragement. Avoid the trap of constantly waiting for more information before making decisions to move forward. Where does this temptation come from? In a word, fear. Fear that executing our plans or moving forward without volumes of documentation guaranteeing our imminent success will somehow show our superiors, our colleagues, our direct reports and the world that our plan was not perfect. So rather than risk judgment, maybe a bruised ego, or being labeled a fraud or an imposter, we do nothing. We wait. And as a result, businesses and organizations suffer from this. Many outstanding big picture thinkers that I've met are always looking for and burdened by the search for perfection. But in my experience, that path leads to procrastination, which leads to stagnancy and ultimately, or potentially even failure. I have five questions that I want to give you as a way of self-assessment for you to decide for yourself if you potentially struggle with perfectionism. Question number one, do you pride yourself on being intellectually precise? If I were to go and ask the five people who know you the best if you struggle with this, what would be their answer? Question number two, do you regularly prefer to wait for more information rather than making a decision without all of the facts? Question number three, do your direct report seem chronically irritable because you schedule so many meetings and demand too much data, too much information, too many case studies? Question number four, do you enjoy debating details with your direct reports during staff meetings? One more. Do you find yourself repelling other action-oriented people? We'll get back to today's episode in just a moment, but first, a quick word from our sponsor. Brian Webb: Today's episode is brought to you by team Meacham at...
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  • How To Achieve Greater Business Results, Scale Your Business More Effectively, & Build An Envious Corporate Culture Along The Way

    How To Achieve Greater Business Results, Scale Your Business More Effectively, & Build An Envious Corporate Culture Along The Way
    Oct 26 2020
    Houston Business Growth Podcast Episode 3: How To Achieve Greater Business Results, Scale Your Business More Effectively, & Build An Envious Corporate Culture Along The Way _____________________________________________ Host: Brian Webb Guest: Anthony Coppedge _____________________________________________ Description: LISTEN TODAY, as the host, Brian Webb, along with our guest, Anthony Coppedge, walk you through How To Achieve Greater Business Results, Scale Your Business More Effectively,  and Build An Envious Corporate Culture Along The Way.  Anthony is based out of Fort Worth, Texas where he leads the Agile Transformation for Digital Sales at IBM. He's held leadership roles at Fortune 100 enterprises and sub-$20 million revenue software startups. He's been applying the values and principles of Agile since 2009 and is literally one of a handful of early leaders in the Agile Sales and Marketing space worldwide. _____________________________________________ Helpful Links: The Age Of Agile by Stephen Denning Mastering Marketing Agility by Andrea Fryrear _____________________________________________   Podcast Sponsored By: SERVPRO® Disaster Recovery Team Houston Find and Follow our Sponsor, SERVPRO® Disaster Recovery Team Houston Web: www.disasterrecoveryteamhouston.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/servpro-disaster-recovery-team-houston/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SERVPRO9734 Intro Video:  https://youtu.be/YH1GXKrRUTU  _____________________________________________ Connect w/ Brian Webb Web: https://cmo.webbmarketing.solutions/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thebrianwebb/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebrianwebb Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brianwebb/ _____________________________________________ Connect w/ Anthony Coppedge Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/anthonycoppedge _____________________________________________ Click on this link for a full transcript of the podcast. _____________________________________________   Like what you hear? Want to Subscribe? Connect with Houston Business Growth Podcast on Apple Podcasts - Subscribe and leave us a review. Your participation helps us grow and reach more business owners and leaders just like you. _____________________________________________   Transcript: Brian Webb: Hey there, everyone. Welcome to the Houston Business Growth podcast. I'm your host, Brian Webb. This podcast is designed for entrepreneurs just like you that want to grow your business faster and make better decisions with fewer regrets. We're here to help you grow by bringing you tools, tips, and tricks, along with success stories and industry expert interviews that will help you to grow your business and your team while helping you to avoid the pitfalls and mistakes that cost you so much money and wasted time. So with no further ado, let's jump into today's episode.   Brian Webb: I am thrilled to death to have my good friend, long-time friend, Anthony Coppedge on the Houston Business Growth podcast today. I've known Anthony for about 25 plus years. And today's title is called, how to achieve greater business results, scale your business more effectively, and build an envious corporate culture along the way. Anthony, for those in our audience who don't know who you are and what you do, why don't you take a moment, introduce yourself.   Anthony Coppedge: I'm just this guy, you know?   Brian Webb: Yeah.   Anthony Coppedge: So I've known you so long. For those who don't know me, I am an [Agile 00:01:20] transformation lead at IBM, where I drive the transformation to agility, business agility, for digital sales. And so my background is in marketing, sales, entrepreneurship, business ownership, obviously, and software as a service business, as well as mom and pop and enterprise. So I have a pretty diverse background and I try to bring it all to bear.   Brian Webb: Awesome. Awesome. So I know you're going to be talking about what we've kind of named the title, how to achieve greater business results and scale, and build an amazing culture. I know that you're going to be talking to us about Agile. Why don't you tell our listeners exactly what Agile is, just to get us started today?   Anthony Coppedge: Sure. Well, we all know that the adjective to describe something agile would be nimble or flexible, or to be able to iterate or change quickly. And that really is the heart of it, the lowercase A. But when people talk about upper case A Agile, what they're talking about is a movement that started in 2001 when they said, there has got to be a better way to deliver software. And so it started there, where they would look at things like ... Brian, I know we're both old enough, do you remember Windows 95?   Brian Webb: I do.   Anthony Coppedge: What was after Windows 95? What was the next OS they released?   Brian Webb: Wasn't it 98?   Anthony Coppedge: It was 98. And then after that, what was it?   Brian Webb: 2000?   Anthony ...
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    26 m
  • Four Things You Did Not Know You Could Do With Facebook Messenger To Grow Your Business

    Four Things You Did Not Know You Could Do With Facebook Messenger To Grow Your Business
    Oct 19 2020
    Houston Business Growth Podcast Episode 2: Four Things You Did Not Know You Could Do With Facebook Messenger To Grow Your Business Host: Brian Webb Guest Justin Scicluna Description: LISTEN TODAY, as the host, Brian Webb, along with our guest, Justin Scicluna, walks you through 4 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With Facebook Messenger.  Justin is a well versed, messenger marketing expert with 17 years of experience.  Today we will show you how you can save money, save man-hours, and capture qualifying leads all with the use of messenger bots. Podcast Sponsored By SERVPRO® Disaster Recovery Team Houston Helpful Links: Calendly - https://calendly.com/ MiniChat - https://minichat.com/ Chatfuel - https://chatfuel.com/ Find and Follow our Sponsor, SERVPRO® Disaster Recovery Team Houston Web: www.disasterrecoveryteamhouston.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/servpro-disaster-recovery-team-houston/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SERVPRO9734 Intro Video: https://youtu.be/YH1GXKrRUTU    Connect w/ Brian Webb Web: https://cmo.webbmarketing.solutions/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thebrianwebb/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebrianwebb Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brianwebb/   Connect w/ Justin Scicluna Register for a "FREE" Lead Capturing Messenger bot feature: https://webbyup.com/hbgpodcast/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinscicluna/ Facebook: https://facebook.com/WebbyUp/ Instagram: https://Instagram.com/WebbyUp/   Click Here for a full transcript of the podcast. Like what you hear? Want to Subscribe? Connect with Houston Business Growth Podcast on Apple Podcasts - Subscribe and leave us a review. Your participation helps us grow and reach more business owners and leaders just like you. Tags: Houston Business, Houston Business Growth, Houston Business Growth Podcast, Brian Webb, entrepreneurs, Houston, sales, marketing, leadership, Servpro, Randy Meacham, Susan Meacham, Disaster Recovery Team Houston, Extreme Team Meacham, Justin Scicluna, Facebook, Messenger, Messenger Bots   Transcript: Brian Webb: Hey there, everyone. Welcome to The Houston Business Growth Podcast. I'm your host, Brian Webb. This podcast is designed for entrepreneurs, just like you, that want to grow your business faster and make better decisions with fewer regrets. We're here to help you grow by bringing you tools, tips, and tricks, along with success stories and industry expert interviews that will help you to grow your business and your team while helping you to avoid the pitfalls and mistakes that cost you so much money and wasted time. So with no further ado, let's jump into today's episode. I am so thrilled today to have Justin Scicluna on the podcast. Justin and I have known each other for quite some time. We've worked together on several projects. But Justin, for those in the audience who don't know who you are, why don't you tell us a little bit about you and what you do specifically?   Justin Scicluna: Absolutely. So I'm a messenger marketer or a conversational marketer. I'm somebody who has worked in pretty much every arm of online marketing. I started back in 2003, doing content marketing for a cluster of radio stations and building websites, and moved on to do PPC. I've also done full-funnel campaigns for large clients while working at different agency type places. And in 2014, I became the digital marketing director for an upstart energy drink company with a big name. We were Hard Rock Energy Drink. And our goal was to get bought out by the mothership, Hard Rock, and they did. And once they were bought out, I launched my own little agency where I niched down to do online marketing through messenger or using chat services to help market your business.   Brian Webb: Awesome. I know the title of today's episode is, Four Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With Facebook Messenger. And again, you and I have had the chance to collaborate on this in the past on other projects and client work. I know that we're going to be talking about how you can use Facebook messenger for your business. One of the things I know you want to talk to us about today is automating repetitive tasks. One thing I want to say that a lot of people don't realize is that you can actually build, I'm going to have you speak into this as well, but you can literally build an audience or AKA a list in Facebook messenger, just like you can with an email list. Speak into that.   Justin Scicluna: Absolutely. Yeah. So back in 2016, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook owner, Instagram owner, opened up the API on Facebook messenger. It took about a year from the announcement until any real software was out there gaining traction that allows you to build different types of automation to happen inside Facebook messenger. What this automation looks like is it's kind of like an automated assistant who's walking a prospective client, or just a prospect in general, through a series of repetitive questions, repetitive ...
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    37 m
  • Houston Business Growth Podcast

    Houston Business Growth Podcast
    Sep 21 2020
    Houston Business Growth Podcast Episode 1: Introduction and Trailer Host: Brian Webb Transcript: Hey there. Welcome, welcome to the very first pilot episode of the Houston Business Growth Podcast. I would be willing to bet that you can't begin to imagine how excited we are, the team and I, to be bringing this to you, and today is the very first episode. We launch today and we're thrilled about it. So if you're joining us today, we hope that you will go with us, that you will grow with us. It's going to be our goal to always be of tremendous value to you as leaders, business owners, and entrepreneurs. We are here to serve you and to be of help as you try to grow your business and grow as individuals as well. Now, if you don't know who SERVPRO® is, and specifically Disaster Recovery Team Houston, which is owned and operated by Randy and Susan Meacham, two pretty fantastic people if you ask me. If you don't know who SERVPRO® is, SERVPRO® is a disaster restoration company. You might be thinking to yourself, "Why in the world would a disaster restoration company be launching a business growth podcast?" That would be a valid question. In addition to being heroes, when someone like you or someone you know deals with a catastrophic flood or fire damage or storm damage, the reality is that team Meacham, Randy and Susan Meacham, are very successful business owners. They've grown their business to an eight figure business, and quite frankly, they would love to see you be equally as successful. Because of what they do, they actually work directly with other business leaders like property and casualty insurance agents, commercial property insurance brokers, insurance adjusters, general adjusters, executive general adjusters, commercial property managers, and facility managers, and a whole lot more. So in addition to being there in a time of crisis when called upon, we just basically recognize that there's a real opportunity to help business leaders and owners grow your business, grow it better, grow it faster, make better decisions with fewer regrets. So here we are. So at the end of the day, this podcast is just to help leaders grow their business and achieve even more success. So sometimes we will just be teaching. We may be walking you through best practices on how to deal with marketing, social media or sales, but we'll also be bringing in industry experts to speak across a broad gamut of topics, leadership, organizational culture, systems, advanced tax strategies, basically anything and everything that you would feel is going to be helpful for you to grow as a leader, to grow your business and grow your team, that's what we're going to be about. I know it's been said that a rising tide lifts all boats, and if we can help you grow, that helps us to grow, it helps the community to grow, everyone is a winner. So today's episode is going to be really brief. We just wanted to take some time to introduce ourselves, let you know who we are, why we're here and why you should be tuning in and listening, and to let you know we're all about. We would love for you to you share this with your other business leader friends in the community that you also want to see succeed. We plan on dropping new episodes weekly. This is the pilot and first episode. We're so glad that you were here. I genuinely hope that we'll be seeing you here week after week. Let's go together. Let's grow together. Again, we want to help you achieve success faster, make fewer mistakes and have fewer regrets. Thanks for being here today. Podcast Sponsored By: SERVPRO® Disaster Recovery Team Houston Helpful Links: Find and Follow our Sponsor, SERVPRO® Disaster Recovery Team Houston Web: www.disasterrecoveryteamhouston.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/servpro-disaster-recovery-team-houston/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SERVPRO9734 Intro Video: Link Goes Here Connect w/Brian Webb Web: https://cmo.webbmarketing.solutions/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thebrianwebb/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebrianwebb Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brianwebb/ Like what you hear? Want to Subscribe? Connect with Houston Business Growth Podcast on Apple Podcasts (insert link) - Subscribe and leave us a review. Your participation helps us grow and reach more business owners and leaders just like you. Tags: Houston Business, Houston Business Growth, Houston Business Growth Podcast, Brian Webb, entrepreneurs, Houston, sales, marketing, leadership, Servpro, Randy Meacham, Susan Meacham, Disaster Recovery Team Houston, Extreme Team Meacham
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