Business Continuity Tips in the Face of COVID-19 | HaneyBiz Daily Webinar Series
This isn't the first big crisis (or even pandemic) that Nora O'Brien and her team at Connect Consulting have helped to navigate companies through.  We are so lucky she joined up to share her knowledge and expertise with you.  Her message: This is a “marathon” not a sprint” and there's a lot to be done in order to not only protect our businesses but to take care of ourselves and our teams. We ta...
1hr Apr 03, 2020
1hr
Taking Your Life Events Virtual with Legion AVS | HaneyBiz Webinar Series
Our friends and partners Legion AVS have felt the affects of the COVID crisis first hand. They are an event and live production company and they lost almost half a million dollars in future revenue in a matter of days. What did they do? They did what any good entrepreneur doess when their back is against the wall, they innovated. They've become experts in interactive, multimedia VIRTUAL events....
56m Apr 02, 2020
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Women Entrepreneurs and Equity Investors
As business owners we need to put processes/systems into place so as we scale we don’t lose the quality of our product/service while rapidly ramping up the quantity. In order for us to make the best decisions quickly during this time of rapid growth our communication needs to be better than ever. The communication we have with our leadership team, with our employees, and with our customers/supp...
56m Apr 01, 2020
56m
Crisis Regiona Outlook with GSEC and the City of Roseville | HaneyBiz Daily Webinar Series
Barry Broome, President & CEO of the Greater Sacramento Economic Council, and Wayen Wiley, the City Planner for the City of Roseville, joined us to share more about resources available in the region to support small businesses through the crisis and get their perspective on how our overall regional economy is doing today and how it’s poised for recovery. 
57m Apr 01, 2020
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Emergency Business Resources with the SBA | HaneyBiz Daily Webinar Series
Without question, small businesses have been gut punched by COVID-19.  Thankfully, the SBA, federal government and other resources have quickly mobilized to provide some meaningful financial support.  We are lucky to have with us Carrie Ellinwood from the SBAs Sacramento office and Mike Rizzo the Chief Banking Officer from Five Star Bank to provide us with the latest updates on resources availa...
1hr 11m Mar 31, 2020
1hr 11m
Force Majeure and Contract Fulfillment | HaneyBiz Daily Webinar Series
 What are your rights and obligations when it comes to contracts during this crisis? Stoel Rives shares their knowledge and expertise about Force Majeure and how it might apply to you and your business. 
55m Mar 28, 2020
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How State & Federal Regulations and Resources Affect you | HaneyBiz Daily Webinar Series
The landscape is shifting hourly when it comes to potential regulations and resources as they pertain to employers / employees during this crisis. Kim Silvers and Stacey Sommerhauser from the SilversHR team joined us to talk about the new laws that were recently passed due to these extreme circumstances during the COVID-19 crisis. They walk through the Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansi...
1hr 2m Mar 27, 2020
1hr 2m
Funding Office Space while we Shelter in Place | HaneyBiz Daily Webinar Series
During this time of crisis you and your team may be working from home, revenues may be slashed in half...but if you operate out of a leased office, payments are still due. How can you maintain space, honor your contracts, preserve credit and survive? Greg Aguirre from Capital Rivers Commercial joins us tomorrow with his tenant preparedness plan that offers very specific and effective steps to h...
57m Mar 26, 2020
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Adapting Your Strategy to Survive and Thrive During a Crisis | HaneyBiz Daily Webinar Series
Craig Hettrich, the President of The Hettrich Group, talks about some very simple concepts that business owners can do now to adapt their strategy in challenging times.  Craig's main message is FOCUS ....on your best customers with your top tier skill and how you can adapt your strategy to help your best customers face their issues and challenges...along with the Leadership style required  In c...
44m Mar 25, 2020
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Family Business Operations Tips and Strategies
As business owners, we run into many obstacles.  Adding family to the mix can create a few more obstacles to overcome. I have heard countless horror stories about family businesses that fail because they don’t separate work from the family.  For instance, many hire, or even worse, pass on the company to a family member just because they’re family.   And because family members have different dre...
59m Mar 25, 2020
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Finding Your Competitive Advavntage During COVID 19 | HaneyBiz Daily Webinar Series
 The most important part of keeping our businesses going, and maybe even thriving at some point through this COVID crisis, or any crisis for that matter, is our people. If we don't have the right people really don't have anything, we're building our company. For today's webinar we are joined by the founder of Hire Education Consulting Group Katie McConnell Olsen and her colleague, Natasha Scott...
54m Mar 24, 2020
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Addressing Financial Challenges During a Downturn | HaneyBiz Daily Webinar Series
 There's so much noise and so much distraction about what things to do during this crisis. How could you really be laser focused when it comes to financial planning and your accounting solutions?  So we try to make it as easy as possible, literally the ABCs of crisis response. And so today we're going to talk about accuracy. What we mean there are your financials and your Documents building and...
53m Mar 24, 2020
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Critical Resources Available Now for our Small Businesses | HaneyBiz Daily Webinar Series
Sacramento Metro Chamber CEO, Amanda Blackwood and her team have been integral in a highly coordinated effort between local businesses, elected officials, and state and federal agencies to provide information about and access to emergency resources for our small businesses and non-profits.  The headlines from our conversation with her: SBA Disaster Loan Program -- CA is one of the first states ...
29m Mar 20, 2020
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How to Setup and Manage a Remote Workforce | HaneyBiz Daily Webinar Series
It is becoming very difficult for small businesses to operate with more and more counties and cities moving towards shelter in place. Especially if we don’t have our team prepared to work remotely. Luckily our friends at Executech have a solution they want to share with you. They will be sharing how to setup and manage a remote workforce. They will talk about the tech, tools, people, and securi...
54m Mar 19, 2020
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Brand Storytelling - Insights from an Award Winning Journalist
Isn’t it frustrating when you pour your heart and soul into content for your customers and all you hear is crickets?? There is so much noise on social media. How are we supposed to grab the attention of our customers? Yell louder and longer than everyone else? Spend thousands of dollars on ads?  To help me answer these questions and more, I invited three time Emmy Award winning journalist, Kell...
40m Mar 18, 2020
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Scaling a Business Rapidly the Right Way
When is the right time to scale and how the heck do I do it? Have you ever seen a company that is scaling rapidly? It looks like they are killin’ it, nothing can stop them, and then all of a sudden they go out of business… It makes me wonder, were they growing too fast? Did they try to go to market too early, or too late? Did they not push fast and hard enough to get over the hump? To help me s...
42m Mar 11, 2020
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Sacramento Innovating E-Mobility, Eco system building, Economic development
How a local utility company is driving global innovation and fueling entrepreneurs… SMUD, the 6th largest community owned utility company in the country, like other large corporations at some point in their life cycle, are facing the innovator's dilemma. Their industry is in the process of being disrupted and if they do nothing they could find themselves out of business. Sound familiar? Think B...
40m Mar 04, 2020
40m
Focus on Your Goals and Maintain Work Life Balance
Why do 95% of us run out of gas, air, and time? As entrepreneurs it is way too easy to focus 100% of our time on our business. Who has time to worry about nutrition, fitness, and social connections when we are trying to do everything possible to stay in business, or build something that will change the world?  My good friend Jack Crawford, the Founding General Partner of Impact Venture Capital,...
1hr 17m Feb 26, 2020
1hr 17m
Company-Culture-Development-with-Dale-Carlsen
Are you building an ivory tower kind of culture, or a culture where everyone matters? Nobody builds a truly great company alone, especially entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. So, in order to achieve our big hairy audacious goals we need to surround ourselves with the people that will run through a brick wall with us. In order to attract and retain these rock stars we have to buil...
1hr 17m Feb 19, 2020
1hr 17m
Raising Capital for Startups - Balancing Operations and Fundraising
Raising Capital? Are you prepared for another full time job?  Entrepreneurs, especially those who are raising capital for the first time, often underestimate the time, energy, and commitment required.  In reality, raising money is a second full time job and can be a big distraction to running/growing the business.  In addition to daily operations, you will need to make the time to: create your ...
56m Feb 12, 2020
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Product Market Fit - Kyle Cobb Advanced Farm Technologies
How do you know that your clients will pay for the product you’re developing? Entrepreneurs are some of the most ambitious people on the planet. When we have an idea that we think will change the world, or solve a problem for a niche market, it can be easy to press full speed ahead and build what WE think the market needs. But, how do we know that the market will actually pay for what we are bu...
38m Feb 05, 2020
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Business Valuation - How Investors Value Companies
How do investors value companies? This is one of the most frequently asked questions I get from entrepreneurs and also one of the toughest. It can be especially challenging for earlier stage companies that do not have a financial history they can use to back up the story they are telling investors. For me, the number one thing I look at when I invest into early stage companies is the CEO. Is th...
1hr 5m Jan 29, 2020
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Eat Local, Shop Local, Why not INVEST LOCAL? With Ian DeWeerdt
Put Your Money Where Your Town Is! 62% of all new job creation is because of small businesses/entrepreneurs. It’s safe to say that entrepreneurs are catalysts driving economic growth and transforming the communities we live in. So, why aren’t more people looking to invest into the entrepreneurs in their hometown? Local small businesses sponsor our kids little league teams, create jobs, pay taxe...
52m Jan 22, 2020
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Online Business Education Platform Building - Matt Aitchison
There has never been a better time to build a business selling online courses. Scaling a traditional service-based business can be extremely difficult - you trade time for money and can only serve a finite number of clients. Matt Aitchison, 7 figure real estate investor and host of top 25 itunes podcast, Millionaire Mindcast, solved this problem by creating The Rich Life Academy.   The Rich Lif...
49m Jan 15, 2020
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Business Accelerator Techstars an Inside Look - Christopher Peacock
Is a business accelerator right for me? Startup Accelerators, like Techstars and Ycombinator, have become very popular in the past 5 years. Being able to tap into the knowledge of those who have been there done that when launching and growing a business can be the difference between success and failure. Chris Peacock is the CEO of Aquaoso, a startup that recently went through the Techstars acce...
42m Jan 08, 2020
42m
The True Meaning of Christmas - A Throwback to 2016
I hope you all had a Christmas Jail kind of christmas!! This is a special throwback show to when the show was Entrepreneurs Unlimited and it was a live radio talk show. Marcus Haney and Tom Sisneros were my two co-hosts and we talk about the true meaning of Christmas. I also tell my Christmas jail story, the story of my favorite Christmas as a child.  You will see a familiar face as I sit down ...
50m Dec 27, 2019
50m
Independent Contractor vs Employee - AB-5 Law CA - Kim Silvers
Sometimes, we just don’t know what we don’t know when growing a business, especially in areas like HR compliance.  Nothing can bring a small business to its knees faster than being caught out of compliance. My guest, Kim Silvers, the President of Silvers HR, has forgotten more about HR/staying compliant than most of us will ever know. Kim and I talk about HR best practices that will keep you ou...
53m Dec 18, 2019
53m
Passwordless Login / Cybersecurity - Bert & Heath Traitware
Did you know that 80% of cybersecurity breaches are caused by our login credentials being compromised? 3.3 billion credentials are stolen every year and small businesses can be held liable for the damage. If you are not using Multi Factor Authentication, you will want to tune in to this segment and learn more about the solution my guests have built. In today’s digital world it has never been mo...
57m Dec 11, 2019
57m
Small Business Growth Management - Roger Akers
I always say the best way to learn is by jumping in and scraping your knees and the second best way to learn is from those who have been there, done that. I sit down with a man has forgotten more about entrepreneurship than most of us have learned, Roger Akers. On episode 155 Roger Akers and I talk all about small business growth. Roger has not only successfully built and exited his own company...
1hr 2m Dec 05, 2019
1hr 2m
Crypto Trading Expert - Robert Beadles
On episode 154, I sit down with serial entrepreneur and crypto trading expert, Robert Beadles. Robert has built several companies in the crypto world. Robert provides us with insight into where crypto/bitcoin is and where it is going. We talk about how crypto is slowly becoming accepted, the advantages to using it as a business owner, and the role it will have in society in the future.  What ar...
26m Nov 27, 2019
26m
Commercial Property Lease Advice and Experience - Brandon Robinson
 On episode 153 I sit down with the President & CEO of Tipsy Putt, Brandon Robinson. Brandon is the licensee of Flat Stick Pub and opened his first location in the Sacramento DOCO. This is not Brandon's first brick and mortar business as the founder of Skin Body Soul Medspa. So, we dive straight into what you need to know about commercial lease agreements and Tenant Improvements when starting a...
41m Nov 20, 2019
41m
Marketing Strategies / Business Optimization Tips - Blair Morrison
 On episode 152, I sit down with 3 time Crossfit Games athlete, founder of Anywhere fit and the NorCal Classic Competition, and co-host of Beyond the Barbell, Blair Morrison. We dive into one of my favorite topics, fitness! We dive into how fitness can exponentially increase your focus, sharpness, and productivity in everyday life and ultimately help you to achieve your Big Hairy Audacious Goal...
59m Nov 13, 2019
59m
Differentiation Strategy / Professional Networking with Sacramento Kings DJ Eddie Z
On episode 151 I sit down with the Sacramento Kings DJ, DJ Eddie Z. Eddie has had the entrepreneurial spirit from a very young age. We talk about our first entrepreneurial experiences. We both had a paper route and learned to differentiate ourselves from the competition which led each of us to having the most successful paper routes in our area. Eddie, like any good entrepreneur, parlayed his s...
30m Nov 06, 2019
30m
How To Raise Money for a Business with Brynne Kennedy
 On episode #150 I sit down with the rock star founder of Topia, who has raised over $100 million, Brynne Kennedy. Topia has been a major market disrupter and is leading the way on how companies manage their talent mobility. Brynne and I talk about how to raise money for a business, how women business owners still have difficulty raise money for a business, and her journey of raising $100 Milli...
43m Oct 30, 2019
43m
Youth Leadership / Entrepreneurial Mindset with Acton Academy Placer
 On episode #149 I sit down with the founder and CEO of Acton Academy Placer, Matt Beaudreau. He used to work in the public school system and saw first hand how it wasn't preparing our youth for the real world. So, he founded Acton Academy to be a part of the solution. We sit down to talk about how Acton is flipping school on it's head by creating youth leadership, the entrepreneurial mindset, ...
39m Oct 24, 2019
39m
Becoming #1 in the Market | The Mark Haney Show #148
On episode #148 I sit down with a man that has had an incredible entrepreneurial career. He has had six businesses that have been #1 in their market. Don Whitaker is now the CEO of Ceronix who help design the first digital color monitor. He was also behind the touch sensor that helped bring the first Apple iPhone to life. His touch sensor is now in around half of the touch screens including the...
58m Oct 16, 2019
58m
How to Develop a Winning Mindset | The Mark Haney Show #147
On episode #147, I sit down with peak performance speaker and author, Roger Crawford, to talk about mindset. Mindset is one of my favorite topics, so we take a deep dive into the components of a winning mindset and how to develop/change your mindset in order to unleash your full potential. Roger shares the tactics and habits that he has used in order to overcome the obstacles he has faced in hi...
50m Oct 09, 2019
50m
How to Use Chatbots and Conversational Marketing in Your Business | The Mark Haney Show #146
On episode #146, I sit down with Mary Kathryn Johnson, the CEO of Messenger Funnels. Mary is a leading expert in a new form of marketing called conversational marketing. We talk about the differences between traditional and conversational marketing. We also dive into what chatbots are, how to use them to interact with potential customers, and the exciting future of marketing and chatbots. Reach...
48m Oct 03, 2019
48m
Nikola Motor Company: Changing The Future of Transportation | The Mark Haney Show #145
On episode #145 I sit down with Jordan Darling, the founder of Free Form Factory. Jordan developed the worlds first electric jetski, which led to Free Form being acquired by unicorn Nikola Motor Company. At the age of 27, Jordan is the VP of Powersports for a company valued at 4 billion dollars. We talk about how Trevor Milton and Nikola are on the verge of changing the world through electric v...
32m Sep 25, 2019
32m
Building a Successful Online YouTube Business | The Mark Haney Show #144
 On episode 144, I sit down with friend and rockstar entrepreneur Jeff Rizzo, the CEO of Rizknows (one of my portfolio companies). Jeff and his business partner Matt are creating a remarkable online business fueled by their YouTube channels. Jeff shares some tips and tricks about how to create quality content, the fundamentals of optimizing your videos on YouTube, and how to create an online af...
44m Sep 23, 2019
44m
Preparing For The Recession With Former Java City CEO | The Mark Haney Show #143
 On episode #143 I sit down with former Java City CEO, Craig Hettrich. Craig is now the founder and CEO of The Hettrich Group, where he helps CEOs implement processes and strategies to take their company to the next level. Today we talk about the recession that everyone says is looming and how to not only prepare for it, but be able to grow during the economic downturn and come out the other si...
56m Sep 12, 2019
56m
Fatherhood And Entrepreneurship | The Mark Haney Show #142
 On episode #142 of The Mark Haney Show I sit down with podcaster and entrepreneur Philipp Hartmann. Philipp runs two media businesses, one in Switzerland and the other in South Africa, while simultaneously starting a new podcast called Being Dad. We talk podcasting, what it's like being a father/entrepreneur, and entrepreneurship around the world. If you are a father, check out Philipp's podca...
50m Sep 06, 2019
50m
Momtrepreneur: Successfully Raising Your Kids And Growing Your Business | The Mark Haney Show #141
 On this very special episode of The Mark Haney Show, I sit down with my daughter, Ashley Haney. Ashley is the ultimate #momtrepreneur! She recently merged Haney Garcia Realty with one of the largest franchises in the area, Coldwell Banker. She is also the youngest ever president elect for Placer County Association of Realtors, and on top of all that she is raising two incredible kids! I sit do...
39m Aug 28, 2019
39m
Inbound/Influencer Marketing Master Class With Trifecta Nutrition | The Mark Haney Show #140
Ever wonder how a company with revenue in the 9 figures made that happen? Ever wish the CEO would share the "secret sauce" that got them there? Well, in episode 140 of the Mark Haney Show that is exactly what happens. I sit down with my good friend and the CEO of Trifecta Nutrition, Greg Connolly. He shares the tactics he used to make his company the number one organic meal delivery service in ...
1hr 18m Aug 22, 2019
1hr 18m
Is Equity Crowd Funding Right For Your Company? | The Mark Haney Show #139
On episode 139 I sit down with the rock star CEO of Lifograph and my next door neighbor, Dea Wilson. Dea is raising money for her new venture and she is using a method that is fairly new, equity crowd funding. This method democratizes investing into startup companies by allowing anyone to be investors. I dive deeper into equity crowd funding to find out how it works, what companies it works for...
32m Aug 14, 2019
32m
The Qualities Of A Successful Leader | The Mark Haney Show #138
37m Aug 08, 2019
37m
Winning Is About Picking The Right Team | The Mark Haney Show #137
40m Aug 06, 2019
40m
Sac State Athletics Becoming A Power House | The Mark Haney Show #136
22m Jul 25, 2019
22m
Heroes: Those That Lost Their Lives Defending Our Freedoms | The Mark Haney Show #135
27m Jul 10, 2019
27m
How Entrepreneurship Will Trasform A City | The Mark Haney Show #134
43m Jul 03, 2019
43m