#183: John Venhuizen—Differentiating Yourself From the Competition

The EntreLeadership Podcast

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.7 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Ace Hardware’s CEO and President John Venhuizen joins this week’s episode to share his company’s story of successfully reinventing itself to fight against ever-increasing competition from big box stores. With more than 4,800 stores locally owned and operated across the globe, it’s wasn’t an easy job. The secret? An irrational commitment and pursuit of amazing customer service and a whole lot of excellent leadership, culture and community along the way. Whether your company is big or small, you’re going to want to listen to this conversation. entreleadership.com/podcast Small-Business Tax Preparation Checklist Infusionsoft's 2017 Strategy Kit EntreLeadership Summit

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0:00.0	Music
0:06.0	Helping business leaders grow themselves, their team and their profits.
0:12.0	This is the Andre leadership podcast.
0:15.0	Now here is your host, Ken Gullman.
0:19.0	Broadcasting from the Music City, this is the podcast of leaders by leaders, four
0:23.0	leaders. Thank you so much for joining us.
0:25.0	In this all important conversation, we have a jam packed episode.
0:30.0	I'm going to take you into our conversation with John Vinheisen.
0:33.0	He's the president and CEO of Ace Hardware.
0:37.0	And this is a fun, fun conversation.
0:40.0	And I think you're going to really enjoy it.
0:42.0	Or else we wouldn't bring it to you. Let's be honest.
0:44.0	Then Chad McKinney stops by. He is a certified public accountant.
0:48.0	One of our Ramsey Solutions endorsed local providers.
0:52.0	We're going to dive deep and very specific on taxes, how to save some money.
0:57.0	This is an important thing for you small business owners.
0:59.0	And then a young entrepreneur.
1:02.0	We have never done this before. Have we ever had anybody on who is a teenager?
1:07.0	And this kid is 14 years old, his name is Kyle Graham.
1:09.0	And we learned about him from a previous guest by the name of Mike Rowe.
1:15.0	Of course, Mike is no stranger to our loyal audience, but Mike of dirty jobs fame
1:20.0	and so many other things. Talked about this kid on social media.
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