Blake Binns, Good Advice to Create Raving Fans
Your World of Creativity
Mark Stinson
5.0 • 45 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Meet Blake Binns, of Good Advice Coaching LLC, his company that helps grow and scale businesses.
Blake provides a real and tangible perspective on the steps needed to grow your business at any stage -- from the ideas an aspiring entrepreneur may have, to fundraising and developing a new startup, to managing and leading a team.
There’s no fluff in this podcast. There’s just Good Advice.
We discuss:
- what scaling means (not just revenue)
- what leadership needs to do to grow
- why are "raving fans" the most important metric
- how to make employees raving fans, too
Blake lives in Northwest Arkansas with his beautiful wife Joy, his daughter Maylee, and his dog, Sadie.
Connect with Blake at
https://goodadvicecoaching.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakebinns/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/NWAGrowthGroup
And listen to his podcast at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-advice-do-business-better-with-blake-binns/id1437818361?mt=2
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| 0:00.0 | We've created a special offer just for listeners of the podcast. You can get our book, |
| 0:04.6 | A World of Creativity. Paperback is at a special price of $598, and the Kindle version is only |
| 0:11.4 | $0.99. Go to my website, mark-stinson.com. |
| 0:17.1 | Unlocking your world of creativity. With Mark Stinson. |
| 0:24.3 | Hello again everyone, it's Mark Stinson and today we're unlocking your world of creativity. |
| 0:29.4 | To think about how to move beyond likes, beyond requests, downloads, podcast listeners, |
| 0:37.3 | all the kind of vanity metrics and move into real customer connections and even to scale your |
| 0:44.2 | business up to a thousand raving fans. This is the hallmark of our guest today. There's |
| 0:50.2 | thousand raving fans and I want to introduce Blake Benz. Thanks for having me today. He is the |
| 0:55.2 | founder and CEO of Good Advice LLC. Blake, it's so good to have you. |
| 0:59.4 | You know, I ream on those vanity metrics all the time. So already, you're speaking my language |
| 1:05.2 | because these things aren't pretty superficial and yet they take so much of our time and energy. |
| 1:10.2 | Oh, they do. And you know, we as creative people Blake, I think this is the whole point of this |
| 1:14.4 | conversation. We as creative people say, I just want people to see my work, recognize my work, |
| 1:21.5 | give me a gold star of any kind. But to have that relationship is really different, isn't it? |
| 1:27.3 | Well, it feels like a lot of times the validation we're looking for, it's a lot more of a longer |
| 1:32.8 | game than we think it is. And so like, you know, you make the post or you do the podcast episode or |
| 1:38.1 | if you have a YouTube channel, you know, you put up the video. And then what we do is we click, |
| 1:42.1 | we, you know, we click that refresh button. How many now? How about now? Yeah, how about now? |
| 1:47.1 | And I remember when I was first starting my business, I was putting content out and I was doing |
| 1:52.0 | that, you know, F five refresh, refresh. And I remember one time I refreshed, I just posted a video, |
| 1:57.0 | I refreshed. And there was a comment on it. I was like, Oh my gosh, someone gave me a comment, |
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