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Small Business Trends Radio features interviews and open discussions with today's small business experts on a variety of topics. Guests include a mix of influential individuals who speak on issues of the day important to the small business market; and business owners who speak from a \"been there, done that\" point of view, offering insider tips and advice.Small Business Trends Radio is broadcast LIVE every Tuesday from 1:30 PM until 2PM EST.
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The Business Trendsetter Podcast

Adam Hartung, Manny Teran, Spark Partners

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Ready to create lasting and sustainable business growth? Join our weekly show with hosts Adam Hartung & Manny Teran of Spark Partners. Combined they have created over $3 Billion in customer value and leverage Adam’s deep domain expertise on Disruptive Innovation to teach business leaders how to transform their businesses. Do you want your business to be a market leader or a market laggard? Discover business trends and learn how to leverage them to create lasting business success and become a ...
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Dive into the world of Business impacting AI. Get ready for topics that cover Regulations, Technologies, use cases, and much more. We bring you open and honest conversations about topics that help you navigate the AI landscape for your business.
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PKF Mueller's monthly accounting, business advisory, and finance podcast for business owners, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders. Join us as we discuss a broad range of timely accounting topics related to audits, taxes, business consulting, industry news, legislative changes and other hot button subjects and business advisory. Our goal is to provide business decision makers with the key insights to be up-to-date and equipped with the knowledge of ever-changing accounting updates and practic ...
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Our podcast aims to discuss tips and strategies that small business owners can use to maximize their digital footprint and help bring in more visitors to their businesses. We will touch on a variety of marketing, branding and even web design ideas that will help give direction towards maximizing your digital marketing and branding efforts. Visit https://sharptackmedia.com for more small business tips and techniques.
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Netflix just blew out expectations for new subscribers, and the stock – one again – is at all time highs. To understand why Netflix is so successful is to understand that the company keeps investing in entirely new markets and solutions, which drives new revenue streams. Rather than focusing on how to do more of the same better, faster, cheaper Net…
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The episode of the Business Trendsetter Podcast Innovators Series features Manny Teran interviewing Frank Vidal, a development manager and founder of the Tucson Thrive virtual mastermind group. Frank shares insights into his community-building efforts through Tucson Thrive, which fosters open, vulnerable discussions and authentic relationships amon…
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The administration is changing in 2025, and it’s sure to impact businesses. But you can plan for change. Looking backward, all the way to Kodak and Xerox and Amazon we can see that it is possible to plan your way to success, while avoiding pitfalls, decline and failure. It’s important to plan for trends, rather than just looking at the past, realiz…
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Molly Gravatt, the inspiring founder of Radiant Dev, shares her remarkable journey from a career in volleyball to trailblazer in technology staffing. Her story is a testament to the power of perseverance, people, and purpose. With over a decade of experience at Allegis Group, Molly honed her expertise in building connections and understanding what …
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Spark Partners is excited to introduce the Innovators Series, a special mini-series within the Business Trendsetter Podcast. In this new series, Manny Teran will sit down with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and bold innovators to uncover the stories behind their journeys—exploring their triumphs, challenges, and the lessons they’ve learned along …
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After almost a decade, and investing $10B, GM has simply quit the Robotaxi effort. It joins a long list of big-time investors who wrote off more billions – Uber, Lyft, Ford and even Apple. Why were they so wrong? This podcast explains how the lack of a Value Proposition meant these efforts were unlikely to succeed, even with “all the money in the w…
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We often think of risk and uncertainty as the same thing. We say “I don’t know what to do,” concluding doing something (often anything) seems risky. But that is wrong. Just because you’re uncertain what to do doesn’t mean it’s risky. And you can be certain about what you do while taking actions (often doing the status quo) that incur a lot of risk.…
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The election results are in, and it’s assured that America – which means the globe – is going to be dealing with change. Are you prepared? Hoping these changes won’t affect your business is foolhardy, and luck is not a strategy! Long-term trends are not affected by this election. The upside-down demographic pyramid isn’t going to change, nor is cli…
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AI chip maker Nvidia is replacing Intel on the Dow Jones Industrial Average this week. This may seem irrelevant to your business. But it is, in fact, pretty meaningful. There is an important lesson in this podcast for all leaders about maintaining relevancy, following trends and smartly investing your resources. The DJIA members are supposed to be …
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During the pandemic we learned how to work very effectively outside the office. Work From Home became the trend, and it has persevered more than 5 years later. But some leaders want to go against the trend and make employees return to the office full time. It is never a good idea to fight trends, and this podcast explains why full time return to of…
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Every business owner wants to know the secret to great success. It’s really more simply than most think – because it’s all about growth. Years ago we researched the sources of wealth creation, and nothing was even close to being as important as revenue growth. This podcast explains why 10%/year revenue growth is crucial to remaining relevant, and w…
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Not so amazingly, we now know that people no longer stay at their jobs as long as they once did. Few stick around 10 years, and most leave a job every 4. Likewise, we know that warmer oceans have led to warmer gulfs, so hurricanes are more frequent and stronger – as are other bad weather events like floods and tornadoes. Despite knowing this is tru…
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23andMe came on the scene as Time magazines “Invention of the Year” in 2008. The silicon valley DNA testing company went public with a $6B valuation in 2021. Now it’s worth $150M and sinking fast as the Board has resigned and the company appears directionless. What went wrong? MOL Group in Hungary thought of itself as an oil & gas developer and ret…
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Recent headlines could have easily persuaded you that the long term trend to sustainable energy was being upended. Yes, coal generation is closing, and nuclear plants are being reopened. Yes, the demand for electricity is expanding faster than ever due to the growth of AI. But headlines don’t try to explain trends, and the trend to sustainable ener…
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The “Mandela Effect” is a term describing large numbers of people believing something is true, when in fact it is not true. The term originated from large numbers of people believing Mandela was dead almost 30 years before he died. There are lots of examples, such as most people think they can buy “Jiffy” peanut butter when the real name is Jif. Or…
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A decade ago Microsoft was well on its way to irrelevancy. Forbes mag christened Ballmer was the worst CEO in America. The Board fired him, and today his replacement has led Microsoft to pre-eminence in tech, atop the AI heap. His lessons for how to turn around a behemoth are relevant for organizations large and small. This podcast explains how Nad…
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Spark Partners has been coaching clients for almost 30 years on how to achieve long-term success. But despite the research, the books, the Forbes (and other) articles and interviews, people are still getting things wrong. The failure cases of 30 years ago are forgotten (Multgraphics, Kodak, Xerox) while new cases – with identical patterns to the ol…
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Intel is looking more like Kodak, Hostess Baking, ToysRUs and GE every day. People wonder “How can a company that is so successful, so innovative screw up its business so badly?” There really is a pattern to what these companies did wrong, which you can avoid. Listen to this podcast, using the Intel case study to explain how leaders fall into the b…
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Shockingly, YouTube is now the #1 streaming service on televisions – bigger than Netflix – and bigger than broadcast TV. For 17 straight months YouTube has been the winner, with ad sales growing at double digit rates and exceeding $50B/year. This podcast tells the phenomenal story of how Google kept tinkering with the platform until it figured out …
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Intel was once the leader in semiconductors by a huge margin. They were half of the “wintel” platform that was the PC business for over 20 years. But now, Intel is on hard times. Sales are down over 30%, profits are down (losses in semiconductors), and plans are to lay off 15K employees while discontinuing the dividend. This podcast delves into wha…
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Most people focus on operating their business better, faster, cheaper. They look for efficiencies in doing what they’ve done. But that is NOT the road to long-term success. That’s just making sure you have an effective Value Delivery System. Success requires knowing your customers’ needs, and then understanding the value you can provide by fulfilli…
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Lots of people somewhat glaze over when told they need to be more involved in AI. The tendency can be to think of AI as requiring very hard core, high end, difficult technology skills that take years of education and application. It’s easy to think that most of us are simply incompetent when it comes to AI, and it’s a challenge beyond most of us. T…
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Do you ever wonder how a business as successful as Kodak could invent digital photography, and then completely lose it and all relevancy? Or how Blockbuster could dominate home video sales, and end up bankrupt? It happens because leaders don’t move early enough to understand customers, and don’t move quickly enough to react to customer needs. This …
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Every small and midsized business leader tells me they know their customer. They are sure that’s why they succeed. But, unfortunately, most don’t know the vast majority of their customers very well, and they are surprised when business turns south on them. They try to raise prices, or cut costs, and they are surprised that customers leave. Or they …
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As business leaders we tend to focus on what we control. But what we don’t control is infinitely larger than what we do control. We can’t control the world, so the smartest thing to do is focus more on the world, so we can adapt and adjust we do control toward greater success. Geopolitics is about as far away from what we can control as possible; e…
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Everyone sees trends, but most of us are so locked into our current situation that we don’t recognize how to use those trends for better outcomes. We are so stuck doing what we’ve done that we feel little room is available to doing something new. But the good news is that new tools – most of which are free – can help enormously with this overcoming…
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Unbeknownst to most people, 3D printing is a $20B business growing at 25%/year. While most people haven’t used a 3D printer, or even thought about it, it’s really a lot like ChatGPT. It’s a new technology on the scene that took 35 years to develop – and opens the door to enormous innovation, better business practices, lower costs, exciting new prod…
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We at Spark Partners are constantly asked how to know when to invest in a trend. We’re asked how to tell a trend from a fad, and how to know that investing in a trend will pay out. This podcast answers those questions by looking at case examples like Amazon, Apple, Tesla and even making predictions about Nvidia and the future of AI. The key to iden…
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This podcast explains why so many of us make poor business decisions. Quite simply, we tend to look backward rather than forward. We think the future will look like the past, when that is mostly unlikely. We let biases built up over time, and perceptions of today (which are often wrong) drive decisions - instead of data and trends. Good leaders hir…
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For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), intellectual property (IP) can be a hidden goldmine. But how do you capture that value when selling your company? Custom software applications can be a strategic answer. Many SMBs have unique processes or algorithms that give them a competitive edge. Building a custom app allows you to encode these proc…
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Lots of talk about AI, but many small and mid-size businesses still aren’t applying AI. This podcast is a short primer on what’s happening in AI and how to get started. You can do it wrong, and we explain how easy it is to use the wrong data sets. And you can apply it wrong, attempting problems that require adaptability between data sets. Or you ca…
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In the future electricity will be free. How’s that for a forecast? Adam made over 200 forecasts for Forbes mag, and when he stopped writing all 200 were proven accurate. This podcast explains how to do good scenario planning using the electric utility industry as an example. Demand is going up. But supply is challenged by the technology transition …
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In this episode, Manny engages in conversation with Tanner Herbert and Rebecca Crane, both principals of the Signature Group, a longstanding full-service residential real estate company supporting buyers and sellers in Southern Arizona's fast-paced market. Beyond traditional services, their company also engages in wholesale transactions and fix-and…
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Most people think of strategic planning as a periodic exercise, typically done annually (or every 3 years) and reviewed possibly quarterly (or semi-annually.) It’s almost an activity that is undertaken “just because” but which has minimal impact on daily decision making. But successful innovators do strategic planning very differently. They don’t e…
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For years Adam has been a fan of Tesla. Tesla innovated the EV market, overcoming multiple obstacles that traditional auto execs felt were unsolvable. And Tesla’s founder proved to be an innovator of cars, as well as business models. For over a decade Tesla had limited competition, and it grew very quickly. Times have changed. This podcast explains…
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Today, we're joined by Jeanne Cummings, a turnaround CEO with a specialty in guiding founder-led companies towards manifesting their visions. She delves into her unique approach, an 'inside out engagement,' which begins with grasping the founder's vision and extends through conversations with employees and customers. This process offers invaluable …
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Today, we had a conversation with Brendan Staib, the latest addition to the SparkPartners team and a sophomore at the University of Arizona's business school. Understanding the distinct buying patterns of each generation can provide valuable insights on how to sell to each of them and grow your market share. In our discussion, Brendan shed light on…
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This podcast reviews 2 innovators launching new businesses. One we see as very likely to succeed. The other is a lot more questionable. We explain in detail what distinguishes the difference. Adam Hartung made over 300 predictions during the decade he wrote for Forbes. 100% of those predictions turned out to be accurate – a record for Forbes writer…
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April 2, 2024 was the day General Electric died. After 132 years, the behemoth founded on invention and innovation by Thomas Edison is no longer. How could one of the founding members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffer such a fate? After all, just 24 years ago GE – led by Jack Welch – was the most admired company in the USA; and one of the …
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Last week Family Dollar/Dollar Tree revealed it was filing for bankruptcy and closing approximately 1,000 stores. For most of us, these announcements are so common we don’t even notice any longer. Last year 4,600 retail locations closed in the USA. CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens closed 800 stores. This podcast explains how the US became so “overstored…
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In the last couple of weeks the Supreme Court has overturned a lot of precedent. Similar to other headlines, it’s important business leaders use this input to update future scenarios. This podcast reviews how the 3 big precedent changes (New York gun law, reproduction rights and school prayer) all indicate a shift in the high court toward personal …
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GE was founded on April 15, 1892. On April 2, 2024 there will be no more GE. This podcast explains that what took 108 years to build, culminating in Jack Welch’s huge growth spurt from 1980 to 2000, was systematically destroyed by CEO Jeff Immelt and his successors. How? By focusing on earnings rather than growing revenues. This week Boeing was put…
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This podcast interviews Tom Koulopoulos, Founding Chairman of Delphi Group, Executive Director of the Babson College Center for Business Innovation, past Director of the Dell Innovation Lab and contributor to Inc Magazine as well as many other journals. We overview his latest book (#14) “GIGATRENDS” offering insights to the major trends creating op…
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There is a lot of immigrant bashing in the USA these days. Somewhat ironic, given that almost all Americans have an immigrant background. Nonetheless, there is a perception among a lot of people – business leaders included – that immigrants are bad for the economy. This podcast sets out to reverse that thinking. Reviewing ample data from the Congre…
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Starting next week Amazon.com will replace Walgreens on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA.) This 100+ year old index may seem out of date, but it does still have meaning. Being selected for inclusion means a company is relevant and growing, and being opted out is the opposite. We discuss in this podcast how changes in the DJIA and the Dow Tran…
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Fed Chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen have both confirmed we will have a commercial real estate debacle on our hands soon. Great, they finally figured out what Manny and Adam have been saying for over a year! Better late than remaining ignorant! So what does this mean for you? This podcast explains the risks this is creating f…
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Trends are long-lived customer behavioral changes. Trends cause customers to develop new needs and allow companies to supply new solutions. Thus, trends are loaded with opportunity, and the source of obsolescence. But far too few companies use trends in their planning. This podcast overviews how we verify trends, identify trend reinforcers, and the…
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Do you know WHY people should want to do business with your start-up, without discussing HOW you do it? This #Podcast interviews Jordan Shepley founder of The Headling Lounge. In this interview Jordan describes exactly why people should want to buy her products. Over and again she describes the benefits customers receive, short and long-term. We al…
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Despite the reliability of demographic data, and projections, few business leaders use demographics as part of their future planning. Because most leaders assume demographics won’t change much, and they need to appeal to today’s marketplace. But we are facing a global shift in demographics that is changing business conditions in every market – righ…
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