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Barry Moltz        

Small Business Expert, Entrepreneurship Author, Angel Investor

Barry Moltz gets small businesses unstuck.

As a small business expert based in Illinois, Barry Moltz helps owners grow by unlocking their long-forgotten potential. With decades of entrepreneurial experience in his own business ventures and consulting for other entrepreneurs, he has discovered the formula to get stuck business owners unstuck and marching forward. Moltz applies simple, strategic steps to facilitate change, covering areas such as sales, marketing, customer service, and finance.

Moltz has founded and run small businesses for more than 20 years, experiencing both significant success and failure. After successfully selling his last operating business, he branched out into various entrepreneurship-related activities. He founded an angel investor group, an angel fund, and served as an advisory member of the board of the Angel Capital Education Foundation. Moltz has authored six books, including "You Need to Be A Little Crazy: The Truth about Starting and Growing Your Business", "Bounce! Failure, Resiliency and the Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success", "BAM! Delivering Customer Service in a Self-Service World", "Small Town Rules: How Small Business and Big Brands can Profit in a Connected Economy", "How to Get Unstuck: 25 Ways to Get Your Business Growing Again", and "Small Business Hacks: 100 Shortcuts to Your Success", a #1 release on Amazon.

Moltz is a nationally recognized speaker on small business who has given hundreds of presentations to audiences ranging in size from 20 to 20,000. As a member of the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, he has taught entrepreneurship as an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has appeared on TV and radio programs such as CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, MSNBC’s Your Business, and NPR’s The Tavis Smiley Show. Additionally, Moltz hosts his own radio show, Business Insanity Talk Radio on AM560, writes regularly for American Express Open Forum and other periodicals, and is involved in virtual keynotes and business strategy discussions. His speaking topics include business performance, customer experience, entrepreneurship, finance, leadership, management, marketing, sales, and social media.

Speech Topics

How to Stop Being Busy and Get Everything Done Everyday

Stop confusing being busy with productivity. Busy is doing any stuff, while productivity is getting the stuff done that will move the small business forward. In addition, every employee will mimic the way the owner works. They could soon have a team filled with inefficient, multi-tasking workers all running around chasing their tails. This session uncovers ways to get more done in half the time using “micro-progress techniques”, even in this interruption-based culture.

Building a Team that Lasts and Lasts

One of the most difficult elements of growing a business is hiring and the right team members. That is why it is critical to be slow to hire and quick to fire. Unfortunately, not many business owners follow this advice. Instead, they hire the first person that reasonably fits the role before they’ve learned a lot about them. Then, if the employee doesn’t work out, they hesitate to fire them. Barry shows how to stop the employee merry-go-round and effectively hire, train, manage and fire people to provide the maximum leverage for every business.

5 Surefire Ways to Supercharge Your Sales for Success (and Keep Your Pipeline Full)

Most small business owners don’t like to sell. But even if you have a great product, you can’t grow your business without selling your product or service. Barry shares his simple and quick shortcuts to keep your sales pipeline full and turn your prospects into customers.

Small Business Hacks: 25 Shortcuts for Your Success

Running a small business is hard and confusing. Most entrepreneurs start a company to solve a problem and just want to focus on doing only that with customers. Unfortunately, managing all the other parts in a business and the people “gets in the way”. This is a high-speed presentation that will rapidly go through the best 25 tips, tricks and work arounds for anyone in a small business to be able to accomplish critical tasks in seven steps or less.

Getting Your Small Business Unstuck

What you did to get your business to where it is today, is not what you need to do to get it where it needs to be now. Businesses growth requires different actions as the market changes. Barry has identified 6 ways that businesses get stuck, causing their growth to slow. By simply making changes to these ineffective patterns, your business can start to flourish again. Areas discussed are sales, marketing, finance, personal productivity, managing employees and customer experience.

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