WORK Less, PROFIT More

The statistics are alarming -- According to the Kauffman Foundation, only 6% of all entrepreneurs ever achieve 6-figure business success, and only 2% ever achieve 7-figure success. But sometimes the best way to learn how to do something is to learn how not to do it --...

Most business owners undervalue their services (products and programs)!  When it comes to discussions about money and especially raising our prices, we squirm, self-doubt, cringe and end up delaying when we could be making more profit. In this episode, I explore the...

Can technology really help small firm owners with workflow efficiencies? Do virtual, online services such as accounting and bookkeeping really work? Guest Eric Saumure and I talk about: Why he founded an online, 100% remote, accounting service  Why some business...

You don’t have a business unless you have sales! My special guest, Samantha Varner, The Profit Coach, and I share a love for all things PROFIT. In this episode, we talk about: Her CRUSH profit formula and it’s 5 key pillars How sales isn’t sleazy; it’s no different...

If you’ve been listening to this podcast for any length of time, you’ve heard me mention that building a well-oiled business machine is your path to freedom (joy and profit). So today – I’m going to dive deep into exactly what I mean as well as the 9 foundational...

Could you be self-sabotaging your efforts to grow your business? Are you making it harder than it needs to be? In episode 102 (part 1), I shared: My own self-sabotaging journey Success Roadblock #7 as outlined in my book, Shift into Rich (download a copy here) My...

Whether you’re a high achiever earning $5K, $10K or $100K/month, I’m betting you’d love to take your business to the next level! But could you be self-sabotaging your efforts? Are you making it harder than it needs to be? In the first part of the series, I’ll share:...

I know there are lots of you out there listening who, at one time or another, have thought about starting or launching something new – whether it’s a program, podcast or writing a book…and you’ve felt uncertain, had self-doubt but once you did – it was the best thing...

My go-to resource for all things digital including website design, copywriting and marketing strategy is my special guest – Geneviève Rochon. Often what I see is that as a business grows, business owners haphazardly continue to add to their digital footprint – maybe...

Although raised in poverty by a single mother, Alfonso Cuadra is now on a mission to help individuals create freedom through real estate investing! He strongly believes that nothing happens until you expand your mindset. Alfonso and Diana discuss: The difference...

Have you ever wondered what the next best step might be for you and your business? Have you ever made a decision and then self-doubt creep in and stop you? Wish you could get someone else’s eyeballs on your business for about 15 minutes? Well friends that’s exactly...

If you would like to quickly uncover the profit potential in your small firm or business, apply to be a guest on our monthly Profit Potential Audit interview series here.  PLUS! You get to spread the word about your business!! Mark explains that he has two goals:...

In episode 24 of the Work Less Profit More business podcast (here), I talked about 5 different types of communication styles – live, video, written, graphic and audio – and how each of us has one BEST way of communicating with our audience. Well, for you live or video...

My guest, Joe Matz, has discovered that being a podcast guest is one of the best, and simplest ways to get your message out into the world because you’re using other people’s audience! In his work with other service-based entrepreneurs, he found that many of them were...

How many of you have had the idea that you might like to write a book someday but then you think, "OMG, I’m way too busy to take time out to write a book" or you might ask yourself, "who’s going to read it?".  Our guest, Melody Awnn Owen, will answer all these...

If you would like to quickly uncover the profit potential in your small firm or business, apply to be a guest on our monthly Profit Potential Audit interview series at www.dianalidstone.com/audit, PLUS you get to spread the word about your business!! Sonya Boersma, a...

If you would like to quickly uncover the profit potential in your small firm or business, apply to be a guest on our monthly Profit Potential Audit interview series at www.dianalidstone.com/audit, PLUS you get to spread the word about your business!! For almost 25...

Thank you for listening & leaving A REVIEW (here) Don’t forget to grab your workbook here: www.dianalidstone.com/takenotes so you outline how you’ll implement these strategies. One thing I know for sure is that when I listen to podcasts like these – great ideas...

Research shows that of the time given to a workday, 80% is spent doing tasks with little to no value and only 20% is spent doing something important. That’s a BIG scary stat! And yet when Google sends me my website report, one of the MOST looked at pages – is a blog I...

If you’re anything like a lot of my clients, you heard this before…. Systems will set you free!  Sound familiar?  But what I do hear back from my clients is that they don’t know where to start to create systems and they are often confused about what it truly means to...

As a business owner, if you ever struggle with deciding what to tackle first on your to-do list or if you ever wonder how to pinpoint the tasks that will have the biggest impact on your business growth – have no fear, you aren’t alone. This episode will help you solve...

Toss the confetti – it’s Day 1 of my 5 day podcast series The Ultimate Focus & Freedom Masterclass!! I’m super excited to be offering this free training – it’s something I’ve never done before and I’m pretty sure, it’s not common in the podcasting space! So what...

You don’t have to look very far to hear about entrepreneurial burnout – you can read about it in major news outlets, major magazines, and podcasts and you’ve probably heard from someone close to you about how they’ve ended up in the hospital or tanked their...

If you’ve been listening to my podcast for a while, you know that I’ve taken a strong stand – you don’t need social media to grow your business.  It’s true – you don’t need to USE social media as a lead generation tool – a tool to attract clients. So if you don’t need...

My daughter is the ultimate 2nd hand shopper, and she just had a baby.  So true to form she bought lots of things 2nd hand.  However, before she purchased anything major – let’s say a stroller – she did a couple of things.  She asked friends who had children AND then...

Do you know the story about the shoemaker’s children not having any shoes?  It seems that there are a few business owners who feel like the shoemaker! This Profit Potential Audit interview with my long-time friend and business broker, Ron Wiebe, reveals something that...

Welcome to another round of Coaching Week. In each Profit Potential Audit (PPA) episode, I help one super smart business owner identify ONE key actionable strategy to move their business forward. I’ll use both my Grow Success Calculator and Profit Potential Journey...

Did you know that at A&W, you can ask for NO PICKLES? In this episode, find out what having no pickles on your hamburger means for your business profit. The pickle effect and magical moments are strategies that my guest Shari Doherty uses to create a lasting...

Today so much of business conversations are around client acquisition – but why not more around keeping clients when acquiring a new customer costs 5x more than retaining the customer you already have. According to Mr. Google – increasing customer retention by as...