WORK Less, PROFIT More

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...

As a professional expert, lawyer, accountant, or financial advisor, there comes a time in your business when it's time to stop the hustle – time to stop chasing more clients; because more clients don’t always mean more profit. My conversation with Roger Knecht,...

Each month, I release several Profit Potential Audits which are interviews with smart business owners who are seeking to find areas in their businesses where they can raise their profits. Prior to the interview, entrepreneurs complete my GROW Success Calculator which...

Each month, I release several Profit Potential Audits which are interviews with smart business owners who are seeking to find areas in their businesses where they can raise their profits. Prior to the interview, entrepreneurs complete my GROW Success Calculator which...

As business owners, we are on a journey. We all start from ZERO and then progress but sometimes it’s difficult to understand where we are on that journey and how to move forward! In this episode, I introduce 2 new tools that will help entrepreneurs self-identify areas...

Our beliefs around money, and success can often keep us from the thing we want most in life. In this episode, I address two common misconceptions about money that are keeping many small professional firms from the profit they truly want. There are several strategies...

Has someone ever said something that just STOPS you dead in your tracks and then you just can’t stop thinking about what they said? Well, that’s what happened to me… and that’s what I call Your Million $ Question. In this episode, I share Where the question came from...

If you listen to this podcast, it’s my guess that you started your business for freedom – whether it was time or money freedom, it was freedom nonetheless. But getting that freedom isn’t always about the glamour. Building a sustainably profitable business isn’t always...

Most small firms think that this strategy is: Woohoo so they dismiss it Or too busy with client work to schedule the time to work on this strategy Or think their team… employees aren't interested in that stuff So 99% of small firms don’t do it,  but by doing this ONE...

There’s an old saying…. "If you’re not changing, you’re not growing.  Change is essential" -- Maggie Rogers. Business is about change… I’m sure if you think back to when you started your business and compare it to today – both you and your business have changed –...

Like any newbie doing something for the first time, when I launched my podcast last February, I never imagined a 3rd season or that I would be rebranding it.  But like anything in business, change is inevitable if you want to keep growing and improving! In this...

WORDS...we use them every day and yet there was a time in my life when I really didn’t pay attention to each specific word, but in marketing your business – whether it’s on video, captions, social media, in your speech or on your website – there are some words you...

A couple of questions for you: Did you grow up in an entrepreneurial family? I didn’t grow up in an entrepreneurial family – but my kids did.  And today I see that without knowing it, they absorbed a whole ton of business knowledge at the kitchen table.  Are you or...

I don’t know about you, BUT I don’t want MORE work. I want less work in my business but more profits. I want more joy and more free time. But to do that – we have to stop hunting and chasing clients. We have to build a strong foundation so that we attract clients to...

You’ve heard all the expressions: ✔️  Riches in the niches✔️  Nail your niche✔️  If you’re selling to everyone, you’re selling to no one✔️  For that one – substitute marketing, writing, etc. But perhaps you’re a little skeptical about how this will help you scale your...

Niching down will be one of the most counterintuitive things you’ll do for your business, but believe me, IT WORKS. Niching down will make you more money – over and over again! However, it’s not only a scary strategy to implement for many business owners, it’s often...

I wish I had kept track of the number of times business owners have told me that the whole idea of  ‘marketing’ is confusing and downright overwhelming! I’ve also heard from many of you that it’s incredibly easy to invest too much time and resources and still wonder...