Cubicle to CEO

This is a free preview of ⁠Revenue Report Files⁠: an audio archive of five years of Cubicle to CEO’s quarterly revenue reports, from 2020 through 2024. Each episode breaks down our company’s profit and loss numbers, along with the context, decisions, and lessons from that quarter. Full episodes can be found at ⁠cubicletoceo.co/revenuereport⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amy Posner, a seasoned online business owner and mentor, shares her journey into LinkedIn to connect with creative freelancers. She reveals her daily content strategy that led to 414 email subscribers and 708 followers in just six months. Within two weeks, she sold out her new program and earned over $45K, mostly from first-time buyers. Amy also discusses engaging content techniques, the importance of relationship-building in sales, and strategic approaches to overcome decision paralysis. Her insights offer a blueprint for leveraging LinkedIn's potential.

We’re rounding up our 8 best tips and guest insights on all things hiring, from pre-hiring essentials, to successful delegation, to finding the right people to bring on your team. I’ll introduce each sound bite with the name of the guest and the original episode number, in case you want to go back and listen to the full interview. All referenced episodes will also be linked for you in the show notes below for easy access.View the transcript for this episode at: https://otter.ai/u/STlBAzdKb67YsLqZdHomcO_m1v0?utm_source=copy_urlThank you to our sponsor! Try the #1 all-in-one E-commerce platform: Shopify! Sign up for a one dollar per month trial period at https://shopify.com/ellen Want to increase your financial competence? Go to https://kickstartaccountinginc.com/gift to get your free gift! Links to the featured episodes: EP 93 w/ Say Gabriel: https://link.chtbl.com/8suBwwrB EP 252 w/ Emily Reagan: https://link.chtbl.com/TAw4NxBb EP 223 w/ Rachel Harris: https://link.chtbl.com/lU-TYwCw EP 123 w/ Tyler J. McCall: https://link.chtbl.com/mWPAAkAO EP 195 w/ Heather Brown: https://link.chtbl.com/38TylNUR EP 168 w/ Daina Trout: https://link.chtbl.com/xVpIp6ZI EP 254 w/ Danielle Hayden: https://link.chtbl.com/oAH9rkyw EP 201 w/ Pauleanna Reid: https://link.chtbl.com/7d_PuYjh Check out our previous roundup episodes: Email Marketing Roundup: https://link.chtbl.com/zW5tKLM2 Podcast Roundup: https://link.chtbl.com/CUa_hAXC Launching Roundup: https://link.chtbl.com/jz5RbIv0 Pitching Roundup: https://link.chtbl.com/sllNCKMT Lead Generation Roundup: https://link.chtbl.com/dbjNLFH1 Conversion Roundup: https://link.chtbl.com/AYNw_c2w Customer Feedback Roundup: https://link.chtbl.com/lTKbWBYY Marketing Roundup: https://link.chtbl.com/AkgrDVmg Iconic business leaders all have their own unique genius. Take this quick 10 question quiz to uncover your specific CEO style advantage: https://ellenyin.com/quizIf you enjoyed today's episode, please: Post a screenshot & key takeaway on your IG story and tag me @missellenyin & @cubicletoceo so we can repost you. Leave a positive review or rating at www.ratethispodcast.com/cubicletoceo Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Join our C-Suite membership to get bonus episodes! Check out everything our members get at https://ellenyin.com/csuite Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The media tends to portray women as over-spenders who are bad with money, causing Kickstart Accounting founder Danielle Hayden to notice that many of her new clients would come in asking “where can I cut back?”But Danielle, who runs a 7 figure bookkeeping and accounting agency, challenges that narrative by examining where women are actually underspending in their businesses in a way that is prohibitive to reaching their goals.In this case study, we dissect how Danielle is spending $113,223 on outsourced services for her business this year to drive growth, and why she has no desire to bring these roles in-house.We’ll itemize every outsourced service, how much return she gets on these investments, and the process she uses to discern which roles should be hired in-house versus outsourced to an expert.View the transcript for this episode at: https://otter.ai/u/UhFUoVcYoCFZ8XHV8H4YB5V-wMo?utm_source=copy_urlThank you to our sponsor! Get 20% off your entire Soursop Nutrition order with code 'CEO'! Uplevel your health and wellness journey at https://soursopnutrition.com Connect with Danielle: FREE GIFT: https://kickstartaccountinginc.com/gift/ IG: https://instagram.com/kickstart accounting LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-hayden-kickstartaccounting/ Podcast: https://kickstartaccountinginc.com/businessbythebooks Iconic business leaders all have their own unique genius. Take this quick 10 question quiz to uncover your specific CEO style advantage: https://ellenyin.com/quizIf you enjoyed today's episode, please: Post a screenshot & key takeaway on your IG story and tag me @missellenyin & @cubicletoceo so we can repost you. Leave a positive review or rating at www.ratethispodcast.com/cubicletoceo Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Join our C-Suite membership to get bonus episodes! Check out everything our members get at https://ellenyin.com/csuite Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A lot of expert-based online businesses and coaches start with 1:1 client services, myself included. But what happens when you’ve reached your capacity and want to transition from a one-to-one to one-to many business model?Dani Marenburg of Mindin’ My Macros successfully restructured her 1:1 service into a scalable offer suite that 2Xed her revenue in just one year!In today’s case study, we go through Dani’s process of shifting her individual client work into scalable programs, which halved her working hours from 60 to 30 hours a week.View the transcript for this episode at: https://otter.ai/u/GjnaJOA4DNT5yl2CXcQHsK0itlQ?utm_source=copy_urlThank you to our sponsor! Get 20% off your entire Soursop Nutrition order with code 'CEO'! Uplevel your health and wellness journey at https://soursopnutrition.com Connect with Dani: IG: @mindinmymacros Mindin’ My Wellness Podcast: https://mindinmymacros.com/podcast Free Macros Training: https://mindinmymacros.com/masterclass Iconic business leaders all have their own unique genius. Take this quick 10 question quiz to uncover your specific CEO style advantage: https://ellenyin.com/quizIf you enjoyed today's episode, please: Post a screenshot & key takeaway on your IG story and tag me @missellenyin & @cubicletoceo so we can repost you. Leave a positive review or rating at www.ratethispodcast.com/cubicletoceo Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Join our C-Suite membership to get bonus episodes! Check out everything our members get at https://ellenyin.com/csuite Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When you start a business, you wear all the hats - everything from operations to accounting to marketing to customer service. Eventually, you become your own roadblock to growth - so how do you get out of the weeds and hire the right people to join your team?To answer this question, we’re joined by Emily Reagan, founder of the Unicorn Digital Marketing Assistant School, a program training women to become successful freelance marketing assistants and specialists every online business owner wants to hire.Stay tuned to hear how Emily recommends you prep your business for hiring, the difference between hiring contractors vs employees, what pay rates you should expect for certain roles, and her take on why you should avoid agencies and UpWork when looking for talent.View the transcript for this episode at: https://otter.ai/u/24r7KfgyO1lVnymlRavuHcsHijc?utm_source=copy_urlThank you to our sponsor! Get 20% off your entire Soursop Nutrition order with code 'CEO'! Uplevel your health and wellness journey at https://soursopnutrition.com Connect with Emily: IG: @emilyreaganpr YT: @emilyreaganpr TikTok: @emilyreaganpr LinkedIn: Emily Reagan FB Page: @emilyreaganpr FB Group: Emily’s Unicorn Digital Marketing Assistant Lab Iconic business leaders all have their own unique genius. Take this quick 10 question quiz to uncover your specific CEO style advantage: https://ellenyin.com/quizIf you enjoyed today's episode, please: Post a screenshot & key takeaway on your IG story and tag me @missellenyin & @cubicletoceo so we can repost you. Leave a positive review or rating at www.ratethispodcast.com/cubicletoceo Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Join our C-Suite membership to get bonus episodes! Check out everything our members get at https://ellenyin.com/csuite Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you’re a longtime listener, you know getting in front of borrowed traffic is our favorite audience growth strategy, and today’s case study on hosting roundtables affirms why.Women’s leadership expert and founder of Safi Media, Eleanor Beaton, has successfully hosted 14 roundtables since Q4 2021, inviting aligned speakers to join her for hot button conversations and growing her email list by 2655 highly vetted subscribers in the process.The roundtables may be free to attend, but they have collectively driven $884,000 in post-event sales from attendees.We ask Eleanor all the questions you want to know to replicate this strategy in your own business, from the logistics of promoting, inviting speakers, and facilitating roundtable conversations, to which roundtable topics drew the biggest crowds and how to best approach the post-event sales process without scaring your new leads away.View the transcript for this episode at: https://otter.ai/u/AUzgzZdRZJWN7Jrwsu956FWs-Bw?utm_source=copy_urlThank you to our sponsors! Learn how to sell (and scale!) your course or program on autopilot, every single day with Nicki's free video training: https://circuitsalessystem.com/ceo Transform your business and take your sales to the stratosphere with Coming Up Roses' course and marketing community, "Launch Your Own Way": https://cominguproses.co/lyow Listen to Kelsey's case study: https://link.chtbl.com/NXHQOVSv Try the #1 all-in-one E-commerce platform: Shopify! Sign up for a one dollar per month trial period at https://shopify.com/ellen Connect with Eleanor: www.safimedia.co/roundtable  Instagram: @eleanorbeaton Iconic business leaders all have their own unique genius. Take this quick 10 question quiz to uncover your specific CEO style advantage: https://ellenyin.com/quizIf you enjoyed today's episode, please: Post a screenshot & key takeaway on your IG story and tag me @missellenyin & @cubicletoceo so we can repost you. Leave a positive review or rating at www.ratethispodcast.com/cubicletoceo Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Join our C-Suite membership to get bonus episodes! Check out everything our members get at https://ellenyin.com/csuite Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Want to weed out the freebie seekers in your next launch? Try this pre-launch strategy on for size.Kelsey McCormick, founder of Coming Up Roses, knows that launch strategies are ever evolving, so she’s tested MULTIPLE top-of-funnel approaches ranging from challenges to workshops to quizzes.But she recently discovered that the best way to get intentional buyers for her $1500 program was to identify the people in her community who were serious about the transformation she offered AND had buying power!She did this by creating a limited series private podcast priced at $99 to access. This strategy converted 30% of listeners into program students, generating $108,000 in sales between two live launches!In today’s case study, we dig into the data from Kelsey’s January and May launches to uncover the private podcast content, structure, and timelines that move listeners to take action.View the transcript for this episode at: https://otter.ai/u/5n3bIqnb8yGt_nwkAiRkIYZDW4w?utm_source=copy_urlThank you to our sponsor!FOR A LIMITED TIME: Get 60% off your Babbel subscription at https://babbel.com/ellen Connect with Kelsey: Get an episode of 'The Warm Up' for free: https://unique-frost-816.myflodesk.com/h96k3n8n50 https://cominguproses.co Instagram: https://instagram.com/cominguproses.co Try Kajabi free for 30 days: https://ellenyin.com/kajabiIconic business leaders all have their own unique genius. Take this quick 10 question quiz to uncover your specific CEO style advantage: https://ellenyin.com/quizIf you enjoyed today's episode, please: Post a screenshot & key takeaway on your IG story and tag me @missellenyin & @cubicletoceo so we can repost you. Leave a positive review or rating at www.ratethispodcast.com/cubicletoceo Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Join our C-Suite membership to get bonus episodes! Check out everything our members get at https://ellenyin.com/csuite Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

List-building expert Linda Sidhu shares how she pulled off a $330K launch without using ads, social media, or email marketing. Her buyers were all referred by her network. She emphasizes the power of community and word-of-mouth sales in business growth.

I was recently crowned Mrs. Oregon America! Curious what led me to compete in (and win) my first pageant? Many of you have been witness to my personal growth as a founder over the last 6 years, so in line with our usual practice of building in public, I’m sharing my experience as Mrs. Oregon America so far and how I plan to use my role to further our mission of championing women entrepreneurs.View the transcript for this episode at: https://otter.ai/u/wzwYJr0dRqg1W0bOgw03ufS7WG0?utm_source=copy_urlThank you to our sponsor!Develop Your Entrepreneurial Mindset with a Master’s in Entrepreneurship at CU Denver! Take the next step in your career today by going to https://jakejabscenter.org/cubicletoceo/ Links mentioned in the episode: Crowning Video: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6k2dqQuQDb/ KATU Live Interview: https://katu.com/afternoon-live/special-guests/mrs-oregon-america-2024-ellen-yin# Salem Reporter Interview: https://www.salemreporter.com/2024/05/14/salem-business-owner-named-mrs-oregon-america/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0cDQR5pCq-JVcC0UOV7VDcNRkGBZh_aHKQThuXvMhaRyxvKm-1g9jiyPo_aem_Aft3RYJ3Qo59Q0D-cItR5tj_dztJRxIe-pvl9staLWFGWrHXjToazHbuIzUNZ0BjLcY5L7TvdTpI81HlDs4qhkjL Corvallis Gazette-Times: https://gazettetimes.com/news/local/corvallis-native-crowned-mrs-oregon-america/article_89e59ad6-162c-5d3c-9869-a66a4bee8d0d.html Iconic business leaders all have their own unique genius. Take this quick 10 question quiz to uncover your specific CEO style advantage: https://ellenyin.com/quizIf you enjoyed today's episode, please: Post a screenshot & key takeaway on your IG story and tag me @missellenyin & @cubicletoceo so we can repost you. Leave a positive review or rating at www.ratethispodcast.com/cubicletoceo Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Join our C-Suite membership to get bonus episodes! Check out everything our members get at https://ellenyin.com/csuite Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices