Contractor's Daughter
Jeani Ringkob
Stagnation can be a heavy burden for companies in the highway industry. Being stuck in neutral means falling behind competitors, missed opportunities, and unfulfilled growth potential.
Break free from the cycle of stagnant growth and accelerate down the highway to success with the right guidance and shared insights from other industry leaders and influencers.
Jeani Ringkob is a third generation contractor and an absolute business strategy and marketing geek. Subscribe today to catch all the insights and growth your business.
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Investigate: Diving Into the First Phase of the Strategic Growth Flywheel
Contractor's Daughter
11/09/23 • 19 min
When people look at your business and think about where it’ll take them in the future, what do they see?
If they invest in it, they want to see the strategy. They want to know that the company has momentum, processes, and systems designed to create value.
This is what the strategic growth flywheel helps you do. And it all starts with the first step: investigate.
In this episode of the Contractor’s Daughter podcast, you’ll learn how to dive deep into the investigation phase. I’ll teach you how taking this first step to an overarching informed strategy will help you coordinate and eliminate boundaries between marketing and sales to increase your revenue.
4:06 - The statistic that shows why you should start with investigation
7:16 - A sign that your business doesn’t spend enough time on investigation
10:45 - Primary and secondary data, how to get it, and the gold you can mine from it
14:32 - The consequences of being too generic with your strategy
Mentioned In Investigate: Diving Into the First Phase of the Strategic Growth Flywheel
Assessment
National Asphalt Pavement Association
Jeani on LinkedIn
Conference Success Series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Blacktop Banter Network
Follow Jeani Ringkob on LinkedIn for more resources, strategy videos, tips and news from the Blacktop Banter Network
You can also schedule a call with Jeani to learn more about building and marketing your heavy highway construction business and access videos and free resources on the StoryBuilt.Marketing website.
Take the Growth Strategy Assessment here! It only takes a few minutes to determine the roadblock between you and the next big growth of your business.
How to Be a Better Decision Maker (& Why It Matters)
Contractor's Daughter
10/12/23 • 17 min
The offseason is your time to sit down and reflect on where your business has been and where it’s going. You know that you need to have a growth mindset as an executive or entrepreneur so that your business can continue to flourish.
So you’ve got some decisions to make for the future. But how will your decisions impact the outcomes and objectives you want to reach going forward?
As we continue this offseason series on the Contractor’s Daughter, you’ll learn about what the decision-making process looks like, where it usually goes wrong, and how to be a better decision-maker. I’ll also teach you how making better choices can positively impact your business.
2:46 - Why the stakes of your decisions as a business owner are weightier
5:00 - Signs of suffering from decision fatigue and its impact
8:13 - How to avoid decision fatigue and make better choices
10:04 - An example of the effect of strategic decisions on your results
12:58 - Questions you might want to consider during your offseason
Mentioned In How to Be a Better Decision Maker (& Why It Matters)
Follow Jeani Ringkob on LinkedIn for more resources, strategy videos, tips and news from the Blacktop Banter Network
You can also schedule a call with Jeani to learn more about building and marketing your heavy highway construction business and access videos and free resources on the StoryBuilt.Marketing website.
Take the Growth Strategy Assessment here! It only takes a few minutes to determine the roadblock between you and the next big growth of your business.
How Jessica Lombardo Is Bringing An Immersive Experience to a Trade Show
Contractor's Daughter
09/28/23 • 29 min
Are you tired of seeing and experiencing the same old presentations at conferences and trade shows?
There’s a new experience on the horizon! The upcoming PAVE/X conference promises to be different, and its co-creator, Jessica Lombardo, is here to tell us how.
Jessica has made a name for herself in the construction industry. She’s been the editor for some leading publications like Asphalt Contractor and is the current editor-in-chief for AC Business Media.
Recently, though, she’s stepped up her game in terms of reinventing how we think about conferences. In this episode of the Contractor’s Daughter podcast, you’ll learn all the cool ways she and her co-creator Amy Schwandt designed PAVE/X to be better than your typical trade show. She’ll also teach you what she does to get the most out of attending a conference.
3:22 - Why the PAVE/X conference is a different experience
13:34 - How a career in journalism led Jessica to become involved in the industry
17:29 - The most unexpected thing Jessica discovered about rolling out PAVE/X
19:24 - Lessons that Jessica learned this year that she’ll take into next year
21:10 - Jessica’s tips for getting the most out of every conference
Mentioned In How Jessica Lombardo Is Bringing An Immersive Experience to a Trade Show
Conference Success Series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Follow Jeani Ringkob on LinkedIn for more resources, strategy videos, tips and news from the Blacktop Banter Network
You can also schedule a call with Jeani to learn more about building and marketing your heavy highway construction business and access videos and free resources on the StoryBuilt.Marketing website.
Take the Growth Strategy Assessment here! It only takes a few minutes to determine the roadblock between you and the next big growth of your business.
Sales vs Marketing: Align Them With Smarketing
Contractor's Daughter
01/18/24 • 14 min
Sales and marketing are essential to any business. But are they at odds with each other in yours? If so, then your business isn't as efficient as it should be.
So how do you get both departments on the same page? Instead of having sales and marketing as silos, you need to embrace a concept called “smarketing” for the two areas to work in tandem.
In this episode of the Contractor’s Daughter podcast, you’ll learn how smarketing works. I’ll also walk you through the customer journey and the benefits of implementing smarketing at each stage.
1:49 - What is smarketing?
3:18 - What the customer journey looks like, from awareness to advocacy
7:34 - How I help clients implement smarketing at each level of the customer journey
8:58 - How being really intentional about sales and marketing alignment helps the efficiency and growth of your business
Mentioned In Sales vs Marketing: Align Them With the Solution of Smarketing
Follow Jeani Ringkob on LinkedIn for more resources, strategy videos, tips and news from the Blacktop Banter Network
You can also schedule a call with Jeani to learn more about building and marketing your heavy highway construction business and access videos and free resources on the StoryBuilt.Marketing website.
Take the Growth Strategy Assessment here! It only takes a few minutes to determine the roadblock between you and the next big growth of your business.
Why Business Owners Struggle to Implement Even the Best Strategies
Contractor's Daughter
11/23/23 • 16 min
You’ve investigated and found the problems and bottlenecks in your construction business. You’ve identified the opportunities you should prioritize next. Now what?
With the third and final piece of the Growth Strategy Flyheel, people sometimes forget to ensure they finish strong.
In this episode of the Contractor’s Daughter podcast, you’ll learn about some of the things that might be getting in the way of you implementing your strategy. I’ll also reveal how to increase the value of your business as you increase the effectiveness of your operations.
1:34 - My key secret to the implementation phase of the flywheel
4:16 - What actually leads to a poorly defined strategy and implementation
7:54 - Obstacles that could keep you from implementing your strategy
12:44 - Getting back to why implementation is so important
Mentioned In Why Business Owners Struggle to Implement Even the Best Strategies
Follow Jeani Ringkob on LinkedIn for more resources, strategy videos, tips and news from the Blacktop Banter Network
You can also schedule a call with Jeani to learn more about building and marketing your heavy highway construction business and access videos and free resources on the StoryBuilt.Marketing website.
Take the Growth Strategy Assessment here! It only takes a few minutes to determine the roadblock between you and the next big growth of your business.
Investigate: Diving Into the First Phase of the Strategic Growth Flywheel
Contractor's Daughter
02/15/24 • 19 min
When people look at your business and think about where it’ll take them in the future, what do they see?
If they invest in it, they want to see the strategy. They want to know that the company has momentum, processes, and systems designed to create value.
This is what the strategic growth flywheel helps you do. And it all starts with the first step: investigate.
In this episode of the Contractor’s Daughter podcast, you’ll learn how to dive deep into the investigation phase. I’ll teach you how taking this first step to an overarching informed strategy will help you coordinate and eliminate boundaries between marketing and sales to increase your revenue.
4:06 - The statistic that shows why you should start with investigation
7:16 - A sign that your business doesn’t spend enough time on investigation
10:45 - Primary and secondary data, how to get it, and the gold you can mine from it
14:32 - The consequences of being too generic with your strategy
Mentioned In Investigate: Diving Into the First Phase of the Strategic Growth Flywheel
National Asphalt Pavement Association
Conference Success Series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Follow Jeani Ringkob on LinkedIn for more resources, strategy videos, tips and news from the Blacktop Banter Network
You can also schedule a call with Jeani to learn more about building and marketing your heavy highway construction business and access videos and free resources on the StoryBuilt.Marketing website.
Take the Growth Strategy Assessment here! It only takes a few minutes to determine the roadblock between you and the next big growth of your business.
5 Post-Conference Tips You Can Use to Increase Your Success
Contractor's Daughter
12/28/23 • 20 min
When a conference is over, what do you do next?
The post-conference period is the most important stage of the conference game, but it also tends to be where things frequently fall apart. You’re overwhelmed with the backlog of emails, phone calls, and people asking questions.
So, how can you make sure the post-conference phase doesn’t fall apart on you? As with the first two stages I’ve discussed in this Conference Success series, having a system and tools in place can help you successfully navigate the last stage.
In this final part of the series on the Contractor’s Daughter podcast, you’ll learn about the post-conference process I recommend. I’ll give you five tips to ensure you get the best out of the leads and information you collect during a conference event.
2:16 - How to get everything into your pipeline tool
4:41 - Ways to get in touch with leads and collect feedback from conference attendees
9:27 - What your follow-up schedule can look like long-term
12:53 - How to publish your content and creatively utilize your website post-conference
15:59 - How to track your results
Mentioned In Conference Success Part 3: 5 Post-Conference Tips You Can Use to Increase Your Success
Conference Success Series: Part 1, Part 2
Follow Jeani Ringkob on LinkedIn for more resources, strategy videos, tips and news from the Blacktop Banter Network
You can also schedule a call with Jeani to learn more about building and marketing your heavy highway construction business and access videos and free resources on the StoryBuilt.Marketing website.
Take the Growth Strategy Assessment here! It only takes a few minutes to determine the roadblock between you and the next big growth of your business.
Take Control of Your Time By Creating Your Ideal Week Schedule
Contractor's Daughter
06/28/24 • 24 min
When you look up at the end of the week, does it feel like it’s gotten away from you? You put in work, but you don’t necessarily feel like it was the most efficient use of your time. You want to do more with less and ensure you and your team are focusing your time (and energy) and where it’s needed most.
But how? There are micro-specific ways you can leverage as part of your process. I’ve been working on something inside my business to restructure my workweek that works great for those I challenge to try it.
In this episode of the Contractor’s Daughter podcast, you’ll learn about the concept of an ideal week and how creating one can help structure and prioritize tasks in your highway construction business. I’ll share my recently revamped ideal week schedule, breaking down what I do day-by-day and highlighting aspects that create increased productivity while streamlining your time.
3:24 - What you need to know about implementing ideal week mode
4:56 - How I start my day and my workday startup ritual
7:31 - A component of your ideal week that makes you more productive
12:18 - How I revamped my schedule to stream down my workday and gave myself space to work on ideas I’d otherwise forget
19:16 - A slight modification for summer and the importance of blocking out time for yourself and your family
Mentioned In Take Control of Your Time By Creating Your Ideal Week Schedule
Michael Hyatt’s Full Focus Planner System
Growing Your Business with AI: Unlocking Efficiency and Success
Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell
Follow Jeani Ringkob on LinkedIn for more resources, strategy videos, tips and news from the Blacktop Banter Network
You can also schedule a call with Jeani to learn more about building and marketing your heavy highway construction business and access videos and free resources on the StoryBuilt.Marketing website.
Take the Growth Strategy Assessment here! It only takes a few minutes to determine the roadblock between you and the next big growth of your business.
How to Execute Your Business Strategy On the Tactical Level
Contractor's Daughter
10/19/23 • 22 min
What is your next busy season going to look like?
Will your team be operating with a clear, strategic destination in mind? Will they know how they can get there and be able to make quick, smart decisions that move the business toward the goals you’ve set?
In the conclusion of this three-part series on Contractor’s Daughter, you’ll learn how to move from strategy to deploying the tactics that’ll move your business closer to your strategic objective or outcome. I’ll teach you how to narrow down which tactics to use and reveal three things every strategy must have so you can really leverage and get the most out of your offseason.
4:03 - Questions to ask yourself for each tactic you use for your strategic objective or outcome
9:14 - The three hurdles that every strategy must get over to make the final cut
10:36 - The part that a lot of companies forget without even realizing it
11:49 - How to shift from strategy and execute on the tactical level
16:09 - An example of how efficient a company can be with this process
Mentioned In How to Execute Your Business Strategy On the Tactical Level
Follow Jeani Ringkob on LinkedIn for more resources, strategy videos, tips and news from the Blacktop Banter Network
You can also schedule a call with Jeani to learn more about building and marketing your heavy highway construction business and access videos and free resources on the StoryBuilt.Marketing website.
Take the Growth Strategy Assessment here! It only takes a few minutes to determine the roadblock between you and the next big growth of your business.
Four Different Ways to Tackle Compensating Talent
Contractor's Daughter
07/06/23 • 6 min
There is so much focus and recruiting and just getting people in the door, but keeping the best ones is essential.
I am a huge preacher that it is more than compensation that keeps people around (I have my own research to back this) but that doesn't mean compensation isn't important.
I get asked a lot about ways to think about compensating that actually improve recruiting and retention. In this episode we discuss way ways to design compensation so it actually makes an impact on showing up our talent pool.
Follow Jeani Ringkob on LinkedIn for more resources, strategy videos, tips and news from the Blacktop Banter Network
You can also schedule a call with Jeani to learn more about building and marketing your heavy highway construction business and access videos and free resources on the StoryBuilt.Marketing website.
Take the Growth Strategy Assessment here! It only takes a few minutes to determine the roadblock between you and the next big growth of your business.
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FAQ
How many episodes does Contractor's Daughter have?
Contractor's Daughter currently has 56 episodes available.
What topics does Contractor's Daughter cover?
The podcast is about Entrepreneurship, Podcasts and Business.
What is the most popular episode on Contractor's Daughter?
The episode title 'How the Strategic Growth Flywheel Helped TXAPA’s Workforce Development Campaign' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Contractor's Daughter?
The average episode length on Contractor's Daughter is 22 minutes.
How often are episodes of Contractor's Daughter released?
Episodes of Contractor's Daughter are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Contractor's Daughter?
The first episode of Contractor's Daughter was released on Apr 19, 2023.
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