The Rundown with Ramon - small business growth podcast for entrepreneurs
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Would you hire yourself? Here's why or why not.
<p>Would you hire yourself to run your business?</p><p><br></p><p>Ramon Ray challenges entrepreneurs to conduct an honest personal performance review. This episode explores reliability, preparation, coachability, communication, leadership energy, and the difference between staying busy and doing the work your company genuinely needs.</p><p><br></p><p>You’ll leave with a practical scorecard and one important question: What must the next version of you do differently?</p><p><br></p><p>Powered by Bitdefender Ultimate Small Business Security - BeMoreSecure.com and Genius Talks Mastermind - GeniusTalksMastermind.com</p>
Is your business really a terrible job?
<p>Are you building a durable business—or creating a demanding job for yourself?</p><p>Gusto’s 2026 New Business Formation Report found that building financial stability or a future asset has surpassed being your own boss as founders’ leading motivation.</p><p>In this episode of The Rundown with Ramon, Ramon Ray explains how entrepreneurs can evaluate owner dependence, document essential systems, delegate responsibility, protect customer relationships, develop predictable revenue, and build a company that can function without their constant involvement.</p><p>You’ll also learn the two-week test for measuring business independence and a practical 90-day challenge for turn...
How to grow from 15,000 to 70,000 followers on LinkedIn?
<p>How do you grow from 15,000 to 70,000 followers on LinkedIn—and turn that attention into real business opportunities?</p><p>In this episode of The Rundown with Ramon, Ramon Ray explores the strategies creator Marina Mogilko used to expand her LinkedIn audience. Discover why focused content, consistent publishing, event-based networking, active conversations, visual storytelling, and smart use of AI can accelerate your growth.</p><p>You’ll also learn why followers alone don’t equal success—and how to turn online visibility into trusted relationships, speaking opportunities, clients, and revenue.</p>
What AutoZone Can teach entrepreneurs about building a powerful brand?
<p>What can AutoZone teach entrepreneurs about building a powerful brand? Quite a bit.</p><p>After my car battery died, AutoZone didn’t simply sell me a replacement—the team helped solve my problem by installing it with a smile. That experience reminded me that branding isn’t just about logos, colors or slogans. It’s about how customers feel when they need your help.</p><p>In this episode of The Rundown with Ramon, I share how small businesses can become trusted, go-to resources, reduce customer frustration, use strategic referrals and create memorable experiences that generate loyalty.</p><p>Whatev...
10 World Cup Lesson We Can Learn about Business
<p>What can the FIFA World Cup teach us about business and life? A lot more than you might expect.</p><p>In this episode of The Rundown with Ramon, Ramon Ray explores powerful lessons from the world’s biggest soccer tournament—from the tension that keeps audiences watching to the teamwork behind every winning goal.</p><p>You’ll discover why your breakthrough may not happen until “extra time,” how emotion builds authentic connections, why clear rules create trust, and what to do when life or business delivers an unfair call.</p><p>Most importantly, Ramon reminds us that one loss d...
Why Open AI Codex is a Game Changer for Your Business
<p>OpenAI Codex is much more than a coding tool. It represents a major shift from simply asking AI questions to assigning AI real work.</p><p>In this episode of The Rundown with Ramon, Ramon Ray breaks down what Codex is, why entrepreneurs and business owners should pay attention, and how it can be used for research, scheduled tasks, workflow automation, reporting, data analysis, document creation, app development, and much more.</p><p>You’ll learn how Codex can help you move faster, reduce repetitive work, test new ideas, and build repeatable systems inside your business. Ramon also shares pr...
How to mess up and bounce back again
<p>In this episode of The Rundown with Ramon Show, Ramon Ray unpacks what it really takes to rebound after you mess up. Whether you made a bad decision, disappointed someone, lost an opportunity, or failed publicly, the key is not pretending it didn’t happen — it’s owning it, learning from it, and getting back up with wisdom.</p><p>Ramon shares why rebounding requires humility, honesty, apology, better systems, and the courage to keep moving forward. Your mistake may be part of your story, but it does not have to be the end of your story.</p><p>Brough...
How do you build a bigger business without building a huge team?
<p>In this episode of The Rundown with Ramon, Ramon Ray shares how small teams can move faster, stay focused, and create real momentum. He talks about hiring smart, versatile people, finding an operations leader you can lean on, protecting your calendar, delegating well, and knowing the key activities that drive your business forward.</p><p>You will also hear why content creation should be treated like a business asset, how to build a trusted circle around you, and why the goal is not to do everything yourself.</p><p>A small team can do big things when the right...
How to go on vacation and still have a healthy business?
<p>How can you get away from your office for a few days and still get work done? How can you go on vacation or go on an extended business trip and still serve clients, be there for your staff and ensure your business operations smoothly?</p><p>Ramon shares his best tips for how he does it and you can too. Because you're away from the office doesn't mean your business has to stop or stumble.</p><p>Powered by Bitdfefender Small Business Security - www.Bitdefender.com Partnership with Genius Talks Mastermind - www.GeniusTalksMastermind.com - powerful...
How to Maximize Your Network - The Rundown with Ramon Show
<p>Your network is more than followers, contacts, and LinkedIn connections. It is a community of people you can learn from, support, collaborate with, and grow alongside.</p><p>In this episode of The Rundown with Ramon, Ramon Ray shares how to get more value from your network by first adding value to it. Learn why it is important to segment your contacts, reconnect with people intentionally, respond to genuine DMs, leave meaningful comments, meet people in person, make introductions, and become known as someone who gives back.</p><p>The goal is not to collect the most contacts. The...
