Accelerate Your Business Growth

About Accelerate Your Business Growth

Featured on Inc.com's list of 100 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter, Better, and Wiser, MSNBC's Your Business, and on the Fit Small Business list of best small business podcasts, this show is designed to help small business owners, salespeople, and new entrepreneurs with the various aspects of business success. We have a great lineup of guests and topics scheduled. We’ll be talking about everything from sales to employee issues; from technology to social media; from work-life balance to exploring uncharted territory. The host, Diane Helbig's goal is to help you remove challenges so that you can realize your own success with your business. Be sure to subscribe to the iTunes channel or follow this podcast so you never miss an episode! Small business owners face challenges in a variety of areas throughout their ownership journey. For some the challenge is creating a sales strategy that brings results. For others dealing with employees can be very challenging. Growing pains come up at startup, growth, and exit. Marketing and branding are two topics that can be confusing for businessowners. Leadership and communication are also areas where leaders struggle. Finding answers, ideas, resources, and tools can make the journey easier. The guests who join Diane are experts in their fields. They provide actional expertise so the small business owner, leader, or salesperson can put those ideas into action. The host, Diane Helbig, has over 20 years of experience in business leadership and sales. She advises small business owners and trains professionals on leadership, selling, customer service, and time management. The podcast provides her with another way to get valuable information in front of businessowners, sales professionals, and business leaders. No matter what country you are in, from the United States to Canada to Australia to the European Union, the answers in each episode are valuable. Leaders in every industry can connect with the experts and learn from them. What’s your pain? Succession planning? Marketing? Business growth? Hiring? Legal and/or accounting issues? Family business challenges? Sales? Strategic planning? Dealing with employees? Creating structure and process? Networking successfully? Prospecting? Account management? Using discovery to grow? If it’s a business topic we have the guests who can help you. Many guests are bestselling authors and offer free resources or promotions on their products or services. Some of them have podcasts as well so you can tap into their guests as well. The guests have been curated from all over the world to bring you relevant, timely ideas you can implement immediately. Some evergreen topics include: podcasting, branding, marketing a small business, social media marketing, business systems, entrepreneurial dreams, leaving a legacy, team building, servant leadership, SEO, cashflow, emotional intelligence, cold outreach, cold calling, investing, ideal client, bottom line, sales development, adaptive leadership, feedback, workforce development, decision making, profit, goal setting, trust based selling, personal brand, mindset, scale small business, fear of selling, marketing strategies, LinkedIn, revenue generating, click funnels, lead generation, how to sell more, negotiation, digital marketing, small business tax, culture.

Publisher

Diane Helbig

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Jul 2010

Latest episode

22 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

195 of 725 episodes have a transcript.

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   22 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Farewell to Accelerate Your Business Growth

   Host Diane Helbig reflects on sixteen years of Accelerate Your Business Growth, sharing lessons from industry experts and top tips on sales, leadership, and networking in this farewell episode.

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   18 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Unpacking Productivity Myths

   Productivity strategist Sarah Ohanesian discusses productivity myths with Diane Helbig, revealing the hidden costs of busywork and the importance of team alignment to foster a more productive workforce in this interview.

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   15 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Blending AI and Empathy for Outstanding Customer Experiences

   Host Diane Helbig interviews Dave Rizzo, Asia Pacific President of Teleperformance, about blending artificial intelligence and emotional intelligence to improve customer experiences and empower teams, offering strategies for digital transformation.

Inside a recent episode

Farewell to Accelerate Your Business Growth

Published 22 Dec 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Hi everybody. So, after 16 amazing years of interviewing incredible gurus and experts, I'm hanging up the microphone. I am beyond grateful for the hundreds of people who join me for insightful, educational, meaningful conversations, and those episodes are still available. So they're not going anywhere. As I enter my 20th year in business, it's really time for me to shift my energy to advising small business owners and training as many professionals as possible so that they can maximize their impact and results. That's why I got into business to begin with. Thank you for listening for sharing episodes and for taking this ride with me. […]

Who has been a guest on Accelerate Your Business Growth

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• Sarah Ohanesian
• Dave Rizzo
• Brad Farris
• Denise Blanc
• Etinosa

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

5,254

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

87 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 79 / 100

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Quality

95

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

92

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