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Businessing with Pat Miller
Businessing is the weekly show where small business owners figure out what to do next. New episode every Monday morning with Pat Miller, founder of the Small Business Owners Community. Each week: one big story boiled down to what to do about it, a conversation with an owner who's been where you are, what came out of the Idea Slam this week, and the AI story of the week. Nobody taught you how to run a business, so you've been guessing. Guessing is expensive. The Small Business Owners Community…
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- Businessing with Pat Miller
Pay What You Want Pricing | Businessing with Pat Miller
Look at your to-do list. Cross something off, name one piece of sales activity for the day, and underline the one thing that has to get finished. Free, fund…
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Sell the Result, Not the Process | Businessing with Pat Miller
You may call it creative hours, but the headline isn't your process. It's quit spending so much time in Canva. People don't buy the work you're proud of. They…
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50% of Buyers Want AI-Free Brands | Businessing with Pat Miller
Half of the people polled said they'd rather give their money to brands that avoid AI. Stop the freaking presses...that's a market opportunity hiding in plain…
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Why AI Works for Owners, Not CEOs | Businessing with Pat Miller
Six thousand CEOs were just surveyed, and 90% of them said AI has had zero impact on productivity. I'll tell you right now, Claude has changed my life and…
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Claude for Small Business Is Here | Businessing with Pat Miller
Claude just dropped Claude for Small Business...native connectors to QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, DocuSign, Google Workspace, and a stack of other tools…
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The 3 P&L Parts You're Ignoring | Businessing with Pat Miller
No one's coming to save you. That's a bad thing. But no one's coming to stop you either, and that's a great thing. Wednesday's show is built around the most…
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5 Ways to Make Speaking For Free Work For You | Businessing with Pat Miller
No money does not mean no value. If you've ever been asked to speak for free and wondered if it's worth your time, Pat lays out five concrete ways to make a…
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Opinions are not Instructions | Businessing with Pat Miller
Other people's opinions are not instructions. Especially the ones from people who don't pay you green American dollars. Today on Businessing, Pat unpacks the…
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Take Your Email Off Your Phone | Businessing with Pat Miller
Your client expects answers after 10 PM because you've given them answers after 10 PM. Sorry, but it's true. In today's Idea Slam, Pat tackles the after-hours…
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Mike Michalowicz: The Money Habit | Businessing with Pat Miller
"You may nail the numbers at work, but if you don't nail the numbers at home, your home will leech off the business and both will be compromised." That's Mike…
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Why "I'm Working Really Hard" Isn't an Answer
Solving small business problems so you can be more profitable, with less stress, and run a modern small business. It’s the last day of April, and Pat opens…
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What if your AI Disappeared?
A 110-person company just lost access to Claude. Cold cut off. And it got Pat thinking...what would happen to your business if your AI got taken away tomorrow?…
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Get Clear on Your #1 Priority | Businessing with Pat Miller
Pat had a moment in the car driving home from a chamber event yesterday. He'd just spent the afternoon with a room full of business owners in Fond du Lac, and…
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5 Questions That Expose What's Really Possible in Your Business | Businessing with Pat Miller
A British marathoner just broke the 2-hour barrier. The four-minute mile of long-distance running. And every runner in the world is suddenly asking the same…
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Are You Solving the Wrong Problem? How to Know!
Thursday's Businessing opened with Pat walking into the studio fresh off an hour outside. 70 degrees in Milwaukee. An AI Installation Group meeting behind him…
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Three AI Wins You Can Install This Week + Graphics Just Got a LOT Easier!
Three AI wins you can install this week. That's the show. Jason Kolins of Kolins Intelligence spent years running AI at Fortune 500 companies. Then he brought…
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AI Content and How to Get Your First Client: Know, Like, Trust | Businessing with Pat Miller
Do you care that the number one song in the country was written and performed by AI? Today on Businessing, Pat Miller unpacks the synthetic content tsunami…
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Claude Design LIVE Demo + SBOC 26 Keynote Speaker Announcement | Businessing with Pat Miller
Claude Design just launched, and Pat demos it live, rebuilding the ugly AI Installation Group landing page in real time. The insight: if your website looks…
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Never Wonder What to Post on Social Media Ever Again! | Small Business Marketing Solved
You never have to wonder what to post on social media again. The problem isn't that you don't have ideas...it's that you have too many. Creative constraint is…
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Get WEIRD to Win in Small Business - How Standing Out is the Key to Success
Your business doesn't need to be better. It needs to be weirder. Not goofy weird. Strategically different. The kind of different that makes people stop…
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Businessing - 04/13/26 | Your To-Do List Is Broken. Here's How to Fix It
Gas prices just crossed $4 a gallon and your clients are about to start acting different. Pat breaks down what rising fuel costs really mean for your business…
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Businessing - 04/09/26 | The 2 Most Dangerous Words in Small Business
The two most dangerous words in your business are "what if." You know the spiral. What if my biggest client cancels? What if AI takes part of my product? What…
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Businessing - 04/08/26 | Claude Mythos Just Broke the Internet (Explained for Non-Techies)
Your survival instinct built your business. But is it also holding you back? New research shows animals that adapt just to survive actually evolve slower. On…
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Businessing - 04/07/26 | Map Your Customers: The Quadrant Exercise
Solo diners spend 48% more than group diners. The whole restaurant industry got it wrong about their best customers. What are YOU getting wrong about yours? On…
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Businessing - 04/06/26 | Find Your People
Mark Zuckerberg said something that should stop you in your tracks. Social media used to be your friends and family. Now half the content is creators. We went…
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Businessing - 4/2/26 | Why Only A-Players are Diving in on AI in Their Business
Pat brings Friday Energy to Open Line Thursday. An unexpectedly emotional Artemis II launch story taps into Gen X Challenger memories. Stephanie Kern from…
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Businessing - 4/1/26 | Would You Rather Own a Culver's or Your Business?
Pat kicks off April Fools with an AI-translated Mandarin video intro, then demonstrates just how easy video generation has become with a live Grok Imagine…
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Businessing - 3/31/26 | The Spice Is the Point: Build a Talkable Business
In today's episode: Pat launches the Businessing Daily Check-In — an interactive map where you can see who's watching, connect on LinkedIn, and keep your…
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Businessing - 3/30/26 | Focus Starts With an F for a Reason
OpenAI killed Sora last week. A million dollars a day in computing costs, fewer than 500,000 users, and they walked away from a billion-dollar Disney deal…
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Businessing - 3/26/26 | Celebrate Your Wins & Free AI Training
Solving small business problems so you can be more profitable, with less stress, and run a modern small business.In this episode, Pat celebrates the wins that…
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Businessing - 3/25/26 | The Flea Filter: How to Make Your Product Irresistible
Learn the three-part framework that makes your products genuinely irresistible—and discover why Google Gemini is now changing how small business owners manage…
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Businessing - 3/24/26 | How to Take Time Off as a Business Owner
Businessing with Pat Miller is a podcast for small business owners who want to get smarter about running their company without the corporate jargon. We cover…
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Businessing - 3/23/26 | Evidence Leads to Inevitability: How to Actually Believe Your Own Differentiator
The Strait of Hormuz deadline just got pushed to Friday and the markets went absolutely vertical. Dow up over 1,000, crude oil crashed 8.62%, and business…
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Businessing - 3/19/26 | Stop Selling Features. Start Selling the Fear You Eliminate.
Your power pitch is broken and Lisa Raebel is here to fix it. The founder of Rebel Girl Marketing joins Businessing to break down why nobody cares about your…
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Businessing - 3/18/26 - The #1 Thing Americans Hate the Most
On today's Businessing, Pat connected two seemingly unrelated news stories to unlock a competitive advantage hiding in plain sight. Story one: airline CEOs are…
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Businessing - 3/17/26 | You Can Make Your Own Luck (Here's How)
On this St. Patrick’s Day episode, Pat Miller connects the holiday’s theme of luck to something small business owners can actually control. Drawing from Sahil…
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Businessing - 03/16/26 - Raising Your Rates (without feeling weird)
Your rates aren't stuck because of imposter syndrome. They're stuck because you don't have enough people in line wanting what you sell. On today's show, Pat…
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Businessing - 3/12/26 | Interactive Reset of Your Biggest Goal
Pat Miller wraps the week with an interactive lead segment that stops the scroll and starts the mirror. Using the viral diamond mine meme as a launching point…
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Businessing - 3/11/26 | CNN's Dishonest Coverage of Small Business and more...
CNN ran a story this morning claiming the Iran war is "squeezing" US small businesses through gas prices. The headline was written before the first interview…
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Businessing - 03/10/26 | Only 125 Tickets — The SBOC Conference Waitlist Is Live
Two massive announcements on today’s show: the 2026 SBOC Conference waitlist is officially open (only 125 tickets at $399), and Pat launches AI Installation…
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Businessing - 3/9/26 | Anthropic's New Labor Study Shows the BIG Opportunities
Pat’s back from a week off with three big stories: the war in Iran claims a seventh US casualty, daylight saving time wrecks his entire tech stack, and…
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Businessing - 2/26/26 | The 6-Step System to Never Work Fridays Again
Pat finally reveals the full Fridays Off framework — the six pillars that took him from a five-day grind to a three-day weekend every single week since July…
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Businessing - 2/25/26 | How to Make More Money From Your Best Clients
Your best clients already trust you. They already pay you. So why are you out chasing new ones when you could be making more from the people who already love…
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Businessing - 2/24/26 | $650 Billion Is Being Spent on AI This Year — Here’s What It Means for You
$650 billion is being poured into AI development this year — more than a billion dollars a day. Nobody knows where it’s going, but everybody’s betting on it…
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Businessing - 2/23/26 | How to Handle Success
What happens when things actually go right in your business? Most of us panic. We get imposter syndrome. We retreat into turtle shell mode instead of…
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Businessing - 2/19/26 | Raise Your Rates Today — Here’s Why the Window Is Open
Raise your rates. Today. Pat makes the case that every service-based business owner is undercharging — and the window is wide open to fix it. Top lawyers now…
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Businessing - 2/18/26 | Lead Magnets Are Dead — Here’s What Replaces Them
Lead magnets are dead. Or at least dying. Today Pat breaks down why the old playbook — trade an email for a PDF, drip on them for weeks, then sell — is falling…
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Businessing - 2/17/26 | 6 Ways to Cut 10% of Your Business Expenses Today
Today's theme: MONEY. How to keep more of it. Business insurance is at an 8-year high — local insurance expert Tom Gaumond from G2 Insurance explains why and…
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Businessing - 2/16/26 | SEO Isn't Dead - Here's What Small Business Owners Need to Know Now
Is SEO dead? Taylor Cusick Holman from Enji joins the show to set the record straight - spoiler: it's not dead, it's evolving. Learn the free tools and…
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Businessing 2/12/26 | The Relationship Audit Every Solopreneur NEEDS
You got into this for freedom. Today we're making sure the people around you aren't stealing it. Pat walks through an interactive audit of every business…
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Businessing - 2/11/26 - AI Agents Are Here | And If You Work on a Screen, You're at Risk
Claude Cowork is now available for Windows - and this changes everything. On today's Businessing, Pat breaks down the difference between AI chatbots and AI…
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Businessing - 2/10/26 | 59% of Small Businesses Got Hacked Last Year (Here's How to Protect Yourself)
59% of small businesses experienced a cyber attack last year. That's not a typo. And if you think you're too small to be a target, you're exactly who they're…
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Businessing - 2/9/26 | The Biggest Super Bowl Ad Loser Cost $8 Million
$8 million for 30 seconds. That's what Super Bowl ads cost. And one company absolutely fumbled the opportunity. On today's Super Bowl Monday edition of…
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Businessing 2/5/26 | 36.2 Million Small Business Owners — Why Do We Feel So Alone? | SBA Stats + AI Hyper-Personalization
It is Thursday, February 5th — the last day of the work week if your Fridays off. We're opening with the stat that'll stop you cold: 99.9% of all businesses in…
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Businessing 2/4/26 | 1 in 3 Americans Want to Start a Business. Here's What They Need to Know
One in three Americans want to start a business this year. Half of them will fail. Today I'm sharing four things I wish someone told me before I…
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Businessing 2/3/26 | Observe the Masses and Do the Opposite
The lead story hits on differentiation. James Caan's quote "Observe the masses and do the opposite" sparked a guided exercise: What's the hot trend everyone's…
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Businessing 2/2/26 | A Show for People Who RUN a Business
This is the first episode of Businessing as a daily show—Monday through Thursday at 11am Central. Pat opens with a challenge: We're one month into 2026. Is…
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Businessing 1/28/26 | AI Agents Are HERE—Not Coming, HERE
This episode delivers a wake-up call for small business owners: AI agents are no longer a future promise—they're working right now. Pat reveals his new morning…
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Businessing 1/26/26 | Tax Returns, AI SOPs, and the Art of Never Stopping
Your customers are about to get paid. Bank of America projects $65 billion more in tax returns this year—up 18%—with the average American getting back $3,400…
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Businessing 1/21/26 | Maybe We're Better Off Alone: The Case Against Hiring in 2026
The small business growth playbook has always been simple: get busy, hire help, scale up. But what if that playbook is broken? In this episode of Businessing…