The Small Business School
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The Small Business School with Craig Staley. Weekly interviews with successful small business owners, learn from the successes and failures that have shaped them and their businesses.
The Small Business School
1y ago
The Brave Marketer
Many of the most memorable brand campaigns have been driven by cutting edge marketers
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The Small Business School
1y ago
My guest today is Charlene Walters, she is a mentor and author of launch your inner entrepreneur. Today we talk a little bit about what imposter syndrome is and what you can do to overcome it. If you’re an entrepreneur and you’ve tried something new, likely you felt imposter syndrome before even if you didn’t know exactly what it is so, Charlene is going to help us with that today. She also talks in her new book, there is some different workbook-style activities, and she takes us through one of those activities that maybe can help us as we work through our entrepreneurial journey so all that a ..read more
The Small Business School
2y ago
Today's Guest
Shaun Provost
Ironman. World Class Triathlete. Marathoner. Runner. Gymnast. The original Live Unbreakable Athlete. She’s the sassy, sarcastic red-head who leads all things Live Unbreakable. From planning your nutrition to coaching you through your workouts, analyzing your training data to preventing or working through injury - Shaun is the spunky, athletic spitfire who will help you reach, and surpass, the goals you set out to achieve.
Website:
https://liveunbreakable.com
Social Media:
Instagram:@livingunbreakable
Facebook: @livingunbreakable
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The Small Business School
2y ago
Today's Guest is Eric Seropyan owner of This is my South Bay a digital agency that specializes in SEO. Eric talks about his top three keys to focus on if you want to get serious about SEO. I love when I get to learn something new and today I learned that was one of those days for sure. Did you know that social media impacts your SEO? I sure didn't!
Today's Guest
Eric Seropeyan
Eric Seropyan is owner of a digital marketing agency called This Is My South Bay. He also teaches search engine optimization at Orange County Search Engine Academy.
Website:
www.thisismysouthbay.com
Social Media:
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The Small Business School
2y ago
My guest today is David Wachs CEO of Handwritten. David has been an entrepreneur since a young age selling candy door to door as a kid to eventually starting a text marketing company before iPhones were a thing. Today though we talked about his current business Handwrytten a scale able robot based solution that writes notes with a real pen and look like you wrote them!
David talked about the early decision to build their own robots after they found scaling with their current solution wasn’t feasible. He also went into depth on their process from receiving a customer order to getting it i ..read more
The Small Business School
2y ago
Today’s interview is with Christina Barnett of Legendairy Milkshake Bar in Nashville Tennessee. Christina talks about the success of The Legendairy Milkshake Bar from lines out the door and down the street when they opened to being featured on the cooking channel and having celebrity customers like Trisha Yearwood and celebrity chef Jet Tila. Finally she talked about what the future holds for the Legendairy Milkshake Bar.
Today’s Guests
Christina Barnett
Christina graduated with a business degree from The University of Alabama, specializing in marketing & advertising. Her greatest strength ..read more
The Small Business School
2y ago
Today's Guest is Cathy Sexton CEO of The Productivity Experts. Cathy is a CPA by trade and recovering workaholic. When the stress of over working herself in the corporate world became to much and started impacting her health, Cathy knew she need to make a change. That's when Cathy went out on her own and began helping clients improve their processes and productivity. In this episode Cathy give entrepreneurs a few tips on how to improve your productivity. She also gave advice on what you should do when you don't feel like you can get everything done in a week.
Today's Guest
Cathy Sexton
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2y ago
My guest today is Andrea Lake she is a serial entrepreneur having run 14 businesses since 1999. Andrea was also a contestant on The Apprentice in 2006. So being election day of course I had to ask her at least one question about President Trump. All that aside Andrea is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to running a business and gives some great advice for anyone looking to do the same.
Today's Guest
Andrea Lake
Early internet guru. First web company in 1999. Has started 14 companies, including: StickerJunkie, Delinquent Distribution (which owned the sales rights for merch on Minecraft ..read more
The Small Business School
2y ago
Today's Interview is with Melody Tholstrup, Owner of My Size Marketing in Madison, Alabama. Melody spent a number of years taking care of clients while working for other agency owners. When the agency she was working for closed her clients still wanted her help and that is how My Size Marketing was born. Melody gives some great advice about what small business owners aren't doing consistently when it comes to advertising. Really enjoyed my conversation with Melody, I always love talking Marketing and she knows her stuff!
Today's Guests
Melody Tholstrup
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The Small Business School
2y ago
Ever wonder what is the best way to enhance your public relations in your community? Or What social media platforms your business should be active on, do you really have time for all of them? Carey Balogh the Chief Executive Groupie of the Public Relations firm Brand Groupies answer these questions and more in today’s episode.
Today's Guest
Carey Balogh
In 2015, Carey founded her full-service branding agency BRAND GROUPIES to guide brands toward success with a cohesive, 360-degree approach to marketing, connecting the right creative buzz-worthy initiatives to meet her clients’ goals with ..read more