Join our resident Business Ninja Jamie, together with Debbie Banko, Founder and CEO of Link Technologies, as they talked about how quality IT services should not come with a price tag. Information technology (IT) benefits the business world and it allows organizations to work more efficiently and to maximize productivity and so on. In business, people look for ways to do more work in a shorter amount of time and it should be only possible through the development of Information Technology. In the...
Mar 14, 2023•17 min•Season 1Ep. 324
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey, together with the Customer Marketing Manager of HubSpot, Natalie Gullatt, as they talk about how customer advocacy can benefit both your company and your customers by getting them more involved and engaged with your values and what you’re all about. It's a win-win situation, as what Natalie says. Grow better with HubSpot. HubSpot is a CRM platform with all the software, integrations, and resources you need to connect marketing, sales, content management, ...
Mar 13, 2023•17 min•Season 1Ep. 323
Join our resident Business Ninja Jamie, together with Stephanie Yu, Director of Product Management for Uplift as they talk about making big spendings like travel accessible to all, through Uplift's Buy Now, Pay Later program. With Uplift, thoughtful purchases can be made now and pay over time in bite-sized installments. Uplift is the leading Buy Now, Pay Later solution serving the world’s top enterprise brands. Through personalized, flexible payment options, Uplift helps people get more out of l...
Mar 13, 2023•11 min•Season 1Ep. 322
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Jerry Wilke of Intrado, a provider of communication and network infrastructure services intended to facilitate proper communication protocols. Intrado offers a diverse portfolio of services including unified communications, automated notifications, cloud collaboration, digital media and specialty agent services, enabling clients to effectively communicate, collaborate and connect with their audiences. Intrado is a leading provider of 911 tech...
Mar 13, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 321
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Jason Goldsmith, Senior Director of Donor Medical and Analytical Science at Seres Therapeutics as they talk about how living bacteria from our own body can fight diseases. This is the main focus of Seres Therapeutics as they discover and develop Ecobiotic™ therapeutic products - novel drugs to treat important diseases by targeting the underlying biology of the human microbiome. Founded by Flagship VentureLabs, Seres is pioneering the first th...
Mar 10, 2023•20 min•Season 1Ep. 320
Join our resident Business Ninja Max and Mehul Desai, Co-founder and Chairman of Tntra, as they talk about helping bridge your dreams and ambitions to a larger-than-life vision and venture. Creating a new software product and growing your business is a challenge. The $3 trillion companies lose on failed IT projects every year attests to its magnitude. Missed time-to-market, over-budgeting, lack of talent pool, project tech complexity causing launch delays, and investor losses -- all these risks ...
Mar 10, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 319
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Gabriel Pinchev of FieldPulse, an All-in-One Field Service Software to run your business. Built to help bring service businesses to the next level through technology and services, FieldPulse is bound to elevate trade businesses everywhere. Day in and day out, their team is focused on building and delivering the best platform to power your business, relentlessly dedicated to constantly evolving their solution to keep your business ahead of the...
Mar 10, 2023•21 min•Season 1Ep. 318
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Ryan McManus of SHARE Mobility, a transportation solution for companies. They fill open jobs and improve employee retention by helping companies provide transportation as a benefit. SHARE Mobility was founded to create a future where transportation is more sustainable and equitable. As the world evolves from motors to mobility, they are committed to making transportation that works for everyone - especially those who lack reliable transportat...
Mar 10, 2023•19 min•Season 1Ep. 318
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Jelaire Grillo of Prosperity Home Mortgage, a full service mortgage banker specializing in residential and refinance loans. Prosperity Home Mortgage offers a wide range of mortgage products, including fixed and adjustable rate mortgages, jumbo loans, Federal Housing Administration (FHA), Veterans Affairs (VA) loans, and renovation financing. Prosperity Home Mortgage, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Long & Foster Companies, is a full...
Mar 10, 2023•16 min•Season 1Ep. 317
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Nathan Norman, Manager of Workforce Development at City of Evanston, as they talk about the importance of workforce development. Workforce issues need to remain a high priority for all authorities in order to ensure that local government achieves its ambitions. Even in uncertain times there is always opportunity. At the City of Evanston, we have programs that train you for jobs of today and jobs of the future. We give you a direction you can ...
Mar 09, 2023•17 min•Season 1Ep. 315
Join our resident Business Ninja Andrew with Kevin Fernando, Head of Growth Marketing at Guusto as they talk about creating an amazing workplace culture where people feel appreciated, connected and inspired. It's been estimated that up to 70% of U.S. workers are emotionally disconnected from their workplaces. The lack of recognition is certainly one reason. In an era of limited time, money, and energy, we need to focus on what actually works. At Guusto, they help HR Leaders build employee recogn...
Mar 08, 2023•20 min•Season 1Ep. 314
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Todd Davis of Gold Star Referral Clubs as they talk about how to help business people and professionals grow their businesses without large advertising outlays. Gold Star Clubs helps corporations, business professionals, and sales teams develop the skills needed to maximize their share referral business. They educate, coach, and implement in corporations, entrepreneurs, and solopreneurs how to create referral sources, how to network effective...
Mar 08, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 313
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Pierre Gamble of The Honey Baked Ham Company. Cooking healthy meals every day can be hard to do, and shopping for ingredients, planning menus, and making sure you and your family are eating healthy can be an even bigger challenge. Heat-and-eat meals delivered right to your door are gaining in popularity. At The Honey Baked Ham Company, they have a variety of healthy, delicious, ready-to-eat meals that provide variety, nutrition, and stress-fr...
Mar 08, 2023•13 min•Season 1Ep. 312
Join our resident Business Ninja Andrew together with Palash Das the owner of Pinnacle Consulting LLC. Pinnacle Consulting LLC was founded in 2003 with a vision of designing and implementing comprehensive IT solutions tailored to its customer's needs. Every customer has a dream which is to have a business process built for each of its needs and they envision on making it true, thus their motto is “Live the Dream”. Their core values primarily focus on our customer’s needs and providing an account...
Mar 08, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 311
Join our resident Business Ninja Andrew together with David Kowalski, Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer at Sonata Bank, as they talk about making banking and financial literacy accessible to fast food workers. From the ground up, they are building Sonata Bank as a digital-first bank, unburdened by legacy operating systems and outdated processes. Sonata Bank is a tech-forward financial services company led by experienced banking industry leaders. As both an FDIC-chartered bank and a techn...
Mar 08, 2023•20 min•Season 1Ep. 310
Join our resident Business Ninja Jamie together with Jack Mihoover of Atomic Tattoos, as they talk about how they make sure that their artists and employees are equally satisfied as their clients. Atomic Tattoos is a locally owned and operated tattoo and piercing studio managed by tattoo artists for tattoo artists. They are an organization dedicated to providing a supportive, stable, and educational work environment for artists, piercers, and employees. Atomic Tattoos focus on safety, service, a...
Mar 07, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 309
Join our resident Business Ninja Andrew together with Bret Neuman, Head of Brand & Content at Arrived, as they talk about how to easily invest in rental homes & vacation rentals. Residential real estate has proven to be the best long-term investment in modern history, providing returns in line with stocks, but with half the volatility. The problem is, the majority of people who want to invest in real estate aren't able to do it. Most people are prevented from participating due to the hig...
Mar 07, 2023•16 min•Season 1Ep. 308
Join our resident Business Ninja Jamie with Charlie Gillette, Founder and President at Knowledge Anywhere, and Jacqueline Holmes, their Marketing Lead. Knowledge Anywhere is an innovative alternative to traditional learning management system. They are training solutions that allow you to quickly and easily organize, manage, assign, and track all of your in-person and online training in one place. Located in the Seattle area since 1998, Knowledge Anywhere creates and deploys easy-to-use, performa...
Mar 07, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 307
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey, together with the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Column, Annie Hockey, as they discuss the power of a nationally chartered bank in the lightest format possible. Column is a developer infrastructure and the only one built from the ground up to enable developers and builders to create new financial products. They have built their own core, ledger, and data model for the purpose of powering a customer's unique use case, at any scale. It has a direct connection to ...
Mar 07, 2023•19 min•Season 1Ep. 306
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Nancy Brown of Kentucky APEX Accelerator. This APEX Accelerator is funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the Department of Defense. As a valuable business development resource, they strive to improve Kentucky, one company at a time. We work with companies that sell to federal, state, and local government agencies. Their primary goal is to guide Kentucky businesses to win more government contracts and subcontracts. They accomplis...
Mar 07, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 305
Join our resident Business Ninja Andrew together with John Hewitt of Loyalty Brands. Loyalty Brands is a cohesive group of franchise businesses and services designed to work together to help the franchise buyer prosper both quickly and over the longterm. Loyalty Brands houses a successful group of B2B franchise systems including financial services, accounting and tax services, and business brokerage. This synergistic group of franchsed services creates an opportunity for ownership of multiple br...
Mar 07, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 304
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Bob Gaydos, Founder & CEO at Pendella as they talk about bringing the financial protection of individual life and disability insurance to all people. Life insurance has always been a tougher sell than any other kind of insurance. The 1990s saw major carriers, particularly those with big presence in health insurance at that time, bow out of offering life policies, because acquiring those policyholders was proving costly unless a customer w...
Mar 06, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 303
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Keith Mintzer, Managing Partner with TSRM Group, as they talk about how their expertise can help accelerate your company's sales channel, whether you're a start up or a large enterprise. TSRM Group has always believed the idea that there is a better way to deliver sales and marketing services to the channel. They take the best things about a traditional marketing firm — the ability to respond quickly with the right team to meet client needs —...
Mar 03, 2023•15 min•Season 1Ep. 301
Join our resident Business Ninja Andy together with Roe McFarlane, President and CEO of Americas at Inspera. Inspera supports your organization’s entire assessment cycle. Plan, design, deliver and mark assessments seamlessly – onsite or remotely. Inspera is a cloud-based digital assessment platform enabling you to plan, author, deliver and mark assessments in one place. They are flexible, user-friendly platform, that facilitates a wide variety of assessment formats from live assessments, to cont...
Mar 03, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 301
Join our resident Business Ninja Andrew, together with Dr. Laura Brown, Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and owner of Forensic Psychology, LLC., and Dr. Jesse Lambert, Psychologist and Consultant, as they talk about how forensic assessment and psychological evaluations are integral parts of the justice system. Forensic Psychology LLC offers psychological evaluations, file reviews, expert testimony, and consultation to courts, attorneys, and other legal decision makers. Their forensic assessmen...
Mar 02, 2023•19 min•Season 1Ep. 300
Join our resident Business Ninja K together with James Bevins, Director of Social at eFuse. Whether you‘re a gamer looking to compete, a brand looking to enter the gaming community, or streamer looking to engage your fans, eFuse is the place for you. Through our proprietary suite of products we have something for everyone to change their life through gaming. They live for competition. One of the most important aspects of any event, tournament, or game is putting up big stats. The #1 platform for...
Mar 01, 2023•15 min•Season 1Ep. 299
Join our resident Business Ninja Max together with Jeff Johnson, COO of C-4 analytics. Leaders turn to leaders. That’s why many of the most aggressive and successful dealers turn to C-4 Analytics. Their award-winning automotive digital marketing services firm has a demonstrated record of helping dealers win more market share and improve their marketing ROI. Backed by a staff of certified marketing experts and an industry-leading client-to-employee ratio, C-4 Analytics can deliver custom strategi...
Mar 01, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 298
Join our resident Business Ninja Max together with Luke Pattison, Director of Business Development at Webhelp, as they talk about creating outstanding experiences for customers – enabled by technology and enriched by people. Every day Webhelp's teams across more than 50 countries bring their skills to the table to create excellent, personal, end-to-end customer journeys for today’s digital world. Their consultants bring the best technology to clients' bespoke operations and provide advisory serv...
Mar 01, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 297
Join our resident Business Ninja Andrew together with Olga Karanikos, VP of Marketing at SalesScreen, as they talk about how Gamification can increase sales and productivity exponentially. SalesScreen is a global sales platform that combines gamification with data visualization to keep modern sales teams motivated and engaged. Its platform integrates with existing CRM and makes work more collaborative through a range of peer-to-peer recognition and competitions. This in-team incentivization help...
Feb 28, 2023•11 min
Join our resident Business Andrew together with Andy Rahden, CEO of Shmoop, an education technology company that builds engaging learning experiences to ease the stress of the learning environment. Using learning sciences and user centered design to create award winning personal learning tools for all students, educators and schools. Focused on the whole student, shmoop’s academic rigor includes humor and storytelling to drive engagement and improve student outcomes beyond academics. Being a tho...
Feb 28, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 294
