Listeners want spoken-word media. Tom Webster, Senior Vice President of Edison Research, speaks on podcast listenership, language and discoverability.
Content needs liberation. Steve Goldstein, founder and CEO of Amplifi Media, explains what smart speakers could mean for the future of podcasting and audio.
Make marketing human with AI. Brooke Sellas, speaker, writer, and founder of B Squared Media digs into how to provide quality data-driven customer care.
Become a specialist. Then a jack of all trades. Mario Peshev, writer, software developer, and CEO of DevriX, breaks down how to level-up your business.
Audio is becoming searchable. Eugene Levin, Chief Strategy Officer as SEMrush, dives into career pivoting, AI, and indexing audio for Google.
Reaching out cold is uncomfortable—and it doesn’t have to be. Jon Buchan shares how to use comedy to fight static emails.
Your team is an untapped bank of knowledge. Mike Stopforth, entrepreneur and director of Beyond Binary, tells how to get noticed in the ad space.
Your website is the gateway to your business. Orbit Media’s Laurel Miltner shares how site optimization, organization and branding drives conversion.
Gain credibility with a strong name. Stephanie Ciccarelli, founder of Voices.com, shares how words can make or break a brand.
Story is strategy. Jordan Bower, a speaker, business owner and strategic storyteller, tells how precise language and tone creates audience trust.
Understand, earn and grow your audience. Katelyn Bourgoin shares how to figure out who your best customer is and what motivates them to buy.
Plans can kill a start-up. Fintech entrepreneur and author Simon Dingle discusses the value of timing, evidence, and flexibility in a start-up.
Make online events unmissable. Liam Austin, co-founder of Entrepreneurs HQ and Virtual Summit Academy, tells how to drive online revenue—even during COVID.
Get great at anything. Rock Thomas, a self-made millionaire, speaker, author, coach, and podcast host, shares his systems of success.
Stephen Van Elst, the Creative and Global Innovative Director of the experience agency Imagination, dives into the importance of storytelling for business.
Gino Wickman, founder of EOS Worldwide, author, and businessman, shares how to know you’re an entrepreneur, achieve focus, and start a successful business.
Stuck at home too? Listen in to Jeff's personal and professional reflections on the fall out of COVID-19, social distancing, and having a baby during a pandemic.
Sales Schema CEO Dan Englander is an expert at getting boutique ad agencies their dream clients. How? Master voice, authenticity, and cold outreach.
Val Geisler, email expert and CEO of Fix My Churn, shares how to reduce customer churn and build an email strategy that is as engaging as a dinner party.
Mike Michalowicz is an author, entrepreneur, and lecturer who strives to make entrepreneurship the simplest it can be. Mike is the author of “Clockwork,” “Surge,” “The Pumpkin Plan,” “The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur” and “Profit First.” Mike speaks about his personal failure to manage his finances in the face of early wealth, the true role of profit, and how treating your business in a biological way can help entrepreneurs focus on the right things at the right time.
Curtis Hayes is a digital consultant and owner of Collideascope, a digital marketing agency focused on search. Curtis helps clients optimize their advertising activities, create leads, and increase their return on investment. One of his specialties includes leveraging SEO strategy and best practices to harness the power of WordPress and Google. His goal is to help businesses get found online. In this episode, Curtis delves into the importance of cleaning up the back-end of your website, how to c...
Howard Partridge is an international business coach, speaker, and author of eight books, including an Amazon.com best-seller. He started his first business out of the trunk of his car and turned it into a multi-million dollar turnkey enterprise. Howard has owned nine small businesses, and for over twenty years he has been helping business owners implement systems that achieve their goals. In this episode, Howard speaks about his own journey to success, how to create a self-running business, and ...
Derek Van Dam is a meteorologist for CNN International, CNN domestic, and their digital platforms. Currently based in Atlanta, GA, Derek is an on-air anchor and broadcasts science-related weather reports on weekday and weekend editions of CNN Newsroom. He has reported live on every United States landfalling hurricane in 2017. Before joining CNN, Derek was chief meteorologist for eNCA news channel in South Africa. In this episode, Derek gives a glimpse into the life of a meteorologist and how he ...
Trevor Bragdon is a fundraising expert and the Founder of 7-Figure Fundraising, an organization which helps nonprofit CEOs make big fundraising asks. Trevor received his Masters in Behavioral Science from the London School of Economics and has worked on over 65 different presidential, legislative, and referendum campaigns. In this episode, Trevor dives into the difference between manipulation and persuasion, how to reject the poverty mindset, and the importance of defining a big vision for big m...
Adam is a digital consultant who helps companies develop their digital journey. He is an agency owner and podcaster who formerly worked on teams like VaynerMedia, Wipro Digital. Adam currently hosts Digitalism and is co-running Strafire Media. Adam speaks about his journey from working at large consulting agencies to striking out on his own, how to help businesses move from stagnation to growth and the value of focus.
Stephanie Baiocchi is the director of audience engagement and community at IMPACT, an inbound marketing agency. Stephanie is a speaker, the co-leader of the Chicago HubSpot user group and hosts The IMPACT Show podcast. In this episode, she explores the benefits and drawbacks of online communities, how to decide if starting an online community is a good move for your business, and whether scalable friendship is possible — or desirable.
Aaron Orendorff is a content expert and the founder of IconiContent. In this episode, Jeff speaks with Aaron about the strategy and mindset that led him to successfully venture into freelancing, publish articles in big-name publications, and the unexpected role of rejection.
Paul Jarvis is a web designer and author of “Company of One,” a book that centers around the idea that growth does not necessarily equate to success in business. In part 2 of Paul’s interview, he discusses loving clients well, growing intentionally, niche, and mission.
Howard Mann is a player coach for entrepreneur businesses at The Business Brickyard. He describes his craft as combining deep business coaching strategies with “rolling up his sleeves” to transform those strategies into his clients’ reality. Howard discusses business as craft in relation to Paul Jarvis’ book “Company of One.”
JT Smith is the owner of The Game Crafter, but he also holds a number of other roles. In the past 22 years, JT has built 21 businesses—The Game Crafter, Tabletop Events, and Plain Black. Using his lofty experience, JT shares his insights on growth and business in relation to Paul Jarvis’ book “Company of One.”
