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Podcast: Maureen Mwangi on Building Brands & Helping Others
Maureen Mwangi grew up in Kenya where entrepreneurship was not the norm. In fact, her mom and dad were the only entrepreneurs she knew. As a little girl, Maureen listened with fascination as they discussed Read more…
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How Minecraft Made $2.5 Billion From Scratch
Minecraft was created by a solo developer with a day job in 2009. The graphics are 8-bit and servers will boot you for no reason sometimes. By all accounts, Minecraft should have crashed and burned Read more…
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Podcast: Parker Stevenson on Keeping Small Businesses Profitable & Healthy
Parker Stevenson is a Partner and the Chief Business Officer at Evolved Finance. Evolved Finance is a bookkeeping and business education company dedicated to helping online entrepreneurs create profitable and healthy businesses. Join us this week Read more…
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Training New Pangea Teammate – Will Have Fresh Content Next Week!
If you’ve been following the podcast lately, you know that Pierson and I are seeing an unprecedented amount of work with Pangea Marketing. This is a great problem to have, to be sure, but it Read more…
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Podcast: Homestead Phil and Homestead Jenn on Renting Chickens
Ever heard of renting chickens? This isn’t just some far-fetched idea, it’s a business – and a very successful one at that. Homestead Phil and Homestead Jenn are the founders of Rent the Chicken. They Read more…
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The Rise & Fall & Rise of Aeropostale
I was shopping with my wife at the gardening store, looking – in true millennial fashion – for plants we can’t kill. Suddenly, apropos of nothing, I wondered “what the hell happened to Aeropostale?” Aeropostale Read more…
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Interview with Brandon Rollins on the Formation of Pangea Marketing Agency
We’re slammed with client work this week, so here’s an episode from the vault. Join us this week as Pierson interviews Brandon on the formation of Pangea Marketing Agency. Find out how we, as a Read more…
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Product Distribution & Your Small Business
If you build it, they won’t just come. Your small business needs a product distribution strategy if you want to make sales. This is so important, in fact, that one of the 4 P’s of Read more…
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James Breakwell on How to Be a Man
James Breakwell is a comedy writer and self-described amateur father. Coming June 8, he will be releasing, or perhaps unleashing, his new book: How to Be a Man (Whatever That Means): Lessons in Modern Masculinity Read more…
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How The Room Made $30 Million by Being a Terrible Movie
Released in 2003, The Room is widely considered to be one of the worst films ever made. It holds a score of 3.7 out of 10 on IMDb and an astounding 9 out of 100 Read more…
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Aaron Franklin on Finding Meaning through Family, Baseball, and Insurance
Aaron Franklin is an Insurance Broker at State Farm in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Insurance is a tough industry to understand, and tougher still to make exciting. Yet Aaron finds meaning helping people through his work. In Read more…
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14 Easy Ways Your Small Business Can Handle Public Relations
Public relations! The phrase conjures up images of spin doctors working for evil megacorporations or politicians conspicuously pretending to be folksy in an effort to win voters. That first impression is definitely not wrong, but Read more…
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Kyle Orth on Paragliding, Aviation, and Mitigating Risk
Kyle Orth came straight from the sky and onto our show – literally. While meditating at a local park, I opened my eyes to Kyle paragliding down right next to me. After chatting for a Read more…
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The Incredible Downfall of Rax Roast Beef in 1991 (A Ghost Story)
“We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.” Originally spoken by Francis Ford Coppola about the filming of Apocalypse Now, I think this statement applies just Read more…
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Podcast: Shelli Tripp-Norvell on Mental Health, Identity, and Mindfulness
Shelli Tripp-Norvell is a Psychotherapist in Nashville, Tennessee. In this episode, Shelli walks us through her journey to becoming a therapist, as well as detailing various aspects of the journey that we go through to Read more…
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Why Supply Chain Management is Important to Small Business Marketing
Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you Read more…