I love talking about sales. I was fortunate to be exposed early in my career to what professional sales looks like. David Shriner-Cahn invited me to discuss my early days in selling IT services on his Smashing the Plateau podcast. “My view of sales was framed by professionals. I was trained with a group of […]
Diane Helbig had me on as a guest for her Accelerate Your Business Growth podcast for a discussion around the challenges small business owners face growing a small business that revolves around themselves. “I started my small business in 1988 when I was 18. I dropped out of my first year of college and started […]
David Ralph had me on as a guest for his Join Up Dots podcast for a free-ranging discussion about entrepreneurship and finding balance and peace in life. “I am perpetually in the space that I love, which is trying to figure out how to take a business that is just on the cusp of figuring […]
Anyone curious what the original CreativeLive website looked like when we launched in April 2010? I was able to bring up an archive of creativeLIVE.com from 2010 through the magic of the Internet Wayback Machine. This takes me back! It’s amazing to see the concepts from this first version that are still baked into so […]
Sue Bryce and I are guests on John Warrillow’s Built to Sell podcast! I’ve been a fan of John’s for years, and two of his business books Built to Sell, and The Automatic Customer have been at the top of my entrepreneurial recommendation list for years. It’s an entrepreneurial bucket-list moment to have been a […]
I really enjoyed talking with Abby Glassenberg on the Craft Industry Alliance podcast about creating digital products and teaching online courses. Abby was an instructor at CreativeLive where she taught a workshop on Email Marketing for Crafters, and it was great going back to the days of CreativeLive with someone who had the personal experience […]
Britney Gardner’s podcast, The Know Like & Trust Show, is a podcast that I can find myself listening to for hours. She’s smart, grounded, and has genuine conversations that go deep into the world of personal branding — from both the business side of tactics and marketing, as well as the personal side of meaning, […]
Big thank you to Jim Huffman for inviting me on as a guest on his “If I Was Starting Today” podcast. I’ve been invited on a few podcasts lately, but this entrepreneurial conversation with Jim has been my favorite yet!
“When a lot of small business owners like me would draw a Venn diagram of themselves — if they were to draw a circle representing themselves and a circle representing their business — the two circles would be so overlapped as to appear as to only be one. “And, especially in the first decade, I […]
“I am definitely a creator. I need to create, I need to be inventing things. And if I only have one company, a single company cannot consume the amount of creation that I need in my life. And so for me, having side businesses is a way of protecting my core business from being changed […]