Episode 893 – How Can A Junk Drawer Help You Build A Healthy Business?

We all have one. Some of us have multiple. You may even have one in every room of your house. It’s the junk drawer. True Story: I was looking for a piece of wood in my garage to prop up my desk for a project. It was not until I took and posted the image…

Episode 891 – The Devil Is In The Details… In The Data

Last week I attended a CMO panel discussion sponsored by the AMA Triangle. It included CMOs from SAS, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and a couple of other independent medium to small-business CMOs. One of those people stood out to me. His name is Frank Pollock and he’s currently the CMO of a couple of start-ups, but he…

Episode 889 – Fad, Fame, Or Fortune… It’s About Business (and Time)

Magician hand conjuring sparks on black background – copy space with magic Back in 2015, I talked about my concept of the Marketing Trifecta. I will explain what that is in a bit, but there has been a lot of buzz over the last 8 years about new tools that will revolutionize marketing. I have…

Episode 655 – Scaling A Million Dollar Business In A Pandemic World with Tommy Mello

Tommy Mello is the founder of A1 Garage Doors, a $40 million-plus home service business with over 200 employees in 9 states. He shares what he’s learned at HomeServiceExpert.com to help fellow entrepreneurs scale their businesses. It takes a lot of guts and glory to go from $50k in debt to owning a $40 million…

Episode 314 – Giving Thanks & These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things

This week is Thanksgiving in America. I don’t know about you, but I am thankful for just waking up in the morning. I am also thankful for my wife, dog, house, and running my own company. I* truly get to (for the most part) control my own destiny. I am also thankful for some of the…

Episode 254 – Your Reputation – Why You Need To Own, Manage, And Live It?

Only one person controls and manages your reputation… That is YOU! Other people can post things, both positive and negative, but you have to manage it. By manage it, I mean you have to respond to positive reviews and posts with thanks and admiration and respond to negative posts with action to do your best to…

Episode 245 – Did You Know You Can Be Suspended From Google? with Chris Hickman

Chris has been involved in pay per click advertising since 2002. He had clients that were some of the first to be suspended and Google back around 2007. Chris made the choice to figure out everything about Adwords suspensions to keep his clients up on google and has been helping people ever since. He specializes…

Episode 242 – These Are A Few Of My (Not So) Favorite Scams!

I don’t know about you, but I have been recently getting 10 or more scam phone calls a day. They come on my home line, business line, AND cell phone. Tack on the 20-50 scam emails per day and it has become a real time suck. What really sucks is, if you don’t know why…

Episode 241 – Can Content Marketing and SEO Play Well Together? with Steve Wiideman

Steve Wiideman runs a corporate inbound marketing strategist for e-commerce, multi-location brands, and digital marketing agencies. Often called “the agency’s agency” as a trainer and lead strategist on F100 and F500 campaigns. Grew up in website design and marketing in the 90’s, wrote multiple information products on paid and organic search, and held several full-time…

Episode 210 – How To Get More People To Your Website? Buy It or Earn It!

One of my favorite recent questions I was asked in my Bacon Weekly Mastermind was – “How do I get more people to visit my website?”. That answer is both easy and complex… “Buy It or Earn It!”. It really depends on your business and if you can get a return on investment on advertising. If…