Episode 349 – Managing Your Social Media Marketing Calendar Using CoSchedule with Garrett Moon

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Garrett Moon is the CEO and Co-Founder at CoSchedule, the web’s most popular marketing calendar and the fastest growing startup in North Dakota. Ranked as the best business tool built by a startup on Entrepreneur.com, CoSchedule helps more than 9,000 marketing teams stay organized in more 100 countries around the world. In 2016, CoSchedule was named one of the top five startups in Tech. Co’s Startup of the Year Competition.

As a thought leader, Garrett is the author of “The 10x Marketing Formula” and has been blogging and speaking about content marketing, social media marketing, and startup business for more than eight years. He’s been featured on sites like Forbes, Entrepreneur, AdWeek, and Content Marketing Institute.

Episode 346 – How to Get Paid More By Working With Virtual Assistants

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What did you do with your 168 hours, 10,000 minutes or 600,000 seconds last week? Chances are you spent 1/3rd working, 1/3rd sleeping, and 1/3rd on everything else. “Work to your strengths and hire to your weaknesses” is one of my favorite sayings. I use VA’s to handle tasks like proofreading, blog posting, and email…

Episode 345 – Making The Most Of Evernote with CMO Andrew ‘Malc’ Malcolm

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Over a decade leading global SaaS businesses, Andrew has tried just about everything to generate growth with marketing. Some of which has work; most of which hasn’t. But through identifying new products, pivoting to adjacent markets, changing monetization models, spending big on above the line marketing, doubling down on search engine marketing and more, Andrew has developed a repeatable approach to marketing that he calls “creatively analytic.”

As CMO of Evernote, Andrew has created an organization using this approach that delivers just the right message at just the right time through owned and earned media. Since joining Evernote, he’s driven the company past 200M registered users, more than 5B notes and double paying users; all leading to cash flow positive.

Episode 344 – Growing Your Business With Curated Content On Evernote

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One of my favorite tools that I use to organize my ideas and content is Evernote™. It’s a free app that is available on your phone, tablet or desktop. Evernote gives you the ability to type notes, record audio notes, scan business cards, draw sketches and so much more.  The most powerful uses include the addition of a web clipper tool (an extension) available for the Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and other browsers.

Episode 326 – Time Waits For No One – Exploring Acuity Scheduling

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Time management is sort of an oxymoron. You can’t manage time, but you can manage tasks. You can also manage the time in your schedule! Programs like Acuity Scheduling will help you become the master of your digital calendars. This is part of my new “Favorite Tools” series of the Bacon Podcast, where I share…

Episode 322 – How Would You Like To Improve Your Business In The New Year?

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We are at the end of another year and at the beginning of the New Year. Some things change, and some things stay the same. One thing that never changes is that we are all given the same 168 hours per week. Most of us spend 1/3rd sleeping, 1/3rd working, and we have 1/3rd left over…

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

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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 304 – Are You Growing Your Business From What You Are Learning?

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Do you have books on a shelf that you have purchased and not read? Do you have any training programs on your hard drive, that you have never completed or never even opened? If so you are not alone. People buy a lot of things with good intentions, but from my experience, only 20% of…

Episode 292 – Are You Making Strides To Finish Strong In The Final Stretch?

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Today is Labor Day… the unofficial end of summer. More important to us business people, it’s the official start to the home stretch! People have finished their vacations, their kids are back in school and they are ready to get down to business again. The year is 2/3rds over. How did you do in the…

Episode 290 – Do You Have A Wishing Statement Or Mission Statement?

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What is the difference between a Wishing Statement and a Mission Statement? Things that get scheduled… GET DONE! Many people have desires and plan to accomplish many things, but they get stalled out by a lack of time management and scheduling. Goal setting is great but, there is a big difference between inaction and in-action!…