Podcasts about participation age

Chuck Blakeman is a successful entrepreneur, best-selling business author, TED Speaker, and world-renowned business advisor who built twelve businesses in eight industries on five continents, and now uses his experience to advise others. His company, Crankset Group, provides outcome-based mentoring and peer advisory for business leaders worldwide. Chuck sold one of his businesses to the largest consumer fulfillment company in America and led three other $10-$100 million companies.  He presently leads the Crankset Group and a for-profit business based in Africa, focused on developing local economies to solve poverty. Mr. Blakeman is a results leader with decades of experience leading companies in multiple markets. Chuck is also the host of the GOTT Podcast for dentists, one of the top three dental podcasts in the profession. Some of Chuck's customers have included Google, Microsoft, Apple, Eli Lilly, TAP Pharmaceuticals, Sun Microsystems, Tyco Healthcare, Johns Manville and many more Fortune 500s and smaller businesses. He is a convention speaker, writer, and non-profit board member.  Recent speaking appearances include England, Kenya, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Italy, and across the US. 100+ times a year.  Recent print and online appearances include Inc. Magazine (regular contributor), Success Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, CNNMoney.com, NYTimes.com. He was cited in Dr. Stephen Covey's last book, The 3rd Alternative 

Remember when you first became a Practice owner? What did it look like? How did it feel? What issues were you dealing with? How does it feel now? Are the issues the same? Is it what you want? Would you like to change what you see, feel, and the problems you are dealing with? If you want your business to survive, you are going to have to change. Most of us hate change. However, if you want to achieve your goals, you are going to have to do things differently. If you are feeling the pain, doctor, you are not alone. Many of the businesses that were on the Fortune 500 list in 1955 aren't even around today. (Although many industries they were in are still with us.) How businesses were managed in the Industrial Age simply doesn't work in today's Participation Age. Elise has worked with veterinarians for over 40 years to successfully change the business part of their practices. She is a CPA and a recovering social worker which is a perfect combination of skills and experiences to help you through the process.

Summary: Ever wish you could pick the brain of an industry leader who has been around a lot longer than you, has had a lot more success than you, has been down your road before, and is willing to share it all with you? Yeah, we did too. So we reached out to Daniel Brian Cobb, the founder of The Daniel Brian Agency. Dan’s agency has won more than 21 Emmy’s, advises clients like Papa John’s and Disney, is a respected author, and has been leading and growing his business and clients for over 30 years.   Daniel has seen it all from the 2008 financial crisis to the current 2020 COVID-19 recession. Daniel is one of the voices that large brands go to for advice in times of crisis. He’s an amazing agency leader and God-given innovator.    Daniel shares it all today. We discuss how he’s leading his clients and agency through this crisis, and the next wave of change that is coming.   And just like the rest of us, Daniel’s business isn’t immune to the current crisis. In the first 24hrs of the Coronavirus shut down his agency lost $1M in business. We talk about how he dealt with disappointments like this and how he’s actually gained more business through this time. There is always HOPE and Dan walks us through finding it.   This is an episode you want to listen to with your notepad ready (or just use our notes below:).   Resources Mentioned:  Dan’s book Surfing the Black Wave  Dan’s Quicken Loans Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuk0f_SvqQ   Top 3 Curtain Pulls in this episode: We are in the third wave: The Participation Age. This is about collaboration and smaller units of power. Getting more access and creating a greater weight than any one big organization could ever create. Owning your media is more important now than ever! As we shift into a new way of doing business, owning your platforms and connections with your customers is vitally important.  Innovate. Use the 80/20 innovation system. Always put 20% of resources towards future innovation. Be careful about doing any more or less. Your business must be healthy AND you must innovate to survive.   For more tips, discussion, and behind the scenes: Follow us on Instagram @AgencyPodcast Join our closed Facebook community for agency leaders   About our Guest:  Dan Cobb: Founder of the Daniel Brian Agency (DBA), author of Surfing the Black Wave and 30+ year industry veteran. DBA specializes in innovative and measurable advertising campaigns to engage families via retail, healthcare, digital TV, family entertainment, and sporting goods. Dan has worked with brands like Papa Johns, Henry Ford Health Systems, and Chick-fil-A to provide creative connections with local communities. Connect with Dan:  Website and Blog: https://danielbrian.com/digital-marketing-report/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielbrian Daniel’s Book Surfing the Black Wave https://amzn.to/2KHUD6l   About The Guys:  Bob Hutchins: Founder of BuzzPlant, a digital agency that he ran from from 2000 -2017. He is also the author of 3 books. More on Bob:  Bob on LinkedIn twitter.com/BobHutchins instagram.com/bwhutchins Bob on Facebook Brad Ayres: Founder of Anthem Republic, an award-winning ad agency. Brad’s knowledge has led some of the biggest brands in the world. Originally from Detroit, Brad is an OG in the ad agency world and has the wisdom and scars to prove it. Currently that knowledge is being applied to his boutique agency. More on Brad: Brad on LinkedIn Anthem Republic twitter.com/bradayres instagram.com/therealbradayres facebook.com/Bradayres Ken Ott: Co-Founder and Chief Growth Rebel of Metacake, an Ecommerce Growth Team for some of the world’s most influential brands with a mission to Grow Brands That Matter. Ken is also an author, speaker, and was nominated for an Emmy for his acting on the Metacake Youtube Channel (not really). More on Ken:  Ken on LinkedIn Metacake - An Ecommerce Growth Team Growth Rebel TV twitter.com/iamKenOtt instagram.com/iamKenOtt facebook.com/iamKenOtt   Show Notes: [1:24] Brad introduces our guest Dan Cobb.  28 year veteran in this industry.  Wrote Surfing the Black Wave [3:44] Dan tells us about his clients and the type of work he does. “We started with two types of clients. We started in healthcare and pizza. First two clients, Henry Ford health system, and Domino’s pizza.”  “Our experience is really in taking chain based organizations, local organizations that are widespread and building that local connection in the local community for those organizations.”  Gives example of Chick-Fil-A. When they work with a chain like this, the focus is more on local communities and local engagement. Daddy-daughter date nights, military appreciation nights, etc.  [4:56] Dan continues: “In doing that over the years, what we’ve learned is that connection happens in the community, connections happens through values… That’s great to have a pizza on sale, a $5 hot and ready, but you can beat that with a $7 pizza that cares.”  They ran a campaign for Hungry Howies that donated proceeds to breast cancer research. They experienced a 23% increase of sales that month, and they gained a quarter of a million Facebook fans and followers.  “We saw how that local connectivity is about connecting to the values that people care about there and then bringing that together for maybe a promotion, maybe not… it’s more important that you have that values connection.  [5:53] Brad reflects on first meeting Dan years ago. He recalls that Dan had a very clear vision that had nothing to do with advertising. Brad asks Dan what that “Why” core value system looks like these days.  [7:22] Dan responds: “Many of us started with writing or artistic or musical skills, and it kind of drove us into this industry, which gave us a way to compensate those skills… for me it went back to when I was a kid. I was sitting on the couch watching tv… mom walks into the room and says turn that off, that’s bad for you. Go out and do something good for you. And it was that moment… it was this though, Why does it have to be bad for me? Why does this content, this entertainment, this advertising have to be bad for me? Maybe I can make that change.”  [8:10] He recalls Nike’s “Just Do It” campaign impacting him strongly. As a runner, he found himself truly inspired by the commercials that he’d seen. “It inspired me to be a better runner, to be a better person, overcome the pain in my life, and just take on the challenges… why can’t advertising always do that type of thing?” [8:35] Dan: “So we started building a model around that… we call it Better Brands for a Better Human Condition. So we put everything we do through that filter: Is what we’re doing building a better brand for a better human condition?” “As a team, we started pull all-nighters, pretty much the slave shifts. We’ve all done it in this business… one of my staff members said ‘How is this a better brand for a better human condition?’” Helping your clients be the best they can be oftentimes comes at the expense of your internal team. Dan talks about how traditionally, advertising is terrible on employees. One client drops off and cuts have to be made, so there is a sense of very real fear every day. So he has worked hard to make his agency a great place to work. [10:01] Ken speaks about how advertising has had a “churn and burn” kind of experience in the past. Not having come from advertising, he’s had a different experience of the work.  [11:37] Ken continues: “We focused on how do we create a business that is different and the purpose is really not the product we put out. It’s the message that we stand for… How do we do things like create a staff environment that’s not continually expanding and contracting- literal financial stability that is not necessarily dependent on any one particular client..” [12:37] Dan interjects- “We hear about flattening the curve right now- we’ve been flattening the curve our entire careers!”  Reflects on the common experience of many ad agencies- working long hours sacrificing family and personal time, busting your butt to get things out the door only to find that the client isn’t happy and you both lose in that situation. [12:56] Dan: “So we now have been thinking through how do we flatten that curve so that through the course of the year, it’s fairly level… you have a few peaks, but it’s not all spikes and then drop offs. Managing that is really about managing a client… getting them on course and managing their calendar, building out longterm plans… looking for the kinds of clients who marry, who don’t date around.”  Everyone feels the pain of clients who are not interested in settling down into a longterm plan with you- you, the client, and your team especially.  [13:46] Brad speaks about a common theme here on Agency Exposed: “Are our businesses just a commodity or do we have a value that is unique enough that we’re not on that list of customers that are going to go and burn out agencies… our business has struggled because some of our offerings are commodities and others are not.”  The fast pace of technology has increased the pace of the agency industry and it’s easy to fall out of step with the changes if you’re not intentional about it and learn to pivot quickly.  [15:04] Bob segues into Dan’s book and the principles that he talks about. “Can you talk a little bit about that and maybe contextualize it for what’s going on right now. This whole idea that everything becomes commoditized… if it’s a new technology, new knowledge base, people start to learn it, more people start to learn it and it becomes a commodity… so what digital marketing was 15 years ago you can now pay $5 for someone to do it.” Lately there is a shift that has happened. Where the focus was on quick results expertise, very much focused on bottom dollar ROI, now we read requests for high level Facebook ad specialists, conversion rate optimization specialists. [16:33] Bob: “It almost feels like the tide is going back out again… what are you seeing in the context of what you write about in that kind of tsunami, black wave metaphor.”  [16:47] Dan reflects on his childhood proclivity for invention. “My grandfather was an inventor and he taught me a lot about how inventors think.”  Modern acceptance is that Amazon IS ecommerce, that it was a battle and Amazon won. Same with social media- there was a war and Facebook won. But an inventor always has hope for something new, for change. They will take ideas, put them together and create social media commerce. There WILL be another shift.  [17:54] Dan speaks about the Third Wave Model based on a tsunami metaphor.  A tsunami hit Hawaii and many people went out to the shore to marvel at the fish flopping out of water after the first wave hit. Little did they know, that marvel that they were distracted by was a sign of the next wave to come. Many lives were lost to that tsunami, people who were just spectators watching what had taken place.  [18:31] Dan says “I believe we’re in the same place. We’re all spectators watching social media saying ‘Well, that’s over, Facebook won, Zuckerberg had the final say’ but there is another shift coming because there’s a mindset shift that took place over the first two waves. The mindset shift came in and said ‘It’s no longer the big three, the big five, whatever the number is in any particular industry to control everything.’”  The first wave was thousands of years of agricultural society… the industrial revolution was the first great wave of society’s change in thought. Anyone can get a product. The next wave is information. It allowed everyone to have access to content, and people like Steve Jobs came and said let’s make this kind of computer technology available to the people and not just the big companies.  The third wave is the mindset shift. This is where people are given all the power, we call it the participation age. Everyone can participate (this podcast, for example) and everyone can influence.  [20:00] Dan talks about how it is no longer the focus to make one company the BIGGEST around, that model is outdated and useless in this day and age.  [20:36] “Eventually that model is going to break, well all of them are breaking… It’s better when Daniel Brian meets three other guys who have specific skills that I don’t have, and we intertwine our relationships and build out towards something bigger to serve a bigger population. The participation age is about collaboration and smaller units of power. Getting more access and creating a greater weight than any one big organization could ever create.”  [21:04] Brad asks what Dan’s suggestions would be for business owners to position themselves for this next wave. [21:18] Dan responds:  #1: Don’t be afraid to talk to your competitors. They have skillsets that help your ability to reach bigger audiences. #2: “Always take the sale, then price yourself out it rather than saying no.” Say yes, then fall back on your connections within your network to help you execute things you could never do by yourself. [22:45] Ken agrees with Dan and recalls that that is the reason that Agency Exposed exists. In advertising things tend to be secretive and closed-off from collaboration, everything is a competition and so we tend to be closed off in disclosing what we’re ACTUALLY really good at versus what we say we are really good at.  [24:15] Ken adds: “we often say collaboration over isolation… there’s a balance between saying you can do everything and being specialized.” [24:47] Dan: “It’s about vertical integration… your best new business is your current business.” When a client talks about how they want to explore a new solution, tell them you can figure it out for them.  He gives an example of working with Henry Ford healthcare. When they started they had a tiny sliver of a budget with the client, and they began to see things they could do and took on those challenges. They grew from a very niche organization to a broad advisor- “solving the operational problems of the organization with marketing solutions”.  [28:04] Bob asks: “What are some lessons you’ve used over 30 years that you could offer to some agency owners right now?” [29:07] Dan responds: “Own the media, it is our future, it is the Black Wave.” He talks about how in the early days of Facebook, if you got 9 million followers, that was a lot and felt very much like your platform like your community. But then Facebook changed that title, and now it’s just likes that you’re getting. So that’s no longer your community, that’s Facebook’s community. And THEN Facebook came in and said hey we can charge you to talk to these followers…  “.. So the future is no longer about going to other people’s media and trying to find your way. It’s about creating your own platform, owning that platform, and getting more and more visibility.” [32:24] Bob asks for practical advice for agency owners. [32:37] Dan: “Marketing automation… building around your CRM platform.” [33:39] Brad asks: “What are some ways during Covid-19 that you’ve had to help your customers pivot?” [34:06] Dan says “Don’t look at it as a negative.” He gives the example of Papa John’s sales being up to Superbowl numbers. “And so rather than just start to gouge the customer we tried to say how do we endear our customer and connect to them during this time.”  Papa John’s gave away pizza in communities where school lunches were needed. Now in those areas they are far outpacing the market because the communities know what they stand for during this time.  Speaking on healthcare opportunities: “We’ve now flattened the curve for the most part, but there’s a second curve coming. The second curve coming is the mental health crisis… the next crisis is the fact that people have lost their jobs… they’ve been rejected from transplant procedures… the mental health crisis is bound to happen.” [36:14] Dan continues: “So now’s the time for us to engage our communities with messages of hope. The future. Finding ways for our health systems to engage people and say, we have a model for getting virtual care because people are afraid to go to the hospital so they’re not getting their care.”  Market these new products and give insurance programs that make no copay or half copay for doing the virtual programs that are cheaper. “Build encouragement like Nike did back in the day saying Hey you have hope, you have a future, it’s going to be okay.” [37:05] Brad asks how he is personally staying “up” in all the chaos and working from home.  [37:25] Dan: “I’ve been following the stats and trying to be very very informative with them of where I think things are at, telling them about their future. A lot about where we’re going to be… how we’re using this to leverage on Covid marketing. We’re doing a lot of Covid campaigns so we’ve actually seen an increase in our business during this.”  He focuses on being human with them, talking about things like impact on families and ability to be with families. Encourages them to be happy about this time and enjoy it.  [38:35] Ken asks for elaboration on 2 points. Do you see this changing the way you guys do business? How so? You mentioned that some business has increased- how has that happened and how have you positioned yourself to not be an opportunist in that place, but actually increase your ability to sell well?  [39:08] Dan: “I’d be cautious to say that my business has increased… The first moment of the crisis… it took us less than 24 hours to lose a million dollars in contracts.” But they did reach out to clients and say ‘There are things you CAN do to survive and thrive through this, let’s tell people that you’re creating solutions through this.’ Many were not previously in ecommerce but were brought into that world. [41:15] Ken speaks on the shock of losing that much money in 24 hours. “How’d you lead your company through that? How did you take action without freaking out inside?” [41:30] Dan: “Well first I didn’t take action without freaking. I freaked out… for me it’s a faith thing… once I got past that point, I got to my center.”  He began looking at government programs, calling his team to see what was needed and what was missing. Did have some layoffs and gave them a long furlough.  He applied to gov’t programs and received assistance that brought real encouragement. [43:08] Ken: “As far as opportunities now, as our entire population shifts, how does this shift your business? You talked about the next wave being owned channels… how are you adjusting?” [43:15] Dan: Hospitals without an address are what will win. Telehealth solutions are the next frontier. “Whoever owns that particular market will dominate the market because it’ll be your first call…”  [44:38] Ken asks about the same but for Dan’s agency specifically.  [44:41] Dan: “Our own media platform is… we’re starting to do a lot more of things like this, content that’s going out to our clients.” Creating their own studies that allow them to inform their clients of where they rank against competitors in the marketplace. [45:44] Bob asks for advice for young solo-preneurs. As the trend of a solo model is becoming more and more popular and talent and resources are being outsourced more and more, what kind of advice can he give to people in the early stages of business?  [46:17] Dan: “A lot of the things that I accidentally did when I started DBA.” Keep a small home office to keep costs down- stay lean. Don’t hire people who talk a big talk for the long haul. “Find your experience partners but keep them at arms length, let them have their own business… bring them in when you need it and pay them a premium for short windows of work. Don’t hire full-time people for part-time problems.”  [47:20] Bob asks how to scale this. [47:22] Dan: “I’ll tell you when I get there!” Working in this way has allowed him between 5 and 10M in revenue regularly, but getting beyond that is the challenge.  [48:45] Brad asks: “How much approximately of your revenue do you spend on specifically reinventing your company, to move your company to the next wave?” [49:00] Dan: “Great question. Critical question. I nearly killed my company three times by missing the point of this question.” “Innovation is very attractive...so we end up getting distracted sometimes… it can become your core. And there’s no financial model for return on it. So if you put all your effort into innovation, you’re overinvesting.”  There is an illustration in his book about this, an 80/20 rule. “New business is not a slice in your pie. It’s a completely separate pie...it has to stay away from your core, it has to be a completely separate entity, a separate model, separate team, separate everything, but you want to make sure you’re central and focused on 80% of your business at all times.” [51:20] Bob asks Dan for info on his book and website.

The 12 Absolutely Essential Tools of Participation Age Dentistry   Are you content being a hostage to your practice, making every decision and have the weight of the world on your shoulders every day? Or do you want to build a great practice that runs well and makes money when you are not there?   These twelve tools will rehumanize your workplace and give everyone their brain back, when you didn’t even realize their brains had been taken away from them. Building these twelve tools into the way you develop your team is crucial to you getting off the treadmill, and even more important for them to experience Making Meaning, not just money.   Do you want full-on adults at work, Stakeholders instead of just employees, who take responsibility for their actions, make great decisions, and stay with you for the long haul?   Each tool builds on the one before it. Solid, written values, vision and mission statements that you use regularly and proactively every day to run the practice is the start. But in order to rehumanize the workplace, we have to develop an entirely different set of leadership tools that help everyone be a leader, create localized decision-making, teams released to take action; specifically, tools that create self-managed, self-motivated adults in every position in our practice.   The 12 Tools of Participation Age Dentistry are designed to create horizontal interdependence among team members and dismantle the unhealthy, codependent top-down, bottom-up parenting that comes with management. Your people are adults, are smart and motivated, and want desperately to help build a great practice, not for you, but with you. Build in the 12 Tools of Participation Age Dentistry and watch the lights come on across your practice in every team member. It’s the most rewarding thing you’ll do this year!

Join us for an energizing discussion with Chuck Blakeman, bestselling author and world renowned business advisor. In the emerging world of work, Chuck is a leading visionary in the Age of Participation. Hell share ways to give people back their brains at work, the true difference between a leader and manager (its not what you think it is), and key steps to evolving your company into a self-managed, leader-to-leader organization

Our special encore guest today is Daina Middleton. She is the CEO of a leading national to local marketing company, Ansira. Prior to heading up Ansira, Daina served as the head of global business-to-business marketing at Twitter as well as successful leadership positions at Performics, Moxy Interactive, and 16 years at Hewlett Packard. Daina is also the author of two books: “Marketing in the Participation Age” and “Grace Meets Grit.” Now...you may remember Daina and the wisdom she shared during Episode 397. If you haven’t listened to, studied, and applied all she shared during our first interview...I highly encourage you to add Episode 397 to your list of vital priorities. What you’ll learn about in this episode: Why it’s so critical now, more than ever, to brand to local space Why you need to have both a local and a national brand relationship with your customers How your mindset has such an impact on your influence potential Why, as a leader, it’s about empowering others…not about having power over others Why Daina believes that success is about the everyday journey - not just about the end outcome Why it’s more important how you recover from mistakes rather than how you make them Why it’s essential to recognize the type of person that you need for the type of environment or business The value of finding your passion and authentic voice The importance of continually transforming your company How best to connect with Daina: Website: dainamiddleton.com Website: ansira.com Email: daina@dainamiddleton.com Twitter: @DainaMiddleton  

Bulletproof Dental Practice Podcast Episode 47 Hosts: Dr. Peter Boulden & Dr. Craig Spodak Guest: Dr. Paul Etchison, founder of The Dental Practice Heroes Podcast Key Takeaways: Self-managed teams are a great way to allow your team members authority to create – and reach – goals that benefit your practice. Learn more about Dr. Spodak’s practices that led Spodak Dental Group to be within the top 1% of Invisalign providers in the US. Occlusion, malocclusion, and crowding are incipient diseases from which problems will arise over the long term. High volume Invisalign production cannot be done by the doctor alone, it requires the support of the entire team. Your mouth isn’t optimally healthy with just the absence of caries or periodontal disease. Keep your focus on educating patients, not on trying to sell services. Your team needs to understand why you do what you do, and make sure they’re on board with your overall vision. Otherwise they’ll never help you grow and meet your goals. We’re in the Participation Age where employees want to come to work with their brain turned on and be part of a mission. Everyone wants to work in a culture where they can express themselves. Craig’s top 3 pieces of advice for dentists: Create a vision for your life Work on your leadership skills Focus on exceptional clinical dentistry References: All Star Smiles GOTT iTero Omnicam Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek Finding My Virginity by Richard Branson The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson Date With Destiny with Tony Robbins  Tweetables: “People need to be led, only ‘stuff’ should be managed.” – Dr. Craig Spodak “Where focus goes, energy flows.” – Tony Robbins “Be the leader you wish you had.” – Simon Sinek

You are the media. Yes you. You, your friends, your mom, your dad, your kids, your pastor, your teacher, your hair stylist, your car mechanic, and even your dog has the opportunity to be the media. We all know cats steal way too much time from the inter webs. Each of us has the opportunity to be the media. We can launch a blog, start a business, embrace video live streaming, get on snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and everything in between and within a short time steal media attention from even some of the biggest, baddest media platforms that have been doing this for decades. Media at a human level gives us all an even playing field. It enables the little guys and gals and even furry friends to compete with the big media. Here is the catch though. You are only the media if you participate. Times are changing and you can't simply throw sloppy media to the masses and expect to build your business or brand. Welcome to the participation age my friends. The age where you must embrace conversation, human connection and meaning in dialog, not just one to many show up and throw up content. The traditional media is changing regardless if you want to accept it or not. I am the co-founder and CEO of a successful social media, digital marketing and conversion optimization agency. We help brands of all sizes embrace the media of today to build community, build their brand, build their business and most importantly build the people who want to engage and join them in this world of inspiration and participation. The one thing we have found consistent in working with entrepreneurs to Fortune 10 brands is that the brands who have the mindset of participation, inspiration and human connection are the brands that see an ROI from the new media of today. Unfortunately the brands who embrace media today as a way to blast their noise, beg for tweets and downloads never see the light of day when it comes to success in the digital world of the ever and always connected consumer. Did you know that 90% of smart phone owners have their mobile device in arms reach 100% of the time? Why does this matter? Because they are available 100% of the time to listen, learn, engage and participate. It's up to you what you do with that person on the other end of the smart phone, iPhone, Android device. Are you ready for the participation age? Are you ready to inspire, connect and help your audience achieve their goals? It's going to require participation from you, period. You can no longer throw masses of dollars at a traditional agency and expect to get the same return you did 10 years ago. Take a listen to the 177th episode of the Social Zoom Factor to learn more about the participation age. I share with you 10 ways you can embrace the participation age and ensure your brand is smack dab in the middle of the fun, action, reaction, conversation, engagement and success of this new participation and inspiration era.

Our guest today, Chuck Blakeman, has built several businesses, and he now uses his experience to help other business owners and leaders build Participation Age companies. Join us to find out why you should strive to build a Participation Age company, and why employees are ALWAYS a bad idea. Chuck’s first book, Making Money Is Killing Your Business, was rated the #1 business book of 2010 by the National Federation of Independent Businesses. He also appears frequently in print and online, including the Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur Magazine, CNNMoney.com, and the NYTimes.com. He was also quoted in Stephen Covey’s final book, The 3rd Alternative. Today he’s here to talk about his new book, "Why Employees Are ALWAYS a Bad Idea". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest today, Chuck Blakeman, has built several businesses, and he now uses his experience to help other business owners and leaders build Participation Age companies. Join us to find out why you should strive to build a Participation Age company, and why employees are ALWAYS a bad idea. Chuck’s first book, Making Money Is Killing Your Business, was rated the #1 business book of 2010 by the National Federation of Independent Businesses. He also appears frequently in print and online, including the Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur Magazine, CNNMoney.com, and the NYTimes.com. He was also quoted in Stephen Covey’s final book, The 3rd Alternative. Today he’s here to talk about his new book, Why Employees Are ALWAYS a Bad Idea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scheduled Guests: Daina Middleton talks about marketing in the Participation Age. Bob Miglani demonstrates how every small business owner needs to embrace chaos. Shannon Cassidy tells us how to swear in the office. Gary Lipkowitz makes animated video easy and Scott Kabat, CMO of Prezi shows how to make your best presentation. Sponsored by Nextiva and Sage One. 

33voices interviews Daina Middleton, author of Marketing in the Participation Age.

Ever heard of Dagenham, England? I know I hadn’t until very recently when I saw Made in Dagenham, a film about female employees at the Ford Plant who walked off their jobs in 1968 to protest the fact that they were getting paid a lot less than men doing work of equal value. It was that action that led to the passage of the Equal Pay Act in Britain. It wasn’t long before countries on both sides of the pond followed suit and passed similar pieces of legislation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

14 year Domain Industry Veteran, Web 2.0. and Domain Industry Entrepreneur, Consultant and partner of Domain Name News Frank Michlick discusses the Participation Age and open source based development.