Podcasts about small business war stories

Did Bill Murray really climb through the window of Willie Nelson's chapel during Luck Reunion? This is the 100th episode of Small Business War Stories, and this is the perfect way to celebrate, with an episode recorded at Willie Nelson's ranch Matt Bizer, Ellee Fletcher (Willie's grandniece) and I talked about the music business, Willie and his family, how artists make money in the 21st Century, and how Luck Reunion is creating a new kind of music and content company. We also talk about community and the role that music and podcasts have in bringing people together. Last but not least, we get all kinds of funny stories about the cool, inspiring, and bizarre things that have happened at Luck Reunion Thank you for listening to Small Business War Stories...here's to the next 100!

Today on Small Business War Stories we are joined by Caren Kelleher, owner of Gold Rush Vinyl in Austin, Texas.

http://www.thebjjmentalcoachpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/bjj_mental_podcast_EP21-01-2.jpg () Pablo is a purple belt in Jiu-Jitsu and is the Founder and CEO of Proven, a leading small business hiring platform and content hub. He also hosts Small Business War Stories, a weekly podcast where he interviews small business owners and operators. Pablo addressed some important points, like acknowledging the fear when fear shows up and self-responsibility in everything you do, and also he talked about how lonely the world of entrepreneurship can be, and how Mental Health issues have been on the rise everywhere. Check out my Final Thoughts from the interview at [41:24] where I share my takeaways and teach personal development. Subscribe to http://www.thebjjmentalcoachpodcast.com (www.thebjjmentalcoachpodcast.com) and receive for FREE the e-book version of my book “Launching your BJJ Competition Journey after 30” 10 Steps to maximize your tournament experience. It's also available on amazon.com for $14.95 and you can get for free when you subscribe to our website. Subscribe, rate and review the podcast! I would love to hear your feedback about the show, you can reach me at info@thebjjmentalcoach.com Enjoy the podcast! OSS! Gustavo Dantas The BJJ Mental Coach Podcast Website – https://tinyurl.com/ya5opc3c (https://tinyurl.com/ya5opc3c) Itunes – https://tinyurl.com/ychzx6as (https://tinyurl.com/ychzx6as) Stitcher – https://tinyurl.com/y7kksg8o (https://tinyurl.com/y7kksg8o) Google Play – https://tinyurl.com/y74bvyzj (https://tinyurl.com/y74bvyzj) ********************* Pablo Fuentes Small Business War Stories Podcast – https://blog.proven.com/author/pablo-fuentes (https://blog.proven.com/author/pablo-fuentes) Proven – http://www.proven.com (www.proven.com)

Today on Small Business War Stories we are joined by Trey Ramirez, co-founder of Spokesman Coffee, a cafe by day and a bar by night, in Austin Texas.

Today on Small Business War Stories we are joined by Allyson Garro of Coco Coquette, a wig and makeup shop in Austin, Texas.

On this episode of Small Business War Stories, we are joined by Peter Sveen, founder of DIY Pete. His company creates content that helps others get inspired and learn to build projects.

On this episode of Small Business War Stories, we are joined by Ashley Arabian, founder of Wanderer, a boutique and apothecary originally based out of in Taos, New Mexico. Ashley describes Wanderer as a boutique for the free-spirited woman, carrying jewelry, handbags, candles, trendy bohemian clothing, and more.

On this episode of Small Business War Stories, we are joined by Dan Grissom of Biscuit Press, a company he started to become a full-time freelance illustrator and screen printer.

On this episode of Small Business War Stories, we are joined by Beau Hightower of Elite-OSM, a result driven clinic that is passionate about patient care.

Mark and Mat break it down once again with some valuable tax and legal tips, plus an exclusive look at the best new mobile applications for business owners. Mat and Mark bring in two amazing guests Pablo Fuentes host of the Small Business War Stories podcast and CEO and founder of Proven.com. Also, they will be having special guest, Tyler Thompson from Deductr to talk about the Mark Kohler App for small business owners.  Both will share their game-changing small business apps for 2018. But don't worry this isn't just limited to small business owners! The show hyper-focuses on the content within these apps and how they can help each business owner in their own particular way. So pull out your notepad, pen, and a big bowl of popcorn and take notes on these amazing tips so you can achieve the American dream.

Mark and Mat break it down once again with some valuable tax and legal tips, plus an exclusive look at the best new mobile applications for business owners. Mat and Mark bring in two amazing guests Pablo Fuentes host of the Small Business War Stories podcast and CEO and founder of Proven.com. Also, they will be having special guest, Tyler Thompson from Deductr to talk about the Mark Kohler App for small business owners.  Both will share their game-changing small business apps for 2018. But don't worry this isn't just limited to small business owners! The show hyper-focuses on the content within these apps and how they can help each business owner in their own particular way. So pull out your notepad, pen, and a big bowl of popcorn and take notes on these amazing tips so you can achieve the American dream.

Tom and Carrie Dragt have been collectors of vintage pieces since they were kids. Opportunity struck when an old clothing store went out of business and Tom and Carrie bought some of their old inventory. This led them to focus on vintage clothing. They began selling out of their house and doing online sales, then moved to a store three years ago. They find pieces through traveling and utilize Instagram to show off their recent finds. Tom and Carrie started Old Colorado Vintage, a store that brings together vintage clothing and articles. This week on Small Business War Stories, Tom and Carrie join us from Durango, Colorado.

Josh Harcus, chairman at Huify and bestselling author of A Closing Culture, joins us this week four our inaugural Flash Episode of Small Business War Stories.  This week, we discuss the art of business gifting, the best tactics and the perfect timing to gift your customers.  Josh Harcus instructs us on how to gift thoughtfully and authentically to grow your business relationships.  Three reasons to tune in this week: How to give gifts that are thoughtful, lasting, and that people might not typically buy for themselves.  How to think of the long-term value of a customer gift.  Enter our contest to win a $100 "gifting" gift certificate to the best gift submission idea. 

In this episode with guest, Pablo Fuentes we discuss how success starts with discipline, how to use your team to get inspiration for writing a good job post, the elements of a perfect job post, common mistakes to avoid when writing a job post and ultimately, how to write job posts that convert. Be sure to join us for the LIVE webinar on November 6th!  Pablo is the Founder and CEO of Proven, a software company that helps small businesses hire.  He is also the host and producer of Small Business War Stories, a podcast where he drives thousands of miles around the country interviewing small business owners and operators and learning about their stories. Today Pablo is here to cover elements of a perfect job post and he'll also share some of the most common mistakes.

Topic:  A Tech Entrepreneur’s Small Business War Story Joining me today is Pablo Fuentes. Pablo started his company Proven.com when he was in business school at Stanford in 2009. He tried eight different business models before finding growth and profitability as a small business hiring software tool. He is the host of Small Business War Stories [...] The post [Ep #212] A Tech Entrepreneur’s Small Business War Story appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.

CD and digital sales are declining as music lovers turn to streaming services like Pandora and Spotify, yet vinyl records sales have grown 260% since 2009. We are in the midst of a vinyl revival. Third Man Records, a record label founded by musician Jack White, has been on the ground floor of this renewed interest in vinyl.  Vinyl, more than any other medium, has a timeless appeal, it's tactile. Ben Blackwell of Third Man Records, says that people have a strong connection to what vinyl means in their lives, it's a lifestyle.  To help us dig further into why people have started buying vinyl again, the background of Third Man Records, we spoke with Ben Blackwell, who shared some amazing stories in today's edition of Small Business War Stories.

Small businesses can give a lot to a community and in turn, those communities help support those businesses. Community involvement helps further distinguish your business from competitors and helps create customer loyalty. At Mother's Brewing Company in Springfield, Missouri, owner and operator Jeff Schrag sees it as their responsibility to the community to help local non-profits move further with their missions. By donating free beer to various fundraising events and charities, Mother's has established itself as a community-minded brewery. They hate to say no to anyone and this unique perspective paired with a fantastic product has helped Mother's establish itself as a must-visit location for beer lovers. Today, we are happy to share with you our interview with Jeff Schrag of Mother's Brewing Company's as the latest episode of Small Business War Stories.

Many of us dream of ditching our desk jobs in favor of a workshop. Working with our hands, crafting something out of wood or some other material. Something physical, something real. Seth Lee Jones worked at Whole Foods for 6 years while on the side building up his business as a guitar maker. Eventually he had to leave his day job because he had enough people beating down his door with requests for guitar work. He now builds builds 25 to 30 custom instruments a year and a handful of acoustic guitars. The journey to becoming a full time luthier or guitar maker, is not an easy one. Today, we are happy to share with you Seth Lee Jones's story as the latest episode of Small Business War Stories.

There's something special about vinyl records. The feel, smell, look and sound all seem richer and more authentic than digital music. In 2016, stores sold 13 million records, the highest volume of vinyl sales in the past three decades. We are in the midst of a vinyl revival. Vinyl record pressing companies can barely keep up with the demand. Most pressing companies are relying on restored equipment from the 70s and 80s, which is slow and error prone. However, Hand Drawn Records is modernizing this process. They are using the first pieces of modern technology designed for record pressing. Their presses are controlled by computers, reducing error rate and speeding up the pressing process 3x.  Today, on Small Business War Stories, we are joined by John Snodgrass from Hand Drawn Records to discuss how they are revolutionizing the vinyl pressing industry.

Brand marketing and storytelling are essential components to creating a great company brand that will grab people's attention. With the growth and adoption of technology, we have more potential mediums than ever to reach people with our brands. However, the downside is there's a ton of competition and we really only have about 10 seconds to grab someone's attention. Our stories need to be concise. Effective storytelling is about staying out the way, being authentic, being patient and keeping it simple. Today, on Small Business War Stories, we talked with David Rice from Flow Nonfiction about how he helps big brands tell stories of their philanthropic work in a way that does not feel contrived.  

In 1985 David Williamson and his brother were struggling to make their used car sales business work. After failing to sell a 1947 Dodge pickup truck multiple times, even going as far as to offer it for as little as $300, they got the bright idea of trying to sell just parts from the truck. They listed an ad for truck parts in a motor news magazine, and what had been an impossible vehicle to sell, became a hot commodity. They ended up selling parts from that old truck for $3,000 and realized there was a lot of money in just selling parts. Those were the modest beginnings of CTC Auto Ranch; now they are one of largest classic car junkyards in the country. Starting with just 80 cars, they now have over 4,000 classic cars and sell parts all over the world. Today, on Small Business War Stories, we talked with David Williamson from CTC Auto Ranch about his start and success in the classic car junkyard business.

Lots of people dream of leaving their day job to turn their hobby into a full-time career. We spend much of our lives at work, so why not do something that we love? With families, mortgages and other bills and responsibilities to consider, it can be a very tough decision to make and one that perhaps is not realistic for everyone. Today, on Small Business War Stories, we talk with Celeste Austin of Savvyroot, who left her career in the dental industry after 8 years to start a designer handbag company.  She started the company as a side business after she taught herself to sew. She would work from 7 AM to 3 PM at her regular job and then work until 5am on her side business in order to fill orders. It's an incredible and inspiring story that takes a ton of guts to pull off, but in Celeste's own words, her original career "didn't give her life."

Let's face it. Small business hiring can be a real pain. As business owners, we have 500 things to do each day with only 24 hours available to get them done. Dealing with finding new employees can be a real drag on top of your regular work load. Small businesses often lack the bells and whistles available to larger entities. We can sometimes get ourselves into trouble with not having a standardized hiring process or not being well versed in HR law. To help sort out some of these issues, today on Small Business War Stories, we talk with HR extraordinaire Jessica Miller-Merrell of Workology. We discuss the bare minimum you should be doing to hire effectively as a small business owner, what pitfalls you should be aware of, hiring contractors versus full time and much much more.

Recently, there's also been a renewed interest and fascination with analog media. Young people are rediscovering vinyl records, cassette tapes, and even typewriters. But even outside of those interested in antiques and nostalgia of a past era, typewriters are still more widely used than you might think.  The New York Police Department still relies heavily on typewriters. There's also those of us that prefer the limits imposed by a typerwriter. You're not going to accidentally press a button and send a document to your entire company on a typewriter. No one can hack into your typewriter and steal your private information.  But typewriters are complex works of art and as such, they need maintenance and repair. Yet the number of people with the knowledge, skills and desire to fix these machines is rapidly dwindling. To dive deeper into the dying art of typerwriter repair, today, on Small Business War Stories, we talk with Steve Munoz from Duncan Munoz Business Machines, the last surviving typewriter repair person in Central Texas.

Let's face it: There are a ton of challenges with starting a business, especially if you have never done it before. That's why having a business parnter with complimentary skills can be so helpful. Someone to help you stay focused, bounce ideas off of and ultimately shoulder the load. However, what happens when that business parntership fails? Can you stay friends? How do you dissolve a business partnership peacefully? To explore these questions, we talked with Joe Mellin, who use to actually be my original business partner. We met each other when we were both grad students and then started a company together. That company would eventually become Proven. We broke up as co-founders a couple years after that. We are still friends to this day. On today's episode of Small Business War Stories, find out first hand how and why our business partnership came to an end and how we remained friends.  

For those of us that grew up in the 90s, it's hard to talk about making soap and not think about Brad Pitt's role as Tyler Durden in the movie Fight Club. However, that's the perfect setup for today's episode of Small Business War Stories. We talked with Chris Cabiya, of Zen Soap, who is also a practitioner of Jiu-Jitsu. Chris is now in his second year of operation as a small business owner.  Chris combines his passion for Jiu-Jitsu, a vegetarian diet, and his concern for the environment to create a high quality sustainable soap products. We talked to Chris about how he got into the soap making business, why sustainability is important to him, and what advice he has for anyone starting a new venture.

There's a growing demand for massage therapy as more and more of the general public have accepted that massages help improve overall health. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics the growth rate of massage therapist will be 19% through 2018. Although a tremendous amount of both classroom and real world training goes into become a licensed massage therapist, there is not a lot of training about how to start your own massage busines and how to make it a success.  Being a great therapist does not necessarily translate directly to being a great business owner. To help us dissect the ins and outs of starting a massage business, on today's episode of Small Business War Stories we talk with Kyra Gerhard of Mantis Massage.

Since the 1990s the music industry has changed dramatically. Free downloading services in the late 90s, like Napster, were considered a dangerous threat to the music business. In many ways, to survive, the music industry has had to reinvent itself. Services like Spotify and SoundCloud help people discover new music and helps unknown artists get their music heard. The Internet has also had a dramatic effect on the retail side of the business. Budding musicians can now turn to online sites to purchase musical instruments. With these rapid changes in the music business, how can a musical instrument store prosper? How can you make money as a performer in this new digital age? Ultimately, how you can make a living in the modern music business? In today’s episode of Small Business War Stories we tackle these challenging questions and more with Nick Boettcher from Austin Vintage Guitars and performer in band The Reverent Few.

Having brand recognition can be hugely powerful, but when reviving a once iconic name, it can actually be a challenge and uphill battle to change built-in perception. Antone's, a once famous blues club in Austin, Texas has gone through six different business iterations and was even closed for two years after being open every day for 38 years.  However, Antone's is once again becoming a destination location for visitors of Austin and a place many musicians desire to play.  In today's episode of Small Business War Stories, we walk with Will Bridges of Antone's about how they have been able to revive this amazing and iconic brand.

There are over 21 million college students in the U.S. Generation Y (or Millennials) is the largest consumer group in U.S. history. Despite the demographic's size, people often dismiss college students as not having money or they market to them like any other segment of the market. However, students spend up to $30 billion on college back-to-school purchasing alone. There are huge opportunities for entrepreneurs who know how to reach this generation. But how do you market to this young tech-savy generation that has grown up with smartphones and everything available on-demand? To answer this question, we talked with Dean Ginsberg, founder of two successful companies, BinStored and ShuttleHome, that market directly to college students. In today's episode of Small Business War Stories, we explore how to market to college students and much more with Dean Ginsberg.

Social entrepreneurship can be difficult to define. There are also many misconceptions when it comes to social enterprises.  People think that a company with a social mission can't be as successful as a purely for-profit business.  However, Andrew Horn, Founder of Tribute, a socially conscious company that helps people build video tributes for their friends and family, believes this is simply not true. He defines social entrepreneurship as a business with a dual or triple business goal, a balance between people, profit and the planet. A social entrepreneur strives to build businesses that are not only profitable, but have genuine impact on people's lives. In today's episode of Small Business War Stories, we explore this topic and more with Tribute CEO and founder Andrew Horn.

Want to know how to build an iconic brand with no paid advertising? Want to know what happens in the Carnival of Pizza? Curious as to which celebrity was caught in a compromising position in the Home Slice Pizza bathroom? This and more in the first episode of Small Business War Stories. Small Businesses are the Soul of America. This is where they tell their stories.