Entrepreneur Mike McCann from VennScience joins Salina and I to talk about his first year in business and shares his secrets to launching a successful start up. I share my experience with VennScience having used them to implement and launch SalesForce. We learn what Mike's plans for his second year, which include expanding into new office space and adding the development of a SalesForce application to the companies portfolio.

Dana brings some cool cool tools. One is so cool Brigs leaves the microphones to Tweet it to her friends. One is a new Whitepages feature that's going to make trip planning a snap. Oh, and what browser are you reading this on? What version? Listen to the show and we'll let you how to find out.

The Cool Tools:

Whitepages

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Co-host Erik from PixelMedia bring is Tyler McGill to talk about turning passion and lifestyle into business. Tyler talks about working through the hard beginning of open a business and the rewards of sicking with it. Erik and TJ dig into how Tyler and his brother went from opening a humble surf shop to being woven into the fabric of the community and the seacoast lifestyle.  Humble, proud and community driven, Tyler tell us how he and his brother integrated lessons from their retail entrepreneur mother to create a great business and a lifestyle with Summer Sessions.

Salina and Mark start talking about a green screens at parties then introduce Tharon Cottrell of INHOUSE a development only company that provides development service to high end design firms. Tharon shares his unique story of how his business was started and his philosophy on sticking to a core competency . We then discuss his positive approach to management and how his employees are like family... he even admits to missing them when he travels.

Happy Birthday Mr. President! Mark is jointed by Briggs and Alli. We start the show wishing Doug Bates, president of the Portsmouth Area Chamber of Commerce a happy birthday. We talk about restaurant week which is in full swing Thursday discussing the marketing strategy and benefits to businesses. The subjects of survey comes up and we debate best practices, how they can be beneficial and miss lead, which brings us to the importance of A/B Testing.

Erik and Mark start off talking about Peter's history in Portsmouth, his contribution to the economy and his success as an entrepreneur. Peter talks about sitting at a dinning room table in New York where the idea came to him and his sister to bring a microbrewery to the East Coast. We discuss the rich history of Beer in Portsmouth and the United States. Tom asks about the economics of brewing and marketing beer. Peter and Tom talk about he need for education about beer so that people can develop their pallets and have a vocabulary to discuss tastes like with wine. The show wraps up with Erik and Peter swamping stories from the past.

The Smuttynose Brewing co.

The Portsmouth Brewery

Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce Events Coordinator (Formally know as Intern 1 from Exeter,) Alli & Briggs (despite her sore throat) talk about taking the rest of the day off to drink Guinness at the Press Room. Alli introduce restaurant week and the amazing participation from Seacoast restaurants. We all talk about the incredible marketing potential for restaurants and the local economic stimulation behind effort like restaurant week.

Restaurant Week Portsmouth, NH & The Seacoast is April 3-12, 2014

For more information contact the Restaurant Week Portsmouth

Mark opens the show with the story of his co-host Salina not being able to start her car. Mark and Salina are joined by Pease Golf Course PGA Manager, Scott DeVito who talks about the course going public in the nineties and it being unique to the area now that they have added a second nine making a twenty-seven hole course. Mark coins the term party sunny with a slip up reading the weather. The show continues talking about the virtual golf in Grill 28 and ends with a great golf cart mischief story from Scott.

Dana, Ann and Mark start by discussing how nice it is to have the kids back in school but how weird it was to not have back-to-school delayed by snow. Katie Sweet joins in for Dana's Cool Tools. We find out how to know what apps have access to: mypermissions.com and how to back up your photos to the cloud for free with Myshoebox. Katie talks about Seacoast Start Up Night. Brigg does a much better job on the community calendar that Mark did last week. Katie elaborates on the great speaker and sponsors for Start-up night and Dana talks about the resources that were valuable to him when he started up his company The Chameleon Group.

It's a fighting weekend: TJ starts off talking about his crazy weekend at the UFC 170 with Dana White and Ronda Rousey's first non-arm bar win. Mark talks about the BJJ seminar he attended at Fusion Training Academy in Exeter with Rodrigo Gracie. It turns business when TJ and Mark reminisce about the their collaborative event at Pixel Media's function room called The Hive. Mark and his boss Kathy Wahlbin gave a talk on digital accessibility. What's digital accessibility? Listen and find out. After Mark screws up the community calendar (can wait for Briggs to come back) they round out the show discussing the trend toward community based marketing and how it both harks back to old school human connections and feeds social media efforts.