Built to Stay

Are you designing with your customers in mind? Our guest today is Christian Freissler, who has designed in just about every category, from airplane cabins to Apple accessories. Christian has 14 patents and counting, including one for manufacturing gelatin food products. His latest venture is Evolve Collaborative, a Portland-based insight, design and innovation agency that strives to solve complex problems through design. Today he walks us through the Attract, Engage, Extend model that you can apply to your brand, product, or service. For show notes and a downloadable piece on Attract, Engage, Extend, visit Builttostay.com @builttostay.

Financing your business can be a long and complicated process. Today we'll hear from Joe Camberato, the co-founder and president of National Business Capital and Services. He and his team have secured over $1 billion in funding for small businesses. Listen to how Joe built National to stay by helping fund thousands of other businesses. Visit builttostay.com for our downloadable guide on alternative lending.

@builttostay

Who among us hasn't dreamed of opening up a restaurant?! They're one of the top 5 most common small businesses, but that doesn't make them any easier to open. Bethany Teeples started selling delicious, liege waffles with her husband at a local farmer’s market. 10 years later, Waffled has a brick and mortar location and a thriving catering business. Listen to hear how Bethany is building Waffled to stay.

@builttostay

Visit builttostay.com for show notes and a downloadable piece "How to Manage and Motivate Teenage Employees"

Imagine you’re two years out of high school and you have $8 million in the bank from your first round of funding. Sounds like a Silicon Valley dream, right? Today we’re talking with Sahil Lavingia, the creator of eCommerce platform Gumroad. Sahil was the second employee at Pinterest, but he left his position there, unvested stock and all, to start Gumroad. His story is nothing short of incredible and we love the long-term, level-headed perspective Sahil is using to build Gumroad to stay.

Show notes at builttostay.com

Six years ago Scott Paul and his business partner, Nykelle Schlofman, stumbled upon influencer marketing. Together they built Instafluence, one of the first and largest networks of influencers. They worked with brands like Subaru and iTunes to harness the power of influencer marketing. In 2015, Instafluence was acquired by Disney and Scott went on to create Wooly, the antithesis SAS. In this episode, Scott and Bart discuss his journey to Wooly and the different techniques for companies of all sizes to use influencer marketing.

Find the show notes and downloadable content at builttostay.com

Is there a formula to becoming a successful entrepreneur, or is it all just luck of the draw? Bart Bradshaw tackles the philosophical questions behind success with serial entrepreneur James Munnerlyn. James shares his top 3 tips for reaching success for a new company and a growing company. Spoiler alert: you might need to sacrifice short term success for long term success!

Find downloadable content and show notes at builttostay.com

Pat Flynn is a professional blogger, keynote speaker, Wall Street Journal bestselling author, and host of the Smart Passive Income and AskPat podcasts. Pat is also no stranger to failure. 

In this episode, Bart and Pat discuss how you can use failure as a stepping stone on the way to success.

@builttostay

Wake up from the snoozefest of business content and listen to Built to Stay, a podcast dedicated to sticking, staying, and succeeding in business. Each episode is designed to highlight key ways you can build your company for long-term success using exclusive interviews with thought leaders, business owners and experts in their fields.

Hosted by Bart Bradshaw. Learn more at www.builttostay.com @builttostay