Enterprise Podcast Network

Ron Samuelson, CEO at Samuelson’s Diamonds & Estate Buyers: Diamond and Estate Jewelry Experts and Appraisers joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Ron Samuelson discuss the following:

* Talk about the service you provide what what makes it unique and different?
* What brought you into the jewelry business?
* What are the most valuable estate jewelry items?
* What are common misconceptions from the public on what they think the value of their jewelry is?
* What’s the most rewarding part of your job?

Right place, right time is the best way to describe Ron Samuelson’s experience in the diamond trade. Although he stepped right into a leadership position in his family’s 90-year-old diamond business, the fact that he did this in the early 90’s, just as the internet was emerging, offered him a unique opportunity. He immediately saw the power of online marketing as a way of helping him elevate his game and become a powerful force in the diamond landscape.

Ron launched Samuelson’s Buyers in 2010 which offers unique jewelry buying offices in high-end shopping districts in the Washington DC/Baltimore area.

He has been featured in Baltimore Magazine’s 40 under 40, The Baltimore Sun and profiled in the Wall Street Journal. Ron has been a speaker at various jewelry trade shows and is also frequently called upon to give his insight on the diamond market. He has been trained by GIA in diamonds and diamond grading.

Ron‘s hobbies include seeing live music and playing guitar. A graduate of Emory University in Atlanta, he currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Dr. Michael Feinglass Cancer Foundation and lives in Maryland with his wife and two children.

Websites: samuelsonsbuyers.com | baltimorediamonds.com

Social Media Links:
Twitter: @samuelsonsrocks
Facebook: facebook.com/baltimorediamonds
Facebook: facebook.com/samuelsonsbuyers

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David Pagotto, the Founder and Managing Director of SIXGUN, a digital marketing agency based in Melbourne, Australia joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest David Pagotto discuss the following:

* So tell us about what you do for your clients?* Why did you start the agency?* Do you have any interesting company wide initiatives?* What’s the biggest challenge your client’s face?* What is usually the best strategy for your clients? SEO, Google Ads, Paid Social, Email?* What advice would you give to our audience if they are considering a digital marketing agency?

David Pagotto is the Founder and Managing Director of SIXGUN. He has been involved in digital marketing for over 10 years, helping organisations get more customers, more reach, and more impact.

Consulting with some of Australia’s biggest brands, David and the SIXGUN team have a knack for developing creative solutions to complex problems.

SIXGUN focuses on scaling organisational growth and building sustainable results for the long-term, with a data-driven approach to developing strategy. As a Melbourne based digital marketing agency, SIXGUN focuses on the following core areas:

– Search Engine Optimisation
– Search Engine Marketing
– Social Media Marketing

David and the experienced team at SIXGUN are passionate about seeing organisations grow while working on their mission to support meaningful causes.

Website: https://sixgun.com.au

Social Media Links:
Twitter: @sixgunagency | @davidpagotto
Facebook: facebook.com/sixgunagency
Linkedin: linkedin.com/company/sixgun

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Stephen Amendt, Sr. Manager of Digital Operations at El Clasificado, a Hispanic multimedia company dedicated to helping connect advertisers with Hispanic buyers joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Stephen Amendt discuss the following:

* What are the biggest advantages that you see in advertising towards the Hispanic market?* What’s driving the greatest response to advertising towards Latinos in the United States* What challenges do you see companies struggling with in their Hispanic marketing?* How do you suggest companies overcome these struggles?* Are there any other channels that you’re seeing as working well in reaching US Hispanics?

Stephen Amendt is the Sr. Manager of Digital Operations for EC Hispanic Media and the Brand Manager for the largest Spanish-language classified site in the United States, elclasificado.com. His experience and abilities in SEO, SEM, email, and social media marketing have helped connect millions of Hispanic shoppers with advertisers offering their products in services ranging cars for sale to apartments for rent as well as employment opportunities to home and automotive services.

In addition, he also works with the company’s agency side services, using his experience in optimization and data analysis to ensure that companies ranging from small businesses to enterprises are seeing increased leads and sales coming from their online marketing campaigns at the most optimized cost per conversion.

Website: https://elclasificado.com

Social Media Links:
Facebook: facebook.com/ElClasificado
Twitter: @ElClasificado

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Bunny Young is a quitter. She quit making her bosses millions and now dedicates all that knowledge and passion for supporting business owners into making money to make a difference and joins Enterprise Radio to talk about it.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Bunny Young discuss the following:

* How did you get the courage up to quit?* How do you only work 18 hours?* What is most important to the success of a business?* How many businesses do you run? Why so many?* Tell us about a failure you have had.* What is your 1 rescue remedy for overwhelm?

Bunny Young noticed that no matter how good she was at her job, it only made her bosses richer. So she quit. She had a Master’s degree, a service dog, and an incredible talent at making businesses more money.

Rather than going back to counseling people who like her, despised their jobs, she founded A Better Place Consulting to change the companies rather than the people. What else could she do with a background in counseling and being a third generation entrepreneur?

Her direct feedback process and strategic planning sessions have changed cultures of organizations nationwide resulting in employee retention and spikes in productivity and morale.

She is a speaker, coach, strategist, facilitator, Army wife, and mother to one crazy 7 year old and one fat baby. Most of all she is glad that you are here helping her make the world A Better Place.

Website: abetterplaceconsulting.com

Social Media Links:
Facebook: facebook.com/abetterplaceconsulting
Twitter: @Bunnyhas6legs

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Davis Siksnans, CEO and Co-founder of Printful that offers custom prints on demand, warehousing and fulfillment for e-commerce and is one of the largest print on demand companies in the world joins eCommerce Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Davis Siksnans discuss the following:

* Where did the idea of Printful come from?* Printful works with many different e-commerce platforms such as, Shopify, eBay, ETSY and more. This is your secret sauce, why is that?* How does Printful work? Can anyone use it?* Does Printful allow you to be your own entrepreneur too?* What makes Printful unique to other Print on Demand companies?* What has been you biggest challenge as an entrepreneur?

Davis’s obsession with tech began when he saved enough money to buy his first Macbook at age 13. A few years later began his career working in IT and project management at Draugiem Group, one of Latvia’s pioneering tech companies. He’s now the CEO of Printful, and he’s passionate about ecommerce and being part of the industry’s growth.

Website: www.printful.com

Social Media Links:
Instagram: instagram.com/printfulhq
Facebook: facebook.com/printful
Twitter: @printful

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Brigitte Foulke, owner of Amazing Global Travel, a travel company that offers customized trips and tours to Middle Eastern countries such as Egypt and Dubai, among others joins Enterprise Radio.

This episode of Enterprise Radio is working in association with the Author Channel.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Brigitte Foulke discuss the following:

* Your book, “The Tour Guide Intrigue on the Nile” is based on your true story. Why did you write this book?* Has this been a catharsis exercise or has it been heartbreaking to relive these incidents?* Why do you think Abdul had such a hold on you?* What do you hope to accomplish by writing this book?* What has been the most frustrating element about this unresolved case?

Brita Vogt was born in Germany and came to the U.S. as a college student. She received her B.A. summa com laude in German and History from California State University. Vogt pursed a career in international business and held several executive corporate positions such as Director of International Business and Latin America Sales & Development. She traveled extensively and visited Egypt eight times.

After retiring Vogt started a travel and tour company, Amazing Global Travel, which offers customized trips and tours to Middle Eastern countries such as Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and Dubai. Vogt currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Websites: amazingglobaltravel.com |  egyptluxuryprivatetours.com

Social Media Links:

facebook.com/amazingglobaltravel | facebook.com/EgyptLuxuryPrivateTours

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Vicky Oliver, a leading career development expert and the multi-bestselling author of five books including Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots again joins Enterprise Radio.

This episode of Enterprise Radio is working in association with the Author Channel.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Vicky Oliver discuss the following:

* Tell our listening audience a bit more about yourself.* So, what are the keys for how companies should better engage workers in the big picture of each task or project?* Tell us what principles of common business decorum most apply to people in leadership roles?* Now here’s a topic that makes most people cringe. Tell us how micromanaging leads to costly employee disengagement?* What are the short- and long-term benefits of letting people fail?* So, what have you found to be the things that keep employees interested and concerned in their jobs? And are these things commonplace in today’s work world, or coveted by a few, select companies?* This is something I personally can’t stand. If people tell me they’re going to do something, I expect them to follow-through. So what are the expected business outcomes when leaders flounder on their position and not make good on their promises?* So this is something we talked about a few months ago on #WorkTrends. Empathy seems to be rather hot topic for people interested in workplace culture. So tell us why empathy should be considered a strength, not a weakness?* You talk about how leaders need to develop a reputation for reasonableness. What does that mean?

Vicky Oliver is a leading career development expert and the multi-bestselling author of five books, including Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots (Sourcebooks, 2008), 301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions (Sourcebooks 2005), named in the top 10 list of “Best Books for HR Interview Prep,” and 301 Smart Answers to Tough Business Etiquette Questions (Skyhorse 2010). She is a sought-after speaker and seminar presenter and a popular media source, having made over 901 appearances in broadcast, print and online outlets. For more information, visit vickyoliver.com.

Website: vickyoliver.com

Twitter: @vickyoliver

Toshoni Van Craen, the Strategy Manager at Kazidomi, a Belgian start-up specialized in healthy lifestyle products joins eCommerce Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Toshoni Van Craen discuss the following:

* Who or what is Kazidomi?* What would be the driver of this double digit growth?* I can imagine this double digit growth brings a lot of challenges with it, what would be the biggest challenges and how do you tackle these?* You’ve mentioned before that Kazidomi is really customer centric. How do you scale this customer centric support?* That all sounds like it’s an exiting story, how do you see the future for Kazidomi?

In this episode, we’ll be talking about Kazidomi, a Belgian start-up specialized in healthy lifestyle products. Thanks to its subscription-based business model, the e-commerce was able to attain double digit growth. Being digital natives, its young and dynamic team aspires to become the European go-to for online healthy grocery shopping. 

Two years later, since their launch in 2016, the results are impressive: Kazidomi is growing at a rapid rate. The healthy lifestyle company, that started off as a university dissertation project for the two young entrepreneurs Emna Everard and Alain Etienne, is today a developed start-up with great potential. 

A unique concept in Europe !  

Kazidomi is a company with a mission: to encourage people to adopt a healthy lifestyle. It aspires to do so by offering its range of healthy products at 20% to 50% cheaper than in retail for its subscribed members. Today, its happy subscribers even saved almost 1 million euros all together, compared to if they would have bought their products at the supermarket.  

Next to food, it offers a wide variety of hygiene, beauty, baby, home, health and other products. However, the young team at Kazidomi goes beyond just selling high quality products. It helps the customer at every step of the way to a healthier lifestyle, by providing inspiring articles, recipes, DIY tips, pictures and much more.  

Encouraging numbers 

With more than thousands of orders and hundreds of new subscribers on a monthly basis, the start-up was able to exceed all investors’ expectations. 

Despite its high-quality standards for its product catalogue (each product is carefully selected and approved by a team of medical specialists and dietitians), the Kazidomi product offer increases weekly. Brands are now getting in line, trying to mark their spot on the trusted platform.

The website started out with 350 products that pay attention to specific diet requirements (gluten free, lactose free, organic, vegan, without added sugar, etc), but has now reached 6 times that amount with no plans to stop this expansion in the future.

To be ensured of the best quality at the lowest price, the two founders developed their own brand with more than a hundred references in the catalogue.  

Team of digital natives 

To founder Emna Everard, customer happiness is key. As a response to the expansion and to maintain its high customer experience standards,

Dan Barry, Founder of Marc Skid, LLC, a cheeky, eco-friendly underwear brand owner with a passion for giving back joins eCommerce Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Dan Barry discuss the following:

* What is the inspiration behind Marc Skid?* What sets your product apart from the rest of the underwear industry?* How many months/years of prep and work went into the brand before the launch?* What advice would you give to aspiring social entrepreneurs what want to start a social impact brand?* Tell us about the cheeky name?* Why should people choose Marc Skid?

Dan Barry, founder of Marc Skid, LLC, a cheeky, eco-friendly underwear brand owner with a passion for giving back. Made with the finest cotton, Organic Pima, and with a recycled water bottle in each waistband, Marc Skid underwear is dedicated to the betterment of the world and its people.

The mission of the brand is to allow people to Make Their Marc on the World by donating four dollars per pair to 4-Star Charities dedicated to saving, feeding, and curing the world.

Website: marcskid.com

Social Media Links:
Facebook: facebook.com/MarcSkidCo
Twitter: @marcskid
Instagram: @marcskid

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Jack Parmer, the CEO and Co-Founder of Plotly that empowers you with the tools you need to bring your data to life joins Enterprise Radio.

This episode of Enterprise Radio is working in association with the Technology Channel.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Jack Parmer discuss the following:

* As we said earlier, Plotly empowers people with tools that bring their data to life. Talk about some of those tools and who benefits most from them.* Plotly has a world-wide developer community. How has an open-source mission driven the adoption of Plotly’s open-source and commercial products?* What is innovative about Plotly’s data visualization tools and how is that innovation based in open-source software?* How does having a wide open-source developer community make Plotly products more reliable?* For those who are less familiar with how an open-source business model can also be profitable, can you elaborate?* What on piece of advice would you give to entrepreneurs considering building a business with open-source values?

Jack Parmer is CEO and co-founder of Plotly Technologies Inc. Prior to Plotly, Jack lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and was an early employee at several start-ups spun out of MIT and Stanford University. Jack published his first peer-reviewed physics paper at age 21 and received his BS in Engineering Physics from Stanford University.

Website: https://plot.ly

Social Media Links:
Instagram: @plotly
Facebook: facebook.com/Plotly
Twitter: @plotlygraphs

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