Open Roll with Jurgen Rudolph - the weekly podcast for the Business Artist

Today’s guest is Jim DeLuca.  Why did Jim create “Digital Road to a Sale”?  Was he more afraid of change or redundancy?  He decided to change rather than become redundant. Historically, car dealers had the advantage of holding information over clients – with the internet this changed.  The automotive industry needs to move from a…

Our guests today are Chris and Kristian from The Art of the Fail podcast. What was the inspiration?  Startups in Canada was created as a resource – to be a hub for Canadian businesses.  Chris was drawn to Kristian’s idea after being inspired by a recent trip to Silicon Valley.  They started talking about what…

Today we are joining Dan Holstein in his Rev Up Your Business YouTube series. Jurgen shares his story of how he got started in Financial Planning and the podcast.  Many times in your journey you will probably ask yourself “why do you do this?”.  You learn over the years, as an entrepreneur, the value you…

This week we are talking about CRMs or customer relationship management software.  We recently purchased a subscription to a CRM program. Many times we are faced with projects, when will we see the completion of the project; helps identify who the contact and organization is; and track the project from start to completion. The CRM…

Janelle, from Helping Hands app, is our guest today.  Janelle was recently mentoring at Girl Geeks Toronto. Highschool students, in Ontario, are required to complete 40 hours of volunteer work over the course of their high school careers (4 years).  In taking the time to speak with students, it isn’t that they don’t want to…

Our guest today is Krista Wright of Recruiting Concepts.   What value does a recruiter bring?  Krista’s aim is always to protect her clients.  She helps her clients take a more meticulous approach then the end result is a long lasting fit, a good fit for the company’s personality.  What is the candidate experience?  There is…

Mike Ulmer is our returning guest today.  Mike is putting together a podcast called RadioU – it is a network, a collection of voices, that speak about amazing things and fantastic stories. We have had a few guests on our podcast who have gone on to have their own podcasts.  Mike after being on the…

Today, Harrison (Westdale 3D Printing) drops by to chat with us about decentralizing, bitcoin, and 3D printing.  The psychology of investing – hindsight is always 20/20. Initially, upon hearing about bitcoin, people were naturally skeptical about it.  We aren’t open to new currencies or new ways of thinking.  How do we recognize something as currency.…

Our guest today is Tim Miron.  Tim is a partner at an accounting firm, Beckett, Lowden, Read, and a past guest. There are a lot of changes being proposed for taxes for Canadians.  Life and taxes are not fair.  There are tax credits for adopting a child for example, but not everybody gets that tax…

Our guest today is Dan Sullivan of Strategic Coach. Dan is a “news junkie”, he uses aggregation sites online to read 10 to 15 articles that he finds interesting.  Mainstream media is getting more extreme.  Their backstage meetings show that their audience is dropping, the entire mainstream media is in a state of panic, there…