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Sketchy Ideas
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Sketchy Ideas episodes
- Episode 95: Make Meetings Matter - How to Fill your Day with Productive Collaboration and Fewer Naps
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29 min - 33 min
- Episode 93: No More Bad Meetings - Find more time and get more done, by design
Sketchy Ideas Episode 93 Show Notes
:10 Intro
- Producer panicking
- Sponsors
- Cream City Marketing
- www.creamcitymarketing.com/
- Spearity and the Idea Collective
- WASC leadership camp
5:00 How to avoid bad meetings
- Don’t get together just to get together
- Have intentions for said meeting
- Have a plan
- Why are we meeting
- What is the context
- What needs to be discussed/decided
- What is our next steps
13:30 One-pager
- Make an agenda
- One page - NO MORE
- Past 5 bullet points need to be prioritized
20:00 How to stay useful in meetings
- Create buffers for yourself
- Roberts’s rule of order
- Present meetings differently.
32:00 Wrap up
- Next week: find out
Send questions to [email protected]
35 min - Episode 92: I’m Back, Now What? -– Maximizing the post-retreat glow
Sketchy Ideas Episode 92 Show Notes
:10 Intro
- Producer panicking
- Sponsors
- Cream City Marketing
- www.creamcitymarketing.com/
- Spearity and the Idea Collective
2:30 Retreat recap
- Idea collective
- Savannah Bananas baseball game
- Connect with others weather business related or not
- Recognize the burn out and take the trip
- Goals made on trip
- The future of Sketchy Ideas
- Guest lists
- Future topics
12:30 Glow
- Goals going in
- Low hanging fruit
- Overview/summary
- Work the plan
21:30 Words to work in
- Each week Brad and Michael will be given a word that they have to work in to the sho that week
- Value of a scoreboard
22:00 Planing
- Have a plan or you will make an excuse to not work
- Don't have meetings that are pointless
26:00 Brad is a doer - what are you?
- Don't let your schedule overload and overwhelm you
- Make it productive with structure
32:00 Wrap up
- Next week: find out
Send questions to [email protected]
34 min - 34 min
- Episode 90: When the ship pulls a 180...
Sketchy Ideas Episode 90 Show Notes
:10 Intro
- Sponsors
- Cream City Marketing
- www.creamcitymarketing.com/
- Spearity
2:30 New changes
- Episode 100 coming, 90th today
- At 100, we get ‘cool’
03:00 When the ship turns a 180
- When big things happen and they affect us little guys
- As a small business owner you should pay attention to the world - both big and small episodes
- Some people pay to much attention to noise
- They fall down a rabbit hole
- If you choose to be a business owner you think are a leader
- Not always because you need to pay attention to the things happening in the world
6:00 Twitter has been bought - Elon Musk
- What does this mean
- Be the rock for your tribe
- Whatever that looks like and be the rational thinker
- Don't go done the irrational thinker rabbit hole
10:00 Don't be afraid to say “I dont know”
- Things can feel like noise if it doesn't pertain to you.
- How to pay attention:
- Prioritize time
- Limit time
- Open up
- Practice filtering the difference
- What is the motivation of the source
20:00 Show empathy and opportunity
- Clubhouse
- House
- Pay attention and learn new things
- Detox from scrolling
- Not trolling and re-sharing things that are irrelevant
- Dont focus all on twitter or you will miss out on other things happening
25:00 Don't be do gunhoe
- You have to open the tunnel vision or you will be blindsided
- Build your own thoughts
- Don't get overwhelmed and stuck in the noise
32:00 Wrap up
Admin’s day, shout out to Nichole,Katelynn, Amanda
- Next week: Road trips and retreats. Fires. Let them burn for your mental state
- Send questions to [email protected]
35 min - Episode 89: Split Offers - How to part the sales sea
Sketchy Ideas Episode 89 Show Notes
:10 Intro
- Sponsors
- Cream City Marketing
- www.creamcitymarketing.com/
- Spearity
3:00 Sales Life
- Is it an epic adventure
- Real growing business and problems
- Sketchy Ideas Real people with real problems - Michael
08:00 Splintering your offering
- Offer stack
- Physical goods
- Complex items
- Everything has values
- Michaels sales process
- Phase contractings
- Extra sketchy not etchy sketchy - Brad
13:00 When you find out your good, you say yes
- Find your niche
- Results that are measurable
- Take one item and break it down
- Physical deliveries
- Time
- Result driven item/service
20:00 Grocery list
- Lay it all out as a grocery list
- Example from Beepods
- Don't leave money on the table, don't trade time for money
- “The complete system” you know it going to work
30:00 fake it to you make it
- Figuring it out as you go
- Brad offers an hour of his time at [email protected]
36:00 Wrap up
- Next week: find out
Send questions to [email protected]
37 min - Episode 88: What's It Worth To You - How To Calculate The True Value Of a Project
Sketchy Ideas Episode 88 Show Notes
:10 Intro
- Meet Evan
- Sponsors
- Cream City Marketing
- www.creamcitymarketing.com/
- Spearity
2:00 calculating the true value of a project
- Lets build it as we go
- To much or to little value
- Provide more value
- What are things worth to you..thats your value
- How do you even price
08:00 What did you drawl
- Its an iceberg
- Consultant vs contractor pricing
13:00 Ttwwadi
- Don't keep buying bandaids, just because
- Don't undervalue yourself
- What would you pay yourself for doing X
18:00 Connect those dots
- You're being paid mostly for your brain rather than the work
20:00 Treasure
- The deeper you go, the more credible you are
- The more they will pay you
- Happy wife, happy life
- Multiplier effect
- Find the different multiplier effect for yur clients
25:00 Layers of the iceberg
- Pain is the top
- Under the water is the root cause/need
- Bottom of iceberg is open to growth multiplier
30:00 Recap
- Out of the blue
- Call for guest
- Who wants to be a guest
38:00 Wrap up
- Next week; Spilt offers
Send questions to [email protected]
33 min - Rerun: Sketchy Ideas Episode 10: VUCA Deep Dive
0:57- Introduction
1:24 Topic intro: Good VUCA
Each part of VUCA is a function of something else, therefore they can be addressed, maybe even prevented
2:40 VUCA 2.0
Vison Understanding Courage Adaptability “In the face of volatility, what do we need to be ready for?” -M Consistency
7:00 Brad takes a shot at VUCA 2.0 (V)
“Vision is the guiding north star” -B “If you don’t have a vision, you don’t have a direction. If you don’t have a direction, you probably have VUCA” -B
8:06 Law of leadership (U)
First understand, then be understood Understand first to get a baseline picture of what is going on “Take care of yourself, but not at the expense of other’s health or wellbeing” -B
10:57 (C)
A sign of courage is making a decision “People often fall into indecision because it’s safe” -B In the long run, indecisiveness does more harm than good Make a choice, stick to that path, learn from it “Courage shows the willingness to be wrong” -B “We’re not retreating, we’re advancing in another direction” -M Pause, reevaluate, make the best choice to move forward Most people think of a plan and only focus on the end goal, when there are plenty of steps along the way.
17:30 (A)
In the words of Eagle Scout Brad James: Improvise Adapt Overcome “The opposite of adaptability is rigidity” -M “There’s always room for improvement” -B
19:43 TTWWADI
That’s the way we’ve always done it If the answer to why something is being done in a particular way is TTWWADI, then we have a problem. TTWWADI is a red flag Dig deeper “60% of small businesses aren’t on the internet” -B Correction: 46% of U.S. small businesses still don’t have a website for their company 59% if you consider most major countries Positive note that there are plenty of business to help market The negative note is that these businesses are getting far less traffic What is stopping you from adapting and getting your business online? SALES is HARD “Change or die” -M In regards to businesses “We are living in a world that Darwin would be proud of” -B
28:10 COVID
Relationships are either going to get stronger or weaker at home during covid More time together Advertisers are spending more on dating apps since they are getting more traffic during the pandemic
29:15 Startups
Hope to get bought out because they never know if they’ll make it Technological advancement/acceleration
30:00 Moore’s Law
Advancement of technology and computing power “Now is a good time to sell your house as long as you don’t need to move into a different one” -M
33:10 Good VUCA
Mixture of a strategic plan Low-level skills A way to counteract the bad VUCA Have your playbook! How will you adjust and prepare If, then map
35:30 Ending remarks/closeout
39 min - Episode 87: The risk of assumption
Sketchy Ideas Episode 87 Show Notes
:10 Intro
- Meet Evan
- Sponsors
- Cream City Marketing
- www.creamcitymarketing.com/
- Idea Collective
2:30 Last day of Quarter
- Counting down to episode 100
04:00 Assumptions
- Most people make assumptions
- Poor Ume
- Askew
07:00 Personal example
- Brad - In the event space especially, you often assume you will get the same work
- That is your brain making an assumption on past events - before the dotted line is signed
- Michael - made assumptions about previous workplaces when making a scope of work
11:00 assumption vs intuition
- The assumption is without proof
14:00 TTwwadi
- That’s the way we have always done it
- We don’t know anymore that’s why we do it
- Monkeys in the shower
- Don’t climb the ladder
20:00 Challenging the norm
- A Square is a square and a rectangle is a rectangle
- Common sense is a myth
- But not the easter bunny
- Don’t bang your head on a brick wall
25:00 Logic does exist
- You cant assume people know
- You have to let people ask questions
38:00 Recap
30:00 Wrap up
- Next week; turn them into production action to move forward
Send questions to [email protected]
31 min
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Sketchy Ideas is a video podcast where Michael and Brad illustrate and debate concepts surrounding leadership, business, and personal achievement in a way that'll make you think twice before you…
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