Snyder Showdown

Welcome back to the Snyder Showdown podcast. Host Chris Snyder is a passionate entrepreneur and digital marketer and loves taking businesses to the next level. He's the President and partner at Juhll.com, a full-service digital marketing agency aimed at delivering superior results to help clients achieve their business goals. Juhll offers its clients a full range of services, specializing in strategic digital paid media to acquire online customers and generate leads. If it's online and measurable, you can trust Juhll with it. He's also the founder, operator and investor in Banks.com, a financial online market place aimed to become everyone's trusted, go-to resource for all things financial on the web.

In this episode, Chris talks about the process by which ideas move from inception to execution. Ideas are a great starting point, but without proper planning and curation, they will never come to fruition. Not all ideas are great, as Chris points out in this episode. Some are unrealistic or do not align with your daily activities. Chris is a proponent of documenting and refining ideas in order to ensure that they align you're your vision. He uses the Snyder Showdown Podcast as an example to drive this point home. This show originally started as an idea that Chris had which he wrote down and refined before deciding to partner with Harry and his podcast production company, FullCast. By taking the time to find the right match, flesh out his idea and apply action, Chris was able to start a successful new show. Chris stresses the importance of putting forth effort in order to give life to ideas. If you are willing to put in the time and effort necessary, then your idea can morph into something brilliant.

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Welcome back to the Snyder Showdown podcast. Host Chris Snyder is a passionate entrepreneur and digital marketer and loves taking businesses to the next level. He's the President and partner at Juhll.com, a full-service digital marketing agency aimed at delivering superior results to help clients achieve their business goals. Juhll offers its clients a full range of services, specializing in strategic digital paid media to acquire online customers and generate leads. If it's online and measurable, you can trust Juhll with it. He's also the founder, operator and investor in Banks.com, a financial online market place aimed to become everyone's trusted, go-to resource for all things financial on the web.

In this episode, Chris covers the topic of planning and, more specifically, planning for the business year ahead. Chris gives a detailed breakdown of how he has evolved his own hiring process by moving from a skills-based binary evaluation to a more humanizing approach. It is Chris' goal to evaluate and identify hard-working, passionate employees whose choices are focused on innovation and how best to serve clients. Chris also talks about the ever-changing nature of business and how this affects his ability to plan. Chris and his team utilize technological tools such as BigTime, JIRA, Zoom and Slack to track their time, progress, and projects. Finally, Chris explains why his planning process is broken down into individual weeks, months and quarters.

To hear all past episodes visit: https://www.snydershowdown.com/

Welcome back to the Snyder Showdown podcast. Host Chris Snyder is a passionate entrepreneur and digital marketer and loves taking businesses to the next level. He's the President and partner at Juhll.com, a full-service digital marketing agency aimed at delivering superior results to help clients achieve their business goals. Juhll offers its clients a full range of services, specializing in strategic digital paid media to acquire online customers and generate leads. If it's online and measurable, you can trust Juhll with it. He's also the founder, operator and investor in Banks.com, a financial online market place aimed to become everyone's trusted, go-to resource for all things financial on the web.

In this episode, Chris discusses the necessary mindset behind being an entrepreneur and balancing the extreme highs and lows that come with it. As an entrepreneur, Chris has experienced his fair share of diverse problems. Confronting these problems with grit, tenacity and determination has been a key to Chris' success. He talks about the current job market and the importance of finding employees who have been battle-tested in their respective fields. Chris searches for those who have experienced both success and failure to show that they have been demonstrated that same grit and perseverance that he himself has harnessed. Finally, Chris talks about having his clients' best interests at heart in every aspect of his business.

To hear all past episodes visit: https://www.snydershowdown.com/

Welcome back to the Snyder Showdown podcast. Host Chris Snyder is a passionate entrepreneur and digital marketer and loves taking businesses to the next level. He's the President and partner at Juhll.com, a full-service digital marketing agency aimed at delivering superior results to help clients achieve their business goals. Juhll offers its clients a full range of services, specializing in strategic digital paid media to acquire online customers and generate leads. If it's online and measurable, you can trust Juhll with it. He's also the founder, operator and investor in Banks.com, a financial online market place aimed to become everyone's trusted, go-to resource for all things financial on the web.

In this episode, Chris discusses the benefits and trade-offs of operating a business with contracted offshore talent. As the world has shifted into a digital age of nonstop instant gratification, finding the right talent to fulfill business goals has become a challenge. One of the challenges Chris references is fielding a talented demand generation marketing team. A successful team includes paid search, paid social, email marketing, analytics, and dev members. Because demand gen is an ever-changing and evolving field, Chris has contracted much of this work from offshore teams. He talks about the importance of investing heavily in the vetting of these teams. Finally, Chris gives key pieces of advice for any business owner who chooses to operate the same way he has. These include establishing a system that focuses on problem-solving, building a proper project management structure, and being a great communicator.

To hear all past episodes visit: https://www.snydershowdown.com/

Welcome back to the Snyder Showdown podcast. Host Chris Snyder is a passionate entrepreneur and digital marketer and loves taking businesses to the next level. He's the President and partner at Juhll.com, a full-service digital marketing agency aimed at delivering superior results to help clients achieve their business goals. Juhll offers its clients a full range of services, specializing in strategic digital paid media to acquire online customers and generate leads. If it's online and measurable, you can trust Juhll with it. He's also the founder, operator and investor in Banks.com, a financial online market place aimed to become everyone's trusted, go-to resource for all things financial on the web.

In this episode, Chris discusses a new tool he's recently discovered that has been incredibly helpful and effective for him and his team. Chris begins by pointing out the issues he's experienced with project management. There's a gap in project management that continues to increase because every client, vendor and internal team has their own preference on which tools they use to carry out their daily objectives. To combat this, Chris discusses how a member of his team proactively installed a cost-effective JIRA Outlook Plugin that allows Chris for more flexibility in project management. With this new plugin, Chris now has the ability to create a new ticket or issue, monitor the progress of existing issues, and view issues that are currently in the pipeline. It's an incredible tool, and one that Chris suggests all companies utilize if they have the time and wherewithal.

To hear all past episodes visit: https://www.snydershowdown.com/

Welcome back to the Snyder Showdown podcast. Host Chris Snyder is a passionate entrepreneur and digital marketer and loves taking businesses to the next level. He's the President and partner at Juhll.com, a full-service digital marketing agency aimed at delivering superior results to help clients achieve their business goals. Juhll offers its clients a full range of services, specializing in strategic digital paid media to acquire online customers and generate leads. If it's online and measurable, you can trust Juhll with it. He's also the founder, operator and investor in Banks.com, a financial online market place aimed to become everyone's trusted, go-to resource for all things financial on the web.

In this episode, Chris talks about the importance of being honest and transparent about your mission as an entrepreneur. In Chris' experience, what has made him successful is his willingness to take risks, have a strong opinion, and do the hard work that nobody else is willing to do at a high level. As a founder, entrepreneur, business owner, it is imperative to surround yourself with employees who share that same mindset. Chris demands perfection from his employees and is unapologetic in that expectation. Being honest and working with a group of people that understand and share this common goal-oriented mentality is what helped Chris along his entrepreneurial path. Finally, Chris leaves the audience with some advice on self-reflection. He stresses to entrepreneurs the importance of knowing yourself, setting core values and being a badass in your field of expertise. Decide who you are and set a course for that path to success.

To hear all past episodes visit: https://www.snydershowdown.com/

Welcome back to the Snyder Showdown podcast. Host Chris Snyder is a passionate entrepreneur and digital marketer and loves taking businesses to the next level. He's the President and partner at Juhll.com, a full-service digital marketing agency aimed at delivering superior results to help clients achieve their business goals. Juhll offers its clients a full range of services, specializing in strategic digital paid media to acquire online customers and generate leads. If it's online and measurable, you can trust Juhll with it. He's also the founder, operator and investor in Banks.com, a financial online market place aimed to become everyone's trusted, go-to resource for all things financial on the web.

In this episode, Chris discusses the value he places on OKRs, objectives and key results. For Chris, if something is not measurable it is not worth the time and money to pursue. Chris talks about the various methods of measuring key results that he uses at Juhll, including systems like JIRA, Confluence, BigTime, Quick Books and Slack. These software systems are implemented with the sole purpose of tracking projects in order to remain as efficient as possible. Chris also speaks to how he has changed his company's policy on meetings. It is Chris' belief that meetings should be concise, straightforward and productive. Chris likes to put himself in his clients' shoes. In order to put client interests first, he expects his employees to work with a higher level of transparency, sophisticated planning and communication.

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In this episode, Chris continues telling the story of how he got involved in Banks.com. He takes a deep dive into the Fintech marketplace and explains its significance in the traditional financial services industry. Fintech is defined as new technology that seeks to improve and automate the delivery and use of financial services. Companies within this disruptor category include Credit Karma, Revolut and NerdWallet, among others. Chris breaks down the multiple sub-categories that make up the financial services category, including lending, crypto and block chain, personal finance, wealth management, capital markets, and insurance, to name a few. It is Chris' opinion that traditional banks are not innovating fast enough to keep up with consumer needs. Thus, companies such as Amazon are entering the space to take advantage of this oversight. In closing, Chris talks about the importance he places on doing the right thing and his hope that Banks.com can do right by their customers now and in the future.

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In this episode, Chris tells the story of how he got involved in Banks.com, a business venture he has been working on since 2006. Banks.com is a full service internet-based financial services provider that has a wide portfolio of financial offerings. Their mission is to disrupt the financial services industry in order to become the trusted, go-to resource for all things financial. Chris provides and in-depth look behind the scenes of the licensing deal he struck with the majority stakeholders at Banks.com. He talks about his mentality about failure, his work ethic and his journey to self-discovery. Finally, Chris shares his thoughts on the emergence of Fintech and its potential impact on the future of the financial services industry.

To hear all past episodes visit: https://www.snydershowdown.com/

Welcome back to the Snyder Showdown podcast. Host Chris Snyder is a passionate entrepreneur and digital marketer and loves taking businesses to the next level. He's the President and partner at Juhll.com, a full-service digital marketing agency aimed at delivering superior results to help clients achieve their business goals. Juhll offers its clients a full range of services, specializing in strategic digital paid media to acquire online customers and generate leads. If it's online and measurable, you can trust Juhll with it. He's also the founder, operator and investor in Banks.com, a financial online market place aimed to become everyone's trusted, go-to resource for all things financial on the web.

In this episode, Chris focuses on project management and selling. His ultimate goal is to hire and retain the best and brightest employees, confident in their abilities, so he can focus on adding more value to his organization in other places. The only way to accomplish this task is through effective project management. Chris talks about the importance of revenue and having effective and efficient operations to grow and scale your business. He defines capacity and states that there needs to be a balance in order to avoid financial strain on an organization. Finally, he shares his belief that business has never been easier than it is in today's financial climate. He challenges the audience to remember that and get to work.

To hear all past episodes visit: https://www.snydershowdown.com/