The Metropolis Podcast

We welcome Elisa Camahort Page, founder, partner and evangelist for all things women in business is the Chief Community Officer for She Knows Media. We will discuss the ever changing and vital role women in business play in the small business landscape.

Shifting her focus from integration to evangelism of the the big audacious Blogher events are, of course, one of the ways she will do this, as she produces fantastic events #BlogHerFood15 and #BlogHer16.

Elisa also led the research/consumer insights division, as well as the company’s public relations and social media efforts. Prior to BlogHer, Elisa worked as a high-tech marketing executive and consultant.

Barry Moltz joins us to talk about how to  business owners growing again by unlocking their long forgotten potential.  With decades of entrepreneurial experience in his own business ventures as well as consulting countless other entrepreneurs, Barry has discovered the formula to get stuck business owners unstuck and marching forward.  Barry applies simple, strategic steps to facilitate change.

Anita Campbell, CEO and Founder of SmallBizTrends.com, an award-winning online publication for small business owners, entrepreneurs and the people who interact with them joins me with some insights for small business success in 2016! Small Business Trends is the premier source of information, breaking news and advice covering issues of key importance to small businesses.

Small business success … delivered daily.

Welcoming my annual visit with head trend analyst Max Luthy, US Lead Trend Analyst.

 

We will be discussing the top trends consumer trends for 2016 in a cross section of industries, products, services and technology.


Trendwatching .com has been serving forward-thinking business professionals and businesses since 2002 in 180+ countries. Based in London, and now in the US, Trendwatching.com strives to understand the new consumer and subsequently uncover compelling, profitable innovation opportunities for them. 3000 spotters in 90+ countries, 260,000 subscribers discover and uncover the latest, greatest most innovative  comsumer trends of products and services that make life more fun, efficient and interesting.

They offer tips, presentations, workshops, briefings, reports and more live and on the web.

Dustin Luther currently heads up an Engagement Team (Content, Events and Social Media) at Dun & Bradstreet, that develops and implement campaigns under both the D&B and Hoovers brands. They have put together award winning campaigns involving contests, youtube videos, influencer engagement and much more over the past four and half years. 


In the process of telling great stories, I’ve earned a few accolades (“Mr Social” from the San Fernando Business Journal, “Builder of the real estate blogosphere's infrastructure” from the LA Times.

We welcome Enthusiastic, Energetic, Practical Ivana Taylor/DIY Marketers , Bizapalooza to our show. Bizapalooz is one of the largest online small business events of the year featuring 40 + experts.

Ivana Taylor spent 25 years working with manufacturers who never had enough money for marketing. 

This is how she learned to create BIG consumer style marketing on a small manufacturer’s budget and to get excited about the contribution seemingly unknown companies make to our lives.

When she started her own business she realized that everything she did came down to one goal -- to get our ideal customer to choose us, every time, regardless of price.

I welcome Joe Pulizzi, Founder of the Content Marketing Institue, the leading evangelist for content marketing. Joe, an entrepreneur, speaker, and author on content marketing, believes passionately that there is a better way for brands to market than how they’ve done it in the past. CMI is a culmination of those beliefs.

Are you wondering what content marketing is and isn't? Are you trying to figure out how to get started or how to justify a content budget for your company or organization? Or maybe you are already working with content marketing, but you want to get better results while having more fun?

Join us as we discuss a simple strategy for small business to improve and use more content marketing to grow your brand and business.

We welcome back Anita Campbell, the Founder, CEO and publisher of Small Business Trends, We will discuss some of the key trends that impact and influence small businesses today and look ahead at some emerging trends.Small Business Trends is the premier source of information, breaking news and advice covering issues of key importance to small businesses. featuring 400 vetted experts and writers. 

Happily running her own business for the last decade, she founded Small Business Trends while looking for a simple way to publish newsletter articles. She is a business speaker, analyst, publisher and writer. Widely regarded as an authoritative voice on small business issues, Anita publishes several successful online media properties reaching more than 6 million small business owners annually. 

She appears on countless Top Lists, including: 3 Forbes lists including the 25 Most Influencial Women Tweeting anout Entrepreneurship, 30 Women entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter and 100 Most powerful women on Twitter by Hubspot.

Rohit Bhargava is a trend curator, founder of the Influential Marketing Group, and an expert in helping brands and leaders be more influential. He is the Wall Street Journal best selling author of five best selling business books on topics as wide ranging as the future of healthcare, how to build a brand with personality, and why leaders never eat cauliflower.

We welcome Thomas Ellis of EWC Consultants, a sales management veteran with over 25 years experience in coaching, consulting, developing sales personnel, and sales managers. Thomas began his professional sales career in the copier industry and then to the telecommunications industry where he was employed by Motorola and Nextel which merged with Sprint in 2005. Thomas spent 13 years with Sprint Nextel where he held several Sales Manager and Director of Sales positions. He received Sprint/Nextel’s highest sales award, President’s Council for 10 consecutive years.

In 2010 he started EWC Consultants. EWC Consultants focuses on teaching sales teams, business owners, and sales professionals how to master basic sales activities which leads to closing BIG deals. The process he developed is repeatable, easy to learn, and generates great results.

Partial list of clients include -AARP, Ideal Electric, Baywood Hotels,  Innoface Systems, Mid-Atlantic Federal Credit Union, and Skybitz.