The Pagely Podcast

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Jon Bickerton is a proactive CPA specializing in corporate tax, research & development tax credit studies and cost segregation studies. His talk for PressNomics 6 covers the the major traps to avoid and opportunities on which to capitalize in corporate tax matters. In this episode we discuss strategies to avoid getting audited, common mis-steps that lead to audits, what you need to know in the event you are audited, capitalizing on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, R&D tax credits, cost segregation studies for accelerating depreciation and other strategies for wealth preservation. 

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Gregarious Narain has been involved in fourteen different startups over the course of his career. He was the VP of Product at Klout and his last one "Chute" was a YCombinator company and recently was acquired. In this interview Josh and and Greg talk about how entrepreneurs can better strike that balance of focused work life and family life, what entrepreneurs can do to emphasize fitness, how to achieve better customer empathy but also realize you're not the customer, Gregarious' current hustle "Founder Craft" and his next venture in the works: "Fanabulous." Enjoy! 

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Brad Williams is founder and CEO of one of the more respected WordPress agencies, WebDev Studios. They work with clients like Microsoft, Viacom, Campbell Soup Company, Starbucks and the NBA. In this interview Matt and Brad talk about their ten-year journey growing a 40-person company, how they retain the in-person feel as a fully remote, distributed company, trends Brad has seen in the evolving WordPress space, the reception of Gutenberg amongst his clients and more. Enjoy! 

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Devin Walker is the creator of several highly-rated and award-winning software products with his company Impress.org. Their flagship product, GiveWP, is in it's fifth year and has secured its position in the nonprofit sector as a powerful WordPress-based platform for handling donations. 

In this interview Josh and Devin talk through his journey creating his company, challenges they overcame in the early days, pricing strategies, handling issues that arise from having employees based in many different States, balancing product stickiness with vendor lock-in, eating humble pie and crushing it on the golf course. If you have a question for Devin leave a comment below. Enjoy!

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Mike Roberts started SpyFu back in 2005 and has managed to grow it to become a healthy, profitable, entirely-bootstrapped company having never taken investment. This has given him a lot of freedom in terms of how he runs things and latitude to maintain a course with the business that closely aligns with his values. In this interview (of which Mike’s side is conducted from his beach house in Oceanside, California) we discuss points from Mike’s talk at PressNomics 6 on what staying bootstrapped affords you, advice for early-stage companies intending to not raise capital, some gangster veteran tips about how to handle your ISP when your internet goes down and the finer points of Segway jousting (pun intended). Enjoy!

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Chris Brogan has spoken for or consulted with the biggest brands you know including Disney, Coke, Google, GM, Microsoft, Coldwell Banker, Titleist, Scotts, Humana Health, Cisco, Sony USA, and many more. He’s appeared on the Dr. Phil Show, interviewed Richard Branson for a cover story for Success magazine, and once even presented to a Princess. 

In this interview Matt Medeiros interviews Chris on the changing landscape of running a business in this modern age and what the average person can do to adapt, stake out their niche and remain relevant. This interview covers topics of personalization, automation, branding, email list segmentation, podcasting, chatbots, experimentation mindset, video games and more. 

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After a traumatic event in childhood Brooke Siem spent the next half of her life on antidepressants. Upon turning thirty she committed to weaning herself off the medication and began a long climb out of the fog back to a world she describes of "complexity & intensity with all its details and noise." 

In this interview we dig into Brooke's journey getting off antidepressants, the pharma industrial complex, her time on Remote Year and her experience winning the show "Chopped" on national TV. If you have a question for Brooke leave a comment below. 

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Brian Dean is one of the foremost experts on Search Engine Optimization.  His site Backlinko.com gets over 200k monthly unique visitors and he's been dubbed by Entreprneur.com as "an SEO genius." In today's episode Brian shares his process for analyzing a site, what he knows about the Google Rankbrain algorithm, featured snippets, FAQ schema, content pruning, his advanced "ghost post" technique and a boatload of tools for dialing in your SEO. Visit the link above if you have a question for Brian. 

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When it comes to B2B SaaS companies Chris has been around the block more than a few times. He's performed various roles ranging from product development, strategy & software engineering for Liquid Web, Crowd Favorite, Emphasys, AutoTradeCenter, Integranova, QuantumShift, ICE Wireless, Pagoda and Berkeley Lab. In today's episode Josh and Chris talk about pricing strategies, dark patterns in pricing presentation, parenting advice when it comes to digital devices, lessons from coaching entrepreneurs at various startup stages, the role of timing in the success of startups, overcoming impostor syndrome and more. Enjoy!  

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Hiten Shah is a pillar of the startup ecosystem having founded and run a handful of successful companies himself and having advised over 120 different startups. Hiten is incredibly generous with his time teaching valuable lessons to help startup founders advance their respective causes. I had the opportunity to sit down with Hiten for a full hour and talk through: 

- His latest Remote Work Report

Enjoy!