Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business

In today's episode we're going to talk about one of my favorite concepts from the world of chess: you either WIN or you LEARN!

Stephen Custer is the owner of Dry Humor Marketing and an award-winning puppeteer. With experience in the corporate world, nonprofits, and government, he brings a wide-range of experience and creative ideas to the world of marketing consulting. He loves to help businesses and nonprofit organizations figure out why they do what they do. Then he uses video and photography to help them tell their stories. He usually adds a dash of humor to those stories and he seems to think he's hilarious, though that's unconfirmed by independent scientific inquiries.

Visit Stephen's business website at dryhumormarketing.com and be sure to connect with him personally on LinkedIn. You can also find more awesome content from Stephen on his YouTube channel!

In today's episode we're talking about job and project posting boards that allow you to get in contact with people who are ALREADY looking to pay someone with your skills and services. Upwork.com and Thumbtack.com are two examples of these directory websites where you can go find clients TODAY!

Most entrepreneurs at one point or another feel like they're GIVING more than they're GETTING from their business. In today's episode we'll talk about the importance of not only recognizing that, but how to use that recognition to work on the RIGHT things in your business!

Jodi Petersen is the CEO of MentorStrat. MentorStrat provides full-service consulting to organizations that want to build, scale, or reimagine a mentorship program. Their online learning platform, MentorStrat Academy gives mentors, mentees and mentoring program managers the training, tools, and resources they need to be successful.

Leading the mentoring consultant team, Jodi has over 20 years of corporate experience and 5 years running mentoring programs. Prior to starting MentorStrat, she led a mentoring program for a FORTUNE® 50 company driving the strategy development and execution of the roadmap. In 2021, she helped secure a spot on Diversity Inc’s Top Companies for Mentoring List and was named Mentoring Champion of the Year by their software partner.

Check out MentorStrat at MentorStrat.com, and find their amazing content on their YouTube channel, @mentorstrat.

In today's episode we'll talk about my favorite strategy to get more done to grow your business FASTER!

In today's episode we'll talk about one of my favorite quotes from the late, great Martin Luther King, Jr as we celebrate his birthday. "Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love." – MLK Jr

In 2018, Erica McBeth set out on a mission to talk to one stranger a week for a full year. Her journey through that life-changing project is chronicled in her book, “52 New Friends”. Then, after spending nearly thirty years in advertising and marketing, Erica started McBeth Marketing in 2021 with the unusual mission to help people connect together in positive ways.

McBeth Marketing helps small businesses bridge the strategy and execution gap.

Erica sits on the Arizona Chapter Board of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and educates people on the benefits of how human connection can transform their companies…and their lives. She is a speaker, a writer, a storyteller, an advocate for human connection and the self-proclaimed slayer of loneliness.

Oh…and she also happens to know a lot about advertising and marketing, too.

Visit Erica's website at https://mcbethmarketing.com

In today's episode we'll talk about how to leverage your CAPITAL rather than just your time to accelerate your success by acquiring resources that will fast-track your growth efforts. Check out the business marketplace mentioned in today's episode at flippa.com

In today's episode we'll talk about the EASIEST business model you can pursue this year and what makes it better than ALL the other options.