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The Local Business Leaders podcast is a marketing interview show. We interview successful entrepreneurs and marketing experts and ask about their stories, struggles and successes. We also ask very pointed questions about what marketing strategies and tactics are working today to help their businesses - or their clients' businesses - thrive and grow. Listen to best-selling authors, entrepreneurs, small business owners, and digital marketing experts in the fields of social media, AdWords and P ...
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Justin is the founder and CEO of Guild Content. I love that name by the way, we’ll talk about that. Probably the first or second question. A Kansas City digital marketing agency focused on creating content that connects and builds brands that can be trusted. His love of writing and connecting to the emotions of audiences led him to leave his front-…
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Jon Schram is an Kansas City managed services IT support expert and the founder & CEO of The Purple Guys, a tech company that has grown since 2001 to become the Midwest’s premier provider of IT support services. The Purple Guys is a fast-growing, 7-digit business that has helped hundreds of companies grow by solving their IT problems and providing …
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Scott Niedow was born and raised just outside of Chicago. He is a proud Purdue Boilermaker! Scott’s been at James Hardie Siding just shy of 15 years. He’s had many different sales and management roles at Hardie over the past 15 years but the bulk of his time and passion lies with helping James Hardie siding contractors run successful businesses. Sc…
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Chad Peterson is an entrepreneur, author, and award-winning business broker. His Kansas City based mergers and acquisitions firm, Peterson Acquisitions, was recently acknowledged as one of the best business brokers in the nation. Chad Peterson successfully handles business transactions across the United States, and occasionally around the globe. Hi…
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Brad Sugars started the ActionCOACH brand when he was in his early twenties! Today the company is internationally recognized as one of the best business coaching franchises and one of the leading and most awarded franchises in the world today. So how did a twenty-something Australian create this global powerhouse? He did it through hard work, deter…
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Ex-Paypal & AirBnB SEO Manager Tommy Griffith Discusses Online Courses adn why they are better than grad school. Tommy Griffith has been doing search engine optimization for more than 10 years. He previously managed SEO at PayPal and Airbnb, and now runs ClickMinded, a digital marketing training platform for marketers and entrepreneurs. Tommy start…
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John Jonas has been making a 6-7 figure income online since 2004. He has helped thousands of entrepreneurs succeed by teaching them how to replace themselves through outsourcing. He created OnlineJobs.ph, the largest marketplace to find Filipino workers. He also teaches his system for how to find great Filipino workers for free. While making a full…
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Joel Goldberg has one of the most recognizable faces and voices in Kansas City. While Joel has had a first-row seat to one of the most inspirational stories in recent sports history, Phil Singleton found his personal story to be fascinating. It’s no wonder that he has become on of the most sought-after Kansas City motivational speakers in the metro…
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Ryan Stewart, is a marketing entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building and selling online businesses. He worked as a consultant for Deloitte and SapientNitro helping large brands like Target and Best Buy improve online acquisition. He built and scaled an eCommerce site called Laces Out with a 1.2 million organic business per month and …
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Elaine Pofeldt is a freelance writer, editor, and ghost writer who has recently worked with publications including The Economist, Fortune, Money, Inc., CNBC, Crain's New York Business, Forbes, and many others. Entrepreneurship, small business, and careers are her specialties. She is also the author of a new book, which we're going to talk about tod…
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Tom is an SEO strategist and the host of The Sure Oak Podcast. He is the founder of Sure Oak an SEO agency in New York City that grows companies with search engine optimization to get businesses more traffic and drive their revenue growth. Tom has been published in many well-known publications, such as The Huffington Post, Search Engine Watch and S…
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James Rose is a reformed Australian digital agency owner and the co-founder of Content Snare. Content Snare is an online software service designed to cut down the time and headache wasted on chasing up clients for website content. Content Snare is one of the best content marketing tools helps digital agencies and web designers get content from thei…
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Chris Parker is the founder & CEO of WhatIsMyIPaddress.com, the number one website in the world for finding your IP address. According to the Alexa ranking, Chris’s website is one of the top 3000 websites in the United States with over 6 million visitors a month. Chris started the website on January 4th, 2000 and for the first five years, his reven…
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Dave Wieser the founder of DW Creative Marketing, a Kansas City-based marketing agency that helps local businesses increase leads and sales through effective marketing strategies and systems. Dave is one of Kansas City's top advertising experts. He has a decade of previous working experience as an account executive for Kansas City area TV stations.…
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Ruben is the founder of Bidsketch, a bootstrapped SaaS app that’s used by thousands of freelancers, agencies and sales teams to create professional looking client proposals. He launched this top-rated proposal software on the side nine years ago, working nights and weekends, and grew it into a profitable product shortly after it launched. He’s also…
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Brad Burrow has a full range of experience and a wide range of production disciples from broadcast, film and TV commercials. Real Media has been rated the #1 best among all Kansas City video production companies by Blogger Local. Learn more about Real Media Kansas City at: https://realmediakc.com由Phil Singleton
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Stephen Woessner is the founder and CEO of the Digital Marketing agency Predictive ROI and host of Onward Nation, a top rated daily podcast for business owners. He’s also the author of several books, one on search engine optimization, another one on viral social media and viral social networking. And his most recent one, which we’ll talk a little b…
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Interested in influencer marketing? This is a great tip to get just about any influencer to accept your outreach pitch. Be sure to check out the show notes page where I explain how and why an initial outreach pitch to Brian Dean failed. And how I took that experience and figured out a way to create an outreach approach that worked (with an almost i…
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Jenny Kincaid. Jenny is the owner of Socialworx Public Relations, a Midwest media relations agency with strong local and national media context, and community connections. Jenny is mostly known for her expertise in Kansas City public relations, and for her unique approach on community engagement, or what she calls social relations. Her agency takes…
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Mike Kawula is the founder of Entrepreneurs GSD, and co-founder of Dinner Table MBA. Michael is an entrepreneur whose last three businesses each hit seven figures in under three years, with this past being ranked the number 144th fastest growing company by Ink magazine in 2012. He's an author. He's been featured on CNN, interviewed by Anthony Robbi…
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There is a ton of information about your business on the Internet. By controlling the accuracy of your company information across the Internet, you get better visibility and more leads and sales. Digital Knowledge Management is the way that you can take control of your company’s digital footprint, and calibrate it across the Internet in the most ac…
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Want to learn more about content marketing? Katie Bean is President and Editor of Thinking Bigger Business Media, a resource for Kansas City small business owners. Her background is in the newspaper journalism industry, which she supplemented with an MBA from UMKC in 2017. She loves to learn about businesses, and help connect business owners with p…
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About Mandy McEwen Mandy is the Founder and CEO of Mod Girl Marketing, an inbound marketing consultancy based in California. Recognized as a Top 8 SEO Expert by Search Engine Journal and a content marketing influencer by BuzzSumo, she has helped thousands of marketing entrepreneurs and business owners exceed their goals by sharing the lessons she’s…
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Kade Wilcox is the owner and CEO of Primitive Social, a digital marketing agency in Lubbock, Texas, focused on helping companies grow through software development, website design and development, inbound marketing, and sales enablement. In 2011, Kade and his wife Lacey started Primitive Social, providing social media support to small local business…
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Larry Kim is the founder of WordStream, which is a suite of online marketing and advertising tools that helps businesses manage search engine marketing campaigns. More recently, Larry is the CEO of MobileMonkey. Mobile Monkey is the worlds best Facebook messenger marketing platform for marketers and companies of all sizes. It's free and easy, it's …
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