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What kind of music should you play in your retail store? Should it be upbeat, slow, or neither? We dive in to the question of retail shopping music and question its importance. Chris Fox from Fox Strategy Marketing co-hosts the show to debate this question. Starting or growing your family owned retail business is hard. The Better Business Podcast makes it a little easier by offering real advice from real business owners that will help you grow. Here's how to find me: Website Instagram: TikTok: Facebook:

Jesse Cole is the founder of Fans First Entertainment and owner of the Savannah Bananas Baseball Team. His teams have welcomed more than one million fans to their ballparks and have been featured on MSNBC, CNN, ESPN and in Entrepreneur Magazine. The Bananas have been awarded Organization of the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year, Business of the Year and won the CPL Championship in their first year. Fans First Entertainment has been featured on the INC 5000 lists as one of the fastest growing companies in America. The Savannah Bananas currently have sold out every game since their first season and have a waiting list in the thousands for tickets. Here's how to find me: Instagram: TikTok: Facebook: Website

Should your book keeper, marketing help, and general project based helpers be considered a W2 employee, or a 1099? This question seems to come up often for a small family retail business owner. There are many different ways to make use of the flexibility in the tax laws, but what is the best decision for speed of hiring, saving money, and overall happiness for you as a business owner? Chris Fox from Fox Strategy Marketing co-hosts the show to debate this question. Starting or growing your family owned retail business is hard. The Better Business Podcast makes it a little easier by offering real advice from real business owners that will help you grow. Here's how to find me: Website Instagram: TikTok: Facebook:

Are there benefits to having a business community around you? Will having a coach, group of friends, or someone to give you ideas to solve business problems be something of value? Cody Rich host of The Rich Outdoors and Rich Ideas Lab believes it’s one of the most important things to add to your business. Starting or growing your family owned retail business is hard. The Better Business Podcast makes it a little easier by offering real advice from real business owners that will help you grow. Here's how to find me: Website Instagram: TikTok: Facebook:

Buying or selling a small business is very challenging, and not many know much about it. Hank Bockus has sold a small business, and is now a leader in oklahoma showing and helping other small business owners how to do the same.   Starting or growing your family owned retail business is hard. The Better Business Podcast makes it a little easier by offering real advice from real business owners that will help you grow. Here's how to find me: Website Instagram: TikTok: Facebook: Get my helpful emails: 

Tik Tok, the fastest growing social media platform has just released an announcement that they are adding 10 min videos. The major change will cause them to directly compete with not only Instagram, but also Youtube. Interestingly enough this change could be very beneficial to your business. We talk about the capabilities on this episode.  Chris Fox from Fox Strategy Marketing co-hosts the show to debate this question. Starting or growing your family owned retail business is hard. The Better Business Podcast makes it a little easier by offering real advice from real business owners that will help you grow. Here's how to find me: Website Instagram: TikTok: Facebook: Get my helpful emails: 

Have you seen people say "shop local" before? Many people appeal to friends and family on social media to spend money at their establishments because they say it's better than spending money with large corporations. Is this a good marketing tactic?  Chris Fox from Fox Strategy Marketing co-hosts the show to debate this question.  Starting or growing your family owned retail business is hard. The Better Business Podcast makes it a little easier by offering real advice from real business owners that will help you grow. Here's how to find me: Website Instagram: TikTok: Facebook: Get my helpful emails: 

Many people are starting up podcasts in hope of using them to advertise for their business. Derrick Michaud is your guest today, where we discuss reasons to start a podcast, common mistakes people make, and some editing tips and advice he has (since he is the founder of Shelby Row Productions).  Starting or growing your family owned retail business is hard. The Better Business Podcast makes it a little easier by offering real advice from real business owners that will help you grow. Here's how to find me: Website Instagram: TikTok: Facebook: Get my helpful emails: 

JV Crum III is an entrepeneur and podcaster who teaches his students how to create a proper mindset for attaining the first million in your business. He is well equipped to teach on the topic as he has taken his podcast to the top 13 business podcasts in america, and hosted over 3,100 episodes.  Starting or growing your own business is hard. The Better Business Podcast makes it a little easier by offering real advice from real business owners that will help you grow. Here's how to find me: Website Instagram: TikTok: Facebook: Get my helpful emails: 

Starting or growing your own business is hard. The Better Business Podcast makes it a little easier by offering real advice from real business owners that will help you grow.   Your guest this week is Stephanie Stuckey, CEO and granddaughter of founder of Stuckey's Corporation. Stuckey's fell out of family hands for decades, and the business suffered. After Stephanie bought it back, she turned it around by rebuilding this classic, nostalgic brand!   Here's how to find me: Website Instagram: TikTok: Facebook: Get my helpful emails: 

Have you ever found yourself wondering how you can leverage all the friends you have on social media into customers? Coach D noticed a problem in the market. That problem is, sales people don't know how to use their social media to sell. On this episode we discuss how to make content that will reel people in, how to DM potential clients, and how often you should be posting.  Want more small business advice? We're talking about selling all week on my social channels and my exclusive email list. Here's how to find me: Website Instagram: TikTok: Facebook: Get my helpful emails: 

Marketing your small business doesn't have to be a solo journey. And that doens't mean paying people to help you. This episode covers three benefits to working with other vendors, and customers to accomplish great marketing.  Want more small business advice? We're talking about business all week on my social channels and my exclusive email list.  Here's how to find me: Website Instagram:  TikTok:  Facebook:  Get my helpful emails: 

Starting or growing your own business is hard. The Better Business Podcast makes it a little easier by offering real advice from real business owners that will help you grow.  Your guest this week is Frank Sinclair of Dream Again, LLC. Frank is a life and business coach who has seen the lowest lows and has built a business out of using those hard times to encourage himself and others to dream again. If you're needing inspiration or ideas for your business you need this episode in your life.   Want more small business advice? We're talking about how to dream again in your life and business all week on my social channels and my exclusive email list. Here's how to join:    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealstevencook TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@therealstevencook Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therealstevencook Get my helpful emails: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/t9p3j4

A study done by Brand Builders shed some light on the effectiveness of marketing for businesses in 2022. For more information or to reach me you can find me here or on instagram 

This is a mash up of some of our favorite clips from the past 30 episodes. We cover marketing, product selection, and HR in this best in class episode of some of our favorite advice from business owners. 

Brandon Pleshek has MILLIONS of followers on his social channels. He has much to say on this episode about how he grew his family business with his personal brand, and how he now does brand deals on the side.  Want more small business advice? We're talking about personal branding all week on my social channels and my exclusive email list. Here's how to join: Instagram: TikTok: Facebook: Get my helpful emails: 

This episode is about the best ways to improve your media strategy for 2022.  1) How to sell convenience over price  2) Making content for verticle video  3) How to celebrity CEO yourself  4) Creating an exoerience  5) Pushing unique products  Want more small business advice? We're talking about marketing all week on my social channels and my exclusive email list. Here's how to join: Instagram: TikTok: Facebook: Get my helpful emails: 

Ethan Cisneros launched Thirst Drinks when he was barely over 18 years old. He now has 5 locations and over 100 employees and is only 24. Listen to his advice on growing and scaling your business quickly! Want more small business advice? We're talking about marketing all week on my social channels and my exclusive email list. Here's how to join: Instagram: TikTok: Facebook: Get my helpful emails: 

Marley Jaxx is CEO of Jaxx Productions, content marketing expert, and highly acclaimed business acceleration coach. On this episode we talk about how Youtube can be an revenue accelorator for your service based or small retail business. Marley gives actionable steps to take to grow your Youtube channel and the why behind it. Marley’s roster of clients includes such legendary thought leaders as Cristy Code Red, Alex Charfen, Daymond John, and Stephen Larsen. Want more small business advice? We're talking about Youtube and marketing all week on my social channels and my exclusive email list. Here's how to join: Instagram:  TikTok:  Facebook:  Get my helpful emails: 

An interview from the Two Dad's Podcast is about how to balance family and business. As well as how to stay relevant in todays competitive business world.