Latest Bloomingtonin Podcast Episodes
Guiding Principles of Switchyard Brewing Company
Scratch Entrepreneur - December 16, 2019 12:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsKurtis Cummings founded Switchyard Brewing Company in his garage and then spent 7 years developing the business plan before opening his doors. In this episode, he breaks down the 8 guiding principles that he developed to get there. We're glad you joined us! Topics covered include: Start...
Chuck Surack on Online Retail
Scratch Entrepreneur - March 22, 2019 11:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsChuck Surack founded Sweetwater Sound in his VW Bus. Now he's closing in on a billion dollars annual revenue. Topics discussed include: Resources (5:00) Getting started in a VW Bus (12:30) Old tech vs new tech (16:00) Advantages and disadvantages of audio tech (18:45) How the Kurzweil...
Dhar Mann on the Power of Influencer Marketing
Scratch Entrepreneur - March 08, 2019 12:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsDhar Mann grew LiveGlam from a small business to a booming multimillion dollar success through influencer marketing. Topics: Resources (5:30) Origins (8:45) Growth (15:00) Dhar’s mantra (19:50) Which ideas to pursue (21:00) Learning from failure (24:30) Influencer marketing (32:45...
Pat East - 5 Steps to a Healthy Profitable Business
Scratch Entrepreneur - February 20, 2019 12:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsPat East, founder of Hanapin Marketing and director of The Dimension Mill, knows the five things it takes to create a healthy profitable business. Do you? Hit play to find out. Mentions: The Tim Ferris Show The 4-Hour Work Week Breakthrough Strategy Siri QuickBooks Digital Mar...
Abby Gitlitz - Don't Play With Glass
Scratch Entrepreneur - February 06, 2019 12:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsYou’ve been warned since you were small not to play with glass. It’s sharp, it’s fragile, and you’ll get hurt if it breaks. Abby Gitlitz, founder of The Bloomington Creative Glass Center (BCGC), agrees. You’ll get hurt if it breaks, and you can count on it breaking if you blow glass. You’ll get ...
Pete Yonkman - Walking Billboard for Cook Medical
Scratch Entrepreneur - January 23, 2019 12:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsMedical conversations are usually one of two things: confusing, bad news (or both). Join me and Pete Yonkman as we talk medical equipment shop in a way you, your five year old, or your great grandmother would understand. Learn how medical devices changed the face of healthcare forever, how Bill ...
Matt Ellenwood - How to Turn Problems into Opportunities
Scratch Entrepreneur - January 16, 2019 12:30 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHave you ever met someone who had their whole life figured out before they’d learned how to tie their shoes? Most of us have no idea what we want to be when we grow up. Or we think we do, but with age and gray hairs realize pro baseball probably isn’t going to happen... Others stumble pure...
Margaret Fette – How to build a business based on sewing
Scratch Entrepreneur - January 08, 2019 09:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWe all dream of taking the thing we love to do and growing it into a healthy profitable business. Well our guest today has done just that. Since she was a little girl sewing was a curiosity, then a pastime, then a college major, and then a career. Now Margaret is the owner of a sewing and tai...
Crossroads: Ownership Conversations with Chris Chasteen of Content Cucumber and Silicone Depot
Scratch Entrepreneur - January 01, 2019 09:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday’s show is the fourth in our series of on-air coaching sessions between veteran executive coach David Quick and an entrepreneur who sits at a crossroads. A big decision point in his or her business. Our guest today has built a painless way for your business to share your expertise with t...
Reflections & Projections with Jeremy
Scratch Entrepreneur - December 26, 2018 15:33 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsJeremy walks you through his thoughts on reflecting and projecting for the coming year. He address the year that was and new things that are coming up.
Jay Baer – How to explode your word of mouth marketing with Talk Triggers
Scratch Entrepreneur - November 27, 2018 09:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWhen McKenzie and I started Shine Insurance I had very little knowledge of how to run a business and even less about how to sell something. I had been a teacher for 13 years. People brought their kids to my classroom and if I boomed, the immediate consequences were limited. I also knew that ...
The Price of A Good Laugh with Mat Alano Martin
Scratch Entrepreneur - November 15, 2018 09:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThe great thing about entrepreneurs is that they come in all categories. On almost any topic you could name business owners across the entire scale. Lets start with money – Jeff Bezos is a pretty rich dude and on the other end, a homeless person on a street corner is doing the best they can w...
Adjusting Medicine with Dr Karin Drummond
Scratch Entrepreneur - November 08, 2018 09:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThere is no one value more important to running a healthy profitable business than being yourself. Maybe that wasn’t true 50 years ago, maybe molding to the established norms was how you succeeded. But not today. Today, authenticity is everything. You don’t have to be polished or perfect, bu...
Crossroads: Why Stop @ $4,000,000 with Mike Wesner of Enrollment Fuel
Scratch Entrepreneur - November 01, 2018 08:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday’s Hosts: Jeremy Goodrich – Owner of Shine Insurance Agency David Quick – Business Coach at Helping Bulls Thrive in China Shops The Crossroads episodes of Scratch Entrepreneur are all about solving a specific point of growth for our guest. David and Jeremy ask thoughtful questions fo...
Get Local with BTown LowDown
Scratch Entrepreneur - October 23, 2018 08:30 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThe best towns, just like the best businesses, have a story. There’s a simple reason why. Because every single one of us is wired to connect with a great story. We connect with the characters, love their simple flaws that remind us of our own, yell at the bad guys in a way we probably could...
Crossroads: Budgeting for Your Launch with Ellie Symes
Scratch Entrepreneur - October 16, 2018 08:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWhile I don’t have a traditional tech start up, I have a kind of love love relationship with the tech world. Maybe it’s because Tech is the new American Dream. To have an idea that solves a pain point in the world, build a model, have a bunch of tech stuff happen, and voula, you’re a millionai...
Tim Alison says Screw the Naysayers
Scratch Entrepreneur - October 10, 2018 11:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsI think about my business probably 70% of my waking hours. I’m, not 100% proud of that actually. There’s certainly mental space that needs to be freed for more about family, and fun, and nature, and playing tennis, and riding my bike. But I obsess about the details, the upcoming decisions, in...
Be Golden is Empowering Women
Scratch Entrepreneur - October 01, 2018 11:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWe talk a lot on this podcast about building tribes, groups of customers that love your product, love your company, and feel like they are a part of something special because, well, they are. The tribal metaphor has always worked in my mind for two primary reasons. If you have a community of r...
Selling Cities with Mike McAfee
Scratch Entrepreneur - September 25, 2018 11:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsAll of us have aspirations. From Elan Musk, who wants to dig tunnels and colonize Mars, to a homeless kid sitting in school and trying to look normal. We all have aspirations. The cool thing about being human is that there are as many visions of a better future as there are people. Everyone’...
State of the Pod
Scratch Entrepreneur - September 18, 2018 12:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsIt's time to get reflective. This episode is all about when Scratch Entrepreneur is at and where we're headed. Jeremy talks why this podcast exists, how we do what we do, where we're at, and what's next. Here's a breakdown: Last Week: How to get your first 200 customers with Jonathan Grzyb...
How to Get Your First 200 Customers with Penji co-founder; Johnathan Grzybowski
Scratch Entrepreneur - September 12, 2018 11:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsStanding on the edge of a new venture as a budding entrepreneur is equally exhilarating and bone chilling. To truly do this you have to strap into the harness of friends and family that believe in you, lean out over the abyss that is no longer having a salary or benefits, and jump. Think about...
Crossroads - Scaling Your Business
Scratch Entrepreneur - September 04, 2018 11:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday's episode starts a new series of one air coaching session between business owners and executive coach David Quick. We start with ourselves, Jeremy & McKenzie Goodrich owners of Shine Insurance. Our crossroads is How Do We Strategically Scale? The Crossroads episodes of Scratch Entrep...
The Perfect Iteration of You with Simone & Malcolm Collins
Scratch Entrepreneur - August 28, 2018 11:30 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsSimone & Malcolm Collins are venture capitalists, marketing gurus, entrepreneurs, and authors. They're on a personal and professional journey towards the perfect iteration of themselves. We talk about that, their opinion about where most start up pitches go wrong, and why they feel Latin Ameri...
Property Investor Extraordinaire Whitney Nicely
Scratch Entrepreneur - August 21, 2018 11:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsEvery entrepreneur who’s every read a business book has heard you need to exude confidence, never give up, work hard, use this magical system that some dude with a shabby website invented and will happily share with you for $1997. Everyone wants to tell you how it works. But what they’re usual...
Real Estate Rock Star Donald Griffin
Scratch Entrepreneur - August 14, 2018 11:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHave you ever bought a house? I remember the first time I did. It was a really beat up old bungalow with great old bones. I fell in love immediately even though I probably shouldn’t have. The one thing I didn’t do, that I really should have, is hire a realtor. They probably would have noted that...
David Quick is Helping Bulls Thrive in China Shops
Scratch Entrepreneur - July 18, 2018 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThere are a lot of terms that could define entrepreneurship: Risky, busy, confusing, overwhelming, fun, inspiring, and on and on. Starting and growing your own business is one of the most challenging adventures a person can go on. But there’s another word used a lot to describe owning a busine...
Gather Shoppe Brings Artists Together
Scratch Entrepreneur - July 03, 2018 11:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsOur guest today is a hero in the Bloomington, Indiana community of artists. Armored with her hand crafted leather notebooks, she started by venturing out and attempting to make a living as an artist. As so many heroes do, she experienced perils, hardship, and moments of doubt. Then she real...
Josh Smith Talks Clutch Fabrication
Scratch Entrepreneur - June 05, 2018 11:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsIf you own a business, it reflects you, whether you mean for it to or not. Every system, every product, every experience, has you embedded in it. Any business owner that isn’t comfortable with that should run for the hills. The “owning a business is like having a child” metaphor may be over ...
The Story of Green Funeral Pioneer Esmerelda Kent
Scratch Entrepreneur - May 22, 2018 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThere are some jobs it seems like no one would ever want. Who wants to pump a septic tank, why on earth would you ever work in a restaurant dish tank, who in the world would ever deal with dead people? Us humans are infatuated with rationalizing our place in the world by comparing it with tho...
Armin Vit & Bryony Gomez-Palacio are Under Consideration
Scratch Entrepreneur - May 08, 2018 11:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday’s guests are world renowned in the field of Graphic Design. They’ve worked for some of the biggest design agencies, advised some of the best companies, studied under legends in their field, spoken in front of huge audiences, and built a following of other graphic designers. They themsel...
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