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Discover How Building Positive Habits of Thought Can Carry You Into a WAY More Successful 2021

Become a Home Entrepreneur with Brandy Shaver - January 04, 2021 14:00 - 14 minutes
Andrew Kap is a 5 Star, #1 best selling author writing about the Law of Attraction and the truth about whether you actually need to believe in it for it to work for you! Today, Brandy speaks to Andrew as he shares a new perspective on building positive habits of thought that you can use to carr...

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018 Seven Secrets for Small-Scale Success

Make It and Sell It - December 08, 2020 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this episode, the last of the season, we discuss seven of the most important lessons from the first season of this podcast about starting and growing a home-based production business.   Despite our best efforts, it was not possible to book guests for these last few weeks of the calendar yea...

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E 017 Into the Fire(Sauce), with Vid Lynch and Ben Smith, Sauce Makers

Make It and Sell It - December 01, 2020 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this episode, Torchbearer Sauces founders Vid Lynch and Ben Smith discuss how they turned seven years of weekly parties into a thriving 15-year-old sauce business. As early innovators in the flavor-based hot sauce movement, they credit their success to decisions about reclaiming the productio...

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017 Into the Fire(Sauce), with Vid Lynch and Ben Smith, Sauce Makers

Make It and Sell It - December 01, 2020 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this episode, Torchbearer Sauces founders Vid Lynch and Ben Smith discuss how they turned seven years of weekly parties into a thriving 15-year-old sauce business. As early innovators in the flavor-based hot sauce movement, they credit their success to decisions about reclaiming the productio...

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How to Attract 1000 Brand New Leads using Social Media

Become a Home Entrepreneur with Brandy Shaver - November 27, 2020 16:00 - 20 minutes
Social Media is on fire right now as we all settle into the 'new normal'.  If you use it right, it will take your business to a whole new level and allow you to tap into almost unlimited leads. In today's episode, I'm talking to the amazing Michelle Cunningham.  As a former top network market...

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016 Deep dive, It’s GO Time!

Make It and Sell It - November 24, 2020 07:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
This episode is the last of three episodes that attempts to answer the question, “How can I get over the initial hump of starting a home-based production business?” It describes branding, product development, and the creation of an Ecommerce website, as well as reveal the first of three home-bas...

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015 Deep Dive, Making It Real

Make It and Sell It - November 17, 2020 08:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
This episode is a further deep dive into one of the most frequent questions we hear about home-based production, “How can I get over the initial hump of starting a home-based production business?” The second of three episodes, this segment discusses the nuts and bolts of the start-up process. It...

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014 Deep Dive, Permission to Produce

Make It and Sell It - November 10, 2020 03:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
This episode is a deep dive into one of the most frequent questions we hear about home-based production, “How can I get over the initial hump of starting a home-based production business?” We answer this question with personal reflections in starting up our own business earlier this year, focusi...

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The 3 Reasons Your Perfect Prospects Are NOT Liking, Commenting or Buying From Your Posts

Become a Home Entrepreneur with Brandy Shaver - November 06, 2020 07:00 - 5 minutes
You're working your butt off... Posting all the right things to promote your business but it's just not working. You aren't getting the sales or leads you had hoped for and it's getting you down in the dumps! I hear you! I was there! But in today's episode I'm going to teach you the 3 Reas...

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013 Fermenting Better Beer, with Tony Morrell, Brewer

Make It and Sell It - November 03, 2020 08:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this episode, Tony Morrell discusses one of his obsessions, home beer brewing, how his process has changed over the past eight to nine years to assure regular brewing awards, and how he is thinking about turning his past time into a commercial venture.   Tony Morrell received his first home...

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012 Proofer of Concept, with Armando Lacayo, Baker

Make It and Sell It - October 27, 2020 05:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this episode, Armando Lacayo explains how he transitioned from financial management to baking and the role of home-based production in opening what Bon Appetit magazine anointed the best new bakery in the country in 2016.   Three decades ago, Armando Lacayo moved to the U.S. from France to ...

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011 Clarifying Commercial Kitchens, with Bev Martin and Nancy Rohrer, Food Producers

Make It and Sell It - October 20, 2020 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this episode, food entrepreneurs Bev Martin and Nancy Martin, talk about their ghee production business, including expanding into a commercial facility and marketing a lesser known product.   Bev Martin and Nancy Rohrer had worked together for years in marketing when they discovered ghee, w...

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010 Mixing It Up, with Jill Donaldson, Baker and Mix Maker

Make It and Sell It - October 13, 2020 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this episode, Jill Donaldson, a formally trained baker and entrepreneur, describes her evolution from a home-based baker to a home-based creator of commercial baking packages. This change dramatically altered her business, daily routine, sales model, and success.   In growing up, Jill’s fav...

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The 90 Day Marketing Plan with Cody Butler

Become a Home Entrepreneur with Brandy Shaver - October 06, 2020 14:00 - 35 minutes
 Hey, welcome to today's episode! "The 90 Day Marketing Plan with Cody Butler" Cody Butler is joining us today. He is the #1 bestselling author of 'Got attitude' and 'The 90 Day Marketing Plan'. Cody is widely accepted as one of the world's leading experts on small business marketing and bus...

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009 Inspiring first-wave customers, with Lygeia Ricciardi, Digital Health Entrepreneur

Make It and Sell It - October 06, 2020 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this last of four consecutive episodes about personal care products, Lygeia Ricciardi explains how home-based entrepreneurs can inspire friends and family to become their best advocates.   Lygeia Ricciardi and Tania Teschke (our guest from the last episode) have been friends for 20 years. I...

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008 A Confluence of Influences, with Tania Teschke, Soap and Balm Maker

Make It and Sell It - September 28, 2020 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this third of four back-to-back episodes about people who make personal care products, Tania Teschke explains how many roads from childhood through adulthood have led her to become a home-based entrepreneur. This includes a do-it-yourself mindset, a passion for mixing, and a diverse set of sk...

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007 Pivoting for Prosperity, with Leslie Arthur, Soap and Cosmetic Maker

Make It and Sell It - September 22, 2020 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this second of four back-to-back episodes about personal care products, Leslie Arthur discusses how she started her first business in Hawaii 16 years ago and organized the most recent business, now seven years old. She shares practical advice about research and development; selling retail, wh...

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Have a Lazy Team? Here’s a Quickest Way To Solve IT!

Become a Home Entrepreneur with Brandy Shaver - September 17, 2020 17:00 - 2 minutes
Do you have a lazy team that isn't working out for you? And what I mean by that is when your team is not duplicating! So one of the BIGGEST questions I get is "How do I get my team doing what I'm doing?"  Well, you don't!! Because it is a volunteer army. They are there for their reasons. So t...

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006 Lessons from the Direct to Consumer Industry, with Jenna Watkins, Personal Care Product Director

Make It and Sell It - September 15, 2020 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
This episode veers somewhat away from our typical discussions with makers into a sister industry, “direct to consumer,” to explore how this industry markets and sells its products and lessons that can be applied to home-based production.   “Direct to consumer” is a product distribution model t...

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Are You Prospecting The Wrong Way On Social Media?

Become a Home Entrepreneur with Brandy Shaver - September 10, 2020 16:00 - 8 minutes
Today we are talking about "Are you prospecting on social media the wrong way?" And what I found since we have been dealing with everybody at home and everybody coming online to build their businesses is that there are a lot of people prospecting the wrong way or teaching things that are not wo...

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005 The Bioluminescent Fashionista, with Lysandra Weber, Clothing Designer

Make It and Sell It - September 08, 2020 06:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
This episode describes how a home-based clothing designer and producer conceived her niche and comparative advantage in a market otherwise dominated by large labels.   In her last months of maternity leave, Lysandra Weber tested an idea for starting a home-based business. Her work colleagues h...

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004 To rent her home, with Maria-Victoria Checa, Painter

Make It and Sell It - September 01, 2020 07:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
This episode describes art as a path to home-based entrepreneurship and the ways in which a new hobby can be transformed into a part-time or full-time career.   We all find our passions in different ways. For this guest, Maria-Victoria Checa, discovering a love for painting was the result of r...

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How to Build Your Network Marketing Team Without Bugging Friends and Family

Become a Home Entrepreneur with Brandy Shaver - August 28, 2020 06:00 - 6 minutes
Hey there and welcome to today's episode "How would you love to have a way to grow your network marketing team without bugging your friends and family?" Now, if that sounds like it's a total pipe dream, I totally get it. I was where you are about four years ago. My name is Brandy Shaver, and I...

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002 From Manic Crafting to a Thriving Paint-by-Numbers Business, with Amanda Farnum, Founder of Wehgo

Make It and Sell It - August 25, 2020 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
This episode shows how quickly a new product idea can turn into a successful business and the key steps in the process!   When Amanda Farnum’s kids were young, she wanted to take a break from her day job to spend time with them, but she didn’t want to retreat from the business world completely...

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003 Sourdough for Tie Dyes, with Matt Asin, Early Stage Entrepreneur

Make It and Sell It - August 25, 2020 10:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
This episode explores the thinking of an early-stage entrepreneur who is deep in the process of fleshing out his longer-term plan.    Like many of us, Matt Asin spent the early days of the Coronavirus lockdown trying to keep busy at home. Matt is a professionally trained baker and restaurant p...

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001 Craft workers, Home-preneurs, and Makers, Oh My. What this is all about

Make It and Sell It - August 24, 2020 02:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
This episode introduces the idea of “small-scale, home-based production businesses” (whew! that's a mouthful!) as a powerful approach to career-building, income, and wealth that might be right for you. This is nothing new. Humans have produced, bartered, and sold home-based products for millenni...

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5 Step Formula TO Have SO Many Prospects You Don’t Know What To Do With Them All

Become a Home Entrepreneur with Brandy Shaver - August 13, 2020 17:00 - 6 minutes
How to Have SO Many Prospects You Don't Know What To Do With Them All, In The 7 Days, Without Prospecting! One of the biggest stumbling blocks that people have in their businesses is how to bring in prospects without using the spammy traditional (old school!) methods. You can have the best netw...

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The “7-Second Hook Formula” to Capture Your Audience’s Attention and Get Them to Take Action

Become a Home Entrepreneur with Brandy Shaver - August 06, 2020 17:00 - 9 minutes
The “7-Second Hook Formula” to Capture Your Audience’s Attention and Get Them to Take Action—in Seven Seconds or Less! How many times have you thought "I wish there was an easy formula to follow to make this work!" when thinking about your at home business? A formula that grabs their attentio...

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4 Types of Videos You Can Use to Get More Customers Right Now

Become a Home Entrepreneur with Brandy Shaver - July 30, 2020 19:00 - 7 minutes
4 Types of Videos You Can Use to Get More Customers Right Now Video is a hugely powerful tool in your Social Media toolkit and today I'm going to reveal the 4 types of videos that I use myself (that's how powerful they are!) to drive customers into my business.  So jump on, pick up some new to...

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3 Easy Ways to Get More Retail Customers Without Being a Salesy Weirdo

Become a Home Entrepreneur with Brandy Shaver - July 23, 2020 18:00 - 8 minutes
Have you ever found yourself acting like Salesy Weirdo?  Actually losing sales or, even worse, friends! STOP! Today I'm going to teach you 3 easy ways that you can attract retail customers without acting like a weirdo. But the training doesn't stop here...check this out to find out even more:...

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