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EP44 - What's Coming Next
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - November 19, 2020 17:54 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsWe're going on a quick break, but this episode includes a sneak peek at what's coming up next. Thanks for a great season, and for all of the positive comments. If you love the show, consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts: https://lovethepodcast.com/stackingbricks Hosted on Acast. ...
EP43 - Jonathan Stark has Questions About Self Publishing
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - November 12, 2020 13:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsI recently joined friend Jonathan Stark on his podcast "Ditching Hourly" where he typically talks about business strategies and best practices for helping freelancers and consultants escape hourly billing. And we talked about that world of business quite a bit, including how people often copy th...
EP42 - What is Sales Safari? with Eteinne Garbugli
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - November 05, 2020 13:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsThis week I'm talking customer research with Eteinne Garbugli. Eteinne is the author of a book called Lean B2B, and after learning that his book included our Sales Safari customer research framework, I offered to talk with him and answer some of his remaining questions about the methodology. In...
EP41 - Questioning Our Assumptions with David Dylan Thomas
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - October 29, 2020 12:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsThis week I'm stopping by The Cognitive Bias Podcast with David Dylan Thomas to riff on a topic we're both very passionate about: the intersection of ethics and capitalism. Dave is one of the best people I can think of to talk to about this because as a designer and a strategist, He spent a lot...
EP40 - Worst Boss, Best Boss with Lauren Williams
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - October 22, 2020 13:34 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsThis week I've got a quick brick for you today, on the topic of bosses. One of the things I don't think we talk about enough is how the bosses we've had inform the bosses we become, and that includes becoming our own bosses too. A few weeks back I had the chance to sit down with Lauren William...
EP39 - Grow your Audience with Kevin Chemidlin
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - October 15, 2020 12:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsThis week The Tiny MBA podcast tour comes with a twist! Isn't there always a twist? Is it still a twist if you know a twist is coming? I guess M Night Shyamalan would say so.... ANYWAY. I'm bringing you an episode from a brand new show called "Grow the Show" by my friend Kevin Chemidlin and his...
EP38 - Don't Pee in the Pool with Nilofer Merchant
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - October 08, 2020 12:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsThis week we're taking a break from the Tiny MBA podcast tour to bring you a very special conversation with a very special guest: Nilofer Merchant. Nilofer comes with some serious credentials: She's worked as an executive and strategic consultant at massive companies like Apple, Adobe, Autodes...
EP37 - The stuff they don't teach you in school, with Mayur and Shahzada
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - October 01, 2020 12:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsOver the last few weeks, I have been visiting podcasts all across the internet, talking with entrepreneurs and creative people, just like you. And this time, I took a virtual trip to India to visit to my friends Mayur and Shai-zada on the Remote Explorers Podcast where they talk about remote wo...
EP36 - Building Trust at Scale with Will Toms and REC Philly
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - September 24, 2020 11:28 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsOver the last few weeks, I have been visiting podcasts all across the internet, talking with entrepreneurs and creative people, just like you. And this time, I paid a visit to Will Toms and the REC Philly community here in Philadelphia. REC - which stands for "resources for every creator" - i...
EP35 - Debugging Humans with Michele Hansen and Colleen Schnettler
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - September 17, 2020 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsOver the last few weeks, I have been visiting podcasts all across the internet, talking with entrepreneurs and creative people, just like you. We'll not necessarily JUST like you, because you might have noticed that these last few conversations have been visits to podcasts hosted by dudes! Tha...
EP34 - "Is this really gonna help people?" with Tony Lopes
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - September 11, 2020 12:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsOver the last few episodes, I've been visiting podcasts all across the internet, talking with entrepreneurs and creative people just like you to talk about some of their favorites tidbits from my new book, The Tiny MBA. In THIS episode I visited with Tony Lopes on the Self Made Strategies Pod...
EP33 - Agency Talk on The Iowa Idea
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - September 03, 2020 11:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsOver the last few weeks, I've been visiting podcasts all across the internet, talking with entrepreneurs and creative people just like you to talk about some of their favorites tidbits from my new book, The Tiny MBA. In THIS episode I visited with Matthew Arnold on the Iowa Idea podcast, wher...
EP32 - An (Overly) Honest Review of The Tiny MBA with Brendan Hufford
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - August 27, 2020 17:28 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsOver the last few weeks, I've been visiting podcasts all across the internet, talking with entrepreneurs and creative people just like you to talk about some of their favorites tidbits from my new book, The Tiny MBA. In today's episode, I visit with Brendan Hufford from the SEO for the Rest o...
EP31 - The Zen Koans of Business with Chariot Solutions
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - August 19, 2020 13:38 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsOver the last few weeks, I've been visiting podcasts all across the internet, talking with entrepreneurs and creative people just like you to talk about some of their favorites tidbits from my new book, The Tiny MBA. And today I'm sharing an episode from a live stream that I did with Ken Rimpl...
EP30 - Sales for Founders & The Tiny MBA
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - August 14, 2020 17:52 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsHope you're safe, hope you're well, hope your loved ones are well, hope you're finding ways to stay sane and of course, finding ways to keep stacking the bricks to build your own product business. Over the coming weeks I'm going to be adding new episodes to the Stacking the Bricks feed to highl...
EP29 - What are you optimizing for?
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - September 13, 2017 04:05 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsNathan Johnson left a corporate gig to bootstrap an affiliate business to 100,000 users. But to get it any bigger - and profitable - he would have to give up the very thing he left his corporate gig for: freedom. Ouch. Find out how he changed course to build a different business that DOES let hi...
EP29 - What are you optimizing for?
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - September 13, 2017 04:05 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsNathan Johnson left a corporate gig to bootstrap an affiliate business to 100,000 users. But to get it any bigger - and profitable - he would have to give up the very thing he left his corporate gig for: freedom. Ouch. Find out how he changed course to build a different business that DOES let h...
EP28 - Double your Conversion Rate with Brennan Dunn
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - August 30, 2017 04:01 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsI've been wanting to do an episode with Brennan Dunn for a LONG time. He's one of our most successful students, having built an empire of resources and products for freelancers at doubleyourfreelancing.com. But freelancing rates aren't the only thing Brennan has figured out how to double...now h...
EP27 - You can ship. But will anybody buy?
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - August 16, 2017 17:18 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsDave Ceddia knew how to ship, but none of his projects had ever made a sale. Today, $15,000 in sales of his book "Pure React" later, he knows how to create new, bigger products for his loyal and growing audience. In this episode, you'll find out how he stopped thinking of himself as a "lifer" a...
EP27 - You can ship. But will anybody buy?
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - August 16, 2017 17:18 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsDave Ceddia knew how to ship, but none of his projects had ever made a sale. Today, $15,000 in sales of his book "Pure React" later, he knows how to create new, bigger products for his loyal and growing audience. In this episode, you'll find out how he stopped thinking of himself as a "lifer" ...
EP26 - Don't wait 18 months
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - October 09, 2016 13:55 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsDonovan picked up JFS in December. Read it over Christmas. By the end of February, he'd grown his mailing list to 1,500 people. He created a landing page and JFS'd an email course on CSS animation, with a price tag of $49. In the first 7 days, he made 50 sales — for a total of over $2,000. NICE...
EP25 - Features, or marketing? (Part 3 of a series)
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - July 15, 2016 12:27 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsHere is the double-edged sword of the software business: All the “features” in the world will not matter if you don’t have the customer pipeline. It is better to lose many customers over a missing feature than spend a month on a feature that people say will make them sign up. Yet there really...
EP24 - Teamwork is harder than you think (Part 2 of a series)
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - July 08, 2016 11:12 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsIn this episode we talk about the second of five things I wish I’d known when I started Freckle, things that would have made my life so much more profitable and pleasurable. Missed Part 1? Listen here. Adding people - partners, employees, contract staff - is one of the hardest parts of growing...
EP23 - "Everything will get easier if..." (Part 1 of a series)
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - July 01, 2016 06:01 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings2015 was the best ever for Amy's SaaS business Freckle, with $625k of gross receipts, and so far we’re on track to hit close to $800k annual run rate (ARR) before this year is out. Those are some big numbers, but we didn’t start out there, and it hasn’t been all smooth sailing. In this episode ...
EP22 - How to make an offer they can't refuse (Outreach Masterclass with Kai Davis)
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - June 10, 2016 12:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsWhen Kai Davis sends you an email, there's a good chance he's asking for something. Amazingly...he does it without looking like a total jerkface. Is he some sort of wizard of persuasion? No, no. He has a process. Kai is an outreach consultant - which we'll let him describe in this "live master...
EP21 - The most dangerous room in the house
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - March 25, 2016 12:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsLet us show you how most of the "risk" in starting a business isn't really risk at all. Related Links Just one instance of infamous tweet mentioned in this episode: https://twitter.com/amyhoy/status/699722679788703744 (notice the replies) "Petting puppies with Peter Drucker" also mentioned in...
EP20 - Swift Kick in the Ass (Accountability)
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - March 18, 2016 19:14 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsGot 5 minutes? Then let Amy give you a swift kick in the ass. Learn why "accountability" doesn't work the way you think it does, and how to change your mindset to get more done. Need another swift kick in the ass from time to time? Subscribe to Stacking the Bricks for more and join our spam-f...
EP19 - A Swift Kick in the Ass (The Game of Business)
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - March 11, 2016 11:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsGot 5 minutes? Then let Amy give you a swift kick in the ass. Listen to this quick, bite-sized episode of Stacking the Bricks to learn why business is unlike any other game you've ever played. Need another swift kick in the ass from time to time? Subscribe to Stacking the Bricks for more and ...
EP18 - Our Profitable Mess (and how we're cleaning it up)
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - February 21, 2016 06:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsLast year was dedicated to renovating 30x500, and it's already paying off for our students and for us. Yayyyyy! But if we're honest...some of the most crucial parts of our business are a mess. A mess that makes money, but messy still: Our website isn't optimized to help new readers and listene...
EP17 - Kids Incorporated
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - February 12, 2016 05:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsAmy has talked about starting Freckle. Alex has talked about starting Indy Hall. But NEITHER of these were our first brushes with business. To get our true origin stories, you'd need to see what we were doing to earn money while we were still in grade school. And it wasn't from babysitting... ...
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