Biz Soup Podcast Radio

Jed Ayres, IGEL, The Next Generation Edge Operating System for Cloud Work Spaces

BizSoup Podcast Radio Episode 045 with John DeBevoise

Jed Ayres leads IGEL’s seasoned team of executive leaders as the company works to align with the world’s most prominent cloud providers to transform end user computing by simplifying and securing the cloud-delivery of all needed applications and resources.

Jed brings more than 20 years of technology experience to IGEL and has a wide range of industry experience across workspace management, virtualization and mobility. Prior to joining IGEL, he was the SVP of Worldwide Marketing for AppSense and previously held the title as CMO at MCPc; a $300m+ Solutions Provider. Ayers has held a number of advisory board positions, including Citrix Platinum Council, VMware Global Partner Advisory Board, Hewlett Packard Partner Marketing Advisory Board and the Cisco Marketing Council.

Ayres holds a BS in Business Administration from Sonoma State University and an MBA from San Francisco State University. He resides in Marin, California.

Listen to this information-packed BizSoup Podcast Radio episode with Jed Ayres about IGEL, the next generation operating system for cloud work spaces.

●     How IGEL eliminates the dozens of devices running windows.

●     How IGEL has Hi Fidelity that provides a highly secure experience anywhere on any device.

●     How IGEL makes it so there is no need to constantly update hardware or software.

Connect with Jed Ayres

Website

igel.com

Facebook

facebook.com/igel.technology

Twitter

@jedayres

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/jedayres

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BizSoup Podcast Radio Episode 044 with John DeBevoise

Author, Publisher, Speaker, and Branding Genius Mr. Roy Smoothe is affectionately known as ‘The Cool Branding Guy’ He is the renowned founder of ‘Smoothe Mixx’ the World’s #1 Motivation & Music Label with over 30 million Streams over / iTunes & Spotify. His cool, unique and distinctive approach combines fashion, music, branding and cutting-edge audio production to create world-class projects and high-impact initiatives that improve the way people live, learn, work and do business.

To brand out of the crowd you need to be different and that’s what Roy does best… In his own style, he teaches how to attract attention in your marketplace, how to create a compelling brand story, and how to engage your target audience with a fresh, funky and entertaining approach in order to keep you ahead of your competitors… Numerous high profile, successful individuals, businesses and organizations worldwide recognize the value of his Cool Branding Concepts which he has used to help them increase brand awareness, generate new business leads & increase in sales

Listen to this information-packed BizSoup Podcast Radio episode with Roy Smoothe about building your personal brand.

●     Why showing up strong will enhance the perception you create .

●     How to build a perception and story for you and your company on social media.

●     How the branding process includes attention, attraction, engagement, and results.

●     Why you need to know your company’s jewels to make them sparkle in the marketplace.

Connect with Roy Smoothe

Website

roysmoothe.com 

Facebook

facebook.com/roy.smoothe

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/roy-smoothe-7535392/?originalSubdomain=uk

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Steven Ekstract Part 2, Global Licensing: Giving and Getting

BizSoup Podcast Radio Episode 034 with John DeBevoise

Steven Ekstract is an internationally renowned licensing/media industry executive and co-founder and publisher of the world’s leading business publication and news source for the $300 billion a year Global Consumer Products Licensing business. He uses an entrepreneurial acumen coupled with consultative marketing approach for clients’ brand extension and growth. Steven has extensive management experience interfacing with and advising top level executives worldwide.

Steven partners with and provides business development to the leading global consumer products and licensing trade fairs and conferences including: Licensing Expo, Brand Licensing Expo, Licensing Expo Japan, and Licensing Expo China

Steven is the founder and organizer of NYC Summit: The Business, which is brand licensing that holds an annual C-Level Executive Conference for the global licensing industry

Steven is regularly consulted by intellectual property owners, manufacturers, news media and VC’s seeking expert information and analysis on licensing industry.

Steven specializes in branding and identity, licensing and retail, pop culture, and international markets

Listen to this information-packed BizSoup Podcast Radio episode with Steven Ekstract about giving and receiving using global licensing.

●     What the rules of governing licensing are.

●     Why it’s important to add a license to your invention.

●     How social media influences are a growing area for licensing.

●     Why dead celebrities are the safest to license.

Connect with Steven Ekstract

Website 

licenseglobal.com

Facebook

facebook.com/ekstract

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/steve ekstract

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Jason Kraft, Turn Your Beloved Bike into a Helpful Friend with E-BikeKit

BizSoup Podcast Radio Episode 041 with John DeBevoise

Electric Bike Technologies is a development, sales and marketing company specializing in affordable high-quality electric bicycle conversion kits, hub motors, batteries and components.

In business since 2008, the company has earned a reputation for delivering the best value and user experience in electric bike conversion with their flagship product the E-BikeKit™ Conversion Kit System.

The company launched its Liberty Electric Adult Mobility Tricycle in August 2015 via Indiegogo. ElectricTrike.com quickly followed suit with folding, recumbent and traditional tricycles.

With strong manufacturing partners in the US and Asia, a fast-growing network of authorized dealers and a reputation for outstanding service, Electric Bike Technologies is committed to advancing the use of electric bikes in the United States and abroad.

Listen to this information-packed BizSoup Podcast Radio episode with Jason Kraft about turning bikes into E-Bikes with the E-BikeKit Conversion system.

●     How the E-BikeKit business evolved.

●     How the E-BikeKit built off of the electric car craze.

●     How converting almost any bike is now possible.

●     Why you should let an E-Bike dealer help if you aren’t technically inclined.

Links Mentioned

electricbiketechnologies.com

EBikeKit.com

ElectricBikeStore.com

ElectricTrike.com

LibertyTrike.com

Connect with Jason Kraft

Facebook

facebook.com/ElectricBikeKit

Twitter

@EBikeKit

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/company/electricbiketech

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Rob Angel, A Picture is Worth 5,018 Words. Pictionary Creator Rob Angel Shares his Inspirational Story of Grit and determination

BizSoup Podcast Radio Episode 042 with John DeBevoise 

Rob Angel is the author of the book, Game Changer, The Story of Pictionary and How I Turned a Simple Idea into the Bestselling Board Game in the World. 

In 1982, following his graduation from Western Washington University with a degree in Business Administration and while waiting tables Rob Angel turned his simple idea into the best-selling board game in the world, Pictionary. It’s not just a game, it’s a positive emotional experience. Rob wanted to share that feeling with the world. He had no plan or dream. He also didn’t overthink it. He started by putting together the first 1000 games together by hand in his tiny apartment. Pictionary became the biggest selling game in the world, spanning 60 countries and selling 38 million games until Rob sold it to Mattel in 2001.

Today Rob enjoys speaking to entrepreneurs, college students, and businesses, sharing the many lessons he learned in business and in life. Rob loves to say, “If you have an idea, control it, hold on to it, and protect it.” Through his message of being open to grabbing all that life puts in front of you, anyone, he says, can find their passion, their dream, and have a most successful life.

Listen to this information-packed BizSoup Podcast Radio episode with Rob Angel about using grit and determination to create Pictionary.  

● Why if you wait for all the pieces to be in place, you’ll never get started.

● How life is about flow and turning your fears into challenges.

● How a simple action can change your mindset.

● How you need to control, hold on to, and protect your ideas.

Connect with Rob Angel

Facebook

facebook.com/therobangel

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/therobangel

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Brent Wilsey Part 3: Post COVID-19 Business Review. Winners and Losers.

BizSoup Podcast Radio Episode 040 with John DeBevoise

Brent is a seasoned financial strategist with over 40 years of experience in the field. Brent currently owns and operates Wilsey Asset Management— through which he offers day-to-day investment guidance to both individual investors and corporations. A financial management veteran with nearly $250 million under management, Brent’s industry expertise, and credibility has made him a sought-after expert source with the media. He has frequently served as a guest commentator on national broadcast television and radio talk shows, including CNBC and Bloomberg.

Currently, Wilsey hosts 760AM-KFMB’s weekly Smart Investing program, which airs Saturdays at 8 am and Sundays at 5 pm. In addition, Brent penned a weekly newsletter for the San Diego Daily Transcript and continues to write a weekly newsletter, The Smart Investing Newsletter.

An accounting graduate of National University, Brent received his MBA degree from the same institution in 1986.

Listen to this information-packed BizSoup Podcast Radio episode with Brent Wilsey about the state of businesses post COVID-19.

●   How COVID-19 came with an eight trillion-dollar price tag.

●   How you should handle your 401K retirement contributions.

●   Why the bankruptcies of large big-box corporations may have opened investment opportunities.

●   Why manufacturing oversees might come back home.

Connect with Brent Wilsey

Website

wilseyassetmanagement.com 

Facebook

facebook.com/wilseyassetmanagement

Twitter

@BrentWilsey

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/brentmwilsey

YouTube

youtube.com/user/smartinvestingrecap

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Kristin Zhivago, Mindset Driven Marketing: Understanding the Mindset of Your Customer

BizSoup Podcast Episode 039 with John DeBevoise

Kristin Zhivago has helped hundreds of CEOs and entrepreneurs grow their companies. She is a true market positioning strategist, helping you distinguish yourselves from competitors and making it easy for customers to find you, appreciate you, and buy from you. During her career, Zhivago has helped companies launch and market industry-changing technologies such as computers, spreadsheet technology, email, voicemail, manufacturing systems, computer-aided design, cellular and telephonic systems, medical systems, and chip-based sensing systems, to name a few. She has interviewed thousands of customers and hundreds of partners.

Listen to this information-packed BizSoup Podcast Radio episode with Kristin Zhivago about marketing to the mindset of your customers.

●   How to know what the customer wants and needs.

●   Why you should synergize your sales force and marketing teams into one dynamic force.

●   How to navigate through social media by understanding your product and where customers look for your product.

●   How the simplicity or complexity of your products helps determine your customers’ mindset.

Links Mentioned

Buy her book on : www.amazon.com/Roadmap-Revenue-Sell-Your-Customers/dp/B07DM7L5JD/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=roadmap+to+revenue&qid=1591383994&sr=8-1

Connect with Kristin Zhivago

Website

zhivagopartners.com

Facebook

facebook.com/ZhivagoPartners

Twitter

@kristinzhivago

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/kristinzhivago

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Cary Reich, Craft Your Business Message in a Unique and Powerful Way with a Jingle

BizSoup Podcast Radio Episode 038 with John DeBevoise

Cary Reich, The Jingle Writer, has been in the jingle-writing industry since 1985.

He has produced thousands of successful campaigns for clients all across the United States. Cary’s creative vision helps his clients see their businesses in a customer-focused way, He has worked with radio and television stations to create successful jingles/branding ideas for companies such as Budweiser, Firestone, Gold’s Gym, Goodwill, YMCA, and scores of local clients.

His performance and publishing credentials include Musical Direction for the Jewish Media

Relations Council; writing and performing contemporary music for Sounds Write productions with Debbie Friedman; and keyboard player and musical director for Kool Reflektions, a Florida favorite on the Jazz scene. Kool Reflektions opened for the likes of George Benson, Branford Marsalis and Joe Sample.

Cary graduated at the top of his class from the University of Florida School of Business. , she performed and produced for the UF Vocal Jazz Troupe and enjoyed “anonymous stardom” as the school’s mascot “Albert the Alligator.”

Listen to this information-packed BizSoup Podcast Radio episode with Cary Reich about using jingles in a powerful and unique way.

●   How to identify what your brand is or should be.

●   How to capture an idea with words and music that people remember.

●   How to set yourself apart from the competition.

Connect with Cary Reich

Website

thejinglewriter.com 

Facebook

facebook.com/TheJingleWriter

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/company/cary-reich-the-jingle-writer

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Tom Matzen: Be the Best Entrepreneur You Can Be. Empower Yourself!

BizSoup Podcast Radio Episode 037 with John DeBevoise

Tom Matzen is an accomplished business owner and entrepreneur. His enthusiasm is electric, and he wants the entrepreneur to succeed and maybe help save the world at the same time.

As an international best-selling author and seminar presenter Tom has been able to share his message of business success and failure to more than 100,000 people on 4 continents. He has been interviewed in Success Mag, Inc Mag, Entrepreneur, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and 100’s of radio and TV Stations across North America, sharing the secrets of business success that he learned from his business ventures and from his personal interviews with some 204 business leaders. His personal coaching clients have generated more than one hundred million in sales in dozens of industries.

Entrepreneurs hire Tom to build seven figure authority businesses for them fast, because most are so busy doing things they don’t love for their business. The bottom line is the authority does what they’re great at, and Tom and his team do the rest, guaranteeing them a million-dollar income within two years.

Listen to this information-packed BizSoup Podcast Radio episode with Tom Matzen about empowering yourself to become a great entrepreneur. 

●     How to do good while at the same time.

●     Why you need to build equity in your business.

●     How to make your business scalable.

●     How to determine if you are an entrepreneur or a small business owner.

Links Mentioned

Free Scholarship Offer

https://entrepreneurempowerment.org/scholarship/ 

Connect with Tom Matzen:

Website

TomMatzen.com

Facebook

facebook.com/tom.matzen

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/tommatzen

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Jim Amos, Everything Begins and Ends with a Dream. Is Your Dream?

BizSoup Podcast Radio Episode 036 with John DeBevoise 

Mr. Amos is the former CEO of Mail Boxes Etc., now The UPS Store, and a 2012 inductee into the International Franchise Association’s Hall of Fame (www.franchise.org). He is also the 2012 recipient of the Nashville Business Legend . He has sought to guide entrepreneurs, associates and fellow citizens as a board member, frequent speaker, writer and blogger (jimamosblog.com), and a constant advocate for military veterans and business format franchising.

Under his leadership as Chairman and CEO, Mail Boxes Etc. became the world’s largest and fastest growing franchisor of retail business, communication and postal service centers. Based in San Diego, the MBE Network comprised nearly 5,000 locations worldwide, with master licensing agreements in more than 80 countries. In 2001, Amos was instrumental in orchestrating the sale of MBE to United Parcel Service and executing the largest re-branding in history of a retail system from MBE to The UPS Store.

A former Marine Corps captain and veteran of split combat tours in Vietnam, Mr. Amos received 12 decorations, including the Purple Heart and Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. He is the author of several books including the best sellers The Memorial, now being developed in Hollywood as a screen play; Focus or Failure: America at the Crossroads; The Transparent Leader; Corporate Giants; Above and Beyond; You Can Do It; The Entrepreneurs’ Creed; and Living An Uncommon Life. He is also the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Franchising. His newest book, The Journey, was released in 2016.

Listen to this information-packed BizSoup Podcast Radio episode with Jim Amos about owning your own franchise. 

What the term franchising means.

If you are a good candidate to own a franchise.

How to use Unit Economics as the litmus test for a good or bad franchise.

Links Mentioned

Connect with Jim Amos

https://jimamosblog.com/

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/jim-amos-310648

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