Small Business Strategies

157: How This Entrepreneur Couple Built America’s 9th Fastest Growing Manufacturing Company

This week I welcome Jen and Chris Hudak founders of Escapod on the podcast. This couple started a business out of a garage back in 2016 and now have over 70 employees on staff.  Their company was just listed as America’s 9th fastest growing manufacturing company in the recent Inc. 5000 list.  On this episode, you’ll…

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156: Mindsets, Skills, and Behaviors for Being a Successful People-Centric Leader

This week Steven Howard joins me on the podcast show. Steven is an award-winning author of 22 leadership, business, and motivational books. We’ll be discussing a couple of his latest books. His most recent book is Humony Leadership: Mindsets, Skills, and Behaviors for Being a Successful People-Centric Leader. Humony is a created word comprising human, humanity, and harmony…

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155: A New Technological Innovation for Composite Lighting and other Interviews from CAMX 22

On this episode, I feature an interview I did at CAMX that highlights an innovative approach that allies composites, fiber optics, and electricity safely.  With the marriage of Guardtex’s high-tech textile lighting solution Kanvaslight and Structural Composites‘ groundbreaking resin CoCure, LamLight was born. With LamLight, lighting can be integrated into any composite structure, bringing the…

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153: Live Interview at CAMX with Marcos Vidal of ACS Int & Dorfner

Last week, I attended CAMX 2022 in Anaheim, CA, and while there had the opportunity to interview a number of companies in the composites and advanced materials industry, including a few ICPA members who serve the cast marble industry.   Marcos Vidal from ACS International & Dorfner stopped by my table for a quick interview and…

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152: How Industrial Technology Is Creating a Better, Faster, Stronger America – Interview with Author Nick Santhanam

This week I welcome Nick Santhanam to the show. Nick is the CEO of  Fernweh Group, and the co-author of a brand new book The Titanium Economy coming out October 25th in bookstores and available for pre-order on Amazon.  While Silicon Valley titans dominate the headlines nowadays, many of the fastest-growing, most profitable companies in the US are firms…

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151: 11 Simple Tools to Grow Your Business – Interview with Kevin Donlin

This week, I welcome Kevin Donlin to the podcast. Kevin is the author of Marketing Multipliers: 11 Simple Tools to Grow Your Business.  Kevin has been in marketing since 1994, when he sold one of the first ebooks — on Usenet, for $10, payable by check. From 1995 to 1998, he was Webmaster for FedEx.com,…

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150: Interview with Todd Werstler at POLYCON 22 – Part 2

On this episode, Todd Werstler joins me at Polycon to discuss his presentation on day one of “Selling Labor and Product Diversification”.

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Episode 149: Interview With Zach Sinz of Stoner Molding Solution @ POLYCON 2022 – Part 1

This episode features a couple of interviews from Day 1 at POLYCON 2022 hosted by Tower Industries. For the first interview, Zach Sinz of Stoner Molding Solutions joined me to talk about the benefits of water-based mold releases.

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Episode 148: Discussing the PolyTech Training Schedule for POLYCON22 with Larry Branan

This week, Larry Branan of The R.J. Marshall Company joins me on the show to discuss the Polytech training schedule for POLYCON22. This 3-day event will be packed with some great training at Tower Industries and American Marble Industries. 

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