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166: Interview with Chris Bolte of Agean Bath and Spa

This week, Chris Bolte, president of Agean Bath and Spa joins me on the show to discuss their company-  a family business that started back in 1946. Chris represents the third generation of his family to run the business.

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164: How to Create “Mafia Offers”: Interview with Dr. Lisa Lang – Part 2

This is part 2 of my interview with Dr. Lisa Lang. She is one of the foremost Theory of Constraints experts in the world and has been named the “Manufacturing Trendsetter” by USA Today and “Manufacturing Champion” by Newsweek.  On this follow-up interview, we’ll be discussing the psychology behind the Mafia Offer. 

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162: How to Use AI in Your Email Marketing Campaigns

On this episode, Ajay Goel joins me to discuss how AI can be used to help create email marketing campaigns. Ajay is the founder of GMass, an established and innovative solution that seamlessly integrates into GMail, creating mass email, mail merge, and follow-up email services possible within the world’s most popular email service.  Ajay has been…

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159: Interview with Tato Corcoran of Brandt Molded Marble

This week, Tato Corcoran joins me on the show. Tato is the proud owner of Brandt Molded Marble, a new ICPA member. Tato graduated from the University of California at Davis in 2014 and then started a career in the Silicon Valley tech industry serving as an Executive Assistant to a Fortune 200 executive. Several…

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158: How to Use Behavioral Science to Improve Your Sales and Marketing

On this week’s episode, we’ll be discussing how to increase engagement, response, and ROI by harnessinghardwired human behavior and instinctive responses. I share an interview with Nancy Harhut. She is the author of the new book Using Behavioral Science in Marketing. 

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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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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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Episode 145: How to Build an Award Winning Company that Runs Without You

Many entrepreneurs hope to grow a business that will one day run without them. This was the theme of Michael Gerber’s classic book the E-Myth. Too often, business owners get trapped working inside the business on all of the technical details rather than working on the outside of the business. As Gerber famously said, “Technicians suffering…

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