The Small Business 2017 Year in Review – Small Business Show 151

From Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast Shannon Jean & Dave Hamilton

Join us for our last episode of 2017 where we share Small Business tips from our favorite shows of the past year. Dave and Shannon both have their favorite guests, topics and advice from episodes of the Small Business Show that aired during the year.

We hope you’ve been able to live a Charmed Life during 2017 and we wish you the best for 2018!

Chapters/Timestamps:

00:00:00 Small Business Show #151 for Wednesday, December 27, 2017
00:01:34 Lessons learned throughout the year
00:02:04 Jay Gentile from BoosterBots
- Created a business out of what he was building to help his other business
00:03:15 Jumpanzee – Live anywhere!
00:04:35 Effective problem solving – The key to being successful
- The Two Tokens concept
00:06:40 Lance from Bolt NWA – such a unique dude.
00:09:13 Mike Pile of Uppercase Branding
“Brainstorming is a waste of time”
00:10:11 Learning to say No
00:11:41 Introduction of the Revenue Stack concept
00:13:05 Interview with Kyle Baccus of KCTool
- Selling your business and expanding on the Revenue Stack
00:15:30 SPONSOR: TextExpander.com/podcast gets you 20% off your first year
00:18:42 Listo Pencil – going low tech, and getting smaller to grow
- Challenges of taking over a multi-generational business
00:20:17 Interview with Cory and Doug from Tanglefree Waterfowl
- All about quality… lessons learned
00:21:32 Kelly Loudermilk from BuildHR
00:23:08 David Oliva of RD Appliance
- Raising prices a lot.
- Being a great tech doesn’t make you a great business owner
- Distinguishing yourself by going upscale – appliance repair
00:25:03 Entrepreneur Ethos – Jarie Bolander and Mihir Shah
00:26:34 Field Harmony
- The best mistake: forgetting that other people aren’t you.
00:28:02 The Turo Story… and the experience!
00:35:24 SBS Outtro