Monday Morning Radio

You may think you know enough about branding or that your business or practice doesn’t need to have an ironclad brand to succeed. You’d be surprised at how many customers and how much profit you likely are missing out on. An exclusive interview with Lindsay Pedersen, author of "Forging an Ironclad Brand: A Leader's Guide."

“When people buy Clorox, they’re not buying bleach at all.” What are they buying? Listen and Learn in less than 60 seconds. An excerpt from the April 22, 2019 edition of Monday Morning Radio.

Question: You didn't go to business school and yet you launched a successful business right out of college. How? An excerpt from Monday Morning Radio with Host Dean Rotbart.

Entrepreneurial magic often results when education meets opportunity. In the case of Maxwell Cohen, the education was in environmental and water resource economics, and the opportunity was to save millions of gallons of water annually. His company, Peel Away Labs, developed the first multilayered, disposable, waterproof, fitted sheet designed for the home, industrial, and healthcare markets.

Question: What does it take to be a successful one-person business? An excerpt from Monday Morning Radio with Host Dean Rotbart.

Christina DeBusk spent 15 years working in law enforcement before, in 2012, she caught the writing bug. Without formal journalism training, she took anything and everything that she could get, grinding out content 16 hours a day. Today Christina is an Olympic-caliber writer, having completed six books; ghost-written a handful of others; and generated a whopping 5,000-plus paid content projects.

A one-minute podcast featuring Skip Prichard - The Book of Mistakes

Skip Prichard, a successful CEO and former head of publishing giant, Ingram Content Group, is a leading scholar of missteps and miscalculations. For his Wall Street Journal bestseller – The Book of Mistakes – he’s condensed the hard-earned lessons he gleaned from interviewing more than 1,000 successful people – from Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice – down to nine common errors.

ONE MINUTE with the ONE-MINUTE MANAGER: DR. KEN BLANCHARD

This week Beth Kendall, who earlier this year was elected as the first female president of the North Carolina Chimney Sweep Association, takes host and reputation coach Dean Rotbart up where the smoke is all billered and curled, and shares some smokin’ lessons that any business owner can readily profit from.

One of Dr. Ken Blanchard’s favorite topics over the years has been customer service and how businesses can excel at it. He recently reissued his 2005 book, "The Simple Truths of Service," which has sold more than 5 million copies. This week he joins host and reputation coach Dean Rotbart to share some of the common-sense wisdom that the book imparts.

Wizard Academy Alumnus Matt Mason is the New Nebraska State Poet

For a business to be truly successful, it requires executives who excel at managing their employees and, according to Andy Singer, employees who excel at managing their executives. Andy is the founder and CEO of Singer Executive Development, a Florida consultancy that trains both executives and employees on ways to maximize their performance, including managing each other well.

With roughly 90 million dogs in America and tens of millions of dog-lovers, it probably was inevitable that Happy Tails Canine Adventure Tours would emerge – offering eco-tours designed especially for dog lovers and their companions. David Blank, who along with his wife Claudia co-founded the company in 2018, is a veteran of the travel tour industry as well as a professional dog trainer.

Despite all of the television viewing options open to today’s consumers – broadcast, cable, satellite, and streaming – surprising little of the available programming is local, much less hyperlocal, in nature. Simon Bray, a veteran Fort Wayne entrepreneur, is on a mission to change that. Simon is the founder and CEO of Streaming Television, which is rolling out laser-focused local programming channels in more than 190 markets nationally. STV programs are available on major streaming platforms.