Small Biz Buzz, by Keap

What’s the most important thing most small businesses should be doing, but aren’t?  According to Dennis Yu and Logan Young from Blitzmetrics it’s “Digital Plumbing”—making sure you have the technical foundation in place to make sure your traffic isn’t being lost, but is getting the right message and experience at the right time.

Our resident SEO expert Rachel Meyers talks with Clate & Scott about how a business improve their SEO, even if they don’t have a lot of free time to dedicate to it.  From hiring the right contractor, to avoiding the Google-slap. Check out our guide to SEO Basics for small businesses.

Nancy Seeger, the CEO of Seeger Consulting joins us in our final episode of our Partner series, which is packed with market research tips, as well as why the often overlooked tactic of sponsoring events might be a great move for your business. To learn how to make sure your get a strong ROI on sponsoring an event, check out their Top 10 Things That You Can Do To Make Money When Sponsoring Events.

Continuing our Partner series, this episode Micheline Christophe joins us from babel-team, a Brazillian agency that has helped countless businesses grow, as well as Jennifer Leslie, a Content Creator at Infusionsoft. Micheline walks us through the three things most small business forget to do that make a huge difference in their bottom line. Babel-team attended Elite Forum and it made a big impact in their business, as did Michael Gerber’s books like The E Myth.

Dobbin Buck of GetUWired joins the podcast again as does Jennifer Leslie, and we tackle scaling your business without destroying your culture—which Dobbin knows all about as Entrepreneur Magazine says GetUWired is in the top 25 Company Cultures among small businesses. Learn how to build your company from 7 to 8 figures at Infusionsoft’s Elite Forum.

Continuing our series where we met with small business experts who solve problems for entrepreneurs and small business owners every day. We are joined by Mauricio Rodriguez, Director General of mit-mut.com (listen to find out what that name means) and Erin Case, Partner Marketing Manager at Infusionsoft. Find out what Mauricio means when he says small business owners are terrible, and the how to overcome small businesses most common problems.

Announcement - 2 Week Schedule

We’re fresh back from Infusionsoft’s PartnerCon where we met with a ton of small business experts who solve problems for entrepreneurs and small business owners every day.  This episode we hear from Daan Schmidt of Schmidt Communicatie and host of SchmidtCast - Europe's #1 EntrepreneurCast for business.  We talk about working with family, the importance of starting with a revenue goal, and more. Check out the free trial of Infusionsoft to tackle the day to day tasks of running your business.

Join guest host Ben Snedeker and small business advocate Ramon Ray, the Editor & Founder of Smart Hustle Magazine. Topics include why it’s important for a small business to automate follow up, and how to make sure it doesn’t feel “robotronic.”

Join guest host Ben Snedeker and Sean Greeley, the CEO of Net Profit Explosion, as we chat about how to market your business  problems that come along with a marketing and growth focused mind set. Follow Sean and NPE on Twitter. Check out the free trial of Infusionsoft to tackle the day to day tasks of running your business.

Today we help you find your target audience—and talk about why it’s so important. Learn more about How to Analyze Your Target Market

Clate & Scott talk to Mike Koenigs, CEO of You Everywhere Now! which teaches how you can build, engage and monetize an audience quickly and easily. Mike is a 12 time #1 best selling author and advisor to Tony Robbins, John Assaraf, JJ Virgin, Peter Diamandis, Paula Abdul and over 52,000 customers in 121 countries. They talk about how to grow your list, and methods of capturing leads, and making sure they are leads that will actually buy your product or service.

Don Miller from Stroybrand joins Infusionsoft Product Marketing Manager Brina Kaiser, and teaches how to make your marketing as interesting as a blockbuster movie.  Pre-order his new book Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen, and send the receipt bonus@storybrand.com to get two previously unavailable lectures for free. To automate Storybrand across your marketing, sales and customer relations, try Infusionsoft for free at infusionsoft.com/storybrand.

We talk design methodology and user testing with James Archer & Stephanie Haworth. Listen to learn how to ensure your product and marketing are working you want them to.

Join Clate and Dusey as the talk to Brad Owens, who says traditional behavioral interviewing is out, and Attributional Interviewing is in.  Brad brings 10 years of experience hiring for some of the most profitable companies out there, and shares his expertise so small businesses can have the same advantages as Fortune 500 companies.  Brad is the host of the Small Business Hiring podcast, where he was recently joined by our very own hiring partner Lauren Borgeson.