Podcasts

After a 10 month hiatus, SavvySoloCAST is back online. Today’s show is an interview with Stephen Shapiro, author of Goal-Free Living: How to Have the Life You Want NOW! Running time is about 35 minutes with a file size of 14mb.

Intro music: La La La by Mr. Kane.

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Check out this podcast from two of my favorite savvy solopreneurs, Yaro Starak and Darren Rowse, on how to increase traffic to your blog. Darren gets in excess of 5k visitors per day to his Problogger site, and Yaro recently surpassed the 1k visitor-per-day mark on his Entrepreneur’s Journey site. I’d say they might know what they’re talking about.

Link to podcast (running time 38 minutes).

blogging, traffic, podcast

Bob Walsh (ToDoOrElse.com and Safari Software) just published a book titled MicroISV: From Vision to Reality. I spoke with him this past Friday about the MicroISV movement as well as his new book. For the uninitiated, MicroISV = micro independent software vendor. Even if you’re not a software vendor, I think you’ll find the interview interesting as we discuss some of the latest trends related to small business and doing business on the web.

Links to sites and people mentioned in the interview:

• Joel Spolsky’s The Business of Software Forum
• Apress Publishing
• Erik Sink
• SourceGear Software
• 37 Signals
• Fog Creek Software
• The Long Tail
• Chris Anderson
• Andy Brice and Perfect Table Plan
• del.icio.us
• Blinksale
• David Allen
• Mena and Ben Trott and Six Apart
• Don Dodge

Intro and Outro Music: Sparks performed by the brothers (n)

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Technorati Tags: podcast, microisv, web2.0, software, business

This is part 2 of my discussion with Yaro Starak about buying and selling blogs. Running time is about 34 minutes. If you haven’t listened to part 1 yet, get it here. Running time is about 28 minutes.

Intro music: Sparks performed by the brother (n).

Click here to download SavvySoloCAST #27.

Last week, I sold my main blog, Small Business Branding, to my friend Yaro Starak. Everyone wanted to know what the selling price was, so we decided to do a case-study type of conversation about buying and selling blogs or websites. In particular, we discussed how to value a blog or website you’re considering buying or selling. The conversation was about an hour long, so I split it up into two separate podcasts. This is Part 1 of the discusion. Running time is about 34 minutes.

Intro music: Sparks performed by the brother (n)

Other sites mentioned:

• Problogger
• BlogHerald
• Performancing
• The Poker Blog

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Today’s episode is a converation I had with Harry Joiner (Marketing Headhunter) a couple of weeks ago. Our subjects were all over the board, but it really boils down to small business marketing. Harry has a lot of energy and he’s incredibly smart, so the conversation was very rich. Running time is about 47 minutes. Enjoy!

• Intro Clip Features Opie Hicks and the Elements - Time
• Opening Music: Stone Melodies - This I Know

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Today’s episode is an interview with Lucy MacDonald (website), who is a marketing adviser from Montreal Canada. We had a great discussion about overcoming the fear of marketing, as well as some of the tips and tactics she’s used to build her own business. I also put out a request to eveyone listening to complete the SavvySoloCAST listener survey, which should take you less than a couple of minutes to complete. And it would be a tremendous help to me. Running time
is about 55 minutes with a file size of about 24 mb. Enjoy!

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• Intro Clip Features Opie Hicks and the Elements - Time
• Opening Music: The Jennie DeVoe Band - Naked People

Today’s episode is a pretty full show. I provide an update on Solostream Global Media, as well as a review of a nice PDF converter I tracked down. Also listener feedback, a mashup, a rant about creating multiple value delivery channels and some podsafe music. Running time is about 39 minutes with a file size of about 18 mb. Enjoy!

Links to sites mentioned in the podcast:

• Intro Clip Features Opie Hicks and the Elements - Time
• Opening Music: Mr Kane - Nothing At All
• Podsnapper Beginner’s Guide to Podcasting
• Back Office Brain
• deskPDF Professional
• Tips and Traps When Buying a Business
• Digital Production Buzz
• Mashup: No One Takes Your Freedom by DJ Earworm
• Biz Tips Blog
• Problogger
• Micropersuasion
• Bridge Ratings Industry Update - The Podcasting Outlook

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In this episode, I speak with James Maduk (website) about creating and selling information products. More specifically, how to create information products from what you already know and do in your daily activities. Running time is about 60 minutes. Enjoy!

• MP3 Download
• MP3 Stream
• Real Player
• Windows Media Stream

SavvySoloCAST #20 - How to Build a Thriving Professional Practice.

In this episode, I have a great conversation with Alan Kearns, who’s a career coach and the founder of Career Joy, a career coaching company in Canada. Alan has built a really vibrant coaching practice that generates 10 new clients each week, so I had to pick his brain to learn his secrets. I also played a cool, new song making it’s way around the podcasting world called On a Podcast by Cruisebox (podsafe music network). Running time is about 42 minutes. Enjoy!

You can ignore the following if you like, I’m just claiming my Odeo Channels:

• My Odeo Channel (odeo/f72bec9e93c4ccc2)
• My Odeo Channel (odeo/b240401cbb436bbc)

SavvySoloCAST #19 - Why Every Solopreneur Should Be Podcasting.

Had a surprise visitor on today’s podcast. My daughter showed up half way through and was happy to be interviewed. Also do listener feedback, some podsafe music, a mashup and the solotool of the week. My rant, as you might have guessed is whay you should be podcasting. I’ll ge the show notes up asap. Running time is about 31 minutes. Enjoy!

• Daily Source Code Podcast
• Music: La La La by Mr. Kane
• Podscope - podcast search engine
• Yahoo Audio Search
• SoloTool of the Week: Blinksale

SavvySoloCAST #18 - Maintain a High to Noise Ratio.

I shortened the show intro thanks to some great listener feedback, which I read during the show. Also play some podsafe music, a business rant on maintaining a high signal-to-noise ratio, a mashup and solo tool of the week. Below are links to the stuff I talk about in this podcast. Running time is about 25 minutes. Enjoy!

• Greg Belanko-Dixon
• Music From Robert Wade
• Mashup: Imagine Sung by George Bush
• Garage Band
• SoloTool of the Week: Audacity – Free Audio Editor
• Signal-to-Noise Ratio

SavvySoloCAST #17 - Feed Your Network.

I think my podcasts are getting better. This one features a cut from
Seth Godin speaking at the London Marketing Soiree. No, I wasn’t there,
but you can hear more by following the link below. Also, below are
links to some other stuff I talk about in this podcast. Running time is
about 25 minutes. Enjoy!

• smallbusinessbranding manifesto
• Seth Godin at the London Marketing Soiree
• Opie Hicks and the Elements
• Garage Band
• Mashup: Gwen Stefani vs. Queen

SavvySoloCAST #16 - Positioning Your Business to be Memorable.

I really enjoyed this short little podcast in which I talk about concept of positioning. I also talk about Bob Parsons and his GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial as a fun example of positioning. Running time is less than 15 minutes. Enjoy! I know I did.

SavvySoloCAST #14 - Designing Customer Experience With Kyle Coolbroth.

On today’s show, my guest is Kyle Coolbroth, the man with the coolest name on the planet. He’s the founder of Unlimited Options, a customer experiencer design firm. You can find his blog at theexperiencejournal.com. As you might have guessed, our discussion focused on how to design memorable client/customer experiences and why it’s important for a business to do that. Running tuime is about 45 minutes.