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On our Season One finale, we introduce you to Steve Brown of ROI Online.  Steve Brown believes, Good Marketing Grows Your Business. Great Marketing Takes A Team.Steve Brown believes you, the entrepreneur, are the invisible hero of today’s economy.You fight hard to create value for your customers and provide jobs for over half of the American workforce. As an entrepreneur himself, Steve knows what you face today as you fight to grow your business. That’s why, on The ROI Online Podcast, he introduces you to forward-thinking business leaders you can enjoy meeting.In Steve Brown's new book,The Golden Toilet, (You can find it on Amazon)  you'll learn which marketing tactics move the needle—and which ones don't. Plus, you'll learn how to create a holistic marketing machine based on the four Crucial Components of the Business GrowthStack.

Hi, I’m MarcFull Time Voice TalentI’ve been doing this a while now. I voiced my first commercial back in 1995 and I haven’t stopped since. The only difference now is, this is all I do. I’m a full-time professional male voice talent.Voice over work is something I always did on the side while I worked in broadcasting. It wasn’t until 2012 that I finally made the decision to pursue it full-time. It’s one of the best decisions I ever made. Now, when people ask me what I do for a living, I happily (and sincerely) tell them, “I’m living the dream!”Let Me Give Your Words LifeIf you’d like to chat about your next voice over project you can visit my rates page here. Email the details to marc@marcscottvoiceover.com. Between my iPhone, iPad, iMac and Macbook Pro I’ll receive your email and reply promptly. Oh yeah. I’m also an Apple Fanboy! (and if you work for Apple and you need a voice over I’d love to work with you some day!)

We sit down to talk with Candace Pace who is competing for the the Miss For America Pageant Representing North Carolina.  We also talk with Tara Allmendinger who is competing for the Mrs. For America Pageant. She is also Representing North Carolina.   They tell us how the came to be competitors.  It's Truly fascinating stuff   

We sit down with Robyn to talk shop and podcasts  

​She is founder and president of Rikki Ragland Media Group, a boutique media relations and consulting firm for healthcare, healthcare IT and Artificial Intelligence. Focusing both on B2B and B2C clientele, Rikki Ragland Media Group offers multi-service digital marketing and public relations, including TV network and local media placements, messaging, media training and strategic marketing. Rikki has a 25-year history working in healthcare marketing and media relations. A former Director of Public Relations for NorthShore University Healthsystem in Illinois. She is a former Chicago TV news reporter & show host and anchored an innovative daily tech segment, "Online With Rikki Ragland," for the NBC affiliate in Dallas. Some of her technology stories were picked up by network news outlets. She was also a national freelance news reporter for The Weather Channel while living in ChicagoAs a breast cancer survivor (detected when she was 35-years-old), Rikki was the cover story and feature in the national health magazine, “Girlfriends Health Guide for Everyday Women” and blogged about her experience. She also hosted several videos for breast cancer prevention and survivorship. One of the videos, “Scarves” is distributed through the Phi Mu Foundation.She graduated with honors from Towson University where she was named "Outstanding Woman of the Year" and "Most Promising Communications Student." Within months of her graduation, Senator Edward M. Kennedy personally hired her to work in his Capitol Hill office. There she assisted one of his speechwriters, doing research on technology and education issues during the 1993-1994 campaign season.She sat on the Board of Governors and was elected the Entertainment Chair at Gleneagles Country Club, a Club Corp club; serves as Marketing Advisor on the Sustaining Advisory Board of the Junior League of Collin County; is a PTA Board member for her son's elementary school; served as PTA president of her son's Judaic school; was an ambassador at Temple Sholom of Chicago; is a member of Sisterhood of Conservative Judaism; is a Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas supporter; a member of the Women's Auxiliary to Children's Medical Center of Plano and was a chairwoman in the Winnetka & Evanston, IL Women’s Clubs. Rikki is also a mentor and member of Phi Mu Fraternity. She was one of Phi Mu’s national convention speakers & their Aglaia magazine cover story.

More and more savvy enterprises and agencies are adding a 'content strategist' to the team. This is a fantastic role and plenty of marketing and content professionals aspire to take it on. Our speaker, Suhasini, looked around and found there wasn't one place to learn everything about content strategy for b2b brands.So she drew on her experience of working in content marketing for clients across countries, and created a comprehensive online course - 'content strategy and planning for B2B marketing'.Join us as we chat about what content strategy entails, what are the opportunities, and some cool tricks she'll share with us.Find her on Linkedin as well. Listeners get a special deal on her course.Please visit this link for the course.  use the code "My40Free" and get the course for free until 7/5/2020https://www.udemy.com/course/content-strategy-and-planning-in-b2b-marketing/?couponCode=MY40FREE Tags: marketing, b2b, content strategy 

Karen Varnado is a work from home mother, wife and grandmother.  Because of the success she has attained with her business, she is able to provide a great income while allowing her some flexibility in her hours so that she is able to care for her elderly parents who live next door to her. We get Karen to sit in with us and tell us how she was able to leave a full time job aand create a business working from home selling CBD products. She tells us how she is a top producer in her company and how she got her start in the business. She also tells us about the benefits it allows her as she is able to create her own work schedule.  Episode is Not LivePublish: Jun. 22, 2020 @12PM EditPublishAdd a TranscriptGet episode better indexed by search engines.Add Chapter MarkersListeners can tap through & see what’s coming up.Promote this EpisodeVideo Soundbite AvailableSquare Soundbite - 1:00Great for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.Download SoundbiteDelete this Soundbite and create a new one.Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInEmail Link to Episode

Karen Varnado is a work from home mother, wife and grandmother.  Because of the success she has attained with her business, she is able to provide a great income while allowing her some flexibility in her hours so that she is able to care for her elderly parents who live next door to her. We get Karen to sit in with us and tell us how she was able to leave a full time job aand create a business working from home selling CBD products. She tells us how she is a top producer in her company and how she got her start in the business. She also tells us about the benefits it allows her as she is able to create her own work schedule.  

Josh Hurst is the owner of Hurst Digital is an Emmy® award-winning, turn-key digital production company, helping organizations tell their stories to customers and employees through strategy and visual content creation.Our work has won the hearts of clients and judges, too: we have earned 1 Emmy, 17 Telly Awards, 6 Remmy Awards, 2 Davey Awards, and 10 Aurora Awards for my work with clients like Nike, PUMA, Omnicom Media Group, Richards Group, American Heart Association, Texas Instruments, Showtime, HBO, Hickory Farms, The Texas Rangers, and NASA.At the end of the day, we just want to make you look good....in a smart way! We are not just passionate about pixels – we turn them into art. 

Russell sits in with us to talk shop and everything in between