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Interviewing Authors is one of the Web’s premiere blog and podcast destinations that focuses on the process of creating, writing, editing, publishing, marketing, and selling an author’s work. Hosted by talk radio host, syndicated columnist, and Amazon bestselling author, Tim Knox, Interviewing Authors features recorded interviews and guest blog posts with authors across all genres and success levels who discuss their process; from having a spark of an idea to becoming a successfully-published author. At Interviewing Authors, it’s our goal to become a valued resource of information and education for authors, writers, subject matter experts, editors, agents, and others who make their living in the publishing industry.

Crowd Mics turns the audiences iOS and Android devices into wireless microphones. Your audience can talk into their smartphones and tablets and be heard over the room's sound system. Now your crowd can be heard clearly by everyone in the room, in real-time. 

mileME is a productivity app that enables hands-free mileage logging for expense reporting and tax deductions. mileME takes care of logging your trips for you. Once you install and launch mileME you can literally ignore mileME while it logs your miles.

This weeks interview is with Tim Knox serial entrepreneur, founder and president of four successful technology companies and serves as an investor, mentor and advisor to many companies in his home town of Huntsville, Alabama. Tim has been interviewed by the Wall St. Journal, the NY Times, USA Today, Fox News, ABC News, CBS News and many other media outlets on the topics of entrepreneurship, small business, and technology. Transcript of interview: Mark: Hello and welcome everybody! On today’s show we have serial tech-founder, host and best selling author, Tim Knox. Welcome Tim. Tim: Hey Mark, it’s great to be here, appreciate your having me. Mark: It looks like what you are doing with your Interviewing Authors, as John Lee Dumas would say, “It’s on fire”! So, let start off with your telling us a little about the four tech companies you started? Tim: Sure, the first Tech company I started, this was back in the dark ages, back beginning of the Internet was a company called Digital Graffiti. I had been in the graphic arts business for many years, and when the Internet came around, I thought that ‘hey this might be something that will catch on’, so we morphed the graphics company into the company called Digital Graffiti. We were the first website design company in North Alabama. Again this was in the mid ‘90s, and it was one of those things - we were kind of right place, right time; because we were the only company here doing it, and I had a stable of customers. We just started doing everybody's website, and I mean, just the Space and Rocket Center, NASA, just a ton of Tech companies, and we did that for a while, and then we started getting requests from customers to write applications software. Now this was back [most of your listeners Mark, probably won’t remember] before Amazon, we would write custom shopping cart, and e-commerce software and did that for many years. We ended up as a custom software shop, we contract with NASA, we wrote code for the space station and the space shuttle, as well as a shopping carts, and out of the company, we had another company that came out of that- B2Secure, and we had actually written a Hiring Management software for a customer and he paid us, went on his way and came back about six months later and said, ‘I don't really know what to do with his company’, and we were heavily involved in the ‘.com’ boom at the time, so we took the company out ourselves, and did very w

Kirk Knight is the Co-Founder of mileME. mileMe is a SAAS and a productivity app that enables hands-free mileage logging for expense reporting and tax deductions. mileME takes care of logging your trips for you. Transcript of interview: Mark: Hello and welcome everybody to nCeption. I am your host Mark Boots and on today’s show we have Kirk Knight, co-founder of mileME, who in 1991, co-founded All of the Above. They pioneered the development of cross platform java applications, streaming media, digital video, network games for project, products and marketing presentation. His clients included Apple, Sun Micro Systems, Intel and Next. Kirk also co-founded Cobalt Card, a payment processing platform, iPrevail, and currently he is co-founder of mileME, which is a hands-free mileage logging expense reports and tax deduction servicing and app. Mark: Welcome Kirk, and thanks for coming on the show, so tell us who’s all on your team? Kirk: Sure, there is myself and Mark Pfluger, we are co-founders. Mark: Oh great, now did you come up with that name for the company or did he? Kirk: Well we went back and forth. We wanted something that addressed miles or mileage, and we also had to find something, the challenge, of course, is finding a good domain name, and we looked at various things and people are doing things with iddy or something like that on the back, or velocity or something like that. After about 30 or 40 different names, we finally came across mileMe .com and also potentially mile.me, so it seems to work pretty well, people seem to remember it pretty well. Although we discovered that is also has me-lieme which is apparently somebody in Eastern Europe. Mark: I know, finding the right domain name I struggled with that too. We register about 15 in the last couple of years, and came up with a name that’s not already taken. On this mileME, so is this your idea or something you had an issue with, or you found a problem in the market? Kirk: Here is an interesting story. It is probably important for your listeners. I had this problem four years ago. I was audited purely by accident, and when I was sitting there with the auditor from the IRS, I view these audits as information sessions, not as pain, so I am exploring with her and I said, “gee, if we were to come up an app or some sort of device that would automatically measure miles, would the IRS endorse it”? And she laughed and said,” no, no, the IRS does

Crowd Mics turns the audiences iOS and Android devices into wireless microphones. Your audience can talk into their smartphones and tablets and be heard over the room's sound system. Now your crowd can be heard clearly by everyone in the room, in real-time. Plus Crowd Mics includes a text comment feature and dead simple polling. Demo it youself, just download the free app, get some friends to do the same, connect to the same wifi and go for it. You can try it for free. Transcript of interview: Mark: Hello everybody, and welcome to nCeption. I'm excited today to introduce Tim Holladay and his brother Sean. These brothers founded Crowd Mics, which is an effective way to allow a crowd to communicate over a wifi connection via your smartphone. Tim also founded Brand Adoption, a word of mouth social media marketing company geared towards college students. This is just a small part of who Tim and Sean are so Tim and Sean tell us a little bit more about yourself. Tim: Absolutely! Hey Mark, thank you for letting us be on your show this is exciting for us and we are definitely looking forward to following the show as we go. So, I have done 10 years of audio work. I have worked on some start-ups, worked in a couple Tech companies. By the way this is Tim, you will notice that both Sean and I are here, we are brothers and we probably have similar voices see if you can catch on who is talking. And we just founded Crowd Mics, started it about year ago and launched a few months ago I’m excited to get going. Sean: I’m just finishing nursing school next month, so I’ve been juggling the nursing life and starting a company, been exciting and ready to go full time here at Crowd Mics in just a couple of weeks Tim: So, Sean and I are brothers. We are actually two of five Holladay brothers. I'm the oldest and Sean is #4 so we are actually eight years apart. So our experience and resumes are quite different which turns out to be great assets to us. Mark: You mentioned Tim that you and your brothers founded Brand Adoption? Tim: Number two and Number three, Brian and Kenny helped with Brand Adoption. Mark: Creative family. That’s great. Is every brother a creative there? Tim: Absolutely, you know the youngest started his own non-profit and started in that realm. Both of our parents are entrepreneurs who started companies. My mom runs a Dairy Queen for like 27 years in Arizona, a small business. So it runs in the blood! Mark: So here in nC