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Episode 12: New Year’s Business Resolutions with Mike Shikashio
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35:24Mike Shikashio is back with fantastic business advice both for doing better and loving your work more. Whether you are in the dog training world or just want some inspiring business advice, Mike Shikashio is a great person to start 2024 with! PocketSuite Links www.pocketsuite.io YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@PocketSuiteApp/featured TikTok https:…
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Episode 11 | Going from Corporate America to Owning A Business with John Branch IV
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31:44John Branch is a wedding and events photographer and business influencer with over 180,000 followers on YouTube who come to him for advice on launching and running a profitable photography business. He speaks with PocketSuite about his journey and how running is own business beat working at the top of corporate America. PocketSuite Links www.pocket…
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Episode 10 | The Fitness Entrepreneur’s Journey with Eddie Zhang
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31:04Eddie Zhang opened a gym and discovered that the success of his space was dependent on the success of the trainers. That started a long road of becoming an amazing fitness coach helping trainers around the country succeed in getting booked solid and making their goal income. Listen for an amazing story and some great tips on building a business. Po…
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Episode 9 | More Expertise on Going Franchise with Jack Monson (Social Geek Radio)
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30:43A second episode in our series about succeeding with the franchise model in a service based business, today we talk to Jack Monson. Jack is the CEO of Brand Journalists, which helps franchises identify new investors to the franchise. Jack is also the host of two podcasts about making it big with the franchise business model. PocketSuite Links www.p…
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Episode 8 | Start and Scale a Notary Business with Houston Notary Academy
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29:45Is the notary business the perfect side hustle? The best work-life balance career? We are joined this week by Dominique Reid and Sharelle Evans of Houston Notary Academy. They have a mission of helping more notaries succeed at running a profitable business that allows you to have a great life with lots of time for family. Both Sharelle and Dominiqu…
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Episode 7 | Closing the Sale with Zach Gray
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33:02Zach Gray has been a professional photographer and business coach for photographers for over 14 years. After building his business to over 6 figures in less than a year, he turned his attention to helping other photographers succeed by being as good at business as they were at taking pictures. And while Zach Gray has photographed celebrity weddings…
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Episode 6 | How to Franchise Your Small Business w/ Steve Beagelman
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36:07Steve Beagelman started in the franchise industry when his family franchised their family business. He started working on his family franchise from his college dorm room and fell in love with the business model. Now in 2023 franchises are a huge trend in businesses that book clients and Steve has some ideas about why. In this episode, you will lear…
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Episode 5 | Starting Your Own Business After the Military with Steven Hueston
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36:31Steven Hueston is the host of the popular podcast Dogs of War podcast which tells the stories of amazing dogs and the military heroes that train them. In this Booked Solid episode, we talk to Steven about his own journey of retiring from the military and starting his own dog training business in Colorado. He shares his story about what it took to t…
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Episode 4 | Starting a Roof Cleaning Business From Scratch With Spencer Claeys
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28:57Spencer Claeys talks about how he went from having no business to a thriving roof-cleaning business in the Seattle area with over 180,000 YouTube followers and over 350,000 TikTok followers. He helps his audience earn $500 to $1000 dollars a day with smart local marketing tactics that he tested until he got booked solid. The best part, the marketin…
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Episode 3 | Building Six Figure Dog Training Business with Ines McNeil
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29:06Ines McNeil is a dog training industry expert and founder of the industry-leading dog training business coaching company, The Modern Dog Trainer, in 2014. She’s also on the board of directors of the Association of Professional Dog Trainers. Ines helps hundreds of professional dog trainers around the world figure out how to build a six-figure dog tr…
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Episode 2 | Building a Million Dollar Tattoo Business with Sean Dowdell
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34:00Sean Dowdell started in the tattoo and piercing industry as a way to make money when his band wasn’t on tour. Decades later, his business Club Tattoo is a multi million dollar business with locations in Arizona and Las Vegas Nevada and he has published two popular books on building a business. We talk about how he built his business empire with gri…
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Episode 1 | Building An International Aggressive Dog Training Business (w/ Mike Shikashio)
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33:57In episode 1, we talk to Michael Shikashio about how he built a thriving dog training business focused on difficult aggression cases. He is the founder of AggressiveDog.com and focuses on teaching other professionals from around the world how to successfully work aggression cases - You may know him as the host of the popular podcast “The Bitey End …
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