Startup BizCast - The Small Business Advice Podcast

A recent study from ABI Research indicates that the number of people watching videos online has doubled in the past year.   It’s obvious that people are becoming more comfortable using this technolog…

Are the worst enemies to your small office computer network banging on the gates, or walking around inside the castle?   Truly, there are plenty of people out there trying to harm your business, eith…

Fall isn’t a time when you normally think much about taxes … unless, that is, you filed for an extension back in April.   If you did, that means your taxes are due next month.   Additionally, the mor…

These days, if you only use your cell phone to talk to other people, you’re considered behind the times.   Today’s cell phones email, text, surf the web, and much more.   My guest this week is Mark A…

I love it when someone emails a friend about my business.   How would you like it if thousands of people were emailing friends about something you created?   When something on the Internet gains that…

It feels good to get back into the studio chair after taking a couple of weeks off this month — one due to workload and one due to vacation.   This week we’re talking about another new media tool tha…

This is a packed show!

In this week’s interview segment: What if one of your customers became the victim of identity theft … and you were the cause?   Needless to say, it wouldn’t be good for your bu…

This week we’re joined by an honest-to-goodness double agent.   It’s true.   Double Agent Derek Meister is with the Geek Squad, a service that provides technology solutions for consumers through Best…

I’m back!   After a one week hiatus, Startup BizCast returns for episode 58.   This show ran a touch long, due to having listener feedback and a longish interview.   Both were so good, however, that …

On this week’s episode, we’re talking about small business owners who also happen to be stay-at-home moms. My guest and her partner call them “Mompreneurs”. These moms are running service or produc…

I didn’t really know what to call this abbreviated episode, but it came to me as I was reading a story about the White House needing to apologize to the Premier of Italy after they released a less-th…

I can’t help but laugh when I hear the words “Office Space”, because I love the classic movie of that name.   But, this week’s episode has nothing to do with that great flick.   This week we’re talki…

Imagine the worst happens with your business — perhaps one of your employees is caught trafficking goods from your warehouse, or one of your products is tainted and makes a whole flock of people sick…

Sorry for the tardiness of this episode. I have one correction right off the top: There is no Recommended Reading feature on the blog this week. Sadly, I lost my list of links and simply don’t have t…

Thus far on Startup BizCast, we’ve talked about marketing, advertising, PR and even logo production. In this episode, we’re going to talk about techniques that use all of the above and more. Brandi…

I’ve talked a lot on this podcast about how to make your business blog work for you, but what about using other people’s blogs to promote your business? That’s this week’s topic on Startup BizCast. …

I’m celebrating! Startup BizCast is not only celebrating its 50th episode this week, it’s also turning one year old! The premier of the small business advice podcast was on May 30, 2007. To mark t…

The idea of using social networking to promote your small business has come up a number of times on this podcast, and in this episode we’ll get some specific tips on using one of the most popular sit…

During the Great Depression of the 1930s a large portion of the world’s population suffered as inflation ran wild and unemployment reached epidemic proportions. But, there was a group of people and …

I was racking my about the topic of this week’s Startup BizCast, when Casey Quinlan came along. She suggested talking about business storytelling … and I think it’s a great idea. My guest this week i…