Digital Hospitality

Jottful is the solution to the problem of website creation and management for small business owners. Business owners are busy. It pays to find a sustainable path to having a living, breathing e-commerce website. We all know websites are hard to make and hard to keep alive. They are expensive and difficult. That's why Digital Hospitality podcast guest Dawn Verbrigghe founded Jottful. To make websit...

Brian Dempsey of TribeVideo wants business owners to learn to use video marketing like rockstars. Most Americans consume 2.5 hours of video content per day. That's a lot of ways to reach them. So, why aren’t all business owners in front of the camera telling the story of their brand? Find out how to harness the power of smart video marketing on this episode of the Digital Hospitality podcast featu...

Some people wake up and pour a cup of coffee. Steven Musielski wakes up early to pour into people he has never met. Digital Hospitality podcast guest Steven Musielski is the host and founder of The 4:13 Experience clubroom on Clubhouse. Every morning before 4am (3:38am to be exact) Steven opens up the audio app to connect with and inspire whoever joins the room. ➤ THE 413 EXPERIENCE ON CLUBHOUSE —...

Delivering the Digital Restaurant teaches how to build a successful digital restaurant business that will survive and thrive into the future. Authors Meredith Sandland (@meresandland) and Carl Orsbourn (@carlorsbourn) were guests on the Digital Hospitality podcast to discuss what they learned while writing their must-read restaurant business book, Delivering the Digital Restaurant Your Roadmap to...

Marketing Strategist Chip Klose knows you have to promote your business online to make it take off. The modern restaurant business is not Field of Dreams. If you build it, they won’t necessarily come. “Thirty years ago, you could just be good,” shrugs Chip Klose on the Digital Hospitality podcast. “Pretty place, good food, good service and you could survive. But now every place is great. Every pla...

Social Media is an important tool for all business owners. But how do you make it easier to post content everyday? Our Clubhouse Roundtable Series dug into the topic of How To Make Social Media Effortless so we could brainstorm tips and content ideas to help make posting to social media easier to do. https://youtu.be/_ospbYZ710w ➤ Join the weekly Digital Hospitality Club room on Clubhouse on Frida...

Mandi Graziano has lots of Sales Tales and lessons to share after living the hustle herself. Business and sales coach Mandi Graziano is our guest on this episode of the Digital Hospitality podcast, where she shared stories and lessons about sales, writing a business book, digital marketing, and much more. Learn more about Mandi Graziano at https://www.mandigraziano.com. Mandi Graziano, author of S...

Ole Hickory Pits is a legendary worldwide brand built by a legend in the industry. David B. Knight is our guest on this episode of the Digital Hospitality podcast where he tells his story of founding Ole Hickory Pits and helping it grow into a massive worldwide company that continually innovates to this day. https://youtu.be/AFN3LZchbxE ➤ MORE PODCAST EPISODES: https://calibbq.media/podcast-episod...

If you want to be selfless, you have to be willing to be selfish first. “I always say focusing on yourself is the least selfish thing you can do,” Performance Coach Brian Bogert teaches on this episode of the Digital Hospitality podcast. https://youtu.be/iy-zelTKfmU ➤ MORE PODCAST EPISODES: https://calibbq.media/podcast-episodes   Brian Bogert Interview on Digital Hospitality — The inspiratio...

How would you like to turn your career into a vacation? Jay Jay Maniquis did just that becoming a digital content creator. Imagine spending the bulk of your 20s with the San Diego Chargers only to become an on-air personality. Such a second act trajectory has proven true for Pro Bowlers LaDanian Tomlinson and Shawne Merriman. It’s also coming to fruition for Jay Jay. Having worked for the Southern...

Hailing from all corners of the country, Cali BBQ Media is combining low-and-slow cooking with sharp and strategic content creation. Led by Founder Shawn Walchef in San Diego the restaurant lead turned Digital Hospitality Host has assembled a team of writers, video editors, web builders and marketers to become their own media company and spread the good news about telling your brand’s story online...

Want to be good on camera? Media Coach Amy Scruggs knows exactly how. Two decades deep on TV, the country music recording artist and host of CNBC’s Financing the American Dream has plenty of titles but even more experience. Acting as a media coach and author in her time off, Amy has mastered always being on by always being herself. “I love when people see me laugh too loud,” admits Amy Scruggs (@a...

You never know who you’ll meet on Clubhouse. Case in point: Manvir Singh Anand. “Your vibe attracts your tribe,” believes the food business expert, serial entrepreneur, and bestselling author. Watch and learn more now on this educational episode of the Digital Hospitality podcast, a Cali BBQ Media production. https://youtu.be/0PGnqpQV744 ➤ Manvir Singh Anand — https://manvirsinghanand.com/ ➤ Follo...

Will Ford decided it was time to help others reach their dreams. The serial entrepreneur's latest mission? Launchboom. “At Launchboom we focus on everything that happens in preparation for the launch,” the crowdfunding expert said on the Digital Hospitality podcast. Watch the full interview now on our YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/F37OHM2zKEs “Through Facebook and Instagram advertising, we're...

Understanding the costs it takes to operate a virtual ghost kitchen is essential. Listen in on a Clubhouse roundtable discussion with hospitality veterans and restaurant thought-leaders to start breaking down the costs of a digital restaurant operation. Learn about the investments, tech, fees, and more needed to open a virtual ghost kitchen. https://youtu.be/wtyUXNZp1dw Featuring: • Jensen Cumming...

Do you want to learn how to open your own Ghost Kitchen brand or Virtual Restaurant concept? Learn more in Part 2 of this 2021 Guide to Ghost Kitchens. https://youtu.be/T_q2FnYnRhY In this second part of a roundtable discussion series on the Clubhouse audio app, the expert Digital Hospitality panel and guests dig into what it takes to open a Ghost Kitchen or Virtual Restaurant. Who do you connect...

The future of food and the future of hospitality is in your hand — the smartphone. In this first part of a roundtable discussion series presented on the Clubhouse audio app, the expert Digital Hospitality panel and guests dig into what it takes to open a Ghost Kitchen or Virtual Restaurant. How do you start joining the new digital economy? Do you want to learn how to open your own Ghost Kitchen br...

Popl is your new Digital Business Card. Why do you need new business cards? Because your paper cards are trash.  We know, it’s hard to hear. But don’t take the feedback from us, listen to the case for the next generation of business cards from our Digital Hospitality podcast guests Jason Alvarez-Cohen and Nick Eischens, founders of Popl. Popl gives you the power to simply Tap someone else's phone...

Ben Arnot has another Smoking Hot Confession to share — he's not scared to fail. That's because he nails it when it counts. The Australian barbecue educator, Smoking Hot Confessions podcast host, and self-taught digital media mastermind, was our guest on Digital Hospitality, where Ben Arnot shared stories and lessons about his digital growth, the business of BBQ, and hacks for Planning, Producing,...

Phyllis Williams-Strawder knows hot brands always leave a mark. That's why the creator of CKO Creator wants you to Brand It Like It's Hot! Check out this Digital Hospitality podcast interview with Phyllis Williams-Strawder to learn about her insightful journey from barbecue to branding, becoming an entrepreneur, communicating online, using Clubhouse, and many more stories and lessons from a tremen...

Restaurant Marketing Consultant Guy Clarke is the Cal Ripken Jr. of Clubhouse. Even in 2021, many of us are still weary of social media, especially when it comes to trying out the latest app like the Clubhouse drop in audio chat platform. Maybe the life of this week's Digital Hospitality guest Guy Clarke can change your mind on that. * Listen, Watch, Read, and Learn with Digital Hospitality every...

Josh House and Shawn Walchef may have been separated at birth. The Pickles & Bones Barbecue co-owner in Milford, OH and the Cali BBQ founder from La Jolla, CA may not have grown up in the same home, but they found each other in a familiar house just the same. “I’m a big podcast guy and I learn through listening,” says Josh House when he was a guest on the Digital Hospitality podcast in June 20...

Restaurant Owner Drew Glick is a Digital Media Machine. How did the owner of Max & Louie's New York Diner learn to Plan, Produce, Publish, and Promote his own business content online? He decided to Just Do It instead of Just Thinking About It.  https://youtu.be/_GFBfoDP2ho PODCAST CHAPTERS —  [0:00] Intro to Digital Hospitality podcast interview with Drew Glick (Max and Louie's New York Diner)...

Take a deep dive with Shawn Walchef and Name Drop San Diego on all things Digital and Hospitality in this podcast episode. The San Diego Union-Tribune puts out a really good San Diego local podcast with the weekly Name Drop San Diego show, hosted by Abby Hamblin and Kristy Totten and featuring the people that make San Diego proud. READ MORE: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/name-drop-san-diego...

Chef Jensen Cummings life in the restaurant industry began before he was born. The super chef turned multi-hyphenate has generations of kitchen prowess, management and hospitality in his blood. When it came time to turn pro in the family business it proved an instant fit for Chef Jensen Cummings (@chefjensencummings). “I started my career at seventeen,” Jensen Cummings looks back on this episode o...