Monday Morning Radio

  Talk with the Queen of England. Chat with the president of Turkey. David Schlesinger , founder of managing editor of Hong Kong-based Tripod Advisors , travels the world to stay atop international affairs, risk analysis, politics and economics. His clients are big businesses and major news organizations, but his insights have value to small business owners and entrepreneurs as well, especially if...

Matt Smith is a small business owner who didn't think that magazines such as Inc., Entrepreneur, and Fast Company provide enough valuable information to truly small businesses seeking helpful resources.  So Smith, a Southern California web designer, built and launched Businessing Magazine , a digital publication with a special focus on the 75% of American small businesses that don't have any non-f...

This week on Monday Morning Radio , The Wizard Academy's Buzz Snatching maestro, Dean Rotbart , takes listeners behind the scenes of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge - a global viral marketing campaign that raised more than $110 million for charity in about one month. Dean's guest is Tanner Hockensmith , Executive Director of the ALS Association Texas Chapter and a national spokesperson for the organi...

For way too many small business owners and entrepreneurs, a major obstacle they regularly encounter is listening to the wrong adviser: themselves . What you say to yourself, ask yourself, and think DOES make a huge difference in how well you perform in business and life.  That is the premise behind AFFORMATIONS: The Miracle of Positive Self-Talk , a new book that author Noah St. John promises will...

Award-winning journalist Dennis Kneal e is a self-described provocateur, who has spent 25 years afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted. Most recently, Dennis was an anchor and senior correspondent on Fox Business . Before that, he worked at CNBC , was managing editor at Forbes , and a senior editor at The Wall Street Journal . Now Dennis has started his own consulting agency, Denn...

As graduates of virtually every class offered at Wizard Academy , Anna , Roland and Dixie Huthmaker have learned very well the lessons taught by Roy H. Williams and showcased here each week on Monday Morning Radio.   Huthmaker Fine Violins is nationally renowned not only for its world-class collection of string instruments, but also for its warm, caring and oh-so-knowledgable customer service.  Th...

At some point in their lives, 80% of Americans will suffer from back pain, creating ample opportunities for entrepreneurs who can help prevent or address the problem. An Oscar-nominated film sound mixer with more than 4 decades experience in Hollywood, Robert Wald launched a second career selling The Body Archer  stretching chair in 2012.  Handcrafted in the USA, the Body Archer replaces run-of-th...

The Apple store in New York on Fifth Avenue and the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas are just two examples of retailers that use the ancient concept of feng shui to drive sales. Kathryn Weber , publisher of Red Lotus Letter  - with more than 30,000 subscribers, is one of the nation's leading feng shui experts.  This week on Monday Morning Radio , Katie explains how the power of feng shui can be harness...

Most experts offer advice on how to get off the daily work treadmill.  Entrepreneur Steve Bordley makes his living encouraging small business owners and professionals to get on the daily work treadmill.  Literally. Bordley is the inventor of TrekDesk, a specially designed treadmill desk that allows users to conduct their daily affairs - whether they're graphic designers, accountants or salespeople...

How do the skills associated with operating a successful restaurant compare to those required to run any successful service business? Until recently, Roger Beaudoin operated a seasonal restaurant that rang up more than $1 million in revenues in just 4 months each year.  It's one reason why he is known as THE Restaurant Rock Star.  On this week's Monday Morning Radio , Roger reveals 10 of the ineff...

Jaymes Sorbel knows how to get the immediate attention of your customers and drive them to action: text message them. Sorbel, founder of MeTesto Professional , says the 160 characters contained in well-executed text-message campaigns can generate a huge response.  A key reason? Customers are so viscerally addicted to receiving and sending text messages that 80% of us text while watching TV and 44%...

The online education industry is lava hot, with tens of millions of adult students around the globe eagerly enrolling in paid digital courses, ranging from how to write computer code to knitting.   Founded in 2010, Udemy , based in San Francisco, is on the cutting edge of this new educational marketplace, having already enrolled more than 3 million students in its 18,000 online courses.  This week...

Is patriotism marketable?  Will consumers buy products commensurate with their affinity for their country of origin or residence?   For the past 25 years, Atlanta's The Flag Company has studied the market value of patriotism and discovered quite a bit about what works - and what definitely doesn't.  This week on Monday Morning Radio , Vicki Lawrence , Flag Company's co-founder and CEO, shares some...

It may seem simply a matter of semantics, but after 25 years advising more than 100 companies,  Thomas P. McNulty  has stopped referring to himself as a consultant and begun describing himself as an activist. "Today's clients don't want advice," McNulty says. "They want action." This week on  Monday Morning Radio , McNulty explains how his Buffalo, NY healthcare management and marketing firm,  Suc...

This week's guests on Monday Morning Radio , the co-founders of Tap For Message , pose a challenge to the imaginative, courageous and ambitious alumni and friends of Wizard Academy : Take a look at their patent-pending audio and video chip technology, and figure out how your business might utilize it in ways they, themselves, never imagined.   Brothers Kadeer and Ahmer Beg have invented a means fo...

People want to do business with owners who they know and trust.  But in our digital age - where so much commerce is conducted online - building that personalized relationship can be difficult. Sunpop Studios and its founder Rex Williams have spent 14 years perfecting the art of "Authentic Business Videos"  - in which you , the owner, is guided to produce a 2-to-3 minute "video conversation" with y...

  The Mutt and the Mustang is a children's book, inspired by a true friendship between a dog and a horse. The story-behind-the-story is brimming with inspiration as well. Listen in as Dean Rotbart and David Biondo ask Judy Archibald - a widowed senior citizen on a limited income - how she cracked the self-publishing code and turned her illustrated children's book into a critical and financial succ...

TED Talks  have captivated tens of millions of  YouTube  viewers and helped energize the entire public speaking industry.   Which is great news for  Karen Loucks Rinedollar , founder of  Denver Speakers Bureau , which despite its Rocky Mountain name, matches compelling speakers with organizations and companies nationwide. There is an art to identifying the right speaker for the right occasion, and...

You're never too old or too inexperienced to succeed in business, if you have a vision and the courage to try. That's one of the key takeaways from this week's Monday Morning Radio interview with Jan Erickson and Jon Thomas , the husband-and-wife duo who launched Janska Clothing in 2003 - when both of them were already in their 50s. Since then, Janksa, which specializes in making women's outwear t...

Google has become a gargantuan global company one AdWords click at a time.  Each year, however, tens of millions of those clicks are wasted - costing small business owners and entrepreneurs far more than they imagine.   Dr. Jason McDonald , a self-described technologist and founder of the JM Internet Group , is one of the world's leading experts on AdWords optimization.  This week, Dr. McDonald ex...

Dr. Lori Barr is the epitome of the renaissance woman: she is gifted pediatric radiologist, a bestselling author, an expert in managing health, wellness, fitness and stress; a mother, a mentor, a volunteer, and a woman who approaches each day and challenge with passion and gratitude.   Of yes, did we forget to mention that she is a dedicated - and much appreciated - member of the Wizard Academy bo...

As entrepreneurs, the husband-and-wife duo of Jan and Sassa Akervall make their money where your mouth is.   Dr. Akervall, one of the top ENT physicians in the United States, invented a mouth guard to prevent his patients from having their teeth accidentally chipped or broken during surgery.  Thin and strong, yet pliable, his Sisu  mouth guards have now leapt from the operating room to mainstream...

KGBTexas is a 20-year-old marketing and advertising agency based in San Antonio, Texas that is demonstrating how a boutique regional player can successfully compete nationally with much larger rivals.  On this week's Monday Morning Radio , Chris Day , KGBTexas's general manager, opens his agency's strategic playbook to reveal how a savvy small business can become a forceful player on the national...

JP Stonestreet is a web startup guru who helps entrepreneurs develop successful online business.  He has built applications and websites for large and small companies, and sold two of his own very successful sites.   On this week's Monday Morning Radio , JP maps out the steps you must take if you want to start, market, run and potentially sell a successful online business. JP is the author of The...

Jack Larson says that far more small businesses than you might imagine fall behind in filing their tax returns and paying their taxes.  So in 2005, Jack and his brother Ron established Larson Financial to help taxpayers who are in hot water with the IRS .  Business, not surprisingly, has boomed.  On this week's Monday Morning Radio , Jack offers some seasoned advice on how to negotiate successfull...