Ponderings from the Perch

Join Priscilla McKinney, CEO and Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she interviews Vivian Blade. She is a powerful woman of experience and recognized talent management expert, working with companies to build solid and sustainable bench strength in their leadership pipeline. In her work as a consultant, author, keynote speaker, trainer and executive coach, her passion in building leaders and de...

Join Priscilla McKinney, CEO and Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing and Dan Leadbetter as she takes a pop quiz! Priscilla takes an awful lot of compliments from Dan right before he announces that he is going to shoot questions at her and put her on the spot! He collected questions from listeners and added some of his own. He starts with an easy pitch about what albums she would take if she were s...

Join Priscilla McKinney, CEO and Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing and Dan Leadbetter as they discuss the pros and cons of consulting. It seems these days there is a consultant for every kind of expertise needed and in some ways it can seem frivolous until that day you NEED that expertise and someone truly delivers thoughts, tools and concepts that help you take your business or personal life to...

Join Priscilla McKinney, CEO and Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing and Kathryn Budig. She is the author of "Aim True: Love Your Body, Eat Without Fear, Nourish Your Spirit, Discover True Balance!" She is a totally authentic and beautiful person demystifying good health, self love and whole body health. Priscilla gushes on and on about how amazingly stylized this book is and seriously wants you t...

Join Priscilla McKinney, CEO and Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing and Dan Leadbetter as they discuss brand positioning statements. As companies step out into the market they seem to ask questions about how to position themselves, but as older companies morph over time they sometimes fail to come back to reviewing their brand positioning statement even as their company has completely changed and...

Join Priscilla McKinney, CEO and Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she interviews Dan Chiodo. He is the author of "Perfect Timing" a book about how to gain at least two hours each day through developing time saving strategies. As a Certified Mastermind Executive Coach (CMEC) he works with Fortune 500 companies and others to help them ask the best possible questions in order to create the best...

Join Priscilla McKinney, CEO and Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing and Dan Leadbetter as they discuss the state of marketing. Every once in awhile someone will comment to me that they believe social media to be dead. On the contrary, it is alive and kicking. What seems to be more the issue is HOW people are using social media and WHY marketers are using it. This episode really focuses on the cha...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird and CEO at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Mary Maru about website design, user experience and user interface and how they go hand in hand to create amazing design. As creative director of Mary Maru Design, she works with clients who are ready to make a significant impact on their overall marketing strategy with the help of her design and technical exper...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Bari Tessler Linden, MA, Financial Therapist, Mentor Coach and Mama-preneur. Bari’s gentle, body-centered approach weaves together personal, couple, and creative entrepreneurial money teachings into one complete tapestry. She is the founder of The Art of Money: a global, year-long money school, which integrates Money He...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter trends in website builds. The discuss what Priscilla is hearing from clients about their websites and how she challenges clients about their perception of their website. Even for clients who are not actually selling products a website is a tool. They discuss their biggest frustrations with websites that d...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about books they love. But before they get started you'll enjoy the BONUS STUNNING AUTOHARP INTRO by Priscilla herself and special whistling guest, Leighton Cordell. Once they stop relishing the goodness of her new autoharp, they discuss books and the general disdain Priscilla has for business books that...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Doug Sandler of the Nice Guys on Business podcast. Not only do they share their favorite podcast, but they get into the WHY and HOW of podcasting. In the middle of some truly helpful information you'll learn about "chicken pot pie", "beef stroganoff" and how just to not be a jerk in general. This is a favorite theme of...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Wendy Limbert about her recent start up, Popcorn Coaching. If you're ready to take the entrepreneurial plunge or wonder what would possess anyone to leave behind a well-paying traditional job for the uncertainty of business ownership, then this episode is for you! They discuss process, marketing, packages, and putting y...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about her newest acquisition - HER VERY OWN AUTOHARP. Once they stop talking about it, they get back to marketing issues specifically, dealing with content and content marketing. It is no small subject matter, but with 4 Content Marketing Specialists on her award-winning team they get down to demystifying...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about the importance of online reviews. She most certainly was not going to go to Medieval Times without doing her research. After Yelp!, Trip Advisor and Facebook reviews she decided she would probably live through the experience and not hate it - as long as Borat does not show up. But what can be said a...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Nancy Milton about REAL communication and what it takes to set yourself up for total success in your personal and work relationships. These two fierce female entrepreneurs slide into a comfortable dialogue about designing alliances in order to engage wholeheartedly in any given instance. As a speaker and facilitator she...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Doug Sandler about his "Mr. Nice Guy" paradigm for success. They discuss the habits we form in business and how we can control our own behavior and always take the high road while still coming out ahead. With his 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur, his take on the importance of positivity as an important part of...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about her ideal client. First of all they are "better than your average bear" but their marketing is not telling the truth. Her team is looking for clients who are great at what they do, but their marketing hasn't caught up yet and the peeps want to make up the gap. Dan knows she loves her job, but she sh...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about the WHY behind blogging. She gets a lot of questions about blogging, but she worries more about the people who are NOT asking her. They discuss how blogging is such an integral part of search engine optimization and how important it is in establishing one's expertise as a part of a company's strateg...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about how she keeps her mojo - even through a very demanding schedule and the pressure of growth. She talks about paying attention to your life and how you carve out a great balance by simply becoming awake and alive to what inspires you and what truly feeds you. She challenges listeners to think about se...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about the do's and dont's for trade shows. Especially after the 2008 downturn in the economy many companies trimmed the budget and cut out trade shows. That was much to Priscilla's liking in what seems like the wasted time and effort at most trade shows. But trade shows done correctly can be AMAZING. Done...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about listening to your life in such a way as to lower the stress levels and get more done that is TRULY MEANINGFUL to you. She openly admits she loves goals and New Year's resolutions!!!! Really, she does, but she hates it when people make meaningless resolutions without thinking about meaning first. She...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Brett Baker of Trustpoint Management. As her sales coach, he has brought infinite wisdom and deep personal growth at a critical time in her entrepreneurial journey. They talk about bringing your sales process in alignment with your values and how to respect yourself and others when faced with other personalities and met...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about why understanding your ideal client makes a powerful impact on your marketing strategy. She talks about the "red flag" statements she hears from marketing managers and business owners which tell her that they are no longer considering their audience. With the insanely important need to create epic a...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about how the reality of entrepreneurship and how hard it is to keep up with all you should know about business. Priscilla talks candidly about the shame that surrounds what we don't know about business and how few risk showing their vulnerability. Priscilla talks about how to listen to fear and use it to...