Ponderings from the Perch

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...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Chantal Pierrat, the amazing power behind Emerging Women. This movement was birthed out of a true transformation she experienced in her career as she emerged into owning her feminine power. They discuss what it means to walk through life with focused self reflection and how that can offer opportunities for total alignme...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about the meaning of generational differences. Popular business culture demands that management change their practices to accommodate specific generations, but Priscilla's entrepreneurial experience has left her to believe she should do no such thing. They discuss The Economist's article "Myths about Mill...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about how the importance of asking for what you need. Key ingredient of asking for what you need is first knowing what you need. She points out that companies many times fail to craft a successful calls to action because they don't truly know what they need clients or potential clients to do. Perhaps that...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about how LinkedIn is NOT a dating site. They explore the mighty, mighty power of LinkedIn and the mighty, mighty fears people have about maintaining a presence online. However, as more than 300 million other professionals are using it to successfully connect and generate leads on a wide scale it is high...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she interviews Chris Stewart, who you might know as the musician behind the Ponderings from the Perch soundtrack. Priscilla has known Chris for more than two decades and has worked with him on multiple music projects for clients. They dive into the difficulty of marketing yourself as an artist, and making something as subjective as mu...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about dream jobs. Starting with an interesting list, they discuss the pros and cons of having some portion of your hobby become your job. If you love to cook, do you really want to have to do it as a J.O.B.? From cooks, to bed and breakfast owners to travel writers, they discuss the pros and cons of so ma...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about careers. They ruminate about the reality that so many viable careers did not even exist when they were in school, question their own career paths and are faced with how to explain to 4th and 5th graders what they actually do all day! They discuss the rate of technological change and try to imagine a...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird here at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about art and collecting art. Priscilla discusses difficult conversations she has in her job every day as she critiques work of multiple graphic artists. She explains how a culture which protects people's self-worth creates an environment where they can be vulnerable, fail multiple times, learn from...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird here at Little Bird Marketing as she has a morning conversation with fellow globetrotter, Helene Sheeler-Johnson. As they both work marketing and PR angles in the same small town in the Midwest they exchange several knowing glances. Yet they continue to work day in and day out to bring the marketing and PR aspects of their jobs into the same strategy. With Helen...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird here at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with the illustrious Jeff Cannata. As fellow podcasters they explore the idea that revealing the inner-workings of making a podcast might indeed be like making sausage - a bit messy, but worth it all in the end. First and foremost she is a huge fan of WE HAVE CONCERNS podcast which he co-writes and hosts with Anthony Ca...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird here at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter the most fascinating case of complete and utter faking. Priscilla reaches back to the story of the sign language interpreter for the Nelson Mandela memorial service and discusses, with incredulity, the absolute audacity some people have and the painful experience that is watching fakers try to spin t...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird here at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about finding unique win-win-win situations in marketing. She gets bored with the typical promotional giveaways and questions marketing decisions that make companies all look the same. She talks about her thought process in developing marketing strategies that will offer that will create the right be...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird here at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about podcasting. She pours out her heart on her love for podcasting and reveals some of her current personal playlist. As both are podcasting professionals, they discuss the virtues of podcasting and how it compares to blogging. Join them as they marvel at the wide variety of experts available to ev...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird here at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter in a follow up conversation about creating New Year’s resolutions in the workplace and aligning them with your business values. She gets practical and talks about how and why to make SMART goals which are S for specific, M for measurable, A for assignable, R for realistic and T for time-driven. In a...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird here at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Gary Hood, Sales Manager at KSNF/KODE, local affiliates of the NBC and ABC stations. Join these two golf enthusiasts as they discuss ad agency ownership and life working in the media. Listen as these old friends examine the long-term benefits of marketing for consumers and offer advice for small mom and pop shops l...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird here at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about creating New Year’s resolutions in the workplace and aligning them with your business values. In a fast-paced work environment, she talks about stepping back and asking yourself what is meaningful to you this year. She also gives insight about simplifying life — at work and home — by using ener...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird here at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about creativity and what it is like to "turn it on" when you are a paid creative. In an industry where ideas are inventory, how do you stick to a winning process for idea generation. She also gives insight into the environment of allowed failure which keeps creatives encouraged to explore new ideas....

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird here at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Stella Garber, Marketing Director at Trello. Speak with Priscilla for 5 minutes about organization and she'll MAKE you sign up for Trello. Why not? It's free and it is SUPER AWESOME to say the least. Join these two funny and smart girls (wearing amazing lipstick) as they discuss the many uses for Trello from shoppi...

Join Priscilla McKinney, Momma Bird here at Little Bird Marketing as she talks with Dan Leadbetter about the big WHY behind every website build. She encourages clients to have patience for the STRATEGY needed to develop a great website. Clients are an integral part of understanding what problems a website can solve for them. As they discuss creativity, relevance, page ranking, sales cycles, and mo...