Strategy Hour | Online Marketing for Business Growth

Today we are chatting with Sagan Morrow, who is a small business strategist, published author, and blogger at SaganMorrow.com. With nearly a decade of experience as a freelance writer/editor/social media manager, Sagan now teaches struggling solopreneurs how to create their own customized, actionable strategies for starting and building their own successful, profitable home-based businesses, witho...

We are here today to congratulate all of you who just came through on the other side of the glorious hill after finishing our free Five Days to Launch Challenge. In this episode, we are going to do a quick recap of what the heck you all learned in that challenge and maybe try to give you one more boost of energy to keep trucking forward. Plus, we are going to give you an invitation to another free...

Today on the podcast, you’re going to hear from Mary Hyatt. Mary is a personal life and business coach who helps people get into the raw side of themselves, fall back in love, and believe in their potential. She believes that every person has the ability to create the life that they love and helps her clients wake up, find their voice and become fully alive. Creative entrepreneurs, seriously, this...

Well, ya’ll know by now that we are pretty much transparent about everything we learn in our business. We immediately take it and we turn around and teach it because we don’t like to hold back. We are over-sharers by nature. You get the good, bad and the ugly with us and that’s what we are doing today; we are oversharing again. Today, we wanted to dive in deeper about the business roadblocks that...

Today on the podcast, we welcome back Katie Hunt of Tradeshow Bootcamp. Katie is our very first second-time guest! We met Katie last summer at the Savvy Experience and have been friends ever since. Katie has this depth of knowledge about an entirely different world of wholesale and the stationary industry that we are just not privy to, and she is not afraid of holding back! In fact, she doesn’t ho...

Today, we are talking about all the frigging mistakes we have ever made and mistakes we see you all are making when it comes to launching. So, we are just going to call them for what they are and give you the flip side of what you could be doing to correct the mistake or prevent the mistake so you can be way more successful than anyone else you have ever met in your life. Does that sound like a pl...

Today on the podcast, you are meeting one of my favorite people. Courtney Johnston is here from the Rule Breaker’s Club. We love Courtney because she cuts right to the meat, just like we do, so you can be guaranteed that this is an absolutely no-fluff episode. Courtney is the go-to person for all things sales copy and we are so excited for you to hear all the amazing knowledge she has to share abo...

Word on the street is, you have some pretty bomb ideas but for whatever reason, you just keep them in your pocket, you sit on them, you hold onto them, and you don’t launch them. What the heck? What are you waiting for, lady? There is a valuable opportunity there that can earn you some real cash dollar bills for your business. So many of you come to us saying that you have this amazing dreamy idea...

Today on the show, we have Becca and Jake Berg of Dubsado. We are super excited to have them on. They are a husband and wife team that are the brains, power, and geniuses behind Dubsado, which is a client management system for creatives. They have built one amazing and beautiful platform for all of those things that you have 75 different logins for, including your contracts, how you get paid, and...

Today, we are chatting about the good old pivot; the pivoting to your passion, the figuring out what the heck you can work on right now to start getting your feet wet. It is all about testing the waters of this whole creative biz ownership thing, making some actual money, and then transitioning to what is the fire in your soul. We want you to dive into where you are getting paid to do something th...

Today on the podcast, we have Amy Northard CPA, accountant for the creatives. Amy has been a friend of ours for what feels like centuries at this point, and we have known her longer than we have known each other. She is awesome and makes everything sound so simple that you think maybe you could do it yourself, even though you can’t. Amy is so knowledgeable about all things taxes, bookkeeping, maki...

All right guys, we are back for another tactical throwback. Today, we are taking it back and now sitting down to interview Abagail about all of the lessons she learned, the mistakes she made, and how the heck she got clients when she was doing one-on-one client work for branding, design, and website business building. So today we are going to give the quick version of what Abbie did before because...

Today on the podcast, we have our good friend Steph Crowder from Courage and Clarity Podcast and Fizzle. If you have not yet seen Fizzle and its amazing membership platform full of incredible courses for small business owners, you guys should definitely check it out. Steph is one of our podcasting buddy friends. We meet with Steph and a couple of other ladies, twice a month and chat all things pod...

Today on the podcast, we are taking you all back to the days before TCC even existed. It is kind of crazy but believe it or not, we both used to run different businesses. Emylee used to be a photographer and she was pretty darn good at it and so we are doing a little interview style throwback with her today. She left a five figure photography business to form TCC and before that, Emylee graduated...

Today on the podcast, we have Jordan Ellis of Jordandené. Oh my gosh, this girl! She is so awesome. We have known Jordan for what feels like forever, but really it has only been two years. She was the first student ever for both of us, and since then, Jordan has gone on to grow a giant geek-chic business where she sells goods of all different types. She has shirts and aprons and the cutest little...

Hello little business babes! We are so excited to chat to you about reaching our first 100K downloads on the podcast in just four short months. We absolutely cannot believe how great you guys have been, and we are so thankful for the amazing support that we have been given. Each and every download, share, and review makes a huge difference in the impact that we are able to have on all of you creat...

Today on the podcast, we have Kelly Parker Smith of Hello World Paper Co. For those of you who don’t know, Kelly is a retired third grade teacher who started an Etsy shop and has since started booming ever since. She has over $400,000 in sales on Etsy and even started her own podcast where she talks all about what it’s like to be an Etsy shop owner and run a product-based business. Kelly has been...

For today’s episode, we are going to have some therapy today. We are going to be real today. So kick up your feet, lay down, get a glass of wine, get some coffee, sit on the sofa, whatever it is that you want to do because today we are talking about that feeling of intense overwhelm. You know, that anxious feeling of looking at what we have to do and avoiding it with all our might. We dive into th...

Today on the podcast, we are super excited to have Elise Cripe of Get to Work Book. For those of you who do not know, Elise lives with her husband and her two young daughters in San Diego California and not only has she launched the Get to Work Book daily planner, but she has been online since 2005 and she has done a lot! Elise has been a blogger, she has shared DIY projects, and she is quite the...

Inside today’s episode, we are going to be talking all about launching and specifically, a long tweet just had where we made $37,000 in a matter of a week. We’re going to talk to you all about what changed, what we did differently, some systems we added on to try our new take on Facebook ads, and exactly how we got the results we did. We’re even going to dive into some data and what worked and wha...

Today on the podcast, we have Stacy Tuschl, who is a high-performance business coach, mentor, bestselling author, speaker, and creator of She’s Building Her Empire Podcast and Community. Stacy helps purpose-driven women entrepreneurs and business owners break through their challenges and operate at their highest potential. She is highly passionate and she loves helping women unapologetically be th...

Blogging may be one of the things on the top of the list in our business. The blog was part of the early stages of our business and exited pre-TCC. We first started blogging before we were even in business together, when it was still just a passion project of Abby’s to educate small business owners on growth strategies. She was blogging five days a week, and literally never skipped a beat. After w...

We are super excited to bring to you our friend, Danielle Liss. She is a partner over at Hashtag-Legal and she focuses on legal issues for online business owners. Danielle has extensive experience negotiating contracts and interpreting FTC guidelines, and her experience has given her intimate knowledge of the challenges facing influencer networks and social media professionals today. In this episo...

Today, we are addressing something that we get asked on the regular. We are answering the question about dealing with business overwhelm, especially for those of you who are just starting out, trying to figure out what to focus on first. We are giving you the foundation and showing you where we think you should put your focus first and why, so perhaps you won’t be so overwhelmed. Now this does not...

Today on the podcast, we have Parker Stevenson of Evolved finance and I am like super pumped for you to hear from him because he’s actually one of our few male team members. Parker and his business partner, Cory, not only do the books for other online entrepreneurs but they also coach businesses along the way. We were super excited to start working together in the new year and we had a lot of thin...