The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.

Creativity & Entrepreneurship with Summer Felix. Summer is a serial entrepreneur, author, and founder of The Draw Shop. She shares her journey and how to become an entrepreneur while also being a creative person. At her company The Draw Shop, attention-holding whiteboard videos are made for the world's best minds and companies. She is also the host of her own podcast, "The Get Genius Podcast". Hen...

Stand Out & Get Noticed to grow your small business with Jesse Cole. Jesse owner of two college summer baseball league teams, author, and an expert on standing out and getting noticed to grow your small business. Jesse is the owner of Fans First Entertainment, who owns and operates the Savannah Bananas and the Gastonia Grizzlies (college summer baseball league teams). Jesse and his teams have been...

Branding without the BS to help small businesses grow with Pia Silva, an entrepreneur and author. Pia helps service business owners (but this episode is valuable for all small business owners) improve their branding to grow their business. Pia is an entrepreneur, speaker, author and badass! She is a partner and brand strategist at Worstofall Design where they build "Badass Brands without the BS"....

Scrappy creativity to successfully launch & grow a small business with Russ Perry. Russ is an entrepreneur and author. He shares his life journey, the early business failures, and using a scrappy approach to launching and growing his latest successful business. Russ is the Founder of Design Pickle and author of "The Sober Entrepreneur". He spent eight years building businesses that yielded zero in...

Buyer Enablement to accelerate the sales cycle and grow your small business with Deb Calvert. Deb is an entrepreneur, sales and leadership expert and consultant, and founder of People First Productivity Solutions. Henry and Deb chat about her new book, " Stop Selling & Start Leading: How to Make Extraordinary Sales Happen ", and focus on the topic of enabling buyers - so that they can "act" - duri...

Smart Phone Marketing for small business marketing with Tabitha Carro. Tabitha is a former school teacher turned small business owner. She shares her experiences transitioning from her full-time teaching job, to selling teaching aids on the side, and then developing her smart-phone marketing business. She is the founder of the Smartphone Marketing School – teaching business owners how to create ma...

Make Things Happen to start & grow your small business with Steve Sims. Steve is an entrepreneur, speaker, consultant, podcaster, and an author. He shares his fascinating journey, from bricklayer to his failed attempt at stock brokerage, and the evolution of his luxury concierge service business named Bluefish. Steve's new book is "Bluefishing: The Art of Making Things Happen." Henry Lopez is the...

Hire Right the First Time to start and grow your small business with Kathy Knowles. Show Notes page: https://www.thehowofbusiness.com/hiring-episodes/epsidoe-174-kathy-knowles/   Kathy is an entrepreneur and founder of Intuitive Strategies, a unique Human Resource Consulting Firm that helps service-based businesses and non-profits build empowering teams and drive home results. She shares her journ...

Review of a bad business commercial lease with Craig Melby. What did we miss with site selection? What should we have negotiated into the lease?   Show Notes page: https://www.thehowofbusiness.com/episode-173-craig-melby-2/   Before you sign a commercial lease for your small business, listen to this episode to learn what to avoid with leases.  Craig Melby was a small business owner and experienced...

Selling a Small Business with David Barnett. David is an entrepreneur, author of multiple best-selling books, and a small business consultant. In this episode David shares his tips & advice on selling a small business. David's latest book is "How to Sell My Own Business", which became a best seller under Amazon's Entrepreneurship category in its release month. David was previously on our show in e...

Growing Profits in your small business with Roger Beaudoin. Roger is an entrepreneur, restaurateur, consultant and author. He shares his interesting entrepreneurial journey, his initial inspiration for his first highly-successful restaurant, and valuable tips & advice on growing the profits of your small business. He is the founder of the Sales Stars Server Training Program and the author of "Rock...

Powerful Presentations to launch and grow your small business, with Dustin Mathews. Dustin is a family man, entrepreneur, speaker, author, and tennis enthusiast. He shares his journey to entrepreneurship and leveraging presentation skills and influential communications to help you start and grow your small business. His latest book is the "NO B.S. Guide to Powerful Presentations: How to Sell ANYTH...

Business Start-Up with Beth Kolko, an entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Shift Labs. Shift Labs is bringing great design to medical devices. They build simple, affordable devices geared for the most rapidly expanding healthcare markets in the world. Beth shares her interesting journey to entrepreneurship, and her experiences with launching Shift Labs. This episode is hosted by Henry Lopez. The...

Creating More Flow to grow your small business with Dr. Camille Preston. Camille is an entrepreneur, psychologist, author, and an expert in leadership. She shares her personal story, experiences from starting and growing her business, and advice and techniques on creating more flow to grow your small business. She is the author of "Rewired: How to Work Smarter, Live Better, and Be Purposefully pro...

Be Bold & Play Bigger in life and your small business, with Vanessa Shaw. Show Notes page: https://www.thehowofbusiness.com/ episode-167-vanessa-shaw / Vanessa is an entrepreneur and international business and success coach. She shares stories from her interesting journey – including her own struggles to become the first woman entrepreneur in her family – and inspiring advice on how to be bold and...

Getting Projects Done to grow your small business, with Geoff McDonald. Show Notes page: https://www.thehowofbusiness.com/episode-166-geoff-mcdonald/ Geoff is an entrepreneur and author. He studied architecture in school, but channeled his creative and problem-solving skills to help others design great business ideas. Geoff is the author of seven books, including "Done - Why You Fail to Finish You...

Developing Influential Connections to help your start and grow your small business, with Cloris Kylie. Kloris is an entrepreneur, author and podcaster. She shares her interesting journey from Engineering School, to math tutoring, then on to marketing and helping small business owner with developing influential connections. She provides specific and actionable tips on how to build and benefit from...

Social Media for Small Business with Laura Roeder. Laura is an entrepreneur and founder of MeetEdgar - an online social media automation tool. Laura shares her personal story, from studying advertising, working as a freelance designer, and founding her first social media business. She also shares her experiences with launching and bootstrapping MeetEdgar, and tips and advice for social media for s...

Document management for small business owners with Kevin Miller. Kevin is the Chief Marketing Officer at Neat - a document management company. Kevin shares his insights on software as a service (SAAS) and document management solutions for small business owners. He provides real-world examples of small businesses who are using document management systems (digitizing and indexing paper source docume...

Bootstrapping a small business with Connor Gillivan. Connor is an entrepreneur and the co-founder of Freeup.com. He shares his life experiences, including his adventures in South Africa and Nicaragua, and valuable tips & advice for bootstrapping a small business - starting with no or very little borrowed money, and instead growing through reinvestment of the profits. Topics in this conversation wi...

Scaling your small business with Joe Kashurba. Joe is an entrepreneur and the founder of Kashurba Web Design Group. He shares his entrepreneurial experiences, and practical tips & advice on how to scale a small business. Kashurba Web Design Group offer website design and online marketing services. This episode is hosted by Henry Lopez. The How of Business podcast focuses on helping you start, run,...

Entrepreneurship insights with Daniel Gefen. Daniel is an entrepreneur, mentor, podcaster, writer and professional brain picker. He shares his fascinating life journey, and his insights and observations on entrepreneurship.  Henry Lopez is the host of this episode of The How of Business show – dedicated to helping you start, run and grow your small business. (TheHowOfBusiness.com)

Podcasting to grow a small business with Nick Palkowski. Nick is a business owner and podcaster. He shares his life experiences and journey to entrepreneurship. He also shares tips & advice for using podcasts to help you grow your small business. Nick offers our listeners a special free download offer – visit the show notes page for this episode for more details. Henry Lopez is the host of this ep...

Entrepreneurship with Dan Sullivan. Dan is an entrepreneur, speaker, business coach and the founder of Strategic Coach. In this episode he shares valuable insights on entrepreneurship, and introduces several skills that all small business owners and entrepreneurs can develop to increase success in business and in life. Are you defining your own game? Have you identified your unique ability? This e...

Startup & Mentorship with Lucy Lloyd. Lucy is a business owner and the co-founder of Mentorloop. Mentorloop helps companies effortlessly build a mentoring culture for a more engaged, connected and productive business. She shares her personal journey, her experiences in entrepreneurship, and tips & advice on starting a business and the value of business mentorship. This episode is hosted by Henry L...