The Kim Doyal Show

Kai and I connected through an awesome mutual friend, Mary Lou Kayser (awesome person btw and I will definitely have her on the podcast! I'm so grateful when people connect with other people they know! You just never know where that connection may lead (for both parties!) - Kai was no exception. Kai used to work as a director of marketing for a large construction company in Oregon. He managed requ...

...And Content and Metrics. In my last solo show I shared with you guys that there were a couple of opportunities for me to collaborate with people. Well... I almost jumped the gun on yet another collaboration with someone else! I know, I know. We both got caught up in the moment, sat with it for a few days and when we had our next call both decided that it was a complete distraction and NOT the d...

Julie Harris from Julie Harris Design has joined me for today's podcast. Julie is a creative business consultant and brand designer. Before she started her current online job, she had a day job in a bank in Hawaii. Julie didn't know what she wanted to go or what direction to go in. She studied more to do with design and got heavily into social media. She got a degree in marketing and started blogg...

I had one of those moments today. When you realize that everything you've been working towards is all coming together. And not because something specific happened or even something 'BIG' happened. It's more like a series of small things that simply validate that you're on the right path and somehow, all of the sudden, you just know.  You've Got This. And then you wake up the next day and all those...

I’m joined today by Josh Denning from Tropical Entrepreneur. Before Josh moved to Thailand to set up his very own digital agency, he spent the last 12 years in the marketing industry. He worked with a lot of companies and he managed to launch a product himself. Josh took a couple of years off to figure out exactly what he was going to do and moved to Thailand. He found a digital agency there and w...

Podcast sponsored by: Today I'm joined with the amazing Marianne Manthey. Marianne is a designer and has her own blog where she shares tips on how to make your site just that little bit better. As well as having design tips on her blog, Marianne also has a book out called: Blog Beautiful: 50 Tips + Fixes to Make Your Blog Glow! Marianne started a Facebook page early in 2013 for her blog to share t...

Podcast sponsored by: Welcome to 'Kim Snippets' #2 Before I get into this episode of the podcast and my second official 'Kim Snippet', I want to point something out to you guys (which is simply a reminder). Content is EVERYWHERE and ALL AROUND you ALL THE TIME! (excuse the crazy caps here, but there's a method to my madness, which is emphasis, not shouting per se). This episode was inspired by som...

Podcast sponsored by: For today's podcast I have Brandon Yanofsky with me! Brandon is building an amazing presence in the WordPress community. He is currently working on My WP Expert and WP Radius. He's in forums, answering questions and helping solve people's problems as much as he possibly can. He also goes to meetups, speaks at events, networks with people and writes guest posts. Before WP Expe...

Podcast sponsored by: Yep, Happy Birthday to Me! Kind of a crazy way to start a post, but I'm all about celebrating the good things in life, and yep, that includes birthdays! ALL of them. Getting older doesn't bother me... aging, well, that's another story. But the truth about aging is we have some control over the quality of our lives as we age (as in taking better care of ourselves, honoring who...

Podcast sponsored by: When it comes to podcasting I have a few personal rules after the basics are met (best audio quality and valuable content come first). We all know I'm a huge geek about the visual side of things so after having had my podcast for a while I knew I wanted to put a better looking player on my individual episodes than the default player from PowerPress (no offense to them, they p...

Podcast sponsored by: I have a tendency to go through spurts where it seems like I'm traveling a lot or attending a lot of events or I'm doing nothing. Maybe that's just me. :-) Lately it's the traveling a lot (which fortunately I love) and I'm excited to share my 'take aways' and event recap of the first annual Funnel Hacking Live event that I went to at the end of May in Las Vegas. Funnel Hackin...

Podcast sponsored by: ANYONE who has wanted to take their current business to the next level with high ticket offers needs to listen to this interview. I was fortunate enough to connect with Tony through a mutual training we took and instantly knew he was someone I wanted to connect more with. Needless to say he didn't disappoint. :-) Like many of my guests Tony has an interesting story that broug...

Lead Generation is something we ALL need. All the time. I honestly don't remember exactly how I found 'Socedo', but am SO glad I did. I think it was through Twitter (which makes sense because that is one of the key elements of Socedo). The funny thing is that I went through their lead generation process without even realizing it! (That tells you a lot about how good the system is, right?) Socedo a...

  Have you ever had one of those moments when a thought comes to you and you feel like you're in a V8 commercial? (getting bonked upside the head like "DUH!")... that's what happened to me with this idea (and for anyone outside of the U.S., V8 is vegetable juice and the commercials are always about people getting bonked on the head after they realize they 'could've had a V8'). I used to like the "...

After having talked to Matt a few times (we had a 'hey, how's it going' chat on Skype first, then we recorded the podcast... which didn't record! So we did it a second time), I kind of wondered what took me so long to get Matt on the show (my doing, not his!). No complaints here though that it didn't record the first time because that simply meant I got to talk to Matt again (and I'm sure it comes...

There's something about hearing the story behind the business that makes things so much more relatable. Starting a business is both awesome and hard. Sometimes you feel like you're on an island by yourself, even if you have people you connect with regularly (daily) or even have someone who works with you (or for you). Hearing how other people have managed all of this is a great reminder that you'r...

This episode is a little 'Out of the Box' to say the least. I was joined by Trey Lewellen, aka, Mr. ON IT ... or maybe I should say I joined Trey (at his offices in St. Louis, Missouri to get his upcoming podcast rolling). I decided to do a podcast episode with Trey while I was there because this trip was part of a new venture for me (and the first of many I'm sure) and it was simply an amazing ex...

Yep. I literally raced a Ferrari in Las Vegas a week and a half ago. HOLY MOLY it was friggin OFF the charts fun! I knew I was going to enjoy it and was excited about doing it but had no idea how much fun it was really going to be. Once we got to Dream Racing we had to sign our lives away, watch a video and then try out driving in the simulator. I have to say that driving the car felt easier than...

It's no secret that I have fallen in love with WordPress page builders... every time I see one that I haven't tried I simply can't resist. Which is what happened with beaver builder. As someone who started an online business with no intention of ever getting into web development or creating websites for clients, I love hearing how other web developers have scaled their businesses and stepped into...

Let's take a quick stroll down memory lane for a minute, shall we? I remember a cold winter night in early 2014 where I was hanging out in my family room with my laptop, the fire roaring and a cozy blanket. I'm lazily going through Facebook when I come across a video for something called the Thrive Content Builder... and within about 30 seconds of watching the video I knew I had to have it. Since...

There is NO way someone could have told me 8 years ago (HOLY MOLY where has the time gone!) that I was the obstacle in my business. Well... I guess they could have told me but I probably would have told them off (seriously, I was a bit of a hard ass in my previous life. ooh the stories I could tell!). But I digress. I've worked really hard to be a kinder, gentler version of myself and my life flow...

The term 'consulting' has been around for a LONG time and is something we're all familiar with, but you don't tend to hear the term online as often as you do offline (well, at least in the space I'm in). My guest on the show today has managed to do a phenomenal job of building a hugely successful consulting business working with clients all over the world and helping them focus on what really make...

I debated on whether or not I should do a 'Year in Review' post this year. For like, a minute. Of COURSE I wanted to do a year in review post! It's been an amazing year and I have a lot to be grateful for as well as share the things that didn't go as planned and what I'll be doing differently in 2015. I've also decided there are two words that I will be my 'words of the year'. I thought about pick...

One of the BEST things I've done for my business in the last year is to spend time with people who are already where I want to be. Whether that's in business or my personal life (health, spirituality, attitude, etc.) it's absolutely one of the smartest things I've done. Today's guest is a perfect example of someone who has an amazing story, has taken plenty of risks, went down the wrong path and t...

Today's episode is long overdue (as many of them seem to be the last couple of months! Things will get back on track in January, just bear with me). I've tried my hand with a few different email marketing options - Aweber, MailChimp and Infusionsoft. I'm currently using Infusionsoft (although I still have my Aweber account, but that's another story) and am actually looking at a new option that I d...