The Story Power Marketing Show

Rob Bedell has over 30 years of sales experience and 28 business leadership. He has successfully built and restructured many departments and businesses. Rob has worked across many industries including media, manufacturing and SaaS. Over the last decade, he has been a fractional VP of Sales and also business advisor and coach. In this episode, Tom and Rob discuss… > How to make sure you are usin...

Terry Boyle McDougall is an Executive & Career Coach and CEO of Terry B. McDougall Coaching. She helps high-achieving professionals remove obstacles that keep them stuck so they can enjoy more success and satisfaction in their lives and careers. Before becoming a coach, Terry was a long-time corporate marketing executive where she led teams, developed strategies and advised senior leaders to d...

Chris Michel helps business owners develop the perspective, systems, and culture they need to see the big picture and ultimately to grow sales and prosper. Chris is the author of the book “The Red Chair Experience” And he's the founder of Coach Chris Consulting – a sales and business consultancy for the home services industry. Chris has over 30 years of sales and management experience. And he...

Patty Block teaches women business owners who are experts in their fields how to turn up their power to price, sell and run their business on their own terms. This means fine-tuning their operations and scaling their revenue for strategic growth. As their trusted advisor, she brings a unique perspective, having experienced and solved many of the same complex issues women face, as leaders, moms, da...

Industry and family leaders hire Dr Ruth Allan to win back their energy and time doing what they love by boosting their brain power and performance because most are chained to their past, don’t use the right tools and techniques and have never measured and optimised their unique brain Dr Ruth is an Amen Clinics Certified Brain Health Professional, High Performance Coach and Havening Practitioner a...

After 28 years as a highly skilled employee, David Shriner-Cahn was told that his job was over. In spite of the immediate trauma and fear, he knew that as his next step, he’d rather work for himself and have more control over his destiny. That was in 2006. Today, David is a thriving community builder, podcaster and speaker. David helps high-achieving professionals build their consulting or coachin...

In this episode Tom and his guests – John David Mann and Ana Gabriel Mann – discuss their new book “The Go-Giver Marriage.” Discussion topics include: >> How to shift the tone of your relationship and build a foundation for lasting love. >> The habits of behavior that destroy a marriage, and how to change them. >> Why marriage can be such a challenge -- and why it is such a power...

Robbie Samuels is all about building a community of engaged prospects, establishing relationships with followers who will choose to do business with you rather than acquiesce to your hard-charing pitches. Robbie is a multi-passionate entrepreneur or what some would call a “multi-hyphenate.” In his case, this means he's a professional speaker – business growth strategy coach – virtual event des...

Fred Joyal is #1 Amazon Bestselling author, speaker, entrepreneur, and business advisor. He co-founded the most successful dentist referral service in the country:1-800-DENTIST, which, over 30 years, generated over $1 billion in revenue. He has also been awarded the Conrad Hilton Distinguished Entrepreneur Award by Loyola Marymount University, and had a successful career at one of the top advertis...

Les Watson has a passion for, and expertise in, time management and productivity which has earned him the nickname ‘The Time Lord’. He has worked extensively throughout Australia and South-East Asia delivering dynamic training programs to major corporations, small businesses and individuals. Les’s knowledge and skill comes from over 30 years of experience as a trainer, speaker and facilitator in s...

Jeroen is co-founder and CEO of Salesflare, an intelligent CRM built for SMBs selling B2B, mostly popular with agencies and fast growing startup companies. Salesflare itself was founded when Jeroen and his co-founder Lieven wanted to follow up the leads for their software company in an easier way. They didn't like to keep track of their leads manually and built Salesflare, which pulls customer...

You can attract new clients and build your business without tricks and without being a braggy bigshot. Provide real value — by creating relevant, informative, entertaining content and building meaningful human relationships with your ideal prospects. My guest today is all about that. And like me, she’s not very fond of braggy, bigshot marketers. She calls them “bro marketers.” Cat is the ultimate...

Donna Loughlin is the Founder of LMGPR and known for her work with futurists and innovators. She has launched more than 500 companies taking them from stealth to market leaders since forming her agency in 2002. She is also the host of BeforeItHappened, a leading narrative podcast featuring visionaries and the moments, events, and realizations that inspired them to change our lives for the better....

Maxine is an investment banker, turned economist, turned CEO of Pick My Brain. Maxine is on a mission to help facilitate 1 million conversations between the world's people and in doing so unlock $10M worth of creative commerce. In this episode, Tom and Maxine discuss the power and value of conversations and how Pick My Brain helps make them happen. They discuss how: Everyone has knowledge to s...

Todd Cherches is the CEO and co-founder of BigBlueGumball, an innovative New York City-based leadership development and executive coaching firm. He is a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s “MG 100 Coaches, and is a Founding Partner of the Global Institute For Thought Leadership (“GIFT”). Todd was just recently nominated by Thinkers50 as a finalist for their 2021 "Distinguished Achievement Award&#34...

Kim Krause Schwalm was always a marketer who could write copy. She spent more than 13 years in the corporate world in various marketing positions—from Brand Manager to Publisher to launching and running the Healthy Directions supplement business and growing it to more than $23 million in sales within 3 years—before she started her freelance copywriting career in 1998. Now more than two decades lat...

Dr. Doreen Downing is a Psychologist and Confidence Coach who specializes in the treatment of public speaking anxiety. She also hosts the Find Your Voice, Change Your Life Podcast. Doreen once suffered from extreme stage fright. In conquering it, she discovered being connected to your authentic self is the key to relaxed and confident speaking. In addition to coaching and online courses, she is au...

Jon Keel is a results-oriented Business Advisor, who has been helping businesses and their leaders stand out and thrive for nearly 25 years. He is the CEO and founder of Improved Results, LLC, which helps small business people increase revenue and gain the freedom they want by using proven, automated systems. He co-developed the Xavier University MBA E-Business program, where he taught Online Mark...

Jürgen Strauss is a great marketer who’s on a mission to make marketing human again. He’s my guest because we see eye-to-eye. He comes to us today from the south coast of Australia – near Melbourne. Jürgen is the founder of InnovaBIZ, host of the InnovaBUZZ Podcast and the Tales of Marketing Transformation Show. He is a podcasting machine. On the day we’re recording this in December 2021, Jurgen h...

Susan Trivers helps business leaders earn more while working less – by reinventing how the price their services. Susan Trivers has designed a modern value based pricing method that works for EVERY services firm. In this episode, she and Tom discuss how to achieve greater profitability and serve your clients better – by switching from time-based to value-based pricing. They discuss: the difference...

Aleasha Bahr is a custom sales & marketing strategist known for showing solopreneurs the Secret Art of Subtle Selling. She personally sold over $50 million in services. In the process she created a proven sales approach she can customize to solopreneurs strengths that allows them to close 80 percent of their leads, without pain, pitching or pretending to be someone else. In this episode,  Tom...

OVERVIEW Jack Turk is an A-List copywriter who was the "man behind the curtain" for Dan Kennedy's NO BS Inner Circle and many other prominent marketing experts. He has written copy that has generated millions of dollars in sales for corporations like Microsoft and Kodak, as well as small businesses including denists, attorneys, physicians, and even magicians. Before become one of the w...

Neal Albritton is Lead Advisor and Joy-Bringer at Albritton Financial Services... and he is a great story-powered marketer.  In this episode, we discuss why it's so important to build meaningful relationships with prospects and clients.  FULL EPISODE VIDEO https://vimeo.com/628674411?share=copy Connect with Neal: Web: https://albrittonfs.com LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nealmalbritton/ Yo...

This is the story of Chris Hobler -- my friend who wrote and performed the music you hear at the beginning and end of each episode. This is both a sad and inspiring story. Chris died of ALS in 2005. But he's still here, an angel on my shoulder, inspiring me every day. In this special episode, I tell his story which I hope inspires you too... The Foundation the Chris and His Family Established:...

This episode is for you if you ever sit in front of your computer screen, hoping to write and email or blog post or some other piece of marketing content, and you feel stuck and you think, “What the heck should I write today!?"  We open the episode with a story about a guy in Australia who has a run-in with a venomous spider in a public restroom. Cringe-worthy. Funny. Many good lessons.  I was...