The Thoughtful Entrepreneur

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with the CEO, President, and Bilingual Telemarketing Trainer of Costa Rica’s Call Center , Richard Blank. Costa Rica’s Call Center is a bilingual call center with high caliber college educated employees. Richard explains that ecotourism, cost of living, and culture are major advantages to living in Costa Rica compared to...

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with the CEO and Co-Founder of ACE and SocialBee.io , Ovi Negrean. SocialBee was created because entrepreneurs do not have much time or money to handle social media. The platform automates social media postings as well as marketing activities for their clients. Ovi explains that social media is important but not sufficie...

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with the CEO and Founder of Betts Recruiting , Carolyn Betts. Betts Recruiting builds market teams for gross stage technology companies. Companies can access all the talent and data from sales performance to quota on their platform. Carolyn explains the job market is going through a great reshuffle as businesses are tryi...

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with the CEO and Co-Founder of Chamaileon , Roland Pokornyik.  Chamaileon is an email creation platform for marketing teams with around 50 to 100 employees. Their clients tend to have a marketing team of around three to five employees who want to make their email creation process more efficient. Chamaileon is not me...

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with the Co-Founder and CEO of SmartSuite , Jon Darbyshire.  SmartSuite is a work management product to help organizations manage processes and projects on a single platform. The company has worked with a little over 100 developers during the company's development to help with companies regardless of their size. Jon...

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Slique Media and Partner of With My Coffee , Andrew Le.    Slique Media is a social media creative agency with a specialization in restaurants and hospitality. They focus on content creation and influencer management. Andrew explains that the first clients came from...

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with Client Attraction Specialist , Luke Charlton.  Luke works with coaches and professionals to help grow their businesses. With the example of SEO owners in need of clients, Luke advises them to keep it simple with their marketing if their business is under six figures. This is because extensive marketing takes mo...

On today's episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur, we are so excited to speak with the cofounder and CEO of Drisit.com and author of 101 Clues on How to Live a Happy Life, Alex Bäcker! Drislit is a platform that allows drones to be driven through one’s cellular device anywhere in the world. This can also allow for a drone owner to allow anyone to use their device and make a profit on it.  Ale...

Unlocking Leadership and Resilience with Marty Strong of SAGA Consulting In this inspiring episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur , we had the privilege of speaking with Marty Strong, CEO of SAGA Consulting, former Navy SEAL, author, and speaker. Marty’s journey from a small-town kid in Nebraska to an elite Navy SEAL and then to a business leader and author is a story of resilience, vision, and co...

On today's episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur, we are so excited to speak with the President ProSulum, Dean Soto! Dean discusses his passion for systematization and how ProSulum works. He shares that his ideal customers are those who understand processes and systems but don't know how to actually utilize them and create them; or someone who hasn't been through documentation of processes yet. H...

On today's episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur, we are so excited to speak with the founder of Price Associates and the President of TTI Success Insights, Ron Price!  Ron Price shares his knowledge of leadership with over 50 years of experience as a leader himself and as a teacher of leadership. Some of his teaching topics that he shares on this episode include different principles of lead...

On today's episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur, we are so excited to speak with the CEO of Raydiant, Bobby Marhamat! Bobby Marhamat has spent 20+ years learning from the brightest minds in business. His company Raydiant is an experience platform. From signage to menu boards to kiosks and managing employee experience. Raydiant uses modules that tie into point of sale and helps companies on the e...

On today's episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur, we are so excited to speak with CEO and cofounder of Ash, David Stein! Ash is an at home diagnostic testing platform. They partner with providers, hospital systems, public health departments, and universities to turn on self testing programs through at home testing kits.  He discusses the future of Ash and expresses them as a technology compa...

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with content strategist and business consultant, Ina Bakalova. Ina helps experts package their skills into a high ticket consulting offer using content. Ina explains that she stays away from teaching clients things that work now. This is because the trends are moving very fast and there will be a constant need to keep up...

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with the Founder and President of Stealth Venture Labs , Brent Freeman.  Brent Freeman is a digital entrepreneur who has co-founded or founded around twenty  companies. Stealth Venture Labs is a digital marketing firm that focuses on business growth through digital media advertisements. Stealth Venture Labs has...

On today's episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur, we are so excited to speak with business strategist, Toni Bache! Toni loveall things online. She serves cross creators, membership owners, and group coaches to scale their business without sacrifice. She believes that you don't necessarily need to hustle to get freedom, flexibility, and commitment from your business. Toni is passionate, especially...

On today's episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur, we are so excited to speak with brand architect and marketing strategist, Rich Kozak! Rich’s has been defining and languaging brands for more than forty years. He discusses helping brands adapt and grow and the comprehensive process that it is. Now Rich specializes in impact driven branding working with individuals who are determined to make an im...

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with the Founder and President of The Block Group , Patty Block . The Block Group works with women business owners to understand dynamics in their business and shift their mindsets to generate more revenue with less hassle. The Block Group primarily works with accountants, attorneys, engineers, marketing or public relati...

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with the Founder of Intellitonic , Alex Bruner. Intellitonic is a digital marketing agency with a specific focus on Google products and managing them for businesses. Alex explains that there has become a push to transition into Amazon in the recent years. There are some aspects of Google that have stayed the same over ti...

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with the Founder of Sand & Shores , Tonya McKenzie. Sand & Shores is a public relations firm that works primarily with nonprofits, law enforcement, and authors. Tonya explains that the public needs to see good public relations from civic organizations to build trust. Many individuals worry that sharing their stro...

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with the Vice President of Marketing for Rootstrap , Patrick Ward. Rootstrap is a custom software development agency but as Patrick likes to describe it, the technology team behind Masterclass. Masterclass gained help from Rootstrap to aid in making sure their technology can handle its audience and keeping it consistent...

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with the Owner of SEO Optimizers , Brandon Leibowitz. SEO Optimizers focuses on organic traffic and they work with small to medium sized businesses such as service based or ecommerce businesses. Brandon explains that nowadays, there is a larger push for quality rather than quantity. If a company has fewer backlinks, but...

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with the CEO and Founder of Allset , Justin Clegg.  Allset is a texting platform that is specifically for home service businesses. Allset wants to help those in the home service business space to broaden their business’s communication reach. Allset offers four key components on their platform. Text to pay allows for...

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with the President of Phelps United , Adam Shaffer.  Phelps United is dedicated to helping businesses from small to large scale become successful in the ecommerce marketplace. Adam explains that getting products into an ecommerce marketplace like Amazon can help with a businesses growth exponentially. There are nega...

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with the CEO of Articulate Marketing , Matthew Stibbe. Articulate Marketing specializes in helping technology agencies with their website traffic and turn the visitors into leads or customers. Content is a major aspect of what Articulate Marketing does as building a good rapport is crucial to growing a business. Matthew...