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How small business owners like you market their business and build community
May 11, 2023

Selling Play with Playful Marketing - with Viv Conway

After four people told me about the billboards that Viv Conway’s business Girls Get Off use to market their business, I knew I had to have her on the podcast. Girls Get Off is a beautifully branded and designed female …

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April 13, 2023

What We Learned From Running A Free Challenge - with Sheryl Takayama

I once swore I’d never run a free challenge. And here I am, with two completed and done at the time this podcast goes live. I blame my amazing client Sheryl Takayama, who is part of The Content Masterweb. As …

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Jan. 19, 2023

How the Cannabis Clinic Is Building Trust and Community Through Marke…

What happens when you can’t use Facebook ads to grow your business? For an increasing number of businesses this has been the reality with random bans, or hacked accounts. It's a huge amount of stress and time to get it …

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Dec. 15, 2022

How Game Kings Built Community - with Elliot Jessup

I don’t think I’ll ever be tired of hearing busines growth stories about how something began in with a few boxes of stock in a bedroom and now runs out of a huge warehouse. Which is perfect because this is …

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Dec. 1, 2022

Marketing To 40+ Year Old Women - with Sandy Lowres

Marketers used to ignore anyone over forty. And many big agencies still do. And for this Generation Xer who already has a slight chip on her shoulder about being the generation no body talks about… that feels like a big …

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Nov. 17, 2022

Marketing is Better Without Butter Chicken - with Perzen Patel

Perzen Patel is on a mission. Sure she’s the co-founder of a curry paste company, and loves nothing more than hearing that “ding” on the Shopify website (seriously… who doesn’t! That little ding is dopamine in a sound!), but ...

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Nov. 3, 2022

Building Your Business With Intuition - with Bex Lipp from Wildling …

How do you make decisions in your business? Do you tap into your intuition, listening for how you believe you should move, and being guided by that to make the big decisions in your business, and the rest of your …

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Oct. 20, 2022

Learning STEM Skills Through Play - with Bayley from Brain Play

There’s many things I love about our topic today, and today’s guest. Bayley Hughes started Brain Play because she could see that there was a gap between what teachers felt confident teaching, when it came to STEM related topi...

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Oct. 6, 2022

Marketing Made to Order - with Claire Williamson from Velma and Bever…

There’s something about a beautiful coat. Finding the perfect coat for you can transform your outfit into something stunning. In 2019 Claire launched Velma and Beverley, a bespoke coat and jacket company becoming known for it...

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Sept. 8, 2022

Why Thunderpants Removed Gender From Their Marketing

When Thunderpants started almost 27 years ago, selling comfortable underwear first in Nelson, then nationally and later internationally, it was like most other clothing companies. There was a woman’s range, and then later a m...

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Aug. 4, 2022

Sticking To Your Convictions For Your Own Brand with Gemma Ede

I’m getting older (aren’t we all!) and often get super frustrated when trying to find clothing, and skin care that is targeted to me, but uses younger faces and bodies. I want to see things using my type of skin. …

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June 2, 2022

Why Your Content Marketing Strategy is Like a Spider's Web

This is not my normal type of podcast! I wanted to share with you some of my new book Be a Spider, Build a Web: Sticky Content Marketing for Small Businesses. And I don’t think I’ve ever listened to a …

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Oct. 14, 2021

Getting Lost in NZ, Getting Found in the USA with Cat Macnaughtan

What do you do if you’ve had a few too many “no’s” recently and you need to find an extra ten thousand dollars? Well for Cat and her husband, the answer was simple. Start a business. Cat and her husband …

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Sept. 23, 2021

Locked borders? Launch a business with Charlotte Greer

What do you do when a pandemic blocks your opportunity to go on the OE you’ve been planning and saving for for years? Well for Charlotte Greer, it was the perfect opportunity to start a business. After saving, while studying …

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Sept. 2, 2021

How Pepper & Me was built on community with Cherie Metcalfe

Five years ago, Cherie Metcalfe started a business selling salts, laid out on a duvet cover at a local market. Her goal was simply to contribute to the family income, without having to return to the late night life of …

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