Matt Heinz is the founder of Heinz Marketing, a marketing agency that helps its clients all over the world to increase their sales pipelines and marketing strategies. He quit his job to start his own business right during the 2008 credit crunch without a specific blueprint for how he would chase success. The major factor he…

Carrie Mess is a cow, cheese, music, and beer lover from Southern Wisconsin. In addition to working with her husband and his family on their 100-cow dairy farm, she spends her time blogging and speaking professionally, where she’s known as Dairy Carrie. If you’ve thought we’ve talked through some interesting work scenarios before, we raised the…

Chris Taylor is the founder of Actionablebooks.com – a company dedicated to helping business leaders develop themselves and their teams through the application of lessons from leading business books. Through his work at Actionable Books, Chris Taylor reads, writes, and speaks. A lot. And here’s the best part. He does it all from a cave. In Spain….

As the VP, Strategy for Social Media Explorer and the agency behind it, SME Digital, Tamsen draws from a variety of tools and experiences to help brands make strategic change happen. While she began her career as a change management consultant, Tamsen found herself managing change recently when she switched from a physical office with co-workers to a…

Nichole Kelly is the President of SME Digital, the digital marketing division of Social Media Explorer. Her team helps companies figure out where social media fits and then helps execute the recommended strategy across the “right” mix of social media channels. They use a scalable content approach and measure the results to your bottom line….

Andy Craig has an interesting job. He teaches executives to talk more on the weekdays like they do on the weekends — when they are at their best as storytellers — and has hundreds of successful sessions to prove it. He also talks regularly to sales organizations and various associations about the power and importance…

Davyeon Ross is the quintessential tech entrepreneur making things happen in the Midwest’s Silicon Prairie. He’s also something of an anomaly for combining his personal passion of basketball in not one, but two winning ventures. The first, was Digital Sports Ventures, which went on to be acquired by Digital Broadcasting Group. ShotTracker, his newest start-up,…

Pamela Slim is a seasoned coach and writer who helps frustrated employees in corporate jobs break out and start their own businesses. Her blog, Escape from Cubicle Nation, is one of the top career blogs on the web. She is also the author of the books Escape from Cubicle Nation and the recently released Body of Work. A former…

We had every intention of recording a “real,” “host-only holiday edition” episode this week. But, alas, time got away from us (and travel impeded technical logistics). So, well, we decided to each record a short greeting/thank you from our iPhones. We patched it together, and it turned into this! Oh, and in case you are…

Kerry O’Shea Gorgone is a speaker, writer, attorney, and educator. She hosts the weekly Marketing Smarts podcast for MarketingProfs. She is also a contributing writer for numerous sites, including MarketingProfs, Huffington Post, Mark Schaefer’s {grow} blog, and Social Media Explorer. With all of these digital irons in the fire, we couldn’t wait to ask Kerry…