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Latest Episodes

#239: Our Business Heroes with The Gross Profit Podcast
March 01, 2024

I was recently a guest on The Gross Profit podcast, hosted by James Kennedy. In that interview, James and I talked about our business heros, and well, it seemed to me that the conversation was a perfe

#237: Michael Koper, founder of Nusii
March 12, 2023

I chat with Michael Koper, founder of Nusii. We talk about what it's like when your product spends several years at a revenue plateau.

#236: Steve McLeod, founder of Feature Upvote
December 02, 2022

I'm the guest on my own podcast! A year ago, Ben Pages joined my company, Feature Upvote, to be our marketing manager. Ben had questions about the early days of Feature Upvote, and how this product ca

#235: Maeva Cifuentes, founder of Flying Cat Marketing
November 18, 2022

I chat with Maeva Cifuentes, founder and CEO of Flying Cat Marketing, an SEO and content marketing agency. We discuss Maeva's journey from freelance translator to CEO of a successful marketing agency.

#234: Ed's marketing catchup
October 28, 2022

My frequent guest co-host Ed Freyfogle tells us about his recent marketing endeavours, including one that was inspired by April Dunford's "toilet talk". "Toilet talk", you ask? All will be revealing d

#233: Running a lifestyle business and proud of it
October 14, 2022

We have two guests interviewing each other! I invited two friends of the podcast, Andy Brice, and Robin Warren, to chat with each other about what it's like running a lifestyle business in 2022 compar

#232: Running a WordPress agency, with Marc Jenkins of 16by9
September 30, 2022

Marc Jenkins runs 16by9, a small web studio that focuses on building WordPress sites. Marc and I talk about what its like to start and build up this type of company, and how, with some careful thinkin

#231: Bad support loses customers, and payment failures
September 16, 2022

I catch up with my frequent co-host, Ed Freyfogle, after a long summer break. Amongst other topics, we discuss how bad customer support will lose you customers. We also talk about yet more payment pro

#230: Introducing Pushing to Production
August 19, 2022

Something a bit different in this episode: we're playing an episode of the new Pushing to Production podcast, where Ed Freyfogle was the guest. It's a conversation about the technical stack Ed's produ

#229: Saying no to a generous acquisition offer, with Simon Bennett of SnapShooter
August 05, 2022

Simon Bennett, founder of SnapShooter, returns to the show. We chat about a generous acquisition offer Simon recently received for his company - and why he ultimately decided to not to be acquired. We