The Faces of Business

In this episode of The Faces of Business, Damon Pistulka and Joe Sullivan discuss focused manufacturing marketing. Joe Sullivan is the owner of Gorilla 76, a manufacturing marketing agency. Joe helps manufacturers develop and implement marketing strategies that enable sales and turn into revenue.     According to Joe, the most significant challenge is that many manufacturing companies are sales-driven rather than marketing-driven.   If You’re Not Visible, They’re Looking at Somebody Else.   Thanks for taking the time to listen today.   Find Damon Pistulka on LinkedIn talking about life & building businesses you can sell or succeed.    On Twitter as @dpistulka with inspiration and sharing thoughts.    Find out more about Damon when he's not working.  @dpistulka on Instagram, or Damon Pistulka on Facebook.      More information on building businesses you can sell or succeed and the Exit Your Way method on our website   View our blog page for this episode here.   Email us for more information info@exityourway.com

In this The Faces of the Business episode, our topic is Increasing Supply Chain Profitability and our speaker is Margo Waldie. Margo Waldie works for DART Entities as Director of Business Development. She helps companies solve their supply chain challenges with transportation, warehousing, fulfillment, and other services to get products to their customers.   Margo Waldie and Damon Pistulka discuss how to make supply chains more profitable. Waldie has spent most of her career in logistics and moving things around. She's been at DART Entities for four years, and she's lived in the supply chain world for over 15 years.   Thanks for taking the time to listen today.   Find Damon Pistulka on LinkedIn talking about life & building businesses you can sell or succeed.    On Twitter as @dpistulka with inspiration and sharing thoughts.    Find out more about Damon when he's not working.  @dpistulka on Instagram, or Damon Pistulka on Facebook.      More information on building businesses you can sell or succeed and the Exit Your Way method on our website   View our blog page for this episode here.   Email us for more information info@exityourway.com

In this The Faces of Business episode, our guest speaker was our very own Andrew Cross.   Andrew is the Founder of Cross NW-Business Advisory and the Co-Founder of Exit Your Way.  Andrew has been helping business owners sell their businesses for over a decade.   In this episode Andrew is talking about the importance of knowing your business buyer when you are preparing to sell a business. Exit Your Way helps business owners grow their businesses to the size they want, prepare for sale, and help sell their companies when they are ready.   Thanks for taking the time to listen today.   Find Damon Pistulka on LinkedIn talking about life & building businesses you can sell or succeed.    On Twitter as @dpistulka with inspiration and sharing thoughts.    Find out more about Damon when he's not working.  @dpistulka on Instagram, or Damon Pistulka on Facebook.      More information on building businesses you can sell or succeed and the Exit Your Way method on our website   View our blog page for this episode here.   Email us for more information info@exityourway.com

In this week’s The Faces of Business episode, our topic is the DIY Business Sale and our speaker is Andrew Cross. Andrew is the Founder of Cross NW, and Co-founder of Exit your Way. Andrew has been helping business owners sell their businesses for over a decade.  In Exit Your Way, Andrew is helping owners prepare and maximize the value on their way to selling the business. Damon Pistulka and Andrew Cross discuss how to sell a business yourself.    Andrew Cross is an entrepreneurial business leader, and a valued adviser to business owners, CEO, and Board of Directors relative to business sales, strategic planning, merger & acquisition, capital formation, private equity, corporate growth strategy, and corporate governance. Andrew beings by explaining that a DIY Business Sale is possible but, it takes a lot of effort.    Thanks for taking the time to listen today.   Find Damon Pistulka on LinkedIn talking about life & building businesses you can sell or succeed.    On Twitter as @dpistulka with inspiration and sharing thoughts.    Find out more about Damon when he's not working.  @dpistulka on Instagram, or Damon Pistulka on Facebook.      More information on building businesses you can sell or succeed and the Exit Your Way method on our website   View our blog page for this episode here.   Email us for more information info@exityourway.com

In this The Faces of Business Episode, Damon Pistulka and Jim Kunkle discuss the importance of content for businesses. Jim is the Manager of business Development & protective coatings specialist for the Association for Materials Protection and Performance.     Over the last 30 years Jim has developed key sales development and marketing programs for companies and associations in the coatings industry.    Jim currently hosts 2 livestream/podcast shows creating content for the industry and businesses.   While Jim's experience is in coatings, we talk about the importance of generating content for any business.   Thanks for taking the time to listen today.   Find Damon Pistulka on LinkedIn talking about life & building businesses you can sell or succeed.    On Twitter as @dpistulka with inspiration and sharing thoughts.    Find out more about Damon when he's not working.  @dpistulka on Instagram, or Damon Pistulka on Facebook.      More information on building businesses you can sell or succeed and the Exit Your Way method on our website   View our blog page for this episode here.   Email us for more information info@exityourway.com

In this week’s The Faces of Business Episode, our guest speaker was Valentin Radu. Valentin is the founder, CEO, and Chief Constructor of Omniconvert.    Valetin helps ecommerce companies create a more balanced business approach and long-term success by optimizing the long-term value of each customer.  Valentin learned the importance of this when he was operating his own ecommerce company where he saw firsthand the value of providing more value for customers and keeping them longer.     Valentin now helps companies with customer lifetime value optimization in Omniconvert directly and through Omniconvert CVO academy online with other ecommerce specialists.   We talk about the key things Valentin sees companies doing to effectively improve the livetime value of their customers.   Thanks for taking the time to listen today.   Find Damon Pistulka on LinkedIn talking about life & building businesses you can sell or succeed.    On Twitter as @dpistulka with inspiration and sharing thoughts.    Find out more about Damon when he's not working.  @dpistulka on Instagram, or Damon Pistulka on Facebook.      More information on building businesses you can sell or succeed and the Exit Your Way method on our website   View our blog page for this episode here.   Email us for more information info@exityourway.com

In this week’s The Faces of Business Episode, our guest speaker was Lisa Ryan. Lisa is the Founder and Chief Appreciation Strategist at Grategy.  Lisa is also a 2021 Inductee Virtual Speaker Hall of Fame and the Manufacturer’s Network Podcast Host at Manufacturers Networks.  Lisa helps manufacturing companies attract and retain the talent they need to succeed.    Lisa shares some of the things manufacturing companies doing to attract and retain talent in a competitive market for talent.  She talks about changing the way companies look at attracting, welcoming, and nurturing relationships with employees to keep the best employees engaged and at your company for the long term. Thanks for taking the time to listen today.   Find Damon Pistulka on LinkedIn talking about life & building businesses you can sell or succeed.    On Twitter as @dpistulka with inspiration and sharing thoughts.    Find out more about Damon when he's not working.  @dpistulka on Instagram, or Damon Pistulka on Facebook.      More information on building businesses you can sell or succeed and the Exit Your Way method on our website   View our blog page for this episode here.   Email us for more information info@exityourway.com

In this week’s The Faces of Business Episode, our guest speaker was Ronald Henderson. Currently, Ronald is currently pursuing new opportunities in self discover and self-employment. Before this, Ronald was a tenured Technical Service Representative and Account Customer Engineer at IBM.    Ronald shares his inspirating story of awakening and discovering how he can build the life of this dreams later in life.   Thanks for taking the time to listen today.   Find Damon Pistulka on LinkedIn talking about life & building businesses you can sell or succeed.    On Twitter as @dpistulka with inspiration and sharing thoughts.    Find out more about Damon when he's not working.  @dpistulka on Instagram, or Damon Pistulka on Facebook.      More information on building businesses you can sell or succeed and the Exit Your Way method on our website   View our blog page for this episode here.   Email us for more information info@exityourway.com

In this week’s The Faces of Business Episode, our guest speaker was Veronica Lee Jeans. Veronica is the Best Selling Author of Shopify Made Easy Series 2022. Veronics helps businesses improve their ecommerce sales by using Shopify and other methods.    Veronica Lee Jeans is the Best Selling Author of the Shopify Made Easy Series 2022. She also works with Collegium Civitas at 2 instructor positions. She works as a part-time lecturer and Freelance Educator – Ecommerce. Thanks for taking the time to listen today.   Find Damon Pistulka on LinkedIn talking about life & building businesses you can sell or succeed.    On Twitter as @dpistulka with inspiration and sharing thoughts.    Find out more about Damon when he's not working.  @dpistulka on Instagram, or Damon Pistulka on Facebook.      More information on building businesses you can sell or succeed and the Exit Your Way method on our website   View our blog page for this episode here.   Email us for more information info@exityourway.com

In this The Faces of Business Episode, our guest speaker was Lisa Caprelli. Lisa Caprelli is the Author, Storyteller, Virtual Storytime, and song presenter at Lisa Caprelli. She is also the author of Color Your Message; The Art of Digital Marketing and Social Media. Lisa is the creative force behind Unicorn Jazz, a children’s series dedicated to inspiring literacy in children. We discuss how Lisa and her Unicorn Jazz series inspires literacy in children. Thanks for taking the time to listen today.   Find Damon Pistulka on LinkedIn talking about life & building businesses you can sell or succeed.    On Twitter as @dpistulka with inspiration and sharing thoughts.    Find out more about Damon when he's not working.  @dpistulka on Instagram, or Damon Pistulka on Facebook.      More information on building businesses you can sell or succeed and the Exit Your Way method on our website   View our blog page for this episode here.   Email us for more information info@exityourway.com