Playing With Fire

One of the biggest risks an entrepreneur can take is launching without efficient systems in place to help them grow. Joining Jason Munson today is Darin Adams who explains how his company, Keap, helps entrepreneurs organize their business using foundational tools for customer relationships management, database collection, scheduling, communication, marketing, and many more. Darin also introduces a key feature of Keap that allows clients to automate these essential processes and make doing business a whole lot easier.

When starting a business, it always helps to have a dependable investor who is willing to risk their hard-earned money on your vision. Raising capital is a matter of creating a relationship with the investor built on trust and transparency. Joining Jason Munson in today’s episode is Sterling Lund of Refuge Investments, a company that invests in apartment buildings. Sterling emphasizes the importance of building confidence with your investor by being clear about what you want to achieve, how you are going to achieve it, what risks are involved and what the potential rewards are.

One of the most important pieces that a small business owner needs to put in place is asset protection. Today, Lee Morgan of Laughlin Associates joins Jason Munson to talk about asset protection, risk mitigation, and other things to consider in order to succeed in business. Lee emphasizes the need to build a solid foundation that allows an individual to separate business liabilities from personal liabilities, and vice versa. He also details some of the things that successful companies and business owners are doing, which can be emulated by anybody who wants to succeed with their business undertakings. Listen in.

What does it take to be successful in the podcasting business? What are successful podcasters doing right? In a light yet engaging conversation, Tom Hazzard, the founder of Brandcasters, Inc., a company specializing in podcasting, videocasting, and similar content, joins with host Jason Munson to lay down a few expert tips on how to launch a podcast successfully. Take a few minutes of your time to learn about some of the most basic yet often overlooked aspects that can mean the difference between a mediocre podcast and a successful one.

So many of the things we see around us – brands, inventions, products – are the intellectual property of an individual or a company somewhere out there. These days, intellectual property is not something you should be trifling with, whether in the off- or online spheres because it's easy to track down and does open you up to risk, which is never a good thing. Working at Pearson Butler, Jason Webb is an attorney who specializes in the field of intellectual property. He speaks with Jason Munson about the unnecessary risks that so many companies out there take when it comes to intellectual property, whether theirs or others. After this conversation, you'll want to stay away from the fires that intellectual property trouble could bring about.