The Pagely Podcast

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Katie Hess converted her fascination with the healing power of flower essences into a robust business that employs an all-female team of ten women across three countries. They are bringing transformational experiences to the masses via in-person events, online educational programs and by selling physical flower essences pr...

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Drew Olanoff got his start in computers at a young age moderating BBS's. He was offered an internship for America Online and thus began a long and illustrious career working at companies like Yahoo!, TechCrunch, NextWeb and more. In this interview Joshua interviews Drew on his journey in tech, winning his bout with cance...

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Rahul Bansal has built RTcamp from scratch to be a hugely successful WP dev agency. We were honored to have him speak this year at PressNomics 6 on the lessons learned from growing his organization. In this conversation Sean interviews Rahul about the pillars of a solid company culture, how to implement them in one's o...

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Andy Wibbels was one of the first people to land a book deal from having a popular, early blog. He's been in tech marketing and product since the early dotcom days and has strong opinions on how compelling story telling should be conducted to drive consumer demand. In this conversation Joshua and Andy discuss some...

For links, show notes, transcript, video and more visit: https://pagely.com/podcast/episodes/ep-18-francisco-dao/  Francisco Dao has served as a columnist for Inc.com, founded an exclusive adventure sports retreat company for entrepreneurs, served as COO for an AI-focused incubator and is currently bringing a caffeinated energy/nutrition bar to market. In this interview Joshua interviews Francisco on his entrepreneurial journe...

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From humble beginnings on the east coast riding back mountains & tinkering with perl scripts to winning an Adweek award for his ingenious "one-star" ad campaign, Digidave Amirault is a marketing wizard. In this interview Joshua talks to Dave about his humble beginnings hand-coding HTML sites, to making a marketing a...

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Morten Rand-Hendriksen has made it his mission to help people understand and get the most out of the web, and contribute to the debates about ownership and democratization of information, design philosophy, and the open web. His 60+ published courses on WordPress, front end web design and development, and web s...

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CampusLogic's mission is to help schools change lives by driving increased access, informed borrowing and improved completion of student loans. Gregg has helmed the CampusLogic ship to becoming Arizona's fastest growing software company with quadruple-digit annual percentage growth. In this interview Joshua talks to Gr...

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Jon Bickerton is a proactive CPA specializing in corporate tax, research & development tax credit studies and cost segregation studies. His talk for PressNomics 6 covers the the major traps to avoid and opportunities on which to capitalize in corporate tax matters. In this episode we discuss strategies to avoid gett...

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Gregarious Narain has been involved in fourteen different startups over the course of his career. He was the VP of Product at Klout and his last one "Chute" was a YCombinator company and recently was acquired. In this interview Josh and and Greg talk about how entrepreneurs can better strike that balance of focused ...

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Brad Williams is founder and CEO of one of the more respected WordPress agencies, WebDev Studios. They work with clients like Microsoft, Viacom, Campbell Soup Company, Starbucks and the NBA. In this interview Matt and Brad talk about their ten-year journey growing a 40-person company, how they retain the in-person feel as a fu...

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Devin Walker is the creator of several highly-rated and award-winning software products with his company Impress.org. Their flagship product, GiveWP, is in it's fifth year and has secured its position in the nonprofit sector as a powerful WordPress-based platform for handling donations. 

In this interview Josh and Devin talk th...

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Mike Roberts started SpyFu back in 2005 and has managed to grow it to become a healthy, profitable, entirely-bootstrapped company having never taken investment. This has given him a lot of freedom in terms of how he runs things and latitude to maintain a course with the business that closely aligns with his values. In this...

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Chris Brogan has spoken for or consulted with the biggest brands you know including Disney, Coke, Google, GM, Microsoft, Coldwell Banker, Titleist, Scotts, Humana Health, Cisco, Sony USA, and many more. He’s appeared on the Dr. Phil Show, interviewed Richard Branson for a cover story for Success magazine, and once even pr...

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After a traumatic event in childhood Brooke Siem spent the next half of her life on antidepressants. Upon turning thirty she committed to weaning herself off the medication and began a long climb out of the fog back to a world she describes of "<em>complexity & intensity with all its details and noise.</em>"...

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Brian Dean is one of the foremost experts on Search Engine Optimization.  His site Backlinko.com gets over 200k monthly unique visitors and he's been dubbed by Entreprneur.com as "an SEO genius." In today's episode Brian shares his process for analyzing a site, what he knows about the Google Rankbrain algorithm, f...

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When it comes to B2B SaaS companies Chris has been around the block more than a few times. He's performed various roles ranging from product development, strategy & software engineering for Liquid Web, Crowd Favorite, Emphasys, AutoTradeCenter, Integranova, QuantumShift, ICE Wireless, Pagoda and Berkeley Lab. In today's...

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Hiten Shah is a pillar of the startup ecosystem having founded and run a handful of successful companies himself and having advised over 120 different startups. Hiten is incredibly generous with his time teaching valuable lessons to help startup founders advance their respective causes. I had the opportunity to sit down wit...