The Backroad

This week on The Backroad, Ethan recounts the many adventures of his recent business trip to Vegas with his sister. With an awkward massage, a beautiful round of golf, an International Pizza Expo, a week of glorious meals, and 100,000 steps behind him, Ethan teaches us how to go broke in Vegas, without gambling.

The Backroad explores how he navigates partnerships using his latest campaign with Waterfront Concerts at the Maine Savings Amphitheater as recent example. A lot of time, effort and energy goes into producing sponsored content, to ensure all brands walk away happy.  Ethan also finally addresses the potential coming TikTok Ban, and how it affects both influencers and companies alike.

In celebration of 10 episodes, Ethan spills the beans on the strategies he personally used to build The Mainah Man. Ethan attributes most of his success on TikTok to algorithm manipulating posting patterns. With the best practices discussed in this episode, anyone pursuinig social media is guarenteed to see improvement.

After a week away to analyze the structure of The Backroad, the podcast returns with a new outline. An episode built for buding podcasters, The Mainah Man discusses the best practices on staring, improving and promoting an audio show, using The Backroad and The Boondock Perspective as examples. Stay tuned until the end of the episode for exciting updates on The Backroad's future.

With bird analogies and a pro and con list, The Backroad Podcast discusses the connections between expectations and dissapointments. The Mainah Man's honest review of self employment through content creation, serves as a both an encouraging guideline, and a warning, to any budding entrepreneur or influencer.

Offering a behind the scenes commentary on the short web series, Loon Echo, The Backroad Podcast explores the in's and out's of writing, directing, and producing a web series on an amateur budget. Through his storytelling experiences, The Mainah Man explores how to capitalize when inspiration strikes, and pays tribute to two influential loved ones.

With a fast pace and a lot to cover, The Backroad Podcast explores the importance of efficiency in all aspects of content creation. Follow along as Ethan uses his production process to showcase how a good backlog and an understanding of momentum will improve your workflow and productivity. Catch the end of the program for sneak peaks into The Mainah Man's newest videos.

Through golf analogies and rants about firetrucks, The Backroad Podcast urges the importance of having a career that you love as much as you love your hobbies. With many stages of his career evolution, Ethan explains what his job in video production, marketing, and content creation/influencing really means to him.

All business meetings are intimidating, but informal pitch meetings over lunch or coffee can be extra nerve-wracking. In this episode of The Backroad Podcast, Ethan draws from his recent lunchtime business meetings to lend advice on how to best navigate a professional interaction in unfamiliar territory. The Mainah Man also honors one of the most impactful people in the State of Maine, Howard Trotsky.

Through more golf analogies, and a multitude of examples, The Backroad Podcast blasts the marketing misconceptions that are secretly holding your content back. Social media algorithms can be very tricky, but with Ethan's consumable guidance, and some creative brainstorming, you can shatter through any limitation.

Exploring his work producing emotionally driven advertising commercials and campaigns, The Backroad Podcast emphasizes the importance of staying real in your marketing efforts. Alongside a classic Mainah Man rant about carbon monoxide alarms, Ethan gives guidance on how to produce a successful marketing campaign custom catered to your audience.

Achieving the milestone of 20 episodes, The Backroad Podcast discusses the important differneces between anxiety attacks and panic attacks, and how better understanding the two helps to better understand yourself. Ethan discusses other intimate moments of his career, that lead to professional, personal, and mental growth, and teaches you to control your hapiness with dopanine, oxytocin, seratonin, and endorphins.

This week, the Backroad returns for both video and audio audiences! Joining Ethan this week to discuss engaging and collaborating with non-profits is Kris MacCabe of North Woods Law, Chris Rudolph of Waterfront Concerts, and Riley Bridges, a video production student. Plus, the cast and crew of the Northern Oak Tournament share behind the scenes secrets. Welcome back!

Today on the Backroad, Ethan teaches a method of professional communication and information filtering that makes confrontation easier, whether through email, text, phone, video, or in person. The Mainah Man also shares a few bar stories, and rants about the power of spite.

This week on The Backroad, Ethan describes what working remotely means to him, and explains how COVID-19 resulted in a surge of entrepreneurs and self-employed contract workers. The Mainah Man also validates the graduating class of 2024, and teaches his best trick for staying disciplined and focused.