Rise Grind Repeat

David DeLorenzo is a native Arizonan. He attended college at Arizona State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Marketing. After college David worked for Warner Bros records distributor, which started a 10 year career in the record entertainment industry. While engaged in the record industry, and armed with marketing knowledge, David opened his first marketing company called Diamond in the Rough Promotions. &n...

Marc Pacquette dedicates itself to helping Clients build and protect wealth through sound Estate Planning and Business Law principals. Using up to date training and study, The Law Office of Marc C. Paquette, PLLC works closely with clients showing them how to protect everything they are working hard to obtain. Because Estate Planning is such a personal matter, each plan is tailored to the individual or married couple. As a Solo Pra...

After dropping out of college, Diana didn’t want to waste her smarts even at her most humble moments. As the sorted out cleaner in her neighborhood, she learned the struggles of trying to create rapport, always asking for referrals and negotiating her prices, etc. She also met other small cleaning providers especially in the Black and Hispanic communities and got to listen to their unique stories. That inspired her to create Clyn, ...

The Wildjoy story began in Lacy's college bedroom dreaming about how to make life more fun. Like most seniors, Lacy was planning to pursue a full-time corporate role after she graduated, yet her passions couldn't have been farther from corporate life. Lacy was knee deep in her entrepreneurship major trying to come up with a company that she actually loved and could pursue instead of a corporate job.  

The name 'Wildjo...

Heidi explains what Lifeguarding Legacies is all about; Without a custom estate plan and lifeguard to protect your legacy, you run the risk of drowning in the complications of what can happen if you swim the legal waters without a buddy. Lifeguarding Legacies is an easy and affordable concierge service for wills, trusts, probate and estate planning.
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Most of us think “military aid” is something the U.S. provides to other nations, and don’t realize that our own troops and their families are often hurting financially. Military pay rates are low. Many young, newly enlisted families qualify as “the working poor.” Multiple deployments can mean frequent relocation, leaving a civilian spouse to find a new job while the other is overseas. And if military pay gets messed up (it happens)...

Jason Bressler and his father created the Phoenix Metro Chamber of Commerce with the mission of helping members make connections that grow their businesses and benefit the community. So Jason can teach you some things about networking. For example, at an event, “If I meet two great people, that’s a win,” Jason says. “Set your expectations realistically. Don’t go in saying I’m going to meet a hundred people and then you meet two and...

The COVID pandemic hit Green Mountain Grills hard. Their top-quality wood pellet grills are the first choice of many competitive grillmasters, but competitions were on hold. When things finally started to open back up, “Shipping issues,” says Jason Baker of Green Mountain Grills. “Guess what — You’re not getting product!” Jason says it’s been very tough, but “You can’t be beat if you don’t give up. When you’re in business, expect s...

Just because your definition of success is simple doesn’t mean it’s small or doesn’t matter

Kyle Davidson’s “why” was shaped by his family. So when he started 12th Street Creative, his video production business, he says he knew, “My simplified ‘why’ was to work with just one business, one person, and help them realize what their story is and then tell it. If I can make a living doing that,” Kyle says, “that sounds like a p...

Evo Terra’s Simpler Media takes the mystery and fear out of podcast production. Simple!

Evo Terra has been in podcasting since the beginning, when he was part of the team behind an internet-based broadcast in 2002. Now his company, Simpler Media, helps businesses like yours with the lessons he’s learned. One of the questions he gets most often from business owners considering a podcast is, “What am I going to talk about?” ...

Lots of us have out-of-the-ordinary career paths, but Jeff Davenport’s was way out. With a bachelor’s degree in biology, he never worked in the field. Instead, he discovered radio, and has been in broadcasting for more than 25 years, most of them as operations manager for a multichannel company. Lots of people in southeast Arizona also know him as the host of a weekly trivia night that’s been going on for nearly six years at a Nati...

Mark Asquith created Rebel Base Media, a U.K. tech company that helps businesses become as successful with podcasting tools as he has been. Getting his start in web design, Mark says he didn’t know he was an entrepreneur until somebody told him he was. He was just taking care of business that came through the door, not worrying about scale and capacity. He says a lot of would-be entrepreneurs would be better off thinking of themsel...

Dan Tyre devotes as much effort to giving away what he’s learned as he does at his job. Dan was the first salesman on the original team at HubSpot in 2007. Now he’s sales director, overseeing “smarketing” — sales + marketing — for more than 750 employees. But he admits his own mission is more ambitious still: “I want to do the most good I can for the universe,” Dan says, and he starts by sharing what he knows. “I’ll sit with entrep...

You know what the pandemic did to your business. Now imagine what it would have been like for you if your business is to help thousands of other businesses. Thomas Barr is vice president of business development for Local First Arizona. He says as soon as business emergency funds became available, LFA organized members for a letter-writing campaign to the governor saying, “We need federal aid for small businesses.” Moving fast was c...

Design Pickle, Russ Perry’s concept of a subscription creative services provider, has been an enormous success, according to lots of the national business press that has discovered Russ and his team. But Russ says they were successful from the start. How did he do it? “I created a pricing and business model that had this crazy thing called ‘profit’ from the beginning,” he says. “I didn’t operate from a deficit. We were posting prof...

LighthousePE is a pretty specialized brand, providing proximity marketing primarily for the travel, casino gaming and hospitality industries. But Lighthouse CEO Andrew Steele has a lot to teach anyone who deals with customers in the digital realm. He has tips for easing customers’ minds when it comes to privacy — “We are very strict that the data we collect is only to enable LighthousePE to work for them.” — and on relationship-bui...

Outbound sales are some of the hardest marketing there is. That’s why Justin Michael has made a science of it, studying what works and using that knowledge to help his clients. One of his top tips? The power of interacting within 24 hours after a contact, with email, voicemail, LinkedIn and Twitter. “I’ll do a lot very quickly,” he says. “I call it a cluster. It creates a bee-swarm effect.” Justin also relies on behavioral science ...

Marketing through video scares lots of people. We’ve all seen bad ones, and we don’t want to do those. David Navarrete helps businesses avoid those mistakes and others, and he starts with a clean sheet of paper. First, he helps them determine what they want a video to do for them (“More followers is not the same as more clients,” he reminds), and the audience they want to reach. Then, preproduction, production and postproduction, a...