Grayson Lafrenz is the CEO of Power Digital Marketing, an online internet marketing agency that helps businesses scale and drive revenue through digital marketing. Over the past 5 years, he has grown the company from a team of 3 to a team of 50+.
Power Digital has been named San Diego’s Healthiest Company, Fastest Growing, Top Places to work and mentioned on the Inc 500 Companies & Best Places to Work.
On this episode of the Entrepreneur Wrap, Grayson walks us through his entrepreneurial journey and shares how he's been able to rapidly grow his company. Here are some of the talking points:
Johnathan Grzybowski is the co-founder of Penji, a company that provides unlimited custom design services at a flat monthly rate. He's also the founder & host of The Blind Entrepreneur podcast where he interviews the top entrepreneurs across the globe to pick their minds and day-to-day.
On this episode, Johnathan walks us through his entrepreneurial journey and provides valuable insight on what to do and most importantly what not to do.
Rob Dube is the President of Image One, ranked by Forbes Magazine as one of the Top 25 Small Giants in America 2017.
Rob also serves as a Forbes columnist, and is an author of the new book "Do Nothing" - A leaders guide to doing nothing.
Rob breaks down the importance of meditation (a practice that successful entrepreneurs, executives, and world-class athletes have in common).
In this week's episode David and Brett talk about celebrating wins and keeping perspective, the importance of having a business mentor, the concerns about Facebook's power to shape media consumption, spotting the right time to shift strategies to achieve business goals and developing and implementing core values.
David and Brett sit down with Jack Haldrup, founder of Dr. Squatch, a soap company for men. Jack shares his inspiring journey from working as an IT consultant, being frustrated with his position in life, deciding to start his own business on a flight from LA to Chicago, and coming up with the idea for Dr. Squatch by the end of the same flight.
He also talks about his favorite and least favorite parts of the business, the marketing and business tools that have been instrumental to his success, the books that have inspired him, his daily routine and much more.
This week David and Brett sit down with Chris Lynch, co-founder of Everyday California, a lifestyle company specializing in ocean adventures and California-sourced premium apparel. Chris shares his journey starting from earning his economic degree during the global financial crisis, to his two years of acting in Hollywood, and finally, co-founding Everyday California in 2010. He talks about his biggest mistakes, his least favorite parts of the business, books that have inspired him, his daily routine, entrepreneurial guilt and much more.
Former BuzzFeed employees are trashing the company on YouTube, Biz Stone is coming back to Twitter, How freelancing is changing the way we work in 2017, Is Kickstarter the secret weapon of E-Commerce?, Epic Records boss L.A. Reid is leaving Sony Music and Ford is planning substantial cuts to its global workforce.
David and Brett discuss their findings, industry insight and what they have learned as both business owners and entrepreneurs each and every show!
Advertising campaigns that stand out, David & Brett discuss their business mistakes and what they have learned from them, an open discussion on how to get better at delegating, keeping a balanced perspective, top movies for entrepreneurs, Twitter has a new most RT'd tweet of all time, and the FCC is investigating Stephen Colbert.
David and Brett discuss their findings, industry insight and what they have learned as both business owners and entrepreneurs each and every show!
Bill O'Reilly looks to be done at Fox News, David & Brett recap some of this months biggest PR disasters, Facebook had their F8 conference recently and it looks like Zuckerberg is trying to take over the world, Twitter may have a new (most-engaging) tweet of all time, and how to motivate and incentivize your staff to get what you want.
David and Brett discuss their findings, industry insight and what they have learned as both business owners and entrepreneurs each and every show!
Amazon purchases Thursday Night Football streaming rights, How do you establish company culture?, Samsung releases new facial recognition software, why people aren't taking their vacations and why Amazon is going head-to-head against retail.
David and Brett discuss their findings, industry insight and what they have learned as both business owners and entrepreneurs each and every show!
17 years later, we learned something from Vince McMahon and the infamous XFL, Cadillac is coming out with a subscription service, the shopping mall in America may be a thing of the past, the "Cash Me Outside" girl is ranking in the cash, and why we have no problem with GoPro's eventual downfall.
David and Brett discuss their findings, industry insight and what they have learned as both business owners and entrepreneurs each and every show!
Growing too fast vs growing too slow, an example of how marketing really matters, a typo essentially shut down the internet, how to deal with employee stress and how important it is to make business adjustments for longevity.
David and Brett discuss their findings, industry insight and what they have learned as both business owners and entrepreneurs each and every show!
Mark Cuban lashes out at Bleacher Report in a vulgar way, Uber is having some major HR problems internally, Brett and David both took away some positives from Trump's address to congress, YouTube is now offering LIVE TV, and how business owners can both avoid & recognize employee burnout?
David and Brett discuss their findings, industry insight and what they have learned as both business owners and entrepreneurs each and every show!
Snapchat's IPO is expected to open at $20 billion and Brett thinks the app is bound to fail, the same way Myspace did, David disagrees. Elon Musk talks about a universal income to combat robots taking over jobs in the future, Facebook in talks to stream MLB, and did you ever wonder how Venmo makes money?
David and Brett discuss their findings, industry insight and what they have learned as both business owners and entrepreneurs each and every show!
More people tuned in to watch Lady Gaga then they did the actual Super Bowl, ESPN has lost 12 million subscribers over the last 5 years, advertisers are getting away from hashtags, and what should international companies do as they await a potential tariff tax via the Trump administration?
David and Brett discuss their findings, industry insight and what they have learned as both business owners and entrepreneurs each and every
Donald Trump is the president, yet still seems obsessed with TV ratings, Snapchat growth slowed 82% after Instagram Stories launched, Walmart takes on Amazon at their own game and Twitter seems to be taking LIVE a lot more seriously.
David and Brett discuss their findings, industry insight and what they have learned as both business owners and entrepreneurs each and every
Donald Trump has signed some executive orders that could lead to some major impact down the road, and his administration has moved on from Hillary Clinton and now considers the media the "new enemy".
David also brings to light how much Facebook is paying celebrities to use FB LIVE, and how Antonio Brown of the Pittsburgh Steelers got heat from the NFL, but love from the Facebook PR team.
David and Brett discuss their findings, industry insight and what they have learned as both business owners and entrepreneurs each and every show
Apple plans to unveil its originals scripted content by the end of 2017, including a small number of original series and potentially original movies, a Facebook Live video of torture stayed up for 30 minutes & a 12 years old suicide was recently live streamed. Will this become an ongoing problem for Facebook and LIVE broadcasting in general?
David and Brett discuss their findings, industry insight and what they have learned as both business owners and entrepreneurs each and every show.
Amazon is considering drone-friendly floating warehouses that would float 45,000 feet above ground, the CEO of Twitter is asking for suggestions on how to improve the platform, and how will Facebook avoid bad stuff happening on FB LIVE?
David and Brett discuss their findings, industry insight and what they have learned as both business owners and entrepreneurs each and every show.
ABC will produce a 10-episode series exclusively for Snapchat, Uber is following you wherever you go, and what is the Hedgehog Concept?
David and Brett discuss their findings, industry insight and what they have learned as both business owners and entrepreneurs each and every show.
Kanye West randomly visits Trump Tower to meet with the president-elect, Google & Chrysler are working together on self-driving mini-vans, and O.J. Simpson has a major part in the Top 3 TV shows of 2016!
David and Brett discuss their findings, industry insight and what they have learned as both business owners and entrepreneurs each and every show.
Donald Trump is using Twitter as his personal PR feed, and Instagram has completely changed over the last 6 months.
David and Brett discuss their findings, industry insight and what they have learned as both business owners and entrepreneurs each and every show.
David and Brett discuss CNN's purchase of Casey Neistat's company "Beme", the issue with scailing too fast and what they learned this week as Business Owners and Entrepreneurs
David and Brett discuss their findings, industry insight and what they have learned as both business owners and entrepreneurs each and every show.
David Brickley and Brett Regan are co-owners of STN Digital, a full-service digital marketing agency out of San Diego, CA.
David and Brett discuss their findings, industry insight and what they have learned as both business owners and entrepreneurs each and every show.
SHOW RUNDOWN:
David Brickley and Brett Regan are co-owners of STN Digital, a full-service digital marketing agency out of San Diego, CA.
David and Brett discuss their findings, industry insight and what they have learned as both business owners and entrepreneurs each and every show.
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SHOW NOTES:
Twitter is Shutting Down Vine
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/27/twitter-is-shutting-down-vine/
Why Tesla’s new solar roof tiles and home battery are such a big deal
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/31/why-teslas-new-solar-roof-tiles-and-home-battery-are-such-a-big-deal/
Wrike
https://wrike.com
Cirrus Insight
https://www.cirrusinsight.com/
Seth Godin
Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency
https://www.amazon.com/Powerhouse-Untold-Hollywoods-Creative-Artists/dp/006244137X
Kevin Hart Interview on The Breakfast Club
https://youtu.be/Yq_bPAq72S4?t=35m59s