Today I'm chatting with equine photographer, Kirstie Jones. We're diving into the benefits of choosing a niche and creating a profitable and sustainable business. As always, links and resources can be found in the show notes. Check ’em out at https://daveyandkrista.com/specialization-business-success-niche-btb-230/. And if you enjoyed this episode,…

Today we're talking about the power of targeted messaging and offers, and the secret to driving successful digital marketing and lead conversion. Davey Jones understands buyer personas, and why it's critical to address the question, "Can you really do that for someone like me?"—a query that reassures customers about the product's relevance to their…

I chat with David, Neill and Denise of Black Sabbath tribute band...Princess Of Darkness.We discuss how they started, what music they are fans of and more.Are you a fan of rock?Why not follow Princess of Darkness on Instagram @princessofdarkness355 or Facebook @Princess of DarknesPlease rate and review wherever you listen.…

Wrestling chat with Antony Goldstein. I chat with Antony about our love for wrestling, some of our fave games, fave face and heel, what got me back into wrestling fandom and more. Do rate and review wherever you listen. Why not follow Antony on Instagram @agoldstein93, X @AGoldstein1993 or TikTok @goldie256 #daveyatalks #daveyatalkspodcast #wrestli…

Today's guest is my neighbor and friend, farmer and wedding venue owner, Buddy Powers. Buddy and his wife Jill own a regenerative farm and wedding venue here in Lexington, Virginia. You may remember Buddy from episode 16 where he shared his experience starting the wedding venue and offered tips on how others can do the same. As always, links and re…

Today we're chatting with artist, Stephanie Gaffney, about saying yes and doing things scared. Stephanie's boldness and jumping into her business absolutely blew me away, and as someone who is still learning to manage my fear, I really loved this conversation. As always, links and resources can be found in the show notes. Check ’em out at https://d…

It can be tricky to grow your company while trying to sell it, because growing and selling are both full time jobs and then some. So how can a founder be expected to do all the things to maximize the offer? Today, “entrepreneurologist” Robbie Hardy joins us to answer this question. She and host Izach Porter discuss: The importance of maintaining op…

In this episode we have Élevae Visuals Founder Shay Cochrane. This is actually Shay’s second time on our podcast and her husband Graham has also joined us previously as well. We’re chatting all things Image Curation. We also dive into the impact that quality images have on your business, why quality images are important and ways to streamline the i…

Ghostbusters Frozen Empire with Stephen J Holloran. I'm joined by good friend and former I'd Give That 10 Minutes guest...Stephen J Holloran. We chat about Ghostbusters Frozen Empire, some key scenes, characters, what we liked and didn't like and more...including our fandom of Ghostbusters 2. Vigo would be proud! Please rate and review wherever you…

In today’s episode I’m chatting with Erin Harding of Simple Pin Media. We recently worked with Erin to up our own Pinterest ad game (aka - we had none) and her wealth of knowledge blew us away. I knew we had to get her on the podcast to share all things ads with you. We’re chatting everything from getting started, to who Pinterest ads are a good fi…

Many founders who are building up their businesses want to sell one day. It sounds like a dream, and it certainly can be. But the reality is it can also be very complicated, and not everyone is ready for the mental gymnastics and identity crisis of not leading your own company any more. So how can we best prepare for the exit and train the next own…

Today’s guest is painter and artist mentor Emily Jeffords. I’ve owned a few of Emily’s prints for years and it was a huge honor to chat with her today. In this episode we walk through finding inspiration, creating artwork that sells and the artist journey. Regardless of whether you're a painter or fine artist, if you have a creative heart, you'll f…

Life,Music and Dance-Floors. I chat with DJ Carl James about his DJ life, the Liverpool dance popularity, his forthcoming podcast and more. We mention venues in our town...Kirkby and even what we'll chat about next time we meet up. Hope you enjoy, rate and review. #dancemusic #liverpoolnightlife #djlife #dancemusic #podcasting #podcasts #daveyatalk…

Creative Writing with Elena Ioakim. I chat with Elena about her passion for writing, wanting to be part of movies/tv, her fandom of Supernatural and even our shared appreciation of good quality beer! Do visit Elena,s website for more information about her writing and inspirations. https://elusivecreativity.wordpress.com/portfolio/ Please rate and r…

Voice-over Skills. I chat with Martin Whiskin about his career as a voice-over artist, his music background and more. We throw in some old school banter about instruments. Martin is running an event on May 8th 2024...a 24hr marathon to help raise awareness about Mental health. Please visit The Creative Collective — Networking for creative professio…

Elizabeth Sheils, co-founder of the popular CRM, Rock Paper Coin, joins Davey on the podcast today for a wide-ranging interview. Any service-based business could benefit from this conversation but especially those in the Wedding Industry as the conversation. Initially we set out to discuss proposals and her unique take on where unique proposals fit…

Travel with Lauren Jones.I chat with traveller, dog-lover and folklore fan Lauren Jones about where in the world she, her husband and their dog...Belka have travelled.We discuss theme parks, shakespeare, my fear when scuba-diving and more.Why not visit www.twohumansandadog.com, follow at @travelling_ghouls and enjoy some travel.…

This week I’m joined by Chad Campbell of Teach Well Online. Chad and his wife Becca Campbell are good friends and frequent guests on our podcast. You might know them from their success of Little Z Sleep, The Course Company or The Sleep Sorority. In this episode we dive into finding an audience for your online course, choosing a topic and how to beg…

One of the KPIs buyers are looking for when analyzing a business is its conversion rate - the number of users who converted as a percentage of the total number of users that visit your site. A steadily increasing conversion rate can mean that your brand is becoming better known or your messaging is more attractive - and that’s something that’s attr…

Today I’m joined by photographer and business coach Christa Rene. We’re diving into ways you can avoid burnout as a service provider by adding products to your business, why clients typically don’t buy from online galleries and what you can do instead to increase your profit per session while shooting less. As always, links and resources can be fou…

Louie Torres is a first-generation American whose family comes from Ecuador. His mom had Louie when she was 18, and he didn't have another sibling until he was 10. So he had a lot of time to himself where he would script up his own movies or set up his Star Wars collection or just dream. And part of that dream was to find a way to make some cash. T…

London After Midnight : A ContinuationI chat with returning guest Jack Bowman.We chat about London After Midnight's success since the audio drama he helped produce was released in 2023, the plans for a book based on it's production and more.please visit www.londonaftermidnight.co.ukfor information about this great drama and ways to listen.Always gr…

Today's guest is Daniel Shear, co-founder of Season's Yield, a bakery here in the Shenandoah Valley. We're chatting about how he and his wife built their business selling loaves of bread out of their house and it's evolution into Bread Days, a bi-weekly experience that hundreds, sometimes up to 1,000, people attend at their farm. As we chatted, I c…

What goes into a high converting homepage? We try to answer that question in this episode of brands that book. If you're looking for more homepage content be sure to check out our blog and youtube channels. We've actually released a lot of homepage content lately and specifically a youtube video and blog post both published in the last few weeks. P…

Davey A Talks....PodcastingHello there! I'm back under a new name.Sadly I'd Give That 10 Minutes is over but i'm thesame great guy with a new podcasting goal...to reach more listeners and talk about more topics.In this introductory episode i talk about my podcasting journey so far, what i intend for Davey A Talks, some tips and opinions for budding…

Lately we’ve been receiving a lot of questions about designing and selling Showit templates, so I roped Krista into doing a quick, 20 minute, q+a style podcast episode with me while I asked her some of the questions. If you’re thinking about becoming a designer or if you’re already a designer and you want to start designing and selling Showit websi…

Today we hear from a founder who has built and sold four very different companies - a t-shirt business before ecommerce existed, a pest control service, a gas station, and most recently, an informational website with an adsense revenue model. How did he do it? Let's find out! Previous How I Built and Sold This Episodes How Cristina Van Osten Revolu…

Today's episode features Kat Schmoyer, founder of KS Agency, an agency that provides innovative services for businesses that want to create, launch and sell digital products. We're talking more about what it would look like if you're going to launch a digital product, what Kat would recommend doing in order to get you that product launched, and how…

Today on the podcast we're joined by our good friend and fellow Davey + Krista designer, Sara Metzger. Sara has been on the team for nearly 5 years and she is the genius behind many of the custom brands we create. We're walking you through the exact process we use to define aesthetics and ultimately create color palettes for our clients. As always,…

We're chatting with Pinterest expert, Kate of KH Social, about all things Pinterest 2024. We talk about current best practices, how to use Pinterest to drive traffic to your site for years to come, how many pins you actually need to share in a day to be successful using trends and how to get started if Pinterest is new or if the extent of Pinterest…

In this episode, we discuss his recent book launch, Million Dollar Weekend: How to Launch a 7-figure Business in 48 Hours. We jump into how to create a viable business idea and find your first customers WITHOUT having to create anything at all. Check links and resources in the show notes to enter the giveaway! Those can be found at https://daveyand…

This week’s episode features Sam Reid, host of a YouTube channel, The Studio Revue. I met Sam a few years ago because we both live in the same area. When we met, he had about 10,000 or so YouTube channel subscribers. At the time of recording this intro, he has over 125,000 subscribers. Of course, I had to chat with him about how he was able to grow…

Today's topic is exit planning, and all of the steps you can take as a business owner to help you prepare to sell your business. We all want to sell for the highest possible price at the highest multiple. So what do we need to do to get there? And what are some potential pitfalls that could affect the sale of your business that you can avoid? Our g…

Cristina Van Osten is one of those people where you’re not surprised by her success because she's been making success happen her whole life. Back in her home country of Romania, she decided to sell Avon door to door at 16 years old - and thrived. A couple years later, she started two convenience stores and had a nice exit. After moving to the US at…

Saluting The Jugger with John Fawkes.I chat with Jugger fan/player about"The Game".We chat about being a jugger, the movie that inspired the game and where John's fandom of the game began.In a week were we've seen trailers for Mad Max Fury Road prequel..Furiosa and a Fallout tv series released....it seems post-apocalyptic action is in demand.Follow…

This week's episode features marketer Jennifer Staats of Staats Solutions. Jennifer and her team manage the marketing for realtors and brokerages across the country. I just love chatting with business owners from various industries because there's usually so much that you can glean and appropriate when it comes to sales and marketing. So many thing…

As Ecommerce entrepreneurs, we may not consider ourselves traditional investors. But in today's digital landscape, we're all in the business of selling and investing in our future. We may not have a stock ticker or a brick and mortar property, but we have websites and digital assets that hold incredible potential and can produce amazing cash flows.…

First Gen Gamers I chat with Jed Shaffer..one of the hosts of First Gen Gamers podcast. We discuss retro gaming, xbox 360's demise, what he and his co-host Mike are bringing us in their podcast, board games converted to video games and more. Follow them via this link https:linktr.ee/firstgengamers #idgivethat10minutespodcast #daveyatalks #gaming #v…

This week's episode features artist, Caleb Curtisi, of Curtisi Co. Caleb is a woodworker and I met Caleb earlier this year in Arizona, while visiting some friends out at Showit HQ. It was fascinating learning about his business. While he spent years working on his craft, he's only taken his business full time, this past year. From the outside looki…

Today, Website Closers' Gwen Sylvester joins host Izach Porter to chat with Adam Spiegel, who built and sold Ownloop, because he needed a way to make money when his career took a turn for the worse because of the pandemic. Previous How I Built and Sold This Episodes How a Dog Training Guru Built and Sold Her Business Breakthrough in Hair Care, Over…

This is a little bit of a different format as we've done in the past. We published a blog post about increasing your website's conversion rate and are using the podcast episode as an extension of what we publish about on the blog. If you like this format, be sure to let us know so we know to record more podcasts like this one. As always, links and …

Bottom Terror I talk about a Halloween-inspired episode of one of his fave comedy shows...Bottom. The episode in question...Terror features Richie and Eddie trying to get money for a party by trick or treating...with a cattle-prod! 3 small devils cause bother for Eddie. Are you a Bottom fan? #idgivethat10minutespodcast #daveyatalks #bottomterrorepi…

What are the most important website metrics to track? It's a good question that we were recently asked. I wrote a blogpost about it but wasn't able to fit all of my thoughts so we thought it'd also be a good idea to chat through on the podcast, so here we are! We chatted about website metrics every business should track and took a more granular loo…

At Website Closers, we’ve brokered the sale of businesses anywhere from $100,000 in revenue to hundreds of millions of dollars ARR. But typically, buyers are looking for a company with a few million in revenue and an upward growth trend. And if you’re in the low 7-figures and kinda stuck, that might be what our guest Nick Weiksner refers to as “No …

Throughout our business we've always made it a point to invest in education, whether it be through courses, mentors or coaches, we've always valued learning new skills. If I could go back in time, the very first thing i'd invest in would be mindset coaching. What I've come to realize over the last few years is that mindset really is what creates th…

In today's episode, Krista and I are chatting about how to put together a marketing plan for your next website launch. Winter is coming and we've found that, in the past at least, that's typically the time that people start thinking about making updates to their brand or to their website. If that's you, consider checking out our line of stunning, e…

London After Midnight with Jack Bowman I chat with director, producer, podcaster Jack Bowman about the forthcoming audio drama release of London After Midnight...based on the 1927 silent movie that starred Lon Chaney. This audio reimagining brings the talents of Art Malik, Dan Starkey, Beth Ayre, David K Barnes, Kenton Hall, Sarah Dorset, David Bic…

Are you looking for financial freedom through passive income? That sounds like a dream for most of us, and today we're going to learn the steps to start making that dream a reality, with Spencer Hilligoss, the CEO and co-founder, Madison Investing This episode of Deal Closers is hosted by Izach Porter, brought to you by WebsiteClosers.com, and is p…

Freddy vs JasonI give my opinion on 2003's Freddy vs Jason.That's right!...a horror movie review.Not my usual choice but part of a series of guilty pleasure movies i wanted to talk about.Are you a fan?Get in touch on the socials @daveya10mins#idgivethat10minutespodcast #daveyatalks #freddyvsjason #horrormovies #podcasting # podcasts #freddykrueger …

Some of you might not know this but back in the day, Krista and I ran a wedding photography business together. In today's episode, we cover the 5 things I would focus on if I were to go back and start that business over again. If you're in the wedding industry, this is relevant, even if you're not a photographer specifically. Really, this is what I…