Best Mike Zabrin Podcasts (2024)

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Kate Furst from Zola Chats How Their New Vendor Marketplace Connects Couples and Wedding Pros 42:15

19d ago42:15

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Send us a Text Message. 💬 Show Notes Welcome to another episode of Funktastic Chats Podcast! Today, we're chatting with Kate Furst from Zola, the fastest-growing women-led wedding planning platform. Kate shares her incredible journey in the events industry, celebrating nearly 11 years at Zola. She provides an inside look at how Zola has transformed…

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PARTYSLATE Co-Founder and CEO Julie Novack Chats Expanding Your Digital Footprint 50:30

25d ago50:30

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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to another episode of Funktastic Chats Podcast! Today, we're diving into how PartySlate can transform your event business with its innovative digital tools and strategies. Whether you're an event professional specializing in luxury corporate events, weddings, galas, etc., this episode is packed with insights just for…

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I always say I went to the "School of Alan Berg".... 49:58

1M ago49:58

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Send us a Text Message. Today's guest is none other than Alan Berg! He’s the author of seven books, and in our last episode in 2021, we talked extensively about his wisdom in the business of weddings. Some of his popular books include "Shut Up and Sell More Weddings and Events," "Why Are They Ghosting Me?" and his latest, "Stop Selling and Help The…

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Why You Should Treat Paid Ads Differently: Handling Cold Leads vs. Warm Leads from Referrals, with Wedding Advertising Expert, Mark Chapman 31:44

1M ago31:44

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Send us a Text Message. Why are couples taking longer to book you? Is your website ready to convert a cold audience? Is it relates to gen Z couples, promotion oriented advertising is a thing of the past. This year couples are more attuned to what makes your brand totally different and unique with personality. We're talking about the power of retarg…

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Wedding Biz Therapy with Terrica: From Local Planner to Global Mother Hustler 57:08

2M ago57:08

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Send us a Text Message. One of my favorite things that makes Terrica different is that she speaks very plainly, so much so you'll think it's a therapy session or your favorite biz bestie. She embraces this role to help over 4000+ wedding pros scale their businesses. Terrica has spent the past eighteen years crafting exquisite weddings and events th…

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How to Stand Out in a Crowded Market with Heidi Thompson 33:41

2M ago33:41

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Send us a Text Message. Stand out from your competition as the top choice for your ideal clients, no matter how much you charge and join Heidi's FREE LIVE CHALLENGE MAY 20TH! The Stand Out and Get Booked Challenge Today, we're here with Heidi Thompson. She's the bestselling author of "Clone Your Best Clients" and the founder of Evolve Your Wedding …

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Should You Offer A Photo Booth Add-On? 39:32

1+ y ago39:32

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Send us a Text Message. Hey, event pros! We're talking about the next generation of Open-Air Photobooths by a company called Photobooth Supply Company, otherwise known as PBSC. Should you buy a photobooth to offer as an add-on? How does this photobooth company give owners and entry to the photobooth business that they may not have gotten otherwise?…

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Releventful in 6 minutes...3 months later 5:53

1+ y ago5:53

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Send us a Text Message. Hey, remember this episode?! How Releventful CRM Filled The Gap in The Event Industry. If you haven't had a chance to listen, or maybe you're currently using something like Dubsado, 17hats, Honeybook, or Active Campaign, you should seriously give that episode a listen! We recorded that episode 3 months ago now, and so I want…

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How To Level Up Your Email Marketing with Wedding Business Strategist Carissa Kruse, Part 2 28:46

1+ y ago28:46

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Send us a Text Message. Carissa Kruse is a Wedding Business Strategist and serial entrepreneur who has been in the wedding industry for over 10 years and has built multiple businesses. She's the founder of Weddings By Carue, a multi-state and multi-service wedding business. She has coached hundreds of entrepreneurs through launching and scaling the…

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How Releventful CRM Filled the Gap in the Event Industry 53:09

1+ y ago53:09

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Send us a Text Message. Today we're here with Daniel Wright, Creator of Releventful. It's more than an event platform - It's actually a customer relationship and business management platform. Whether you're a caterer, DJ, venue, photographer, or wedding planner, Releventful can help you grow your business. This CRM provides event industry business …

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How To Level Up Your Email Marketing with Wedding Business Strategist Carissa Kruse, Part 1 31:51

2+ y ago31:51

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Send us a Text Message. Carissa Kruse is a Wedding Business Strategist and serial entrepreneur who has been in the wedding industry for over 10 years and has built multiple businesses. She's the founder of Weddings By Carue, a multi-state and multi-service wedding business. She has coached hundreds of entrepreneurs through launching and scaling the…

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What's in My Playlist: Montreal based Duo, FLARA K 17:29

2+ y ago17:29

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Send us a Text Message. Flara K is a duo from Montreal, Canada who explore a unique blend of R&B, indie pop, and electronic music influences. I had the pleasure of meeting this talented group at Indie Week Canada! Their debut EP titled Anxious, Irrational, Fashionable is a collection of collaborative efforts alongside Mike Clay (Clay and Friends), …

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Zendesk Sell: Book More Weddings In 2022 with This Ultimate Sales Tool 15:52

2+ y ago15:52

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Send us a Text Message. We're chatting about THE ULTIMATE SALES CRM FOR WEDDING PROS....Zendesk Sell! In this episode, we'll cover how to use Zendsek Sell for your wedding business. Topics include: Keeping Track of Leads through The Knot & Weddingwire AND Following Up Defining Your Sales Process Building Sales Collateral Converting Leads through Em…

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How to Close Buy-Later Couples with Book More Brides Co-owner Kate Storey 51:44

2+ y ago51:44

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Send us a Text Message. Kate Storey is a digital marketing specialist, copywriter and social media expert. As co-owner of Book More Brides alongside her husband, Nick, she helps wedding business owners around the world better understand how to identify their perfect clients, what to say to get them to book, and how to create strategic online conten…

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How Auto-Booking and Auto-Pay are Getting Musicians Back On Stage 45:30

2+ y ago45:30

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Send us a Text Message. HOW TO SET YOUR MUSICIANS ON AUTO-BOOK! Tired of the back and forth trying to confirm all your musicians for gigs? This is the musician and crew scheduling system that manages itself. HOW TO AUTOPAY YOUR MUSICIANS! Do you really want to be wasting your time chasing your team for their gig invoices and burning cash on costly …

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How Indie Week Went Bigger and Better Virtually with Darryl Hurs 45:24

2+ y ago45:24

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Send us a Text Message. Want to learn how to break through the noise and clutter in order to stand out as an artist? Indie Week "in-person" is a live festival that showcased artists around the world to industry professionals with 240 international bands and took up over 25 bars in downtown Toronto. When COVID happened, Darryl took this opportunity …

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Season 2 Announcement & Season 1 Recap! 23:34

2+ y ago23:34

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Send us a Text Message. As Season 1 ends, let's take a trip down memory lane and go over some of my favorite moments from Season 1. Inspiring moments from interviews with The Knot/WeddingPro, World-Renowned Bassist Jeff Berlin, Dubsado CRM, Kool & The Gang's Michael Ray, and more! Season 2 starts Tuesday, November 2nd! Check out a sneak peek of Ind…

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Combining Lifestyle Coaching and Spirituality To Give You The Life You Want 49:47

3y ago49:47

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Send us a Text Message. Ambila Nath is a Spiritual lifestyle coach, serial entrepreneur, tarot reader, energy healer, paid international speaker. She went from a 6 figure corporate job to having a spiritual lifestyle business. She knows that the greatest journey you can take is the one to build a relationship with yourself. In today's episode, we c…

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Celebrity Wedding Planner, Andrea Freeman: Turning Constraints into Strengths In Your Business 46:19

3y ago46:19

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Send us a Text Message. Andrea Freeman started her first business when she was 12, second business at 26, and third business at 31. Professionally trained as an educator and leadership development coach she honed her entrepreneurial skills and scaled her celebrity event planning business to multiple six-figures in annual revenue. After years of syn…

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Redefine Your Lifestyle To Avoid The Edge of Burnout 42:00

3y ago42:00

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Send us a Text Message. Is space in music just as important as the notes? If you tuned into my episode with Grammy Nominated artist, Joseph Wooten, you'd know that rhythm forces you to not only give each other space, but to respect each other's space. Take a look at a website that you really like and notice how much space is in between the text and…

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How This Picture Book Inspires Deeper Multicultural Learning 31:13

3y ago31:13

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Send us a Text Message. Today, we're taking on the challenge to take multicultural education to the forefront and encourage kids of all cultures to learn about Zimbabwe and Africa. Yeve C. Sibanda lived in Zimbabwe up until the time she was 16 years old. Eventually moving to the states to become a lawyer, a mother, and the cultural curator and amba…

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Everything and Nothing: The Culmination of Colin Peterik's Life Work 36:20

3y ago36:20

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Send us a Text Message. Colin Peterik is the son of Jim Peterik, who founded Survivor and The Ides Of March. Colin is stepping into the spotlight with his debut album, Everything and Nothing, which releases August 30th, 2021. Imagine if Steely Dan, Genesis, and Todd Rundgren had a baby…Colin Peterik’s debut album is filled with endless grooves mast…

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Joseph Wooten Part 2: Music, Culture, Rhythm, and Respect 43:19

3y ago43:19

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Send us a Text Message. How funk became the celebratory music and why it's known as the "free man's music" How harmony tells us how to feel and how rhythm gives the music a path forward Musical Concepts Joseph's relationship with Steve Miller, Victor Wooten and the rest of his brothers Joseph Wooten is a three-time Grammy-nominated artist, songwrit…

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Joseph Wooten Part 1: Music, Culture, Rhythm, and Respect 1:11:04

3y ago1:11:04

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Send us a Text Message. Joseph Wooten is a three-time Grammy-nominated artist, songwriter, keyboardist, and vocalist. Since 1993, Joseph has been an integral member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, The Steve Miller Band. He is a producer, speaker, and fronts his own band, Joseph Wooten and The Hands of Soul. Joseph also serves as the key…

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World Renowned Jazz Funk Musician, Michael Ray, Reflects on Decades with Sun Ra and Kool & The Gang 45:22

3y ago45:22

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Send us a Text Message. A renowned international trumpeter Michael Ray is a seasoned jazz-funk musician who has had stellar runs with Patti LaBelle, The Delfonics, The Stylistics, Kool and the Gang, Sun Ra Arkestra, and many other legendary bands. How Michael Ray's Discography grew to 90+ album credits with Barenaked Ladies, Stanton Moore, Charles …

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How to Make your Band your Business in 2021 with Bandzoogle CEO Stacey Bedford 31:00

3y ago31:00

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Send us a Text Message. Today it's all about Bandzoogle! Built by musicians for musicians, Bandzoogle is an all-in-one platform that makes it easy to build a beautiful website and EPK for your music. Bandzoogle's team has worked remotely for over 18 years and artists have just surpassed $75 million in commission-free sales through merch, music, and…

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The Path to Making a Supergroup Band with Kool & The Gang, P-Funk, Fishbone, Taylor Dayne, and more! 1:07:33

3y ago1:07:33

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Send us a Text Message. After 10 years of being predominantly a studio project, The Big Ol' Nasty Getdown is finally taking it to the stage, pulling a rotating cast of musicians from their massive alumni. Each show is unique and takes the crowd and the band on an unexpected fun-filled musical journey. Since the band's inception, many legendary arti…

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How Donnie Boivin Became One of the World's Top Podcasters 52:51

3+ y ago52:51

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Send us a Text Message. Donnie Boivin is changing the game of business development. At the age of 22 right out of the Marine Corps, he struggled with what to do next. He landed his first straight commission sales job and has spent over 2 decades learning what it takes to be successful in sales, business & life. At the age of 40, he discovered he’d …

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How to Monetize Your Passion 8:24

3+ y ago8:24

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Send us a Text Message. This isn't meant to be a hokey “just work hard and it will come to you” kind of thing. These are 7 pages of ACTIONABLE steps that I learned from 20+ hours of guest interviews over my last 13 podcast episodes. I hope that you will find some value from it too. DOWNLOAD MY NEW FREE GUIDE: 5 Steps to Monetize Your Passion Topics…

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Shaping Culture through Design with Jenny Ambrose, CEO of Purée Fantastico! 48:59

3+ y ago48:59

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Send us a Text Message. Purée Fantastico! is an award-winning design science and strategy company. Jenny's clients include Old Navy, Charles Schwabb, Walgreens, and more! What is brand architecture? Using anthropology and graphic design to help create a culture of people who believe in their dreams How to use social media to express yourself throug…

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SongShop is Paving a New Revenue Model for Songwriters and Artists 36:21

3+ y ago36:21

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Send us a Text Message. SongShop is a website built to help independent songwriters advertise their song catalog and pitch to artists from all over the world. We're talking to the founder, Steve Gerein! It's also a place where independent artists & bands can go to find original songs to record as their own. SongShop gives artists an entire library …

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How to Automate and Bulletproof Your Business with Ask Yvi 1:04:47

3+ y ago1:04:47

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Send us a Text Message. Where you see chaos in your business, Yvi sees systems and processes. We're talking about game-changing tools that will automate and bulletproof your business. Learn more about Ask Yvi Why you need a task management system The difference between a task management system & a CRM How to use Clickup and Dubsado together How to …

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Alan Berg Part 2: Actionable Steps to a Profitable Wedding Business 57:33

3+ y ago57:33

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Send us a Text Message. Alan Berg is the leading international expert on the business of weddings and events. Whether you're a seasoned veteran or brand new to the industry, you're going to learn actionable content that you as a wedding pro need to utilize NOW! Are you the "making it happen" or "the center of attention"? How to sell results before …

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Alan Berg Part 1: Actionable Steps to a Profitable Wedding Business 40:39

3+ y ago40:39

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Send us a Text Message. Alan Berg is the leading international expert on the business of weddings and events. Whether you're a seasoned veteran or brand new to the industry, you're going to learn actionable content that you as a wedding pro need to utilize NOW! The dichotomy of feeding your ego vs being the most profitable How to give a range of pr…

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Wedding Singer to Content Creator with Meghan Brown at The Knot Worldwide 43:12

3+ y ago43:12

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Send us a Text Message. With a booking agent and a wedding band leader for parents, this is Meghan’s journey from a Music Business major to the director of content & B2b education at The Knot Worldwide. We talk about what it means to be the face of a brand and planning out content, to marketing strategies you can utilize right now to make the most …

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How SpotMyPhotos Tackles Today's Culture of Instant Gratification 38:30

3+ y ago38:30

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Send us a Text Message. Today we're chatting with the CEO of SpotMyPhotos by CloudSpotter, Ryan Jacobs, which allows photographers to privately and automatically send attendees custom-branded versions of their photos either in real-time or at a scheduled future point in time. Ryan is also a founding member of the 10,000 Headshots Initiative, operat…

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Stop Hiding In Your Brilliance and Be Your Best Boss with The Female CEO 49:01

3+ y ago49:01

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Send us a Text Message. Today we're talking to the founder of The Female CEO, Tricia Scott. Tricia is a certified coach, visual content designer, and serial entrepreneur. Tricia is the founder and editor of Create, Evolve, Overcome magazine, a digital support and education platform of entrepreneurs and small business owners coming together in suppo…

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How to Feed Starving Children by Drinking Coffee with CEO Vin Singh 25:21

3+ y ago25:21

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Send us a Text Message. Are you fueled by money, or by purpose and personal growth? Today we're talking to the CEO & Founder of Free Lunch Coffee, Vin Singh. Growing up in India, he accomplished all of the goals and dreams instilled by his parents. A six-figure income, Vin had all of the luxuries he dreamed of growing up in India, but he still felt…

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Jeff Berlin Part 2: The Dichotomy of the Self Taught vs. Academic Musician 41:35

3+ y ago41:35

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Send us a Text Message. In today's episode, Jeff discusses how became spiritually imbued and alert to the mindfulness in life. Coming out of the Dark Night of the Soul with gratitude, joy, and happiness. How Jeff’s ego affected his playing and why this is the first time in over 60 years where jeff says he feels happy and wakes up every day in a gre…

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Streamlining Your Business Like a Rockstar Using Dubsado CRM with Biz Johnston 38:15

3+ y ago38:15

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Send us a Text Message. Dubsado is a customer relationship management software company, but in reality, it is so much more. From client management, automation of workflows, sending invoices, getting paid, scheduling appointments, accounting, and reporting, and so much more. It's a streamlined way of saving you time and growing your business. Today …

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Jeff Berlin Part 1: The Dichotomy of the Self Taught vs. Academic Musician 1:01:00

3+ y ago1:01:00

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Send us a Text Message. “The path to individuality is always based in screw-ups. Look at an early van Gogh, and then look what followed afterward”. Those are the words of world-renowned bassist and educator, Jeff Berlin when discussing learning musical content from a teacher versus something that should be explored and self-taught. He discusses the…

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Monetizing Your Music Career with Bandzoogle VP Dave Cool 1:03:16

3+ y ago1:03:16

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Send us a Text Message. Today we have the vice president of Bandzoogle, Dave Cool. Built by musicians for musicians, Bandzoogle is an all-in-one platform that makes it easy to build a beautiful website and EPK for your music. Bandzoogle members have earned $5 million since the start of the pandemic. We talk about making money and monetizing your mu…

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Building Your Digital Brand with Partyslate CEO Julie Novack 48:11

3+ y ago48:11

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Send us a Text Message. Today we're talking to CEO, Julie Roth Novack, who spent 20 years in the digital agency world, where she planned over 50 large-scale galas and corporate events. In her mid-forties, Julie left her executive job to launch Partyslate, a website that inspires people planning events and connects them with the leading event profes…

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Series Trailer | Funktastic Chats 1:17

3+ y ago1:17

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Send us a Text Message. Funktastic Chats is a podcast designed for creative entrepreneurs. I'm a musician in the wedding industry, but we're focusing on everything creativity. Topics include task management and outsourcing, because if other people in your business can't do what you do, you created a job for yourself and not a company, and maybe not…

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