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Philip Burton Saw a Market Opportunity and is Now Pushing Forward with Logistics Parks In Mobile

Release Date: 07/10/2023

Ron McBay Represents NATO. He Has a JAG Background and He Explains How He Trains Eastern European Countries

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Ron McBay travels to places most of us only fainly know about to represent NATO and train these countries leadership on NATO approved engagement practices. It's very precise content and Ron, trained as an attorney and a background as a JAG, knows it very well. Curious how NATO really works? Want to know what engagement tactics are allowed? Listen in to this week's show. Show Sponsors: Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on . To get the Cam's "Here's What's Cool" list each week and a Free Chapter of What Works,...

From YouTube How-To Videos to Becoming an International Destination Event - The Incredible Journey of Maymay

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Maymay went on to YouTube from Chilton County, Alabama many years ago out of a desire to create some beautiful paper creations. People watched. Then more people. Then many more people. Now she hosts events online with hundreds of attendees and they travel internationally to come to her hosted events in Chilton County. Social media is her advertising tool and she does it very well. This is an amazing story of success from a charismatic lady who you can't help but fall in love with. Enjoy! Show Sponsors: Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First...

New Rules of Real Estate - the Nat's Assn of Realtors Settlement featuring realtor Angelo DePaola

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The National Association of Realtors changed home buying rules and they've been in effect about a month. Home buyers will now have a new conversation with their realtor when they go to buy a home. The realtor will need to negotiate a fee with the buyer. Previously it was in the background as the deal went forward with a typical 6% commission split between buyer's agent and seller's agent. Now, that's all changed and is highly negotiable. has seen this coming. It's no surprise. He thinks it will make the best realtors stand out even more and the "hobbiest" realtors who sell homes as a...

The Use of Questions as a Fantastic Leadership Skill with Bob Tiede

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Telling people things allows them to disagree with you. Asking them questions allows you to understand their perspective and allows you to align with their ideas before directing them. Bob Tiede is an author of the book . He and I discuss the power of questions as a leadership tool. Show Sponsors: Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on . To get the Cam's "Here's What's Cool" list each week and a Free Chapter of What Works, Last - The best daily news newsletter I've found is Morning Brew. I've read it every...

Ron Holt of Pink Zebra Moving - Upending the Tired and Stale Moving Business

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The business of moving and movers. Pretty tried and true. Very little room for disruption, right? Wrong. Ron Holt has upended tradtional businesses before and is doing it again. His first was Two Maids where he based the payment of the service providers on the evaluations of the customers. The result? Huge efforts from the cleaners to please the customer and treat them well. He's taking this same non-tradtional thinking to Pink Zebra moving. The movers play music. They buy the homeowner dinner. They have a great time. It's about reimagining the stale and throwing some energy and ideas into...

The Business of Weather with Rob Lightbrown

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With all the free weather apps avaialble, why pay for a forecast? Because offers something a bit more, a bit personal. offers a subscription only weather forecast that gets into the weeds of the weather. I was referred to him by a retired banker who used Rob's service to help his agricultural clients try to prepare for the storms that may destroy their crops. I spoke to Rob a few weeks ago where he predicted that by late July and early August there would likely be some tropical storm activity forming. And, as I write this today, right on cue, there is prediction of a storm in the Atlantic to...

StoryBrand is a Simple and Compelling Sales Tool. Stephanie Greenwood Introduces It to Me.

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Who is the hero of your business? Too often, it's you. It SHOULD be the customer. is a consultant and explains it all so simply to me. She's with and walks me through the process. The customer is the hero. You - the business - are a guide that helps the hero overcome their problem. You bring them to solutions and help them avoid disaster. It's so simple. And yet we botch it again and again. Show Sponsors: Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on . To get the Cam's "Here's What's Cool" list each week and a Free...

Brandon Smith & Wills Moore - Author v Editor Book Review

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Leadership consultant and author has written a book that I've had referenced to me too many times in the past weeks to simply ignore. Called , the book is a management and leadership guide with simple plans for turning your employees into a more highly productive team. It's a simple concept - as the leader, too often you're an author, telling people what to do. You need to edit - guide their behavior and leave them to take initiative. On with Brandon and me is Wills Moore. Wills is an executive coach and uses the book in his client interfaces. Wills shares stories of the book has changed his...

One-Third of the Nation's GDP is Moved Across the US's Inland Waterways. That's a LOT!

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spent time as a boy watching the locks and dams near his home take and receive tow-boats on the river. The attraction of the work was deep and he signed up to be a part of that industry. Today he's the Executive Director of the Tennessee River Valley Association and the Tennessee-Cumberland Waterways Council. He knows the numbers: the 12,000 miles of waterways transport 1/3 of the nation's GDP; 541,000 jobs come from the inland waterways; 15 barges equals 1000+ 18 wheelers or 216 train cars. There are 219 locks operating today. And it's the locks and dams that worry him the most. Many...

Yowza! Economist Connor Lokar Reads the Economic Tea Leaves.

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Economist says it's goign to get worse before it gets better. Then it's going to get much worse. Connor is with . He and his firm work with businesses to help them prepare for economic change. Avowedly apolitical, Connor and his team only say the November election is unlikely to change our economy in any meaningful way, regardless of who wins the presidential election. To get a good read on the economy you need to know government spending, demographics, imports and exports, and a dozen other numbers. Connor knows his stuff, and you'll want to hear what our future holds. Show Sponsors: ...

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The intersection of I-10 and I-65, the Port of Mobile, several rail lines, and the reinvigoration of Brookley Field has the potential to futher transform Mobile into one of the nation's largest logistics hubs. Philip Burton knew this but one piece was missing - the logistics parks where the product is brought after unloading, sorted, and shipped again. Philip found the land and got started and today his parks are gaining traction. Hear his story, the uncertainty he faced, the need for constant building, and his vision for the future of Mobile and Alabama. This broadcast / podcast is part of the monthly What's Working / Business Alabama Magazine collaboration.

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