Crash Course Marketing Academy Podcast Gayla Zoz

What is a Small Business Development Center? Why should you consider working with one if you're the owner of a small business? To answer these questions, Crash Course Marketing Academy host Gayla Zoz talks to Charles Alexander, director of the Tennessee Small Business Development Center at Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin, Tennessee. In addition to hearing Charles talk about everything a Small Business Development Center can offer, he also talks about the most common reasons small business owners give him for NOT taking advantage of assistance the center provides. 

Could the language you use be unintentionally sabotaging your effectiveness? Our three-part "Cringeworthy Phrases" series attempts to answer this question. In the third and final episode in the series, Charles Alexander, director of the Tennessee Small Business Development Center at Volunteer State Community College, joins Crash Course Marketing Academy Podcast host Gayla Zoz to discuss five cringeworthy "old school" phrases. If you use these terms on a regular basis, you could be leading your listeners to a conclusion you don't want them to make. 

If you have spent much of your career in roles that didn't require marketing, how do you learn what to do if you get a job that requires you to get out there and promote a business? In this installment of our "Making It As a Marketer Series, Crash Course Marketing Academy Podcast host Gayla Zoz talks to Pati Bedwell, a veteran of the long-term care industry and an elder care coordinator, about what she did to make it as a marketer.

Could the language you use be unintentionally sabotaging your effectiveness? Our three-part "Cringeworthy Phrases" series attempts to answer this question. In the second installment in our three-part series, Charles Alexander, director of the Tennessee Small Business Development Center at Volunteer State Community College, joins Crash Course Marketing Academy Podcast host Gayla Zoz to discuss five cringeworthy "trendy" phrases, where you're most likely to hear them, and what overuse of these phrases might be doing to your credibility as a business owner or marketing professional. 

Creative Instinct founder Gwen Canfield joins Crash Course Marketing Academy Podcast host Gayla Zoz to talk about what goes into the development of a website. This podcast episode was also recorded on video. To view the video version of this podcast, which includes screenshots of the steps Gwen follows in her development process, go to https://youtu.be/kSoFjFvMmp8.

Could the language you use be unintentionally sabotaging your effectiveness? Our three-part "Cringeworthy Phrases" series attempts to answer this question. In this first episode in the series, Charles Alexander, director of the Tennessee Small Business Development Center at Volunteer State Community College, joins Crash Course Marketing Academy Podcast host Gayla Zoz to discuss five cringeworthy communication phrases, including what they are, who uses them, and how sprinkling too many of these terms in your everyday conversation can impact your credibility as a business owner or marketer.