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Mark Pearson on Getting Found, Chosen, and Paid by AI Agents — Agentic Commerce Comes to Small Business
AI consultant Mark Pearson breaks down agentic commerce and AEO for small business — how AI agents now have a wallet, why backlinks still matter, and how to get found, chosen, and paid by AI. Includes a free ebook, slide deck, and SOP download.
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Brad Poulos on Building SMBs That Run Without You — Barbados Tests, Bulldozer Parents, and the Delegation Mindset
Toronto Metropolitan University entrepreneurship professor Brad Poulos shares what 15 years teaching lean startup, managing teams, and consulting $5–50M businesses has taught him about building companies that actually run without you.
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Paul Pape: How Gamifying Business Makes Entrepreneurs Finally Get It
What if the reason your clients can’t understand your process is that you’re explaining it wrong — not because they’re incapable, but because the format itself is the problem? Paul Pape, barkeep and game master at Gamify Business, converts business strategy into role-playing game mechanics — and in this episode, he makes a compelling case…
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Cameron Tope: Building a Property Management Company With Integrity
Cameron Tope of Emerson Property Management shares how he built a Houston property management company from 30 doors to a full-service asset management firm — covering vendor vetting, cash flow, legal battles, AI, and why rental investing is a long game.
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Knight Lancaster: Navigating Finances, Marketing & Law in Tennessee
Knight Lancaster — attorney and CPA — breaks down the cash flow models, marketing attribution strategies, and legal frameworks helping Tennessee small businesses thrive. A dual-credential approach that finds the balanced middle ground between law and accounting.
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Cash Flow Is Queen — and It’s Also Baby | Meaghan Wall of The Hot Girl CFO
Jeremy Rivera sits down with Meaghan Wall, founder of The Hot Girl CFO — a boutique accounting agency specializing in fractional CFO services, bookkeeping, and taxes for creator economy businesses, marketing agencies, influencers, and online service providers. With 15+ years in finance, Meaghan covers the financial blind spots quietly costing…
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Starting From Zero: How Real Founders Built Small Businesses That Actually Lasted
Founders who started from zero — a YouTube channel built after 15 years of failure, a wedding photographer who ranked on venue-specific SEO, a spa owner since 1987 — share the mindset and decisions that made their businesses real.
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Building a Business You Can Actually Sell: Exit Planning Advice from Founders Who’ve Done It
Every business owner will exit someday. These founders — from exit planners to trades entrepreneurs to executive coaches — share what it actually takes to build something worth exiting, and how to start planning before you think you need to.
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Small Business Marketing That Actually Works: Real Strategies from Founders Who’ve Done It
Founders and consultants from the Unscripted Small Business Podcast on what actually works in small business marketing — from the strategy-first framework to conversations over koozies, and why most marketing fails before it starts.
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Building a Business You Can Walk Away From | Brandon Moon, TD Pine Advisors
100% of business owners will exit their business someday. Brandon Moon of TD Pine Advisors joined Jeremy Rivera to talk about building a transferable asset, engineering culture that survives the founder, and why pride is the glass ceiling most owners won’t name.