Small Business Interview with James Rolin of Cowboy Cricket Farms – Small Business Show 184
08/15/18 • 29 min
Getting customers to spend their hard earned dollars at your Small Business is tough, right? How about if you had to convince them to eat insects to get those dollars into your bank account? Join us today as we visit with James Rolin of Cowboy Cricket Farms and hear how this Small Business has used education, creative marketing and stubborn persistence to succeed.
Listen in to learn about how feasibility studies can guide you to the right business model, how we’re all eating insects (we just don’t know it), how community outreach as a marketing tool can be powerful and some great tips for working with your spouse and teaching your kids about how to succeed. You’ll also hear about using the Score Mentoring program as a powerful and free tool to grow your business.
You’ll learn a lot, but your co-hosts Shannon Jean and Dave Hamilton continue to think they are learning the most from our awesome guests. Join us today, then share your story at the Small Business Support Group!
Chapters/Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 Small Business Show #184 for Wednesday, August 15, 2018
- 00:01:14 Go for the Gusto
- 00:01:20 James Rolin from Cowboy Cricket Farms
- 00:04:30 Doing a Feasibility Study
- 00:06:23 Red Dye 40 – Beetle Shells
- 00:07:44 Marketing the largest challenge
- 00:09:33 Contains: Insects
- 00:11:06 Community Outreach
- 00:13:26 SPONSOR: Gusto is refreshingly easy payroll, benefits, and HR for the modern small business. Visit Gusto.com/SBS for a free, 3-month trial.
- 00:14:56 Working with your spouse!
- 00:16:16 Teach your kids the value of hard work
- 00:17:20 Score Mentoring
- 00:20:00 Ask for help!
- 00:21:37 “We don’t know if we’re doing things right.”
- 00:23:16 Educating ... and being educated!
- 00:24:02 Leverage Stubbornness
- 00:26:54 Advice: Solve a problem
- 00:28:16 SBS 184 Outtro
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Getting customers to spend their hard earned dollars at your Small Business is tough, right? How about if you had to convince them to eat insects to get those dollars into your bank account? Join us today as we visit with James Rolin of Cowboy Cricket Farms and hear how this Small Business has used education, creative marketing and stubborn persistence to succeed.
Listen in to learn about how feasibility studies can guide you to the right business model, how we’re all eating insects (we just don’t know it), how community outreach as a marketing tool can be powerful and some great tips for working with your spouse and teaching your kids about how to succeed. You’ll also hear about using the Score Mentoring program as a powerful and free tool to grow your business.
You’ll learn a lot, but your co-hosts Shannon Jean and Dave Hamilton continue to think they are learning the most from our awesome guests. Join us today, then share your story at the Small Business Support Group!
Chapters/Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 Small Business Show #184 for Wednesday, August 15, 2018
- 00:01:14 Go for the Gusto
- 00:01:20 James Rolin from Cowboy Cricket Farms
- 00:04:30 Doing a Feasibility Study
- 00:06:23 Red Dye 40 – Beetle Shells
- 00:07:44 Marketing the largest challenge
- 00:09:33 Contains: Insects
- 00:11:06 Community Outreach
- 00:13:26 SPONSOR: Gusto is refreshingly easy payroll, benefits, and HR for the modern small business. Visit Gusto.com/SBS for a free, 3-month trial.
- 00:14:56 Working with your spouse!
- 00:16:16 Teach your kids the value of hard work
- 00:17:20 Score Mentoring
- 00:20:00 Ask for help!
- 00:21:37 “We don’t know if we’re doing things right.”
- 00:23:16 Educating ... and being educated!
- 00:24:02 Leverage Stubbornness
- 00:26:54 Advice: Solve a problem
- 00:28:16 SBS 184 Outtro
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Previous Episode
Moving from Idea to Action – Get Started Today With Your Small Business – Small Business Show 183
A common misconception is that it’s the great idea that makes a Small Business successful. Join us today on the Small Business Show to hear us dispel that myth and discuss taking Action to propel your business to success.
Don’t wait. You’ll hear that message over and over again on this episode of the Small Business Show as Shannon Jean and Dave Hamilton share tips to get yourself started – to help move you from Idea to Implementation.
Listen in and you’ll hear about the power of removing limits (most of them in your head) to get your business concept on paper, how to create and use an Action Plan to figure out what steps you need to take to make your idea a reality and why we believe creating an Org Chart (even if your name is in every box) is key to planning out the structure of your Small Business.
We wrap up the show with a discussion of the ever important Working Agreement and why sometimes you just need to throw structure out the window to just start....Start today.
Join us here, then get involved in the discussion at the Small Business Support Group!
Chapters/Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 Small Business Show #183 for Wednesday, August 8, 2018
- 00:03:56 Opportunity for Efficiency
- 00:08:41 Take the time to build systems and micromanage yourself
- 00:11:27 Takeaway: Re-energize, Dig In
- 00:13:21 SPONSOR: Timing, for anyone billing their hours. Visit timingapp.com/smallbusiness and get a 14-day free trial and save 10% when you purchase.
- 00:15:22 SPONSOR: Visit TextExpander.com/podcast for 20% off your first year.
- 00:17:43 Starting a Business Step 1: Ideas to Action
- 00:19:28 Go make it happen!
- 00:21:12 Get it on paper
- Remove the limits!
- 00:23:36 Create an action plan
- Who’s involved?
- Partner, Banker, Spouse,
- How much money do you think you’ll need? Add more.
- 00:24:30 Budget your time.
- 00:27:51 Failure is part of the process
- 00:28:30 What other resources do you need?
- What marketing will you do?
- 00:29:24 Create an Org Chart
- 00:33:14 The Working Agreement
- Concept
- Partnership organization
- Partner Contributions (money, time, effort)
- How is the money split?
- 00:35:13 The Friendship Clause
- 00:36:26 Forget all this: get started.
- Employ those... folks.
- 00:40:13 SBS 183 Outtro
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Next Episode
How To Manage Your Cashflow – Small Business Show 185
What’s more important for your Small Business, profits or cashflow? If you’re a regular listener of the Small Business Show, you know what we think! Join us today as we dig deep into to the importance of managing your available cash and how to get through the inevitable cash-crunch when it hits you.
Your co-hosts Shannon Jean and Dave Hamilton share their tips, strategies and stories about the why and how of using your accounting software correctly to help with cashflow reporting, why it’s important not to fall in love with your P&L and why you need to avoid the “shiny object” trap that can suck much needed cash out of your business.
We then jump into ways to raise cash when you need it quickly, how to use unconventional methods to raise short term cash and ways to manage longer term funding from banks and other lenders. The show wraps up with a discussion about the importance of measuring and different methods to measure all aspects of your business – including your cashflow.
Join us today and then share your comments on the Small Business Support Group!
Chapters/Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 Small Business Show #185 for Wednesday, August 22, 2018
- 00:01:42 “By, For, and About Small Business”
- 00:04:20 Don’t fall in love with the P&L
- 00:06:41 Import often!
- 00:08:57 Profits are for other people, Cash is for you
- 00:10:07 Matching Your Terms
- 00:12:02 Negative Cash Flow
- 00:13:01 Buy used! Buy at auction.
- 00:15:47 SPONSOR: Gusto is refreshingly easy payroll, benefits, and HR for the modern small business. Visit Gusto.com/SBS for a free, 3-month trial.
- 00:17:22 SPONSOR: Visit TextExpander.com/podcast for 20% off your first year.
- 00:19:15 Sometimes embarrassment is your friend
- 00:20:01 A 2-inch stack of credit cards to solve your problems
- 00:21:49 Dump the junk!
- Accept Sunk Costs.
- 00:23:00 Timing a blowout
- 00:24:51 Pick special customers
- 00:25:30 Sell it for what it’s worth
- 00:26:06 Slow down your A/P
- 00:28:24 Things happen – Communicate with your vendors
- 00:29:40 Treat your vendors like they’re customers
- 00:30:03 Use your lines of credit wisely
- 00:31:42 Talk with your banker about “terming it out”
- 00:34:04 Measure everything
- 00:36:36 SBS 185
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