Open For Business Podcast
1) Live Show - Hiring, Firing, and Scaling: Creating a Workplace Culture
A big part of building a business is hiring and then creating a workplace culture where your team members want to stay and grow with you. Maybe you're a business of one, and you're thinking about maki...Show More
2) #12 Who You Are, Not What You Sell
Every company knows what they sell. What’s harder to define sometimes is why? What motivates you beyond...money? A great mission captures that reason behind why your business exists today. But it als...Show More
3) #11 Embrace the Place
Recent research indicates that U.S. entrepreneurship is increasingly clustered in just a few metro areas. What can we learn from entrepreneurs outside those hubs? We hear from entrepreneurs in three v...Show More
4) #10 Surviving Failure
What happens if it all falls apart? Learn how to weather the storms of failure from two entrepreneurs who refused to give up, and have survived to tell their stories. Episode Notes: This episode feat...Show More
5) #9 Bootstrapping 101
Less than 1% of companies get seed money from either venture capital or angel investors. So, how do regular people find the money they need to get their businesses off the ground? We bring you stories...Show More
6) #8 Customer Service in the Digital Era
It’s easy to satisfy your customers when everything’s going well, but how do you handle it when things go wrong? We’ve got stories from small business owners who’ve learned the hard way about how to g...Show More
7) #7 How to Reinvent Your Business
In this episode, we hear stories and lessons from two entrepreneurs who had to reinvent their companies in order to survive. This episode features: Debbie Marriott Harrison, Global Officer, Marriott ...Show More
8) Season 2 Trailer
From eBay and Gimlet Creative, we return with season two of Open for Business, a show about building your business from the ground up. This season, we’re diving even deeper and exploring essential to...Show More
9) We're back, and we’d love your ideas!
We'll be returning in March with Season Two of Open for Business, and we'd love to hear what you want us to cover. Visit ofblistener.com to share your thoughts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...Show More
10) #6 The Future of Work
The gig economy is growing so fast, it might just be the future of entrepreneurship as we know it — but it is also still a work in progress. We explore its past, present, and future with two entrepren...Show More