Ron McBay Represents NATO. He Has a JAG Background and He Explains How He Trains Eastern European Countries
Posted On September 30, 2024
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: E3 Termite & Pest Control Roy Lewis Construction Allison Horner – State Farm Agent Angelo DePaola – The Coastal Connection Realty Persons Services Corp Seth Cherniak – Jeffrey Matthews Financial Bill-E’s Bacon Roosters Restaurant… Read More
Categories: LibsynLucy At The Vet
Posted On September 27, 2024
On this week’s Keepin It Real, Cam’s family dog heard what he said to the vet. And she has something to say about it. —– When I walked through the back door our dog, Lucy, looked at me as if to say “you and I have some unfinished business.” Lucy had been feeling bad. She was lethargic and had thrown up in four or five places in the house. On the rugs, of course. I got to my hands and knees to try to clean them up. It was nasty. She definitely wasn’t herself and my wife, who Lucy seems… Read More
Categories: Libsyn2From YouTube How-To Videos to Becoming an International Destination Event – The Incredible Journey of Maymay
Posted On September 23, 2024
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: E3 Termite & Pest Control Roy Lewis Construction Allison Horner – State… Read More
Categories: LibsynQuestions
Posted On September 20, 2024
On this week’s Keepin It Real, Cam Marston says he has a question for you. And he’s curious if you have a question for him. —– A story that lives in legend in my family is the day my mother interrupted a story about a boastful largemouth bass fisherman and my mother, in full innocence, asked “Who had the large mouth? The fish or the fisherman?” She had never heard of a largemouth bass. But, considering the context of the story, it was a legitimate question. The group fell silent and stared. Someone then explained to her about the species… Read More
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Effective leadership is not always telling, but asking
Posted On September 19, 2024
It seems only natural for leaders to tell those in their charge what to do. After all, their expertise is part of the reason they became leaders in the first place. But our guest in a recent episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston” tells us that effective leadership relies more on asking than telling. Bob Tiede is co-author of “Leading with Questions,” which puts forth the idea that asking your employees to join in the process of coming up with ideas and solutions is a more effective way to lead. It’s an idea based in research – some of… Read More
Categories: Blog, What's Working with Cam MarstonNew Rules of Real Estate – the Nat’s Assn of Realtors Settlement featuring realtor Angelo DePaola
Posted On September 15, 2024
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. Angelo DePaola has seen this coming. It’s no surprise. He thinks it will make the best realtors stand out even more and the… Read More
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Disrupting the old school way: By creating a unique customer experience
Posted On September 12, 2024
Want to disrupt an industry? Most would lean on new technology. But that’s not the only way to do it. How about a radically unique customer experience? That’s exactly what Ron Holt has done to do something most wouldn’t have thought possible – make moving fun. Holt founded Birmingham-based Pink Zebra Moving after his mother-in-law had a terrible experience with another moving company. Our guest in a recent episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston,” he’d already had one entrepreneurial success, the residential cleaning company Two Maids & A Mop, which experienced rapid growth after utilizing a unique compensation model… Read More
Categories: Blog, Entrepreneurship, What's Working with Cam MarstonThe Use of Questions as a Fantastic Leadership Skill with Bob Tiede
Posted On September 9, 2024
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 Leading with Questions. He and I discuss the power of questions as a leadership tool. Show Sponsors: E3 Termite & Pest Control Roy Lewis Construction Allison Horner – State Farm Agent Angelo DePaola – The Coastal Connection Realty Persons Services Corp Seth Cherniak – Jeffrey Matthews Financial Bill-E’s Bacon Roosters Restaurant in Downtown Mobile, Alabama Bay Business News CR Mitigation Find Cam Marston’s… Read More
Categories: LibsynGettin’ Lucky
Posted On September 6, 2024
Cam’s back from his one month sabbatical and creating commentaries again. This one he simply calls Gettin’ Lucky. —– Dr Suchan Shenoy is one of the regulars at Restaurant Five in Tuscaloosa on Saturday mornings. I join the regulars when I’m in town visiting my son who is a sophomore at the University. Dr Shenoy is an OBGYN at the DCH Hospital there. He and I sat together and we made some small talk. I don’t know any of the regulars well, but I enjoy their company when I’m in town. Dr Shenoy could relate to my situation. I was… Read More
Categories: Libsyn2Ron Holt of Pink Zebra Moving – Upending the Tired and Stale Moving Business
Posted On September 3, 2024
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… Read More
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