What’s Working With Cam Marston

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Identifying the trends shaping today’s workplace, workforce, and marketplace. Guests bring insight and lessons into the trends shaping their business, allowing listeners to learn, adapt, and get a little bit better at whatever it is they do.

What’s Working is currently broadcast 28 times weekly in 25 markets across the US, primarily in the southeast. The What’s Working with Cam Marston 90-Second Business Tips are broadcasting 415+ times each weekday in 46 markets across the country. More stations join nearly every week.

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What's Working with Cam Marston
Posted On August 28, 2023

Inside Out Marketing – The Basics Of Marketing Your Business with Gayle Rogers of The Atomic Agency

There are basics to marketing your business. Before business owners get into the weeds of fancy marketing tactics, they need to make sure the basics are covered. Gayle Rogers of The Atomic Agency works with owners of new businesses as well as business veterans to make sure the fundamentals are well taken care of before anything sophiticated can begin. Hear Gayle’s advice for what bases you need to make sure are covered.

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What's Working with Cam Marston
Posted On August 21, 2023

Sports Tourism is Big Business. Joel Lamp is the Sports Manager for the Huntsville CVB.

Sports Tourism draws athletes and their families from hundreds of miles to destinations where they can compete. Joel Lamp is the Sports Manager for the Huntsville Convention and Visitors Bureau and is responsible for filling the statiums, stands, fields, rinks, pools, and courts around Huntsville with these athelets. The opportunities continue to grow. Turf a field (artificial turf) and it’s a football, soccer, and lacrosse field ready for competition year round. What the locals and community isn’t using during the week, Joel recruits people to travel and play.

Joel’s podcast is The Business of Sports Tourism Podcast that you can find on all major podcast outlets. 

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What's Working with Cam Marston
Posted On August 14, 2023

Fear of Failure Drove Alan Clark to Grow His Father’s Security Firm – DSI Security – into a 33 State Enterprise

Started by a retired sherrif hired to protect construction on a nuclear power plant near Dothan, Alabama, DSI Security Services now has operations in thirty-three states and 5400 employees. Alan Clark is chairman of the board. His father was the retired sherrif and his two sons are now involved in the company. Alan cites solid customer relationships who wanted DSI’s services in their new locations around the country as one of the fuels for his growth. Another is his fear of failure. He had to take care of the company his father started and find enough work to employ his sons.

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What's Working with Cam Marston
Posted On August 8, 2023

Keys to Successful Proposals – Jason Cohen, Exec Director at Accor Hotels Walks us Through His Strategy

The proposals are worth millions of dollars each. The clients are major global companies trying to impress cllients, thank teams, generate sales. The proposal has to be right. It has to be good. It has to be as perfect as it can be. Jason Cohen is the Execitive Director of Global Sales at Accor Hotels. With 5500 properties across the globe, Accor can handle the work IF they get it. How do they get it? Jason, a hospitality veteran, walks us through how he and his team structure their proposals. 

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What's Working with Cam Marston
Posted On July 31, 2023

The Poarch Band of Creek Indians Went from An Impoverished Tribe to Owning 42 Different and Active Businesses

This month’s Business Alabama Magazine interview features Stephanie Bryan, the Chairwoman of the Poarch Band of the Creek Indians. In her tenure as chair she’s diversified the tribe’s holdings far beyond gaming into government services, hotels and resort hotels, even processing cattle and many more. She’s active across the state of Alabama as she checks on the tribe’s businesses and even holds a role in Washington, DC representing Native Americans (she entered our interview finishing up a call with the White House). Her vision for the tribe is clear and she dispells some myths around Native American held businesses. 

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What's Working with Cam Marston
Posted On July 25, 2023

Finding and Keeping Employees: Dr. Josh Duplantis Shares Best Practices in the Tricky Employment Market

Finding and keeping good employees today is very hard. The shortages driven by the Baby Boomer retirement have begun making their mark in the workplace. And even as populous as the Millennials are, there aren’t enough of them to replace the Boomers. Employers are pulling their hair out. Employees have their pick. 

Dr. Josh Duplantis is the Dean of Workforce Development for Coastal Alabama Community College and saw this coming years ago. Today he works with employers to help them craft recruiting and retention plans. He and I discuss the essense of the demographic challenge and we get into details on “progressive employment” which some employers are using to meet their workforce challenges.

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What's Working with Cam Marston
Posted On July 17, 2023

Casey Biehl and Fat Boy’s Pizza Carefully Select Their Next Location – It’s Less Art, More Science

Casey Biehl is the VP of Operations for Fat Boy’s Pizza based in Metairie, Louisiana. This pizza chain is growing rapidly due to the quality of ingredients and the ambience of the restaurants. I got word they were looking to head further east and became curious of their recipe for selecting new locations for expansion – what do they look for in a community? How far do people travel for to come to their stores? What type of commercial centers work best for them? How much do they spend per visit and what types of neighborhoods does this imply? Casey, with a background in food and bev from the casino world, tells the story.

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What's Working with Cam Marston
Posted On July 10, 2023

Philip Burton Saw a Market Opportunity and is Now Pushing Forward with Logistics Parks In Mobile

The intersection of I-10 and I-65, the Port of Mobile, several rail lines, and the reinvigoration of Brookley Field has the potential to futher transform Mobile into one of the nation’s largest logistics hubs. Philip Burton knew this but one piece was missing – the logistics parks where the product is brought after unloading, sorted, and shipped again. Philip found the land and got started and today his parks are gaining traction. Hear his story, the uncertainty he faced, the need for constant building, and his vision for the future of Mobile and Alabama. This broadcast / podcast is part of the monthly What’s Working / Business Alabama Magazine collaboration. 

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What's Working with Cam Marston
Posted On June 26, 2023

Matt Peat is VP of Sales of Transhield. They’ve Been Bought and Sold Many Times. Matt Shares How He’s Managed to Thrive in Each Transaction.

Matt Peat is a Gen X’er that has never job hopped. He’s been with Transhield many years and has remained with the company through the many times its been bought and sold. He tells the story of the remarkable product they manufacture, and how he has managed to thrive in each transaction where others may have been dismissed or asked to leave. Matt was on his way through Mobile with his wife and three daughters and I managed to get him into the studio for a quick interview. He’s a great guy with story of success.

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What's Working with Cam Marston
Posted On June 19, 2023

Paul Lewis’ Commercial Construction Company is a Survivor. Hear how He and His Team Consistently Overcame Challenges and Are Thriving Today

Roy Lewis Construction has a reputation for quality building and adding value for customers. It’s this reputation that has kept them going when times got tough. For years the phone rang from customers eager to benefit from their quality and reputation. Then there was the Great Recession. Then Covid and supply chain challenges. Paul Lewis, company president, kept going with the firm belief that delivering quality, being an honest man, and a strong faith would pull him through. And, it’s working. 

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