Making Dough (in more ways than one) with Smart Pizza Marketing | Bruce Irving | DH043
Drawn to the dough — in more ways than one — Bruce Irving’s rise in the pizza industry was low and slow. Bruce Irving is a marketing strategist, speaker, and founder of Irving Media Group LLC. The entrepreneur found fame as the voice and host of the Smart Pizza Marketing Podcast and the Local Business […]
5 Tips to Better Engagement on Yelp for Business
There are a plethora of online platforms and apps that are important for businesses to use. Signing up for Yelp is an essential starting point for any small business in 2020. Claiming and using your own Yelp page is easy. It doesn’t require any technical knowledge and thankfully there’s help to guide you through using and […]
How to Have the Best Beach Barbecue | BBQGuys Tips
Watching the waves roll in while the aroma of chargrilled meat mingles with the salty air — what could be better? With so much of our time spent stuck at home in 2020, people are using their own grills, smokers, and firepits more than ever. While grilling is always a great pastime, in the summer […]
The Hook Point to Gain One Million Followers | Brendan Kane | DH041
What do you share? Why do you share it? These are questions growth strategist Brendan Kane asks clients like Taylor Swift and Katie Couric when it comes to crafting their own content. They’re also questions you should ask yourself — How do you use social media and digital content for marketing and why? Brendan Kane is a guest […]
The Evolution of Restaurants is Digital | Walchef on Cantore
To thrive in the modern world, Cali BBQ had to become a digital restaurant. “We learned early on that nobody gave a shit about us,” Cali BBQ owner Shawn Walchef says bluntly on a June 2020 visit to The Cantore Show podcast. “We learned that if we wanted to get people to care about us, […]
Changing Lives Online with AmazingRibs.com | Meathead | DH040
The Man, the Meat, the Legend. You’ve heard his memorable moniker before, but just who is Meathead? He’s a griller, journalist, and web pioneer behind Amazing Ribs dot com who’s been teaching the Internet how to BBQ right before Google was the end-all-be-all search engine. At 71 years of age, Meathead Goldwyn is among the […]
Hanging with Cantore in the Surf Hut | Shawn Walchef on The Cantore Show
When we opened up Cali BBQ in 2008, I never dreamed that twelve years later I would have so many close friends in media. Podcasting with the legendary Chris Cantore of Yew Online from his converted surf hut and talking about our Cali BBQ Media journey is something I will never forget. Hopefully you enjoy the […]
How to Turn Your Lifestyle into Engaging Content | GrillGirl Robyn Lindars | DH039
Robyn Lindars had a burning question years before she became GrillGirl — Why aren’t more women grilling? The Grill Girl lifestyle was all sparked by Robyn Medlin Lindars’ newfound fire regarding outdoor cooking and living in general. “It’s really fun, it’s a great way to cook outside and it’s a fun thing to do with your […]
The Low-and-Slow Path to Producing Sonic the Hedgehog | Dmitri M. Johnson of dj2 Entertainment | DH038
You wouldn’t normally associate the super-speedy Sonic the Hedgehog with anything “low or slow,” but that’s exactly how the legendary video game character’s 2020 movie blockbuster came to be. There’s so much that happens behind-the-scenes of any business before the consumer ever experiences the final product. In the case of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie, […]
New School Content for Old School Businesses | Evan LeRoy (LeRoy and Lewis) | DH037
Austin, TX knows BBQ and food trucks like San Diego knows fish tacos and surfing. Located deep in the heart of Texas, Evan LeRoy and his team at LeRoy and Lewis BBQ bring together two of Austin’s culinary calling cards with unparalleled New School creativity. Co-owning and operating LeRoy and Lewis BBQ by Cosmic Coffee’s […]