Amplify Your Business

Amplify Your Business RGE RD

For Episode 151 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Caitlyn Fulton, owner and Chief of Operations, and Blair Lebsack, owner and Chef at RGE RD, a restaurant and butchery in Edmonton. RGE RD espouses the concept of farm-to-table, doubly so when they opted to open up their own butchery right next door to their original restaurant, despite the fact that neither owner had ever worked in retail food service before.To learn more, visit RGE RD’s website or Instagram, and the butchery’s website or Instagram.
 
0:00 - Intro
2:45 - The concept behind RGE RD.
5:13 - What makes RGE RD unique?
9:52 - What impact did Covid-19 have?
14:56 - Was getting back to full capacity overwhelming?
16:36 - Lessons learned along the way.
19:24 - The Chef’s Table Experience.
21:25 - Introducing the butchery.
23:17 - Supporting local industry.
24:13 - what inspired the butchery expansion?
25:23 - Lessons about starting a business in the pandemic.
29:28 - What is next for RGE RD?
30:34 - Outro

Amplify Your Business SOHO

For Episode 150 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Darren Pelechaty, partner and General Manager at SOHO, a restaurant, pub, and live music venue in Alberta, where the 70s New York punk scene meets modern-day downtown Edmonton, and inclusivity reigns supreme.To learn more, visit SOHO’s website, https://www.sohoyeg.com/, or check them out on Instagram.
 
0:00 - Intro
1:40 - Where it all began
3:34 - What inspired the design?
8:00 - What are your plans for entertainment?
10:20 - What’s on the menu?
11:53 - The challenges of opening during Covid-19.
14:32 - Were there benefits to starting when you did?
15:44 - We’re open for Take-Out!
17:59 - Punk, Pizza, and Good Times!
19:08 - Outro

Amplify Your Business Clavis Studio

For Episode 149 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Aby Aiyeleye, the Co-CEO of Clavis Studio. This year, Clavis Studio won the newcomer Entrepreneur Award of Distinction from the Alberta Business Awards of Distinction, presented by the Alberta Chambers of Commerce. 
 
Clavis Studio is an online design platform that marries the fun of designing a space with the functionality of doing it online. Clavis Studio allows you to recreate whatever space you’re trying to design in their app, and provides you the furnishing that you need to put together your dream space before you commit to buying anything.To learn more, visit Clavis Studio’s website at https://myclavis.ca/ 
 
0:00 - Intro
2:45 -  What makes Clavis Studio unique as a design tool?
6:45 - Did this tool take an extraordinary amount of work to put together?8:00 - What angle did you come at the gap from? What background did you come from?
9:30 - What do your collaborations look like?
11:15 - Tell us about the newest developments and when they go live?12:05 - What was your entrepreneurial journey?
15:05 - What is the background of your business partner?16:00 - Was the concept for the business yours, or was it a collaboration?
16:50 - What lessons have you learned in your entrepreneurial journey?
21:32 - How to connect with Clavis Studio.
22:05 - Outro

Amplify Your Business Your Brand Marketing

For Episode 148 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Ben Baker, the founder and CEO of Your Brand Marketing. Ben is also a seasoned podcaster, with 350 episodes of his current show, the Your Living Brand Live Show, under his belt. In our discussion with Ben, he talks us through the three things he thinks every entrepreneur should know, how he started Your Brand Marketing and a lot about podcasts.To learn more, visit the Your Brand Marketing website, and check out Ben’s current podcasts here.
 
0:00 - Intro
3:28 - Three things every entrepreneur needs to know.
5:25 - What is Your Brand Marketings’ ‘Why’?
9:47 - What solution do you offer?
11:20 - Communication - Are things getting better or worse?
13:53 - Have companies improved communications by leveraging tech?
17:17 - How to effectively use data.
20:33 - What adjustments have you made to consulting?
26:07 - Work from home communication styles.
27:55 - The internal podcasting process.
36:18 - The ideal internal podcast formula.
40:10 - Connect with Your Brand Marketing.
40:32 - Outro

Amplify Your Business eWebinar

For Episode 147 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Melissa Kwan, co-founder and CEO of eWebinar. eWebinar is a product for people who hate running webinars. Born out of Melissa’s own hatred of running webinars, eWebinar aims to fully automate the process of running a webinar through giving clients the ability to turn any video into a webinar that they can automate on a recurring schedule or make available on demand so you never have to do the same one twice.
 
0:00 - Intro
0:56 - Key insights for new entrepreneurs.
4:14 - Did sales come naturally to you or was it learned?
9:13 - Is ‘Do what you love.’ fair advice for those starting their journey?
13:27 - What problem is eWebinar solving?
17:36 - Who is your audience?
21:41 - Did eWebinar benefit through Covid-19?
24:23 - It’s been said that webinars are dead, how do you respond?
25:50 - Advice you would give your younger self.
30:35 - The definition of success for eWebinar.
35:35 - How to connect with Melissa Kwan.
36:53 - Outro

Amplify Your Business Truly Financial

For Episode 146 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Sandeep Todi, the co-founder and Chief Business Officer of Truly Financial. Truly Financial is an online digital bank, built exclusively for smaller businesses that helps them grow globally. In a world where many businesses - and especially startups - are using business practices that allow them to hire employees anywhere in the world, these organizations are seeking out new and cost-effective ways to pay their employees and handle international transactions. Truly Financial is the solution.
To learn more, visit Truly Financial’s website.

Amplify Your Business Mystica Entertainment

For Episode 145 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Heather McLaren, co-founder of Mystica Entertainment. McLaren is an adrenaline junkie who fell into entrepreneurship through volunteering for event band changeover, which ultimately led her on her journey to co-founding Mystica Entertainment.
 
In our interview with Heather, we talk about her foray into rave culture, the COVID-19 Pandemic, the entertainment industry as a whole, and hear her three things that every entrepreneur should know.
0:00 - Intro
0:27 - What should entrepreneurs know about the entertainment industry?
4:28 - Why did you choose the events business?
9:15 - How did Mystica Entertainment evolve?
11:07 - What impact did Covid have?
12:53 - How did you navigate the impact?
14:47 - How has Mystica Entertainment changed since?
16:48 - How did you scale your business?
19:52 - If you could, what advice would you give yourself when you started?
21:12 - The difficulties of entrepreneurship.
22:12 - What does success look like now?
24:25 - Given the choice, who would you want as your business partner?
26:40 - Outro

Amplify Your Business Manning Canning

For Episode 143 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Christine Manning, the co-founder of Manning Canning, an organization that operates a commercial kitchen that they lease out to other consumer packaged goods businesses. Manning Canning also creates their own line of jams, pickles, and drinks.
 
Christine tells us how she accidentally stumbled into entrepreneurship, her journey from following her mother’s canning recipes in her backyard preserving business to owning a commercial kitchen, and the top three things she thinks every entrepreneur should know.
 
0:00 - Intro
0:28 - Top 3 things entrepreneurs should know
2:58 - What inspired Manning Canning?
5:09 - How did the commercial kitchen come to be?
7:53 - How many businesses have grown through your kitchen?
9:18 - How do you build community?
12:30 - What inspired your product line progression?
15:30 - What did you learn through growing your product line?
17:40 - What did you learn dealing with consumer packaged goods?
20:40 - What advice would you give to your entrepreneurs?
24:48 - What advice would you give yourself when you started?
27:00 - Outro