Aug. 13, 2024

Getting Big Results with Advertising, Content Marketing, and Connected TV. Plus the Winning Mindset for Sales and Marketing

Getting Big Results with Advertising, Content Marketing, and Connected TV.  Plus the Winning Mindset for Sales and Marketing

Unlock the secrets to skyrocketing your sales with expert insights from Debra Bowers, the resilient CEO of advertising firm Hexagon Media.  Today we discuss newer marketing channels like connected TV and Debra shares why some companies generate lots of content but don't get sales from it. We dive into the right mindset for success with sales and marketing.

Discover how she turned a local swimming pool company into a booked-out success story through a meticulous multi-channel marketing campaign. Debra shares her personal journey of rebuilding her career in her 50s and provides actionable advice on creating cohesive and consistent messaging across all media to achieve remarkable advertising results.

Explore the intricate psychology behind sales and marketing as Debra reveals the importance of understanding buyer personalities and tailoring campaigns to emotional triggers. Learn why enthusiasm and authenticity are game-changers in sales and how to select the most effective platforms to reach your target audience. We also examine the evolving landscape of connected tv advertising, focusing on the opportunities presented by streaming services. Don’t miss this chance to transform your marketing strategies and take your business to new heights.

Check out Debra's free ebook on the Mindset for Success

Send us a Text Message, give feedback on the episode, suggest a guest or topic

Visit the Remarkable Marketing Podcast website to see all our episodes.

Visit the Remarkable Marketing Podcast on YouTube

Remarkable Marketing Podcast Highlights on Instagram

Eric Eden on LinkedIn

Chapters

00:00 - Effective Marketing Strategies for Sales Success

10:44 - The Psychology of Sales and Marketing

18:17 - The Future of Cable TV Advertising

Transcript
WEBVTT

00:00:00.341 --> 00:00:10.691
Today we discuss how to get big results with advertising and why people sometimes create so much content for marketing but don't get any sales from it.

00:00:10.691 --> 00:00:17.213
And finally, how do you have the right mindset to win at sales and marketing?

00:00:17.213 --> 00:00:23.672
We have a great show today and an amazing guest to inspire us, deborah Bowers.

00:00:23.672 --> 00:00:24.594
Welcome to the show.

00:00:24.594 --> 00:00:31.638
Thank you, I'm so happy to be here.

00:00:31.638 --> 00:00:35.942
Why don't we start off by you taking a minute?

00:00:36.002 --> 00:00:37.646
or two to share a little bit about who you are and what you do.

00:00:37.646 --> 00:00:39.490
Okay, I am a native Oklahoman.

00:00:39.490 --> 00:00:59.990
I live in the central part of Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City, and I raised five kids here, and I really sacrificed a lot to do that I think a lot of women do and so I basically started over again and found myself in my 50s, and I'd like to tell you that I did that.

00:00:59.990 --> 00:01:03.947
I had this deep thought and did it, but I was thrust there by tragedy.

00:01:03.947 --> 00:01:22.546
But it forced me to re-examine what I was doing with my life, and I ended up starting my agency, hexagon Media, and then, about a little over a year later, we launched my podcast, deals with Heels, and so it's been a whirlwind since.

00:01:22.546 --> 00:01:28.054
My kids are all grown my oldest one is 30 and my youngest is 22.

00:01:28.054 --> 00:01:37.742
And so it's been fantastic finding myself again and getting back to what I really love doing the most, which is sales and marketing.

00:01:39.344 --> 00:01:39.745
Amazing.

00:01:39.745 --> 00:01:50.471
So you have almost 25 years of marketing experience, You're the CEO of your own advertising agency and you have a great podcast Deals with Heels.

00:01:50.471 --> 00:01:52.387
We're ready to be inspired.

00:01:52.387 --> 00:01:58.453
Why don't you share a story with us about some of the best marketing you've done, the marketing that you're the most proud of?

00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:08.222
Oddly enough I just had a recent campaign it's almost we have one week left in it and it's for a local client here.

00:02:08.222 --> 00:02:10.887
They are a swimming pool company.

00:02:10.887 --> 00:02:21.561
They build swimming pools, so it's really a big deal for them to be able to schedule out through the winter during their hot season, which is the summer.

00:02:21.561 --> 00:02:29.229
Once it starts getting back to school, people forget about the pool and all of that kind of stuff and it's not top of mind.

00:02:29.229 --> 00:02:34.247
So they really try to build that momentum and schedule as much as possible through the summer.

00:02:34.247 --> 00:02:43.848
And this particular pool company had been struggling with that and just really losing all of their business, all their momentum, because they would stop advertising in about July.

00:02:43.848 --> 00:02:45.355
And so I came on about the beginning of the business, all their momentum because they would stop advertising in about July.

00:02:46.300 --> 00:02:55.389
And so I came on about the beginning of the year and we put a plan in place and it involved a lot of different touch points.

00:02:55.389 --> 00:03:07.443
It involved some traditional ones we ran television commercials both on broadcast and on connected TV, so streaming television, both on broadcast and on connected TV, so streaming television.

00:03:07.443 --> 00:03:16.633
It involved digital that on some local broadcast stations, but also digital display and digital search ads and it had a lot of organic social media involved.

00:03:16.633 --> 00:03:31.788
We also did a promotion called Summer of Fun where they gave away pool stuff and got a lot of publicity for that, and that came with a little bit of outdoor and I really liked it for a couple of reasons.

00:03:32.210 --> 00:03:42.485
One we're booked all the way into the spring of next year, so it was highly effective for them, which is good and bad, because now they don't need you anymore Good problem to have.

00:03:42.485 --> 00:03:51.272
But to book them out that far on a fairly new company was really a big deal and I enjoyed working with it.

00:03:51.272 --> 00:03:58.311
I produced the television commercial and my client was in it at the end and it was really awesome.

00:03:58.311 --> 00:04:02.448
He was just like you want to pull, and so it was his face on everything.

00:04:02.448 --> 00:04:09.768
All the media tied together and it had really big results and exactly what we wanted to happen happened.

00:04:09.768 --> 00:04:12.272
I love when a plan comes together.

00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:18.271
And so that's what you do is you help your clients get big results with advertising right?

00:04:19.100 --> 00:04:19.480
We do.

00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:21.425
That is the majority of what I do.

00:04:21.425 --> 00:04:33.259
I do some sales coaching too, but I really feel like all marketing is sales, and some of my marketing peers will say, no, what about community involvement?

00:04:33.259 --> 00:04:33.920
What about?

00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:39.033
I was like, yeah, there's a reason we send that press release, isn't there Right?

00:04:39.033 --> 00:04:43.653
If we were just being philanthropic, we wouldn't send the press release.

00:04:43.653 --> 00:04:46.641
So we send the press release because we want publicity.

00:04:46.641 --> 00:04:48.024
And why do we want publicity?

00:04:48.024 --> 00:04:49.569
To get more sales.

00:04:49.569 --> 00:04:51.673
So it is sales.

00:04:51.673 --> 00:04:59.882
It's just selling in a softer voice, and so part of what I do is coach companies and people on how to make content that sells.

00:04:59.882 --> 00:05:03.608
There's a lot of content being made right now and none of it sells.

00:05:03.608 --> 00:05:16.915
So tying all of that in together is really important, and that cohesive message that ties into the sales funnel and through all of the media and consistency is how you get really big results.

00:05:18.579 --> 00:05:22.610
Why is it that some people produce so much content but it doesn't really help them sell?

00:05:24.581 --> 00:05:27.290
Because they don't have sales experience.

00:05:27.290 --> 00:05:30.869
And my industry has gotten very segmented.

00:05:30.869 --> 00:05:32.172
Our industry right.

00:05:32.172 --> 00:05:49.853
We have content creators, we have videographers, we have photographers, we have branding photographers, we have digital marketing companies, social media marketing companies, social media managed web developers they're all out there and, to the small business person, we all do the same thing.

00:05:49.853 --> 00:05:58.641
They don't really understand the difference and I commend a lot of those social media and content creating.

00:05:58.641 --> 00:06:04.290
They learned how to use CapCut over the shutdown and built big businesses from it.

00:06:04.290 --> 00:06:07.581
And I'm an entrepreneur and I'm like hell yeah, let's go.

00:06:08.223 --> 00:06:18.952
But at the end of the day, if you don't sell your products and services, you're going to go out of business and you don't have the privilege of making all of that content.

00:06:18.952 --> 00:06:33.536
So it's really important and a lot of the marketing professionals that are out there, or content people that are out there, don't have the marketing training or sales experience to be able to convert that.

00:06:33.536 --> 00:06:42.408
And it's really important that a small business owner pick that piece up themselves and really look at what they're doing and how is this going to get me business?

00:06:42.408 --> 00:06:54.949
And ask those questions, because you will know really quickly if they have a plan for actually selling and bringing in business or if they're just going to make content and it's not.

00:06:54.949 --> 00:06:58.543
That content isn't important, bringing eyeballs in is important.

00:06:58.543 --> 00:07:02.533
Is it the most important thing that you spend thousands of dollars doing?

00:07:02.533 --> 00:07:10.408
Absolutely not, and I think that there's just a misunderstanding that people think if they build it, they will come.

00:07:10.408 --> 00:07:16.550
If I make all this content, it's going to get sales and it just doesn't work that way.

00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:22.302
So when working with teams on content marketing, one of the things I've tried to do is set a goal.

00:07:22.302 --> 00:07:33.052
For example, if you have an ebook, try to get 10% of the people who download the ebook to take you up on an offer that you included in the ebook.

00:07:33.052 --> 00:07:40.923
So some percentage of the people consuming the content that's reasonable would take you up on an offer that you included in the ebook.

00:07:40.923 --> 00:07:47.843
Is that the sort of thing you're getting at in terms of including the sales and the marketing material?

00:07:48.504 --> 00:07:49.408
It is part of it.

00:07:49.408 --> 00:08:04.392
It is part of it, but also just building a campaign that starts with a hook right and then you have some bait to put on that hook and you've got just a few seconds to grab them before they're gone in a video.

00:08:04.392 --> 00:08:08.103
So if you're not starting with, do you want to lose weight?

00:08:08.103 --> 00:08:11.552
If you do, you really want to hear what this next video says.

00:08:11.552 --> 00:08:16.771
You really have to lure them in right To get them to even watch your content.

00:08:16.771 --> 00:08:26.634
But and then baiting it with an offer that's really important in sales content and to not really come across super hardcore selling.

00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:44.888
But really, if you think about your marketing, your media, your networking, all of the things that you do, if you think of it in terms of building demand for your products and services, branding when I first started out, it was demand building, then it became image building.

00:08:44.888 --> 00:08:47.308
We're building our image and now it's branding.

00:08:47.308 --> 00:08:53.812
It's the same thing Building demand for your products and your services and you as the preferred provider of those.

00:08:53.812 --> 00:08:56.011
That's really creative advertising.

00:08:56.011 --> 00:09:05.775
And then you have offer right, where you're telling them that it's for sale and how they can get it, and then you have direct response Come and get it right.

00:09:05.775 --> 00:09:07.136
Now it's on sale.

00:09:07.136 --> 00:09:07.716
Come get it.

00:09:07.716 --> 00:09:09.038
This is the best deal ever.

00:09:09.038 --> 00:09:29.817
And that cycle really flows through whether and it doesn't matter how you're delivering the message, whether you're doing it with organic content or you're doing it with paid advertising, social media, video, print, it doesn't matter If you follow that flow, then you're constantly filling that bucket and building demand.

00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:31.797
I think that's great.

00:09:31.797 --> 00:09:34.649
I love that book by Brendan Cain Hookpoint.

00:09:34.649 --> 00:09:37.461
So I totally agree having a hook to grab people.

00:09:37.461 --> 00:09:44.739
I think you have seven seconds with videos to grab people's attention before they just are on to the next video if you don't hook them.

00:09:44.739 --> 00:09:46.791
So I agree with that 100%.

00:09:46.791 --> 00:09:51.219
But one of the things you mentioned was the psychology of sales and marketing.

00:09:51.219 --> 00:09:55.902
Can you talk a little bit about what you've done in that area and what you've learned sales and marketing?

00:09:55.902 --> 00:09:56.023
Can?

00:09:56.043 --> 00:09:58.107
you talk a little bit about what you've done in that area and what you've learned.

00:09:58.107 --> 00:10:05.207
Years ago, like a couple of decades ago, I worked for a company that did some personality testing and every company does that stuff right.

00:10:05.207 --> 00:10:17.188
This one stuck with me and I've modified it as time has gone on and buying preferences have changed and we've really gotten more on recommendations, right.

00:10:17.188 --> 00:10:18.826
That's really important to people.

00:10:18.826 --> 00:10:20.525
Now this works for my friend.

00:10:20.525 --> 00:10:26.330
Is it going to work for me with all of the first person video all over TikTok and Reels and all of the things?

00:10:26.330 --> 00:10:38.464
So the psychology of sales is really understanding your buyer's personality and how they prefer to be communicated with buyers' personality and how they prefer to be communicated with it's.

00:10:38.464 --> 00:10:43.532
For example, if you're a thinker, right, there's a group of people that are thinkers.

00:10:43.532 --> 00:10:45.514
They have to have a lot of information.

00:10:45.514 --> 00:10:50.623
They want to really learn about it and digest it.

00:10:50.623 --> 00:10:56.653
It's more about figuring it all out than it is shopping around and looking for another deal.

00:10:56.653 --> 00:11:03.865
And if you can tell that you're dealing with a thinker, then you're never going to close them.

00:11:03.865 --> 00:11:04.446
Today they're not closable.

00:11:04.446 --> 00:11:33.451
You think they are because they're interested and they want information, but they will just let you keep giving it to them and it can be really frustrating if you identify them up front, you give them information, you put them on a drip campaign from your email campaign and you send them a little bit of information and three months later they come in, they're ready to buy and you didn't waste a ton of time and get discouraged so discouraging when you think you can get a sale and then it doesn't happen.

00:11:33.700 --> 00:11:36.559
The same is true for all of your marketing and advertising.

00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:43.091
If you put a campaign together and it doesn't get sales, it's really discouraging but it's important to adjust.

00:11:43.091 --> 00:11:50.086
But you can do marketing campaigns around those buying preferences as well and those buying emotions.

00:11:50.086 --> 00:11:59.605
People buy for fear reasons or for that feeling of I have to have the very next best thing, those early adapters.

00:11:59.605 --> 00:12:17.926
So, taking into account what your product and service is and what kind of emotions trigger people to buy it, and there'll be multiple ones and I would separate them and then you do separate types of content marketing to each of those and that's how I would do it.

00:12:17.926 --> 00:12:19.586
That's how I use the sales.

00:12:19.586 --> 00:12:33.875
I use a lot of sales psychology and sales coaching more than I do in media, but it's important in those macro large segments of the population and how they buy.

00:12:33.875 --> 00:12:40.107
So, moms, they have specific things that they buy and buying patterns for their family.

00:12:41.692 --> 00:12:45.082
What's the most important thing you teach people in sales coaching.

00:12:45.783 --> 00:12:49.613
There is nothing more important than mindset in all forms of sales.

00:12:49.613 --> 00:12:54.505
Sales is a transfer of enthusiasm.

00:12:54.505 --> 00:13:11.947
I'm so excited about being able to help people with this product and service and I want to tell it to you and that it that can't be duplicated, that can't be faked, that authenticity and you have to have that mindset when you come in.

00:13:11.947 --> 00:13:13.928
Sales can be discouraging.

00:13:13.928 --> 00:13:23.706
It can be exhilarating and exciting, but it's a lot of sometimes up and then down and up and down.

00:13:23.706 --> 00:13:27.293
And prospecting is hard too, especially cold calling.

00:13:27.293 --> 00:13:31.647
You get told no a lot, and so your mindset is key to everything.

00:13:31.647 --> 00:13:35.774
It helps you not get discouraged.

00:13:35.774 --> 00:13:40.464
It keeps you disciplined when no one's motivated every day, let's face it.

00:13:40.464 --> 00:13:47.746
So you have to have something to keep you going and for discipline, and there is nothing more important than mindset.

00:13:48.850 --> 00:13:49.331
I love that.

00:13:49.331 --> 00:14:03.816
Let me ask you a lot of people have said that advertising is getting tougher because it's getting more expensive, particularly on platforms like Google and Facebook and LinkedIn, particularly in the online advertising area.

00:14:03.816 --> 00:14:15.235
How can people get big results for advertising when the perception is that it's one of the more expensive ways to get clients?

00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:22.370
Let's face it, advert advertising isn't cheap, right, and like everything, it goes up with inflation as well.

00:14:22.370 --> 00:14:26.547
I think the most important thing is to spend your money efficiently.

00:14:26.547 --> 00:14:33.700
So if you're a business-to-business person like me, I work with other businesses.

00:14:33.700 --> 00:14:36.222
I don't really work with consumers, although consumers can refer business to me.

00:14:36.222 --> 00:14:36.408
I work with other businesses.

00:14:36.408 --> 00:14:38.283
I don't really work with consumers, although consumers can refer business to me.

00:14:38.283 --> 00:14:43.193
So it would be a horrible idea for me to spend a lot of paid ads on Facebook.

00:14:43.193 --> 00:14:46.648
It's just not the best place for business to business.

00:14:46.708 --> 00:15:00.663
So one, pick your platform appropriately and even if it's a platform you don't personally enjoy spending time on for example, nextdoor app just a bunch of people bitching on there but the feel type to me.

00:15:00.822 --> 00:15:08.505
But for a home, if you've got a home services business, then that's a great place to be and they're cheap.

00:15:08.505 --> 00:15:31.389
And so feeling around for which of the platforms is best for your target audience that you're trying to hit with that specific paid campaign is important, but also adding a lot of other things with it All of your organic content, networking, all of those touch points, people that get your business card or see your truck down the road with your logo on it.

00:15:31.389 --> 00:15:32.504
Those are important too.

00:15:32.504 --> 00:15:40.847
So having all of that cohesive and being together will help, because it allows those impressions to tie together right.

00:15:40.847 --> 00:15:42.773
Otherwise they don't know it's you.

00:15:42.773 --> 00:15:45.792
They don't get to count that if they can't see your logo on it.

00:15:45.792 --> 00:15:58.586
But that's the most important thing with advertising is eliminate as much of the impressions you're paying for from people that are never going to buy your product and services.

00:15:58.586 --> 00:16:03.879
So if you're targeting women, let's eliminate the men from the equation.

00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:10.221
Let's advertise on those platforms that have the majority of women on them and target the message towards that.

00:16:10.221 --> 00:16:11.182
That's the best way.

00:16:12.044 --> 00:16:20.133
I think that's great advice, and you said you did some connected TV advertising in your story for the swimming pool company.

00:16:20.133 --> 00:16:24.643
Is that an area that you often recommend that you've had success with?

00:16:24.643 --> 00:16:31.003
I haven't experimented very much with connected TV, but I'm interested with the streaming and connected TV.

00:16:31.003 --> 00:16:36.750
It seems like an interesting newer area of marketing an interesting, newer area of marketing, the thing that I like.

00:16:37.150 --> 00:16:38.975
I like a few things about connected TV.

00:16:38.975 --> 00:16:42.486
One, you're able to target it.

00:16:42.486 --> 00:16:58.754
So let's say, I only want to send television to this city and only the people that make over $300,000 a year and you can really get targeted on that audience and only they see your commercials on streaming TV.

00:16:58.754 --> 00:17:15.733
It's much more technologically advanced in that respect than traditional television commercials that just go all over the DMA and I may not want to go 100 miles away for a customer and there's a lot of people that don't, and so you can really target it towards that.

00:17:15.733 --> 00:17:19.810
A lot of people that don't, and so you can really target it towards that.

00:17:19.810 --> 00:17:23.060
And huge portions of the population right now don't have any kind of cable or satellite.

00:17:23.060 --> 00:17:25.146
They are all running on streaming services.

00:17:25.146 --> 00:17:35.817
So if you don't add connected TV in, then you're missing a huge portion of the population that only watch streaming TV, especially younger generation.

00:17:35.817 --> 00:17:38.665
They are really tied in to streaming TV.

00:17:38.665 --> 00:17:41.451
Even myself, I watch a ton of streaming TV.

00:17:42.173 --> 00:17:45.846
And so those programs that have commercials so who?

00:17:45.846 --> 00:17:48.855
All of them were starting to add commercials, right, even Netflix.

00:17:48.855 --> 00:17:54.457
And so those commercials that sometimes you can preempt and sometimes you can't.

00:17:54.457 --> 00:17:58.335
The ones you can pre preempt, are usually called pre-rolls.

00:17:58.335 --> 00:17:59.830
They come before something.

00:17:59.830 --> 00:18:17.701
It's not cannabis industry, all y'all out there saying the pre-roll, but connected TV is a great way to dip in to television advertising without having the huge expense of broadcast TV and to limit it to your audience.

00:18:17.701 --> 00:18:22.030
So it's more efficiently spent and I love it for those reasons.

00:18:22.030 --> 00:18:29.932
It's still expensive for advertising, but worth it if you can really target and get in those eyeballs.

00:18:31.515 --> 00:18:47.480
So I've been seeing this year in particular, a lot of the cable companies that were so strong over the last 30 years have been doing massive write-offs and layoffs, unfortunately, of people, because everyone has gone to streaming connected TV.

00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:49.070
So is cable dead?

00:18:49.070 --> 00:18:53.457
Are all the ad dollars from cable now going into connected TV and streaming?

00:18:55.007 --> 00:19:01.586
I'm going to say no connected TV and streaming.

00:19:01.586 --> 00:19:11.291
I'm going to say no and prerequisite by telling you my very first marketing job out of college was with a company called Multimedia Cablevision, and they were purchased by Cox Communications about a year after I left in this market.

00:19:11.291 --> 00:19:15.220
And so I you know.

00:19:15.220 --> 00:19:40.631
There were board meetings and meetings, management meetings we sent in being terrified of what's happening today, when they knew things like Netflix were coming, even if they were a decade away and I don't think it's dead, I think there's always going to be some, just like you still have people that listen to regular FM radio, but that population is definitely getting less and less.

00:19:40.631 --> 00:19:45.926
And I'll be honest, I can't tell you the last time I bought ads on cable.

00:19:46.848 --> 00:19:51.945
I have obviously done some broadcast campaigns, but I haven't done cable in a cool minute.

00:19:51.945 --> 00:19:57.458
So if there is somewhere that's struggling for ad revenue, that very well may be it.

00:19:57.458 --> 00:20:13.662
But also if you want to advertise in sporting events or any of those things that are on ESPN or Fox Sports, any of those types of programming, you're going to be best bet on cable.

00:20:13.662 --> 00:20:22.411
So there's always going to be a place for some of that and for regionally, I think cable sometimes is a good place to go.

00:20:22.411 --> 00:20:28.673
I don't have anybody that fits really in that has that big of a budget to spend on big sports packages.

00:20:28.673 --> 00:20:34.733
Those kinds of things I think are always going to be cable driven and until eventually I guess it can all.

00:20:34.733 --> 00:20:37.598
I mean, I was at my daughter and son-in-law's.

00:20:37.598 --> 00:20:50.451
They had YouTube TV and he had four games going during college football at the same time up on their TV, and so that was pretty exciting to be able to see, and I hadn't done that yet.

00:20:51.945 --> 00:20:53.752
So I think it'll be interesting to see how things evolve.

00:20:53.752 --> 00:21:01.625
I think on the content side, it's also a challenge for the cable networks because producing the content is so expensive for everybody, including the streaming companies.

00:21:01.625 --> 00:21:07.939
So it's hard if you don't have the ad revenue to afford to create a lot of the great content.

00:21:07.939 --> 00:21:13.258
But there's probably some industries like sports is a great example where it still makes sense.

00:21:13.258 --> 00:21:16.269
But it's going to be interesting to see how that really evolves.

00:21:16.269 --> 00:21:20.976
Let me ask you about your podcast Deals with Heels.

00:21:20.976 --> 00:21:30.446
It's about entrepreneurs, women entrepreneurs, and the challenges they face.

00:21:30.467 --> 00:21:31.588
Talk to us a little bit about the podcast and about that.

00:21:31.608 --> 00:21:42.337
The podcast is officially Deals with Heels, where female entrepreneurs thrive, and we deal a lot with entrepreneurism and the things it takes to be successful.

00:21:42.337 --> 00:22:16.013
We do delve a lot into female empowerment and the things that we struggle with as female entrepreneurs and, historically, how those things have evolved, and we talk a lot about mindset and personal growth and how important it is to success, and so we have a lot of male listeners too, but all of our content is delivered by women and there is definitely a female element to it that the issues that we discuss are always how it relates to us as women, but we love it.

00:22:16.013 --> 00:22:17.237
We've had some great guests.

00:22:17.237 --> 00:22:22.454
We're in the middle of season two, and so we're really excited about it.

00:22:22.454 --> 00:22:34.375
We have had some great sales and marketing guests this season, some that dealt with sales psychology that we talked about, and some that dealt with, like content-based SEO, which is a little bit different.

00:22:34.375 --> 00:22:38.567
So things that I'm really passionate about sales and marketing.

00:22:38.567 --> 00:22:40.555
We got to get a lot of that in too.

00:22:42.286 --> 00:22:42.807
That's awesome.

00:22:42.807 --> 00:22:58.934
One of the things I love about podcasting is you can serve all of these great verticals and niches that people really need, so I think that's a great resource for female entrepreneurs and founders, who need that kind of inspiration.

00:22:58.934 --> 00:23:04.872
I encourage everyone to check that out, and you also have an e-book where people can.

00:23:04.872 --> 00:23:09.440
If they've liked some of the insights in this episode, they can get a copy of that.

00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:10.890
Talk about that for a little bit.

00:23:11.664 --> 00:23:31.816
The e-book is Five Steps to Having a Mindset for Success is Five Steps to Having a Mindset for Success and it's a quick version of the steps that I personally went through, not like with a guide, but that I just figured out and that really helped me turn my life around, and how it relates to business.

00:23:31.816 --> 00:23:40.394
It's available on my Hexagon Media website, hexagonmedianet, and I encourage everyone to check it out.

00:23:41.244 --> 00:23:41.546
Awesome.

00:23:41.546 --> 00:23:43.794
I will link to that in the show notes.

00:23:43.794 --> 00:23:48.537
Some people can get some visibility into what you learn from the School of Life.

00:23:50.086 --> 00:23:52.134
Exactly, that's exactly right.

00:23:52.134 --> 00:23:55.875
Unfortunately, you don't learn a lot with fun, do you?

00:23:58.625 --> 00:24:00.471
That's not usually the way it works out, unfortunately.

00:24:00.471 --> 00:24:01.295
You don't learn a lot with fun, do you?

00:24:01.295 --> 00:24:06.894
That's not usually the way it works out, unfortunately, but I think people can benefit from what you've learned, so I'll link that in the show notes so people can easily get to it.

00:24:06.894 --> 00:24:10.031
Thanks for being with us today, Debra, and sharing all these insights.

00:24:10.031 --> 00:24:11.154
We really appreciate it.

00:24:11.154 --> 00:24:12.217
Great to have you on the show.

00:24:12.217 --> 00:24:14.434
Thank you so much for having me.

00:24:14.526 --> 00:24:15.539
I had a great time.