Reptile Entrepreneur Podcast

Aug 28 2023 12

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Learn skills for creating a business within the reptile community. Hear from entrepreneurs who have already done it. The reptile community is growing and healthy growth can only come if community members step up to the plate and provide the right products and solid education. Join me and other entrepreneurs as we share with you the steps we took to build a business in this community we love.

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Your Digital Footprint with Framschams

Aug 28 2023 40 mins

Carolyn Laframboise from FramsChams joins me to discuss the use of websites and social media for reptile breeders. She shares the experience of growing a business through Facebook, Instagram, website, and email. She also shares what happens when your social media account is removed with no warning.To see what Framschams is up to check out their website at https://framschams.com/If

3D Printing for Reptile Keepers

Aug 15 2023 18 mins

3D printers have given each of us the ability to manufacture close to any plastic product we can think of. And this gives us powerful capabilities to further our personal reptile husbandry as well as create side businesses. Today I give an introduction to this exciting technology!

Focus on Your Followers

Aug 07 2023 19 mins

It is too easy to get lost in trying to grow our social media accounts that we neglect the true followers of what we do. That serves our social media platform, but doesn't necessarily serve ourselves. Today I talk about how to focus on your purpose and the looming threat of AI which makes this all the more critical of a mindset shift.

The Thrive Ecosystems LED Light Bar!

Jul 31 2023 56 mins

Colby Gingles wanted a better light spectrum for his frogs. He ended up designing and manufacturing his own LED light bar and is now selling them through Thrive Ecosystems The special thing about entrepreneurs is they make what they want and the rest of us benefit from it!Today Colby comes on and shares with us what inspired this new design and the ups and downs on how he went abou

Rare Lizard Breeding as a Business with Frank Payne

Jul 17 2023 53 mins

Frank Payne joins me to discuss his rare lizard breeding business called Living Art by Frank Payne. Through this business he looks to bring new lizard species to the market. In this episode we talk about the challenges surrounding wrapping a business around species that require customer education as to what they are.

Threads: Should You Get On It?

Jul 10 2023 29 mins

Should you get on Threads?We had a social media shake up this week as Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, launched Threads, a conversation based social media app that sits squarely in the same space as Twitter. This is a detailed overview into how to decide if Threads is a platform that will serve your purpose.

Threads Preliminary Review

Jul 07 2023 7 mins

The Threads app from Meta has just been released and it holds promise. In this preliminary review I give you a basic overview of what has happened in the last 48 hours.

Case Study: Breeder & Influencer with Ryan Dumas

Jul 02 2023 42 mins

How to balance being a breeder and having an educational outreach!We in the reptile world often are both part breeder and part influencer. But how would you set up a digital outreach to support both those things at the same time? Today, Ryan Dumas of Rad Reptiles and the Let's Talk Turtles Podcast talks about the beginning stages of putting together a website, blog, podcast, y

Case Study: McZoo Exotics

May 02 2023 17 mins

Sean McNeeley returns to the podcast to share his 2023 outreach goals. Many of us will see ourselves with the same decisions as Sean as to how to structure multiple outreach efforts. One website or three? One Instagram or three?

Case Study: Amphibicast Podcast 2023

Apr 16 2023 29 mins

If you create content on a regular basis you will soon run into the problem of keeping your past episodes accessible. Dan Drobates, the host of the Amphibicast podcast joins me to discuss how he intends to make sure over 100 episodes of solid amphibian information is not lost.