Adventures in Businessing: Entrepreneurship, Small Business, and a Healthy Dose of Humor

Introduction

What gets you pumped? Does the sound of our theme song get you in the mood to talk about business? Apparently, Jeremy, Rob, and Kevin can’t be counted on to do the podcast without hearing the theme music. Much to James’ chagrin, Rob and Jeremy give everyone a taste of the acapella version of the intro made famous in the Jamesisode.

Do the hosts have a plan for this episode? Is there a concrete topic? Will they stop congratulating themselves on recording for two whole weeks in a row? Let’s find out in the next section!

The Show

Nope. There’s not a topic. It’s more of the free-wheelin’, off-the-cuff antics that you should have come to expect from this podcast.

Some talking points:

• Saturday Drive had an awesome Christmas Party.
• Rob is being tricked into joining the Saturday Drive team.
• Kevin is dominating the Saturday Drive fantasy football league.
• What do the hosts’ businesses do during the slow month of December?

Tips & Tricks

Kevin’s tip is to not be a fan of the University of Tennessee Football Volunteers. If you’re just now getting into this college football thing, you should just pick a winner. This obviously wouldn’t be Tennessee, a team who’s last bit of national relevance disappeared before any of the current players were even conceived. I hear Alabama is going to be great for a while.

Rob wants you to buy your kids a very special hoverboard. Not just any hoverboard, but a real Mozzie board! Apparently this board will help your child not fall off and break their arms, legs, or other appendages. Kevin and James correctly object to this product being called a hoverboard, since they have seen the Back to the Future movie franchise starring Michael J. Fox, and the Mozzie hoverboard does have wheels. If your kids want to ride on a fake hoverboard, buy them a Mozzie brand hoverboard, I guess.

If you’re interested in launching or hosting a podcast, James recommends that you check out PodPub. PodPub is a service built by the pocket protector crowd that will host your podcast, your feed, as well as a professionally designed website. If you want to get a podcast off the ground, let the bespectacled nerds PodPub do all the tech stuff for you.

Do your children constantly get mocked for their clothing choices? Are they social outcasts because they just don’t know a cardigan from a Kardashian? If so, Jeremy recommends getting your kids’ fashion game on point by using a service like Stichfix. It probably won’t help your offspring become more likable, but other kids will be less likely to banish them to the AV table at lunch.

Introduction

This show kicks off with the hosts discussing the merits of different podcast schedules. They then have an internal discussion about when and where to record. Believe me, this makes for extremely riveting audio. It’s like the Serial podcast without all the interesting content.

After they sort out how frequently they record, they discuss Giving Tuesday and discover that they are all old and have no idea where new trends come from.

Jeremy then discusses how easy it is to get him to buy things with email marketing, as well as the fact that he bought a Peloton cycling bike. He doesn’t mention whether or not he is paying for the monthly subscription to ride a bike, but he also doesn’t give out an affiliate code, which is unexpected.

The Show

I’m not gonna lie. This is a weird one. There really doesn’t appear to be a single topic; the hosts just sort of ramble about several different things, so I’m just going to give you a bullet list.

• Black Friday sales
  • James don’t do ‘em.
• Email Marketing
  • Jeremy is a sucker for good email marketing. Rob doesn’t market via email, even though he is a marketer.
• Facebook Advertising
  • James wants a Facebook feed that’s nothing but ads.
  • Rob discusses whether or not Facebook is shaping what we think and what we talk about by rewarding certain posts with views.
• Chinese Social Rating
  • Is there a social rating number being used in China like a credit score? Who knows, but that doesn’t stop our hosts from discussing it.
• Black Mirror Episodes
  • James mentions season 3 episode 3 of Black Mirror, Nosedive.
  • Black Mirror is too scary for Rob.

Tips & Tricks

Rob has recently purchased a very old car and needs to know why his check engine light keeps coming on. Instead of taking to a mechanic, he recommends purchasing an OBD Code Reader. It’s a little piece of plastic that you plug into your car so that it can tell your phone what’s wrong. Rob has been using it to diagnose his new/old rust bucket. If you want to buy an old car, maybe you should have one too. Or just get a car that works. Whichever.

With all the talk about using Facebook and how amazing and accurate Facebook ads are, Kevin recommends that you stop using Facebook. If you can’t bring yourself to delete your Facebook account outright, at least limit the time that you spend with the Facebook algorithm. He promises that your stress will go down, and you won’t know that your cousin is really into My Little Pony and racism.

Do you like ham? How about bacon? If you said yes to either of those, Jeremy’s recommendation will be right up your alley. Benton’s Country Hams has been smoking ham and bacon, and any other part of the pig, using traditional methods for generations. While their web address makes it look like they don’t know how to internet, Jeremy promises that they know how to ham and bacon. You can find them at https://bentonscountryhams2.com/.

James is right back to form, bringing an app for his recommendation. Any.do allows you to connect task lists and calendars together. He likes it because it pulls in calendars and task lists in the same place, but it also helps you plan your day by using what’s in your calendar and todo list. Be sure to check back next week to see if James is still using this app.