When McKenzie and I started Shine Insurance I had very little knowledge of how to run a business and even less about how to sell something.  I had been a teacher for 13 years.  People brought their kids to my classroom and if I bombed, ...

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Ever dreamed of your pet going viral, meeting the stars, swimming in piles of virtual likes and shares, re-tweets and smiley faces? Maybe even making some dough from the love? I mean who doesn’t want fan mail, right? Our guest is fortunate enough to have ...

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Do you love the town you live in or do you long to move somewhere else? Have you ever thought about why you feel whatever way you do? I’ve lived in Bloomington Indiana for most of the last 25 years and the more people I ...

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Have you ever had a good idea?  One that was so obvious, so helpful, so ingenious that you couldn’t believe it didn’t already exist?  You searched the web and couldn’t find anytime about it, you researched the patent list and it just wasn’t there. You ...

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The story of Cheddar & Sproutbox with Mike Trotzke So you’ve got a million dollars that your looking to invest right? It’s just sitting around in your side table or stuffed into the cushions on your couch but you know it should be invested somewhere ...

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We’ve all seen those sad animal commercials, right?  Scrawny, abused pups that need your help.  On this episode, we sit down with someone who decided to address the problem head on.  Not by donating a few bucks but by dedicating her life’s work to serving ...

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On today’s show, we chat with small business icon Jeff Mease who took the work ethic he learned from an early age and built a pizza shop that sprouted a restaurant which naturally needed a brewery. Once all of that was humming, he created a ...

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On today’s episode we start a new series that digs into tools and techniques that help you grow a healthy profitable business. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, a business owner, or a key player in someone else’s business Scratch Entrepreneur offers insight into the gears that ...

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On today’s episode of Scratch Entrepreneur…. we explore a real life example of someone who left his perfect apartment in lower Manhattan, a swanky job as a magazine fixer, a high rise office overlooking Times Square and moved to a small midwestern town with no ...

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