The Small Business Big Marketing Podcast with Tim Reid

Parker Olson says one low-quality tent video drove about 80% of Forage’s revenue for the next 12 months, which he uses to argue that polished ads often lose to unusual content.

Tim Reid speaks with Mez Jamali, co-founder of Wholesome Bowl, Australia's newest instant noodle brand, and the product starts with chicken and beef flavours plus added fibre, protein, vitamins, and minerals.

Tim Reid marks the Small Business Big Marketing Podcast’s 14th year and uses episode 640 to chase the sale of the Brady Bunch house in Studio City, Los Angeles.

Jason Gattani says Gattani Stone grew from a 1974 family business into a $40 million operation with 60 staff, an Australian quarry, and imported stone from Italy.

Tim Reid sits down with Anthony Crowther and opens on the blunt fact that New York Minute has gone from 30 locations to six.

Tim Reid frames Unyoked as "nature as a service," with founder Chris Grant saying the business has 100 off-grid cabins across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and soon continental Europe.

Harry Sanders says the September 2023 Google helpful content update rewards content that is genuinely useful, not pages that look like ChatGPT output.

Hugh Crothers says Drip began as a “love letter” to his 18-year-old self after he came out in Melbourne and found almost no unbiased queer sex education.

Lee Edward says Ferndale Foods turns over about $35 million, employs around 70 people, and is building a $20 million Foodline Australia site aimed at pushing the group past $60 million.

Tim Reid frames websites as buy-renovate-hold assets, then brings on Matt Raad to unpack why that model can support the kind of perfect lifestyle they call ideal.

Nicole Russo, a New York fashion stylist, says business owners are judged within microseconds and uses clothing as a tool for credibility, confidence, and audience fit.

Timbo Reid sits down with Noam Barden, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and veteran who is taking Elon Musk's Twitter head-on with Post, a platform built around low-friction use.

Steve Sims comes in swinging with one main idea: go for stupid.

Tim Reid visits Panzano, Tuscany, where eighth-generation butcher Dario Cecchini runs a butcher shop, two restaurants, a panini truck, and a merchandise store in a town of 1,152 people.

Host Tim Reid shares several recent personal experiences as a customer—at a hardware store, an optometrist, and a barbershop—to extract practical lessons on customer loyalty, empathy, and problem-solving for small business owners.

Hot sauce gets the spotlight, mate.

Jacob Spencer, who bought an underperforming mobile skips business with no industry experience, shares how he scaled it to $8 million with 17 franchisees by doing less, not more.

Tim Reid talks with Olivia Carr about a bold marketing move that sounds almost too odd to be real.

Frank Greeff, a former chef earning $36K/year, shares how he and his two brothers started a real estate marketing services business called RealBase from scratch, growing it to 350 staff and $35M annual revenue before selling it to domain.com.au for $180 million.

Ben Leonard has no business training.

Tim sits down with Melanie Perkins to follow Canva from a parents' lounge room in 2013 to a $25.5 billion company.

Christopher Lochhead, godfather of category design, explains why legendary businesses don't compete for market share but instead design entirely new categories.

Timbo Reid opens on the problem of B2B selling when the product is complex and the buyer does not buy very often.

Tim Reid sits down with Dan Munday, a 20-year reality TV veteran who contributed to shows including Survivor, The Apprentice, and Real Housewives.

Kate Christie sits down with Timbo Reid to talk about where business hours disappear to and how to get some of them back.