Small Business Podcasts

The most useful shows are often the narrowest. Million Dollar Electrician - Sale to Scale For Home Service Pros, hosted by Clay Neumeyer and Joseph Lucanie, runs on figures. In S3 EP49 How a One-Man Electrical Shop Hit a $60K Month | Bill Goldman, the hosts read out Goldman's record: a 55% close rate and an average ticket of $6,817.99, while he still does all the installs himself. In S3 EP02 The 4-Part Growth Machine for Electricians with Forrest Schwartz, the headline advice is to call leads within 10 minutes and up to 10 times, with a guarantee of "at least" a 50% increase. Hear that as a sales claim rather than a forecast, especially since the hosts also point listeners to their own paid offerings.

Gain Traction, Mike Edge's tire and auto repair show, is slower and more biographical. In Why Most Auto Shops Fail When They Try to Scale, Phil Carpenter describes moving a specialty shop about nine miles to Colfax. They lost some clients and kept more than they expected. Notice the commercial wiring. The show is powered by Tread Partners, and Can a Value Tire Brand Win Without Competing on Price? interviews Tony Gonzalez, Tread Partners' founder, who also heads the company that owns the sponsor Cosmo Tires.

The Auto Repair Marketing Podcast, with Kim and Brian Walker, makes the case for reviews with a small story. In Everything That Has Changed in Auto Repair Marketing Since Episode 1 [E200], the hosts recall finding a half-remembered Key West restaurant by searching for a courtyard under a canopy of trees. Its reviewers had mentioned that detail. The Small Business Growth and Marketing pages go further.

Vets, dentists, stylists and designers were trained in a craft and then handed a business. The Uncharted Veterinary Podcast works from a listener's letter in this episode. In 392 - Great Vet Tech, Terrible Soft Skills, Dr. Andy Rourke and his co-host take on a gifted technician who answers complaints with "I'm just being direct." They illustrate the cost with a scenario: a colleague who left the treatment floor upset, and an hour of a manager's time. Profitable Salon Owner Podcast is blunter. In Why Your Team Isn’t Listening (And How to Fix It) | EP 240 | Profitable Salon Owner, guest Jason tells owners, "You're not saying anything that's valuable for them."

Art of Dental Finance and Management covers paperwork and protection. In Filing Disability Claim as a Dentist? Watch This!, host Art Wiederman, CPA, says insurers aim to "collect as much in premium dollars as they can and pay out as little in claim dollars as they can." Guest Randy Curry then plays the adjuster a dentist meets on the first call. One of the show's sponsors is a practice lender, Bank of America Practice Solutions.

In Dental Office Rescue with Linda Kane, Gary Harker on Tax Strategies, Asset Protection & Cash Flow for Dentists includes Harker's warning that an R&D tax credit costs money today. He says it takes, by his estimate, about five years to recoup. That is one adviser's account, not a plan to copy.

Trade Tales, hosted by Kaitlin Petersen, brings interior designers in. In Kobel & Co.’s radical take on the client questionnaire, the firm explains why it uses no questionnaire. Instead it deliberately shows clients images it suspects they may dislike, to find the edges of their taste. The Practice Management, Leadership and Human Resources pages pick up these threads.

This Commerce Life, hosted by Kenny and Phil, follows Canadian brands into stores. In The Real Cost of Getting Into Stores — Umami Crave the Fifth's Retail Journey, the founders describe changing bottle, label and packaging. They admit cash flow "is terrible," then report that sales have picked up over roughly the past three months. In The Business of Boxes: Inside Commercial Packaging with Glenmore Printing, the conversation turns to Costco: a customer that can be amazing for a brand and can also drive one out of business.

The Retail Whore, Michelle Sherrier's show, is a floor-plan education. In EP 233: DEAD SPACES, FLOOR FLOW & RETAIL REALITY CHECKS, she describes a cooler restocked with bottle openers and glass sets that still barely sold, because shoppers never turned that way. She warns "do not create aisles," and says a neglected corner "never figures itself out like ever." The Small Business Operations page is the next stop.

Several shows exist to make owners read their own statements. In Sales Don't Matter If There's No Profit, the host of Be a PROFITABLE Badass Small Business Owner offers a buyer's test. In the host's example, if a business shows $50,000 of profit but a buyer would have to pay someone $40,000 to do the owner's job, it is really profitable by $10,000 to that buyer. The Turtlesmith Podcast, with Scott Hess and John Barton, takes it slower. The Cost of Isolation in Business sketches three kinds of adviser an owner may need: financial, legal and growth. In Should Your Small Business Accept Bitcoin? (Fees & Taxes Explained), the hosts question cash-discount pricing as a way to charge card-paying customers more. Both shows' hosts sell bookkeeping, and they plug it in these discussions.

The Small Business Radio Show ended its run with #850 The Final Radio Show: What has Changed In 17 Years of Small Business. In it, Barry Moltz says his favorite guests were owners who weren't "here to sell a concept." The Finance page continues from here.

Chamber and local-radio shows care most about one place. In The Business Link with Heidi Miller March 26, 2026, Miller describes questioning drivers stuck in traffic outside her store: of 43 cars, four were headed into Laguna. In Business Connections talks with RT Brown and Laura Blake - Episode 81 - 03-03-26, a guest describes a $2,500 grant for brand-new businesses, offered four times a year. Talk Local To Me's Chapel Creek Farms advises unsure beef-share buyers to start with a quarter.

Know the arrangement behind these shows. In Not Just Buildings' New Year, New Chamber, appearing on the show is described as a member-only benefit. Hammer Time states that the Yavapai County Contractors Association pays for its airtime. Buffalo Happy Hour is looser. In From Family Business to Celebrity Hotspot: Inside Camolots Military Surplus, Richard Geist says his father's first deal, 5,000 combat boots, paid for his wedding and a T-Bird convertible.