Scratch Entrepreneur

We’ve all seen those sad animal commercials, right?  Underserved, 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 these animals.  Who is this superhero to destitute animals?  It’s the director of Monroe County Humane Association, Rebecca Warren.  Rebecca tells the story of how she took a misguided voucher program and converted it into a vet tech clinic where lower income folks could get basic veterinary services for their animals.  She shares the highs and the lows of what it’s like to build a not-for-profit that cares for sick animals each and every day.    We’re glad you joined us!    Special thanks to Rebecca Warren for taking the time to share the Monroe County Humane Association story with us.  Really, if you have an extra dollar, fifty, or a ten acre piece of land, right now is the time to share it and help Rebecca and her amazing crew of vets change

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 community commissary where other small food businesses could start just like he did.    After over 30 years of growth, Jeff now steers a ten million dollar per year organization and the new ideas just keep coming.   Here’s an overview: What early stories from Jeff’s life set him up to succeed as a business owner? Jeff was the youngest of five kids.  He worked at his dad’s grocery store from an early age.  He did everything from sorting recycled pop bottles and bagging groceries to running the deli.  Besides a general work ethic, one of the largest lessons was how to keep things clean. Eventually, in the early 1980’s, he left his home in Ohio and headed to college at Indiana University.  He majored in business and worked at the local Domino’s Pizza.  What he really learned

Today we chat with RCV Roofing owner Jay Nelson about all things roofing. Learn how he grew from zero to one of the largest midwestern roofing contractors in less than 5 years. We’ll talk bad roofs, the tension between roofers and insurance companies, how to pick a good roofer, and more. We’re glad you joined us.

On today's show, Jeremy sits down with the owner of Felt Creative Agency and Marketing Guru AJ O’Reilly. We’ll lay out the 7 specific steps to the perfect marketing approach. Get these steps right and the biggest issue your business will have is how to keep up.

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 real plan. What came next was the birth of a New York quality magazine on a college town budget. We’ll dig deep into the story of Bloom Magazine with its founder, publisher and editor Malcolm Abrams

On today’s episode of Scratch entrepreneur, how Jessica & Aaron Wehr, owners of Wehrloom Honey, took a Christmas present and turned it into a booming agricultural business. We’re glad you joined us.

On today’s show how Doug Dayhoff and the Upland team grew a small town brewery and pub into a multimillion dollar business known internationally for their lineup of traditional craft beers and their innovation around brewing wood aged sour beers. We’re glad you joined us.

What does it mean to create content to build your brand? On today’s episode Colin Clark, owner of Tribeswell, and Jeremy dig deep into our of their favorite topics: Authentic Content Marketing Creating great content (videos, blog posts, podcasts, etc) is far from new, people have been doing it for decades. But it becoming a more and more central strategy to every business who's mission is to build community and create a loyal following. It's a super fun super real way to present yourself to ideal clients and it can really help make their life better where they decide to purchase from you or not. Colin and Jeremy talk on this episode about how they approach content marketing, what their favorite tricks of the trade are, and what resources they've used for ideas and motivation.

“Where will Ugo Today?” On today’s episode an incredible look into one of Bloomington Indiana’s rising food star’s Rebecca Walters. Rebecca is an entrepreneur who truly took an idea and built it into a healthy profitable business. Her idea solved a problem she had. She was hungry. She needed healthy food that was mobile but had the nutritional value to support her as a college athlete. So she created a product, grew it into a side business, and then dove in head first.

Have you ever just felt stuck, like your life or your business isn’t where you want it to be? Meet transformation coach Adam Schaeuble.

On this episode we chat with Scott & Abby Noroozi, owners of the Green Nursery. The Green Nursery is a baby boutique with a brick and mortar shop in downtown Bloomington, Indiana and a national renowned online store. What began as a natural herb remedy shop in 2007 has morphed into a baby store with a cult following of cloth diaper aficionados. Theirs is the story that every entrepreneur wants to tell. A good idea, turned into a fledgling business, turned into a great idea, that exploded into a healthy profitable mature business.

Want a Google-like work environment without working for a huge corporation? Coworking is your answer. In this episode Tyler Henke, founder of Cowork Bloomington, gives us a peek into this membership-based community. We’ll explore why collaborative workspaces exist, how Cowork Bloomington got started, and Tyler’s insights on business success.

Have you ever dreamed of starting a business based on something you just love to do? Sure you have. The owners of Cardinal Spirits did to. They loved mixing drinks and their crazy dream was to build a distillery, make hard alcohol, and invent great drinks to mix with their vodkas, rums, and more. So they went for it. In this podcast, Jeff Wuslich shares how their business became legal, what they did next, and whether bourbon can be made outside of Kentucky.

Lifelong musician Jason Wilber joins us to share his story, offer a few secrets to his success, and open up about the vision and timeline around his new solo album.

Adam and Alicia Sweet are proprietors of King Dough Pizza. Like many partnerships, especially when the team includes spouses, they each have specific roles in the operation of their artisanal wood-fired pizza palace. They’ve created a special pizza experience. King Dough is not your mama’s pizza place. In this episode they share how they started King Dough, what they think of crowd sourcing, how trustworthy "farm to food" really is, and the 3 things every new business owner should consider.

True stories of remarkable people who dropped everything to create a healthy profitable business