In this episode of the Business Systems Explored podcast we talk to Tom Cagely, the host of SPaMcast and Agile expert, about Agile software development. 

When it comes to agile software development, it can be hard to get a comprehensive place to start. Thankfully, this week we speak to Agile veteran and host of SPaMcast, Tom Cagley. Tom goes through the whole Agile process, from tools to best practices. He explains it simply enough for anyone to understand, but also lets us in on a few advanced techniques that surprised us.

Whether you’re actually managing a software team, or just looking to work more efficiently, Agile is well worth adopting in your business. It was born out of the same movement as the lean startup, so you may be already familiar with it, but there’s always room for improvement. Listen to this podcast to learn more.

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In this episode of the Business Systems Explored podcast, Tony Brown the author of Standard Procedure and Vinay Patankar from Process Street, have an in-depth discussion about the most effective content promotion methods for their businesses.

You can spend as much time as you like creating content, but it’s a massive waste of time if you aren’t promoting it. It’s not 1999. You can’t artificially game search engines to get huge visibility or spam newsletters to push your content out to thousands of people. You can’t even hope to get discovered organically if you don’t already have a following. And that’s the problem we’re trying to solve in this podcast.

In this episode, we run through every promotion tactic that’s helped build Process Street to a blog that gets over 100,000 monthly pageviews, and ranked highly for some of the more competitive keywords in our niche.

Discover the ‘silver bullet’ we swear by, and the tactic that has spiked our traffic by over 15,000 in a single day. Did you know there is actually a way to use social sites to generate traffic as consistently as organic methods? Find out all about that and more in this week’s episode.

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In this episode of the Business Systems Explored podcast, Tony Brown the author of Standard Procedure and Vinay Patankar from Process Street, talk about systemizing the processes and creating top content as well as explaining why content is so important to a company.

Ever wondered how small businesses can consistently create such amazing content? At Process Street, we produce at least 6 posts per week — some on our own blog and some as guest posts.

That’s not even including the podcasts and videos, which both come out weekly and are mediums that take considerably longer to write, design, produce, and polish.

So, how do we do it?

In this episode of Business Systems Explored we decided to take a break from having guests on and totally rip apart our content creation process for Process Street, BSE, and tonylbrown.com.

We talk about why content is important, whether you should create it yourself, and the kinds of content that are most effective. By following these tips, you can balance content creation with your other business functions and get the added bonus of that rare thing called a personal life.

Here’s how to consistently create winning content.

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In this episode of Business Systems Explored, we speak to Amy Schmittauer – the founder of Savvy Sexy Social, the home of her hugely successful vlogs which have amassed over 2,200,000 views.

Amy Schmittauer runs a YouTube channel with over 2,200,000 views and a membership site to help others have the same success with personal branding and video marketing…

The crazy thing about it all is that she doesn’t even have a team. Amy does 95% of the work you see by herself, which obviously means she has some insanely efficient systems in place that you need to hear about it if you’re interested in systemizing your marketing, social, or branding.

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In this episode of Business Systems Explored, we speak to Dennis R. Mortensen, the creator of x.ai about his AI Amy, SaaS product retention, providing the best UX possible, and much more.

This episode of Business Systems Explored is a real treat for developers or anyone interested in the techy systems behind SaaS businesses. Dennis R. Mortensen — the founder of x.ai — talks to us about how conversational interfaces will change SaaS and how dashboards will die.

Find out how x.ai developers solve the problems you get with natural language processing, and why Dennis isn’t going to bother building a Slack integration.

Discussing everything from AI programming to philosophical moral dilemmas, this episode is well worth a listen, if only for Dennis’ eye-opening predictions about how AI will change the job market.

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In this episode of Business Systems Explored, we speak to Tim Paige, of LeadPages, about the tactics he’s used to help LeadPages grow to an impressive 40,000 customers, and 170 employees.

Tim Paige is the Senior Conversion Educator at LeadPages and the host of Conversion Cast, a podcast for performance focused marketers. Since joining LeadPages, he has hosted over 400 live webinars and recorded over 100 episodes of his podcast.

Tim shares his journey from door-to-door vacuum salesman to a marketer that helps LeadPages get tens of thousands of customers, and rips apart the systems he used along the way. We learn about a different approach to the 80/20 rule and why there’s another hidden rule there that’s just as important.

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In this episode of Business Systems Explored we speak to Kate Erickson of the fantastic Entrepreneur on Fire.

Kate’s talking to us about how her content helped propel EOFire to one of the biggest podcasts ever made, and how she’s about to do it all over again with her new blog, Kate’s Take. Kate lets us in on her marketing processes for creating high quality, actionable resources and how she makes damn well sure these resources are a perfect market fit.

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In this episode of Business Systems Explored we speak to Chris Ducker – virtual CEO, keynote speaker and best selling author.

Chris Ducker became one of the best-known British businesspeople when he popularized the idea of virtual teams. Mostly every company has VAs these days, but back in 2009, they weren’t readily available. When Chris suffered a shattering burnout, he reinvented himself as a virtual CEO and started to replace himself in his business.

With all of the experience gained, he then set up Virtual Staff Finder — a service where CEOs in need of virtual team members can go to hire VAs that have been thoroughly screened and trained before being accepted into the program. Virtual Staff Finder has linked 4300 virtual team members to companies and expanded to the point where Chris now has over 400 employees.

Chris knows that a solid team is the most important part of any business — especially if the CEO is going to stay sane. 

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An ebook launch is a coordinated campaign that turns a finished book into subscribers, downloads, and shares. Our first ebook launch landed us 746 subscribers in one day by combining pre-launch feedback, segmented outreach, email, Product Hunt, and Reddit. It also produced a free step-by-step checklist for recreating the sequence.

Published in July 2016, this case study explains the ebook launch strategy the Process Street team used for The Ultimate Guide to Business Process Automation with Zapier. The book showed readers the business process automation benefits they could unlock, and the campaign below records the exact preparation, templates, channels, and results from that launch.

In this episode of the Business Systems Explored podcast, we talk to Hack the Entrepreneur’s Jon Nastor about starting a podcast and getting 1,400,000 downloads. 

Podcaster Jon Nastor has been host of Hack the Entrepreneur (HTE) since 2015, and between then and now his podcast has quickly become a runaway success.

From a few tentative early episodes to 1.4 million downloads, HTE has exploded. How did Jon do it?

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