Hot Projects from Cool Friends

It’s like 91 degrees outside right now in Columbus, Ohio as I sit at my desk and work on this post. My Amazon Alexa sitting behind me on the shelf keeps pinging me with “Severe Weather” notifications because of local air quality alerts. This seems like the perfect time to share some of the hot projects my cool friends are working on.

Powerful Mini Books

One of my favorite creative thinkers is Beck Power. Beck is constantly coming up with cool concepts that she wastes no time in putting into action. Beck’s projects always have a purpose and that purpose is usually to help other entrepreneurs build their business. Beck’s latest project is working with clients to quickly and economically turn their ideas into a mini book. For a flat fee of $100 Beck will take your problem-solving idea and use AI to create a first draft of the mini book, then she’ll then edit it and add in some of her patented Beck Magic to produce a 5,000 word/10-15 page mini book that is ready for you to upload to Amazon or email to your clients.

Could you use AI to produce your own book? Probably.
But why haven’t you done it yet?

The beauty of this hot projects is that for one reasonable flat fee you will have a done-for-you mini book ready to go and produced by someone with a lot of experience creating content for herself and for her clients.

$100 bucks and you’re done.
Doesn’t get much easier than that. Here’s the link.

On The Right Track

My friend Maggie Sadowsky is another bright brain I’ve been lucky to connect with. Maggie had a pretty impressive career working as a successful food scientist for other brands before opening her own food consultancy business. In 2020 Maggie launched 8 Track Foods, a company than produces a line of sustainable organic beans that are grown and canned in America. Maggie’s company produces a healthy food product, works to reduce food waste, uses steel cans to battle the plastic packaging that ends up in our landfills, and is winning food awards along the way. You can find her products at a growing number of supermarkets (including Whole Foods, Meijer, Food Lion, and probably an independent grocery near you.)

Radio Gaga

I’m sure you already know what a mess the radio broadcast industry is any time you happen to try to tune into a radio station in your car. Sadly, local radio is going the way of the dinosaur and all that remains on the air in most cities is corporate programming from just two or three behemoth broadcasters that are constantly in the news either announcing their latest Chapter 11 filings for protection from debt collectors or another round of personnel layoffs or how AI voice clones are going to eliminate the need for on-air personalities entirely.

My city recently lost its last standalone independent radio station that had been on the air and loved by listeners and advertisers alike for more than 30 years, but the broadcast business model as it currently exists is tough to sustain at scale — but there is opportunity for creative thinkers who understand how the model can evolve in the face of broadcast radio monopolies and on-demand jukeboxes like Spotify.

Chuck Francis is one of my long-time friends in the radio industry. He’s faced those industry mergers, layoffs, format changes, etc. all head-on and decided the best way to find his ideal career in radio was to create his own radio station. Chuck is focused on super-serving his local community in Buckeye Lake, a village in Fairfield and Licking counties of Ohio. Buckeye Lake Radio (Lake 98) provides local news, maintains a local events calendar, and still goes out into the community for appearances hosted by local businesses that pay affordable local rates to be on the air and reach their customers where they live — not on a national broadcast platform where the media salespeople are rewarded for running ad spots across multiple stations in multiple markets. Chuck has reinvented what radio started out as, an ultra local source, a friend of the community, a media that helps local businesses grow rather than one simply striving to meet national sales quotas. Tune Buckeye Lake radio in on your computer, smart speaker, or free TuneIn phone app.

There you have it — just a few of my cool friends who just happen to be reinventing their industries and making a difference by helping their customers.

How about you?

What hot projects are you working on?
Who are your customers and how are you helping them to succeed?

Drop me a line and share your latest project with me.
If you need some help getting your idea off the ground, consider scheduling a custom brainstorm with me. At the end of our session you’ll have a prioritized plan to put your idea into action!