Sarah Skeem's guest appearances

Sarah Skeem

CoupleCo: Working With Your Spouse For Fun & Profit

Tyler Sheff

Kevin Gianni

Elizabeth Foster

Laura Whitmore

Jen Hudak

Jerry Miller

Joseph Jackson

Spencer Wright

Christine Hayes

Scott Gray

Paul Speed

Mark Shaw

W. Bruce Cameron

Rachna Jain

Annmarie Gianni

OwlTail

Dave Lakhani

We continue talking with Dave Lakhani and Sarah Skeem of digital ad agency, Growth Foundry. We discuss treating both customer and employee well, and the things in your business that marketing won’t solve. There’s an unexpected lesson from a digital agency. We talk about making clients cry. (It happens. We’ve done it at our agency, Slow Burn Marketing.) What if your marketing is the difference between your kid going to college or not? Why does hiring a marketing agency run by a committed couple have an added benefit? And, as a business owner, why is connecting on a human level so important? Hint: Marketing is about connecting with people on that level. There’s the power of story-based marketing. And how is a coupleco different from mere entrepreneurship? Plus, will your couple-owned business make you feel an even greater obligation to your spouse?

We continue talking with Dave Lakhani and Sarah Skeem of digital ad agency, Growth Foundry. We discuss treating both customer and employee well, and the things in your business that marketing won’t solve. There’s an unexpected lesson from a digital agency. We talk about making clients cry. (It happens. We’ve done it at our agency, Slow Burn Marketing.) What if your marketing is the difference between your kid going to college or not? Why does hiring a marketing agency run by a committed couple have an added benefit? And, as a business owner, why is connecting on a human level so important? Hint: Marketing is about connecting with people on that level. There’s the power of story-based marketing. And how is a coupleco different from mere entrepreneurship? Plus, will your couple-owned business make you feel an even greater obligation to your spouse?

Forging An Entrepreneurial Relationship: Dave Lakhani & Sarah Skeem of Growth Foundry, Boise, ID, Part 2

She was going to change the world by becoming a lawyer, a politician, and the first woman president. For a while, he was living life angry. At 16, he had the courage to leave a religious cult and go out on his own. Today, he’s a marketing and persuasion pro. He’s been seen on CNN and CNBC, and in magazines like Success, Entrepreneur, and Fast Company. As long as these two have been a couple, we kept wondering why they weren’t working together. Well, it happened. Dave Lakhani and Sarah Skeem finally started a business: a digital marketing agency called Growth Foundry. They wanted to build an agency that defied expectations, and it’s working. We talk couple dynamics, the conflicts in 21st century marketing, the difference between advertising a business versus growing a business. We discuss unhealthy advertising, like things that are ego driven or generate too big a response. Dave and Sarah have wildly different experiences in life. And be prepared: Dave doesn’t care if you like him, but he’s going to tell you the truth. Sarah cannot understand that.

She was going to change the world by becoming a lawyer, a politician, and the first woman president. For a while, he was living life angry. At 16, he had the courage to leave a religious cult and go out on his own. Today, he’s a marketing and persuasion pro. He’s been seen on CNN and CNBC, and in magazines like Success, Entrepreneur, and Fast Company. As long as these two have been a couple, we kept wondering why they weren’t working together. Well, it happened. Dave Lakhani and Sarah Skeem finally started a business: a digital marketing agency called Growth Foundry. They wanted to build an agency that defied expectations, and it’s working. We talk couple dynamics, the conflicts in 21st century marketing, the difference between advertising a business versus growing a business. We discuss unhealthy advertising, like things that are ego driven or generate too big a response. Dave and Sarah have wildly different experiences in life. And be prepared: Dave doesn’t care if you like him, but he’s going to tell you the truth. Sarah cannot understand that.

Forging An Entrepreneurial Relationship: Dave Lakhani & Sarah Skeem of Growth Foundry, Boise, ID, Part 1