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We counted every person who walked the riverside path for three weekends
A podcast collective for people who can't afford a producer
Guest booking is where most shows quietly die around episode six. So we built a collective that shares the hard parts — editing, guests, and promo.
Riverside Kiosk Launch
A walk-up espresso kiosk on the river — building the counter, the menu, and opening week in the open. Raise your hand.
The three-touch follow-up that stopped my leads going cold
Give, give, ask — with the exact timing that carried a one-man shop to its tenth client.
Winning the neighborhood: what 200 door conversations taught me
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Week one of the commissary build-out, with receipts
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Pricing without apologizing
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Podcast guesting as a lead channel
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I fired my best client and revenue went up
A hard call, the math behind it, and what replaced the account.
The $0 launch playbook: how a garage candle brand hit 400 orders in June
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Riverside Coffee Collective
A shared-kitchen coffee incubator for first-time food founders. Three seats left in the fall cohort — looking for a brand designer and two volunteers for the launch weekend.
How I rebuilt my bakery's ordering flow in one weekend
The Saturday-morning line was killing walk-ins. Here is the exact funnel, the form that does the heavy lifting, and the numbers three weeks in.
We counted every person who walked the riverside path for three weekends
Before we signed anything, we ran a foot-traffic study by hand. Here is exactly what we learned about opening a coffee kiosk where the neighborhood already walks.
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