This is the web page for Landon’s podcast about running a small business. The podcast is entitled “Putting Your Business On The Map”.
About The Podcast
Putting Your Business On The Map is a podcast that shares advice on running small businesses and organizations. The advice is tailored for land surveyors and GIS professionals. (Other related professionals, like civil engineers and architects – may also benefit.)
The advice in the podcast is drawing from my own experience as a licensed land surveyor, survey manager, and small business owner. I also share select advice from my friends, mentors, books and magazines.
The goal of the podcast is to help land surveyors be better organization leaders, not just good land surveyors.
Episode Audio Files
- Episode #1: From The Trenches – The 5 Biggest Challenges The First 3 Years
- Episode #2: From The Trenches – The Worst Client Of My First 5 Years Running A Land Surveying Business
- Episode #3: From The Trenches – The 3 Pleasant Surprises From My First 5 Years Running A Land Surveying Business
- Episode #4: From The Trenches – Managing Cashflow For A Small Surveying Business
- Episode #5: Should You Outsource Your CAD Work?
- Episode #6: Evaluating Team Performance In A Small Business
- Episode #7: Strategy Versus Tactics For A Small Business
- Episode #8: When To Hire Your First Employee (And Your Second)
- Episode #9: From The Trenches – Creating A Strategic Plan For Your Surveying Or Mapping Organization
- Episode #10: Calculating Hourly Rates For Your Surveying Or Mapping Organization
- Episode #11: Can Clients Rely On Your Surveying Or Mapping Deliverables?
- Episode #12: Building A Painfully Transparent Organization
- Episode #13: Why The Boss Won’t Teach Their Senior Party Chief CAD
- Episode #14: Creating An Effective Profit Sharing Program For Your Surveying Business
- Episode #15: Why I Don’t Want To Buy Your Survey Business (Part 1)
- Episode #16: Why I Don’t Want To Buy Your Survey Business (Part 2)
- Episode #17: What Should You Do When Someone Quits?
- Episode #18: Finding Good Clients – How Do You Find Good Clients For Your Small Land Surveying Business?
- Episode #19: Lead From The Front – Should Your Senior Land Surveyor Be In The Field (Part 1)
- Episode #20: Lead From The Front – Should Your Senior Land Surveyor Be In The Field (Part 2)
- Episode #21: Finding Good Clients – The Differences Between Business Development And Marketing
- Episode #22: Domain Expertise Versus Business Expertise (Why Surveyors Suck At Running Their Shop)
- Episode #23: Finding Good Clients – Qualifying Leads And Controlling Proposal Costs (Part 1)
- Episode #24: Finding Good Clients – Qualifying Leads And Controlling Proposal Costs (Part 2)
- Episode #25: How To Hire A Diverse Team Of Great People For Your Surveying And Mapping Business (Part 1)
- Episode #26: The Human Element – How To Hire A Diverse Team Of Great People For Your Surveying And Mapping Business (Part 2)
- Episode #27: Finding Good Clients – Segmenting Your Market And Using Marketing Personas
- Episode 28: Letting Go Of Top-Down Control (And Allowing For The Good Type Of Mistakes) – Part 1
- Episode 29: Letting Go Of Top Down Control (And Allowing For The Right Type Of Mistakes) – Part 2
- Episode 31: Finding Good Clients – Understanding Your Business Fundamentals Before Marketing
- Episode 32: Why Land Surveyors Will Work For Starvation Wages (And How We Fix It) – Part 1
- Episode 34: Finding Good Clients – 5 Questions You Can Use To Qualify Business Development Leads
- Episode #35: Managing Your Survey Organization’s Liability With Good Job Documentation
- Episode #36: Understanding Contract Basics (For Consulting Land Surveyors) – Part 1
- Episode #37: Understanding Contract Basics (For Consulting Land Surveyors) – Part 2
- Bonus Episode #38: How To Use Content Marketing For Your Land Surveying And Mapping Business
- Bonus Episode #39: The Connection Between Investment, Growth, and Profit
- Episode #40: How To Crush Blood Sucking Parasites As Part Of Your Business Development
- Episode #41: Why Civil Engineers Make Horrible Clients
- Episode #42: Digital Files, Copyright, Patents, Licensing, And Contracts
- Episode #43: The Business Of ALTA Surveys (Operating In A Broken Market)
- Special Episode #1: The Dos And Don’ts Of Starting A Survey Business
Show Notes
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- Episode #43 Show Notes
Dedication
This podcast is dedicated to Kevin Genasci and Dave Wooley. They are the two (2) people I most commonly call for business advice.
I also want to acknowledge the following people or organizations for their contributions to my growth as a business owner:
- My business partners Dani Cano and Brian Leiser. Brian encourages me to explore beyond the castle wall. Dani reminds me the work inside the castle wall pays this month’s rent. With them both, I find balance.
- Russ Roberts and Econtalk. They taught me about the power of incentives and bottom-up (instead of top-down).
- Harvard Business Review. I don’t believe everything in the pages of this magazine, but there is no other source that provokes stimulating thought about how to run and lead organizations.
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Catch bonus episodes and support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/OnPointWorkshops