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Justin Brennan on Multifamily and Other People's Money
Real estate investor Justin Brennan explains syndication, check equity vs. sweat equity, bonus depreciation, and how to buy apartments without your own

Hiring Is a Marketing Problem: Nicole Feenstra
Nicole Feenstra of The DNA Agency tells Ryan Alford why job descriptions fail, how to market the trades, and how geofencing and storytelling win

Jason Brown on Options Trading, Risk and Rebuilding
Jason Brown turned a $10K student loan into six figures, lost $250K on one trade, and rebuilt. He shares his options, risk and wealth roadmap with Ryan

Earned Media and AI Search with Brett Farmiloe
Featured.com CEO Brett Farmiloe joins Ryan Alford on earned media, digital PR, AI search visibility, and the relaunch of Help a Reporter Out.

Why Great Products Still Lose Customers: Lisa Holladay
Mercedes-Benz and Ritz-Carlton veteran Lisa Holladay on brand love, customer journey mapping, and how TIGER 21 keeps ultra-high-net-worth members loyal.

Why Your Best-Selling Product Is Losing You Money
Yarin Gaon explains profit mapping, growth by subtraction, and why founder-led companies stall between $1M and $5M in revenue.
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Personal Brand & Positioning
“I believe that when you're known for everything, you're known for nothing.”
— Jay Schwedelson299 episodes · 111 operatorsSocial Media Strategy
“But what people don't realize is that there's different sides of TikTok, there's business TikTok, there's finance TikTok, there's re…”
— Kenda Laney288 episodes · 91 operatorsAdvertising & Paid Media
“TikTok will say, don't make ads, make TikToks. They're trying to say advertising, traditional advertising is dead, have on new thing…”
— Tom Roach286 episodes · 122 operatorsProduct & Innovation
“Yeah, we joke about this one, but so we launched a product, a new product, new brand in March, 2020, probably the worst time in hist…”
— Ryan Alford278 episodes · 220 operatorsMindset, Grit & Failure
“I was thinking small because I didn't have the confidence. I had confidence to build seven, eight nine figure brands. I never had th…”
— Alexa D'Agostino258 episodes · 110 operatorsContent Strategy
“And if we think about our ideal customer, every time they open up the app that we're trying to reach them on, whether it's Instagram…”
— Brendan KaneOne email a week. What actually worked.
The best of the archive plus what’s new — pulled from conversations with 360 operators. No fluff, no recycled LinkedIn advice.

Ryan Alford
Twenty years building brands, then eight years asking the people who actually did it how they pulled it off.
Ryan ran national campaigns for household names before founding Radical, the agency behind brands you already use. He started this show to cut through the recycled advice that dominates business media — the kind written by people who have never made payroll.
Six hundred and fifty-four episodes later, Right About Now is top 25 in the United States across every category, top 5 in Business, and number one in Marketing three years running on Apple’s own charts.
Questions the archive settles
How do you build a personal brand without selling anything?
Protect the person doing the selling from operational minutia so they can focus entirely on the client, and use environm…
Personal Brand & Positioning6 episodes answer thisHow much does a Super Bowl commercial cost?
A 30-second Super Bowl spot ran about $5.6 million in media alone; once you add agency and creative costs Ryan estimates…
Advertising & Paid Media6 episodes answer thisShould I sell on Amazon or stay direct to consumer?
Convert Amazon buyers to DTC using the customer service insert as a touchpoint - offering 10% off a direct purchase can …
Ecommerce & DTC5 episodes answer thisWhy did Elon Musk buy Twitter and turn it into X?
Elon Musk followed his roughly 9-10% Twitter stake with an official offer to buy the company outright for $43 billion in…
Social Media Strategy5 episodes answer thisShould you cut ad spend during a recession?
Analytic Partners found brands that increased paid advertising saw a 17% rise in sales, while those that cut spend lost …
Social Media Strategy5 episodes answer thisHow long can Instagram Reels videos be now?
Instagram Reels extending to 30 seconds is an entertainment play against TikTok that should lift engagement and make edi…
Social Media Strategy5 episodes answer thisWhat is category design in marketing?
Among company design, product design and category design, category is the single point of failure — if there's no market…
Personal Brand & Positioning4 episodes answer thisHow do I research competitors before starting a personal brand?
Research before you post: study five direct competitors (including much larger names) and five indirect competitors who …
Personal Brand & Positioning