Tom Morkes | business, marketing, writing, and publishing
239 episodes
8 months ago
In The Trenches with Tom Morkes tells the story of entrepreneurs, business owners, founders, inventors, and leaders who are doing the hard, creative work of building businesses that matters. Tom Morkes interviews these high-impact world-changers and cuts through the fluff so you can get right inside the brain of these creators. Listen to In The Trenches and you'll hear from bootstrapped startup founders, to self-made millionaires, to bestselling authors, to people who turned their creative pursuit into full-fledged businesses, and more. Here are some of the subjects we cover: hot to start a business from scratch, how to launch a product, how to market and sell your products online, influencer marketing, affiliate marketing, online business strategies, copywriting techniques, and much, much more. All interviews are unscripted, with as little editing as possible. Tom believes the only way to go deep on a subject is to let it happen organically...so we hope you forgive any craziness that happens during the episodes; it's all real. FINALLY - if you enjoy the show, please leave a review. Thanks in advance for your support.
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In The Trenches with Tom Morkes tells the story of entrepreneurs, business owners, founders, inventors, and leaders who are doing the hard, creative work of building businesses that matters. Tom Morkes interviews these high-impact world-changers and cuts through the fluff so you can get right inside the brain of these creators. Listen to In The Trenches and you'll hear from bootstrapped startup founders, to self-made millionaires, to bestselling authors, to people who turned their creative pursuit into full-fledged businesses, and more. Here are some of the subjects we cover: hot to start a business from scratch, how to launch a product, how to market and sell your products online, influencer marketing, affiliate marketing, online business strategies, copywriting techniques, and much, much more. All interviews are unscripted, with as little editing as possible. Tom believes the only way to go deep on a subject is to let it happen organically...so we hope you forgive any craziness that happens during the episodes; it's all real. FINALLY - if you enjoy the show, please leave a review. Thanks in advance for your support.
ITT 229: Behind the Scenes of the Founding of Comedy Central with Art Bell
In The Trenches
53 minutes 32 seconds
4 years ago
ITT 229: Behind the Scenes of the Founding of Comedy Central with Art Bell
Art Bell is the former TV executive who founded The Comedy Channel, which became Comedy Central. He continued his television career as President of CourtTV. After Art left the TV business, he took some writing courses and found he loved writing. Constant Comedy: How I Started Comedy Central and Lost My Sense of Humour is his first book, not counting a humor book he wrote with a couple other guys while at Comedy Central.
Today, Art and I are going to talk about creative processes, the business of comedy, and the up and down journey that entrepreneurs and creatives go through.
In this broadcast, Art and I talk about:
Art’s journey to finding what he actually wanted to do for his career
The inspiration behind his book Constant Comedy: How I Started Comedy Central and Lost My Sense of Humour
Why you need to use every skill in your toolkit, no matter the job
How Art managed the leaps between professions
The importance of knowing and believing that your idea is inevitable and how to use that knowledge to make it happen
The various ways Art bootstrapped his idea for Comedy Central
The single thing people are looking for when you pitch an idea
Art’s best tips for divvying up roles after a merger or acquisition
Some of Art’s most creative ideas when it comes to marketing
Art’s best advice for creatives wanting to make a name for themselves
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In The Trenches
In The Trenches with Tom Morkes tells the story of entrepreneurs, business owners, founders, inventors, and leaders who are doing the hard, creative work of building businesses that matters. Tom Morkes interviews these high-impact world-changers and cuts through the fluff so you can get right inside the brain of these creators. Listen to In The Trenches and you'll hear from bootstrapped startup founders, to self-made millionaires, to bestselling authors, to people who turned their creative pursuit into full-fledged businesses, and more. Here are some of the subjects we cover: hot to start a business from scratch, how to launch a product, how to market and sell your products online, influencer marketing, affiliate marketing, online business strategies, copywriting techniques, and much, much more. All interviews are unscripted, with as little editing as possible. Tom believes the only way to go deep on a subject is to let it happen organically...so we hope you forgive any craziness that happens during the episodes; it's all real. FINALLY - if you enjoy the show, please leave a review. Thanks in advance for your support.
