We will give you an in-depth look at what really goes on for small business entrepreneurs. You all will get to peek behind the curtains of the business world with Micheal and Tatiana Parker, the CO-Owners of WATCH4THEHOOK apparel brand. We will give you an unfiltered perspective to what really goes on in their day to day lives as business entrepreneurs. Tha Hook is any unforeseen circumstance that is hindering you from achieving the greatness you SEEK in LIFE. We hope to inspire entrepreneur ...
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The ups, downs and interesting moments of being a young Australian entrepeneur... Testing everything at all times! Stay tuned for interviews, fun times, and the journey of rising to the top!!
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*****End 2024 on a Great Note by Subscribing and Following the Best Small Business Podcast on Apple or Spotify***** We want to thank 2024 for being a year of understanding, learning, and reflection. As a small business we have had to continue that this a business of love that grows as we grow as a company and as a culture. We keep learning that the…
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***** Subscribe to the Best Small Business Podcast on the planet NOW!!!***** We come with a great feelin of collaboration because of our inter with @Ermias Hagos of The Black Experience Podcast (YouTube). We are appreciative of him reaching out and inquiring if we would be willing to sit down and have a meet and greet session. Then we went on to re…
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The Difference Between Small Business Loans and Small Business Grants
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***** Subscribe to One of the Best Business Podcasts Today on Apple or Spotify Platforms***** A small business loan is money that can be borrowed from a prospective lender that will have to be paid back with interest. While a small business grant can be free money awarded to a small business that does not have to be paid back. The key from those la…
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*****Subscribe to our Podcast on Apple or Spotify Platforms Today***** There are a number of ways a small business can accept payment from customers. Merchant services are various financial services for businesses to accept and process electronic payment transactions. It sounds simple, but that includes everything from hardware used for card paymen…
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The Celebrities are Moving the Small Business Owners Out of the Small Business Market
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******Please Subscribe to Our Podcast on Apple or Spotify Podcast Platforms***** Over the years we see how celebrities are expanding their brands in multiple ways. It used to be a way of thinking to "let the little guy have this one". They basically were meaning not to go after every dollar, but how times have changed. The world of celebrity can be…
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*****Subscribe today to the Watch4thehook Business & Entrepreneur Podcast***** For our small business owners, take time right now to mark down your expenses as we go into 2025. It is always harder to argue facts than fiction or opinions. Write down what your day to day, month to month, or year to year expenses are for your business. This will help …
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*****Subscribe today to the Watch4thehook Business & Entrepreneur Podcast***** We acknowledge to some the world looks a lot different right now, and to some the world looks a lot clearer. Small business owners, we feel your uncertainty and The Hooks may keep coming our way. This episode may take a more political stance than most, but we have to rea…
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Lots of Followers, Low Social Media Engagement, and Why Should I Pay You
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****** Subscribe to the Watch4theHook Business & Entrepreneur Podcast Today (Apple/Spotify)***** This is a deeper dive into our topic from Episode 125: Is Your Influence Worth Your Price. We are really trying to prepare business owners and potential business owners how to study and analyze social media stats. Also, it may be best to understand that…
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***** Follow our New IG page at Watch4thehookbusinesspage***** There are so many "influencers" out there, and they will market and promote them as the one thing your business is missing to take it to the next level. You can go and research their social media following to see what type of attention they are garnering out there too. You can check out…
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Be Strong Enough to Ask for Opinions, Not All Critiques are Hating
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***** Check Out Our YouTube Page, @Watch4thehookbrand***** We are deep diving more into the psyche of business owners in this episode. Lots of times a business owner can misinterpret a comment or feedback as hating or a negative response. Sometimes, solicited advice because you asked for an opinion can come in varies shapes forms and fashions. We t…
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***** Please Follow our new Instagram business page, Watch4thehookBusinessPage***** As small business owners we sometimes try, or even have to be the whole damn show. You have to be the event originator, organizer, promoter, advertiser, marketer, attendee, etc. It can be overwhelming and can take you down a rabbit hole to nowhere. We constantly tal…
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They Hacked and Stole Our Instagram Page (WatchFourTheHook)
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*****Please Go Follow Our New Instagram Business Page, Watch4TheHookBusinessPage***** We were hit with a hard Hook to swallow a few weeks ago. Some low-down ass persons or entity secured the access to our original IG page, Watchfourthehook. Our access was disabled and to our knowledge they deleted our entire page. We had that page for over 4 years …
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Is This a Businesship (A Mixture of a Friendship and a Business Relationship)
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***** Our Call to Action this week is please leave us a review on the Apple Podcast Platform***** There are lots of business owners who have other friends who are also business owners. Parts of the friendship is supporting each other in their business ventures and vice versa. But at what time does the friendship turn into a businesship? This is whe…
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***** Download 1 Episode and Become Part of Our Podcast Community***** We have learned over the years that being a business owner, you may ask request from your customers. Those are called Calls to Actions aka CTAs. The first line in the blog is a CTA, and we hope you do it for us too. lol Our CTA in writing is a clear and direct message that will …
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How Your Profession Can Fund Your Small Business Dreams
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*****Download 1 Episode and Become a Part of Our Podcasting Community***** A lot of business owners are still working a 9 to 5 job to fund their entrepreneurial dreams. This is termed as bootstrapping. A form of self-funding that helps you leverage your own financial resources to support your business dreams. This is the infamous Bank of Parker we …
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Using the Right Lingo Can Help or Hurt Your Business
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***** Download Just 1 Episode to Join Our Podcast Community Today***** In this episode we are talking about how lingo can help or hurt your business. What actually is lingo? Lingo is the language and speech, possibly the jargon, slang of a particular field, group, or individuals. An even deeper dive for lingo is a corruption of lingua, Latin for to…
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*****Please Leave Us A 5* Review on Apple Podcast When You Get a Chance***** Have you ever been to a meet up, social or networking event and felt underwhelmed? We always talk about how time is the greatest commodity you have that you can never get back. You invest your time into certain events, and you felt like you got absolutely nothing from it. …
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*****Please Leave Us A 5* Review on Apple Podcast When You Get a Chance***** Have you ever been to a meet up, social or networking event and felt underwhelmed? We always talk about how time is the greatest commodity you have that you can never get back. You invest your time into certain events, and you felt like you got absolutely nothing from it. …
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A Business Competitor VS A Business Comparator
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*****Click the Link and Join our Podcast Community Today***** This episode will take you a journey into the world of business competitor and a business comparator. A business competitor is an organization that offers similar or almost identical products or services as another business. A business comparator is possibly a group of businesses that ar…
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You Are in the Right Building, but in the Wrong Room (Delayed Not Denied Part 2)
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*****Download An Episode or Two and Join Our Podcast Community***** The business landscape is always changing and for business owners that means you have to change as well. In that phase of adapting also comes a phase where understanding what you are trying to accomplish will come in handy too. Lots of times being aware of when to and when not to d…
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Is Your Business Surviving, Thriving, or Dying
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***** Click The Link and Join Our Podcast Community***** Three things can be happening to your business. Your business can be thriving, surviving, or dying. This may seem drastic, but this is the situation that countless business owners face day in and day out. Life will still continue to throw you HOOKS, but you will be able to hopefully choose ho…
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***** Click the Download Button and Become Part of Our Podcast Community***** One of the craziest aspects of us becoming podcasters and business owners is we identified a problem or a gap per say. With us wanting to solve the problems we identified it gave us a true purpose for the journey we have embarked upon. We needed a us for us when there was…
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*****Download 1 Episode and see what you have been missing***** Remember it is easy to not be doing this. Everyday above ground is a chance to be better than yesterday. I wrote that last statement to myself in Dallas, Tx earlier this year at a Hello Alice Small Business Summit. Those words came back to me on the post card sent to my house earlier t…
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Our Success on Securing a 6-Figure Commercial Property Loan
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*****Download Our Podcast and Listen at Your Leisure***** We are taking you down the road of improving credit scores, sacrificing popping bottles in the club, and choosing to leave a legacy over balling out of control. Me and Tatiana were able to purchase our first commercial property in 2021, but the preparation started a couple of years before th…
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Taking a Break Can Be Bad for Business Part 2
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***** Download our Podcast and Listen at Your Leisure***** This is a 2 Part Episode Due to Technical Difficulties. Please Download Both Episodes (108 and 109). We are finishing up our discussion on why taking a break can be bad for business. We are trying not to go down a rabbit hole that leads to nowhere, but that is what may happen if you take a …
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***** Download our Podcast and Listen at Your Leisure***** This is a 2 Part Episode Due to Technical Difficulties. Please Download Both Episodes (108 and 109). The frustrations of being a business owner can make you make impulsive decisions. We are an online business, mostly, and sometimes business is slow. Thant doesn't mean we don't need to sell …
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Are You the Business Owner That Others are Looking For
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*****Please Tell 1 Friend About Are Podcast***** One of the main things we talk about in being a business owner is checking your ego at the door. Sometimes your ego can have your perception of you as a business owner slightly inflated. Yes, we all strive to be the best we can be in life, but sometimes we need to learn to keep a positive ear open fo…
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*****Please Tell 1 Friend About Our Podcast. We Really Appreciate Your Support***** There are lots of distractions going on in the world, but don't be distracted by how your business is going right now. We are now starting to clear up from the global pandemic known as Covid-19 and there were multiple billionaires made during that pandemic too. As m…
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They Call it Organic Growth or Is it Really Social Media Bots
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*****Please Tell Just 1 Friend About Our Podcast. We Really Appreciate the Support***** It is sometimes astounding when you see some of the number of "followers" some businesses and entities can have on social media nowadays. Hell, even some single person in the world can have 75 million followers, and you have to think that is a lot of people. Mos…
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We Call it Job Hopping They Call it Climbing the Corporate Ladder
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*****Do us a favor and please tell 1 friend about our podcast. Thank you as always for your support. ***** If it doesn't make dollars, then it doesn't make cents. lol We all have bills to pay, money to be made, and goals to conquer in our lives. The one way those all happen is by earning the money you need as an employee or making the money you nee…
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Entrepreneurs Need Ways to Destress from Being Business Owners
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***** Please Leave Us a 5* Review on Your Favorite Podcast Player Platform***** Business owners need to be able to find stress relief techniques to help with their mental stability. There is the notion that you are a business owner 24/7 and 365 days a year, and that is all find and dandy until it is not. Business owners are still one thing at their…
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You Deserve the Same Standard Business Practices as Everyone Else
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*****Please Leave Us A 5* Review on Your Favorite Podcast Player***** Business owners have a due diligence to perform standard business practices. The practices can be defined as practices that must be followed while working for an organization. We are using this to piggyback off of our episode of Using Other People's Money. Financial institutions …
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*****Please Leave Us A 5* Review on Your Favorite Podcast Player Platform***** How does a business survive? One of the main ways is constant and good financial stability. That financing can come from other people's money, or OPM. OPM is referring to borrowed capital that is used to increase the potential returns as well as the risks of a particular…
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*****Please Leave Us A 5* Review on Your Favorite Podcast Player***** EPISODE 100---We have hit the century mark for our published episodes, and we want to thank each and every one of you for tuning in to us. This episode is a very special one for us because this is where we are giving our listeners insights into our past, ringside seats to our pre…
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******Please Leave Us a 5* Rating on Your Favorite Podcast Player***** In the world of social media, the algorithm which is a set of instructions that is designed to accomplish a task can be one of your best assets. Hopefully the main task you want it to do is bring attention to your company, find you some new customers, and bring your old customer…
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*****Please Leave A 5* Review on Your Favorite Podcast Player***** In the world of being an online, ecommerce-based business owner we have learned that internet advertising is a way of life. The hard part is that we all have a price to pay to help advertise our business. It may cost you a little, or it may cost you a lot, but nevertheless it will c…
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*****Please Leave a 5* Review on Apple Podcast for us Please***** The world was forever changed in March of 2020 in more ways than three. The Global Pandemic known as Covid-19 made the world come to a standstill. While the world was on pause, the business world came to a screeching halt as well. While the corporate business world was figuring out h…
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***** Please Leave Us a 5*Review or a Comment on your Favorite Podcast Platform***** We as a people have always been a close nit community regardless to what some people may say. We as a culture are innovators, needle pushers, trend setters, etc. but we are not benefitting the most from the outstanding contributions we have made to society as a who…
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If We Have to Keep Explaining It, Then You Are Not Getting It
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*****Please Leave A 5* Review on Apple Podcast or Whichever Podcast Platform You Are Using***** Confusion in your business or about your business can stifle the growth of your business. This can be dealing with your business logo, concept, implementation, or even how the customer interprets what your business actually is. Take us for instance, Watc…
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*****Please Leave Us A 5* Review on Apple Podcast or Spotify***** Just when you think you have things all figured out, the rules change, and no one told you about it. This can happen to business owners on a daily basis. You feel like you are about to do something great in your business and then it misses the mark again. It feels like they keep movi…
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****** Please do us a huge favor and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcast****** Sometimes for business owners thinking outside the box is not the issue, being placed into one from the start is the major problem. This imaginary box can sometimes stifle a business's path for growth and success. We have struggled with the imaginary boxes ourselves, f…
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****** Please Leave Us A 5* Review on Apple or Spotify Podcast."""""" Small and Medium sized businesses are the backbone of the American economy, yet we rarely get the financial help that large businesses get. I have seen stats were only between 13-30% of small businesses get financial backing from financial institutions or banks. Looks like the de…
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How 2 Build Together (Personally & Business Wise)
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*****4 our avid listeners please leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcast 4 Us******* This episode we are pulling back the veil even more and giving you all a front row seat of how a married couple can build together. We are going back as far as 2011 and bringing you all along for our journey to 2024. This journey will tell you about the sacrifices w…
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****** If U Find Time in Your Schedule, Please Leave a 5* Review on Apple Podcast******* Small businesses face many disadvantages as compared with large businesses. As being a small business, we even see the different levels that fall under what being a small business really means. We have dome to find out there are two metrics used to reference sm…
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One of the best ways to keep your business in good standing is to properly file all taxes associated with your business. Taxes are like Thanos, they are inevitable. Lol All jokes aside though, being behind on paying your business taxes can get you and your business some unwanted attention from a number of agencies. Our company’s actual name is M&T …
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Like many things in life, your business will need you to give it things to help it grow. Improving your business is a very helpful way of nurturing your business. Implementing systems, functional brainstorming, and thinking forward are some ways to positively help your business grow. Business owners always are looking for ways to help their busines…
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Owning your intellectual property (ip) is a great way to protect you and your business. It is hard to predict what will be the next big thing business wise, but as a business owner you have to do your due diligence to protect what you have created and brought to fruition. There are some ways legally you can protect your intellectual property from b…
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We hear a lot of times, there is plenty of money out there to help you start a business. The crazy thing is like we talked about in another episode, to get access to money, you have to meet the criteria. Some forms of grants for businesses requires that your business function to a certain standard. Those standards can now become barriers to small b…
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There are a number of ways to help you learn and grow as a business owner. If you are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to be involved with some business seminars, cohorts, master classes, then you can consider yourself to be fortunate. Your business being selected means you met their criteria to be asked to be a part of those events. You wa…
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How you look on paper will greatly affect how you look in real life. This is very true in the business world and the world of financial services or access to capital. Your credit score is a prediction of your credit behavior, and lenders lean heavily on that when it comes to lending out capital or funds. This why we have advised potential business …
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