Show Summary
Cyndi Thomason, certified Profit First Professional bookkeeper, and Brent Robinson, founder of Modthink, join Episode 5 of the Profit First Podcast. Cyndi and Brent discuss driving profit in social media.
Our Guests
Cyndi Thomason, president and founder of bookskeep, has channeled her energetic nature and passion for her work into the perfect business model for assisting small businesses, entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations. Cyndi understands what this special group of business leaders needs when it comes to marketing their business, managing their operations and accomplishing their goals.
Backed by a B.A. in Economics from North Carolina State University (where she graduated Cum Laude), along with over 25 years of experience in administrative business systems, Cyndi Thomason is a senior-level executive with the proven ability to achieve significant results through leadership, teamwork and individual initiative.
Brent Robinson is the Chief Thought Officer and Founding Partner of Modthink, a strategy firm where we focus on your people, culture and systems to impact operational efficiency, change management, transparency, and meaningful human relationships with customers through social networking.
He is a design thinker and “recovering” architect, and spent time in Silicon Valley providing technology solutions to professional service firms and start-up companies during the Dot Com Boom… and Bust. Since boomeranging back to Arkansas in 2003, he picked up another degree (University of Arkansas MBA) and start-up experience at several companies: Springline Consulting Group (small business consultancy), Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream (Branson, MO), Rockfish Interactive (digital agency later acquired by WPP), and was employee No. 7 at Collective Bias (social media agency).
Show Quotes
When you take ‘media’ out of social media, you realize it is about creating and maintaining connections.
Good systems drive accuracy in your reporting, which enables good money making decisions.
Put off getting an office as long as you can.
Think big. Start small. Scale fast.
Always ask yourself “By what method?”
Show Links
Brent Robinons’s Twitter handle: @modthink
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