Sticker Stories Podcast

Sergio Angeles of the Longmont Observer, a local community media startup, sits down with Andrew to talk about the state of journalism in today's business climate and what's ahead for Longmont Startup Week. Longmont Startup Week is a collaborative annual gathering for entrepreneurs, intrepreneurs, investors and talent that invigorates and nurtures the local entrepreneurial ecosystem by leveraging innovative human and social capital, and infrastructure. The theme for Longmont Startup Week 2018 is “Smarter. Together.” Events and content throughout the week will focus on creators, commerce, capital, and community and will highlight Longmont as an entrepreneurial ecosystem for civic innovation.

Dakota and Sierra of Moon Bath Ritual Teas spoke to our team about the healing power of botanicals and how their new Boulder-based, woman-run business is growing into new markets. https://www.stickergiant.com/podcast/moon-bath

Sarah Welle, co-founder of Colorado Crafted, sits down with Jesse our marketing director to talk gift boxes, search engine marketing and how using stickers and labels has helped their brand grow from the basement to a thriving online business.

This month we spoke with Alan Peters of Jupiter Visual. Alan is a Boulder-based graphic designer who does creative work and branding for brands of all types. He touched on designing interesting stickers, and how a brand can allow design to inform marketing.

In this episode, we sit down with Leigh and Bart from Be Hippy,  a Colorado-based lifestyle brand that exemplifies a passion for music, the outdoors, traveling, and living life to the fullest. Their stickers have been a big part of their growth story, and we enjoyed having them at our studio to talk VW bus road trips, music festivals and their growing retail business.

In today's bonus Sticker Stories episode, our marketing director Jesse sits down with two members of the design team at Left Hand Brewing to talk label design, branding and craft beer.

This month we sat down with Matt Alexander from Georgia Boys BBQ Company. Matt is one of the co-founders of the restaurant group based here in Colorado. He tells the story of how he and his partner started the business after being laid off during the recession, growing from a low key catering service to having two locations with a third one coming soon.

This month we welcome Chris, one of the owners of the Longmont Bicycle Company, right here on Main Street. We spoke about the cycling industry, their first year of business, and how they plan to create more of a biking community here in Longmont and what's like to pour coffee at a local bike shop.

We're kicking off season two with a special episode to celebrate National Sticker Day. We welcome on Jesse, StickerGiant marketing director and the person behind Saul the world’s largest sticker ball. We’ll be diving into that story in the episode about how Saul was created, plus what we have in store for this new season.

In our season finale, we talk with Jennifer and Jerry from Colorado Liquor Pickles. They shared with us their entrepreneurial journey and how their Beer and Liquor pickles came to be. We also talked about their growing business and how they use labels for their products.

This week we welcome Rob Decker from National Park posters. He is the founder of the company as well as the artist creating the designs. All his posters are printed on recycled domestically produced materials and use nature friendly soy based inks. Along with the posters, his designs are available on larger artist canvases and as postcards. Now he has his first sticker, which we talk more about.

In this episode we sit down with Dani Billings, president of Nature's Root, which is a Colorado-based hemp spa--the world's first, in fact. She tells us their story and how they use our matte labels for their products. We also show some spooky stickers for Halloween and shoutout Ignite Talks, who we just joined for a global partnership to promote their public speaking events.

We discuss running a brewery and marketing with stickers, and we are happy to have Ted Risk from Wibby Brewing on the show to talk about how Wibby got started as a new business in Longmont. We'll talk about the fine art of brewing and how they use stickers for promoting the brewery. We also welcome Saul, the World's Largest Sticker Ball, since he's currently in the 2018 Guinness Book of World Records that's in bookstores now. https://www.stickergiant.com/blog/sticker-stories-podcast-episode-4-talking-world-records-beer-and-marketing-with-ted-risk-of-wibby-brewing/

Hamish and Jesse talk back to school stickers, Game of Thrones' relation to label design and chat with Bill Flagg about his ways of finding new customers in his businesses, which include; PosterBrain, SurveyGizmo, SnapEngage and Avid4 Adventure.

Welcome to the second episode of Sticker Stories, our podcast. This week's show is all about entrepreneurship, focusing on Founder's Stories, and we have an extra-special visitor on the show to tell us his story. Our guest will be John Fischer, the StickerGiant himself, and he will share with us the early days of this business and how it's become the company it is today. At the end of this post, we'll provide resources for budding entrepreneurs, and we'll preview some of the awesome entrepreneurial activity that we support worldwide--it's going to be a full show.

In our first full-length episode we talk about Delighting Customers, and some of the ways that we do it here at StickerGiant, whether it's our shipping camera photos or super-fun referral program. We also bring in some customer examples, and along the way take a deep dive into sticker sheets. Today's Top of Mind was all about the last apps we used and bought.

Welcome to the trailer of StickerGiant's podcast Sticker Stories. Meet Andrew and Hamish, the hosts of the show, and get a preview of the awesome small businesses that market their companies with stickers. Also, since it's National Doughnut Day, we share a fun die cut sticker that's in the shape of a doughnut. Today’s music was Cha Cappella from Jimmy Fontanez and My Rollercoaster from Kimya Dawson.

This is a song that a friend of ours wrote. It's whimsical and fun, and eminently dance-able. When we need a pick-me-up around the office, you can be sure this is cranked to 11.