Thryv’s “Winning on Main Street”, a weekly podcast dedicated to
helping America’s small businesses modernize and automate the way
they do business, recently featured international bestselling
author and former Independent Vice Chairman of Deloitte Consulting,
LLP, Jay Samit.
The weekly show, hosted by Thryv’s Gordon Henry, invites guests,
many of them successful small business operators themselves, to
explain how small businesses can attract and engage consumers whose
expectations have changed as a result of the pandemic.
In last week’s episode, Henry spoke with Jay Samit, a dynamic
entrepreneur and intrapreneur. Samit is recognized as one of the
world’s leading experts on how to develop an entrepreneurial
mindset, whether that’s for an individual or the employees within
an existing company, as well as business disruption.
Samit discussed how every business is disrupted at some point,
thus unlocking opportunities for would-be entrepreneurs and
intrapreneurs, while also touching upon the risk that change poses
for those who want to maintain the status quo.
“For years I’ve been telling people, whether by choice or by
circumstance, every career gets disrupted,” said Samit. “Post
pandemic, I don’t have to make that argument anymore. We are living
in an era of endless innovation and you can either choose to be
terrified or excited by that reality.”
However, Samit believes everybody can become a successful
entrepreneur. He says “With the right mindset and insight, anyone
can become a millionaire. Are you tired of just paying bills until
you die? Are you wasting your life at a job that doesn’t make you
fulfilled or financially secure?”
In his latest book, Future Proofing You – Twelve Truths for
Creating Opportunity, Maximizing Wealth, and Controlling Your
Destiny in an Uncertain World, Samit practices what he preaches. He
details the journey of how he mentored a broke millennial
with his 12 “truths” and empowered the young
individual to go from being on welfare to becoming a self-made
millionaire in one year.
An adjunct professor at USC, Samit teaches innovation at
America’s largest engineering school and is also the author of
Disrupt You! Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and
Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation. His column on exponential
technologies (artificial intelligence, augmented reality,
autonomous vehicles, Blockchain, etc.) is published bi-weekly in
Fortune and he recently hosted the documentary series Wall Street
Journal Startup of the Year.
“Launching a new business or career is challenging,” says
Thryv’s Henry. “But Jay Samit provides a compelling rationale for
why everyone must get comfortable with change. Samit says ‘we’re
living in an era of endless innovation where things constantly
change and over the next five years, half of all jobs will
disappear in the US’. That means a whole new world full of
opportunity where no one has a head start on you.”
The “Winning on Main Street” series also highlights the
fundamentals of running a small business. Recent episodes have
focused on how small businesses can get credit, manage cash flow,
find and hire the right employees, identify and market to their
ideal customer, protect themselves with affordable legal help, and
scale their business with an eye towards future sales. Upcoming
episodes will focus on growth strategies, marketing approaches, and
how local businesses can enhance their reputation.
The “Winning on Main Street” podcast series from Thryv Holdings,
Inc. (NASDAQ:THRY) — a SaaS and marketing solutions company
with over 400,000 small business clients worldwide – is hosted by
Henry who is the company’s Chief Strategy Officer. On each episode,
Henry sits down with small business owners, entrepreneurs, and
industry experts to discuss the challenges of starting,
maintaining, and growing a business.
“Winning on Main Street” podcast episodes are currently
available to stream on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Amazon
Music, Pandora, Spotify, and YouTube. Visit winningonmainstreet.com
for more small business resources.
About Gordon Henry
Gordon Henry is the Chief Strategy Officer of Thryv, Inc. and
the host of Thryv’s “Winning on Main Street” podcast series. With
over 25 years of experience in client acquisition strategies and
marketing, Gordon is passionate about helping small businesses
grow, modernize, and thrive in today’s evolving environment. An
expert in marketing and the tools small businesses use to position
themselves in the marketplace, Gordon invites industry experts on
his podcast and asks guests about the challenges they face and
technology they use to get ahead in their industries. Learn more
about Gordon.
About Thryv Holdings, Inc.
Thryv Holdings, Inc. owns the easy-to-use Thryv® end-to-end
customer experience software built for growing small to medium
sized businesses (SMBs) that helps over 40,000 SaaS clients with
the daily demands of running a business. With Thryv®, SMBs can get
the job, manage the job and get credit. Thryv’s award-winning
platform provides modernized business functions, allowing SMBs to
reach more customers, stay organized, get paid faster and generate
reviews. These functions include building a digital customer
database, automated marketing through email and text, updating
business listings across the internet, scheduling online
appointments, sending notifications and reminders, managing ratings
and reviews, generating estimates and invoices, and processing
payments.
Thryv supports franchise operators and multi-location business
owners with Hub by Thryv™, a software console that enables
businesses managers to oversee their operations using the Thryv®
software.
Thryv also connects local businesses to consumer services
through our search, display and social media management products,
our print directories featuring The Real Yellow Pages® tagline, and
our local search portals, which operate under the DexKnows.com®,
Superpages.com® and Yellowpages.com URLs and reach some 35 million
monthly visitors. For more information about the company, visit
thryv.com.
Thryv delivers business services to more than 400,000 SMBs
worldwide that enable these SMBs to compete and win in today’s
economy.
On March 1, 2021, Thryv announced it closed the acquisition of
Sensis, Australia’s leading digital, marketing and directory
services provider, which helps Australians connect and engage
through its leading platforms, digital consumer businesses (Yellow,
White Pages, True Local and Whereis), search engine marketing and
optimization services, website products, social, data and mapping
solutions, and through its digital agency Found. Sensis is also
Australia’s largest print directory publisher including the Yellow
and White Pages.
Headquartered in Melbourne, Sensis has a sales presence in all
states and territories across Australia.
Media Contact:
Paige Blankenship
Thryv, Inc.
972.453.3012
paige.blankenship@thryv.com
Investor Contacts:
Cameron Lessard
Thryv, Inc.
214.773.7022
cameron.lessard@thryv.com
KJ Christopher
Thryv, Inc.
972.453.7068
kj.christopher@thryv.com
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Paige Blankenship
Thryv, Inc.
972.453.3012
paige.blankenship@thryv.com
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