Josh Steimle

MWI, a marketing agency, is the first "real" business I started, way back in 1999. Today, MWI has offices on multiple continents and works with clients like Marriott, Sony, LG, Hotels.com, and Orangetheory Fitness. 

MWI is actually more than a single company, it's a collection of marketing agencies. We grow by diversifying ourselves across geographies, services, and industries. 

Geography: We're always interested in opening or acquiring offices in new locations. If you currently run a marketing agency and want to be part of the MWI network, please reach out.

Services: We started out as a web development agency but then moved into services like SEO, paid search, social, PR, content, and video. We start subsidiary agencies focused on these services, while MWI HQ acts as the coordinating hub for clients who need multiple services. If you run a firm that focuses on a particular marketing service and are interesting in partnering with us, I'd love to talk.

Industries: We launch subsidiary marketing agencies that focus on niche industries such as self storage, dentists, hospitals, and hospitality. If you have a marketing agency that focuses on a particular industry and would like to discuss a potential acquisition, let me know.

For more info visit www.mwi.com.

Founder

Pando Partners

It took me over 20 years to figure out why I'm an entrepreneur. I used to think I wanted money, or stuff, or for people to see me as successful. But chasing all of that left me empty, and it didn't seem to work out well business-wise, either.

Instead, what seemed to align everything in my business and personal life was a desire to help others progress, to see them maximize their potential. I started Pando Partners as a way to create businesses as vehicles to help people get unstuck and keep learning and growing.

Of course, we care about money—a business can't survive without profits, just like a person can't survive without food. Money matters like food matters. But if all you live for is to eat, and all your business exists for is to make money, what kind of existence is that?

At Pando, our first core value is people. Our other core values are purpose, abundance, partnership, and stewardship. Through Pando's multi-business system (MBS), I can partner with great experts, leaders, and creators to find unlimited opportunities. At other companies, you compete against your own team to move up the corporate ladder. At Pando, there is no limit to the number of companies we can create, which encourages collaboration and loyalty. 

The Pando plan involved two phases. Phase I is to create several self-managing businesses related to marketing and promotion. During Phase II, we'll use those companies to help larger, more scalable companies grow quickly.

Interested in joining the team? Shoot me a message.

Published Author

Want 1-1 book coaching? Contact me at josh@publishedauthor.com. Published Author helps entrepreneurs write, publish, and leverage business books to grow their businesses.

Canvas PR

In 2013, I published my first article in a major publication (FastCo). Then I was invited to write a column for Forbes. Then I got into Entrepreneur, Insider, Fortune, TIME, Mashable, Techcrunch, and ultimately I wrote hundreds of articles for more than two-dozen publications.

However, the more I wrote and published articles, the more I got on the radar of PR firms. At first, it was just a few pitches each month. Then it was dozens, then hundreds, and some months I'm pretty sure it neared 1,000 pitches. 

The pitches came from all types of PR firms, including big NYC PR firms, and yet they were all the same. "Hey, I've got big time CEO so and so available, would you like to talk to them?" It was almost like every PR firm gave their people the same "How to Pitch PR" book that included a single template which everyone copied and then mass-emailed to everyone they could find on MuckRack.

I knew there had to be a better way.

I looked at the pitches I actually read, the ones that were customized so I knew they were only sent to me and no one else. I saw how they reached out to me because they knew what I wrote about, and had a client they thought would fit well with my swim lane. And they didn't just say, "Hey, I've got so and so!" they would also give me ideas for headlines and offer to help me put together the article by gathering data, quotes, other interviews (even though not clients), etc.

Actually, no one ever pitched me that way, I only wished they would.

We started offering PR services through my marketing agency, MWI, using this type of pitch, but then we launched Canvas PR as a standalone agency. Because of our process and the relationships we've developed, we are able to offer our clients guaranteed PR placements for a flat fee. Finally, there's accountability in PR.

If you're interested in learning more, reach out to Logan Derrick at logan@canvaspr.com.

Harvard Business School

Since 2007 I've harbored an interest in doing academic research, primarily on the intersection of government policy with entrepreneurship/startup hubs globally. I've done light work with a number of professors, but to get more hands-on experience I've taken on contract work at HBS writing case studies.

Research Assistant

BlueMethod

While writing for Forbes circa 2014, I began testing whether my articles got more attention on Forbes.com or LinkedIn, and found that LinkedIn did 10x as much for me when it came to connecting with the right people and spreading my message.

The more I experimented with LinkedIn, the more I saw it as a powerful platform for content marketing and personal branding. I began providing LinkedIn services to others, helping them optimize their profiles, add lots of high-quality connections, and create compelling content, which led to the founding of BlueMethod, an agency that provides these services to clients at scale.

AuthorVoice

Should every business book author also host a podcast? Maybe not, but at least 100,000 of them should, so we launched AuthorVoice to serve this niche audience. We work exclusively with nonfiction, business book authors to help them launch audio and video podcast shows to promote their book, connect with collaborators, and grow their audience.

7 Systems

I believe most people in the world are good and if I can help people become more influential, they'll use that influence to make the world a better place. That's the "why" that led me to create 7 Systems, a publishing, training, and events company that helps clients increase their influence using The 7 Systems of Influence framework.

The 7 Systems framework is used by executives, entrepreneurs, educators, marketing and PR professionals, parents, and government leaders to zero in on their objectives, identify their ideal audience, and create compelling content that moves their audience to action.

Freelance Writer

I'm the author of Chief Marketing Officers at Work, 60 Days to LinkedIn Mastery, The 7 Systems of Influence, and I've written over 300 articles for print and online publications including Forbes, Fortune, Mashable, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, TechinAsia, TIME, Entrepreneur, CMO.com, Fast Company, ClickZ, CBS, Fox Small Business, Asia Trail Magazine, and The Salt Lake Tribune. 

Chief Marketing Officers at Work (http://amzn.to/2lK6t4q) contains 29 exclusive, in-depth interviews with chief marketing officers like Jeff Jones of Target, Linda Boff of GE, Brian Kenny of the Harvard Business School, Trish Mueller of The Home Depot, and Seth Farbman of Spotify.

Writer/Author

Entrepreneur Media

I always have and always will see myself as an entrepreneur, which is why I loved writing for Entrepreneur Magazine. It's where I connect with my tribe. Check out my articles about entrepreneurship, marketing, and personal influence at https://www.entrepreneur.com/author/joshua-steimle.

Contributing Writer

WSJ & USA Today bestselling author. Book coach, speaker, multi-entrepreneur. I'm here to maximize human potential.

I love starting businesses but I'm not good at running them, so I find partners who love running and growing businesses but don't love the risk of starting them. This allowed me to create Pando Partners, a holding company where I can do what I truly love, which is to start businesses, see them succeed, and see individuals learn and grow within those businesses as they maximize their potential. Right now, my primary project is MWI, the marketing agency I started in 1999. I recently bought out my partners there after 10 years and find myself back in the driver seat. However, there are a lot of other projects up and running or in early stages.

If you're interested in partnering with me, I am currently looking for partners in the following spaces:

- Self storage
- Public relations
- Marketing
- Book coaching
- Web and app development
- Design
- Streetwear/fashion
- Retail/online retail
- Education

I'm a husband, father, skater, Dinosaur Jr. fan, political news junkie, ultra trail runner, triathlete, adoptive parent and active advocate for adoption, aspiring academic researcher, and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Originally from LA, I lived in Utah from '98-'13, then moved to Hong Kong, and then to Shenzhen, China in 2016. In Jan, 2019, I moved to Boston, where my family and I lived on a farm with 21 horses, 3 guinea pigs, and 1 dog, before moving to Arizona in 2021, without the horses. 😥

I would LOVE to connect with everyone, but LinkedIn maxes out accounts at 30K. Sorry, it's not you, it's me (actually, let's blame it on LinkedIn). But please click that "Follow" button above so we can stay in touch!

If you have employees, think of each one and ask, "How would I react if they came in and told me they were quitting?"

"Whew, thank you!" = C player
"Dang...oh well, we'll find someone else." = B player
"What?! No! No, no, no, no...NO!" = A player

Fire your C players.

Improve or fire your B players.

You better make sure you keep your A players.

Now do the experiment again with your clients or customers (or customer personas). How would you react if a specific client, or a type of customer, quit?

"Whew, thank you!" = Toxic customer
"Dang...oh well, we'll find others." = Not ideal customer
"What? No!" = Ideal customer

Fire your toxic customers.

Turn your non-ideal clients or customers into the ideal, or fire them.

Double down on your ideal customer(s).

Now do the experiment one more time...How would your ideal clients or customers react if you told them you were quitting?

"Good riddance!" = You've got big problems
"Oh well, we'll find someone else." = You've still got problems
"Noooo! We can't live without you!" = Keep up the good work, but still look for ways to do better.

Agency founder. Marketing for multi-location businesses (storage, hospitals, hotels, gyms, etc.). Maximizing human potential via entrepreneurship. WSJ + USA Today bestselling author. Trail runner. Skater. Husband. Dad.

AI produces trash. Smart humans using AI are producing masterpieces. Don't trash AI. It's a losing battle. 

"People don't want to watch movies where people talk." 

"Nobody wants to watch movies at home." 

"Nobody wants to order groceries online." 

"Nobody wants restaurant food at home." 

"People like working with travel agents." 

"People want to hold a book and read it, not listen to it." 

"I'm not putting my credit card info into a website." 

"Nobody wants their banking info online." 

"Wait, a Nigerian prince wants to send me $17M...?!" 🤦‍♂️

"Nobody will read a book written by AI." 

"Nobody will watch a movie made by AI." 

Don't fear the future. Don't fight it. Embrace it. Push it even faster.

LinkedIn feels like a nonstop scroll of ads. I struggle to remember what it was like before this, but I know it was better.

I hate what AI has done to the emdash. I used the m-- all the time before AI! Now I'm all self-conscious about it.

Digital marketing & content expert. Wall Street Journal bestselling author. Keynote speaker. Writer.

Good people of LinkedIn! >> Why do people now think Ye Olde Em Dash is a sign of AI writing?

It's been around for roughly 400 years—long before Clippy, autocorrect, neural networks, or anyone imagined punctuation could enrage a mob. It's vintage!

So why are people now patrolling the streets of LinkedIn with torches and pitchforks, rounding up em dashes like it’s CSI: Grammar Unit?

>> Because of a perfect storm of style, superstition, and machine mimicry.

AI models love the em dash... because *humans* do.

Large language models are trained on millions of human-written sentences. (Mostly stolen, it must be said.)

And we modern writers use em dashes a lot. They mimic our conversational, emotional, sometimes delightfully digressive voice—the kind that wanders, like it's doing right here—before it plops its peach 🍑 into a seat and parks itself on the page.

So when AI learned to “sound human,” it slipped on our favorite cardigan: the em dash.

When people started noticing dashes popping up everywhere in ChatGPT writing... I  mean, "outputs"... they mistook the symptom for the cause.

Maybe before you accuse anyone of “writing like AI,” ask yourself:

Who’s actually robotic ... the writer using rhythm and nuance?
Or the reader... following a rulebook?

* * *

Here's why this matters at all: Punctuation isn’t about grammar.

It’s a kind of wingman for your words—it helps them come alive in another’s mind.

Writing, like punctuation, is less about rules and more about listening for the rhythm and the beats beneath the words. It’s taste, timing, feeling... and the beautiful mess of being unmistakably human.

Which is all to say... ***Justice! For! Em Dashes!***
 
Notice how em dashes work—whether you're reading them here, on LinkedIn, on a tote bag, in a poem. rhythm of writing—the beats beneath the words.
 
Said another way:
 
You can tell a lot about a writer by how they use an em dash.
You can tell even more by whether they're afraid to.
 
It's time for us writers to reclaim what's ours! It's time to BE FEARLESS. 

Who's with me?

P.S. Should we actually produce this rallying cry of a t-shirt? Y or N. 

P.P.S. Print On Demand companies: Anyone wanna help? 👕

P.P.P.S. Thanks for reading this far. #WritingCommunity #AI #JusticeForEmDashes #ContentWriting

If you could change 3 things to make LinkedIn better, what would they be?

Warp Drive Digital Marketing

Warp Drive Digital Marketing has one purpose. To send business growth to the next level. We are not just an agency but a marketing partner that acts as your CMO and helps you execute on what makes the biggest impact to your business. 

Some things we have done for our clients:

Traco Packaging
-Built out their initial PPC campaigns to drive leads. Helped them navigate new landing pages and conversion rate optimization to get the highest quality leads possible.

Brisca
-Turned around a failing PPC account that was driving 1 lead per month to over 25 per month on the same budget.

Keentek
-Built campaigns to capture brand searches after trade shows and other marketing events. Developed a new PPC strategy to help them capture SMB and Enterprise level clients.

Intelligent Office 
-Reduced cost per lead from $600 to $198 in 30 days and saved the client 40% on their advertising costs.

We have extensive lead gen capabilities in home services as well as medicine. There isn't a problem we can't solve.

Services we provide:

- Facebook & Instagram Advertising
- Google Advertising
- Including Search, Display, and YouTube
- Bing Advertising
- Twitter Advertising
- Pinterest Advertising
- LinkedIn Advertising
- Amazon Sponsored Ads
- Email Marketing & Automation
- Messenger Marketing
- Content Marketing & Social Media
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Conversion Optimization

We also consult with clients on marketing strategy, building out marketing teams and automating marketing processes. 

Give me a call if you have any questions 801-941-2045

Owner

Black Mesa Holdings

Perceptyx, Inc.

Managed SaaS implementation projects from planning through closing. 

Streamlined and reduced project timelines by 60%.

Managed a book of clients ranging from SMB to Fortune 100 companies.

Directly reported to VP, SVP or C-Level executives on project statuses.

Managed all communications around change management with clients.

Project Manager

doTERRA International LLC

Responsible for all IT projects in the Asia Pacific Region.

Managed new website implementation for all Asia Pacific markets.

Managed mobile app and online shopping environment improvement
projects in Korea and Japan.

Develop and maintain relationships with general and IT management in
foreign markets.

International IT Project Manager

Developing strategic marketing and operational plans

Developing standard operating procedures for Malaysia and Singapore customer service, account management, marketing, human resources and operations management departments.

Coordinating doTERRA's logistics operations for the region.

Managing inventory for the local product center and shipping warehouse.

Working with Finance Department on product pricing and budgeting.

Acted as interim Customer Service Manager.

Leading development projects for Malaysia in preparation for launch there.

Initiated and monitored development of marketing materials prior to launch.

Working closely with the General Manager, area Directors, and company c-level executives on    various projects.

Operations Manager

Project manager for Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, Singapore, and China.

Supported operations and market development for China.

Created, tested, and implemented shipping for doTERRA's Hong Kong market.

Provided support for account management team in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Australia.

Acted as account manager for those markets with no Account Management teams (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Africa, French Polynesia, and more!)

Managed doTERRA's global access markets. (Early Development Markets)

Managed projects to open markets in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia.

Constantly developed new methods to allow emerging markets to order and receive product with added ease.

Developed a reporting system to track KPI's, budgets, labor, leadership development, and past years' data for easy forecasting for markets in the Asia Pacific region. Now this system is being utilized by the VP of International and regional Directors for Asia (Japan, South Korea, and China), Latin America, and Europe.

International Market Development Manager, Asia & Pacific

InsideSales.com

Served as the initial point of contact with inbound prospects and with some outbound calling on targeted companies.

Responsible for acquiring key prospect data from the initial conversation, from the web and other sources, and posting that data correctly in InsideSales.com software.

Responsible to set initial appointment with Regional Sales Managers or Sales Account Executives and if appointment is not held, to reschedule with the prospect.

Reached or exceeded performance metrics on dials, profiles, appointments set, and conversion to a totally qualified opportunity.

Kept up with industry standards and technologies to ensure I am a trusted resource to prospects and customers.

Successfully managed and overcame prospect objections.

Business Development Specialist

Vivint

Generated new customers and contracts for advanced home security by communicating both verbally and by email to inform the customer of Vivint’s capabilities.

Used strong verbal and written communication skills to obtain and analyze customer requirements and needs in order to customize the company’s product and service offerings to best solve the customer’s needs.

Accurately processed escalated customer concerns and transactions, resolved problems, developed rapport and lasting relationships with the customer.

Performed sales and other duties as assigned, met aggressive corporate quotas and personal goals on a consistent basis.

Managed time and worked effectively as contributing member of the sales and management team by coaching new sales reps to help them meet goals and quotas.

Quickly mastered the technical aspects of products and company sales methods allowing me to properly carry out my duties while accurately representing the capabilities of products and services offered by Vivint.

Created a sales tracking spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel to help representatives track and improve their sales performance. The tool is adopted by sales management for use by all members of my team and has been adopted by other teams as well.

National Inside Sales Representative

Customer Hook

Created targeted blog content for websites.

Applied knowledge of internet marketing and search engine optimization to create effective lead generating communications.

Created and maintained a blog for Customer Hook that enhanced web-presence of the company.

Roll up your sleeves work ethic that resulted in timely completion of assigned tasks and a proactive approach that benefited the company’s bottom line

SEO Intern

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Provided training, management, and feedback to a group of 18-20 volunteers.

Oversaw progress of volunteers learning a foreign language.

Organized and carried out English as a second language classes in multiple locations across Hong Kong. 

Assisted the president of the volunteer group in goal setting and implementation of plans leading volunteers to be more successful.

Full Time Volunteer

We support digital marketing agencies with paid advertising fulfilment.

It is a lot of fun, and we have a TON of happy accounts. (by a ton, I mean hundreds of client campaigns)

To name a few of our clients:

→ Digital Marketing Agency in the Medical Niche - Increased revenue for clients by $18m YOY
→ Freshwater Creative Agency- added $30k paid media revenue for the company
→ Intelligent Office - Increased leads by 261% and decreased CPA from $600 to $198 in 1 month.
→ Zerorez - Decreased CPA from $150 to $80 in 1 month

That's just scratching the surface. If you run a marketing agency, we can help your clients get amazing results just like the ones above. And we guarantee all of our work.

If you are not happy with how we work or our result for your clients we will give you a 100% refund of any management feeds. That means we lose money if you are not happy.

You may be a bit skeptical, currently squinting your eyes and rubbing your chin to figure out if I am full of it or you could like what you hear and want to learn more.

Either way you can schedule a no-pressure discovery call where we show you what we do and how we can help your agency. 

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I recommend grabbing a spot and seeing if what we offer makes sense for you, before someone else hunting the same prospects as you does... 😉

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