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Listen to inspirational stories from successful inventors and entrepreneurs as our host, Jon LaClare, founder of Harvest Growth, leads interviews targeted at helping aspiring inventors and market-leading entrepreneurs alike. If you’d like to see how Harvest Growth can help grow your product business, click below.
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In this episode of the Harvest Growth Podcast, Jon LaClare sits down with John Fry, VP of Marketing and Sales at Allerpet, to unpack how a simple, problem-solving product built lasting success through trust, emotional connection, and smart channel strategy. John explains how Allerpet helps reduce pet dander at the source—allowing people with pet allergies to stay close to the animals they love—by mechanically removing allergens rather than masking symptoms. The conversation dives into what pe...
In this episode of the Harvest Growth Podcast, Jon LaClare sits down with Jim Warren, founder of Infomercial.com and one of the most respected voices in direct response and infomercial marketing. With decades of experience spanning traditional DRTV, long-form infomercials, and modern digital campaigns, Jim breaks down what still works — and why the core principles of infomercials are more relevant than ever in today’s TikTok, YouTube, and CTV-driven world. Together, Jon and Jim explore how to...
In this episode of the Harvest Growth Podcast, Jon LaClare breaks down a hard truth many product founders don’t want to hear: building your entire business on Amazon is far riskier than it looks. While Amazon can be an incredibly powerful sales channel—with built-in trust, massive buyer intent, and fast early revenue—speed does not equal control. Jon explains how fees quietly erode margins, why Amazon always puts its own interests first, and how even successful products can be replaced or und...
In this episode, Jon LaClare sits down with Jim Wilkinson, a multi-patented inventor, author, manufacturer, and longtime mentor to inventors and entrepreneurs. With more than three decades of hands-on experience, Jim has helped bring countless ideas from concept to real products found in homes, and even automobiles, around the world. Jim shares how his lifelong passion for innovation led him to write "The Practical Inventor," a no-nonsense guide designed to help inventors avoid costly mista...
In today’s episode, your host, Jon LaClare, leads an important conversation that healthcare marketing rarely explains: the placebo effect and why it deserves far more attention. This discussion is inspired by the launch of Pluseebo, a transparent, intentionally humorous product designed to spark awareness around belief, expectation, and honesty in healthcare. While Pluseebo is lighthearted on the surface, its launch highlights a much deeper reality supported by published scientific research. ...
AI is transforming the job market faster than many of us realize, and that’s creating both challenges and opportunities. In this episode of the Harvest Growth Podcast, your host Jon LaClare breaks down why entrepreneurship is becoming one of the most future-proof career paths, how to validate a business idea, and how to leverage AI rather than be replaced by it. Through decades of launching products for hundreds of companies, the team at Harvest Growth has developed a simple framework to iden...
In today’s episode, we sit down with Tyler Hall, owner of Hall Contracting, to unpack his nearly 20-year journey from evenings-and-weekends side work to leading one of Colorado’s most respected landscape construction and maintenance companies. What started as a small operation focused on craftsmanship, specifically water features, has grown into a business with nearly 100 employees, a powerful reputation, and a culture rooted in service, accountability, and family values. Tyler shares the rea...
Today, we sit down with Steve Waddell, award-winning author of Valuepreneurs and the inventor behind the innovative Nasoni fountain faucet. Steve shares a complete roadmap for transforming an idea into a viable, profitable product, while avoiding the common pitfalls that cause 90% of startups and 95% of new products to fail. In this episode, Steve breaks down his Value Driven Product Development (VDPD) system, a proven 5-stage, 15-step framework designed to reduce risk, validate your customer...
Did you know that one of the oldest marketing formats can still be one of the fastest ways to scale a product in today’s digital world? Join host and CEO of Harvest Growth, Jon LaClare, as he breaks down why infomercials continue to thrive in a modern, AI-first world. In less than ten minutes, you’ll learn how the best marketers leverage TV, streaming, and digital long-form promotions to drive awareness, conversions, and explosive product growth, and how you also can. Tune in now! In today’s ...
Today, we talk with Jacob Beckstead, the Chief Marketing Officer of Bailey’s Group, one of America’s oldest and most trusted moving and logistics companies. Founded in 1952, Bailey’s has grown from a small family business in Provo, Utah, into a multi-location enterprise across Colorado and Utah while embracing cutting-edge marketing and operational innovations that keep it thriving in the digital age. Jacob shares how Bailey’s Group is leveraging AI technology, data-driven marketing, and huma...
What if doubling your business didn’t require doubling your effort—or your budget? In this episode of the Harvest Growth Podcast, your host Jon LaClare breaks down a simple but powerful framework that has helped hundreds of brands achieve what he calls “uncharacteristic growth.” Through years of running marketing campaigns across industries, the team at Harvest Growth has discovered a proven system: if you improve three key metrics—traffic, conversion rate, and average order value—by just 27%...
Are you struggling to stand out in a crowded, competitive market? Then you’ll love today’s episode featuring Landon Bellum, a Colorado realtor who turned his marketing background and love for storytelling into a powerful real estate brand. After a challenging first year where he made zero income, Landon refused to give up. Instead, he focused on creating genuine, high-quality video content that helped people trust him and ensured that everyone he knew understood what he did and that he did it...
Launching a new product can feel overwhelming. Do you start with ads, influencers, or retail? How do you know if your idea will actually sell, or if you’re about to waste your budget? In this final chapter of The Perfect Launch System, Jon LaClare not only shares the proven three-step process his team has used to launch over 300 products but also recaps the most important lessons from the entire series. This wrap-up brings everything together—covering preparation, production, and profit—to gi...
Launching a product is thrilling, but without the right preparation, most fail to gain traction and eventually fail. In this special audiobook edition of the Perfect Launch System, Jon LaClare shares insights from Chapter 15 of the Perfect Launch System: What Not To Do: a crash course on avoiding costly pitfalls that sink 95% of new products. From weak messaging to poor pricing strategies, lack of demand validation to underfunded marketing, he reveals common problems to watch out for when lau...
In this episode, Jon LaClare interviews Jim DeBetta, a true retail veteran who has spent decades helping inventors and entrepreneurs bring their products into major retailers. Jim shares his fascinating journey from growing a $20 million retail startup to partnering with Shark Tank’s Kevin Harrington as VP of Commercialization—where he helped take winning products straight into stores like Walmart and Costco. Today, Jim focuses on guiding inventors through the complex world of product develop...
When most entrepreneurs set out to launch a new product, they don’t realize the odds are stacked against them. The harsh truth? Nearly 95% of product launches fail. But Jon LaClare, founder of Harvest Growth, knew there had to be a better way. Through years of experience working with both Fortune 500 giants and scrappy startups, Jon developed the Perfect Launch System—a three-phase blueprint that has helped over 300 products succeed, scale, and reach profitability faster than anyone thought p...
Do you have a great idea but don't know how to turn it into a market-ready product? Or are you worried your first shipment could end up unsellable? Join us as we speak with Jim Orrico, founder of Dream To Product, a company that has spent over a decade helping businesses design, assemble, and package groundbreaking new products, and even rescue defective products. For the first time, Jim has stepped out from behind the scenes to launch his own product, the AC Saver™, and it’s already a hit. ...
What if the simplest ideas could lead to the biggest exits—if only you protected them the right way? On today’s episode of The Harvest Growth Podcast, we’re joined by Michael Frodsham, one of America’s top patent attorneys and an equity shareholder at Workman Nydegger. He's worked with major brands like Skullcandy and Traeger Grills, and now shares the real secrets behind building and protecting businesses that scale globally. Mike breaks down how even low-tech or everyday inventions, like a ...
What does it take to launch a successful product in a space where 97% fail before reaching the market? In this episode, we’re joined by Michael McCrary and Robert Hulet, co-founders of Prox PRD, the world’s first dedicated phone reminder device, to share their journey from concept to building a patented, category-defining product. Their story serves as a roadmap for entrepreneurs to validate ideas, simplify complex solutions, and scale a product from garage-level assembly to national media at...
In today's episode, we speak with Nathan Yearsley, CEO of Augason Farms, who went from having zero media experience to landing over 50 interviews across major TV, radio, and podcast platforms. He shares how Public Relations (PR) has become a powerful tool to transform not just his company's public perception, but also its business growth, and to transcend tough business climates. You’ll learn how Nathan used storytelling, vulnerability, and everyday technology to secure media features, establ...
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