{"podcast":{"title":"Next Biz Thing: Unveiling Tomorrow's Business","slug":"next-biz-thing-unveiling-tomorrow-s-business-6794632","podcast_index_feed_id":6794632,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-next-biz-thing","website_url":"https://nextbizthing.transistor.fm/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/26zmLj8xzgQoESxDpol-JGjhNGe_THsLu1AeQ6NWrNo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ5NzEzLzE3MDc4/NDQ0NzAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.jpg","author":"Markus J. Diplama","episode_count":428,"summary":"The Next Biz Thing is a podcast that delves deeper into the next businesses that will disrupt the way industries function. We showcase the face of the future in each and every episode. It is the innovators and the disruptors from across the globe, as well as the exclusive insights into what they went through and the solutions that they came up with. Next Biz Thing is a podcast where we dive deeper than the surface level to discuss the next wave of businesses that will revolutionize the way a particular industry functions. We bring you the face of the future in every single podcast, which represents the entrepreneurs, disruptors, and innovators across the world. What we aim to do is feature such companies and make them known to the public, and give entrepreneurs an audience to share their vision, achievements, and experiences. We also reveal strategies that such companies are utilizing in their bid to gain rapid growth and influence. Those who will be listening will be not only updated with the latest trends in business innovations but also emotionally influenced through the stories of the Entrepreneurs' spirit, creativity, and Leadership which form the path to the business giants…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T20:19:13.823415+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/next-biz-thing-unveiling-tomorrow-s-business-6794632"},"episode":{"title":"Next Biz Thing #404 scheduley.com","slug":"next-biz-thing-404-scheduley-com","published_at":"2026-08-21T09:52:19+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/next-biz-thing-unveiling-tomorrow-s-business-6794632/next-biz-thing-404-scheduley-com","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/next-biz-thing-unveiling-tomorrow-s-business-6794632","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/722fb0d6","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/722fb0d6/2be72853.mp3","summary":"Scheduley https://scheduley.com/ This episode of The Next Biz Thing looks at Scheduley, the AI front desk built for local service businesses. Markus explores why salons, spas, studios, clinics and trades companies quietly lose bookings they never even see, and how a single platform that combines a 24/7 AI receptionist, online booking pages and websites, automated reminders, payments and deposits closes that gap. It is a story about enterprise grade capability finally arriving at a price a one person business can say yes to. Listen in for a look at how local businesses are getting their time back. Here is a number that stopped me in my tracks the other day. The average small local business misses somewhere between a quarter and a third of the phone calls that come in during a working week. Not because nobody cares. Not because the owner is lazy. Because the owner is halfway through cutting somebody's hair, or under a sink with a wrench, or holding a tattoo machine steady over somebody's forearm, and the phone is ringing in the next room. And here is the part that really lands: most of the people on the other end of those calls do not leave a voicemail. They just hang up and call the next name on the list. Welcome back to The Next Biz Thing. I am Markus J. Diplama, and this is the show where we go looking for the companies that are quietly solving problems most of us have simply learned to live with. Not the ones making the loudest noise. The ones actually building something useful. And today's business is a really good example of that, because it has picked up a problem that almost every local service business on the planet has, and it has decided that the answer is not to work harder or hire faster, but to give small operators a piece of infrastructure that until very…","meta_description":"Scheduley https://scheduley.com/ This episode of The Next Biz Thing looks at Scheduley, the AI front desk built for local service businesses. 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