{"id":9252,"date":"2015-10-01T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttinvent.com\/?p=9252"},"modified":"2015-10-01T05:42:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T12:42:41","slug":"wisdom-and-craftsmanship-with-jim-mckinley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/?p=9252","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom and Craftsmanship with Jim McKinley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you or your kids are interested in small business, pull up a chair and listen in for some timeless advice from today\u2019s Table Top Inventing Podcast guest, Jim McKinley. Jim has been in the same family business for over 50 years, making custom accessories for trucks. He\u2019ll share with us the ups and downs, experiences, and lessons he has learned along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Download today\u2019s episode at <a href=\"http:\/\/InventingPodcast.com\">http:\/\/InventingPodcast.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jim, along with his brother Bob, run McWelco Products, a well known company here in southern California, especially in the construction and service industries. The business was started by their dad as a small machine shop originally and now makes a variety of high end truck boxes and racks. Jim shares that customers find the quality and craftsmanship of a McWelco product keeps their tools safe and that it often lasts longer than the truck! He proudly shares that his source of inspiration for innovation and the business wisdom often comes from listening to his customers. Jim has a little saying that probably applies to more than just his customers: \u201cIf you don\u2019t listen to your customers, your customers won\u2019t listen to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Get today\u2019s episode at <a href=\"http:\/\/InventingPodcast.com\">http:\/\/InventingPodcast.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keep on Innovating,<\/p>\n<p>Steve Kurti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you or your kids are interested in small business, pull up a chair and listen in for some timeless advice from today\u2019s Table Top Inventing Podcast guest, Jim McKinley. Jim has been in the same family business for over &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/?p=9252\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wisdom and Craftsmanship with Jim McKinley<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":9334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[310,126],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/truckbed.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9PzL0-2pe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9340,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions\/9340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}