I’ve been working full-time from home running several different businesses. When Galen Culver heard about my story he thought it was interesting enough to feature it on his popular TV news segment called, “Is This A Great State Or What?”

Culver contacted me in April of 2014 and said he would like to stop by my home office and do a story about me working from home drawing cartoons and operating Enid Buzz.

He stopped by and spent a couple of hours asking me questions and filming everything in my office. All of that footage and those questions were whittled down to a two minute segment on NBC’s KFOR News in Oklahoma City.

The segment was great and helped tell my story of creating businesses while sitting in a chair in my house. The exposure was not something that made me any money but it increased my brand recognition and added credibility to my knowledge of being an entrepreneur.

If you’ve got a great story you need to get in front of everyone that you can. Today there are TV segments like “Great State,” podcasts, blogs and video channels that you can book for guest spots.

Don’t be afraid to reach out to people especially anyone in your niche. Many content publishers are looking for stories, articles and guests. Build your brand and your reputation by appearing everywhere that you can.

Here is the video segment that ran on the OKC news station. Below that is the transcript from the show.

There are people who think outside the box and then there are people who actually drew the box they live in.

Curtis Tucker was a dreamer and doodler growing up.

“When I was in school,” he says, “I was either drawing cartoons on the chalk board or on the back of my paper.”

He quit his advertising executive job in the late 90’s and drew upon his skills as a cartoonist.

Tucker formed a whole series of companies that sold logos, clip art, even greeting cards.

For more than a decade he was at the top of the online cartoon heap.

Curtis says, “I think from the very beginning of Google I probably ranked number one for cartoon logos for 12 years.”

His technical acumen should have told him that things would change though.

Google changed its search format and his cartoon business dried up almost overnight.

But Curt drew on another talent, for staying anchored to what he liked, which is sitting at home and playing around.

“It was pretty cool,” he says.

Tucker started another website called Enid Buzz.

He kept working on it, slowly making his home office the hub of information for just about everything in his hometown.

Tucker made it profitable too, so he could stay right where he wanted.

“You’re just at the hub of a smaller universe,” observes an office visitor.

“Exactly,” he replies. “I have evolved. It’s always evolving.”

It’s not often we can shoot a whole story in one room.

It has to be a pretty interesting place.

Curtis Tucker made it that way, not by being outgoing, but by drawing enough people to him.

He’s still doodling, actually, just the way he wants.

The Enid Buzz website is www.enidbuzz.com.

You can also log on Facebook and find an active page there.

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BRAMAN, OK – Legendary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame KISS members, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, made their way from the Ponca City Airport to the small community of Braman, Oklahoma on a blustery and cold Thursday afternoon. Organizers of the event had a heated tent constructed next to the Southwind Casino Kanza just off of I-35. A Rock & Brews catering van welcomed invitees as they entered the venue.

BuzzHead Media made its way up I-35 to cover the announcement of the Casino Resort that will be located only 70 miles from Enid. A casino, hotel and destination resort with an event center that close could be a big draw for local residents but could also pull sales tax and entertainment away from the Enid community.

Media members received media passes, free food catered by Rock & Brews and drinks. The event began with Kaw tribal members getting a quick meet and greet that kicked off as soon as the rockers arrived in Braman.

When Simmons arrived he took to the microphone and told the audience, “We are proud to be in a band that is America’s number one gold record award winning group of all time, in all categories.” He also stressed, “Rock & Brews really ain’t about us, it really is about right here, right now about the Kaw Nation, about Kaw Gaming, Inc.”

Simmons and Stanley then took questions and conducted interviews with the media. Asked about locating in Braman, Simmons answered, “You don’t know how big … this is going to become. You’ve got to remember, Las Vegas was desert once upon a time. Now 44 million people come into Las Vegas every year. If we get 1/100th of that coming here, it’s going to be an explosion.”

I asked about how the partnership began. Simmons explained to me that the Kaw Nation had been guests at the San Manuel casino, where there was a Rock & Brews restaurant and saw the way that everyone was treated. This led to a meeting between the two entities.

Simmons told me, “We just connected as people first. First you connect as people, great business has to do with great people wanting to be with each other then the business takes care of itself. So it started with people and it should. It’ll always begin and end with people.”

Braman, Oklahoma is located northwest of Ponca City about 15 miles south of the Kansas state line on Interstate 35. It is located in Kay County and had a population of 217 in 2010.

Rock & Brews is a one-of-a-kind restaurant and entertainment concept designed to engage people of all ages with quality comfort food, a broad selection of international and craft beers and an energized, family friendly, concert environment.

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TULSA, OK – The BuzzHead Media crew got an Enid exclusive interview with Brooks on Friday, January 9, 2015 in Tulsa. The press conference, interview and concert highlights are in the video above.

I have to say that Garth and Trisha were the most down to earth, easy going celebs I have ever seen. The lady news anchors in the room came with bigger egos. By the time the news conference was complete and I was in line to interview Brooks, all nerves had been erased and I ended up doing an interview with someone that felt like an old friend.

The selfie at the top of the page was taken at the end of the interview with Brooks. I held my iPhone up and the camera was set to take a photo looking the other way. Brooks quickly reached up to my phone and hit the button to flip the camera like he had done it a million times, which I’m guessing he had. He grabbed my shoulders and let me snap as many pics as I wanted.

The news conference was very casual. Brooks took questions from everyone and nothing seemed to be off limits. He and Yearwood took turns answering questions and joked with each other throughout the event.

This photo, taken by the iMuze crew, was during my actual interview. The guy to the right of me is Aron, who was the PR guy for the news conference and kept things moving. He’s the one that poked me in the back after my third question letting me know I needed to move along.

During our interview an alarm went off in the building. This was Garth’s reaction to the noise. We waited a few seconds for it to stop and began talking again. Another alarm sound went off and we decided to just push through the noise and continue with the interview.

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