Sophie Howard from Aspiring Entrepreneurs sold one US Amazon account in mid 2016 for over 7-figures USD. She developed the Minimum Viable Brand for physical products to be sold online at premium prices and scale fast. She loves sourcing products from around the world, usually in places where no one else is looking.

Dan Meadors from The Wholesale Formula sells products on Amazon. But he wasn't satisfied with retail arbitrage (buying products at discount stores and selling them on Amazon) or private labeling (creating a branded physical product). Instead, Dan works with existing brands to get them more reach on Amazon. He discusses his thought process (find products that Amazon doesn't sell themselves, sells 50-60 per month, and he'll start with a monthly volume of $500-$600 per month). Many times, Dan find some easy low hanging fruit and improves the product description, adds images and bullet points. He also looks for add-ons that complement that Amazon product. Resources Free Report: "The Little Known Business Model We Used To Build a Multi-Million Dollar Company With Only $600" (Guide) The Wholesale Formula (Website) JungleScout SkratchLabs (Nutrition Drink For Bike Riders)

Harry Campbell is The Rideshare Guy who is an expert on ridesharing, which is basically peer-to-peer transportation. Anyone (including you) can register to become an Uber (or Lyft) driver using the app, and earn a side income driving your car around. There are also options for things like UberEats (food delivery), Turo (rent your car or rent cars from individuals), and Postmates (peer to peer package delivery). Harry also discusses the Mystro app that combines Uber and Lyft into one app for you. You're in for a real treat with this episode, so be sure to tune in if you haven't already.

Khierstyn Ross from CrowdfundingUncut.com is a crowfunding specialist who can make your Kickstarter or Indiegogo online fundraising campaign a huge success. She visits us today to talk about beta launch validation. Get on the phone with the customers on your list, not to sell, just to get feedback. Find out what they're struggling with, and have them give you a reason why they "wouldn't" buy from you to gauge those objections. She also talks to us about the success of her private webinars and 6-week courses.    

Are you familiar with Mr. Jackass? I think you are... Haven't you ever scrolled past a Facebook video, or maybe a YouTube video, or even listened to a podcast, and thought to yourself... "THAT jackass (Mr. Jackass) is getting all kinds of popularity and I could do way better than that" Then this is the most important course you'll ever join today -- price increases at 11:59pm Eastern time TONIGHT: Join Podcast Crusher: $127 Now, Soon to Be $147 (Seriously, the price increases in just a few hours from $127 to $147, so you are about to lose 20 bucks just because you waited when we both know you should have jumped on this.) And here's why it's important that you create a podcast (iTunes radio show) even if that means a couple short (5 minute) audio only episodes this year: First, the Popularity of "Mr. Jackass" Is On the Rise And you're probably wondering... what can I do to get that sort of attention on my marketing and my websites, if not more? What can I do to avoid being passed over, lost in the crowd? Second, You May Have Been Told to "Get Out More" They tell you to network more, or maybe even land yourself some affiliates or joint venture partners... This is just my opinion, but in the last few years, offline marketing events have been either too small (just a handful of people so you don't get to meet the people you need to meet) or THOUSANDS of people, and it's such a huge event that you and "that next partner (or client) of yours" never get a chance to meet just because there are so many dang people in attendance! Also, many of those social groups (cliques) have already been established, so those people who would be a perfect match for your business might not give you the time of day. Heck, even if you find that special someone (business-wise)... what the heck do you say to them? "Here's my URL, mail to my stuff?" Here's what's always worked for me: I tell the person, "When you get home, email me and we'll record a 20-minute podcast episode talking about you and what you do." (They usually have a business card to give me, so I can follow up if they forget.) You don't even have to attend offline events if you don't want to. Email marketers you know, and even people who are guests on other podcasts. Good luck sending a "cold email" to get someone to buy from you. But a cold email to land a podcast guest to help THEM promote their business? Easy... This is what's great about this strategy: if they flake and the interview (over Skype) never happens, that "candidate" just weeded themselves out. If the interview goes great, you have an "in" with them and they now owe you a favor, because you promoted them first. And, if you decide that person was a dud or you're just too busy to partner with them, you have an "out" (to not do business with them) because you already did your part to get your word out about them... Just imagine, just for fun, if you had landed a young Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Gary Vee, Tim Ferriss, Pat Flynn, Jeff Bezos or Grant Cardone on your show for a quick 20 minute chat? Before they were famous and while they were still on their way up? Doesn't it make sense to interview someone now (in 2017) who grows up to be the Ryan Deiss of 2019 or the Armand Morin of 2021? Here's the best part: are you nervous and awkward on the phone? Great! Me too. With podcasting, YOU are interviewing THEM so THEY are doing all the talking. That guest is 10 times, if not 100 times more nervous than you because THEY are trying to impress YOU (and your listeners with their thoughts, ideas, insights, takeaways, and websites). We show and tell you what kinds of questions to ask in the Podcast Crusher course, but for the most part, ask about what they do, what makes them different, what valuable lessons would have saved them years of mistakes, and maybe even what mistakes they see happening in the marketplace... Third, Even If You Don't Want Guests to Create Content For You (For Free)...

You are in for a treat in today's episode. Danny Schreiber is the marketing director at Zapier, an app automation tool that helps professionals get more done. Zapier is a service that connects your web apps together to automate the tedious parts of your job or business. For example: when someone registers for a GoToWebinar session of yours, trigger a new lead in Aweber or your CRM monitor tweets about you in a Google Sheet get email notifications, push notifications, or SMS messages if someone mentions you on Reddit or fills in a WuFoo form replicate your blog posts across WordPress blogs or social media auto-blog (aggregate) your favorite YouTube videos and WordPress posts on one site And so much more. Zapier integrates almost any website together, including Twilio, Slack, Evernote, Facebook Lead Ads, Dropbox, MailChimp, Trello, HubSpot, InfusionSoft, and Instagram, just to name a handful. Resources Zapier (Website) AirTable (Site) Big List of Zapier hacks for marketers (Site)

Stacey Brown Randall from Growth by Referrals had learned three secrets from previous business failures: you need to "touch" your business every day, protect your mindset, and have conversations about how to scale. Listen in as she discusses how to identify who refers you (1-on-1 and face-to-face), find those experiences and touch points where you connect with them (hosting/attending events), automate that relationship (gifts, cards, emails), and track your results. Don't cold call. Instead, reach out to those connectors who refer clients to you.

Stacy Tuschl from ShesBuildingHerEmpire.com has advice for you today about making money AND having freedom, scheduling vacations, daily rewards, batching, and having that freedom to change. She's had huge success selling do-it-yourself online courses, group coaching, and masterminds. She explains her launch strategy with a 90-day launch plan and 5-day challenge, as well as how she uses Facebook ads for traffic to those launches.

Everyone is guilty of this at one time or another, even me sometimes... Getting too carried away and biting off more than you can chew... Filling up the "to-do list" (yuck) with way too much "stuff" Then, it's a huge distraction and that big long list becomes a thing you're scared to look at, or maybe even you feel bad when you do... I can also relate to my mindset ten years ago when even five minutes of money-making activities per day seemed like "too much work" for me... Send a quick email in the morning? I can't do that every day... People tell me to blog or post a daily video? How will I have time for anything else? "Forget about a daily podcast..." I expected myself to post once a day for maybe 4-5 days and then quit! Sound familiar? Of course it does... don't pretend it doesn't! So what changed? This... Insight #1: Exterminate "Not-Invented-Here" Syndrome and Used the Right Tools Don't invent from scratch if you can help it. In this day and age, you don't need to know HTML, CSS, how to edit graphics and upload files. Just use WordPress, grab whatever beautiful theme you want to use for your design (most look like you paid thousands of dollars), and you can grab whatever plugins you want to add pop-ups, social share links, and so on. Just grab what gets it done now instead of delaying yourself months or even years for no reason... Insight #2: Stop Switching Gears and "Chunk" Instead Speaking of WordPress, use its scheduling feature. Scheduling is one of the few hidden "Easter eggs" hidden in WordPress and I'm constantly amazed at how few people know that this is a thing... Here's how it works: let's say you create a WordPress blog and you decide that once per day, you want to post a new video reviewing the latest iPhone or Android app... That's a huge time commitment. Literally every day, you're going to have to login and research that latest app. There's no guarantee that you'll find something good. Maybe you won't be motivated that day. Maybe you'll have something better to do or a huge emergency will come up and stop you... And then... you might miss a day, two days, a week, and then think to yourself... it's been three months since I posted a video about the latest app. It wasn't a priority then, so why should it be a priority now? Posting one or two videos didn't seem to get me much traction, and maybe if I'd posted 50 to 100 videos I'd see real results, but who has that sort of patience? Solution: Schedule several posts every time. With WordPress, you can add a new "post" (journal entry) and Publish it, or set it to go live instantly. Or, you can change the date to go live tomorrow, in a week, or two weeks. WordPress has built-in drip content (just set the date and time of your posts into the future) without any special plugins. Just imagine, on a Monday, grabbing five YouTube videos from various sources reviewing the latest apps (with your link at the bottom) and you'll set those posts to go live on Tuesday morning, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Or, how about this: on April 1st, schedule two weekly posts in advance. That means that on April 1st, you just scheduled posts on your blog for April 1st and April 8th... Then, on April 8th, you already had that day scheduled. You schedule your two videos to go live on April 15th and April 22nd... Keep this up for 10 weeks (three to five minutes per day) and by June 3rd, you're already scheduled ahead to mid-August. And by August, you're scheduled ahead until the following year. Just by posting more than what you need, the website (WordPress) will work on autopilot for you, even after you've put it out of your mind. Constantly switching gears and putting out fires is a MASSIVE time waster. Avoid it by chunking up your tasks and scheduling things out on autopilot for many weeks to come. Insight #3: Imagine a Clear CONCRETE Vision of What the Future LOOKS Like It sounds super hokey, but most self-help (Napoleon Hill type of stuff) revolves around you usin...

Nick Zyrowski from NuVisionExcel.com created one of the earliest online stores providing health advice, supplements, and lab testing to allow people to put themselves in the driver's seat of their own health. Listen in as he discusses his struggles of coming in "too early" (before online health became mainstream), his strategy of getting clients one at a time, his progress of getting his offers to "catch on" and his entrepreneurial attitude of trying new things. Resources NuVisionExcel (Blog) NuVisionExcel (Podcast) Cellular detoxification program (Website) NuVision Health Center (Store)

Are you ever afraid of the unknown? Do you sometimes doubt your capabilitity, are you worried about sounding stupid, and are you struggling to break out of your shell? Zaheen Nanji from ZaheenNanji.com wants to help you face your fear, be okay with falling down, course correct, have self-awareness, get help from a coach, make progress with baby steps, get your mindset right, and so much more.

Christina Baldassarre creates successful brands. In her last year of college, she started Zebra Advertisement, a digital marketing agency, and the company grew to manage over $1 billion in advertising budget in just five years. During her journey, she became a leading brand strategist, successful entrepreneur and sought-after speaker. Zebra Advertisement has been named as one of the most entrepreneurial companies in America today by Entrepreneur Magazine. Their clients include Microsoft, Bing, Facebook, Google, Yellow Pages, Thomson Reuters, StateFarm, and over 21,000 other businesses from over 20 countries. Resources Zebra Advertisement (Website) Christina Baldassarre's (Blog) Christina (Twitter) Christina Baldassarre (Facebook)

Jonathan Rivera comes from a blue collar background. He left the rat race to pursue real estate. He runs a successful rental business in only 4 hours per week. Today, his main focus is running The Podcast Factory (podcast network and production company) where he is surrounded by some of the world's most respected direct response marketers. Resources The Podcast Factory (Website) BaseCamp team management tool (Management Tool) Doberman Dan (Podcast) Kyle Newell (Podcast)

After scaling a 7-figure online business, Ben Pyle and his wife Caitlyn Pyle founded The Work Anywhere Life where they help people start their first online business using an online course model. They also help people upgrade their mindsets to achieve their goals with Mindset University. In our call today, Ben talks to us about his and Caitlyn's failures and successes in business. Mistakes are part of entrepreneurship! Ben also shares some of his ah-ha moments when it came to finding new customers for his business. Resources The Work Anywhere Life: (Free Strategy Guide) The Work Anywhere Life (Website) Proofread Anywhere (Website)

Joe Kashurba from KashurbaWebDesign.com grew the freelance web design business that he started in high school into a digital agency with a virtual team and clients around the world. He went from building $300 websites to building $30,000 websites and managing 6-figure digital advertising budgets for some of the largest manufacturing and construction companies. Joe now advises and mentors other freelance web designers and digital agency owners on how to develop and scale their businesses. He talks to us about his favorite traffic methods (cold emails, direct mail, and AdWords), as well as how he lands new clients by asking them about their needs and wants (for example, a member's area or employee training site). Resources KashurbaWebDesign.com: (Done-For-You Service) JoeKashurba.com: (Freelancer Advice Blog)

Chad Mureta from App Empire was making money but was working too hard at his real estate business when his car hit a deer and he was hospitalized. During that time, he cracked the code to app creating and built a thriving business (his Emoji app has had 150 million downloads). Listen in to hear about his advice on life, entrepreneurship, and becoming your best self. Resources App Empire (Book) Chad's top resources (Website) App Empire blog (Blog)

Randy Rayess is the cofounder of Outgrow.co, a growth marketing platform where any marketer can build highly converting calculators & viral quizzes to increase customer engagement and boost demand generation. He is passionate about growth hacking, content marketing and personalized marketing. He talks to us today about how we need to create interactive content to stay ahead of the game. That can be something as simple as a quiz (that requires an opt-in to get the results, or that redirects someone to a location based on their score -- or even alerts your sales team). You can use quizzes to complement long pieces of content, or even run a sweepstakes.

Stacey Hylen is an internationally recognized business growth strategist and coach and was named International Coach of the Year in 2016. Stacey helps 6-7 figure entrepreneurs with powerful marketing and sales strategies to get more clients. Resources BusinessOptimizerCoach.com (Website) Stacey Hylen (Facebook) Stacey Hylen (Twitter)

Peter Mehit is a veteran of both the Fortune 500 and tech startups. He worked worldwide as a business process troubleshooter and outsourcing deal leader for Computer Sciences Corporation. He has also participated in internet and consumer product start-ups and has started four of his own companies. Today, Peter talks to us about why it's important to have a clear business plan. He also explains how important it is to know who you're selling to (demographically, psychographically, and physically). You also need to know what you're selling (and What's In It For Me). People want quick end results and they buy based on emotion, so know what problem you're solving and visualize what that is. Resources Killer Business Plan: Why You Need It, How To Write It (eBook) CustomBPS.com (Website) Peter Mehit (YouTube) phone number: 800-741-8444 Napoleon Hill's Master Key to Riches (Book)

Tracey Osborne says that you should know what you want, be open to learning, and find that perfect virtual assistant to leverage your time and scale your business. She tells us how to hire slow and fire fast, and makes us aware of the possibilities that come from hiring a "VA"... for example, her team of virtual assistants can organize entire telesummits for you, run podcasts, publish newsletters, create your funnels, and more. Resources Schedule a consultation with Tracey (Schedule Website) TeamWork Management App for teams (Team Website) TalkToTracey.com (Website)

Myke Metzger from MykeMetzger.com (email him directly at [email protected]) has had a lot of online success in a short amount of time, and not only has an amazing lifestyle, he also generates income getting traffic for top performers. Myke explains his affiliate marketing strategy. Instead of the outdated MLM model of recruiting friends and family, Myke says that it makes more sense to position yourself in front of people who are already looking for a particular solution. (For example, software, luxury automobiles, and high-end water filters). He also believes in focusing on higher conversions and testing your results. Don't be like most people who simply "get ready to get ready"... take small actions today that pay off in the near future. Resources Myke Metzger (Website) Freebie Hacks (Site) Travel Hacks (Site)

Dawn Jensen from DawnShowMeHow.com is all about reusing your content. If you're ready to live the laptop lifestyle and enjoy a huge social media reach with your content marketing, without working too hard, then you're in for a treat. Dawn discusses: how to repurpose videos and audios (for example, turn a 90 second video into an audio and a podcast episode) how to curate your own evergreen content into shareable facts, figuers, statistics, quotables, and checklists curate from other sources including Hewes, Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine and Inc Magazine why you should look back at your last few years of blog posts to find new ideas to update that speak to what your audience is doing now the feedback loop prep, presence, plan, and pivot Resources Social Mention (Website) Social Searcher (Site) KnowEm (Site) NameChk (Site) Dawn Show Me How (Site)

Jena Rodriguez from BrandWithJena.com wants you to understand the difference between a brand (the inner game of what you stand for) vs. branding (the outer game of how you express those core values). She has a 12 component system called branderity that involves communicating with those brand fans to understand their problems, their language, and combine that with your unique story. That leads to your website colors, positioning, price, marketing message, and so on. She also tells us how to prevent getting bogged down with your branding and why you should be clear instead of clever. Resources Brand with Jena (Website) Brave Entrepreneur Podcast (Podcast) Digital Maestro (Case study)

Todd Lemense (Twitter.com/todd_lemense) becomes the first ever return guest on our program! A motivational speaker, he says that most people fall into the trap of "destination thinking" ... the idea that a single event, such as a product launch, wedding, or birth of a baby will be the "single moment that changes everything" when in reality, it's all about those consistent daily actions. Instead of being disappointed when "that one event" didn't change much, learn to enjoy the process. Manage your fear, hope, and expectations with daily goals. Don't cop-out by thinking "I don't have that problem." Educate yourself about your own emotional maturity, and spiritual/health/financial status to reach that higher standard. Everyone, including celebrities like Carrie Underwood and Tom Brady, have multiple coaches just to become 1% better (or maintain the same skill level), so you need a similar resource as well.

Quotes from Thought Leaders "The secret joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it." -- Pearl Buck "You get good (and fast) at what you do a lot of." -- Robert Hunt "If I had more time, I would have written you a shorter letter." -- Winston Churchill Productivity tip: set high resolution pictures of nature as your desktop background (and set it to change once per hour if possible) Self-Publish a Book on Amazon Get out more: stop showing off to your peers so much and solve real problems that people are looking for. The danger in copying what's right in front of you is that you only copy "the top layer." Most people have a tendency to make simple things complicated (including your future buyers, your fellow competitors) and blindly copying someone else just leads to something that's hard to follow. You need to be a content machine (hint: content can be videos, podcast interviews, not necessarily articles and blog posts) 80% of life is just showing up. You should have at the very least, a short book with your best blog posts. Dish some helpful advice anyone can pick up. Be the person that stuck around and kept selling books after everyone else gave up because it was "too hard." Giving up and procrastinating aren't "real" things. It's just a matter of incorrect priorities. Amazon books last forever, even if you die and your websites are gone (although you can edit or unpublish at any time) -- use it to silence the haters in your life and show them you have a real business. It's a must-have credibility tool that ALL successful people have (celebrities, politicians, thought leaders) It's free. Amazon only takes a cut. You can publish unlimited books, with unlimited pen names, so why not do it? It's easier to edit crap than air. Get that first draft completed so you have something to edit. Your message is more important than one or two typos in a book. Don't quit. Take action now. The time will never be just right. A year ago, you'll wish you had started today. Write a Book with Lightning Speed Speak out the book YOURSELF and get it transcribed. That way you don't take forever on it, and you're saying it in your voice the way you "would have said it." It's done while you're still within the three day window of excitement. You need a guide from someone who has done it before. And a proven system so that you can easily follow in their footsteps, and then repeat the process yourself over and over again. Have a real deadline, know why you're doing what you're doing and know exactly how much progress you've made. There's no such thing as being 80% or 90% done with a book. Are you in the outline stage, speaking stage, editing stage, cover stage? Use 10-7-4 to pile in "too many ideas" and reduce down to just the important ones, and then WWHW to ensure those short chapters are packed with value. Use the step by step process to overcome uncertainty, scope creep, and negative associations to "that damn book I can't seem to finish." Resources  Make a Product (Book Publishing Course)

Jason Hartman (JasonHartman.com) is all about having that healthy entrepreneurial mindset and wants to talk to you not only about his own up's and down's, but the common mistakes and solutions that we all face. First, Jason realized early on that he loves to work and that his business actions represent his own creative expression. He also discovered that to narrow down that perfect niche, find your passion (that also results in income) and diversify so that it remains evergreen. To tackle frustrations and roadblocks, he treated himself as his own first client when it came to solving a problem and "building a better mousetrap." Finally, Jason explains what drew him into the world of podcasting, as well as his number one secret about podcasting: that it's all about the listener, and not the guest. Resources Jason Hartman (Official Website) Hartman Media (Website) Jason Hartman Economist (Website)

Neil Berman has a lot to say about multi-channel marketing (site, blog, social, SMS, postcard) and his service Delivra.com can help you stand out from the blizzard of emails with some smart marketing. He dives into many different scenarios and case studies showing how you can use analytics to draw conclusions about your visitors, send alerts to your staff to directly contact your visitors, and segment your list into three groups (those that don't respond, those that are always active, and your true fans). Neil also shares the best advice he ever received about starting a business: creating a solution that is faster, better, AND cheaper than what's out there.

Damion Lupo says that when it comes to choosing the people you want around you, "The way they do SOMETHING is the way they do EVERYTHING." For Damion, money is a side effect of what he does, and he's more focused on circulation and contribution, helping others succeed financially. Listen in to our conversation as Damion talks about owning our own life, absorbing values, and modeling the right people (paying close attention to what's under the hood as opposed to that external visible lifestyle). He's got lots of life advice about everything from disconnecting digitally, to noticing/observing nature and spending time thinking about those bigger issues. Resources Total Control Financial (Website) Reinvented Life (Book) Hal Elrod's The Miracle Morning (Book) The One Thing (Book)

Do you sometimes feel that money is in control of you, or otherwise has you backed into a corner? Hilary Hendershott is a financial advisor who believes your money operating system (that limits your beliefs) is based on your first money experience. If there's never enough money, you need to allow different results. Replace your beliefs with new ones, stop saying the same tired phrsaes, create a spending plan, and then follow actions that support that plan to completely change your life and outlook on money. Resources Hilary's TEDx talk (Youtube) Hendershott Wealth Management (Official Website) Money Blueprint for Business Owners (Website) Profit Boss Radio (Podcast)

Tim Kitchen from Exposure Ninja (claim your free website review at ExposureNinja.com/review) is an expert at creating five-page sites. If your business needs a website, or just a website makeover, Tim's process involves discovering your businesses core services. Each of those sub-services requires a separate page on your website. Also, every business needs a blog to answer the 20 most important questions your customers have, in the form of in-depth blog posts. Resources Exposure Ninja (Website) Free Website Review (Website) Answer The Public (Find Common Questions)

Do you know how time seems to speed up as you get older? The solution for that is to change up your experiences and do new things to slow time back down. Get out of the usual routine. Go on a trip, spend weekends off the computer, walk, run or drive. Go to the movies. (Not TV.) Productivity. Shut off email, phone and Facebook, and complete four money making tasks per day. Wake up early. Drink water. Anchoring. If you're not making money at the computer, you associate computer time with "all that frustrating stuff." Know when you're "stuck" and leave the computer when that happens. Stop resting on your laurels. You'll never get today back, ever again. Fish before you're hungry and don't try to play "catch up" so often. Small wins. What can make you $10 or $100 today? Know what questions you're answering in your mind. Know why you're doing what you're doing. For example, maybe the current problem you're trying to solve is to complete a website. Don't worry yet about making sales or dealing with refunds. Get the website COMPLETE first. Sell what you sell. Membership site. Single payment. Deliver some videos that get them from point A to point B in four milestones of 60 minutes or so. Most people want beginner training. Resources Membership Cube (Membership Cube Complete Course)

Aaron Anastasi from TheVoiceOfYourDreams.com has been on a journey from being an up-and-coming singer to a online teacher. He shares many of his success principles, including finding the joy in service, having a big "why", skylining it, talking to a singular customer avatar, and making use of deadlines and structures. Resources The Voice Of Your Dreams (Books Website) The Voice of Your Dreams (Book) The Voice of Your Dreams on Audible (Audio Book) Aaron Anastasi (Instagram) Aaron Anastasi (Twitter)

Maribeth Kuzmeski from RedZoneMarketing.com has some breaking news: most companies' messaging sucks! They don't have a value proposition, story, elevator speech, or anything of the sort. Instead, specialize in something specific, focus on what's in it for your customers, model your competitors, and think about the outcomes/emotions you can provide for people.

Michelle Prince from MichellePrince.com says that everyone has a story. She's an expert at taking anyone who wants a non-fiction book and fleshing out not only what they want to accomplish with that book, but also developing the first draft and editing it into something publishable. She also talks about the different types of books you can create, from a business card book, a small "7 things" book, a huge story/message book, or a multi-author book where you only write one chapter.

Stephen Rodgers from TheAlchemyAdvisors.com wants to help you discover your higher purpose and develop a life/business plan around that. Steve shares his best resources with us and talks about his daily ritual involving exercise, affirmations, yelling/screaming to music, and his daily scoreboard point system. Resources The Alchemy Advisors (Podcast) Focal Point Coaching from Brian Tracy (Coaching and Training Website) Mind Valley (Website) Code of the Extraordinary Mind (Book) Think and Grow Rich (Book)

Sarah Grear from SarahGrear.com/robertrules is a copywriter who enjoys creating the "launch stack"... creating a website with landing pages, marketing emails, funnel, opt-in pages, Facebook ads, and more. She explains her copywriting process to us, common mistakes people make when launching their products, and the things you need to know to make your upcoming product launch a huge success.

Kerry Heaps from StrictlyMarketingMagazine.com has had to wear a lot of hats in her offline and online business career. She has some very helpful and interesting thoughts about outsourcing, fine-tuning your business, making more sales, and having stronger marketing.

MaryJo Cranmore from MaryJoCranmore.com and Message2Media.com says that you have a unique ability (a superpower) and that can be the basis for the branding that you cultivate. Take those raw materials, hobbies, your skillset (what you've learned), your accomplishments (your experiences), and that unique piece of you to get noticed and stand out from the crowd.

Rachel Archelaus from RachelArchelaus.com and IntuitiveArtAcademy.com has some entrepreneurial advice to share with you when it comes to tapping into your creativity, getting outside of your own head, and turning on your brain flow. Her method involves asking the right questions of yourself, drawing on crayons (or colored pencils) and paper, scribbling with your eyes closed, and then decoding the drawings and colors used in that drawing to achieve huge insights. She also talks about the up's and down's of her business journey and shares ways to be more productive and give yourself more credit for your accomplishments.

Brad Baldridge from TamingTheHighCostOfCollege.com is an expert in both late-stage and early-stage college planning, and he gives you several options when it comes to raising money to pay for your child's college education, including side hustles and building businesses your future college student can run.

David Jenyns from AuthorityContent.com heard of a marketer who sold pieces of the Brooklyn Bridge and modeled this success to sell the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). He's discovered that you can model (not copy) an idea to make it your own and then own that success or failure. Drill down to a speciality, find a specific need, and sell it to the immediate crowd in front of you. David has a number of insights about direct mail, online marketing and SEO, getting attention, systems/processes, and delegation. He talks with us today about recurring revenue and the 3 P's of content marketing: Present: organize a (one-take) live event to teach your best content to a real crowd (take photos) Product: repurpose that content in a 4-day cash machine Promote: repurpose into hundreds of pieces of audio and video Resources Authority Content (Book) System Hub (Website) Mebourne SEO Service (YouTube) David (Twitter)

John Dwyer from TheInstituteOfWow.com has noticed that many businesses simply "spray bullets" -- they don't use direct response techniques to measure their marketing. They should use the Wheel of Wow: Identify your most profitable customer: not your target audience, an actual person... then market more people like that Add Wow Factor: get prospects to take their eyes off the price (the Happy Meal effect) Position problem/solution scenario: the same way weight loss companies market (before and after) Fix your website: make sure it has those sticky ingredients (welcome video, headline, testimonials, data capture) Repetitive trade: get customers to use a loyalty/reward system (think "sandwich punch card")

Keith Callahan is a husband and father of four who can show you how to get not only financial freedom, but freedom of time as well. He's made money with real estate, financial consulting, network marketing, and life coaching. He has a number of insights about the difference between inspiration vs. perspiration, along with self-obsession, perspective, and gratitude. Resources Keith Callahan (Official Website) The Business of Life Podcast (Podcast)

Sherrie Sokolowski (email address [email protected]) from SLSEventPlanning.com is an event planner who can structure, strategize, and fill seats in your live events. She has tons of unique insights about "modern" soft-sell events and workshops with bonus days. She wants to tell you about common mistakes made with events, venues, overflow rooms, webinars, live streams, cancellations, and more.

Pamela Gockley from Repuatus.com wants you to work on your reputation. Branding is who you are, but reputation is how you're perceived (which may be egotistical, narissistic, or aggressive). It's important to take the DISC profile test (every year if you can) so yoy find out who you really are, and then apply the four D's... Discover: discover your past and personal awareness, how do people perceive you? Define: set goals Develop: website, target marketing, and messaging Defend: how to react or apologize if the "shit hits the fan" Resources Reputatus (Website) Email: [email protected] The Art of Running Red Lights (Book) The Reputation Factor (Book)

Diane Gardner from TaxCoach4You.com is a tax superhero and wants you to avoid mistakes you're making on your taxes, such as using the wrong entity type or not deducting meals and entertainment. You can make use of your home office deduction, hire your kids, make use if health insurance and retirement if you know what to do.

Jeremy Knauff from Spartan Media can help you with your goal setting, and to get more traffic to your website. The low-hanging fruit is to use the Google PageSpeed tool to measure your site's speed (remove slow plugins), as well as the mobile friendly test (refine your tap targets and adjust images that are too big). Next, optimize your site for what your users want, as well as their intent (for those customers who come to your site for a specific purpose, for example, to find a phone number or address). Resources Spartan Media (Website) Spartan Media (Facebook) Spartan Media (Twitter) Amazon found every 100ms of latency cost them 1% in sales (Blog post) Jeremy Knauff on Search Engine (Journal) Mistakes Smart Web Designers Make That Can Kill SEO (Podcast) Google PageSpeed Tool (Tool) Mobile Friendly Test (Test)

Mark Walker from Luxmana Investments wants you to escape the rat race. He wanted to leave the corporate world and read "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" which led him to generating enough passive income from real estate flipping and investing to eventually quit his job. In our discussion today, Mark talks about discipline, lifestyle, decision-making, priorities, procrastination, and inspiration.