Archive 3: 2018-2020
591: Run Your Business Like a Predictable, Repeatable, Dependable Money-Making Machine By Delegating with The Techie Mentor Susan Mershon
Susan Mershon, The Techie Mentor, teaches the strategies, skills & systems you need to design, build & grow a thriving Virtual Assistant business. She explains what you need to know to get over the hesitation of hiring a freelancer, and the many options available to you, for example, a website audit.
Resources
- The Techie Mentor (Official Site)
- The Techie Mentor (Freebies)
- Susan Mershon (Twitter)
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590: Family, Fitness, Finances and Friendships: The American Dream Realized Through Hard Work, Positive Beliefs, Sacrifices and Focus with Hayk Tadevosyan
Hayk Tadevosyan has an upcoming book called Mind Control: 14 Principles of Achieving The American Dream - Manual to why most successful people feel unfulfilled and what to do about it.
He's here to talk about his mindset, belief system including hard work and modeling, and compounding. He also shared the 4 pillars: Family, Fitness, Finances, and Friendships. He's all about dedication, simplicity, and course correction... and is here to explain what it takes to live a life of success and fulfillment.
Resources
- Hayk Tadevosyan (Official Site)
- Hayk Tadevosyan (LinkedIn)
- Hayk (Facebook)
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589: Reversing Burnout: How to Thrive, Find Courage to Pull the Trigger, Regain Focus, Be All-In and Have a Greater Impact with Peter Atherton
Peter Atherton is a consultant, speaker, and author of the book "Reversing Burnout. How to Immediately Engage Top Talent and Grow! A Blueprint for Professionals and Business Owners." Pete is the President of ActionsProve, LLC and works with high-achieving professionals and business owners to create greater growth and profits through more effective employee attraction, retention, impact, and branding. For more than 20 years prior, Pete was a very successful and accomplished professional civil engineer focusing on designing sophisticated water treatment facilities and major public infrastructure projects.
Pete sold his engineering firm ownership to focus on designing systems for professionals and organizations to grow and succeed in more relevant and effective ways. Pete has also served in multiple capacities in the non-profit sector to achieve both local and global impact, and is a co-founder of the 100 Men Who Care chapters for Southern Maine and Knoxville, Tennessee.
Resources
- Reversing Burnout: How to Immediately Engage Top Talent and Grow (Book)
- Peter Atherton (LinkedIn)
- Actions Prove: Strategic Planning & Executive Coaching (Official Site)
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588: Your Big Idea: Take Massive Action, Launch a Podcast, Become the Thought Leader in Your Industry, and Stay Focused with Entrepreneur on Fire John Lee Dumas
John Lee Dumas is the host of Entrepreneurs on Fire, an award winning podcast where he interviews inspiring Entrepreneurs every Monday and drops value bombs every Thursday. With over 2000 episodes, 1.3 million listens every month, and seven-figures of annual revenue, JLD is just getting started. Visit EOFire.com to set YOUR Entrepreneurial journey ON FIRE!
JLD tells us about his journey of publishing 2000 podcast interviews in 2000 days, the importance of focus and time management, PLUS why you need to build a following (influence) so that you can network (and collaborate) with others who have a huge following, and network your way to success.
VIsit Your Big Idea to Flesh Out Your Big Idea in Just 3 Hours
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587: Make Time for What’s Important: How to Get Motivated, Stay Organized, Time Block, Prioritize, Amplify Your Productivity and Hit All Your Goals with Robert Plank
Robert Plank from The Checklist Mindset is back with a solo episode to revisit your productivty, mindset, and goal setting!
If you'd like to schedule a call with Robert to get a better handle on your time management, delegation, and technology, then reach out at: Robert@RobertPlank.com
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Must Have Tools
- Second monitor
- LogMeIn (set a conversion job, check on upload)
- LastPass (plus iPhone app)
- Google Drive (share files)
- Learn a few keyboard shortcut
Tool of the Day: Permanent Clipboard for Chrome
Making the Time
- Rewrite goals, write them over and over
- iPhone notepad, set to lock screen wallpaper
- Wake up one hour earlier or stay up one hour later, dedicate the time
- Time block (chunk), automate and schedule
- Google Calendar (take it seriously, keep the connection strong)
- The X Factor: 50 days of consistent (small) progress
- Four Daily Tasks: plan tomorrow, today.
Motivation
- Record a podcast episode or Facebook Live as a sort of talk therapy
- Four Daily Tasks: don't lose momentum & adjust
- Accountability partner: YouTube video, Skype call, text, follow-up at the end of the day
- Countdown timer
- Camtasia Babysitter
- Google Calendar
- Set work hours
- Time blocking: batching/chunking
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586: Dare to Be Seen Using Podcast Guesting Campaigns: Win-Win Joint Ventures, Reputation Management, and Content Marketing with Kansas City Web Designer Phil Singleton
Phil Singleton is a web designer, an SEO expert and an award-winning author. Since 2005, Phil has owned and operated a digital agency based in Kansas City.
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In 2016, Phil and John Jantsch, of Duct Tape Marketing, co-wrote, SEO for Growth: The Ultimate Guide for Marketers, Web Designers & Entrepreneurs. SEO for Growth is an Amazon bestseller and has been listed as a top marketing book by Mashable, Oracle and The Huffington Post. It's also been featured on MSNBC and was named by Forbes as the #1 SEO book on its list of “Essential SEO Books for Every Startup to Read”.
Phil is also the author of a popular WordPress SEO plugin that has been downloaded over 100,000 times in the last year.
Phil's latest startup venture, Podcast Bookers, is a service that helps marketers and executives get booked on established podcasts as way to develop authority and personal branding, improve SEO, and most importantly, generate new leads and sales.
Resources
- Podcast Bookers (Podcast Booking Service)
- SEO for Growth (Book)
- Kansas City Web Design & SEO (Service)
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585: Write Your Book in a Flash to Create the Paint By Numbers Big Business Card of Your Dreams, Apply Structured Creativity, Grow Your Confidence, and Land Your Ideal Clients with Dan Janal
Dan Janal helps leaders build their brands with books. He has written more than a dozen books. His latest book is called "Write Your Book in a Flash: The Paint-by-Numbers Systems for Writing the Book of Your Dreams - Fast!"
When Dan helps thought leaders and business executives write their books, he helps them take their businesses to the next level and exert greater influence.
Dan has spoken everywhere from Beijing to Budapest, from Brazil to Boston. He taught classes at Berkeley and Stanford.
He was president of his National Speakers Association chapter in Minnesota. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Northwestern University.
Dan was an award-winning daily newspaper reporter and business newspaper editor who interviewed President Gerald Ford and First Lady Barbara Bush.
Resources
- For Information About His Book Coaching, Developmental Editing Or Ghostwriting, Go To: Write Your Book In A Flash (Website)
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584: The CLICK Technique, 5-Day Launch Challenges and Local Podcasts: Create a Five-Figure Funnel Through Curiosity, Landing Pages, Irresistible Offers, Then Cultivate and Keep Going with One-Click Lindsey Anderson
One-Click Lindsey is a web strategy expert working with small business owners to help them utilize the web to produce more website traffic and leads.
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Lindsey is the founder and CEO TrafficAndLeads.com that specializes in driving traffic, getting leads and the art of nurturing leads to become lifelong clients. One-Click Lindsey is an expert in landing pages, email sequences, search engine ranking, newsletters, analytics, social media, pay-per-click ads, websites, blogging … the list goes on. She knows how to utilize the myriad of online marketing options to generate more traffic and leads which produces more paying clients.
One Click Lindsey is here to unpack the C.L.I.C.K. technique, which stands for:
- Curiosity (content)
- Landing Page (professional, mobile, Google Analytics, Facebook pixel)
- Irresistible Offer
- Cultivate (follow-up)
- Keep Going
She also explains the 5-day launch challenge and her strategy of creating a "local" city-based podcast to talk to potential clients.
Resources
- The CLICK Technique (Book)
- Traffic and Leads (Podcast)
- PDX Small Business Network (Podcast)
- One Click Lindsey (Official Site)
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583: Beyond the Book: Embark on the Quest for Greatness, Never Stop Marketing, Fight Obscurity, Become Memorable Using an Audio Logo, and Get High Paying Clients with Trevor Crane
Trevor Crane is an 11 time #1 international bestselling author and the founder of Epic Author Publishing.
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He is the also host of the GreatnessQuest.com podcast and co-founder of SuperKidsBooks.com.
Trevor's mission is to help publish 1000 new authors and help people take their LIFE and their BUSINESS to the next level – no matter how successful they already are.
Since 2003, Trevor has been a trusted business adviser, coach and mentor. He is president of Step Up Strategies, Inc. and together with his team, they help companies outperform, outsell, and outlast the competition through systemic and strategic consulting, coaching, training, marketing and support. He helps his clients generate MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in bottom line profits.
Trevor leads mentoring and mastermind programs for service based professionals and entrepreneurs with his wife, Robyn Crane.
Trevor is also a sought after speaker, trainer and coach. His unique commonsense approach, along with his humor, wit, and infectious energy, allows him to connect with any audience.
Resources
- High Paying Clients (Free Book)
- Big Money With Your Book without Selling a Single Copy (Free Book)
- Trevor Crane (Official Site)
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