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Great quotes can motivate, inspire, clarify, and provoke thought all at the same time. It's why we love them and quotes are some of the most talked about and shared content on the planet. Quotes are so simple, yet can be so powerful and profound. And great quotes that move us can come from anyone in any walk of life. Having quotes that motivate and inspire you is very valuable for times when you're struggling or need to re-center yourself. I'm going to share some of my favorite quotes about business and entrepreneurship, and you should make a list of your own too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Inspiring stories make us feel great, but beyond that they show us what's possible when we set our mind to something and maybe even make us feel more capable of reaching our own goals when we see someone who has overcome incredible challenges to succeed. The story I'm sharing with you today is one I will personally never forget, even though it has nothing to do with me or anyone I know. But I'll always remember it because I was traveling when it happened and I woke up at my hotel and opened my door--and there was a newspaper right outside my door in the hall with a huge photo on the front that was so amazing I still remember it...and that was all the way back in 1994. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fantasy football is a fun game, but it can actually help us develop skills in a number of important areas for business too. As entrepreneurs, we need to always be growing and improving, and it doesn't matter where the development comes from--even from fun leisure activities like fantasy football. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We need to be efficient and keep streamlined to build a successful business. In the hectic day-to-day of operations, it's easy to lose sight of that and let things go on autopilot a bit too much. Here's a simple way to regain control and save you $1,000s at the same time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Perspective is a powerful thing. Our perspective determines how we see the world and interpret it. so when we apply that to business our perspective can either constrain us and limit our results or open us up to unlimited potential. We need to always be growing and expanding our perspective to reach our potential. Reading business books, studying successful businesses and entrepreneurs' biographies, listening to podcasts about entrepreneurship, and connecting with other business owners are all things we can do to both develop ourselves as entrepreneurs and also reach our business goals at the same time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We all need to promote our business to generate leads and sales. But there's a right way and a wrong way to do it. I'm going to share with you my story of a huge mistake I was about to make that would have killed my business, what saved me, and how you can avoid the same brush with failure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the last pressing business problem you dealt with or are dealing with now? Do you know how to solve it? Problems and challenges are a part of business and there's no way to avoid them. but there's a really good chance someone else had the same problem and already solved it. So the fastest way we can solve our own problems is by finding out what others did and modeling it for ourselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you know what the most valuable asset in your business is? Surprisingly, many entrepreneurs don't even though it is the most important factor for success. The sooner we recognize it and take the steps necessary to develop it, the faster our business can grow and the more successful we become. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We can't change the past, but we can learn from other people's experiences and avoid some the mistakes and pitfalls to reach out goals faster and easier with fewer headaches and heartaches. Here are 5 things I wish I knew when I started my journey as an entrepreneur. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes as entrepreneurs, especially if things aren't going well, doubt can start to creep in. Doubt about our decisions. Doubt about our experience. Doubt about our qualifications, and doubt about our abilities as an entrepreneur and business owner. It happens to all of us. Some of the most successful entrepreneurs in history had days that made them feel like giving up. While we can't avoid it, it's what we do next that matters. Here are 7 ways to overcome self doubt.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever needed to do something and knew you did it before but couldn't remember how you did it last time? In life that can be funny or annoying, but in business it can be the difference between profit and loss or success and failure. It's important to make a process for everything that needs to be done more than once or could get delegated or outsourced. Here's why and how to do it... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you work from home, no doubt you've been told by someone who doesn't how lucky you are. But working from home is far more challenging than most people realize or expect. If you aren't careful, you can find constant distractions and see your productivity drop like a stone. But if you do it right, it can also be empowering and liberating. Here's how to do it right, coming from someone who struggled with it and then finally figured it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To build a business we all need help. Whether it's employees or outsourcers, it's best to hire them right the first time because it saves a lot of time, money, and headaches. I made some big mistakes when I first started outsourcing, but I learned through time how to do it right and I have some freelancers that I'm still working with years later. Here are the steps to do it right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether you're still thinking about starting a business, just getting started, or been at it for years... what would you do if you had to start over tomorrow? it's a good question, and while it might seem like fantasy it reveals important insights. The normal thing most people do is start with a product or service, then decide how to sell it. But it today's world, that's hard and it's risky. There's a much simpler way to do it, and if you do it right it's as close to a guarantee of success you'll ever get. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Software and online services can do so much to automate and simplify our business. But it's easy to fall into the trap of buying (or joining trials) apps we plan to use but just never do for some reason. That wastes a lot of capital that could be used for other investments to grow our business faster and make it more profitable. Here is a simple 2-part fix that will solve that problem for you forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We love our business and maybe want to run it forever, but what would happen if we woke up tomorrow and couldn't do it anymore? We usually spend all of our energy and time thinking about how to grow, and most business advice we see is centered around that too. But we need to consider the future and how we will exit, because one way or another we all will. if we've poured years of time, blood, sweat and tears into it, it would be nice to know we will be getting something out of it when we're done and not just have it shut down. Here's how to maximize the exit value of your business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We've all been there...we know we have a lot to do but avoid getting it done and waste time instead. There are a lot of reasons we do that, but no matter the cause there's also a simple fix to overcome procrastination and become super productive. Make a habit of these 5 simple hacks and you'll be amazed by how effective, productive, and powerful you'll become. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The questions we ask ourselves shape our thoughts, mood, actions, and whole perspective. The wrong questions can have a powerful, negative effect and reinforce bad or unhealthy beliefs, shut down creativity, and stifle success. But the right questions can have a positive, empowering effect that can make us more effective and accelerate our success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Email marketing can be very profitable when it's done well. Choosing an email marketing platform can be overwhelming with so many choices, but I learned the hard way that not all services are equal. Here's how to choose the right platform, and if you're already using one how to tell whether it's working well or if you're losing out on extra sales you could be making every single day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joint ventures are one of the fastest and most cost-effective ways to grow your business. In a typical JV, each partner offers something of value to the other so it makes for a win-win agreement. But what if your business is new or you don't know what you have that would help potential partners? Here are 3 ways to joint venture even if you have nothing to offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the toughest things for most entrepreneurs is to delegate and give up control. When starting a business this is good, because it requires a lot of effort, focus, and drive to get a new business started and this get-it-done-myself attitude helps in the beginning. But the same need for control that helps get our business started, also becomes an obstacle to growth because we become the bottleneck trying to do everything ourselves. The key is to find the balance between control and delegation, and to understand what should and shouldn't be delegated and have a process for how to do it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's football season, and that means there are lots of team and player storylines. One fascinating player situation is so crazy it sounds like a made-up movie script. When we look closer, we can see how it mirrors what happens in business and take lessons that every entrepreneur should learn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Having a product or service and a website is no longer enough to be successful online. With overwhelming competition, it's important to stand out with a personal brand that will have your audience searching for you instead of needing to find them. Here are the 5 steps to build your personal brand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you want to get more done in less time and save money too, here are 9 online tools you can use for your business Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are surrounded by health reminders in our daily lives--both the dangers of certain habits and environmental factors, and also the solutions like lifestyle changes, exercise, and more. Most of these reminders focus on our physical or mental health. But there's another type of health that's just as important as an entrepreneur, and it's actually vital to our ability to succeed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Needing a way to convert prospects into customers and sell goods and services goes back to the beginning of civilization. Over the years some frameworks have been developed that are tried and true, proven ways to sell more. On this episode I am sharing with you the one I think is the best. I've seen it used by many marketers and even some top copywriters use it as their template too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With so much to do, it can be hard to know where your time is best spent and which skills are most valuable to develop. We can't be an expert at everything, so we need to decide whether we should become an expert in one thing or spread out our time and become solid at a bunch of things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Business, like life, has its ups and downs. Some days are fun and easy, while others are hard. And no matter how passionate we are, we all have days where we just don't feel like doing anything. But of course we need to, especially if we are leading people because they follow our example. It's important to understand this is normal and not be too hard on ourselves. But at the same time, we need to find a way to keep going and get it done. Here are 10 ways to get focused, inspired, and motivated, even when you're down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

if there was a way to generate extra revenue for your business, without adding any expenses, without any extra ongoing work, and that was set-n-forget simple, would you use it? That's what I'm going to share with you right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's not always easy to see the impact of our actions, both in life and in business. But that doesn't make them less important. Sometimes the effect of a simple thing we do can have benefits or consequences that go on for years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most of us don't have an unlimited budget to grow our business, but sometimes we actually may be better off without it. Instead of spending, it forces us to get creative and think beyond traditional marketing methods. This approach will help you grow your business without spending more and even do it working less by leveraging what you already have Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When we start a business, we think about the freedom we'll have by being our own boss. The reality, though, is we often work more and make less and all of our time is consumed by it, at least in the beginning. If you're spending most of your time on the operations of your business, you're actually trading time for money which is really just a job. If your business can run daily operations without you and still be profitable, you have a business. There's a very simple way to tell where you are with your business now, and a simple way to get to where you want to be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As entrepreneurs and business owners, we are all leaders. Whether we lead people or just visions and strategies, we are responsible for making it happen. Because we are so passionate, sometimes we assume that that alone is enough to make it work. These 4 leadership rules will help you start and keep growing. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brett-ingram/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The speed of the world and business increasing, and it's easy to get overloaded with ideas, content, and new technologies. That can make it difficult to know what strategies and tactics to use and which trends to focus on and which to ignore. But if we think of business in its simplest form, we can cut through the noise and clarify what we need to do to make sure we thrive. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brett-ingram/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does soccer or sports have to do with business? The World Cup is a huge stage with a lot of exciting games, unexpected results, and lessons we can apply in our businesses. Here are 3 that when you apply to yourself as an entrepreneur and to your business, they will set you up for success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We can't control who are parents are or the situation we're born into. But that has a major impact on how easy or hard our roads in life and careers are. But here's the thing... we all get a certain amount of time to do what we will with our lives. So it doesn't matter where we come from, all that matters is what we do. What will YOU do? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brett-ingram/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our marketing emails may never see the inbox of our subscribers, even if we're doing everything right. And because we can send emails daily, if we can double our clicks, we can double our sales and income not just one time but every single day. So getting marketing emails inboxed should be a top priority because it has a major impact on our income. Here are 5 tweaks to make sure your emails get seen by your subscribers. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brett-ingram/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Email marketing can be among the most profitable digital marketing methods you can use. But if you don't do it right, your messages can get trapped in SPAM, or worse your entire account can get shut down. My own email has been a consistent, reliable source of affiliate income for years until recently when it got shut down suddenly. I struggled to get it back up and running, and I was able to eventually optimize it to get better results than I had before. Here's how to maximize your opens and clicks, and at the same time protect your accounts to make sure you can keep sending without issues. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brett-ingram/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Outsourcing is the fastest way to grow and scale a business IF it's done right. Unfortunately, many people make mistakes and then give up thinking it won't work for them. Here's a simple 5-step process for how to do outsourcing the right way. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brett-ingram/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Affiliate marketing as a promotion method for your products and services has a lot of benefits. You have no upfront promotion costs, loyal affiliates will promote every product or service you offer, and you can tap into networks of affiliates that are already in place and waiting for you. But affiliate marketing has its drawbacks too. It takes time to develop relationships, only products and services with certain characteristics are suited for it, and the potential for scaling sales is limited. So is it right for your business? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brett-ingram/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whatever business we have or industry we're in, the one thing we can be sure of is we will experience gut-wrenching problems from time to time. It's normal to feel anxiety, fear, and panic, but it's important to have a strategy to get past that and overcome the issue. I had an unexpected, major problem in my business, and it led me to create a 5-step approach that will help solve any challenge. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brett-ingram/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recurring revenue is like the goose that lays golden eggs, because sales flow in every month without extra promotion. But how do we set it up and how do we keep customers paying month after month? Here are 4 ways to add recurring revenue to your business, regardless of your product, service, or industry. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brett-ingram/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When we think about growing sales, we usually think about more advertising and promotion to get more prospects and customers. But there are ways to generate more revenue without spending more, with just a few simple tweaks to your sales process. These can be adapted to online or offline sales. Any one method can help, but the combined effect is exponential. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brett-ingram/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Life, art, and business are always intersecting at strange and random moments and places. Recently I was reminded of a movie I saw years ago and I remembered a quote from it that always stuck with me. In the movie, it had nothing to do with business or entrepreneurship, but reflecting about it now I think it sums up being an entrepreneur perfectly. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brett-ingram/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As business owners, we're always pressed to get things done quickly, but we need high quality also to win in a competitive marketplace. So what do we do? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brett-ingram/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The business world today is moving faster than ever, and it's constantly evolving. So what worked yesterday may not work today, and what works today may not work tomorrow. There is clear evidence of this in the recent explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) alone, with its potential to wipe out entire careers. So what do we do? The answer is to build a personal brand. When you have a following, those people care about your message and will make the jump to a different platform or technology or medium so it's transferrable and enduring. Here's how to do it: 1. decide who your people are 2. decide what your message is and what value you can provide 3. engage with your audience in whatever way works for you continuously and consistently --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brett-ingram/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When we think of entrepreneurs, we think about visionaries and people who have done things that change they way we live. But not every entrepreneur and business owner sets out to change the world. Some just want to do what they love and make a difference to their customers. Embrace it, do what you love, and do it to the best of your ability. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brett-ingram/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

OK I admit it. My web browsers are overstuffed with too many open tabs. Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox, Edge, whatever. No matter how hard I try to keep my Internet browser organized with just a few open tabs, I always find too many sites or webpages I want to revisit. Then my browser would get cluttered, run too slowly, and start crashing. Finally, I found a solution. This is so clever and cool I had to share it with you. Now it's easy to stay fully organized and still keep all the tabs you want thanks to this awesome tool. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brett-ingram/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We all have goals and things we want out of life, yet some people are more successful in making them a reality. The simple 3-step success hacking formula is the easiest and most direct path from where you are to where you want to be, and it's proof that this is the greatest time in history to achieve anything, --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brett-ingram/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are a lot of important traits to be a successful entrepreneur, but three stand out as predictors of success in digital marketing. When you have these traits, you're set up to successfully navigate the constant change in the industry. Without them, regardless of your current situation, you will struggle to maintain success. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brett-ingram/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices