Your First Thousand Clients with Mitch Russo

Seventeen years in a job may seem impossible to get out of. Yet, the guest for this episode, Paul Cronin, did. Leaving behind the toy business he started from, Paul realized that toys were not his future but building businesses certainly were. He sits down with host, Mitch Russo, to share with us his journey—how he did it, why he did it, and what’s moving the needle for him now. He also talks about how he is now helping others move through the transitions in their businesses and lives and then shares some important advice for those who are still figuring out what to do next. Follow along Mitch in this conversation as he provides an inside look into the life cycle of businesses and more.  Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you a Shark Tank enthusiast? If you are, then this is going to be a treat for you as Mitch Russo is joined by the very first shark ever, mentor and entrepreneur, Kevin Harrington. A hustler since his younger years, Kevin never runs out of brilliant ideas that make millions. He is the inventor of the infomercial and a pioneer of the As Seen On TV brand. Considering what he is worth today, you’d never guess his humble beginnings – a story that he shares in this episode. But wait, there’s more. Kevin also talks about Mentor to Millions, a new book that he wrote with serial entrepreneur Mark Timm, one of his most successful mentees. In many ways, Kevin is a product of mentoring himself and his definition of what a mentor and a mentee should be is worth taking away. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is true that when a door closes, a window opens. For Nikki Rausch, a window of opportunity opened after she got fired from a sales position, which helped propel her to create her own selling system that has since helped hundreds of clients. In this episode, Nikki joins Mitch Russo to share with us the details of her story—from selling leather belts to becoming the Sales Maven that she is now—as well as the sales process that put her to where she is. Along with that, she imparts some great sales strategy and advice that can help even those who may not identify as salespeople become good at doing this very important job in business. What is more, Nikki then taps into the client’s language and the kind of mindset you need to have when it comes to sales. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedInLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you want to start a podcast or do you already have one and want to step up your game? Here are some of the key principles you need to know about podcasting. Joining Mitch Russo in this conversation is Ben Krueger, an entrepreneur, podcast advisor and founder of Cashflow Podcasting, a premium podcast launching platform that has worked with industry advocates, including keynote speakers, bestselling authors and leading consultants. Starting as an intern trying his hands out on his employers’ podcast, Ben quickly figured out the ropes of the podcasting industry and built his own business from that knowledge and experience. From strategic principles such as getting clarity about the purpose of your podcast and knowing your niche and audience, to choosing episode formats, podcast promotion, monetization and content repurposing, this episode is a veritable podcasting starter’s kit. Some of the most valuable tips can be the littlest ones, so don’t skip a beat on this one!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For most families, K-12 education is a fairly significant expense of about six figures, and for many, it’s even more. Mitch Russo’s guest, Grant Aldrich, graduated with an overwhelming level of debt, which almost crushed him. Even more stressful for him was the job-hunting process, knowing the amount he had to pay back. It became such a burden after he started his first job that he decided to change the way students embark on their college education and has revolutionized the entire process using technology and some great systems for planning and production. Hear all about his incredible story and his mission to make college education accessible and affordable for everyone.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You don’t need to be a visionary all the time to succeed. Sometimes, you just have to read the instruction manual and follow the steps. Casey Stubbs did just that and is now reaping the benefits of his seven-figure business in stocks trading. Casey started as a broke dad of nine, who quit his profitable soap business in favor of construction and carpet cleaning just when things didn’t exactly pan out for both in 2008. With his old computer, he tried his hand out on website advertising and went on his way to the top since then. Casey now runs a thriving business at Trading Strategy Guides, helping traders and trading educators up their game by providing the best free trading education and education strategies. He aims to reach $20 million in revenue – a story that he shares to people through his podcast. Listen in as he tells his story to Mitch Russo on the show.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is one thing to start a business at 25; it is another to turn a family business around from being deeply in debt and on the brink of failure to profitability at the same age. This episode's guest is just as legendary as achieving this feat at such a young age. Mitch Russo interviews none other than the legendary entrepreneur, Gino Wickman, the creator of Entrepreneurial Leap and the author of the best-selling book, Traction. Here, Gino shares with us the story of his life and the mission he has set to do. With his book of the same name, Entrepreneurial Leap, he guides those who are undecided about becoming entrepreneurs to determine whether they have what it takes to be one. He takes us deeper into that and provides some great tips and insights on how to harness the entrepreneur that is in you. Save yourself from years of hell in your entrepreneurial endeavors. Learn when and how to take that entrepreneurial leap, minus the crashing and burning, in this great conversation.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is not easy to build a social networking app that produces revenue, especially with meet platforms, which typically derive most of their income from user subscriptions. Josh Simons is the Cofounder and CEO of Vampr, an app that helps musicians discover, connect, and collaborate with fellow musicians, the music industry, and music lovers alike. Before becoming chief executive of a tech startup, Josh has been a singer and songwriter, enjoying a bit of success for a while and working with the likes of Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban. Confronting a dilemma for years about how to make money out of a meet platform without having to pressure his users to get subscriptions, he joins Mitch Russo to tell the story of how he and his team got his company to where it is now and what the app has in store for the music ecosystem in the near future. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With probably thousands of competitors in the same broad space you’re doing business in, how can you cut through all the noise and win your ideal clients? This is a question of relevance, and Bill Cates, the original Referral Coach, is the master of radical relevance – the art of winning ideal clients for your business. His business philosophy is based on really knowing your market and ideal clients, empathizing with them, and delivering a market message targeted to their needs and interests. Starting as a band drummer and wanderer, Bill finally found his passion in entrepreneurship, starting and selling two book publishing companies and authoring four books of his own. For the last 25 years, he has been speaking professionally and coaching small business owners, salespeople, and professionals, helping them learn about referrals and building client relationships. Join in as he talks with Mitch Russo on the podcast.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In any workplace setting, feelings are bound to get heated, and emotions might start flaring up, but if you quickly act on those emotions, there will be a fundamental miscommunication. Effective, efficient communication is critical to any workplace so you have to make sure you avoid miscommunication as much as possible. Mitch Russo is joined by Ethan Becker, an author, executive, and speech coach. Mitch and Ethan discuss some vital tips that can help you avoid miscommunication. Ensure much smoother sailing in your workplace with these tips!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Building a team composed of the right people doing the right tasks is essential in growing your business. If each unique piece of your puzzle isn’t in place, it’ll be difficult to properly scale your operations. Jeremy Macliver is a certified EOS Implementer™, speaker, and serial entrepreneur. He sits down with Mitch Russo to discuss what you should be looking for while building a team. Don’t miss this important conversation!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Success leaves clues, but so does failure. Sometimes, it is just difficult to spot them, even if they are showing themselves right at the onset. Guest and turnaround consultant, John Paul Mendocha, also known as Dr. Speedselling™, learned this the hard way. When his business crashed and left him bankrupt for three years and down into rock bottom, John discovered who he really was and how he would move forward. In this episode, he joins Mitch Russo to tell us about his journey and the true superpower he discovered about himself: speed selling, which, at the heart of it, is all about positioning. He talks about the importance of understanding who you are and what you want first before taking any action. With his latest book, Most Businesses Fail in the First 5 Minutes, John shares why businesses that don't position themselves at the very beginning end up failing right then and there. Dive deep into this conversation to learn more about how to build, fix, and grow your company that is positioned to win.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You could have the most brilliant, most revolutionary concept in the world, but without strong customer support, your business isn’t going to reach the heights that it could. Giving your customers a voice with which to speak is important in building a base of people who will not only continue availing of your product, but will also talk about it with other people. Mark Thompson is the co-founder of PayKickstart. He chats with Mitch Russo about the importance of good customer support in scaling a business for growth. If you don’t think that customer support can make or break your business, Mark and Mitch’s conversation might just convince you otherwise, so don’t miss out!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The path to success has always been different for every single person, but whatever forms those paths would take, the important part has always been building the endurance and perseverance to fight your way through. Attaining success is an uphill battle, and you need to be ready to take on whatever comes your way. Mitch Russo is joined by Blake Ian, the co-founder and CEO of Tawkers. With Mitch, Blake shares his story of attaining success despite everything that he was up against. Let this dialogue between Blake and Mitch inspire and empower you to keep fighting for what you want another day.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When life throws us curveballs, we either get knocked down and stay there or stand right back up and do better. Kean Graham, CEO of MonetizeMore, is someone who chose the latter, and in this episode, he joins Mitch Russo to share the incredible story that took him from incurring a $2.2 million loss to now operating a 140-person team completely remotely. He tells us about his hero's journey beginning with conceptualizing and starting in a narrow niche to getting hit with a crippling blow and deciding to push through and rebuild again, now with a virtual team. He gives us some of the great lessons he learned throughout his experience, as well as some helpful tips and tools on starting a business and hiring a remote team. Follow through this great conversation to find wisdom and inspiration on what it takes to build a successful business, especially one that can take a hit.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There’s no way to overestimate the power of business networking. The relationships formed through such interactions will no doubt be invaluable to you as an entrepreneur down the line, so make the most of them. Dr. Ivan Misner is an entrepreneur and the founder of BNI, the world's largest business networking organization. He sits down with Mitch Russo to talk about the finer details of successful business networking. If you’ve ever underestimated how powerful business networking can truly be, this discussion between Dr. Ivan and Mitch might just change your mind.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A single failure can either break you or make you into someone better. Claiming success after going through failure is no easy feat. Founder and CEO of Seth Godin Productions, Seth Godin, talks about his share of failures, how he used it as motivation, and his perspective when it comes to failing. He explains why it’s important to know what your target audience wants as opposed to pushing your product on them. Seth also gives a reminder on why it’s still necessary to take the human approach and start on building trust even at the expense of losing profit.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s only logical to think that if you aren’t working, then no work is getting done. CEO and Founder of The Vacation Effect and President of Denise Gosnell Consulting, Inc., Denise Gosnell, shares the secret to improving your business while not actually working. In this conversation with Mitch Russo, she talks about ways on how giving yourself space and time off can assist you in coming up with solutions to problems that you wouldn’t normally think of sitting in your office. Denise gives detailed real-life experiences of how she applied this in her life and how it resulted in success for her clients. She also gives tips on how to pinpoint your inefficiencies and turn it around to give balance in your life.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As people grow older, the lesser they are willing to take big risks, and coming up with creative solutions and ideas become a problem, resulting in minimal possibilities for success. In cases like this, creative thinking becomes a critical factor in looking for things to improve. President of Geoff Hughes, Geoff Hughes, bares it all in this episode with Mitch Russo as he talks about his past and how it molded him into who he is. He talks about how perspectives can play a crucial role in defining who you are as a person and how it affects your business. Geoff shares a specific strategy that he likes to use that has been proven time and again to be effective in reconstructing your identity.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Selling tech isn't the easiest thing to do, especially if the tech you're selling is something completely new, with absolutely no exposure in the world. But it's certainly not an impossibility if the people tasked with putting your product out there know exactly how to sell it. Joe Sexton is a mentor and advisor to several big Silicon Valley CEOs. Joe speaks with Mitch Russo about the science that is sales, especially in a sector as competitive as tech. Having trouble getting people to invest in your tech? Joe is here to help you find your footing!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If your strategy aims at changing the world, then it can surely encourage a positive domino effect. In this episode, Mitch Russo interviews Ben Baldanza the CEO of Diemacher LLC, Independent Board Director of JetBlue Airways, and podcast host of  Airlines Confidential. As an accomplished leader, Ben has worked with American Airlines. From there, at an increasing level of responsibility, he went to Continental, Northwest, and US Airways until 2005, when he accepted the role of President of Spirit Airlines. Ben’s journey paved the way to standing out and changing how airlines function. He shares the four pillars that make any consumer-facing business a powerful proposition. He also narrates how he and his Spirit Airline team converted over time from an airline that was low-cost by default to an airline that was low-cost by design.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most people downplay its importance, but workplace culture is a crucial factor in how well your business does down the line. Your workplace culture, your values, must be an extension of who you are as a person - otherwise, it's something you deliberately rebel against. Chris Cochran is the CEO of FreightWise. Joining Mitch Russo, Chris shares his journey towards becoming a CEO and how workplace culture has shaped that journey. The story of Chris is compelling and inspiring, and you definitely don't want to miss it!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever had that feeling that you are meant for more? So many people walk around without knowing their bigger purpose. In this episode, Mitch Russo’s guest, Lisa Sasevich, reminds us of how we can bring more abundance to our own lives and the lives of other people. Known by many as the Queen of Sales Conversion, Lisa has taught over 15,000 entrepreneurs how to sell without being pushy or salesy. She is also the author of Meant for More, a book that guides people into taking advantage of their unique skills. Today, she explains the formula for turning knowledge into profits, including making peace with sales and identifying your unique value. Tune in as Lisa reveals a gift at the end of the interview!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One thing that we commonly hear from those that made it to the top is the word “commitment.” In business, this word is critical as it separates those that are serious from the ones playing around. Revenue strategist and business performance optimizer, Melanie Benson, joins Mitch Russo to share her personal failures, realizations, and mindset that brought her to where she is today, emphasizing the important role that commitment has in everything that she does. Listen to this episode to know how to make sure that the message you’re conveying is presented on the proper platform and is amplified for your audience to hear and understand.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many think that CRMs are the real deal when it comes to managing relations with potential customers, but this is not all true. In today’s episode, Mitch Russo and Adam Honig, the CEO of Spiro.ai, talk about how Adam’s software is thriving in the industry and putting CRM in the back room. He walks us through what it does, how it functions, and their revenue generation activities. Describing their incredible tech, he also shows us how a great sales process is done alongside cold calling. If you want you and your team to grow at what you do every day, be sure to tune in to this episode.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Technology has proven to become a very important part of the business landscapes in the recent years. As such, it is vital that business owners learn how to leverage technology in disruptive and innovative ways for their own existing processes. Here to talk about all things business, especially in tech acquisition, is business consultant, Jim Barnish. Jim shares with us his experience in tech acquisition and the things he did in his own family business. He then gives some business tips and strategies when managing a small to big business. Let Jim teach you what you should think about your business as you start getting some traction and grow it further.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

True customer relationships are dependent on value—how the customers perceive the worth of your products and how they are satisfied with your company overall. In this episode, host Mitch Russo guests Jim Berryhill of DecisionLink to discuss customer value for businesses and the customer value management software that DecisionLink offers. Jim talks about his career in the software technology industry and gives us insightful business tips that can help you drive customer value.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever wondered if there was a way to make your daily email tasks easier? Andrea Loubier, the CEO of Mailbird, is recognized as one of the thought leaders and top female entrepreneurs in South East Asia. Mailbird is a desktop email client for Windows. In this episode, Mitch Russo interviews Andrea about the struggles of being in the corporate world and how email has been both good and bad for productivity. Andrea talks about how emails are made easy with Mailbird and the mission to create a technological solution to create proper work-life balance and focus on things that actually matter in life. Don’t miss today’s show to learn more about Mailbird and discover Andrea’s advice for first-time entrepreneurs.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The way the world is developing, there are no shortages on groundbreaking ideas. The problem is how do you get your ideas out there? You can have the most advanced idea, expertise, or product, but it doesn’t matter if your marketing tactics can’t give you the desired attention and reaction. Bill Bice, the Founder of boomtime, fell in love with small businesses at a young age and has been committed to helping out the industry in his own out-of-the-box way of thinking ever since. Being a programmer at heart, his company developed a platform that scales with the modern world as it fuses both technology and expertise into one service. In this episode, Bill talks with Mitch Russo about the greatest mistakes that people have made in marketing and how you can avoid them. Learn how to maximize your returns using the expertise that you’ve perfected over the years, even if it means that you need to give it away for free.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Privacy policies in your website need to be up to date whenever laws change. However, manually changing or copying policies from other websites can be tedious and takes a lot of time and work. In this episode, host Mitch Russo guests Donata Kalnenaite of Termaggedon to explain to us how privacy policies work and the laws that affect it. She also discusses how Termaggedon offers to automatically update your website privacy policies whenever state law changes.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether you believe it or not, something unseen can bring you all the success you need in life. In today’s fascinating discussion, Mitch Russo interviews the master of Quantum Frequency Range, David Adelson, about how frequencies and alignment can help build your business quickly and successfully. Running a spiritual-based business into an efficient company, David has proven well enough that his process works. He then discusses how finding the right frequency can help solve problems and how his program called Peace and Harmony can help improve group performance.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Professional speakers provide great impact and influence on anyone who wants significant success in their lives. In this episode, Mitch Russo talks about speaking professionally with Libby Gill, the Founder and CEO of Libby Gill & Company. Libby shares her inspiring journey involving taking existential turns in her life, all leading her to become the influential coach that she is today. She also talks about some action aspects that anyone aspiring to speak on stage can do to get started. Listen to Libby’s discussion as she breaks down how speakers earn and talks about her giveaway called the Career Success Academy.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are jerks everywhere, and it is up to you to learn how to deal with them or how not to become one yourself. Today, Mitch Russo interviews Jordan Goldrich, the co-author of the book entitled Workplace Warrior. Having experienced being set up and fired from his job, Jordan has had great realizations about such mishaps and decided to help others who are going through the same scenario. Jordan shares his techniques you can use on yourself or staff members who are being jerks in a business environment and disrupting the business flow. Listen to Jordan as he highlights the value of respect in the workplace and walks us through his coaching method by understanding neural pathways and behaviors.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When you realize that product launching is far away from the Hollywood version of instant success, it's tempting to take the easy way out than march through the grind until it's done. In this episode, host Mitch Russo interviews cloud-based application architect and Locate Chief Technology Officer, Nick Schiffelbein. Sharing his early entrepreneurial journey to finally choosing his life path, he explains the pains and the grind of perfecting a software product to the point that it changes how people do business. Learn the value of having mentors with a long-term mindset, delegating tasks to scale a business, and the power of knowing your customers by heart. Discover Nick's advice to young startup founders with a brilliant idea and are ready to take risks and start their own venture.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the world and in business, sometimes the small ideas are the ones that make a huge impact and truly change the world. In this episode, host Mitch Russo interviews Adam Robinson about his hit email-based retargeting software called GetEmails. Adam is a leading innovator in the email marketing space. Today, he opens up about how and why he got GetEmails started, and shares some insightful tips to improving your sales and marketing.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many entrepreneurs start their journey young. For guest, Roland Frasier, his passion for entrepreneurship began from watching his father. From there, he slowly climbed to venturing out doing deals while still in school. Now, he is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of Leverage, Ext, Grow + Scale Mentors, and the War Room Mastermind as well as a principal in DigitalMarketer.com, among others. With his hard-earned wisdom from the experiences he has been through, Roland takes us to his journey towards entrepreneurial success and provides great insights and advice on pursuing this path your own. He talks about doing real estate and building businesses that sell along with the importance of networking and having a mentor and the value of giving. Follow Roland along his journey and pick up great advice about starting a business, growing it, selling, and even buying another one.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Protecting what you have worked hard for is an utmost priority. Hillel Presser of The Presser Law Firm, PA talks about asset protection. In this episode, he chats with Mitch Russo about his bold decision on shifting from a solo attorney at the Broward County prosecutor's office to going out on his own specializing in helping entrepreneurs protect what they've worked so hard to create. He tells us the five fatal mistakes you are probably making that could strip you of all your assets. With these missteps, Hillel offers some tips you could do to prevent them from happening. Ensuring you can sleep well at night, he shows you what their firm can do for you and your assets.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meetings tend to be the bane of every working individual in this world because, for the most part, they are unproductive and thus, causing a lot of waste in both time and money. Co-founder and COO of Hugo, Darren Chait, is all about saving time and making fast-moving teams to make meeting insights shareable and actionable. Darren grew up with a family with a small business and is all about building your own. This led to his discovery of a time-management tool that came out of his frustration from experiencing the exhausting days in meetings. He shares the story on how it led him to create his product and the critical errors that led him to improve it with his co-founder. He goes further into details on how to answer the right questions and stop wasting time.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your speaking skills can be an avenue for changing the hearts and minds of those who listen to your message and follow your advice. In today’s episode, Mitch Russo interviews motivational keynote speaker and business marketing consultant James Malinchak about his desire to help others in becoming successful in the real world through keynote speaking. James became a stockbroker after college but while doing so, he wrote his first book, From College To The Real World, which became a hit because he taught college kids to interview successfully for jobs. Today, he shares his TOMA or Top of Mind Awareness and 10-10-10 philosophy. Don’t miss today’s episode as James shares some marketing tips for speakers and salespersons and his dream to change the world one speaking engagement at a time.Chait Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Clarity comes when tragedy emerges and becomes a finely-honed tool to help focus the individual on what's truly important. For Jon Ferrara, it was helping others. Jon is the Founder of Nimble LLC and the Co-founder of GoldMine Software Corp. Searching for software to help him build the relationships that he needed to fulfil his mission, he was shocked to find that nothing suited his needs. He his company called Nimble around this incredible CRM idea which is now voted as one of the top CRM providers. Today, Jon talks about the highs and lows of his life, including starting and growing GoldMine and Nimble, dealing with a head tumor, and developing the five E’s of social business.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Life often unfolds its plans for you after it has put you through so many challenges. Joseph Sanok, the owner of Mental Wellness Counseling and host of Practice of the Practice podcast, is no stranger to this, having discovered his path towards success with podcasting. In this episode, Joseph provides great insights about podcasting by sharing to us the journey of how he made that shift. Amidst multiple curveballs thrown his way, Joseph found it instrumental for him to continue to live a life of freedom and less stress. He shares some great tips on deciding whether or not podcasting is right for you and eventually starting your own and getting it ready. Together with his own business, Joseph then talks about how podcasting helps growing and scaling your private practice with client engagement, membership retention, and more.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Any small business owner knows that entrepreneurship has its highs and lows. Our guest, Dov Gordon is no stranger to this. Dov is the Founder of The Alchemist Entrepreneur, Ltd. He is a business expert who helps other coaches and consultants scale their businesses from small into big. He struggled with his own business for years until he discovered the secret that brought a lot of success for his own small company, and then taught it to others. One by one, they too experienced the success that was elusive for all those years. He’s here to talk about how to maximize your unfair advantage so you don’t want to miss this episode.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Technology has conquered almost every industry in the modern world, but there’s one thing technology can’t do yet, and that provides the human touch. It’s easy to close deals virtually, but there’s something different when you do it in person. Founder of the Driven Business School and Life Coach, Suzanne Evans, talks about how desperation became the friend that boosted her to the top. She shares why she chose to ignore technology and do things old school by closing deals left and right in person. In this episode, Suzanne guides us on the ins and outs of hosting a successful event that has been the catalyst for making her an authority in the life coaching and event hosting space. She imparts a lesson about the importance of understanding that, if you don’t ask, you don’t get anything.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whatever industry you’re in, passwords have always been the bane of security. Throughout the years, people have come up with different ideas on how to not only secure their passwords but remember them as well. Inventor of passwordsFast LeAnn Bell, had an idea on how to fix this dilemma and was determined to make it a reality. LeAnn shares her incredible journey of bringing her idea to life and what comes after that. She talks about the mistakes she’s done, and the solutions she thought of along the way. Learn about why fear is the greatest enemy of progress, and how you can conquer it to realize your dreams, and like what many inventors lived for, make the world a better place.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes, it pays to look at what projects you have on the sidelines because they just might be what will lead you to success. Jim Spano is an Air Force veteran who specialized in Russian linguistics. After leaving the service, he went on to work for the Metropolitan Insurance Company and later on put up an insurance brokerage that eventually became a high-net-worth financial planning firm. His interest in real estate led him to establish his own company that focuses on renewable energy solar projects. In this episode, Jim shares how he was able to get back into the black after the real estate crash of 2008. He says that instead of always looking at the next product to deliver to the market, you need to think of developing a platform that would allow other products to get into the market. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When you know a person’s name, then you’ll know how a person thinks and behaves. Sharon Lynn Wyeth is a name expert and the Founder and Creator of Neimology Science. In this episode, learn how Sharon analyzes the essence of who you are with your name. She talks about knowing an individual’s personality traits by utilizing the letters in their name and how it relates to building a business. She also dives into the importance of your brand name and product name to determine its influence and how it will create an impact in the marketplace.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It takes courage to become visible to the world and expose the truth of who you are. Transformation coach and facilitator, Anna Feldman shares her beautiful and inspiring stories growing up with vitiligo and how she accepted and used it as a source of courage and tenacity. From her experiences, Anna found some strategies on how to become visible in an unstoppable way and express fully who we are. Her Heart of Visibility program could change your perspective about the hidden gems inside of us. Read on this episode to learn more about Anna and her work to find inspiration in the power of becoming visible with your truth.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Instagram has grown to more than 1 billion monthly users. Social media has given us this platform to build relationships and influence at a far greater capacity than ever before. In this podcast episode, host Mitch Russo talks with professional Instagrammer and social media influencer Lauren Bath. Lauren is from Australia and deemed Australia’s first professional Instagrammer as a photographer who’s focused on becoming a social media influencer. She has worked with clients worldwide large and small. Today, she shares how she got started in photography, what the term professional Instagrammer means, and how much you get paid by being one. If you’ve dreamed about becoming a social media influencer and would like to know how, you’re about to find out.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From living with convicted felons in prison to rubbing elbows with multi-millionaire entrepreneurs, our guest was, at one point in his life, known as Prisoner Number 1150996. He achieved that lofty title by stealing a car. In this episode, host Mitch Russo talks with the creator of Underdog Empowerment, Zachary Babcock, about surviving the hard life in jail and how things have changes since then. Spending five years in the Missouri Department of Corrections prison system could have changed Zachary in one of two directions – he could have become a hardened criminal or he could have decided that he wanted a different life. Against all odds, he chose the latter and he now helps people build companies by leveraging the wisdom of the multimillionaire guests on his show while making a great living doing it. His own inner work has given him a broad perspective from both extremes of life. He’s here to help you learn how to create your best life and a company that can thrive.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In reality, life as a startup founder is all about dealing with crisis after crisis. Even the most seasoned founders can get disoriented or worse, suffer from overload. Serial entrepreneur Kelly Fitzsimmons was headed for a breakdown at one point until it became a life and death experience. In the throes of despair, she rallied and came back, but not without the scars of a warrior still fresh. She tells her tale not to entertain, but to teach you the way through. In her new book, Lost in Startuplandia, she goes beyond the glitz of Silicon Valley and focuses on you, the founder, just as she was to show you the way back to sanity. She’s here to tell her story and to help you in your own mission of starting startups.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices