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Ep 163163: Seven Deadliest Communication Sins with Skip Weisman

Bestselling author of the book, Overcoming the 7 Deadliest Communication Sins, Skip Weisman, shares the ebb and flow of his sports career and life in general. Just like many CEOs, he started from the bottom and earned his way to the top running his baseball team. Skip shares his strategies in marketing for games through media exposure and joint ventures, with the highlight of his career is developing his strategy in leading a team by conceptualizing the seven deadliest communication sins. As he walks us through each of the sins, he gives out the ways in how to correct or counter them. Know more about this strategy from Skip as he discusses it further in 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

Oct 20, 201939 min

Ep 162162: Investing In Real Estate With Jason Hartman

Business success is largely about the model of the business and not about the industry or anything else. Investing in real estate can provide you highest returns, greatest values, and the least risk. A master of real estate investing and the CEO of JasonHartman.com, Jason Hartman shares his tactics and tips in real estate investing by building his own network. He talks about a system he created that will allow real estate investors to step in and work with his own people to secure real estate and use it as an investment vehicle that could potentially last a lifetime. Learn more about Jason's one-stop shopping solution for real estate investing.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

Oct 12, 201945 min

Ep 161161: Attracting Influencers with Cloris Kylie

Being a positive magnet to many people means you have something great and impactful to offer them. Cloris Kylie, a master marketer with a bestselling book and a powerful podcast with Network and YouTube, teaches us the steps on how to become an influencer and how to deliver the biggest impact to your target audience. Going deep into the tactics that will help you reveal your true magnificence, she explains what borrowed influence, value proposition, and CRM systems are all about. Discover your potential through this episode as Cloris reminds us to awaken our inner knowledge so we can have the power to influence and change the world.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

Oct 6, 201939 min

Ep 160160: Discovering Your Better Self with Ron Baker

Teaching others how to be attuned to their personal intuition is what Ron Baker has been striving to do to help make this world a better place. Ron is a bioenergetics therapist, speaker, author, and healing practitioner. In this episode, he shares his emotional life story of how he overcame childhood wounding to how he discovered the gifts that made him who is today. He also shares the amazing lessons he learned from different teachers and experiences around the world. Creating his own version of a better self, he developed a system that he shares with others to allow them to grow and transform.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

Sep 29, 201948 min

Ep 159159: The Inception Close: How To Get The Buyer To Make The Close with Oren Klaff

Every business needs capital for growth. However, if you don't know how to get people to want your company or sign contracts with you, then how can you succeed? Change the way you think about raising capital and closing sales forever with a powerful paradigm shift from best-selling author and Pitch Master, Oren Klaff. Oren is a successful investment banker who has helped companies raise capital and sell their big ideas. Left wounded by his initial business venture, he was fired up to learn how finance works to raise capital. In this episode, Oren shares the tactics and sweet tips you never knew existed. He also talks about this best-selling books and how you can emulate his achievement. Don't miss this chance to catch Oren's giveaway - a chance to win a private half-day consultation with him.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

Sep 22, 201945 min

158: Halle Eavelyn on How A Spiritual Awakening Built Her A Thriving Business

Living the ups and downs of everyday life can seem senseless, until it doesn’t. For Halle Eavelyn, it is a spiritual transformation that took her from free-falling without the certainty of a net into trusting the universe to take care of her. Now, Halle is helping others to shift their entire world and level up as a transformational coach. She narrates her own journey of her spiritual awakening in Egypt from the slumber of taking on one job to another. From there, Halle took this amazing gift and built a thriving business out of it. Join us on this episode to find comfort in the fact that the universe has our back.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

Sep 14, 201939 min

157: Inspired Living: Creating Your Own Path To Success with Keri Murphy

If you want to be an icon, Keri Murphy of Inspired Living can definitely help you become one. Not waiting to be validated, Keri made her own path towards success. Keri shares what drew her to create Inspired Living, and reveals her formula for success. She also shares her story about interviewing Kevin Sorbo and teaching NLP in New Zealand, Australia, and Hong Kong. Niching down and focusing on something allows your business to grow faster and better, but Keri reminds us that it is not always about us but about others, too. Discover more of Keri’s wonderful insights about building a brand, using the sizzle reel, and efficiently using videos for marketing in this episode. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 7, 201942 min

156: The Hero Factor: Creating Success Using The Right Mindset with Jeffrey Hayzlett

Hard work is not all it takes to create success. Without the right mindset, even a lot of action won’t make things happen. Our guest, Jeffrey Hayzlett, is no stranger to success. Jeffrey is a global business celebrity and CEO of C-Suite Network, and he has developed a specific way of thinking that will get you at the top of your game. In this episode, he gives us a peek into his new book, The Hero Factor, where he talks about how great leaders transform their organizations and create winning cultures. He then takes us back to his origin story and narrates the different roles and businesses he went through, along with the obstacles he faced, to become the person he is now – from the printing industry and catching Kodak’s eyes, to becoming the host of the C-Suite. Join us to learn more about the mindset and the values it takes to become a hero company.  Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 31, 201950 min

155: Important Lessons To Propel You And Your Business Forward with Scott Duffy

Life always throws its curveball just when everything seems good. That curveball came for Scott Duffy as two brain hemorrhages that arrested his way of life for a while. However, knowing life and its timing, the things that happened to us could reveal itself to be useful in how our future will turn out. This is what Scott learned from Tony Robbins after he picked his life back and became a TV/online personality, keynote speaker, and business coach. In this episode, Scott takes us deeper into his journey while offering four important lessons that could also propel us to succeed even when it seems like we are stuck in our business. As he pours his experiences to us from his failures to his successes, he gives inspirational advice on how to turn ourselves around and win. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 24, 201938 min

154: Achieving Dreams, Helping Others, And Growing Your Business with Ira Wolfe

All of us dream to be more, and while we all start at someplace, not many move on to have their dreams realized. Starting out as a dentist in the 1980s, Ira Wolfe thought there has to be more, and so he stepped out of his role and started to help other dentists and, later on, professionals build their practice and business through his company called Success Performance Solutions. This episode is about living your dreams, and Ira Wolfe inspires you to achieve that just as he has. While sharing his story, Ira imparts the lessons he learned about understanding your marketplace, stepping back a bit from what you love, and producing content in this digital world. Don’t miss out on more things Ira has to share – from growing your business and clients to increasing your revenue. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 17, 201944 min

153: Disrupting The Design Industry Through On-Demand Graphic Design with Jonathan Grzybowski

Graphic designs are vital to brands these days. Companies like Penji have stepped up their ladder by giving business hopefuls a unique on-demand graphic design service. In this episode, Mitch Russo interviews Jonathan Grzybowski, the Cofounder of Penji, about his one-of-a-kind platform and how he created his own success. He teaches us the importance of creating success for yourself first, and then success for others in your world comes next. He also discusses the key difference in marketing and sales, his method for bringing in more customers, and what backlinks are and how to use them efficiently. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 10, 201942 min

152: Acquiring Big Win Clients with Matt Inglot

Acquiring big win clients for your business is not an easy-breezy task. It requires incorporation of numerous elements including lead generation and marketing. Matt Inglot is a man who has cracked the lead generation code. He shares to us how to find ideal coaching clients online, advising how we should not just email them to sell to them but instead to create value for them. He explores more interactive lead magnet tools like calculators and quizzes, and highlights other useful mediums for acquiring clients. Learn more how you get those big win clients from someone who knows what it’s like to be on top, reach rock bottom, and get back up again and turn your website into a lead generation machine. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 3, 201946 min

151: Adi Arezzini on Building A National Brand Of Digestive Solutions Through Influencer Marketing

Many successful business owners often take the cue from their experiences to create an entirely different product that offers solutions no one has yet produced. Adi Arezzini, the Co-Founder and CEO of Teami Blends, has quite an origin story that eventually took her to build a national brand with her products. After suffering from devastating digestive issues that the medical community could not help solve, Adi discovered the perfect recipe for powerful digestive solutions and started growing her business from thereon. She shares her story and offers great insights about what it takes to start and grow your own business, particularly one that centers on influencer marketing strategy using Instagram. Offering some health advice, Adi talks about gut health and the underrated power of loose leaf tea. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 20, 201943 min

150: Elevating To New Heights Through PR with Heather Burgett

Behind a great person is an even greater one who has the power to bring others to new heights. PR expert Heather Burgett of PR Stars is someone who has worked with and touched so many people that we all seem to know - from Steven Spielberg and Ed McMahon to Madonna and Federico Fellini. She has mastered the art of elevation, and in this episode, Mitch Russo brings her in to speak about her stories and how she takes others to new heights through PR. Diving deeper into the parts of PR, Heather gives a little master class on what a press tour and a press kit are and when you will need them. Join Heather in this discussion and learn not only the ins and outs of PR but the important lessons she got along the way.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today: mitchrusso.com Mitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 13, 201934 min

149: How The Amazing Kreskin Hits The ONE BILLION Size Audience

With over 50 years of being in the limelight, there is probably no one who has done what this guest has done. The Amazing Kreskin graces us with his presence to bring not only a smile to our faces but insights that will make us wiser, smarter, and more productive. As a mentalist and international celebrity, The Amazing Kreskin has definitely become one of the masters of publicity and promotion. He shares his journey towards becoming one of the remarkable figures in our history, beginning from that time he picked up the legendary comic, Mandrake the Magician, by Lee Falk to impressing the world. He gives a glimpse of what it’s like being a mentalist, how much of it is natural, and whether or not we all have this ability. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 29, 201943 min

148: The Art Of Human Perception with Susan Ibitz

If there’s any superpower that entrepreneurs and business owners wish to possess, it would definitely be mind reading. Since that’s not easily conceivable to many, having the ability to analyze human behavior, understand body language, and read facial expressions is a tad closer. Susan Ibitz is a Behavior Hacker, Lead Researcher, and Trainer at the Human Behavior Lab. Being born with dyslexia, Susan learned communication in a completely different way. Having mastered the art of human perception, she reveals the way an average salesperson can improve their results using some of the ideas and techniques she has developed. She unravels the three kinds of impact you can have with people, and vice versa. Moreover, Susan gives us a sneak peek of how she does face reading as she profiles Mitch.  Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 15, 201944 min

147: Business Pivot Points: The Key To Survival with Jay Gibb

As markets start to go forward in a direction that may not align with your business product, it is time to consider pivoting your business. Jay Gibb, the CEO and Founder of CloudSponge, has transitioned from failure to provide the single point of integration for address books and social network connections on the market. A technical leader with deep entrepreneurial experience, Jay reveals the hacks to planning and implementing the best strategies for your business to survive. Learn the way to find that pivot point and what do to scale your business. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 8, 201933 min

146: The New Paradigm Of Success with John Lee Dumas

What could be the new success paradigm? In this digital age where content is as valuable as freedom, it is no wonder that virtual reality is coming soon. The founder and host of Entrepreneur on Fire, John Lee Dumas, reveals the greatest hack to success in the world today. A living manifestation that podcasting is powerful, he gives away tips on how to start a business and the secret to getting seven figures and beyond. Consistency is one key, but when you do not see results out of consistency, learn how to handle this from the expert himself. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 1, 201915 min

145: Bouncing Back After Getting Fired with Michael Altshuler

Getting fired can totally punch you in the gut and leave you reeling, but some will admit that it is a blessing in disguise and the best thing that ever happened in their life. One of the notable people who could definitely relate to this is Michael Altshuler. A business expert who broke into the American Gladiators, Michael walks us through what motivated him to be an entrepreneur at an early age. Starting a copier business at 21 which he later sold to IKON Office Solutions, he reveals how to achieve the entrepreneurial dream of becoming a multimillionaire after building something with your own sweat, equity, and hard work. Learn how being written in Harvey Mackay’s book affected his life and how getting fired can sometimes be a stroke of luck. On top of that, catch the mastermind Michael is putting up for entrepreneurs and his eBook that will help you reach your extraordinary goals in life. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 25, 201940 min

144: Developing An Entrepreneurial Mindset At A Young Age with Manuj Aggarwal

If you have an entrepreneurial mindset, when you find success in one area, you think about how you can leverage the strategy and exponentially grow it. CTO of TetraNoodle Technologies, Manuj Aggarwal is a business expert who started at the age of 15 and now owns a learning management platform where people can come in, upload courses and then sell them. As he shares his notable entrepreneurial journey, Manuj tells us how a course creator makes money and how he learned the foundation of building and running a business. Helping founders all over the world to bootstrap their dreams, find out from Manuj what his master class for tech entrepreneurs is all about. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 18, 201932 min

142: Connecting Businesses To Freelance Voice Talents with David Ciccarelli

Knowing you have the talent is not enough; you have to find a way to showcase your talents. David Ciccarelli, CEO and Founder of Voices.com, sparked an online marketplace for voice talent where entrepreneurs and corporate clients are given the privilege to find the great voice for their project, whether that’s to educate, entertain, or inspire audiences. With over 500,000 registered users operating in 160 different countries, David unfolds their journey from having no master plan to serving world-renowned investors. As he dives into the importance of a good banking relationship, David breaks down the three sources of cash and questions that every investor is going to ask you as you kickstart your business. Also, discover why anyone’s better off mastering one marketing channel and how to get the 2019 trends report for styles and types of voices that are currently being hired. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 4, 201942 min

141: Obtaining The Right Professionals For Business Legal Services with Scott Reib

One of the hardships entrepreneurs face is solving problems that involve legalities. That is why it always comes handy to have a relationship with a lawyer even before you end up in a crisis. As a Ziglar Legacy Certified Trainer and Board Certified Attorney, Scott Reib knows the importance of having a team of professionals in your business, and he gives us the reasons why. Scott talks about his journey from being a sales representative to becoming an attorney, sharing how he has navigated through insurmountable problems with grace. Scott talks a little bit about the Access Plan, a system he created to make business legal services and advice available to thousands of small businesses everywhere.  Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 20, 201935 min

140: Time Doctor: Tracking Productivity with Liam Martin

Being busy isn’t synonymous with being productive. Productivity is actually measured by the output of one’s work, and this is vital for every employee in every company. Liam Martin, CEO of Time Doctor, tried to address the issues surrounding productivity by coming up with a time-tracking and productivity tool called Time Doctor. Liam is an entrepreneur himself, and he shares his personal challenges a few years that led him to create the software. Time Doctor has touched over a million remote workers over the last fifteen years, making businesses and remote workers more efficient and productive wherever and whenever they work. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 13, 201946 min

139: Playing The New Game Of Selling with Mitch Axelrod

Every day in business, all of us are pushing to make more, sell more, grow more, and manage the company better. Doing all of these things for some of us is a struggle. Mitch Axelrod, author of The NEW Game of Selling, takes us to the depth of his expertise as he talks about selling and leadership. He shares how he uses the human language as the equivalent of a business proposition, laying down the leverage points in every business. Mitch takes us to his own journey from doing 5,000 sales calls to working in the insurance industry. Giving great wisdom to business owners, he talks about having the beginner’s minds which is taking in as much you can learn even after years in the industry. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 6, 201947 min

138: The Power Of Outsourcing with Daven Michaels

To be an entrepreneur is a tough job especially if you are still starting up a business. You have this vision board that translates your mission to achieve your desired goals and income. The vision you had from the beginning would look really enticing and simple, but once the real process is coming into place, the struggles come in. In this digital era, hiring an assistant has been made convenient. Outsourcing has been the most reliable source to make this turnout. Daven Michaels has a pool of remote employees all ready to assist entrepreneurs with their daily tasks and allows them to have more free time. Known as the “King of Outsourcing,” he runs 123Employee and goes into details on how outsourcing can help small businesses economically hire and grow. Daven shares the different types of outsourcing and the effective ways you can train remote employees. Besides introducing his two big projects on the works, he’s got a big surprise for all the listeners.  Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 30, 201944 min

137: Transforming Lives Through Vocal Awareness with Arthur Joseph

Arthur Joseph is truly a legend in vocal awareness. With his expertise in helping people make use of the power of their voice to influence others and to show effectiveness as a leader, he was able to train keynote speakers and celebrities such as Tony Robbins, Angelina Jolie, Sean Connery, Stephen Covey, Jerry Rice, and Emmitt Smith, to name a few. Most people are incognizant of how voice can change people’s lives, but Arthur knew that the moment his mother dragged him into an accordion studio, changing the world through voice will be his passion. He shares the seven rituals of vocal awareness to help you build your own identity and purpose and overcome the fear of abandonment. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 23, 201938 min

136: Building And Growing Your Online Brand with Alex Lombard

We all start somewhere before all the momentum kicked in and led us to where we are now. Much of this is true with Alex Lombard, business expert and Chief Marketing Officer of Invigor8. From making $1,500 a month to eventually founding a company, he had to work through trials and tribulations before finding success. Alex imparts what he has learned from those years of helping people grow an online brand and gives us a masterclass on starting with social media. You don’t have to be a millennial in order to grow an online brand. Alex simplifies the steps to building and growing a social media presence using Instagram, from the content you post and gaining followers to monetizing it. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 16, 201941 min

135: The Power Of PR with Cameron Herold

Known as the CEO Whisperer, our guest, Cameron Herold, was groomed as an entrepreneur. His father and both of his grandfathers were entrepreneurs, and that’s where he got exposed to public relations in the early days. Cameron has been known to double profits by working with his clients, having built two $100-million companies. He shares his wisdom from stage regularly and has been called the Best Speaker Ever by Forbes Magazine. You're going to enjoy this interview and, in particular, our discussion about his new book called Free PR. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 9, 201941 min

134: Business Success: Where Real Growth Comes From with Mike Watts

Business expert Mike Watts has always had the entrepreneurial spirit. He was the kid in the lunchroom selling candy or the one in the neighborhood who’s mowing a lawn. Eventually, he traveled the traditional route of getting a degree and going out to Corporate America, but found himself frustrated with the environment and the lack of opportunity. Together with his wife, he started hitting trade shows, trying to find a way to hustle and make money. They started getting better and better at it and, along the way, found success in due course. Mike shares from his experience where real growth comes from and the first step most people miss when trying to find success in business. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 2, 201941 min

133: The Magic In Being The Kind Communicator with Elizabeth Barry

In our working environment, we may have come upon people who demean others in order to achieve what they want. Sometimes, these are leaders who tend to walk out of meetings, throw others under the bus, or simply speak in a very mean and harsh manner. Fostering a better way to communicate is Elizabeth Barry, executive coach and author of The Kind Communicator. She takes us into her book and how she came upon a way that would enable individuals to talk through the reaction versus the response as she talks about the magic found in the process of kindness and empathy in business. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 23, 201933 min

132: Conquering Limiting Beliefs: The Journey To IRONMAN with Karen Brown

Having been a child of the late ‘60s and growing up with two alcoholic parents, IRONMAN athlete Karen Brown was driven from a very early age. She had a real drive and will to succeed, the ability to never give up. For 28 years, it was her secret dream of competing in the IRONMAN World Championship. However, deep down, Karen had the underlying thought in the deep recesses of her unconscious mind that she was never enough. It was only after she discovered a mind hack, a powerful lever to access the unconscious mind, that she was able to conquer her own limiting beliefs and self-defeating action and finally went all in and pursued the IRONMAN, achieving her lifelong dream in just two years. She shares with us what she did, what those discoveries are, and how we, too, can apply them in our own life to achieve anything we want. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 9, 201943 min

131: Growing And Monetizing Rapid Growth Companies with William De Temple

Starting life on a ranch, dealing with the care and maintenance of both 350 heads of cattle and many complex farm machines, serial entrepreneur William De Temple learned a way to get stuff done. To this day, he's showing us that he hasn't slowed down. If anybody out there knows anything about ranching and farming, William says they know that the cash is extremely scarce. He recounts how he decided to get entrepreneurial at the ripe old age of eleven, trusted his gut and invested in himself to have grown and monetized four rapid growth companies and turned around numerous financially distressed institutions. William takes us down the road of his illustrious journey. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 2, 201948 min

130: Rick Chapman: Why Social Media For Business is Broken and How to Fix It

The greatest ideas can oftentimes come from a complaint or a problem to solve. For Rick Chapman, the idea for DiiDit came out of the frustration when he could not get a response to his survey requests. It was the genesis of a discussion about building a software platform that would allow people to log in and find things that other people want done and compensate them for doing it. Rick is the managing editor of Softletter also the author of several books covering high tech for the last twenty years, including In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters and Selling Steve Jobs’ Liver: A Story of Startups, Innovation, and Connectivity in the Clouds. He talks about his interesting high tech background, how he got started in the whole business, and his up and coming SaaS startup of which he happens to be the COO. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 26, 201941 min

129: Building Your Email List with Navid Moazzez

Navid Moazzez started out as a low-level bank employee. After stumbling across personal development and entrepreneurship, he realized there had to be a better way. He took the winding road until he hit upon his big idea. He is the CEO of Virtual Summit Mastery now with thousands of students who generate hundreds of thousands of email subscribers every month. Navid teaches how you could grow your business by building your email list. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 12, 201939 min

128: Residual Income And Flood Insurance with Emerson Willis

Being in real estate really pushes you between that thin line of selling a property and then becoming unemployed. Once you’re done selling, the cycle ultimately begins again. Emerson Willis, CEO of Yep Insurance, learned at a young age from his father the importance of having residual income as early as possible. He shares his journey from watching his father to building his own insurance agency that has been growing rapidly today. Particularly, he talks about the state of flood insurance in the country and what unique thing he can offer. Emerson also gives great pieces of advice about starting up a business - from building up a website and sending traffic to building partnerships. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 5, 201929 min

127: Systems, Softwares, And Coaching Contractors with Jim Johnson

Some of us already have that entrepreneurial spirit at a young age. Sharing his own entrepreneurial journey from the age of fourteen is Jim Johnson, business expert and founder of Contractor Coach PRO. Jim talks about how he found his true north as a coach for contractors while giving his own advice to people in the industry. He discusses some of the systems he has built at creating a successful business, inspiring you to work on the fundamentals to support our businesses better. He also gives his observation on the usual mistakes and problems some coaches in contracting organizations tend to commit and how he was able to help them. Discover some great tools on contractor management as Jim shares some of the software that are out there today. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 29, 201844 min

126: Universal Laws In Business And Life with Christy Whitman

The things happening around us are very much rooted in the abundance, or the lack thereof, we feel. What is inside manifests on the outside. Christy Whitman, CEO and founder of Quantum Success, is a believer of this. She sees the unmistakable relationship between success and your vibrations to a higher source. Exploring the source of your abundance, she talks about the Universal Laws when it comes to attracting and creating your own reality, breaking it down with the Law of Attraction, Law of Deliberate Creation, Law of Allowing, Law of Sufficiency and Abundance, Law of Pure Potentiality, Law of Detachment, Law of Polarity. She narrates her journey towards this discovery and brings in some inspiration that marries both business and spirituality. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 22, 201841 min

125: The Power Of Video Creation with Jason Hsiao

As the world has become more visual, it is no wonder that videos have become a powerful tool for businesses to market their own products and services. President and co-founder of Animoto, Jason Hsiao, talks about the power of video and the effect it can have on your company. As someone who has worked as a television producer, he has the insights that could help you push yourself among your competitors when it comes to video creation. He also gives some inspiration when it comes to actualizing your ideas, not letting them get stuck in the air. Moving deeper into the subject, he then shares some of the technical stuff—from the pricing system and Amazon investors to the relationship between the marketplaces and technology. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 15, 201839 min

124: The Art Of Mixing Technology And Relationships with Olof Mathé

Relationship is key in business. A good foundation to build that is through communication, specifically one that stems from authenticity. Being transparent to the people around you and working towards the same goals with passion keeps you connected with them and helps realize business goals. However, not most of us are great at this. We still find it hard to communicate our thoughts well, even more so on a regular basis. Olof Mathé, founder and CEO of Mixmax, shares how he mastered the art of mixing technology and relationships together. Olof talks about his own journey, beginning from when he started up until the great things he is doing now. He shares some great advice on funding, appreciating investors, and more.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: mitchrusso.com Mitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 8, 201840 min

Ep 7373: Vision And Culture Will Double Your Revenue with Cameron Herold

One of the first things that a company needs to envision is how they can price properly their product or service. The other is having a culture that doesn’t necessarily involve top players in the team. As long as every employee is aligned with the CEO’s vision, the rest will fall in. These are the lessons that Cameron Herold learned as he started his early with this entrepreneurial journey. He explains how PR can really help on boosting a company, especially when you get media involved in it. He built a successful company using this, also using culture a key to keep everyone moving to the same direction. Cameron shares how business can get proper financial oversight from their startup stage.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn

Dec 2, 201844 min

Ep 7272: Start From Scratch, The Birth Of A Brand with Brian Smith

When you treat your business like an infant, you’d realize that it will not grow on its own. You have to be there when it becomes a toddler as it looks for potential clients. And then it grows to its teenage years where everything is a risk because there is this want to be everything and anything for everyone. Brian Smith explains the birth of a brand through his experiences in surfing and owning a billion-dollar company. But the best advice he gives to entrepreneurs is to go deep and connect with spirit and know what it is that you really love doing.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn

Dec 2, 201854 min

Ep 7171: Content Marketing: Write to Share with Jeffrey Gitomer

Business owners who work 9 to 5 and go home to work for their own 5 to 9 are admirable. To make this time worthwhile, study and learn something. Put this learning into practice and keep doing it until you become a master of your market. This is how the king of sales Jeffrey Gitomer made a lot of money. And then he went one up and developed “write to share.” When writing has value it is worth sharing, and when you share this valuable knowledge there is not only wealth in it, but also a way of paying it forward. This is the best form of content marketing that is valuable, usable and implementable. Learn the tips of going from understanding to proficiency to mastering and then finally to teaching.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn

Dec 2, 201853 min

123: Maximizing Income As A Nomad Capitalist with Andrew Henderson

Growing up, we have always wanted to become successful. That means acquiring wealth and dreaming of a big house. Yet what seems to slip our minds is the amount of taxes that comes with dreaming of business success. A person who knows this all too well when he started his journey is Andrew Henderson of Nomad Capitalist. As someone who grew up being a big saver, Andrew knows the value of money. He talks about saving money on taxes and offers some astonishing discoveries about maximizing your income to live a better life. Just like the name of his company, he urges everyone to look for opportunities outside of the country and to be a Nomad Capitalist. He gives some strategies that you can employ in setting up international structure for your ventures. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 1, 201837 min

122: Tom Kulzer on Practices That Improve Engagement In Email Marketing

With technology at hand, emailing has become an integral part in the business, most especially in the growth aspect. Talking to us about successfully doing email marketing is Tom Kulzer, founder and CEO of AWeber, one of the most well-known email delivery businesses in the world. Tom shares great insights on how we could figure out a way to get people to open more of our emails. He talks about having an algorithm that improves engagement as well as some of the best practices that he has seen from his best customers, from content to funnels. Tom goes deep with all of this and puts forward how to create connections among people in remarkable ways.  Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 24, 201834 min

121: Optimizing Human Performance with Jairek Robbins

Nothing feels better than being able to serve others and have it circle back to find yourself in a community that is also willing to help you. It’s like the love you gave comes back to you. This is the kind of positive output that Jairek Robbins has experienced throughout his life and now gives back to others. As a performance coach, trainer, adviser, and a congressional gold medal winner, he helps clients and individuals optimize human performance and tap into the seven broad areas of life - health, emotions, finances, business, relationships, family, and spirituality. Jairek shows entrepreneurs to become more aware of their tasks at hand as well as the fires that go on around them. He takes us into the entire process and offers some great advice and tools that will help you do your best and foster that focus you need in your life. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 17, 201840 min

120: How To Show Up For Interviews with Al Cole

Hosting or guesting on a radio show or a podcast has been growing rapidly among entrepreneurs and experts in multiple fields to propel their businesses and careers forward, gaining more clients and followers as well as recognition. If you find yourself interested in pursuing this, you’ll find a lot of great advises here and there is no better person to talk with us about that than Al Cole. As a ten-year veteran broadcaster from CBS radio, an author, musician, and keynote speaker, he shares the lessons he learned that would help improve the way you show up for interviews. Al talks about sales communication and the importance of being able to sell to yourself first. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 10, 201842 min

119: Barth Getto on Empowering eCommerce Entrepreneurs With A Cooperative

Becoming an eCommerce entrepreneur can be a very lonely business. Most of those people are the ones who made that transition from corporate America and into this industry where you have to be everything. Barth Getto of Empowery eCommerce is familiar with this and he aims to help entrepreneurs to navigate eCommerce together. He has set up a unique venture through a cooperative with knowledge of the processes that will take them to success, from the marketing, advertising, and merchandising, to product specialist and dispute resolver. Barth shares some tips and insights about retail, Amazon, and the benefits of being in a cooperative. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 3, 201833 min

118: Online Courses As A Marketing Vehicle with Iman Aghay

The biggest thing that tends to hold most aspiring entrepreneurs back from their businesses is self-doubt. They continually ask themselves, “Do I know this?” As Iman Aghay learned, you need to move past that self-doubt and into actually doing them because only then will you actually learn. Have you ever been in the position where you tried building a course that you wanted to use to create a company and the foundation of what you want to teach? If so, then Iman Aghay has got you covered as he breaks down all the process to get you to realize that with his great experiences as a TEDx speaker and founder of the largest info-marketing center in Canada, Success Road Academy. Iman takes us through a discussion of business models and online courses and webinars, and teaches on how to use these as marketing vehicles to build a relationship with your client. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 27, 201842 min

117: Jeffrey Shaw: The Secret Language For Meaningful Conversations

Not every connection happens with every spoken word that is out in the open. Sometimes, it lies in the secret language that allows you to connect with each other. This is what Jeffrey Shaw believes and he's on a mission to share this with the world. As a high-end portrait-photographer-turned-coach to entrepreneur in the creative business, he helps people find the more meaningful aspect to a conversation: the unspoken word.  By doing this, entrepreneurs get it right from the start because they’ll be working with their ideal customers. Speaking the lingo is about understanding the depth of the people you like to serve, and Jeffrey Shaw willingly speaks about it. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 20, 201839 min

116: Move Beyond The Average Algorithm with Ryan Stewman

Persuading his way into the success that he is in now, Ryan Stewman has got an incredible and inspiring story that will push you to continue with your goals. He started behind bars and eventually moved his way out from the jailhouse to the penthouse by his desire to change his life. Now, he is a sales and marketing expert helping people work on their mindset first towards the path of success. Ryan gives the four areas that we have to focus on to move beyond the average algorithm the society wants us to be: faith, family, finances, and fitness. He gives some great advises on how to do sales right and offers a great gift that simplifies internet marketing. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 13, 201843 min