Want to know the secret to my most effective content flywheel? How to figure out if you're giving away the wrong content for free? Or the best way to juggle multiple content websites? You're about to find out. Today, my guest on the I Want To Know podcast is Alex Howson. Alex teaches freelance medical writers how to launch and grow a specialist continuing medical education writing niche. She offers courses and coaching and runs WriteCME Pro, a professional development membership that provides on...
May 29, 2024•49 min•Ep. 83
How can you easily improve your sales email? Which of your website data points should you pay most attention to? And how can you get your book in front of the people who are most likely to buy it? You're about to find out. 00:00 - Introduction 01:28 - Suggestions on improving a product sales email 13:36 - What data to look for to grow your audience 22:12 - How to market something to the people who are most likely to buy it Show Notes 👉 Watch this episode on YouTube To connect with Josh Spector:...
May 15, 2024•28 min•Ep. 82
This is a special “Flip the Script” episode! Instead of answering a guest’s questions, host Josh Spector brings on an expert he wants to learn from and asks them three questions. Today’s guest is Ryan Deiss. Ryan is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and advisor. He started 17 companies and exited four. His portfolio of companies generated an excess of $200 million in revenue last year alone. But he's also an author, speaker, and creator, and he knows what it takes to scale from a one-person exper...
May 01, 2024•49 min•Ep. 81
Today, my guest on the I Want To Know podcast is Andy Brown. Andy's an award-winning advisor and coach for people-based businesses, helping them grow and increase their value. He's also the author of “The Emotional Overdraft: 10 Simple Changes for Balancing Business Success and Wellbeing.” Published on January 22, 2024, “The Emotional Overdraft” identifies the 10 drivers of an emotional overdraft and the hidden cost line in many leaders' P&L statements. The book enables leaders to create hea...
Apr 17, 2024•46 min•Ep. 80
How to improve your newsletter by getting more out of your archives, shortening your sales sequence, making it easier to publish frequently, and more. Show Notes 👉 Watch this episode on YouTube To connect with Josh Spector: Newsletter: https://fortheinterested.com/subscribe/ Skill Sessions: https://joshspector.com/sessions/ Consulting: https://joshspector.com/consulting/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jspector Apply to be a guest on the show: https://joshspector.com/questions/ Intro Music Provide...
Apr 03, 2024•27 min•Ep. 79
Today, my guests on the I Want To Know podcast are Melanie Marsell and Kathleen Hall. They run Dive the Americas, a boutique ocean travel company that specializes in scuba diving travel experiences in Latin America. Their mission is simple: to inspire a love for the ocean and contribute to its protection through dive-focused travel. They have more than two decades of combined experience in travel planning and live locally in Mexico and Costa Rica. Do you know how to build anticipation for your u...
Mar 20, 2024•44 min•Ep. 78
Today, my guest on the I Want To Know podcast is John Brewer. Jon assists high-performing individuals in transforming their success strategies, emphasizing the importance of well-being through his coaching venture, Authentically Led, and his newsletter, The High Performance Paradox. You can find him on Twitter at @LeadAuthentic, where he shares insights related to performance, personal transformation, and his skill for selecting the ideal GIF. In addition to his coaching role, he's an executive ...
Mar 06, 2024•50 min•Ep. 77
This is a special “Flip the Script” episode! Instead of answering a guest’s questions, host Josh Spector brings on an expert he wants to learn from and asks them three questions. Email automation doesn't have to be complicated. In this episode, expert Brennan Dunn reveals simple ways you can use automation and segmentation to better serve your newsletter subscribers and drive more sales - including how he helped Justin Welsh do just that. Brennan helps businesses better understand and individual...
Feb 21, 2024•46 min•Ep. 76
Today, my guest on the I Want To Know podcast is James Ellis. James is obsessed with using employer branding to make hiring better for recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates. He's written three books on the subject, including Talent Chooses You , which has been referred to as the new Bible of the industry, The Change Agent newsletter, and is about to launch his third podcast, The Definition of Insanity. Ever wonder how to get someone to pay $7,500 for your work instead of $75? Or maybe on t...
Feb 07, 2024•47 min•Ep. 75
If you've got a blog, you're going to want to check this out. 00:00 - Introduction 02:17 - The One Blog Post Every Expert Needs To Write 05:58 - A Newsletter or A Blog: Which Is More Valuable? 14:15 - Book Marketing: Always Give Two Free Copies Show Notes 👉 Watch this episode on YouTube To connect with Josh Spector: Newsletter: https://fortheinterested.com/subscribe/ Skill Sessions: https://joshspector.com/sessions/ Consulting: https://joshspector.com/consulting/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/js...
Jan 24, 2024•19 min•Ep. 74
A big change is coming to my Skill Sessions and I want you to be the first to know about it. Learn more about my Skill Sessions and get them here: https://joshspector.com/sessions/
Jan 22, 2024•1 min•Ep. 73
Today, my guest on the I Want To Know podcast is Ron Placone. Ron's a comedian, writer, actor, and recent filmmaker. He hosts the podcast 1000 w/ Ron Placone, and writes the webcomic Lucy & Ron. This year he released the short film Loner , had a vertical short called Frank Azuri premiere in Rome, and just finished his first feature that premiered in November called Left at Wall . We talk about how there will come times in your creative life where you need to start, stop, or shift the directi...
Jan 10, 2024•47 min•Ep. 72
Want more people to check out your podcast, but have no idea how to make that happen? Struggling to convert social media followers into podcast listeners? Want to know how to turn any single episode of your podcast into your most popular episode ever? You're about to find out. In this episode, podcast growth expert Lauren Passell reveals exactly how to do each of those things including specific, proven tactics she's used with her Tink Media clients to help them grow their podcasts. It's a true m...
Dec 27, 2023•48 min•Ep. 71
Today, my guest on the I Want To Know podcast is Claire Bartholic. Claire has helped hundreds of real runners chase their dreams and conquer what they never thought possible. Her coaching philosophy combines science-based training, plant-based running nutrition, and proven mindset techniques to unlock every runner's true potential. She's a certified running coach, sports nutrition specialist, 2-hour and 58-minute marathoner, and borderline obsessive plant lover. We talk about how to capture peop...
Dec 13, 2023•54 min•Ep. 70
Watch me share some landing page secrets and rewrite a sales page and newsletter signup page in real-time. 00:00 - Introduction 25:51 - A Must-Do If You Publish On Medium And Your Own Blog! Show Notes 👉 Watch this episode on YouTube To connect with Josh Spector: Newsletter: https://fortheinterested.com/subscribe/ Skill Sessions: https://joshspector.com/sessions/ Consulting: https://joshspector.com/consulting/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jspector Apply to be a guest on the show: https://joshspe...
Nov 29, 2023•31 min•Ep. 69
Today, my guest on the I Want To Know podcast is Anita Chaperon. Anita aims to inspire driven individuals to approach self-development as a craft—a more fluid and nurturing self-care set of practices that don't just aim to change behaviors; they empower you to understand and work with your natural tendencies to move through life with less friction. You cultivate a stance of allowing an intentional life path with more presence, meaning, fulfillment, and joy. You can join the conversations and enj...
Nov 15, 2023•52 min•Ep. 68
This is a special “Flip the Script” episode! Instead of answering a guest’s questions, host Josh Spector brings on an expert he wants to learn from and asks them three questions. Today’s guest is Danny Miranda. Danny hosts The Danny Miranda podcast every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. He's best known for leading deep research interviews to help your favorite entrepreneurs and thinkers go off script. His podcast has been played over a million times, featuring guests like Gary Vaynerchuk, Alex Hor...
Nov 01, 2023•43 min•Ep. 67
Today, my guest on the I Want To Know podcast is Dr. Corey Wilks. Corey is a psychologist and coach who helps creators reach their potential. He has worked with some of the top creators and communities in the creator economy space to help them build fulfilling lives and thriving businesses. Now he shares these insights in his newsletter, Creator Alchemy, where he explores topics like the psychology of human flourishing, online business, and content creation. You can find his work at coreywilksps...
Oct 18, 2023•48 min•Ep. 66
The secrets to dealing with competition, a high-converting sales page, and picking the right business idea in the first place. 00:00 - Introduction 08:55 - No One Is Stealing Your Customers (It's All In Your Head) 17:49 - Gumroad Tutorial: How I Write My Sales Page 25:01 - How To Choose The Right Business Idea Show Notes 👉 Watch this episode on YouTube To connect with Josh Spector: Newsletter: https://fortheinterested.com/subscribe/ Skill Sessions: https://joshspector.com/sessions/ Consulting: ...
Oct 04, 2023•32 min•Ep. 65
Today my guest on the I Want To Know podcast is Jane Hamill. Jane is the founder of Fashion Brain Academy, which offers online classes and coaching for apparel and accessory designers on the business side of things. Her goal is for every designer to make a living using their creativity while becoming business savvy, even if they hate sales and cringe at the idea of a marketing plan. She ran a successful women's wholesale clothing line and boutique. Her work has been seen in Entrepreneur, CNN, NP...
Sep 27, 2023•51 min•Ep. 64
This is a special “Flip the Script” episode! Instead of answering a guest’s questions, host Josh Spector brings on an expert he wants to learn from and asks them three questions. Today’s guest is Nate Kadlac. Nate is a designer helping non-designers make better design decisions for their brands and businesses with his company, Approachable Design. He writes a weekly newsletter I highly recommend called Make It Yours. He leads design workshops and works as a consultant. Throughout his career, he'...
Sep 20, 2023•47 min•Ep. 63
Today my guest on the I Want To Know podcast is Josh Shayne. Josh has spent 15 years helping marketers power and grow their businesses with design. His company DesignBolt is re-imagining the traditional agency model of per-project quotes, contracts, and invoices, and instead offering clients. All the design they need for one simple fixed-rate monthly subscription. Here are some of the most valuable moments in our conversation: 00:00 - Introduction 23:29 - Coaches and Consultants: Never Sell Your...
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 62
Typically, I invite a guest to the I Want To Know podcast to ask me three questions, and I help them figure out how to grow their audience in business. But today, I've actually got three guests for you. That's because what you're about to hear are three excerpts from one of my recent Jam Session Q&AS—which are part of my Skill Session membership, which you can check out at josh specter.com/sessions. They are a series of one-hour video presentations where I teach you how to do things like gro...
Sep 06, 2023•29 min•Ep. 61
This is a special “Flip the Script” episode! Instead of answering a guest’s questions, host Josh Spector brings on an expert he wants to learn from and asks them three questions. Today’s guest is Hillary Weiss Presswood. Hillary is a creative director and positioning strategist who helps creative service providers develop their statement piece brands and become absolutely unmissable in their corner of the market.Through her weekly newsletters and social media presence, she prides herself on gett...
Aug 30, 2023•57 min•Ep. 60
Today my guest on the I Want To Know podcast is Marcus Manderson. Marcus, also known as @dafingaz, is a music composer and producer who has worked on music for companies including Disney, National Geographic, Smithsonian, MTV, and Fox. He's a former church musician who works in AV IT by day and as a music composer and producer by night. You can find him on social media, mainly Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @dafingaz, where he shares his latest music and discusses sync licensing, whi...
Aug 23, 2023•48 min•Ep. 59
Today my guest on the I Want To Know podcast is Kieran Drew. Kieran is an ex-dentist-turned-creator who shares ideas on how to make an impact and income by writing online. You can find him on Twitter, where he's built a huge audience of over 166,000 people, or check out his weekly newsletter, Digital Freedom, for deep dives and creator business advice. Recently he had a six-figure launch with his new product, High Impact Writing, and he's here today to try to work out what to do next as he scale...
Aug 16, 2023•50 min•Ep. 58
Today my guest on the I Want To Know podcast is Luke Simmons. Luke helps faithful pastors be fruitful and fruitful pastors stay faithful by creating resources and coaching experiences through his appropriately named, Faithful and Fruitful newsletter, on Twitter @lukedsimmons, on the Preaching Through podcast, and as a leadership coach. Luke is also a practitioner leading the Redemption Church Gateway in Phoenix, a church he founded in 2009. His favorite job is being a dad to four kids—he has one...
Aug 09, 2023•48 min•Ep. 57
Typically, I invite a guest to the I Want To Know podcast to ask me three questions, and I help them figure out how to grow their audience in business. But today, I've actually got three guests for you. That's because what you're about to hear are three excerpts from one of my recent Jam Session Q&As. I offer a product called Skill Sessions, which you can check out at josh specter.com/sessions. They are a series of one-hour video presentations where I teach you how to do things like grow you...
Aug 02, 2023•33 min•Ep. 56
This is a special “Flip the Script” episode! Instead of answering a guest’s questions, host Josh Spector brings on an expert he wants to learn from and asks them three questions. Today’s guest is Chenell Basilio. Chenell runs the Growth In Reverse newsletter, where she reverse engineers how top creators grew their newsletter to 50,000 plus subscribers. Each week, she spends around 25 hours researching a creator and writes a deep dive, sharing some of the growth strategies they've used. You can a...
Jul 26, 2023•37 min•Ep. 55
Today my guest on the I Want To Know podcast is Kody Duncan. Kody helps go-getters build better habits through his Habit Examples newsletter. You can also find him on Twitter @habitexamples, where he is usually dealing habit tips and memes on the regular. Kody draws on lessons learned from the many hats he's worn: from music coach to psychology major to church missionary to web designer to director of marketing to his favorite role being a dad to his two and almost three kiddos. Here are some of...
Jul 19, 2023•41 min•Ep. 54
