We're coming back with another bonus Saturday episode with an expert friend of ours... This time we're talking about Clubhouse... ya know, the semi-exclusive social media network driven by audio. There's a reason why Clubhouse is blowing up and you're hearing everyone from smart marketers to A-list celebrities are using it to connect and share. Our friend Deb Cole wrote the ULTIMATE GUIDE to Clubhouse and we're bringing her here to chat about how to leverage Clubhouse in your marketing. Grab a c...
Feb 20, 2021•48 min
We have Dan Norris on the show today, and he’s someone who has accomplished quite a lot, with a somewhat different approach to marketing. He focuses on four core pillars: branding, community, storytelling, and content marketing. In this episode, we do a deep dive into all four of those. After founding WP Curve, which was subsequently sold to GoDaddy, Dan started a new venture, Black Hops Brewing in Australia. You’ll hear Dan discuss how he has created one of the biggest and well-known brands in ...
Feb 18, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 350
Today’s episode with Julie Adams is a real mind bender and we love that Julie has a thriving affiliate business, while also keeping it simple. We talk about her goals of retiring early and she dissects her entire business model as she’s an open book. Julie’s business model is so tactical and you’ll be able to take her way of thinking and apply even parts of it to your own business. She just wants to make sure she is showing up on Google without worrying about Facebook ads or even email lists. Sh...
Feb 16, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 349
Greg Elfrink is back for another round and he’s been working at Empire Flippers for several years now. This is the first time that he feels with 100% certainty that it’s a seller’s as of the recording of this show. There are so many opportunities now for sellers and a lot of folks have content or media sites, but they may not want to do with them necessarily. On today’s show, we dive into all the possibilities behind both selling and buying businesses, which is the better course of action based ...
Feb 11, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 348
Marley Jaxx is on the show today, and she is a content marketing, storytelling, YouTube, and branding expert ninja. Listen in as you’ll hear all about her paid challenges she holds where she’s walking people through these bite-sized chunks of content that leads them to a graduation event, which turns into a high ticket paid offer. If you are curious as to how the challenge model works, she breaks it all down here and you can see how a product can be sold at a low ticket price, but then how that ...
Feb 09, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 347
The new iOS14 Update has a lot of marketers freaked out. It even freaked out Facebook, who took out an ad in the New York Times about how Apple is making life harder for small businesses. In this bonus Saturday episode, we chat with data-scientist, Mario Filho, about what's happening and what it means to us as marketers. You'll likely see more of these shorter but timely episodes pop up from time to time on weekends. These are bonus episodes. There are no shownotes and no action guides on these....
Feb 06, 2021•32 min
Today we are talking with John Warrillow, who has written three books - Built To Sell , The Automatic Customer , and The Art Of Selling Your Business . These books cover the basics of how to design your company so that it can be sold in the future, generating revenue from your business, and how to finally make that exit happen. During our chat today, we talked about how to set up your business, why you want to have recurring payments as opposed to a lifetime offer, and how to build a business to...
Feb 04, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 346
Marx Acosta-Rubio joins us today for yet another episode and he’s probably the smartest guy we know when it comes to doubling your income and increasing your revenue while also taking more time off to do the fun stuff. We go very deep as always, as he lists out all these amazing tools and principles, such as the Hawthorne Effect, the Getting Things Done principle, the 80/20 rule, the Vital Three, and many more. Then, because he’s read so many books, he’s distilling information from these foundat...
Feb 02, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 345
We have been using the Clubhouse app for just under a month now, and we are super pumped about the platform. There’s a bunch of high-level folks in there, talking about some of the rawest and open things about their business. In this episode, we are going to deep dive about Clubhouse, what we like about it and don’t like, where we see it going, how we see using it as marketers and podcasters, and tactics on how you can grow your own audience in the quickest way possible. We also chat about some ...
Jan 28, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 344
André Chaperon is a legend in our industry and had one of the first info products we ever bought, which was a product that started out his journey to become one of the leaders in this industry. He and his partner, Shawn Twing join us today, and in the first part of this episode, we talk a lot about their concepts of emergent marketing and the durable business model, which has specific elements to it, that they teach. This includes things like how to get customers and when to give value for free ...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 343
We are hanging out with Rand Fishkin today, who previously co-founded the SEO company MOZ, and has most recently started a new venture with SparkToro . This tool is quickly becoming one of our favorite pieces of software to do a lot of research. It helps us figure out what content to create around specific topics, what topics resonate around audiences, and you can literally plug in your URL or social media channel and it will kick out all this research from a variety of platforms. If you are run...
Jan 21, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 342
Salome Schillack from ShineAndSucceed.com joins us today and today we are chatting all about using Facebook ads to not only grow an audience but to grow podcasts. We like her approach because it doesn’t take a huge budget to make it happen, and she gives some great targets and metrics to look out for with your campaign. Salome also talks about the concept of getting engagement and why you don’t need to run ads with a call to action every single time. Even with your existing audience, you probabl...
Jan 19, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 340
We always love chatting with Pat Flynn, and in this episode, we discuss how to build super fans in your business, how to grow an audience ethically, how to promote affiliate offers to your audience and make good money through affiliate marketing in a very ethical way that makes customers actually thank you for doing it. Pat also discusses how he has been able to build a successful building with a great, appreciative audience without the need to run a ton of ads and self-admittedly not having the...
Jan 14, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 340
On every episode we’ve had where we talked about YouTube, we don’t think there’s ever been a show where TubeBuddy is not mentioned as part of the tool stack. Rob Balasabas is a Brand Evangelist and Partnership Manager for TubeBuddy and today we are chatting about such things as how to approach YouTube as co-creators, how to use TubeBuddy to analyze your channel as well as best practices for the all-important thumbnail. We have been using TubeBuddy ourselves and it’s a rock-solid tool to help you...
Jan 12, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 339
Today’s show with Shaqir Hussyin left a deep impact on us. We were totally lit up about the concepts we learned! Shaqir is a guy who thinks on a whole different level that’s bigger and clearer and has his priorities straight on how he engages in business. He focuses on the right priorities, and he’ll explain how he does that to get such amazing results. At the end of the day, you’ll walk away with a bigger way of thinking. Shaqir grew up with an abundant mindset which helped to take him to where...
Jan 07, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 338
Today we have a special show where we are holding a simulcast with James Schramko. We have learned so much from James over the years and we also have a similar business model. He’s also got some deep relationships with his community and our affiliate business model is similar in that we prefer to build long term relationships when promoting affiliate offers. We reminisce about the first marketing events we all attended, even while still working at a job. James also tells us what is working best ...
Jan 05, 2021•1 hr 48 min•Season 1Ep. 337
Happy New Year’s Eve, everyone! First and foremost, we want to thank all of our listeners, folks in our membership, as well as our business friends and partnerships, and anyone else that has been a part of our lives for making this year truly amazing! We look forward to continuing to provide awesome content, tactics, and strategies to get you where you want to go in the years ahead as well as working with those we have partnered to carry on our mutually beneficial relationships. This show is our...
Dec 31, 2020•1 hr 41 min•Season 1Ep. 336
Today we have Joshua B. Lee, who runs a new venture called Standout Authority . He has a lot of experience and knows what to do with traffic having done this for legends in the marketing space for years. On today’s show, we are chatting about how to get engagement on LinkedIn and get real people to listen to you. We are diving back into LinkedIn lately ourselves, and on this show, you’ll hear why that is, and get some real a-ha moments as we did. Even if LinkedIn isn’t your jam, Joshua talks abo...
Dec 29, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 335
Matt Diggity joins us today for a real, in-depth, tactical show about affiliate marketing. He’s the founder of Diggity Marketing , Leadspring LLC, The Search Initiative, Affiliate Builders, The Affiliate Lab, and the Chiang Mai SEO Conference, and is probably one of the most, if not the most successful affiliate marketer that we know. He breaks down his exact formula on how to pick which niches to go into, how to figure out the best content to write, the ratio of valuable content to content that...
Dec 24, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 334
On today’s show we nerd out on a tool we have been using lately in a small way, but there’s a lot of potential with it for so many reasons. This episode is not just about the tool though, it’s all about the opportunities around you, how to do well as an affiliate, and other awesome concepts you will learn from Jordan Mederich, the man behind DropFunnels , one of the fastest-growing marketing tools on the market today. You’ll hear how he’s doing things differently and has carved his own way of so...
Dec 22, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 333
Today’s show is an episode for the fans, as George Bryant’s previous episode was a fan favorite, so we are bringing him back for round two. George looks at the customer journey like the body and email is the blood and uses the concept of ethical leadership from his military career to get people to figure out how to create a container where the only option is success. He gives his in-depth strategy that has led to an insanely high open rate, high customer retention, and a list that is actually ex...
Dec 17, 2020•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 332
Dean Graziosi is an entrepreneur, marketer, author, and has years of business knowledge behind him. Even in this crazy world, it doesn’t mean you don’t have even more opportunities. You just need to shift your marketing, reevaluate how you run your company, or find new ways on how to start one, so listen in and grab your takeaways. Dean drops some real knowledge bombs in this one, as we chat about his various successes over the years, how he got to work alongside such great leaders like Michael ...
Dec 15, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 331
Gert embraces SEO as a long term game and chats with us about a whole boatload of tactics to rank your sites using the best practices to make Google happy without sacrificing content. We also talk about what to do with older links that are not ranking any longer, how to structure your content using a content silo, Gert’s “ERICA” framework which is the basis of his SEO strategy, and how to look at the whole picture of your site and not just the quality content. After you’ve listened be sure to ch...
Dec 10, 2020•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 330
On today’s show, we have Anfernee Chansamooth who is presenting a completely new concept that we have not chatted about before on the show, which details how to create case studies in your marketing. Anfernee is a content strategist, writer, podcaster, speaker, and the owner of Simple Creative Marketing , a company known for creating case studies and content that drive leads and sales for fast-growing services businesses. He dives into six steps to create your case studies which are very strateg...
Dec 08, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 329
We first heard about Marc Guberti from our Facebook group, where people were singing his praise as the go-to guy for YouTube tactics and growth strategies. Marc is a content machine, having already published 30 books at a young age, has another one in the works, and is growing two YouTube channels at a rapid pace. On the show today, he spills the goods on how to gain traction fast with your channel, as well as best tactics for your description, comments section, thumbnails, end cards, and titles...
Dec 03, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 328
We have an awesome show today with Russ Morgan & Joey Mure of Wealth Without Wall Street . Listen in as they break down their four-step process for financial freedom and each one could be an episode in itself. They talk about getting clarity over your finances, using assessments, how much you should be spending on a monthly basis, then when you reach that goal, reinvesting it in your business. Once you make the money that funds your ideal lifestyle, you can figure out more beneficial ways to...
Dec 01, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 327
One of the things we get asked a lot is what are the tools we use for various things in our business. So since we are affiliate marketers, today’s show is all about all the affiliate marketing tools that we use in our business when it comes to software, but more importantly how we use them and how they connect with each other. You’ll hear all about the best tools we recommend for email automation, webinars, creating videos, membership, link shorteners, and a whole host of other stuff that we eit...
Nov 26, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 326
Today we are chatting with Jay Papasan, co-author of The One Thing who works alongside Gary Keller, of Keller-Williams Real Estate. Jay comes from a publishing background and has worked with some big names such as Mia Hamm and Bill Phillips to help them get their books published. He currently serves as the Vice President of the learning division of Keller-Williams, and today we talk about his perspectives about writing books, course creation, lead generation, time blocking, goal design, and more...
Nov 24, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 325
When Melanie opens up about her “cage match” experience where she won against a well-known marketer, we knew we were in for a fun show! Melanie Benson is a fellow podcaster, revenue strategist, and business performance optimizer who guides entrepreneurs to accelerate their impact and income by making their business perform 10 times better. On today’s show, she gives us some great tips on how to follow the ‘golden thread’ to pull the right audience into your world, what to do if you are just star...
Nov 19, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 324
Joel Runyon started Impossible in 2010 as a way to push his limits and do something impossible. He’s a driven and determined entrepreneur, blogger, and athlete and his lifestyle challenges have allowed him to set records and give back by supporting education in communities that are in need of everyday resources like safe school structures. While running his own brand, he’s also running multiple other brands such as a meal plan company, a fitness app, a productivity app, as well as being an advis...
Nov 17, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 323
