Sales is the lifeblood of any business and as a CEO or entrepreneur, building an effective sales team can be critical to your success. We've had episodes talking about how to sell, but this is focused on how to build sales teams that can help you scale. Today's guest is Mark Evans, the founder of Standard Sales Company. He's helped multiple companies build a 7-figure sales team and individuals reach the seven-figure sales mark and beyond. Launching his book soon called "Raise Your Standards...
Sep 26, 2019•30 min•Ep 209•Transcript available on Metacast Did you know that 97% of customers never complete an online course? Customers that don't complete courses don't get results. Customers that don't get results don't stick around and continue to purchase more or tell their friends. The industry, soon to be $350 billion according to Forbes, is saturated with mediocre information products. It doesn't have to be this way. Today's guest, Marisa Murgatroyd , will explain how she disrupted the online education industry and has her sights on the way the ...
Sep 24, 2019•1 hr•Ep 210•Transcript available on Metacast Everyone knows that Amazon's success is driven by the genius of its founder Jeff Bezos. Regardless of you opinion of Bezos's methods, the growth of the company has been one of the most remarkable business successes in history. But how did Bezos do it? Clues to his success lie in Bezos' letters to shareholders. However they can be difficult reading for the average business owners. Fortunately, my guest on the show today, Steve Anderson, has distilled them down into 14 principles that any business...
Sep 17, 2019•51 min•Ep 208•Transcript available on Metacast Direct marketing response titan Brian Kurtz makes a comeback in this episode to share more sizzling business advice from his decades of expertise in marketing. This time, he focuses on having the marketing stamina to build a business for a lifetime. Brian and host Brad Costanzo share some of their first-hand experiences in applying the methods they discuss. Brian also shares some juicy details from his book, Overdeliver: Build a Business for a Lifetime Playing the Long Game in Direct Response Ma...
Sep 10, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Ep 207•Transcript available on Metacast "Flow always wins. If you have any doubt, just look at the Grand Canyon." There are few worse fates than spending your life doing something that drains your energy and doesn't reward you. On the other hand, when you feel fully engaged, with meaningful work that you enjoy and get energized by, the rewards often come effortlessly. That's why I brought Chad Mureta on the show today, co-founder of ProjectEvo.org along with Arman Assadi, to discuss their groundbreaking system that allows yo...
Sep 03, 2019•1 hr 19 min•Ep 206•Transcript available on Metacast Growing a service business (whether it's coaching, consulting or another professional service) can be challenging. In the beginning, it's important to focus on customer acquisition and service delivery. But after a certain point, once success starts to set in, it's important to get a real grip on how to grow and scale your business without being overwhelmed. That's where the growth journey begins. Zion Kim, the co-creator of the R.O.I. Method, join us in this episode to talk about how you can sc...
Aug 28, 2019•1 hr 23 min•Ep 205•Transcript available on Metacast It's one thing to figure out the US Amazon market. It's a whole other thing to go globally and make this thing work and tackle logistics and all of this other stuff. Our guest, Stephen Somers, is the Founder of Marketplace SuperHeroes which is an online education and service company that helps people across the world learn how to sell their products globally on Amazon. In today’s show, Stephen talks about how they built the company into an eight-figure business from scratch and take it globally....
Aug 20, 2019•48 min•Ep 204•Transcript available on Metacast One of the Holy Grails for a lot of business owners is how to convert cold traffic into customers. My guest today is Justin Goff , who is an amazing marketer and entrepreneur who has had a very wild ride over his career. In this conversation, Justin talks about his journey to becoming the co-founder of a supplement company that sold $23 million in sales, getting bought out for a multi-million dollar payday, then traveling and facing depression. He shares some real-world stories and opens up abou...
Aug 13, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Ep 203•Transcript available on Metacast If you’re making any type of social media videos on the web, whether it's for your business or your personal brand, you're going to want to pay attention to this episode. Our guest is Gideon Shalwick, the Founder of Splasheo , a video captioning service where real people manually transcribe your videos and then burn captions right into your videos. Gideon's software and service make it a lot easier to turn your ordinary videos into snappy clips that will have your viewers instantly glued. We're ...
Aug 07, 2019•41 min•Ep 202•Transcript available on Metacast Effectively managing and team is one of the key skillsets of any entrepreneur, yet it's the skill that many of us (me included) learn last. Mads Singers is a serial entrepreneur and management coach with multiple businesses he and his team runs. Today he talks about some of the big mistakes many business owners make and how to overcome them. You can learn more about him at http://madssingers.com/management-academy and see his innovative outsourcing company http://aristosourcing.com...
Jul 24, 2019•40 min•Ep 201•Transcript available on Metacast Back with another episode on one of our hottest topics, buying and selling businesses. Today's guest is Greg Elfrink, the director of marketing for EmpireFlippers.com. Read more about Greg here and get the full shownotes at: https://baconwrappedbusiness.com/empire/ Today we discussed : why you might think about buying a business instead of building it why you might think about selling a profitable business Which businesses are in high demand How to determine your buying criteria How much money y...
Jun 11, 2019•1 hr 28 min•Ep 200•Transcript available on Metacast If there’s one piece of entrepreneurial advice I’ve heard more than any other it’s to “stop chasing shiny objects.” It’s a good thing that Thomas Edison never followed that advice. “Pick one thing, say ‘No’ to everything else, blinders on, focus deeply”. It's sound advice, but the problem is that when I hear this advice I simply hear: “stop pursuing new opportunities… stop trying new things.” In this episode I give you an alternate perspective on this common wisdom and how it might not be right ...
Apr 16, 2019•13 min•Ep 199•Transcript available on Metacast Warning: This episode is loaded with tactical advice that you can begin implementing immediately if you use YouTube as a marketing channel. Do not attempt to multitask while listening or you may miss one of the most effective traffic generating strategies available now. Download the Free Cheatsheet Notes on this here Why You Should Listen To This Episizzle… A unique and effective strategy you can use to get insanely effective results with YouTube. Hack the YouTube search algorithm with white-hat...
Apr 10, 2019•45 min•Ep 198•Transcript available on Metacast A Political Marketing Strategist Reveals Big Time Secrets Of Influence Phillip Stutts is fighting a rare, incurable disease. Diagnosed in 2012 with the esophageal disease, Achalasia, he spent five years ignoring it. Frankly, he put his head in the sand, taking medications that did more harm than good, and waiting for the inevitable. Then he woke up and said no more. His mission today is to find a cure and pursue a life of constant growth and giving. And he’s making progress. Phillip is also the ...
Feb 19, 2019•48 min•Ep 195•Transcript available on Metacast WTF is a mental model? You're about to find out. This is a special episizzle because I uploaded an interview of ME I just recorded on my friends and business partners podcast: Hustle And Flowchart, available at EvergreenProfits.com Some of the topics covered include: Why you might need to take your focus off execution How to stop aborting your best ideas too soon A 4-step process to pursue the right ideas Balancing your internal critic with your optimist How to get free of “fixing problems” and ...
Jan 15, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Ep 197•Transcript available on Metacast Joel Runyon is the founder of ImpossibleHQ. He is an endurance athlete and entrepreneur, and his blog, Impossible, focuses on physical fitness, mental toughness, and the worthwhile challenge of doing something you never thought you could do. He's run 7 ULTRA Marathons on 7 Continents and... "HE HATES RUNNING" We dive deep into his WHY and his business model that lets him travel the world doing impossible things while making a living helping others. This is a special video episode which...
Dec 27, 2018•53 min•Ep 196•Transcript available on Metacast Todd Tresidder, a serial entrepreneur, financial coach and educator, author and podcaster as well as a former hedge fund manager who “retired” at age 35. He loves playing the money game like a kid loves playing Monopoly and remains an active investor to this day. He’s also a financial educator and pro-consumer advocate having authored 5 personal finance books. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Forbes, NPR, and MarketWatch, among other places. If yo...
Dec 19, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Ep 193•Transcript available on Metacast At nineteen years old, Moe Abbas founded his first two companies. Since then he has founded or co-founded over a dozen startups which, over the last 10 years, have employed thousands. At 26 he won the NKBA 30 under 30 award and was the youngest ever recipient of the OBJ 40 Under 40 Award. He is a Co-Founder of the Canadian General Contractors Group which in 5 years he led from a basement office to Canada’s leading residential design build company with $20 million in sales. Today, Moe is on a mis...
Dec 15, 2018•39 min•Ep 191•Transcript available on Metacast Ty Crandall is an internationally known speaker, author, pod show host, and business credit expert. With over 16 years of financial experience, Ty is recognized as an authority in business credit building, business credit scoring, and business credit repair. Ty is the author of two popular books on credit called “Perfect Credit” and “Business Credit Decoded.” He is often interviewed on radio and news shows, TV programs, and for magazines including Entrepreneur and Inc. Ty currently serves as the...
Dec 14, 2018•38 min•Ep 189•Transcript available on Metacast In her late twenties, Mariko Hirakawa transitioned from life as a professional ballet and contemporary dancer to becoming a full-time yoga instructor. She has studied pre-medical courses at NYU, Chinese medicine at an acupuncture school, energy healing & shiatsu from a Master, and Ayurveda - a time-tested system of healing that integrates seamlessly with yoga. After extensive study with experts and 27 years of yoga instruction experience, Mariko has become an internationally recognized yoga ...
Dec 13, 2018•35 min•Ep 190•Transcript available on Metacast I've been wanting to do this podcast for several years now. Alexandra Cattoni and Leanne Kallal are 2 very close friends of mine and 2 of the smartest business women I know. Several years ago they discovered a way to use their social media skills to **SCORE 30 NIGHTS AT a 5-STAR RESORT ON ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL BEACHES TOTALLY FREE...**without having to be a social media influencer (if you are, this is 10x more powerful) It's one of my favorite stories from two of my favorite people a...
Dec 11, 2018•50 min•Ep 194•Transcript available on Metacast Facebook Ads are powerful. But with recent changes they've become harder and more expensive to make work. Today you're meeting one of my personal secret weapons and resources that I work closely with to make it them work big time. Curt Maly , is one of the world’s most sought after experts on Facebook, Social Media Marketing, and Paid Traffic Strategies. His exclusive Austin-based digital marketing agency, Black Box Social Media (BBSM), has a client list reads like a VIP Red Carpet list made up ...
Dec 10, 2018•54 min•Ep 192•Transcript available on Metacast Master Business Strategist and Podcaster http://mitchrusso.com/about-mitch-russo/ Mitch Russo co-founded Timeslips Corporation, the largest time tracking software company in the world. He pioneered the virtual organization with Chet Holmes and Tony Robbins, co-creating Business Breakthroughs International, with nearly 300 people and about $25M in sales. In 2013 he wrote the bestseller, “The Invisible Organization,” a guide for fully virtual organizations. In 1985, Mitch co-founded Timeslips Corp...
Nov 06, 2018•59 min•Ep 188•Transcript available on Metacast So you’ve built a great business, but now you’re ready to move on. You want to sell, but you don’t know where to start. To the untrained eye, the world of buying and selling businesses can seem like an endless maze.Thankfully, today’s guest is a master navigator...let him be your guide! A great entrepreneur himself, John Warrillow also specializes in ensuring success for you as you prepare to sell your business! Buckle down for some sizzling tips that will make your sale a successful one. John W...
Nov 02, 2018•54 min•Ep 187•Transcript available on Metacast Do you have a product or service to sell? Did you know you’ll need good copy to sell it? Do you get stuck staring at a blinking cursor every time you sit down to write? Well gear up as today we get to know Jon Benson, the man who can take all your copywriting anxiety away (well, most of it) and give you the intuitive tools to have confidence with your words. Now the CEO of Digital Publisher, Inc. and JBF Health, Jon Benson started his online empire in 2004 with the release of his first book, Fit...
Oct 29, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Ep 186•Transcript available on Metacast Authenticity is key to the success of any business; the trick is how to remain authentic in a world in which hiding behind an LCD screen is the norm. How do we break through the masks to reach real people with a real message? Are there tools to do this efficiently on a large scale? Let’s ask an expert. On top of being a visionary entrepreneur, innovator and founder-CEO of four scalable media-tech businesses, our guest also has over 25 years of experience as a host, journalist and entrepreneurial...
Oct 25, 2018•38 min•Ep 177•Transcript available on Metacast Facebook Ads are one of the most popular topics on this show. Today I'm interviewing, expert media buyer, David Schloss. Over the years, he has helped hundreds of businesses improve their website traffic, customer acquisition, and revenue using social advertising. His business, Convert ROI, enables businesses to succeed by taking complicated social ad plans and seamlessly turning them into easy-to-follow revenue-producing campaigns. He manages over $2.5mil per month in paid advertising via Faceb...
Oct 24, 2018•56 min•Ep 178•Transcript available on Metacast Marx Acosta-Rubio is an immigrant Deca-millionaire. With a success story all can aspire to with powerful business growth strategies. Sure, we’re always marveled at the billionaires or those who have earned hundreds of millions of dollars in selling their companies or getting in early on a cool venture. Some people are lucky like that. But… what about for the rest of us? How do we REALLY attain millions of dollars and still achieve a happy life with wife (or hubby) and kids, friends, health, etc....
Oct 09, 2018•1 hr 18 min•Ep 185•Transcript available on Metacast If you’ve been with us for awhile you’ve no doubt heard of the coveted “side hustle” that can eventually become your “main hustle.” Simply put, how can you build a business on the side that can grow to take the place of your draining desk job? Dr. Ben Adkins can tell you exactly how to do it and give you the tools to start building your side hustle today using Facebook Ads. Dr. Ben Adkins is a Licensed Chiropractic Physician and the Founder of Closer's Cafe. Ben grew his Chiropractic Practice us...
Oct 05, 2018•34 min•Ep 184•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s guest is Caitlin Pyle, an amazing entrepreneur and veteran of the true work from home movement. (not the scammy ads you see peppering the internet promising easy riches working in your underwear). After getting fired in 2011, Caitlin built her skills into a $40k+/year income with a thriving freelance proofreading business. In 2015, she launched her first online course, Transcript Proofreading: Theory and Practice™, which generated $100k+ in just three months. Caitlin launched another cou...
Oct 04, 2018•43 min•Ep 183•Transcript available on Metacast 
