If you want to build a purpose-driven, personality-based online business, blogging should be the cornerstone of your business. And I can think of no one better than Leslie Samuel to discuss this topic. Clic k here to download or listen to this episode now. Tip of the Week: 3Ways to Be More Productive Instantly Start using Block Time. Block similar tasks. Batching similar activities and blocking time will make you more productive. Set yourself up for success. Disconnect from the internet and make...
Jun 11, 2018•37 min•Ep 340•Transcript available on Metacast Your belief determines your destiny. What you believe about anything determines what you receive, whether it's your life, your business, your personal performance or your identity. In this episode we're going to unpack why what you believe about yourself is more important than you may have ever suspected. It's not magic, it's just the logical progression of a thought process. We'll uncover this and more during a conversation I'm going to have with my good friend, Cliff Ravenscraft. Clic k here t...
Jun 04, 2018•1 hr 27 min•Ep 339•Transcript available on Metacast What does it mean to be more persistent and why is it important? Clic k here to download or listen to this episode now. Tip of the Week: The ONE PLATFORM To Build Your Business Looking for a solution to your tech nightmare when it comes to running your online business? Here’s what we use and recommend: Kajabi. It’s recommended more than any other Knowledge Commerce platform. The E-Learning market is soaring! Its projected valuation is $275 billion by 2022. The fastest and easiest way for people ...
May 28, 2018•31 min•Ep 338•Transcript available on Metacast Have you ever struggled with missed deadlines, hurried work, increased stress, and lost opportunities because of procrastination? Imagine overcoming procrastination once and for all, so you restore joy for your work, strengthen your relationships, and grow your business. I once was a great procrastinator. My motto was, “Hey anything worth doing is worth putting off!” I felt I was “just wired that way.” But over time, I’ve overcome the Procrastination Plague and you can too. You weren’t “just bor...
May 21, 2018•24 min•Ep 337•Transcript available on Metacast In our fast-paced and entertainment-saturated culture, it’s easy to let book-reading fall by the wayside. In fact, many studies show that after college, the average person only reads 3 more books for the rest of their life! And don’t be tempted to think that the reading of books is old-fashioned and no longer relevant. There is power in the written word. And whether you’re an entrepreneur, business person, or simply someone who wants to continue to grow, reading books is an effective way to cont...
May 14, 2018•24 min•Ep 336•Transcript available on Metacast On this week’s podcast, we discuss “To increase your performance, increase expectation.” Take note as we shine a spotlight on the 7 Lies That Are Destroying Your Life. If you’ve ever said, “there is nothing I can do, or I have mastered that, or I know that already,” be sure to listen and discover the lies that are quietly destroying your life. Clic k here to download or listen to this episode now. Tip of the Week To increase performance, increase expectation. Discover how mastermind groups, the ...
May 07, 2018•30 min•Ep 335•Transcript available on Metacast Have you ever wondered if those AHA! Moments, Big Ideas, Eureka Breakthroughs just happen or if you can set yourself up to experience more of them? What if you could create an environment to generate Brilliant Ideas… On today’s podcast, I share how you can set yourself up for more AHA! moments by adding these 5 activities to your routine. Clic k here to download or listen to this episode now. Tip of the Week How can you read an extra book a week, with no added time? Read audio books and speed th...
Apr 30, 2018•30 min•Ep 334•Transcript available on Metacast Success comes with surprises — the ones we don’t like, we call problems. Doesn’t the Bible say to be content with what you have? A tip on how to say “No” to someone who won’t take “no” for an answer. Clic k here to download or listen to this episode now. Tip of the Week How to say “No ” to someone who won’t take “No” for an answer Don’t give them an opening. Don’t allow a loophole. Email templates for saying “No” #1 The Definitive NO Name, Thanks so much for your interest in having me (WHATEVER ...
Apr 24, 2018•29 min•Ep 333•Transcript available on Metacast We’ve just come off two years where we crossed the one million mark in revenue. We’re working on year number three and it looks like a pretty sure bet we’re going to do it again. I’ve had a lot of questions and we’ve hosted a couple of workshops where we actually show people how we’ve done it. Today we pull back the curtain and share a behind-the-business discussion to reveal the secrets to: How we got to our first million-dollar year. How we could have done it sooner. Things we would do differe...
Apr 16, 2018•22 min•Ep 332•Transcript available on Metacast If your self-worth comes from your bank account, you’re going to be a nervous wreck the rest of your life. You’d better find a different foundation to stake your life on. Today we discuss 15 slavery-inducing, life-murdering lies about money that you’ve probably been told. We also share 15 Liberating Truths About Money. “The truth will set you free but at first it will probably piss you off.” — Joe Kloss Clic k here to download or listen to this episode now. Tip of the Week 3 Lead Magnets You Can...
Apr 09, 2018•24 min•Ep 331•Transcript available on Metacast In today’s episode we discuss whether it’s more virtuous to give your products away for free, or to charge for your work. If a corporation is making 25% profit or more, eyebrows go up and there may be pressure to “give back.” Have you ever wondered about that language? It’s as if this implies they “took it” from someone. Even someone as successful as Michael Hyatt, has wondered, “Is it more virtuous to give my products away?” This NY Times bestselling author, former CEO of Thomas Nelson, and blo...
Apr 02, 2018•52 min•Ep 330•Transcript available on Metacast No, it’s not like I had a bag with $200 Million Dollars and left it at the bus depot. But today, I’m going to share with you what turned out to be the 3 Primary Lessons I Learned From Losing $200 Million Dollars. How to face your reality in relation to money. Uncover the well-kept secret all wealthy people know (and poor people don’t). Discover the one key factor that’s proven to determine destiny. Should we love the Giver rather than the Gift? Clic k here to download or listen to this episode n...
Mar 26, 2018•40 min•Ep 329•Transcript available on Metacast Today I want to enter into an interesting discussion Ken MacArthur started on Facebook https://www.facbook.com/marketingtactics . Ken states, “Serious question, I’ve always been a skeptic. I have no problem under-promising and over-delivering, but I’ve always been hesitant to make a ‘Big Promise.’ Given the current state of the world I live in, I’m more inclined to think things like ‘most people will fail, most of the time when they start something new.’ That’s why babies don’t walk on the first...
Mar 19, 2018•29 min•Ep 328•Transcript available on Metacast Time is an interesting resource unlike any other. Any two people have differing financial resources, and differing skills and talents. We have different opportunities, different circumstances, and a different network of friends and acquaintances. But we all have the same number of hours in a day, week, month or year. When it comes to time, we’re all on level ground. No one has extra hours stashed away in a savings account for a rainy day. None of us has the ability to turn the clock back, stop i...
Mar 12, 2018•26 min•Ep 327•Transcript available on Metacast Today I want to cover some new directions for the company and how we’re going to be helping you in new and improved ways. Don’t worry, we’ll continue to focus on: Copywriting and marketing Building an online business Strengthening your spiritual life I don’t believe it’s possible to separate the two things, business and spirituality. Because you only have one life, spirituality and prosperity are both part of the same life. The premise for today’s podcast: Every person listening to this show can...
Mar 05, 2018•48 min•Ep 326•Transcript available on Metacast Chris Ducker’s book Virtual Freedom is a best seller , he has employed over 450 full-time employees, and he has built multi seven-figure businesses. Chris is frequently featured in INC., Entrepreneur, Success, and Huffington Post. He’s the founder of youpreneur.com (a term he coined in 2014). Youpreneur.com is an entrepreneurial mastermind community that helps experts become the go-to leader in their market. “Whether there’s a transaction involved immediately, or whether it’s further down the li...
Feb 26, 2018•30 min•Ep 325•Transcript available on Metacast Outsourcing is so hot right now. I blame Tim Ferriss ’ book, The 4 Hour Workweek and Chris Ducker’s book, Virtual Freedom for starting the outsourcing phenomenon. In Tim’s book he tells you why you should do it and Chris tells you how to do it. In fact, Chris Ducker has a new book for entrepreneurs entitled, The Rise of the Youpreneur. This outsourcing topic started during a recent consultation I had with Mike Kim. We discussed the theme of each of my recent years. 2015 was the year my fitness j...
Feb 19, 2018•32 min•Ep 324•Transcript available on Metacast Today we discuss a unique method by which you can guarantee your business will always have a profit (even from day 1). You’ll never miss having a profit because you take your profit first. My guest is Mike Michalowicz . Mike is the successful entrepreneur behind three multimillion dollar companies. He is the author of The Pumpkin Plan , Surge, and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, which BusinessWeek deemed “the entrepreneur’s cult classic.” He is a former small business columnist for The Wall Stree...
Feb 12, 2018•32 min•Ep 323•Transcript available on Metacast Out of a hundred people who hear this, one of you will do this and you’re the one who will succeed. I have a question that I would seriously like you to think about. Are you important? Are you? This is a vital question and it speaks to something we call self-image. It’s popular to believe that your self-image, having a good self-image, a strong self-image, a positive image of yourself is wrong. It’s popular to say that. This is the first line of attack of the enemy, trying to deceive your mind b...
Feb 05, 2018•26 min•Ep 322•Transcript available on Metacast I have a proposal for you in today's episode: You have in your life what you tolerate. What you tolerate is what you receive in life. I already know there are a lot of people who are coming up with examples to prove me wrong. There are people saying, “Well I have a genetic disorder that I had no control over. I could not have stopped it. I did not want this.” No, but the way you deal with it, the way you process it, and the way that you experience it is up to you. That's not genetic. That's not ...
Jan 29, 2018•30 min•Ep 321•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s podcast is a lesson in the history of marketing online. I believe there is great value in knowing the history of our industry. Most of you in direct response internet marketing may not know we owe our careers to Ken McCarthy. Time Magazine credits Ken McCarthy with originating the idea of using click-through rates as the key metric of website performance. In the early 1990s, as the owner of a direct response company, Ken saw the potential of direct marketing on the internet even as softw...
Jan 22, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Ep 320•Transcript available on Metacast Today I talk with the genius, the master, the go-to-guy, the king of all things LinkedIn…John Nemo. As one of the top promoters of Copywriting Academy, John Nemo joined me at my Joint Venture Mastermind at The Coeur d’Alene Resort in Alene, Idaho. No one knows the subject of LinkedIn like John Nemo. John transformed my LinkedIn profile, he's the real deal when it comes to LinkedIn and he's here to teach us all how to cash in on LinkedIn. The 3 core components of his LinkedIn Riches training prog...
Jan 15, 2018•37 min•Ep 319•Transcript available on Metacast We’re talking about prosperity . That’s the word of the year with my company and with me. What does it mean to prosper? We know that it means to do well financially, but it’s so much more than that. It’s your health, your relationships, it’s the ways you are fulfilled in life (such as growing as a person and contributing in a meaningful way to other people). Prosperity is a fullness of life and a fulfilling way of living in every way possible. Clic k here to download or listen to this episode no...
Jan 08, 2018•31 min•Ep 318•Transcript available on Metacast This week is a special edition of the podcast. It’s 100% Spiritual Foundations – so, if you’re not into that, you may want to skip this one. During today’s episode… * The one theme found throughout the Bible that applies to your goals, dreams, and desires. * One of the most familiar verses in Scripture (even most atheists know this one!) … and how it has been woefully mis-translated in most English Bibles. When you find out what Jesus actually, said you may be surprised! * What we can learn from...
Jan 01, 2018•19 min•Ep 317•Transcript available on Metacast Conventional wisdom tells us that success takes time…sometimes a long time. Well, I think we’ve been lied to, and I can prove it. In this episode I’m going to give you a set of tools that will put you on the pathway to a brand new you in seven short days, but as you’ll find out, I believe that success can happen in an instant. Stay tuned… Clic k here to download or listen to this episode now. Spiritual Foundations I've been reading my friend Frank Viola's giant new book called There Must Be More...
Dec 25, 2017•36 min•Ep 316•Transcript available on Metacast Content marketing is a hot industry buzzword right now, and everyone seems to have a theory about what works. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have time for theory, so in this episode I’m going to show what we do in our own content marketing…because it works. The key to successful content marketing is value, because we’re in a current environment where you've got to give value upfront. In fact, our topic in this episode is a term I’ve coined called Value First Content Marketing. Stay tuned, t...
Dec 18, 2017•53 min•Ep 315•Transcript available on Metacast If you’ve listened to this podcast for any length of time, you’ve undoubtedly heard us extol the virtues of Revel 77, our favorite coffee shop. So, when its existence was in jeopardy we stepped out and bought it. But that begs the question, “Why the heck did we do that?” In this episode we’ll attempt to answer that question, and show you why we’re willing to put our money where our mouth is when it comes to walking out the prosperity principles that we teach. Clic k here to download or listen to...
Dec 11, 2017•47 min•Ep 314•Transcript available on Metacast You can hardly open your email these days without seeing someone promising the super-secret key to insane business growth. I know that the title of this episode seems like over-the-top clickbait, but by the time we’re done you’ll see that it’s no exaggeration. This kind of extraordinary growth is happening right now to my friend Michael Stelzner of Social Media Examiner. We're going to be talking with him this week and let him explain exactly how he has done this and how you can do the same for ...
Dec 04, 2017•34 min•Ep 313•Transcript available on Metacast All of us want a business that hums along, routinely churning out profits as if on autopilot, but how the heck do you do that? This week I’ve enlisted the help of the undisputed market leader to teach you practical steps to amplify, accelerate, and automate your profits. Amy Porterfield teaches business owners, educators, and entrepreneurs the action steps for building a highly engaged email list, creating online training courses, and using online marketing strategies to sell with ease. She is o...
Nov 27, 2017•36 min•Ep 312•Transcript available on Metacast Just like you, Marie Forleo started her business with nothing more than a laptop and a dream. Now she commands a socially-conscious digital empire that touches millions of people, and makes millions of dollars. In this episode we’re going to talk with Marie and get some little-known insight into how she created such a remarkable business, a business that has allowed her to design the life she always wanted to live. Clic k here to download or listen to this episode now. Spiritual Foundations Rece...
Nov 20, 2017•42 min•Ep 311•Transcript available on Metacast