Entrepreneur Mastermind Podcast
430 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsGet a fly-on-the-wall perspective from 4 developers turned entrepreneurs, as they struggle with the business and learn lessons the hard way. This is the weekly mastermind group of the entreprogrammers - a no holds barred, unedited look at what it really takes to be an entrepreneur.
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Episode 324 " Showing Progress"
July 28, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 30.4 MBWe’re live. Chuck is currently having some issues with his email that are actually affecting his finances, the list of mails started to go to spam and he had to change to another email address. Turns out the transition is taking longer than expected. Continuing with the business side of things, Chuck is doing good with some challenges and programs that he’s charging a fair amount of money to get, mostly educational but the best thing is that his audience is responding very well. ...
Episode 323 "Narrow Your Audience"
July 21, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 39.7 MBWe’re Live. Chuck and John start comparing notes with their training schedule. Chuck is actually extremely tired with the whole training and eating well, and Jhon due to his training is eating a ton of food and keeps getting hungry. In Other Topics, John is currently experimenting with some Ads to capture a specific type of Audience. Looking for a better way to promote is just the way that is working right now. Actually Mani Recommends going as specific as possible to really narrow dow...
Episode 322 "The Higher Level"
July 14, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 28.6 MBWe’re Live. Chuck and John are currently full with work and also training, which has been a nightmare for John, because he needs to get more sleep than usual. Chuck is getting back to training but going at a slow pace. Things have been going interesting for Chuck, he has been trying some new stuff in the search for focus on his recent shift change work-wise. Definitely prioritizing work and selecting the type of stuff that other people can do, so he can focus on the more important thi...
Episode 321 "Change, Adapt, Overcome"
July 07, 2020 16:00 - 59 minutes - 27.6 MBWe’re Live. As we know John is planning to do another really difficult run and one of the training processes is adjusting to the altitude, like all things is about really knowing the field and feel confident about it. On This note, Chuck is actually looking for product placement that will generate income outside of the Programming World, which is a big step because programming has been his niche for so many time, but the situation and environment have been dramatically changing with a...
Episode 320 "The Good Old Days"
June 30, 2020 16:00 - 54 minutes - 25 MBWe’re Live. John and Mani are currently working on a promotion and it’s going way better than expected, it seems to me that some old tricks seem to do the work, and even work better than before. After analyzing the data they cam to a clear conclusion, if the product is extremely clear to the customer, meaning they know exactly what the outcome will be, it’s pretty much a successful product because it’s a simple answer it’s going to sale. Thought of the week Mani - “It’s ama...
Episode 319 "The Master of Clickbait"
June 23, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 35.3 MBWe’re Live. John has recently been having a lot of traffic on his Youtube Channel Bulldog Mindset, various factors have arise to show that are contributing to this cause, like good clickbait names. He’s been currently working with a new video editor, which is doing a great job in making the videos smooth transitioning as possible which basically translates to more viewing time. So logically the next step is to analyze what else is helping here, how many clicks, how many sales. H...
Episode 318 "Don't Give Up"
June 16, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 33.4 MBWe’re Live. So One of the first things that pop out in the conversation is that John recently finished a 50-mile run, which is something incredibly difficult, talk about Bulldog Mindset huh? Pun aside, Congrats to John on this Achievement, and He’s actually planning on doing the 100-mile run. Way to go. In Other Topics, Chuck Seems to be doing well with the recent experiments and sponsors are arriving, some of them are not but this was expected. Bulldog Mindset is actually growin...
Episode 317 "Halfway There"
June 09, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 45.8 MBWe’re Live. What a year it has been, definitely the most interesting ones in decades. All situations aside business has thrive no matter what. Guys start the conversation reviewing various experiments and processes that they have been through the year so far, and actual numbers are not bad at all. Marketing has proven to be the best way to thrive in any kind of situation that comes. On Recent events, guys have a discussion on the racial situation and the riots that are occurring,...
Episode 316 "Hot Potato"
June 02, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 39.2 MBWe’re Live. Chuck starts off with an anecdote about a person that both he and John have done business with, In Fact, had a nice trade with this person which actually made him earn a good amount of signups to his membership plan. Small World huh? In other topics, Chuck is experimenting with affiliates at the moment. Mani and John Experiment when really well. Actually want to implement this system again because it created great revenue. Guys have started making money in all sorts...
Episode 315 "Simplifying things"
May 26, 2020 16:00 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MBWe’re live. John starts the conversation with a nostalgia train remembering the founding members of Entreprogrammers, also that intro needs to changed LOL. In other topics, chuck is experimenting with his podcast audience and it’s looking for advice from Jhon looking for the best possible outcome. John is actually going through some employee changes, training process, etc. Getting new blood and analyzing what the next step for Simple Programmer will be. Thought of the w...
Episode 314 "Upsell Are Not as Good as They Used To Be"
May 19, 2020 16:00 - 48 minutes - 22.5 MBWe’re Live. John and Mani are currently doing a promotion together through the Simple Programmer Channel, testing different approaches to the current market right now. Turns Out Upsell is working less than expected, which at the moment is really not a bad thing, they are testing the market at the moment so it’s basically a calculated risk. It’s not actually bad but it could definitely be better. Strategies need to be refresh in order for any of this to work, they have an inte...
Episode 313 "Sanding off the edges"
May 12, 2020 16:00 - 54 minutes - 25.2 MBWe’re Live. Recently Chuck and John did a small partnership helping out Chuck with some sales using the Simple Programmer Audience, and it worked. Not only worked, but it also did pretty well. 50-50 share and both parties got a nice chunk. But now comes the step, pull up the next step strategy, and look forward to keeping those numbers. Chuck has some ideas, Mani and John offered him solid guidance on the matter. Thought of the week: John - “ IT is always got to impro...
Episode 312 "Sales Are Coming Back"
May 05, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 29.2 MBWe’re Live. Great news from the guys. All points out that recent strategies are working on bringing sales home. People are constantly online these days. Chuck made a few alterations on one of his sites design-wise and had a big sales uprising in just one week. John has been applying new strategies as well, and they are working better than expected. Lots of new stuff that did not work in the past are currently working on this new sales environment. There’s a big room for new...
Episode 311 "Turn Crisis Into Victory"
April 28, 2020 16:00 - 58 minutes - 26.8 MBWe’re Live. One of the most important things when hiring someone is high levels of communication. For the guys is even more important than delivering the tasks assigned on time, there’s nothing more frustrating than having to follow up with a person to check on pending tasks. Simple emails, chat contact, anything. This has been the case of many hires for the guys and the primary cause of letting go of the employee. In other topics, Mani is trying new stuff with emails that have b...
Episode 310 "Nobody Knows The Truth Anymore"
April 21, 2020 17:09 - 1 hour - 40.6 MBWe’re Live. The guys start with how many things are being speculated in the market these days. Housing prices especially are going to have a dramatic change among other issues that are just not clear in the present day. One of the most concerning issues is the gatherings and at what point people are going to feel safe to do this? Many things depend on this. The only thing that we can do is try to protect our assets. Thought of the week: John – “ Businesses Will open eventually, but wh...
Episode 309 "Impending Crash"
April 14, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 28.8 MBWe’re Live. The Guys start discussing the actual measures that the government is applying during this crisis, essentially they are doing all the wrong things at the wrong time. This is basically going to cost the government and amazing amount of money and the inflation ratio is going to be up the roof by the amount of money printed to cover for everything. This is affecting everybody, even the fast-food worker. The solution is what the guys are proposing right now. Find new ways ...
Episode 308 "The Uncertainty Is The Killer"
April 07, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MBWe’re Live. Mani tells the story to John of How he was on a COVID-19 Isolation Ward. Mani was not infected thankfully but went through a big process just to get in quarantine again al because of simple flu that he had. That’s the situation right now Other topics start analyzing where to invest money during these times, it can get really complicated because the whole situation may last a year, if not more. Solid Plans need to be made but there’s definitely a new path to be walked on. ...
Episode 307 "The Name Of The Game: Survive"
March 31, 2020 16:00 - 58 minutes - 26.9 MBWe’re Live. Chuck and John definitely have been affected by the whole situation. Many businesses are doing stuff for free just to keep clientele. It’s definitely hard times ahead. Regarding the decisions made worldwide, the guys have a discussion on how principles should be taken into account rather than morals or even science. Economic shutdown does help save a lot of lives, but in some cases this an extreme desition to make. The standard business had to fire a big part of his e...
Episode 306 "Common Sense is not the Law"
March 24, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 32.4 MBWe’re Live. Guys start the conversation debating all the processes that they have been gone through (and the population) due to the lockdown, quarantine, etc. There’s a lot of contradiction with what the government is doing and the constitution, but the bottom line is basically the only way to control a majority of people that are not rational. Another subject comes and it’s that if the virus itself would be 10 times more deadly what would be the reaction of the people? Does it have to...
Episode 305 "The COVID-19 Effect"
March 17, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 35.1 MBWe’re Live. Coronavirus has had a huge effect on the economy in the last passing weeks, and the guys were not left out in this process. John Starts the conversations by telling how he lost a big amount of money on a bad investment due to bad timing and the current situation. This goes for everybody, there’s a big concern amongst entrepreneurs on what exactly to do in these cases. People need to be strategic cause a bad step can make you lose everything in a matter of hours. Stay ...
Episode 304 "The Sales Streak is over"
March 10, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 31.9 MBWe’re Live. Mani Starts the conversation summarizing last week for Chuck, he went with John to meet up with high ticket players in the business and conferences just to increase the contact, overall great Week for the guys. On the other hand, things have slowed down for Chuck, the sale streak has stopped, almost to zero. He Starts to discuss with Mani what could possibly cause this and looking for ways to get sales back up and in rhythm. Thought of the week: Mani –“The easiest thing you ...
Episode 303 "High Quality Customer"
February 25, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 54 MBWe’re Live. John and Mani start the conversation reviewing a strategy that Jhon has been applying to Bulldog Mindset recently, the thing is, he’s looking for high-quality clients only which is a niche that can be tricky. He has been trying different things but they have not been working as expected. Mani gives really specific advice on what to try. One of the most important things when looking for this kind of client is that the filter has to be bulletproof, he really doesn’t want a b...
Episode 302 "The Leads Hunt"
February 18, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 27.9 MBWe’re Live. Chuck solve his issue with the email broadcast and has got his team ready for action. On the other hand, it appears than the outsourced way to get the leads works well, he’s currently finalizing details on it, and yes, business it’s on the top for chuck. Another week to the record! The team is also ready to get as much leads as possible, it’s actually the way that it has been working in the passing weeks, the guys have a small concern about this and give some advice to Chuc...
Episode 301 "Guilty By Association"
February 11, 2020 17:00 - 44 minutes - 20.7 MBWe’re Live. Another week in a row for Chuck with Sales through the roof! But not all is good news, he has an issue with the payments, but nonetheless sales don’t seem to want to end at least for the nearest feature. Continuing on the Chuck Sales Fest, He’s reviewing some steps with John, One of them is getting the rate up every time a new partner comes in, John gives great advice on how to continue on this path. Also, Chuck explains a situation that is occurring with one of his par...
Episode 300 "A System That Works"
February 04, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 47.3 MBWe’re Live. Chuck is absolutely killing it with sales, he has made more sales in 3 weeks than the whole last year, Incredible moment for chuck and he just keeps on getting more. He.s currently looking for ways to increase his leads, share some stuff with the guys and John like it so much that he’s probably going to do the same. Mani shoots some important advice, the system that Chuck is using at the moment it’s working flawlessly, the best thing he could, is actually improving th...
Episode 299 "Keeping Momentum"
January 28, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 30.9 MBWe’re Live. Guys start the conversation with how they’re trying to get back on track with their exercise routine. Chuck is thinking of doing the Dopey challenge, John relives this as the hell that it was haha. John is actually training for a 100-mile run this year, which is a big step up and a difficult challenge definitely. In other topics, Chuck updates the guys on the new system he’s been implementing, It’s working extremely well. John and Mani advise on how to maintain this momentum....
Episode 298 "The Pursuit For Sales"
January 21, 2020 17:00 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MBWe’re Live. Chuck starts the conversation with Mani, talking about his whole process of sale through email marketing, numbers, conversion rates, etc. He’s doing good and does a great job at it, but it’s the more tiresome area of the business, really pursuing those sales. Chuck Makes it clear that he’s tired of it, Mani tells him that’s the way to get results, and it does work. Mani gives some advice, this is something that can be outsourced but it’s always better to take this for yourself,...
Episode 297 "Call Me When You Need To Make Money"
January 14, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 29 MBWe’re Live. John starts the conversation about a person that has worked with him recently and marks a recurrent trend, they only go to John when they want to make money otherwise, he’s not on the radar. Most of the “Liberal” People have their ideals always in front until they start a business, once you got the need to start making money, all the political thinking and ideals just gets out of the picture, it doesn’t help at all and that’s the harsh truth. Thought of the week: Chuck - ...
Episode 296 "Big Plans"
January 07, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 31.7 MBWe’re Live. Great Sales Plans to start 2020 for Chuck, has 3 major goals to reach. Not impossible ones, but difficult to achieve. Big numbers to reach and one of the things that Chuck is doing is documenting his whole process on Sales, There’s a possibility that in the future somebody else could take care of this area of the business. This will ease the transition process and save a lot of time. Putting on sales the Podcast is one of the plans, Mani gives great advice to Chuck on this. He ...
Episode 295 "New Years Resolutions"
December 31, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBWe’re live. Last Entreprogrammers of the year! It has definitely been a heck of a ride for all of the guys. The conversation starts about plans for 2020 and small closures needed to move on. Big Plans for Chuck. Mani and John Advise Chuck who has had massive growth and Improvement in 2019, secure guidance to enter the next level and dominate. Sponsorship management is one of the big things that Chuck talks about. In other topics, the guys discuss the problems that they don’t want to ha...
Episode 294 "Happy Holidays"
December 24, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 38.7 MBWe’re Live. New Approach for Chuck has been working exceptionally well, lots of sponsors, people seem to be comfortable with how things are being handled at the moment and he’s been having lots of responses and great feedback on everything. Great Work Chuck! He just developed a perfect way to manage his team and make sure everybody is clear on what they need to do, no more lost emails or unnecessary text or whatnot. Direct and concise and gets the job done. Happy Holidays Everyone!
Episode 293 "New Approach"
December 17, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 31.6 MBWe’re live, after all the blurriness that the guys have passed recently, they have continued their life and their work like nothing happened. Chuck has come back to using the Pomodoro technique to pick up productivity and it’s been going well, in fact, Chuck has gained a lot of new audiences and people that want to work with him. There’s no such thing as bad publicity right? Apparently not. Some people say that Chuck's reputation and business have gone down, there’s nothing farther from th...
Episode 292 "Best Seller"
November 26, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 28.8 MBWe´re live. Chuck had great success with his Book Launch, Currently a best seller in Amazon, Kudos! But not everything was peachy for this book. It was a really long and tiresome process to finally get the product ready, this includes cover, digital files, audible version, etc. Chuck Tells his story about the whole Journey The most ironic thing is that John offered Chuck to publish the book, he really regrets he didn't take that chance and save himself a lot of hassle Thoughts of the...
Episode 291 "The Witchhunt Continues!"
November 19, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 39.7 MBWe’re live. And the Witchhunt Continues! Believe it or not ladies and gentlemen, they are still pursuing Chuck and John to take them down from the internet (LOL). This is practically impossible for 2 main reasons, John is practically showing his middle finger to their faces and he’s just going to keep at it, that’s just how John is, and in a Witchhunt that just doesn’t work. On the other hand, Chuck Does not even care, it’s just not that important for him and this type of behavior also fre...
Episode 290 "Internet is a happy place"
November 12, 2019 17:00 - 54 minutes - 25.4 MBWe´re Live. The guys start the conversation with a situation that concerns Chuck, regarding the Linux Foundation. Chuck is thinking about this because he doesn’t want any trouble. John Clearly says he has a case here, Chuck was publicly defamed. The situation has blown out of proportion for a lot of time, the guys just want to finish it and continue working. The conversation turns into the storytelling of different disputes that the guys had. The Internet is an abstract place with people...
Episode 289 "No Privilege"
October 29, 2019 16:00 - 54 minutes - 25.4 MBWe´re Live. Chuck and John Tell us a funny anecdote of how hatred took over a twitter post from Chuck, John probably did not respond the most civil way haha. People ended up calling any type of names the guys, but that´s how it is in the social storm right? Never on an argument, always in the mood for a battle. This move on to a nice conversation with the guys focused on how any system does not welcome newcomers unless you´re strictly thinking the same way as they are. They always talk abo...
Episode 288 "Family & Business"
October 15, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 30.2 MBWe´re Live. Satya explains to Chuck the process of how he manages his whole business, which is divided into 3 parts. Gives great explanation and Chuck is something completely different from how things are managed in life. Lots of learning here. Satya is a Family man but has accomplished dividing family and business in a great manner, has time for everything, in fact by next year half of his business will not need his attention. Chuck and Satya share their experience, they are basically i...
Episode 287 "Best Moment to Hire"
October 08, 2019 16:00 - 55 minutes - 25.5 MBWe´re Live. John is crunching some numbers for Bulldog Mindset, and it's looking really good. Low Expenses and big Revenue, the next step now is to increment the expenses to get even bigger revenue. This became the main topic of conversation, When is the best time to hire? Expenses will always need to grow in order for the business to evolve, this includes more employees. As an Entrepreneur this needs to be done at the exact moment, it could get problematic and even not finding the rig...
Episode 286 "Start From Zero?"
October 01, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 29.3 MBWe´re Live. Guys start the conversation sharing a few laughs about an accident that Chuck had and has a nice scar in the head to prove it hehe (Harry potter Reference comes in). Chuck´s First Marathon is coming in, he feels ready. John Gives him some advice but overall it's looking good for chuck. John Gives a summary of what he is currently doing with Simple Programmer and the plans that he has for the future of SP. As far as everything goes this is a business that´s self-sustainable wi...
Episode 285 "Track Your Sales"
September 24, 2019 16:00 - 56 minutes - 26.1 MBWe´re Live. Mani is running different ways to do sales at this point. Just to make it more fun or interesting. This set up quite a nice topic on discounts. This is a double-sided blade, yes, you will sell, but there´s going to be a point that you are only going to sale when there´s a discount, there are many ways to work this to your advantage. Take Udemy for example, they only sell with discounts, and it works. GTM comes to conversation, any tracking method in that case. Mani wants this...
Episode 284 "New Blood"
September 17, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 37.9 MBWe´re Live. Ladies and Gentleman, We Have new blood on Entreprogrammers. Welcome To Satya Mallick! Satya is an entrepreneur and gives us a brief review of his work, a small presentation of self if you will. Been on various business and had some success. Satya starts an interesting conversation about skills that an engineer needed 5 or 10 a years ago, but he´s looking into the future now. Guys totally agree on this, AI is everywhere today from self-driven cars to computers that make the...
Episode 283 "Moving Day"
September 10, 2019 16:00 - 47 minutes - 21.8 MBWe´re Live. Chuck Starts the conversation with John, about how he´s been lifting weights recently and how sore he got, especially on legs than even on his runs, couldn’t complete the goal for that time. John Gives him great advice on this and focuses on nutrition to keep the long runs coming. Chuck is talking about migrating all of his podcast processes to a different system, the last one didn’t have an API so automation is off the table, which really slows down the whole process. Also, hi...
Episode 282 "Long Term Decisions"
August 27, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 38.5 MBWe´re Live. The conversation starts on how much Chuck is doing in half a month, he is crunching really good numbers, although he´s been slacking on his major focus which is sponsorship sales, this is great for him because he´s a master at this. John Tells him clearly, that he doesn’t know anybody who can do that amount of sales in so little time. So, Kudos Chuck. Josh is struggling with a very important decision business-wise, its something that could take him years to work, so he´s lookin...
Episode 281 "Your Money, My Time"
August 20, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 30.1 MBWe´re Live. The guys talk about about a system to minimize decisions called Flywheel, it works really well. Mani explained clearly, with fewer decisions you add it works better so you need to focus. Chuck is getting really good on his running, is competing on a Bulldog Mindset Challenge against marathon runners and he´s killing it. Chuck is planning to charge people to manage other people podcast until they can get all their sponsors and experience ready, which is brilliant. Charges $250...
Episode 280 "Chuck at the Top"
August 13, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 40.9 MBWe´re Live, Guys talk about the app to record the program, Zoom seems to be working fine with the guys, but there´s a slight audio decrease on quality so bare with us. Chuck got a serious issue with his Drip account, they stop doing everything he configured to do without telling anything to him, Big rant. Trying out Active campaign, this is important on email marketing, deliverability can never stop. Podcast business for Chuck has been growing wild, incredibly good in a really short time...
Episode 279 "Choose Wisely"
August 06, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 36.3 MBWe´re Live, The guys start discussing and comparing sales of the same product but with 2 different approaches, direct promo sales and a funnel to a sales pages. Funnels worked way much better and haven’t even finished the sale. There are different levels of audience or possible buyers to the product, this is important when making a sale, we´ll make things easier to reach goals and even to spot failures. Mani Shows the guys and even way to split groups with just the names of the subscribe...
Episode 278 "The Pomodoro Contest"
July 23, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 33.4 MBWe´re Live. The guys start talking about a competition about Pomodoro, who´s more discipline who gets more Pomodoro done. John and Josh share strategies to work on this, using apps that block your social media or internet connection, but the guys agree that they are too smart for that, they will find a way around. Discipline is the key here. Mani was participating in this, and couldn’t get much done because he was on vacation. Guys share a few laughs, John had a huge advantage and had way ...
Episode 277 "Social Media Transformation"
July 16, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 31.9 MBWe´re Live. John is checking back with his 10 Pomodoro a day technique, and it's amazing how much of a difference it makes. It´s the equivalent of 4 weeks of work in 1 week, that´s something else. To put the cherry on top, between 5 Pomodoro break, he´s reading a book. John talks about some real state he´s been making recently, that´s something that he can't stop doing and makes a lot of progress on it, it just makes a good revenue, on the other Josh asks him how are things with Bulldog Mi...
Episode 276 "You´ve got to push through"
July 02, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 32.5 MBWe´re Live. Google Hangouts is finally going die and supposedly going to be replaced by Youtube Webcam, we´ll see how it goes. Other topics, Charles feel off a roof and really hurt his elbow, he has a really funny anecdote on it. He´s a little worried because he´s got a 5k really soon, his doctor will tell him. There´s an interesting argument with the guys about how Doctors do stuff, are they really needed? They all agree that doctors (Medics) mostly work o tell you what is wrong and pre...
Episode 275 "Pick up the Torch"
June 25, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 31.8 MBWe´re Live. The guys start the conversation with how Google gets so many apps on the run just to experiment with them, Wave or Google plus is just an example even Google Health, that are completely shut down right now. That just leads to knowing that sometimes google is out of their game, and this is happening much more. Chuck tells some good news to the guys, he´s now a host for 3 more podcast shows and some more business that he´s into, life is going pretty well for Chuck and he´s lookin...