Jon Nastor's Hack the Entrepreneur
221 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 401 ratingsUnlike other business podcasts. No filler and no fluff. HTE is a show for people looking to take charge of their lives and build a successful online business. People who are looking for their next business idea, getting started online, and how to start a business. We understand that starting a business and doing work that matters is not always easy, but it is worth it. Learn more at https://hacktheentrepreneur.com/podcasts/
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HTE 376: How to Find Your Story | Alistair Clay
October 26, 2017 15:09 - 47 minutes - 44 MBMy guest today is a former national journalist turned PR guy and a story obsessive entrepreneur. Back in 2010, along with his wife, they started Arc Seven Communications, a PR agency focused on the health care industry. With their agency running smoothly, he wanted to help entrepreneurs and startups tell their story. So they created Class:PR to democratize PR and help businesses tell their stories. I this conversation, we discuss how to write a press release, the value of perseverance,...
HTE 375: What Type of Business Owner Are You? | Josh Haynam
October 23, 2017 07:30 - 41 minutes - 38.9 MBMy guest today started his current business while still in college, and after struggling for three years with hardly any growth his determination is finally paying off. He is the co-founder of Interact quiz builder. This year alone, it looks like the sacrifices required to build a business are paying off, as they have seen a 300% jump in growth and are anticipating 500% by the end of the year. In this conversation, we talk about finding a coach, how to choose your marketing channels, and...
HTE 374: Doing Things Before You Are Ready | Allie Siarto
October 20, 2017 07:30 - 35 minutes - 33.2 MBIn 2009, my guest co-founded and was Director of Analytics at Loudpixel, a successful social analytics company. After many successful years, she realized it wasn’t quite what she wanted to be doing, so she made a change. Today my guest is an independent wedding and lifestyle photographer. In a market that most people struggle to start a business in, my guest has managed to build a business to where she works part-time and makes a full-time income. This allows her time to spend with h...
HTE 373: Sell First and Scale Later | Nathan Barry
October 09, 2017 07:30 - 40 minutes - 38 MBhttps://hacktheentrepreneur.com/convert My guest today is an author, teacher, and the founder of Convertkit. In 2013, he launched Convertkit, email marketing to professional bloggers. He spent a couple years trying to get traction and dealing with friends telling him to give up and try another product. Convert kit now has serious traction with a team of 28 fully distributed employees and over $500k in monthly recurring revenue. In this conversation, we discuss paying attention to thi...
HTE 372: Investing in Yourself | Kai Davis
October 06, 2017 07:30 - 45 minutes - 42 MBMy guest today is an author, speaker, and coach with one goal: Help your business be better off than it was before you found him. He is working to accomplish this goal in several ways: One, he sends a daily marketing tip to his newsletter. Two, he has written three books. And One, he sends a daily marketing tip to his newsletter. Two, he has written three books. And three, he coaches freelancers in the craft of marketing and selling. This is a super fun conversation that covers positio...
HTE 371: Improving with Actions, Not Tasks | Heath Armstrong
October 02, 2017 07:30 - 50 minutes - 47 MBMy guest today has gone from a sales position in the concrete industry to running a successful eCommerce business from his home office. Back in 2009, while still working in the construction industry, my guest decided to start a website called ConcreteHelper.com. His plan was to help the industry, and in turn, help his career. Instead, he realized he hated his job. Fast forward to today, and my guest is running a successful Amazon FBA company and has published an extremely useful journal ...
HTE 370: Starting From Scratch | Matt Miller
September 27, 2017 07:30 - 45 minutes - 42 MBMy guest today is the founder of School Spirit Vending. But he wasn’t always an entrepreneur. He spent the first nine years of his career as an Air Force pilot before entering the corporate world. Despite being a top performer, he had a long-term desire to start his own business and be his own boss. After a random conversation with a friend about the gumball machines his family owned, the seed was planted for what would eventually become School Spirit Vending. School Spirit Vending sta...
HTE 369: Finding Your First Customers | Michael Palmer
September 21, 2017 07:30 - 46 minutes - 43.3 MBToday’s guest is a podcaster, coach, and currently the founder of two successful companies. Back in 2010, he brought Pure Bookkeeping to life in Canada, and they have recently grown and expanded into the US. Pure Bookkeeping is a system for helping bookkeepers manage, grow, and scale their businesses. He is also the co-founder of eCircle Academy, where he helps coaches and consultants grow their businesses. He is also the host of the Thought Leaders podcast. Now, let’s hack… Michae...
HTE 368: How the Pitch Podcast was Acquired by Gimlet Media | Josh Muccio
September 12, 2017 07:30 - 43 minutes - 40.8 MBMy guest today is the founder, host, and executive producer of The Pitch podcast. Earlier this year, The Pitch podcast was acquired by Gimlet Media and is currently publishing its second season. Back in 2011, when my guest was still in college, he started an online iPad and iPhone repair company called iHeart Repair. After growing it rapidly for three years, my guest sold the business to MTechRepair. In this conversation, we discuss the value of cold emailing, why follow-up is essential,...
HTE 367: What Drives the Value of Your Business? | Steve Little
September 01, 2017 07:30 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBMy guest today sold his first business at just 15 years old, and spent the past 41 years building, growing, and selling countless others — both his own and for clients. He is currently the founder and CEO of Zero Limits Ventures, a small and middle market Mergers and Acquisitions Firm. In this conversation, we discuss how to understand what drives the value of a business, why an exit strategy is more about the strategy than the exit, and spinning up an area of expertise. Now, let’s hac...
HTE 366: Chasing the Horizon | Landon Ray
August 28, 2017 17:10 - 31 minutes - 29.5 MBLandon Ray of OntraPort is a serial entrepreneur. He has unparalleled perseverance and has failed more times than most. At the age of 25, with money he got from his father, my guest made the transformation from a street vendor of flowers, into a top securities day trader, in only 12 months. This alone is a brilliant story, but just the beginning. After beating the odds on Wall Street, my guest has taken his team-building skills and personal experience, to create a family of products that...
HTE 365: Learning to Connect the Right People | Sean Smith
August 21, 2017 07:30 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBSean Smith of Simple Tiger is a marketer, writer, strategist, and an entrepreneur. His career began in SEO by consulting for multiple Fortune 500 companies and 17 years old. Just two years later, he joined his first agency, Gravity Free, where he and spent two and a half years running SEO campaigns for leading brands like Holiday Inn and Best Western. He is now the cofounder and VP of Simple Tiger, where they are building a killer team to help brands – from startups to Fortune 500's – be...
HTE 364: Empowering People Through Music | Nicc Johnson
August 14, 2017 07:30 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBMy guest today has led a fascinating journey as a musicologist, professional DJ, and an entrepreneur. At just 16 years old, he got started as a professional DJ with a goal of working in the epicenter of electronic music — Ibiza, Spain — which he accomplished when he became resident DJ for six years at Pacha Ibiza. He also worked as a consultant and crafted 24-hour playlists for restaurant and retail clients. During this time, he found himself profoundly frustrated by the tools available ...
HTE 363: Learning to Sell Every Day | Nicky Billou
August 07, 2017 22:51 - 39 minutes - 36.8 MBMy guest today is an Iranian immigrant inspired by the freedom and power at our fingertips through the power of entrepreneurship — a freedom we sometimes take for granted. My guest is the creator of Finish Line Thinking, where he is a mindset coach to high performers in sport and business. He is also the co-founder of The Business of Thought Leadership podcast and the author and co-author of several books. Most notably, he Mark McKoy's Gold Medal Fitness Secrets, which he co-wrote with O...
HTE 362: Run Your Business with Processes (and Grow it with Vision) | Allen Brouwer
August 01, 2017 07:30 - 40 minutes - 37.6 MBMy guest today is an outdoors enthusiast, marketer, and an entrepreneur. Back in 2015, he was approached by another entrepreneur with an idea to design, manufacture, and sell a powerful yet simple daily planner and journal. This idea became the Self Journal. When their initial Kickstarter campaign raised $322,000 in just 34 days, they knew they were onto something — this something became known as BestSelf — a ecommerce business that wants to own your office. In the discussion, we talk ...
HTE 361: Starting a Record Label in an Era of Digital Media | Budi Voogt
July 28, 2017 07:30 - 32 minutes - 30.7 MBMy guest today has built his life around the things he loves building things, music and entrepreneurship. He is a label owner, artist manager, writer, consultant, and an entrepreneur. He is the Co-founder of Heroic Recordings, a record label and full-service agency. He has also launched Villain Recordings for the release of darker and heavier sounds, and provides a platform for up-and-comers on Heroic Hearts. My guest also writes about music marketing and digital media, and is the author o...
HTE 360: Destroy Your Ego and Grow Your Company | Bill Lyons
July 24, 2017 07:30 - 35 minutes - 33.1 MBMy guest today is the founder, CEO, and serial entrepreneur behind three companies within the real estate and mortgage industries. My guest has been building and growing Lyons Realty for the past 10 years. During this time, my guest has also started Revestor, the only residential real estate search engine that can run investment calculations over live listings. On top of this, nearly four years ago, my guest started Griffin Funding, a mortgage lending company. In this conversation, we di...
HTE 359: How to Learn Faster By Going All-in on Your Ideas | Gabriel Machuret
July 18, 2017 15:35 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBMy guest today is an App Store Optimization specialist, hustler, entrepreneur, idea machine, and a very good friend of mine. When I met my today’s guest, he had a team developing over 30 apps per month — but he will tell you that he is not an app developer. In fact, he couldn't care less about apps. He looks at an app and doesn't see a coding challenge or an opportunity for creativity; he sees a revenue stream. My guest has an uncanny ability to see business ideas, unlike anyone I have e...
HTE 358: Humble Enough to Ask | Dave Munson
July 13, 2017 07:30 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBMy guest today is the founder of Saddleback. Saddleback is the result of several years he journeying across North America with his dog to create bags and other products made to outlast their owners. Their slogan is: They’ll fight over it when you’re dead. His founding story is one of legend. He spent three years living in a $100 a month apartment in Mexico with his dog Blue and dodged a crooked Mexican Federale who was sent to kill him, all while trying to start his business. Saddleback ...
HTE 357: Overcoming Anxiety and Accomplishing Anything | Phil Singleton
July 10, 2017 07:30 - 41 minutes - 38.9 MBMy guest today is an author, web developer, SEO grunt, and an entrepreneur. During the past nearly 20 years, my guest has enjoyed a busy and successful career path. From starting a software company in Asia, raising over $1 million in venture capital, and exiting three years later. To helping dozens of US startups and tech companies raise strategic venture capital (over $20 million). Just over 11 years ago, he moved back to the US and founded his current company Kansas City Web Design a...
HTE 356: Doing the Opposite of Everyone Else | Ronnie Nijmeh
June 26, 2017 07:30 - 47 minutes - 44 MBMy guest today is a father, author, marketer, speaker, and an entrepreneur. I met my guest over dinner with about 10 other entrepreneurs here in Toronto, and when we got to talking about his business, I quickly became fascinated by it. He has been an entrepreneur for over 17 years. For the past nearly nine years, he has been the founder and CEO of PLR.me, a private label rights content provider servicing health and wellness professionals. In short, he has built an impressive team who cre...
HTE 355: The Entrepreneur’s Game | Chris Mailander
June 22, 2017 14:34 - 40 minutes - 38 MBToday’s guest has more than two decades of experience as a technology executive, internal M&A lawyer, management consultant, and an entrepreneur. He was co-founder and CEO of a healthcare tech company called Health Access Solutions, which he and his team scaled and then sold in 2016. He is currently the founder of Ironheart Corporate Advisory, an operating partner to high-potential companies focused on making a disruptive impact. During this conversation we discuss being opportunistic,...
HTE 354: Doing Charity the Silicon Valley Way | Gret Glyer
June 20, 2017 07:30 - 38 minutes - 35.9 MBMy guest today is a dedicated entrepreneur and an advocate for the poor. From 2013 to 2016, my guest lived with the world’s poorest people in Africa, where he built more than 100 houses for the homeless, and famously crowdfunded $100,000 to build a girls’ school in rural Malawi. He is now the Founder of DonorSee, a marketplace that lets you help the world's poorest people in seconds after downloading the app, and then proves it with raw video updates. In this conversation we discuss, h...
HTE 353: Setting Goals and Getting Started | Joe Pulizzi
June 12, 2017 07:30 - 46 minutes - 43 MBMy guest today is an author, fan of the color orange, and an entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder of Content Marketing Institute, and the largest in-person content marketing event in the world, Content Marketing World. He founded the company back in 2007 and spent nine years growing and scaling the business until it was acquired in June of 2016. During this time, my guest also published four massively successful books on marketing with content. His fifth book, Killing Marketin...
HTE 352: Finding Places to Add Value | Kris Reid
June 08, 2017 13:51 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBMy guest today is the self-proclaimed ‘coolest guy in SEO’, am Australian ex-pat living in Cambodia, and an entrepreneur. Over nine years ago, and after spending a few short years as a software engineer, my guest took the entrepreneurial leap and started Ardor SEO. Nearly a decade later, they have offices and teams in Australia, Cambodia, and the Philippines. In this conversation we discuss how to define success, using backlinks to increase SEO, and transitioning into a top-line business...
HTE 351: Finding the Right People | Shawn Rubel
June 06, 2017 07:30 - 33 minutes - 31 MBMy guest today is a marketer, designer, and entrepreneur. In 2008, while employed as eCommerce Marketing Manager at Camping World, my guest began building websites and tools for graphic designers. What began as a side hustle with Brusheezy.com, my guest has spent the past 11 years building and growing the Eezy brand, which now includes four main products built in-house with their 18-person team, and several other companies they have acquired. In this episode we discuss, success as a sl...
HTE 350: 8 Years of (Seemingly) Going Nowhere | Darryl Ballantyne
June 01, 2017 07:30 - 38 minutes - 36.2 MBMy guest today is a music lover, Blue Jays fan, and an entrepreneur. While still in university, my guest cofounded a company that seemingly failed. So after graduation, he went to LA to work for EMI Music, with the plan to permanently relocate for a long-term position. During the slight delay as he prepared to move, Microsoft found the website for his failed business and reached out to him. This was the official birth of LyricFind, now the world’s largest lyric licensing service. Now, ...
HTE 349: Take Responsibility For Your Situation | Marya Jan
May 25, 2017 07:30 - 35 minutes - 33 MBSign up to receive the special offer for Hack the Entrepreneur listeners at ActiveCampaign.com/hack. My guest today is a Facebook Ads Strategist, writer, a qualified lawyer, and an entrepreneur. In 2010, my guest started a website called WritingHappiness.com. For the next five years, she honed here content writing skills, launched three online programs, and wrote for countless large publications. Two years ago, she merged WritingHappiness into her personal brand, where she now helps co...
HTE 348: Keep Asking Questions | Tim Fargo
May 22, 2017 15:24 - 41 minutes - 38.6 MBMy guest today is an author, runner, and entrepreneur. Back in 1996, my guest cofounded Omega Insurance Services, an insurance fraud investigation company. They went from a company of three to a company of 300 and were acquired for $20 million in 2003. After enjoying a mini-retirement of sorts, my guest launched a software company called SocialJukebox, a social media management system. He is also the author of Alphabet Success: Keeping it Simple. My Secrets to Success. Now, let’s hac...
HTE 347: Think Big, Act Small | Tristan White
May 15, 2017 07:30 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBMy guest today is a leader, author, and an entrepreneur. A little over 13 years ago, my guest began helping seniors stay mobile, safe, and happy, with his company The Physic Co. What started as less than a full-time job for one person, has since grown to a team of 100 delivering over 200,000 physiotherapy consults per year. And for seven consecutive years has earned itself a place on BRWs annual list of Australia’s best places to work. While growing and scaling his company, my guest also...
HTE 346: How to Turn What You Know Into a Business | Jessie Shternshus
May 11, 2017 15:03 - 31 minutes - 29.6 MBToday’s guest is the founder of The Improv Effect, a company that gives their clients the competitive edge, through creativity, collaboration, and effective communication. My guest's goal was to help businesses reach their full potential and she has successfully done this for global companies such as Groupon, Johnson & Johnson, The PGA Tour, Crayola and many more. With techniques that she learned on the job at Disney and Sesame Street, she leads teams and organizations to achieve teamwor...
HTE 345: Ruthless Prioritization (and Hacking Growth) | Sean Ellis
May 08, 2017 14:38 - 44 minutes - 41.3 MBMy guest today is an author, growth hacker (in fact, he personally coined the term back in 2010), and an entrepreneur. He got his start back in the mid-late 1990s and spent the next decade and a half heading up marketing and growth at several companies, such as LogMeIn, Eventbrite, and Dropbox. In 2012, he founded Qualaroo, a SaaS company who’s customers included Uber Starbucks, Spotify, Burger King, and Intuit, and was acquired in 2016. He is now the founder and CEO of GrowthHackers.c...
HTE 344: Frame Your Work Around What You Love Doing | David Meerman Scott
May 04, 2017 15:02 - 35 minutes - 33.4 MB[episode]Today’s guests is an online marketing strategist and author of several books on marketing, most notably The New Rules of Marketing and PR with over 300,000 copies sold to date. At the height of the dot-com boom, he was vice president of marketing at NewsEdge Corporation, an online news distributor with $70 million in revenue. In 2002, after NewsEdge was sold he was fired. Like any entrepreneur would do, he started his own business to refine his ideas, work with select clients a...
HTE 343: How to Free Up Your Business | Connor Gillivan
May 02, 2017 14:49 - 41 minutes - 39 MBMy guest today is a writer, traveler, e-commerce expert, and an entrepreneur. He got started with building a landscaping business while still in high school and ran it until going to college. While in college, he met his business partner and launched as eCommerce business called Portlight, which has sold over $20 million in products and has a team of ten people running it. He is currently the co-founder and CMO of FreeeUp, where my guest and his team enable companies to hire the top 1%...
HTE 342: [GOING DEEP] Dartboard Pricing | Sean D'Souza
May 01, 2017 15:31 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MBYou’ve built a new product or decided to start providing a new service to offer your customers. How do you determine the price you are going to charge? Now think of the flip side to this, have you noticed how you buy a product or service? In most cases, you look at what's being offered and then look around for a better price, or at least better value. This behavior means you're not just considering one brand, but also working out what that brand's competition is offering. This is what ...
HTE 341: The Reason Why I Freelance | Bryce Bladon
April 25, 2017 15:58 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBMy guest today is an editor, writer, and entrepreneur. With 10 years experience in self-employment, my guest has published 12 books, gathered 780,000 blog followers, and 25,000 email subscribers. He is currently the editor-in-chief and co-owner of Clients From Hell, where they help creative professional. Now, let’s hack… Bryce Bladon.
HTE 340: Just Make Your First Dollar | Carrie Wilkerson
April 24, 2017 07:30 - 37 minutes - 35.3 MBMy guest today is a bestselling author, international speaker, and an entrepreneur. In 2004, my guest released her book The Barefoot Executive, which went on to becoming an international bestseller. The success of this book has taken her to countless stages in countless countries — educating, entertaining, and empowering her audiences. She has been featured on CNN and FOX Business News and has consulted for companies such as Google on business growth strategies. Most importantly, she h...
HTE 339: Driven By Profits and Purpose | Jon Carder
April 18, 2017 14:33 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MBMy guest today is a true serial entrepreneur with 17+ years experience in the startup world. From struggling to get his first business off the ground at 19 years old, to selling his second company for $10 million at the young age of 26. He has since started, shutdown, and pivoted on more businesses than I can count, and he is now drive by both profit and purpose. He is currently the founder and CEO of Empyr, a fast-growing online-to-offline marketing platform. Now, let’s hack… Jon ...
HTE 338: Mastering Your Habits | James Clear
April 17, 2017 13:00 - 28 minutes - 26.7 MBToday’s guest is an entrepreneur, weightlifter, and travel photographer in 20 countries. He has started four businesses over the course of his entrepreneurial career and two of them have succeeded. His real success has been his personal blog. He started consistently posting twice per week in very late 2012 and has not missed a post since. Not only that, but he has an email list of over 100,000 people, is regularly published by Business Insider, Entrepreneur Magazine, and The Huffington ...
HTE 337: The Pros (and Cons) of Starting Things Really Quickly | Reggie Milligan
April 11, 2017 15:05 - 49 minutes - 46.4 MBMy guest today is food lover, former chef, and an entrepreneur. At a young age, my guest was finding ways to take action and make money. From collecting mis-hit golf balls to apprenticing at The French Laundry, a three Michelin Star restaurant. After college, him and a friend started a business called Social Feed that was quickly acquired. This left him time to think of his next venture. In February 2012, over drinks in a Toronto bar, my guest and his cofounder decided to start a subsc...
HTE 336: Entrepreneurship is a Journey to Self-Discovery | Petra Foster
April 06, 2017 15:44 - 40 minutes - 37.6 MBFrom 2013 - 2015 my guest was the managing director of Perfect Print Shirts, a work wear printing company based out of Birmingham, England. While working as Managing Director, my guest decided to start a consultancy on the side, and in August of 2014, she launched her side hustle. 10 months later, she went full-time as a Client Enrolments Strategist at PetraFoster.com. Now, let’s hack… Petra Foster.
HTE 335: Working Between Your Comfort and Panic Zones
April 04, 2017 12:43 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBMy guest for today wasn’t always an entrepreneur. My guest attended Harvard and worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, did policy work for the National Economic Council at the White House, and political organizing for the Service Employees International Union. But then he gave it all up to become an entrepreneur.He is the CEO and co-founder of Mic, a leading news, and media company for young people. Each month, more than 20 million readers rely on Mic’s unique sensibility to stay...
HTE 334: Why You Need to Throw Yourself Into Your Projects | Naomi Dunford
April 03, 2017 07:30 - 50 minutes - 46.8 MBMy guest today is a triple Pisces, marketing and growth coach, and a smart entrepreneur. She is the founder of IttyBiz, where her and her team turn smart, quirky people into smart, quirky entrepreneurs. She has been coaching and teaching online marketing since 2006 and has been featured in major outlets such as Forbes, Cosmopolitan and USA Today. Plus, her newsletter has attracted over 50,000 subscribers from across the globe. Now, let’s hack… Naomi Dunford.
HTE 333: Habit Formation and Mental Energy | Zack Arnold
March 30, 2017 13:48 - 46 minutes - 43.5 MBMy guest today is an award-winning Hollywood film editor, a former sufferer of ADD, and an entrepreneur. Being an editor is hard on the body, both mentally and physically — with long hours, high stress, with long bouts of sitting in a dark room. At the age of 25, my guest was overcome with anxiety, ADD, and suicidal depression. This started him on a journey experimenting with blending high-performance and sedentary work — think sitting at a computer all day. This was the birth of Optim...
HTE 332: Why You Need Other People Working On Your Business | John Jonas
March 28, 2017 07:30 - 45 minutes - 42.7 MBMy guest today is former programmer turned marketer, father of five, and a smart entrepreneur. Nine years ago, he started OnlineJobs.ph, the world's largest marketplace for finding and hiring virtual staff from the Philippines. Since programming the first version of the site himself, my guest has grown the company to a team of over 20 full-time people. He is also the founder of Replace Myself, a site designed to help entrepreneurs find, hire, and (most importantly) teach and manage virtu...
HTE 331: The Best Opportunities Don’t Look Good On Paper | Marcus Cobb
March 27, 2017 07:30 - 45 minutes - 42.7 MBMy guest today is a self-made, serial entrepreneur who has spent over half his life building businesses. Plus, his attitude and outlook are infectious. He is the co-founder and CEO of Jammber, where the focus is in bringing art and commerce closer together, and by creating technology to do the stuff people hate so they can do more of what they love. This was a super fun conversation to be part of, and I think you are going to dig it. Now, let’s hack… Marcus Cobb.
HTE 330: Keep Building Momentum | Christopher Gimmer
March 23, 2017 14:58 - 39 minutes - 37 MBMy guest today has been bootstrapping startups since 2014. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Snappa, software built to enable entrepreneurs and marketers to create graphics. Snappa was launched in July of 2015, and just recently passed the impressive milestone of $25,000 monthly recurring revenue. From quitting his stable government job to recently purchasing the URL Snappa.com for $40,000, this conversation is insightful into the inner-workings of growing a software company from...
HTE 329: An Eagerness to Create | Michael Brown
March 21, 2017 07:30 - 37 minutes - 35.1 MBMy guest today is a writer, marketer, and an entrepreneur. After spending a few years as Content (and Senior Content) Manager at uTest, my guest decided to step out on his own as a content and copywriter. While landing his first few clients, he realized he had created a unique way to pitch his work to potential clients. This new method was so effective he almost immediately began hiring writers to fulfill the demand he was generating. This was the birth of nDash Marketing. My guest con...
HTE 328: Concentrate on Effective Communication | Bruce Morrow
March 14, 2017 15:55 - 36 minutes - 34 MBMy guest today is sales expert with over 40 years experience, a business and sales coach, and an entrepreneur. After nearly 20 years working in sales for numerous national and international companies, he eventually worked up to VP of Sales where he hired, trained, and managed the entire sales staff. After spending decades on the inside, my guest decided it was time to step out on his own. So he founded Sales Alliance, a sales training and coaching company, which he ran successfully for n...
HTE 327: Building a Business For Acquisition | Brock Ferguson
March 13, 2017 07:30 - 37 minutes - 35.3 MBMy guest today is a data & cognitive scientist, full-stack web developer, and an entrepreneur who started his first company at 11 years old. My guest doesn’t just have a penchant for starting companies, but as you will hear, he also knows how to achieve successful exits. He is currently the co-founder of Strong Analytics, a data science consulting firm that helps companies understand their customers and leverage machine learning to make their products and operations better. They’ve als...