Podcasts about entreprogrammers

We're Live. First of all, there's so,e big news regarding Entreprogrammers, it's currently a rebranding! So stay tuned to see a new face! The Content that social media has at the moment is extremely variant and different, to say the least. Publishing superior content will not only make you stand out from the crowd but it will improve your chances of success. The guys have a really interesting conversation regarding this with each different perception. Thought of the week John - “All it matters is to get that specific Lead”

  We're Live. Getting to know a new team member it's always a part of the process, with the Depart of Chuck from the podcast it's time for changes.   The guys are looking forward to keeping Entreprogrammers alive and evolving, so the next step was clear and recruits are trying out!   Mani: ”You've been doing this since you were 15 and you're 23? Right on man!”

  We’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 week:   John - “There’s a slow point when you have to refactor your way out”

We´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 their own decisions. John Talks a little about the transition of Simple Programmer, Everything is going good for both of them (John and Josh). Really positive movement for Josh, Gets good payment for 30 months and gets to work on his own thing. So, Much success to Josh on his endeavors Thoughts of the week Satya – “An Engineer without programming skills 5 years ago was useless… In 5 years without AI skills it will be useless too”

Get Mani's 2x Productivity Course Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 credit Triplebyte CacheFly Panel Aaron Frost AJ O’Neal Joe Eames Aimee Knight Charles Max Wood Joined by special guest: Mani Vaya Episode Summary Mani is the founder of a book summary business called www.2000books.com At 2000 Books, Mani studies the world’s greatest business and personal development books. Then he takes the most important ideas from each book and presents them in tight, 9- to 15-minute video summaries. You get the 4-7 most important ideas in a condensed format that's easy to absorb, easy to review, and easy to put into action immediately. To help people with productivity, Mani created an awesome course called “10x Productivity" His “10x Productivity" video course contains summaries of the 50 greatest books ever written on time management, productivity, goal setting, systems, execution, strategy and leverage. "10x Productivity" pack includes summaries of all the NY Times Best Sellers on Productivity & Time Management, such as: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey Getting Things Done by David Allen Deep Work by Cal Newport The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg The One Thing by Gary Keller Essentialism by Greg McKeown All together, this collection includes more than 250 strategies, tips, tools & techniques for: - Becoming more productive - Getting results rather than being busy, stressed out & frustrated - Time Management - Defeating procrastination - Achieving big goals - Hacking your brain for high performance - Identifying the highest leverage points that lead to much faster results - Creating powerful habits - Installing execution systems that make goal achievement inevitable 10x Productivity Package contains: Summaries of the 50 greatest books ever written on Productivity & Time Management 250+ greatest ideas, tips and strategies on Time Management & Productivity 10+ Hours of no-fluff solid Video Content PDF Summaries of all 50 books Since Mani is my friend and fellow mastermind member, I worked with him to get you guys an amazing discount (using discount code “DEVCHAT”) on the 10x Productivity Book Summary Pack which you can find here Make sure to use the Coupon code “DEVCHAT” to get the discount. Links Mani’s 2x Productivity Course use the code “devchat” for a discount Picks AJ O’Neal: M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village colophony/pine sap/rosin/flux for electronics work Aimee Knight: Interested In Becoming A Site Reliability Engineer? blog post Charles Max Wood: Entreprogrammers episode 248 Kanbonflow Physical Pomodoro timer Mani Vaya: NPR’s How I Built This podcast 2000 Books podcast

Get Mani's 2x Productivity Course Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 credit Triplebyte CacheFly Panel Aaron Frost AJ O’Neal Joe Eames Aimee Knight Charles Max Wood Joined by special guest: Mani Vaya Episode Summary Mani is the founder of a book summary business called www.2000books.com At 2000 Books, Mani studies the world’s greatest business and personal development books. Then he takes the most important ideas from each book and presents them in tight, 9- to 15-minute video summaries. You get the 4-7 most important ideas in a condensed format that's easy to absorb, easy to review, and easy to put into action immediately. To help people with productivity, Mani created an awesome course called “10x Productivity" His “10x Productivity" video course contains summaries of the 50 greatest books ever written on time management, productivity, goal setting, systems, execution, strategy and leverage. "10x Productivity" pack includes summaries of all the NY Times Best Sellers on Productivity & Time Management, such as: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey Getting Things Done by David Allen Deep Work by Cal Newport The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg The One Thing by Gary Keller Essentialism by Greg McKeown All together, this collection includes more than 250 strategies, tips, tools & techniques for: - Becoming more productive - Getting results rather than being busy, stressed out & frustrated - Time Management - Defeating procrastination - Achieving big goals - Hacking your brain for high performance - Identifying the highest leverage points that lead to much faster results - Creating powerful habits - Installing execution systems that make goal achievement inevitable 10x Productivity Package contains: Summaries of the 50 greatest books ever written on Productivity & Time Management 250+ greatest ideas, tips and strategies on Time Management & Productivity 10+ Hours of no-fluff solid Video Content PDF Summaries of all 50 books Since Mani is my friend and fellow mastermind member, I worked with him to get you guys an amazing discount (using discount code “DEVCHAT”) on the 10x Productivity Book Summary Pack which you can find here Make sure to use the Coupon code “DEVCHAT” to get the discount. Links Mani’s 2x Productivity Course use the code “devchat” for a discount Picks AJ O’Neal: M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village colophony/pine sap/rosin/flux for electronics work Aimee Knight: Interested In Becoming A Site Reliability Engineer? blog post Charles Max Wood: Entreprogrammers episode 248 Kanbonflow Physical Pomodoro timer Mani Vaya: NPR’s How I Built This podcast 2000 Books podcast

Get Mani's 2x Productivity Course Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 credit Triplebyte CacheFly Panel Aaron Frost AJ O’Neal Joe Eames Aimee Knight Charles Max Wood Joined by special guest: Mani Vaya Episode Summary Mani is the founder of a book summary business called www.2000books.com At 2000 Books, Mani studies the world’s greatest business and personal development books. Then he takes the most important ideas from each book and presents them in tight, 9- to 15-minute video summaries. You get the 4-7 most important ideas in a condensed format that's easy to absorb, easy to review, and easy to put into action immediately. To help people with productivity, Mani created an awesome course called “10x Productivity" His “10x Productivity" video course contains summaries of the 50 greatest books ever written on time management, productivity, goal setting, systems, execution, strategy and leverage. "10x Productivity" pack includes summaries of all the NY Times Best Sellers on Productivity & Time Management, such as: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey Getting Things Done by David Allen Deep Work by Cal Newport The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg The One Thing by Gary Keller Essentialism by Greg McKeown All together, this collection includes more than 250 strategies, tips, tools & techniques for: - Becoming more productive - Getting results rather than being busy, stressed out & frustrated - Time Management - Defeating procrastination - Achieving big goals - Hacking your brain for high performance - Identifying the highest leverage points that lead to much faster results - Creating powerful habits - Installing execution systems that make goal achievement inevitable 10x Productivity Package contains: Summaries of the 50 greatest books ever written on Productivity & Time Management 250+ greatest ideas, tips and strategies on Time Management & Productivity 10+ Hours of no-fluff solid Video Content PDF Summaries of all 50 books Since Mani is my friend and fellow mastermind member, I worked with him to get you guys an amazing discount (using discount code “DEVCHAT”) on the 10x Productivity Book Summary Pack which you can find here Make sure to use the Coupon code “DEVCHAT” to get the discount. Links Mani’s 2x Productivity Course use the code “devchat” for a discount Picks AJ O’Neal: M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village colophony/pine sap/rosin/flux for electronics work Aimee Knight: Interested In Becoming A Site Reliability Engineer? blog post Charles Max Wood: Entreprogrammers episode 248 Kanbonflow Physical Pomodoro timer Mani Vaya: NPR’s How I Built This podcast 2000 Books podcast

Panel: Charles Max Wood Joe Eames Aaron Frost Alyssa Nicoll Special Guests: Brian Love & Kevin Schuchard In this episode, the panelist talk with today’s special guests Brian Love & Kevin Schuchard! Brian and Kevin work at BrieBug – check out their employee profiles here! The panelist and guests talk about schematics, Angular, AST, and much more! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! 0:50 – Chuck: Hello! Our panel today is Joe, Aaron, Alyssa, and myself. We have two guests today, and we are going to talk about schematics. Let’s dive into that! 1:46 – Guest: Schematics is a library that is coming out of Angular and the Angular Team. The guest gives a definition of Angular Schematics. 2:26 – Alyssa. 2:31 – Kevin: The functionality that you are hoping for depends on the CLI that you are on. 3:00 – Alyssa: Sorry for diving into the juicy stuff but we forgot to talk about your introductions! 3:19 – The guests talk about their backgrounds and introduce themselves to the panel and the listeners. 3:49 – Alyssa. 3:54 – Guest continues. 4:21 – Panel: Crazy and busy! 4:28 – Alyssa. 4:31 – Kevin: I am Senior Developer, and I have worked here for a few years. I have had the opportunities to write some schematics for the company and some of my own schematics. 4:53 – Alyssa: Aren’t you so proud that you are a “Senior Developer”?! 5:10 – Guest and panelists go back-and-forth. 6:23 – Guests: We want people to be familiar with schematics and start their journey with schematics. 6:50 – Panel: It’s kind of trippy isn’t that right? 7:00 – Guest: Yeah there are hurdles to learning schematics at first – for sure. 7:22 – Alyssa: What is AST? 7:29 – Guest gives a definition of AST and goes into much detail about this. 10:00 – Alyssa: I think I understand, now, what AST is. Thanks. Alyssa asks the guests a question. 10:14 – Guest answers the question about AST. 10:51 – Guest continues. 11:27 – Panelist is talking about the AST and schematics. 12:03 – Guest: You can read the whole file and using the AST you can figure out where you went to enter the text. 12:25 – Alyssa asks a question. 12:28 – Guest: We are not the developers of schematics, but we are just here to share our knowledge. I want to be super clear here. 13:39 – Panelist talks about schematics, CLI, and AST. 14:18 – Guest: You don’t have to know all about AST and everything there is to know to get into it. You can build schematics w/o getting into AST. Just to be clear. 14:39 – Alyssa asks a follow-up question. 14:41 – Guest continues. 15:57 – Guest: AST has been around for a while – it’s not a new thing it’s kind of an old thing. Guest talks about tools (Code Shift) that Facebook has built that is related to this topic. 17:22 – Guest: Yeah AST has been around for a while. 17:28 – Alyssa asks a question about Code Shift. 17:36 – Guest. 18:21 – Panel and guest go back-and-forth. 19:51 – Alyssa: You said you really don’t need to get into AST to do schematics – right? (Yes.) Alyssa asks a question. 20:19 – Guest: There are two pieces with schematics and that’s adding of new files and you can decide which pieces of the templates you want to be compiled. 21:58 – Chuck: For schematics you mentioned you could drop strings in. Chuck asks a question. 22:29 – Guest answers the question with a hypothetical situation. 23:09 – Chuck: I read the article you wrote and I have a question about your article. Tell me about the tree? 23:29 – Guest talks about the tree or aka the host. 25:40 – Guest: The tree is a virtual kind of context and it’s not committing all of the changes to the file system. Whether that is adding, deleting, or updating these files. 26:10 – Chuck: Makes sense to me. 26:15 – Guest continues talking about schematics. 26:53 – Alyssa: Yeoman is a replacement for schematics? 27:05 – Guest: It’s a lightweight alternative.  27:33 – Advertisement: Angular Boot Camp 28:10 – Chuck: How does one build a schematic? 28:16 – Guest answers the question. 30:34 – Panel: What’s the latest thing you’ve built? Talk about that, please. 30:40 – Guest: It’s a schematic and took what we’ve learned to set you up for a starter project. It starts with a blank project. 32:57 – Panel: You are just talking some lessons learned and you are saying this is how Kevin says to do it. You’ve packaged that up 33:26 – Guest: Yep I have found things that work and there isn’t any magic but put these practices together and made a repository to help testing and making schematics. 33:55 – Panel and guests go back-and-forth. 34:20 – Chuck: Let’s say I’ve built this schematic and Frosty wants to share it with his friends. How do we do that? How do you share it? Is there some component that you’ve built? 35:06 – Guest: It depends on what you are doing with it. 36:14 – Chuck: For mass production, though? 36:25 – Guest: I think Chuck is wondering about discoverability. Guest continues and he mentions prettier, extensions, among other things. 37:18 – Guest: I think it’s my favorite about schematics and it’s Kevin’s. 37:40 – Guest. 38:20 – Guest continues talking about schematics and ng-conf. 38:57 – Guest talks about libraries. 40:12 – Chuck: Anything else? Do you NPM install it and it’s just there? 40:29 – Guest: There are 2 ways to go about it. 53:05 – Fresh Books! END – CacheFly! Links: Vue jQuery Angular JavaScript Python React Cypress Yeoman Apache Groovy GitHub: prettier NG Conf Brian Love’s Website Kevin Schuchard’s LinkedIn BrieBug Blog Angular Schematics Tutorial Testing Schematics with a Sandbox + starter project GitHub: Schematic Starter Getting started blog post by Hans Schematics by Manfred Steyer Angular and Material CLI schematics 1 Angular and Material CLI schematics 2 AST Explorer Evening of Angular Example Schematic project with Sandbox: (Written by Kevin) https://github.com/briebug/jest-schematic https://github.com/schuchard/prettier-schematic https://github.com/briebug/ngrx-entity-schematic https://github.com/blove/schematics Sponsors: Angular Boot Camp Cache Fly Get A Coder Job Picks: Joe Brian Love BrieBug Schematics NGConf. Minified Aaron Ice Fishing Smoking Trout Joe Eames as Dungeon Master for DND NPM JS Survey Charles Alexa Briefing EntreProgrammers.com KanBanflow Pomodoro Technique Kevin Angular Material Open Source Projects Brian Angular.io Visits on Twitter Angular Community Jesse Sanders An evening of Angular Event

We’re live. Mani having some tech issues. Chuck mentions that he is 39 today. Chuck talks about being pulled over. Also, mentions that his truck was not registered and had an expired license due to medical issues. John says Chuck is lucky he did not get his car impounded for not having an up to date license and registration. Chuck talks about on-boarding a developer and show-notes writers. Mani shows and Instagram hack, a picture with his pup. John talks about growing his Instagram account with posting and a variety of content. John talks about his post being a mix of patterns. John shows his phone screen and is posting 6 days a week with a blog post in the mix. John continues with the strategies with self-marketing on Instagram. Mani asks for suggestions on running a contest King Sumo Style.  Chuck jokes about getting support from Josh. Mani says he is doing a book giveaway. EntreProgarmmers chime in with a suggestion on implementing a book giveaway. John talks about how some people like collecting books, but the never read them. John suggests a 3 to 10 book prize to generate excitement. Mani says these are for Top Social Skills books. John talks about what makes a great book gift. John suggests a bundle package on Productivity. Mani talks about running the campaigns. John talks about the one chance to run the campaigns and the proper way to send this to Mani’s email lists. Chuck suggest email lists. John asks what is the main propose of this giveaway. Mani and the EntreProgrammers dive deep in the topics of books to giveaway. Josh says the headlines are important. Josh says to rethink the digital requirement, and how he would hate going to the post office. More talks about how Mani should execute a book giveaway. Josh suggests simplicity. Chuck says he does not really like the idea of suggesting this giveaway as a social skill giveaway. Mani says this is at best on one line copy. Mani asks what would it be? John says the keyword Get Laid is the higher ranking cost per click keyword. John says Emotional Intelligence has the highest ranking. Josh suggests lightweight ways to test the keywords, like in a Tweet. John suggests “How to charm the pants off anyone.”  John suggests “Charisma in a box” as a title. John mentions trying to raise money for St. Jude. John talks about his experiment with his coaching slots for donations. John talks about his 8k plus donations for St. Jude. John mentions those on his big influencers and money makers. EntreProgrammers talk about the reason those contribute to a cause like the St. Jude fundraisers. Chuck splits at the mastermind. Mani talks about the subscriber count of his Youtube Channel. Mani talks about his “Think and Grow Rich” video on Youtube.  Thought for the Week Josh - Imposter Syndrome from going to the small pot to the bigger pot. John - Appeal to the selfish motive Mani - Appeal to self-interest

Panel: Eric Berry Dave Kimura Nate Hopkins Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Vladimir Dem In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with Vladimir Dem who is a Ruby developer and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Today, the panelists and guest talk about cables, concurrency, and Ruby. Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: Sentry.io 1:02 – Chuck: Hello! The panel today is Eric, Dave, Nate, and myself! Our guest is Vlad! 1:30 – Guest: My name is Vladimir, but people call me Vlad. I have been writing Ruby since 2013 for about 4.5 years. Before that I was a PHP, JavaScript developer among other languages. I am mostly Erlang and Ruby now. 2:29 – Panel asks Vlad a question. 3:29 – Guest: Yeah something like that. I call it a different server b/c we still use the code base but we do not do anything related to web sockets and connections. 4:20 – Panel: If you wanted to take a normal action cables setup what steps would you have to go through to convert that over to also use the anycable server? 5:21 – Guest answers the question. 7:31 – Chuck: This sounds complicated and a bit of work. When I look at this I think: I have a tiny app is it worth it? When does it become worth it? 7:52 – Guest: Definitely not for the tiny app. 8:50 – Panel: You use it when it makes sense. Overcomplicating your infrastructure doesn’t make sense. 9:27 – Guest: That’s the idea. 10:28 – Panel. 11:05 – Guest: The question really is how many connections you have and how long-lived they are? 13:09 – Panel: If I move my project over to anycable how much new code am I going to have to write? 13:28 – Guest answers the question. 15:52 – Panel: What’s the update been like for anycable and how many users use anycable? 16:05 – Guest: I really don’t have statistics. I hear people at conferences say that they use anycable, but no real statistics right now. I would like to know these numbers, but no idea. 16:30 – Panel: ...is that the time to consider using anycable? 17:05 – Guest: That’s a good point to make. 18:44 – Panel: How is the initial handshake time with anycable? Is there any difference with anycable in that sense? 19:05 – Guest answers the question. 22:49 – Chuck: Can you define a couple of terms for me? I am hearing terms like: concurrency and real time and others? 23:00 – Guest: Good point. What is real time? The guest continues to define these terms. 28:10 – Fresh Books! 29:10 – Chuck: Ruby 3 is supposed to solve some of these problems. Can you talk about some of those? 29:46 – Guest: Interesting question and I’ve been asked about this before. 35:14 – Panel: Did you say there was some activity around trying to reduce the memory consumption for thread? 35:25 – Guest answers the question. 36:14 – Panel: Vlad, you are spread from backend to fronted and you’ve mentioned Phoenix Live Vue. Can I pick your brain about it? 36:39 – Guest answers the question. 38:48 – Panel: It seems like one of the core tenants is empowering small teams to compete with larger teams. I have high hopes to keep small teams competitive. 39:50 – Guest: Yes, that’s the idea of Rails and Ruby itself to build something and try something and perhaps fail. 40:57 – Panelist mentions Erlang, anycable, and concurrency. 41:14 – Guest: We are working on administration functionality and we want to build something fast. 44:40 – Panel: That’s the interesting thing about turbo links cause I think it was a marketing fail. You have to invest time to learn how to use it and how to use it properly. 45:44 – Guest: I don’t have a good guide for turbo links. 46:00 – Chuck: Anything else we want to talk about? 46:10 – Guest: Two more things I want to mention. 54:02 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! 54:35 – Picks! End – Cache Fly! Links: Get a Coder Job Course The DevRev Podcast Show Angular DevChat TV Ruby Elixir Ruby on Rails Angular Cypress Vue React Faye-Websocket-Ruby Anycable EMx 020 Episode Entreprogrammers: Episode 248 Socketry The Rails Doctrine Walmart: Invisible Glass Bose Wireless Headphones Netflix: Newsies / Broadway musical KanbanFlow Advent of Code Heroku Deployment Guest’s Twitter Guest’s Dev.to Guest’s GitHub Sponsors: Sentry CacheFly Fresh Books Picks: Dave Invisible Glass Eric Bose Quiet Comfort Headphones   Nate The Rails Doctrine Newsies Charles Kanban Flow EntreProgrammers The pomodoro technique masterhunt.com/devchat Vlad Advent of Code Any Cable

Panel: Charles Max Wood Joe Eames Aaron Frost Alyssa Nicoll Special Guests: Brian Love & Kevin Schuchard In this episode, the panelist talk with today’s special guests Brian Love & Kevin Schuchard! Brian and Kevin work at BrieBug – check out their employee profiles here! The panelist and guests talk about schematics, Angular, AST, and much more! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! 0:50 – Chuck: Hello! Our panel today is Joe, Aaron, Alyssa, and myself. We have two guests today, and we are going to talk about schematics. Let’s dive into that! 1:46 – Guest: Schematics is a library that is coming out of Angular and the Angular Team. The guest gives a definition of Angular Schematics. 2:26 – Alyssa. 2:31 – Kevin: The functionality that you are hoping for depends on the CLI that you are on. 3:00 – Alyssa: Sorry for diving into the juicy stuff but we forgot to talk about your introductions! 3:19 – The guests talk about their backgrounds and introduce themselves to the panel and the listeners. 3:49 – Alyssa. 3:54 – Guest continues. 4:21 – Panel: Crazy and busy! 4:28 – Alyssa. 4:31 – Kevin: I am Senior Developer, and I have worked here for a few years. I have had the opportunities to write some schematics for the company and some of my own schematics. 4:53 – Alyssa: Aren’t you so proud that you are a “Senior Developer”?! 5:10 – Guest and panelists go back-and-forth. 6:23 – Guests: We want people to be familiar with schematics and start their journey with schematics. 6:50 – Panel: It’s kind of trippy isn’t that right? 7:00 – Guest: Yeah there are hurdles to learning schematics at first – for sure. 7:22 – Alyssa: What is AST? 7:29 – Guest gives a definition of AST and goes into much detail about this. 10:00 – Alyssa: I think I understand, now, what AST is. Thanks. Alyssa asks the guests a question. 10:14 – Guest answers the question about AST. 10:51 – Guest continues. 11:27 – Panelist is talking about the AST and schematics. 12:03 – Guest: You can read the whole file and using the AST you can figure out where you went to enter the text. 12:25 – Alyssa asks a question. 12:28 – Guest: We are not the developers of schematics, but we are just here to share our knowledge. I want to be super clear here. 13:39 – Panelist talks about schematics, CLI, and AST. 14:18 – Guest: You don’t have to know all about AST and everything there is to know to get into it. You can build schematics w/o getting into AST. Just to be clear. 14:39 – Alyssa asks a follow-up question. 14:41 – Guest continues. 15:57 – Guest: AST has been around for a while – it’s not a new thing it’s kind of an old thing. Guest talks about tools (Code Shift) that Facebook has built that is related to this topic. 17:22 – Guest: Yeah AST has been around for a while. 17:28 – Alyssa asks a question about Code Shift. 17:36 – Guest. 18:21 – Panel and guest go back-and-forth. 19:51 – Alyssa: You said you really don’t need to get into AST to do schematics – right? (Yes.) Alyssa asks a question. 20:19 – Guest: There are two pieces with schematics and that’s adding of new files and you can decide which pieces of the templates you want to be compiled. 21:58 – Chuck: For schematics you mentioned you could drop strings in. Chuck asks a question. 22:29 – Guest answers the question with a hypothetical situation. 23:09 – Chuck: I read the article you wrote and I have a question about your article. Tell me about the tree? 23:29 – Guest talks about the tree or aka the host. 25:40 – Guest: The tree is a virtual kind of context and it’s not committing all of the changes to the file system. Whether that is adding, deleting, or updating these files. 26:10 – Chuck: Makes sense to me. 26:15 – Guest continues talking about schematics. 26:53 – Alyssa: Yeoman is a replacement for schematics? 27:05 – Guest: It’s a lightweight alternative.  27:33 – Advertisement: Angular Boot Camp 28:10 – Chuck: How does one build a schematic? 28:16 – Guest answers the question. 30:34 – Panel: What’s the latest thing you’ve built? Talk about that, please. 30:40 – Guest: It’s a schematic and took what we’ve learned to set you up for a starter project. It starts with a blank project. 32:57 – Panel: You are just talking some lessons learned and you are saying this is how Kevin says to do it. You’ve packaged that up 33:26 – Guest: Yep I have found things that work and there isn’t any magic but put these practices together and made a repository to help testing and making schematics. 33:55 – Panel and guests go back-and-forth. 34:20 – Chuck: Let’s say I’ve built this schematic and Frosty wants to share it with his friends. How do we do that? How do you share it? Is there some component that you’ve built? 35:06 – Guest: It depends on what you are doing with it. 36:14 – Chuck: For mass production, though? 36:25 – Guest: I think Chuck is wondering about discoverability. Guest continues and he mentions prettier, extensions, among other things. 37:18 – Guest: I think it’s my favorite about schematics and it’s Kevin’s. 37:40 – Guest. 38:20 – Guest continues talking about schematics and ng-conf. 38:57 – Guest talks about libraries. 40:12 – Chuck: Anything else? Do you NPM install it and it’s just there? 40:29 – Guest: There are 2 ways to go about it. 53:05 – Fresh Books! END – CacheFly! Links: Vue jQuery Angular JavaScript Python React Cypress Yeoman Apache Groovy GitHub: prettier NG Conf Brian Love’s Website Kevin Schuchard’s LinkedIn BrieBug Blog Angular Schematics Tutorial Testing Schematics with a Sandbox + starter project GitHub: Schematic Starter Getting started blog post by Hans Schematics by Manfred Steyer Angular and Material CLI schematics 1 Angular and Material CLI schematics 2 AST Explorer Evening of Angular Example Schematic project with Sandbox: (Written by Kevin) https://github.com/briebug/jest-schematic https://github.com/schuchard/prettier-schematic https://github.com/briebug/ngrx-entity-schematic https://github.com/blove/schematics Sponsors: Angular Boot Camp Cache Fly Get A Coder Job Picks: Joe Brian Love BrieBug Schematics NGConf. Minified Aaron Ice Fishing Smoking Trout Joe Eames as Dungeon Master for DND NPM JS Survey Charles Alexa Briefing EntreProgrammers.com KanBanflow Pomodoro Technique Kevin Angular Material Open Source Projects Brian Angular.io Visits on Twitter Angular Community Jesse Sanders An evening of Angular Event

Panel: Eric Berry Dave Kimura Nate Hopkins Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Vladimir Dem In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with Vladimir Dem who is a Ruby developer and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Today, the panelists and guest talk about cables, concurrency, and Ruby. Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: Sentry.io 1:02 – Chuck: Hello! The panel today is Eric, Dave, Nate, and myself! Our guest is Vlad! 1:30 – Guest: My name is Vladimir, but people call me Vlad. I have been writing Ruby since 2013 for about 4.5 years. Before that I was a PHP, JavaScript developer among other languages. I am mostly Erlang and Ruby now. 2:29 – Panel asks Vlad a question. 3:29 – Guest: Yeah something like that. I call it a different server b/c we still use the code base but we do not do anything related to web sockets and connections. 4:20 – Panel: If you wanted to take a normal action cables setup what steps would you have to go through to convert that over to also use the anycable server? 5:21 – Guest answers the question. 7:31 – Chuck: This sounds complicated and a bit of work. When I look at this I think: I have a tiny app is it worth it? When does it become worth it? 7:52 – Guest: Definitely not for the tiny app. 8:50 – Panel: You use it when it makes sense. Overcomplicating your infrastructure doesn’t make sense. 9:27 – Guest: That’s the idea. 10:28 – Panel. 11:05 – Guest: The question really is how many connections you have and how long-lived they are? 13:09 – Panel: If I move my project over to anycable how much new code am I going to have to write? 13:28 – Guest answers the question. 15:52 – Panel: What’s the update been like for anycable and how many users use anycable? 16:05 – Guest: I really don’t have statistics. I hear people at conferences say that they use anycable, but no real statistics right now. I would like to know these numbers, but no idea. 16:30 – Panel: ...is that the time to consider using anycable? 17:05 – Guest: That’s a good point to make. 18:44 – Panel: How is the initial handshake time with anycable? Is there any difference with anycable in that sense? 19:05 – Guest answers the question. 22:49 – Chuck: Can you define a couple of terms for me? I am hearing terms like: concurrency and real time and others? 23:00 – Guest: Good point. What is real time? The guest continues to define these terms. 28:10 – Fresh Books! 29:10 – Chuck: Ruby 3 is supposed to solve some of these problems. Can you talk about some of those? 29:46 – Guest: Interesting question and I’ve been asked about this before. 35:14 – Panel: Did you say there was some activity around trying to reduce the memory consumption for thread? 35:25 – Guest answers the question. 36:14 – Panel: Vlad, you are spread from backend to fronted and you’ve mentioned Phoenix Live Vue. Can I pick your brain about it? 36:39 – Guest answers the question. 38:48 – Panel: It seems like one of the core tenants is empowering small teams to compete with larger teams. I have high hopes to keep small teams competitive. 39:50 – Guest: Yes, that’s the idea of Rails and Ruby itself to build something and try something and perhaps fail. 40:57 – Panelist mentions Erlang, anycable, and concurrency. 41:14 – Guest: We are working on administration functionality and we want to build something fast. 44:40 – Panel: That’s the interesting thing about turbo links cause I think it was a marketing fail. You have to invest time to learn how to use it and how to use it properly. 45:44 – Guest: I don’t have a good guide for turbo links. 46:00 – Chuck: Anything else we want to talk about? 46:10 – Guest: Two more things I want to mention. 54:02 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! 54:35 – Picks! End – Cache Fly! Links: Get a Coder Job Course The DevRev Podcast Show Angular DevChat TV Ruby Elixir Ruby on Rails Angular Cypress Vue React Faye-Websocket-Ruby Anycable EMx 020 Episode Entreprogrammers: Episode 248 Socketry The Rails Doctrine Walmart: Invisible Glass Bose Wireless Headphones Netflix: Newsies / Broadway musical KanbanFlow Advent of Code Heroku Deployment Guest’s Twitter Guest’s Dev.to Guest’s GitHub Sponsors: Sentry CacheFly Fresh Books Picks: Dave Invisible Glass Eric Bose Quiet Comfort Headphones   Nate The Rails Doctrine Newsies Charles Kanban Flow EntreProgrammers The pomodoro technique masterhunt.com/devchat Vlad Advent of Code Any Cable

Panel: Eric Berry Dave Kimura Nate Hopkins Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Vladimir Dem In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with Vladimir Dem who is a Ruby developer and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Today, the panelists and guest talk about cables, concurrency, and Ruby. Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: Sentry.io 1:02 – Chuck: Hello! The panel today is Eric, Dave, Nate, and myself! Our guest is Vlad! 1:30 – Guest: My name is Vladimir, but people call me Vlad. I have been writing Ruby since 2013 for about 4.5 years. Before that I was a PHP, JavaScript developer among other languages. I am mostly Erlang and Ruby now. 2:29 – Panel asks Vlad a question. 3:29 – Guest: Yeah something like that. I call it a different server b/c we still use the code base but we do not do anything related to web sockets and connections. 4:20 – Panel: If you wanted to take a normal action cables setup what steps would you have to go through to convert that over to also use the anycable server? 5:21 – Guest answers the question. 7:31 – Chuck: This sounds complicated and a bit of work. When I look at this I think: I have a tiny app is it worth it? When does it become worth it? 7:52 – Guest: Definitely not for the tiny app. 8:50 – Panel: You use it when it makes sense. Overcomplicating your infrastructure doesn’t make sense. 9:27 – Guest: That’s the idea. 10:28 – Panel. 11:05 – Guest: The question really is how many connections you have and how long-lived they are? 13:09 – Panel: If I move my project over to anycable how much new code am I going to have to write? 13:28 – Guest answers the question. 15:52 – Panel: What’s the update been like for anycable and how many users use anycable? 16:05 – Guest: I really don’t have statistics. I hear people at conferences say that they use anycable, but no real statistics right now. I would like to know these numbers, but no idea. 16:30 – Panel: ...is that the time to consider using anycable? 17:05 – Guest: That’s a good point to make. 18:44 – Panel: How is the initial handshake time with anycable? Is there any difference with anycable in that sense? 19:05 – Guest answers the question. 22:49 – Chuck: Can you define a couple of terms for me? I am hearing terms like: concurrency and real time and others? 23:00 – Guest: Good point. What is real time? The guest continues to define these terms. 28:10 – Fresh Books! 29:10 – Chuck: Ruby 3 is supposed to solve some of these problems. Can you talk about some of those? 29:46 – Guest: Interesting question and I’ve been asked about this before. 35:14 – Panel: Did you say there was some activity around trying to reduce the memory consumption for thread? 35:25 – Guest answers the question. 36:14 – Panel: Vlad, you are spread from backend to fronted and you’ve mentioned Phoenix Live Vue. Can I pick your brain about it? 36:39 – Guest answers the question. 38:48 – Panel: It seems like one of the core tenants is empowering small teams to compete with larger teams. I have high hopes to keep small teams competitive. 39:50 – Guest: Yes, that’s the idea of Rails and Ruby itself to build something and try something and perhaps fail. 40:57 – Panelist mentions Erlang, anycable, and concurrency. 41:14 – Guest: We are working on administration functionality and we want to build something fast. 44:40 – Panel: That’s the interesting thing about turbo links cause I think it was a marketing fail. You have to invest time to learn how to use it and how to use it properly. 45:44 – Guest: I don’t have a good guide for turbo links. 46:00 – Chuck: Anything else we want to talk about? 46:10 – Guest: Two more things I want to mention. 54:02 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! 54:35 – Picks! End – Cache Fly! Links: Get a Coder Job Course The DevRev Podcast Show Angular DevChat TV Ruby Elixir Ruby on Rails Angular Cypress Vue React Faye-Websocket-Ruby Anycable EMx 020 Episode Entreprogrammers: Episode 248 Socketry The Rails Doctrine Walmart: Invisible Glass Bose Wireless Headphones Netflix: Newsies / Broadway musical KanbanFlow Advent of Code Heroku Deployment Guest’s Twitter Guest’s Dev.to Guest’s GitHub Sponsors: Sentry CacheFly Fresh Books Picks: Dave Invisible Glass Eric Bose Quiet Comfort Headphones   Nate The Rails Doctrine Newsies Charles Kanban Flow EntreProgrammers The pomodoro technique masterhunt.com/devchat Vlad Advent of Code Any Cable

Panel: Charles Max Wood Joe Eames Aaron Frost Alyssa Nicoll Special Guests: Brian Love & Kevin Schuchard In this episode, the panelist talk with today’s special guests Brian Love & Kevin Schuchard! Brian and Kevin work at BrieBug – check out their employee profiles here! The panelist and guests talk about schematics, Angular, AST, and much more! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! 0:50 – Chuck: Hello! Our panel today is Joe, Aaron, Alyssa, and myself. We have two guests today, and we are going to talk about schematics. Let’s dive into that! 1:46 – Guest: Schematics is a library that is coming out of Angular and the Angular Team. The guest gives a definition of Angular Schematics. 2:26 – Alyssa. 2:31 – Kevin: The functionality that you are hoping for depends on the CLI that you are on. 3:00 – Alyssa: Sorry for diving into the juicy stuff but we forgot to talk about your introductions! 3:19 – The guests talk about their backgrounds and introduce themselves to the panel and the listeners. 3:49 – Alyssa. 3:54 – Guest continues. 4:21 – Panel: Crazy and busy! 4:28 – Alyssa. 4:31 – Kevin: I am Senior Developer, and I have worked here for a few years. I have had the opportunities to write some schematics for the company and some of my own schematics. 4:53 – Alyssa: Aren’t you so proud that you are a “Senior Developer”?! 5:10 – Guest and panelists go back-and-forth. 6:23 – Guests: We want people to be familiar with schematics and start their journey with schematics. 6:50 – Panel: It’s kind of trippy isn’t that right? 7:00 – Guest: Yeah there are hurdles to learning schematics at first – for sure. 7:22 – Alyssa: What is AST? 7:29 – Guest gives a definition of AST and goes into much detail about this. 10:00 – Alyssa: I think I understand, now, what AST is. Thanks. Alyssa asks the guests a question. 10:14 – Guest answers the question about AST. 10:51 – Guest continues. 11:27 – Panelist is talking about the AST and schematics. 12:03 – Guest: You can read the whole file and using the AST you can figure out where you went to enter the text. 12:25 – Alyssa asks a question. 12:28 – Guest: We are not the developers of schematics, but we are just here to share our knowledge. I want to be super clear here. 13:39 – Panelist talks about schematics, CLI, and AST. 14:18 – Guest: You don’t have to know all about AST and everything there is to know to get into it. You can build schematics w/o getting into AST. Just to be clear. 14:39 – Alyssa asks a follow-up question. 14:41 – Guest continues. 15:57 – Guest: AST has been around for a while – it’s not a new thing it’s kind of an old thing. Guest talks about tools (Code Shift) that Facebook has built that is related to this topic. 17:22 – Guest: Yeah AST has been around for a while. 17:28 – Alyssa asks a question about Code Shift. 17:36 – Guest. 18:21 – Panel and guest go back-and-forth. 19:51 – Alyssa: You said you really don’t need to get into AST to do schematics – right? (Yes.) Alyssa asks a question. 20:19 – Guest: There are two pieces with schematics and that’s adding of new files and you can decide which pieces of the templates you want to be compiled. 21:58 – Chuck: For schematics you mentioned you could drop strings in. Chuck asks a question. 22:29 – Guest answers the question with a hypothetical situation. 23:09 – Chuck: I read the article you wrote and I have a question about your article. Tell me about the tree? 23:29 – Guest talks about the tree or aka the host. 25:40 – Guest: The tree is a virtual kind of context and it’s not committing all of the changes to the file system. Whether that is adding, deleting, or updating these files. 26:10 – Chuck: Makes sense to me. 26:15 – Guest continues talking about schematics. 26:53 – Alyssa: Yeoman is a replacement for schematics? 27:05 – Guest: It’s a lightweight alternative.  27:33 – Advertisement: Angular Boot Camp 28:10 – Chuck: How does one build a schematic? 28:16 – Guest answers the question. 30:34 – Panel: What’s the latest thing you’ve built? Talk about that, please. 30:40 – Guest: It’s a schematic and took what we’ve learned to set you up for a starter project. It starts with a blank project. 32:57 – Panel: You are just talking some lessons learned and you are saying this is how Kevin says to do it. You’ve packaged that up 33:26 – Guest: Yep I have found things that work and there isn’t any magic but put these practices together and made a repository to help testing and making schematics. 33:55 – Panel and guests go back-and-forth. 34:20 – Chuck: Let’s say I’ve built this schematic and Frosty wants to share it with his friends. How do we do that? How do you share it? Is there some component that you’ve built? 35:06 – Guest: It depends on what you are doing with it. 36:14 – Chuck: For mass production, though? 36:25 – Guest: I think Chuck is wondering about discoverability. Guest continues and he mentions prettier, extensions, among other things. 37:18 – Guest: I think it’s my favorite about schematics and it’s Kevin’s. 37:40 – Guest. 38:20 – Guest continues talking about schematics and ng-conf. 38:57 – Guest talks about libraries. 40:12 – Chuck: Anything else? Do you NPM install it and it’s just there? 40:29 – Guest: There are 2 ways to go about it. 53:05 – Fresh Books! END – CacheFly! Links: Vue jQuery Angular JavaScript Python React Cypress Yeoman Apache Groovy GitHub: prettier NG Conf Brian Love’s Website Kevin Schuchard’s LinkedIn BrieBug Blog Angular Schematics Tutorial Testing Schematics with a Sandbox + starter project GitHub: Schematic Starter Getting started blog post by Hans Schematics by Manfred Steyer Angular and Material CLI schematics 1 Angular and Material CLI schematics 2 AST Explorer Evening of Angular Example Schematic project with Sandbox: (Written by Kevin) https://github.com/briebug/jest-schematic https://github.com/schuchard/prettier-schematic https://github.com/briebug/ngrx-entity-schematic https://github.com/blove/schematics Sponsors: Angular Boot Camp Cache Fly Get A Coder Job Picks: Joe Brian Love BrieBug Schematics NGConf. 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  We are alive! John pokes fun as Mani still work on his pomodoros. Chuck joke that he just started his Pomodoro. John maps out his week of us and shares his intense workload. Productivity to its max. John talks about having to be downtown to do a marketing meeting. Also, trying to fit all exercising in with his insane workload. John talks more about knocking out 8 Pomodoro in before 8 am. Chuck talks about having to be up at 4 am to get all the pomodoros in. Chuck maps out his whole week and describes how this helps him clear off things on his schedule. Chuck shares his screen, and show a document on the processes on running sev Chat TV podcasts. Chuck shares more on what he has accomplished doing these pomodoros. John pokes fun at Mani about the reports on practicing pomodoros. John opens up the email on the results on the pomodoros. Mani calls BS on the process because he was not getting the emails, except for Josh. EntreProgrammers discuss the email issues on the results or activity. Mani asks why they are not happy with Slack. Josh says they like Slack but it gets noisy with all the activity. Mani shares his screen and shows his activity. Chuck still demands to be paid. Chuck begins the actual show talking about the master process of the Dev Chat TV. Chuck continues to talk about a co-host who bought a video company/podcast who need production. Chuck then continues to talk about developing another arm of the Dev Chat company to do promotion and production. Chuck says this will be a kind of case study to take on this show on the Dev Chat network. Chuck talks about how getting up early sucked but, again he got a lot accomplished for his business. Chuck shares about the sales call he did and how he sees activity coming in on sponsorships for Q1. Chuck talk about shows that sell out on sponsorships in the past. Mani asks what is the new plan for the pomodoros. Chuck says he is going to stop at noon. John says the big problem he has is there are meeting in the morning. Mani asks if we are going to keep doing this since it is proven that it works. EntreProgrammer talk out things that get in the way for the pomodoros.  Some might have to be shifted until 2 pm. John says he thought about committing to 6 pomodoros before noon. Mani says this speed up his day. The EntreProgrammers discuss how they will be accountable to the pomodoros. Each learns they will have to tailor their practice to their needs. John gives reason to why they should be 8 per day before noon. John says they can always do more but 8 is reasonable. EntreProgrammes talks about ways this will work for them.  Josh suggests 6 pomodoros by noon ongoing. EntreProgrammers agree to 6 by noon. Mani creates his owns terms but agrees to the team keeping him accountable. Chuck talks about his exercise and training for a marathon. EntreProgrammers joke about their exercising times and plans for the upcoming weeks. Thoughts for the Week John - Check your optimism    Mani - Accountability matters Josh - Deadlines Chuck - Implementation is what matters

Full house today, Everyone picks on Josh about being gone and doing some Black Friday shopping. John mentions that finally sold somethings. Josh talks about the recent Plural Sight promotion. Josh talks about the new direction Plural Sight has taking since they’ve become public, in competition with Udemy. Josh continues with the promote terms with had with Plural Sight. John mentions that Josh was on full-on dick mode with the demands or the promotion. John mention with made about 40k this past month in sales. Josh talks about work with Plural Sight. Josh talks about other sales tactics with existing clients and partners.  John talks about the strategies they worked for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Josh talks about their lists and where sales were coming in from. EntreProgrammers talk about responses to emails. Josh talks about unsubscribes and more on emails. Josh talks about the membership group from a freelancer. John talks about getting an email from a guy to workout with and meetup. Mani talks about the expectations of communications via email. More talk about nasty customers via email and replying to email. Josh talks about their actual customer base and those who actually buy. Josh shares numbers on sales from the holiday weekend. John talks about getting emails from a coaching client and their services. Chuck talks about this email list and campaign for onboarding. Chuck talks about sending invitations for chatting on Discord to listeners and hosts of the Dev Chat podcast network. Chuck talks about getting the affiliation material offers together. Chuck says with want to do an offer on Ten Ways To Learn Anything. Josh give feedback on how to implement these offer via email. John talks about a guy who did an affiliate offer using Free link . Mani shares that he was talking with John about creating a flagship product to generate monthly income. Mani mentions that this could be a Mastermind with a focus on books or book reading. Josh talk about how this idea could work based on how others in the industry do something similar. Chuck ask how Mani is going to test this idea. Mani talks about how he wants to get people behind the cause.   Thoughts for the Week John - Consistency trumps intensity Mani -   Strategies lead to results… Josh - It is important not to lose sight of what you set out to do. Chuck - Trust your gut

Panel: Charles Max Wood Aaron Frost Shai Reznik    Divya Sasidharan Joe Eames Lucas Reis Special Guest: Sean Merron In this episode, The panelist of View on Vue, Adventure In Angular, React Round-Up, Ruby Rogues, and JavaScript Jabber speaks with Sean Merron about Mastermind Groups of Startups and much more. Sean is the founder of today's topic and product “Mastermind Hunt.” This product is design to skillfully find a mastermind to take your business and skills to the next level. Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: AngularBootCamp.Com 3:00 – Webinar announcement January 3rd, 2p EST. 4:10 - Sean talks about the importance of a Mastermind and his evolvement in Mastermind groups. Sean breakdowns what exactly what a mastermind is about. 6:10 - Charles ask the panelist if they have engaged in Masterminds. Shai talks about his experience and seeing one-sidedness in Masterminds. Sean talks about how to avoid this issue and staying on track. Sean shares on how to keep the meeting moving forward and meet accountability tasks. 10:10 - Joe asks about examples of chatting on topics with co-workers and how is this different from masterminds. And how to keep topics on track. Sean provides using the round robin method to give each person a chance to bring their needs to the table. Sean talks about how developers share advice and topics in Masterminds. 14:43 -  Charles shares about how this works in using exercise workbooks as a group and who the rotation works for the hot seat. Sean explains that this is used to find others at your same level to help one another. 16:50 - Shai ask about the benefits of mastermind, but how can we integrate higher level issues among a group. Sean shares a story about meeting and benefits of networking in Masterminds. Sean and Chuck continue with the power of networking among these types of groups. 22:00 -  Charles talks about the complexity of personal issues. Shai asks about how to build a mastermind. Sean gives examples of formats and schedule, number of people, and how to conduct successfully. Sean gives examples of technologies to use to help conduct masterminds, like Facebook groups, Skype, Zoom.  Sean explains how this led to building  mastermindhunt.com 27:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! 27:00 -  Charles talks about how he did a lunch meetup as a mastermind. Lucas gives examples of guilds in his job. Lucas explains the guilds and how this works among the software development team. Lucas shares about presenting in a guild. Lucas says this is great for accountability and success. 30:00 -  Sean asks about the size or how many people are in the guild. Lucas mentions that if you do not understand something, bring it to the guild. Sean mentions how this could help shy people and build trust. Sean talks about “Friend D A” 34:00 -  Charles again talks about that BrownBag lunch mastermind. Charles talks about how to keep masterminds on track and not a chatfest. Joe asks about the accountability goals. Sean talks about how this works in Mastermind Hunt.  Sean gives an example of how to keep people accountable in fun ways. 37:00 -  Shai talks about having to shave his head when he was not meeting accountability goals.  Sean continues about respecting people’s time and keeping on topic with hot seat questions. 39:00 -  Shai asks about how to approach people who are not meeting goals and take-up to much time. Sean says the person with the best relationship should approach the person before they have to bump them out of the mastermind spot. 42:00 - Charles tells talks about EntreProgrammers as a mastermind and the freeform style of the format. Charles talks about leaving the group if it is not meeting your value needs. 44:00 - Sean talks about the introduction and application programs to enter into a mastermind. Lucas talks about diminishing quality of a mastermind, and how he up the quality of engaging in a way that heightens the program. Sean shares more about the initial attitude of the person who starts the meeting. 49:00 -  Divya ask about those who are not hitting their goals, but how do you keep them engaged without leaving the group. Sean mentions breaking down the goals or creates achievable goals. Sean talks about figuring out the organization and finding out where the issues are at, that might be the problem to hitting goals. 51:00 - Divya ask about how enthusiasm can diminish about how to keep that from happening in Masterminds. Sean says you have to be consistent with your goals and make it fun. 55:00 - Shai gives a quick recap of masterminds. Shai asks about how to rotate the hot seat. Sean gives a webinar link for mastermindhunt.com/devchat on January 3rd, 2 pm EST. 57:30 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 30-day free trial! END – Advertisement – Cache Fly! Links: Sean’s Twitter 2frugaldudes  podcast Sean’s LinkedIn mastermindhunt.com mastermindhunt.com/devchat Sponsors: Angular Boot Camp Fresh Books Get a Coder Job Course Cache Fly Picks: Shai Bob Proctor Joe  Coolstuffinc luxor NG Conf Minified Lucas Radical Candor Divya Alan Watts Framework Summit Videos Several Short Sentence about Writing Charles CES - devchat.tv/events Modern Medicine Sean (757) Area Code

Panel: Charles Max Wood Aaron Frost Shai Reznik    Divya Sasidharan Joe Eames Lucas Reis Special Guest: Sean Merron In this episode, The panelist of View on Vue, Adventure In Angular, React Round-Up, Ruby Rogues, and JavaScript Jabber speaks with Sean Merron about Mastermind Groups of Startups and much more. Sean is the founder of today's topic and product “Mastermind Hunt.” This product is design to skillfully find a mastermind to take your business and skills to the next level. Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: AngularBootCamp.Com 3:00 – Webinar announcement January 3rd, 2p EST. 4:10 - Sean talks about the importance of a Mastermind and his evolvement in Mastermind groups. Sean breakdowns what exactly what a mastermind is about. 6:10 - Charles ask the panelist if they have engaged in Masterminds. Shai talks about his experience and seeing one-sidedness in Masterminds. Sean talks about how to avoid this issue and staying on track. Sean shares on how to keep the meeting moving forward and meet accountability tasks. 10:10 - Joe asks about examples of chatting on topics with co-workers and how is this different from masterminds. And how to keep topics on track. Sean provides using the round robin method to give each person a chance to bring their needs to the table. Sean talks about how developers share advice and topics in Masterminds. 14:43 -  Charles shares about how this works in using exercise workbooks as a group and who the rotation works for the hot seat. Sean explains that this is used to find others at your same level to help one another. 16:50 - Shai ask about the benefits of mastermind, but how can we integrate higher level issues among a group. Sean shares a story about meeting and benefits of networking in Masterminds. Sean and Chuck continue with the power of networking among these types of groups. 22:00 -  Charles talks about the complexity of personal issues. Shai asks about how to build a mastermind. Sean gives examples of formats and schedule, number of people, and how to conduct successfully. Sean gives examples of technologies to use to help conduct masterminds, like Facebook groups, Skype, Zoom.  Sean explains how this led to building  mastermindhunt.com 27:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! 27:00 -  Charles talks about how he did a lunch meetup as a mastermind. Lucas gives examples of guilds in his job. Lucas explains the guilds and how this works among the software development team. Lucas shares about presenting in a guild. Lucas says this is great for accountability and success. 30:00 -  Sean asks about the size or how many people are in the guild. Lucas mentions that if you do not understand something, bring it to the guild. Sean mentions how this could help shy people and build trust. Sean talks about “Friend D A” 34:00 -  Charles again talks about that BrownBag lunch mastermind. Charles talks about how to keep masterminds on track and not a chatfest. Joe asks about the accountability goals. Sean talks about how this works in Mastermind Hunt.  Sean gives an example of how to keep people accountable in fun ways. 37:00 -  Shai talks about having to shave his head when he was not meeting accountability goals.  Sean continues about respecting people’s time and keeping on topic with hot seat questions. 39:00 -  Shai asks about how to approach people who are not meeting goals and take-up to much time. Sean says the person with the best relationship should approach the person before they have to bump them out of the mastermind spot. 42:00 - Charles tells talks about EntreProgrammers as a mastermind and the freeform style of the format. Charles talks about leaving the group if it is not meeting your value needs. 44:00 - Sean talks about the introduction and application programs to enter into a mastermind. Lucas talks about diminishing quality of a mastermind, and how he up the quality of engaging in a way that heightens the program. Sean shares more about the initial attitude of the person who starts the meeting. 49:00 -  Divya ask about those who are not hitting their goals, but how do you keep them engaged without leaving the group. Sean mentions breaking down the goals or creates achievable goals. Sean talks about figuring out the organization and finding out where the issues are at, that might be the problem to hitting goals. 51:00 - Divya ask about how enthusiasm can diminish about how to keep that from happening in Masterminds. Sean says you have to be consistent with your goals and make it fun. 55:00 - Shai gives a quick recap of masterminds. Shai asks about how to rotate the hot seat. Sean gives a webinar link for mastermindhunt.com/devchat on January 3rd, 2 pm EST. 57:30 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 30-day free trial! END – Advertisement – Cache Fly! Links: Sean’s Twitter 2frugaldudes  podcast Sean’s LinkedIn mastermindhunt.com mastermindhunt.com/devchat Sponsors: Angular Boot Camp Fresh Books Get a Coder Job Course Cache Fly Picks: Shai Bob Proctor Joe  Coolstuffinc luxor NG Conf Minified Lucas Radical Candor Divya Alan Watts Framework Summit Videos Several Short Sentence about Writing Charles CES - devchat.tv/events Modern Medicine Sean (757) Area Code

Panel: Charles Max Wood Aaron Frost Shai Reznik    Divya Sasidharan Joe Eames Lucas Reis Special Guest: Sean Merron In this episode, The panelist of React Round-Up, View on Vue, Adventures in Angular, Ruby Rogues, and JavaScript Jabber speak with Sean Merron about Mastermind Groups of Startups and much more. Sean is the founder of today's topic and product “Mastermind Hunt.” This product is design to skillfully find a mastermind to take your business and skills to the next level. Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: AngularBootCamp.Com 3:00 – Webinar announcement January 3rd, 2p EST. 4:10 - Sean talks about the importance of a Mastermind and his evolvement in mastermind groups. Sean breakdowns what exactly what a mastermind is about. 6:10 - Charles ask the panelist if they have engaged in Masterminds. Shai talks about his experience and seeing one-sidedness in Masterminds. Sean talks about how to avoid this issue and staying on track. Sean shares on how to keep the meeting moving forward and meet accountability tasks. 10:10 - Joe asks about examples of chatting on topics with co-workers and how is this different from masterminds. And how to keep topics on track. Sean provides using the round robin method to give each person a chance to bring their needs to the table. Sean talks about how developers share advice and topics in Masterminds. 14:43 -  Charles shares about how this works in using exercise workbooks as a group and who the rotation works for the hot seat. Sean explains that this is used to find others at your same level to help one another. 16:50 - Shai ask about the benefits of mastermind, but how can we integrate higher level issues among a group. Sean shares a story about meeting and benefits of networking in Masterminds. Sean and Chuck continue with the power of networking among these types of groups. 22:00 -  Charles talks about the complexity of personal issues. Shai asks about how to build a mastermind. Sean gives examples of formats and schedule, number of people, and how to conduct successfully. Sean gives examples of technologies to use to help conduct masterminds, like Facebook groups, Skype, Zoom.  Sean explains how this led to building  mastermindhunt.com 27:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! 27:00 -  Charles talks about how he did a lunch meetup as a mastermind. Lucas gives examples of guilds in his job. Lucas explains the guilds and how this works among the software development team. Lucas shares about presenting in a guild. Lucas says this is great for accountability and success. 30:00 -  Sean asks about the size or how many people are in the guild. Lucas mentions that if you do not understand something, bring it to the guild. Sean mentions how this could help shy people and build trust. Sean talks about “Friend D A” 34:00 -  Charles again talks about that BrownBag lunch mastermind. Charles talks about how to keep masterminds on track and not a chatfest. Joe asks about the accountability goals. Sean talks about how this works in Mastermind Hunt.  Sean gives examples of how to keep people accountable in fun ways. 37:00 -  Shai talks about having to shave his head when he was not meeting accountability goals.  Sean continues about respecting people’s time and keeping on topic with hot seat questions. 39:00 -  Shai asks about how to approach people who are not meeting goals and take-up to much time. Sean says the person with the best relationship should approach the person before they have to bump them out of the mastermind spot. 42:00 - Charles talks about EntreProgrammers as a mastermind and the freeform style of the format. Charles talks about leaving the group if it is not meeting your value needs. 44:00 - Sean talks about the introduction and application programs to enter into a mastermind. Lucas talks about diminishing quality of a mastermind, and how he raised the quality of engaging in a way that heightens the program. Sean shares more aobuu the initial attitude of the person who starts the meeting. 49:00 -  Divya ask about those who are not hitting their goals, but how do you keep them engaged without leaving the group. Sean mentions breaking down the goals or create achievable goals. Sean talks about figuring out the organization and finding where the issues are at that might be the problem to hitting goals. 51:00 - Divya ask about how enthusiasm can diminish about how to keep that from happening in masterminds. Sean says you have to be consistent with your goals and make it fun. 55:00 - Shai gives a quick recap of masterminds. Shai ask about how to rotate the hot seat. Sean give a webinar link for mastermindhunt.com/devchat on January 3rd, 2pm EST. 57:30 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 30-day free trial! END – Advertisement – Cache Fly! Links: Sean’s Twitter 2frugaldudes  podcast Sean’s LinkedIn mastermindhunt.com mastermindhunt.com/devchat Sponsors: Angular Boot Camp Fresh Books Get a Coder Job Course Cache Fly Picks: Shai Bob Proctor Joe  Coolstuffinc luxor NG Conf Minified Lucas Radical Candor Divya Alan Watts Framework Summit Videos Several Short Sentence about Writing Charles CES - devchat.tv/events Modern Medicine Sean (757) Area Code RevolutionConf.com

Panel: Charles Max Wood Aaron Frost Shai Reznik    Divya Sasidharan Joe Eames Lucas Reis Special Guest: Sean Merron In this episode, The panelist of React Round-Up, View on Vue, Adventures in Angular, Ruby Rogues, and JavaScript Jabber speak with Sean Merron about Mastermind Groups of Startups and much more. Sean is the founder of today's topic and product “Mastermind Hunt.” This product is design to skillfully find a mastermind to take your business and skills to the next level. Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: AngularBootCamp.Com 3:00 – Webinar announcement January 3rd, 2p EST. 4:10 - Sean talks about the importance of a Mastermind and his evolvement in mastermind groups. Sean breakdowns what exactly what a mastermind is about. 6:10 - Charles ask the panelist if they have engaged in Masterminds. Shai talks about his experience and seeing one-sidedness in Masterminds. Sean talks about how to avoid this issue and staying on track. Sean shares on how to keep the meeting moving forward and meet accountability tasks. 10:10 - Joe asks about examples of chatting on topics with co-workers and how is this different from masterminds. And how to keep topics on track. Sean provides using the round robin method to give each person a chance to bring their needs to the table. Sean talks about how developers share advice and topics in Masterminds. 14:43 -  Charles shares about how this works in using exercise workbooks as a group and who the rotation works for the hot seat. Sean explains that this is used to find others at your same level to help one another. 16:50 - Shai ask about the benefits of mastermind, but how can we integrate higher level issues among a group. Sean shares a story about meeting and benefits of networking in Masterminds. Sean and Chuck continue with the power of networking among these types of groups. 22:00 -  Charles talks about the complexity of personal issues. Shai asks about how to build a mastermind. Sean gives examples of formats and schedule, number of people, and how to conduct successfully. Sean gives examples of technologies to use to help conduct masterminds, like Facebook groups, Skype, Zoom.  Sean explains how this led to building  mastermindhunt.com 27:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! 27:00 -  Charles talks about how he did a lunch meetup as a mastermind. Lucas gives examples of guilds in his job. Lucas explains the guilds and how this works among the software development team. Lucas shares about presenting in a guild. Lucas says this is great for accountability and success. 30:00 -  Sean asks about the size or how many people are in the guild. Lucas mentions that if you do not understand something, bring it to the guild. Sean mentions how this could help shy people and build trust. Sean talks about “Friend D A” 34:00 -  Charles again talks about that BrownBag lunch mastermind. Charles talks about how to keep masterminds on track and not a chatfest. Joe asks about the accountability goals. Sean talks about how this works in Mastermind Hunt.  Sean gives examples of how to keep people accountable in fun ways. 37:00 -  Shai talks about having to shave his head when he was not meeting accountability goals.  Sean continues about respecting people’s time and keeping on topic with hot seat questions. 39:00 -  Shai asks about how to approach people who are not meeting goals and take-up to much time. Sean says the person with the best relationship should approach the person before they have to bump them out of the mastermind spot. 42:00 - Charles talks about EntreProgrammers as a mastermind and the freeform style of the format. Charles talks about leaving the group if it is not meeting your value needs. 44:00 - Sean talks about the introduction and application programs to enter into a mastermind. Lucas talks about diminishing quality of a mastermind, and how he raised the quality of engaging in a way that heightens the program. Sean shares more aobuu the initial attitude of the person who starts the meeting. 49:00 -  Divya ask about those who are not hitting their goals, but how do you keep them engaged without leaving the group. Sean mentions breaking down the goals or create achievable goals. Sean talks about figuring out the organization and finding where the issues are at that might be the problem to hitting goals. 51:00 - Divya ask about how enthusiasm can diminish about how to keep that from happening in masterminds. Sean says you have to be consistent with your goals and make it fun. 55:00 - Shai gives a quick recap of masterminds. Shai ask about how to rotate the hot seat. Sean give a webinar link for mastermindhunt.com/devchat on January 3rd, 2pm EST. 57:30 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 30-day free trial! END – Advertisement – Cache Fly! Links: Sean’s Twitter 2frugaldudes  podcast Sean’s LinkedIn mastermindhunt.com mastermindhunt.com/devchat Sponsors: Angular Boot Camp Fresh Books Get a Coder Job Course Cache Fly Picks: Shai Bob Proctor Joe  Coolstuffinc luxor NG Conf Minified Lucas Radical Candor Divya Alan Watts Framework Summit Videos Several Short Sentence about Writing Charles CES - devchat.tv/events Modern Medicine Sean (757) Area Code RevolutionConf.com

Panel: Charles Max Wood Aaron Frost Shai Reznik    Divya Sasidharan Joe Eames Lucas Reis Special Guest: Sean Merron In this episode, The panelist of Adventure In Angular, View on Vue, React Round-Up, and Ruby Rogues and JavaScript Jabber speak with Sean Merron about Mastermind Groups of Startups and much more. Sean is the founder of today's topic and product “Mastermind Hunt.” This product is design to skillfully find a mastermind to take your business and skills to the next level. Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: AngularBootCamp.Com 3:00 – Webinar announcement January 3rd, 2p EST. 4:10 - Sean talks about the importance of a Mastermind and his evolvement in mastermind groups. Sean breakdowns what exactly what a mastermind is about. 6:10 - Charles ask the panelist if they have engaged in Masterminds. Shai talks about his experience and seeing one-sidedness in Masterminds. Sean talks about how to avoid this issue and staying on track. Sean shares on how to keep the meeting moving forward and meet accountability tasks. 10:10 - Joe asks about examples of chatting on topics with co-workers and how is this different from masterminds. And how to keep topics on track. Sean provides using the round robin method to give each person a chance to bring their needs to the table. Sean talks about how developers share advice and topics in Masterminds. 14:43 -  Charles shares about how this works in using exercise workbooks as a group and who the rotation works for the hot seat. Sean explains that this is used to find others at your same level to help one another. 16:50 - Shai ask about the benefits of mastermind, but how can we integrate higher level issues among a group. Sean shares a story about meeting and benefits of networking in Masterminds. Sean and Chuck continue with the power of networking among these types of groups. 22:00 -  Charles talks about the complexity of personal issues. Shai asks about how to build a mastermind. Sean gives examples of formats and schedule, number of people, and how to conduct successfully. Sean gives examples of technologies to use to help conduct masterminds, like Facebook groups, Skype, Zoom.  Sean explains how this led to building  mastermindhunt.com 27:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! 27:00 -  Charles talks about how he did a lunch meetup as a mastermind. Lucas gives examples of guilds in his job. Lucas explains the guilds and how this works among the software development team. Lucas shares about presenting in a guild. Lucas says this is great for accountability and success. 30:00 -  Sean asks about the size or how many people are in the guild. Lucas mentions that if you do not understand something, bring it to the guild. Sean mentions how this could help shy people and build trust. Sean talks about “Friend D A” 34:00 -  Charles again talks about that BrownBag lunch mastermind. Charles talks about how to keep masterminds on track and not a chatfest. Joe asks about the accountability goals. Sean talks about how this works in Mastermind Hunt.  Sean gives examples of how to keep people accountable in fun ways. 37:00 -  Shai talks about having to shave his head when he was not meeting accountability goals.  Sean continues about respecting people’s time and keeping on topic with hot seat questions. 39:00 -  Shai asks about how to approach people who are not meeting goals and take-up to much time. Sean says the person with the best relationship should approach the person before they have to bump them out of the mastermind spot. 42:00 - Charles talks about EntreProgrammers as a mastermind and the freeform style of the format. Charles talks about leaving the group if it is not meeting your value needs. 44:00 - Sean talks about the introduction and application programs to enter into a mastermind. Lucas talks about diminishing quality of a mastermind, and how he raised the quality of engaging in a way that heightens the program. Sean shares more aobuu the initial attitude of the person who starts the meeting. 49:00 -  Divya ask about those who are not hitting their goals, but how do you keep them engaged without leaving the group. Sean mentions breaking down the goals or create achievable goals. Sean talks about figuring out the organization and finding where the issues are at that might be the problem to hitting goals. 51:00 - Divya ask about how enthusiasm can diminish about how to keep that from happening in masterminds. Sean says you have to be consistent with your goals and make it fun. 55:00 - Shai gives a quick recap of masterminds. Shai ask about how to rotate the hot seat. Sean give a webinar link for mastermindhunt.com/devchat on January 3rd, 2pm EST. 57:30 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 30-day free trial! END – Advertisement – Cache Fly! Links: Sean’s Twitter 2frugaldudes  podcast Sean’s LinkedIn mastermindhunt.com mastermindhunt.com/devchat Sponsors: Angular Boot Camp Fresh Books Get a Coder Job Course Cache Fly Picks: Shai Bob Proctor Joe  Coolstuffinc luxor NG Conf Minified Lucas Radical Candor Divya Alan Watts Framework Summit Videos Several Short Sentence about Writing Charles CES - devchat.tv/events Modern Medicine Sean (757) Area Code RevolutionConf.com

Panel: Charles Max Wood Aaron Frost Shai Reznik    Divya Sasidharan Joe Eames Lucas Reis Special Guest: Sean Merron In this episode, The panelist of Adventure In Angular, View on Vue, React Round-Up, and Ruby Rogues and JavaScript Jabber speak with Sean Merron about Mastermind Groups of Startups and much more. Sean is the founder of today's topic and product “Mastermind Hunt.” This product is design to skillfully find a mastermind to take your business and skills to the next level. Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: AngularBootCamp.Com 3:00 – Webinar announcement January 3rd, 2p EST. 4:10 - Sean talks about the importance of a Mastermind and his evolvement in mastermind groups. Sean breakdowns what exactly what a mastermind is about. 6:10 - Charles ask the panelist if they have engaged in Masterminds. Shai talks about his experience and seeing one-sidedness in Masterminds. Sean talks about how to avoid this issue and staying on track. Sean shares on how to keep the meeting moving forward and meet accountability tasks. 10:10 - Joe asks about examples of chatting on topics with co-workers and how is this different from masterminds. And how to keep topics on track. Sean provides using the round robin method to give each person a chance to bring their needs to the table. Sean talks about how developers share advice and topics in Masterminds. 14:43 -  Charles shares about how this works in using exercise workbooks as a group and who the rotation works for the hot seat. Sean explains that this is used to find others at your same level to help one another. 16:50 - Shai ask about the benefits of mastermind, but how can we integrate higher level issues among a group. Sean shares a story about meeting and benefits of networking in Masterminds. Sean and Chuck continue with the power of networking among these types of groups. 22:00 -  Charles talks about the complexity of personal issues. Shai asks about how to build a mastermind. Sean gives examples of formats and schedule, number of people, and how to conduct successfully. Sean gives examples of technologies to use to help conduct masterminds, like Facebook groups, Skype, Zoom.  Sean explains how this led to building  mastermindhunt.com 27:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! 27:00 -  Charles talks about how he did a lunch meetup as a mastermind. Lucas gives examples of guilds in his job. Lucas explains the guilds and how this works among the software development team. Lucas shares about presenting in a guild. Lucas says this is great for accountability and success. 30:00 -  Sean asks about the size or how many people are in the guild. Lucas mentions that if you do not understand something, bring it to the guild. Sean mentions how this could help shy people and build trust. Sean talks about “Friend D A” 34:00 -  Charles again talks about that BrownBag lunch mastermind. Charles talks about how to keep masterminds on track and not a chatfest. Joe asks about the accountability goals. Sean talks about how this works in Mastermind Hunt.  Sean gives examples of how to keep people accountable in fun ways. 37:00 -  Shai talks about having to shave his head when he was not meeting accountability goals.  Sean continues about respecting people’s time and keeping on topic with hot seat questions. 39:00 -  Shai asks about how to approach people who are not meeting goals and take-up to much time. Sean says the person with the best relationship should approach the person before they have to bump them out of the mastermind spot. 42:00 - Charles talks about EntreProgrammers as a mastermind and the freeform style of the format. Charles talks about leaving the group if it is not meeting your value needs. 44:00 - Sean talks about the introduction and application programs to enter into a mastermind. Lucas talks about diminishing quality of a mastermind, and how he raised the quality of engaging in a way that heightens the program. Sean shares more aobuu the initial attitude of the person who starts the meeting. 49:00 -  Divya ask about those who are not hitting their goals, but how do you keep them engaged without leaving the group. Sean mentions breaking down the goals or create achievable goals. Sean talks about figuring out the organization and finding where the issues are at that might be the problem to hitting goals. 51:00 - Divya ask about how enthusiasm can diminish about how to keep that from happening in masterminds. Sean says you have to be consistent with your goals and make it fun. 55:00 - Shai gives a quick recap of masterminds. Shai ask about how to rotate the hot seat. Sean give a webinar link for mastermindhunt.com/devchat on January 3rd, 2pm EST. 57:30 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 30-day free trial! END – Advertisement – Cache Fly! Links: Sean’s Twitter 2frugaldudes  podcast Sean’s LinkedIn mastermindhunt.com mastermindhunt.com/devchat Sponsors: Angular Boot Camp Fresh Books Get a Coder Job Course Cache Fly Picks: Shai Bob Proctor Joe  Coolstuffinc luxor NG Conf Minified Lucas Radical Candor Divya Alan Watts Framework Summit Videos Several Short Sentence about Writing Charles CES - devchat.tv/events Modern Medicine Sean (757) Area Code RevolutionConf.com

Panel: Charles Max Wood Aaron Frost Shai Reznik    Divya Sasidharan Joe Eames Lucas Reis Special Guest: Sean Merron In this episode, The panelist of Adventure In Angular, View on Vue, React Round-Up, and Ruby Rogues and JavaScript Jabber speak with Sean Merron about Mastermind Groups of Startups and much more. Sean is the founder of today's topic and product “Mastermind Hunt.” This product is design to skillfully find a mastermind to take your business and skills to the next level. Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: AngularBootCamp.Com 3:00 – Webinar announcement January 3rd, 2p EST. 4:10 - Sean talks about the importance of a Mastermind and his evolvement in mastermind groups. Sean breakdowns what exactly what a mastermind is about. 6:10 - Charles ask the panelist if they have engaged in Masterminds. Shai talks about his experience and seeing one-sidedness in Masterminds. Sean talks about how to avoid this issue and staying on track. Sean shares on how to keep the meeting moving forward and meet accountability tasks. 10:10 - Joe asks about examples of chatting on topics with co-workers and how is this different from masterminds. And how to keep topics on track. Sean provides using the round robin method to give each person a chance to bring their needs to the table. Sean talks about how developers share advice and topics in Masterminds. 14:43 -  Charles shares about how this works in using exercise workbooks as a group and who the rotation works for the hot seat. Sean explains that this is used to find others at your same level to help one another. 16:50 - Shai ask about the benefits of mastermind, but how can we integrate higher level issues among a group. Sean shares a story about meeting and benefits of networking in Masterminds. Sean and Chuck continue with the power of networking among these types of groups. 22:00 -  Charles talks about the complexity of personal issues. Shai asks about how to build a mastermind. Sean gives examples of formats and schedule, number of people, and how to conduct successfully. Sean gives examples of technologies to use to help conduct masterminds, like Facebook groups, Skype, Zoom.  Sean explains how this led to building  mastermindhunt.com 27:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! 27:00 -  Charles talks about how he did a lunch meetup as a mastermind. Lucas gives examples of guilds in his job. Lucas explains the guilds and how this works among the software development team. Lucas shares about presenting in a guild. Lucas says this is great for accountability and success. 30:00 -  Sean asks about the size or how many people are in the guild. Lucas mentions that if you do not understand something, bring it to the guild. Sean mentions how this could help shy people and build trust. Sean talks about “Friend D A” 34:00 -  Charles again talks about that BrownBag lunch mastermind. Charles talks about how to keep masterminds on track and not a chatfest. Joe asks about the accountability goals. Sean talks about how this works in Mastermind Hunt.  Sean gives examples of how to keep people accountable in fun ways. 37:00 -  Shai talks about having to shave his head when he was not meeting accountability goals.  Sean continues about respecting people’s time and keeping on topic with hot seat questions. 39:00 -  Shai asks about how to approach people who are not meeting goals and take-up to much time. Sean says the person with the best relationship should approach the person before they have to bump them out of the mastermind spot. 42:00 - Charles talks about EntreProgrammers as a mastermind and the freeform style of the format. Charles talks about leaving the group if it is not meeting your value needs. 44:00 - Sean talks about the introduction and application programs to enter into a mastermind. Lucas talks about diminishing quality of a mastermind, and how he raised the quality of engaging in a way that heightens the program. Sean shares more aobuu the initial attitude of the person who starts the meeting. 49:00 -  Divya ask about those who are not hitting their goals, but how do you keep them engaged without leaving the group. Sean mentions breaking down the goals or create achievable goals. Sean talks about figuring out the organization and finding where the issues are at that might be the problem to hitting goals. 51:00 - Divya ask about how enthusiasm can diminish about how to keep that from happening in masterminds. Sean says you have to be consistent with your goals and make it fun. 55:00 - Shai gives a quick recap of masterminds. Shai ask about how to rotate the hot seat. Sean give a webinar link for mastermindhunt.com/devchat on January 3rd, 2pm EST. 57:30 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 30-day free trial! END – Advertisement – Cache Fly! Links: Sean’s Twitter 2frugaldudes  podcast Sean’s LinkedIn mastermindhunt.com mastermindhunt.com/devchat Sponsors: Angular Boot Camp Fresh Books Get a Coder Job Course Cache Fly Picks: Shai Bob Proctor Joe  Coolstuffinc luxor NG Conf Minified Lucas Radical Candor Divya Alan Watts Framework Summit Videos Several Short Sentence about Writing Charles CES - devchat.tv/events Modern Medicine Sean (757) Area Code RevolutionConf.com

John opens the show and throws off Josh. John shows his new Bulldog Mindset designs. John talks about using 99 Designs. John talks about trying to find a non-gangster look for the Bulldog Mindset logo.  John talks about how he chose his logo and merchandise for the BullDog Mindset. Socks are on the list for Bulldog merchandise. John talks about making a mistake with hiring a designer/WP helper. EntreProgrammers talks about design creation and branding. John talks about hiring a pixel artist and membership for YouTube channels. John talks about the audiobook final being out. Josh shares about capital gains and opportunity zones to save on taxes.  Mani asks questions about his email sequence and how to optimize the chain of email for more impact. John gives some comical suggestions with USDA meat and such. Mani talks about the PDF downloads and how his audience is downloading them. Josh suggests ways to do email marketing. Josh talks about those making the sale on the book summaries. John and Josh talk about building trust on a product like these book summaries. Josh talks about how he does not like indoctrination campaigns. Chuck gives some suggestions based on his business. Mani asks for more about his email sequence. John goes with Mani embodies the result as a way to gain trust on the sale of the products.  Chuck talks about creating a listing for show notes and development. But no one showed up for the interview for show notes interview. John chimes in on how he would go through the process. Entreprogrammers look at the posting and make suggestions on how to weed out people with your posting. Chuck talks about the kinds of who notes he wants for the Dev Chat TV Podcast. John suggests ways to look for the right person for the job. Josh talks more about hiring and interviewing. Josh gives suggestion on hiring local.  Thoughts for the Week John - Hire people for the jobs they are good at Chuck - Coaches  Mani - When something is working, go hard on it    Josh - Coaches as well

0:15  We’re Live. John talks about Google Hangouts going away. Chuck suggest moving to Zoom for recordings and live streaming. John talks about being back at it. John says he is going to be a bit more involved with projects at Simple Programmer and reviving the old Simple Programmer youtube channel. Mani ask is a podcast would be useful for this next step. John and Josh say that there is a podcast with all this. John talks about getting back to Pomodoros and back to doing work. John shares some info on book sales and launch info. John talks about the review of the F-word used in his book on Amazon. John says to Bulldog Mindsetwebs is now up.  8:30 John talks about getting traffic for the book and website quiz on Are You a Bulldog. John talks about the impressions and emails he collected from the quiz. John shares more on the terms of the kinds of bulldogs on of the quiz. John talks about his email strategy for the Bulldog Mindset campaign for coaching. Mani asks questions about the emails base membership levels. Johns talks about segmenting the email list and how he is targeting the audience.  John talks about the Drip integrations and support for their needs.  17:30 John shares about hitting the pain points for what the Bulldog Mindset is about. John talks about the how he is sharing about the BullDog Mindset. John talks about the tasks of creating and shoot videos and podcasts. John talks about toying with the idea of a Youtube Bulldog Mindset membership. Mani asks about Patreon. John says he is done with Patreon. John says he will work on this Bulldog Mindset stuff and help his boss John with Simple Programmer.  23:00 John talks about the tuff job of putting out a course and battling free information on the web. John says this is curated information tailored for those who want it. Mani asks if he was getting replies to the Simple Programmer emails since he was back working. John mentions looking into other people’s courses like Gary V. And others to get several ideas for streams of content and products. John says he now might have to record at least one video a day.  30:00 Mani ask Josh about what he is going to do since he got John back as his employee. Josh share his plans for the next four months. Josh about creating themes for these next few months as a way to be productive and max out the time with John. Josh share about a members-only webinar. Mani talks about the tip jar on Youtube that John uses when he takes off his shirt. Josh talks about doing Mani’s book topics for Cyber Monday. Josh talks about membership drive and webinars for the Cyber Monday. EntreProgrammers general talks about setting up product sales for the upcoming holiday sales.  40:00 Josh talks about John leaving Simple Programmer made him a scarce commodity. But now he is back for a time, they can promote with better confidence for the next coming memberships and products. Mani suggests checking the Asian Efficiency website. John joking about making a website called anglo efficiency. John jokes about the Red-headed model on the Asian website.  Mani says they have 3 great components. Josh talks about his hopes for the rotation of these themes.  51:00 Chuck ask about where people signup for membership. Josh says this is done via WooCommerce. EntreProgrammers discuss Thrive Cart. John talks about what he learned from VidCon. Mani talks about VidSummit, and how Gary V does not talks about SnapChat anymore. Mani talks about what he learned form VidSummit and Gary V. Mani share what he heard from the summit and Gary V about emails and reaching out. John talks about the Barbell strategy and investing for a guaranteed return and investing in high yield risky investment with 10 percent. John talks about being prolific on YouTube and grow your audience. Mani and John talk about the strategy of Prolific content and time for growth.  1:11:00 Chuck asks about how he has a couple of people who are interested in selling sponsorship for him. But he is worried about how to pay him. Mani says commission only. John asks if you get the best salesmen if you do commission only. John mentions to watch out for those who don’t care about working for commission, because there is a chance of getting high quality or shitty salesmen. Chuck mentions that the two interested people are his neighbor and brother. John says hell no, those are in the group of people you don’t do business with.   John says Chet Holmes’ book Ultimate Sales Machinesuggest not hiring only one salesperson for sales, there should be hired in pairs to compete.  1:21:00 Mani asks about the number of total sponsorship availability for the year. Chuck says about 600K. John suggests going to Best Buy to find salespeople as a joke. Josh again going to the Ultimate Sales Machine for more knowledge for sales. Chuck ask about how to do his renewals for a salesman. Chuck leaves the call to interview someone. Mani shares about book discussions. Mani talks about summaries and how he likes the format. Josh talks about writing a script with Jason for webinars.  1:30:00 Chuck returns. Mani shares more about getting help with recording the summaries to make them more interesting, rather than doing solo recordings. EntreProgrammers talks about how Mani should hire someone who is interested in doing these reviews without much or no pay. Josh gives suggestions about how to do the book report with another person or audience member. John suggests dropping some breadcrumbs on the possibility of payment for work is the business continues to grow.  1:43:00 John talks about how he hired their writer for the Bulldog book. Chuck chimes in with hiring someone to take the task off his plate. Chuck talks about the quality of product and vision for a good hire to help move the business forward. More talks about scaling business and spokespersons. Chuck ask about stopping the hosting role on some of the podcasts… Josh says that would be a good question for next week.  Thoughts for the Week  Chuck - Nothing is for free. Prioritize.  Mani - You need more at-bats John - Kicking ass is the cure for a lot of things    

0:15 We’re Live! John is finally back home. EntreProgrammer talks about returning home from travels. John says he is done traveling until the Marathon in La Vegas in November. Chuck suggest to John doing an Ultra Marathon. John says depending on how he feels this might be his last marathon. John talks about hiring a marathon coach to help get under a 4-hour marathon run.  5:30 Charles asks for business advice after speaking with his coach. Chuck gives a rundown on the task assigned to himself after consulting with his business coach. Chuck says he is halfway done with the book. But his coach wants him to work on acquiring more sponsors. So the book might be put on the back burner until Chuck has more time. Chuck says he might refund the sales on the course. This will allow him to get Podwrench done though.  10:00 John asks what task on the schedule will allow him more time. Chuck says Podwrench. John says to weigh out what task will get done sooner. The book? Podwrench? Chuck thinks that dropping all other tasks and focusing on the book might take a month. But he never done it before so the timing is up in the air. Chuck thinks he might have to put off the book. Josh suggest finding someone to help write the book.  18:00 Mani asks Chuck about the numbers on traffic and building the email lists. Josh talk about the tasks and logistics for launching a book. Chuck decides to refund on the book and finish Podwrench. John suggests a refund or apply the funds to a conference.  25:00 Josh talks more about webinars and courses sales. Mani talks about the challenges of selling the course. Josh comments about the use of paid traffic. EntreProgrammers talks about marketing and other kinds of strategies to sell courses and or products. Josh talks about developing content with Jason. Mani and Josh continue to discuss pitching courses via live streams. Mani talks about the responses on doing live streams.  33:00 Mani shares more about his recent strategy on answering questions on a live stream. Josh shares how people wait out prices on Udemy. More talk from the EntreProgrammers about the price on products such as book and courses. Josh talks about building a course around the Complete Guide for Software Developer, as a 12-month program.  Mani talks about the change in the pricing model for Podcaster’s Paradise by John Lee Dumas. Josh talks about courses on their network that do not have John apart of the project.  45:00 John talks about ranking on Google and how traffic works to sell products. Chuck interjects with more questions on things that involve making a sale. Chuck talks about trying something different. Mani talks about how these are based on marketing theory and numbers. Josh says he knows what the levers are in the range and strategy of marketing products. Chuck suggest walking down a different road and trying different things for their marketing strategy. Josh talks about marketing in a lousy market.  52:00 Mani talks about the Microblading market and courses. Josh says testing takes 2-3 months to figure out what is working. Josh talks about the need to Paid Traffic. Josh talks about the handheld community. EntreProgrammers continue to talks about marketing a content base product. Josh talks about selling a mock interview courses.  1:00:00 EntreProgrammers continue to talk about how the course package was presented. Mani talks about the recording products over live presented products.  Josh talks about needing Facebook to market. Mani says running Facebook traffic is another kind of beast. Mani talks about the amount of work Josh is doing and burning through their own list. EntreProgrammers talks about the percentage cut John took as he was making videos for Plural Sight.  1:15:00 John talks about the warped view of money. More talks about selling courses for clients. John talks about about getting a free box of snacks, and considering the value. John refers back to a rip off of a course from a past client. John explains they are selling the outcome of the course. Chuck exists the podcasts. EntreProgrammers continues discussing that Udemy effect and the value of the course.  1:22:00 Josh talks about how videos courses became commoditzied like books over the past decades. John talks about the getting the offer to the right people in their marking strategies. Mani ask about banner ads on the websites. Mani ask about how many clicks do they get on the banner ads. Josh talks about all the test and conversion they did.  1:30:00 Mani ask about driving traffic to the opt-in. Josh continues with testing remarking…. Thoughts for the week!  Josh - Test before you test..   John - It is about what you become after the process Mani -   Simple wins. Complicated does not scale.  

0:15  We’re Live! Chuck says he is having one of those weeks that makes him want to be a pig farmer. Chuck talks about his sponsors not paying him on time. John jokes that Chuck is going to burn down the building. Chuck continues with how these companies are promising to pay in 45 days, but no show. Chuck says he understands that this is a process. John and Chuck agree on a paying upfront policy.  5:10  John talks about sticking to what was agreed upon as far as due payment. John jokes to put up an ad that out the issues of nonpayment from the sponsor. Mani asks about book sales. As Chuck goes into having issues with PayPal restricting his account, but he cannot pull money out from the book sales.  9:10  Chuck talk about talking to Richard at .NetRocks. Mani suggests not using PayPal and switch to Strip to receive payments. Mani jokes about running an 'I cannot buy my lunch' sale. John talks more about using this injustice as a marketing strategy.  13:00 Mani ask is the course is for sale now. Chuck mentions that it is on sales for 500 dollars as of now. Mani asks about some analytics on the current sale. Josh and Mani suggests an urgency strategy for the course and using a timer on the sales page. Josh and Mani give other kinds of suggestion for the sales and marketing strategies.  18:00 Mani suggests writing up 4 marketing emails for revamping the sales of the course. Mani asks about Simple Programmers sales on Plural Sight. Josh gives some analytics and numbers on the sales. Josh says it is about 18k in sales. Josh talks about the issues with the commission and discount offer.  25:00 Josh talks about the 45k sales last year. And Josh says their attitude is what have you done for me lately. Josh says John’s numbers are still pushing in sales at Plural Sight. Mani talks about the tier of commissions according to a Robert Farrington. Josh continues to talk about the clicks and conversions of the material on Plural Sight.  30:00 Josh and John talk about the EPC target. John suggests working backward to figure out how to meet the EPC. John talks more about the complexity of the sales.  Josh talks about experimenting with a waitlist. Mani and John talk about the traffic direction, click and marketing with courses on Simple Programmer.  40:00 John asks Josh talk offering their own discount to up the sales. Josh think it has to be beyond 25% to make it worth it. Josh talks about the sales on the membership.  Josh talks about Jonathan Stark’s book called  The Freelancers Roadmap and how he is using this as a bonus to the sales they’re doing.  45:00 Josh talks about a plugin to setup authors call WooCommerce Authors. Chuck talks about how he is using the WooCommerce site. Chuck ask about how to set up the author plugin as far as getting people on the site.  50:00 Mani and Josh discuss marketing and writing copy for courses, rather they are martial arts or developer material. Josh talks about the skill of building out the course. Josh talks about doing a 21-day course but did not work, then they switch to interviews on webinars. Josh talks more about working with Jason on building courses.  55:00 Josh continues to talk about the process of marketing courses on books or videos. More on the complexities of launching courses.  Chuck says he likes to idea of hiring someone for their skills to build a course. Chuck talks about how he could do this with one of the developers.  1:00:00 Josh talk about his idea with this upcoming course with coding and technical material. Josh talks about this as a review type course to prepare for coding. John talks about signing up for another marathon but he got sick.  Mani suggests chewing garlic to help with a cough. Josh asks about the Thrive convention.  1:08:00 John says is it wipeout from running. John asks if they notice the merge with Create Space and Kindle. Which could help with sales on their book. Mani ask about John’s book Bulldog Mindset. EntreProgrammer talk about the publishing companies. Josh and John talk about Novel Rink that pulls Amazon API and how it is being shut down.  1:13:00 EntreProgrammers talks about how this is similar to people running Facebook ads and such. Mani talks about how it is short-lived as people are trying to build businesses off of a social media platform. Mani says like Alex Jones. John says Alex would be able to write a book. Josh says Alex is still very diversified with several places to pull his material.  1:19:00 Josh said he did have the opportunity to get into the Prepper niche. Josh talks about how Google controls 80% of their email list. So they are done if they get in trouble with them. Mani talks about Alex Jones traffic numbers.  Thoughts of the Week!  Josh - Pomodoros are effective John - Have an exact why Charles - Just got to keep going Mani - Syndicate your content

0:15 We’re Live! John is back from vacation. Chuck sporting his Javascript Jabber wear. Mani comments on the cooler weather coming soon. Josh jokes about the small weather changes in San Diego. Chuck continues the talks about the 69 and below weather in CA. Josh talks about the -15 degree weather in Pennsylvania.  4:30  Josh talks about the bulge at the bottom of his computer and it needing a battery change. Josh talks about the features of his new MacBook, and how he doesn’t like it. Josh can’t wait for his old computer to get back. More tech talk about computers and John having issues with playing back YouTube videos. Josh talks about double dongle commercial.  11:30  John talks about getting back to work and just interviewed James Clear. John mentions getting his slides done for FinCon. John talks about his strategies and his talk for the event.  15:00 John and Josh talk about their SEO and other lists of things they need to do for Simple Programmer and John’s side projects.  Mani asks if they have an editor. Josh talks about working with their outsource content editor. Josh mentions that the title and backlinks are most important for them. More talk about content creation and things that work now and the types of content that does not bring traffic anymore.  20:00 Josh ask if anyone wants to write a blog post about interview questions. John and Josh talks more about questions and content for their site. Mani ask more about their editors fees and time it takes. More talk about link backs. Mani mentions a membership site transition.  27:00 John mentions reading Blue Ocean Strategy. John continues to describe the courses and subscriptions models of businesses. More on what a Blues Ocean business is about. Josh talks about building the business like ax PluralSight. Josh thinks that a podcast is what the business needs.  Josh talks about their subscriber numbers and the direction he would like to take his podcast.  34:00 John suggest that Chuck take care of the podcast production for Josh. John suggest the podcasts run under Chucks network and they can share sponsorship. Mani talks about a blogger he really enjoys to follow. Mani talks about the problem with the celebrity businesses or business models. Josh says he like what he does right now, but would like to do the same thing and have the business grow. 40:00 Josh mention Zigziglar’s business model. Josh thinks this will be a good experiment since there are a lot of things starting up. John talks about the presence that he might have in the Simple Programmer business. Mani ask why would they Josh and John would want to redo the business model, but only with Josh in the seat. Chuck gives his ideas with what Josh could do in place of running Simple Programmer.  47:00 Mani says Simple Programmer says that Simple Programmer is the Kingmaker as a business model. John says you have to business brand first. John talks about being exposed to the brand at different times. John continues with the introduction to point of sale. Josh talks about the sellability. Josh continues with the time people enter into the business or engage with the content.  55:00 Chuck gives his view on what Simple Programmer is without the help of John’s celebrity. Josh talks about how they have had thing fail when they hand it off. Josh talk about running a business similar to Udemy. Josh talks about help Jason out with the course creation for their community. Josh talks about what he learn with building out the community and coursed and then replacing the hosts.  1:02:00 Chuck talks about reading the book “The One Thing.” The pertains to the podcast production software PodWrench and working on the network. Chuck talks about moving to Google Calendar, away from Schedule Once. Chuck explain how they are using the calendar for appointments. John suggest moving to his process with Assistiant.2, a chrome plugin.  1:05:00 Chuck talks more about scheduling appointments and stuff within the podcast recording process. Chuck talks about the Show Runner material for running the podcast without him. Chuck mentions that a few of his sponsors wanted live ads. So in October Chuck is moving to live ad reads in the podcasts shows.  1:10:00 John suggests some automated features for ads reads and show notes material. Josh says there are podcast services that offer a full service for podcasting, but if Chuck had software it would be a game changer. Josh continues with disrupting the market with podcast production software.  1:20:00 Chuck talks more about getting people on the show in an automated fashion. John talks about what Richard Branson with with T-Mobile as an example. Chuck talks about just solving his own problem. Chuck mentions that they are two show he would like to do as podcast shows, and step away from hosting most of the shows.  1:25:00 Chuck talks more about podcast production with authors or technically savvy guests. Mani mentions a podcast call Optimize Daily.  Josh talks about using podcast as a conversion for memberships rather than a traffic generator. Josh talks about his ideas with Copy Chief.  1:35:00 The EntreProgrammers discuss podcasting and marketing tactics for memberships and courses. More talks about podcasts tailoring for membership. John talks about Tropical MBA podcasts and how it drives membership. Chuck talks about John coming in periodically on the podcasts and writing posts for the membership.  1:41:00 Mani talks about BiggerPockets Podcast and their business model.  Thoughts for the Week!  Josh - Pruning  John - Variation is the enemy of progress  Chuck -  Focus on the things that matter Mani - Don’t build a personality business   

0:15 We are live. John and Mani are at Thrive Conference. Not related to Thrive Cart or Themes. Chuck mentions recording some 14 plus EntreProgrammers podcast this week. Chuck also mention some new signups the the My Story podcasts on the Dev Chat TV network. Chuck explain how the My Story shows fit into the Dev Chat TV network. 4:00 Chuck continues to explain the type of guests on the My Story Podcasts. Josh talks about interview he did with student of Jason Humphrey. Josh and Chuck talks about their guests and topics that are most interesting to them. Sharing all kinds of perspectives. 7:00 Josh ask about the unique guest on the Dev Chat TV network. Chuck explains some of the dynamics between the panelists and guest. Chuck talks about the different perspective and diverse outlook of the panelist on the podcasts. Chuck share that this diversity helps him learn new things. 11:00 Chuck talks about the freedom and goals he is working on with his business coach. Chuck says he is going to work hard in the next few months so he can step back form the business. However, he does plan to have a passion podcasts that he want to continue with. Chuck says this shows are on Podcasting and getting a job or working in the business. 14:00 Chuck says his only issues is time and having a lot of things to do. Chuck talks about getting in to automation and building out systems. Chuck says he is traveling and still working on his book. 20:00 Chuck ask for a suggestion if the needs to hire someone else to handle the sponsorship scheduling. Or should he continue to have Michele do the podcast production and sponsorships tasks. Chuck mention he needs more help with sales calls and selling sponsorship spots. 23:00 Josh thinks a non-skilled person can handle this. Chuck says the outreach for sponsorship might get automated to some degree. Chuck explain his plans for outreach. Chuck says he just trying to figure out how to automate the task in the business. 28:00 Chuck mentions how he needs people that work for him to help, if needed, to create process. Josh says the good salesperson is a good relationship person. As far as Chuck looking to fill the spot for sales calls. Chuck says he does not want to bring someone in, thinking they have a long-term job. Josh thinks he needs to hire himself a figure out the process. 35:00 Josh says getting clarity and honing in on the actual work is difficult. Chuck ask about things on the Simple Programmer end of things. Josh talks about another launch he is about to do. Josh says he is excited about how the contents is coming together. Josh says he is really looking into the prelaunch material. 38:00 Josh and Chuck talk about content creation and marketing content like Jeff Walker. Josh talks more about video material and content for people to engage with. 45:00 Josh talks more about creating content with John. Chuck talks about the tactics with writing a book and Getting a Job and creating or locking in the theme of a hero’s journey. Chuck talks about how his process is working with writing his book. 55:00 Josh talks about rerunning the Plural Sight campaign. Josh talks about the reduced commission from Plural Sight. Josh says this course feeds into the membership. Josh says he is hoping for a 250 sales to boost the membership. 1:00:00 Chuck ask about using WooCommerce but there was an issue with completing the sale with PayPal. Josh says there are always issues with people paying with PayPal. Chuck and Josh continue to uncover issues with the lost sale on Chucks WooCommerces store. 1:05:00 Chuck explains the content of his early copy of this book. Chuck says he is interested in doing some webinars soon. Josh says with launch will be different without John. Josh says this is a good test to see where they are. Thoughts for the Week Chuck - Be willing to challenge what you think the way things are. Josh - We tend to procrastinate on the things that are most important

0:15  We’re live. I believe. Josh talks about getting emails from Chuck. Chuck mentions going back to shaving his head.  Also, Chuck mentions that things are getting better and is very busy. Chuck talks about how his WooCommerce was not working for him. So no sales for the pre-sale on his new book. Chuck talks about more issues with the commerce site. But immediately sell 5 books as soon as it was set up.  4:00 Chuck talks about extending the deadline on the pre-sale since there were issues with the site. Mani asks about open and click-thru rates for emails and other marketing tactics. Mani asks more about the email open analytics. Josh mentions that he might be better off looking at the Google analytics. Chuck says he is matching peoples expectations on the price. Chuck mentions learning a lot from this launch and being able to do better next time around.  9:30 Chuck mentions other simple mistakes he made like not sending people to the landing page form the e-commerce site. Josh says welcome to the club of marketing and e-commerce mistakes. Josh talk about all the moving parts of shopping carts and WooCommerce. Chuck talk more about the issues with his shopping cart and web page.  14:00 EntreProgrammers talk about mistakes with marketing and more simple mistakes on top of it all. Chuck talks about focusing on having his business run without being involved. So no recording podcast with the other hosts or panelist on Dev Chat TV. Chuck mentions that he needs to have more of a presence on YouTube to help the traffic on the podcasts.  21:00 Chuck talks about possibly releasing the podcasts as video on Youtube. Also, some talks about getting the podcasts on Spotify. Chuck says that he does not like certain podcasts hosting sites. Mani talks about moving his website to a different hosting site like Liquid Web. Josh talks about being on a custom Digital Ocean system. Mani asks about using Simple Programmers web guy for help.  25:00 Mani talks about moving his content around on his website for 2000 Books. Mani talks about getting some help moving his web content without ruining the activity and other stuff. Chuck asks about why rebranding from 2000 Books to 10X Books.  Josh suggest not doing this all at once. Josh suggest cleaning up the site, moving to a new host, and working on the domain name as a safe way to move the site. Josh and Mani talk about making the transition smoother along with not ruin the Google traffic.  32:00 Chuck suggests creating another site or duplicating the site them running both before taking down the older. Josh asked about DNS and other things to think about website directing. Josh suggest setting up the DNS. Josh talks about Simple Programmer traffic and website information.  40:00 More talks about indexing and redirecting. Josh talks about changing EngineX and rolling back sites.  Mani says he feels more comfortable hiring someone to do this for him. Mani asks if they know anyone who could help him. Mani says he thinks he knows who he wants to hire.   45:00 Josh suggests asking about the migration services and waiting to change the domain last. EntreProgrammers talks about growing out their websites. Manis asks about Josh's selling of the memberships and course sales. Josh talks about testing and issues with Zappier.  52:00 Josh talks more about issues and getting help from Podia. Josh talks about activity with the memberships. Josh talks about more plans with the community and memberships. Josh talks about the how he had to change the name of the community.  1:00:00 Josh and Mani discuss the thing they did that could have made the launch more successful. Chuck talks about doing something similar. Josh talks about the types of groups that they could sell membership or subscription too. Josh suggest to Chuck to start a community around the course Chuck is creating.  1:05:00 Josh talks about selling automated products and prices. Mani asks about Chuck course and possible membership group.  Thoughts for the Week Chuck - Focus Josh - Let go of things that you can have someone else do Mani - Products make you money, system make you a fortune

0:15  We’re live. John in progress talks about a 15 person meet up in Barcelona. John mentions the numbers he gets on engagement on Instagram. John says the engagement numbers are better than email. John says that he is basically doing an email via Instagram.  4:30 Josh talks about selling sponsorship for spots on Simple Programmer. Josh mentions that the spots were filled immediately. Josh continues to talks about the membership stuff in Simple Programmer. 8:00 Josh and Mani talk about the course, How To Market Yourself, and how they are working out the marketing material. Josh continues to discuss the community and courses he is helping market with a client. Josh talks about his launch is for next month.  10:00 Mani asks if they are getting a discount from Plural Sight. Josh talks about doing a test for another client’s product marketing. Josh continues to talk about the strategies he learned to get the marketing strategies on point. Josh talks about working with pop-ups. Josh talks about testing the opt-in rates. Mani asks about testing with  Two Step Carts. Josh mentions that Podio does the same thing.  19:00 Josh talks about cart abandonment and how their system works at the checkout. John talks about how million dollar companies are able to hire people to do all their testing. Mani suggests that how retargeting could work, but Josh should hire someone to hire someone to do it for him.  23:00 Mani and Josh continue to talks about their strategies for marketing, and outsourcing. Josh mentions using banners as something different in marketing. Mani and Josh go back and forth on testing and marking emails. More marketing and email discussion.  29:00 Josh talks about using a timer with the banner. Mani shares a story about a marketing strategy with coupons and collecting emails to build a list and get more sales. Josh talks about using a wait list page and filling out forms for membership. John talks about the psychological effect of coupons.  35:00 The EntreProgrammers continues to discuss the using coupons. Josh says he may segment the new coupon idea geographically. Josh talks about the new Asia subscribers and traffic form the email list in the US and other counties. Josh talks about the unopened email form those in Asia. Josh says the US subscribers have twice the engagement after that fully subscribe.  40:00 Mani shares some comedy relief from a comedian who talks about negotiation between the different nationalities. Charles mentions having a great week and has written 6,000 words on this book, and is up for pre-sale. Chuck mentions that the book should be complete soon. John talks about helping Chuck with the information he needs to launch on Amazon. Chuck mentions doing a self-publish on Amazon.  45:00 Josh and John give Chuck some pointers on how to launch directly and on Amazon. Chuck talk about implementing an opt-in page along with the book. John gives the rundown about how to launch from book, Kindle, to audio. Johns says this is a great way to not compete with yourself on Amazon. John says the order should be a printed book first, Kindle, then audio with extra content with a relaunch between each format.  50:00 The EntreProgrammer give their best ideas to Chuck to have a successful book launch. John and Mani discuss that the book launch in the first format should be hardcover and softcover later. John says the Kindle book will hurt the printed version because of the price.  55:00 Chuck says the book form him is apart of a course and should be relaunched multiple times with each format. Chuck says he is very interested in raking and build his product offerings.  Thoughts for the Week John - Pick the difficult path Chuck - Your vision is going to change… Josh - Scarcity is everything  Mani - You have to walk the path of complexity, to get to simplicity  

0:15 We’re live. Let’s take off our shirts and talk. John is still in Barcelona, and John gives a rundown of other travels after vacation. Chuck mentions some other avid listeners of EntreProgrammers and some activity at VidCon. Chuck talks about the stages of his business and work. Chuck talks about his activity and automation in Zappier for last week. Chuck shares his strategy using Zappier for reminders for podcasts.   5:20 Chuck talks about moving off of UpWork with Michelle to a paid salary contractor. John talks about the situation now for Chuck business now rather than in the past with former contractor or workers. Chuck talks about the result he needs with his employees and what they need to document. Chuck continues to talks about the processes he needs to know in his business with John.  11:00 John talks about processes and how Grant Cardone manages things. John shares his thoughts on how he would run a service-based business. Chuck shares his thoughts with working with his contractor Michelle. Chuck shares other kinds of technology he uses to run the production of the podcast with Michelle’s help.  15:00 Chuck talk about using PipeDrive and Notion for the business.  John talks about saving of money on services, but how things are flowing in the business. Chuck talks about how to work with Notion.  Chuck talks about other DevChat show he host on his network.  19:00 Chuck talks about wanting to start on Python show, but has no experience with the language. But he has the knowledge in place to easily start a show and find sponsors. Chuck talks about the automation for social sharing.   23:00 John and Chuck talk about using an intern to help with content and building other arms of the business. John talks about what task he would like an intern do to help build the business. Chuck talks about his team meetings with Michelle along with getting his book started with 10k words.  28:00 Chuck ask about the things John does in the business. John talks about the plans he has for “The Bulldog Mindset.” John talks about working on the “Bulldog Mindset” first them helping with Simple Programmer material. Chuck asked if Bulldog Mindset was separate from Simple Programmer. John thinks this is a separate thing.  33:00 John and Josh talk about how their business has moved away slightly from programming and coding, but they still love it. John says they are no longer making the pizza. John mentions the duties of a content creator verses on being a business owner and podcaster.  37:00 Chuck talks about sponsors being late on payments and such. Chuck talks about partnerships. John shares his idea with a 50k reserve with their Simple Programmer account. Chuck and John discuss their ideas for reserve accounts. Chuck asked if John is working on the Bulldog Mindset book? Josh mentions he is working on the Instagram platform.  45:00 John says that even retired, he like busting his ass and still building other kinds of businesses. John says he is growing in the sponsorship area in the Simple Programmer business. John says he is still connected to the Simple Program channel, which should be separate from Bulldog Mindset. Chuck talks about a self-publishing platform. John talks about helping Chuck with his book launch.  50:00 John shares reviews on books and how they leverage to do so. John shares more about the different tasks to launch book. John talks about the optimal price for the recent book. Also having a meeting with Chuck to talk about marketing his upcoming book.  56:00 Chuck asks about what John uses to write the book. John says he used Google Docs. John says he would do about 200 pages. John talks about the nuances of selling on Amazon. Chuck talks about how he wants to launch his book.    Thoughts for the Week Chuck - The buck stops here.  John - Pain is good.   

0:15 John talks about his 12 hour trip to Rome. John talks about starting a podcast call Mic Check. John mentions visiting only 3 countries this summer. John says he is glad there are more EntreProgrammers, because he can now sleep during the show. 5:30 Chuck mentions going to Podcast Movement 2018 and talks about the events that took place during the conference and the best take aways of the conference. Chuck talks about the new tracking research he learned about from the conference. Also some ideas on how to pull tracking numbers form 3rd party services. Chuck talks about talking to Self Publishing School for a book. Chuck talk about doing so videos for subscribers 17:00 Mani ask about downloads verse subscribers on the podcasts. Chuck talks about creating book for React, JavaScript, Python, etc., and explain the concepts in the book for newbies. Chuck talks about he idea to do consistent production launches and create a continuous incoming.  23:00 Chuck talks about talking to he audience. Mani thinks Chuck could sale the product, or a pre sale, before he makes the videos. Mani talks about transparency in the product sales and testing. Mani talks about selling his course before he makes or create the content. Mani talks more about testing before selling to the public.  29:00 Mani says to get over to subconscious fear of selling. Chuck talks about opening sponsor spots on his podcasts where he could talks about his product. Mani talks about how to use lead magnets to evaluate what people want. Chuck asks about what is in Rome for John. John says he is going on a cruise later in the week.  33:00 Mani ask about the Podia , a course software company, affiliate promotion. Josh thinks it was a disaster or did not go well for them. Josh talks about the emails he wrote  to the 86k people an no conversions and no sales on day one. Josh mention that subscription software is not reality their thing, but courses are key for them.  40:00 EntreProgrammers talks about selling 2X4s to build a hypothetical house in the entrepreneur world. Josh gives his thought a bit early. EntreProgarmmer talk about making course about how to create courses.  50:00 Josh talks about doing a test launch for another client selling more courses. Josh talks more about the courses he will be working on in August and some idea he has for the community. Mani talks about marketing strategies of other entrepreneurs and how they increase conversions and sales.  1:00:00 John talks about paying for coaching to push you ahead on a full-time job before becoming an entrepreneur. John says it depends on on the kind of coaching you do.  Mani mentions that he is working on video upsets scripts. Mani talks about he recent affiliate launch. Rc Thoughts for the Week!  John - The key to figuring out where you fuck up now, it in the past Chuck - Get out of your comfort zone Josh - It either I good Idea, or a good story Mani - Shrink the scope, keep the discipline 

0:15  We’re Live! Josh is moved and partially unpacked in his new home. 3X the work he expected. EntreProgrammers discuss the trail of moving. Josh talks about how did not get anything done during the move. Josh talks about trying to move with children in the house. Mani talks about minimizing the things you own.  5:20 Chuck compared Josh’s move to life lessons he learned about stuff you have to do, and the extra stuff you did not know you had to do. Josh says the stuff they moved was sentimental materials. Move talk about sorting through your belongings, your business, and life in general.  9:30 Mani asks if their emails for their re-run on the 10X Productivity course is going to launch again. Josh talk about the up sale that Mani has in place for the product. Josh and Mani talk about the new variables in the product since Josh and Mani are doing this without John. Josh says he is going to do 4 email for this promotion.  14:00 Mani talks about the upsell products that are apart of the promotion. Josh and Mani mention that is 29 dollar promotion for a couple of the products. Josh and Mani discuss raising prices where they can. Mani mentions why he is doing these crazy tests, and he looks at the EPC numbers. Mani asks the bump should be higher or lower. Lower is probably best according to Josh.  25:00 Josh continues the discuss the actions and plan around the past promotion he has done with Mani. Mani says there is nothing like being in front of the right people at the right time. Mani asks if this list is going to be on a different list. Josh says this list is some 37K people.  30:00 Mani asks about the difference between the Simple Programmer and Sublime list. Josh and Chuck talk about having to lock their office doors to keep the kids out of the office. Chuck talk about being frustrated with not being able to get work done.  35:00 Chuck talks about the problems of trying to sell his parents house. Chuck share more about his idea to write his book on release on labor day. Chuck talks about his ideas to write 1500 words per day for the book. The book pre-sale is at devchat.tv/shop. The course and book are at 50% off for now on pre-sale.  39:00 Mani and Josh talk to Chuck about ideas on how to pitch the book and course to Chuck’s list. Josh suggest going to the audience and doing a webinar to figure out what the need.  45:00 Josh talks about a customer who bought a 10 dollar course on Udemy. Chuck talks about sending out emails and doing a webinar later this week to pitch the book and course. Mani talks about sending a non-sales email about creating excitement for the products. Josh asks how he is delivering the course content. Chuck says he is using WP courseware on Woocommerce.  50:00 Chuck talks about finding a plugin for woo commerce to help thank your customers. Chuck talks about other ways he is using the Thank You page.  Thoughts for the Week! Mani -  Commitments or Pre-Commitments Chuck - Killing Procrastination Josh - Getting an assistant  

EntreProgrammers talk about upcoming international travels, Interview Cake and upcoming collaborations and much more!

0:15 Josh is currently in Ireland. Chuck mentions that John forced Josh to retire. Also, some talk about the climbing stock of Plural Sight Stock, and how other are wishing the bought when the prices were low. 3:15 Chuck talks about mentioning to his cohost that he was not going to host with them for a few weeks. Chuck mentions putting to use the extra time to reach out to sponsors and getting some leads. Main talks about persistence at its max, and how to strategically leverage your persistence. 7:10 Mani talks about open and unopened emails with email marketing. It does not necessarily mean that they are not listening. John mentions Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes . Mani mentions how the recent launch went for himself and John. Mani speaks about the meditation product and the price point. Mani talks about how John sells on Youtube. 11:30 Mani talks about going into sales pitches in a very careful manner, so it does not look like a money grab. Mani continues with selling out youtube. 14:00 Chuck talks about the placement of the marketing pitch on youtube videos, and the strategics on giving a proper offer. Chuck talks about the body language the relays via the videos during a pitch. Mani says there is nothing wrong with giving a pitch.  Mani talks about how sleazy is easy to see on the video. Some talks about Alph M Channelon selling. 20:00 John talks about his ideas and strategies for completing a pitch. Mani talks about how they’ve learned a lot with this last launch. Chuck says that if John was talking more about Meditation on his channel sales might have been better for him. Mani talks about his strategy for connecting the feeds of the two videos created by himself and John. Mani talks about doing priming and creating pre-content. John says he would change the price point of the product. 27:00 Mani talks about thinking about you pitch when making a product on Youtube. John talks about being contacted for a casting director to a home improvement channel and want him for a host. John says he is going to do a demo reel and if get the gig he will be a host on a home improvement show. Chuck says they will be famous by association. 32:00 Josh and the EntreProgrammers mention that this home improvement show might similar and base on Air BnB type homes. Mani says after this, John could sell anything on Youtube if this goes through. John talks about hitting on the elements of urgency. More talk about clicks and pitches. 37:00 Mani says he cannot wait for John to sale like Alph M channel. John says he like SAX brand for underwear. John says he decided to undertake a new book “Bulldog Mindset.” John says he is working on a book proposal for his agent. Johns says he has all the outlines and all he has to do is write. Chuck ask about his workflow for prepping for the book. John says this book is going to be 80,000 words. John talks about the pricing and pricing of creating a book. John says writing smaller book to keep production cost down to make money. 44:00 Mani asks about the process for John’s next book as far as writing. John say he is going to focus on the manuscripts and proposal. Mani talks about how the Cast Director is probably looking for his personality. John reads the email he got form CBMC. Mani suggests the John should go to Best Buy to buy a camera holder before his interview with CMBC. Thoughts for the Week Chuck - If you need time, take time.  Work on your business, not in your business John - Always have a hustle Mani - If you don't pay, you will not get anything out of it

0:15  We’re live. John is currently on a house swap vacation in 10 degree cooler weather. Josh is talking about having San Diego on his weather app and loves the weather. Mani talks about his recent launch, 600 clicks, 17 sales at 300 dollars. Mani mentions being asked to unsubscribe some people on the list. Mani talks more about the logistic of the launch and email writing.  5:00 Mani talks about a 502 error and trying to figure out the issues with the sales page. Josh gives some feedback on the Chrome feedback. EntreProgrammer thinks there is something wrong with Mani’s WordPress page. This is a great episode to learn about the HTTP and HTTPS setting in WordPress and how to correct the issue of an un-viewable page.  10:00 Mani asks if there are any other settings he needs to know about the page. Chuck explains how the security features work on the page, and also some plugin info, and how to clear the cache. Mani talks more about the setting on the sales page. Josh gives some information on Mani’s overall conversion rate for the recent Meditation product launch.  18:00 Josh talks about his email launch experience and things to look for on a launch. EntreProgrammers are still trying to help Mani refresh his page. Josh talks about replacing the Patreon income. Mani talks about killing the Caching plugin to help the sales page. Mani asks about how dollar per subscriber should work. Mani talks about deactivating the caching page. Josh talks about the caching activity on their Simple Programmer page and the SEO team starting to change things.  25:00 Chuck talks about emailing his cohost and telling them about how he was not recording podcasts for at least 3 weeks. Chuck talks about creating a media kit for the sponsorship purposes. Chuck talks about some Blubrry issues. Chuck talks about the analytics of the popular show on Dev Chat TV. Chuck talks about building out his own tracking system for podcast downloads, to track the activity of the individual shows.  30:00 Chuck talks about switching feeds or activity on the shows to get a more updated and accurate statistic of the shows. Josh mentions a tracking data system on a new letter to track data analytics on the activity on the new letter. Chuck talks more about tracking on ROI of sponsors and trying to get feedback to help ROI. Chuck talks about his issue with recording podcasts and creating content for the shows.  37:00 Mani asks about the compensation of hosting shows on Dev Chat TV. Chuck explains how this works for the Dev Chat TV network. Chuck talks about how this might be an issue with a few hosts, but not all. John mentions a book to help the people show up for hosting. The book is called. “Pimp: The story of my life.” More talks about how to control the hosting situation. Josh suggests a way to create an automated system to allow hosts and panelist to attend to call.  43:00 Chuck talks about his critical role in the podcast business. Mani thinks that Chuck’s business is scalable. Chuck talks about being the talent and getting to the place or goal. EntreProgrammers talks about bring the host in the sponsorship sales. But that is not a good idea according to EntreProgrammers.  50:00 Mani asks about Josh’s mastermind emails. Josh explains that he is going to do a paid webinar as apart of the community growth. Mani talks about how he wants to see Josh’s personal story with LinkedIn. Josh says he is going to shut down the Sublime Text new letter and merge the program with the Simple Programmer list.  1:00:00 Josh talks about how to properly transition a dead list and move into a new direction. Josh talks about how he implemented ways to unsubscribe and move forward as a subscriber. Josh talks about how he is going to work on LinkedIn projects next week and help Mani in early July. Mani jokes about Killing John in the business, then scaling the business. Josh says John is like Cornel Sanders in the business. 1:07:00 Mani suggests listening to Dan Fagella podcasts. More talks about Mani’s launch.  Thought of the Week! John - Optimize for the future or for life. Mani - Sometimes I should push through or create better systems  Josh - It important to have a big goal, to take big action. 

0:15 We’re Live. Josh talks about getting shocked about a newsletter email entitle GDR is Bullshit. Mani says he would like to see an unsubscribe rather than a spam issue. EntreProgrammers talks about the rights or non rights of GDPR. Josh talks about his goal to gain 25 subscribers and some email activity in the marketing area. Josh continues his goal to reach 100 subscribers. More talk about this community from Josh. 10:00 Josh talks about using Facebook and Slack for the community he created, and how to manage the conversations and resources. Josh talk about the tiers of the community, similar to a small mastermind group. Josh says he is focusing on the bottom tier because that is where most people will be. Josh talks about the signup and sales, and growing the product. Chuck says he finds this interesting as another thing to do for the developer community. Josh says this is going to be his focus for the next few months. 17:00 Chuck asks about the training material that Josh is going to be offering for the community. Josh explain how he is going to sort of duplicate this base on another persons community or group. Josh talks about an email he received and how it is useful for giving value for reaching out. Mani talks about John Lee Duma’s group that he created and the terms of being in the group. Mani says this was similar to a Facebook group. 22:00 Mani ask what is Josh’s goal for the group. Josh says he wants this to replace their product revenue, about 30K. Josh says he is trying to create scarcity with the product and sell more spots. Josh talk more about the terms in which he is letting people into the group. Mani says John Lee used price rising as a way to get more people in the group. John talks about the “Make More Money” situation, as they are in the business of make more money in your job, rather then in your business. 30:00 More discussion about the possible future of the community and help people get jobs using this platform. More talks about urgency, pricing and targeting. Josh ask if Mani did his launch. Mani says no. Mani shares his email/info with the EntreProgrammers. 40:00 Josh provide feedback to Mani on the formatting. Josh continues with text color and other aspects of formatting. Chuck give feedback on the story on Mani’s document and marketing strategy. Chuck gives feedback on the social proof and amount of content. Mani ask about the sweet spot on the amount of story he should tell. Josh give some feedback on the optimum percentage of story in sales copy. 50:00 EntreProgrammers talk about the strategy of sharing stories in sales copy. Josh says Mani need 5 kinds of copy. Chuck says to boiling it down to one common success story. More talk about the elements of sales copy. Mani asks about the research material and tying in the science into the sales copy. Chuck and Josh give feedback on how they would execute the sales copy. 1:00:00 Mani talks about ship out his launch next week. Chuck talks about how a sponsor is not going to renew their sponsorship. Chuck talks about how he wanted to offer a different marketing strategy to his sponsors. Josh says to try it out with a few customers as a test. Chuck says he wants to be the premier place for developers to go for material. But he is willing to try this for a few sponsors. Chuck talks about the rotation of the sponsors. Chuck says he wants  see their numbers but the sponsors are not providing that numbers. Josh asks that they should look at the business model and their marketing strategies. 1:07:00 Chuck shares that sponsors are asking about a sales type page to provide the information for the optimum sponsor reach. This would be similar to a media kit.  Chuck says he needs to take a week and create this kit or document. Chuck says he might not have enough time for hosting the newer shows, and may have too only keep up the older shows. 1:10:00 Josh suggest training the host and freeing up time. Josh ask about the amount of time Chuck is using to produce content. John suggests moving away from the shows and working on the business. Josh suggests putting systems in place so the show do not die without Chuck as a host in the show. Mani asks about what Pat Flynn does. 1:15:00 Josh says he like the sabbatical idea for Chuck to take some time to work on growing the business. EntreProgrammers agree that Chuck should focus on picking only the show he wants to do. John gives a brief updates on his Bulldog Mind Set ideas.   Thoughts for the Week! Chuck -  Reorganizing, forward motion, finding quiet space John - Getting the momentum back Mani - It is ok to have a tough time once in a while Josh - Getting back to winning!

0:15 We are live. Josh mentions being sick of GDPR, and the tons of emails and notifications about the change with Data. John says fuck GDPR. Chuck explains some of the implementations of GDPR. John mentions the VAT Tax. Josh explains the paying of taxes in other countries. Josh talks about his stance on GDPR.  Mani asks about how to be GDPR compliant. Josh explains how marketing and emails will work when becoming GDPR compliant.  6:00 Josh talks about how small business will hurt in Europe due to the changes with GDPR. EntreProgrammers discuss more about how GDPR will affect marketing email lists. John says to wait for fo the idiots comply first the wait for the law to rollback. 11:00 Josh talks about having to pay California State tax because of some business ties there. Mani talks about some copyright infringement some with the Think and Grow Rich people or owners. John talks about the growth of technology and how our data is everywhere.  15:00 John says data should be up to the consumers and how they choose to provide that to business and public. Josh asks about Mani’s meditation course and the email he was receiving. Mani reads his list on how his mediation will help subscribers. Mani talks more about his email list.  25:00 Josh talks about the email list for EntreProgrammers. Josh continues to talks about dropping open rate with other business emails. Josh talks about how he saw a drop in open rate as well. John says with the GDPR happening everyone might see some open rates dropping.  29:00 Mani talks about the angle he wants to take with selling the mediation course and the survey.  Mani asks about other things he may not have considered with launching the course.  Also some talk on addressing the “woo woo” in the practice. Mani and the EntreProgrammers discuss and address ways to present this course to the email list. EntreProgrammers suggest selling to those who have not tried mediation yet.  36:00 Mani jokes about sending an email on what Chuck said about meditation on “Oomm.”  Mani continues to talk about the other content he has and his plans for other products.  42:00 Josh and Mani talk about backlinks and how to leverage with backlinks. Josh suggests another way to approach people or other business for backlinks.   50:00 John talks about being contacted by a newscaster about one of his videos on being 30 and living in at home. But she misunderstood that John was not living at home with his parents.  John talks about how Skills Soft paid them some money for the license to use the skill guide. Mani asks about the hired writer, and some talk on SEO, and link building with a company they are working with.  1:00:00 Josh says he might be able to get links for 100 bucks a link. Josh says this is about an hour a job, which means the links are worth saving time. Mani and Josh talk about the values of links and how that can create SEO traffic and double the business. Josh talks about working on a blog post and SEO.  Thoughts for the Week Mani -   Order of consequence  Chuck - Building something different  Josh - Figuring out incremental steps  John - Stoic Philosophy and Reaching a point of contentment

0:15 Mani talks about almost becoming a video game developer. Josh talks about doing an experiment with a viewer named Jason, who was writing some emails for Josh about video game development. Josh talks about the email marketing experiment. John jokes about emailing about about being interested in a Russian bride.  Josh talks more about how this could be viewed as a hobby rather then something to build a career.  5:00 Mani and Josh discuss the type of revenue this could generate with being primarily concern with the price and list. Josh talks more about the launch of another project and more talks about video game development projects. Mani talks about the details of changing your tribe verse stay with your current focus.  11:00 John says he open the Nasdaq yesterday, or he was there with the group of people who did, like the CEO of Plural Sight. Josh asks how big Lynda is now. More talk about the voting power on Facebook and IPO within Plural Sight and Lynda. Mani talks about the power of Facebook ads, that blew up a Photographer business. Josh says he met Gene Simmons at Nasdaq. John talks about buying shares of Plural Sight. Josh talks about the tax benefits of holding shares.  20:00 Mani ask if there is an app Sumo of software developers. Chuck talks about having a rough time getting stuff done. Chuck says he has been slightly depressed and doing his best to get by. John suggests that Chuck go into trend water mode. Chuck says he is frustrated but knows he needs to push through. Josh says since that things are running on in-place systems, thing might run better without him.  27:00 Chuck says he is deciding rather he wants to continue doing certain things on his schedule, like recording podcasts, setting up sponsorships, etc. Chuck continues talks but lacking that motivation to do work that requires at least ten minutes of time. Chuck talks about taking with his helper about doing to production manager tasks.  30:00 Mani brings in an example of how John Lee Dumas has changed up his format up to keep up the motivation in his podcast production. Chuck says he might change up his office to get a different view of things. Maybe next week he will be in a better emotional place. John suggests worrying only about the critical stuff to keep the business running. Chuck says he mentally gave himself the permission to take some downtime to recover.  35:00 Mani says his deliverability of Convertkit just tanked. Josh explains a similar situation he experienced with Simple Programmer when he was not using John’s email. Josh talks about moving off of ConvertKit, but has heard of people thinking is was a Drip problem.  40:00 Josh says that Mani should try creating a new email to see if this fixes the issue. Mani says every time he fixes something, something else happens in business. John says email is dying as well to SnapChat. EntreProgarmmers talks about the many different facets of marketing. Chuck talks about Josh’s point about people’s emails living on the Gmail servers.  45:00 Josh tries to backtrack and figure out the email deliverability issues for Mani. Josh looks about the open rates and other analytics and explain when the issues began. Josh and Mani that Google just has so much power with content and emails. Josh suggests again creating several dummy email accounts and do some testing.  50:00 EntreProgrammers suggests that Mani do more AB testing or split tests. Mani says he is going to cut out the images. Josh suggests that the email should look natural. Mani says the issues is in the promotions tab. Mani says just like that his email marketing is over. Chuck suggests becoming a pig farmer.  55:00 EntreProgrammers talk about snake oil products and those other projects that actually help people. John says the next product is about Making Money, Getting Russian Wives, and Lose Belly Fat! Mani says Zuckerberg tanks their businesses. Josh talks about all the changes coming to the internets and social media.  Josh gives more suggestions. 1:04:30 Call gets cut short Thoughts of the Week  John - Talk to Richard Simmons 

0:15 We’re Live.  John talks about a company with a language learning course that he met with at MircoConf and how they have no email marketing strategy. We need Josh Earl in there. Josh says he needs to open a re-education center for marketing. John mentions how everyone at MircoConf was looking for Josh. 6:00 Chuck mentions that his father passed during or after his sister’s wedding. Also, Chuck talked about his traveling to MircoConf and taking care of his family. 10:00 Josh asks about their, John and Chuck’s experience was at MicroConf. John says he was asked why he was there, after being retired. John talks about kidnapping a couple of sponsors. John says there were a lot of repeat attendees. John says Josh had a lot of fans at MicroConf. Chuck says he goes to MircoConf to catch up with people. 15:00 Josh says Vegas is one big truck stop. Mani says he does not like Vegas to much. Chuck says the marketing of Vegas is based on all the wrong stuff. Mani mentions to he is now writing out his sales page, and asking for proofing from the EntreProgrammers. Josh gives a rundown on what he likes and not likes on a sales page. 20:00 EntreProgrammers give Mani feedback and suggestions on the new sales page and their best insight on how to properly market his new Meditation product. John suggests using a guilt to sale the product. Chuck and Josh talk about there reason they do or do not practice meditation. More talk about how to market Mani’s Mediation course. 28:00 Chuck suggests that the sales page should not be a huge block of text. But it should be easy to digest and very easy to read. Josh gives an example of what John’s sales pages look like, about the difference on Desktop and Mobile. Mani says he was to share his story and some scientific research on the page. Josh talks about what the proof elements are for Mani’s page. 35:00 John suggests using stories on those who decide to meditate later in the game and saw a huge improvement in their personal and business life.  Josh suggests leads with only one thing, and the angle is very important before you talk about the sales page content. Chuck suggest doing interviews with those who are seeing the benefit of meditation, and those who have trouble finding the time to meditate. 40:00 John suggests plan be is to use a Justin Bieber meme that says “F-You Buy My Shit!.” Josh and Mani talk about VSL and conversations. Mani talks about how his story starts with one benefit to the next. Josh says to start with one benefit. John says the biggest question is to sell them on how it will not take too much time to meditate. 50:00 Josh refers back to a previous promotion they did on JavaScript courses, and the topic of waiting for people to come around. Josh says he agrees with John’s suggestion on to market to those who need to be sold on starting meditation, but already know the benefits of meditation. Mani says TM has done significant marketing on their products. John says he took a poll on his YouTube channel on how many videos he should make per day.  Here are the numbers, 1 per day 30%, 2  per day 9%, more than 2 8%,  3 per week about 53%. Chuck says people do not know what they want. 1:00:00 More talk about the rate of video production and publishing verses subscribers and unsubscribes. John mentions some feedback on a subscriber how talks about low-quality content and number of videos. John breaks down video production and viewers. Maybe fewer videos will get more views from subscribers, versus publishing several videos and multiple views across all of them. 1:10:00 Josh continues with content creation and read/view times. Mani talks about trial and error time, and engagement. More talk about gaining traction. Mani talks about Amanda Bucci and how she transitioned from Instagram to YouTube. Mani suggests John just take off his shirt. Mani says the focus has to be on content and creativity of the video. 1:20:00 John talks about view time on the videos on YouTube and how it is important. John says this is the “5- 10 ways to do something” strategy to get higher view time. John shares some analytics on his highest video views and shares. Mani talks about animation and content creation. Chuck says he likes that they are back to some 2 hour long episodes. 1:30:00 Mani says to this type of video production Johns editor will have to learn to think like a marketer as well. Thoughts of the Week! John - Reality is stranger than fiction Chuck - Take the time out to care Josh -  Letting go of things and find people to get this done Mani - Very few things actually matter  

0:15 Chuck talks about buying a van in progress, and issues with his father’s health. Josh says he is feeling underdress. Also some talk about Kanye West. John talks about doing a live stream with Antonio from Real Men Real Style. John talks about the Q&A format and interview with Antonio. John mentions that a lot of things are “down” as far as Youtube view and other things.  6:30 Mani asks about unsubscribes and gains of Simple Programmer. John drops some numbers and metrics. Josh talks about the rising numbers of subscribers verse the decreasing numbers or unsubscribes. Mani asks about numbers from last year as far as subscribes and unsubscribes.  10:30 John talks about how the YouTube subscriber notifications work. More talk about monetization of videos. John gives a rundown of video formats to help viewer and content consumption. John mentions the format or show-flow of the Youtubers like Antonio. Some talks about viral videos. John talks about the Alph M channel be Aaron Marion.  18:00 John talks about the rate of video post for some companies and their sales base on the video engagement. John talks about the many things he bought base, not he thing Alph M talk about in his videos. Mani asks why John is not doing it. More talk about marketing and tactics that business used to sell.  25:00 EntreProgrammers talk more about marketing and tactics that business used to sell. John mentions reach and the potential market. Mani mentions a personality type channel, similar to what John has built. John mentions some strategies in growing YouTube channels.  30:00 Chuck talks about going to MicroConf and how to grow a big following on YouTube. Josh suggests SEO, and keywords pull from Google. John jokingly suggests the girl next door thumbnails for videos. Chuck says he will just unbutton his shirt. Mani suggests cross promotion and selling it on the podcast network. John suggests interview Chuck as a Mormon Mafia Media Mogul on his channel.  34:00 John mentions an almost 4 day fast, and dropping 16 lbs of water weight. John talks about the Top 50  Coding Interview Questions blog post on Simple Programmer.  45:00 Mani mentions the experimentation of the meditation course to see if it works. Mani talks about how Tim Ferris is using the same meditation that is on his course. John talks about the series he is doing. Mani asks if Josh is meditating. More talk about laughing on Mani’s Meditation Course. John suggests laughing and not waiting on him testing the product. Mani says he is going to do an Early Bird sale.  52:00 John says he is feeling better due to the Fasting. More talks about email promotions and consultations in the works from Josh. Josh and Mani chat about the different strategies and promotions.  1:00:00 John talks about open slots for coaching. Josh talks about taking the place or filing the shoes of John in the business. Or hiring a secondary personality that is himself that does coaching in the business. Mani suggests killing that John persona in the business. But John jokingly says he wants to be the visionary still.  1:10:00 Josh talks about the Bootcamp courses and different ideas. Josh says this could be a good money maker. Josh says this is a career boot camp, John says this is brilliant.  Mani asks if there was a job board. Thoughts for the Week! Josh - Motion beats Meditation... John - Does the action you are about to do move you toward you goal or away…  Chuck - Organization  Mani -  Structure leads to Freedom   

0:15 Is Mani still having breakfast? Mani was asking about this past weeks promotion for Profitable Programmer. Predictions in progress. Josh reveals the clicks and conversions, and total revenue for the promotion around 30k. Josh talks about the ideal scenario for 50k profitability. 5:00 Josh talks about the clicks (3500) compared to Mani’s recent promotion. Josh says he is sticking to 2-day promotions.  Josh says 65% of the revenue comes in closer to the deadline. Mani talks about the clicks from a 2day compared to a 3day promotion. EntreProgrammers continue to discuss the marketing strategy and warming up the audience to buy. 10:00 Josh talks about testing, daily emails, and the working strategy that brings in sales. Josh talks about open rate on emails and reach. Josh refers back to the promotion on the Self Confidence course. Entreprogrammers discuss more marketing strategies with raising prices and up sales. John talks about impulse buys. 22:00 Josh talks about their failure on their Career Guide product. Josh talk about the 5 learning mistake lead magnet and doing more testing to see if they can still pull revenue from these less successful lead magnets. Josh and John talk about the misunderstanding about the free PDF or ebook. 29:00 Josh talks about the issues with a disabled sales button on WooCommerce. Mani asks for advice on the Focus at Will collaboration or promotion. John asks if Mani interviewed Steven Pressfield, about being a lazy fucker. Charles suggests life hacks as an up sale, most likely a boring ritual hack. 38:00 Josh suggests a bundle of other people products and splitting the revenue. Mani asks about Josh’s learning course. Mani rethinks the splitting of revenue with Simple Programmer. Josh suggests offering more products or up sales on Productivity. 45:00 Josh suggests a 1k product. Mani thinks a coaching call would help, but people don’t know him well enough yet. Mani talks about Russel Branson talking about selling similar products, so productivity might be to repetitive as a sale point. John suggests an entrepreneurial product, but Mani is not sure. Mani asks about Chuck’s email list. 50:00 Chuck talks about his recent React Dev Summit, and more talks about JavaScript Dev Summit. Chuck talks about the recent turnout and growing his list. Chuck mentions that he submitted the new podcasts wrong so they were not showing up on iTunes or the website. Chuck shares his screen and shows the podcast sponsorship planning page. Josh figures that Chucks is at a 30 percent production rate. Chuck mentions is back on the 12 week year and doing more reaching out to fill the sponsorship slots. 55:00 Chuck talks about ways to increase traffic to the podcasts. Mani suggests collaborations or getting out someone else’s podcasts. Mani thinks this will increase the podcast traffic by 20 percent. John suggests talking about getting on a podcast to talk about how he is running a podcast empire on tech podcasts. The Entreprogrammers discuss the different ways Chuck can increase traffic by getting out other podcasts as a guess to talks about how he runs the shows. 1:00:00 John suggests discounting the prices to fill the open slots as a way to fill the slots fast.  Josh suggests a use it or lose it space on the sponsor slots. Josh thinks with will recapture revenue. John says Chuck’s fill rates need to be a 75%. EntreProgrammers discuss how to fill the unused space for the episodes on Dev Chat TV. 1:07:00 Josh suggest getting in contact with someone about ad placement on filling the spots. Mani asks about companies the Chuck needs to approach that is already on his lists. Mani says this will increase revenue rather then listenership. More talk about getting out other podcasts and slowly growing the listenership and revenue. 1:11:00 John suggests offering to advertise to the biggest podcasts he can find to help one another or swapping advertising for the shows. Chuck talks about getting feedback about a junior developer or podcast, a community for those groups. Chuck talks about starting a junior developer club. 1:15:00 John suggests filling 75% inventory first before creating a new podcast. Mani asks about the number of goals for implementing the 12 week year. Josh suggest keeping in mind that 2/3 of the audience is established. Chuck talks about his plan of attack on all this advice. Thoughts for the Week!   Josh - “The decision to refund is made before the purchase is committed” Mani - People’s minds are not made up Chuck  - Masterminds and focus John - Stick to the plan!

0:15 We’re live. John jokes about being lazy and talks about hurting his shoulder. Josh talk about his wrist issue call “Mommy Thumb.” Josh talks about having to wear a cast or band to help rest and heal his thumb. Josh talks about ordering special ergonomic mouse to get through work. 3:00 Mani talks about he past issues he was experiencing with his hand and shoulders. Mani talks about his exercise to help his hands, surprisingly Mani talks about stretching his Hamstrings to help his back and shoulders. John suggests building up the quads. John mentions that he has to lay off lifting in order to recover. 9:00 John talks about 90 percent adherence rather than 100 percent. EntreProgrammers talks about the benefits of exercise but practicing it a safe manner to prevent injury. Mani talks about his new publishing pace with YouTube and collaborating with speakers. Mani talks about the viewer numbers when he does “colabs” rather than not. 14:00 John talks about watch time on Youtube and the value a channel provides to the views. John mention search volume and gaining subscriber-ship. John talks about the benefit of guess blogging or commenting on other people’s blog sites. Mani mentions plans to do a summary for Pat Flynn’s book. Mani and John talk about end cards and analytics. 21:00 More talk about how End Cards work and best practices and use cases. John and Josh joke about inserting their own cat videos as viewer lose interest in the videos. Mani suggests Reddit postings and how they should Reddit post there to get traffic. Mani calls Reddit the school of copywriting. 28:00 EntreProgrammers talks about posting videos about not giving a fuck about the Reddit police. Josh talks about be blacking list posting link on his own site. 30:00 Chuck talks about what he wants to do on YouTube. Chuck talks about what he learned about using YouTube in another coaching call he does. Chuck mention wanting to do 5 minutes videos a day on small developer topics, and a recap of episodes. Chuck talks about new hot ideas about growing the subscribers and incoming from sponsorships.  Most of these ideas are coming from trying out the  Alexa flash briefings. 35:00 Josh mentions that he should give it several months for this Flash Briefing tactic to take off. Chuck thinks that this will help other areas of the podcast to grow. Chuck mentions being elected as a chair of the local Republican party. Chuck talks about not having any time, while he has been taking care of his family. 40:00 Chuck mention Michelle talking over some areas and task that were on Chuck’s plate. John mentions talking to Flippa, and the market in buying online businesses. John talks about Flippa courses, and how to start a business and have Flippa sell it. 46:00 Josh mentions working with David, who he is taking Brian Deans marketing course. Josh talks about working with an SEO team to help him with a project. Josh mentions he needs help making a decision on doing a pilot project with this SEO team. 55:00 Chuck gives a suggestion on waiting till there is a payoff before taking on the team to do the SEO. John says the results and length of time till they see an ROI, but how long do they have to wait. 1:00:00 Josh says he could shape or have some sort of control and time to see if the SEO agency is worth the time to optimize site or project. More talks about how well this agency is known in the industry. Thoughts for the Week! John - 90 adherence! Josh - Being patient Chuck - If are not there, do something productive

0:15 We’re Live. Mani’s breakfast is in progress. Chuck mentions seeing politics on the TV behind Mani. Mani talks about going “whole hog” on YouTube and having some issues with production. Josh ask about the lengths of Mani’s videos. Mani describes the production process on his book summary videos. 4:45 Mani talks about the marketing tactics at Focus at Will. Mani mentions that John does on like the process. John says growing the company is better, that making money now. Josh mention two things Mani needs to do if thing works out well. Mani says this could grow his list and potential boost company growth. 10:00 Josh suggests retargeting to Mani and watching for specific growth numbers in order to determine the worthiness of marketing tactic. 15:00 John talks about doing a series of how to build an online business. Mani jokes about John stealing his product idea. John continues his process of creating these videos. Mani suggests that John coming on to his channel to include books in this video project. Josh asks about subscriber numbers for Mani and John’s channels. More talk about how company names help subscribers, rather than the person. Mani shares his subscriber numbers. 20:00 Josh shares that they have over 400 reviews on the new book. John talks about a one-star review that hurt the numbers. EntreProgrammers talks about Amazon review and how they may not be relevant later on as reviews grow. More talk about Amazon reviews and how they might work. 26:00 Josh talks about doing a Kindle 7-day Promotion for 99 cents. Josh talks but the sweet spot pricing for Kindle books. John talks about doing a YouTube video on thing people sent him as a joke. 31:00 Mani talks about how he is still getting Grant Cordone emails. John talks about getting a call from a medical marketing company for Viagra. John talks about his joking ways with this company. John talks about how they need to school Mani on his audio. 34:00 Chuck talks about assigning tasks in Asana for Michelle. Chuck talks more on the website update and people having issues with subscribing. Chuck talks about getting DMs and twitter messages about subscribing. Chuck about still being about to get things done even when he was sick. 39:00 Josh talks about an outreach program and learning new online marketing strategies. Josh continues with his project with backlinks. Josh talks about using PipeDrive. Josh talks about more backlinks and emails.  Josh and John discuss backlinks and emails on their website. John suggests other kinds of ways to do the links and mentioning production in their email. 50:00 Josh talks about reaching out and fixing broken links. Josh continues with looking deeper into these blogs sites and finding ways to add value. Josh goes on to talk about how he could build a list on content with these bloggers. Josh talks about ways these emails could not be spammy to the blogger. 55:00 Josh talks about how he could outsource this project and build a list at the same time. Josh says he is going to do the Clever Programmer affiliate deal. John talks about a potential issue with the people understanding the value of the product. 1:00:00 John talks about the Stack Overflow survey. John says he learned a new word “Genderqueer.” Thoughts for the Week Chuck - Planning and Coordination Josh - Create space for yourself to create John - Sometimes you can’t fight your nature Mani - Structure leads to freedom  

0:15 We’re Live! YouTube live discussion in progress.  EntreProgrammers attempt to do a live stream with chat. John talks about a how he an Chuck have a sickness to feel sick and eat junk food. Bad STDs according to Mani. John talks about his recovery strategy of resting a fasting.  6:45 John talks about learning new lessons when you get sick, and how to maintain without throwing your health down the drain. Mani takes John’ suggestion to do more videos per week. Mani talks about committing to doing two videos per week and do updates and announcements.  10:00 John talks about sending an F-U to Moscow. Chuck talks about how people are approaching him about starting new shows, possible new shows starting in the next few months. Mani talks about how he can do more videos, regardless of lighting and equipment.  15:00 Mani’s voices his concern with quality. John talks about how to start out with video recording and keeping up with consistency. Chuck talks about how he knows a friend who records his podcasts from the car, because the content is more important, compared to the quality.  20:00 EntreProgrammers talk about podcast production ahead of time for the month. EntreProgrammer talks about strategies for war or crude behavior on videos. Mani talks about meeting with someone who knew his podcasts. Mani talks about getting invited to speak at Podfest.  25:00 Chuck talks about releasing the new Vue and React podcasts, during an update on the website. So there were some issues with subscribing and listening. Chuck talks about using the Smart Play podcast to listen to shows on the website.  Chuck talks about the new features on the podcast page.  30:00 Chuck continues with details about the podcast page update. Chuck talk about an update for the course and delaying recording because he was sick. Also more on automation on test coding process. Chuck talks about going to an upcoming Meetup Event in Denver.  35:00 Mani mentions to Josh that they need to do another promotion. Chuck mentions that he could probably help sell some of Mani’s products on his network.  40:00 Josh talks about doing one more affiliate offer and working with another programmer who does Python. Josh talks about the many different features of this particular course, and how he wants to do a launch. John talks about further discounting the product.  45:00 Josh talks about testing with internal backlinks and doing outreach with a particular product. Josh mentions doing some cold call for the first time. Josh goes into the time it takes to finish the testing and other kinds of extra detailed tasks to make these backlinks work properly.  50:00 Mani suggests a cold call video tool Bonjour . Mani explains how the tool is connected. More talk about how the tool works.  Josh talks about keywords and marketing tactics for their current products. Also some info on long tail keywords.  1:00:00 Josh talks about moving EntreProgrammers over and talks about teams sets up for invoicing and keeping account separate but easily payable. More talk about traffic and funnels.  1:05:00 Josh mentions generating urgency and doing promotions. Josh gives example with the interview cake promotion.    Thoughts for the Week Chuck - Look back at what you accomplished  Josh - Figure when the extra effort is going to pay-off  John -  Riding the horse is fine, being dragged by the horse is bad  Mani - Free content!

0:15 We’re Live! Mani is eating his mic and eating his iPad. Technical issues. Josh mentions to not having luck with bluetooth headphones. John comments on how the EntreProgrammer Sub-Group are above 50 episodes.  Josh mentions that the Seal Team rung the bell and tapped out this past week.  5:00 EntreProgrammers joke of retinal branding as Mani’s logo is bright on the eyes. Chuck mention starting two new podcasts this pass week, podcast on Vue and React. Chuck mentions the frenzy on the new shows. Mani asks if Chuck is going to  hire people to run the show.  Chuck explains the logistics of how the podcasts work. Chuck talks about the Rev Share he does with some of the people  on the shows.  8:00 Chuck explains how he pays people who run the podcasts. Chuck talks about working to get a bigger presents on Youtube. So good camera equipment is important. Chuck talks about working with his Business Coach  and working with first graders and moon landing technology.  15:00 Chuck talks about working with one of his employees who does the reach out for conferences. Also, he is trying to find time to figure out what to do with the CES video soon. Chuck is going to be doing a talk soon. EntreProgrammers talk about BlockChain and BitCoin.  22:00 Josh mentions breaking everything this week. Also Josh has transfer everything to the WooCommerce site. So all the products are in a new store.  SimpleProgrammer.com/store.  Josh talks about transition to the new site, and all frustrations he encountered. 26:00 Josh mention moving all the products in one day, but his is having to fix the “one click” button plugin. Chuck asks, about the t shirts. Chuck mentions that he likes the store and might want to move to something like this. Chuck ask question about the fulfillment or ship station that sells and ships the t-shirts. Josh explains how the plugin works to help fill the t shirt sales.  30:00 Josh talks about the issues he had with digital deliver with Thrive cart. Josh explain that he had to send DropBox links to retrieve the digital products.  37:00 Mani ask Josh about promotions he would like to do next. Mani ask about topics and timelines for the upcoming projects. Josh explain that they need a impulse buy type of product to hook the customer. Josh talks about a few topics that could help build this product.  41:00 John explains the object to the product, that include information on the books Mani could use for this product. EntreProgrammer talks about ideas for marketing for Mani’s product. Mani ask about doing a course type product rather than a book summary. Josh thinks that doing more summaries, the list will get know him better before a bigger promotion.  50:00 John talks about up selling, down selling affiliate programs.  Josh talks about LinkedIn courses and all the question he got.  Mani ask more abut information on the LinkedIn project.  59:00 Josh talks about having to become John or John’s character for these upcoming project in order to sell the products.  John talks about interview Pat Flynn recently on YouTube.  Thoughts for the Week Mani - Keep the momentum with the customer when you have it!  John - Embrace contradictions  Chuck - Having a weekly routine… Josh - How cyclical thing can be… refunds   

0:15 We’re live! Chuck having technical difficulties. Discussion n progress with the Mental Toughness project. There is testing, testing, and more testing. EntreProgrammers talk about the marketing strategies for this new project, price testing and checking the number of sales.  5:00 Josh explains marketing tactics. John explains the promotion of the Bulldog mindset course along with the Mental Toughness project. Josh talk about the sells that took place during the promotion.  9:00 John explains more on the marketing analytics, conversion, and the emails sent to the list. John and Mani joke about the 9 dollar product price. Mani talks about creating a subset of the product. Josh talks about the product he can possibly sell, but the cheaper 5-9 dollar products will sell as a promotional tactic.  15:00 Mani, John, and Josh talk about Interview Cake. John mentions reading the Predictably Irrational book because of the interesting price setting topics. Josh mentioned that he is tapped out on writing promotions. Josh talks about strategies he has put out from John’s book.  24:00 Josh talks about a possible new course about how to get a job, and statics on interested and disinterested customers on promotions. Otherwise selling to a very small group which might not be worth the time. John asks about growing product sales after a long flatline.  30:00 Josh mention working with Podia, but needed to get some direction. Josh jokes about John being very knowledgeable about the numbers for someone who is not involved in the business anymore. Josh talks about having issues with permalinks.  37:00 Chuck talks about turning off caching on his podcast website because of a similar issue. Chuck talks about his recent trips to conferences and encountering bad rooms and bad internet.  40:00 Chuck talks about have done 20-30 recording at NG Atlanta for podcast purposes and youtube. Chuck shows the progress in his new PodWrench application and his plans on how this will eventually work with productions and placing sponsors.  47:00 Chuck explain how inviting and placing new sponsor will work. Mani asks about listenership, and download numbers. Mani asks a question about CPM and pricing and how the sponsor slots work. More talk on CPM.  56:00 Josh jokes about Baba, and how this new system is great for his business. Chuck talks about the evolving process with PodWrench and upcoming plans for the system. John and Josh say that PodWrench can be a great SAAS business soon.  1:00:00 Chuck talks about the different stages to move the application along. Chuck says PodWrench is not ready for the public, but it is getting there. Chuck talks about the different areas this sponsorship process can possibly fill for other podcasters. Chuck says this could turn him into a marketing agency for the podcast as this project grows.  1:05:00 Josh says this would be a great platform for marketing.  Thoughts for the Week John - Just hang in there!  Chuck - Take the breather  Josh - Treat you affiliate like gold  Mani - Understanding numbers  

0:15 Chuck joke about his glare and Mani is in a detention room. Josh talks about his wireless 8lb headset. The EntreProgrammers talk about the wireless headphones and the troubles with the AirPods. John jokes that Josh electronic trouble because he is like Powder. 5:00 Mani talks about his recent price increase with his product and research on keywords for branding proposes. Mani talks about change or rebranding based on Confidence and Mental Toughness keywords. John gives feedback on a book What Doesn’t Kill Us. 9:00 John talks about doing an AB test on the titles to see what does better. Josh suggest base on YouTube content. Chuck talks about long tail searches base on titles and words. Mani talks about the issues with titling Mental Toughness and Self Confidence. Mani asks John what he would like to use as a title, Mental Toughness. Josh, John, and Mani plan their attack with the upcoming product. 15:00 John talks about doing an interview with the founder of Quest Nutrition, Tom Bilyeu. John talks about Tom’s Youtube channel, Impact Theory. John and Mani talk about the net worth of the company and other details. John talks about trying to get Tye Lopez on the show… 20:00 John talks about the myth of Facebook advertising. John says show him a profitable Facebook ad. The EntreProgarmmer talk about finding someone who has profitable Facebook Ads. Josh talks about selling low price products verse high price product on platforms like Facebook. 25:00 The EntreProgrammer talk about webinars and facebook marketing. Also some talk about paid traffic. John talks about what profitable Facebook ads should look like. 30:00 Josh talks about the blog update in Simple Programmer. Looks like the numbers have increased and ranking boost. Josh talks about the traffic on their blog posts and the guest posting numbers. Mani ask a question about posts from 2016. John talks about guests post and numbers reached last year. 35:00 John talks about pruning some posts to increase the numbers. Chuck talks about his visit at NG Atlanta. Chuck talks about doing an interview on Youtube and podcasts. Chuck talks about how is camera does not have an audio input.  Mani suggests recording the video with a phone and having audio hookups. 40:00 Chuck says his Social Media person quit. Also, some work with Dropbox cleanup and moving files around to get organized. Josh chimes back in with numbers from last years traffic. Josh talks about the editorial team for the blog posts. 45:00 Josh talk about testing out the articles. Josh talks about doing keyword optimization and backlinking. John talks about the strategy with backlinks and getting some coaching on the topic. 53:00 Chuck talks about getting some big name for the first episode of the Vue Podcast Thoughts of the Week! John - Make sure you remind yourself of things that nullify your goals  Josh - Believe there is a solution! Chuck - Building Systems! Mani - Understanding the customer journey!

0:15 We’re Live! Joining the show is Mani Vaya, who has been working with Josh and John doing affiliate promotion with Simple Program. Mani is a programmer by trade, he has worked in electrical and computer engineering, to project management, and worked with a variety of cell phone companies. Currently, Mani is the host of 2000 Books for Ambitious Entrepreneurs podcast, a business based on book summaries. Mani talks about the huge selection of book summaries and his work with Simple Programmer. 3:30 Mani mentions working on this business for the last 2.25 years now. Mani talks about the exciting things he has learned from books and how it has changed his life. Mani talks about the bigger picture of the book summaries and his business. Mani mentions becoming a philosopher in his field. 6:00 EntreProgrammers talk about what a personality business is about and transitioning it over into something else. John talks about the options and traction of building up a business like Mani’s current book summary business. 9:00 Chuck talks about the content, entertainment, personality for the platform or business. Josh talks out marketing and business. Josh talks about reconfiguring John’s email account as the business transitions without John. Josh talks about growing the business further to function without videos. 14:00 Josh talks about the traffic from YouTube and the blog site. Josh continues to talk about redirects and some SEO work he has implemented. Josh talks about more traffic and server issues. 22:00 Josh talks about doing a skyscraper strategy for the book piece products. Josh talks about their transparency with the new writers. Mani asks questions about how to sell bundles and products. More talk about the product sale strategies with the “How To Read a Book” product. 29:00 Mani, Josh, and John discuss the next steps on the “How To Read a Book” product. Josh and Mani talk about the price of the product. John talks about options on how to interview successful entrepreneurs to help produce the product on how to read books. 36:00 John talks about not having much free time during his free time. John mentions running 5 miles a couple times a day, and working out, and getting ready to do taxes. John talks about being tempted to work with Josh and Mani on the new idea for an upcoming project. 40:00 Josh talks about the new workflow at Simple Programmer without John. Josh talks about the functions of Google Drive Business. Josh talks about the Team Drive business. Thoughts of the Week Chuck  - Take a minute and think about your entrepreneurial lifestyle John - Don’t use personal accounts when starting a business Josh - Responding, not reacting Mani - Health is everything