Podcast appearances and mentions of naveen dittakavi

Benton Crane talks with Naveen Dittakavi, the founder and CEO of Next Vacay, and one of our incredibly successful clients. Together they discuss the right way to budget your company, how to improve your business from the bottom up, why you should question everything, and an inside scoop on what it's like to work with the Harmon Brothers. 05:26 How Next Vacay Got Started11:14 Improve Your Business From The Bottom Up15:12 What It's Like To Work With the Harmon BrothersYou can find links to Naveen's website and all the other places to reach him below. If you're interested in learning more about Harmon Brothers, you can grab a copy of our book here.Don't forget to like, subscribe, and share. Episodes published every Tuesday at 6 am EST. We'll see you on the next one.Find Naveen Dittakavi here:https://nextvacay.com/ (Website)https://www.linkedin.com/in/naveendittakavi (LinkedIn)https://www.facebook.com/nextvacay/ (Facebook)

On this episode Jim discusses cheap airfare with travel expert Naveen Dittakavi. Grab cheap flights to Europe and throughout the United States using his strategy. Dittakavi is the founder of NextVacay.com, and shared a wide array of strategies on how he finds cheap airfare and travels worldwide.

Naveen Dittakavi is a software engineer who, after gaining incredible access to Ramit Sethi, grew his business to the point where he could barely keep up. It was at this point that he realized, like most entrepreneurs, he was tired of trading his time for money. Naveen began to change the way he thought about his […] The post Naveen Dittakavi | How to Build Recurring Revenue appeared first on Smart Business Revolution.

In the past 99 episodes, numerous guests have shared their freelancing journeys, their setbacks, and the revelations that allowed them to build successful, sustainable freelancing businesses. In honour of this arbitrary and yet very special number, episode 100, Matt has sorted through the catalogue of FT episode and brought back ten of the most epic guest insights shared on the most popular episodes of Freelance Transformation. These are the mic drop moments, played back to you, along with a bit of explanation of why they are so important for all of our freelancing businesses. This episode features advice from Einar Vollset, Patrick Mckenzie, Nagina Abdullah, Naveen Dittakavi, Joshua Lisec, Brennan Dunn, Michael Port, Laura Elizabeth, Jeffrey Shaw, and Kai Davis. https://freelancetransformation.com/episode100

Spencer Shaw shares the exact template he uses to grow his personal and business network. This episode came from a conversation with Allison Harden our Social Media Manager at PodKick. 0:58 The warm introduction and cold introduction template 1:23 I learned this approach from Ramit Sethi of I Will Teach You To Be Rich 2:16 A world class connector I met through Ramit’s group was Naveen Dittakavi 2:58 Always start with the warm introduction through mutual connections 3:40 Pre-write the email for the mutual friend and bullet point why it’s a valuable connection and why you two should be connected together. 4:01 The challenge on this episode is for you to make warm and cold introductions to grow your business network

Naveen Dittakavi is a serial entrepreneur and has created B2B businesses that serve performing arts centers, hospitals, major furniture chains like Ashley and La-Z-Boy, cosmetic jewelry wholesalers, and more. He is most excited about his latest consumer-focused travel business, Nextvacay.com, where members can get deals to multiple amazing destinations at bargain prices.

Today’s guest is Naveen Dittakavi. We had a great conversation about how his business has evolved and how important it is to overcome the belief that just because you’ve read something you’re making an improvement. In actuality, you have to act on what you’ve learned to make a difference.

Naveen teaches consultants how to build recurring revenue. In 2013, his client, mentor, and friend Ramit Sethi took him under his wing and helped him 5X his business in a matter of 1 year. Now that Naveen’s recurring revenue more than exceeds his cost of living, Naveen shows consultants how they can build recurring revenue, too.

After running the Business Growth Podcast for over a year it was hard to choose the top lessons. Overall these 5 conversations had the greatest impact on me, so they made the cut. I want to thank all the guests who have been on the show. They are all innovative, inspiring and have helped so many other business owners. Thank you. Today’s Show: In this special episode you’ll learn from Davis Smith of Cotopaxi.com, Scott Paul of Instafluence, and Naveen Dittakavi of HowToBuildRecurringRevenue.com You’ll learn a new way to think of 100 million dollar ideas, why you should suck at everything except 1 key area, and which business model will work best for you, Lesson 1 comes from Davis Smith. Why think of 100 million dollar ideas. Lesson 2 comes from Scott Paul. The importance of building a team. Lesson 3 also comes from Scott. Why you should suck at everything thing except this… Lesson 4 comes from Naveen Dittakavi. What it really means to scale. Lesson 5 also comes from Naveen. Understanding what you want. To get your questions on the show find me on Twitter @spencershaw Leave a review on iTunes and a comment on SoundCloud. It helps other founders and business owners get answers to their questions.

“The 7 Day Startup,” a must-have book for startups by Dan Norris. We talk about building a business with growth in it’s DNA. In 10 months from $0 to $16,000 a month in recurring revenue. Free copy at www.wpcurve.com/7daystartup 0:00 – Introducing Dan Norris and his fantastic beard 2:06 – You Don’t Learn Until You Launch 3:35 – “Who’s paying me?” – In 10 months from $0 to $16,000 a month in recurring revenue 5:07 – What he did different on this new startup 6:28 – Is what you’re doing profitable? How much profit margin is there? 10:20 – His “NO LIST” 15:05 – How solving your customers problem automatically grows your business 17:42 – Brining new employees into the business Message from our sponsors LeadPages www.businessgrowthpodcast.com/leadpages and Office Auto Pilot www.businessgrowthpodcast.com/OAP 23:30 – Growing with more customers not enterprise 29:20 – Dan laughs at a half million dollar investment/valuation 32:57 – What we would do with a $75,000 investment 35:45 – Getting distracted 37:45 – Naveen Dittakavi’s example of staying in the model he loves 41:25 – Why the key focus is on the customer 54:10 – Get a copy of his free book “The 7 Day Startup” www.wpcurve.com/7daystartup or hit him up at dan@wpcurve.com Leave a review and let us know what would you do with a $75,000 investment in Dan’s startup?

Naveen Dittakavi www.HowToBuildRecurringRevenue.com talks about how to build recurring revenue in your business. He also shares how he moved upmarket to increase prices and what he does to avoid churn. 0:48 80% of the work is done BEFORE you meet somebody. He prepared for over 30 hours to meet his mentor Ramit Sethi 2:38 After meeting Ramit he changed focus to work on simple key pieces 5:10 Why recurring revenue has giving him real freedom in his business 7:15 How saying “NO” is so difficult and what he did to overcome that problem 9:22 The reasons why to validate ideas very quickly and how invisible future fears cause roadblocks 13:23 AUTOMATION is the paralyzing word for software developers and entrepreneurs 16:13 Marketing wasn’t necessarily the cause of sales but rather gave him clarity to acquire more valuable clients 18:15 Modeling Others: “We don’t want to model people where they are now. We want to model people and understand what they did to get there” “What can I do for my client to help him or her succeed?” 19:33 How he changed his mindset from thinking he just developed code to knowing he was an asset helping his clients. 20:10 His process for MOVING UPMARKET and taking his customer experience to the next level Tool: Use AwayFind and setup alerts to acknowledge VIP’s 22:50 How positioning his business as a value added service provider and not a normal dev shop differentiates him in the market 25:20 What separates the people barely scraping by from high producers? 26:30 Story of how he avoided churn from a client that has been with him for 10 years. 29:45 What he does to AVOID CHURN “To avoid churn, I just make sure they are happy” “We manage churn by building and maintaining real relationships with our clients” 31:42 What barriers he had created in his mind to growing his business “The fundamental tenet of marketing is to keep doing what works until it stops working” 35:20 We talk about Naveen’s mom and a funny story he had explaining his business to her 39:35 The most important paradigm shift he had to overcome 42:39 Understanding what you really want is a key factor in growing your business 44:10 Do the exercise of the 5 year and 10 year path 46:37 How to drill down into the small next steps when looking over big goals Learn more about creating recurring revenue at www.HowToBuildRecurringRevenue.com and view his blog www.dittakavi.com 51:27 The 48 hour challenge Click here to download the transcription

Naveen teaches consultants how to build recurring revenue. In 2013, his client, mentor, and friend Ramit Sethi took him under his wing and helped him 5X his business in a matter of 1 year. Now that Naveen's recurring revenue more than exceeds his cost of living, Naveen shows consultants how they can build recurring revenue, too.