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Adam is the author of the memoir The Survivors and was also a speechwriter for President Obama, helping craft lines that entered our collective consciousness. Listen to him talk about his path, working for Obama and what makes a great speech. This episode was produced and edited by Dave Manahan. Thanks Dave!
Joth chats to Dave as he comes to the end of his ministry as a Regional Minister for SCBA and prepares to return to South Wales to become the Lead Pastor at Penarth. Dave, we are so grateful for you and for the way you have served us all. Many thanks and many prayers!
Dave Schrader of The Holzer Files and Darkness Radio joins us for a wide ranging discussion of ghosts, UFO and what is reality anyway? What a fun conversation! Always great to catch up with Dave who is one of the best in the biz! Thanks Dave! -STAMPS.COM- Stamps.com brings the Post Office, and UPS shipping, right to your computer. Mail and ship anything from the convenience of your home or office. Use Stamps.com for all of your shipping needs! With my promo code, PARANORMAL, you get a special offer that includes a 4-week trial PLUS free postage and a digital scale. No long term commitments or contracts. Just go to Stamps.com, click on the Microphone at the TOP of the homepage and type in PARANORMAL. Never go to the Post Office again!
Dave rode ferris-wheels silently all day to make this evening's sermon possible. Thanks Dave.
This week talk about some weird things car people do that make non-car people thing we are crazy. Thanks Dave for the idea. Or We also spend 25k of fake money on Ole Man sports cars no Corvettes, 911s, or Miatas. Hey, tell us how we did at thebscarguys@gmail.com Bill's Picks Newest and easiest: https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/inventorylisting/viewDetailsFilterViewInventoryListing.action?zip=27204&inventorySearchWidgetType=BODYSTYLE&bodyTypeGroup=bg0&maxPrice=25000&wheelSystems=REAR_WHEEL_DRIVE&showNegotiable=true&sortDir=DESC&sourceContext=cargurusTM&distance=100&minPrice=0&sortType=PRICE#listing=291800917 The one I would really buy you: https://www.duncanimports.com/vehicles/550/1994-bmw-m3-euro-spec The one I want to buy you: https://www.duncanimports.com/vehicles/1490/1992-nissan-skyline-gts And the one that no one saw coming: https://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/detail/835329494/overview/ Stan's Picks 2015 Nissan 370Z Base For Sale In Jacksonville | Cars.com 20-Years-Owned 1990 Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo 5-Speed for sale on BaT Auctions - ending February 2 (Lot #42,566) | Bring a Trailer 2017 Mazda MX-5 Miata Launch Edition For Sale In Durham | Cars.com Used 2017 FIAT 124 Spider | Carvana 2007 Saturn Sky Base For Sale In Blairsville | Cars.com 2012 Audi TTS Prestige Coupe 2.0T quattro S tronic For Sale in Mooresville, NC | TrueCar --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thebscarguys/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thebscarguys/support
WE APPRECIATE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU! If you wouldn't mind please go leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Thanks! Welcome back to Episode 93 of On the Spot Sports and in today's episode we have the host of The Athletes Podcast, Dave Stark coming on the show! Jack talks to Dave about The Athletes Podcast, what he has learned from talking to high performing guests and athletes, Dave's athletic stories, and so much more! Thanks Dave for coming on! We hope you guys enjoy this episode! Follow us on Instagram @on_the_spot_sports and take a listen on YouTube, Spotify and Apple/Google Podcasts @ On The Spot Sports Get $25 off our guy Jamie Phillips Nutrition book for Hockey Players with the discount code "ONTHESPOT" on victoremnutrition.com Living Sisu: https://livingsisu.com/en/ BECOME A MEMBER! https://livingsisu.com/app/devenirmem... The Athletes Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfSY5_9gKEyK87u2slzCkzg
Ross Peterson and Erick Zamora kick off the second hour discussing the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday and what they're thankful for in 2020, finding silver linings in some pretty dark clouds. Then Dave Bartoo of College Football Matrix chats with Chris Williams about how they rank and come up with the College Football Playoff rankings. Finally after Chris calms down a bit they chat about Iowa and Iowa State's rankings and play a little "what if" with the Cyclones season.
Ross Peterson and Erick Zamora kick off the second hour discussing the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday and what they're thankful for in 2020, finding silver linings in some pretty dark clouds. Then Dave Bartoo of College Football Matrix chats with Chris Williams about how they rank and come up with the College Football Playoff rankings. Finally after Chris calms down a bit they chat about Iowa and Iowa State's rankings and play a little "what if" with the Cyclones season.
FOTs, rejoice! The Best Show may still be on hiatus, but you can now once again hear the dulcet tones of Dave from Knoxville. Dave and I talk about his extensive music collection, including his prodigious Spotify playlists. Dave reveals his personal connection to Knoxville's legendary World's Fair, I share my distaste for STEM programs, and we discuss whether or not the term "osculating plane" is scandalous. Dave also (I noticed in editing) refrained from correcting me when I mispronounced "Knoxville" 800 times.Dave brings to the show the heartless ballad "I Want You to Hurt Like I Do", and we spend twenty minutes aghast that such a wicked song could exist.Then Dave spins the WHEEL (with his own sound effects!) and we land on..... well, something else from that same record.Thanks Dave! You, rock AND rule, without an ounce of rot.
Each person has a reason, a story, something that takes them to a place. Listen to this amazing story and the power to overcome obstacles. Thanks Dave.
With SAD news we are still doing this show. Hope you enjoy our rambling to the extreme today. As always LOVE YA!!!! Thank you to our producers Tain, and John. https://celestialmysteryhour.wordpress.com/ Thanks DAVE
A normal welcoming home for Michael. Flat earth and much more get delved into today. Thank you to our producers Tain, and John. https://celestialmysteryhour.wordpress.com/ Thanks DAVE
This week on the show we sit down with Dave Stewart of the Wet Fly Swing Podcast. Dave joins us from his home in Portland Oregon. He tells us all about his fly fishing life, his podcasts, life lessons on the water and in the studio. He has a new podcast called The Outdoors Online Marketing Podcast. Ever wondered about starting a podcast? This episode is full of tricks and tips to shorten the learning curve. We talk about dream days on the water, tunes, editing, social media, The Deschutes River and much more. Thanks Dave for sharing your passion and story with us.
Dave is here to talk the State of Comedy, Positive Thinking and Covid 19. This is the first Invite he's Accepted from a Nobody on Social media. Thanks Dave!! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yrulauging/support
This is the final episode of the Take 4 Podcast. Thanks Dave for always being a great person to be around and being so generous as to let us use your studio. It's been fun. Thanks to all the guests we've had and everyone who's listened to our shitty opinions and has sat through us rambling about the stupidest topics.On this episode Jose, Fer, and Isaac make some jokes and then discuss some serious issues such as the #BlackLivesMatter and #DefundThePolice movements. We also talk about our new podcast WAV's Don't Die, coming to all podcast streaming platforms soon!For ways to help the BLM movement visit https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/.Follow us on Twitter for when WAV's Don't Die drops: @Take4Podcast
3 Under Par was joined by David Gapes of Fore to Four Golf in this special episode of the podcast. Fore to Four Golf is following Dave's journey from shouting Fore to becoming a Four Handicap. We talk about what golf is like in Australia to what it's like to creating golf content for YouTube and everything in between. Get to know Fore to Four Golf better! Thanks Dave for coming on the show and remember that #littlewhiteballislife Follow Fore to Four Golf Here: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiIcYrWgWEGbFGjzj3mI77g Instagram: @foretofourgolf Twitter: @foretofour Follow 3 Under Par Here: Social Media: @3underparpod Email: 3underparpod@gmail.com Website: 3underparpodcast.com
Dave McGillivary is the race director of the Boston Marathon. As many of you know, the Boston Marathon was one of the first major events that was "postponed" because of the coronavirus. When they originally postponed it, they were hoping that they'd be able to run it in September. However, as it became apparent that this would not be possible, either, they last week made the hard decision to "go virtual", at least for this year. It's not yet clear when we'll be able to have races and live events like the Boston Marathon again. Dave shares more about how they came to these difficult decisions, and what it will mean to run the Boston Marathon "virtually". He also shares his own story and journey to the Boston Marathon, his run across the U.S. for the Jimmy Fund, and so much more. Thanks Dave!
Hey everybody and welcome to the Jeep Life Podcast. This episode was recorded at AOAA (Anthracite Outdoor Adventure Area). We set up shop in the parking lot while airing down and getting ready to hit the trails. We saw so many awesome Jeeps out…but one caught our eye…The owner John has an awesome trail rig and we got to talk to him on air. Our main interview was with Dave Porzi, Director of Operations at AOAA. The original plan was to talk to him there on site, but the day was just too hectic. TBone was able to catch up with him on the phone. What a great guy…Thanks Dave for a great day on the trail and an awesome interview.https://www.aoaatrails.comfacebook.com/jeepenthusiastsofeasternpa@jeeperseasternpajeepenthusiastsofeasternpa@gmail.comJeep Life Podcast
This is the second of my weekly Escape Plan episodes where I go over what I'm doing to plan my escape from my 9 to 5. This week I cover: This week I talk about when to kill an app. Thanks Dave! A new idea for a SAAS and how I've been spending my free time vetting it.
Do you use an Amazon Echo? And would you like to listen to Petersfield Community Radio via your smart speaker? If so, then regular listener Dave Williams has come up trumps for you. He’s recorded a piece for us with step-by-step instructions on you can set up your Alexa device to listen to all our audio content. However, be warned. If your Alexa can hear you when Dave is telling his what to do, yours will follow suit. And hilarity will no doubt ensue … Thanks Dave. We’re sure there will be many people who will find this useful. *If you can offer the same service for people using a Google Home or other smart speaker device, please be like Dave - and send us an audio file.
Ep 19.5 (Stay Home, Don't Roam) Apr 2020 ....bonus show, music only A year ago today I left for Nashville, TN to start a clandestine journey into growing a colossal music juggernaut out some fine talented indie bands from the "backwoods" and "unknowns" of the world!! We have succeeded in building the coolest reputation for outstanding talent! Next step...conquer! We need investors. Start building a membership to offer exclusive content for the members! Build the base we can pay the staff and the bands!! I like this plan! Maybe you will too! Drop me a line and let me know what you think! Thanks so much! Now to business at hand..lol HOWDY PARTNERS!! HOW YA'LL DOIN'? (as we say here in the south..lol) What ya'll doin' all sitting at home like that? Act like you're saving the world or somethin' by chillin' on your keester or mowin' the grass!..lol Oh wait YOU ARE SAVING THE WORLD! THANKS SO MUCH for staying home and staying alive! ah ah ah ah Staying Aliiivvveee...oh sorry just having a little BEE GEES fun! ..lol So while your cooped up at home and need some cool music to get you through your day then look no further than this "virus" free eargasm. The CORONA VIRUS might have us all preoccupied at the moment but we all need music to turn too during these dark and uncertain times. I got a "cue" from Dave Cruttendan (owner of Discover Unsigned in the UK) from his facebook post about putting together a "hit" song virus playlist and well I was already struming my brain on this idea anyway. Thanks Dave for the push as well as the new video channel SHACKVIDS was inspired by Dave as well yet I was already on this in my brain...lol I think Dave and I are just cut from the same cloth and on the same page. He's a bright dude and a good friend who helps so much with the indie music scene in the UK. So does Tizz Shearer too over at XRP!! You guys are the best!! SO these song titles all have to do with some "Quarantine Blues" which was going to be the original name but I just thought that was too dark and its not all dark music. Anyway the song titles as usual were perfectly timed for yet another world event. These were the logical choices for song titles and for the rotation timing of most of these tracks AAANNDDD it perfectly fits with todays world theme. I cant make this stuff up folks.. I swear! I pick songs based on rotation and theme then I start forming the play patterns by flow and genre, the kicker is the songs are the logical choice for that show but the songs have not been played recently or hardly at all or it was just time to kick that one back out again. Its just eerie and the subject matter will fit the timing. I dont plan this stuff folks. Lately Ive been taking cues from my show and life and just roll with it and its panning out to be a blast!! Song Titles..I was gonna make a story with them but I think alot of this is just too damn funny and "more to make light heart of our lockdown blues" not to make light of the travesty that has destroyed so many lives and family members hearts. HALSHACK is very sorry for your loss if any of my listeners have been affected by Covid-19. My prayers go out to you and your loved ones. Have fun folks! You can find all my shows at Halshack.com Check out the new VH1 or MTV style videos shows over at SHACKVIDS page Halshack.com/shackvids Find everything at my website including the playlist for this show at SHACKLISTS!
This month we had the chance to have a great conversation with Dave Sotelo the Youth Program Coordinator at Rise Up Reno Prevention Network. Join us to hear Dave's compelling story of how he ended up in working in Prevention. Dave's story reminds us why Prevention Matters! Thanks Dave for sharing your why with us!
The results are in! Thank you for those that reported what you saw in your app of choice. I put different images in different places. I put a Green logo image in the ID3 tags (embedded in the mp3 file), A Blue logo image in the RSS image ( Called "iTunes image" in the item level of the RSS feed) A Green and blue imgage in the body of the post (Featured image) and the feed has the normal Orange logo image for the overall podcast artwork. Here is what we have found so far: (will be updated as I get more info) This is from Episode 129 Apple Podcasts (on Mac and IOS): No episode artwork shown (other than directory search under episodes results which show the RSS image) iTunes desktop software (on older Macs and Windows): No episode artwork shown (other than directory search under episodes results which show the RSS image) Antenna Pod (Android): Shows artwork from the post (Weirdly) and then in the player shows the RSS image Podbean Player App (Android): Main show artwork. No episode artwork shown. Himalaya (Android and IOS): RSS image shown Spreaker Player App: (Android and IOS): RSS Image Shown Google Podcasts (Android and Web): Main podcast Image Shown everywhere. No Episode image Pocket Casts (Android, IOS, Web): Main Podcast Image shown. Strangely, it does show featured image posted in the post as well but only the main image in the player. Podcast Republic (Android): RSS image shown Podcast Addict (Android): RSS image shown. Also image from the body of the post shown. Beyond Pod (Android): Featured image shown in the episode list and the main podcast image shown in the player Overcast (IOS): ID3 tag image shown in the player, if you click show image in the shownotes, the featured image will show Updated! Spotify (IOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Web): RSS image on all when playing the episode *** Also RSS image in the embedded player form Spotify (Thanks James!) Stitcher (IOS, Android, Web): Only the main image shows everywhere Tunein Radio (IOS, Android, Web): REALLY Old main image only (they didn't update my image for over a year!) Pandora (IOS, Android, Web): RSS image shown iHeart Radio (IOS, Android, Web): Main artwork shows everywhere Deezer (IOS, Android, Web): Main artwork shows everywhere Skipcast (IOS): Main artwork shows everywhere CastBox (IOS, Android): Featured image in post shows everywhere Blubrry Directory (Web): Main Image only TechPodcasts.com Directory: (Web): Main image only New! iCatcher (IOS): Uses the Main image for streaming but the ID3 image for downloaded episodes. (Thanks Jeremy!) New! Player.FM (IOS, Android): Uses RSS image in the player and the featured image in the listing for the episode (Thanks Michael!) New! Podchaser.com (web): Uses RSS image in the player and the featured image in the listing for the episode. (Thanks Dave!) If you have seen anything different than this list or have another player I didn't list, let me know. mike@mikedell.com Bottom line. If you are going to put in an episode image. The best places to do that is in the post (featured image or the first image in the post) and the RSS (iTunes) image at the episode level. ID3 tag image only shows up in 2 places. Overcast and "iTunes" desktop (which is dead other than windows and older mac OS). Maybe still worth doing in the ID3 if it's not too much work.
2019... What a year. How often have we been told to reflect on the previous year? Many of us don't. We just keep looking for the next new years resolution which we end up forgetting about in about March or when it gets too hard. What if we used reflection in two different ways? What if we looked at our wins and losses, what we learned and what we need to forget, what made us happy and what made us sad, and more. The next way we can reflect is like the old Michael Jackson song; Man In The Mirror. This time we look at ourselves and see who we have been BEING the whole year. If this is something you're not happy with, then it's time to dive deep into some personal growth work. I know for the Lifestyle Locker crowd, that personal growth does not fit into the bad words list. Personal Growth is something that we work on daily. In this episode, we dive deep into the reality of my life. I look forward to personally growing and sharing amazing guests and stories with you in 2020 to inspire you to be the best version of yourself. Let's have a 2020 vision with our vision of 2020. WE WANT YOU TO BE THE BEST!!! www.LifestyleLocker.com/maninthemirror www.instagram.com/drjoshhandt www.facebook.com/lifestylelocker www.twitter.com/drjoshhandt www.linkedin.com/drjoshhandt iTunes http://bit.ly/LifestyleLockerRadio FREE Endurance Program http://bit.ly/45DEC www.NewYorkChiropractic.com www.facebook.com/NYchiropractic ps- we used Cameo to have Dave Asprey give us our intro! Thanks Dave!!! #Bulletproof
Tonight our very first guests joined us to help keep us entertained on our drive to Kansas! Thanks Dave and Luke for coming on and talking about the good ole days.
On this episode of Car Torque, I am joined by Adrian and Ed as we discussed our car updates, we open up our fan mail live on air (Thanks Dave!) and we share gifts all round. Adrian discusses a new cleaning brand he has been trying and Ed discusses the latest on his W123.Don't forget to subscribe rate and review!
Meeting Your Shadow Self: Ever been ghosted? We have, and it sucks. Not knowing why someone didn’t choose you can often leave you feeling pretty shitty. But if you look at it differently, it can teach you so much about your Shadow (which everyone has...no exceptions!). It’s not nearly as bad as you fear it is and can actually help you find the love you have always wanted. Thanks Dave! https://www.karmasmybitch.com/everyone-has-a-dave
We spend an episode catching up on Grape Gravel Crusher 2019 and Brian's recent tour in Texas Hill Country. Joining us is our friend and patron Nadine Hughes who joined the fellas at GGC. She brings a female perspective to the event discussion. We have new patrons to welcome, some voicemails and some emails to go over. BIG NEWS in this episode - Dave Pryor from unPAved Susquehanna River Valley offers up a discount code to our listeners for the event in October. Use the coupon code' MAtlanticGTD' for 10% off registrations and merch! Thanks Dave! https://www.bikereg.com/unpavedpa And do polyethylene spokes make sense? Berd thinks so... https://www.berdspokes.com/ Have you heard about the new Specialized Roubaix?!? Yeah, it looks like it is going to be all that and more with the new and improved Futureshock. And what a way to come out with a win at Paris-Roubaix https://www.specialized.com/us/en/roubaix LaunchSpeed podcast - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/launch-speed Flamingo Dreams Nitro by Lefthand Brewing - http://lefthandbrewing.com/beers/flamingo-dreams-nitro/ ACA Texas Hill Country - https://www.adventurecycling.org/guided-tours/fully-supported-tours/2019-texas-hill-country/ Two Trees Catering - https://www.twotreescatering.com/ Grape Gravel Crusher by VeloAmis - http://veloamis.org/gravel-grape-crusher/ Marty's Reliable Cycle in NJ - https://www.martysreliable.com/ Gravel Race Up Spruce Knob - https://www.bikereg.com/40672 Saris Superclamp - https://www.saris.com/product/superclamp-ex-2 Saris MTR - https://www.saris.com/product/mtr2
On Episode 21 of Terrorific Talk, it's a special episode! I interview Dave, Zobie, and Llama, and we talk about The Walking Dead from different fan aspects: graphic novels, show, and games! Watch for how Dave makes us all look bad at the beginning of the podcast. Thanks Dave. ;) ----- New to the Brandy Bunch and to Brandyland? My name is Brandykins. I'm a livestreamer on Twitch and have been since March 16, 2015. I suppose you could call me a full-time streamer...in addition to being a streamer, I'm a college composition teacher. I live in Missouri, and I am a big fan of the horror genre. I'm the only person in my family who likes horror. And I love love LOVE zombies. ----- Meet Zobie: https://twitter.com/ZobiePlays Meet Llama: https://twitter.com/WhiteLlamaShow Meet Dave: https://twitter.com/DAV3X90 Zobie's Twitch: https://t.co/vrALtQG123 Llama's Twitch: https://t.co/HKlAxOXZE4 Dave's Twitch: https://t.co/CHBArZdLFQ --- Brandykins' Terrorific Talk Patreon: www.patreon.com/brandykins Brandykins' Twitter: twitter.com/brandykins1982 Brandykins' Instagram: instagram.com/brandykinsontwitch Brandykins' Twitch: twitch.tv/brandykins Terrorific Talk Twitter: twitter.com/terrorifictalk
In this week's episode of the Crushing Debt Podcast, I review the major clauses of a standard Mortgage. I remember closing on my house(s) and reading the mortgage. Some sections I knew were boilerplate and some sections I slowed down to read. Also, in the course of representing homeowners buying their first home, I typically read the mortgage. This week's podcast episode comes from a question from one of our listeners, Dave. Thanks Dave for a great question! What specific questions do you have about your mortgage? Or any document in connection with a closing? Let me know at Shawn@YesnerLaw.com or www.yesnerlaw.com
Why Dave Decided to talk to Roland Frasier: Roland is one of “the most interesting men in the world”, so why wouldn’t Dave want to interview him?!? Roland hopped form the lawyer yacht onto his investor battleship where he’s scaled 24 different 7-9 figure companies, and he’s having the time of his life while doing it. Introduced to the entrepreneurial world by his father, he’s here to share with us all his amazing insights about networking, scaling your business, and other tidbits he’s learned along his journey of entrepreneurship. Tips and Tricks for You and Your Business: (6:24) How much do you need to know about your financials as an entrepreneur? (11:28) Learn from the successful, both living and dead (30:48) Change is Guaranteed (35:12) Value, You Have to Give it to Get it Quotable Moments: (9:08) “That to me is just the key: having that multidisciplinary approach to getting out of the tunnel vision of just having that one skill of an entrepreneur.” (11:58) “That’s the key. You need to make yourself a student of success. You need to relentlessly pursue knowledge and experience in that.” (25:39) “The key to rapid scale in business and in your life is to partner.” (31:47) “One thing that is absolutely guaranteed is change” Other Tidbits: Roland has been on his own since 16, crushing the real estate industry Want to better improve your networking? Try shutting up and just listening. A lesson Dave is always trying to help his sons learn is the concept of attributing value to others Important Episode Mentions and Links: Business Lunch by Roland Frasier PodcastFunnelHackingLive.comFunnelHackerRadio.com FunnelHackerRadio.com/freetrial FunnelHackerRadio.com/dreamcar ---Transcript--- Speaker 1: 00:00 Welcome to funnel hacker radio podcast, where we go behind the scenes and uncover the tactics and strategies top entrepreneurs are using to make more sales, dominate their markets, and how you can get those same results. Here's your host, Dave Woodward. Speaker 2: 00:17 Everybody. Welcome back to funnel hacker radio. You guys are in for the ride of your life today. I am so, so excited to bring on a dear friend of mine, Mr Roland Frasier. Rolling. Welcome to the show. I appreciate it. So nice to be here. So if those of you guys who don't know, Roland, Roland literally is the most interesting man in the world. He is the puppet master behind a million different brands. This is a guy who basically has been responsible for for literally over 20, I think 25 different companies, taking them for seven to nine figure businesses. The coolest thing for me honestly though, is he's the guy who just makes things happen and you never really see all that you're involved in rolling until you see the aftermath and you're like, oh my gosh, I cannot believe all that. Roland's done everything from digital, TNC and digital marketer and, and war room in addition to a million different other brands. Speaker 2: 01:07 Uh, a guy who's crushed it in real estate, uh, basically been on your own since you were 16 and yet god is real estate license at the age of 18 and just crushed it in real estate, a recovering attorney who basically created one of the biggest law firms in San Diego area before you went on your own, just doing your own investing in. And I think that's the part I'm most excited is no. So many of our entrepreneurs, they start off rolling and probably kind of like yourself or even myself, where you get going. You think someday I would like to be there. And that's where [inaudible] is right now. He's there. It's fun to point to where you're at. I love seeing you. The, uh, you know, Gosh, there's so many things. Let me just kind of dive right in and that's great. So Roland, I do, I know for a lot of our lot of our entrepreneurs as they get going, they're fascinated by people who have made it. And I know I, as I was going through some of the things, just really even a juror, your background and understanding that literally you're on your own since the age of 16, if you don't mind just share a little bit as far as what got you started, how you got this whole entrepreneurial bug and how all of a sudden you find yourself where you're at. Speaker 3: 02:25 Sure. Yeah. I, you know, I think what really got me into it was my father to this day continues to practice tax law and so he had a, just a continuing flow of really interesting characters that were in business, mostly entrepreneurs and he would help them plan their tax stuff. But the side benefit for me as this kid was, I'd see all these great entrepreneurs that were in my social life through my parents. And so I got exposed to everyone from real estate investors to grocery store owners that, you know, the Internet did not exist at that time, shockingly. But, um, I mean, I know I look like I like probably only 20 years old, but now I'm the, uh, the, the thing that was cool was just being exposed to that, you know, there'd be race horse owners and I'm just, you know, restaurant owners and manufacturing people. Speaker 3: 03:25 And so I saw all of them and I was just like, this is really cool. These people are, they don't have jobs, they work for themselves and they work to serve their customers and they found this, this place for themselves that's in a market that makes sense and they're able to have this great lifestyle from it. And so I just was like, I want that. I really am fascinated by that and I want that. And he gave me really great advice as a kid before. No, even when I was in high school, he said, you know, the, the two things that have helped me the most in business are having a, um, an understanding of how to read financial statements. And he took that all the way to being a certified public accountant and understanding what the law is, which, you know, he practiced. He still practices to this day. So for me, I, I, I saw that I was passionate about business. I started reading everything I could about business autobiographies from business people and um, and all of the best selling business books and then marketing and sales and everything else. So it just, I just caught the bug from all of those cool people that, that were in my life at the time. Speaker 2: 04:41 I love it. And I think, uh, I know for myself, I was very similar to us with this whole concept of, of finding out about, you know, kind of behind the scenes. And the autobiographies for me were huge, huge influence in my life. Um, my dad wasn't an entrepreneur at all at bay, was an attorney and he, his whole thing was, you know, you go to school and I was accepted to medical school, was supposed to go to medical school and the week before I supposed to go, I chose not to devastated my dad. And my mom was very happy now, but it's uh, it's interesting is as I take a look at, at your journey and, and really just how you, how you took that experience of other people and learning from them. It's probably one thing that I admire the most about you is you have this ability to see into the lives and to the businesses and to very, very quickly assimilate the numbers, the legal marketing in a way that most people don't. Speaker 2: 05:44 A lot of people would say, oh, I understand how to market this. And you very quickly understand the financials. You understand really the business opportunity. And because of that, that's one of the things that's allowed you to really kind of played behind the scenes. You know, I joke around as far as being the puppet master, but you really are A. I know we've looked at doing some different deals together as far as possible acquisitions and, and it's really one of the things I admire the most is your ability to understand the numbers as well as the business. Could you expound a little bit on, on how in depth the person needs to know as far as the actual financials, because I know a lot of, a lot of entrepreneurs, they're like, know I'm let someone else deal with that and I don't care about it. Speaker 3: 06:24 Yeah. I think that that really just the ability to read a financial statement and know how income statement or P and l, depending on what you want to call it and uh, and balance sheets and cash flows work is really critical because one of, I think the leading cause of business failure is under capitalization and a poor cashflow management. And so that's, that's a critical thing to understand that you can't put off on somebody else. Now a great cfo, a great chief financial officer or a really good accountant will be helpful in, in helping you manage those things. But, but to even get to the point where you can hire those kinds of people, I think as you're getting started, you need. You need to know that just like I, I actually think that every entrepreneur should know how to use click funnels and build a funnel because themselves, because even at the CEO level, to understand what's involved in such a critical component of the business as the marketing funnel or the financial statements is, is really key. Speaker 3: 07:28 And if you understand how that stuff works, you don't have to be like a whizzbang expert. I mean, and I certainly wouldn't ever advocate that anybody do all that button pushing in their business forever, but, but the knowledge of those basics in all of those different disciplines from marketing to finance to hiring, to, um, you know, to sales I think really helps you have a holistic picture of the business. And so for me, when I'm working with somebody, like I'm going into a new business right now, I'm in the process of buying a real estate brokerage, right? A relatively large, fast growing one. And because I have all those, those places to draw from, I can take those and say, here are the opportunities that exist. And as you pointed out, I think that's my superpower, is I can come into any business and say here's at least six opportunities that are significant that we should be doing that we're not, and here's how we're going to do them and here's the prioritization and here's how they all interlock to increase value and also have flexibility for multiple exits and things like that. Speaker 3: 08:34 So having, having the ability to, to have insight into all those things I think is really helpful for people. So even just buying a book on, I think Keith Cunningham has a good book on how to read financial statements and um, and obviously Russell's books on marketing secrets or Dotcom secrets, those things. And um, and just having basic understanding of all those different things, if you're going to be in business, will help you, especially with all the people that you work with as contractors, employees, managers, and business partners. So that, that to me is, is probably the key is just having that multidisciplinary approach to I'm getting out of that tunnel vision that a lot of people have as to their one skill as an entrepreneur. Speaker 2: 09:20 You know, I, I so totally agree. I know when I, when I first got started, I just thought all that matters. I'll just make more money. I'll make more money. That'll solve every problem and it just doesn't work that way. It certainly helps. It's better than not making more money for sure, but it's not enough. Again, I'm, I was just recently actually introduced to Keith Cunningham's work and really been fascinated by it, so I'd highly recommend you guys take a look at the. There's quite a few different books he has out there. Any of them that you recommend specifically Speaker 3: 09:52 that one on reading financial statements. It might be like keys to financial statements or. I think he's got a key in the title. I'd have to look it up, but that it's a very thin book and it's very rich in what you need to know. Speaker 2: 10:05 I totally, totally agree. If a person wanted to kind of develop your superpowers, what additional things? Because I get enrolled, I'm always so impressed by it. It always cracks me up. Anytime I see you a networking and working with other people, you are so observant and so keenly aware of everything that's going on around you as far as the people who's talking to who, what, what's available as far as not only actual tangible assets, but also the emotional assets in the employee assets. How any additional resources or ideas. If a person said, you know what, I would like to become more like rolling in that super power. What else? Where else could they get more wisdom in that area? Speaker 3: 10:47 Sure. The, the, you know, as you and I talked about the, to me, I think the autobiographies and seeing how great entrepreneurs of the past have thought and and when they take the time Speaker 2: 11:00 to share Speaker 3: 11:02 that when they're looking back over their lives, they will. They will identify those key pivot points in their lives and and looking at what they did and how they think and how they approached it, especially when they're thinking back on it I think is absolutely invaluable. So people asked me who, who are your mentors? And I posted a, I think a week or so ago because I had a lot of people asking me at the end of the year and I said my mentors this week, our Henry Ford and John Rockefeller and Conrad Hilton, who all built amazing industry changing businesses and I read, I was reading actually listening to because I can listen faster than I can read listening to their autobiographies. And, and I think that that's, that's the key is you need to make yourself a student of success and you need to relentlessly pursue knowledge and experience in that. Speaker 3: 11:59 So the, the other side of the coin is, you know, learn about law, learn about financial statements, learn about marketing, learn about hiring, learn about all of the different components of a successful business. Get as many mentors either live or, uh, or via a books and tapes and courses as you can network with successful people. Don't network with unsuccessful people. So I belong to multiple masterminds and uh, and yours is a, as on the top of my list for 2019 by the way. So I'd love to chat with you about that after. But I'm being around people who are doing things and staying plugged into the current and by current I mean current like an ocean current of what is working and what is not and where things are going, I think is gives you those glasses that allow you to see around the corners of what's coming next in your business and the businesses that you get involved with. Speaker 3: 12:58 And then on top of that, I'd say go out of your way when without people asking. I mean don't do it a officiously, but, but without people asking, I, I just go out of my way to try to find ways to help other people who are successful businesspeople and who are aspiring successful business people. And that interaction keeps me sharp. I'm always looking for as, as traffic and conversion summit taught me. I'm always looking for the up and comers. If you ever think that the incumbent marketers and the incumbent gurus of today are the only thing that you should study, I think you're missing out on so much that the past has to teach from the Robert Collier's and the Claude Hopkins is. And those folks, um, to the up and comers who are making headway in the business and you see them rising. So when I see somebody be mentioned several times in a few, in an, in a few different places as an up and coming entrepreneur, whether it be marketing or otherwise, I reach out to them and say, I'm hearing a lot about you. Speaker 3: 14:02 I love what you're doing. I would love to connect and get to know you better. So I'm trying to bridge the past, present and future at any given time. And then when I get the chance to be in the company of any of those people, I shut the hell up and listen to what they have to say instead of trying to prove how amazing I am, I want to know what they're thinking and how they're dealing with the challenges and what they see coming and all of that knowledge and experience and networking and helping converges into what helps me to be able to do what I do. Man, sage advice. I love it. I, oh my gosh. I think it's one of the things that I've noticed so much with successful people is that ability to just Speaker 2: 14:52 shut up and listen and not think that they know everything and it's literally Russell and we're talking about this just the other day, how, and I'm sure you've been around long enough to see it as well. There's certain people who at one point were totally on top of their game and then thought they were it and that's all that mattered and they stopped learning and they stopped growing and then all of a sudden they start to taper off and then all they care about a significance and they do everything they possibly can to go out and gain significance and yet they have nothing to give. Speaker 3: 15:24 Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's, it's amazing if a, there are plenty of opportunities to be found in people's desires to be relevant and yes, so true. Right? So that, that's. That is definitely, I think an important thing to know and, and to help people to be relevant. If you can help people to be even more relevant than they are or regain relevance than there are, they will forever love you and, uh, and help you and do anything they can to open every door they possibly can, Speaker 2: 15:57 can do for you. I love it. Well, I'm curious, how did you get involved with TNC? So a marketer and more room. I mean, it's this massive brand that you basically own. Speaker 3: 16:09 Yeah, I, um, so I, I own it with, uh, with three partners, Ryan Deiss, Perry Belcher, and then Richard Lindner who is the president of, of digital marketer and that's all under a holding company that owned several different things. But, um, I met those guys. I listened to one. So my, my internet history is, is fairly long and fairly, uh, from, from very early. Uh, so back in the days when there was Delphi and compuserve and then eventually America Online, right? I had deals with a compuserve and America Online. I had, um, I had lots of websites before when it used to cost me $50,000 just to put up a webpage, you know, because it was all tables in html and stuff like that even before css. So it's, uh, it's been a long, long journey there. Um, and um, Speaker 3: 17:03 that, that stuff just led to trying to find out who could I look to, to learn from. And so around the, I guess it was a, at this point, probably the two thousands, like the 2007 ish. Um, I, I started, I found this group of people that seem to all know each other. It was Jeff Walker was doing pr just, he hadn't really done product launch yet, but he, he did maybe a year or two after I ran across him. And then a guy named Jeff Johnson who was doing all this really cool, hi highly technical, get multiple servers to create link farms back and forth. And I followed all this stuff and it worked. I was like, wow. So I had, I actually still have all things. It's funny, I get the bills for, I can't, I just can't bring myself to turn them off because I love the technical aspect, an aspect of building sites on multiple servers and ips and then sending those over to others and linking back through them. Speaker 3: 18:03 But then I made a ton of money doing it. But along that time, uh, there was this guy, Ryan Deiss who seemed like he had some cool stuff and I can't remember. He had a continuity thing, um, that I subscribed to that where he would give little snippets of code and stuff like that. And then he did this announcement that he was partnering with this guy named Mr x and mr x was doing crazy amounts of volume selling physical products online through Google and things like that through ad words. I remember that sales letter, right? Yeah. Wholesale traffic system. Right. And um, so I bought that and was blown away by it and when they announced that they were having a live event, I went out to it and it was the first t and c first traffic and conversion summit, which I think they, they said they had like 289 or 389 people or something like that. Speaker 3: 19:00 And I was just, I wrote until my hand cramped. I, they, they didn't run events so they were just free form, you know, just, just the whole time was not planned. No agenda, no breaks, nothing. And I'm like I'd have to go to the bathroom but I didn't want to. I literally remember crossing my legs. I wish they would just stop, I have to go to the bathroom so bad, but I don't want to miss anything they're saying because I never stopped taking notes and I'm left handed. So when you handed the ink, you're moving your hand over the ink that you just wrote with or you know. And so my hand is like black, my whole lower hand by my pinky and I got to go to the bathroom and still they're just going on and on and it was so valuable and I'm a. Speaker 3: 19:49 I later found out that they had no idea they were going to lose money on the event and they had no idea how they were going to pay for it. So they decided at the event they need to sell something and the only thing they could think to sell was a mastermind. So they, they decided to call it a war room and sell a $20,000 mastermind and they had I think 20 spaces or something like that and they ended up selling it out and I did not join. Then I talked to a couple of people that were joining and I was kicking myself for the whole year after for not doing that thing because I was like, I don't know, you know, I've got. I had direct mail businesses and infomercials and all that stuff that I was doing. So I didn't know how relevant the. Speaker 3: 20:32 I knew I wanted the online info, but I don't know how relevant that mastermind would be and then I was just even like, I had Fomo, like, or regret I guess for not buying it about a week after the things I should have done it and it was full so I couldn't get in. And so then the second year I, I ran up to the desk and said I want to join the war room, and they said you can't. And I was like, Oh, you're kidding me. It's still full. And they were like, oh no, we haven't printed up the forums yet. I was like, oh, awesome. So I, I mean, so it's really funny. I, I just, my experience was with all of their stuff was as a customer of TNC, a customer of digital marketer, a customer of the war room, and I was a member for, I think it was three years when I was helping them and I didn't really. Speaker 3: 21:24 I didn't really have any big online business or anything at the time. I just wanted to. I, I really loved the marketing and I thought that there would be an opportunity to take their knowledge and apply it into my world, which was more buying and selling companies and you know, helping, helping to, like to buy a company, help to really blow it up in terms of sales and profits and then sell it. And so I started talking to them about that and eventually three years in and I was helping them because of my, you know, my legal and accounting and business background, the opportunity came to, to buy in as an equal partner and I'm with Ryan and Perry. And so I, uh, I took it and as, as a result of doing that, uh, they didn't really have anybody, they had no plans to scale war room and TNC. Speaker 3: 22:16 Ryan was not a fan of events and he'll tell you to this day, he's not a fan of events. They scared, they just scare me as nightmares the week before waking up, thinking that he showed up and nobody was there. Like he walked on stage and there was literally nobody there. So I kinda took over. Um, those two things and got to, got to scale them and grow them and we, we just exited a controlling interest in TNC. We're still programming and, and um, you know, marketing and all of that stuff. But our partner is a giant events company called Clarion that has 250 different events all over the world and they specialize in helping you take things internationally, which I've been fighting with my partners to do for, you know, for the last two or three years. And it was just a question of focus and money and resources. Speaker 3: 23:07 So having the ability to exit and get, you know, get a nice payday for ourselves, but also have the company funded the TNC event funded in a way that allows it to expand his has been absolutely magical. And so now we're, uh, we'll be in the convention center in San Diego starting in 20 slash 20. We're doing one in New York at TNC in New York, the 17th, 18th and 19th of September. We're in 20, 20. We'll be in a Singapore, Amsterdam and probably China, assuming we can get everything together in time, but it's a rapid, rapid, rapid rollout with the capital, the team and the skills that we need to do that. So it's, it's been really fun and exciting and we've got um, uh, I don't know why. And when is this going to air out? It's probably error a second week of January. Okay. So we've got Richard Branson should be coming out. Speaker 3: 24:03 We're in the final. We've, we've got him to agree to come out and so we've got giant people that are coming now because we've got the budget to do it, you know. So it's, it's just now. That's cool. Super exciting. Yeah. And then with war room, same thing. We've, we've blown war room up now to um, you know, to almost 200 members and um, and are looking to double that in 2019 and now we've got somebody that's interested in purchasing a controlling interest in that and our survival businesses, same thing. So it's really fun. Now I'm a in 2019, I'll be six years in as a partner and we have, will have had three exits, plus we still have another four or five, uh, ready. And then we ended up owning continuing interests in these companies, but funded by massive, big, uh, experienced partners that can really help us take everything to the next level role in that. Speaker 3: 25:03 That's a super power. You talked about it like it's no big deal. We're just going to scale this thing out. We're still have controlling power, but just taking, you know, large checks off the table and I think that's part of, you know, a lot of entrepreneurs like, oh my gosh, I would love to be able to get to that point. Yeah. And again, they can, I mean they, they've got through through the tools that you guys have given them. They have all of the basic things they need to catch fire and start that and then they just have to start thinking about the business outside of just the marketing. That's, that's key. And, and so for me and for my partners, obviously the, the secret to rapid scale and in your life and in your business is to partner you, partner with a, with a great spouse who will support you when you do all of the things that you want to do and the difference of people who have found that support and who don't have that support is very marked, right? Speaker 3: 25:58 The difference between having that partnership in your family life that allows you to have the time and the energy and the focus for your business life is incredibly important. And then for me, I'm not, I can market, I can write copy, I can do a lot of things, but I'm not the best at that. So I partner with the people who are. And then it's, it's like super friends, right? It's like everybody or did the turtles or the power rangers. Everybody comes together and you have this super force that can just go and accomplish anything. And so like you partnering with Russell and um, you know, you guys have built a great team there that, that is key. So for anybody that's listening that is just right now that that is experiencing success and they're, they're really starting to to find their space in their market. Speaker 3: 26:54 The big cool thing is that now would be a great time to look for other people who are able to add the skills that you are not the best at so that you give your business the best chance to take off and you get to focus on the thing that is your superpower so that you don't get distracted with all this other stuff. Because I see so many successful people who stop at a million or 5 million or 10 million or 30 million or whatever because they can't. They can't get past like. It's like I don't know how to hire a team or I can't find the money I need or I just don't have the vision of where to go from here. It's all out there. Just partner with somebody. Speaker 2: 27:37 Oh my gosh, I totally believe you in that one. That's it for us has been the main reason we've been able to scale like we have. And I, I remember talking to Dan Sullivan about it a while back with strategic coach and you know, his whole thing is, it's, it's not how I had to find the right. Who and everyone who's ever been fortunate to work with you. You've always been the right who for, for every partner I've known that you've ever had. And it's the role. That's the great thing about you is no one. I've never heard anybody ever say a negative thing about you. It's the coolest thing in business to see that. It's, I'm just amazed that I've never ever heard a negative thing about Roland frasier. It's just so impressive to have that kind of a track record and a very, very small knit community. So congrats. It is, it is a tiny community. Is. It is real quick. I want to jump over to your new podcast because I think it's just awesome right now. So for those of you guys who want to get more of role in which I highly recommend that you do, I've got a new podcast. It's called business lunch with Roland Frasier. Uh, I think you got what, four episodes out? Four or five now? Speaker 3: 28:38 Yeah, it's two a week, so I think there's five out now and then they're doing a long kind of a longer interview on Wednesdays and then a snackable a short, like five to seven minute thing on Fridays. Yeah. So I listened to one. The hacking your bio biology with Dave asprey I guess last Friday. It was awesome. Speaker 2: 28:58 Did Great Guy. And then the first one I heard was with Jj Virgin and I think uh, and I think you're doing these videos, aren't you? Speaker 3: 29:07 I am not yet. I want to but um, but like and I should but I just haven't gotten that part down yet. I'm very excited to have finally gotten the podcast out because I wanted to do it for like three years and I just never, you know, never took the time. But I do shoot little videos all the time when I meet with people and then post them on facebook and whatnot. So I'm going to start putting those on youtube as well. So video is a, is fast approaching. Speaker 2: 29:36 Awesome. Well, for those of you guys, again, the great thing about rollins podcasts as you have the opportunity to listen to it as it goes into for one, your network is just so vast and you could literally, you're one degree of connection away from basically anybody at all, which is awesome and so the people you're having on there just super cool, but I think the part I like most as far as just hearing just how candid and just the banter back and forth between you and jj was hilarious. It just, it was just so just natural and just flowed so well. Just it was really a lot of fun and I think for those of us who don't know rolling that well, one of the, again, I always refer to you as the most intriguing man in the world here because you have this lifestyle that is extremely nice, wealthy lifestyle. But the fun thing is you play the game of trying to get upgrades and points and and different hotels and stuff and it's just. I heard you guys talking with Jj back and forth a little bit about it. So any tips as far as for traveling, I know you do a lot of traveling for our, for our audience here, any tips you would recommend as far as where they should get the best upgrades or points or anything else to have a better lifestyle while they're traveling? Speaker 3: 30:50 Yeah, I have a lot. So the first thing I'd like to do is thank you for, uh, for seeing what I, what I'm trying to do with the podcast because I, I've seen like, I have a lot of reviews that are great and I've got a couple of people that say there's no takeaways, be more tactical. And so I just want to say that Speaker 2: 31:09 there's a place for tactics and there's a place for mindset, but mindset always trumps tactics in the long run. So you need both. But there are plenty of podcasts out there that have ridiculously good Speaker 3: 31:24 tactics, including a lot of the stuff that you guys put out right in digital marketer puts out. Speaker 2: 31:28 But, but the thing that, that I think is really important to see is that if you can have a peak into the way that Speaker 3: 31:41 entrepreneurs who've achieved great levels of success, I think at, again, like we talked about with the autobiographies, those pivot points in their lives, and you can see that most of the people that I talk with are always upleveling their. They're never complacent. So that's, that's one thing like the people that you mentioned that say, Oh, I'm a successful, I don't have to learn anymore. Well, the one thing that's guaranteed is change. And so I, Speaker 2: 32:06 I operate as though Speaker 3: 32:09 everything that I'm doing right now is going to be irrelevant and changed completely three years from now. So I know that keeps me hungry and it keeps me motivated to find new ways to up level Speaker 3: 32:25 as I go along. And, and as you, you listened to a jj or um, you know, when you guys do like the story of click funnels is constant upleveling and, and, um, the interview with Frank Kern or Tucker Max, you know, Gary v or any of those people, they're all, they're all focused on where's the next place to go and they're not satisfied with where they are. They're not unhappy. They're just not content and complacent. And so I think it's interesting to see that and it's so important as a takeaway. So if somebody listens to the JJ interview and says, I didn't have any takeaways, I don't know what to do, well then you missed everything and you're probably not going to be wildly successful because you see she went from aerobics instructor to Speaker to Dr Phil guests to bestselling author and on and on and on to qvc personality now, right? Speaker 3: 33:22 It's, it's, it's the, the thinking have, well, okay, I've got this. How can I serve, how can I succeed in this? But also where am I going to go next and how am I going to make that leap? And, and they're all terrified along the way. We all are as entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship is hard. I mean, it's fricking hard, right? So you've got to, um, have a peak that, that is the case for everybody. And there there've been those challenges all along. So that helps you see that there's a place for you to go. It helps you see that everybody has challenges that they're, they're frequently, especially when they're coming up, betting the farm and um, and they don't know where the next thing is going to come and you know, they might not know how they're going to make payroll or how they're going to pay for this mastermind they signed up for or whatever. Speaker 3: 34:11 But, um, but they always make it happened. And so that fascinates me. And I think that it, the other thing is that networking and relationships will determine your level of success in the grand scheme. So it you, you can design a great funnel sitting behind your computer, but what you can't get is the 20 people that are going to help you blow up your product and connect into retail and find the partners that you need to help you promote and find the right CEO or cfo or whatever, or team members it, it's, it's the relationships outside of that. So all of that is what I try to get down into when I'm talking to somebody. And so having those relationships to where I can talk to those people and have them actually just have a conversation I think is super helpful. Speaker 2: 35:09 Oh, I love that. I, I'm such a huge believer in that. I just want things. I've tried to teach my four boys. His life is all about who you know and relationships and providing a ton of value and as long as you're out there always providing more value to other people, you may not get the exact deal that you want, but something else always comes. It just does. It's just the most amazing thing. I've never, I've always been so appreciative to those people who taught me that early on my life as far as the importance of you just develop strong relationships and you just have idea where they're going to go or how things will cross in the future, but networking relationships to me is it's what life's all about, Speaker 3: 35:44 which is why you should always try to help everyone that you can and don't ever disregard anyone. And I like. There was a book I think called what got you here, won't get you there. Yes, and for me it's who got you here won't get you there. Which is to say that the people who got you to where you are a, you don't forget, you don't throw away. You know, we say in the south, you dance with them that run you, but also you have to realize that the people that, that have people who have not been where you want to go will not probably be able to get you to where you want to be. So you have the the job as an entrepreneur, if you're seeking ever greater success of nurturing the team that you've got, supporting them in their development as business people to help support you and the company and their own personal growth and also helping them to find resources in terms of people that you bring into the company who have been to where you want to go so that they can help everybody move up. That rising was it the rising tide raises all ships or something like that. That's, that's the thought and so I think that's a really important thing to keep in mind. Speaker 2: 37:05 I appreciate that. We'll roll and I could talk to you for days on end and it, but I appreciate your time as well. As we kind of get close to wrapping things up. Anything else that you want to share with our audience? Speaker 3: 37:15 What is the main thing that your audience needs? Would you say what? What most people listening right now, what are they struggling with? Speaker 2: 37:22 I think mindset is always one of the biggest things and whether a person wants to agree to or not. It's been interesting this past year I've been, I've hired quite a few different coaches, one for a fitness, another one from nutrition, another one basically, and finances and then a jerrick Robbins, Tony Son for more of a personal development side and he's the one who actually introduced me to a, to Keith Cunningham is great. I love him. I just, I, I. It was one of those things where I was struggling. You know what I think the thing I really need here is mindset and yet I thought, man, I've been on the news a long time. It's like I'm pretty much on top of my game, but it was fascinating for me this last year and how much I've appreciated just it literally to me again, I know Tony talks a lot about as far as it's that two millimeter change. These aren't drastic changes you have to make. Yes. Little tiny changes that just make just massive, massive changes. And so for me, I know a generic was talking a lot about just the relationship with my wife as we celebrate 25 years of marriage in November. Oh, congratulations. Thank you. We've had just a great marriage, but it went back to what you just said and that was the relationship that got us to where we are, won't get us to. We want to go. Speaker 3: 38:36 Right. And so again, anything you have on mindset or on that side I think would be of extreme value. Gosh, there's just. There's just massive broad topic basically, but I think that I. I guess the thing, the biggest thing is, is if you can always realize that you're thinking too small, no matter how much success you feel that you've achieved and how much you want to pat yourself on the back or how much everybody else's patting you on the back and telling you how great and smart you are and everything else. That there are so many people in every area and you broke down a lot of them really, really well there. And in terms of your coaches, which is by the way super impressive that you're working on all those areas at once, but that you're thinking too small in terms of how good your relationship with your spouses or your significant other. Speaker 3: 39:28 You're thinking too small in terms of how your relationship with your children are in, what, where your business is and how fast it's growing and the income that you're making, all of those areas, uh, how you're taking care of yourself. You're always thinking smaller than other people who are out there, so never get cocky to the point that you don't continue to stay hungry to improve every one of those areas of your life and realize that every one of those areas of life interlocks with every other area and can constrain it or, or propel it. And so I think that if you can just stay mindful of that, that you, you aren't as great as you think you are, but congratulations on where you've gotten, but you've got to get to the next place because there's always somebody coming up behind you and there's always somebody that's way ahead of you and there's always so much to learn. Speaker 3: 40:24 Oh, I love it. Well, thank you so much Roland. If people want to get ahold of you, obviously they should go listen to your podcast. Again, that's a. make sure you go, yeah, just a business lunch, a business lunch with Roland frasier. I got the Roland Frasier Park down. I forgot the business lunch part. No problem. Lunch with Roland Frasier. Make sure you check that out on itunes or wherever else you look listening to podcasts, so business lunch, Roland Frasier, and if they want to reach out to you. Any other ways of getting ahold of your content? I have a my website, Roland frasier.com or all the social medias. I'm always like on facebook, linkedin, Insta, a, all of those places. It's always forward slash Roland frasier. Awesome. Well Rolling. Thanks again Brad. We'll talk real soon. Thanks Dave. Really appreciate you having me. Speaker 4: 41:07 Hey everybody. Thank you so much for taking the time to listen to podcasts. If you don't mind, could you please share this with others? Rate Review this podcast on itunes. It means the world to me. We're trying to get to as a million downloads here in the next few months and just crush through over 650,000 and I just want to get the next few 100,000 so we can get to a million downloads and see really what I can do to help improve and and get this out to more people at the same time. If there's a, there's something you'd like me to share or someone you'd like me to interview, by all means, just reach out to me on facebook. You can pm me and I'm more than happy to take any of your feedback as well as the people you'd like me to interview. 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Why Dave Decided to talk to Alex: Alex Charfen is co-founder and CEO of CHARFEN, a training, education and membership organization for entrepreneurs and small businesses. Alex has dedicated his life to answering the question, How do you make business grow? which evolved into a larger calling to understand How do you help people grow? Listen to Alex and Dave talk about Alex’s Billionaire Code and the 4 Rs of organizations to figure out exactly where you business currently stands and how to excel to the next level. Tips and Tricks for You and Your Business: Why you can’t sell your way out (3:00) The Billionaire Code (9:00) The 1,3,7,1 Levels (14:00) Time Inventory (22:00) The 4 R’s (24:00) Quotable Moments: "When you make that transition from me to we, you have to change who you are as an entrepreneur." "There is a difference between having a product and having a business." "Your success is the sum of what you focus on." "Your business is broken and if things go well, it always will be." Other Tidbits: No business is perfect, you want a system and team that is adaptable. Embrass issues in your business and that’s how you grow. Links: FunnelHackerRadio.com FunnelHackerRadio.com/freetrial FunnelHackerRadio.com/dreamcar ---Transcript--- Speaker 1: 00:00 Welcome to funnel hacker radio podcast, where we go behind the scenes and uncover the tactics and strategies top entrepreneurs are using to make more sales, dominate their markets, and how you can get those same results. Here's your host, Dave Woodward. Everybody. Welcome back. Speaker 2: 00:18 You guys. I seriously. I'm so excited for you guys to hear this podcast. This is a guy I have the hardest time getting. I see them all the time. We talk all the time, but to actually get enough time to have a focus for a podcast is next to impossible because he's literally building million and billion dollar brands. And with that I want to introduce and welcome back to the show Mr Alex Charfen. Alex, welcome. Thanks Dave. Great to be here with Humana. For those of you guys who don't know, Alex, it is. You're the honesty. I, I haven't. Rustled hasn't even been on more than once. So it actually, you're my first third time one. Actually, this is really cool and honestly I, for those of you guys don't know Alex, first of all, I'd recommend you go listen to the momentum podcast. I actually, the first time I met Alex was at genius network and I was so mad because he was giving out a limited supply of 500, literally numbered 500 of his entrepreneurial personality type books and it gave one to Russel and I'm like, dude, I am never going to get that. Speaker 2: 01:17 Russell doesn't give out his books, so that was like a gone deal and unfortunately been able to get a copy, but this is a guy who is literally helped thousands of entrepreneurs and a ton of my personal dear friends get over some of the struggles they have is as an entrepreneur to actually build a business and I think the key here is helping people really understand what it means to really build a business instead of just having a product. Now I know I've been to a ton of talking, but one of the things we're going to dive right into it, I am so excited about and that is this whole concept of why, in fact, first of all, before we dive in, anything else you want to say about how amazing you are, Alex? No, Dave, I just, Speaker 3: 01:51 I really appreciate you having me back on. You and I always have a lot of fun and I love the clickfunnels audience. It's like it's my favorite podcast audience if besides my own, and it's absolutely my favorite live audience, so I can't wait to speak in funnel hacking live this year. Speaker 2: 02:06 I am so excited about tickets. You should buy tickets. Seriously. If you haven't bought a ticket, go to funnel hacking live right now and go buy your ticket. You should be there because if you're not, you're going to Miss Alex and this is. This is your third time. It's my third time, but I want everybody to understand. I've been to have been to three funnel hacking lives. I missed one because the tickets sold out, so don't be like me like I, you know, I spoke three years ago. I missed the next one because there were no tickets left. We always sell out. So get your tickets. Go to funnel hacking, live back on right now and get you buy your ticket. I'm one of the topics. Alto, the great thing that Alex, so you could literally talk about a ton of different things. He's one of our two comma club x coaches and people absolutely love everything he does. Speaker 2: 02:51 He's a systems guy and understands people and more importantly what it takes to really build a business. And I think that's why I wanted to make sure I them on this time is we want to talk to you about this topic that has come up quite a bit recently and this whole idea as far as why you can't sell your way out. And with that I'm let Alex kind of talk a little about it and I'm going to come back and tell you a personal story here. But Alex, let's kind of. Let's dive more into this as far as why is it that you feel you can't sell your way out? Speaker 3: 03:20 So Dave, I want to give a little background to this. So I, you know, I've been a part of a lot of different groups in masterminds and one of the groups that I was in awhile ago used to have this same like you can sell your or market your way out of any problem and every time they would say that to the people in the room, I'd get a pit in my stomach. I get physically uncomfortable because I know that that's absolutely not true. Now you can of a lot of problems, but if you have a delivery issue and you sell more, you're going to have a bigger problem. If you have a ton of leads and you don't have a good sales team, you're going to have an even bigger problem. And so there gets to this point where you have sales and marketing or how you launched the business. Speaker 3: 04:01 Operations and processes and systems and putting the right people in the right place. The right communication in place and the right systems in place is how you really grow a company. And I think that's something that nobody really talks about because it's a lot of fun to talk about sales and marketing. But one of the reasons that I have so much respect for Russell is that he's building a real organization, a real team, and it's growing like crazy. And the reason is there's like 200 of you who are making click funnels grow and you know, if Russell early on had said, I'm just going to focus on nothing but marketing and not build the team, not build the organization to be anywhere near where you are today. Speaker 2: 04:36 I appreciate that. I can say that is a lesson I had to learn the hard way. Uh, I've had a ton of different businesses over the years and, uh, one of those businesses I, I really thought because I had heard that saying that from the exact group that you mentioned, and I thought, you know what? I don't have a problem. As long as I can sell my way out, there's an I know I can market, I can sell, I will just, I'll just, I'll just put so much more massive action into this thing and I will solve every problem just by selling more and marketing more. And that in of itself will take care of everything. And what it ended up doing basically was land in the almost on the streets of the bankruptcy court because I had sold a whole bunch of stuff that I then couldn't fulfill on or I couldn't fulfill fast enough. Speaker 2: 05:20 And then all of a sudden I started getting refund requests. I'm like, no, you can't read. You can't know that. Okay, if I'm going to get a refund, that means I've got to sell even more. I got to sell to replace the one I just lost plus get more money in. And it literally just became this downward spiral, which I know is kind of a weird topic for us to be talking about here when we're talking about funnels and everything else. But what I really want to make sure you guys understand is how important these systems really are. We were wrestling with in a couple of weeks ago, we were joking around about we sold our way real fast to 10 million. I mean, it was real quick and we actually did a pretty good job of even selling in the first two by the time we hit our end of our second year, our third year, we're at over $30 million and that was where we started realizing, you know, and we fortunately had, we had people in place but we didn't have systems and that was one of the big differences. Speaker 2: 06:11 There's a huge difference between routine and having people in place and we were fortunate we have a very, very strong culture inside of our organization as well as a long with our customers. But the biggest problem we found is we didn't have the systems for those people. And again, we had always focused on hiring a players and we'd always focused on making sure that we had great people around us but the systems was, was our downfall. And that's again, when things you've talked so much about. So with that Alex, I want to kind of dive in more and help people understand what exactly. I mean this whole billionaire code you talked about. I remember the first time you laid this out to me, I just freaked out. I was like, oh my gosh, where's Alex? Ben? For the last 50 years in my life, I only heard about this and seen this because it, it literally applied specifically to every time I looked at all the business I've done over the years, every time I had one that didn't go well or had a problem with a partner, it was because of every single thing that was in your, in your code. Speaker 2: 07:08 I mean, it literally. It was like crap if I'd only known that. So I had learned through the school of hard knocks. So in the next 15, 20 minutes I'm going to have alex as he poured his heart and soul out to you and basically give you as much as he can. Speaker 3: 07:20 Yeah. And so, and here's, here's here. So first the billionaire code, the billionaire code is, is a matrix that shows the nine levels that it takes to go from zero to $100,000,000 and exactly what you should be focused on along the way. And today, you know when, when, if anybody who wants to can go to the billionaire code.com and you can download that Matrix, it'll show you exactly what it is. In fact, you can go to my podcast episode 180. There's 20 episodes, did spell out the entire billionaire code. And if you went to funnel hacking live, you can go watch the presentation from last year because I did. And what we all need to understand though, is as you ascend as an entrepreneur, once you get to around a million dollars, and this is why it's so important for this audience because right when you're hitting the two comma club, you make this massive transition as an entrepreneur from me to we like a lot of entrepreneurs can, can overclock it. Speaker 3: 08:15 They can push themselves up to 2 million, 3 million, 4 million without a team. But it's tenuous and it's hard and it's difficult and it feels really precarious. And when you make that transition for me to change who you are as an entrepreneur, you know, I tell people that in order to grow the business you want, you have to become the person who can run it and if you don't have the business you want, you haven't become the person who can run it yet. And the major change there is making this transition from being an entrepreneur centric you, to actually building the team, building the organization. And for us, the way we coach it goes in three different places. It's putting the right people around you, doing the right things, recruiting the right members. It's using the right processes so that there's a process for everything in your business, including how you communicate and focusing on the right projects. Speaker 3: 09:04 And the billionaire code gives you exactly what projects you should be focused on each level of development, but then you have these two levels level. Putting the right people in place and the right processes in place. And the biggest deficit in most entrepreneurial businesses is in the people department with process. Because here's what most people say when they work in an entrepreneurial business, we don't know where we're going. The strategy changes way too often and nobody communicates with us. So if you can solve that, your team knows where they're going and there's consistent communication. Your Business will explode. And like you've said, you know, we've taken even some members of like the inner circle who have had really fast growth businesses, but we add those things, three things, the right people, the right process, the right projects, and all of a sudden you've got a $10,000,000 business that goes to 50 million within like 10 months. So it's been cool. I honestly, I think one I can, we can talk about just recently I was literally just within the other day was and Ryan. Yeah, what an incredible difference. So I'll let you tell their story. You know that an ideal even. Well. So Brad and Brad and Ryan at Atlas. Well financial. So it's um. Oh Man. I always say I'm Brad's last name wrong. It's Brad and Ryan Lee. Speaker 3: 10:20 Crap. I always want to say Brad Cobb, because I grew up with a kid named Brad cops. So anyway, right. And he noticed like, I've told him this every time I say your name, I say it wrong, but um, but they're phenomenal entrepreneurs. I love the two of them. And we started working with them about nine and a half months ago and when we first started talking they were considering doing something else. Getting out of the atlas was walking away from it because they couldn't figure out how to make it work. And we sat down, we structured a structure to a plan where they were going to put the right person in place. So they got, they went out and got an executive assistant and then we started really planning around how they were going to both act in the business, what they were going to do in the business. Speaker 3: 10:58 And we created a forward looking strategy and they took that strategy and they went from about a $1,000,000 business to in about a nine and a half month period, a $3,000,000 business. Now they're well over $3 million. And they have some months where they're run rates over $4 million and I just had a call with those guys this week. They went from a two person team to a six person team there now in and now they're in the place where they're doing everything. They're now getting back out of the strategy there. They're moving, they're ascending again, going from one to three now they're going to go in and go from three to 10. But here's what's so important about this. The business that they had had that potential, it's just they didn't have the right people in the seats, the right processes in place, and they weren't focused on the right projects. We flipped that and immediately they go from one to 3 million and anybody who's listening who's in that two comma club range, it's crazy. If you've gotten there, you'd be blown away. What happens when you the right systems in place? Speaker 2: 11:55 It's an honest. It's one of the things I've loved the most. I'm joking around just before he did the recording as far as an email, we had to send out some of our subcontractors and it was kind of funny just because, uh, I've looked at that, the success of, you know, one of the great things about our inner circle is russell is a genius when it comes to the sales and marketing piece and I've seen a lot of our inner circle members of that, a lot of success in doing that. And it's been interesting as they've worked with us as well to then see the system to get in place and it's. And it just takes it to the next level. And I think the best part, the part I like the most is once you have the system in place, that's when you can go back to the sales and marketing and you can totally pour the gas on it. Speaker 2: 12:34 You know, when you do that, you. That's where you see that astronomical growth. And the hardest part for most of us as entrepreneurs is we get so focused just whatever our skill set is. And for me I'm a driver. I'm just always going to drive. I'm just going to push. I'm gonna push. I just believe I'll make something happen and I know even for Brad and Ryan, they were sales guys and financial services. You may have always in the financial service industries think I'm just going to sell, sell, sell, and they just get burned out. After awhile. You're like, I've been just busted my button and yeah, and money's coming in, but it's not growing. I think that's the part I want to make sure people, you guys are listening to this, understand there's a difference between having a product and having a business. You can start off selling a product which is great and it's one of the great things about click funnels is you can take that product and all of a sudden that product you can turn that. Speaker 2: 13:22 I look at Natalie Hodson. I mean natalie had this crazy, crazy product that I hit the two comma club selling a $37 Ebook, which is just astronomical. I mean you got to be, you don't have it upsale, you don't just have a $37 ebook but you did it. But again, the cool thing for me is I take a look at where she's at now. It's because of the people she's brought in. It's because of the system against you could sell and she could mark it and she did an amazing job and she got to that level. But to get to that next level it requires the things you're talking about. And so Alex, if you don't mind, if you could help people. Let's take a step back. There's a lot of, you and I have talked a lot about this whole idea as far as one, three, seven, one meaning $100,000, 300,000, $70,000, million, $3 million, 7 million, 10 million, 30 million, 70 million, 100 million. And at each of those tiers it kind of fits it a little bit. Kind of along the lines of your billionaire code. Yeah. And as people are in those different levels, what if you could kind of target those people who right now are under 100,000 and tell them what they should focus on and then from those people who are in that $3 million and then the million above, you don't mind. Speaker 3: 14:27 So if you're under 100,000, here's the biggest issue for most people that are under 100,000, you haven't decided who you're working with yet. You haven't gotten really clear on your market. I mean if you're just starting out, there's two things. It's one personal. Your personal skill sets, your habits, your routines, like are you as a human being ready to own a business? And for most people the answer is no, they're not doing the things that they need to do. They're not forward planning, they're not strategic planning, they're not clear on what really want. And then second, are you clear on who you want to serve? Once you get that covered from 100 to 300, it's how many leads can you generate? And can you lock in lead generation? Can you get that population coming towards you? Then from 300 to a million, it's building the system so that you can deliver and making sure you can deliver consistently and convert sales consistently and then from a million to three you have to not only build systems around what you do well, but then you have to build a team around what you do well and then now it gets interesting when you get to 3 million and you're going above three. Speaker 3: 15:23 That's a transition where your ability to lead a team is almost exclusively what is going to help you move forward. For most entrepreneurs, and I think what happens is a lot of entrepreneurs get there and they don't realize you have to make a full transition from doing everything yourself to having the team do it with you and it's not just having the team do the things you don't want to do anymore. It's having a team do most of what you do well and that's why I gave the numbers don't lie. The numbers of the United States are crazy. Check this out. There's 29 million businesses in the United States under a 100,000, $22 million under a million 25 million. So when you are. Sorry, 26 million. So when you look at the population of businesses in the United States, 26 million are under $1,000,000 out of 29 million and so the numbers don't lie. Most entrepreneurs never get there. If you get over a million dollars, you're part of the three percent club. Three percent of businesses overall that are ever started getting to a million dollars or more. That's why clickfunnels is so crazy because the fact that click funnels isn't just like the fastest growing business I've ever observed and one of the craziest Unicorns that's ever out there, but it's a million dollar business factory. I don't think that's ever existed in the history of the world before. Speaker 2: 16:41 No, we've again, it's because of people like you. It's because of a lot of. We have over right now. We were, in fact when you were in her office, we were kind of counting and as far as on the walls, the different plaques. So we're now just cross over 373, two comma club award winners and we just got our 27th application for eight figure awards and so you started adding all this up and I forget what the actual number was you and I came up with when you're in the office, but I mean it's literally billions of dollars a business that's been created and I think the part that I loved the most, especially as you take a look at your billionaire code, is the ability for a person who wants to move. And again, not all entrepreneurs do. They you get comfortable and there's nothing wrong with that. Speaker 2: 17:25 But for a person who really wants to get to that next level, whether it's from 300,000 to $700 from a million to three or from 3 million to 10, for those who really want to do it, there are people like you who can help you actually make that kind of thing happen. And I think the part I'm most excited about as far as clickfunnels is we've been fortunate to attract people like you and others and who it. Because they're here, it's becoming this magnet magnetism of others who all of a sudden come to clickfunnels. And I was literally just buying a domain and the company I was buying the domain from my. Anytime I buy a domain, I never tell them who I am. Speaker 2: 18:04 I've learned that you could ever get an email from j Levi Parker, that's kind of mine. Chris Brown. So it was funny because, um, we finally negotiated the terms and then his secretary was a big financial service company and they own this domain that we really wanted. And she finally says, now what's the email? And I told her the email. She goes, what's your name? I said, oh Dave. She goes, why is it j? Levi Parker? I'm like, Oh crap, I totally screwed that up. My name, here's my real name. And she goes, wait a second, hold on. And she puts me on the phone with the CEO who were buying the domain from. He goes, is this Dave Woodward from clickfunnels? I said, yeah. He goes, we love click funnels. And I'm like, Oh my God, I'm glad to know that now. But you'd probably charge more if you. Speaker 2: 18:54 He asked me and I'm glad that we didn't find that out up front and they actually did ask for a free click funnel hacking live ticket and the negotiation. But uh, no. My only reason I'm saying that is I think it's interesting as you take a look, this was a financial services company and I never would've thought click on those would apply to them. But again, these guys they're doing that this year it'll be about 12 to $15 million and they're using a product and yet at the same time what has got them there is people and systems. And I think it's one of the greatest skill sets that you've offered to so many other people. And I want to make sure that people who are listening, you've mentioned already the billionaire code. So if you want to go to the billionaire code.com and download that, highly highly recommend it. Speaker 2: 19:35 It's one of the greatest things out there as far as really the part I love most. Alex is in one sheet of seeing from zero to $100, million and little. You can find out where you're at and the part I like most about it is you could be, even though it's all columns, rows and columns, but all of a sudden you might be in one column but in a different role and you go, wait a second, I'm behind in these areas and you see where your weaknesses are and because that you're able to make those changes super fast. The other thing is if you didn't, if you haven't heard Alex's billionaire code, if you get a ticket funnel hacking live, you actually, we will send you the recordings from last year and I. It's one of my favorite presentations to be honest with you. I love anytime you speak, you have this unbelieve seeing you on stage. Speaker 2: 20:18 As much as it's cool watching you here and we're doing this podcast, but seeing you on stage, it's a totally different element. You are. You just come alive and it's the coolest thing for me to see because you pour so much into the audience. I mean, you're, you were born to be on stage. It's the coolest thing ever because of the way in which you give and you care so much because you connect so much better with the people as you see them. It's just you have this personal relationship with them. It's really a neat thing. For me. I'm, I'm, I'm a, I'm a complete introvert, like in real life. But um, I learned very young how to speak Speaker 3: 20:48 it. I love public speaking. It's one of my favorite things in the world. This is what you and Russell at the same, same exact way. Total introverts. You put you on stage and oh my gosh. It's like nobody believes I'm an introvert, but you know, I, I used to have a debilitating stutter. I had. So for anybody listening who's like, oh, I don't think I could ever speak on stage a lot. Younger English was my second language. So I had a crazy accent that I used to get made fun of for in school. I used to stutter because I was really, I had a hard time talking in front of people. I'm dyslexic, so if I ever had to read in public, it was really hard. It sounded like I didn't know how to read, but it was just the words were moving around on the page and um, you know, I, I learned how to speak in high school with my speech coach and getting the opportunity to speak on a stage like click funnels, funnel hacking live. Speaker 3: 21:38 It's crazy. There's so much energy in that room when you say you build a relationship with the audience in that room, they build a relationship with you. Well, thank you. Love 5,000 people that are dying to have a relationship with you, Alex. so one thing I'd want to make sure we touch on, and I think because it applies to anybody, no matter where they are in your billionaire code and that is your time study. Yeah. Kind of going into that real quick. Only because I was the worst person in the world on that and I hate this, but it's a life changer. So this is, you know, I've been a consultant for over 20 years and I use strategies that work and it doesn't matter how difficult they are, it doesn't matter how confronting they are. To me, it's how do we get the biggest result with the least amount of time and one of the things that we, we inventory as entrepreneurs is money. Speaker 3: 22:22 We all like we look at how much money we're making but we don't really look at what we're doing with our time. And so how do you inventory your time, take that data and improve what you're doing with your time. Because at the end of the day, your success is the sum of what you focus on. And until you can inventory where your focus is, you don't know what's really going on. So what we have people do in our programs and in our company like Haley right now, my assistant is doing it, two wait time study. She writes everything down that she's doing in 15 minutes and then commence. And anybody can do this. You write it down in 15 minute increments for two weeks. And what will happen is in the first couple of days, you'll already start modifying your behavior, but at the end of two weeks, right at the end of two weeks, you'll have a full inventory of where you spent your time for a two week period. Speaker 3: 23:07 And then here's what we have people do. Go through that inventory and mark, was it strategic or tactical? And as an entrepreneur, the more time you spend in strategy versus tactics, the more you're going to grow your business. And most entrepreneurs are over 90 percent tactical in any given week. And for me like this podcast with you, this is strategy. This is strategic. I'm the only one in the business that I would want to have do this. But setting up the time for the podcast, setting up the appointment, put it into the calendar, all those things. Somebody else did all of that for me. I just showed up and click the button. And so at the end of a two week time study, you really know where you are. And I think, you know, I, I often share with people your story that we were talking and you were asking me for strategies and then I shared the time studying and you're like, okay, I'm going to do that. And then two days later I get a voicemail where you're like, I just want you to know I kind of hate you. Speaker 2: 23:58 I totally, I really do that. Oh yeah. And I think the other part I do want you to talk about, and that's the four rs I'm going through right now and I'm creating for ours, for my, my role here at click funnels. And it's been fascinating for me as I've been doing this. As I look at the four rs with my time study, it totally changing the game because I'm like, oh my gosh. Even though that is what I'm classified with, strategy, I don't need to be the person doing that strategic thing and I can have someone else do it. Which was kind of, it was mine. Again, I'm still struck. I haven't completed my forearms right now. I'll have it done by tomorrow, but it's been fascinating for me to see that a lot of things that I thought I still needed to be doing, I don't. So if you don't mind, can you explain what the four r's are? Absolutely days. So, um, you know, Speaker 3: 24:49 in most positions in the world do you have a job description and a job description is usually like one or two paragraphs describing what somebody does in a role in our organization and the organizations we coach, we found one or two paragraphs woefully inadequate. And what we want to be able to do is give somebody a very clear idea of exactly what we want from the person. So whether you're recruiting or managing a team member, we use what we call a four r document, its role. That's where most job descriptions start. Stop. So we have a paragraph about the role, then we have responsibilities. What are the exact responsibilities that that person has? Then the results, what results is that person driving? And then the last thing is the requirements. And so for example, for a salesperson, you might have a rule that says, you know, this is an inside salesperson, they're going to be available full time, remote remotely located, they're going to call it on high ticket clients, and then in the responsibilities it's making 100 calls a week, having this level of conversions, this is how many actual live calls they have to have, and then in results it's driving x number of dollars in business a week and then you know exactly what the results that they should have the right client bringing in the right Avatar, making sure that there's not a high return rates, high retention rate, and then the last thing in requirements for sales might be excellent phone communication skills, excellent written skills. Speaker 3: 26:10 And so once you have that all built out, if you're recruiting, you are so likely to find the right person because it's very clear. And then this is the only document that we know of that you can take from recruiting right into the position. Speaker 2: 26:24 So it becomes a tool you find them with and you lead them with. I think that's the part you just said there. I for me has been the part I've enjoyed the most because I'm actually the people who work for me now I'm asking them to create their four r document and it has been so mind opening for not only for me because they're doing some things on there that that's not part of their role or the responsibilities and and other things that I thought they knew where their responsibilities don't even show up anywhere on, on the document. Speaker 2: 26:56 So again, anyone who's listening, if you have somebody who is works for you, and again, I think even if it's you're an assistant, it doesn't matter who it is. Impact. Yeah. I think you're crazy. These days. I, I fight all structure. I just innate in me to fight it. I just ate it, but it's been for me. The thing that has helped me the most is working with people like yourself, Alex. I'm like, okay, I gotta get into this thing and I have to realize that the structure actually is what's going to help me get to the next level. I mean, we'll do $100 million this year and you and I had the conversation earlier as far as, you know, Dave, who do you want to be and where do you want to lead? And for me, I know there's no way I can lead or be involved in a company that had $100,000,000 level unless I change who I am. And it kind of goes back to the, you know, the proverbial thing people have got you here will never get you there or at least the situations you're in, you have to change. And for me the best way of changing has been this for our document. It's been a great, great opportunity. Do you have any resources where people can go to get that or understand a better? Um, you know, Speaker 3: 28:02 we, we teach that in all of our programs. So if you go to a billionaire code.com or if you download the entrepreneurial, not download, sorry, if you buy a free plus shipping copy of the entrepreneurial personality type book, um, we will, we'll, we'll give you in our follow up sequence. We talk about where the for our documents are, where, where we, where we have all these resources. In fact if somebody wants to, they can go to free momentum book dot Com and get that. And by the way, I now have a funnel there that were, that I'm willing to share on funnel hacker radio because last year when I spoke at funnel hacking live, real funnels weren't quite there yet, but now we're very proud of the funnels were putting out. Um, we've got some pretty incredible click funnels now. Speaker 2: 28:43 Well, I think the coolest thing is the fact that, uh, if you haven't listened to Alex's podcast, a highly, highly recommend that you do as far as the momentum podcast, he actually, I have to give Kudos to him. He hit the, he got to the million dollar or the million downloads level faster than I have. I'm not there yet, so please support me and get me to the millions so I can come back and to be like, one point three, one, I'm, I think I'm around 900,000 and you started six months after me on a podcast and you're doing it like every day though. I mean I've got like 300, 85, 400. It's crazy. So it's just sheer volume. Speaker 2: 29:20 That's a lot of content, but the coolest thing honestly is I highly recommend you guys go check out the momentum podcast. It's what Alex contributes and gives is just amazing things for any entrepreneur to really help. And what I love is they're short the quick and it's stuff that people can implement that day and I think that's the, that's the secret. Does fast implementation. So again, we've talked about the whole idea as far as why you cannot, why can't sell your way out of your problems. Talk About for our document talking about time studies. Anything else you want to make sure we cover here in a few minutes before I let you get back to your day? Speaker 3: 29:55 Uh, you know, Dave, I think, I think we've pretty much covered it. You know, I have this saying that I share with business owners, your business is broken and if things go well, it always will be. And here's what I mean by that. You know, volume creates complexity and success creates deficits. And so as a business owner, you don't want a perfect business. What you want is you want a system and a team and a structure that is adaptable and can cover complexity and filling deficits. And I think that there's far too many business owners today, they think that some day they're not gonna have any problems. I would look at it differently. I wouldn't tell you all embrace the issues in your business, chase them down, hunt them down, solve them. And that's how you really grow a company by pretending like there aren't issues by, by wanting to perfect business, by trying to drive the problems out of your business, you're actually creating the biggest constraint you possibly can. So just remember, success creates deficits and volume creates complexity. What you want a team is a team and an organization that can cover both and you'll get to the level you want to as an entrepreneur. Speaker 2: 30:58 I love it. So everyone check out billionaire code.com. Make sure you follow Alex on his momentum podcast and by all means, if you have not bought a ticket to funnel hacking live, go there right now. Buy Your ticket. You do not want to Miss Alex on stage. This guy literally gives his whole heart and soul to anybody he comes in contact with. So the great thing about actually being with Alex at funnel hacking live is you're one of the most approachable people in the world, which is just, I mean, it's such an amazing thing for me to see how willing you are to give and share during the full three days, not just the time you're on stage, but as people I've seen you in the hall talking to people and you just give and give and you give and you give. So the only way you get that is by going to funnel hacking live.com. Spend time with Alex. it will literally bless your life. He's always blessed mine and it's been an honor to spend time with he and his wife and his two daughters. It's always fun. So Alex, Ian, thank you a ton. Any parting words here before we go Speaker 3: 31:49 now just say how your family for me, you're a constant source of inspiration and I love you man and I appreciate you having me on three. Pete. Now Speaker 2: 31:59 one. Thanks so much. I think so. I think someone trademark that. It's A. I probably owe some money on three people. We'll talk to you. Bye. Speaker 4: 32:12 Hey everybody. Thank you so much for taking the time to listen to podcasts. If you don't mind, could you please share this with others, rate and review this podcast on itunes. It means the world to me. We're trying to get to as a million downloads here in the next few months and just crush through over $650,000 and I just want to get the next few 100,000 so we can get to a million downloads and see really what I can do to help improve and and get this out to more people. At the same time, if there's a topic there's you'd like me to share or someone you'd like me to interview, by all means just reach out to me on facebook. You can pm me and I'm more than happy to take any of your feedback as well as if people would like me to interview. I'm more than happy to reach out and have that conversation with you. 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Why Dave Decided to talk to David Asarnow: David Asarnow is a visionary entrepreneur, digital marketing leader and author of the upcoming book The Competition. A four-time member of ClickFunnels Two Comma Club and 2018 8-Figure Award Winner, David is passionate about helping entrepreneurs create massive value, leverage, and profits through his proprietary monetization strategies and online challenge. David recently co-launched the Ultimate Life Foundation Course designed to walk entrepreneurs through the exact steps they need to create their ultimate life and business in just 60 days. Tips and Tricks for You and Your Business: How do you scale your company? (2:07) How to master and run an agency. (5:57) Starting from scratch: Business tips. (15:25) Quotable Moments: "Business Nitrogen… we are a monetization agency. We are really good at helping people monetize their visions and dreams." "Most people try to overcomplicate it. Just have fun, connect with your audience, and then, magic starts to happen." "If you treat people with loyalty and respect, you will get it in return." Other Tidbits: David discusses Business nitrogen: what it is and does! He talks about his monetization agency and how they effectively help people achieve their business goals; as well as different concepts and ideas. He enlightens the audience on how to build a business, scale properly, as well as hiring the right people. Links: FunnelHackerRadio.com FunnelHackerRadio.com/freetrial FunnelHackerRadio.com/dreamcar ---Transcript--- Speaker 1: 00:00 Welcome to funnel hacker radio podcast, where we go behind the scenes and uncover the tactics and strategies top entrepreneurs are using to make more sales, dominate their markets, and how you can get those same results. Here's your host, Dave Woodward. Everybody. Welcome back to funnel hacker radio. Okay. I'm your Speaker 2: 00:19 host, Dave Woodward, and today I am so excited to bring back Mr David Dot Sarno. David, welcome to the show. Thanks Dave. Thanks for having me here. I am so excited. So those you guys don't know. David, he's been crushing it. He's got a company called business nitrogen. Tell people about what business nitrogen does and then we'll talk about this crazy wall. It's behind you that no one can see, but I'm just amazed at that. That's right. No one can see it. So business nitrogen, if you look at what do we do? We're a monetization agency. People have their crazy concepts, their ideas, and they just don't know how to get them blonde so they don't know how to take her from six figures to seven figures, seven figures to eight figures, eight figures it up and they come to business nitrogen because we are really good at helping people monetize their visions and their dreams does. Speaker 2: 01:03 That's awesome. Uh, so for those you guys who can't see this amazing wall, what I'm staring at, so I've got dead right in the screen, but behind him is this blue lit wall that has this huge eight figure award, right? The big x right in the middle and then surrounded by are four other two Comma Club award. I mean, this guy has been crushing it not only for yourself, David, I think, which I think is cool, but also for your clients. And I think that's the part I want to make sure we've talked to people about today is you and I were just, before we started doing the recording, we're talking about when you and I met almost kind of a first year of, of click funnels. Really some of the things we were doing and where it's come and I think people don't understand the impact that it's had, not only for click funnels but on you and your life, but most importantly on your clients' lives. Speaker 2: 01:48 I mean you've got clients now again, we were. You were on stage at funnel hacking live and you and one of your client forgot his name. I just drew up Warren Warren, so basically he's getting this beautiful ring that we presented to them, but it was because of you and the business that you helped him build. So if you don't mind, tell people just a little bit about. I know you say you taught you scaled companies, but how do you actually do it? That's what people want. How do you really scale? I mean, you're an agency full service agency that's been killing it for a long time. So I was doing this before. I mean before click funnels was around. I mean when I was in, when I was in my twenties, I was building. I built a business for someone else who went from zero to $45,000,000 over five years. Speaker 2: 02:32 I built a division for a company that was 50 years old. We just went into new way in a different way, so when people often ask, you know, how do I. it's so funny because what? Then I went off and I started a franchise company. We grew that to top 15 hot franchise, so the skillset of building businesses is building a business. You start with strategy and that's one of the big things that I think that most people have a problem with is they get really excited and they get a lot of shiny objects and I can be in there all over the place and they don't get really clear, really focused in one thing that Russell's had a lot of things at the last funnel hacking live. He said something that was very profound and I've repeated it over and over again. He said, stop building funnel after funnel after funnel. Speaker 2: 03:22 Pick one funnel. Refine that. Make that so focused, so good and so connected to your audience in your niche that once it gets to a million dollars, then you can add onto it, then you can change. And, and really if you ask what do we do, you just get very clear and laser focused. And for me, because I work with clients and I helped the clients monetize it, I compartmentalize. So when I'm on this client, I am 100 percent focused in on their strategy, their niche, what do they need to do to connect with their audience differently? And here's the interesting thing that most people don't realize. I know you guys do it. The funnel, I mean, here's the cool thing, russell is using a funnel that can do, you know, seven, eight plus figures, right? And then someone else had the exact same funnel and it doesn't produce a dollar. Speaker 2: 04:11 Why? Because he knows his audience, he knows how to communicate with his audience. And one of the cool thing, I mean, what most people don't know is actually I have a two time emmy award winning media person. I'm abby give in our company now that we actually help our clients create and craft their media message on the front end. I've been the facebook five times over the last couple months invited because we're now not. We're investing over $2,000,000 a month of client's investment on facebook, so we get to participate and really learn what's going and the cool thing is it's having that message to market match. It's understanding your niche, it's understanding your audience and then making sure that your funnel does a really good job. Does it distract, but make sure that it compliments exactly what you're saying on the front end and then leads them down that journey and keeps that communication going and that makes it really easy when you have clients who are willing to participate in the process and just, you know, it's like I say, you do like Mr Miyagi, paint the fence, wax on, wax off. Speaker 2: 05:16 It's most people try to overcomplicate it. Just have fun, connect with your audience, and then magic starts to happen. I love it. Uh, I can tell you, David, one of the things that you are just the best that you just talked about as far as amy give, you have this ability to act as the quarterback of an amazing team and to, again, you can either use the analogy as far as a quarterback of the football team or the general contractor. How do you, I mean, you have this mindset from strategy there that a lot of people, you and I were talking about this regarding our whole certified partners program and some of the frustrations that some people ran into with the idea that you can't master everything and you didn't go about trying to master absolutely everything. Help people understand what's the best. If you're going to run an agency like you're running. Speaker 2: 06:01 I mean you guys are doing huge numbers. If you're going to master and run an agency like that, how do you act as a quarterback? How do you gain the skill set to run a business like you're doing it? Well, if you look at it this way of running a business is like being a parent. Um, within your team, you've got to, you know, it's like listening, it's coaching, it's mentoring. Um, I learned I wasn't good in the beginning when I first got the opportunity to build that $45 million division. I had a really good mentor and we're still friends today and if you watch this, his name's mark graff. And he was willing to, to, to let me make mistakes. He was willing to ask me, you know, what do you think, why would you do it this way? And I asked him why did he do that? Speaker 2: 06:47 And he said, because when you're a manager one day, you're going to need to be able to. You'll never be able to build something that's scalable. If everything has to go through you and I'm creating you into a mini me. I'm creating you to learn how to ask the right questions to listen, to get strategic and your frack. I hired you because you come up with better ideas than I do and I just learned. And so how, how do I build a business like this? A I, I hire some really good people. I test everyone that there's an old adage, hire slowly fire quickly, hire slowly. So many people want to just hire someone that they put a warm body in place. And so I test people out. I all bring on, if I want to hire someone, I will hire a higher, sometimes three people on a test project and see how they give me an idea about that because I love, I've seen you do this before. Speaker 2: 07:44 I've seen you do it in the graphics area. I've seen you do it in, in different parts. So give me an example of what you would hire them to do and how you would test them before you bring them onto your team. I'll give you an example. About seven, eight years ago, um, I wanted to rebuild my website and my team was really busy and I knew that if I was going to scale I was going to need more team members. So I, I didn't even know what I wanted. I mean, I'm not, I'm probably the hardest person because clients, I expect to know what they want. Sometimes I don't even know. It's sorta like I'll know it when I see it that I'll like it. So what I did was I created a bio and a brief of what I thought is essentially the image, the focus, the feel, the look that I wanted, and I went out and I hired seven different people. Speaker 2: 08:32 Okay. And I told him to come up with the design. After that, I narrowed it down to I believe four. After that I gave. Once the design was done, I narrowed it down to three and then I paid them. I paid them their full rate. I didn't try to say here's one of the things people often say is, well, I'm going to ask you, Hey, do a test project. And I'll see how know I paid them their full asking rate. I didn't ask any questions. It's an investment to find someone who's good and guess what? Out of that I hired those three people and and today one of them is one of my stars who is, who is my, one of my top click funnels people. Because then when we, from the time I met you, I'm from the click funnels. I just have them start building funnels for six months doing nothing else. Speaker 2: 09:22 This was before you had any training before? There was a certification and that's my my. Before I will put a team member to work on a project. I will have them working at least six months just I have one guy who's just building funnels for a year right now and I don't have more pain on client projects. I'll have them hack stuff and do like that protest project because he's not where I want them yet. So I'm willing to take the time in training and development team are running it like a real company versus just, Hey, I do a funnel here and it's running from project to project to project. I mean we have retainer clients who've been with us for almost eight years Speaker 2: 10:02 and and the reason is because we're a partner in their success and you know, I mean I believe that you just got to treat people with respect and don't just hire. It's like I've heard people say, well, I'm hiring an outsourcer. I'll and then I can let them go. Dude. They've got families. They want stability. I mean keep it if you treat it, if you treat people like with the, the, the. If you treat people with loyalty and respect, you'll get it in return. I love that. Again, you've only, I know a couple of your team members and it's so cool as you sit and talk to them, how much they enjoy working with you and how you are so focused on helping build them and I love the idea and we've seen it even within our own internal agency we have here, but that same idea. Speaker 2: 10:49 Don't be afraid to pay people, build people and help them grow and I think so many times people are trying to just get a quick five or job done or quick and I'm like, listen, if you're trying to build a company, you got to build a company and you've done such a great job as, as really building an amazing agency. So congratulations on that. Thank you. And actually my agency took a total turn in a funnel direction that I had no plan on when I signed up for clickfunnels certification. Seriously, this has changed. It has changed my life, it's changed how I, how I've looked at everything and it's pretty amazing. I appreciate that. You know, one of the things I know as I've spoken to a couple of your clients, sometimes you will actually take a piece you made mentioned just a few minutes ago that you're actually vested in their success. How do you set that up as an agency? Speaker 2: 11:43 Two different ways. There's people up front that hire me for consulting and I've, you know, and I, and they me a monthly retainer for consulting and then they get, I offer them funnel services at wholesale or discounts, significant discount, but the, with that I get a percentage of the revenue after, you know, the percentage of revenue, percentage, revenue of adspend, however we work it out so that way it's fair. Uh, there are some projects that um, partners in, I mean literally we set up a company in LLC and I own stock in their company and they assigned stock over to me. Um, and there's projects that I get a retainer. So how it usually starts out is I want to make sure that I like working with someone because frankly, if I don't like someone I don't want, I mean life's too short. Got Seriously, it's way too short and I've experienced it too unfortunately in the past year with friends that aren't here any longer and it made me realize even more how important it is who you surround yourself with and who you work with. Speaker 2: 12:52 So what I'd like to do is a few months, it's like a four month or so trial where they're paying the retainer and they're paying us to do the work and it's not an insignificant retainer. We're talking about 10 grand a month plus. So it's not insignificant, but they're paying me for my ideas. They're paying me to create a strategy and to mentor them. And during that we're going to build and we're going to launch something. We're going to see what it's like working together. If either any point in that time we don't like working with each other, there's no obligation. Then there's comes a point where we're launching and we're going to need to make a decision, do we want to still play together, and then if we do, here's the different ways that we can do it. So I mean that's one of the things that actually this idea came at funnel hacking live. Speaker 2: 13:42 By the way, if you haven't been the funnel hacking live, you need to be there because I can promise you that I have had a business altering life changing breakthrough it every single funnel hacking live. So I don't think you. You may not recall me telling you. I think when I was at the mastermind one time, that was when I was invited there. I was telling you that Russell made a comment about someone paying him $100,000 plus a percentage of the revenue. I remember that. That was right there. That's when that became my model. So all I have to do is hear it. They need a contract. I don't have to. All I have is a seed and I'm like, well if he can do it, I can do it too. And by the way, the one funnel away concept is exactly that. If they can do it, there's no reason why you can't do it. Speaker 2: 14:32 So all I to hear that Russell was doing it and that's my new model and that became my new model from that day on. I love it. Thank you so much for sharing that. Well, David, I can tell you we've got so many fun part for me to talk to you about this. We can go on for hours because I'm so excited and so passionate about what you're doing. A one of the things you're involved in right now is what we're launching here. Literally by the time this recording comes out, it's probably just actually going live, but this whole idea as far as 30 days.com and what we ended up doing was really going out to massively successful people like yourself and said, listen, if you lost absolutely everything, all your money, all your contacts, everything except for your knowledge that you have and the click funnels account, what would you do in 30 days? Speaker 2: 15:15 And you're one of our 30 who actually submitted a plan. Uh, I can't wait to you for you to actually get a copy of the book. It's literally 500 plus pages. It's huge. It's super, super cool. But if you don't mind, tell people just a little bit about, just a little quick section here. What would you end up doing? What would be some of the things that you would do if you lost everything? What would you start with? Well, here's an interesting thing thing, and I don't know if you know this, if you don't read my chapter yet. When I read that I got chills down my spine and I almost teared up. And here's why. Most, most people though, you'll know it now, lets people know that was me a decade ago. I literally, um, you know, I spent, I, I blew through over a million dollars. Speaker 2: 16:01 I went upside down, um, and it came to that point that if I did not stop getting out of my, I'll, I'll say it, you know, early midlife crisis and just stop and really start a business on my own because I left the franchise company to, and I literally spent about a year and a half to two years to two and a half years learning and discovering. And it wasn't to that point that I said, um, if I don't do something by the end of this month, I don't know, I won't have anything. And literally it was that point that I built a six figure business and then the six figure business became a multiple in one month. Why? Because my back was against the wall. So although it was a decade ago, I had a really hard time playing with to tell. I couldn't tell someone to do something if I wouldn't do it. So I literally scrambled during that Fourth of July holiday in July. Speaker 2: 16:59 And I pretended as if I didn't have anything and I said I don't have any contacts. And I literally walked in a place and I did. I went back to what I would do because me, I'm not going to build a funnel to sell things because what do I do? I'm an agency. I build things for other people. So my goto was literally go get a client, go do something and I and I created, which is a new business model that I believe will be a multi seven figure business model. I've got a few really cool niches where we are focused in on and I can now replicate and license this funnel to other places. But that came out of the book. I mean that came out as a school. So literally I had to put myself in the pressure and you know, as perturbation, I had to put that stress on to pretend as if. So we're on fourth of July and my family's on vacation and they're like, what are you doing? I'm writing this book. No, I'm building a new business. Speaker 2: 18:00 And, and so it is, it's, it's a new business that it's been, it's been testing and it's proving itself out. I'm making sure that it's predictable, replicatable, duplicatable, etc. And then by the way, what hap came out of that is a business that could actually run without me. Oh, thAt's so awesome. That is amazing. Because I know most agencies don't work that way. Most agencies, you're the boss, you're the owner, you're the guy who's basically got your district strategist. So I am so excited to hear all about this later. That's super, super cool. That by the way, that's wHat came out of the box of guys. If you haven't read the book, that's just my story and I give you day by day, step by step, not what I would do, what I actually did while writing the story. Oh, that's so awesome. Dude. That is so cool. Speaker 2: 18:49 Oh, can I get chills? Just that book is going to be one of my favorite books ever. We've got so many cool things behind it just because of people like yourself. We've got over 350 people have done over a million dollars in sales funnel, but it's not as cool as that is. You get, again, people like yourself who've done over 20 over $10,000,000 in a sales funnel. But for me, it's, it's the businesses and the lives of people that you've changed because of that. It's not just you as cool as you are. It's as I liquor is here. As I look around, I'm like, you've literally bless the lives of hundreds of people. I mean the people you employ now, the other businesses that now are thriving because of you and what you've done. and I just, I get so excited to see the ripple down effect of a success and I just, again, congratulations to all that you've done. Speaker 2: 19:38 It's just been so neat for me to walk you over the last three years just to. I mean, you're just crushing it and I think it's. I appreciate that you were able to take your 4th of July vacation to contribute as much and to give back and you always get back to me anytime I asked, but you were so kind to do this for us and I think it'll be a huge thing for, for those people who really want to put your back up against the wall and make stuff happen. And cOngratulations again. Well, thank you and thanks for asking and by the way I almost didn't happen because it was sent to my old email and luckily I got a voxer and then we were able to get it done. So that's probably why I had that crash and burn last minute email. If I had known a month earlier, I would've had more time, but then again, I probably would've waited to the last minute, like most people do. Speaker 2: 20:21 Absolutely. Well, as we get kind of close to wrapping things up here, anything else you want to make sure that any of our clickfunnels audience or any of our funnel hacker radio audiences wants to know or should know it. Just do it. I mean, there's no excuse. The only reason why you don't succeed is because you're getting your own way. Um, so many people say, well, I don't have money to do this, or like, I can't do this right now or have to do it my own way. That's usually after people have blown through. All of that is usually when I get the phone call and saying, I'm from your help. So if you have that dream, you know, put the right people in your corner. It doesn't have to be made, it doesn't have to be like company, they put people in your corner that they had been there, that can help you, that can mentor you and guide you and your you'll be well on your way and just take massive action, get out of your own head, take other people's advice and just connect with your audience and give more than you receive. Speaker 2: 21:20 Just one thing I learned from my grandfather is just give value, give value, give value, give value, and I say that because I've talked a lot about my grandfather and this story and also the book that I'm writing right now and love it again. Thanks so much. I appreciate all. Appreciate your friendship a ton and just so always fun seeing you. And again, thank you so much for all that you give to our community. You're always given back and I appreciate it. Done. Awesome. Thanks dave. Thanks for having me. Speaker 3: 21:46 Bye. Hey everybody, thank you so much for taking the time to listen to the podcast. If you don't mind, could you please share this with others, rate and review this podcast on itunes. It means the world to me where I'm trying to get to as a million downloads here in the next few months and just crush through over $650,000 and I just want to get the next few 100,000 so we can get to a million downloads and see really what I can do to help improve and and get this out to more people at the same time. If there's a topic, there's something you'd like me to share or someone you'd like me to interview, by all means, just reach out to me on facebook. You can pm me and I'm more than happy to take any of your feedback as well as if people would like me to interview more than happy to reach out and have that conversation with you. So again, go to itunes, rate and review this, share this podcast with others and let me know how else I can improve this or what I can do to to make this better for you guys. Thanks.
Why Dave Decided to talk to Corey: Corey Thomas is a veteran of the digital marketing world. He has helped thousands of entrepreneurs grow their business and worked with some of the biggest names in marketing such as Frank Kern, Michael Gerber, and Tony Robbins. Corey is the Founder and CEO of PicSnippets, a web-based tool to help entrepreneurs boost their conversions through personalized marketing. Corey and Dave discuss the fine details of PicSnippets; creating personalized lead magnets and incorporating them into your funnel. Tips and Tricks for You and Your Business: How PicSnippets helps increases conversions and decrease costs (2:16) PicSnippets and funnels (3:09) PicSnippets and reducing cart abandonment (4:45) The three steps to setting up PicSnippets (7:45) Quotable Moments: "It’s all about engagement." "Part of this is learning to use your imagination in the business again." "Being able to inject your own brand and authenticity and personality goes a long way." Other Tidbits: Personalizing your customer’s experience with your company from day 1 helps to build and sustain relationships. Links: FunnelHackerRadio.com FunnelHackerRadio.com/freetrial FunnelHackerRadio.com/dreamcar ---Transcript--- Speaker 1: 00:00 Welcome to funnel hacker radio podcast, where we go behind the scenes and uncover the tactics and strategies top entrepreneurs are using to make more sales, dominate their markets, and how you can get those same results. Here's your host, Dave Woodward. Everybody. Welcome back on. Speaker 2: 00:18 Super excited today. Add. This is one of the rare opties we're going to have someone on who's actually created a product that a lot of our users are currently using. And so I want to make sure you guys know how to use it. So I want to News Corp Thomas who a CEO and founder of pick snippets. Corey, welcome to the show. Thanks Dave. Appreciate you having me on. So tell people what is pics nipples extent that says a marketing personalization tool. So a lot of people have their funnels and they're putting together all these really cool ways that they can get people into their, into their company and introduced them, but they don't spend a whole lot of time making it personal. So we created something called Pixton beds to help people personalize their marketing, to increase their conversions and make that personal connection. Speaker 2: 00:59 So I love it. Well unfortunate corey, since we're on this as an audio people, I'm gonna be able to see it, which is kind of the downfall of this. I wish we had this as a video and people can actually see the value of it. So you've got to basically portray and draw the picture and images and these people who are listening, what exactly is pick snippets so they can see it in their mind's eye. Pick snippets, helps you create personalized dynamic images that you can send to your followers and customers. So you know if you want to use it on a landing page or an email or text message anywhere, you might use a picture where you're doing communication. If I take a look at it, basically if you go onto a page or I'd received an email from, from corey and it'd be a picture because I've had. Speaker 2: 01:38 I've received these before and then all of a sudden someone's holding either a postcard or something that says, hey dave, and it's like handwritten on there or something like that. Is that Kinda what we're talking about? The dynamic text and an image. So the image that gets sent to, you know, 100 people, but every person gets the image with their name and, or you know, their information and to make it personal to that person. I love it. So let's talk about obviously one of the main things a lot of our users are trying to do is increase their conversions, decrease their costs, all that kind of stuff. So how does pick snippets actually help them do that? Yeah, it's a, I mean, there, there are so many different ways, right? So we've got, when we think about the funnel, we've got our actual acquisition, right? Speaker 2: 02:19 Maybe you've got a lead magnet or something that people are using. Um, so a lot of people are using pick snippets to personalize the lead magnet. Um, so that way they're getting a higher consumption rate. They're getting higher conversion rate, you know, on that, on that lead magnet all the way down to you after the order form and a thank you to the customers and you know, having those personalized images to increase the actual, um, you know, the lifetime customer value and the customer satisfaction at any, at any point throughout your funnel, if you know who that person is, you know, it's a great time to try to be as personal and create as much of a one on one. Okay. Yeah. So let's talk about it in the funnel because that's one of the things, obviously a lot of people who are listening to us are very familiar is there, are there funnel pages and things. Speaker 2: 03:00 So I go to an opt in page, I enter in my name, Dave on the next pages will then show on those images. Yeah. So an example of this, you know, let's say that you are using click funnels to do a Webinar, right? It's really easy to go in and create a, an awesome funnel and click funnels where I'm going to drive traffic and you know, uh, or maybe even my own list write to a webinar registration. So everybody go in, they sign up for the Webinar. Then on that thank you page, you can have kind of a personalized custom ticket, you know, for that person where it says the Webinar date and time, that person's name written on the ticket, you know, seat reserved for, uh, you know, so right away on that landing page, you're creating that really cool connection, that really cool experience like, Oh man, this is different. Speaker 2: 03:43 This feels really, really bespoke and custom to what the person's doing it. I love it. I know for us, when we take a look at anything associated these days, it's all about engagement, whether it's from a social media standpoint, whether it's in your funnel and that authenticity and congruent. See that goes basically from your, from your ads all the way in, throughout your entire pages. And once you get that contact information and you have the ability then to continue to speak to them on a first name basis, it really enhances that, that fall and actually enhances the engagement in the opportunity that person has. So that was an example you gave. Awesome. Cool. What way? As far as I go, I registered for the Webinar and then on thank you page. It's either a picture of of you basis and a dave. Now welcome to welcome to registration. Speaker 2: 04:27 Get all your details below, print out this ticket, whatever it might be. What are. Give me an example of how it could use it on a shopping cart page. I know Carter bandom. It's always one of the biggest issues people have. We're always trying to reduce card abandonment. So how do we. How do we fix snippets to actually reduce cart abandonment? Really, it's a really popular one because like you said, that's a pain point, right? A lot of people like, Oh man, I had all these people that opted in. I've got these people that are seeing the offer. Right? Or they're going to the car and then they just didn't buy right. And so we're trying to try to recoup those leads and so a really popular one is we send them a followup email that's got a package on it so it looks like a box that's being shipped and we have already in their name, depending on how you set up your current process, you might already have their shipping address. Speaker 2: 05:12 Um, and so we'll put all the information on the box, you know, and so they get an image where it looks like they're package is already getting ready to get shipped and it's like, hey, you forgot to finish your order. Click here to go back and finish it and we'll get it sent right out the door. You know, we've got it ready for you. We've had a lot of customers use it for Carter. So they've gotten, they've been able to recover, you know, a lot in terms of revenue and conversions by being able to make that more of a conversation and add a little bit of a visual element to that offer. That's super cool. So tell me, if I'm taking a look at, obviously that was kind of one of the things for our cart abandonment when I'm now looking as far as some of my follow up funnels and sequences and stuff. Speaker 2: 05:53 What are some of the additional things that you're seeing that are either communicate through email, other image opportunities and uh, you know, part of it is, you know, where can I have a conversation with a person, right? It's about driving that, you know, as, as much as, as possible and authentic and real conversation with that person. And so, you know, doing it as a, you know, for people that are familiar with the indoctrination sequence or you're trying to introduce somebody into your company and what you're all about. And it's sending a welcome image from the whole team, right where the whole team has gathered around. You've got to kind of a group picture and they're holding up a sign that says welcome to the family day, gives you the warm fuzzies and it feels like, hey, this is, this is a real company with real people write that are, you know. Speaker 2: 06:35 And so it kind of puts, uh, puts them on your side and makes you feel like friends right from the beginning. Um, you know, when you can do it over text message or many chat, you know, these, all these tools are great and integrate with click funnels and putting together a really cool conversational funnel with people, you know, being able to, to kind of take it that step further and put a face to it and being able to personalize that experience. I mean we all, we all love getting text messages from our friends, right? Or you know, we're all on facebook messenger or whatever all the time. And so being able to let a company kind of transition, you know, and have that same conversation and, and keep it lively, not just a bunch of texts. Right? That's super boring and nobody really wants to read. Speaker 2: 07:15 But those pictures really kind of helped people create that feel like they are establishing a relationship and actually know who this company is. And it's not just some website. I love it to break down some of the tech behind this thing because I know people go, well, how hard is this? How, how, how hard is it really going to be to actually make that happen? It says on your site, it's real cool. You've already got everything set up. It's on click funnels, landing page, and you've got basically three steps is what I was looking at. Is that right? Yeah. Super, super simple. Uh, one of my friends when this was a kind of prototype phase, I was trying to get him to set it up in his funnel and to kind of test it out. Like I'll get to it, I'll get to it. And so one day I was like, hey, la kind of helped him and he was like, man, if you'd have told me how simple this was out had done it right away. Speaker 2: 07:58 But yeah, it's three steps. You just basically you pick your image so you can upload an image. So if you've got a picture of the team or just yourself or something custom you want to use, you can just upload that image or we have a template library if you're like, I'm not very creative, I don't know what to do. You can just, you know, pick one of our images we already have in our library and then we just have a drag and drop interface. You just, you have your image, you add the text snippet that you want, we integrate with Google Fonts. You can make the font look as cool and customizable as, as real as you can imagine. Um, and then tell us where you want to put it. Uh, do you want to put it on a click funnels landing page? You want to put it in an email? Speaker 2: 08:34 Do you want to put it on, you know, how many chat facebook messenger and then we'd give you the code to go drop in and you're off to the races. So Howard is that code, where do they put that code and how does it actually work? Is it just a simple. It's literally just, you know, you tell us where you want to format it for you, it's a copy, paste it, copy it. If you're going to put it on the, uh, on a landing page, on the thank you page, you're going to just drop it into the click funnels, click funnels, header, footer, script, and then if you're gonna put it in an email, you just literally drop it into that email template and that's it. Super Cool. I love that kind of stuff. That's a, anything we can do to make things simple and easy for people is all what we're trying to do these days. Speaker 2: 09:13 So I appreciate that. Any other ideas, suggestions, things you want to make sure that our audience knows about? Part of it is just kind of learning to use your imagination and the business. Again, you know, I think a lot of people think, um, you know, they, they, they become a funnel hackers, right? And that's the whole point. I'm going to go do what's working and that's great. It's the fastest way to success is by going and copying what's already working, but being able to kind of inject your own personality into it, right? So you have that funnel that you've seen work that's awesome, go and it's never been easier to go and write and funnel hack it and use click funnels, build something you're in, you're good to go, but being able to kind of inject your own brand and authenticity and personality into it really, really goes a long way. Speaker 2: 09:57 So you know, look for those opportunities where you can create that connection with they're just a subscriber or a follower or you know, maybe they're a customer or an affiliate. Yeah. Taking that extra little bit of intentionality and effort to create that conversation, create that. That one on one relationship has always yield at dividend. And so just my encouragement would be to keep on keeping on, in terms of funnel hacking and doing what works, but you know, really take the extra step to flavor and personality. I love it. Any parting words as we get close to wrapping things up now and implement, you know, go do it. It's great, there's tons of tools, so go out and you've got an idea, goes, you know, block the time off your calendar, whatever you got to do to implement. So that's my advice to any entrepreneur. Love it. Well thanks so much for your time and again that's picked snippets. You want to spell that out forms. They've got it. Yup. Pic as in short for picture and then snippets. S N I p p e t s, so pick snippets.com. Got It. Cool. Well thanks so much. We'll talk to you soon. Awesome. Thanks Dave. Speaker 3: 11:09 Hey everybody. Thank you so much for taking the time to listen to podcasts. If you don't mind, could you please share this with others, rate and review this podcast on itunes. It means the world to me or I'm trying to get to as a million downloads here in the next few months and just crush through over $650,000 and I just want to get the next few 100,000 so we can get to a million downloads and see really what I can do to help improve and and get this out to more people at the same time. If there's a topic, there's something you'd like me to share or someone you'd like me to interview all, please just reach out to me on facebook. You can pm me and I'll be more than happy to take any of your feedback as well as the you'd like me to interview more than happy to, to reach out and have that conversation with you so I can go to itunes rate and review this, share this podcast with others and let me know how else I can improve this or what I can do that do to make this better for you guys. Speaker 3: 11:56 Thanks.
Intro Song, The Bush League, “Kick Up Yo' Heels”, James Rivah First Set Mike Zito, “Mississippi Nights”, First Class Life, Ruf Records Bob Corritore and Friends, “Lovey Dovey Lovey One”, Don't Let The Devil Ride Wily Bo Walker, “Walking With The Devil”, almost transparent blues Second Set Freddie Pate, “Let The Juke Joint Jump”, I Got The Blues, produced by Mike Zito Tom Hambridge, “Blues Been Mighty Good To Me”, The Nola Sessions, Helped by Allen Toussaint on that song; also has Sonny Landreth and Ivan Neville on the CD Johnny Tucker, “Tired Of Doing Nothing”, Seven Day Blues, played for long time listener Brent who posted on Facebook, “Huge shout out to BluzNdaBlood because until 30 minutes ago I had never, ever heard of Johnny Tucker and now I'll be listening to Seven Day Blues nonstop for seven (or more) days! Thanks Dave!” Third Set Artur Menezes, “Should Have Never Left”, Keep Pushing, Artur (from Brazil) won the Albert King Guitar Award at the 2018 IBC in Memphis and his band came in 3rd Victoria Ginty, “Unfinished Business”, Unfinished Business, singer, plays guitar, mandolin, fiddle Deb Ryder, “A Storm's Coming”, Enjoy The Ride Fourth Set Marshall Lawrence, “Going Down To Memphis”, Feeling Fine, known as Doctor of the Blues, he also is a psychologist. TJ and The Suitcase, “Baby Please Don't Go”, Live At Sunbanks, check out his web site for CDs T-shirts, etc. Tas Cru, “Fool For The Blues”, Memphis Song Thanks to Brent for reaching out to me. Thanks to Long Tall Deb and Colin, Artur, Joyann, Mark, and Laurie for thanking me on Facebook for playing their music on Show 289! Michael Allen Engstrom at the Crossroads Blues Gallery
"Don't let the fear of failure stop you from starting something you love." We've all heard and/or read this somewhere. It's easy to say and to write on a pretty Instagram pic. It's MUCH more difficult to follow in real life. Dave Baker is now a State Representative, entrepreneur, and award-winning philanthropist. None of that would be possible without a mixture of bravery and work ethic. If you want to understand how far you can go with those two characteristics sit down and listen to this one. Thanks Dave.
Welcome Dave Jackson!Dave Jackson has been teaching about technology for decades and has been podcasting since 2005. He launched the Alexacast in 2016 to document his journey as a consumer of the Alexa technology. I was really excited to have him as a guest on the podcast to hear about his experiences about living with Alexa in America.The AlexacastThe Alexacast podcast was started as a way for Dave to document his journey as an Alexa user. He calls this type of podcast a "journey podcast", one in which the listener comes along for the ride while the host describes his experience while learning about a particular topic - in this case, Alexa. This is a topic that excited Dave and when he found out he could make shopping lists though Alexa, that "sucked him in"!Some of Dave's Thoughts on AlexaInitially Dave used Alexa to control smart lights in his home. He then expanded this to control smart plugs and he enjoys using these smart home automation features.He enjoys using Alexa to create to-do lists and has paired the Todoist app to Alexa to have greater control of his lists.He likes using Alexa to control his music through Spotify and Pandora.He enjoys using Flash Briefings to stay up to date on Alexa features.He finds that the timers are very useful, particularly around the kitchen.One of his favourite skills is the Seven Minute Workout, which he has paired to his FitBit.Thanks Dave!Thank you Dave for joining us on the podcast and sharing some of your experiences and perspectives as a consumer of Alexa!List of resources mentioned in this episode:AlexacastSchool of PodcastingVoice in Canada Flash BriefingPlease leave a review on iTunes See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Most fish keepers and most people in general think that there are only 2 types of water systems and aquariums. They will say that there is freshwater (which has no salt) and saltwater. But, did you know that there is something in between freshwater and saltwater??! Yes there is. It is called Brackish Water. Brackish water is a mixture of saltwater with freshwater. It's only a little bit of salt which results in a low salinity of about 1.010 or less. Brackish water lakes and rivers house some interesting species. You never know what fish or animals you will see when an ocean meets a lake! Archer fish will be sitting at the surface waiting for insects to perch. Monos and scats will be schooling down below. Pufferfish glide by. Did you know you as an aquarium hobbyist can recreate this natural piece of history and art at home? It is easy to have a brackish water aquarium.Our special honorary guest is Mr. David Morton who has been keeping brackish water fish for many years!! He is also group owner of Christian Aquarium Hobbyists on Facebook, a group where all fish keepers are welcomed! Laid back no drama fish group who love tropical fish keepers.David will tell us about brackish water aquariums, and the fish species. Plus, you'll get a few laughs. A great Friday night tropical fish podcast.PLANNED FOR THE SHOW:~ Brackish Water Aquariums and Tropical Fish ChatTopics such as how to set up a brackish aquarium, maintenance,etc.Tropical fish chat including species puffers, archerfish, monos, scats and more~ Funny Archerfish story~ What is ''SCAT""? What is a scat fish!Thanks for listening and enjoy the show!!! Thanks Dave for being a great guest!Exotic Aquatics brought to you by Willow's Reef LLC see link below (copy and paste] http://willowsreef.com/ JOIN DAVID'S AWESOME FACEBOOK FISH GROUP! FISH CHAT AND MORE! EVERYONE WELCOME! (COPY AND PASTE LINK): https://www.facebook.com/groups/ChristianAquariumHobbyists/ NEED A VOICE
In this week's episode, we visit with Dave Bannerman, one of the richest sources of intel on Canadian radio in the twentieth century. He retired earlier this year from his role as radio-TV-journalism instructor at Nova Scotia Community College. We even take a walk down memory lane of an overnight radio show I hosted called "The Whine Line", and talk about the talent that has passed through his classroom. Dave Bannerman was the Program Manager of the station I worked at in 1989. (Yes, back then there was a Program Manager AND a Program Director) He was a great teacher of radio who allowed me to try out things that I thought might work. Some failed, some worked, and some stuff really worked. I was surprised when he made the transition to teaching radio at Nova Scotia Community College in 1995. But as I spoke to Dave, I realized that Dave had been a teacher all along; his curriculum had not changed since our days at Annapolis Valley Radio in Nova Scotia. He had turned out exceptional broadcasters by stressing a focus on the listener, never getting hung up on the digital technicalities, and doing what radio does best: Content Creation. The list of graduates reads like and a Pro-Bowl roster of Canadian radio: Fearless Fred - 102.1 The Edge (Toronto) Gillian Foote - 100.3 The Bear (Edmonton) Ruby Carr - Z95.3 (Vancouver) Jax - Kiss 92.5 (Toronto) R.S. Smooth (Ryan Sommers) CKDU 97.5 (Halifax) Christina Fitzgerald and Morgan Sheppard most recently of Indie 88 (Toronto) (I know there are many many others; these are the ones that I can recall in my head... please me and identify yourself as a graduate if you are in radio today. soundoff@mattcundill.com) Dave announced he is moving on from the school after 22 years of service. Thanks Dave! This episode is brought to you by Promosuite. Please check out their cloud based paperless studio Promosuite NEXT http://promosuite.com/soundoff
Welcome to episode 131 of Geek Bytes Podcast. I’m Ramon Mejia and I’m Edgardo Acosta Every podcast we bring you the roundup of the week’s best Geek and Tech news, then we discuss that news and anything else we’re interested in that week. We want to give a big shoutout to Dave Willmarth, out latest Patreon Supporter who’s pledged $18/month to help us cover the costs of the podcast. Thanks Dave! In Geek News this week, we’ll talk about the new iphone 8, the rumors of a Leo Decaprio Joker, the first images of Misty Knight with her bionic arm and more
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I (Dave) sit down for a solo episode. I read an email from Christian discussing his breakup, and how the toxic relationship ended and rediscovering 'the self' post breakup. Sex Actually is a podcast that discusses dating, relationships, heartache, codependency and so much more. Dave Neal is a comedian from Rhode Island. Hope you enjoy! If this provides you some value, pass along to your friends! Thanks Dave @dnealz @sexactuallypod
Hey everyone and welcome to this week's episode of 3 Guys Walk Into a Bar! This week, we welcome back a fan favorite to guest panel with us on a weird, pervy, dark series of barely strung together conversational tidbits. We got Boiz, Gulrz, and some pretty strong evidence that if you are a woman and alone with the four of us you should probably run. Yipes! There's some cultural misremembering, some jokes so inside you had to be there, and you better believe we'll talk about porn. Oh, and you know we got an update on the Pink Sticks. Enjoy! Cold Open: Calling out the cold open and a brief pre-intro What’s a “Grip?” What’s a “Best Boi”? - http://mentalfloss.com/article/50626/11-strange-movie-job-titles%E2%80%94explained Taco Bell Pico Madness http://people.com/food/craziest-taco-bell-menu-items/double-chalupa https://www.tacobell.com/news/naked-chicken-is-making-a-comeback https://www.tacobell.com/news/taco-bell-exposes-the-naked-chicken-chalupa And... new character, "guy looking for his best boi"? Then some of the worst Waken impressions ever Show Open Song: CAD by ? Body of the Show: We finally answer the question of what it stands for July is “Indoctrinate a Friend” Month - indoctrinate them, just a little “The Return 2: This is Still The Preshow” “Buttsex Hazards” An update on the “Pink Sticks Saga” Someone is finally on Jackie’s side A pretty so-so superpower I can’t even with the Toxic Avenger website - https://www.toxicavenger.com/ Oh, also, everyone else was right. Totally unrelated to Swamp Fellow. Sticky candy Gamer Gurls mentioned - get ready for some good ol’ fashioned sexism You will never hear most of these guys ever give a gamer with a vagina their due Very adamant it’s a woman Black Porn vs. Asian Porn and “The Ratio” Vice’s new show, “Hey, what’s Lem doing?” and other inside jokes Popper return - straights are doing it wrong? - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wdpa5y/hey-straight-people-youre-using-sex-drugs-wrong a sudden and unexpectedly related dark side story More things in porn that Aaron has stuff to say about Female directors of hentai - NSFW, c’mon, do I really have to tell you this? - https://storify.com/_notdrunkenough/female-directors-of-hentai-and-anime The Boiz are pretty fucked up. A variety of Asian thoughts - thanks, bye! Not for me Asking for a friend. Who likes dem feetz? Manuel asks the question on everyone’s mind - who’s the gross one? Is Nikki Minaj’s body actually fake? Khhhaaaaannnn!!! - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/08/1-in-200-men-direct-descendants-of-genghis-khan/#.WWa_hNPythA Taxonomy matters. The secret of Aaron’s buttlove secrets - less frequent and more discerning than you might imagine Accomplice We all gotta pee so bad Outtro - “Whiskey Bar” by Dave Birds - centralplaza.bandcamp.com - THANKS DAVE! some goofy afterbits Manuel was fine, he wasn’t broken, it’s fine. But still fuck yourselves. Put a Pin In It: Buy a Sextoy On Air Read that fuckin’ fan fic Teasing the return of Community Projects Some real crazy unaired episodes that Aaron needs to just go ahead and put out there
HR Happy Hour 280 - Dave Ulrich, Victory Through Organization Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane Guest: Dave Ulrich, University of Michigan, RBL Group This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve and Trish welcome Dave Ulrich, author of the recent Victory Through Organization, over 30 other books, Professor at the University of Michigan, one of the foremost experts on Human Resources, and known as the "Father of modern Human Resources" back to the Happy Hour to talk Human Resources, creating organizational capability, and how Human Resources can continue to evolve to support the organization. Dave talked about the new book, the key can be summed up in the very first sentences of the book - "HR is not about HR. HR begins and ends with the business." From that launch point, we talked about Dave's research (with data from over 30,000 respondents), the importance of HR as the enabler and driver of organizational capability, why the famous McKinsey "War for Talent" is only partially relevant to HR leaders, and some of the ways HR leaders need to adapt and grow in order to support the creation of org capability. We also talked about NBA basketball, the Oscars, and the Spice Girls, (yes, and every one of those topics tied back to the overall theme of the show, that organizational factors have a far greater impact on business performance than do individual factors). This was one of the most interesting, informative, and fun shows we have done. Thanks Dave for joining us!
It's recommendations month here at OGT towers and the lovely David Keep of webcomic whatkindofday.com (and our super-rad artwork) threw Spanglish in our big stupid faces! Starring Adam Sandler and Tea Leoni, it promises to be a thrillride of neurotic whingeing and murky morals - basically Woody Allen without the jokes. Thanks Dave! Featuring: Harry Dean Stanton gettin' some, Momma knows nothing, ghost son, Mexicans! typical marital sex scenes and one utterly unholy coupling.
Dave encourages us to be grateful in all aspects of our lives.
Today shares his thought on Podcamp Pittsburgh, the death of blab.im, and what geese, Ringo Star, and Michael Phelps can teach podcasters. Comments 888-563-3228 The Messengers Are Coming! If you live within driving distance of Akron, Ohio you might want to make a trip this Saturday the 20th of August as the Film Crew of The Messengers (a documentary about podcasting) will be joining our Northeast Ohio Podcasters Meetup group from 3-4:30. They are going to share their story, some cool footage, and film out meeting as well. For more information go to www.neohiopodcasters.com If you haven't heard the behind the scenes podcast about the making of the movie, check out www.themessengersdoc.com/podcast Here is a recent write up about the podcast and movie (and it's not done yet). Attention Podcasters' Hangout Family... I'd like to take a moment and recognize Dave Jackson from The School of Podcasting for spending what has to be an ENORMOUS amount of time editing and producing a podcast that highlights "behind the scenes" for an upcoming film called The Messengers: A Podcast Documentary. The film is the brainchild of Executive Producer Chris Krimitsos and I also serve as Executive Producer myself. This film has taken us and the crew - Director , D.P. Willie L. Harper, and Lead Film Editor Saulo Zayas - literally into other countries to highlight the stories of how podcasters have used this medium to make a MAJOR impact in their communities and/or through their audience. This episode chronicles the back-story of our experience flying down to Guatemala to support and film mobile podcaster Shawn Smith's Now Is The Time Mission, where the organization serves villages living in extreme poverty through building and installing high efficiency stoves, laying down concrete floors inside homes, donating *tremendous* amounts of clothing, school supplies and other goods as well as lead a daily VBS program for all the kids of the villages they serve in... Shawn has been doing this every single year for over TEN years. At the end of each day, Shawn sits down to interview the volunteers about their experience and as you can imagine, these conversations get raw and emotional. These podcast episodes are then uploaded and shared with loved ones back home. This episode of our podcast for The Messengers: A Podcast Documentary highlights this trip and some our own experiences -- and emotions. I hope you take the time to listen to it and enjoy it, and also enjoy the level of production podcasting PRO Dave Jackson has poured into this. Thanks Dave, you are freaking amazingly talented. Join the email list and get access to behind the scenes footage by going to www.themessengersdoc.com Podcamp Pittsburgh In a slide show of the previous 11 years of Podcamp Pittsburgh, you could see where this event was well attended in the past. This year they had approximately 50 people. NOW HOLD ON, before you judging things just by numbers. For me, my goal is to find individuals who want to launch a podcast. I started off my opening keynote speech asking the intimate crowd how many of them already had podcasts. Very few hands went up. When I asked how many people didn't have a podcast yet, TONS of hands went up. So while this was an intimate group, it was a perfect group for me. So judging things by numbers only goes back to people looking at producers who love to share their huge numbers. They might think, "I wish I had those numbers" but what you don't know is how engaged that audience is. While there is no spam in podcasting, some people may not be that engaged with the host. For example, I get very little interaction from my Weekly Web Tools podcast. I love the show, and I love my listeners, but it's a fact that my School of Podcasting Audience is more engaged than the Weekly Web Tools audience. As always I go to events to network with some folks, Saturday night I got to meet some very cool people. I also got to hang out with some of my awesome Libsyn people (Elsie Escobar from Shepodcasts.com and Krystal O'Connor the mind and voice behind all the libsyn tutorials. Sometimes Different is Better Than Better In talking with someone at Podcamp Pittsburgh, they asked how not to sound monotonous. The person explained how they did a show where they asked the same questions to each guest. Now I could be wrong, but my knee-jerk reaction was to think that this person might be trying to follow in the steps of John Lee Dumas (who wouldn't? He makes millions of dollars with his podcast), but (and I've said this before) you will never out "John Lee Dumas the actual John Lee Dumas." You see, it comes to him naturally. I live in an apartment complex with a few lakes. Because of the lakes and the lovely surroundings, we have hundreds of geese. I see them all the time as I walk around my neighborhood getting some exercise. Last week I saw a goose where it looked like they ran out of black paint when they were painting his head. Typically a goose's head is black, with some white coming up from their neck. This goose looked like his head was white, and someone had sprinkled some black on his head (instead of the other way around). I don't know if the geese do this on purpose, but this goose is also separated from the rest of the geese by about 10 feet. When I ran into tonight, they were all by the lake; he was 30 feet away walking down the sidewalk. Now I see these geese every day. They all look identical. I could see the same goose day after day, and I wouldn't know it because they all look the same. That goose with the different paint job may be thinking to itself, "I wish I had more black on my head. I don't look like the other geese. I'm ugly. I stand out. " My point is because this goose is different and it DOES stand out. Embrace your uniqueness. There may another goose in that flock that can fly better, honk louder, and swim faster and I would never know because it looks like all the other geese. I do not notice them. Sure they may be "better" geese, but I don't remember them. The goose with the different paint job I will remember. I have one more example. Ringo Starr is probably one of the most famous drummers of all time. He has a specific style. These are due to a couple of things. One, he was born left handed but his Grandmother "made him" right handed. He still plays the drums with his primarily with his left hand. Meanwhile he plays drums that are designed for a right handed person. He also plays (as he describes it) with his "shoulders" and this often causes his snare drum to be just a shade late on hitting the beat. Many people say they can tell when he is behind the drums because his "wrong" style of playing delivers a unique style. In Ringo's case, different is better. So you may be thinking, I'm not like the other podcasters. I can't publish a daily show, I don't have a Heil PR40, I can't, I don't, etc. To this I say, It's not the tech. If you have nothing to say but have a great microphone, it won't matter. For the record, when John started HE looked DIFFERENT. Nobody had done a daily show for entrepreneurs. Michael Phelps Competition I didn't watch much of the Rio Olympics, but what I saw was very inspirational. Michael Phelps is the best swimmer of all time. The media was preparing for his final swim meets, and they were talking about who he would be up against. Different athletes were coming from different countries with different ages and speeds. These were Michael's competition. This was when I thought about swimming. It's not like his competition is in his lane blocking him from swimming. They weren't going to be grabbing his arms, or legs. The only person Michael Phelps had to beat was Michael Phelps. Podcasting is very much the same way. You are only as good as you last episode (for the most part), and we shouldn't shouldn't measure ourselves against other podcasters. We never have the full story, of what is going on behind the scenes of someone's podcast success. Obsessing over other podcaster's success takes your focus off your audience. Blab.im is Dead Here are some comments from their farewell letter We took a hackathon project that we built in 3 weeks and grew it from 0 users to → 3.9 million users in less than one year. The average daily user spent over 65 minutes per day on Blab The problem? According to their farewell letter, "Of the 3.9 million total users, only 10% (~400,000) came back on a regular basis." This is really stupid part of this statement is they provided a download link to the audio and video. People then took these files and put them on YouTube, and their Media hosts like Libsyn (use the promo code sopfree to get a free month). They also said, "Because the off-the-cuff, unpredictable nature of live streams make for terrible replays." You mean average untrained people are not masters of improv entertainment? They said, "But the majority of usage came from everyday people “just hanging out”. They weren’t making content; they were making friends." The best ‘content creators’ used it ~once a week, for ~2 hours. The people who were hanging out with friends used it 5–6 hours per day, every day. My team is here for one reason. To build a product that millions of people will use everyday. Another classic line which I respect is "For us; we would rather fail to try to achieve our mission than succeed at someone else’s mission." Here is another example of someone shooting for perfection (a life changing social network like Facebook), they missed the mark, and ended up on pretty good. Well, that wasn't their goal. To that, I can say I understand, but people hanging out and making friends will be much harder to monetize. In the meantime, I've moved over to firetalk.com and will be playing with Huzza.io Need Some Help With Your Podcast? I'm available for one on one consulting. 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In this episode Gunnar open boxes the greatest purchase ever made, we talk Pickle's butthole, and our top 5 guilty pleasures of all time.
Because of his Podcast: He Discovered a Niche Who Needed A Product Got a note from Corey Fineran I just handed my boss my resignation letter! This podcasting journey started 7 1/2 years ago and it's now allowed me to leave my job and start my own business! You've probably heard me talk about Ivy Envy (my podcast on the Chicago Cubs) more than the one I did for my employer. Since 2012, I've been able to call myself a "professional podcast producer" as my employer created a new position for me to do video podcasts for teachers to play in their classrooms to help high school students with disabilities in their transition from high school to life after high school (primarily through work/employment). Well, there is a huge need for this type of curriculum and schools all over the state of Illinois have started using that podcast. I saw a need and last summer, I started working on starting my own business, creating innovative and interactive online transition curriculum and marketing it to schools all over the country. After receiving contracts from school districts and cooperatives, I'm able to leave my job at the end of this school year. Many of the people in this group have influenced me (whether they know it or not) to take this scary jump. +Bob Zerull +Ray Ortega +Daniel Hayes +Nick Seuberling +David Jackson and of course, +Tawny Fineran who has been insanely supportive over the last year as I've worked on building this. If you're curious to check out what I've been working on, you can find it here: http://transitioncurriculum.com Another Problem with Your Show's Title Headline As I now work for Libsyn (where you can get a free month using the coupon code sopfree), and I get to see some mistakes that people are making. Now I'm doing a bit of a repeat, and that is people make horrible headlines. In the past I've talked about starting off a headline with the date. What I am seeing now is people putting the name of their show at the beginning of the headline. Why this makes no sens, is any place you can see the headline (your website, a listing in iTunes) you already see the name of the show. Also here is another thing to keep in mind, on the podcasts app from Apple, you can only see 45 characters of the headline if you're not subscribed to it. Once you subscribe you see the entire headline. However, would you subscribe if every headline was: School of Podcasting - How to Podcast Today w School of Podcasting - How to Podcast Today w School of Podcasting - How to Podcast Today w You're wasting really, really valuable space. Why do we care? I had a client who had a respected media outlet that wanted to put their RSS feed on their site. They tested it and the headlines were horrible, and they wanted the producer to change all of their headlines. Want to make great Headlines, check out my Free Headlines Resources Multiple Websites Question Revisited Paul said, " Heard your comments about updating multiple websites. I have 7 x WordPress sites, have used ManageWP for a couple of years now, love it! VERY easy to update all sites at once, gives you immediate admin access to all sites without login and very simple to add and take new WP installations, with dynamic pricing. Daniel said, " I use iThemes Sync. ]But you should also check out JetPack’s built-in module for plugin updates. Then, you can login to wordpress.com/plugins (I think) and update all your plugins from there. It’s not as thorough as Sync or others. But it’s free with no limit on sites. Is Blab.Im Going Away? The quick answer is no. However, the CEO stated this week "Blab is not doubling down on broadcaster tools.” They want to focus more on equipping people to hang out. We talked about this on the Ask the Podcast Coach show that I do every Saturday at 10:30 AM EST and here are some theories of what this might really mean. They can't make it reliable Podcasters are perfectionists They are working on other projects (an app for teens) This is as good as it gets. For me it means, I'm not leaving the platform until it doesn't work for me. I will be scouting other options. Thanks For the Review "What a fantastic resource this show has been for me. As a 51 year old professional in the entertainment industry, I knew nothing about podcasting when I decided to have my own show. The School of Podcasting has and will continue to be my GPS (great podcasting source). Thanks Dave for doing your homework! Alan Bruess, Tailgate Entertainer" from AlanB-Tractor Guy. This review was sent to me automatically from My Podcast Reviews (have all reviews from all countries, as well as sticher be sent to your email ) Advanced Podcasting Recording Tools in Plain English Today I'm joined by Chris Curran of the podcastengineeringschool.com and http://fractalrecording.com/ who has spent years as an audio engineer in the music business, and is now turning his skills on podcasting. Now keep in mind, you do NOT need these items to get started. Next week I'm doing a podcast with just a microphone and audacity. No effects at all. Today we talk through What is a compressor? What do the knobs do? What does it sound like if I messed up? What is a noise gate? What do the knobs do? What does it sound like if I messed up? What is a De-Esser? What do the knobs do? What does it sound like if I messed up? Thinking of Starting a Podcast? Check out www.podcastingpuzzle.com and www.schoolofpodcasting.com
Here’s episode 40 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. You can also download the MP3 directly and subscribe via iTunes or RSS! Call 1-206-333-9308, leave a comment in this post, or use our voicemail widget for feedback/questions for the show. In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others interested in photography may find us. Dave Dugdale from Learning Video opens the show. Thanks Dave! A photographer sues Twitter over not removing all of her misappropriated photos. (#) Just what are those green dots on some Nikon bodies? We cover those and more. (#) Photographer Leila Alaoui is killed in Burkina Faso. (#) Leica announces a curious, rugged underwater camera. (#) Fujifilm may be getting back into the medium format business. (#) LensCoat announces their LensHide for helping wildlife photographers virtually disappear. (#) Got a few minutes to make yourself a paper Olympus OM-D E-M10 II? (#) Listener Mark in California wants to know what's up with the exposure compensation dial. Connect With Us Thank you for listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast! Connect with me, Sharky James on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (all @LensShark) as we build this community. Leave us an audio question through our voicemail widget or call us at 1-206-333-9308. Alternatively, you can comment below or via social media. But we’d love to play and answer your question on the show! You can also cut a show opener for us to play on the show! As an example: “Hi, this is Matt Smith with Double Heart Photography in Chicago, Illinois, and you’re listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast with Sharky James!”
Today I talk about David Letterman and what we can learn from his retirement. We also talk a little Podcast Movement (use the coupon sop to save at podcastmovement.com). Some people are NOT going to Podcast Movement because they invited Glenn Beck. How cool is it to be so hated that people will bite of their nose to spite their face? Because of My Podcast I'm Reconnecting With My Brothers Daniel Herrick creates the five lights podcast. 5lightspodcast.com Due to his podcast he is connecting with his brothers. Last 5 in 5 What were the last five podcasts you listened to? (from Daniel Herrick) Flat out Fever Podcast (formula 1) On the Limit Podcast (formula 1) UK Podcasters (podcast conference) Judge 13 Podcast (F1 podcast) Around the NFL (NFL Podcast) School of Podcasting (Podcast about podcasting) Punch You In The Face T-shirts I had dinner with Ryan K Parker of Foodcraftmen.com who is now famous for his line "No one will punch you in the face" (about your podcast schedule). He had said people had told him to put it on a shirt. So he did. I ordered mine. How about you? Orders are printed and shipped when the time expires (May 31st). You can expect your package to arrive around 7 days after printing starts. Domestic orders are mailed via first-class or priority mail (USPS). Shipping costs $3.99 for the first item and $2.00 for each additional item. If you want to make your own shirt, Ryan is using TeeSpring. I spoke about TeeSpring on the More Podcast Money show. New Businesses Pop Up Around Podcasting We have seen people jump into the podcasting world to help podcasters. We are seeing people who will create your shows for around $50 a show, and now there are people who will help you make a media kit. Hank at http://www.channelhank.com is creating a single page media kit for $25. I am talking with Hank about getting a coupon code (I'll keep you posted) Ben Kruger has a service for small businesses where all you do is record the content and they do everything else. The cost is $697 a month. The Show Notes Guy charges $200/month for a 30 minute weekly show. Podcasting Press will assemble your weekly show for $97 a month. There are new classes, courses, coming out on a daily (almost hourly) basis. Be sure to check the About page. In some cases, there isn't one (just a form to give your email address). Earn Commissions Directing People to the School of Podcasting With so many people coming into podcasting, you may be thinking of launching a course on podcasting yourself. Let me tell you its a lot of work. You need a lot of passion. Here is what you have to look forward to. Recreating videos every time a new update comes out. Helping people retrieve their password again One word: Paypal Phone calls from people who are blind to the idea of time zones (if you supply a phone number). The joy of working with computers (meaning it works on my computer, but for some reason not on yours...) You can earn recurring income by partnering with the School of Podcasting. When you refer a person to the School of Podcasting and they join you earn commission for every month they stay subscribed. JVZOO - One of the Top of the Line Affiliate Management Tools I recently switched to JVZOO as my affiliate tool. They put a few steps into becoming an affiliate (including having a code sent to your phone). This ensures that you are a real person (and not a bot). I want real people, with a real understanding of podcasting to promote the website. Here is a video that show how to sign up at JVZOO. UPDATE: I've moved to http://www.podcastingaffiliatescom Spotify Embraces Podcasting This is good news for the future. Right now Spotify is doing a very limited beta. According to The Feed podcast, This is only the initial launch, available to about 1% of Spotify customers in only a few countries. While we are all enjoying the good news, I know some are bummed that its not a wide open door to entry into Spotify. I understand this point, but I also understand that there are a lot of podcasters, and that is a big door. By limiting the amount of podcasters, Spotify can ensure that their system can handle the traffic. Spotify will be handling the bandwidth. This does mean you will need to check your stats in multiple places. If you are using Libsyn, there will be a special section to check your stats. Spotify is a growth opportunity. Will they run advertising on my show? Probably. I don't care. My show points people to my website. A website that helps me get more consulting and members for my website. You can share any of my free material anywhere you want, as long as you point back to the School of Podcasting. In the same way that I didn't mind Stitcher and iHeart Media spreading my message, I don't have a problem being on the Spotify platform. Spotify Facts The average listener on spotify listens 148 minutes every day We're the talk of the town. Our listeners share tracks, artists, albums and playlists. 2/3 of that sharing extends beyond Spotify, spreading out into social networks. Our mobile audience has grown dramatically in the last year. So more people take us more places. And you have more ways to reach them Paying subscribers: Over 15 million Active users: Over 60 million* Ratio of paying subscribers to active free users: Over 20% Revenue paid to rights holders since launch: $2bn Number of songs: Over 30 million Number of songs added per day: Over 20,000 Number of playlists: Over 1.5 billion created so far Available in 58 markets – Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, New Zealand, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, UK, Uruguay and USA. Lessons Learned From David Letterman I remember growing up and hearing my older brother talk about David Letterman. This was when he came on at 12:30 in the morning after Johnny Carson. Later when I moved into my brother's house, we would stay up late and watch (I worked 1-9 at a grocery store). It was a fun time, and a special time with my brother. When I watched the last Letterman show, I watched a chapter of my life close and realized I would never see it again (except for reruns). While Letterman will always point to other people, it was the adlibs from his desk that made me laugh. Here are some interesting (to me ) stats. Letterman facts In the 1970's Letterman was a weatherman in He received some attention for his unpredictable on-air behavior, which included congratulating a tropical storm for being upgraded to a hurricane and predicting hail stones "the size of canned hams." That line is classic Letterman. His first show was in 1980 and won two Emmys, but failed in the ratings and was cancelled in October 1980. NBC kept him under contract and then in 1982 his Late Night with David Letterman show was launched. He did things like mounted cameras to his dog, a monkey, a rail over the audience. He once used a bullhorn to interrupt a live interview on The Today Show, announcing that he was the NBC News president while not wearing any pants. His show moved to CBS in 1993. The bad news his show wasn't just like his old one and it was geared to be just like his old show. Letterman eschewed his trademark blazer with khaki pants and white wrestling shoes wardrobe combination in favor of expensive shoes, tailored suits and light-colored socks. The monologue was lengthened. Paul Shaffer and the "World's Most Dangerous Band" followed Letterman to CBS, but they added a brass section and were rebranded the "CBS Orchestra" as a short monologue and a small band were mandated by Carson while Letterman occupied the 12:30 slot. Additionally, because of intellectual property disagreements, Letterman was unable to import many of his Late Night segments verbatim,[59] but he sidestepped this problem by simply renaming them (the "Top Ten List" became the "Late Show Top Ten", "Viewer Mail" became the "CBS Mailbag", etc.) The Late Show lost nearly half its audience during its competition with Jay Leno. In 2000 Letterman had quintuple bypass surgery and had to step away from the show an allow others to guest-host. In interviews on Howard Stern, I've heard it mentioned that he was more personal to work with (where before it sounded as if he was a tyrant to work for). The final episode of The Late Show with David Letterman was watched by 13.76 million viewers. In it Letterman spent most of his final talk to thanking his staff. What Can Podcasters Learn From David Letterman? He was humble. He didn't handle compliments well. His irrelevance for the "Same ol' Same ol" made him stand out. Nobody else was make a suit of velco. We all watched and thought, "I can't believe he is doing this on network television." If it ain't broke don't fix it. I knew when I tuned in to hear the World's most dangerous band and found the CBS orchestra that we were in trouble. If you provide good content consistently, you become part of people's routines. People don't like to interrupt their routine. Comparing yourself to others is not a great use of your time. BE YOU. Its all about relationships. When you provide good content, people will go to bat for you. The Foo Fighters cancelled a South American tour to be on Dave's first show coming back from surgery. That cost them money, but that act got them called back again, and again. The last time in front of 13.8 million people. They provided the soundtrack to the last minutes of his show. When Howard Stern was on, he complained to Letterman that Dave had been talking with Jay Leno (Dave and Jay go way back). Why lose a friend because of entertainment shows? Move on, and apparently he did. For a guy that did some pretty immature stunts, that a pretty mature gesture. Thanks Dave. Ready to Start Podcasting? Join the School of Podcasting Today 30 Day Money Back Guarentee
In this episode I have a conversation with my Brother, who just had his first baby (Emma). We speak about the days and weeks after her birth and contrast with the 'Before Emma' episode (#007 right before this one). This is part 2 of a two part Podcast. Thanks Dave! Order prints of my Photography (Posters, Canvas, Framed):www.crated.com/spuntoday Sound effects are credited to: http://www.freesfx.co.uk Shop on Amazon using this link, to support the Podcast: http://www.amazon.com//ref=as_sl_pc_tf_lc?&tag=sputod0c-20&camp=216797&creative=446321&linkCode=ur1&adid=104DDN7SG8A2HXW52TFB&&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spuntoday.com%2Fcontact%2F
It's that time of year again and time for another "Blues Yule Love, 2014" show! Intro Song Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, “Merry Christmas Baby”, Everything You Want For Christmas, 2004 Big Bad Records First Set Davina and the Vagabonds, “Sleigh Ride”, A Christmas To Cure Cancer 5, Tony's Treasures, Thanks Mark! John Lee Hooker, “Blues For Christmas'”, Blue Yule, Rhino Records, Duke Robillard, “Duke's Christmas”, Stony Plain's Christmas Blues, Stony Plain Records Second Set Reverend Shawn Amos, “Santa Claus Is Gonna Make It Right”, Single Release, Put Together Media Thanks to Blind Raccoon Sean Carney & The Nite Owlz, “Santa's Blues”, Sean Carney's Blues For A Cure Christmas, Tony's Treasures William Clarke, “Please Let Me Be Your Santa Claus”, The Best of Blues The Christmas Collection, Hip-O Records Third Set Keb' Mo', “Jingle Bell Jamboree'”, The Best of Blues The Christmas Collection, Hip-O Records Koko Taylor, “Merry, Merry Christmas”, The Best of Blues The Christmas Collection, Hip-O Records Buddy Guy, “Home For Christmas”, Never Released! Exclusive Promo, Mic Shau Music, Thanks Blind Raccoon! Fourth Set Maria Muldaur w/ The Duke Robillard Band, “No Money, No Honey”, Stony Plain's Christmas Blues, Stony Plain Records Freddie King, “Christmas Tears”, The Best of Blues The Christmas Collection, Hip-O Records Grady Champion, “Blues on Christmas”, Goin' Back Home, 1998 Grady Shady Music Fifth Set Lightening Hopkins, “Merry Christmas”, Blue Yule, Rhino Records Michelle “Evil Gal” Willson, “Five Pound Box of Money”, The Best of Blues The Christmas Collection, Hip-O Records Roomful of Blues, “Christmas Celebration”, Roomful of Blues, Bullseye Blues CD Thanks to LB for the production assistance! Thanks to Michael Allen at Crossroads Blues Gallery! A couple of Quick shout outs! First to my buddy Paco the Pilot who posted on Facebook, “Over Italy… Evening and westbound. A beautiful sunset in the horizon and BluzNdaBlood… What else do I want? A couple of beers? Not until we get home, not yet… Thanks Dave, always better and better." Second shout out to all of the listeners of Blues In The Burg! My show has now been added to their Internet radio station! Check them out at BluesInTheBurg.com! Or continue hearing me at least 4 times a week on KCOR, Kansas City Online Radio! Or Almost Heaven Internet Broadcasting in West Virginia! Spread the word I love new listeners! Remember easy way to get the show is to subscribe to the show via iTunes! Start iTunes, search for bluzndablood and subscribe! Available 24/7 and free! And keep in touch! I love requests and comments! Send then to !!!
This week Joe, Dan and Sandeep gather around and wait for Dave to arrive while they discuss Koji Igarashi making Metroid, PS4 firmware updates, Unity on Wii U, and Far Cry 4. We answer last week's question of the week and then talk a lot about South Park: The Stick of Truth, inFamous: Second Son, Sandeep's Book Club, and then Dan sells us all a copy of Little Inferno! Will Dave ever show up? Tune in to find out! Thanks Dave!
The Bickersons, Pamela and Robin Jones sat down for an afternoon fishing trip with Devilfish Dave Ulliot! Also joining them were Evan Abrams and Simon Holden. They covered all sorts of topics like sports, sports betting and of course poker. The Devilfish never at a loss for words meant they all spent about an hour together and it sounded like a great chat. If you want to learn more about the Devilfish, listen to the podcast or visit www.devilfishthebetfan.com. Thanks Dave, come back soon!
The View From Section 17 - Coach Red gets slammed by Kings GM - Boubacar's off field troubles continue - Men's Hoops struggles Interview with MaizeNBrew Dave from blog MaizeNBrew. Wolverine Post Game Notes: A look at the week gone by for U of M Hoops and Hockey. Website: www.themichiganmanpodcast.com Email: themichiganmanpodcast@yahoo.com Call us at the listener line with audio posts or suggestions. The number is 313 263-4842 Thanks again to MaizeNBrew Dave for being our guest. Check out Dave's blog at www.maizenbrew.com . Thanks Dave! Your comments and suggestions regarding the program are very much appreciated. Thanks for listening. You can subscribe to the show from the Podcast section at I-Tunes. GO BLUE!