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Bryan Harris first became known for Videofruit, his industry leading blog and online course business. But these days, he has shifted focus to his new business Growth Tools and scaling 1:1 coaching. A master at organization, leadership, and customer generation, Bryan shared tons of gold nuggets during this episode of Ahrefs Podcast, including: 00:00 Introduction 01:02 Shifting from courses to coaching 06:30 Ascension ladder vs descension ladder 15:31 A cautionary tale about sharing revenue 17:45 Free tools as a growth strategy 19:41 How to scale non-commodities 23:45 Finding the right CEO-marketing director fit 31:07 How Growth Tools structures its marketing department 37:40 BOPA (Borrowing other people's audiences) 42:22 Causes of stress and complexity in marketing 45:28 Guilt by association 48:30 Choosing what to promote 58:34 The key to generating customers 1:07:15 The right way to “Figure it out” 1:11:34 Bryan's ChatGPT history 1:14:36 Outro We hope you enjoy our first in-person episode of Ahrefs Podcast! As always, be sure to like and subscribe (and tell a friend). Where to find Bryan: X: @Harris_Bryan Website: growthtools.com/ahrefs Where to find Tim: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timsoulo/ X: @timsoulo Website: https://www.timsoulo.com/ _______________________________________________ Referenced in the episode: Ryan Deiss: https://www.ryandeiss.com/ Russell Brunson (Dotcom Secrets): https://dotcomsecrets.com/getdcsfree-1 Nathan Berry: https://nathanbarry.com/ Brennan Dunn: https://doubleyourfreelancing.com/ John Lee Dumas: https://www.eofire.com/ Pat Flynn: https://patflynn.com/ Glenn Hill (Connection Codes): https://www.connectioncodes.co/ Jim Collins (Good to Great): https://www.jimcollins.com/index.html One Minute Manager: https://www.amazon.com/The-New-One-Minute-Manager/dp/8195246893/ Seth Godin (Purple Cow): https://www.amazon.com/Purple-Cow-Transform-Business-Remarkable/dp/014101640X Noah Kagan: https://noahkagan.com/ Rich Dad Poor Dad (Robert Kiyosaki): https://www.richdad.com/ Supermensch: https://www.amazon.com/They-Call-Supermensch-Backstage-RocknRoll/dp/0062355953 Figure it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPa3E8yis0I
SummaryToday's Online Business Launchpad podcast guest is Karthik Vijayakumar, He is the Founder of Design Your Thinking Labs.After having worked for over 15 years on products, design, and marketing with big companies and startups, Karthik started designyourthinking.com. This started out as a blog. But over time, this little “thing” grew and took on a life of its own.Trudy and Karthik talk about –1. Karthik's background and his move from India to the US to work for IBM and others.2. How after working for 15 years he decided he needed a change of direction in his life.3. That he started blogging and how one of his blogs went viral.4. How Karthik created an e-book that also went viral and credits Pat Flynn for his help.5. The beginnings of Karthik's podcast career on the 17th of October, 2016.6. The struggles Karthik faced in the early stages of his new career.7. How Karthik realized that he had no goal in place and made the decision to hire a coach named Brian Harris from Videofruit to help him on his journey and also THE “POSTER BOY” FORMULA: HOW I GOT MY FIRST 10,000 READERSwhich Karthik found very helpful.8. That Karthik considers himself a storyteller and that he is a numbers person and has a lot of faith in metrics and what they convey.9. The answer Karthik gives people when asked what it is that he does for work.10. That Karthik is also a caregiver to his Father who is suffering from dementia.Trudy Rankin, is the host of the Online Business Launchpad Podcast, Director of West Island Digital and the founder of the Online Business Lift-Off program.Affiliate Disclaimer:Affiliate Disclaimer: If you click on links on this page and then make a purchase, I may earn a commission (at no cost to you). I am a proud affiliate for these resources because I use them in my own life and business.The transcript for this episode can be found here.ResourcesDesign Your Thinking WebsiteKartvee - YouTubeKartvee - TwitterKartvee - InstagramKart vee - Email ContactTHE “POSTER BOY” FORMULA: HOW I GOT MY FIRST 10,000 READERSBrian Harris from VideofruitVisit us here at https://onlinebusinessliftoff.comIf you'd like to reach out and say "hi" you can find Trudy on LinkedIn.
Bryan Harris, the pioneer behind Videofruit, laid out the process he used to earn $220,750 from his online training course: Get 10,000 Subscribers. In this episode, we look at some of the actionable takeaways that can be taken from this case study. Read the article at Site Pro News here: https://bit.ly/2NhddUg Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a rating or review, and share it! Connect with us: ‣ Website: Louder.Online/Connect ‣ Facebook: I Am Louder Online ‣ Twitter: @IAmLouderOnline
Doing business online can be tricky at times. You can earn a lot if you use it properly or get frustrated if you don’t. In this episode, online marketing strategist Lauren Pawell shares how she helps entrepreneurs generate, nurture, and qualify more leads online through high-impact marketing efforts. Lauren is very data-driven, which I love, and she talks about how tools like lead magnets, lead generation, and funnels in your online marketing strategy help grow your business. As an online marketing strategist, Lauren has been featured in Copyblogger, Videofruit, appeared as a guest expert for 90 Day Year Live, Highbrow, The Office Talk Podcast, Freshbooks, Thrive Global, Female Entrepreneur Association, Dubsado, LeadPages, LeadQuizzes, Wordstream, BrandIt Girl, Live In The Feast, The Food Entrepreneur Summit, Teach What You Do, Nail Your Brand Camp, and Blissful Bites. She has also taught as guest faculty at the Laguna College of Art and Design.
Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! Welcome to my June 2019 Income Report! Every month I publish an income report to take you behind the scenes of my online business and reveal exactly how much money I make, how much I spend and lessons learned along the way! Important things that happened in June I continued the personal habits that I’ve been working on, like weekly meal prep, daily journaling and planning. I executed 4 Partnerships (Elevate, Rebel Boss + ConvertKit) I pitched no new partners (on purpose!!) I spent one full week on a project for my old employer. I recorded 4 new podcast episodes with some really awesome people. I created a new inbox + Facebook notification management strategy I continued creating the content for the Website Marketing Lab course. I started recording the content for the new Free 5 Day Website Challenge Notes I found to myself in my planner: You are booked out this week. You are booked out this week. Review of my goals When I quit my day job, I had a goal of generating $10,000 a month in revenue so that I could pay myself $5,000, have $2500 for business expenses and $2500 for taxes. Last month I hit my revenue goal, and my expenses were less than $2500 and I was so excited because I want to give myself a raise by the end of this year, and I eventually want to cover my husband’s salary. Not that he’d ever quit his job and come work with me… but hey, you never know! So there are two ways I can do that - increase my revenue, and reduce my expenses. I’m actually working on both, and my goal is to have my first $15,000 month by March of 2020. What I focused on in June So back in May, I’d opened up the doors to my Website Marketing Lab again - it’s my signature course where I teach online business owners how to market themselves and get traffic to their websites and in June, I was continuing to create tech tutorials for the tech library that’s included in the training, and to host my weekly Live Q&A where I work with the student one-on-one to help them focus, overcome obstacles and keep taking action. I also continue to contract with my former employer, which is super fun because I get to spend time with one of my former colleagues who is a blast, and we actually spent about 6 full days together on a Zoom meeting just hammering out a project together. I enjoyed it, but it took a lot of time away from all the things I do in the business, like marketing, partnerships, content creation, client work… So I totally got behind on my inbox, and Facebook notifications from all the groups I managed, and so I spent an afternoon and played what I call the Inbox Game, where I start at the very bottom and work my way up, and I can’t skip around and I have to Do, Dump or Delegate every single task in my inbox - which means if I gotta spend 15 minutes to do whatever task is in that email so I can respond, it gets done right then and there. And I win when I reach inbox zero. So I did, and then I put a system in place with my team member Laura to maintain my inbox. We set up some canned responses she can use to respond to people who ask WordPress questions to direct them to my Facebook group, and we set up colored labels so she could categorize my emails and I could easily see what emails had to-dos in them, needed my response or that she’d already handled, or that were just FYI’s. And then I scheduled from 1PM to 2PM every day to check email and respond to Facebook notifications. And let me tell you, it’s been hard picking up my phone, looking at email and not just quickly replying, but I made a rule for myself because I get sucked into email like some people get sucked into social media… And I think it’s because I have this underlying thought that “there’s money in there” and “people need me” and then down the rabbit hole I go, and before I know it, I’ve spent an hour replying to emails when I should have been working on a client project and now I’ve gotta make that time up after dinner. So that’s been working out really well, and as long as I’m committed to reserving that time every single day, my inbox is manageable. It’s when I don’t get in there for 4 days because I’ve got my head down in a project that it gives me total anxiety. I’ve mentioned to you that I’m in a program called Growth University run by Bryan Harris of GrowthTools (formerly VideoFruit) and one of the things I’m supposed to do is send one pitch a week for a partnership. I intentionally paused that in June and July, because I knew that I would have my head down updating and redesigned the Free 5 Day Website Challenge and completing the final 6 marketing experiments for the Website Marketing Lab. Once those are done - it’s pitch city in this office!! On a personal level, I’d mentioned to you guys a couple of times that I started listening to a podcast called Losing 100 Pounds by Corinne Crabtree back in January and that by May, I’d lost 17 pounds. And for the first time ever it wasn’t a struggle. I’ve done everything Corrine’s said to do on her podcast, and I’ve built some habits like weekly meal prep, planning what I’m going to eat every day before the day starts, and getting all my garbage thoughts out of my head and onto paper and working through them, and at the time I’m recording this, near the end of July, I’m 23 pounds down. So I’m really proud of that, and I finally no longer have to wonder why it is that I’m so on it when it comes to my business but never had it together when it came to my weight. Now I know why that was the case, and I took massive action to fix it, and just like in my business, I won’t stop, and I’ll reach my goal, however long it takes. And even then, I’ll keep doing what I’m doing and leveling up. So I’m telling you that, A) because I’m totally proud of myself and want to toot my own horn, and B) because there is so much life-changing information out there online - for free - and if you just take ACTION on it, you can change your life. That’s exactly why I created my Free 5 Day Website Challenge, because people that take action on that training CHANGE THEIR LIVES and I’m grateful I can contribute to that and repay the universe in a way for all the information I’ve had access to that’s changed my life, like Corinne’s podcast. Okay, enough of the mushiness. Here’s how much money I made and spent in my business in June of 2019: Total Revenue: $9368.71 Affiliate Income: $1913.10 Courses: $2354.00 Done For You & Consulting: $5101.61 Total Expenses: $2163.54 Get the full breakdown of income, expenses and net profit month by month here. Net Profit: $7205.17 Biggest Lessons Learned Honestly, it’s to just keep doing what I’m doing. Keep planning, keep scheduling realistically, keep assessing when the plan breaks down so that I can fix the problems, and just keep showing up. I’ve got big plans for the rest of 2019, and I spent the last week of June and all of July - as you’ll hear in next month’s income report - preparing the groundwork to grow. It’s hard to believe we’re already more than halfway through 2019… where do you want to be by the end of the year? What about by the end of 2020? You totally can do it, and it’s easier than you might think when you get the right systems in place - as I’ve discovered in fitness and in business. Thanks so much for listening, and I’ll see you right here next week! And if you need a website but have no idea how to get started, go to peptalksforsidehustlers.com/5day and sign up for the 5 Day Website Challenge and learn how to create a website for your side hustle.
Hi everyone, in today's interview, we're talking to Bryan Harris, founder of VideoFruit. His company helps create explainer videos, along with providing other info products. We'll learn how he built a blog that has 20,000 visits per month and 10,00 email subscribers. He's a very focused person, so we'll hear some of his productivity hacks along with email list-building strategies to dramatically increase your email opt-in rate. Click here for show notes and transcript. Leave some feedback: What should I talk about next? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed Connect with Eric Siu: Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @ericosiu
Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! Welcome to my April Income Report! Every month I publish an income report to take you behind the scenes of my online business and reveal exactly how much money I make, how much I spend and lessons learned along the way! Important Things That Happened in April We kicked off the Website Marketing Lab with a new round of students going through the 8-week program. Later in this episode I’m gonna break down my entire launch strategy for you and give you all the stats and numbers so you can see what that looked like. I started working on my Growth University Roadmap I completed the AccessAlly Advocate training. Review of Goals My goal for the month of April was quite a bit different from my typical goal of making $10,000 in revenue and paying myself $5,000 and setting aside the other $5K for taxes and expenses. And that’s because I made two pretty big investments in the future of my business in the first quarter of 2019: #1 – Becoming an AccessAlly Advocate for Nathalie Lussier’s AccessAlly membership plugin. That’s the online course plugin I use to run my Free 5 Day Website Challenge, my Website Marketing Lab and my Web Designer Academy, and it’s the online course platform that I recommend and implement for some of my clients. So basically I paid $1500 for a certification program, and I went through an 8-week training course to learn the ins and outs of the plugin. I completed the program, I’m waiting for my evaluation and then once I’m certified, I’ll be listed in the directory of AccessAlly experts for their customers who want to hire an expert to set up membership sites. I’m super excited about it because I really love the platform, I’ve seen huge success with it in my own business, and I know I’m uniquely positioned as both a web designer and someone who’s had great success with my own online courses to bring massive value to my clients. So that investment was a total no-brainer, I’m 100% confident that I’ll make it back and then some, but it was a short-term outlay of cash out of my bank account make it happen. #2 – Growth University The second big investment I made was in Growth University, a coaching program run by Bryan Harris from Growth Tools, formerly known as VideoFruit. The cost of the program at the time I enrolled was $5,000, and if you listened to my March income report, you know that I had a conversation with my husband about investing in this program, because it meant that instead of writing myself a full paycheck every month, I’d be shorting it by $1000 a month for 5 months to pay for this program, because my husband was a little iffy on me paying some random guy on the internet $5,000 for training (which cracks me up because my business is that I’m some random girl on the internet that people pay thousands of dollars to for training)! My husband is starting to understand that I do lot more than just build websites for clients I find online… Anyway, I opted for the payment plan option, but halfway through April I thought, I’d really just love to pay this off and be done with it and not drag it out, but if I do that, it means that I’ll have to short myself like a paycheck and a half. So again, I had that conversation with my husband, because really what I’m asking is for our personal bank account to pay for this training without it actually commingling our funds – knowing that I’ll do the work and do what it takes to make back the investment and then some. So we did. I paid off the Growth University investment in April, $4000. So, I think about myself in the early years of my business and my mindset around paying for coaching and training vs. my mindset now, and there’s a huge difference in my thought process – and my results. It’s not “I’m gonna spend money on this course and I hope this works for me, I hope I get the results they are promising…” It’s “I’m gonna spend money on this course, and I’m all in. I’m gonna make time for it, I’m gonna do all the steps and I have no doubt that I’ll get results because I’m not going to stop until I reach the goal I set for myself. And if I get stuck or need help, I’m going to ask for help.” Like, the way I used to think about it, it was like the results were out of my hands. And that’s why I kept thinking that things I was doing weren’t working. I’d try them once and if they weren’t a massive success, I’d declare it a flop and try something totally new. I’d think “That strategy doesn’t work, I gotta try something new.” But that’s totally not true, that’s just how I was thinking about it. And that’s not how I’m thinking about my Growth University Roadmap at all. The results are totally in my control. I’m thinking, “Everything I’ve done to this point has led me here, and my only job is to follow the plan we worked out together, and never stop until I reach my goal.” So you’ll see later on when I share my revenue and expenses that I had a HUGE outlay of expenses this month – something I may have thought about in the past as a risk that may or may not pay off. But now I think about them as a bet on myself, and those pay off for me 100% of the time. And they were planned, and I feel good about my decisions, and I am confident that I’ll reach my goals. What I Focused on in April So you may recall from my March income report that I launched my Website Marketing Lab course, which teaches you how to market your business online and get traffic to your website in authentic and algoritim-proof way. So in this income report I’m gonna break down my launch strategy and results for you so that you can do this yourself in the future. For anyone that’s new to the podcast, I have a free training called the 5 Day Website Challenge which teaches people how to DIY their website – and it teaches EVERYTHING. Like, all of the things that I do for my paying clients, I put that process together in a free training to teach people who are in the beginning stages of starting their business and really shouldn’t be investing in a professionally designed website yet how to do it themselves so they can start marketing themselves and getting clients. So I love web design, but websites are really a means to an end, and my real passion is online marketing, and creating websites that help people market themselves, and I love teaching all of those tactics to people, and showing them how to set up the tech to market themselves, because again, when you’re just starting out, you shouldn’t be hiring people to do this stuff for you because you’re testing out a lot of things, and so many things are going to change and you need that flexibility to be able to set that stuff up and make those changes yourself. So people sign up for my 5 Day Website Challenge, and they really just think of me as the tech girl, you know, their WordPress BFF. And the mistake that I’ve made in the past is to just jump straight from “here’s a free training to teach you how to build your website,” to “want to pay me to learn how to market yourself?” and there’s a disconnect. They either don’t look at me as their go-to marketing person, or they don’t realize that they have to market themselves because they think having a website will automatically bring them traffic. So I needed to do something to bridge that gap, the gap from having a website to actually getting traffic to the website, and the gap from thinking of me as your website person to thinking of me as your online marketing person. So that’s why my whole Website Marketing Lab launch strategy starting out with another free training called 5 Day Freebie Challenge where I taught my method for creating a freebie that helps you grow your email list on autopilot, and then at the end, I invited anyone who wanted to continue on with the process of learning how to market that freebie to join the Website Marketing Lab. So here’s how it worked – and I teach this strategy in depth in the free 5 Day Freebie Challenge – which by the way I’m actually hosting another free 5 Day Freebie Challenge on May 13 if you want to get in on it – just go to www.wp-bff.com/freechallenge or click on the link at the top of the show notes to save your spot. First, I have a bit of an advantage because I already have an email list, and last year I did a survey asking them what their biggest struggle has been when it comes to their business and what they want to learn next – and there were 2 things that kept coming up: how to market myself and how to get traffic. And I know that the answer to how to market yourself and how to get traffic is not what people typically think it is, like search engine optimization or blogging or social media. Those are tactics, not a strategy and I think that’s why people get so frustrated is because they go straight to tactics without having all the right pieces of the strategy. The answer to how to market yourself is building an email list, and the way you build an email list is by giving away valuable free content in exchange for an email address. And the way you get traffic is by sharing that free thing online with an irresistible call to action that makes people want to go to your website and get the free thing. And so I knew that what was going to move people from having a website and not getting traffic to having a website that gets traffic is to teach them how to create the freebie that they need to be able to execute all of the marketing tactics that are supposed to bring you traffic. And I also knew that the freebie is just one part of the overall equation, so I could deliver massive value by teaching them how to do that part for free, and then the natural next step for anyone that wanted to then learn how do all the tactics to actually get that freebie in front of their ideal clients would be to join me in the Website Marketing Lab. And if they didn’t join me, that’s okay too, they walked away learning a ton and they might decide to join the next time around, or tell other people about it. So to put together the free training, I outlined the 5 things people needed to learn to create their freebie, and then I decided I wanted to deliver the training live in a Facebook Group where I could interact with people and answer their questions instead of doing via email or prerecording it. I also created a workbook, because I wasn’t just teaching them concepts, I wanted the training to be really actionable, and I wanted them to walk away with something tangible – because I really wanted them to get a taste of what they’d be doing inside of my paid program. So here are the stats: I had 2500 people on my email list at the time. Starting about a week and a half before the 5 Day Freebie Challenge I sent out an email inviting my list to the free training. I sent three more invitations over the course of a week to anyone that didn’t sign up. I added a HelloBar across the top of my WP+BFFs site and my courses site so that any visitors there would see it and sign up. I totally forgot to put it on my Pep Talks for Side Hustlers website. I posted about it on Instagram a couple of times, and I created a pin on Pinterest about it, and I posted it in my Facebook Group a few times. And I mentioned it on a few podcast intros leading up to the start date. I didn’t run any ads for the training at all. I had 600 people sign up for the free training. So then, when people signed up, they got an email letting them know the details of the Challenge and what to expect, that I’d be sending them a workbook the day before the Challenge, and to join a special Challenge-only Facebook group that I created just for the Challenge. Then I’d go live each night at 7PM, and I’d send out the replay to them the next day if they couldn’t join me live. Out of the 600 that signed up, 350 actually joined the Facebook group, and I had about 40 to 50 people join me live every night, which was SUCH a blast. I taught my concept for 20 minutes or so, and then I spent the last 40 minutes answering questions. And by doing it that way, I learned a ton about what their needs were, and when it came time to invite them to join me in the Website Marketing Lab at the end, it was a natural next step for me to make the offer because I knew I was right on track, I wasn’t doing a hard sell, i didn’t feel like an informercial. Throughout the Challenge I let people know that on the last day I was going to let them know how to continue working with me, so it wasn’t like a bait and switch, and then I talked about the Website Marketing Lab at the end of Day 5, and then I also did a followup email sequence to everyone that signed up letting them know what kind of results they could expect by following the marketing roadmap I created for them inside the Website Marketing Lab. So out of 600 people, I had 8 new people join the program at $297 for the first month, and then $49/month ongoing – and that revenue was actually part of my March income report, it’s the $49 ongoing that you’ll see in this income report. And that’s actually in line with what I was expecting based on the price of the program. And then after it was over, I surveyed everyone who signed up but didn’t purchase and asked them what influenced their decision to NOT buy, and over 95% of respondents said that they wanted the program – and that their decision to NOT buy wasn’t motivated by price, which totally validated that I’m marketing it effectively, and that my price isn’t too high. So the key takeaways here are that when you can do something to provide massive value to your ideal client, but that’s also going to give you tons of insight on whether you’re on the right track or not, that’s always a good use of your time. I’m about to break down the revenue numbers for you in a sec, but I want to point out that when I sold the Website Marketing Lab, I hadn’t created any of the content yet. I did that for a few reasons – one, I’ve created programs before that no one purchased, and it’s a total waste of time. Two, doing a Live Challenge and interacting with the people I was going to offer my course to BEFORE I built it helped me make sure that I was creating exactly what they needed, instead of what I thought they needed. And three, it’s totally keeping me accountable to getting all the course content done, because that’s what I spent all my time on in April, was recording the modules I’d outlined, and setting them up in AccessAlly and releasing them to my students, week by week. And like I said, I’m opening up the program again in May and testing a different pricing structure – with the added bonus for new students that all the content is done so they can work at their own pace! I’m also working on some new techniques to validate the pricing and my offer as part of Growth University so I can get that dialed in – because as those of you that listen to the podcast, I’m always worrying about my pricing. But when your students tell you they can’t believe what they’re getting for the price and that they would have gladly paid more, that’s a sign that you’re on the right track! So with all of that, here’s how much money I made and spent in April of 2019: TOTAL REVENUE: $6529.44 Affiliate Income: $1973.80 Courses: $1891.80 Done For You & Consulting: $2664.64 TOTAL EXPENSES: $6753.60 Get the full breakdown of income, expenses and net profit month by month here. NET PROFIT: -$224.15 BIGGEST LESSONS LEARNED This is the first time I’ve posted a negative profit, but I totally expected it, so it didn’t throw me into a panic like it might have had I not started actually planning out a monthly budget before the month started, Dave Ramsey style. I have an extra $4500 in expenses in April due to Growth University and AccessAlly Advocate training, which I totally planned on and knew I wouldn’t be paying myself for the second half of April – but what I didn’t plan for is a Done For You web design client not paying their invoice on time, which is why I have negative profit in April. I did get that payment, just not until May. So right now, I feel like I have a total clean slate. Everything is paid for, I’ve actually reduced my baseline expenses significantly, which you’ll start to see in my May income report which means I get to take home more profit, or bring in more help or whatever needs to happen as my partnerships start to bear fruit and my email list grows and I get more and more successful students coming out of the Website Marketing Lab and Web Designer Academy, and I start booking more lucrative Done For You projects. So my biggest lesson learned this month – and it’s one that I know I’ve mentioned before but it keeps proving itself to be true – is that how I think, and what I believe about what is possible, is 100% responsible for my results. It’s what drives my action or inaction. It’s not that I signed up for this coaching program or that certification program, it’s that I believe that I will do what it takes to take action on what I learn inside of those programs and that I know I won’t stop until I’ve reached my goal, and that I believe that it’s possible for me. And so if you can start cultivating that belief in yourself too, that you’ll never stop trying until you get what you want, then your success is guaranteed. So if you want to sign up for my next 5 Day Freebie Challenge, even if you’re listening to this months after it was published, head on over to www.wp-bff.com/freechallenge and save your spot in the next one – I’ll teach you everything I can pack into 5 daily lessons about how to create the kind of freebie that helps you market yourself online. And if you need a website but have no idea how to get started, go to peptalksforsidehustlers.com/5day and sign up for the 5 Day Website Challenge and learn how to create a website for your side hustle.
Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! I’m so excited to bring you today’s guest, Nagina Abdullah of MasalaBody.com. Nagina and I met through Videofruit’s Partnership Accelerator program, and the moment we started chatting I knew I had to get her on the podcast to share her inspiring story with you! Today we’re talking about: How Nagina took the results of a personal transformation and turned it into a successful 1:1 coaching side hustle Nagina’s biggest mistakes when she first started out & her best advice for someone who is just starting. The only pages necessary on your website when you go live. Nagina’s strategy for getting exposure for her business from day 1. Exactly what Nagina does to connect with her audience. The number one thing that helped Nagina execute on her side hustle while working full time and caring for her family. Nagina’s best strategies for finding time for her side hustle. How Nagina got over the fear of putting herself and her offerings out there. Get your hands on the Sweet Spice Cheat Sheet freebie Nagina put together for you at https://Masalabody.com/PT4SH and even if you don’t need to lose 15-40 pounds, go check out Nagina’s website, follow her on Instagram @masalabody and get on her list to get inspired by how she’s connecting with her ideal clients online! About Nagina: Nagina Abdullah is a health coach for busy women and moms and founder of the website MasalaBody.com. Nagina has taken her business from $0 to $100k+ annually on the side of her day job by helping other busy women lose weight while indulging and eating more delicious foods. She has helped hundreds of women lose 15-40 pounds and shrink their waist. Nagina has been featured in Business Insider, Health.com, Huffington Post and on Fox News. Quotes: “Get your thoughts in front of people. Get feedback, use it, make changes and keep getting better.” “Your goal is to get your ideas and your content out there. It doesn’t have to look beautiful.” “You have to be out there proactively, creating connections, trying to reach new people that you can partner with.” Leave a Review! Learn to build a website step by step with the Free 5 Day Website Challenge at www.peptalksforsidehustlers.com/5day
Meet Lauren Pawell. Lauren helps entrepreneurs generate (and nurture) more leads through their websites. Through her company, Bixa Media, she offers one-on-one consulting as well as done-for-you services. As an online marketing strategist, Lauren has been featured on Copyblogger, Videofruit and Thrive Global, as well as appeared as a guest expert on Highbrow, The Office Talk Podcast, Live In The Feast, The Food Entrepreneur Summit, Teach What You Do, Nail Your Brand Camp, and Blissful Bites. In this Episode, Ben and Lauren discuss her focus on high impact marketing efforts and how she came to serve small businesses. She answers why lead-nurturing is equally as important as lead generation (if not more), and how to leverage the power of content creation to get new leads to know, like and trust you so that they eventually buy from you. Resources Mentioned Freelance To Freedom Book Giveaway Bixa free Facebook community ConvertKit Mailchimp Drip Active Campaign Dubsado ShootQ Sponsors Gifyyy Booth Freedom Edits - I have covered your first order…yep, it's FREE.
The Business Method Podcast: High-Performance & Entrepreneurship
Current Series: 100 Interviews with 100 Location-Independent Entrepreneurs that have over $1,000,000 in Annual Revenue Could you imagine being in a bar in Singapore, having a few drinks and getting into a conversation with another guy at the bar about starting a business? The next night, you and your new found friend meet up and start working on the idea. Fast forward a few years and now you run a business generates over $1 million per year while living in your favorite city in the world. Our guest today is Mark Webster. Mark the co-founder of AuthorityHacker.com and HealthAmbition.com. On the show today. Mark shares his story about meeting his now business partner and how they built their business up into a 7-figure location independent business. Mark also discusses the science behind 6-figure launches, selling high-ticket 4-figure courses, and getting a half-million visitors per month to their website. “The more scarcity points we can create within a launch. The more sales we get, by a huge amount.” Mark Webster 01:27: Budapest, Hungry 02:30: What Mark Dislikes About Dubai 04:14: Meeting His Business Partner in a Bar 07:23: Authority Hacker 12:04: Selling Courses at High 4-Figures 15:18: Tactics to Get 500,000 Monthly Website Visitors 20:00: Mark on 6-Figure Product Launches 24:35: Do Payment Plans Really Increase Sales? 26:00: Transparency in Mark's Businesses 28:02: Money Management in a 7-Figure Business 31:12: Paying Yourself a Salary 34:44: Mark on Work/Life/Travel Balance “When you're moving from a six to a seven-figure business mindset, you're going to have to relinquish control.” Mark Webster Honorable Mentions: NomadList https://nomadlist.com/ Hardcore History with Dan Carlan http://www.dancarlin.com/ Brian Dean founder of Backlinko https://backlinko.com/ VideoFruit.com https://videofruit.com/ Xero Online Accounting Software https://www.xero.com/ Authority Hacker Podcast https://www.authorityhacker.com/podcast-2/ Contact Info: https://www.authorityhacker.com https://www.healthambition.com/
Today I’m excited to have Brian Harris on the show. I was introduced to Brian by our mutual friend Grant Baldwin and I actually saw a video of Bryan speak at one of Noah Kagan’s events and I was really impressed. Anyway Bryan runs the site VideoFruit.com where he reverse engineers what the top marketers are doing online and shows you how to integrate those strategies into your business. Specifically, Bryan is an expert at growing your email list and launching a product. So today we are going to cover how to quickly build an email list and how to […] The post 169: How To Get Your First 10000 Email Subscribers With Bryan Harris appeared first on MyWifeQuitHerJob.com.
As we grow our email lists, we may tend to get caught up in creating complicated 'ninja' strategies and forget that sometimes, keeping it simple may actually be the most effective! In this episode, Bryan Harris, founder of Videofruit joins me as we dive into a list-building brainstorming session and talk strategy on optimizing homepages, content upgrades, list building and so much more! Bryan shares his thoughts about how showing vulnerability helped him grow his audience, the importance of sequencing and why he keeps his marketing strategies simple. This episode is full of value-bombs as Bryan spills the beans on his simple strategies to help you build your email lists and so much more, on this episode of Youpreneur FM. Essential Learning Points From This Episode:Bryan talks about the big misnomer of taking the expert role in whatever you're teaching. What Bryan means by taking the "learning out loud" approach. Where and how you should start when building your list from zero. What Bryan means by an Upside Down Homepage Template. How to use the 'Poster Boy Formula' and why Bryan recommends it. Much, much more! Important Links & Mentions From This Episode: Videofruit (http://videofruit.com/) Bryan Harris on Twitter (https://twitter.com/harris_bryan) Tim Ferriss (http://fourhourworkweek.com/2016/04/11/tim-ferriss-podcast-business/) Gary Vaynerchuk (https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/) Seth Godin (http://www.sethgodin.com/) Michael Hyatt (https://michaelhyatt.com/welcome/) Bryan Harris' Upside Down Homepage Blog Post (https://www.leadpages.net/blog/guest-post-home-page-design-bryan-harris-videofruit/) Pat Flynn (http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/) Camtasia (http://discover.techsmith.com/camtasia-brand-desktop/) Sumo (https://sumo.com/) Wistia (https://wistia.com/) Lead Magnet Blog Post on Videofruit (http://videofruit.com/blog/lead-magnet/) Michael Hyatt's Top 50 Literary Agents Blog Post (https://michaelhyatt.com/literary-agents-who-represent-christian-authors.html) Ultimate VA Salary Guide (http://www.virtualstafffinder.com/virtual-assistant-salary/) SPI 078 Podcast with Pat Flynn and Clay Collins (http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/podcasts/rapid-list-building/) Launchpad (http://chrisducker.com/launchpad) Build the Business of You (http://chrisducker.com/launchpad) (youpreneuracademy.com) Thank You for Tuning In!There are a lot of podcasts you could be tuning into today, but you chose mine, and I'm grateful for that. If you enjoyed today's show, please share it by using the social media buttons you see at the top and bottom of this page. Also, kindly consider taking the 60-seconds it takes to leave an honest review and rating for the podcast on iTunes (https://www.chrisducker.com/itunes) , they're extremely helpful when it comes to the ranking of the show and you can bet that I read every single one of them personally! Lastly, don’t forget to (https://www.chrisducker.com/itunes) , to get automatic updates every time a new episode goes live
Oggi parliamo di:#1 - LIBRO = 59 SECONDIE se molto di quello che ti hanno raccontato sulla motivazione sia falso? Se i dati e le storie spacciate per vere fossero solo dei casi specifici molto isolati... che diventano vere solo perché le sentiamo infinite volte?Tutto cambierebbe, esattamente come mutare la prospettiva con cui guardiamo le cose intorno a noi ci permette di dare loro un nuovo significato.Da un mago-psicologo tutto è lecito aspettarsi. Illuminante!http://go.temposuper.com/59secondi#2 - BLOG = VIDEOFRUIT.COMÈ uno degli americani che seguo di più per la parte di marketing, soprattutto per l'approccio un po' contrarian e la voglia di sperimentare continuamente.Fa dei post enormi, che sembrano libri, ma ricchissimi di cifre e esempi personali (nella buona e nella cattiva sorte) senza nascondere apparentemente nulla.Una filosofia, quella della trasparenza totale e dei contenuti tosti, che paga... almeno nel suo caso.http://videofruit.com/blog/#3 - SOFTWARE = CONVERTIO.COQuante volte ti è capitato di ricevere un file via mail e non riuscirlo ad aprire? Oppure dovevi inviarlo e non sapevi come fare perché non avevi il software giusto?Convertire i file è sempre stato un problema, ma da oggi il web ha la soluzione, interamente online.Basta che invii il tuo file, scegli il formato di destinazione e si occupa lui di tutto. Nel 90% dei casi gratis, altrimenti con un piccolo contributo.https://convertio.co/it/#4 - VIDEO = AMERICAN HACKERHai presente quelle piccole invenzioni casalinghe che con un pugno di centesimi e tanta roba che stai per buttare potrebbero tornarti utilissime?Questo canale (un po' da nerd, ammettiamolo) ti insegna a costruirle.Personalmente lo consiglio anche per chi ha dei bambini, come strumento di apprendimento basato sul gioco, molto ecosostenibile.https://www.youtube.com/user/macobtVuoi ricevere gratis i nuovi suggerimenti? Vai su http://go.temposuper.com/bestweekeverOgni venerdì alle 13:00 non perderti la sessione live su Facebook.
Oggi parliamo di:#1 - LIBRO = 59 SECONDIE se molto di quello che ti hanno raccontato sulla motivazione sia falso? Se i dati e le storie spacciate per vere fossero solo dei casi specifici molto isolati... che diventano vere solo perché le sentiamo infinite volte?Tutto cambierebbe, esattamente come mutare la prospettiva con cui guardiamo le cose intorno a noi ci permette di dare loro un nuovo significato.Da un mago-psicologo tutto è lecito aspettarsi. Illuminante!http://go.temposuper.com/59secondi#2 - BLOG = VIDEOFRUIT.COMÈ uno degli americani che seguo di più per la parte di marketing, soprattutto per l'approccio un po' contrarian e la voglia di sperimentare continuamente.Fa dei post enormi, che sembrano libri, ma ricchissimi di cifre e esempi personali (nella buona e nella cattiva sorte) senza nascondere apparentemente nulla.Una filosofia, quella della trasparenza totale e dei contenuti tosti, che paga... almeno nel suo caso.http://videofruit.com/blog/#3 - SOFTWARE = CONVERTIO.COQuante volte ti è capitato di ricevere un file via mail e non riuscirlo ad aprire? Oppure dovevi inviarlo e non sapevi come fare perché non avevi il software giusto?Convertire i file è sempre stato un problema, ma da oggi il web ha la soluzione, interamente online.Basta che invii il tuo file, scegli il formato di destinazione e si occupa lui di tutto. Nel 90% dei casi gratis, altrimenti con un piccolo contributo.https://convertio.co/it/#4 - VIDEO = AMERICAN HACKERHai presente quelle piccole invenzioni casalinghe che con un pugno di centesimi e tanta roba che stai per buttare potrebbero tornarti utilissime?Questo canale (un po' da nerd, ammettiamolo) ti insegna a costruirle.Personalmente lo consiglio anche per chi ha dei bambini, come strumento di apprendimento basato sul gioco, molto ecosostenibile.https://www.youtube.com/user/macobtVuoi ricevere gratis i nuovi suggerimenti? Vai su http://go.temposuper.com/bestweekeverOgni venerdì alle 13:00 non perderti la sessione live su Facebook.
In today's episode of The Art of Passive Income, Mark and Scott talk to Josh Steimle—JoshSteimle.com. Josh has been featured in Time, Forbes, Tech Crunch, Entrepreneur and he is on Mashable. Josh has also written a book, Chief Marketing Officers at Work and has been running a digital marketing agency, MWI, since college in 1999. In this episode, Josh gives away his biggest secret in business, and that is to give away your biggest secret, or advice, for FREE! "The more I give, the more I get back. Plus, it's fun to give!" Josh answers: How does he attract people to his website? If he can go back to the beginning, what one thing would he change? What is his biggest challenge? What is the best place to start for entrepreneurs? What is the future of content marketing? 5 books Josh would take if he was on a deserted island: Virtual Freedom: How to Work with Virtual Staff to Buy More Time, Become More Productive and Build Your Dream Business by Chris Ducker Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday The Power of Self-Confidence: Become Unstoppable, Irresistible, and Unafraid of Every Area of Your Life by Brian Tracy Creativity Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg Listen in for some great tips and advice and discover the best way to attract your target customers to take your business to the next level. TIPS OF THE WEEK Mark: Go to JoshSteimle.com. He gives away so much valuable information! Scott: Check out Cardlife to take control of your subscriptions! It will save the average person $587 a month! Josh: Follow Bryan Harris of VideoFruit. He's an email building GURU! While he does have paid services he also gives away a ton of free advice that will definitely help grow your email list! Isn't it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want and with whomever you want?
Bryan loves teaching other people how to make killer videos for their business. He is the founder of Videofruit where they reverse engineer and test 1,000s of growth strategies per year.
Bryan loves teaching other people how to make killer videos for their business. He is the founder of Videofruit where they reverse engineer and test 1,000s of growth strategies per year.
Today I want to talk about a prevailing motif on this show which is the idea that adventure is relative. You don’t need to go far, like Jodi Ettenberg said in episode 10, “What does off the beaten path really mean? This idea that you can only satisfy the new by going to far flung places, I don’t think it’s very accurate… You can have really meaningful, messed up experiences right in your own backyard if you’re open to experiencing them. The only difference is the cultural gaps are smaller.” And what she means is that it’s the curiosity, the openness, the freeing of the mind that’s more important to exploration. Travel assumes distance, but exploration can happen anywhere - and wherever you explore there is adventure waiting for you. It’s an easily dismissed idea, this one that you can localize your travels to find adventure - but it’s realistic and actual. And you’re doing it. So I want to explore what we really mean when we say you can find adventure in your backyard, you can explore the world nearby, and still find life-changing things if you’re open to them. I asked my friend, a listener of this show, an aspiring adventurer and untethered entrepreneur, Bryan Harris of Videofruit to come on the show and chat with me about a little side project he has been working on to answer the call to adventure that he hears, but in a way that doesn’t involve big distance, or money, or time. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Soundcloud or TuneIn What We Cover: How Bryan got into travel through a church trip to Sub-Saharan Africa. Why the world is safer than you think How Bryan made living on a houseboat for five years into a reality, found adventure, and saved a lot of money doing so How to find adventure and mystery in your own backyard Words from an Explorer: “’You don’t have to travel to Paris to find really cool stuff that happened a long time ago that’s interesting to you.” Explore Further: Videofruit.com Gary Vaynerchuk Music Credit: Intrepid Journey, by Aaron Static Become a Friend of the Show: Please subscribe and review! It just takes a second and you can help the show increase its rankings on iTunes just by this simple and quick gesture. We’d be grateful for a review. Leave one here. If you do, click here to let me know so I can personally thank you! Your Feedback If you have an idea for a podcast you would like to see or a question about an upcoming episode,email me! I’d love to hear from you. Thank you so much for your support! See you next time! The post 87: Finding Microadventure in Your Backyard with Bryan Harris appeared first on The Daily Travel Podcast.
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