An entrepreneur isn’t an entrepreneur no matter how many businesses they try to build or how many startups they have a hand in. Entrepreneurs are built, too, and it’s a step too often skipped. Today’s guest, Ash Maurya, founder of LeanStack, knows all about entrepreneurship. He also knows from personal experience what happens when you […]
How important is a title? Important enough to make or break a sale, according to E. Haldeman Julius, publisher of Little Blue Books and author of First Hundred Million: How to Skyrocket Your Book Sales with Slam Dunk Titles. By tweaking the titles of his books⎯the content, cover design, and promotions remained identical⎯he turned duds
What’s holding you back from creating your online course? Maybe you’ve been imagining all the many ways you might fail. Or maybe you’ve gotten burned when your “simple” course launch crashed. But what if you knew some of the potential pitfalls ahead of time? What if you could get your online course out of your
Whale vomit is gross. But being unique, relevant, and scarce isn’t. In fact, to maximize profits, those are the three things you need. How do whale vomit and business tie together? Today’s guest, Kevin Dubrosky, reveals the secret behind success in business, and the key is to be like whale vomit: unique, relevant, and scarce.
“I switch on my ad blocker before I start surfing the internet.” Unfortunately for website owners, this sentiment has become increasingly common. Most people are fed up with ads, so they install ad blockers to skip over this annoyance. Research says ad blocking grew by 41% globally in the 12 months up to June 2015. Let’s
In most of business history, customer service was viewed as a necessary evil that didn’t have a lot of repercussions if it was done poorly, or not at all. Realistically, how many people could a single person tell about their experience with you? Oh, how times have changed. In the world of the internet, customer
When you think of the term strategic philanthropy, one company comes to mind: Tom’s Shoes. You’d be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t heard of them. For every pair of shoes someone buys from them, they send another pair to a developing country. That strategy, do good to make money, has made them incredibly
“I don’t have the time.” “I can’t motivate myself to write every day.” “I’m not inspired to write anything today.” Or how about: “I’m great at starting a book … it’s the finishing that’s the problem.” “How do I know finishing the book’s even worth it?” “I keep getting new writing ideas I’m more excited
When the world slams a door in your face, do you give up, or do you build your OWN door? Today’s guest, Louie La Vella, is a carpenter-type entrepreneur. Every time a door closed for him, he built another. He’s spent a lifetime in the entertainment industry, and now focuses on creating amazing events that
In terms of performance, did you know that you have a ‘genetic bucket?’ Everyone does, and we don’t get to choose how much they hold. Some are bigger than others, and you can have a huge effect on the size of your children’s genetic bucket, by virtue of the life YOU live. So what’s
