The Digital Economy Podcast: Recent Episodes
Matthew Baltzell
The Digital Economy Podcast interviews the most influential entrepreneurs and creators who are using social media to grow their brands and business.
During this episode, Matthew interviews Jake Richards, the founder of Act of Pod, about his experience as an entrepreneur, his upcoming wedding, and his role in producing viral content for popular creators such as Joe Pompliano.
00:00 Introduction
1:00 Happy Wife Happy Life3:00 Experienced Lead Life12:00 Outreach. Landing First Client
13:00 Passion Work19:00 Finding Early Success
20:15 Biggest Business Struggle
23:00 Removing Yourself From Your Business
25:43 Creator Economy Pyramid Scheme28:15 Drilling Down
33:55 Mission Schaming
35:35 Exploring Your Curiosities
40:05 I’m Always Wrong
43:15 Favorite Business Influencers
48:01 Podcast’s Failing
52:00 Going To The Next Level
Being an entrepreneur has many highs and lows. Chava Mercado knows this all too well.
He always had an entrepreneurial spirit and was able to bring it to light when he first started hosting parties in San Diego for local college students by taking them across the border to Mexico to party.
Hosting parties were fun but he knew it wasn’t going to last.
Eventually, his event planning gig turned into corporate marketing but ultimately led him to be frustrated and burnt out.
In this video, we learn about the rise of Chava Macado who went from $7 to 7 figures in 3 years. Now, he’s using Instagram to help grow his personal brand and company InMotion Media Group.
PS: Don’t forget to subscribe to our FREE weekly Digital Economy Newsletter where we dive in-depth into how social media helps you grow your brand and business.
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00:00 Introduction
03:15 Chava’s Entrepreneur Come Up
07:05 Billboard Advertising Hustle
10:55 First Client
13:00 Tracking KPIs
19:14 Future of InMotion Media Group
25:20 Business Start
28:00 Burgers to Riches
30:40 Start of Social Media
34:00 Backpack Swag
37:30 Next Steps and Scaling
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Instagram growth can be very frustrating when you first start. You take hours to create a reel to get a few likes and views.
You eventually become frustrated and wind up quitting.
This excuse is normal on Instagram.
No growth…
You give up!
But what if there was a better way?
Niti Sarran is a 17-year-old based out of New Jersey who started a content growth agency for Instagram and Twitter which does $5k in monthly revenue.
In this episode, Niti shares with us how she started as an entrepreneur and shares her early success on Instagram growth.
But it wasn’t always easy for her.
She struggled for 8 months before she even made her first dollar online but in the end, she made it happen.
PS: Don’t forget to subscribe to our FREE weekly Digital Economy Newsletter where we dive in-depth on how to use social media.
00:00 Introduction
02:15 Entreprenurial Network
06:43 Picking A Platform
09:42 Finding First Client Online
15:00 University vs Entrepreneurship
19:00 Future of Entrepreneurship
20:00 Biggest Social Media Challenge
21:50 1,000,000 Views on A Reel
24:30 Social Media Mentors
27:00 Advise To Beginner
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Welcome to The Digital Economy Podcast. This a podcast for creators and digital entrepreneurs who use social media as a means to help grow their business and personal brand.
I’m your host Matthew Baltzell and recently in May of 2022 became a full-time entrepreneur with my podcast booking agency Elite Podcast Bookings.
With The Digital Economy Podcast, I want to give creators and digital entrepreneurs the tools and skills to help them live and work on their own terms.
Borderless, Permissionless, Digital Savages exploring the new digital frontier.
Join me bi-weekly as I’ll be dropping a new episode every two weeks for The Digital Economy Podcast.
PS: Don’t forget to subscribe to our FREE weekly Digital Economy Newsletter where we dive in depth into how social media can help you grow your business and personal brand.
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