Growth+ Podcast: Recent Episodes
Alex Branning
Chaos produces change. Change pushes innovation. Innovate your business... or crumble. On the Growth+ Podcast, Alex Branning details actionable steps to help you grow your business through marketing ideas, financial wisdom and aggressive strategies.
In this episode, Alex gives us a look into his weekly VIP call. However, this Is a special call, where Alex talks about appreciating your accomplishments and setting goals for the future.
In this episode, Alex chats with an esteemed insurance agent, Ken Atwood. He talks about the good, the bad, and the ugly, as well as reminiscing on the hard work it took to get him where he is now.
The Branning Group wasn't built in a day. In this episode, Alex shares the story of how he built His business from the ground up and the chain of events that lead to his current-day business.
A Blast From the Past!! As we close out this year, we are bringing back some of our favorite podcasts from throughout the years. Enjoy this special replay from our "Business in 2021" Episode from March 2021.
A Blast From the Past!! As we close out this year, we are bringing back some of our favorite podcasts from throughout the years. Enjoy this special replay from our "Activism and the Entrepreneur" Episode from June 2020.
On the last of our successful mindsets series, Alex ties it all together with the driving force of an entrepreneur's daily work life. Make sure you've listened to the two previous episodes before checking out this one.
In part 2 of our successful mindsets series, Alex coaches on one of the most important qualities an entrepreneur can have and how the lack of it can ruin a business.
In this brand new series on the mindset of success, Alex teaches how to boost the first of three important qualities every entrepreneur should claim!
It's Black Friday and Alex has rounded up some of the best offers that he has seen this year. Find all of the offers at resources.alexcrazyoffer.com!
In our recurring series on using your list, Alex discusses the potential power of one person.
If you enjoyed the previous affiliate mastermind, then you are in for a treat. Join Alex and guest Mark Webster as he discusses his effective system for maintaining affiliates.
This week, enjoy the rare chance to listen in to the Affiliate mastermind, learning how to optimize your list.
Social Media can be daunting and challenging to be consistent with. However, don't let that fear stop you as it's an incredibly powerful business builder. This week, Alex discusses overcoming those challenges with a schedule that optimizes your posting.
This week, Alex interviews Eric Hemati, a Rich and Rebellious agent who has established an empire in the insurance industry. Listen in as he gives valuable tips on how to convert prospects into sales!
Motivation is one of the major keys to your business's success, and you need to protect that. This week, Alex introduces his new free motivational teaching program. He also shares the importance of building your online presence.
This week, join Alex for a virtual tour of his office as he discusses
designing office space for maximum efficiency.
Who said business shouldn't be fun? Join Alex, as he breaks the myth that your work should not be joyful. Get insight from his practical tips on making work fun!
What is the secret weapon that can totally destroy your business once it's taken full effect? Burn out! Join Alex as he discuss the early signs of burn out, and how to position yourself and your business to run steadily!
Not all aspects of being a business owner are positive. Stress can create huge downfalls in personal life and business life. Join Alex as he talks about the lows of business ownership and how to be encouraged in stressful times.
On the final installment of our AQUIRE series, Alex discusses how you can see exponential growth in your business.
This week. Alex talks about how to capitalize on your list, and build your referral network!
Join Alex as he continues his Growth marketing Series - AQUIRE. This week he talks about Increasing conversions and the importance of the mindset that accompanies it!
What is retargeting, why is it important, and why do you need t do it? Watch to find out!
In the second episode of the AQUIRE Series, Alex is taking the magic out of quality leads.
In the first of a brand new series on Growth Marketing, Alex talks on the importance of Brand Awareness.
This week, Alex and Colby shoot thoughts and ideas back and forth. They talk about various strategies like Building rapport with your prospects and what to do with your income!
This week, Alex talks about some personal struggles in his life, and how his wife was impactful during those times.
You can't do it all alone! Alex shares his personal story on why and how you should recruit for your business!
This week Alex shares his secrets to creating a exponential amount of sales - spoiler alert, It starts with the support team!
Join Alex and Special guest and sales superstar, Colby Amerine, as they discuss scaling the growth of your business and getting to the 7 figure mark!
After a week of creating an entire course on the subject, Alex unleashes his mind on list building and how to capitalize off of your list. While he is only summing up the subject in this episode, you can check out the full course at Branninglibrary.com.
Struggling with Productivity? Alex will show you the run-down of his strategies of how to juggle life successfully as a CEO, Husband and parent.
This episode, Alex brings back an extended edition of his popular advice on how to keep a consistent flow of referrals coming in to build your business.
This episode, Alex dishes out a hefty serving of growth tips. Not only will implementing these habits grow your business, but it will also grow your personal life!
On our inaugural episode of the Growth+ Podcast, Alex walks us through some strategies and tactics on how to successfully run a business in 2021.
This podcast is different from anything I’ve put out recently. I’m talking about activism in America while being an entrepreneur. I go a little bit into the George Floyd situation and why it’s important for us as business owners to take a stand on certain issues in times like this. I hope this can be an eye-opening and encouraging episode for you.
We’re continuing our conversation about taking your business to Level 10! Today we’re talking about the sales you could make, but don’t. Cash that could end up in your pocket, but instead, it’s burning a hole in your customer’s wallet. You’ll get the most out of this podcast if you take the time to do an honest analysis of your business. Let’s dive right in!
Enjoy!
This week on the podcast, we’re starting a new series called Level 10! This series is all about taking an honest look at our businesses and asking the right questions. This week is about ways you can extract more value out of your business - finding money under your couch cushions!
Enjoy!
This week’s podcast is week 3 of our Traffic Secrets Workshop series. We’re joined by Ryan to talk about Facebook Ads! He’s going to be showing you our ads, which we’ve never done before. Grab a notepad, and let’s dive right in.
Enjoy!
This week’s podcast is all about the power of Instagram Story ads. We’re joined by Ryan Hocke, Ads Manager at the Branning Group, to talk about using Instagram Stories to connect with your audience and get people to engage!
Enjoy!
In this week’s podcast, we’re taking you behind the scenes of our Traffic Secrets workshop. We are going over Google Ads, which are crushing it right now! Take some notes and get inspired today!
Enjoy!
This week’s podcast is all about practical financial advice. I talked with my good friend and adviser, Tim Rosen. We talk all about getting out of debt and he shares amazing advice.
Enjoy!
We are in the middle of a worldwide crisis, but business must go on, if possible. This week I am going to share the do’s, don’ts, and mindsets that we should all have moving forward.
Enjoy!
I believe that success leaves clues. One of the things that I like to do on a pretty regular basis is go to my local Starbucks. I was in a bookstore and there was a book that caught my eye called The Starbucks Experience and how we can take the lessons from Starbucks and apply them to our own business. I got some great notes.
Enjoy!
On this week’s podcast, I cover a motivational message that I sent to a client of ours that was just starting out. The main theme is that we should choose ACTION over ANXIETY!
Enjoy!
This week’s podcast is a little bit different! Instead of sharing a marketing idea or strategy, I would like to talk about hope!
So many entrepreneurs deal with a lot of fear and I would like to talk about how to stay hopeful and positive in our ever-changing world.
Enjoy!
This week’s podcast is about throwing your money away! A lot of us, because we have an emotional attachment to a person or product will take our hard earned cash and flush it down the toilet.
As we are beginning 2020, I am going through all of my receipts from last year and I am learning a lot!
Enjoy!
I was asked this question the other day, and it really got me thinking: “Alex, if I want to get into marketing, should I also learn how to sell?”
Absolutely!
You have to learn how to sell if you want to be a successful marketer.
On this week’s podcast, I am going to talk about where you should focus your education on in order to sell more.
Enjoy!
I just came up with a killer offer from my list and I want to share the process that I go through when I come up with brand new offers. If you need to make money fast, take notes on this episode.
Enjoy!
This week’s podcast is all about Facebook ads! I’m going to share 5 lessons I learned from my most profitable Facebook ad.
Enjoy!
This week is a part 2 of my interview with Jody about Podcast Magic from last week.
Enjoy!
Are you interested in starting your own podcast? Well this week (and next week) is for you! I had the privilege of interviewing Jody Mayberry about all of the ins and outs of launching a podcast and why you should do it.
Jody is an expert in the podcast industry, so he releases a ton of advice.
Enjoy!
This week’s podcast has a funny title “Redneck Marketing.” And what I mean by that is taking things back old school a little bit.
One of the things that entrepreneurs can get stuck on, especially us in the digital space, is this obsession with automation and making everything.
But sometimes taking everything online, if we do it too fast and don't set up systems to support us, what it does is it actually leaves us stranded.
So, on this podcast episode, I'm going to go over a couple of things for you to look at with your own marketing and maybe taking some things back old school.
Enjoy!
This week is about how to effectively execute a launch with affiliates, how to launch jack an offer with affiliates, and much more about launches.
I just went through an affiliate launch and learned so much from it, and wanted to share what I learned from it.
Enjoy!
Welcome to 2020. Today I'm talking about infrastructure upgrades, goals for yourself for 2020. In this podcast episode, I'm going to use a fun analogy of building a highway and show you how when you construct your infrastructure well, you can set yourself up for some pretty amazing growth in the year 2020, including making more sales, bringing more people in, and setting up a foundation for your future.
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What you track, you improve! That’s going to be your takeaway from this week’s podcast. I am talking all about your numbers and keeping track of everything you are doing. Let’s do more than just track your cost per lead, we need to get deeper into our numbers than that.
Enjoy!
November was a record breaking month at the Branning Group! Here’s what we did to best our previous high and how we’re going to build on this!
Hey guys, it's Alex, your marketing coach. And today, I am talking about offers. The title might be a little edgy, but it’s true. I have met so many people that think that will buy from them just because they are cool or good at what they do. Unfortunately, that’s just not true.
You need to have an offer that people can’t refuse. It needs to be so amazing that people think to themselves “Why wouldn’t I buy right now?”
This podcast is going to be all about making that amazing offer!
Enjoy!
Hey guys, it's Alex, your marketing coach. And today, I am talking about extreme ownership. Extreme ownership of where you are now, of the mistakes that you've made, of the problems in your business, and the shortcomings that you're recognizing in your life.
Let's dive in and talk about it and get real with each other.
ClickFunnels is a great tool for loan officers looking to generate leads from Facebook, Instagram, etc.
In this episode I share my step by step blueprint to get multiple appointments set up per week.
Enjoy!
Scaling up is such an important part of running a business. You need to make sure that your “high points” become the floor for the future, and not just a successful time that you reminisce on.
On this podcast episode, I share multiple strategies on how to make sure you scale up instead of going through a feast or famine process for the duration of your business.
Enjoy!
One of the most common questions that leaders, of anything really, get asked is “What would you do if you had to completely start over?” Well, I tackle that profound question in this week’s podcast. I’ll share what I would do and wouldn’t do if I had to completely start over.
This will be a great podcast for anyone looking to get started owning a business!
Enjoy!
Alright, we are done with my series covering marketing strategies. Now, I wanted to do a podcast that deals more with mindset than strategy. Today we are going to talk about procrastination and how to overcome it. I share some powerful tips on how to overcome procrastination.
Trust me, I have been there myself and completely understand if you are struggling with it yourself.
Enjoy!
Chatbots are amazing. I love using them and installing them for my clients. If you aren’t using chatbots yet, then what are you waiting for?!? You need to start using them now, while they are still relatively new. Eventually, everyone will start using them and their power will start to decrease.
Facebook messenger marketing is powerful, and chatbots with ManyChat make it really easy. One great way to use a chatbot is to offer a free quote. You can use a chatbot to gather information without you having to do anything.
Listen to this week’s podcast to learn more about a quick quote chatbot!
Enjoy!
I’m going to share one of my absolute favorite marketing strategies. You know why it’s my favorite?
Because it uses all FREE resources.
The Profile Funnel utilizes only free resources and is a guaranteed way of generating leads that turn into lifelong customers.
Enjoy!
On today's podcast I’m going to share all about my favorite video marketing strategy: The Video Domino. If you didn’t know, video is KING of social media. The engagement found on video is far supreme to anything else, and it just keeps getting better and better.
To take advantage of this, I share about my video domino strategy that allows you to make Facebook tell you who your hottest leads are utilizing their custom audience feature. It’s a POWERFUL video marketing strategy that can help you hit it big!
Listen to this week’s podcast to learn all about my Video Domino strategy.
Enjoy!
A giveaway funnel is a guaranteed way of generating leads. These leads will be YOUR leads, they won’t be saturated leads that other agents have already been reaching out to. These will be leads exclusive to you that only you can contact.
OFFER: To learn more about the Giveaway Funnel, please go to giveawayfunnel.com/
On today's podcast I’m going to share 5 hard truths no one wants to tell you about starting an online business. The reason I want to talk about this is because no one's talking about it.
When you're online and learning about how to start an online business, it's so fluffy. People make big promises, they hype you up, they get you excited. They don't tell you the hard truths though. They don't dive into some of the things that you're going to experience and that's what I want to do here.
And I'm doing this for you so that you can see that even at the hardest points, it's not all that bad.
Enjoy!
On today's podcast, I'm going to talk about how I integrate God into my business, and what it looks like for me to live out the Christian lifestyle as a business owner. I also share what that looks like on the outside and how that affects my day to day operations.
I've had a lot of conversations lately with other business owners who are also men and women of faith, and they struggle with how to integrate God into their business, how to talk about God without turning people away, and what does it look like to have a business where God is in control of their day to day operations.
Enjoy!
Today’s podcast is going to be different than other’s I have done! It’s actually an interview style podcast where I will interview Robert Breiner, an insurance agent located in Palmdale, CA.
Robert is famous in his local market for getting referrals, and that’s what we are going to talk about today… referrals! Referrals are an amazing way to get free business and new clients in your day. There are so many different ways to get referrals and Robert will share how he has become an expert on it.
Enjoy!
The third topic in my “Why you should care about…” series (and honestly my favorite) is… Chatbots! Chatbots are one of my absolute favorite marketing tools, but they are severely under-used by the majority of people. They are still “new” and not a lot of people have jumped on board. But… the open rates in chatbots are HIGH!
There are so many different ways you can use chatbots and I will share a few of my favorites here in this week’s podcast.
Enjoy!
The second topic in my “Why you should care about…” series is Facebook Ads! I want to share why you should care about Facebook ads, benefits of Facebook ads, and even some tips and advice on Facebook ads.
Facebook ads are amazing in the fact that you can put them right in front of your ideal client, but they are hard in the fact of they can waste your money if you don’t set them up right.
Many people give up too early on Facebook ads and are missing out on their amazing benefits.
Enjoy!
There are so many social media platforms out there to use for your marketing. I would like to take the next couple of weeks to share why you should care about each one. Each social media platform has it’s pros and cons, but most can be effective if used properly.
The first platform I would like to start with is YouTube. YouTube has been crushing it for me and I am going ALL IN on YouTube. The best part… it’s FREE!!!
In this podcast I am going to share why you should care about YouTube and some ways to optimize your efforts there.
Enjoy!
This past week was very valuable to me and such a blessing! I was actually out of town at a family reunion all week, but guess what?!? The Branning Group kept on moving! We didn’t take a dip in sales, we didn’t turn everything off, I didn’t even turn my vacation auto-responder on for my email.
What I want to talk about is systems. All wealth in business comes from systems. My business was able to keep running because of the systems I have running and the team that I have surrounded myself with.
Listen to this week’s podcast to learn how to implement effective systems into your business.
Enjoy!
This week’s podcast is all about why people are saying no to your sales pitch. Here’s the truth: People hate being sold. It’s a major turn-off.
In this episode, I will share a few tips and pieces of advice that will help you close more deals and how to NOT be a sales person.
Enjoy!
There are a lot of people out there that just barf out their affiliate links and their offers without even considering whether their audience or the person they're talking to cares about what they have to say.
I'm going to give you some specific examples and some mindset tips on how to set yourself up so that people are drawn to you instead of repelled by you. And believe me, once you get this and your marketing messages start to change, and way that you talk to people, you make some slight tweaks to it, you're going to be amazed at how many people are knocking on your door that want to work with you.
Enjoy!
This week’s podcast is titled “Drill For Oil.” It builds upon this idea: If you drill enough, your eventually going to find oil. What I mean by that is this, whatever you are trying to do, keep going! You just might find oil if you keep going.
I hope that this week’s podcast motivates you and pushes you to do even more for your business. You will see success soon if you just keep drilling!
Enjoy!
I want to talk today about the differences between consuming social media content and producing social media content.
When I hear people say that they're not making money online, when I hear them tell me that social media is not profitable, I know right away what the problem is.
Listen to this week’s podcast and I will share strategies that you can use right away to make social media work for you!
Enjoy!
Lead generation systems. Some work. Some don’t. Some cost thousands. Some cost nothing.
This episode is all about a lead generation system that I have been so excited to release! I call it my Profile Funnel. It’s a lead generation system I have created using only FREE methods and NO expensive tools.
I share my exact strategy here in this podcast, but you can download my PDF by going to http://www.theprofilefunnel.com
I’m really excited about this week’s episode! Be sure to give it a listen!
Enjoy!
One of my most popular episodes in my podcast was the fourth episode I ever released. It was all about referrals and I decided to revisit the topic and add in some updates.
If you don’t have a referral system in place, this episode is for you. Referrals are one of the best ways to get new customers. You need to have systems in place to make this happen. Don’t just hope to get referrals… make it very easy for people to give you referrals.
I’m really excited about this week’s episode! Be sure to give it a listen!
Enjoy!
Affiliate marketing has a very obvious benefit: You can make money by selling someone else’s product. You can even make a recurring profit in certain affiliate marketing programs.
But, that’s pretty obvious.
In this week’s podcast I wanted to discuss some unintended benefits I have experienced from affiliate marketing. I LOVE affiliate marketing and am so thankful to make money through it.
If you aren’t into affiliate marketing yet, this podcast should convince you!
Enjoy!
This week we are going to do some self reflection! I have found 5 common areas I have seen people struggle with, and ultimately lead to their downfall. The five areas that I want to go over are:
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Not taking action
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Penny pinching
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Not charging enough
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Doing everything on your own
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Relying on a single stream of income
As I go through each of these areas, I want you to ask yourself if it is something you are currently struggling with and what you need to do about it.
Enjoy!
Marketing has been around…forever. There are old school marketing techniques that people use to do all the time, but now we don’t even think about them. But, is that the right mindset?
I decided to do a fun podcast where we take an old-school marketing concept and I show you the modern-day execution of that concept. Some are outdated, but then some are just adjusted a little to adhere to today’s advancement of technology.
This should be a lot of fun and give you some fresh ideas!
Enjoy!
Online marketing, affiliate marketing, make money online, etc… sometimes has a negative connation to it and gets a bad reputation. We saw some major movement last week inside of ClickFunnels in regards to the SAM Funnel.
I took this opportunity to let you know about me and what I can promise you. This podcast will give you an insight into my beliefs in regards to ethical business practices and I will share my promises to you as an influencer and marketer.
Enjoy!
Chatbots have become one of my absolute favorite tools out there. I have used them regularly for a while now for myself, and clients of mine and we have seen great success with them. Facebook messages see a much higher open rate than emails and they are much more interactive. I love it!
But, Facebook recently released some updates to chatbots and it wasn’t the best news for marketers, but there is always something you can do to work your way around changes. In this week’s podcast I share about the update and highlight 5 features inside chatbots that you should start using right away!
Enjoy!
This week’s podcast is a super fun one! I am going to give you 5 marketing lessons based on what I learned from Avengers: Endgame. The 5 lessons will be based on these 5 characters:
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Hawkeye
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Iron Man
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Black Panther
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Captain America
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Black Widow
Don’t worry! There won’t be any spoilers at all!
Listen to this week’s episode to learn more!
This week’s episode is all about your offer. You could have the most amazing product/service/business, but if your offer isn’t attractive, the world won’t want what you have. If your offers are working, then you need to try something new!
There’s lots of things you can do to create a better, more attractive offer. You just need to get creative and your prospects won’t be able to resist you!
Listen to this week’s episode to learn more!
This week’s episode is all about automation! I am recording this episode as I drive out of town with my daughter in the middle of the week. How can I go out of town for the afternoon as a business owner?? Automation! I automate everything so that I don’t have to be at my computer 24/7.
I talk about how you need to:
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Automate Your Lead Generation
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Automate Your Collections
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Automate Your Repetitive Tasks
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Automate Your Follow Up
Listen to this week’s episode to learn more!
Enjoy!
Live events. They sometimes take a lot to pull off, but in the end are more than worth it! Last week I was able to co-host a live event in Phoenix and it was a blast! I had so much fun and experienced great success, which got me thinking…everyone should try to do live events!
In this episode, I share why you should do live events. There are so many reasons!
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I have met some of my best power partners after speaking
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The audience sees you as the EXPERT
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When your status is elevated, people at a higher level see you as their peer
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Live events are a great way to generate instant revenue
Listen to this week’s episode to learn more!
Yes, you read that right. I turned $7,641 of ad spend into $600,000+ revenue for my client. Facebook Ads are POWERFUL! But, so many people either set them up wrong, throw their money away, or just give up and don’t even run Facebook Ads.
In this episode I share what I did and how you can massively benefit from ads yourself!
Enjoy!
This week’s podcast is all about doing the hard things. The truth is, if we want to get to where we currently aren’t, we need to do the hard things and the things we don’t want to do. The difference between people who are great and the people who are just average joes is the fact that they are willing to do the hard things and they do what they don’t feel like doing.
Listen to this week’s podcast to learn some tips on doing the hard things!
Enjoy!
I want to talk to you about more equals more. So often we get stuck and go, "Man I need more sales. I need more prospects. I need more exposure. I need more referrals. What do I do?" Well, on the other side of that more is something you need to do.
You need to do more!
Listen to this week’s podcast to learn how you can do more to get more.
Enjoy!
Today’s podcast is all about RISK!! Risk is something that you HAVE to take as an entrepreneur and business person. There’s just no way around it. You won’t always know that what you are going to try is going to work out.
One thing I talk about is how there is no such thing as an overnight success. People work and risk for years before they “hit it big.”
Enjoy!
Today’s podcast is all about investing! We need to make sure that we are investing in lots of different areas of life as entrepreneurs. I’m going to talk about what it looks like to invest in your:
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Family
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Team
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Personal Growth
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Money
These four areas of investment will make sure that you and your business stay healthy for the long haul.
Enjoy!
I believe that when you ask yourself the right questions, your team the right questions, and your prospects the right questions…you will see a huge turnaround in your business. Watch this video to learn how to ask the right questions!
A lot of people ask me how to find your passion and make money doing what you are passionate about. I decided to address this question in this week’s podcast! I will share 5 easy steps to take in order to find your passion, and then I will show how to make money doing that. Enjoy!