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You are dedicated and devoted to a life of developing new ideas and innovations. Willing to take calculated career risks achieving independent wealth and success. Then you are ready to experience…The Entrepreneur Effect. The Entrepreneur Effect will highlight opportunities for entrepreneurs in digital marketing through interesting, practical and thought-provoking interviews and monologues on strategic topics such as product, positioning, pricing, packaging and promotion. No matter the economic outlook, increase your income and be your own boss by listening to the Entrepreneur Effect.
Morning Hustlers is a group of ambitious people who are dedicated to actualizing their full potential. They serve as a platform to keep people accountable for their goals and eliminate procrastination. Their mission is very simple: to provide a positive online community to 10,000 ambitious people who want more out of life.
Kate Westad, (founder and inventor) of Palette The Original High Fiver, found she was missing something two years ago. two years, five prototypes, an army of talented professionals, and dedicated and loving family and friends, created what you can buy today: a customizable travel and beauty tool worthy of holding all your best goops, glops, and glam.
William launched Doorstep Delivery in February 2008. The idea is simple: Say you want to order from Outback Steakhouse. Outback, obviously, doesn’t deliver. But for a $3.99 fee, Doorstep will place your order at Outback, pick it up, and deliver it to you. You could even order one meal from Outback and another from TooJay’s.
The model was already out there. Moore’s first move, in fact, was to purchase the business model from another restaurant delivery service. But he made it his own. Instead of obsessing over the day-to-day logistics—hiring (and firing) drivers, working on phone and website customer interaction, etc.—they handed that off to managers and poured everything into marketing. They hit downtown Orlando and business parks throughout Central Florida. They “schmoozed office ladies,” he says. They reached out to restaurants—starting with just 15, has since expanded to more than 300. They got the word out to hotels.
In this dynamic self-help book, Art Coombs challenges you to take up the mantle of Hard Easy. From remarkable stories to real-life examples, he demonstrates why it’s better to put in the effort now and reap the rewards later.
Master Alchemist, Kristin Bauer, is at the forefront of leading change in the skincare industry formulating a collection of non-surgical, topical, and love-based techniques for face lifting, lip enhancement, and line removal to promote volume restoration, lift the skin, and smooth out lines and wrinkles with natural-looking results. Kristin’s early studies began to take root through a keen interest in DNA mutation and treatment of patients in a hospital burn unit, which led to her intense commitment to understanding the science behind skin growth and regeneration. It was this experience that guided Kristin to formulate specialized treatments focused on DNA repair and the protection of long-term skin rejuvenation. Her daughter, Esse, proved to be a powerful teacher in the advancement of her practice into the holistic realm. “It was when I became pregnant with my daughter that I first began to comprehend on a very deep level the magnitude of chemicals that are all around us. So, I started to question: How can we expect to have healthy bodies, if we are using polluted chemical products on our skin?” Her ongoing research and implementation of innovative treatments and new modalities of healing the skin and body led to the launch of Nourishe Organics: Genuine Beauty Inspired By Mother Earth. Nourishe Organics’ original line of skincare products is made from the most authentic, organic ingredients available, using ethically grown and harvested raw materials with absolutely no preservatives.
Aaron McHugh is a writer, blogger, podcaster, and career liberator. He is mastering the art of living a sustainable work-life balance that includes rhythms of play constantly woven in.
Marisa Murgatroyd is the founder of Live Your Message, where she turns entrepreneurs into online superheroes so they can change the world from their living room.
Jonathan D. (JD) Messinger is a corporate visionary, inspirational speaker, and spiritual mentor. He began life as a fireman and went on to become CEO of Ernst & Young Consulting, South East Asia, and one of 37 Distinguished Graduates from the United States Naval Academy. JD is a former nuclear submarine officer and the crisis response leader who helped supervise the Valdez oil spill cleanup. Nominated as CNBC Asian CEO of the year, he was the Channel News Asia IT Person of the Week and advisor to the Singapore Prime Minister, Fortune 100 companies, members of parliament, and dignitaries around the world on industrial evolution, innovation, outsourcing, and energy policy. After retiring from the corporate world, JD shifted his focus to promoting human potential and became the founder and CEO of Essence Enterprises, where he developed a dynamic public presence as the creator, producer, and host of television and radio programs. He then promoted human potential through leadership seminars, audio programs, and books. JD is the recipient of numerous corporate, presidential, and innovation awards and he is a five-time award-winning and #1 Amazon best selling author on personal development. His writing has been featured in major publications including The Chief Executive Magazine, Leadership Excellence, Texas CEO, Business Times, New Straits Times, and Far East Economic Journal.
Mark Victor Hansen is probably best known as the co-author for the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series and brand, setting world records in book sales, with over 500 millions books sold. Mark also worked his way into a worldwide spotlight as a sought-after keynote speaker, and entrepreneurial marketing maven, creating a stream of successful people who have created massive success for themselves through Mark’s unique teachings and wisdom. With his endearing charismatic style, Mark captures his audience’s attention as well as their hearts. Having spoken to over 6000 audiences world-wide with his one-of-a-kind technique and masterful authority of his work, time and again he continues to receive high accolades from his audiences as one of the most dynamic and compelling speakers and leaders of our time.
Mary Cheyne, MBA is a Transformational Public Speaking Trainer & Coach. Her mission is to educate and empower individuals to use public speaking as the doorway for personal and professional transformation. She has trained over 15,000 people in 30 cities around the world.
Brett speaks, teaches, and trains aspiring internet marketers and business owners how to start, grow and sell successful online businesses, from conception to creation and building to scale, and ultimately to sale or acquisition. Recently teaching 2-day seminars under the Click and Grow Business and Click and Grow Rich brands, all over the world in 7 countries (and growing) from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom, from Singapore to South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and all over the USA.
Professor Mauro Guillén is a Spanish/American sociologist, political economist, management educator, Zandman Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of the Penn Lauder Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER). He was the Anthony L. Davis Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies from 2007 to 2019. He is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything (2020).
Sarah Y. Tse created a successful small publishing business, which possessed an expanding client list and national reputation. And then, disaster! “7 Years on the Front Line” is the compelling true story of Sarah's seven-year journey of business setbacks and personal loss. During this trying period, the litigation seemed endless, and the option to "end it all" was increasingly tempting. This story reveals how she came out on the other side victorious, with numerous lessons to benefit small-business owners and future entrepreneurs. Sarah's trials teach us how to prepare for battle and build an armory. The weapons you need to add to your arsenal include: making correct choices, surviving betrayal and deception, deciding when to fight and when to yield, competing without compromising your ethics, and meeting challenges as a better, not a bitter, person.
Adam Markel is a recognized expert in professional and personal reinvention. A highly sought-after keynote speaker, transformational leader, and business mentor, he guides individuals and businesses to capitalize on change and magnify their impact.
After building a multi-million dollar law firm, Adam became CEO of one of the largest business and personal development training companies in the world, overseeing more than $100 million in sales.
His unique expertise is in combining practical business tactics with accelerated learning strategies to embrace change, encourage innovation, and increase sales for people and organizations worldwide. Adam Markel inspires, empowers, and guides people to achieve massive and lasting personal and professional growth, whether it be as a keynote speaker, facilitating corporate workshops, or mentoring individuals.
Marisa Murgatroyd is the founder of Live Your Message, where she turns entrepreneurs into online superheroes so they can change the world from their living room.
When you hire Susie, being average or running an average business instantly drops from your list of options. She is relentless in pursuing your goals and comes with a proven, twenty-year track record that includes building two $10 million companies and selling her business for millions. Susie's passion is creating businesses that allow you to live your dreams and achieve financial abundance.
She has created the Predictable Success Method that allows you to develop superior operations, finance, marketing, and sales accountability systems. These systems will lead you to predictable and substantial revenue, profit growth, and investment opportunities. Susie takes complicated issues and simplifies them for your success, creating the structure and team necessary to guide your company through the turbulence and uncertainty of dramatic growth.
Susie has worked with top leaders in the world of business, including John Assaraf, Lisa Nichols, Steve Harvey, Zenovia Andrews, Keri Murphy, Doug Carter, Redken, Paul Mitchell, Thompson Learning, Dell, and many more.
From experiencing all of life’s hardest challenges, including homelessness, abuse, and losing everything in a house fire, Beverly Hills author, Sheila Mac has inspired others through her resilience and determination to gain back control of her own life. Today, Sheila consults individuals, teaches online courses, and is a nationally recognized speaker who has made it her mission to guide others with similar life experiences back to empowerment. Sheila has an innate ability to find a glimmer of light in even the darkest of situations and paved the way through her personal journey for others to follow. Her new book, Bootstraps & Bra Straps - ‘The Formula to go from Rock Bottom and Back into Action in any Situation!’ is a resource for those who need the guidance and assistance to take their life back into their own hands. The book is scheduled to launch on August 4 and will be available for purchase on Amazon, Kindle, and Audible. The Book: BOOT STRAPS & BRA STRAPS is a resource for those who need guidance and assistance to take their life back into their own hands. Shelia shares insight on the BOOTS© formula and helps those who are grieving, experiencing financial turmoil, career shifts, relationship problems, parenting adult children, parenting elders, victims of abuse, addictions, and seeking lifestyle redesign.
Modern life can feel like an endless sequence of canceled plans, last-minute meetings, and delayed journeys. So how can we use unpredictability to our advantage? LSE and NYU academic Dr. Christian Busch has spent a decade exploring how we can use uncertainty as a pathway to more joyful, purposeful, and successful lives. In this book, he reveals the secrets behind the hidden force that rules the universe: serendipity.
The book is based on cutting-edge research in the natural and social sciences, as well as hundreds of interviews including with leading CEOs, entrepreneurs, and changemakers from around the world who turned the unexpected into opportunity by seeing and connecting the dots. Anchored in a science-based framework and peppered with inspiring stories and hands-on exercises, it captures how all of us can cultivate serendipity and turn uncertainty into opportunity, joy, and sustained success.
Nicky is the Director of Content for and face of TPG UK and oversees the creation of UK focused content. Nicky spent years as a record-label lawyer and avid traveler sharing his miles and points tips under the guise "Miles Mogul".
Preston has a rich and diverse background in both operations and design and has played a key role in successfully starting and creating rapid growth in a number of small businesses. Much of his experience comes from the automotive industry, successfully building, growing, and selling multiple automotive businesses over the past 15 years. His experience has given him an extensive knowledge in the field of engines, fuels, and mechanical operations of machinery running large shops and teams in this industry. With a degree in Communications and Public Relations from Utah Valley University and a background in Architecture and Engineering technologies. He has worked as an Architectural designer for companies like Brower and Associates, Architectural Productions International, and Certified Roof Consulting, doing the design work on many office complexes, medical centers, residential applications, and LDS temples and churches He ran and design analytics for Intermountain Power Plant reviewing power plant facilities and helping balance cost expense forecasting for the plants multimillion-dollar annual budget.
Mark Victor Hansen is probably best known as the co-author for the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series and brand, setting world records in book sales, with over 500 millions books sold. Mark also worked his way into a worldwide spotlight as a sought-after keynote speaker, and entrepreneurial marketing maven, creating a stream of successful people who have created massive success for themselves through Mark’s unique teachings and wisdom. With his endearing charismatic style, Mark captures his audience’s attention as well as their hearts. Having spoken to over 6000 audiences world-wide with his one-of-a-kind technique and masterful authority of his work, time and again he continues to receive high accolades from his audiences as one of the most dynamic and compelling speakers and leaders of our time.
Mitzi Perdue is the daughter of one family business titan (her father founded the Sheraton Hotel Chain) and the widow of another, (her late husband was the family business poultry magnate, Frank Perdue), and she is also a businesswoman in her own right. She started the family wine grape business, now one of the larger suppliers of wine grapes in California. Mitzi likes nothing better than to share insider tips for successful family businesses. Her family of origin (the one that started the Sheraton Hotels) began with the family business, Henderson Estate Company, in 1840, and her Perdue family started in 1920 in the poultry business. These two families have a combined tradition of 276 years of staying together as a family. Mitzi is happy to share actionable advice on how they created and maintained their family businesses.
Rhoden Monrose is the founder and CEO of Cariclub. He began his career as a derivatives trader at Citigroup. But in 2011, he branched out, establishing a circle of like-minded individuals who wanted to use their time, talent, and money to make an impact. That aim led to the 2014 founding of Cariclub, a technology platform that gives young professionals access to philanthropic leadership opportunities, specifically associate board positions with well-known nonprofits and foundations. CariClub has since partnered with nearly 500 nonprofit organizations to place young professionals on associate boards with top industry firms like Citigroup, KKR, Davis Polk, Third Point, and Berkshire Capital.
Emad Georgy leads global software engineering, development and product management for Experian Marketing Services in more than 30 countries around the world. At the company's chief technology officer, Georgy and his team developed the architectural framework to enhance and connect natural synergies across Experian’s diverse portfolio of marketing products and best-in- class data services -- the foundation of the Experian Marketing Suite. Prior to joining Experian, Georgy held numerous global software leadership positions in companies such as Wolters Kluwer, Macromedia, ACS and KPMG. In 2013, he was named a Premier 100 IT Leader by Computerworld. Georgy is a frequent speaker at Big Data and software conferences, such as Computerworld’s Data+ conference, Scrum Alliance Gatherings, Better Software conferences and The Big Data Retail forum.
Phil founded DKT International in 1989 and served as its president through 2013. He is chairman of the DKT Board of Directors. He was co-founder (with Dr. Tim Black, CBE) of Population Services International and served as PSI president before founding DKT. Phil has been championing the benefits of social marketing for over four decades. Earlier he served as deputy director of CARE’s program in India. He is author of Let Every Child Be Wanted: How Social Marketing is Revolutionizing Contraceptive Use Around the World (1999) and of more than 20 published articles on international development, family planning and the use of social marketing techniques to promote family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention programs.
Boomtime CEO Bill Bice is a programmer at heart. Why is he running a marketing company? Because these days, great marketing is all about the data. A serial entrepreneur, Bill is passionate about helping small businesses grow. Bill started his first company at age 18, growing ProLaw Software into the largest law firm automation system for small and mid-size law firms. Joining the acquirer at Thomson Reuters, Bill joined the management team of the $2B West division, where he used the marketing sophistication of an industry leader to take a brand new offering to market, West km. Bill's goal at boomtime is to enable smaller businesses to more effectively compete with their larger competitors.
Aaron McHugh is a writer, blogger, podcaster, and career liberator. He is mastering the art of living a sustainable work-life balance that includes rhythms of play constantly woven in
Kyle Hegarty is the Managing Director of Leadership Nomad, part of TSL Marketing, where he focuses on helping companies expand across the globe. Kyle looks at how companies connect with themselves and their customers with a concentration on communication, sales and marketing, and management leadership. He has trained thousands of executives, a faculty lecturer for Singapore Management University (SMU), and is a frequent speaker at business and management conferences around the world. Growing businesses in new markets are as challenging as it is exciting. Having worked with hundreds of companies as they expand into the Asia Pacific and other emerging markets, it is clear that managing a business across regions requires skills most of us were never taught. We muddle through it and hope for the best. But with new competitors, finding and retaining top talent, and unpredictable geopolitical risks, the need to adapt is more important than ever. Leadership Nomad was launched to help companies and teams evolve to face global communication and collaboration challenges.
Jonathan D. (JD) Messinger is a corporate visionary, inspirational speaker, and spiritual mentor. He began life as a fireman and went on to become CEO of Ernst & Young Consulting, South East Asia, and one of 37 Distinguished Graduates from the United States Naval Academy. JD is a former nuclear submarine officer and the crisis response leader who helped supervise the Valdez oil spill cleanup.
Nominated as CNBC Asian CEO of the year, he was the Channel News Asia IT Person of the Week and advisor to the Singapore Prime Minister, Fortune 100 companies, members of parliament, and dignitaries around the world on industrial evolution, innovation, outsourcing, and energy policy. After retiring from the corporate world, JD shifted his focus to promoting human potential and became the founder and CEO of Essence Enterprises, where he developed a dynamic public presence as the creator, producer, and host of television and radio programs. He then promoted human potential through leadership seminars, audio programs, and books. JD is the recipient of numerous corporate, presidential, and innovation awards and he is a five-time award-winning and #1 Amazon best selling author on personal development. His writing has been featured in major publications including The Chief Executive Magazine, Leadership Excellence, Texas CEO, Business Times, New Straits Times, and Far East Economic Journal.
Early in her career, Lisa invented the first sports bra because she started running, joining the fitness revolution of the late 1970s. More than 40 years later, nearly every woman owns at least one. Today, the invention of the sports bra is considered one of the primary factors in the remarkable rise of women athletes worldwide and led to a shift for what is possible for women in all sectors. Included in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History “The introduction of the sports bra did more than improving athletes' performances. It represented a revolution in ready-to-wear clothing, and for many women athletes, past, present, and future, it actually made sports possible.” - Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a cutting-edge leadership consultant, trainer, coach, and researcher. He is a leadership mindset pioneer that helps organizations, leaders, and managers identify their current mindsets and then shape them to fuel better decision making, problem-solving, development, and performance.
Ryan is currently a leadership and management professor at the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton (CSUF). He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources from Indiana University and a B.A. from Brigham Young University. As a respected authority and researcher on topics related to leadership, management, and organizational behavior, Ryan has published over 15 articles across a variety of journals including Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Business Horizons, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, and Journal of Leadership Studies. His research has been cited over 1,250 times since 2013.
An Anaheim Hills, Calif. resident, Ryan is also an experienced consultant, having been a Research Lead with Gallup, Inc. In that and other consulting capacities, Ryan has consulted for dozens of corporations across a variety of industries including banking, healthcare, education, and energy. Ryan also has extensive training experience, having conducted training for companies including Experian, Volcom, Spireon, Association of California Cities-Orange County, and multiple divisions within CSUF. He has also been recognized as one of the best professors at Mihaylo College of Business and Economics. He is available as an expert source on various topics such as leadership, management, employee engagement, performance management, and sexual harassment.
BombBomb: Marketing Strategy And Brand Building with Ethan Beute. Ethan is a Marketing strategist, Messaging specialist, and Brand builder. Campaign and content creator – writer, producer, editor. Husband and father. BA: University of Michigan. MBA: University of Colorado – Colorado Springs. Hiker and photographer. Excitable and generally curious. Fresh air and clean water.
The Seven Secrets contained in these pages embody a unique paradigm. In the book, you will learn that you don’t need to change your external circumstances to eliminate your stress. Because stress is created in the mind, the solution to stress is also found in the mind. What does this mean for you?
Business Coaching Secrets with Karl Bryan from Six-Figure Coach Magazine. Karl oversees one of the World’s fastest-growing E-Learning companies, Leader Publishing Worldwide. The foundation of which is his proprietary E-Learning Marketing System for small business owners that are referred to as ‘The most powerful client attraction program ever created’ by some of the top marketing minds in the world today.
TradeZero America with Daniel Pipitone. Daniel is the Co-Founder of TradeZero America, Inc., a broker-dealer providing real-time trading technology with commission-free pricing of the US equity and options exchanges. TradeZero America (www.tradezero.us) is a New York-based online broker-dealer that offers retail investors commission-free stock trading and direct market center access to US stocks. TradeZero’s advanced suite of desktop, web-based and mobile software platforms accommodates all types of traders. ZeroPro delivers speed and functionality for active traders, ZeroWeb has dynamic features for both active and beginning traders, and Zero Free is the company’s free real-time browser-based trading system. Traders on the go can access their accounts and trade via the TradeZero America mobile app. TradeZero America’s innovative features include capabilities for stock shorting and unparalleled 24/7 customer support.
In business, and in life, everything is changing fast, apart from how we behave. Our ways of thinking and making decisions have changed little since we lived in agricultural and industrial societies, but the problems we now need to solve are entirely different. It requires a revolution in thinking and behavior to meet the challenges that now face us and avoid disaster we need to totally rethink the model. McCourt lays out the reality of the dangerous situation we find ourselves in and suggests solutions which will empower everyone, including business people, politicians, diplomats, and teachers, to repair the damage we have already done, and prepare for the dramatic changes to come. Our guest David McCourt talks about how our 3 biggest problems in the U.S. - housing, education and healthcare - need a complete overhaul in order to keep our economy stable and keep the U.S. the haven for entrepreneurs it's always been. He says that incremental change will not work. We need to completely rethink the constructs, and these problems are ripe for the right entrepreneur to come along and solve them.
Sandy Rogers serves as Managing Director of FranklinCovey’s loyalty practice which is focused on helping large multi-unit operators in retail, healthcare, grocery, food service, lodging, and financial services to accelerate growth through increased customer and employee loyalty. FranklinCovey provides each location in the chain with an accurate and representative measure of employee engagement and customer service along with a process to improve them through more consistent frontline execution. Prior to FranklinCovey, Sandy spent 14 years with Enterprise Rent-A-Car, most recently as Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy. During his time at Enterprise, he led the turn-around of Enterprise’s London operation, and before this, he served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. He led the teams that developed Enterprise’s consumer marketing strategy including the “Pick Enterprise...We’ll Pick You Up” television campaign and ESQi, Enterprise’s comprehensive system for measuring and improving customer service across their 7,000 branch network. Before Enterprise, Sandy held marketing positions at Apple Computer and began his career in brand management at Procter Gamble. Sandy serves on the executive committee for Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri and chairs the Leadership Council for the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. Sandy holds a bachelor’s degree from Duke University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School
An award-winning performance expert reveals the secret behind many top athletes and executives: creating a heroic alter ego to activate when the chips are down. There's only one person in the way of you untapping your capabilities: You. There's also one person who can move you out of the way so you can perform at your peak. That person is already inside you. You just need to unlock them. This other part of you is your Heroic Self and you unlock it with an Alter Ego. After twenty-one years of working with elite athletes, performers and leaders, Todd Herman is revealing how you can use you're alter ego to achieve the seemingly impossible. It all clicked for Todd when he met Bo Jackson. When Herman met Bo Jackson, the professional athlete told him, "Bo Jackson never played a down of football in his entire life." Bo explained that when he was young, he'd get into trouble because chaos caused by his anger issues. Then, he saw Friday the 13th and became fascinated by the cold, calculating nature of Jason Vorhees. In that moment, he resolved to stop being Bo Jackson, and start being Jason the moment he stepped on the field.
In this transformative guide, Herman teaches you how to create and control an Alter Ego like Bo--and the thousands of other athletes, business leaders, entrepreneurs, and entertainers who have used this simple tool to change their lives. Herman also shares his own story: he knew that inside was a confident, self-assured, intelligent person who could help others get better results in their lives. When he started using superman's classic trick--putting on a pair of glasses--he learned to trigger the specific traits he needed to achieve his goals. The Alter Ego Effect is not about creating a false mask--it's about finding the hero already inside you. It's a proven way of overcoming the self-doubt, negativity, and insecurity that hold you back and empowering you to ultimately become your best self.
Dr. Jeremy Weisz, in addition to running Rise25, has been featuring top entrepreneurs with video interviews since 2011 that include founders/CEO’s of P90X, Atari, Einstein Bagels, Mattel, the Orlando Magic, and many more on InspiredInsider. He continues to run his own chiropractic massage facility in downtown Chicago and is the founder of a nutritional supplement business. He also created one of the top chiropractic jobs websites on the web.
Jonah Staw is a globally recognized executive, innovator and entrepreneur. He is currently the President of a disruptive new business group at Logitech. Additionally, Jonah serves on the Board of Directors of Lands’ End (Nasdaq, LE) and is the Chairman of S.E.E., an advisory group focused on disruptive strategies, product innovation, brand development, marketing, business launch, and multi-channel retailing.
Prior to joining Logitech, Jonah was acting as a Business Unit President at Sears Holdings, where he led and started a variety of businesses inside the company. He launched brands with notable talent including Adam Levine and Nicki Minaj, as well as ran the footwear business for the corporation. In 2003, Jonah co-founded LittleMissMatched and directed the company as Chairman and CEO for seven years of extraordinary growth. Prior to that, Jonah was a Director Strategist at frog design, developing disruptive strategies for Fortune 500 companies including Disney, Yahoo, Nextel, Target and Chrysler. Jonah received a Bachelor of Arts in History of Art and Architecture from Brown University.
Lee has spent the last 16 years running his web design agency and the last 10 years deeply involved in the WordPress community. He regularly speaks at WordCamps, presented at WooConf, and has worked with hundreds of WordPress developers and freelancers through Cart66, the WordPress ecommerce platform he founded in 2008. Having studied the WordPress community and economy deeply over the last 10 years. Lee developed the DoubleStack program to equip WordPress developers with the tools, skills, and the mindset they need to rise above the saturated WordPress marketplace and succeed in today’s new economy. His students are trained in delivering profitable business development solutions and they have the advanced technical skills to implement those concepts – both for themselves and for their clients.
Patrick McKenna is the Founder and CEO of Strike Social, a global social media advertising company. A graduate of Washington State University with a B.A. in English and emphasis in Pre-Law, Mr. McKenna has more than 30 years of experience in business development and technology consulting for major corporations. He co-founded WCI Telecom in 1994, a telecommunications company and has served as a senior business development manager for Microsoft and iBeam Broadcasting. Strike Social is not your typical social media solution. They provide 24/7 global engagement with your media partners to drive strategic business outcomes.
Philip spent most of his life wearing masks pretending to be important to hide his own deeper insecurities. Despite building multi million dollar businesses, becoming a best selling author and buying real estate in 7 different countries, he felt an emptiness. All the time he was ignoring his own internal guidance system that he suppressed while focusing on goals and in turn, the right mindset to achieve them. Philip believes our obsession with the right mindset is leading people to create and live unauthentic lives while the very nature of goals actually pushes us to live in the future and not be present. If you were about to leave this planet, what would you say, and who would you say it to? This shocking and provocative question is at the core of the remarkable and inspiring book, One Last Talk: Why Your Truth Matters And How To Deliver It. This book emerged from the speaking series designed to help people discover their truth, and then speak it out loud, developed by renowned coach Philip McKernan. In this book, McKernan goes beyond the event, and dives into what it means to discover your truth and speak it, why people should do this, and then deeply explains exactly how this can be done. If you feel living more authentically could allow you to have a greater impact on others, or you can't find the words to speak your truth as boldly as you know you need to, this is the book for you.
Jefferson is a self-made millionaire, mobile home park investment expert, educator, and industry consultant. Park Street Partners owns 17 MHPs coast-to-coast totaling over $32mm in value. Prior to co-founding Park Street Partners in 2013, Mr. Lilly spent seven years investing his own capital acquiring and operating mobile home parks. Before becoming an investor full-time, Jefferson spent nine years in sales leadership roles with several venture-backed startups in Silicon Valley. Jefferson has been featured in The New York Times, Bloomberg Magazine, and on the ‘Real Money’ television show. He holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. Jefferson started and hosts the Mobile Home Park Investors Podcast with over 10,000+ D/L per month. He also founded the Mobile Home Park Investors group on LinkedIn - the world’s largest professional networking group focussed on MHPs (3,500+ members).
Esther Weinberg is a leader in redefining organizational culture by focusing on power and leadership through dignity. Esther—the founder of MindLight Group—and her team help mid- to large-sized media companies and their employees (especially their executive leadership teams) find, implement, and mentor dignity, leadership, and personal power in the workplace. Esther is a powerhouse game changer who has successfully transformed organizations (particularly large media companies), executive leaders, and teams for over 20 years. From a Disney executive to an expert in organizational leadership development, Esther’s unique training and mentorship ability taps into the pulse of the current challenges today’s media, publishing and teach companies are facing internally. Esther’s personal mission is to bring dignity and mentorship back into the workforce on a worldwide scale. Personal power through dignity. Leadership with dignity. Bringing dignity back into business, one conversation at a time.
Jack McGuinness is co-founder and managing partner of Relationship Impact, a consulting firm focused on helping great leaders build great leadership teams. They discuss some of the most common mistakes made by CEOs, being open to leadership coaching, tips on building a leadership team and measuring effectiveness.
Jack has 25+ years experience working with leadership teams at organizations big and small across multiple industries. After serving as an airborne ranger with the U.S. Army’s prestigious 10th Mountain Division, he helped build a successful boutique management-consulting firm where he served as COO for 13 years. Jack also served as CEO of a contract packaging company, where he developed a passion for unleashing the leadership capacity of teams throughout an organization. In 2009 Jack joined forces with a West Point classmate to form Relationship Impact, a consulting firm focused on working with CEOs to unlock the potential of their leadership teams.
A prolific author, speaker, screenwriter, film producer, mentor and coach, Adam Gilad lives to spark his readers, clients and audiences into creating a robust, daring and fearless life of love, adventure and nurturance. An Emmy Nominated Executive Producer, Adam’s award-winning films have appeared on USANetworks, Lifetime and TNT. He has authored over 20 television shows and teaches dating, intimacy and deep eros. Adam has authored countless audio trainings and written several books, specializing in learning the “language” of the other gender, cultivating a dance of the sexes rather than a “battle,” the play of sexual polarity as well as a determined fearlessness in self-awareness, self-evolution, global responsibility, compassion and forgiveness.
Steve Olsher is known as the world’s foremost reinvention expert. Famous for helping individuals and corporations become exceptionally clear on their WHAT – that is, the ONE thing they were created to do – his practical, no-holds-barred approach to life and business propels his clients towards achieving massive profitability while also cultivating a life of purpose, conviction, and contribution. A 25+ year entrepreneur, Steve is the Chairman Founder of Liquor.com, online pioneer who launched on CompuServe’s Electronic Mall in 1993, New York Times bestselling author of What Is Your WHAT? Discover The ONE Amazing Thing You Were Born To Do, author of the Business Technology Book of the Year, Internet Prophets: The World’s Leading Experts Reveal How to Profit Online, creator of The New Media Summit, host of the #1 rated radio show/podcast Reinvention Radio, international keynote speaker, and an in-demand media guest who has appeared on CNN, The Huffington Post, the cover of Foundr Magazine and countless other media outlets.
Kasim is the Founder CEO of Solutions 8 (a Digital Marketer Certified Partner, Infusionsoft Certified Partner, and Official Google Partner) and the author of the #1 Amazon Bestseller “The 7 Critical Principles of Effective Digital Marketing.” Through Solutions 8, Kasim has spent more than a decade helping over 500 organizations grow and scale using a unique, proven and proprietary process: The Digital Business Builder. This experience fuels his presentations and has helped to make him a foremost authority on business growth and scale in the digital age. He has worked with the largest privately owned bank in the U.S., a 54,000 member PPO, a Gates Foundation-funded non-profit, and an Academy Award contending documentary.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect we are joined by Craig Handley, the author of Hired To Quit Inspired To Stay. Craig structured his company, ListenTrust, with a culture that honors personal values, giving back, and allowing everyone to pursue their own dreams. With his book, Craig can help everyone do the same. In Hired to Quit, Inspired to Stay, he draws upon the trials he's faced to encourage other leaders to create their own ideal enterprises. With valuable lessons and indispensable advice, he'll show you not only how to establish a culture that inspires employees and customers, but how to survive and enjoy the bumpy business ride. Dush dives into the reason Craig wrote this book and how he developed this mentality into a winning formula.
Mark C. Perna is the founder and CEO of TFS in Cleveland, Ohio, a full-service strategic consulting firm whose mission is to share and support every client’s passion for making a difference. Mark, a graduate of John Carroll University, has many years of experience addressing industry leaders on the topic of expanding their reach in an increasingly global marketplace. As an international expert on Generations Y and Z, Mark has devoted his career to empowering educators and employers to unleash the tremendous potential of today’s young people, both in the classroom and on the job. After successfully parenting two Millennials as a single father, Mark has become a passionate advocate for bridging the generational divides that are contributing to America’s profound skills gap. Parents, schools, districts, businesses, and state organizations across North America have successfully used Mark’s insights and strategies to connect more effectively with the younger generations. In his work with educational and business organizations, Mark has pioneered many best practices for achieving more with today’s young people, including the TFS Education with Purpose® philosophy and highly popular Career Tree® strategy, among others. Mark is frequently cited as the national expert in education enrollment, retention, and performance.
Jack Gibson began his entrepreneurial journey at 19 and founded his first company at the ripe old age of 21. Operating a successful nutrition consulting and distribution company, he had built a multi-million dollar venture before he was old enough to rent a car. Soon thereafter, he bought his first home as an investment. One quickly became five, and then the big hit. He became obsessed with learning everything about Real Estate Investing and soon had over 50 investment properties generating passive income. Today, Jack spends his time mentoring other entrepreneurs, building his real estate investment portfolio, and helping other investors to build a brighter future through the power of turnkey real estate income.
Jeff Schechter, aka “Shecky” has had the entrepreneurial bug his entire life. He started his first business right out of college, and over the years been involved in numerous businesses ventures. His love for real estate investing began in the 1980’s when he rehabbed 5 of his own residences before the term “house-hacking” even existed. Since those early days of torn up kitchens and bathrooms, he’s bought and sold many properties and is an active investor to this day. In addition to investing, he operates a private consulting practice. He thrives on helping people realize their full potential...not just in business and investing, but in all aspects of life.
Dush interviews 10-time #1 Bestselling Author, Entrepreneur, and former Carnegie Hall conductor, Gundi Gabrielle . She discusses an incredibly unique formula for building a passive income funnel and brand through writing and self-publishing books. Learn in this episode how to use best seller publishing as a marketing tool, lead magnet, and marketing tool to build a brand.
Gundi loves to explain complex matters in an easy to understand, fun way. Her “The Sassy Way...when you have NO CLUE!!” series has helped thousands around the world conquer the jungles of internet marketing with humor, simplicity and some sass. A 10-time #1 Bestselling Author, Entrepreneur, and former Carnegie Hall conductor, Gundi employs marketing chops from all walks of life and loves to help her readers achieve their dreams in a practical, fun way. Her students have published multiple #1 Bestsellers outranking the likes of Tim Ferris, John Grisham, Hal Elrod, and Liz Gilbert. When she is not writing books or enjoying a cat on her lap (or both), she is passionate about exploring the world as a Digital Nomad, one
awesome adventure at a time. She has no plans of settling down
Magnus is a renowned author, global speaker and thought-leader in the field of marketing automation, with a particular focus on advanced integration, marketing with artificial intelligence, and how data and insights from Internet-connected devices can drive marketing automation logic. Magnus has spent the past 20+ years in the global software industry, focusing on marketing the Internet-of-Things technology in the semiconductor chip industry. He co-founded an international software company that built and maintained a distributor network in 50 countries. He now concentrates his efforts on helping companies advance and grow their business by sharing his knowledge as an independent consultant. Magnus has published many popular books on Internet marketing, Marketing Automation, Entrepreneurship, Internet-of-Things and Artificial intelligence. His latest book, released 2018, is entitled ‘Data-Driven Marketing with Artificial Intelligence: Harness the Power of Predictive Marketing and Machine Learning’. Magnus currently resides in Sweden and is a sought-after speaker for seminars and conferences in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, throughout Europe and the USA. He’s is also the founder and author of the blog www.unemyr.com/blog a leading source for marketing automation and AI.
Dush Ramachandran speaks with Maruxa Murphy, the Founder of PerkyPerky.com, makers of a new coffee brand that seeks to create an experience between women and their cup of coffee.
Perky Perky Coffee aims to invite women back into their power! Well roasted coffee has special magical powers - and when we partner amazing coffee from all over the world with empowering conversations, we build a community of women in all walks of life that know they have gifts, talents, skills, and areas of genius that make the world a freaking amazing place for themselves and others they love.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect we are joined by Matt Holleran, General Partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners. Most seed rounds these days are about $2 million, but if you’re a startup, especially in the enterprise cloud space, what can you accomplish with that amount? Not much. If you're attempting to solve weighty problems for business, the product offering requires the help of experienced, high-quality engineers who don’t come cheap. Add to that marketing and sales needs, and the costs add up fast. On the flipside, CEOs and senior executives from enterprise cloud companies that have had successful exits are constantly approached by startups requesting angel/seed money. These CEOs don’t always know how best to respond to the opportunities presented to them. It may be flattering, and the promise of a return on your investment can be enticing, but is it worth it? Cloud Apps Capital Partners is a leading venture capital firm in the cloud business application market at the Classic Series A stage. Matt Holleran has 12 years of operating experience in successful business application companies including Salesforce.com, 12 years of venture capital and private equity experience, and a highly relevant network. He has walked in the shoes of founding teams at each stage of a business application company’s development — no customers, initial traction, scaling the team, market leadership, and global expansion. Matt has a BA in engineering and economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Michelle L. Evans walked away from her global marketing strategy role at Microsoft in 2012 after a successful 16-year corporate career spanning many industries and now works with a fantastic community of business owners - coaches, consultants, experts, speakers, authors and solopreneurs - helping them go from simply surviving to predictably SOLD OUT. Using her 20+ years of successful marketing experience she helps her clients create income-producing, client-generating, stress-reducing marketing funnels. Michelle has been featured in Mirasee, Huffington Post, Online Marketing Made Easy and 30+ other places over the internet and worked with household names like Microsoft, LinkedIn and others as a well-paid employee and consultant.
Latz, a Harvard Law honors graduate and author of Gain the Edge! Negotiating To Get What You Want, has been studying and teaching negotiation for over 25 years and has been recognized as a negotiation expert by many national media, including CNN, FOX, CBS, PBS, USA Today, CQ Roll Call, among others. In his new book, Latz unveils the secrets of Trump’s real negotiation strategies and tactics. Donald Trump made billions in business and has now negotiated for over a year as President of the United States. How good are his negotiation skills? Find out and learn from his successes and failures in business and as President, as Latz analyzes more than 100 Trump negotiations to vividly illustrate what proven strategies he’s used and ignored. Readers will learn practical, powerful strategies from this easy-to-understand book and better grasp the seemingly unconventional and sometimes shocking and entertaining approach Trump has historically taken to get deals done.
Organizational expert Karen Jaw-Madson enjoyed success as a corporate executive before pursuing a ‘portfolio career’ comprised of research, writing, consulting, teaching/speaking, and creative pursuits. As a versatile leader across multiple industries, Karen developed, led, and implemented numerous organizational initiatives around the globe. Today, this East Coast transplant to Silicon Valley (via Ireland and the Midwest) is principal of Co.-Design of Work Experience, where she enables organizations with innovative approaches and customized solutions for intimidating challenges. Focus areas include culture, organizational change, and people strategies. She has a BA in Ethnic and Cultural Studies from Bryn Mawr College and a MA in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University.
Most technical professions involve hours and hours of training around the profession. This can look like technical training and apprenticeship about becoming a great consultant, accountant or lawyer. Or, maybe the technical nature of the business is a complicated service like health care, brokerage or outsourcing. Mo Bunnell and his team at Bunnell Idea Group (BIG) have created a comprehensive system that shows high-end professionals how to become effective at business development—even when they are busy. Go to www.snowballsystem.com to learn more about Mo Bunnell's book The Snowball System and www.createdemandcourse.com for a FREE video course on how to, yes, create more demand for your products and services!
Every major infrastructure depends critically on cyberspace, making them vulnerable to cyber attack, which can cause catastrophic, physical damage costing millions. Imagine the chaos if a city like New York lost access to the subway system; unable to survive for more than a few days, a complete evacuation would be inevitable. The next generation of cybersecurity professionals must be armed with a comprehensive defense against even the most sophisticated attacks. From internationally-recognized, cybersecurity expert O. Sami Saydjari comes the authoritative Bible for crafting cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions: Engineering Trustworthy Systems; Get Cybersecurity Design Right the First Time. As Saydjari says, “much of the information in this book can be found nowhere else.”
Pete Leibman, leadership expert and speaker, is the author of the upcoming book Work Stronger: Habits for More Energy, Less Stress and Higher Performance at Work (Skyhorse Publishing, July 31, 2018)Work Stronger provides a step-by-step, science-based approach for increasing your energy, decreasing your stress, and taking your performance to a higher level. This book also features practical tips and powerful insights from private interviews that Leibman conducted with more than twenty-five prominent leaders. The group includes Chip Bergh, the president and CEO of Levi Strauss Co., Dick Costolo, the former CEO of Twitter, and Janine Allis, an investor on Shark Tank. Pete's book's web site is WorkStronger.com, and his company web site is WorkStrongerConsulting.com. You can be able to contact him by email at Pete@StrongerHabits.com.
Tody on Entrepreunuer Effect our host is joined by Scott J. Bintz. Scott, an e-commerce entrepreneur, author, and founder of Realtruck.com. RealTruck began in the basement of a duplex in 1998, that grew into a 100+ million dollar e-commerce super-store from North Dakota. Recognized as a Top Place to work by ND Young Peoples Prairie Business Magazine. All because of work culture. Scott would love to share his experiences and knowledge in e- commerce, marketing, or business culture with your audience. Letting people know that it does matter where you come from, you can still succeed.Grew up poor in a trailer park, single mom was a waitress. Got a grant to go to college and was in military to pay for college, got a degree in economics. Went into the wireless industry. Started the 2 year contract with discounted phone-won an award for the promo. Was demoted even though it exploded sales and commissions. Left that job and worked with a startup making pickup bed covers-set up dealers. Started his own business repping manufacturers and connected them with dealers to sell the covers. Set up a local brick and mortar and worked the trade show circuit. Talked some dealers into doing a TV ad and it worked. Bought his first online order, and started thinking that would be a good way to sell the pickup covers, by selling online with video of TV ad. Had a friend who was in school to be a web developer. None of the dealers wanted to do it. Set up a test on their own and made sales the first day they launched so he went to dealers to tell them they had to start selling online. Grew into an ecommerce company, RealTruc-started in his basement. Dropshipped everything and grew to $8million. Won an award for innovation and started looking into culture, and started identifying as an ecommerce company that sells truck accerssories. Started noticing Zappos and liked the business model and toured them and he got re-inspired to bet it all on culture. Wrote core values and put them on the wall-a year later no one embraced them!
Today on Entrepreneur Effect we are joined by Spencer Sheinin. About 4 years ago Spencer began thinking about what was next, and started working with startups and they kept asking him to be their CFO. He discovered he could not get info he needed from these businesses-bookkeeping 101 wasn't even in place. Spencer started Shift Financial 1.5 years ago which serves entrepreneurs by changing the conversation around accounting and give them power . Accountants do a terrible dis-service to entrepreneurs on accounting and how it works-reports are confusing. He has tools that can be used to direct your accountant to and hold them accountable to metrics you're trying to achieve. Spencer -Bought first company at 26-manufacturing had for 15 years-highly regulated and quadrupled sales in time.He then went into partnership in construction/real estate business and worked to get him out of the day to day processes so he could flourish.
Dean is the founder of DFA Intercultural Global Solutions; and former Worldwide Director of Berlitz Cross-Cultural; and currently Executive Strategic Consultant for Dwellworks Intercultural. Based in New York City, Dean has played a central role in the development of the field of cross-cultural training and consulting. Dean has worked with most major Fortune 500 companies, national governments and NGOs (the United Nations and World Trade Institutes, among others), and as guest lecturer and faculty for premier educational institutions, including Harvard Business School, Columbia University School of Business, New York University, and Darden Business School. His work has taken him to more than 100 countries. He is the host on CNN of the nationwide “Doing Business in … ” series; a frequent guest commentator on culture, global work and social issues for CNN, CNBC, the BBC and other radio and TV shows; and has been interviewed in Newsweek, USA Today, New York Times, and elsewhere.
Terry Beard is the founder of Beard Frame Shops and Frame Central Stores, and Beards Online Picture Framing. Terry grew Beard’s Frame Shops from the single store company into a 37-location regional chain with hundreds of employees in the Pacific Northwest competing with national chains. In 1999, Terry merged Beards with NW Framing in Seattle. Terry is actively involved in Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (OEN). He serves on the Board of Directors for several local organizations and in October 2015, was the founding charter member of the Portland Rotary Toastmaster Club. In his new book, Squelched! Finding My Voice, speaker and successful entrepreneur, Terry Beard equips readers to overcome self-doubt and take ownership of both the small and large stages of their lives. Drawn from Terry’s experience as an entrepreneur building successful retail enterprises, Squelched inspires leaders to live a happier and more meaningful life by finding their true voice.
Named Trust Across America 2018 Top Thought Leader in Trust, Anne Bahr Thompson has been inspiring business leaders to use their brands as a motivating force for change for many years. She started to observe and write about how peoples’ connections to companies were turning upside down at the start of the Millennium, before many others identified this shift. With more than 25 years experience as a global brand strategist, Anne is the author of DO GOOD, which explains her pioneering model of Brand Citizenship® – and the cultural dynamics that led to the creation of the model.
A former executive director of strategy and planning and the head of consulting at Interbrand, the world’s leading brand consultancy, Anne is the founder of Onesixtyfourth, a boutique consultancy that helps companies align purpose and profit by integrating cultural shifts and a social conscience into brand development. She spent several years in the banking sector in strategic planning and research and began her career at Grey Advertising. Anne brings the knowledge and understanding that only comes from interacting with a lengthy list of the world’s most prestigious brands including: Aegon, adidas, American Cancer Society, Citibank, Emerson, Hard Rock Cafe, IBM, ING, JPMorganChase, Kingfisher, MerckMedco, Microsoft, Pearson, Pepsi, Prudential, Quaker Oats, Roche, Save the Children, Scandinavian Airlines, STA Travel, Stolichnaya, Symantec, ThomsonReuters, Tri-Star Entertainment, UNICEF, Waitrose/John Lewis Partnership and many others.
Anne’s writings have appeared in Brands and Branding (Economist Books), hbr.com, Brand Quarterly, Journal of Brand Strategy, Bloomberg News, The Guardian, PR News, and many other industry publications, and she has been interviewed about her mega trends on Fox Business. An active community volunteer, she is extremely proud of the work she has done for non-profit and humanitarian aid organizations, both global and local. She holds an MBA from the Darden Graduate School at the University of Virginia and has been an adjunct professor at New York University Stern School of Business’s London campus.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect Dush is joined by Walt Bayliss from GOJEO. Walt is an online entrepreneur, a professional software developer, and an internet marketer. He earns a full-time income from the internet and is able to travel with his family, enjoying the lifestyle and plugging in where ever there is a connection. Walts journey online started in 2008 when his first daughter was born. He was working in the corporate world. Dedicated to the job, thinking it was the only way forward. It doesn’t matter if you are 15 or 80. The internet is the playground for all. Every single person can follow a success strategy and earn good money online. So did Walt did just that.
Cybercrime is an epidemic, and every business is at risk. For management, the question is not if you will be compromised, but when. 80% of CEOs are very confident in their company’s cybersecurity strategies, despite the fact that security incidents have surged 66% year-over-year since 2009 (PricewaterhouseCoopers). In fact, few are prepared, explains cybersecurity expert Ray A. Rothrock, who demystifies cyber risk and clearly outlines strategies for both surviving attacks and thriving even while under assault.In his new book, Digital Resilience: Is Your Company Ready for the Next Cyber Threat? (AMACOM; April 2018), Ray Rothrock, the CEO and chairman of RedSeal (more info below signature), provides an insightful guide into the resilience-building strategies businesses need to prevail—no matter what strikes. Ray A. Rothrock is CEO and chairman of RedSeal, a leader in network modeling and cyber risk scoring. RedSeal’s multi-national customers include companies across the finance, utility, technology, and retail sectors. More than 40 defense, intelligence, and civilian government agencies use RedSeal to build digital resilience into their mission-critical operations.
Tomer Yogev is a nationally recognized entrepreneur and coach. Tomer founded his first company while a student at Northwestern and has since gone on to launch over a dozen companies, participate in numerous funding rounds and multiple acquisitions, and even did a short stint in venture capital after picking up his MBA from the University of Chicago.
His title as Chief Synergist speaks to his diverse experiences and ability to bring out ever-higher levels of performance from individuals and teams. Today, Tomer works exclusively as a coach to leading entrepreneurs and corporate innovation teams. While in college at Northwestern that Tomer came into his own, developing his own field of study focused on the intersection of technology and business, and beginning his life-long love affair with tech entrepreneurship. Before graduating he had founded his first company and joined his first venture to later be acquired.
Since then, Tomer has launched or co-launched over a dozen companies, participated in multiple acquisitions, picked up an MBA from University of Chicago, did a short stint in venture capital, consulted to hundreds of companies from raw startups to Fortune 100s, and become a noted expert author and speaker on entrepreneurship as well as technology and small business issues. Tomer works with early-stage business leaders, assisting them in honing their strategy, operations, leadership, and culture. He has taken advisory and interim-executive roles at numerous start-ups across various industries, including medical devices, software, education, and digital media.
Kimberly Davis’ life on the stage has taken many forms, forging a circuitous path that has given her more than 25 years’ experience in front of groups and audiences of all sizes. Her rich career includes work as a professional actress; designing and leading cross-cultural workshops throughout Japan; “Customer Experience Programs” in the US, UK, France, Germany, and Hong Kong; and employee engagement/leadership development workshops for a multitude of Fortune 500’s throughout the US.
An expert on authentic leadership, Davis shares her inspirational message of personal power, responsibility, and impact with organizations across the country and teaches leadership programs worldwide; most notably, her program “OnStage Leadership” which runs in NYC and Dallas, TX. Clients include: GE, Merck, Pepsico, Hill’s Pet Nutrition, The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, TGI Fridays, Southwest Airlines, JCPenney, Wolff Olins, United Technologies, Essilor, The National Kidney Foundation, the Public Relations Society of America, Turlock Unified School District, and many more.
Additionally, Davis currently teaches Authentic Influence and Executive Presence for Southern Methodist University’s (SMU) Cox School of Business’ Executive Education Program, and partners with SMU in teaching for the Bush Institute’s Women’s Initiative Fellowship program (empowering female leaders from the Middle East) and for the National Hispanic Corporate Council.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect we are joined by Susan Solvic, THE Small Business Expert. An Internet pioneer, Solovic was the CEO and co-founder of one of the first video-based Internet sites, a company she grew from its infancy to a million dollar plus entity. In 2006, she accepted the Stevie Award (the Oscar’s of business) on behalf of the company for the Most Innovative Company under 100 employees; that same year the company was voted the Best Investment Opportunity at a Venture Forum in the Silicon Valley. A media personality, Solovic is a former small business contributor for ABC News and hosted a syndicated radio program, It’s Your Biz. She appears regularly as a small business expert on Fox Business, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal’s “Lunch Break”, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC and many other stations across the country. She hosted her own PBS special called Reinvent Yourself Now: Become Self-Reliant in an Unpredictable World. In addition to television and radio appearances, Solovic is a featured blogger on numerous sites, including Constant Contact, Entrepreneur, ATT Business Circle, FoxBusiness.com, MasterCard, Intuit, The Pulse of IT (HP) and Samsung. Solovic was recently named in the Top 10 of both SAP’s “Top 51 Potential Human Influencers” and she consistently ranks in the top 5 of the “Top 100 Small Business Experts to Follow on Twitter” She has written four bestselling books which have been translated into multiple languages.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect Dush i joined by Judith Humphrey. In her new book, Impromptu: Leading in the Moment, communications expert, author, and acclaimed speaker Judith Humphrey provides insight into how to think on your feet and speak spontaneously and successfully in virtually every situation from elevator conversations with your boss to industry networking events to job interviews. Often, the most important moments are spur-of-the-moment exchanges, opportunities that we should take advantage of by preparing in advance. Drawing upon the most memorable impromptu moments in history—from the ancient Greeks to today’s leaders in business, politics, and entertainment—Impromptu explores every aspect of spontaneous speaking in order to prepare us for anything life throws our way.
Dush Ramachandran talks to Lyndsay Phillips, CEO and Captain of Smooth Sailing Business Growth. They talk about some of the biggest mistakes that a lot of service business companies do when it comes to content marketing. Lyndsay describes herself as a serial entrepreneur; self-professed organizational freak, client-appointed task master plus project ninja and warrior content marketer.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect our host is joined by Lindsey Phillips Creator and Founder of Lindsay Phillips Switchflops. Phillips was born in Clearwater, Florida on Dec 7, 1984. Her father, Paul Phillips, is a cardiologist and her mother, Liz Phillips, worked as a nurse. Phillips attended Berkeley Preparatory School in Tampa, Florida. It was during this time that Lindsay developed the concept for sandals that would eventually lead her to launch SwitchFlops - interchangeable flip-flops with removable straps to match any outfit. Encouraged by the favorable responses she received after creating ceramic flips flops – part of an art class project – she began expanding her vision by toying with the idea of creating colorful straps and buttons that could diversify the look of just one pair of flip-flops. She soon realized that by using hook-and-loop fasteners, her vision of “Change Your Look, Not Your Sole” was complete. By the end of her high school career, Phillips applied for a patent.
Following graduation from Berkeley Prep in 2003, she attended Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, interning with Ralph Lauren Corporation in New York City during two of her summer breaks. She also attended Semester at Sea, a shipboard, global study abroad program, during which she simultaneously studied and toured several countries including Venezuela, Brazil, South Africa, the Republic of Mauritius, Myanmar, India, Vietnam, China, and Japan. Phillips has frequently commented that her travels abroad have greatly influenced her designs. She graduated in 2007 with a BA in Art History and a minor in communications.
For over a decade, Piers Fawkes has run the business intelligence platform, PSFK. The service provides trend reports and consumer insights, innovation workshops and immersive experiences, and on-demand research services to an audience of creative professionals developing future retail, brand and product experiences. Piers is considered a trend and innovation expert and is called to provide talks on the topics of the reports that he and his team publish every month. He has provided hands-on advice to future-forward brands including Apple, Facebook, Google, Nike, Red Bull, Samsung, and Target. Before PSFK, Piers produced the film It's Okay to Drink Whiskey, which premiered at 2004's Sundance Film Festival. Piers' early career was in advertising and digital media.
Dush Ramachandran speaks with Chris Dayley, a digital marketing entrepreneur and Vice President of Testing and Site Optimization at Disruptive Advertising. He also offers insight on how to grow from a "Lifestyle Business" to something bigger
Dush Ramachandran speaks with the author of #1 best selling book Lose the Limits, Christian Chasmer, a young entrepreneur who has already built two successful companies by the age of 25. Hear about how to optimize your personal effectiveness, gain insight into the importance of visualization for achieving your dreams, learn systems to optimize your mornings and your evenings and the best systems to keep your business growing.
Dush Ramachandran speaks with Scottish entrepreneur Stefan Pretty who founded 5 businesses since the age of 18. As an expert in subscription-based business, bootstrapping and making customers happy, he recently wrote for Young Upstarts and Smart Hustle.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect our host is joined by Morgan Simon. Simon is a widely-recognized leader in impact investment who builds bridges between finance and social justice. Over the past seventeen years, she has influenced over $150 billion in capital. Simon currently co-leads Candide Group, which supports two clients, including members of the Pritzker family on behalf of the Libra Foundation. She is also co-founder and chair of the non-profit Transform Finance. Previously, Simon served as the founding CEO of Toniic, a global network of impact investors, and as the founding executive director of the Responsible Endowments Coalition. She has worked with the United Nations in Honduras, in corporate reform with ForestEthics, and in domestic microfinance with the Women's Initiative for Self-Employment. She currently serves on the boards of the Restaurant Opportunity Center, The Working World, and CARE Enterprises. A graduate of Swarthmore College, Simon serves as an adjunct professor at Middlebury College's graduate school program. She lives in the Bay Area.
Rick Snyder has been coaching since 2004 and has started 3 different businesses. The first time he launched, he had no blueprint or real mentoring on what to do. Over time, he learned from his mistakes and challenges, and eventually patchworked mentorship and help from different areas to build a successful business, which to him meant that it was also fulfilling. It wasn’t until he joined forces with EMyth in 2011 that he realized it doesn’t have to be so hard, as they already templated how to lead and systemize a business that can reflect your values and scale beyond you in the same breath.
Since then, Rick is dedicated to helping business owners define what’s most important to them in their life, and how to create or reimagine a business that expresses these principles in a meaningful and profitable way. He also is a presenter, workshop leader, and mentors other business coaches. He loves spending time outdoors, traveling, and is writing his first book. He is currently based in Oregon.
Dush Ramachandran speaks with Mark H. Fowler, the president of Stowe Management Corporation and Co-CEO of Revolutionary Conversations, LLC. He is a business growth and corporate re-engineering expert, author and writer, business educator, public speaker and change leader.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect our host is joined by Constance Dierickx The Decision Doctor® Author of High Stakes Leadership-Leading with courage, judgment, and fortitude. Constance helps senior executives succeed in high stakes transitions such as mergers and acquisitions, CEO succession, organizational change, and crisis. Her merger and acquisition clients succeed at a rate 400 times greater than the average. In her new book, organizational and leadership consultant Dierickx describes high-stakes leadership in a simple, three-part model that illuminates the mindsets, strategies, and tactics leaders must draw upon to make tough decisions, take an unpopular stand, or ignore convention, providing real-world examples across a range of sectors and industries. Dierickx developed her model of high-stakes leadership to help her clients―executives at organizations ranging from start-ups to nonprofits to large, global companies―better define what they need to bring strategy to life. This, she found, is the great gulf in business, the vast space between idea and results.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect our host is joined by Bestselling author and transformation and marketing executive Chris Aarons. Chris is a seasoned professional who is breaking ground at the intersection where digital transformation, sales and marketing strategies all meet. He is the co-author (with Michael Gale) of the best selling book, “The Digital Helix: Transforming Your Organization's DNA to Thrive in the Digital Age"which shows how to create a digital-first DNA for your organization to not only embrace the digital age but thrive in it. In addition, he facilitated many group programs for clients, spoken at industry group events and teaches and serves as a guest lecturer on Digital Marketing for the University of Texas at Austin.
An innovator with more than 20 years experience, he has created and implemented powerhouse programs in a variety of professional settings. From international PR agencies to Fortune 500 companies, Aarons is the quintessential "go-to" guy in strategic marketing that requires the highest level of creativity and knowledge. In 2005, he launched a successful social media program at AMD, which quickly defined best practices in the world of social media and influencer relations.
Garrett Gunderson is the New York Times bestselling author of Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths That Are Destroying Your Prosperity. Founder and Chief Wealth Architect of Wealth Factory,Garrett Gunderson is a financial guru who specializes in helping entrepreneurs manage their finances and create wealth.
Discussion on how to use disruptive technology to bring digital communications to people in rural, developing countries as Dush Ramachandran speaks with Dr. Vanu Bose, the CEO of Vanu, Inc., a provider of innovative wireless infrastructure solutions.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect our Host Dush Ramachandran is joined by Dmitriy Kozlov. Dmitriy is a young serial entrepreneur whose purpose is to "accelerate the evolution of love through inspiring and empowering influencers." By just 27 years old, Dmitriy has built 4 separate companies around this purpose to the 6 and 7 figure mark. Originally born in Russia and raised in the Boston area, Dmitriy found his way to his “heart home” of San Diego through a long nomadic journey and has fallen in love with the community here since, with a deep dedication to servant leadership. One of those expressions has been co-creating and leading the San Diego Conscious Community Facebook Group, along with hosting many local events, gatherings, and parties.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect our host is joined by Alex Daly the founder of Vann Alexandra,, a creative services agency that gets projects financed through crowdfunding. Dubbed the industry's "Crowdsourceress," a name she received in the press for her expertise in crowdfunding, her clients include Neil Young, Oscar-winning filmmakers, Pentagram designers, Eric Ries, and girl group TLC. Alex has shared her expertise at top film festivals, universities, and organizations. She is in the Forbes 30 under 30 Marketing Advertising class of 2016. In The Crowdsourceress: Get Smart, Get Funded, and Kickstart Your Next Big Idea (PublicAffairs), Daly takes readers deep inside her most successful campaigns, tangible tools to run their own crowdfunding campaigns and fully connect with the crowd, get people to pay attention, and inspire them to act.
Veteran publicist Justin Loeber founded mouth : digital + public relations, in 2006—boasting more than 550 clients since its inception. The agency is proud to represent personalities, companies and organizations across the spectrum—from celebrity, consumer, book, health/wellness, food, business, new media, beauty/lifestyle and fashion categories—to more than 23 New York Times bestselling authors. Loeber presents a scrappy, humorous, real-life 101, kick-in-the-pants wake-up call with his new book, Get Out of Your Own Way Guide to Life: 10 Steps to Shift Gears, Dream Big, Do it Now! (Mango Publishing), which inspires your readers to unlock their fantasy—in work, in life, in love—and realize it’s time to do it now!
Dush Ramachandran talks to Frank Cottle from the Alliance Business Centers Network about building and optimizing the virtual office. offers tips on being successful with a remote team and speak about tools to use to connect with tech. Frank is a lifelong entrepreneur from a lineage of serial entrepreneurs and his diverse experiences have helped him create man companies. His most recent focus is on the virtual business world and how technology has changed business models.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect Dush is Joined by Dustin Mathews. Dustin is the co-founder of Speaking Empire – the disruptive company in the leadership and education space, whose chief mission is advancing the human race by empowering leaders to communicate powerfully, unlock their fullest potential and ultimately step into their Greatness. Dustin is the author of many bestselling books and has shared the stage with athletes, business celebrities, and titans of business. His latest book the NO B.S. Guide To Powerful Presentations: How To Sell ANYTHING With Webinars Online Media, Speeches Seminars (Entrepreneur Press) is set for release on June 13th. Known for creating marketplace frenzies that drive people to buy products en masse, Dustin’s companies and private clients have been featured by Forbes, Entrepreneur, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and INC Magazine. Having marketed and filled over 3,000 events AND leading 10 online product launches, Dustin has generated over $43 million dollars in sales.In his most recent research, Dustin codified a process for creating and selling products and services – Irresistible Offer Architecture® which recently received recognition from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Dush Ramachandran talks about how important PR is when launching a new business or building your personal brand as an entrepreneur with PR veteran Adrienne Scordato, the CEO Founder of Atrium PR.Adrienne Scordato is a PR and corporate communications practitioner with over 20 years of experience across categories including health, fitness, non-profit and multiple facets of corporate professional services such as advertising, media, marketing, digital, ad tech, management consulting, advertising, coaching and executive search.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect our host is joined by Jonathan David Lewis the author of Brand vs Wild. Jonathan is a Forbes contributor and a brand survival expert at McKee Wallwork + Co. As partner and strategy director at MW+C, Jonathan led his firm to be recognized by purveyor Advertising Age as a national leader in branding and marketing, winning the Southwest Small Agency of the Year, national B2B Campaign of the Year, and national Best Places to Work awards. Jonathan sharpened his skills during the harsh years of the Great Recession, helping brands navigate today’s unforgiving new business paradigms. Jonathan’s opinions are highly sought by numerous business and marketing publications, including Forbes, Digiday, and Advertising Age, where he explores the factors of stalled growth and the principles proven to help companies traverse the dangers of the brand wilderness.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect our host is joined by Robin Behrstock. At the age of thirty-three, Robin Behrstock started Alchemade (www.Alchemade.com), a copper mug business just as they became a popular trend. In less than three years, she grew the business to annual sales of $3 million. For Robin, the best part of being an entrepreneur isn’t making money or selling lots of copper mugs; it’s inspiring people to take control of their lives and turn their dreams of starting a business into reality. Robin is currently a partner in Radius Partnership, www.RadiusPartnership.com, a consulting firm focused on working with small businesses.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect our host is joined by Robin Behrstock. At the age of thirty-three, Robin Behrstock started Alchemade (www.Alchemade.com), a copper mug business just as they became a popular trend. In less than three years, she grew the business to annual sales of $3 million. For Robin, the best part of being an entrepreneur isn’t making money or selling lots of copper mugs; it’s inspiring people to take control of their lives and turn their dreams of starting a business into reality. Robin is currently a partner in Radius Partnership, www.RadiusPartnership.com, a consulting firm focused on working with small businesses.
Joe Valley is a serial entrepreneur who has extensive experience in starting up and managing online businesses. Joe was first introduced to Quiet Light Brokerage when we advised him on the sale of an Internet enterprise.
Joe is an equity partner at Quiet Light Brokerage, and has been with the firm since 2012. Joining after selling his own eCommerce business through Quiet Light Brokerage, Joe has personally closed over $35,000,000 in total transactions and is now the Director of Brokerage Services.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect Dush is Joined by Psychologist, Professor, and Author Mary Lamia, Ph.D. Educating the public about the psychology of human behavior has been something She's done throughout her career. Her books include: "What Motivates Getting Things Done: Procrastination, Emotions, and Success" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017); "Emotions! Making Sense of Your Feelings" (American Psychological Association Magination Press, 2012); "Understanding Myself: A Kid's Guide to Intense Emotions and Strong Feelings" (American Psychological Association Magination Press, 2010); "The White Knight Syndrome: Rescuing Yourself from Your Need to Rescue Others" (New Harbinger 2009/Echo Point 2016). A forthcoming book is "The Upside of Shame" (W.W. Norton, 2018).
Today on Entrepreneur Effect Dush is Joined by Cristal Glangchai, PhD. Over the years, Dr. Glangchai has worked in intellectual property, technology commercialization, and product development. She received her B.A. in Plan II, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, where she was recently a featured alumni. In addition, she holds two doctoral certificates in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Molecular Imaging for Diagnostic and Therapeutics. Dr. Glangchai is a member of Springboard Enterprises, a nonprofit resource hub of entrepreneurs and investors dedicated to building high growth, technology-oriented companies led by women. She is also a mentor for the TechStars Austin chapter. In addition, Dr. Glangchai is affiliated with the American Society for Engineering Education, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Controlled Release Society, BioAustin, Austin Women in Technology, RICE Alliance, RampCorp, Geekdom, and Geekdom Fund.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect Dush is Joined by Blake Morgan, a Customer Experience Futurist. Her first book is “More is More: How The Best Companies Work Harder And Go Farther To Create Knock Your Socks Off Customer Experiences.” Blake is adjunct faculty at the Rutgers executive education MBA program. Blake contributes to Forbes, the Harvard Business Review and the American Marketing Association. She is the host of The Modern Customer Podcast and a weekly customer experience video series on YouTube. She has worked with Intel, Verizon Wireless, and many more. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband, daughter and their two Yorkie rescues.
Over the last 10+ years, the Underground Online Seminar has become renowned for consistently over-delivering on high-quality marketing content, exclusive connection-making events, and unbelievable surprises unlike any other conference in the online marketing world.
Dush brings on his wife and business partner, Terra Ramachandran, to discuss how the original founder and organizer Yanik Silver approached them to take over the event and how they are adding their spin to this unconventional networking experience
Today on Entreprenuer Effect We are joined by Tristan White is Founder CEO of The Physio Co, a unique healthcare business, that in 2014 ranked No. 1 on BRW’s list of Australia’s 50 Best Places to Work.Tristan is a qualified Physiotherapist from The University of Melbourne who started his career with a dream to become a Sports Physiotherapist and work with the mighty Richmond Tigers in the AFL. Over the following 12 months he created himself a job helping oldies in a few nursing homes across Melbourne. He loved it and very quickly had more aged care clients than he was able to treat himself.That’s when, in 2004,his new job became a business and The Physio Co was born. As The Physio Co (TPC) has grown, Tristan has obsessed over creating the best business he possibly can, he figured out a way to create a strong culture that not only worked at TPC but can be systemised and tailored to other businesses. His experiences have lead him to believe culture is everything.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect Dush is joined by Al Zdenek, the owner of New York City-based Traust Sollus Wealth Management. Al has over thirty years of experience transforming lives through empowering people to make better financial choices and providing wealth management services to high-net worth individuals, senior executives, physicians, and business owners. He has been selected to appear in lists of the nation’s top financial advisors and is often quoted in the media about wealth building and wealth management topics. Al is often asked to present on wealth management and is a prominent speaker at conferences around the country. Al is the author of Master Your Cash Flow: The Key To Grow And Retain Wealth.
Today On Entrepreneur effect John Jonas joins Dush to talk about his career flow. John is based in Utah and is the founder of the largest marketplace for finding Filipino workers, OnlineJobs.ph, with over 150,000 Filipino workers on their database. He is also the founder of “Replace Myself”–a site that teaches you everything you need to know about outsourcing to the Philippines. John has been entrepreneur for 10-12 years, teaching entrepreneurs how to succeed. Running his own business he really needed help so he began looking into outsourcing. After struggled working with contractors and got a good tip to work with someone in the Philippines.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect we are joined by Sarah Cooper the Stand up comedian. Sarah is going back on tour to talk about her viral, buzz-worthy blog post that inspired her book 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings: How to Get by Without Even Trying. Do you want to appear smart in meetings but can’t stop daydreaming about your next vacation, your next nap, or your next meal? Then the 100 tricks in Sarah Cooper’s new book are exactly what you need to stop being the dud of the group and start being the star. 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings: How to Get by Without Even Trying provides hilarious and actionable ways to use words like “actionable” in order to sound smart. Poking fun at corporate and tech culture is a natural for Cooper, a veteran of corporations such as Google and Yahoo. Her “10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings” post on The Cooper Review was an immediate viral sensation (5 million views and counting). Funny because it’s true, 100 Tricks to Appear Smart is the ultimate (tongue-in-cheek) career companion.
Dush speaks with Acclaimed author Lee Caraher, to talk about her latest book, THE BOOMERANG PRINCIPLE: Inspire Lifetime Loyalty from Your Employees. She explains in the book that "Job hopping" is the new norm, especially for Millennials. However, there seems to be a deep-seated resentment about the perceived lack of loyalty shown by employees to their colleagues and employers. Caraher says that the consequence of this resentment is debilitating to businesses of all sizes across the country.
Dush speaks with Cory Kupfer, author of the book, Authentic Negotiating: Clarity, Detachment Equilibrium – The Three Keys to True Negotiating Success How to Achieve Them. Corey also runs his own firm, Kupfer Associates, PLLC, Corey is also the founder and president of a speaking, training and consulting company called Authentic Enterprises, LLC, where he has helped negotiate and close significant business deals for himself and others.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect Dush is Joined by Founder and Creator of the Amplify Live Experience Keith Yackey. After the loss of his mother when she was only 56 years old, Keith decided right then and there to live his life with no regrets. With that “No Regrets” mantra he started the business he was always wanting to start but was too afraid, which was investing in Real Estate. They talk about his upcoming Amplify Live Experience 2017 (click here for free tickets) in Las Vegas this August. It is a 3-Day Event that promises " Hands-On Strategies, Tools, Best Practices, and Access To The Top Experts In Business Marketing"
Dush speaks with Vince Parry, a 30-year veteran of the health and wellness communications industry and founder of the Parry Branding Group, about how health and wellness impact how people consume and buy products. We also learn about his branding process called The Goldilocks Process that is 3 steps to help companies how to develop a strong brand.
Today Dush is joined by Roberta Matuson, president of Matuson Consulting. Roberta Matuson, in her upcoming book THE MAGNETIC LEADER: How Irresistible Leaders Attract Employees, Customers, and Profits (Routledge; March 2017), asks us to consider that the quality of a company’s leadership is the most important factor in attracting and retaining high-quality employees. Instead of offering crazy perks, companies need to focus on the one perk they can’t get anywhere else, which is the opportunity to work with a truly magnetic leader. The president of Matuson Consulting, She has helped leaders in Fortune 500 companies, including General Motors, New Balance, The Boston Beer Company, and small to medium-sized businesses achieve dramatic growth and market leadership through the maximization of talent. She is known globally as “The Talent Maximizer.” She is the author of Suddenly In Charge, which was a Washington Post Top 5 Business Book For Leaders, and Talent Magnetism. She is also an expert blogger for Forbes and Glass Door, and is a former monthly columnist for The Boston Business Journal.
Re Perez Joins Dush on todays episode of Entrepreneur Effect. Re Perez is a seasoned Brand Consultant, with a Fortune 500 background at top global brand consultancies including Interbrand and Siegel+Gale. Since 2011, his agency BRANDING FOR THE PEOPLE, has delivered Fortune 500-level branding to thousands of entrepreneurs across 45+ different industries around the world — from start-ups, Inc. 5000 fastest growing companies, and established multi million-dollar businesses. He has a proven track record for helping his clients double, triple and quadruple their business.
Dush is joined by entrepreneur, speaker and writer Pia Silva (partner and brand strategist at Worstofall Design) the author BADASS YOUR BRAND:The Impatient Entrepreneur's Guide to Turning Expertise into Profit.
Pia works with people and their brand! More specifically helping people find their brand and making it work for them as well as how much someone should be charging for their services. Pia is absolutely brilliant and her book is a must read for anyone and everyone. Also, her first chapter is on her website FOR FREE!
Today on Dush Ramachandran is joined by Lin Eleoff. She is a coach, entrepreneur, and Internet business lawyer whose mission is to help coaches cover their "assets" online, without having to spend a lot of money on legal fees. She is the founder of CoverYourAssetsOnline.com, a site that was created to help other self-starters protect themselves from fraudulent activity and to prevent them from making common mistakes that could lead to lawsuits, such as copyright infringement. Lin created a Do It Yourself Legal Toolkit so that others can protect, not only their assets, but also their homes, cars, and investments. They speak about how to create client contracts and terms and conditions, and the 3 docs you must have on your website.
Today on Entrepreneur Effect Dush is joined by Rick Crossland. Rick has spent more than 30 years developing, recruiting and leading high performers, and developing high performing cultures at some of the most successful companies in the country. Together they speak about his new book, The A Player. The A Player provides invaluable knowledge for employers looking to staff their companies with the best available talent and for employees looking to take the next great leap in their careers. They also talk about focusing on building great systems and picking the perfect person to run those systems you've built.
Today on Entrepenuer Effect Dush speaks to Simcha Gluck. Simcha is a keynote speaker and global trainer who has been running successful companies since age 20. He moved to the StartUp Nation of Israel from NY about a decade ago and has spent the past five years as the Co-Founder and Chief Fun Officer of FreshBiz. With over 10,000 hours of personal and professional development, Simcha is the author of the book “The New Entrepreneurz: Changing The Way You Play Life” published by Wileys, and was the radio show host of “Innovation Nation.” Currently, Simcha lives his passion for traveling and educating people around the world on how to refresh their lives and businesses through the cutting-edge FreshBiz methodology and the power of game-based learning.They speak about how to leverage the Power of Game-based Learning in your coaching business, plus hacking innovation and creativity.
Dush speaks with author Nicole Ertas on today's show. Throughout her career as a leading brand strategist for Jim Beam, Wrigley, Johnson Johnson, General Mills, Kraft, Nestle, etc.,she realized there are four new types of consumers that are making or breaking businesses today. The new consumers require brands to connect with them in authentic and genuine ways but many large, established brands are not recognizing this. Dush and Nicole try to answer the question, are household name brands in serious danger of becoming irrelevant? Nicole Ertas explains why no-name brands are on the rise while the giants of the industry are falling victim to modern technology.
Dush speaks with Liston Witherill, the Chief Creative of Good Funnel, which specializes in data-driven copy and common sense marketing. He is a copy writing and sales professional with a background in consulting and marketing. They touch on creating data-driven messaging that your customers will love, making your sales and marketing efforts much easier and faster than ever before. Also this Entrepreneur Effect really focus's on creating online content for entrepreneurs, consultants, and marketers about how to improve drive conversions, automate their businesses, and improve sales.
Talking Financial Sustainability and Building a Fulfilling Business as Dush Ramachandran speaks with Damion Lupo, the President and Director at Total Control Financial, Inc. . Damion discusses financial sustainability and really building a business that bring you fulfillment and not just wealth paired with emptiness.
Garrett Gunderson is the New York Times bestselling author of Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths That Are Destroying Your Prosperity. Founder and Chief Wealth Architect of Wealth Factory,Garrett Gunderson is a financial guru who specializes in helping entrepreneurs manage their finances and create wealth.
Dush is joined by Shaun Buck of Newsletter Pro, A company that sends customized Newsletter's for companies to their customers mail boxes. He gives us key advice in making sure that your company has 1 focus to stay on track and to align with the right customers. Shawn tells us the importance of having presence as a business online and offline, and how Newsletters have been a fantastic way for businesses to interact with their customers.
Today's episode is about how someone can improve their life using your Perfect Day Formula and How someone creates Rules for their life. Also the #1 action step a listener can take today to take control of their time and own their day. All while being joined Craig Ballantyne who is called "The World's Most Disciplined Man in The World".
Dr. John P Hayes joins us today to talk all about franchising. John wrote a book called Franchising: the Inside Story to help people buy a franchise which was the first of its kind, took off in the early 1980's. He recently released a new book called Take The Fear Out of Franchising, and discusses with us, is a franchise easier than a regular business to exit out of. John gives us insight into what it takes to really strive and prosper as a franchisee, by understanding and following exact practices in franchises.
Emerging media and new technologies: From VR to AR to AI to IOT as Dush speaks with Fred Schonenberg. Fred is the Founder of VentureFuel where he is blazing a path for emerging media and new technology platforms to partner with blue chip brands like Microsoft, USA Networks, and Anheuser Busch, to name a few.
Dush Ramachandran speaks with the author of Why Are There Snowblowers in Miami? Transform Your Business Using the Five Principles of Engagement, Steve Goldstein.
Steve details those Five Principles of Engagement:
- Fresh Eyes: Learning to adopt an outsider’s perspective leads to creative insight and problem-solving.- Hot Buttons: Focusing on one or two pertinent metrics in any situation facilitates action.- Connecting: Interacting with employees and customers on a regular basis is the key to success.- Speed: Whatever speed you are going is too slow.- Transparency: The more people know, the better they can do their jobs.
Dush speaks with Ken Oboh, the co-founder of Remix and Umix, two music sites that give users the power to be their own DJs.
Adding Profit-Generating Webinars to Your Business with Internet Marketing, PPC, SEO, Adwords and Adsense Expert Joel Peterson. Joel shows us ways of Starting a profitable online business using Webinars and why it is such a profitable business model right now and how to capitalizing on it.
Dush speaks withwith former ski patroller turned entrepreneur Matt Given to discuss his secrets to success and understand why he's betting on video. From recent video consumption trends to video delivery best practices, this episode is a must listen for entrepreneurs interested in selling their video content.
In this interview, you will learn about how zeroing in on a niche can mean the difference between having a struggling or sustainable business. Additionally, Given shares his experience on how the small choices he makes each day have lead him to success in business and in life including the one habit guaranteed to help you "win the first battle" of every day.
For the video creators out there, Matt is offering Entrepreneur Effect listeners a risk-free opportunity to check out the Intelivideo platform and discover what a video on demand offering can do for your business. To get your 3 months free, visit intelivideo.com/entrepreneureffect.
Multicultural Marketing and Entrepreneurship as Dush Ramachandran speaks with entrepreneur, writer, college professor Jacques Bastien. We learn more about his work as the CEO and founder of boogie, a multicultural mktg agency that he first started in his college dorm room.
Evan Carmichael is an entrepreneur who started doing what he loves at the early age of 19. At 22, he was a VC helping companies to raise $500,000 to $15 million. He soon found that he had a true passion for helping others, and used that drive to help others.
David Hoffeld is the author of The Science of Selling: Proven Strategies to Make Your Pitch, Influence Decisions, and Close the Deal and the CEO and chief sales trainer at Hoffeld Group, a research-based sales training, coaching, and consulting firm. He is a respected authority on sales strategy backed by behavioral science.
Discussion on how to use disruptive technology to bring digital communications to people in rural, developing countries as Dush Ramachandran speaks with Dr. Vanu Bose, the CEO of Vanu, Inc., a provider of innovative wireless infrastructure solutions.
Mobile App Building and Development as Dush Ramachandran speaks with Eden Chen, the cofounder of Fishermen Labs. Fishermen Labs is a Los Angeles based mobile app development studio specializing in web, virtual reality, augmented reality, and mobile app development.
Dush Ramachandran talks to the Co Founder of Epic Productions and Thrive15.com Daniel McKenna on overcoming typical issues with start up's, how to turn a vision into a business plan and time management skills.
Dush welcomes Shelby Larson, the founder and co-owner of Content Divas, an SEO, content marketing, and outsourcing firm started in 2007 to provide work-from-home opportunities to stay-at-home moms. This venture has since blossomed into a full-service digital marketing agency, Ember Dragon, and Moonlighting on the Internet, both of which Shelby is the owner and founder. She is the author of Moonlighting on the Internet,
Dush speaks with Business owner and organization consultant Doug Kisgen , the author of RETHINK HAPPY: An Entrepreneur’s Journey Toward Authentic Joy. Doug explains to listeners how to incorporate a few principles to turn around a struggling business and create a more fulfilling personal life as well.
Dush speaks withwith former ski patroller turned entrepreneur Matt Given to discuss his secrets to success and understand why he's betting on video. From recent video consumption trends to video delivery best practices, this episode is a must listen for entrepreneurs interested in selling their video content.
In this interview, you will learn about how zeroing in on a niche can mean the difference between having a struggling or sustainable business. Additionally, Given shares his experience on how the small choices he makes each day have lead him to success in business and in life including the one habit guaranteed to help you "win the first battle" of every day.
For the video creators out there, Matt is offering Entrepreneur Effect listeners a risk-free opportunity to check out the Intelivideo platform and discover what a video on demand offering can do for your business. To get your 3 months free, visit intelivideo.com/entrepreneureffect.
Mike Peters is the General Manager of Software Projects, bit it's not a software company. Mike explains this Global Online Retailer selling thousands of software products, ebooks and software services.
Dush Ramachandran talks to Yanik Silver, the founder of the Underground Internet Marketing Conference. We learn how on the back of a bar napkin, he jotted down the idea for the Underground Online Seminar® — A totally different kind of business conference where he invites all the ‘under-the-radar’ marketers and entrepreneurs quietly making a killing online to share all their best secrets on internet business growth.
Nutrition Corp Founder and CEO Laureen Asseo talks to Dush Ramachandran about female entrepreneurship, millennial entrepreneurship and the risks and rewards of a startup. Laureen Asseo began Nutrition Corp. when she was 18 years old out of her kitchen.
After years of consuming processed foods, Laureen’s father experienced a concerning health scare when he went for a routine check-up and his tests showed dangerously high cholesterol and triglycerides levels. It was time to take major action to turn his life around; Laureen then began a rigid plant-based and organic dietary plan, which eventually reversed her father’s condition and also resulted in massive weight loss.
Laureen began preparing hearty, organic and vegan meals for friends and family out of their own kitchen. As any woman on a mission, Laureen’s commitment relied on delivering food in home Tupperware containers until orders went beyond their existing network. Demand grew so rapidly that Laureen saw the opportunity to redefine the ‘woman in the kitchen’ cliché. Through creating a niche the market had never seen; Nutrition Corp. was born.
Dush Ramachandran speaks with Kris Reid, an Australian Software Engineer who has worked across the world for variety of companies, from small tech startups to giant conglomerates like Visa. We learn about his work in SEO developing tools to help people rank their website with Ardor Media Factory.
Kris has offered Entreprenuer Effect listeners the special opportunity to sign up to win a 200 point website audit competition from ArdorSEO by going to https://ardorseo.com/entrepren...
Reaching the Clouds in Cloud Hosting and VoIP as Dush Ramachandran welcomes John Pope, the CEO of Jive Communications. Jive is a cloud based hosted VoIP company (business phones). John is one of the original company founders and has been the CEO since day one. Jive helps businesses save money (normally 50% over their current phone system) and enter the new world of hosted VoIP communications. We have a great program to reward you for any business that would come for this
YC-backed nonprofit that transforms slums into sustainable communities. Todays guest is their founder and CEO, Brett Hagler, He's been on The Pitch and a16z and just wrapped up Getting Goosebumps with Bryan Adams. Brett Hagler is a Y Combinator graduate, former founder of a venture-backed e-commerce company, an author, cancer survivor, and was recently named to the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
Author Derek Coburn discusses his new book , Networking Is NOT Working, where he identifies and develops relationships with world-class professionals, enhances the value you deliver for your best clients and positions yourself for more quality introductions to ideal prospective clients.
From Surviving the Real Estate Bubble to REO Brokering, we hear more from Raul Villacis, CEO/ ARG Advisors LLC and Founder of Next Level International LLC.
Julia Lundstrom, CEO of Simple Smart Science, talks to Dush about how she left the financial and investment sector to start up her company that provides a line of Cognitive and Memory Enhancement products and how affiliates can take advantage of this brand new offering.
Best-selling Author of Feed a Starving Crowd: More than 200 hot and fresh marketing strategies to find hungry buyers, Robert Coorey, offers ways to Read, Plan And Execute Over 200 Successful Strategies Used By Industry Leaders.
Matthew Gordon, a Teacher turned Millionaire and CEO of Graduation Source joins Dush Ramachandran for a brand new episode of Entrepreneur Effect. Matthew manages European-based glass company Avanti, graduation apparel supplier GraduationSource and sports apparel company Teamuniforms USA.
Marketing with Pro Audio DVD Production with David Wills from ProAudioDVDs.com, which specializes in Training DVDs and Seminars for recording and Live Musicians.
Talking Revenue Enhancement with Performance Marketing as Dush speaks with David Shteif, the CEO of Revenue Enhancement Group, which specializes in generating additional revenue for companies through its expertise in lead generation and data monetization.
Here the first hand story Overcoming Negativity After Abandoning to Internet Marketing as Dush speaks with Online Marketing Strategy entrepreneur Steve Killberg.
Dush speaks with Don Siclari, President of InChek, a company specializing in payment processing services. Don explains how to he left his pursuit to become a paramedic and EMT, to handling sales of new technologies of representing bad checks and getting encompassed in the profitable world of payment processing.
Former Real Estate turned Internet Marketing Entrepreneur Mike Ball shares his story of how he lost everything during the housing crash from cars repossessed to his home foreclosed. Mike shares what he has learned from the mistakes of his early success, how he handled criticism going into internet marketing.
Dush uncovers some advanced strategies for trading options and we get to learn what option trading is all about with AJ Brown, the CEO at Trading Trainer.
Adding Profit-Generating Webinars to Your Business with Internet Marketing, PPC, SEO, Adwords and Adsense Expert Joel Peterson. Joel shows us ways of Starting a profitable online business using Webinars and why it is such a profitable business model right now and how to capitalizing on it.
Dush speaks with John Hall is the CEO of Digital Talent Agents, a personal branding company that imagines and facilitates online publishing opportunities. John explains how he set up his business, managing aggressive growth and how he forsees how big brands are now coming to the forefront with creating good quality content in their marketing strategy.
Talking Entrepreneurship Via the Online Dating Niche with Direct and internet marketer extraordinaire John Alanis. He discusses his program on how to get women to approach you first no matter your looks, age or income, where he offers dating secrets and tips on how to meet and pick up women thru online personals.
From Corporate to Real Estate to Entrepreneurship, Dush speaks with Byron Walker, the Owner at Online Support Solutions. Byron takes us trough his journey all the way to affiliate marketing to creating his own products.
Talking Outsourced Virtual Staffing with Daven Michaels, Founder of 123Employee. He tells us about outsourcing and how it can have a serious impact on your business growth.
Dush speaks with Ken Oboh, the co-founder of Remix and Umix, two music sites that give users the power to be their own DJs.
Dush discusses Internet Marketing in New Zealand with Mark Ling the founder of Affilorama, a training portal full of the latest news, videos and tools in the world of affiliate marketing.
Educating entrepreneurs from website to video to search engine optimization to social media marketing is the focus of Merlin Holmes, who also tells us about his ebook called the Millionaire Society.
Maverick Entrepreneur Yanik Silver tells us about his backstory and what he calls the Internet Lifestyle of fun, freedom and financial independence funded by the Internet.
Benjamin Klein, Owner/CEO at Next Level Internet Management, discusses how his story of how he avoided Chapter 7 bankruptcy, to bouncing back financially and moving on to a new burgeoning business project.
Learn how Persuasive Copywriting can make you money, by way of direct marketing sales copy for mail, email, or the web with Direct Response Copywriter, Online Launch Specialist and Marketing Consultant Tina Lorenz.
Dush welcomes Aamar Hussain, Founder of PivotFarm. Aamar is an independent trader and analyst providing research analytics to proprietary firms.
We learn about the Jump Manual, created CPT Performance Enhancement Coach and Certified Personal Trainer Jacob Hiller, designed to help athletes with their vertical jump.
Learn from a first generation affiliate marketer, Scott Rewick, as her speaks with Dush about his experience Building Companies and Taking Them Public from the inception to IPO.
Dush discusses Entrepreneurial Philanthropy with Internet Marketing Expert Imran Sadiq and Educational Provider/Internet Marketer Sandra Arntzen.
Dush discusses Best Practices for Great Networking in Internet Marketing with Cindy Battye, Co-Owner, IM Wealth Builders Ltd. We also learn about an epic networking opportunity that Cindy is planning for Affiliate Summit East 2012 called Huge Night Out.
Discussing Gender Equality and Breaking the Entrepreneurial Glass Ceiling as Dush speaks with Terra Goeres, President at The Net Momentum, which provides outsourced affiliate management and JV brokering services to internet based businesses.
Dush discusses Legal Issues Self Starters and Entrepreneurs Need to Know with Attorney Chris Lane from the law firm of St.Clair and Greschler which handlesTechnology and Intellectual Property Related cases.
Talking Entrepreneurial Coaching with entrepreneur, best-selling author, speaker and success coach Ryan Lee. He explains how he left being a high school phys ed teacher to becoming a success coach.
From On Air to Online Entrepreneurship with guest with Chris Farrell, a full time Internet Marketer, Product Developer, Broadcaster and Writer.
From Automobile Sales to Internet Marketing, we learn the story of author, software developer, personal coach, social media expert and business consultant Mike Filsaime.
Dush interviews the self-proclaimed Coffee Shop Millionaire Anthony Trister, where he offers ideas, comments, links, products and strategies for building an affiliate marketing business online.
Talking Entrepreneurship and Affiliate Matchmaking with Entrepreneur, Super Connecter, Recruiter, Idea Creator from Velvet Rope Exclusive Joint Ventures, Jonathan Herbert.
Dush speaks with David Gonzalez, co-Founder, of The Internet Marketing Party, a social organization designed for online marketers, entrepreneurs and professionals to meet regularly in an atmosphere of relaxed, cooperative sharing.