20 Minutes of Influence

Jill Brennan is the founder of Harbren Marketing, a firm that shows you how you can uncover your business story and use it to build trust.  Founded in 2003 by Jill Brennan, Harbren Marketing has traditionally provided marketing consulting services to small businesses. Over the years Jill has worked with many small business owners that are overwhelmed by the complexity of marketing their products or services and frustrated by their reliance on ‘marketing types’ that sell them what they have rather than what the business needs. Jill realized there was a gap in the market for marketing specialists to provide coaching and training to empower small businesses to develop their own internal marketing resources that suit their business.

In this episode, Jill shares with us some important tips for marketing your small business.

Connect with Jill at: harbren.com

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Steve Olsher has created several multimillion-dollar companies from scratch, co-starred in an award-winning film (The Keeper of the Keys) and wrote a New York Times bestselling book, What Is Your WHAT? Steve has helped 10’s of thousands of people across the globe achieve their desired results. He 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 and presentation attendees towards achieving massive profitability while cultivating lives of purpose, conviction, and contribution.

Steve is an international keynote speaker, Chairman & Co-Founder of Liquor.com, and in-demand media guest who has appeared on CNN, Fox Business and other national outlets. I am honored to have him on the 20 Minutes of Influence Podcast and to hang with some of the same awesome people that he does.

Additionally, Steve runs a conference called the New Media Summit, where you can pitch 40 of today’s top podcasters and leave the event with bookings in hand! He also runs a program called Profiting from Podcasts. Plus he wrote on of the forewords to my latest book, The Influencer Effect. As you can see, Steve is a busy man, who has taken the time to share his knowledge with you, through this podcast. Soak up the knowledge, this an an episode you definitely want to listen to!

Grab his book at https://amzn.to/2ATmo9Y.

Connect with Steve at: SteveOlsher.com

Register for the New Media summit at: newmediasummit.net

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Jim Palmer is is the founder of the Dream Business Academy and Dream Business Coaching and Mastermind Program. He is a marketing and business building expert and in-demand coach.

Jim is the host of Dream Business Coach TV, the hit weekly Web TV show watched by thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners, and he is also the host of Dream Business Radio, a weekly podcast based on Jim’s unique brand of Smart Marketing and Business Building Strategies. Jim is best known internationally as ‘The Dream Business Coach’ and creator of No Hassle Newsletters, the ultimate ‘done-for-you’ newsletter marketing program used by hundreds of clients in nine countries.

Jim is a cancer survivor, has been married for over thirty-five years, has four grown children and three grandchildren. His most recent book, “Just Say Yes! Create a Dream Business and Live Your Dream Lifestyle is something that he practices himself. Recently, Jim and his wife Stephanie JUST SAID YES to their dream of living on a boat.Grab the book at https://amzn.to/2mZuBje.

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Carrie Gottschalk previous appeared on this show talking about social media marketing. Today, I get into a deep discussion, specifically about Facebook chatbots. whether you are familiar with chatbots, ot have never heard of them, listen to this episode as you will learn a lot. A chatbot is essentially artificial intelligence that you can program into the Facebook messenger to interact with your customers, without the need for you to be involved.This is an extension of the Facebook advertising program, but it is huge.

Carrie Gottschalk is a duel American / German citizen and that is where she gets her wanderlust from and why she enjoy so many different types of food. More importantly, in less than a year, she has rubbed shoulders with some of the biggest names in the industry and has become an expert at Facebook advertising. Connect with Carrie at:

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These are some important lessons that small etailers can learn from Amazon Prime Day:

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Remember, the goal of Prime Day is to promote Amazon Prime. Lots of gadgets and tech accessories will be discounted for the sale, but products from Apple and Google probably won’t. Amazon’s own gadgets, by contrast, are a great buy on Prime Day simply because the company is pulling out all the stops. Things like Fire tablets, Kindle readers and Echo speakers will be at rock-bottom prices.

Amazon has daily deals every single hour of every day of the year, but the Lighting Deals on Prime Day are notoriously frustrating to score. Some items sell out within minutes, which means while you’re flipping a coin to decide whether to spring for that new webcam it’ll already be gone before you even have a chance to stick it in your cart.

It might be obvious, but you have to be a Prime Member to get all the sweet deals on Prime Day. If you’ve never subscribed before, you can get a free one-month Amazon Prime trial. Sign up early  and you’ll be able to shop Prime Day during the trial period.

For all the latest Prime Day Deals, visit: https://amzn.to/2zBnM0i. I know some people consider Amazon the “competition,” but I encourage you to buy something from them on Prime Day – the education alone will be worth the price!

Trisha Trixie Hunter-Merrill (Trixie) hares her story of overcoming adversities and trials. Her book, “Falling into Fabulous: A Phoenix Rising” is a transformation story of overcoming. From sexual abuse, anorexia, then homelessness, to surviving cancer, Trixie’s mantra is  “if you can chose fabulous, why would you ever choose anything else!” This is not another “feel sorry for me book,” rather it is a book on empowerment. Listen to this episode to gain insights on how you too can become empowered by your past.

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Greg has a powerful story. In his book, “The Truth About Lies: How admitting nothing can cost you everything,” Greg Kotsoftis, lays out his life story, which included spending 14 months in prison. He has learned just how important it is to always tell the truth no matter what. This is a significant lesson for online influencers, who might be persuaded to promote products or services for a paycheck, even when they don’t fully believe in what they are promoting.

This is a podcast episode you will want to take fully to heart as you listen to Greg share his story. Today he has turned his life around and is an author, speaker, and relationship coach.

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While the number one concern for most small businesses remains, “How do I get listed on page 1 of Google?,” the second biggest concern is “How can I get more positive online reviews?” And interestingly, these two concerns are intrecately tied together: the more positive online reviews you get, the higher you are likely to be shown in the search engine results. And, believe it or not, you can actually control how many online reviews you get. I recently interviewed Doren Aldana of MyTestimonialEngine.com for my podcast about this topic. You will want to check it out as we answer these questions:

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How cool is it that I get to interview someone like Kathleen Gage on the topic of “Borrowed Credibility?”

What started in 1994 as a corporate training business, working with fortune 100 corporations, government agencies including city, state and federal agencies has transformed into a consulting firm working with entrepreneurs who are ready to impact their clients in a powerful way.

Ask Kathleen Gage if she planned it this way and she will be the first to say, “Absolutely not! I was led here.”

As the author of hundreds of information products, books and training programs, Kathleen Gage loves all that is possible for today’s creative entrepreneurs. Although Kathleen is recognized as a top leader in her field, this wasn’t always the case. Kathleen made choices in her teens and early twenties that took her from a comfortable middle-class upbringing to a life of homelessness and being unemployable.

Kathleen Gage rose above seemingly insurmountable odds to become an award-winning business owner, bestselling author, Internet sales and marketing trainer, and award winning keynote speaker.

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Gary Barnes is “The Breakthrough Business Mastery Coach”. He is a high-performance business and sales coach, popular national and international speaker & Award winning #1 International Amazon best-selling author (7 books). Gary’s clients span over 7 countries and he has been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, PBS & TEDX.

He is the founder of Gary Barnes International. As a leading authority, Gary has created several successful companies personally selling over $280 million dollars in products and services. To do this, he developed principles & tools that helped him increase his production by 1800% (actually 3000% plus) over a 4 year period. He teaches those tools at his bootcamp, which we discuss in this podcast. If you have the chance to get to one of Gary’s events, you owe it to yourself to attend.

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