Aleksander Vitkin Podcast

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Another fantastic crypto industry interview. Here are the topics:

1. ICO as a way to get funded

2. ICO as an investment opportunity

3. What would you expect to happen in the crypto industry in terms of recovery?

4. Influencer marketing, airdrops, etc.

5. Future of ICO marketing: display networks, bitcoin talk, etc.

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Eike Post is a serial entrepreneur who has sold 2 businesses and is in the cryptocurrency space for a year. Moreover, he has launched 2 blockchain related projects.

Investors are getting smarter, more cautious and less excited. Some of the projects people invested in have failed, some of them were obvious scams. There is a statistic that 40% of the projects in 2017 have already failed.

The market will have a big turndown. Investors are not continuing to invest millions into projects. Investors are only going to invest if certain conditions are met.

Every startup contract where an investor invests in a startup has investor protections like:

• Liquidation preference

• Ownership rights

People do not like to invest for a 10 year time horizon. They prefer to invest like ICOs, put a little bit of money and then a month later they can always sell what they invested in.

Cryptocurrency market is extremely hard to predict, because it mainly depends on expectations. There are very few indicators and that is the reason why it’s hard to predict much. Eike expects that the potential money that you would be able to raise in the future from ICO is going to go down.

Some people, who are very new to cryptocurrency, may find dealing with crypto like gambling. There are experts in this field who can predict whether cryptocurrency is going to go down or up. However, they cannot be 100% sure no matter how good they are in their prediction.

There are many different channels for marketing ICOs. It is becoming more and more difficult to market ICOs, because there is more competition. Marketing is very important and that is why bigger companies are doing presales at a very high discount.

How Kurt, went from a $1300/month cold calling...

While working as a construction worker...

To $7000/month as a real business owner.

All this in less than 60 days.

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Kurt is running an explainer video agency helping other companies explain what they do.

Kurt’s life before he joined Daily Business Hustle was very hard. He had to wake up at 5AM to go to work and get back at 3PM completely exhausted. After getting back from work, he was cold calling companies, trying to close them to make some money. He hated every second of his life at that time.

Kurt is a member of DBH for 2 months and he has learned so much during that time. Daily Business Hustle teaches everything you need to know about business step by step. Kurt learned:

• How to do sales properly.

• How to outsource the work.

• How to communicate with people.

• How to automate the business.

Kurt had sales experience when he joined DBH, so skipped the beginner funnel and moved to the advanced ones immediately.

After Kurt made his first $7000 a month in his business, he immediately quit his day job where he was working as a constructor worker. He has a lot of freedom that he can use to do whatever he wants like travel around the world while running a business.

Stop looking for the easy solution. Stop looking for people to give you handouts, stop failing. Join a mastermind where you can learn from people who are a few months ahead of you.

Kurt has been a member of another mastermind where he was coached by people who are very far ahead of him and they were not helpful at all. They are not there all the time with you to tell what you are doing wrong and what you are doing right. That is why it is much better to be coached by someone who a little bit ahead of you in business.

Kurt is looking to grow his business even more. Once he makes this business fully automated and running, he may want to start a second business in the future. You can learn so much while working with very successful companies that you may want to go into their space sometime. That is one of the main benefits of running an agency.

Anyone can be in business. If you are lazy, you have to reframe your thinking and forget all get rich quick schemes.

There is a giant awakening from people realizing that they can disconnect from this matrix and build a real business. The possibilities in business are really endless and in today’s world with Internet access and the fact that you can talk to anyone no matter where you are in the world is mind blowing. We must take advantage of that.

I sat down with Matt Laker, who just returned from an Asia tour...

We talk about something people don't really talk about...

How to beat depression and loneliness when traveling.

We also reveal a new paradigm in business education and how to maintain success for a long time without the massive ups and downs most entrepreneurs face...

Matt's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC__nKC5BlhAlzBCZa8cPr-g/featured

Matt's related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBzZUWGm7RI

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Being location independent goes with certain expenses. You have to handle yourself emotionally. If you are a high achiever, you have to go through crazy emotions in your life. If you are not going through these emotions, that means, you are not pushing your boundaries.

As we get more responsibility, we get a sense that we are contributing back to the world.

There are people who start businesses and they immediately get success. They have never faced failure. Most people have to push through a lot of limiting beliefs. Don’t compare with people who have an ever growing spiral of success.

Matt is a very ambitious person, but did not have enough experience in the beginning. Matt has tried a lot of ways to start a business and faced so many failures. These failures led him to depression, because he was pushing things very hard with no success.

Although Matt had a lot of struggles, he was able to get through it and build a successful business. He always tries to figure out a way to achieve what he wants. One of the keys that led Matt build a real business is his very strong willpower. He uses that power to do stuff that other people do not want to do.

Having a good sleep schedule, eating properly and cutting stuff like alcohol and drugs can have a huge effect on people.

Matt decreased the amount of alcohol he drinks and stopped eating unhealthy food. Moreover, he goes regularly to the gym to stay healthy and in good shape. He has found the perfect balance between sleeping, eating and drinking.

You can use your power of will to do absolutely everything according to your schedule. However, Matt’s opinion is that you need to find the sweet spot that works best for you.

If we lead our lives in the right way, we can literally work forever, contribute to the world forever and leave retirement aside. Retirement is the old way of thinking, which is going away. Now, we are able to live a long prosperous life where we are healthy and energetic forever.

Doing exercises is a huge thing that boosts your productivity dramatically. Of course, you need to have certain limitations. If you have tasks in your schedule like going to the gym, yoga, running, you will not have enough time to complete your business tasks. You need to find the right balance between those things.

Some people’s happiness depends on spending money. There are people who want to spend money on crap which will give them short term happiness. That is the bad way of spending money.

Good ways of spending money:

• Giving money to charity. You should give money to those who need it the most, so that they rely less on government. This is an awesome way to use money to gain leverage in your life.

• Save 10% to 20% of your income, so that you have enough money to survive for a year without any money.

It is very normal to have ups and downs in your life as an entrepreneur. A good idea is not only to talk to professionals, but also to your peers. That helps especially if you travel with other entrepreneurs. That is what we called Peer To Peer Mentorship. That is a system that we use in our Daily Business Hustle mastermind to get guys’ success long term and to have them grow continuously long time.

It is best to be taught by someone who is not too far ahead of you, because they still understand where you are coming from and what are the struggles that you face.

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Many people are wondering whether there are any good clients on Upwork or not? Is it possible to close clients for a lot of money and build a real business?

Upwork is designed in the favor of the person who is buying the service and not so much in the favor of the freelancer who is selling the service. If there are some disputes, buyers tend to win.

The ability to deliver an awesome service will differentiate you from the crowd. If you do not deliver what the client needs, you will receive bad reviews, refund requests and people will no longer want to do business with you.

Some people look at freelancing platforms in a way to get a job. They are approaching this platform as cheap freelancers who compete with price. That is not a way of doing business. That is what someone is begging for a job is doing.

On the other hand, there are people who look at it as a way to generate leads for your business. Once you start thinking that way, you will realize that you can build a real business.

It is not that easy to transfer all your experience and knowledge to Upwork. In the beginning, you do not have any reviews and portfolio on Upwork.

If you want to show people that you have the skills and ability to deliver an awesome service, you need to get clients on sales calls. A sales call is where you get paid and solve problems. When you get them on a call, you can show them all your creditability. You have full control on the sales call and lead them to the close.

You need to rank on Upwork’s search engine and help them build their business. If you are fitting into their algorithm, they are going to send you as many sales as you could possibly imagine.

Most freelancers do not have a sales process. What I recommend you to do is to get mentorship. Learn from people who are a few years ahead of you. These people will coach you in lead generation, project management, delivery, hiring people and everything that you need to know to build a real business.

To get thousands of dollars of sales, you need to follow a proper process that you can copy. This is a working proven business model.

A cheap freelancer can earn 20% - 30% of what he can get per project. These people are not doing business. They have to be your employees.

Here is how a real business looks like:

• Delivery is handled by a cheap freelancer.

• You get paid premium amount of money based on the value that you provide.

• You outsource the work to cheap freelancers.

It does not matter how much competition there is. You must negotiate based on the value that you provide and do everything that you could possibly do to close the sale.

High paying agencies are very picky with who to work with. They do not talk much about price. They are interested in the value that the freelancer can provide.

The more money someone is going to pay you, the more proof they will require. A high level of proof is when you let your previous client talk to the new one and show them exactly how much money they have spent and what is their ROI.

In our mastermind Daily Business Hustle, we have created a system called Peer To Peer Business Mentorship (PTPBM). We are getting away from the old fashioned industry of education. We are trying to build a new paradigm where you can learn faster and learn from people who can show you exactly the steps that you need to do to get to those $30K sales.

People who are just a few years ahead of you know exactly what you need, because they have been in the same position. Moreover, they can relate to you 100%. That is the difference between being coached by someone who is very far away of you and someone who can relate to you and show you the steps that you need to take to get results.