Business Lunch

Roland Frasier loves to travel and HAS to travel to do business face-to-face around the world. For Roland and his guests, it’s paramount that they travel smart, arrive refreshed, and utilize all the ways possible to make their dollar go further and stay in style.

In this special episode of 'Business Lunch' we’ve made our favorite ‘Mix Tape’ of different travel hacks from a selection of Roland’s high-flying guests, including Michael Bernoff, J.J Virgin, Mark Anthony Bates, Pete Vargas, Ryan Levesque, Steve Simms, and AJ Mirabedini.

Listen for

• How to spread authentic goodwill and get rewarded with upgrades.
• How to travel graciously, respectfully, and not be the ugly tourist.
• How to eat everything you want while you’re traveling and keep up your healthy routines.
• How getting the upgrade for free or even paying for the upgrade is ALWAYS worth it.
• When you can legitimately board the plane before anybody else, no matter what class you’re traveling in.
• Why you should be booking VIP services at airports.
• How (and why) to work the Airline credit cards, hotel credit cards, and loyalty programs.
• A script for your assistant to use to call hotels ahead of time, and how to find that person at every hotel that has the power to upgrade you.
• How to fly to Europe first class with an amazing stop on the way and for a fraction of the price.

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Speaker, Author and Chief Education Officer of WealthFit talks with Roland Frasier in this insightful episode. Dustin tells his story and they discuss the details of a series of partnerships, some good and some bad. He shares what Dustin looks for now in business arrangements, having learned some hard lessons.

Listen for

• When it’s beneficial to partner instead of hire.
• How to see partnership troubles before the damage is done.
• What it means when you see a balance of NEGATIVE $888,88.88 in your bank account.
• When it’s the best thing to take a financial loss for a bigger picture holistic gain.
• What he gained from taking a few months off (but keeping business coach).
• The thing that both Dustin’s business coach and wife told him to do (and they were both right.).

Check out DustinMathews.com / Visit RolandFrasier.com

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The ‘Money Phone’ Networking Hack

Business thought leader and influencer, Mike Koenigs says his ‘superpower’ is that he is an ‘Amplifier’. He amplifies good ideas, creates markets and has built and sold four companies. He now focuses on advising business owners on how to amplify their message, their offers and helps them to prepare for their own exits.

On this episode, he sits with Roland and shares an easy and smart networking hack - a process he uses that reaps results every time.

Also, listen for

• How he would start networking now if he was back at Square 1
• How he decides which networking events to go to
• His favorite gadgets that increase performance and improve health
• His favorite wines

Check out Capability Amplifier Podcast or visit MikeKoenigs.com 

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From the Car Lot to A Seat At The Table With Warren Buffett

Patrick Lustig is a hugely successful sales coach and operating partner of an elite Lexus dealership in Orange County, California. His company was recently bought out by Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Group, so Roland & Patrick have a lot to talk about when it comes to sales, negotiating and dealings with billionaires. 

Listen today for:

• High-level banking practices (you may have never heard of).

• Why he still would rather be a sole owner than partner with billionaires…

• Tips for negotiating

• How to address problematic and negative sales staff

• His top three books he recommends to people getting started

• How to hire the right people to build a team that will duplicate yourself

• Tips for profiling prospective employees

• The value of setting up functional processes and SOP’s that put your people first

And more!

Visit SouthCountyLexus.com or reach out to Pat on LinkedIn

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In today’s episode, we benefit from backstage access at Traffic & Conversion Summit 2019. Influencer Jay Shetty talks with Brendon Burchard about the video that has THE most views of any video across the whole of Facebook, his “Changing the world begins with us” video.

Jay shares with us the things he intentionally does to make a piece of content more shareable.

Listen today for:

• The five themes of content that go viral: Adventure, Comedy, Emotion, Inspiration, and Surprise.
• Why educational and informational content is valuable - but won’t go viral.
• How views are directly linked to ‘share-ability’. People want to share things when they FEEL something, not when they THINK something.
• The three key areas that Jay attempts to align in every video.
• Why he always tries to include something verifiable in his videos.
• How speaking poetically, simplistically and with a cadence, makes a video more captivating and shareable.
• What drives Jay Shetty, and gets him up in the morning.

Visit JayShetty.Me

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Intangible Value Is Often Greater Than The Tangible

Jay Abraham is Americas Highest paid marketing consultant. He worked with Entrepreneur Magazine and multiplied their revenue back when nobody knew what an entrepreneur was… In this conversation with Roland Frasier, these two great business minds discuss the deals made and wealth multiplied in Jay’s decades of doing business. He shares with us what he believes has been his biggest gifts in this life, and how non-linear, asymmetric, out of the box thinking has allowed him to see intangible values and potential for profit!

Listen today for:

• How he made (& saved) millions in arbitrage and cash flow to equity deals.

• The life long impact of his early mentors and benefactors.

• What he describes as his unique talent/gift in life.

• How his diverse experience and clientele gave him the framework he uses to help businesses become exponentially more profitable.

• The rigidity that causes many to miss profound profit and back end opportunity.

• Tips on Bartering and Trade.

Visit www.Abraham.com, or follow Jay on Twitter 

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Every month there are over 2 billion messages sent between people and businesses on Facebook Messenger, and over 500,000 facebook messenger bots are currently active. In this short episode of Business Lunch, the founder of ‘School of Bots’, Natasha Takahashi, shares how you can best use this tool in conversational marketing.

With the strategy we talk about today, Natasha helped us build a mini-campaign in our very own Business Lunch Bot. Check it out to see all this in action! Click here

Listen today for

• The 6-Step Repeatable process for any type of business, regardless of the goal of the conversation.
• Why "my market is not on messenger" is a limiting stance.
• How you can use this tool to double your list and build your 1000 best fans.

For a more detailed episode on Bot Marketing, check out our sister podcast (episode 199), Perpetual Traffic.  

Reach out to Natasha on LinkedIn or Visit SchoolofBots.com

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Harnessing The 'Power of Threes' To Get People To Take Action

Roland has a great conversation with the man behind “We are the World” and Manager of The Smothers Brothers, Lionel Richards, The Carpenters, and Kenny Rogers. Ken Kragan shares his story which is marked with success, as well as the failures that taught him more…

Listen for

• 'Backwards Thinking' as a technique to get access to opportunity and the keys from the ‘GateKeepers’.
• The principle of 'Giving Cleverly' with no expectation of getting anything back- and how it always pays dividends in one way or another. 
• Why he always calls straight into the top person (the president of a company) when he has to make a cold call. 
• The reason he hid that he went to Harvard, until the moment when it benefited him to make that known.
• How he always starts with honesty and a gut-judgment of whether someone has something so special that it offers an opportunity.

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What Firing Himself Did For His Business (and Personal Life).

Roland and Tucker share the best takeaway insight from their business Lunch on this short and smart episode. Tucker Max is a renowned author, influencer and entrepreneur and the founder of the hugely successful ScribeMedia.com; (named 2018’s #1 Company Culture in America by Entrepreneur Magazine).

Listen for 

• The success that caused the wheels to start falling off his operations
• The hiring mistake/mismatch that still hurts today
• The mindset shift that Tucker needed to move forward
• The hiring move that enabled his company to scale up to 15 million in revenue (and the equity deal that made sense)

Visit TuckerMax.com and ScribeMedia.com and RolandFrasier.com

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Business thought leader, Influencer and Authority Mike Koenigs says his ‘superpower’ is that he is an ‘Amplifier’. He amplifies good ideas, creates markets and has built and sold four companies. He now focuses on advising business owners on how to amplify their message, their offers and helps them to prepare for their own exits.

On this episode, he sits with Roland and they talk about his entrepreneurship journey, but they hone in on his multiple business exits. Listen in today to hear what they have both learned in the process of successfully exiting multiple businesses so that you can skip some of the hard knocks they have survived.

Listen For

• 5 of the 10 markets that he believes have stratospheric growth opportunities. 
• Why you should NEVER negotiate your own deals.
• How to get invaluable advice when negotiating and structuring deals.
• Two critical questions to consider when exiting a business.
• Why you need legal counsel (even if you’re a recovering Lawyer like Roland)!
• Why you need to shoot for an earn-out based on gross.
• Why you need to do an audit, every quarter.
• Why Mike thinks Social media is a disease that’s doing damage to the human race.

Check out Capability Amplifier Podcast or visit MikeKoenigs.com 

Visit RolandFrasier.com

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