Business Lunch

If you run a business, there will always be times when you need to speak on a stage. But Pete Vargas has made speaking itself his business, and he joins today to share his secrets. 

Pete goes over how he helped his first client grow their company from $50,000 to $7 million and has placed his clients on 25,000 stages in 15 years. He also explains how to use stages to generate revenue, how to determine your revenue stream, and how to divide your time among different stages.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• Why architecting a talk that showcases value over authority is more impactful to your business’ growth
• The 2 types of speakers and what each needs to do to succeed
• The 5 revenue generating stages to choose from and how much revenue you could make from each
• The pranks Pete and Roland have had played on them from their colleagues while live on stage

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Advance Your Reach

Pete on LinkedIn

Pete on Twitter

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If you run a business, there will always be times when you need to speak on a stage. But Pete Vargas has made speaking itself his business, and he joins today to share his secrets. 

Pete goes over how he helped his first client grow their company from $50,000 to $7 million and has placed his clients on 25,000 stages in 15 years. He also explains how to use stages to generate revenue, how to determine your revenue stream, and how to divide your time among different stages.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• Why architecting a talk that showcases value over authority is more impactful to your business’ growth
• The 2 types of speakers and what each needs to do to succeed
• The 5 revenue generating stages to choose from and how much revenue you could make from each
• The pranks Pete and Roland have had played on them from their colleagues while live on stage

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Advance Your Reach

Pete on LinkedIn

Pete on Twitter

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One of your longest relationships in your life is with money. But have you ever really thought about how you interact with money?

John Assaraf joins Roland this week to pose the question, what is your money story? Once you figure out what your money story is, you will be able to better your financial relationships and standings.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• What a money story is and why you should know yours
• How your perception of money can impact your financial standing

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

John’s Website

John on LinkedIn

Traffic & Conversion Summit

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One of your longest relationships in your life is with money. But have you ever really thought about how you interact with money?

John Assaraf joins Roland this week to pose the question, what is your money story? Once you figure out what your money story is, you will be able to better your financial relationships and standings.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• What a money story is and why you should know yours
• How your perception of money can impact your financial standing

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

John’s Website

John on LinkedIn

Traffic & Conversion Summit

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If you are struggling to figure out what your customers want…
Just ask.

Ryan Levesque, CEO of the ASK method company, talks with Roland about how finding million-dollar products is all about asking the right questions. He explains how to use quizzes, surveys, and segmenting to find the most profitable products. He also says how to use the customer’s answers to create customer personas for your target audience in order to grow your business.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

The 3 questions to ask a customer: What is your biggest frustration?

-How much time have you put into trying to solve it? How much money have you invested in finding the solution?
-How the length of the answers you receive from these questions tells you what product to focus on
-Why you should be focusing on testimonials and social proof

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

The ASK Method

Ryan on LinkedIn

Bucket.io

Choosethebook.com

Ask: The Counterintuitive Online Method to Discover Exactly What Your Customers Want to Buy, Create a Mass of Raving Fans, and Take Any Business to the Next Level 

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Growing your following on Instagram, and more importantly growing your engaged following, can seem like a mystery at times. But Sue B. Zimmerman joins Roland today to share a formula that will set you apart and supercharge your Instagram strategy.

Sue will teach you why a good Instagram post has its roots in great video and blog content, and how your engagement on your own posts can really boost the engagement of your followers.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• The ideal length for an instructional video
• Sue’s content path, and how this splintered path gives you the most bang for your content buck
• Why posting on Instagram doesn’t stop once you’ve posted, and how to use engagement to grow your following
• How Sue uses her personal and business Instagram accounts differently 

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Sue’s Website

Sue’s Instagram

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Growing your following on Instagram, and more importantly growing your engaged following, can seem like a mystery at times. But Sue B. Zimmerman joins Roland today to share a formula that will set you apart and supercharge your Instagram strategy.

Sue will teach you why a good Instagram post has its roots in great video and blog content, and how your engagement on your own posts can really boost the engagement of your followers.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• The ideal length for an instructional video
• Sue’s content path, and how this splintered path gives you the most bang for your content buck
• Why posting on Instagram doesn’t stop once you’ve posted, and how to use engagement to grow your following
• How Sue uses her personal and business Instagram accounts differently 

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Sue’s Website

Sue’s Instagram

 Thanks so much for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to Business Lunch with Roland Frasier? Have some feedback you’d like to share? Connect with us on iTunes and leave us a review!

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Finding creative ways to innovate or invent can be difficult enough on its own, but it can be especially hard when you have to do so within the box of limitations. But Perry Marshall has become an expert in creating within these constraints.

In this episode, Perry talks about how he has become one of the highest sought-after equity consultants, even when time, money, and manpower were stacked against him. He gives you some tools and processes, like the 80/20 principle, that can help you break through in your industry.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• How Perry sold his computer chip company for $4 million
• What he 80/20 principle is, and how it can help your business and career
• How to determine what companies to invest in
• How Network Effect creates multimillion-dollar businesses and massive ecosystems that have an impenetrable competitive advantage
• Why everything about marketing is within traffic, conversion, economics and the 80/20 principle (and how knowing this can help you)

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Perry’s Website

The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch

The Star Principle by Richard Koch

The Rosetta Stone Seminar: The Network Effect

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Finding creative ways to innovate or invent can be difficult enough on its own, but it can be especially hard when you have to do so within the box of limitations. But Perry Marshall has become an expert in creating within these constraints.

In this episode, Perry talks about how he has become one of the highest sought-after equity consultants, even when time, money, and manpower were stacked against him. He gives you some tools and processes, like the 80/20 principle, that can help you break through in your industry.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• How Perry sold his computer chip company for $4 million
• What he 80/20 principle is, and how it can help your business and career
• How to determine what companies to invest in
• How Network Effect creates multimillion-dollar businesses and massive ecosystems that have an impenetrable competitive advantage
• Why everything about marketing is within traffic, conversion, economics and the 80/20 principle (and how knowing this can help you)

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Perry’s Website

The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch

The Star Principle by Richard Koch

The Rosetta Stone Seminar: The Network Effect

Thanks so much for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to Business Lunch with Roland Frasier? Have some feedback you’d like to share? Connect with us on iTunes and leave us a review!

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