Our Guest:

Laura Petersen is the founder of Podtent Marketing, a company that helps mid-sized businesses with a high-touch, done-for-you service to launch a podcast and power a content marketing strategy. Her own podcast is called Copy That Pops and she is the author of the #1 Amazon Best-Selling book Copywriting for Podcasters: How to Grow Your Podcast, Brand, and Business with Compelling Copy which is available on Amazon. Now she is currently working on a course to help solopreneurs and entrepreneurs with small teams to earn the "#1 Amazon Best-Seller" title without the need for an email list or marketing budget. The course is due out by 5/19/17!

Story:

From starting off her career as a teacher to finding her love of podcasting and writing, today we have our guest Laura Petersen.

A few highlights of what you will hear:

• Laura's journey from where she started.
• Traveling around the world.
• Her first company that didn't work out, a balloon animal company.
• Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki.
• Her career as a teacher in high school.
• How she started her tutoring company.
• How she hit Amazon Best Seller on her book.
• First steps to take in order to start a podcast.
• Starting her own company, Podtent Marketing.

Impactful Quotes from Laura:

"I love doing fun good stuff with like minded people to sum myself up."

"I knew from then I wanted to travel around the world, start businesses, own real estate and all of this stuff."

"We didn't get very far because every time we had a team meeting, I would be the only one who had their homework done."

"For every single school break that there ever was, I was on the first plane out of the country the second I would get out of school."

"I got really interested in podcasting as a listener, and then on the back end helping him."

"We didn't put any money on marketing or advertising, so as clients just came in we would start accepting them and hiring other people to help us with the work load."

"As you are going through the process of writing it why not start promoting it even before its live."

Featured Quote:

"You are the average of the 5 people that you spend the most time with."

Connect with Laura!

1. Copy That Pops
2. Facebook: @LaptopLaura – facebook.com/LaptopLaura
3. Twitter: @LaptopLaura — twitter.com/LaptopLaura
4. Instagram: @LaptopLaura — instagram.com/LaptopLaura
5. Snapchat: @LaptopLaura — snapchat.com/add/LaptopLaura
6. LinkedIn: @LauraPetersen – linkedin.com/in/laurapetersen
7. Facebook: @CopyThatPops – facebook.com/CopyThatPops
8. Amazon Best Seller Course

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Story:

Do you want to know what is becoming popular nowadays? Video. That's right, everyone is creating video and that is the new way to promote products, build a brand, or get awareness for a specific cause.

Listen to this episode to hear about why Sabah and Dan think everybody should be creating daily video content, whether they are Facebook Lives or regular videos.

A few highlights of what you will hear:

• Why the use of video is important.
• What type of videos to create.
• • Facebook Lives.
  • Daily advice.
• Vlogging.
• Why it's important to be in front of a camera.
• • Builds your brand.
  • Gets you comfortable.
  • Gains confidence.
• Why it's a great marketing tool.
• Creating an audience.
• Why you shouldn't boost Facebook posts.

Impactful Quotes:

"Start doing Facebook Lives because you will see so many people commenting and liking your stuff." -Sabah

"Every time there is a video, it is automatically getting bumped up to the top of the feed." -Dan

"Video is so much more powerful than a post or an image just because you are actually talking to the audience." -Sabah

"If you have the money, get a videographer and have them record your life." -Dan

"They can see your emotions through that." -Sabah

"You have to know how to utilize the Facebook algorithm because it has a lot of new things coming out that are going to be game changers." -Dan

"After the first time I did a Facebook Live it got so much easier doing the next one and then the next." -Sabah

"With a little bit of video the viewers can see the true person behind the camera, it's not just some random guy sitting behind the scenes, they have emotions." -Dan

Featured Quotes:

"The strength of your social media is determined by the strength of your content."

"Great marketing starts with great stories. Be unique, inspire, and connect." -Ann Handley

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1. Ready to take your business and lifestyle to the next level in college? Grab your seat in our Entrepreneur Accelerator Program: College Edition
2. Connect with us! Sabah Ali and Dan Tieman.
3. Our Snapchats: @Sabahh14 & @Tieman - Snap us!

Our Guest:

Ogechi Igbokwe is the founder of OneSavvyDollar; a website that allows you find companies that will help you pay for school. She is also a passionate speaker and writer of all things that come to personal finance. OneSavvyDollar exists to make your financial life; dramatically simpler, more convenient, productive, less intimidating, more fun, and fashionable.

Story:

From starting off her career as a bank teller to realizing that she wanted to help students pay for their college tuition as she created her own company, today we have our guest Ogechi Igbokwe.

A few highlights of what you will hear:

• Ogechi's journey from where she started.
• Why she wanted to start a business to help with student tuitions.
• Personal finance.
• Started her company in grad school, OneSavvyDollar.
• Struggles she had to overcome when starting her business.
• How she markets her business.

Impactful Quotes from Ogechi:

"We are trying to help college kids find companies who will help them pay for school."

"That's when I knew finance and personal finance was a major issue, and was something that I wanted to get into and be in."

"In undergrad I was still trying to find my way around."

"I thought I was going to go to law school, but when I calculated the cost of that -- it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do."

"We are now trying to get into every college."

"People try and make entrepreneurship sound all sexy and it's fun, but it's a lot of work."

"It's easy to start something but it's going to take a lot to continue, especially when things aren't going well."

Connect with Ogechi!

1. OneSavvyDollar

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Story:

Technology is always changing in society, it is apart of our lives whether we want it to be or not. Many applications make business and lifestyle easier for one to succeed in. They help us talk to people across the country to telling us when to wake up so we get a full cycle of sleep.

Listen to this episode to hear about some of the applications Sabah and Dan use to make their lives easier in business as well in college.

A few highlights of what you will hear:

• Applications Sabah and Dan use.
• Slack.
• • App on your phone and website.
  • Eliminates use of email.
• Buffer.
• • Automation for putting out content.
• Canva.
• • Allows you to create artistic images.
  • Podcast art.
  • Ads.
• Sleepytime.
• • When you need to wake up everyday in order for your sleep cycle to be complete.

Impactful Quotes:

"It cuts down the usage of back and forth emailing." -Sabah

"I can set up when I want to post things, when I want to pictures to come out, it lets me automate that days and weeks in advance." -Dan

"It's completely free so you can choose which templates you want to use, which colors, the type of fonts, and you can upload pictures." -Sabah

"It just makes my life so much easier." -Dan

"You can schedule out a time when you want to sleep and then it tells you what times you need to wake up in order to have a full sleep cycle. -Sabah

"It's a world platform, when you are asleep people are up, when you are eating dinner people are eating breakfast, you constantly have to be posting." -Dan

Featured Quotes:

"We are changing the world with technology." -Bill Gates

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."

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2. Connect with us! Sabah Ali and Dan Tieman.
3. Our Snapchats: @Sabahh14 & @Tieman - Snap us!

Our Guest:

Connor Gillivan is a 27 year old serial entrepreneur. He co-founded his first company selling textbooks on Amazon from his college dorm room and built it to sell over $20 million.  After building a team of over 60 people, he co-founded FreeeUp, an online hiring marketplace making the process of finding reliable freelancers easier for businesses. His book, Free Up Your Business, is an Amazon bestseller and shares 50 secrets how he's built his companies.

Story:

From starting a multimillion dollar company in sales from his dorm room to founding a company with a team of 60 people, today we have our guest Connor Gillivan.

A few highlights of what you will hear:

• Connor's journey from where he started.
• Started his first business during college.
• What dropshipping is.
• How he co-founded FreeeUp.
• What his responsibilities are for his company.
• His best selling book, Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies.
• How he hit Amazon bestseller for his book.
• Where FreeeUp is going in the future.

Impactful Quotes from Connor:

"We were selling all kinds of products -- you name it we were probably selling it at one point."

"It allows you to have inventory online without actually holding it, which gives you a great opportunity to test different products."

"We came to the conclusion that we didn't like the solutions that were out there, because of the time it took."

"Writing a book and being able to offer advice to other people in the business is what we wanted to do."

"That's what I am strategizing, figuring out the best way to continue to get consistent sales."

"Each Friday of every week I would spend about 4-5 hours of writing the book."

"This year we are on pace to do around 3-4 million dollars in sales."

"We have around 1500 clients signed up on our platform on a weekly basis."

"Our goal is to keep growing it consistently."

Featured Quote:

"It always seem impossibly until it's done." -Nelson Mandela

Connect with Connor!

1. FreeeUp
2. Connor Gillivan
3. Free Up Your Business

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Story:

Listen to this episode to hear about how Sabah's experience at the Young Entrepreneur Convention and why Sabah and Dan think it's important to attend business conferences.

A few highlights of what you will hear:

• Sabah's experience at the Young Entrepreneur Convention.
• Why you should be attending networking events.
• What it takes to put on an event.
• • Marketing.
  • Sponsoring.
  • Ticket sales.
• Why making connections is important.
• Funding the event.
• Takeaways from attending YEC.

Impactful Quotes:

"Put on this event to bring together like minded individuals who already have businesses or want to start businesses." -Sabah

"Maybe get a job so you do get paid to learn so you can start moving towards what you really want to do in life." -Dan

"This year I was glad because I was actually apart of the team." -Sabah

"If you want to make yourself better if you want to grow you have to be the dumbest one in the room, you have to be constantly learning." -Dan

"There were people who were as young as 5 years old to people who were 60 or 70." -Sabah

"If you want to become a millionaire hang around billionaires." -Dan

"We really built up that hype during the last couple of weeks and even the month of for the event." -Sabah

Featured Quotes:

"You are the average of the 5 people that you spend time with."

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

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1. Ready to take your business and lifestyle to the next level in college? Grab your seat in our Entrepreneur Accelerator Program: College Edition
2. Connect with us! Sabah Ali and Dan Tieman.
3. Our Snapchats: @Sabahh14 & @Tieman - Snap us!

Our Guest:

Josh Forti is a 23 year old Social Media Marketer and college dropout. At age 21, after a year and a half of school, he decide to drop out and pursue his dream of starting his own business. After researching and seeing the power of social media, he start on Instagram. At the time he started, he had 220 followers, and didn't even know what a hashtag was. He invested every penny he had into learning about Instagram, and social media marketing. After 6 months, he had 10,000 followers. After 9 months, he had nearly 200,000 followers. He then launched Digital CEOs LLC, a social media marketing agency, with his business partners, Josue Pena and Josh Ellis. Together they now have a following of over 4 million followers, and a network of over 100,000,000 followers on Instagram, as well as a marketing and lead generation company that works with 6 and 7 figure businesses.

Story:

From starting in college at the age of 18 to dropping out at age 21 to building a social media company and gaining more than 200,000 followers on Instagram within months, today we have our guest Josh Forti.

A few highlights of what you will hear:

• Josh's journey from where he started.
• Why he dropped out of college.
• Started a company in college - how it didn't work.
• How he got interested in social media.
• How he built his company.
• Why/ why not it's beneficial to buy courses.
• Four pillars of Instagram.
• • Content
  • Consistency
  • Market research
  • Networking
• Using only 30 hashtags a post.
• How to monetize your Instagram account.

Impactful Quotes from Josh:

"They are the ones who told me that social media was a waste of time and you can't make any money with it."

"Some of the classes were interesting but a lot of it was repetitive-- there's got to be more to it then just this."

"It was relatively new so I just capitalized on that and dove all in on how to use social media."

"In the beginning I understood that success wasn't going to happen overnight."

"It took me 7 months to get my first 10,000 followers on Instagram."

"I believe education is the number one most important thing in the world, but I don't think college is."

"Education and knowledge is completely useless unless you take action with it."

"Your content is what gets people to follow you-- you can have the best growth strategy but unless you have good content, it doesn't matter."

Connect with Josh!

1. Instagram:
2. 1. @Worldofartists
   2. @Mr.highsclass.co
   3. @Focus_mentality
3. Facebook

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Story:

Everyone wants to become successful in their designated field but in order to do that we need insight and tips from people who have already done that. Connecting with influencers allows us to gain education from how they became successful and gives us that relationship that we seek for with them.

Listen to this episode to hear about how Sabah and Dan connect with influencers and why they attend certain events to put them in the right settings.

A few highlights of what you will hear:

• Sabah and Dan's ways to connect with influencers.
• Young Entrepreneur Convention
• Why you should be connecting with influencers.
• How to build a connection.
• Why it's important to go to networking events.
• How to introduce yourself to someone.
• Do research before going to events.
• How to prepare yourself for an event.
• • Mentally prepare.
  • Know how to introduce yourself.
  • Ask them about themselves.
  • Ask for contact information.
  • FOLLOW UP.
• Meeting influencers through podcasting.

Impactful Quotes:

"I am apart of the team this year, but I'm also excited because I get to network and connect with a lot of big name people." -Sabah

"You are always one conversation away from your next million dollar sale." -Dan

"Connecting with people gives you insight on if that field is right for you." -Sabah

"You never know how they can help you later on in life or even how you can help them." -Dan

"You need to find people who have done what you want to do and follow in their footsteps." -Sabah

"Learn about their routines, get to know where they did mistakes so you don't do the same." -Dan

"Be that person who asks speakers questions." -Sabah

Featured Quotes:

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

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2. Connect with us! Sabah Ali and Dan Tieman.
3. Our Snapchats: @Sabahh14 & @Tieman - Snap us!

Our Guest:

JR Rivas is a 22 year old millennial who went to college for a couple years and started a tax business at the age of 18. After selling his business and realizing he wanted to do something different he found the love of digital marketing. Now he helps clients with their business run Facebook ads and click funnels.

Story:

From starting a tax business at the age of 18 to switching gears in becoming a digital marketer and gaining 10K a month, today we have our guest JR Rivas.

A few highlights of what you will hear:

• JR's journey from how he got started.
• Starting a tax business.
• How to sell a business.
• Joining a business with a franchiser
• Going into the digital marketing field.
• How to gain and connect with potential clients.
• Starting a podcast show.
• What clickfunnels are.
• Struggles he had to start his digital marketing business.
• Launching products.

Impactful Quotes from JR:

"I was able to figure it out and make a full time living from it, so it's been a great ride so far."

"I got a student loan and then used that to finance my business."

"It was a low barrier to entry business so you could start it up with relatively inexpensively."

"All you needed was a space, an office, and a couple of computers."

"I had this office, but I had no money for rent."

"I started listening to podcasts because I just begun to find out about the podcasting world on iTunes."

"My first client ever was my friend who I convinced to give me a little money for doing work for him."

"You are building someone else's business constantly when you could just be building your own."

Connect with JR!

1. Facebook

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Story:

If you are in college, like Sabah and Dan, you are probably trying to figure out exactly how you want to spend your summer. Weather it is getting a job, an internship, or just taking time for yourself, it's sometimes difficult to really know what you want to do for a couple months that you are off from school.

Listen to this episode to hear about how Sabah and Dan's plans for the summer and how they are struggling about how they want to spend their summers.

A few highlights of what you will hear:

• Sabah's and Dan's plans for the summer.
• Sabah turning down an internship offer.
• Dan getting offers from jobs.
• Dan graduating from college.
• Why it's okay to not always do what your friends are doing.
• Weighing out pros and cons.
• Are you able to gain skills from what you are going to be doing?
• Why you should talk to other people to help with decision making.

Impactful Quotes:

"I'm always about going with the flow and seeing what things happen." -Dan

"Personally, I probably won't take it because I don't want to be doing something I don't like all summer even though it's in New York and it's a great company." -Sabah

"It's what I want to do, its sales I can learn from them." -Dan

"You shouldn't always be doing what everybody else is doing, in your heart if you know it's not right for you don't do it." -Sabah

"Right now, I'm building something great -- every downfall that happens through it I'm just going to pivot." -Dan

"Why would you want to work all summer hating what you do instead of doing what could really help you in the future." -Sabah

"It gets rough sometimes and people struggle with that." -Dan

"After I weighed out my options and really thought about what I wanted to do this summer, the decision to turn down that offer was a lot easier." -Sabah

"I'm looking forward to new experiences, to travel and experience life will being a digital nomad." -Dan

Featured Quotes:

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it."

"Struggles are required in order to survive in life because in order to stand up, you got to know what falling down is like."

Start now!

1. Ready to take your business and lifestyle to the next level in college? Grab your seat in our Entrepreneur Accelerator Program: College Edition
2. Connect with us! Sabah Ali and Dan Tieman.
3. Our Snapchats: @Sabahh14 & @Tieman - Snap us!