E3 Podcast with Melissa Johnson

His adventure in sales began at Red Pages, a startup that wanted to follow Yellow Pages and create a printed directory, only of websites instead of phone numbers. This was 2003, when Google was in its infancy and everyone was still trying to understand what the internet would be. Yellow Pages was a major player and everyone invested in print ads.

John did an excellent job building relationships with local businesses and selling ads for Red Pages, but the product wasn’t used the way Yellow Pages was and the startup did not succeed.

John’s next job taught him that building relationships was so important he wasn’t happy if he couldn’t do it every day. He was with an affiliate online marketing company that got customers for big businesses that were paying per acquisition. He found the job very transactional and didn’t stay long. His passion for building relationships was not possible there.

The next five years saw John doing outside sales for Yellow Pages and enjoying the connections he made with business owners and coworkers. However, near the end of his time there the company was faltering. Businesses weren’t getting the returns they used to on their ads. Print was declining, and Google was taking over. John wanted to serve his customers more fully, so he started to explore online marketing.

The founding of Local SEO Search was an adventure. He got his first customer when he didn’t yet have a laptop – he was showing prospects Google search results on his phone. However, his first six-month contract got the ball rolling and it’s been doing well ever since.

His primary passion in his business is to help small business owners succeed. He loves to see his clients grow and see the tangible results of his work every day. Giving small businesses a leg up so they can compete with more established companies is something John enjoys a great deal.

Over time, he’s refined what verticals he’s interested in serving and made the processes at Local SEO Search more efficient. He focuses on working hard, being honest, transparent, and good to staff and clients. That’s when the good stuff really happens.

John believes in education and continuous learning. That’s why he started his own podcast, Local SEO Today, in 2018. He wanted to provide a tool for business owners and entrepreneurs to help them succeed. Originally, the podcast focused on the expertise of himself and Roger Murphy, Local SEO Search’s Vice President of Sales. But in 2019 he began interviewing other business owners and entrepreneurs and has found a wealth of knowledge to share with his audience.

In his personal life, John has a wife and a four year old son who are the center of his world. He loves to watch his son grow, learn, and interact with the world. He works hard during work hours but at a certain time of day the phone goes off and he focuses on his family. They do a lot together: travelling, skiing, swimming and going to live events.

Life is short, so embrace it and take on the adventure. You can run a business the way you want and do it well so that you can spend time with family and friends, which is what really matters.

MICHELLE OPPELT is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 12 years of experience founding and managing multiple profitable companies, including her first company formed in 2007 which has been featured on CNBC (Smartycat Kids). With a background in bio-science, she understands the importance of using data and metrics in order to properly analyze investment opportunities. Michelle is also the founder of multiple social groups and Masterminds, where she strives to lead and inspire others – especially women – to create and implement positive goals and habits that can transform their lives for the better.

Social:

www.SmartycatTV.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michelleelizabethoppelt

As a Productivity expert, Nina helps individuals, teams, and companies operate at peak levels. Nina excels at helping people develop their short- and long-term vision (Boldly Blueprint), create a detailed plan of action (Boldly Building Blocks), and then methodically coaches them to put that plan into productive action by the very next day (Boldly Go Productivity Methodology).

Ciindy Maxon started as an investor 10 years ago by purchasing five foreclosure homes and renting them out. In 2016 she purchased a vacant, run-down boarding house here in Nashville and fully gutted it, turning it into her personal home while building out the second story as a short term vacation rental called Chateau on Monroe.   She lives in Nashville, TN along with her husband Max, who's a songwriter. She has seven adult children and two grandchildren, all of whom are the apple of her eye. Building a solid business in real estate as an investor agent is her passion, but helping others is where I find my greatest blessing and joy.    Social links: As I mentioned I'm going through a re-branding process as an investor and Realtor. My website is being designed and built as we speak so the links may not work, and the look will be changing soon, but here are my Realtor website and FB page links:    https://homestylenashville.com/  https://www.facebook.com/HomeStyleNashville  I also have an investor website and FB page:  https://www.cindybuyshousestn.com/  https://www.facebook.com/Cindy-Buys-Houses-TN-112140877017592

Tamar Hermes is a full-time Real Estate Investor, educator, and money coach.  She is the CEO of Wealth Warrior Woman, where she guides women to become financially free through Real Estate Investing and creating an empowering relationship to money.  Tamar grew up poor as the child of a Holocaust survivor and had no idea how people got rich.  By chance, she stumbled upon Real Estate investing and became obsessed with the world of finance.

Today, she coaches clients across the country and blogs for Bigger Pockets, while hunting for her next deal.  Tamar’s desire is to support women to be free to choose how they spend their life and have the means to afford whatever they desire for themselves, their families, and others. She believes Real Estate Investing is the best way to grow wealth.  Tamar recently relocated from Los Angeles to Austin where she is enjoying the small city life, living financially free, and having no state taxes!

Website:

www.wealthwarriorwoman.com

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Camilla Jeffs is passionate about financial education, building wealth, and living a life by design. With 18 years of experience investing in real estate, she now provides investment opportunities for others to achieve passive income through investing in apartments and senior housing. Camilla believes in the investing trifecta, where one can achieve not only strong financial returns, but create social and environmental impact by providing safe, clean, and affordable housing to entire communities. Camilla is a triathlete, an outdoor enthusiast, and devoted mother to her five amazing children.

Andresa was born and raised in Brazil. She is Lorenzo’s mother and a developer who specializes in full gut renovation projects, new construction and is currently focusing on building medium to larger commercial developments. She owns a rental portfolio, comprised of both long- and short-term rentals. Andresa is also the co-founder of The Real Estate InvestHER® community, a platform to empower women to live a financially free and balanced life trough in-person meetings across the US and Canada and on-line membership that offers accountability and mentorship for women to take their business to the next level on their own terms.

Facebook: @therealestateinvesther

Instagram: @therealestateinvesther

My focus is on lease-ups (finding renters) and property management. I also help people list homes for sale (seller's agent) and find their next home (buyer's agent).

Jill Speth, a Registered Nurse and Real Estate investor founded Colorado Solutions in 2009 during the depths of the financial crisis. Focusing primarily on wholesaling and rehabs, she also succeeded in building a small rental portfolio in the Colorado Springs market.

2012 brought Jill, her husband, and 3 daughters to Littleton, CO so her husband could earn his math degree at UC Denver. In 2016 Jill earned her associate broker license, currently held with Equity Colorado, and focused primarily on selling the rental portfolio in Colorado Springs to transition to the Denver market.

Jill officially fired her boss in September 2018 and is now in the Real Estate business full-time. She is flipping homes in the Southwest Denver Metro area while learning and implementing systems that will help scale her business to provide for a low-stress lifestyle with an abundance of free time. Looking forward, she plans to build a portfolio of cash flowing assets with either rental property, storage units or agricultural land.

Jillbuyshousesfast.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillspeth/

Ashley Wilson, is the Co-Founder of Bar Down Investments, LLC & HouseItLook, LLC, Best Selling Author of The Only Woman in the Room, Knowledge and Inspiration from 20 Women Real Estate Investors, and an active member of The Real Estate InvestHER Community. She has over ten years of real estate experience and has been involved in over $60 million in transactions within both single and multifamily real estate. Ashley Co-Founded Bar Down Investments, LLC with her husband, Kyle. Ashley leads asset and construction management on her multifamily investments, and has provided operational consulting for several other large multifamily owners throughout the country. Additionally, Ashley & her father, Tom, also have a very successful high-end flipping business in Pennsylvania, HouseItLook LLC, which handles several million in transactions annually. When Ashley is not working on her businesses, she enjoys spending time with her family, including her husband and their two daughters. Additionally, Ashley enjoys competing with her horse, Wow!.   Social Instagram: BadAsh Investor Facebook: badashinvestor Website: www.badashinvestor.com