Entrepreneurs and Coffee

It’s not every day that you get the chance to speak to one of your online mentors.  As a regular listener, you know I talk about Pat Flynn every few episodes.

I want to connect more with you and there’s one awesome way we can do that.  I’ve set up a private facebook group just for listeners of this show.  Go to brendanhufford.com/community and join our Facebook group. It’s small right now, as I’m recording and that’s great. Your post in guaranteed not to be overlooked and get direct attention from everybody there.

If you want a few free resources to help you out along your business path, just go to brendanhufford.com/free and grab those.  They’ll help you tremendously and I’m always adding more free resources in there for you to help you avoid some of the mistakes I made along the way.

First, I want to thank you. We have so many people submitted Q&A Friday questions that I’m coming to a point where I can start answering more than one question per episode, or do more than one episode per week, OR just make it it’s own show and that’s perfect for me because my goal as an entrepreneur is to place myself in the greatest possible place of service.  And you being brave enough to go to brendanhufford.com/podcast and ask your question means that I’m able to serve you.

Second, I want to remind you, and you knew I’d do this because of the advice I gave Cris, go to brendanhufford.com/community and join our Facebook group. It’s small right now, as I’m recording and that’s great. Your post in guaranteed not to be overlooked and get direct attention from everybody there.

Thanks again so much for joining me for Q&A Friday.  I already can’t wait for next week’s question from Evan where he asks about something that’s super personal and important to me and I can’t freaking wait to answer his question.  Until then, grab a cup of coffee, work hard, be nice to people, and don’t get too lost trying to create something that matters.

Before we get started, if you haven’t already listened to episode 32 with Gary Vaynerchuk, go listen to it right now.  It was definitely the most *I’ve* ever been challenged while interviewing somebody and I’ve had a lot to think about since we did it.

But for today, we did it! We’re finally here.  After 10 awesome weeks in this series, we’re finally on the 10th rule of building a brand based on bobby hundreds series over at thehundreds.com.

Rule 10 of Building a brand is “Have Fun.”

Before we get rolling into what I believe is going to be hone of the best coffee chats we’ve ever had here on Entrepreneurs and Coffee, the action show, I want to remind you that you have one more day to enter our Seth Godin book giveaway.  Seth’s latest book, Your Turn, is truly one of his best and you can get your copy at brendanhufford.com/seth. Again, that’s brendanhufford.com/seth.

So what the hell do I even say to get today’s episode underway.  I feel like the intro for this episode is the 31 preceding episodes.  I talked about our guest today, Gary Vaynerchuk, in a few of my Q&A episodes and I mention him constantly. 

If you aren’t familiar with Gary, he grew his wine business, Wine Library, from $3mil in revenue to over $60mil in the late 90s because he was one of the first people to go all-in with ecommerce.  Then, he saw the power of Twitter and YouTube and created Wine Library TV in 2006.  He’s an angel investor and author.  In fact, he wrote one of the most influential books of my entire life, Crush It, and the free content he’s put online, especially in the last year, has been monumental.

In 2009, he co-founded Vaynermedia which has grown into a nationwide 400 person company that helped fortune 500 companies market online and use social channels the way they’re meant to be used.

Gary is grabbing coffee with us today while on vacation so there might be some background noise and whatnot but I’m 5000% sure that our chat will be worth listening to.

Today, I’ll be asking him about entrepreneurial DNA, creating a successful marriage as an entrepreneur, his new focus on his health and if you’re a regular listener, you know that I teased at launching a product a while back, and I haven’t mentioned it since.  I’ll be giving you more details about why I’ve kinda gone silent on it and I expect Gary will have some unique perspectives on it as well.

Go pour yourself a fresh cup of coffee and let’s sit down with our guest today on the Entrepreneurs and Coffee podcast, Gary Vaynerchuk.

If you’ve listened to the latest episodes, you know that I’m giving away Seth Godin’s latest book ‘What to do when it’s your turn.’  It’s an awesome book. It’s all of Seth’s knowledge and bold statements you might have seen before but in a magazine or coffee table style book.  I want to Instagram every single page. Literally. This thing is beautiful.

So, I have a stack of copies here that I bought to give away to you.  I had a lot at first but I’ve already mailed a bunch out to friends.

So how do you get one?

You go to brendanhufford.com/seth and enter the giveaway.  It takes 30 seconds but what I love is that if you’re a hustler like me, you can kinda rig the giveaway in your favor.  I won’t give away how that’s done but all the details are there.  Again to win your copy of Seth Godin’s new book, go to brendanhufford.com/seth and register.

Today’s question comes from Pedro de la Cruz about how to get more people to his art shows.

I’ve recently fallen in love with Seth Godin’s new book ‘What to do when it’s your turn.’  I say it with the utmost sincerity that I haven’t been this fired up about a book since reading Crush It by Gary V a few years ago and I can also say that I wasn’t a true Seth Godin fan until I read this book.  I just didn’t appreciate what he had to say the way I do now.  This book is definitely a game changer for me.

And I want it to be for you as well.

I have a stack of copies here that I bought to give away to you.  Yes, I clearly meant it when I said that I’m passionate about this book.

So how do you get one?

You go to brendanhufford.com/seth (spell it out) and enter the giveaway.  It takes 30 seconds but what I love is that if you’re a hustler like me, you can kinda rig the giveaway in your favor.  I won’t give away how that’s done but all the details are there.  Again to win your copy of Seth Godin’s new book, go to brendanhufford.com/seth and register.

Before we dive into the second to last rule of building a brand, I want to give you something amazing…

I’ve recently fallen in love with Seth Godin’s new book ‘What to do when it’s your turn.’  I say it with the utmost sincerity that I haven’t been this fired up about a book since reading Crush It by Gary V a few years ago and I can also say that I wasn’t a true Seth Godin fan until I read this book.  I just didn’t appreciate what he had to say the way I do now.  This book is definitely a game changer for me.

And I want it to be for you as well.

I have a stack of copies here that I bought to give away to you.  Yes, I clearly meant it when I said that I’m passionate about this book.

So how do you get one?

You go to brendanhufford.com/seth and enter the giveaway.  It takes 30 seconds but what I love is that if you’re a hustler like me, you can kinda rig the giveaway in your favor.  I won’t give away how that’s done but all the details are there.  Again to win your copy of Seth Godin’s new book, go to brendanhufford.com/seth and register

Link: brendanhufford.com/launch

SO

FINALLY

We’re here. Let’s do this.

On Monday’s episode of next week, we have an amazing guest, but we’re not going to get to meet him until Tuesday, because Monday’s episode is going to be a layout and explanation of my very first product.

Now, full transparency, this might fail.  And I’m totally okay with that.  I can’t think of an amazing company in the world that di

So maybe I should’ve kept that to myself a bit, but screw it. This is how we learn right?  So here’s what I want you to do.

If you want a sneak peek of it, go to brendanhufford.com/launch (spell it out)

A few things to note:

First, that page is live. You can actually sign up right there if you’re feeling it.

The details of the product are on that page and I’m not going to spoil them now, but I know what a MASSIVE freaking deal it is.

Second, I’m offering a discounted price AND opening ONLY 10 spots in our Beta program to help refine it for our big release in April.  The spots are limited and might fill up quickly so if you want to be a part of it, it might be worth it to sign up now.  If you have any questions, as always just shoot me an email: [email protected] and I’ll get back to you right away.

So again, if you want a sneak peek before I talk about it on Monday, go to brendanhufford.com/launch

Start looking at this episode and the 7 preceding it as what should guide your next move.  And as always, if you have a question about it, go to Entrepreneursandcoffee.com/ask and I'll answer it right here on the show. 

Go grab another cup of coffee and I’ll see you in the next episode of the entrepreneurs and coffee podcast.

I’m really excited to start chatting with our guest for coffee today, but before I do, I wanted to share something awesome with you. I just put together two ebooks that I’m pretty freaking pumped about.  The first is the 10 free resources that I used to bootstrap my business.  A lot of times when you start a business, especially when you have a family like I do, you don’t have extra money to buy all of the cool tools you see online.  You know you need a mailing list, and a way to get opt-ins and all of that, but that costs money, right? Wrong.  Then the problem becomes that if you google ‘free podcast tools’ or ‘free blogging tools’ you’re going to get a bajillion links to total freaking garbage.

So I wanted to put together something for you to save you some time.  You can grab that at brendanhufford.com/free

The second ebook is a really cool technique that I learned from Jairek Robbins, who is the son of Tony Robbins, called Emotional Stacking. I’m know for taking massive action in my business and this show is even called ‘the action show’ but even I have problems doing the difficult tasks and when I run into those types of roadblocks, this is what I use to get out of them and it works EVERY time.

I’ll go into all the details in a future episode of how it works, but it’s there for you for free also at brendanhufford.com/free.