Stephen Woessner is the CEO of Predictive ROI and the host of the brilliant Onward Nation podcast. He is the author of two bestselling books, "The Small Business Owners Handbook to Search Engine Optimization" and "Increase Online Sales Through Viral Social Networking." His digital marketing insights have been featured in SUCCESS, Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Washington Post, Inc. Magazine and more. His agency blends education in very transparent ways for clients.

What you'll learn about in this episode:

• Stephen's background and why he started Predictive ROI
• The lessons of parenting that can be used when running a company
• What Stephen learned from his grandfather that impacted the way he runs his life and his business
• The lessons Stephen learned when Predictive ROI lost $200,000 on a failed event
• Why "proactive" is Stephen's favorite word and how the Predictive ROI team is built around this
• How to find "A Players" and recruit them into an internship program
• The improvements Stephen and his team have had to make to their onboarding process due to previous failures in that area
• Why overnight success is a myth
• How to keep your employees
• Why you need to be very careful of who you are spending your time with
• Why you need to be completely transparent with your mentors
• What separates the super-high achievers from the rest
• How to protect your schedule

Ways to contact Stephen:

• Podcast: onwardnation.com
• Website: predictiveroi.com
• Twitter: @stephenwoessner
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stephenwoessner
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/Stephen-Woessner-576522319080312

Resources:

• Stephen's Onward Nation solocast on recruiting unpaid interns