IntegratED With Jamie Palmer - A podcast for online entrepreneurs

Tara McMullion joined me on the podcast to talk all about the trends that she is seeing in the social media and marketing world. Tara is a podcaster, writer, and small business community leader. With over a decade of experience helping thousands of small business owners grow their businesses, she’s on a mission to change the conversation about what’s really working from hype to honest dialogue.

One of the inevitable parts of running a business is that you are going to have clients that you simply outgrow. The bigger that your business gets, the more you are going to run into this problem. I was thinking recently about how we used to have clients that were paying all different rates for our services. This can be tricky because as your business grows and you continue to grow your services, your pricing is bound to increase.

Today’s episode is going to be all about how you can package your services. All too often when I first start out with a client, they come to me and tell me that they have all of these different clients on different packages with different expectations. This is a big mistake! I was the same way. The larger your company grows the more challenges that this is going to create. I speak from personal experience when I say that I spent ridiculous amounts of time trying to write custom proposals for each client.

A colleague and friend from high school who has a similar business to mine recently told me that she would love to see my daily routine. Her children are very comparable ages to mine and she was curious about where I spend my time.

There are two different layers to my daily routine – things that I do every day and things that I do based on the day of the week.

Rich Brooks joined me on the podcast to talk all about his expertise in both the digital marketing field as well as how to host a successful conference or live event! Rich is the founder and president of flyte new media, a digital marketing agency that is based out of Maine. After having been in business for over 20 years, he is also a nationally recognized speaker on entrepreneurship, digital marketing, and social media.

These are the notes that I keep at my desk for where I am in business currently. I recently read an article on Medium that gave you 15 things to do immediately if you wanted to become a millionaire. I really got me thinking when it mentioned being able to 10x your business. Based on our current sales goals, ten times that would be 500k, which used to be a very scary number for me. Thinking about it now, it excites me to think that my business could get to that point.

There are so many things that I wish I had known about transitioning from a solo entrepreneur to a CEO who was running their own team. Very few people actually prepared me for this, for the mindset change and responsibilities that would come along with it. When you first start out on creating a team, it really hits you that these are people who are dedicating their time to help further your mission and make an impact in the world with you!

Mitchell Levy joined me to discuss his expertise in creating Amazon best-selling authors in four months or less! He is skilled in many areas, including creating 20 different companies and 4 publishing companies that have published over 800 books for his clients. He is also an international bestseller himself, having written over 60 books about the in’s and out’s of business.

I can’t even believe that we’ve done 200 podcast episodes!!

I’m shocked that in a little over a year, we’ve been able to do so many episodes and reach so many different types of people. It’s been such a crazy journey this past year and it means so much that such a large number of people want to hear what I have to say. Reflecting on these past 200 episodes, there were so many more things that I can’t wait to share with you guys and I’m excited to see what the future holds for this podcast!

One question that I constantly get is how to build a relationship in the online world. How do you make a connection with someone online that you would normally make in person? When I first started my business, I would network in person and then immediately add them on Facebook (or to my email list, before Facebook existed) to stay connected. Over time, I still get messages from those people asking for support or advice. Most people tend to overthink how simple it is to make connections with people online.