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=== SUMMARY ===

Imagine never having the opportunity to know your father—not because he died fighting in some awful, bloody struggle, or became afflicted with some horrific disease—but because he didn’t want to be there.

Now, travel back to your four-year-old self. What if—instead of enjoying trips to the park, or having playtime with your favorite toy—you found yourself changing diapers of and preparing food for your younger siblings?

How would your life be different if you spent earliest years going in and out of foster care?

Or being partially raised by an astoundingly abusive step-father?

Envision how challenging it would be to mentally and physically overcome even one of these barriers to success…

…Could you do it?

Even if you could do it, how would you do it?

Those are questions to keep in mind as you listen to today’s episode of Making Bank with guest Wesley Chapman—a man who overcame all of the aforementioned hurdles (and then some) on the way to becoming an uber-successful entrepreneur and self-described “Humanity Advocate.”

Wesley is a man who believes we all have a unique value proposition to offer the world, it’s just a question of sitting down and actually identifying it—something that (as Wesley freely admits) is easier said than done.

But if you can do it—if you can keep pushing and trying to focus on your unique strength—amazing things will happen.

Tune-in to hear Wesley and Josh cover a number of powerful talking points, including...

• Wesley’s depression-clad, suicide-attempt-laden childhood

…And much, much more!

#MakingBank #JoshFelber #WesleyChapman

=== ABOUT Josh Felber ===

As a High Performance Coach and Start-Up Advisor, I help business owners, entrepreneurs, & millennials understand where you can grow your business with fast proven results to obtain wealth and find freedom. 

A serial entrepreneur with 28+ years of starting and growing multiple multi-million dollar companies (including one with $5 Billion annual revenues), I’ve been:

• 2x Best-Selling Author as a co-author with Steve Forbes & Brian Tracy

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=== SUMMARY ===

How are you going to acquire new customers at a reasonable cost?

That—more than anything else—is the question you need to be able to answer as an entrepreneur looking to launch a business that will survive and thrive.

Customer acquisition is everything. It is the lifeblood of every business, be it nascent or fully-developed. Without consistent and reliable new customer acquisition, a business is living with one foot in the grave.  

Contrary to what most entrepreneurs think, customer acquisition doesn’t need to be a profitable enterprise right off the bat. In fact, the most successful customer acquisition campaigns are quite often breakeven, or even negative at the front-end.

Think of it like this—if it costs $1000 to acquire 100 potential customers (leads) for a company, and only 10 (10%) of those leads convert into customers (purchasing a $25 per month subscription-based product), the acquisition cost at the end of month one puts the business $750 in the red.

The customer acquisition cost is NEGATIVE at this stage.

But by the conclusion of month four, the company has reached the breakeven stage, and at the end of the month five the company has made a 25% profit on its initial $1000 investment. Plus, the company gets to hang on to (and continue to market to) the other 90 leads that haven’t become customers yet.

This idea that it’s OK to not run an immediately profitable customer acquisition campaign is just ONE of the many MASSIVE takeaways shared on this week’s episode of Making Bank, where host Josh Felber, sits down with marketing funnel master Todd Brown, of Marketing Funnel Automation.

Inspired by a single piece of direct-response copy he got in the mail, Todd catapulted himself into the world of marketing 15-years ago and never looked back. Today, he’s enamored with the idea of salesmanship multiplied through readily repeatable, automated means that any entrepreneur can use to grow a healthy business.

Listen as Todd and Josh talk at length about a number of incredibly valuable marketing concepts and strategies that every entrepreneur—be they a seasoned veteran or new arrival to the game—needs to know, including…

• The danger of having ONE of ANYTHING

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=== ABOUT Josh Felber ===

As a High Performance Coach and Start-Up Advisor, I help business owners, entrepreneurs, & millennials understand where you can grow your business with fast proven results to obtain wealth and find freedom. 

A serial entrepreneur with 28+ years of starting and growing multiple multi-million dollar companies (including one with $5 Billion annual revenues), I’ve been:

• 2x Best-Selling Author as a

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=== SUMMARY ===

Avoiding failure isn’t the key to success—enduring it is.

For every entrepreneurial win captured in a best-selling book, or CNBC segment, there are a thousand unseen failures overcome, and ten-thousand unseen hurdles cleared.

Simply put, the price of success is high, and before the big breaks, most entrepreneurs are flat-broke.

Becoming a successful entrepreneur takes guts, resolve, and an insatiable appetite for improvement. The criticism, the cut-downs, and the doubts will greatly outweigh the complements, the accolades, and the money for a long time.

But, for those brave enough to stick their necks out and tough enough stay in the game, the success eventually comes.

Just ask today’s guest on Making Bank, Mike Koenigs, a man who went from meager means to making more than $1 million dollars in a single day.

After barely finishing high school, and electing to skip college, Mike launched headlong into an entrepreneurial career, only to find himself mired in a world of big-time hurt.

Setbacks and miscues left him with a floundering business, where he was forced to use credit cards to pay his employees and a gas-station rewards card to buy his groceries.

It was an unsustainable (and dangerous) way to live that brought him near the breaking point. 

Faced with mounting debt, surging self-doubt, and impending professional failure, Mike was left with two options:

Give-up or give it one last shot

He chose the latter and the rest is history.

Today, Mike is an accomplished entrepreneur, cancer-survivor, 11-time #1 bestselling author, cable TV producer, marketer, angel investor, filmmaker, speaker, inventor, and active philanthropist. He has sold multiple businesses to publicly-traded companies, including his most recent exits—Traffic Geyser and Instant Customer.

During today’s episode of Making Bank, he and host Josh Felber will go the distance in discussing what it takes to survive the long road to success, and what it means to live life healthily. They’ll also talk about…

• Overcoming the obstacle of poverty in childhood

…And much, much more!

#MakingBank #JoshFelber #MikeKoenigs

=== ABOUT Josh Felber ===

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=== SUMMARY ===

Today’s guest who—despite not actually being born in America—knows just how lucky he is to be here.

His name?

Gary Vaynerchuk, and he’s a Making Bank veteran.

In case you’re unaware, Gary happens to be one of the most well-respected and highly sought-after marketers on the planet.

His gift isn’t funnel-building or an exceptionally high IQ, it’s knowing where consumer attention is going next (is it any wonder why he’s an investor in Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, Uber and Venmo?), and he’s used that gift to build out a small media empire.

A self-described “day-trader” of consumer attention, Gary’s operating philosophy for business is “make money by doing what you love.” In his case, that love is marketing, but in your case, it could be anything—even working a regular nine-to-five earning $40,000 a year. As Gary sees it, if you can make a living by doing that which you love, you’ve won the game of life no matter how much you earn in a year.

Join Making Bank host Josh Felber, as he sits down with Gary to talk marketing, parenting, and Gary’s latest book #AskGaryVee. Listen as their conversation pivots back and forth on a number of interesting topics including…

• The importance of taking care of yourself before anyone else

…And more!

#MakingBank #JoshFelber #GaryVaynerchuk

=== ABOUT Josh Felber ===

As a High Performance Coach and Start-Up Advisor, I help business owners, entrepreneurs, & millennials understand where you can grow your business with fast proven results to obtain wealth and find freedom. 

A serial entrepreneur with 28+ years of starting and growing multiple multi-million dollar companies (including one with $5 Billion annual revenues), I’ve been:

• 2x Best-Selling Author as a co-author with Steve Forbes & Brian Tracy

I’ve helped my clients achieve:

• Business growth from 6 to 7 figures & doubled revenues in as short as 6 months

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=== SUMMARY ===

Go back to your teenage years.

You are a student in high school, working hard to get good grades, graduate, and still maintain some semblance of a social life.

Picture yourself sitting in class at the conclusion of a long, hot and humid spring day, getting ready for the brassy overture of the final bell knowing that with its ear-splitting ring your REAL day begins.

When all of your friends and classmates head home for the day, you’re going to head to a greasy, steamy restaurant to wait tables for seven or eight hours, working yourself to exhaustion.

How would you handle an utterly daunting workload like that? More importantly, what lesson would you extract from such a labor-intensive experience?

If you’re anything like today’s guest, you’d learn a lot.

Meet Mike Dillard, father, entrepreneur, investor, author, and self-described “freedom fighter” who approaches life with the belief that anyone can accomplish anything if they develop and apply the appropriate skills.

Using his time waiting tables at the original Romano’s Macaroni Grill as a sparkplug for entrepreneurial learning, Mike came to understand professional success isn’t rooted in hard-work, it’s rooted in smart-work—the kind that earns more money through means of continually-reduced effort.

Mike used this understanding to build a successful business teaching small business owners how to effectively market themselves online using “attraction-marketing”—a business that would be worth more than 7-figures by the time he turned 27. 

In 2010, he founded a financial education company in order to teach others how to achieve financial freedom through investment strategies commonly reserved for the wealthy.

Today, Mike’s businesses have produced more than $50 million dollars in revenue—all of it with $0 of outside funding—and his latest venture into aeroponics is positioned to be his most impactful and lucrative entrepreneurial effort yet.

Learn more about Mike during today’s episode of Making Bank, where he’ll discuss everything above, as well as…

• How to become the hunted instead of the hunter

…And much, much more, including the best advice he’s ever received.

#MakingBank #JoshFelber #MikeDillard

=== ABOUT Josh Felber ===

As a High Performance Coach and Start-Up Advisor, I help business owners, entrepreneurs, & millennials understand where you can grow your business with fast proven results to obtain wealth and find freedom. 

A serial entrepreneur with 28+ years of starting and growing multiple multi-million dollar companies (including one with $5 Billion annual revenues), I’ve bee

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=== SUMMARY ===

Almost a year ago, real estate investor Keith Yackey, founder of Private Money Pro, joined host Josh Felber on Making Bank to talk about real estate—how to invest in it, how to generate additional revenue from it, and how to grow as an entrepreneur involved in it.

Today, Keith is back on Making Bank, but he’s not back to discuss real estate—he’s here to talk about living a life of no regrets.

What he calls, a life of Amplified Experience.

When Keith lost his mother, he used it as melancholic inspiration to stop living life constrained by fear, and within 15-months, he built an 8-figure real estate investment company.

Letting go of fear transformed Keith’s life. It led to fiscal freedom and wealth beyond his wildest dreams. But in spite of his rampant and rapid success, Keith found himself unfulfilled. He was successful, but he wasn’t happy, and success without joy—as Keith likes to say—is failure.

Realizing success had brought freedom but not purpose, he stepped back from his incredibly-lucrative real-estate investment business to focus on finding his passion, his mission, and his message.

Intense introspection led Keith to discover his true calling, a calling that could afford him with both freedom and purpose:

Helping people

Specifically, helping success-seeking individuals overcome their fear of chasing an idea and staring a business.

To that end, Keith started the Amplify Live Experience, a four-day annual event dedicated to helping people learn from AMAZING experts, engage with inspiring audiences, and learn how to act on dreams, passions, and aspirations. 

In this episode of Making Bank, Keith will walk the audience through his journey of self-discovery, and demonstrate his readily-adaptable framework for living a life of successful fulfillment.

Keith will also discuss…

• The Amplify Live Experience

…And much, much more!

#MakingBank #JoshFelber #KeithYackey 

=== ABOUT Josh Felber ===

As a High Performance Coach and Start-Up Advisor, I help business owners, entrepreneurs, & millennials understand where you can grow your business with fast proven results to obtain wealth and find freedom. 

A serial entrepreneur with 28+ years of starting and growing multiple multi-million dollar companies (including one with $5 Billion annual revenues), I’ve been:

• 2x Best-Selling Author as a co-author with Steve Forbes & Brian Tracy

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=== SUMMARY ===

The identity of America is changing, and changing rapidly. The country is becoming an increasingly beautiful mosaic of different cultures, ethnicities, languages, religions, and experiential backgrounds. And one of the most prominent and explosively-growing components of that mosaic is the Latino community—a community that is on-pace to make up more than 20% of the overall US population in the next couple of years.

Yet, the size, scope, and reach of this growing group has been largely ignored by one of America’s most prominent and profitable industries:

Entertainment

Right now, there is a Grand Canyon-sized gap between consumer demand for, and market supply of, Latino-centric entertainment.

Yes, there are few channels on TV like Univision and Telemundo, but they’re only taking a small sliver of the entertainment profit pie. Most of it continues to go uneaten.

Fortunately, that’s about to change thanks to the focused efforts of two successful entertainment entrepreneur-investors, Mr. Rich Hull and Mr. Jorge Granier. Their company PONGALO—a digital media company based in the US—owns one of the largest libraries of Spanish-language content in the world. And that library is slowly but surely being made available to Spanish-speaking Americans through PONGALO’s modestly-priced subscription based model.

Though it may not be entirely accurate to call PONGALO the “Spanish-speaker’s Netflix” right now, the reality is PONGALO could become a similar digital media juggernaut over the coming decade, particularly as the US-based Spanish-speaking audience continues to grow.

Remember—mobile device ownership and mobile media consumption is MASSIVE in the Latino community (in fact, no other cultural demographic owns as many mobile devices). Coupled with mobile media consumption’s unwavering rise in the general US population, and it’s reasonable to assume PONGALO’s industry footprint will become increasingly massive.

So, with all of that said, join host Josh Felber on today’s episode of Making Bank, as he sits down with both Rich and Jorge to discuss their respective media backgrounds, their interest in catering digital media to the Spanish-speaking community, their vision for future development of PONGALO, and much, MUCH more, including…

•Why TV—like radio—will never die

•How, when, and where Millenials like to consume media

•The defining characteristic of new-age media

•Why pigeon-holing (left unchecked) can destroy your potential

•The fragility of free-speech

#MakingBank #JoshFelber #JorgeGranier #RichHull

=== ABOUT Josh Felber ===

As a High Performance Coach and Start-Up Advisor, I help business owners, entrepreneurs, & millennials understand where you can grow your business with fast proven results to obtain wealth and find freedom. 

A serial entrepreneur with 28+ years of starting and growing multiple multi-million dollar companies (including one with $5 Billion annual revenues), I’ve been:

• 2x Best-Selling Author as a co-author with Steve Forbes & Brian Tracy

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=== SUMMARY ===

There is something to be said for having to grow up fast.

For being married at the age of 18, the father of two by the age of 20, and suddenly realizing what it’s like to have the same needs as the typical 40-year old adult before being able to legally buy a beer.

It forces you to either get tough, get savvy, or some combination thereof.

And as it pertains to today’s guest, it was definitely some combination thereof.

This is Jay Abraham, a man who used hunger, necessity, and—in some cases—flat-out desperation to become one of the world’s foremost business authors, entrepreneurial experts, and a trusted confidant to some of the most prominent brands (and executives) on the planet.

As the Founder and CEO of Abraham Group, Inc., Jay solves problems, fixes businesses, and increases bottom lines. To date, Jay has helped more than 10,000 clients, across 400 industries worldwide by studying their problems and offering paradigm-shifting solutions.

Jay’s “funnel vision versus tunnel vision” concept—which is about borrowing high-value ideas from one industry and applying them to another in a strategic way—is his pièce de résistance, and the single-most valuable practice he has applied to help his clients for more than 30 years.

Today, Jay is widely-recognized as one of the world’s Top 10 marketing minds, as well as a true innovator of revenue model and business model generation. That expertise is largely the reason he has been featured in countless publications including, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and USA Today.

So, with all of that said, join host Josh Felber, on this week’s episode of Making Bank, to hear Jay’s remarkable story of success first-hand, and better understand some of his critical business insights, including…

• Why “trust” is the most-valuable asset any business can have

…And much, MUCH more.

#MakingBank #JoshFelber #JayAbraham

=== ABOUT Josh Felber ===

As a High Performance Coach and Start-Up Advisor, I help business owners, entrepreneurs, & millennials understand where you can grow your business with fast proven results to obtain wealth and find freedom. 

A serial entrepreneur with 28+ years of starting and growing multiple multi-million dollar companies (including one with $5 Billion annual revenues), I’ve been:

• 2x Best-Selling Author as a co-author with Steve Forbes & Brian Tracy

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=== SUMMARY ===

Imagine being dead broke (or maybe you don’t have to imagine it because you’ve lived it).

Imagine the fear. The anxiety. The looming dread of—is this it for me as an entrepreneur?

What would you do in that situation? Would you throw in the towel, go get a “regular” job, and settle in for 40+ years of the 9 to 5 grind?

Or would you keep pushing the envelope? Keep chipping away at the idea-block until—one day—you cracked the code of success?

It might sound like a feel-good Hollywood drama, but it’s not—it’s the real-life story of serial entrepreneur Ed O’Keefe, a Southside Chicago-kid who went from worrying about his last few hundred bucks in the bank to launching multiple seven (and even eight!) figure businesses like Marine D-3 and InspiredWear.

Ed’s story is a story familiar to so many other successful entrepreneurs. A story where idea after idea fails to get off the ground, not because the ideas aren’t good, but because the idea-maker doesn’t know how to market, promote, and sell themselves.

It took Ed years of struggle to learn how to promote himself, and find his professional niche as a marketer, but since finding it he hasn’t looked back.

Today, he’s more than a super successful-entrepreneur, he’s also a business owner, business strategy coach, consultant, advisor, TV show host, author, husband, and proud father of seven.

His latest accomplishment, Time Collapsing—The New Art of Speed, Money, Power, and Meaning, is an in-depth exploration of the behind-the-scenes system, Ed has used to sell almost $100,000,000 in services, consulting, supplements, seminars, and informational products.

Sit-down and strap-in for an entertaining exchange between Ed and Making Bank host, Josh Felber, as they cover critical concepts every aspiring entrepreneur needs to know.

Concepts like…

•The value of teaching others how to make money

•Living with purposeful intent

•Why “having goals” is overvalued

•Hours worked does NOT tie into success

•The danger of getting stuck “in” problems

•Why now is the best-time EVER to become successful

…And much, MUCH more.

#MakingBank #JoshFelber #EdO'Keefe

=== ABOUT Josh Felber ===

As a High Performance Coach and Start-Up Advisor, I help business owners, entrepreneurs, & millennials understand where you can grow your business with fast proven results to obtain wealth and find freedom. 

A serial entrepreneur with 28+ years of starting and growing multiple multi-million dollar companies (including one with $5 Billion annual revenues), I’ve been:

• 2x Best-Selling Author as a co-author with Steve Forbes & Brian Tracy

MAKING BANK is now a weekly YouTube TV show / iTunes Podcast full of #Success and #Business with Josh. 

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=== SUMMARY ===

As a successful entrepreneur, I know the importance of high-quality copywriting.

From in-store signage, to long-form sales letters, the right words delivered in the right order can transform an ice-cold prospect into a life-long customer.

Now, that might feel like an exaggeration, but any businessman (or woman) worth their salt knows exactly what I mean.

Which is why I’m so fired-up to invite one of the very best copywriters on the planet—Craig Clemens—onto today’s episode of Making Bank.

Craig, like so many other successful professionals, went to the school of hard-knocks to get his entrepreneurial education, spending years working one of the toughest, most humbling jobs on the planet—telemarketing sales.

Did he like it? Of course not. But he did it because he had bills to pay and lessons to learn. 

Eventually, Craig got bored of hawking drill bits and credit cards over the phone. He hung-up his headset for good to go write copy for his longtime friend, Eban Pagan, who had been making more than $10,000 a month selling dating-advice ebooks.

In addition to the guidance he would receive from Eban, Craig meticulously studied the work of copywriting legends like Kennedy, Halbert, Hopkins, and Collier. Craig practiced and refined, practiced and refined, practiced and refined, until he became a true master of the craft.

Now Craig runs his own copywriting agency, and produces some of the most successful sales copy in digital business. In fact, over the last two years, Craig has written three of the four biggest direct to consumer campaigns on the internet, one of which reeled 33,600 new customers in just two days.

Tune in to today’s episode to hear Josh and Craig, share a number of fantastic insights, including:

• The four keys to effective copywriting.

#MakingBank #JoshFelber #CraigClemens

=== ABOUT Josh Felber ===

As a High Performance Coach and Start-Up Advisor, I help business owners, entrepreneurs, & millennials understand where you can grow your business with fast proven results to obtain wealth and find freedom. 

A serial entrepreneur with 28+ years of starting and growing multiple multi-million dollar companies (including one with $5 Billion annual revenues), I’ve been:

• 2x Best-Selling Author as a co-author with Steve Forbes & Brian Tracy