Matt Laker Podcast

In this informative episode, we explore what it's like to live in the Philippines as a digital nomad and entrepreneur. I will take you through the unique culture and way of life in the Philippines, sharing my personal experience of living in the country. I will also discuss business opportunities in the Philippines and ideas to set up a business.

Areas to stay:

- BGC

- McKinley Hill

Businesses to start:

- Long-term rent with sublease agreement to set up Airbnbs at BGC

- BPO (Business process outsourcing)

- Recruitment

Going out:

- Forbestown Road in BGC (European-styled tables on the sidewalk - good for wine. Classy enough to meet quality people but not too classy to meet the show-offs (except for Dr Wine). The best place on that street is Bistro Madrid by Terry's.

- Buccaneers Rum & Kitchen in Makati - great to meet people. You can talk to anyone and people will talk to you.

- Revel at The Palace at BGC if you're into loud unrefined popular music, ordering bottles to affirm your social status, and standing around just one table. No good techno there.

The best thing about the country:

- People who smile, talk to you, and are hospitable. I love Philipino people. I really do. They are bubbly and fun to hang out with. Their English is the best in Asia. Most people I met speak better English than me and I even learn new words from them. Fo' real.

What I don't like:

- Not much access to healthy food. Not many Bali-styled smoothie bowls, healthy poke bowls, and steaks are quite pricey for the weight that you get. Too much junk food everywhere. Most that I've seen ever.

In this episode, I explore happiness in relation to progress in areas such as business, health, and relationships. I challenge common beliefs and challenge both controversial thinkers like Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate as well as philosophers like Buddha or Niche.

Using actionable steps, I reveal my findings on the different levels of happiness. I was inspired to make this video after stumbling upon a thought-provoking Nietzschean philosophy on happiness.

Additionally, I will discuss three levels of enlightenment on happiness: seeking happiness through self-development, realizing that happiness involves pain and delayed gratification, and understanding that happiness is the way, not the end goal.

And I illustrate how Buddha's concept can be applied to different areas of life.

In this episode, I offer my thoughts on the topic of the best country in the world.

According to my experience, each country excels in a particular area, and we can pick and choose the best elements from various places to become global citizens.

I will also present a world map and discuss different countries, emphasizing the valuable lessons one can learn from each place. For instance, I praise the confidence of Americans but also highlight the value of modesty in Japan.

I believe that by embracing diverse cultures, we can become more versatile individuals and make the most of the unique offerings of each country.

In this episode, we'll show you how to use AI to automatically add captions to your stories, making them more engaging and effective for promoting your service on platforms like Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and more. Gone are the days of complicated editing software, as you can now do this easily on your phone in under 60 seconds. We'll also provide you with a framework for creating compelling stories that hold your audience's attention, as well as a fixed step process for coming up with ideas. Stay tuned for an upcoming video where we'll delve deeper into using AI for content marketing and publishing strategies.

In this episode, Matt demonstrates how he leveraged ChatGPT to enhance proposal writing for Upwork and improve his chances of winning jobs. He guides viewers through the process of using the AI tool on the official website. This video is a must-watch for freelancers and business owners who want to learn how to apply AI to increase their efficiency.

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Transcript: no network marketing i think this is stupid no affiliate links on your website just make some extra incremental revenue on the current network of friends that you have i really don't like network marketing and the main reason for it is maybe not that logical it's just that it's so awkward when you get a call from this friend you have back from high school man i was just thinking about you let's have a dinner then go for a meeting and then they tell you some [ __ ] how amazing you are and how entrepreneurial and self-confident you are and that you should promote those creams now and buy them from them and then sell them further this is just like brainwashing everybody hates it this is the best way to lose your friends yo matt you know like we haven't seen each other for 10 years but i was thinking like you're so entrepreneurial and you're so smart and you should read like this dale kerengi and all this like i have like all your cds where you like and that you should promote those creams now and buy them from them and then sell them further this is just like brainwashing everybody hates it this is the best way to lose your friends okay so how do you monetize on network how do you monetize on your friends another idea that people have is okay i just gonna make some affiliate links i'm gonna make a website make affiliate links and you know that kind of sucks as well for most of the people i know that some of you make money with it...

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In today's video i'm gonna show you how to make 8k per month with recruitment this is an amazing business for those of you who have this trouble of working with the customers who don't pay you enough or always slack with the payments and the reason for this is that those clients who are looking for recruitment they actually have the budget because think about this when do you think about recruitment you think about recruitment when you already have the sales you have a good lead generation funnel you have project management you just need more people you just need more people in your company whether this is people who deliver the service whether this is whoever else in the business so usually those who hire they have a well functioning company and there is going to be a whole spectrum of different types of businesses for which you could recruit but this is one of those businesses that definitely solves the problem of hey my customers never have the money and a lot of you who are watching my channel and a lot of people in the industry who are offering something like um consulting just like i do inside of the tribal mastermind or any of you who offer some kind of coaching with sales or like how to get sales um they actually target customers who don't often have um the the budget the biggest challenges um if you think about you know helping somebody get more leads or helping somebody get more sales you actually most likely help people who don't have uh customers just yet it's not always the case because in tribal mastermind we have uh people who come from bigger companies they have the budget to work with us we have people who already have businesses uh and in the same way um we have uh people who sell things like or or there's a lot of people who sell things like um lead generation funnel or explainer videos and they still have wealthy customers right but more often than not when you offer something like recruitment or if you think of any service that is directed at people who have the money you're usually going to have people who don't have the time but have the budget and this is a ...

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Transcript:

In this video I'm gonna show you how to build a business around generating leads for other companies. This is called lead generation so this is about building so-called lead generation agency and this is a done for you service. This is great for two reasons, first of all you can target customers who have high margins, high ticket products in b2b sales and this means that you're going to create quite nice revenue for yourself because generally speaking high ticket b2b is a good type of customer to target and secondly this is great if you don't have your product yet a lot of you don't have a product yet you don't know whether you should sell websites or whether you should sell i don't know like music or designs or um or sales or recruitment or you don't have that service just yet so this is great for you to start to generate leads for other companies and as long as you're going to offer something for b2b in the future for a specific customer niche in the future you are actually going to have this funnels built that we're going to build for lead generation for other companies that you can reuse in the future so this means that you're going to learn something once you're going to be able to get customers for other companies and once it's there and you come up with this new cool idea for your own product then it's totally fine you're most likely going to be able to reuse those funnels so let's jump right into the strategy that is pretty common for people that i've worked with inside of the tribal mastermind so it's proven to work and i will brief you through basics of how much to charge how to get those leads for the customer so how to actually deliver the service how to find customers yourself and i'm gonna give you a few tips and tricks here and there...

In this video, I'll talk about the second step after adopting the right mindset. These are technical aspects that are key to understand and implement if you want to successfully scale your business from 10k to 100k.

The path leads from understanding the numbers and understanding them, through developing working systems, standardization of processes, accountability, KPIs tracking, tools, and controlling the whole process all the way to scaling the product. These are the elements that you need to be able to scale.

I'll talk about the process of scaling from the perspective of my business and I hope it will be helpful for you in some aspects!

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In this video, I want to share with you mindsets that appear to me to be crucial while scaling your business.

The right mindset is the key to success while achieving your goals. So when your mindset changes, there is a good chance that everything on the outside will change along with it, including you yourself, your decisions, actions, and consequently, business results.

I will talk about the past mindsets that were blocking me from development. The first was not having enough pain and stress in life that I regarded as normal and the second was not seeing enough pleasure in this process. Understanding this can probably help you to motivate yourself.

I hope that this lifehack I share from my own experience will help you to achieve the goals you set for yourself and your business.

It can also help you to become aware of certain beliefs that might be stuck in your head that may be causing some problems and push you to rethink them, so the mindset that you develop will serve you and make your life better.

🙋‍♂️ Work with us and drop your phone number on our website www.tribalmastermind.com and our team will get in touch.

👀 You have any questions? Say hi here: [email protected]

👤 Want To Connect? Join our group on Facebook ➡

https://www.facebook.com/groups/61988...

🌎 Link to my personal Facebook www.facebook.com/dbhmatt