Nine-Five Podcast

#0078 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1.  Benefits of making podcasting a part of your strategy in 2022.
2. Reasons you should be guest podcasting (even if you're a podcast host), and how it will help you grow your brand and business.
3. A new LIMITED opportunity to get your podcast launched in 4-weeks in 2022.

It's no lie that I've fallen in love with podcasting. From being an avid podcast listener, to launching my own show back in 2020, the entire medium has completely changed my life and the direction I want to take my business.

Regardless if you are coming at podcasting from the side of a podcast host or you'd prefer to come in as a podcast guest, podcasting CAN help gain more exposure for your business or brand and help you build better connections with you audience and other experts in your industry.

If you want to start you own podcast in 2022: Book a Call with Nick

To get the links and resources discussed in this episode, head over to the Episode 78 Show Notes.

If you enjoyed the episode, be sure to leave a review of the Nine-Five Podcast on Apple Podcasts.

#0077 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1.  How to launch and start building traction in the peer to peer and economy sharing space
2. The importance of not getting hung up on the tiny details - focusing on the big picture and getting feedback early
3. How vital it is to have boots on the ground and build a brand around your peer to peer business

Hannah Pobar went from renting out rooms in her own apartment to content creators (and making thousands of dollars), to building a business that allows others to do the same with her business, Home Studio List.

In the episode, Hannah breaks down how she was able to build and grow her business, and give us the secrets to how she was able to build traction in this tricky peer to peer / sharing economy space.

To get the links and resources discussed in this episode, head over to the Episode 77 Show Notes.

If you enjoyed the episode, be sure to leave a review of the Nine-Five Podcast on Apple Podcasts.

#0076 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1.  Finding the right people to talk to when conducting marketing research (even if you don't have an audience yet).
2. Why asking the wrong questions is wasting you and your audience's time.
3. How to start asking the right questions that will actually benefit your business.

With a master's degree and having spent much of her 9-5 work in the field, Annie Singer is an all-around expert in all things marketing research.

After spending several years in the corporate world, Annie decided it was time to take her own leap into online business, develop something of her own, and solve a problem tied to a passion of hers.

In order to find the right solution, discover and build relationships with her audience, and finally launch the business, marketing research played a large role in Annie's strategy. Today, Annie is here to share her wealth of knowledge on the topic, and help you stop wasting time, and start asking the right questions so you can build and grow your business.

To get the links and resources discussed in this episode, head over to the Episode 76 Show Notes.

If you enjoyed the episode, be sure to leave a review of the Nine-Five Podcast on Apple Podcasts.

#0075 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1.  Is now still a good time to get started with investment real estate?
2.  What is House Hacking and why it might be the most affordable (and realistic) way to get started 
3.  3 Factors for determining where to buy your first investment rental property 

Real estate investing can be intimidating. Especially when you feel like you know nothing about it.

So joining me on the show today is Michael Dominguez, who's here to share what he's learned over the past decade about real estate investing, the very thing that allowed him to become an "Armchair Real Estate Millionaire."

To get the links and resources discussed in this episode, head over to the Episode 75 Show Notes.

If you enjoyed the episode, be sure to leave a review of the Nine-Five Podcast on Apple Podcasts.

#0074 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. Why high-ticket masterminds are so much better than running an online course
2. How to come with the idea for your own mastermind
3. What kind of content should you be creating for your mastermind

Wouldn't it be nice to sell tickets to your group coaching program north of $5k-$10k!? In today's episode, Chris Williams of Group Coach Nation is spilling the secrets to doing this.

Chris and his company help people just like you find what they are an expert in and develop their own high-ticket mastermind programs. If you're ready to stop selling $40 courses or eguides on Gumroad, and ready to dive into the world of high-ticket group coaching, you're going to want to tune into this episode.

To get the links and resources discussed in this episode, head over to the Episode 74 Show Notes.

If you enjoyed the episode, be sure to leave a review of the Nine-Five Podcast on Apple Podcasts.

#0073 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. How to optimize your website for conversions and improve the user experience (UX)
2. 3 Reasons why people might be leaving your site
3. 3 Magic questions to ask yourself when putting your webpages together that will help keep them on your site

Today we are sitting down with Joey Donovan Guido of CuppaSEO. Joey has been in the web design space for many years, and helps clients not only gain more website traffic, but also converting that traffic into customers.

You'll want to take notes in this episode because Joey is going to uncover why you may not be keeping your website visitors and converting them into customers, and what you can do to change that.

And if you're not a big note-taker, don't worry. Click the link below to visit the show notes page.

To get the links and resources discussed in this episode, head over to the Episode 73 Show Notes.

If you enjoyed the episode, be sure to leave a review of the Nine-Five Podcast on Apple Podcasts.

#0072 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. Why your business will suck if you don't find a way to make it fun.
2. What is *Purposeful Collision* and how can it help build the future you WANT for your business.
3. Why you need to unlearn 90% of what you already know to be successful in your business.

Today's guest, Dr. Travis Fox has quite the resume under his belt. From actor to director, motivational speak to professional golf coach, Dr. Fox as accomplished a lot. His most recent success coming from his mobile app (which is so much more than just an app), The Ultimate Business Quest.

One of the biggest takeaways from all the success: keeping it fun and making the act of growing our businesses an adventure.

Throughout the interview we'll be talking with Dr. Travis Fox about how our current mindset with this extreme "hustle" mentality is sending us down a path to burn out and hating what we do.

So sit back, tune in, and let's go on an adventure together.

To get the links and resources discussed in this episode, head over to the Episode 72 Show Notes.

If you enjoyed the episode, be sure to leave a review of the Nine-Five Podcast on Apple Podcasts.

#0071 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. What is the ARC Method and how can it help TRANSFORM your mindset.
2. Learn how to better understand your own thinking process.
3. The power of taking a step back and slowing down.

Joining me today on the podcast is Ken Attard of Mindset Malta. Ken works with entrepreneurs to help them shift their mindset towards abundance, lead highly successful businesses, and save more time in the process.

Throughout the interview, we dive into our own minds and figure out what makes us think the way we do, and how we can transform our mindset into something that benefits us and our businesses as opposed to working against us.

To get the links and resources discussed in this episode, head over to the Episode 71 Show Notes.

If you enjoyed the episode, be sure to leave a review of the Nine-Five Podcast on Apple Podcasts.

#0070 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. Why we are de-valuing ourselves in our businesses, and shifting that mindset to make more money in our business
2. The biggest financial mistake you're likely making in your business
3. The Importance of cash reserves (or an emergency fund) for your business

Managing our business financials can become stressful, very quickly. In the episode we are talking with Dorothy Kolb of DKEast, who helps small to medium sized business devise a financial strategy to ultimately help their business grow.


To get the links and resources discussed in this episode, head over to the Episode 70 Show Notes.

If you enjoyed the episode, be sure to leave a review of the Nine-Five Podcast on Apple Podcasts.

#0069 Let's debunk a few podcasting myths real quick...

Myth #1: Sponsorships are the holy grail of monetizing a podcast.

FALSE.

Myth #2: You need a large audience to monetize your podcast.

FALSE

In this interview with Melissa Guller, we are talking about both growing a podcast audience and monetizing your podcast. Believe it or not, you don't need a large audience to make money from your podcast AND sponsorships aren't going to make you rich and quit your day job.

Melissa is a podcaster and course creator (helping others start and grow their own podcasts) with her business Wit & Wire and today she's here to help debunk a few of these podcasting myths and tell us what we ACTUALLY should be doing to grow and monetize our shows.

Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. What is the difference between an owned audience and an earned audience - and what you should be most focused on to grow you podcast.
2. Ways to actually grow your show - and a few platforms to help you with that.
3. How to start monetizing your podcast when you don't already get thousands of downloads per episode each month.

To get the links and resources discussed in this episode, head over to the Episode 69 Show Notes.

If you enjoyed the episode, be sure to leave a review of the Nine-Five Podcast on Apple Podcasts.