Productive Insights Podcast: Business Growth for Independent Professionals with Ash Roy

Online Presence, Key Trends In Content Marketing And What This Means For You — With Yaro Starak

Yayo Starak is the founder of entrepreneurs-journey.com, Which he established back in 2005 and he's also the author of Blog Profits Blueprint. Yaro began blogging as a hobby, and he's been doing it professionally since his monthly income exceeded $10,000 a month. He's mentored thousands of other experts, authors, coaches, consultants, speakers and trainers on how to turn their expertise into profitable online business and today, Yaro helps people set up their blog sales funnel; a system that combines blogging with email marketing to build a platform to sell your digital training products.

 

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* http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/

Books Mentioned:

* The 7 Day Startup: You Don't Learn Until You Launch

* The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less

* Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

* The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

* The Richest Man in Babylon

Key points (with timestamps)

* 2:55 - An overview of Yaro’s blogging journey

* 10:22 - Yaro’s story on podcasting

* 17:06 - Why online presence is so important to entrepreneurs

* 17:24 - “The blog itself is a platform.”

* 19:06 - On having an email list

* 20:05 - How does blogging help businesses get to the next level?

* 20:49 - Using content to deliver information and to establish trust

* 22:38 - On personal branding

* 25:44 - Two types of marketing

* 26:33 - Will the big brand start to go micro?

How To Use High Leverage Activities To Prioritize Your To-Do List

 

 

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Key points in tutorial (including time stamps)

* 2:20 - Brief preview of the topics to be discussed

* 2:35 - Why focus on highest leverage activities in your To-do list?

* 3:57 - What are high leverage activities?

* 4:48 - Examples of high leverage activities

* 5:12 - Key obstacles in identifying high-leverage activities and overcoming those obstacles

* 6:04 - Action steps you can take right away!

Olympian, Jon Edwards, on The 3 Secrets To High Performance - Part 2

Jon Edwards is an Olympian, a business owner, a blogger, a husband and a dad to two beautiful children. Jon has been on ESPN Sports Illustrated details magazine CBS and NBC and today he's going to talk to us about how you can take the techniques Olympians use to make your life and your business better to increase your productivity and dramatically improve your performance.

 

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* http://thebusinesscalledyou.com/

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* Faster, Higher, Stronger: How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes--And What We Can Learn from Them by Mark McClusky

* Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

* The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

* Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition

Key points (with timestamps)

* 2:10 - How technology affects children today

* 4:45 - What is high-performance and why it is important in business

* 5:59 - Industrial incest

* 10:18 - On David Allen's Getting Things Done Approach

* 10:50 - How to master the art of Idea capture

* 14:25 - How high-performance practices can translate into high profit

* 15:29 - How to create a reserve of resources to pursue additional opportunities

* 18:41 - Entrepreneurship - one of the four factors (economic) of production (the others being land, labor and capital)

* 22:13 - The world of work is about to change ... FAST! So buckle up!

* 27:45- “You don’t have to be the expert. You just have to be their expert.”

* 29:03 - How to overcome the fear of being accused of plagiarism and just get started with content creation

Olympian, Jon Edwards, on the 3 Secrets To High Performance - Part 1

Jon Edwards is an Olympian, a business owner, a blogger, a husband and a dad to two beautiful children. Jon has been on ESPN Sports Illustrated details magazine CBS and NBC and today he's going to talk to us about how you can take the techniques Olympians use to make your life and your business better to increase your productivity and dramatically improve your performance.

 

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 Resources Mentioned:

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* http://jonedwards.rocks

* http://thebusinesscalledyou.com/

Books Mentioned:

* Faster, Higher, Stronger: How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes--And What We Can Learn from Them by Mark McClusky

* Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

* The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

* Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition

Key points (with timestamps)

* 2:25 - Brief overview of Jon’s journey as Olympian and Entrepreneur

* 8:52 - Three key abilities

* 10:35 - The fourth key

* 11:35 - How physical capabilities apply to an online business environment

* 16:00 - Jon’s story about Dvorjak keyboard

* 19:23 - A story about learning new skills

* 24:10 - Jon’s take on the importance of sleep

* 26:53 - Managing activities and resources, and staying focused

* 32:20 - The importance of feedback

* 40:50 - Lifestyle Creep

* 41:58 - Talking about high-performance

* 44:15 - “The majority of the workforce is operating in a fatigue state.”