Is SEO right for you? Should you be using search-engine optimization to get customers to find you? It is the fabled beast of all marketing where you have created your website, worked to become the top result in Google and then floods of customers turn up at your inbox or on your phone and you don't have to do anything else. Is it actually real? How much effort does it take? Can you actually become the number one result on Google for the keywords you want to? In this episode, Alan interviews a search engine optimization expert, Farzad Rashidi to learn whether it's possible for mere mortals like us to get to the top of the google rankings!

Shuold you go networking? Should you join BNI? What do you offer when you get there? How do you find new clients? Join Christina Russo of Fresh Print Media and Alan as they talk about networking, defining your sales offer and having the energy of starting a new year every single month. This episode is designed to get you thinking, inspired and start you selling again!

Guerilla marketing is an advertisement strategy in which a company uses surprise or unconventional interactions in order to promote a product or service. In this episode, Alan talks to Larry and Jon from the Handyman Pro podcast about different ways to promote your business, find customers, and stand out from the competition. Join us for an episode jam-packed with marketing tips and techniques.

This is the point where we all get nervous. You have had a good chat, you've made friends, and it looks like they are interested in what you have got to sell! YAY. But how do you close it? How do you go from comfortable chat to final sale and getting the cash? In this episode learn different closing teqniques that you can use to close more sales and increase revewnue alongside Christina from Fresh Print Media! Let's get closing and sell sell sell!

The perennial problem for small businesses is finding customers. How do you get people interested in your art, product, or service?

As entrepreneurs we are always on the lookout for the latest and greatest way to get customers but should we focus on doing the basics of marketing well? Alan coaches Neft, an art business owner in Mexico, on how to find customers online.

Sometimes you need to stop and take stock of where you are with your business. After 29 episodes of working with Christina on Fresh Print Media we stop and take stock on the journey, are we where we want to be with the website? How is the sales process going? Are the contracts working?

Join Christina and Alan and review your business alongside them to work out where you need to focus next!

How do you build a national conference from scratch?

Meet Diania Merriam, who decided to build EconoMe, a national conference in the USA about Financial Independence. She shares the ups and downs, the mistakes, and the successes with the aim of helping you grow your business to the next level.

Check out the EconoMe Conference.

The size of your outreach determines the size of your results.

Are you making sales call? Sending sales emails? Going networking? Chasing down leads?

If you are selling, marketing, and promoting the sales won't come in!

Join Alan and Christina as they talk through the sales activity that Christina is doing and surprise news from the sales coal face at the beginning of the episode!

When one door closes another one tends to pop open (if you are pushing out there into the universe!)

In this episode, you will get to meet Doug and Carl, the hosts of the Mile High FI podcast network and the new home of the Rebel Entrepreneur.

Join us as we discuss the future of the podcast, why we are teaming up, and hopefully a few ideas, nuggets, and tips for you as you grow your business.