Run With It

Nuggets:

• The best things in life come on the other side of fear (Will Smith speech)
• It’s incredibly difficult for business owners to be competent at their core skill AND marketing, delivery, etc…think of ideas that allow business owners to focus on their core skills
• Don’t underestimate the power of checklists as a foundation for a business or application
• Business Plans are hard to pivot away from, write out a vision document instead.

Action Steps:

1. Talk with local business owners about this idea. Start with a geofenced location and businesses you know or spend time in normally.
2. Presell business owners $99 for lifetime access.
3. Find a technical co-founder.
4. Brainstorm a business plan: put every thought you have on paper then come back a few days later to organize it.
5. Local marketing: join local business and community groups. Throw flyers in the local stores. Use local mailers with an odd shaped piece of mail. Facebook marketing. Needls.

Follow through on these action steps and email us your results at [email protected]. You'll get exclusive access to a private Facebook group of action takers and one listener will earn a free mentorship call with our guest, and potentially, a business partnership.

Links:

• Needls Media
• Justin’s LinkedIn
• [email protected]
• allrecipes.com

Justin has always had an entrepreneurial mindset. When he was ten years old, he worked at an outdoor lifestyle store that his grandparents owned in the small city outside of Kingston, Ontario. While working at the store, he made it his mission to sell as many backpacks as possible. He found it thrilling to identify a person’s needs and find the perfect solution for them even at that young of an age. Justin is an internet visionary that has pioneered markets, he has more than 18 years of startup and exit experience. Previously, he founded the first brokerage for online businesses. During that time Justin brokered $100 million in transactions to Fortune 1000 companies, PE firms, family offices and venture funds. 

His plethora of experience making visions turn to reality makes him a known and respected player in the industry. There’s nothing he loves more than fixing problems. Justin sees himself as more of a leader and a mentor rather than a boss, he creates teams of meticulously picked industry specialists to help achieve his goals. 

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Nuggets:

• Once you have ideas take action, always push the train forward

Action Steps:

1. Contact friends who might be interested in having some videos edited
2. Contact wedding or event videographers and hire them to do the editing
3. Consider/test pricing strategies
   1. offer free or $99 for a 60 second video teaser
   2. upsell to a $300-$500 3-5 minute video
   3. offer a rebate of $100-$200 for sharing on social with a link to your service
   4. find more partners and offer a subscription service to fans
   5. offer a number of credits per month that could be used for various concerts
4. Create a video editing course and have students edit videos for free that are shared socially to build your audience
5. Find an event or a venue that might be good for videos
   1. if enough fans buy in, then produce the first event (keep a production budget of under $10K)
   2. ask the venue to keep your equipment installed and sign them on as a partner

Follow through on these action steps and email us your results at [email protected]. You'll get exclusive access to a private Facebook group of action takers and one listener will earn a free mentorship call with our guest, and potentially, a business partnership.

Links:

• The Travel Secret (David’s company)
• Acadium (useful for finding digital marketing apprentices)

David Adler, Founder and CEO of The Travel Secret. David is a seasoned entrepreneur who has had extensive experience in travel, e-commerce, telecom, hospitality, and international business.

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Nuggets:

• The value of the product goes beyond its functionality; for two equal quality products, the one that makes consumers feel better about themselves will win
• The snob effect is a documented phenomenon wherein a higher price point can actually increase the demand for a product or service.
• During a tumultuous time people who want to be perceived as doing okay may be a market for your products
• Some Craft Distillers are making bank by producing hand sanitizer instead of spirits
• Networking to develop one business can lead to other opportunities

Action Steps:

1. Build a list of distillers who are currently making hand sanitizer.
2. Contact your list and see who would list a product online and allocate stock to you.
3. Act as an affiliate and drop ship the product.
4. Hire a designer on Fiverr to create branded mockups for post-pandemic sanitizer packaging and marketing so you can help distilleries make this work.
5. Market through the existing channels of the distilleries, through bars and restaurants.
6. You might donate a portion of your proceeds to support a relevant cause.

Follow through on these action steps and email us your results at [email protected]. You'll get exclusive access to a private Facebook group of action takers and one listener will earn a free mentorship call with our guest, and potentially, a business partnership.

Links:

• https://jimsesh.com/

Australian Podcast Awards Finalist, Economist and Accidental Festival Owner, James Henderson develops audio brands with his businesses, Aych Media and CBD Entertainment in the Media and Music industries, respectively. His holding company commits to a broad philosophy to 'elevate universal consciousness'.

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For this event, 8 incredible entrepreneur guests paired up pseudo-randomly and all start from scratch sharing only their mindsets and experiences to co-create some innovative and unshakable project ideas that could beat a recession. We proudly raised over $400 on behalf of the WHO COVID-19 Response Fund in presenting this event.

• This session features Anthony Sarandrea, Josh Elizetxe, and Anthony Mink

Anthony Sarandrea

Anthony is recognized as one of the top customer generators in the world, specializing in the financial services space, running a team that drives over 1 million customers each year.

Anthony is recognized as one of the top lead generators in the world, running a team that specializes in driving thousands of inbound phone calls daily across a number of verticals including health, finance, legal, and education.
He is consistently featured as one of the top “under 30 year old” entrepreneurs and was featured along side Snapchat’s founder Evan Spiegel as one of the “Entrepreneurs that are changing the world”.

Josh Elizetxe 

Josh Elizetxe is the founder of Snow and an Internet advertising veteran and successful serial entrepreneur. Last year, over 100,000,000 people interacted with websites and brands owned by Josh’s parent company. He serves on the board of the Phoenix Coding Academy and the Fleischer Scholars Program. Josh is a sought-after company advisor and Angel Investor in the software (SaaS), e-commerce, and advertising technology industries. With an uncanny focus on data-driven strategy, his work has resulted in over $1 Billion in proven enterprise value tracked since 2009.

Anthony Mink (Mink)

Anthony the co-founder of Live Bearded. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, hunting and fishing is a way of life and growing a beard is the rule, not the exception. Anthony comes from a long line of beardsmen including his father who has lived bearded for over 30 years!

Anthony has always had a desire to live life on his own terms, to not be confined by the system, or anyone in it so in 2011 he quit his "job" and started his own company so he could fulfill his dream of being his own boss, answering to no one, and traveling the world!
Since Anthony has built and sold 4 successful online companies and has traveled to 41 countries! With a deep passion for business, beards, and brotherhood, Livebearded.com is more than just a beard grooming company for Anthony, it’s a passion project and a way of life!

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For this event, 8 incredible entrepreneur guests paired up pseudo-randomly and all start from scratch sharing only their mindsets and experiences to co-create some innovative and unshakable project ideas that could beat a recession. We proudly raised over $400 on behalf of the WHO COVID-19 Response Fund in presenting this event.

• This session features David Denny

David Denny is the Co-founder and a Partner at Carpe Diem Developers which is a renewable energy industry leader that provides development services for commercial and utility solar PV projects nationwide. They partner with business leaders, landowners, and utilities to develop and execute profitable solar projects. With over a decade of experience in solar project development, Carpe Diem Developers has the expertise to create projects that generate long term revenue streams and reduce carbon emissions.

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For this event, 8 incredible entrepreneur guests paired up pseudo-randomly and all start from scratch sharing only their mindsets and experiences to co-create some innovative and unshakable project ideas that could beat a recession. We proudly raised over $400 on behalf of the WHO COVID-19 Response Fund in presenting this event.

• This session features Sam Davidson and Matt Verlinich

Sam Davidson is a serial entrepreneur and professional speaker who has written three books. He is currently the CEO of Batch, a gift and retail company that makes it easy for people to find or share a taste of their favorite southern city.

Matt Verlinich was the founding General Manager of TechShop Pittsburgh and a founding member of the Protohaven makerspace. He’s also the founder of Clear Ice Rocks, where he invented, prototyped, crowdfunded, and mass-produced a system for creating completely clear ice at home. Matt is now a part of the Innovation Works team, where he works with early stage hardware companies to guide them through the design and manufacturing process.

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For this event, 8 incredible entrepreneur guests paired up pseudo-randomly and all start from scratch sharing only their mindsets and experiences to co-create some innovative and unshakable project ideas that could beat a recession. We proudly raised over $400 on behalf of the WHO COVID-19 Response Fund in presenting this event.

• This session features Peter Corbett and David Kosciusko.

Peter Corbett:
As the child of a single mother with 3 kids, Peter learned to hustle at an early age to afford a better life. He bootstrapped a digital agency, grew it to 100 employees and sold it to WPP, the world's largest publicly traded ad agency holding company. He retired two years ago and since then has been training in hospice at Brooklyn hospital, working directly with people who's family members are sick or dying. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, and continues to help others in their entrepreneurial journey.

Dave Kosciusko:
Dave has a couple of cell phone repair stores in Rhode Island. They buy and sell electronics for repair and resale on eBay and he also has a digital product teaching others how to profit from reselling phones the way he does.

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Nuggets:

• Have customer discovery conversations in a casual setting to get real feedback; otherwise people will naturally try to placate your ego
• Design products (including education and workshops) such that attendees are energized at the end, not drained
• The key to sales is having a more expensive product; selling a $1,000,000 is within an order of magnitude as easy as selling a $1,000 product

Action Steps:

1. Choose a topic you are interested in and curate a lesson plan
2. Find educators who are teaching that subject and offer it to them for free
3. Watch how users respond to the plan and use that feedback to improve it
4. Fall off your bike

Follow through on these action steps and email us your results at [email protected]. You'll get exclusive access to a private Facebook group of action takers and one listener will earn a free mentorship call with our guest, and potentially, a business partnership.

Links:

• @robfitz on Twitter
• The Workshop Survival Guide
• The Mom Test
• Union Square Ventures Looking for Syllabus 2.0
• Y Combinator

Rob Fitzpatrick is an entrepreneur of 13 years (his first business was funded, the rest have been bootstrapped). He's the author of The Mom Test, a book about how to talk to customers and figure out if your business is a good idea. He went through YCombinator in 2007. He describes himself as a techie who eventually learned sales. He currently lives in Barcelona, Spain.

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Nuggets:

• Successful businesses are started by people just like you; they go home and watch Netflix with their significant other, etc... 

Action Steps:

1. Investigate current revenue split for concert venues  
2. Search for the managers/decision-makers of concerts at large venues  
3. Contact them via a cold call, email, or LinkedIn message  
4. Offer to run a trial event which you can help them presell a live stream of their upcoming concert  
5. If enough fans buy in, then produce the first event (keep a production budget of under $10K)  
6. Ask the venue to keep your equipment installed and sign them on as a partner  
7. Find more partners and offer a subscription service to fans  
8. You could offer a number of credits per month that could be used for various concerts  

Follow through on these action steps and email us your results at [email protected]. You'll get exclusive access to a private Facebook group of action takers and one listener will earn a free mentorship call with our guest, and potentially, a business partnership.  

Links:  

• CROSSNET  
• 1,000 True Fans  
• Twitch  
• Music Hall of Williamsburg  
• Terminal 5  

Chris Meade is the co-founder of CROSSNET, the world's first four-way volleyball game. CROSSNET combines elements of the childhood game four square and volleyball in a competitive game to 11, win by 2. CROSSNET is now available at Walmart, Target, DICKS, Academy Sports, Amazon, and 20+ other retailers.

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Nuggets:

• Non-linear thinking is critical to entrepreneurship; the path is rarely carved out for you so you need to make connections yourself.
• Successful entrepreneurs are looking for people to mentor and receive help from; if you take a little bit of action, you can stand out from the crowd.

Action Steps:

1. If you’re a medical professionals, web developers, or other entities wish to contribute to the goals of DoctorLingo reach out or submit terminology here.
2. Choose an idea from a previous episode and take one small step!

Do you enjoy this type of episode? What areas of business would you like us to focus on more? Email us at [email protected] and you may get an on-air callout!

Links:

https://getusppe.org/

DoctorLingo

White Coat Investor

Doctors Unbound

josh (at) doctorlingo.com

Josh Calvano is a third year medical student out of Rocky Vista University in Colorado. Prior to medical school he worked in IT doing end-user support, computer repair, and network administration. He is also currently a second lieutenant in the US Air Force and plans to pursue a career as an Air Force Anesthesiologist upon graduation.

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