Run With It

Nuggets:

• Content is king, and with all of the data and information available, you need a diverse team to create the best content. 
• Crowdsourcing of content creation could reduce creation time by 70%.
• Getting media exposure for your project depends on being relevant to current events.
• Be a problem solver. Most freelancers follow directions very well, but they are not problem solvers. Problem solvers are a rarity. 

Action Steps:

1. Brainstorm how the workflow is going to go from the writer’s perspective and from the company's perspective.
2. Determine how the writers will be compensated.
3. Submit a request for a document to be created in Google docs.
4. Observe the workflow of the Google doc writers and document it. 
5. Pitch the “crowdsourcing” of content idea to companies that need content produced.
6. Use the “crowdsourcing” workflow to create the content needed by companies that you pitched the idea to.

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:

Mike’s Website

Mike’s LinkedIn page

Mike’s Upwork Page

Freelancer Master Class

Mike Volkin is a serial entrepreneur, public speaker, Army veteran, and author of 5 books (one bestseller). He has built and sold 4 companies. As the lead instructor of Freelancer Masterclass, he helps freelancers earn more money and get more freedom.  Mr. Volkin has a tremendous track record of driving company growth and has consulted with over 400 companies.

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Nuggets:

• Ask yourself, what is the very thing that has you interested in this conversation, and chances are that, if you classify it as mental health or not, that “thing” is giving you enough to want to participate
• Corporations are investing more money into wellness and these types of programs than they ever have
• Ask yourself, “What are my distinct natural assets (what is in my DNA)?”

Action Steps:

1. Consider your natural assets and brainstorm what you can with them
2. Create a training program, based on these natural assets that can be pitched to progressive corporations or to host a virtual summit (start small with room to grow)
3. Use social media to pitch your idea to determine its viability
4. Contact experts on the chosen subject to fill your virtual summit
5. Record the lectures for future use to package into sellable products

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:

Jules’ personal website

Jules' articles for Forbes

Unconventional Life Podcast

Jules Schroeder Music

Ranked by Inc. Magazine as #1 of the “Top 27 Female Entrepreneurs Changing the World in 2017” and one of the “Top 40 Millennials To Follow in 2018″, Jules Schroeder is a musician and visionary on a mission to inspire people to create a life by their own design. With this vision, Jules created Unconventional Life, a Forbes column and top-ranked podcast for entrepreneurs that features the stories of millennials living from this new paradigm. Unconventional Life has reached millions of people from over seventy-five different countries and has become a global community of like-minded entrepreneurs, influencers, creatives, and thought leaders. Jules herself has always been multi-passionate as an avid cross fitter, yoga teacher, musician and singer, writer, avid traveler and overall life enthusiast.

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Nuggets:

• Learn to think about the wide variety of types of capital.
• Learn the business side of a project that supports creativity.
• Learn about some interesting music and comedy projects.

Action Steps:

1. Talk to local venues and musicians to better understand how open mics work and what problems you can solve.
2. Learn something from existing venues that are streaming entertainment
3. Get a national competition together among different bars that already stream their live acts
4. Partner with a Restauranteur or a local bar that has a good reputation and good acts.
5. Figure out a budget for one production. Talk to an AV expert. (Max will probably be 10-20K rental costs)
6. Find a location, create a budget, plan construction, manage costs, do revenue projections
7. Have an open call open mic every Monday and Tuesday night and create a tournament with a championship once or twice a year.
8. Gather people who have a buzz about them in NYC as Open Mic participants.
9. Explore the revenue stream of broadcasting to Youtube.
10. Try to connect with Spotify, Redbull or another brand that is already promoting up and coming artists.
11. Reach out to potential Partners, like bloggers or A&R reps who look for the next big artist. Maybe even have them pay to be involved
12. Reach out to big-name artists and local artists to practice pitch and get people on board.
13. Invite bigger artists to join randomly and draw a larger audience.
14. Reach out to Arthur to get involved in any way, even if you want to be a host for the events

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:

Pete’s Candy Store: https://www.petescandystore.com/

Jalopy Theater: http://jalopytheatre.org/

The Creek and the Cave (Founder, Rebecca Trent): http://creeklic.com/

Impresario: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impresario

Empresario: https://www.google.com/search?q=empresario+en+ingles

Live Stream Karaoke New Orleans: http://catskaraoke.com/live-stream-2/

Mumford and Sons Outside of a Pizza Shop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0BoSQbk8pg

The Acoustic Open Mic Bridgeport CT: http://www.theacoustic.rocks/

Spotify: https://www.spotify.com/

Redbull: https://www.redbull.com/

Comrad: https://soundcloud.com/comrad-3/toptracks

Arthur Revechkis worked in data modeling for many years. After that, he was a partner in a chain of dental practices which he ran for 10 years and then sold his share of. Since then he’s invested in real estate, fast food restaurants, and is now writing and recording music and hopefully going on tour in the near future.

Listen to Run With It Anywhere:

https://www.runwithit.fm/subscribe

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Nuggets:

• Balancing 2-sided marketplaces is tricky - better to stick with roughly even instead of trying to match podcasters with dramatically different audience numbers
• The criterion that determines when you should build a business around a 2-sided market

Action Steps:

1. Contact up-and-coming podcasters and offer this matching service
2. Contact podcast hosting companies and sell them on building this service for their customers

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:

Sales for Founders

Gymhopper

PostPerk

FiveMinuteFounder.com

RedCircle

Piano World

Pod Hunt

Kickstarter for Podcasts with Mubashar Iqbal

Louis Nicholls is a self-taught developer, recently escaped from the crazy world of VC-backed startups. Through his Sales for Founders course and podcast he helps (technical) founders learn how to do sales, find their first customers and build a product people want to pay them for. He previously co-founded a B2B SaaS company, Gymhopper, which was acquired in 2018 and PostPerk, another B2B consumer company. He maintains a weekly actionable advice email for founders which you can subscribe to at FiveMinuteFounder.com

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Nuggets:

• Learn how, as an employee, to practice “smart planning” by building relationships with the leaders of your company.
• Learn how and why someone working in the mailroom in a company can make a direct connection with the CEO?
• Learn about the power of sharing your goals and aspirations with lots of people. 

Action Steps:

1. Contact CEOs that might be on board with this project that are givers.
2. Explain Gary’s idea and get them to make a commitment
3. Get in touch with folks in the urban community that are givers and get them committed to the project.
4. As an example, you could go into a community, gathering just 5 to 10 of the right community members that would be committed workers. Organize an event where they can meet with powerful CEOs.
5. This is a great opportunity for younger kids, aged 16-18, coming from rough urban communities to spearhead a project and connect with important people.
6. As an intrapreneur, introduce this project to your company as a way to create a structured onboarding system, something many companies are great need of.
7. Look into creating a "seal" for a special type of corp or business that would use Gary’s system. Study how things work with B corps. What can be applied to this idea?
8. Do a pilot of Gary’s project, starting with just 300-400 kids.
9. By your 3rd year, extend the project to 1000 kids.

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://www.ditchdiggerceo.com/

https://www.rabine.com/

As a senior in high school, Gary Rabine dreamt of starting a landscaping and paving business while his friends were making college plans. He believed he had gained enough experience laboring in his dad's small business that he could do it. Surrounded by college-bound friends one day in a high school cafeteria, one of them asked his college plans and he replied that he'd like to save his money and start a business. A smart-alec friend eagerly termed him a "Ditch-Digger", loudly laughing “Gary's going to be a Ditch Digger”. Motivated by this memory and a desire to walk his own path, 37 years later, Gary Rabine has grown Rabine Paving and many other businesses which are now the Rabine Group of Companies. He co-hosts the Ditch Digger CEO Podcast about stories like his: From "ditch-digger" to the founder/CEO of a national facilities services empire.

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Nuggets:

• How a labor-intensive business can scale while providing a moat in the interim
• On a social media consultant “not really knowing your business”: business owners don’t always know what resonates best with their customers
• Whitney believes the shotgun approach is better than the “epic content” approach - again, you often can’t predict what will resonate with your tribe
• How and when to offer your services for free

Action Steps:

1. Go after streaky prospects - people who’ve used social media with some success in the past but haven’t been consistent
2. Run Facebook Ads to people who follow Gary V, Mel Robbins, Jasmine Star, etc… and presell this service

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 Money Nerds Podcast

ClickMinded

Design Pickle

Temi (transcription service)

Whitney Hansen is a personal finance coach and entrepreneur, founder of themoneynerds.com and host of the money nerds podcast. She teaches overwhelmed millennials how to pay off debt and be financially independent by giving them the tools to have more fun with money and sprinkling in a little silliness. Some of her accomplishments include paying off $30,000 dollars debt in 10 months, buying her first home at 19, and paying only $472 for her master’s degree.

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Nuggets:

• Learn how businesses like Jeff’s thrive despite living in a very competitive market.
• Discover the power of pricing at the high end.
• Find out how creating a product with marketing in mind can literally change our values and habits.

Action Steps:

1. If you have the chops, brainstorm how to implement some of the functionality discussed in this episode.
2. Go to the places where the ideal clients for this product might be, like a gym, and investigate what people would want to get out of a $150 water bottle.
3. Try a second and third demographic for the product to get feedback from potential clients. Some example locations/events to visit might be a winery, or a gala event where you can find wealthy people. Alternatively talk to people, who for medical reasons, really need to focus on their water intake.
4. Don't focus on folks who are not already actively willing to or interested in paying for products like this. Discover who would be your early adopters.

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:

DollarSprout

Jeff Proctor graduated from Virginia tech in 2013 with a BS in biochemistry, but he's always been a bit of a money nerd. After working one on one with clients for nearly three years in private wealth management Jeff launched DollarSprout with his business partner and longtime friend Ben Huber. A few stumbles and lots of lessons learned along the way, and he and Ben have created one of the fastest-growing personal finance blogs on the internet. Outside of work, Jeff is an avid golfer—avid, not necessarily good—and he enjoys spending time with his fiance, Paige and his two dogs, Annie and Max.

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Nuggets:

• If you’re not a developer, you can build the MVP without writing code using tools such as Makerpad
• If you’re a developer, you can build an MVP for this idea in a weekend!
• If you’re a non-technical founder searching for a co-founder, outline the value you’ll be providing the team when pitching technical folks to join

Action Steps:

1. Build an MVP of this service (use “no code” tools or search for a cofounder if you’re not a developer)
2. Brainstorm affiliate marketing opportunities and incorporate affiliate links in initial version

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:

Pod Hunt

Makerpad.co

Indie Hackers

Mubashar Iqbal (Mubs) loves making things and has been since he was 8 years old. He’s made so many things the he was selected as ProductHunt's maker of the year for 2016, runner up in 2015 and 2017. Recently he's been trying to help others make more. He's also the founder of Pod Hunt, a daily curation of the best new podcasts.

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Nuggets:

• Learn why now is a great time to find a great domain for a new project.
• Find out how to start from a very simple mockup, validate an idea and grow it through iteration.

Action Steps:

1. Do some market research on power users for domain names, i.e. people who spend a lot of time searching for and creating them. Can you attract enough that would pay a decent amount for a service like this? Find out if you can sustain a business based on power users paying for this.
2. Research business models to find out what would work best. For example, affiliate programs, advertising or charging users at different tiers.
3. Research registrars that you might connect with through an API to validate availability. Find out which registar(s) could be the right one(s) to connect your users to register with.
4. Research the technical challenges of matching against all existing registered domains and storing and accessing the data on which domain name inquiries would be based.
5. Keep in mind there may be "non-technical" ways to get this started. Don't assume you need to have advanced computer science skills.
6. Validate with a landing page builder. But include a really rough version of it that people can play with. For example, generate four input boxes that accept nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. Spins them all together and gives users a huge list that gives them an idea of what could inspire them.
7. Use this foundation, plus take advantage of tremendous capacity for constant evolution based on user suggestions and your observations to slowly iterate and improve. 

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://garrettdimon.com/

https://sifterapp.com/

Garrett Dimon is a software developer, entrepreneur and development consultant. In 2008, he created Sifter, a hosted bug and issue tracking application built with Ruby on Rails. In July 2010, he began working on Sifter full-time. In March of 2016, he sold Sifter to focus on recovering from medical issues that ultimately led to a left below-knee amputation. In 2013, he wrote the first edition of Starting & Sustaining, a book that addresses the logistics and lessons learned of starting and successfully running a hosted web application as a solo founder bootstrapping.

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Nuggets:

• Don’t try to compete with the hundreds of startups working on the same problems for the same industries - do something different
• How to answer the objection “you don’t understand my industry so you can’t build software for it” by turning it into a strength
• Leverage your outsider status to build better software by asking childlike questions
• You don’t need to love the industry to be passionate about your work (e.g. empowering entrepreneurs to succeed)
• Be “as close to the money as possible” when developing enterprise solutions (help add customers or keep them longer)
• Enterprise managers are typically risk-averse - understand their motivations and reduce the risk of your solution as much as possible to close the sale
• Asking for money often surfaces the real pain points - do it before building the solution
• Don’t waste time trying to convince people who aren’t early adopters
• You don’t need to be a coder in order to follow this process
• Sometimes when your customers call to complain, all they’re looking for is to be heard
• Businesses like these are great to start during recessions - there’s more talent available and companies are looking for ways to reduce costs and increase revenue

Action Steps:

1. Brainstorm a “first connection” - a corporate employee you’re connected with that can give you a baseline understanding of the problems in that industry and some credibility when calling others
2. Talk with a minimum of 10 people in a particular industry and identify a theme around the main problems and opportunities in that industry
3. Pre-sell your solution to ensure it’s a real pain that’s worth developing software for
4. Develop an MVP yourself or hire someone else to do so
5. Get feedback from early customers and iterate

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:

Y Combinator Request for Startups
Grasshopper

Chargify

David’s Website

Unstoppable: 4 Steps to Transform Your Life

David founded Grasshopper, which was bootstrapped over $30 million in annual recurring revenue and acquired by Citrix for $170 million in 2015. He also founded Chargify, which for over 10 years has enabled thousands of businesses to manage their recurring revenue life cycle. Mark Cuban was an investor and it was acquired by Scaleworks in 2016. He's built, sold and invested in a number of different companies throughout his life since high school. His most recent project is a book called Unstoppable: 4 Steps to Transform Your Life.

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