SharkPreneur

David Finkel, Maui Mastermind

– The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 439 David Finkel

David Finkel is author of The Freedom Formula and co-author of, SCALE: 7 Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back (written with Priceline.com co-founder Jeff Hoffman), and one of the nation’s most respected business thinkers. A Wall Street Journal and Business Week bestselling author of 12 business books, David’s a regular columnist for Inc.com, FastCompany.com, and Forbes.com reaching over 1M readers each year.   

Over the past 20 years, David and the Maui coaching and advisor team have scaled and sold over $62 billion of businesses.   

Maui Mastermind helps business owners build companies they love owning again--for the value they create, the lives they touch, the profits they earn, the team they employ, and the freedom they enjoy. Their clients have enjoyed an average annual growth rate five time higher than the average privately held company, while at the same time reducing their companies’ reliance on them as the owners by an average of 191% percent.

An ex-Olympic-level athlete turned business multi-millionaire, David and his wife Heather, and their three sons live a very simple life in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Listen to this informative Sharkpreneur episode with David Finkel about thriving during times of crisis instead of merely getting through.

Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:

●    Why times of crisis provide you an opportunity to compress trial and error.

●    How you need a structured way to look at what is going on.

●    Why you need to implement scenario training to be less reactionary.

●    How you need to prepare for the worst thing that can happen.

●    Why you should spend more on strategic spending expenses now.

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Kevin Urrutia, Voy Media

– The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 438 Kevin Urrutia

Kevin Urrutia is the founder of Voy Media. He is a travel and nature enthusiast. In his spare time, you can find him hiking through Mount Fuji or booking his next adventure. 

When he's back in the concrete jungle he is hard at work driving ROI for brands through his paid advertising techniques or through the airwaves on his Digital Marketing Fastlane podcast. 

Listen to this informative Sharkpreneur episode with Kevin Urrutia about using the same blueprint to build really successful businesses.

Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:

●    Why you need to be interested in the growth and marketing of your company.

●    How content marketing and SEO is so important for growth.

●    Why creative content is still the biggest lever to help you grow on social media.

●    How providing items that people need to buy again will make you more money.

●    Why you need to ask for the order or people are not going to buy.

Connect with Kevin:

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@VoyMedia

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@voy_media

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voymedia.com

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Kim Magdalein, StickyClient.com

– The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 437 Kim Magdalein

Kim Magdalein has built two successful businesses. Kim was named one of the top five financial advisors in the US by Senior Market Advisor Magazine. He sold the practice in 2008 and continued with a company he started in 2003, Seminars For Less, an ongoing enterprise. His latest venture is Sticky Client. Kim lives in Jacksonville, Florida with his wife, Carol. Together they have seven children and eleven grandchildren. 

Listen to this informative Sharkpreneur episode with Kim Magdalein about effectively communicating through text messages with your clients.

Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:

●    How you boost the open rate by sending an email with a video.

●    Why texts are read at a much higher rate than emails.

●    How texting and email shouldn’t be used as a blasting tool for prospects.

●    Why you should use videos for training purposes.

●    Why Sticky Clients wants to be the messenger delivery service.

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@magdalein

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stickyclient.com

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Jairek Robbins,

– The Sharkpreneur podcast with Kevin Harrington and Seth Greene Episode 436 Jairek Robbins.

Jairek Robbins has been coaching business owners, teams, and individuals for over a decade to achieve world class results in work and life through his personal coaching. His coaching has helped them make more money while working less, lose weight, have more passion in their relationships, and more focus and energy than ever before.

Jairek has delivered trainings and speeches to millions of people worldwide, speaking to businesses and organizations including Ameriprise Financial, Harvard University, Tampa Bay Rays, BMW, the United States Marine Corps, and the United States Olympic Team. His number one bestselling book Live It! Received rave reviews from Deepak Chorpa and Brian Tracy, among others.

Jairek’s commitment to bettering humanity and himself began at an early age and was acknowledged with a the Gold Medal Congressional Award. He was awarded the highest honor of accomplishing over 400 hours of community service, 200 hours of personal development, 200 hours dedicated to physical fitness, and living overseas for an extended period of time volunteering all within 24-months.

Listen to this illuminating Sharkpreneur episode with Jairek Robbins about leveling up in your life and your business.

Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:

●    Why taking preventative measures to manage disaster is so important.

●    How clearing you mind every morning helps gets things accomplished.

●    Why you need to be aware of the chaos to identify dangers in your business.

●    How spending more time on building defense is more strategic than strengthening offense.

●    Why asking questions is more helpful than providing all the answers.

Connect with Jairek:

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@JairekRobbins

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@jairekrobbins

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Jairekrobbins.com/sos

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Lisa Sasevich, Queen of Sales Conversion

– The Sharkpreneur podcast with Kevin Harrington and Seth Greene Episode 435 Lisa Sasevich

Lisa Sasevich is an entrepreneur, a speaker, a philanthropist, and a devoted mother. She grew her 5-figure solo-preneurship to a multi-million-dollar company, which was recently ranked on Inc. 500 list two years in a row, landing in the Top 20 for women-owned businesses. Lisa is also known as the Queen of Sales Conversion.

Honored as the Extraordinary Entrepreneur of the Year by Women Online Magazine, recognized sales expert by Success Magazine, recipient of the coveted eWomen Network Foundation Champion award for her generous fundraising, and ranked on the prestigious Inc. 500/5000 list of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies for 2 years in a row, Lisa teaches experts who are making a difference how to get their message out and enjoy massive results, without being “salesy.”

Listen to this illuminating Sharkpreneur episode with Lisa Sasevich about her new book Meant for More: The Proven Formula to Turn Your Knowledge into Profits.

Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:

●    Why you must discover your unique value to differentiate yourself in the market.

●    How you already have a goldmine of knowledge, you just need to use it.

●    How you can help people while making money as you’re perfecting your plans.

●    Why you don’t have to have the whole story written to begin your business.

●    Why you need to make your offer to serve your customers.

Connect with Lisa:

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@LisaSasevich

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Tyler Sullivan, BombTech Golf

– The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 434 Tyler Sullivan

Tyler Sullivan is the founder of BombTech Golf, an eCommerce store with over $15 million sold online since 2012. Tyler also runs EcomGrowers where he and his team have helped countless Shopify owners add 6-7 figures in additional sales to their eCommerce stores by optimizing email systems and ad campaigns to find hidden revenue streams. Over the years Tyler has come to learn the formula for running successful and profitable eCommerce businesses. He believes that even with online companies there is huge value in having real conversations with customers and potential buyers. Tyler is hyper-focused on the customer experience and operating a lean business that doesn't just drive revenue but drives serious profit and cash flow.

Listen to this informative Sharkpreneur episode with Tyler Sullivan about growing an ecommerce business.

Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:

●    How to make ads profitable consistently on social media and not get kicked off.

●    Why you need to ask real questions to keep your customer list engaged.

●    Why you need a great email list to rely on if social media shuts your ads off.

●    Why you need to train your team, so they can run the business without you.

Connect with Tyler:

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@BombTechGolf

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@bombtechgolf

LinkedIn

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Ecomgrowers.com

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Jenny Davis, Strive Change

– The Sharkpreneur podcast with Kevin Harrington and Seth Greene Episode 433 Jenny Davis

Jenny’s personal improvement journey started when she was six after being enrolled into a judo class so she could learn to defend herself. She went on to become a black belt fighting for Scotland and GB all over the world. A few years later she swapped her baggy judo suit for lycra, a carbon fibre bike, and high speeds on the velodromes all over the world. Career highlights include winning silver at Delhi Commonwealth Games, narrowly missing out for Team GB selection for London 2012 Olympics and racing for Team Scotland in front of a home crowd at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.

During London 2012 trials Jenny was asked to present how she improved her performance to her department manager and leaders at Standard Life Plc. Having shared the principles of improvement Jenny was asked to help lead and deliver continuous improvement in the business. There a new career was born!

After many business improvement and problem solving projects, teams, training programs, and lessons learned across multiple industries, Jenny now works with business leaders and entrepreneurs to move away from firefighting and stress to calm and control and onward to World Class Customer Service and the growth and profits that come with that.

Listen to this illuminating Sharkpreneur episode with Jenny Davis about helping entrepreneurs and business leaders guide their teams through crisis and change. 

Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:

How people need to be flexible with their business models during COVID-19.

Why it’s vital to take a strategic pause to learn from the past to better the future.

How you need to fix the root cause of your problem, so it never returns.

Why you need to make sure the all the details of your business run smoothly.

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@JenDavisSprint

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strivechange.org/sharkvip

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Steve Pacinelli, BombBomb

– The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 432 Steve Pacinelli

Steve Pacinelli is BombBomb's Chief Marketing Officer. Recently, he co-authored the best-selling book to better business communication, Rehumanize Your Business. Prior to leading the charge of the "relationships through video" movement, he led a sales team winning with BombBomb. He was a Sales Manager, Vice President of Events, and the National Speaker for Realtor.com, and presented to more than 1,000 audiences along the way. These presentations focus on online marketing, video communication, lead conversion, consumer psychology, and sales automation.

Listen to this informative Sharkpreneur episode with Steve Pacinelli about using simple video messages to get more lead conversions and more sales.

Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:

●    Why a 30 second message connects with people more effectively than an email.

●    How relationship building videos are different than marketing videos.

●    Why it’s hard to get someone to watch a video when it’s delivered in an email.

●    How the BombBomb process brings in more qualified leads.

●    Why it’s easier to say no to text on a phone and harder to say no to a face.

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@bombbomb

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combbomb.com/book

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Jack Turk, WriteKillerCopyFast.com

– The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 431 Jack Turk

Jack Turk has decades of experience writing for corporations like Microsoft and Kodak, as well as a number of small businesses, including dentists, attorneys, and even magicians. Jack focused on growing his career as a writer. After graduation, he bounced around from different jobs across the country – Michigan, Texas, Boston – having a great run writing for high-tech companies. His copy has generated millions of dollars in sales, and he's now known as the world's fastest copywriter.

On his 50th birthday he quit working for Microsoft to become a magician. After discovering the power of direct response copywriting, he extended his business to help other magicians successfully sell their services. He wants to help people write faster so they can get their copy faster, so people can help their customers and make some money.

Listen to this informative Sharkpreneur episode with Jack Turk about using effective copywriting to grow a business.

Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:

●    How businesses need to identify their ideal clients and target them.

●    Why your direct mail needs to call for action and ask for the sale.

●    How your offer should be so good it makes you hurt to promote it.

●    Why you need to target a problem and solve it for your clients.

●    How the right bonus can create a bigger driver to buy than the product.

Connect with Jack:

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@jackmturk

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writekillercopyfast.com

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David Medansky, CreateYourThinnerSelf.com

– The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 430 David Medansky

David Medansky is an international best-selling author, and America’s Newest Authority for Healthy Sustainable Weight Loss. He wrote about his inspirational weight-reduction journey in his book, Discover Your Thinner Self. He shares his healthful information in his new weight reduction book, If Not Now, When? Reduce Weight – Create a Healthy Lifestyle in 90 Days so that others might benefit from his knowledge.

Because diets tend to be trendy, temporary, and hard to stick to, David teaches people to feel better by eating healthier. He wants people to stop losing the same 10 pounds over and over without needing to buy expensive meals, supplements, or products and without having to follow an exercise program or count calories. The bottom line is David’s clients improve their health and love what they see in the mirror. He offers simple solutions to make losing weight easy.

Listen to this informative Sharkpreneur episode with David Medansky about changing your lifestyle to lose weight and be healthy.

Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:

●    Why you need to look at the food you’re putting into your body.

●    How the epidemic of obesity is becoming worse in America.

●    The misconceptions about losing weight and diet and exercise.

●    How processed foods are scientifically engineered to increase cravings.

●    Why you need to slow down when you’re eating meals.

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facebook.com/thinnerself

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