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- Giancarlo Aguilar | Running Over 7 Businesses By Not Being The CEO of Each Business
Can you imagine running 2-3 businesses at a time, let alone 7? That must be a huge headache, right? Not really if you are able to establish each business before embarking on a new one and working with people who can help you do the job.
Giancarlo Aguilar has a skillset of creating a business with people and focusing on tasks that will move the needle. Instead of being an employee of each of his businesses, he is working in the background or doing things that move the needle.
To put things into context, he runs a fitness center, two bars, a social media marketing agency, and three supplement brands. You can find the brands he is working on here:- Fitness Center - Peach Factory Fitness
- Bar - Booze Garden Wynwood
- Bar/ Lounge - Centro Wynwood
- Social Media Marketing Agency - Social Wolf Media
- Supplement Brand #1 - Simple Vitamins
- Supplement Brand #2 - Life All Natural
- Supplement Brand #3 - Royalty Supplements
Giancarlo Aguilar is actually an owner of a manufacturer that makes quality grade supplements where other entrepreneurs and brands can private label products. With the resources he has, he has been able to create 3 different supplement brands!
If you guys want to check out Giancarlo Aguilar, you can find him here:50 min - Kerim Derhalli | CEO of Invstr - Helping GenZ/Millennials Take Charge of Their Finances
Kerim Derhalli is the CEO of Invstr, an app that helps you overcome knowledge and financial barriers to become a better investor.
Being active on Tik Tok and Instagram, we're seeing how Invstr is becoming a financial app with gamification and social media like features. This is perfect for the Gen-Z/Millennial audience because we are getting to see how important personal finances and investing is to our lives.
Investing is not intimidating at all and Invstr has shaped its app to make it that way to allow the user to follow their peers and influencers. In fact, you are able to see what your peers are doing in terms of their investments so you can study why they did so. If you're not comfortable with investing yet, you can play Fantasy Finance.
Fantasy Finance is like fantasy sports. Instead of managing a team, you are managing a portfolio where you head to head with other investors to win real prizes.
If you want to check out Kerim Derhalli and his app Invstr, you can find it here:- Youtube
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56 min - Eric Patel | Creating A Freelance Service Tailor Made For College Students
Eric Patel is the Founder and CMO of Edullo which is an affordable, flexible, and personalized learning service for college students. It's like the Fiverr or Upwork for college students. Say, for example, you are a teaching assistant for a college professor. You have a lot more value to offer than just teaching the college material to the student in the lecture hall.
What if you can capitalize your knowledge by putting it out in the market where college students around the world can learn from you. And if you're a college student this can be a great resource to learn the specific and personalized course sets you're taking in your curriculum. It is a platform for the students and by the students.
When discussing with Eric Patel about creating Edullo, we went over how he had to find software developers and how he needed to fill the website with content. It's a service that acts as a middle man to bring in both the students and the teachers into one market place.
Because Eric Patel is also a content creator on Tik Tok with over 270K followers, he is able to drive this traffic to Edullo. Providing as much valuable content that college students want to hear on Tik Tok has been a very marketable approach for Edulllo to get new users.
If you want to check out Eric Patel, you can find him here:- Tik Tok
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49 min - Josh Pather | Making Millions Off Unique Photo Booth Products
Josh Pather is a serial entrepreneur, 2-time ClickFunnels 2 Comma Award Winner, and a CEO of 4 companies. In this episode, we talk about the photo booth business Joshua has called Photo Booth International.
In Josh's photo booth business he helps entrepreneurs start a business by selling unique photo booth products. In his origin story of how he made his success through his photo booth business, Josh Pather explains how he and his partner found a way to make their DJ gigs more valuable by incorporating the photo booth.
In their first gig, they sold their DJ and photo booth package for $500 at a local party. Even though the partnership was eventually broken up, Josh Pather continued to work on the business and serviced over 800 events in a single year!
If you want to check out Josh Pather, you can find him here:- Youtube
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1 hr 3 min - Mike Lawson | Helping Business Owners Get More Attention Through Branding in Ghana
Mike Lawson is a brand strategist and Co-founder of Brainstorm Africa, which is a digital media agency in the country of Ghana.
We go over social media trends and dynamics in Ghana and how Facebook ads are a massive tool to help businesses get more awareness and sales. When talking about advertising and sales with Mike Lawson, he explains that it is always important to not be "sellsy". Instead, you need to be very informative and be in the customer's mind subconsciously.
When you run a retargeting campaign, you are targeting people who show some signs of interest, so they are more welcomed to the opportunity of buying your product or service.
In developed countries like the US, we are seeing huge social media trends such as Tik Tok and Instagram reels. In Ghana, however, it takes time for these trends to become mainstream. Facebook and Twitter are the hot social media platforms in Ghana, but Mike Lawson always has an eye on what is working in other countries so he can implement it in his business and personal brand.
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1 hr 10 min - Gabe Kozel | Using SMS Campaigns and CRMs as a Wholesale Real Estate Investor
Gabe Kozel is an entrepreneur and wholesale real estate investor in Pennsylvania and Florida. Before embarking on his real estate journey, he created multiple businesses such as his own clothing brand with his partner. Unfortunately, they had to split due to personal reasons.
After being sidetracked by different business ideas, Gabe Kozel discovered wholesale real estate and stuck to that ever since he attended real estate conferences. One of the things that really helped him become a successful wholesaler was finding a mentor.
It was through his mentor that he learned about SMS marketing and CRMs to automate the workflow. Automation and having systems in place are important, but Gabe Kozel recommends to learn the manual way. Going through the dirt and being able to close deals without the assistance of automation processes is an important skill. It's only after learning the skills the hard way that it is okay to automate your workflow. If not you'll be vulnerable.
If you want to check Gabe Kozel, you can find him here:54 min - Abe Elsayed | Helping Brands Turn Reach Into Revenue
From making a blog for his hometown of Sacramento, CA to creating his digital media agency Lead Chimp, Abe Elsayed has been working on making online businesses. As of this moment, his focus is on Lead Chimp, where he and his teams help businesses turn reach into revenue and customers into fans.
With the power of advertising tools such as Facebook ads, Google ads, and Twitter ads, Abe Elsayed has managed to make a name for himself and Lead Chimp. Abe is into creating systems to automate his workflow. This is the kind of thinking that engineers have. As a matter of fact, Abe enrolled at Arizona State University for two years studying Computer Software Engineering.
Even though he didn't finish his degree, he spoke highly of the methodology of engineering thinking combined with sales and finances. All engineers have the capability of being entrepreneurs if they knew sales, but they are more focused on creating products and services for the entrepreneurs.
If you want to check out Abe Elsayed, you can find him here:47 min - Vance Fundora | Asking Yourself How You Can Improve as an Entrepreneur
Vance Fundora is a best-selling author, marketing specialist, real estate investor, speaker, and podcast host.
Asking yourself how you can do more on a certain task was one of the key things that Vance did early in his entrepreneurial journey. There are always ways to improve, but the question is how. The fact that he was impatient and believed in the reward system, Vance Fundora always sought out for getting results now and getting compensated. With a closed-feedback loop of asking himself how he can do more, his skills as an entrepreneur improving.
If you want to check out Vance Fundora, you can find him here:- Personal Website
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57 min - Mike Schill | How to Close a Sale and Working With Grant Cardone
Mike Schill is a former student-athlete as he played football at FSU. Unfortunately, he got a knee injury which hindered his chances of making it pro. However, life has to go on and Mike has done just that.
Bringing the work ethic he brought with him to the real world as a student-athlete, Mike Schill eventually got into sales. After doing a really good job at one company, he eventually landed a job with Grant Cardone!
Grant Cardone is a sales master and Mike has learned a lot from him alongside his other sales job experiences. In this episode, you will learn about the following to improve your sales skills:- How to get past the gatekeeper to reach your potential customer or client
- Why following up multiple times is so important
- Always keep in touch with your clients even after you do business with them because they will always have more problems in the future that you need to solve
- If there's a problem and you have a solution, there's no reason why you cannot make that sale
- Learn the difference between a sale vs a close
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50 min - Harry Needham | Creating a Personal Brand Around a Marketing Agency
Harry Needham is a 9-5 dropout when he found out that he can real money on his own as SMMA owner. The moment he made $200 of a retainer he left his job as an architect. One of the talents he found was personal branding and marketing. Businesses that needed to drive results or create a brand was something Harry was well equipped to do.
In fact, Harry was able to grow his Instagram page to 90k in a matter of 9 months! A big topic that we go over in this podcast episode is the trend of businesses blending with a personal brand. People would rather talk to a human face rather than a logo. With a personal brand, you have more freedom to post content that you want, and that reflects your interests.
You need to differentiate yourself in the market and a personal brand, to Harry Needham's experience, is the best way to do that. Getting indirect leads from content that doesn't have to do with your business is totally possible.
When Harry Needham went live on Instagram, he said he was able to get 10 leads. Posting quality content is important, but being consistent is vital as well.
If you would like to DM or check out Harry Needham about personal branding and marketing, you can check him out here:- Youtube
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