A lot of people have great business ideas but generating sales is a whole other story. So many entrepreneurs have great ideas but they don’t always know how to get their ideas to market. Today’s guest is a media and sales expert that creates sales systems for his clients that generate significant incremental sales. And the best part is that he puts his money where his mouth is by sharing the risk. Josh Elledge, a successful entrepreneur, is CEO and founder of upmyinfluence.com and tells us how he does it.

More people have gotten rich in this country from Real Estate than any other way and today’s guest is one of them. After seven years in the corporate consulting world, Gabe Petersen ventured out on his own and made his mark as a successful real estate investor. Gabe used his digital marketing expertise and street smarts to find great deals that’s made him a lot of money. He’s done single family homes, multi-family, and is now investing in Mobile Home and RV parks. Gabe has a great story to tell that you’ll enjoy hearing.

The phrase nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it epitomizes today’s guest. Back in 2008 he literally knew nothing about the internet and he didn’t know how to write a word of English. That’s because he’s from a former Soviet Union and learing a foreign language was not a priority. But that didn’t deter him from learning how to build websites and how to make money with internet marketing. Today, Peter Garety, founder of Dashnex, has build a multiple seven figure business with over 30,000 customers all over the world. Dashnex provides software solutions that helps marketers and small business owners launch, scale and manage their online businesses. Peter Garety is truly an inspiration.

Why do they call Artificial Intelligence –artificial? Well, I have no idea. Maybe you do. And I had no idea what Artificial Intelligence was until this interview. But now I know what it is, and that it’s growing by leaps and bounds. Today’s guest, Jerry Abiog, co-founder of Standard Insights, and a fellow buckeye, is leveraging the power of data and Artificial Intelligence to help his clients grow their businesses. Standard Insights is helping their clients increase sales and profits by utilizing data to better communicate and market to their customers.

Anyone can launch an e-commerce website, but getting people to actually visit the site much less buying your product is whole different story. That’s where today’s guest comes in. His company specializes in helping e-commerce companies grow their businesses by providing them with affordable marketing solutions. And he’s doing it from the beaches of Mallorca Spain. Not bad work if you can get it. Mike Zima of Zima Media has a great niche where he currently serves over 60 smaller size ecommerce businesses and is gearing up for future growth.

Audio and video equipment sales are on the rise as more and more people are producing content for YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social platforms. Today’s guest, Mark Brown, is the founder of Editors Keys.com, the worlds’ most popular website for shortcut editing keyboards. Mark also runs Studio Series, which is the umbrella company of Editors Keys. Studio Series produces USB Microphones, Vocal Booths, and Guitar and recording accessories.

Fitness trainers help you get in shape, but sometimes they need help getting their businesses in shape. That’s where today’s guest comes in. He’s the behind-the-scenes guy for many of the most successful businesses in the fitness industry. Pat Rigsby is a marketing expert and strategist who’s helped several fitness business owners become six- and seven-figure entrepreneurs. His coaching and consulting clients have been featured in Men’s Health, USA Today, Men’s Fitness, Shape, Women’s Health, Huffington Post, ABC, CBS, and NBC and more.

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Why compete with the big guys when you can build a great business serving the smaller guys? It’s way less competitive and there’s a huge, untapped market. Today’s guest is Robert Brill, of Brill Media, a Los Angeles-based digital media company. His tagline is Advertise Like a Fortune 500 brand Without Spending a Fortune. Robert built his business as an outsourced service for other ad agencies but is now branching out to serve clients directly with a very affordable and compelling offer. Robert is also a super genuine guy who was great to talk to. He has had great success since starting in 2013 and has exciting plans to acquire a thousand new smaller clients with his new offer. After listening to Robert, I felt like I made a friend and wish him incredible luck in this endeavor.

The internet is a more egalitarian place to make money than anywhere else. It just doesn’t have the boundaries that brick and mortar has and the upside is unlimited. Today’s guest, for example, was making six figures while he was still in middle school. After this precocious start, Tim Dick engaged in a number of other successful pursuits before founding his current company, VOIPO. VOIPO sells voice-over-IP to over 100,000 mostly residential customers. It’s a great company with steady, recurring revenue that makes Tim big cash every month with very little stress. At the ripe old age of 34, Tim is not only owner of VOIPO, he’s the owner of a digital marketing company, a consultant, and an angel investor in such companies as Postmates, which is being acquired by Uber, Statuspage, Zenefits, and several others. If you have feedback on this episode feel free to email me at [email protected] or go to streetsmartsuccess.com and send me a message.

Do you ever wonder how we ever got by before the internet? For example, before the internet, if you were a parent and wanted to register your kid for something like a gymnastics class, the only way you could do it was by calling. And the only way you could pay was by check, how incredibly inconvenient! Well, thanks to Jackrabbit Technologies, parents can now register their kids online for gymnastics classes, dance and music classes, swim classes, martial arts, and child care. And they can pay online as well. Today’s guest Mark Mahoney, co-founder of Jackrabbit Technologies and, a super nice guy, tells his story about starting the business while still working at another job and building an incredibly successful software business with 16 million in annual revenue, fantastic margins and zero debt.