Technology Thursday | Hello Tech Pros

Nina Meiers loves the leverage and flexibility technology provides and decided to embark on a farming journey growing healthy, delicious foods without chemicals. Nina is an offline farmer and online entrepreneur who juggles feeding the chooks and alpacas with building websites and ecommerce for a range of companies, locally and nationally. Nina loves the grounded lifestyle of being a farmer combined with the location-independence that online business provides.

• How you can work remotely as a freelancer.
• Why DotNetNuke content management system is underrated.
• The unique customer service tactics that Nina used to grow her client list.
• When to bill your clients even when they aren't being cooperative.
• How to be more productive by unplugging from technology.

Anthony Delgado has been an explorer of the digital space for over a decade. From transforming start-ups into multi-million dollar organizations, to helping nonprofits develop digital solutions to real world problems, Anthony's passion is using software to help change the way people interact with the world around them. Anthony is a full stack developer and technology hero at websignia, a digital strategy and innovation agency. websignia has worked with a wide variety of different companies including sports, media, entertainment, healthcare, government agencies and non-profits.

Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/anthony-delgado-technology/

• What a hackathon is and how it can help launch your career or product.
• How to get superpowers using the Twilio API.
• The 3 consecutive winning hackathon entries that Anthony's team delivered.
• 5 ways to dominate your next hackathon.

Avrohom Gottheil helps businesses save time and money by ensuring they have the right technology in place to effectively optimize their business communications. Avrohom has been in the telecommunications industry for over 20 years, and businesses from all over the world have reached out to him for his expertise in assisting them with installing, managing, maintaining, and training them on their phone systems. This past year Avrohom's company, SimiPlex Technologies, launched a new product portfolio which enables him to help businesses take their communications to the cloud!

Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/avrohom-gottheil-entrepreneurship/

• Why being self-aware is more important than being good at your job.
• Why having the right support system in place is critical to your business success.
• The best way to ensure that your company grows and evolves.
• Why Avrohom hired 3 coaches simultaneously and the biggest lesson they taught him.
• How to fold time and find shortcuts to success.

The steps Justin Esgar takes to ensure that guests have a great conference, leave positive reviews and book again next year.

Justin Esgar filed his patents at conception, and today he is a serial entrepreneur, Mac guru, app developer, conference owner and speaker who revels in making life better for everyone through technological innovation.

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• How to build your businesses like a wheel with spokes where each venture supports the other.
• Why Justin built the ACEs Conference focusing on the business side of IT.
• How to avoid losing $20K when hosting your first conference.
• The 5 things you need to put on a great show.
• The kinds of sponsors that would be good for your event.
• The steps Justin takes on launch day to ensure that guests have a great conference, leave positive reviews and book again next year.

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Anthony D. Vaughan is 3X founder and the current CEO of Cognizance Capital Consulting, which focuses on bringing new and innovative content to first time entrepreneurs as well as marketing disciplines to small business owners. Cognizance Capital has served will over 600 entrepreneurs. Anthony has had the privilege of speaking at Colleges such as Towson, Maryland and Mcdaniel University where he shared his 4+ years of experience.

Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/anthony-vaughan-business/

• Why 90% of Anthony's clients are not ready for business.
• Why technology professionals tend to work on the wrong things when launching their business.
• Examples of how other entrepreneurs pre-sold their ideas before building them.
• Why getting "rejection proof" is critical to succeeding in business.
• The differences between influencer marketing and context marketing and when you should use both.

Justin Constantine is a former Marine and attorney and is now an inspirational speaker and leadership consultant. He survived a gunshot wound to the head while serving in Iraq. He recently completed his first book, My Battlefield, Your Office: Leadership Lessons From the Front Lines.

• The harrowing story of how Justin Constantine took a sniper bullet to the head and how he faced recovery.
• Why your company wants you to be a leader and what you can do about it.
• What the Marines taught Justin about leadership and how that applies to technical professionals.
• How to design the perfect life for yourself and who can help make it a reality.
• How you can avoid being bounced around like a pinball and determine your own path to success.

Businessman and Life Coach, Aaron T. Walker, has inspired many through his leadership, mentorship, and consistent pursuit of excellence. He enjoys helping others and believes experience is a great teacher. 35 years of entrepreneurship and marriage have given Aaron a wealth of experience. Aaron continues to reach new heights and broaden his perspective of the terrain by examining his experiences and growing from them.

Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/aaron-walker-business/

• What the loss of his father taught Aaron about relationships and his net worth.
• How introverted people can develop more confidence.
• How to develop a passionate following through videos, even with messy hair and unprofessional backdrops.
• How the "Give, Give, Give, Ask" method can grow your business.
• Why Aaron believes chasing work-life balance is a fallacy.

• Aaron's free "Personal Assessment" and "What Do I Want?" guides
• View From the Top: Living a Life of Significance by Aaron Walker

James Studdart is a solutions architect and technical team lead, specialising in the .Net stack, with over 10yrs experience in the development industry. He has work in a multitude of different sectors including, but not limited to, Holidays, Intentional freight, medical and automotive.

James recently started a new podcast to help other developers progress in their careers by asking the experts the questions you want to ask but maybe don't have the time to.

Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/james-studdart-career/

• Why developers struggle with Imposter Syndrome.
• How to decide which framework to use when new ones are popping up every day.
• The biggest mistake holding intermediate developers' careers back.
• How James launched his own developer podcast.
• How to avoid gettign pigeon-holed into one technology.

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Krish Subramanian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Chargebee, a Subscription Billing Solution for Online Businesses. Krish is in-charge of business development, overall marketing, customer acquisition, communications and brand management. While at it, Krish continues to remain a member of customer support team.

Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/krish-subramanian-business/

• Why Krish and his co-founders decided to build a team before building a product.
• Why SaaS is where it's at.
• Why accounting practices and accounting software is easy for your MVP but difficult when you scale your SaaS.
• The technology behind Chargebee's subscription billing APIs and how easy it is to integrate.
• How Krish mined forums for problems in his domain space and then used those questions to build social media and marketing content.

Tiffany Simpson is a digital media consultant who's journey as an entrepreneur took an about turn when her son was diagnosed with autism. It was during this challenge when Tiffany decided to create computer games and mobile apps to help her son develop his speech. She has since created more solutions to improve her son's educational and social skills.

Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/tiffany-simpson-product/

• How Tiffany learned to build apps with no prior development training.
• The rate of improvement her autistic son showed after using her apps.
• Why the quality of your graphics and UI probably doesn't matter as much as you think it does.
• The biggest mistake Tiffany learned when launching her business and what she's learned from it.
• How Tiffany kept software pirates from making illegal copies of her software.