Tomas Keenan is the co-founder and CEO of Top Class Installations, company that installs GPS tracking telematics units and dash cameras in commercial fleet vehicles, helping companies become more efficient. They are a third-party subcontractor that chooses from the very best products the market has to offer and offers installation and servicing functions to an organization to “track and view” their vehicles.

Nick Raithel is the founder of 7-Hour Book, a company that focuses on helping business people to build their authority and get their message out to their audience by publishing their own book in just seven hours. He explains more about how he came up with his business idea for the 7-hour Book, and his key takeaways from his entrepreneurial journey.

Tiffany Toombs is the Founder and Director of Blue Lotus, a company dedicated to helping people overcome their limiting beliefs that hold them back, and author of the book Stop Being a Selfish Bitch. She helps people stop self-sabotaging and gives them the tools to rewire their brains and live their best life.

Ed Lyon is the Chief Tax Strategist for Financial Gravity who has been working with CPAs and EAs for 15 years. On this episode, he joins John to discuss some of the critical problems in the accounting industry and how technology is disrupting it and bringing about changes that both accountants and small business owners need to be prepared for.

Sidney Clevinger is the CEO of Fritz Advertising Agency, a digital marketing and digital advertising agency that helps people with generating leads online through social media and other online avenues and also teaches people how to convert leads into closed sales. It is a resource-driven company that focuses on tried-and-tested systems, scripts, and training around closing leads to get results.

Tim Bornholdt is the co-founder of the Jed Mahonis Group, a company that works with businesses and startups to build mobile apps. The team focuses on everything around mobile apps — strategy, design, development, deploying and shipping it out to consumers. Tim and John discuss the importance of identifying the right client for your business, and why validating an idea is crucial to success.

Damion Lupo is the Founder and CEO of Total Control Financial, where he teaches people to tap into their 401(k) and IRA to give them more options and control over their retirement funds. He has owned multiple businesses, been involved in real estate and insurance, and now works on helping people make better financial decisions. They dive into many topics relating to financial planning, from the different strategies to the importance of understanding the differences between various financial products.

William “Bill” Hogsett is the CEO and Customer Experience Officer at Review Fire, a company that aims to help clients get feedback that they can use to improve their business, from real customers that matter. In a time when people are using social media as a bludgeon against companies they aren’t satisfied with, how can businesses counter bad reviews posted online? Bill’s product allows clients not only to get good feedback from customers but also to improve their business based on these reviews.

Vikram Rajan is one of the co-founders of Phone Blogger, a company that markets to accountants and attorneys.  He helps busy professionals create content that can be published to social media platforms and emailed to clients and prospects as a newsletter — all through short phone interviews. Vikram shares more about his business model and what makes it so appealing to his target audience, as well as why his strategy helps his clients build and grow their businesses through word-of-mouth referrals.

Mark Willis is a Certified Financial Planner with Lake Growth Financial Services, a full financial firm specializing in the Bank on Yourself concept. Mark explains more about what a Certified Financial Planner does that differ from typical insurance agents, and how the Bank on Yourself concept works to give policy owners financial security by helping them grow their money in a safe and predictable way, while also acting as a source of their own financing.