66-Acquiring Sweaty Startup Businesses with Ryan Snow

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Ryan Snow started his sales career 20 years ago with Cutco. 5-6 years ago, Ryan wrote the Miracle Morning for Sales People. He has now partnered with Cody Sanchez, where they’ve combined their knowledge to run an entrepreneur panel together in California.

Ryan now is helping people acquire small businesses that are already profitable.

If you are a side hustler looking to acquire a small business, then you won’t want to miss this episode!

I would like to add a little excerpt here about my business buying journey. In February 2021, I purchased a business that was earning $200/MRR. I bought it because I believed in the business and wanted to use a service like it, first and foremost. After talking to the founder, I realized she wanted to get out of it, and instead of using them as a service, I thought I would buy it, get trained and then continue to build the business. Truthfully, I did not do the due diligence I should’ve just because I was emotionally involved to the service, but if I do, I would’ve realized it maybe wasn’t for me. The 2 clients were friends with the founder, and when I took over, they backed off their contract. The $200/MRR went down to $0/MRR.

Lesson Learned: Always do your homework before buying a business!

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Chris is the CEO of ELITE Window Cleaning, a franchise window cleaning company that started in 2012. Chris’ journey as an entrepreneur started much earlier than that! In 2006, Chris was working for Bryan Adams (the musician). Chris thought music was his passion and wanted to do it for the rest of his life.

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When Chris reached the top of the mountain, he wasn’t feeling the fulfillment that he expected. The stress from not feeling the fulfillment led him down a journey of self discovery, where he was burning the candle at both ends, working early in the morning and late at night.

Chris decided to quit his music job at the ripe age of 22, without knowing what was next.

While working through downtown Vancouver, Chris saw high-rise window cleaners and thought that doing that would be a great way to make some money and pay for his rent before finding out what was next.

Chris waited for the gentleman to get to the ground and asked him for a job. The employee said ‘sure’ and he started!

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Episode 64 - Side Hustle Success Story with Leigh Isaacson from DigDates

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Leigh Isaacson started DigDates after realizing how important dogs were in her life and understanding that the lifestyle she wanted needed to be matched by her partner to-be. Leigh’s sister and co-founder, Casey, could not find a partner who loved dogs as much as she did, and when she thought she had the one, the guy often pretended or faked the love of dogs.

Casey found that people would often use other people’s dogs in their pictures just to get the conversations going!

This is where the idea of DigDates…

A community of people who are passionate dog owners or who deeply care about them and would like to have a partner with one.

Later on, they used the same framework and created TabbyDates, which has the same premise, but for Cat lovers!

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63 – From Corporate America Andy Seeley

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Andy Seeley is the Founder and CEO of Creatively Disruptive! Andy is New Zealand born but has been a world traveler since he was young. Traveling the world is a part of his life that fueled his passion for entrepreneurship.

Andy Seeley is an amazing example of a Hobby Hustler Success Story!

In 2006, Andy wanted to get out of corporate America, so he and his wife decided to buy a gymnastics gym, which is one of his wife’s passions. They ran that for 9 years and the sold it during the recession.

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Episode 62 - Flipping Raw Land with Mark Podolsky (The Land Geek)

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Mark started investing in raw land in 2000! Mark started buying and investing in raw land with only $3,000 and no real estate experience.

Mark describes land investing as real estate with tenants and toilets.

The Land Geek is a training company, which teaches people how to get out of the “dollars for hours” mentality and lifestyle. Mark teaches you how to buy investments until your income from them covers your cost of living, and then you shift from working because you want too, not because you have too.

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Episode 61 - Starting a Tech Side Hustle with Chris Brown

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Christian Brown was born in Mississippi and raised by a single mother in public housing, something that fuels him for success today. Growing up, Chris was frustrated with how he had to live, forcing him to become obsessive with personal finance and economics.

This spiraled into entrepreneurship, where Chris started many small ventures as early as high school. His first recognition came from Mississippi State University, where he would win the “Student Entrepreneur of the Year” award.

Chris is a huge “internet nerd” and loves all thing internet/tech.

Chris’s first company was called “Techsterminators”, where he would repair people’s technology in an app. He claims it the “Uber for Technology Repair”.

Chris Brown has an influential day job as a professional business consultant with one of the large firms in the USA.

He works on Extra Founder as a side hustle and hopes to take it full-time soon!

In this episode, we discuss:

- Extra Founder

- How Chris got into the Tech Startup space

- The Debt Snowball

- How to eliminate debt

- When to pivot your side hustle or start-up

- Personal Finance

- Growth tips for your side hustle

- Validation checklists for your business idea

- Challenges founders will face when growing a startup

- What to look for in a cofounder

- How to get venture capitalist money?

- #1 tip for side hustlers

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60-How To Rank Your Website In Google with Jason Eland

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Jason started doing SEO and consulting work in 2019 while working a day job. At this point in Jason’s life, SEO was just a side hustle, with no intention of going full-time for a while. Jason got his master’s degree in psychology, and after working for a bit, he did not want to listen to people’s problems all day.

A Masters in psychology helped Jason Eland grow his SEO because he was able to see things and understand people and traffic better than some of his competitors. Eventually, Jason jumped ship, quit the day job and went full-time!

This was a very timely episode for me because over the last 2 years, I have been posting blog posts pretty blindly, without any keyword research or “putting the time up front”. Jason has allowed me to rethink my thoughts and views on SEO and keyword research in general.

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Episode 59 - How to start a profitable newsletter side hustle with Keevin O'Rourke

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Lately, the newsletter industry has been booming! Keevin got into the industry at the perfect time and has had tremendous success with not one, but two successful newsletters.

I connected with Keevin on Twitter (@KeevinOrourke), be sure to follow him!

Keevin started out in college building websites for people and that is how he paid for college! Keevin partnered up with a few friends in college and started an “agency”. Keevin really enjoyed being the boss, but didn’t necessarily like the agency route. Him and his best friend started a startup, got into an accelerator, raised money, and then crashed and burned.

Through Keevin’s accelerator journey, he was able to network with a bunch of different accelerators, and now he is a consultant for accelerators all across the nation.

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Episode 58 - How To Build a Business, Properly.

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Alan Donegan is the founder of Pop Up Business School! Alan set out to build Pop Up Business School after a painful experience that he had himself. Alan helps people build businesses and take control of their finances to create the life of their dreams.

In this episode, we give a glimpse of a business idea that anyone can tackle! It was something that I first thought of and then Alan improved on it and made it grand! Listen around 14 minutes in to hear the idea!

In this episode, we discuss:

- Going full-time with your side hustle

- How to start with an idea

- Coming up with an idea

- The steps to starting a business

- Competition

- Local business strategies

- Pre-selling

- Sales

- REBEL Entrepreneur

- Passion & Purpose

- Financial Independence

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57 – From Successful Café to Homeless, and Then Successful Again w/ Julie Wilder

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Julie Wilder is a Florida-based serial entrepreneur! Julie is the owner of Spiral Spectrum, a little side project that started in 2012 to teach her kid about time. Now, it is turned into a full product line of circular calendars that are based on the seasons and cycles, with astrology and astronomy woven into it.

The calendars are BEAUTIFUL! I recently got mine, check it out below.

Julie also has a PhD on “What Not to Do in Business”! More on that story…

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