Hey there, welcome to this week’s action-packed episode of the OpenWorld podcast. Thanks for joining us! In this interview I was joined by Meryl Johnston from the Gold Coast, in Australia. Meryl is the co-founder of Bean Ninjas, a bookkeeping accounting firm which in just one year she’s grown to over 70 customers and approximately $15,000 / month in monthly recurring revenue. Her business currently employs 9 people in Australia, the US, and the United Kingdom. Inspired by Dan Norris […]

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Welcome to another illustrious episode of the OpenWorld podcast! I’m super excited to have you join us. If you’re an author or interested in how to earn a serious living through self-publishing, then you are going to be absolutely blown away by this episode. So many people say you can’t make money self-publishing books. That it’s just a business card, or a business building tool, and not a potential cash cow in itself. And there’s far too many “gurus” out […]

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To say goodbye to your first business after 10 years of blood, sweat and tears is gut-wrenching. Today’s guest Russ Perry was heartbroken and jobless after his agency fell apart. Worst of all he had slipped deep into a scarcity mindset. He could have easily continued into a downward spiral, as so many might in this situation, but he bounced back. He turned to consulting to get by, hired a business coach, and leveraged the skills he already had to […]

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Welcome to another episode of the OpenWorld podcast! Today I’m joined by Adam Franklin, he’s the owner of Bluewire Media, host of the “Web Marketing that Works” podcast, and author of “Web Marketing That Works: Confessions from the Marketing Trenches.” Adam got his start in the web design business way back in 2005 with just $120, doing a bunch of knocking on doors, cold calling… and got rejected over and over again. After more than a decade of trying every marketing tactic […]

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This was a real fun one! In this podcast I’m joined by Amanda Geary, who has worked onboard cruise ships for over 10 years for a variety of companies including; Princess Cruises, P&O Australia, Cunard & Royal Caribbean International. She also helps other people as a recruitment specialist to find travel jobs on cruise ships. And she’s here to share her experience getting paid to see the world! If you’re social, worldly, interested in culture and
languages, traveling the world while […]

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Vincent Dignan is the co-author of “Secret Sauce: The Ultimate Course to Growth Hacking & Marketing Course,” which has raised nearly $80,000 through Kickstarter and Indiegogo after just one’s preparation time. After interviewing co-author Austen in episode #86, we had to invite Vincent to onto the podcast to share his remarkable story. If you haven’t heard of him yet, you will soon. Vincent was living on welfare and benefits 3 years ago, until he received a check for $250,000 for one of his […]

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Welcome to the latest episode of the OpenWorld podcast! If you’re an adventure lover, then I’ve got a fun one for you today! In this interview I’m joined by Will Hatton from The Broke Backpacker. He was working as a lorry in the UK, unloading boxes for a grocery store. He had never done anything exciting. So he went to climb Kilimanjaro for his 19 birthday. Ever since that first experience, he’s been pretty traveling non-stop for eight years. Recently […]

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Keeping in with the theme of dramatic personal reinvention, we have one heck of a story for you today! When we last heard from Tom way back in episode #11, he was travel blogging and roaming the world as a wandering musician. He entertained us with all kinds of travel tales, from hitchhiking to busking on the streets of Europe, to sleeping with exotic animals. Flash forward one and a half years later. Tom was down to his last $50 […]

The post #88 From My Last $50 in Peru to $20,000+ a month with Shopify with @tuneupandtravel first appeared on OpenWorld Magazine.

I’m excited for this episode because I’m joined by one of the most inspirational women I know (and I know a lot of people)! Her name is Megan Jerrard and she is, undoubtedly, one of the most influential travel bloggers on social media. The owner of MappingMegan.com, she’s been a nomad for nine years, traveling full time with her husband for the last three years. Meg and I connected through the Facebook Group, “We Travel We Blog,” of which she is a moderator. […]

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Austen is co-author of “Secret Sauce: The Ultimate Growth Hacking & Marketing Guide.” Austen has moved millions of visitors and dollars through multiple channels from Pinterest to SEO. Together with his co-author, Vincent, they’ve raised nearly $50,000 from 700+ backers – for an e-book! They did this through the very same tactics that he teaches (which he also shares in this interview). During our chat, Austen really opened up and took me to school about leveraging platforms for MASSIVE rapid growth. […]

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