The OpenWorld Podcast: Live Without Limits

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 under the sun, he's obtained a good grasp of what it takes to make successful marketing.

When I talk to a lot of people who listen to this podcast, and subscribe to the newsletter, it seems like a common problem is that people have created a business, they a brand, a product, and a website, but they aren’t earning enough customers to replace their job. So Adam and I are going to discuss this detail and hopefully you’ll leave this conversation with several strategies that you can use.

Some of the topics we discuss:

• Filtering out high-friction clients to find and attract the best leads for your business

• How to hone in and find the best leads

• Creating an effective customer avatar - to give your marketing efforts clarity

• Ways to pre-qualify potential customers and clients

• How to stand out and gain a competitive advantage

• How to rise to the top of your niche through public speaking

• 33 marketing templates that you can apply to your business

• And much more!

Adam shared a bunch of hard-earned insights from the marketing trenches of strategies you can use to work smarter, not harder! Enjoy this interview, and let me know how you plan to implement these techniques in your own business.

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 working on a cruise ship might be an opportunity for you.

But part of the problem is that these dream jobs are competitive. Many people apply, but most don't hear back from anyone. Amanda shares some very keen insights into how to stand out from the pack, get the gig, and begin your dream voyage!

During the second part of the interview, we discuss how Amanda leveraged her experience and skills to create a successful product and consulting business, Get a Life at Sea. Some great insights for entrepreneurs to leverage their knowledge to create a great brand, profitable product line, and market themselves online.

Amanda has also graciously offered a coupon code for listeners to get 50% for her "How the Heck to Get a Job on a Cruise Ship Guide." At checkout, use the promo code "OpenWorldGetPaidToTravel."

Best of luck on your journey! If you like listening to our show, please support us by leaving a review on iTunes. Each one helps :)

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 ideas. He then used the growth hacking techniques he was learning to get millions of visitors to websites he created and raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment, and got into the Techstars accelerator.

He then launched a growth hacking agency and have used these techniques to move hundreds of thousands of people to websites, and acquire tonnes of users and followers for startups:

• In July 2012 he started content site Planetivy.com, reaching 300,000+ visitors a month by November

• In 2015 he “Hijacked” the #SXSW hashtag and got 1,700 people to attend an event at SXSW 2015

• He's also done dozens of live speeches on growth hacking and startups around the world, including more than 35 events in North America.

During the interview Vincent shares some of his best tips and strategies for driving large amounts of visitors, users, business, and influence using free methods. If you have a website that you're trying to get off the ground or are thinking of starting one, then you must listen to this interview!

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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 Will completed a Tuk-Tuk trip where he drove across India. He’s been making his way across Eurasia, to hitchhiking all the way from England to Pakistan with plans to continue on to Papua New Guinea.

Will spent two years in Asia on $12 a day - including flights. He spent a year in India, where he was able to live for a year on $3,000. He hitchhikes, camps, and does whatever he has to.

With an average budget of just $100 per week, his adventures have been featured on Business Insider, the Daily Mail, and the Huffington Post.

He's couchsurfed over a hundred times, slept in a cave in Jordan with a Rastafarian bedouin, received sacred tattoos from the Kalinga tribe, briefly married a girl that he met through Tinder to secure an Iran visa, and lived like a famous rapper in Venezuela.

He insists on throwing himself into the thick of things; preferring lesser-visited countries such as Iran, Palestine, The Congo or North Korea.

What's great about Will is his imaginative mind - he comes up with outlandish and extraordinary ideas for his adventures, and is able to secure sponsors who buy into his ideas.

This conversation is a fascinating look into the mind of someone who sees the world differently - not as lines and dots on a map, but a playground promising unlimited amounts of fun adventure.

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 in Peru, volunteering at a hostel to get by. With nothing to lose, he enrolled in an ecommerce course and set up a Shopify business.

He began making sales immediately, earning $20,000+ in revenue the very first month! Soon he was able to use the online marketing skills he'd learned from blogging to good use, scaling up Facebook advertising and earning $1,000 in profit per day.

Needless to say, when you go from a 20 - 30 Euro budget to earning $1,000+ per day online, fun things start thing to happen!

Naturally, I had to get Tom back on the podcast and hear in his own words how he's been able to change his life in such an incredible fashion. His story has inspiring many, and he freely gives back his best knowledge and tactics during our discussion.

We discuss content marketing, ecommerce, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, and so much more. I shared some of my best tactics during the episode as well. Tom has also published several books on Amazon, including his riveting new Kindle book, "Two Bucks to Timbuktu" (available for less than a 7-11 coffee!)

Enjoy the interview! Please throw support behind the show, leave us a review on iTunes, and see you next week.

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. Each time we talk, I've been wowed by the work ethic she uses to sustain her travel lifestyle and her deep knowledge of social media and marketing. Meg has introduced me to so many innovative online tools and techniques that most everyone else has ever heard of.

Her blog, which started out as a personal hobby, has now published over 900 posts. Within 3 years it's grown from 200 visits per day to 2,000 per day. If you're interested in blogging and social media and using these platforms to sustain a travel lifestyle then look no further, as Meg will show you how.

Enjoy this interview, and see you next week! Please leave a review for the podcast if you enjoy our show.

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. He shares his brilliant strategy for gaining 1,500 subscribers per day from free traffic, and how he was able to hit his Kickstarter goal for "Secret Sauce" in just four hours with only one month of preparation.

He's engaged in numerous adventures in marketing over the last ten years, such as helping a friend sell $4,000 worth of neckties through Instagram, and talks about how he started as a growth hacker in his teen years - discovering an ebay glitch, buying iPods for $50 and reselling them for $300 - 400.

He discusses the mistakes that most people make when it comes social media marketing, and why tactics without strategy is futile. He also shares his best growth hacking strategies to execute upon that work "smarter, not harder" getting you tons of traffic, revenue and sales.. while working less.

Austen's Kickstarter for Secret Sauce closes in less than one day - with tons of great rewards still available. You can pledge at the lowest level (less than $1.50) to receive an invite to his exclusive growth hacking group on Facebook.

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In this episode, we welcome Ryan Madgziarz on to the show. Ryan has been an entrepreneur since his teenage years, starting a marketing agency with eight employees before age 21, creating a successful app, and more.

Today he is the founder of Winning International, which helps coaches and consultants make the leap to six and seven figure businesses. He's also author of “Secrets of the 7 Figure Coach,” and a public speaker.  To date, has worked with over 1,000 coaches.

After his mother left during his teen years, Ryan compensated for the loss by becoming an overachiever, committing himself to sports and then to business.

During the interview, Ryan shared some powerful insights to motivate people, how to succeed as a coach, how to create winning online marketing ideas, and so much more.

Ryan specialty lies in growing businesses. If you're looking for novel new ways to grow your business through online marketing, list building, Facebook advertising, joint ventures, and video marketing - then you'll love this interview. We also discuss the pillars of $5,000 and $20,000 product creation, how to manifest a $15,000 client, and how to set yourself up for success over the long-term.

This was a great in-depth interview with a bunch of actionable takeaways. If you want more from Ryan, you can get his book "Secrets of the 7 Figure Coach" for free by visiting this website.

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In this episode of the OpenWorld podcast I have the pleasure of hosting the "creative warrior" and "uncommon entrepreneur" Jeffrey Shaw.

He is host of the popular business podcast, Creative Warriors, which teaches brave entrepreneurs how to earn a prosper making their art and giving their gifts. He says we live in a period which he calls “The New Renaissance,” where creative individuals have unlimited power to transform the world.

Classically unemployable, but undeniably gifted, Jeffrey has created a thriving photography business for more than three decades. By turning conventional business wisdom upside down, Jeff became the go-to family photographer for America’s most affluent, invited to travel to some of the most beautiful destinations around the world.

He's a model and an inspiration for those of us burning to create a prosperous living for ourselves through our art, and I am very excited to be able to interview him.

Jeffrey didn't disappoint. His passion, energy, and vibrancy is infectious. He also shared a number of deep and insightful gems during our discussion.

Identifying the "gaps" between where we are and where we want to be

How the mindset of creative individuals stops them from earning the money they deserve - and how to correct it

What affluent people do differently

"Self discovery " made simple - identify your true strengths and unleash them

Lead generation strategies, prospecting, and managing clients

Marketing strategy and "alignment" - aligning to your ideal client

Plus much more.

Enjoy this excellent interview with Jeffrey Shaw! To get Jeff's 7-day, 7-lesson mini eCourse - Week of the Warrior - for free, click here.

He’s the business guru that the gurus go to. As the head honcho of SuperFast Business, James Schramko has created some of the most exclusive, prosperous masterminds for elite high-performing entrepreneurs.

But before that, James was a top performing salesman at a car dealership, earning two Mercedes Benzes as company cars. On paper he had it all. But he realized he was chasing an endless cycle of needing to achieve to be happy, chasing arbitrary income goals, and felt like there was not enough meaning to his life.

Despite the money he was earning, there was always pressure to earn more and buy more things that he didn’t need. It was a constant cycle of needing to overachieve to pay off more and more debt. So he started to question things and decided he would strike out as an entrepreneur, and set the goal to earn as much through self employment as he was earning at his sales job.

At this point he became a learning machine, and after two years his business propelled to new heights of success. Now he’s created a brand and coaching business which helps entrepreneurs to accelerate their business performance and reach the massive success that we all dream about.

During the interview, I pressed James to reveal his formula for creating a smart business with maximum leverage that drives us to freedom.

As James explains during the episode, entrepreneurs struggle with discipline and effectiveness. Some have trouble asking the right questions and creating a structure to help them get the job done and realize their goals.

James shares a ton of valuable insights won from hard-earned experience, and I kept pressing him to share more. If you enjoy this fine interview, please consider writing a review for the show on iTunes. Every one helps.