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Part 3 is all about business behind printing books and how to make the publishing business work for you!  How do advances work with traditional publishers?  Is Kickstarter a good model for self published books?  How do you make sure that the book fits into your lifestyle and revenue targets.  You will learn how to be a forward thinking business leader from one of the best in the industry!  This guest is special and has helped transform my company and this business can do that for you as well.

Todays guest John Lee Dumas is the founder and host of the award winning podcast, Entrepreneurs On Fire. With over 100 million listens of his 3000+ episodes, JLD has turned Entrepreneurs On Fire into a media empire that generates over a million listens every month and 7-figures of NET annual revenue 8-years in a row. His first traditionally published book, The Common Path to Uncommon Success is the modern day version of Think and Grow Rich with a revolutionary 17-step roadmap to financial freedom and fulfillment. Learn more at UncommonSuccessBook.com

He also created 2 other 7 figure generating journals the Mastery Journal and the Freedom Journal!

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Are you thinking about writing a book or aspiring to be an author?  Regardless the type, non-fiction, story, fiction, fantasy, journal, this episode is for you.  Episode 2 of the 3 part Becoming an Author  series is exactly for you.  Entrepreneur and Best Selling Author Richie Norton.  Gives us a behinds the scene look at what the publishing business is like and what you should watch out for as you prepare to print and publish.
 
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This 3 episode series is all about becoming an author.

In this episode we discuss the common question "Should I self-publish or work with a traditional publisher?"  We explain the difference between self-publishing and working with a publisher.  There are advantages of each, but there are also many disadvantages. 

If you want to be an author, or think you may want to be one day you definitely want to catch this introductory episode and then tune in next week for part 2 with a special best selling author guest.

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Creating a marketing strategy that is tailored to your needs is critical to any success.  The days of blanket marketing are over.  With solutions for every type of consumer in almost every niche it's essential that your marketing strategy target clearly and effectively  your ideal customers.

Working with an agency can be a great way to leverage the resources of expert marketers without the need of hiring a full team of in house marketers.  Not every agency behaves the same or is result oriented.  Gattaca media is different.  They see their customers as partners and work to create leads, and convert those leads into paying customers. 

Our guest today is Ryan Gray a co-founder of Gattaca media.  He tells us what sets Gattaca media apart from many of the other agencies out there and why there hands on custom solutions are so successful for each of their customers.   

Ryan Gray is co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Gattaca Media, a digital marketing agency based in Logan, Utah. Ryan has more than 10 years of experience in digital marketing. He received his undergraduate degree in Public Relations at Brigham Young University and his International MBA degree from the Rotterdam School of Management in The Netherlands.

Gattaca Media is a full-service digital advertising agency specializing in helping small businesses achieve their entrepreneurial dreams. The agency currently spends $1 million a month in advertising for their clients and made their clients more than $400 million in sales in 2020.

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Video is still the best and most evergreen way to market and sell a product.  You must build your brand, tell your story, and give viewers the opportunity to purchase.  No one is better at telling that story and making viral videos than Derral Eves.  Derral has done this time and time again for major brands and products including products like Squatty Potty, the Chosen, and many many others. 

In this episode you will learn about setting up your video launches for success and how to focus on making content for your niche and getting their help to grow your reach.

Derral is CEO of Creatus, a video marketing and strategy company. He has helped 27 YouTube channels go from zero to more than a million subscribers, and he has generated 70 billion views on YouTube. He is the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of The YouTube Formula: How Anyone Can Unlock the Algorithm to Drive Views, Build an Audience, and Grow Revenue.
Derral is founder and executive producer of The Chosen, the highest grossing crowdfunded movie project of all time.

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I have an Idea, now what?  We have all had that stroke of genius, that idea that will fizzle away and remain a "What if?" unless you act on it!

There is a methodology to creating successful products over and over again.  This episode is all about action!  Acting on the idea to get to know your customer, understand their needs and create a solution they are willing to pay for.

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Switchpod is the preferred device for professional and entry level vloggers or content creators.  Designed for creators by creators Switchpod was a product designed with clear market positioning and customers in mind.  A brain child of Caleb Wojcik & Pat Flynn, Switchpod has grown from idea to booming company with sales through Amazon, online retailers, international distributors, and wholesale retailers.

In this episode Caleb, a founder of Switchpod, tells all on how the Switchpod came to be from ideation to creation and manufacturing.  He covers everything from engineering and prototyping a new product to launching a Kickstarter and negotiations with retailers like Best Buy and international distributors.

Caleb Wojcik has been making videos for nearly a decade. In that time he has filmed the NHL, MLB, NCAA basketball & football, weddings, commercials, book trailers, and plenty of training videos for the web. He runs a video production company in San Diego, California that films with startups and entrepreneurs. He also teaches one-man-band video production at MakeBetterVideos.com and he is the teacher of multiple courses on filming & editing video at DIYVideoSchool.com.

You can learn more about Caleb and Switchpod by visiting:

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www.calebwojcik.com
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Alibaba.com is the largest online wholesale website in the world.  It's helped make countless millionaires through it's product marketplace that promises access to the greatest factories in the world.  Alibaba can be a great resource to find suppliers of goods from select regions, but one must be careful not to fall into the empty promises of a questionable seller on the website.

There are ways to reduce risk and increase probability of finding reliable, quality supply through alibaba.  This episode will talk about that, as well as some of the other tools and resources that can be used to create a reliable supply line.

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Growing from a blog into a trusted brand is an unbelievable achievement that Todd & Susie have pulled off extremely well with their BBQ company Hey Grill Hey.  There company has grown to become a household name in the BBQ industry by creating great content and outstanding products that their customers are asking for.

Todd and Susie graciously tell us how they get their customers to tell them what products to sell and where they see their brand going with their online and retail products.\

Susie Bulloch founded Hey Grill Hey in 2015 with one desire: To help people make better BBQ. To date she has created over 450 recipes that millions of people cook every month, making HeyGrill Hey a name synonymous with amazing BBQ. Susie and her husband Todd run a family business that includes a line of signature BBQ rubs, sauces, and gadgets.

Susie is the BBQ Brain behind the Hey Grill Hey website. Her passion for smoked meats and developing fun, new recipes have landed her on the Food Network, cooking turkeys with Shaq, and on a couple of Guinness World Records. When she’s not grilling, she is hanging out with Todd and their three kids, preferably outdoors!

#TasteTestTodd is the man with the golden taste buds. Nothing makes it onto the site or into a bottle without Todd giving the OK. He’s also a logistical mastermind, problem solver, and former CPA that keeps Susie from blowing their budget on Wagyu. He also loves to lay down sick tracks on his guitar and run super long distances.

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Amazon competition has never been more fierce, but sellers like Adam thrive by not building singular products, but entire brands on the Amazon marketplace.  He tells us why this is a winning strategy that has been validated and how you can build one too.

Adam "Heist" Runquist spent the majority of his career as a buttoned up corporate guy. After the Fortune 300 company he worked for acquired outdoor products brand Goal Zero - he moved out to Utah and spent four years discovering the power of physical products brands and ultimately marketplace sales channels like Amazon.

He has since started, scaled and exited numerous Amazon centric channel brands and recently became an investor and advisor to D1 Brands - who has raised for $100M to purchase DTC physical products brands.

Adam also runs the Youtube channel "Adam Heist" - where he focuses on amazon channel strategy and using physical products businesses to "break free" from the 9 to 5.

Learn more about Adam and how to build sustainable Amazon Brands by visiting his YouTube Channel Adam Heist

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