The Starters Club Podcast - Learn From Entrepreneurs - Get Your Business Started - Grow Your Current Business

When it comes to starting or growing your business, one of the biggest things holding you back is usually yourself.  

Jodi Aman of JodiAman.com came by to break down how to see the signs, what to do when you see them, and how you can start getting over yourself to make 2015 your best year yet!  Learn how the successful deal with it, and what you need to do to not let it get the best of you.

Virtual Assistants are all the rage in the online world, and starting your own business can be pretty simple to do.  

Lyndsay Phillips who now also has people working for her, tells her story of how she got started, why she's been so successful, and how she juggles her business with being a work-at-home mom.

SEO is a very crucial tool to building your business, however, with the every changing rules of Google, making sure your page ranks can be difficult.  There are a few important terms to undrestand when trying to figure out how you rank.  

Joe Youngblood of WinnerWinnerChickenDinner.co gave the ins and outs of how you can get your site to rank, how to find out what your competitors are doing, and how to continually make sure you're staying above them.

Steven Daar graduated from college with an degree in finance and started working for an insurance company who provided investment opportunities for teachers.  When he noticed a lot of their products weren't really helping teachers because of hidden fees, etc, he decided to do something about it.  

Steve saw a big opportunity to help teachers actually hang on to the money they were investing.  When he was 23, he left his job to start something where he would provide the resources for teachers to keep more money in their pockets.  

He talks how this moved him into his first business that failed miserably, and why he stepped up to do it all again, but this time much more successfully.

Webinars are definitely the it thing right now when it comes to promoting your business services.  

However, it can be daunting trying to figure out what you're going to cover, the platform to use, and everything else that's required to make one a success.

Sandy Sidhu answers all of these questions plus more! 

After Jason's wife Stacey was let go from a job because she didn't agree with how the owners were running their business, they sat in a sushi restaurant wondering what was next.  Stacey knew she could create a better business, and so she and Jason started planning out their business on the back of the menu.  

In just a few short years, having a family atmosphere as their #1 goal, they're about to open their third location in Las Vegas.  

Jason talks how they started, lessons learned, and how they plan on scale the business.

It's known that every blog post you put up should have an image attached, and that if you share a post with an image versus just text, the image will get shared more.  So our first instinct is to turn to stock imagery which can feel phony and add up money quickly.  

Chandra Achberger of Photogher joined us to break down how you, no matter what background or equipment you have, can learn to take better photos.  And you can use those on your site.

After 10 years of working as a news reporter and anchor, Joleene decided she wanted more.  After watching some of the best change others lives through speaking and writing, she decided she wanted to do the same thing.  A simple question to someone who was already doing it, changed Joleene's life forever. 

Now she works as a coach helping others find their own path and live their own dreams.  So many incredible moments in this one! 

Video can be one of the most terrifying things to even consider for any entrepreneur.  After all, you could probably name every single problem you have with yourself and wonder who in the world would ever want to watch you.

Holly Gillen stopped by to help us first understand why you really need to get over this, and how to start implementing video into your business.  She also gets into some great tips and tricks on how to do it!

Happy Thanksgiving!  I took advantage to talk about lessons learned at one of the best conferences I've ever been to in my life, Brendon Burchard's 10X.  

Hopefully, you can take away a few of these and apply them to your business.