Podcast interview with host Phil Amery and his guest Jonathan Boos founder & CEO of Würkin Stiffs

An original  Shark Tank tale that will teach you tough lessons how to make your business prosper in a highly competitive and corporate environment

Jonathan Boos:

"What I realized was, when I stayed with my gut, and I stayed with my belief system, it worked, and when I started listening to other people it worked, but it was benefiting them more than it was me"

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https://www.venturemastery.co/interviews/the-guy-who-pivoted-his-brick-mortar-business-by-driving-store-to-store-with-her-wife-and-10-months-old-baby-making-sales-from-literally-the-back-of-their-car/

Master The Skill of Living a Better Life & Break Free from Bad Habits

If you lived a life of revenge, if you lived a life of complaint and blame, and then that's not going to happen with you, within you, just happiness will not be born there.

Jerzy Gregorek:

"Well, you know, success is like, when you have dinner, and there are four people at the dinner and they really have a good time and everybody likes each other."

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https://www.venturemastery.co/interviews/millions-of-in-you-bank-account-still-miserable/

Meet best practices and advice to avoid getting worn down by stress and get mature enough to see the big picture of what success really demands

Cynthia Ackrill:

"We don't want anybody to see that we are not coping, and the very opposite of what we need, we are wired to socially reach out and help each other do this."

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https://www.venturemastery.co/interviews/tools-and-strategies-for-mastering-stress-in-your-entrepreneurial-life-and-beyond/

Avoid messing up with the fundamental structure of an email and the importance of using low friction call-to-action

Sujan Patel:

"The importance of first always build your marketing prior to building your product."

"Whatever you do with your writing email, don't talk about yourself and what you do and how awesome you are and all the details because you can't talk about it for a paragraph or two or five."


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https://www.venturemastery.co/interviews/how-to-transform-your-freaking-annoying-cold-emails-into-warm-and-make-friends-with-your-prospects-prior-to-building-a-long-lasting-business-relationship/

Why Starting Your Own Business Worth Tenfold Than a Raise You'd Never Get Anyway

Kelly Bayett:

"So when I asked my boss and he said NO, I was like, Oh no please, you don't know what this means to me, even if it'd be $4,000, I'd take it, like I'd do anything and he was like, No, Sorry, I just don't want to do that."

So then I knew that I was committed to this other thing and that we were going to start a company, and my boyfriend was really good at kind of the business like contracts, insurances, all the stuff that I as a creative didn't really want to deal with and it was not that I couldn't do it, I simply didn't want to do it.


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https://www.venturemastery.co/interviews/how-kelly-took-her-future-into-her-own-hands-and-never-looked-back-since/

An Exclusive Interview with Former Ph.D. Cancer Biologist A.J. Harbinger 

Communication skills when you develop them properly they can never be taken away from you and they become the superpower that allows you to be successful in every area of your life.

AJ Harbinger:

"I thought, as long as I worked hard, even though I was a little quiet a little shy, didn't speak up for myself I could still get ahead."

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https://www.venturemastery.co/interviews/why-your-ability-to-communicate-your-ideas-sell-pitch-connect-relate-is-the-single-most-important-skillset-in-your-life/

Why It's Crucial to Fail a Lot and Fail a Lot Faster?

Another super thoughtful 🎙️ podcast interview, this time with Beate Chelette The Growth Architect who shares her thoughts on entrepreneurial failure and gives us some really great advice on the importance of failing often and fast.

"Now, if you're playing it safe, you're not technically by definition an entrepreneur, then you probably are better off to be employed somewhere, because then you can say well you know I show up I put in my eight hours and then nine hours, I go home, I got a creation number of vacation you know, I get my maternity leave, I get my vacation money, you know, I'm all set."

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Apple podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/venture-mastery-podcast/id1566767416

Google podcast:
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xNzQ4OTcxLnJzcw

Spotify podcast:
https://open.spotify.com/show/7Hizf4HcE7dlB3to9ETwv5

Stitcher:
https://www.stitcher.com/show/venture-mastery-podcast

The importance of building a playbook, have a framework and gain credibility amongst your team.

Anthony Zhang:

"Learn about your people if you're coming into an organization or adopting a sales team, learn about your people don't just come in and start putting things in place."

"I think, regardless of the industry that you're in, the first thing you always want to do is make sure there's a playbook."

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https://www.venturemastery.co/interviews/the-birth-of-a-sales-guru-the-importance-of-value-based-selling-from-cold-calling-to-right-use-of-cadence-and-sequence-as-well-as-leadership-advice-for-sales-reps/

How to Secure Your Entrance in the SaaS Industry When Your Budget is Limited and Competition is So Fierce You'd Fail Within Your First Months

The Importance of Avoiding Going Too Broad Into a Market And Why Is Crucial to First Pre-Sell Your Idea Prior to Having an MVP

Lee Gladish:
"So one of the first things that you really want to focus on when you're starting your business is you want to understand the market that you're going into."

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https://www.venturemastery.co/interviews/the-ups-and-downs-of-building-a-saas-business-and-why-its-damn-so-crucial-to-niche-down-to-make-it-a-success-in-entering-a-125-billion-global-market/

Best Practices, Frameworks & Strategies From Someone Who Trained and Helped Hundreds of Business Owners Reach Their Full Potential When It Comes to Sales on Social Media Platforms

There's no question that over the years, we've been able to develop measurement criteria for the success of modern digital selling because we focus on pipeline creation at scale, and to become certified in our trading curriculum every seller needs to create a net new opportunity and be able to defend it in a business case within 60 to 90 days.

Jamie Shanks: "So, to ignore video in the 2020s would be like ignoring email when it came out in the early 2000s."

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https://www.venturemastery.co/interviews/social-selling-the-main-accelerant-to-drive-more-sales-and-revenue-for-businesses-in-todays-digital-world-and-why-it-would-be-a-huge-mistake-ignoring-it/