IIP065: Richard Branson, Stale Pizza, And CV Covered In Cheese

Entrepreneurship Quote

In Today’s Episode You Will Find:

  • The #1 attribute every entrepreneur needs to develop in order to succeed.
  • The biggest mistake first-time entrepreneurs and unsuccessful entrepreneurs make — and how to avoid it.
  • A single piece of advice that our guest has used again, and again, and again, to launch successful businesses, including one he sold to Richard Branson’s Virgin Group.
  • A mind-blowing example of how to turn a rotten situation to a business opportunity (it involves stale pizza 🙂 ).
  • Why (and when) sticking cheese to your CV is a good idea?
  • The best answer I’ve received so far on the show for “what’s one question nobody asked you, and you wish someone did?”
  • Some epic and inspiring entrepreneurial quotes.

My Guest Today: Entrepreneur on a mission

Scott Duffy is an entrepreneur, business consultant, angel investor, author and speaker. And today he joins us because he’s on a mission: to help millions of people create their dreams with entrepreneurship.

To achieve this mission, he founded The Launch Project, a company that helps entrepreneurs launch new businesses, products and services. As an author, he wrote the best-selling book LAUNCH! 90 Days from Big Idea to Market — his blueprint for launching and growing great companies.

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Looking at his career — it might seem like he always had it all:

He worked for huge brands like CBS Sportsline, NBC Internet, and FOXSports.com. Then, he founded Smart Charter, an online booking tool for private aviation, which was acquired by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group.

But like in many other cases, the “2 sentence bio” doesn’t tell the whole story.

In fact, as he shares with us today, he’s been through a lot: nearly dying in a horrific car accident, ending up with no money and no where to sleep but his car in his early days in the Bay Area 1, facing the doubts of his close ones — thinking he’s wasting his time — among other stories.

In fact – the story of how he got his first job in the Bay Area by delivering pizzas and sticking his CV inside the cheese is a true eye opener for the art of being resourceful at all times!

Some great inspiring quotes about entrepreneurship from today’s interview

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  • “The one attribute that successful entrepreneurs need is: a terrible memory for failure” TweetMe
  • “We have to learn to repackage our failures into learning experiences that help us move forward” TweetMe
  • “The biggest mistake you could make is to fail to get started” TweetMe
  • “People that have small visions of themselves can not have a larger vision of you” TweetMe

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  1. The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds San Francisco and encompasses the major cities and metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, including Silicon Valley

IIP064: How To Make Passive Income By Building A Niche Site Empire

Click here to download today’s free PDF: “How to create your first profitable niche website!”

Affiliate Marketing & Profitable Niche Websites: What You Will Learn

  • How team ‘Screw The Nine to Five!’ used affiliate marketing to create passive income streams totaling over $17,000 a month – and how can you do the same!
  • How to find the best passive income opportunities for affiliate marketing.
  • How to easily do keyword research for niche websites
  • How to build profitable websites one after the other – until you have your own niche site empire!
  • How to do all of this – using nothing but free tools!

Today’s Guest: Affiliate Marketing & Passive Income Ninja

Jill (and Josh) Stanton. Founders of 'Screw The Nine to Five'
Jill (and Josh) Stanton. Founders of ‘Screw The Nine to Five’

Jill and Josh Stanton are the founders of Screw the 9-to-5. Today, Jill joins us to help listeners of Inspiring Innovation (that’s you I’m talking to! 🙂 ) create passive income streams from scratch.

You can complete your research, set-up a niche website, and create the content for it in 9 days or less – according to Stanton. This makes it one of the fastest ways to start generating an income online!

For the Stantons, affiliate marketing is a $17,000 monthly passive income stream. Read more to find out how can you achieve the same results.
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IIP063: Passive Income From Scratch: How To Make Money On Udemy

Note: Click here to download the free PDF: “How to build online courses on Udemy and start making passive income – today!”

Make Money Teaching Courses Online: Episode Highlights

  • How can you start making passive income of $2500 per month or more – by creating an online course on Udemy or Skillfeed.
  • Why you don’t need an existing list or following to create a successful course.
  • How to use online learning platforms like Skillfeed or Udemy to build your mailing list rapidly and effectively.
  • How to create an online course: Resources, tools, guidelines and recommendations.
  • How to find passive income ideas for information products.
  • The secrets of making money on Udemy: How long should your course be? How many videos should you have? How to price it?

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IIP062: Leaving Corporate With Your Significant Other’s Support

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What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode

  • How to engage your significant other in your journey from corporate to entrepreneurship: How to address their doubts, fears and rejections, and turn them into your biggest supporters.
  • How to balance learning, planning and doing when making the move from corporate life to entrepreneurship.
  • How to free time to start building your business while still in your day job by smartly negotiating and removing time wasters.
  • The top two misconceptions and roadblocks for people making the transition, and how to avoid them.
  • How to make the transition easier by starting a side business while employed.
  • How to find your WHY and deeper calling.

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Fixing The BackWPup Error: “Dropbox API: (59) Unknown cipher in list”

Keep calm and install this plugin

A few days ago I published The Ultimate WordPress Tutorial To Bulletproof Your WordPress Blog Backup, where I show step-by-step how to set up an automatic backup process for your WordPress site, that’s saved both to your server as well as your Dropbox.

The WordPress Error

Ever since then I’ve been getting questions from people who are receiving the following error when trying to authenticate Dropbox in the BackWPup plugin.

Dropbox API: (59) Unknown cipher in list

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