Category: Podcast

IIP060: How To Create A Great Business Without Reinventing The Wheel

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Today’s Guest

Jon Nastor is a Canadian entrepreneur, and the co-founder of VelocityPage, a premium WordPress plugin aiming at changing the way normal people and business owners use WordPress.

Nastor has built multiple SaaS businesses (software-as-a-service) that now allow him to maintain the freedom and lifestyle he craved for. But it wasn’t easy — as you’ll find out today as we cover:

Episode Highlights

  • How Jon created several successful businesses without reinventing the wheel, and with no knowledge in coding or design.
  • Why the internet means that there’s no competition anymore.
  • How to use other successful products in the market as your validation.
  • Why spending two years in study-mode without taking any action is a bad plan, and how it affected Jon’s journey.
  • How Jon got a world-leading developer to write VelocityPage with no money down — and how can you do the same to make your business idea affordable!
  • Why the best time to start is NOW.
  • How frustration led Jon to create VelocityPage, that is changing the way people use WordPress

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IIP059: How Anyone Can Build An Audience And Make Over $100,000 A Month

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Episode Highlights

  • Danny’s jaw-dropping story of how he pitched himself to a CEO of a gaming company with zero knowledge of gaming or programming. (Did I mention the man has balls?!)
  • How to build an audience for your blog: Danny’s step-by-step strategy that you can apply in any market to build your online audience.
  • How to start an entrepreneurial business with no idea and guarantee your success.
  • The #1 secret ingredient all successful people share (and all unsuccessful people lack!)
  • Once you get email subscribers — what to do with them?
  • How to create auto-responder sequences that engage and don’t make you sound like a marketing fart!

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IIP058: Bon Voyage, Boeing! A Blogger’s Quest To Financial Independence

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Today’s Guest

Caleb Wojcik (pronounced wo-jick, unless you’re of Polish descent) is the co-founder of Fizzle.co, The Sparkline, & The Fizzle Show. When he’s not on Fizzle teaching people how to build their businesses, he’s teaching how to create videos that look amazing – at DIY Video Guy.

Caleb Wojcik http://www.calebwojcik.com
Caleb Wojcik http://www.calebwojcik.com

Caleb is one of the brightest entrepreneurs I’ve had the honor of meeting, so I was quite surprised when I learned that entrepreneurship wasn’t exactly his grand plan for life. His father was an entrepreneur, and the price the family paid, the things they couldn’t afford and the effect that the entrepreneurial lifestyle had on his parents’ marriage convinced Caleb that he should graduate, find a safe job at a large corporation, and live happily ever after.

And so, he graduated and got job at Boeing. A few weeks after, Boeing laid-off about 10,000 employees.

The Death Of The “Safe Job”

Caleb wasn’t one of the employes that lost their job that week, but it did make an impact on him. He started realizing that “having a safe job” was a myth of the past. He found himself considering entrepreneurship again… but there was one tiny little problem.

He had no idea what to build his business around.

He dabbled around with some freelancing, tried to develop an app with some friends – but it didn’t take off. Meanwhile, he started blogging and documenting his process of getting out of debt. That blog was the beginning of what Caleb does today as his full-time job, and in today’s episode he’ll take us through that quest sharing the lessons he learned along his way from cubicle to a successful online entrepreneur.

Episode Highlights:

  • Entrepreneurship lessons learned from playing (a bit too many) video games.
  • Creating an online business – starting with a blog.
  • The disillusion of corporate America job-security, and leaving Boeing to blog and teach.
  • Why it’s much harder to get referrals when you don’t niche down
  • Finding the need of a market – at the intersection of the audience you want to talk to, and the problem that you can solve.
  • Why gear doesn’t matter!
  • Why gear does matter!

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IIP057: Conversion Optimization, Vacuum Cleaners, and A Stolen Wedding Ring

Inspiring Innovation Podcast
Inspiring Innovation Podcast episode 57  Get it on iTunes

My guest today is the type of guy any entrepreneur would kill to have as a friend: He’s the conversion educator at LeadPages (which means he KNOWS what works when it comes to turning readers into buyers), ex-musician (appeared on MTV and performed in all continental US states) that used to sell vacuum cleaners, successful podcaster and entrepreneur, and above all — a seriously cool guy.

Today’s episode takes from lucking out in finding a manager for the band (wait till you hear the story) and through building an entrepreneurial career one step at a time, applying lessons from his career as a musician into his business life. Then we get our hands dirty and spend a good 20 minutes discussing some strategies for better conversions, getting traffic, and much more!

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Tim Paige (AKA Tim The Paige); Conversion educator at LeadPages, host of ConversionCast, and father of the world's coolest baby :)
Tim Paige (AKA Tim The Paige); Conversion educator at LeadPages, host of ConversionCast, and father of the world’s coolest baby 🙂

Episode Highlights:

  • How you can start building your list with ease within 20 minutes – even if you don’t have a website yet!
  • How to make it dead easy to get traffic (and why it’s so hard for almost everyone who misses out on the point that Tim makes on the episode).
  • The most important tip Tim has for entrepreneurs – this changed his life twice. First, it got him and his band their first manager. Then years later, the same tip got him his current position at LeadPages.
  • The story of the stolen wedding ring (and what to do when you realize you are miserable at your day job).
  • How to create lead magnets that convert.
  • The biggest mistake people make in their opt-in and sales pages.
  • How to use opt-in offers to figure out what you should do (instead of waiting for the $1M idea!)

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IIP056: Guy Kawasaki Talks Canva And Democratizing Design

Inspiring Innovation Podcast
Inspiring Innovation Podcast episode 56  Get it on iTunes

Today’s highlights

  • The funniest thing that ever happened to Guy Kawasaki
  • What’s Canva, and why does Guy think that it’s to Design what the Macintosh was to Computing?
  • What’s Guy’s drive? Why did he go back to working for someone else for the first time in almost 10 years?
  • What are some of Guy’s tips to entrepreneurs when it comes to spreading the word about their business?
  • What are the first two criteria that Guy checks when validating an idea?
  • How did a small startup like Canva opened up a conversation with someone like Guy, and what’s the moral here for all of us entrepreneurs?
  • What about today’s interview made me, and my co-host Jared Easley, sweat bullets?

 

Today, as you can judge by the episode’s highlights, we have a great show. It’s an amazing honor to have Guy Kawasaki, chief evangelist of Canva, come and share with us what’s on his mind.

Besides finally explaining what a chief evangelist is, Guy shares with us what made him revive his mythological role at Apple, and go back to working for someone else, dedicating all of his time to his new goal and mission: Democratizing design.

 

Guy Kawasaki, chief evangelist at Canva
Guy Kawasaki, chief evangelist at Canva

 

Democratizing Design

Guy believes that there’s no reason for the tools required to designing breathtaking graphics to be out of the reach for most people. Today, you need to learn and master complicated and expensive pieces of software like Photoshop to create artwork that you can share on Social Media, your website, or anywhere else.

Guy’s new mission is to help change the current status quo. He partnered up with the design tool, Canva, that won his heart and got him excited. Actually, he never felt this way since the first time he saw what the Macintosh could do.

Being an avid fan of Canva, I get it. The first time I used Canva, was only similar to the first time I held an iPad, MacBook, and iPhone (yes, I’m an Apple fan. We can debate about just how much it kicks Android’s ass in the show notes if you want to). It was love at first site. This tool changed me from the most un-gifted graphic designer in the world, to someone who spends 15 minutes creating a little photo, that 10 hours later hits #1 in the Get Motivated Reddit, and brings in thousands of unique views.

Tips For Entrepreneurs

Besides Canva, Guy also shared with Jared and me some of his thoughts about idea validation, following a passion, and rejecting those who tell you, “you can’t do that!”.

Join Jared and me for quick talk with a true legend. And by the way, check out our previous episode for a crazy story about what happens when you tell the universe what you want (hint: you get to interview Guy Kawasaki!)

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Thank you @MeronBareket @JaredEasley for introducing me to @Canva! Really enjoyed your interview with @GuyKawasaki http://iito.me/1fymPWD

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