Tag: entrepreneurship

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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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

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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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IIP055: A Crazy Story About What Happens When You Tell The Universe What You Want

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Inspiring Innovation Podcast episode 55  Get it on iTunes

Today’s episode is all about a crazy thing that happened this week. And what a week it’s been! Actually, scratch that: What two weeks it has been… (Maybe 3 weeks?) I don’t know.

You know how sometimes — no matter what you do — you just can’t seem to get back on the horse?

That’s how it’s been here recently. Tons of shit hitting the fan — of all different colors:

  • Tech stuff blowing up (not literally)
  • Sick dog
  • House under insect attack
  • And some other stuff

Bottom line is, the last few weeks weren’t easy — especially this week. Then, I got an amazing phone call (you’ll hear about it on the episode), with an amazing opportunity (seriously… listen to the episode!) that brightened up my entire week.

But here’s the cool part: This phone call, and the opportunity that came with it, would never had happened had I not put a little dream out there and told the universe what I want. And guess what? Sometimes, the universe gives you just that.

So check out today’s (super short) episode to find out the story, including the opportunity that I got, and our surprise, MASSIVE, HUGE, AMAZING guest on tomorrow’s show. (Confused about having two episodes this week? You should listen to find out more!)

Then, come back here, scroll down to the bottom, and put your something out there. Comment below and share one tiny (or huge) dream — and see what happens next 🙂

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IIP054: The Transition: Becoming An Entrepreneur (With Greg Hickman)

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Inspiring Innovation Podcast episode 54  Get it on iTunes

Today, we talk about a very important time period for an entrepreneur: The Transition.

Not the “before”, not the “after”, but the actual transition – into this new, challenging, unexpected and exciting lifestyle.

I’m joined today by my good friend, Greg Hickman — who only recently left his corporate job and became a full time entrepreneur. Greg runs Mobile Mixed and has become within only a few months a sought-after market influencer on all things mobile.

Greg Hickman of MobileMixed
Greg Hickman of Mobile Mixed

We chat about what often isn’t part of the entrepreneurship conversation: managing the risk when making the transition. From cashing in on 401k plans, dipping into savings, trimming down expenses and even selling the house – Greg shares with us what he and other entrepreneurs, like Amy Porterfield and John Dumas have gone through when they got started.

Episode Highlights:

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I recently interviewed Greg for another show of mine (that didn’t launch yet – on account of my own focusing efforts!), where we broke down what going mobile mean, why it matters to you, and what actionable steps you should take right now to make your site and business mobile friendly.

If you already have a website, you must listen to this eye-opening session.

If you don’t have one yet, but your employer does, you should listen to this show too. Chances are you can help your existing employer transition into a more mobile-friendly presence, and win some important bonus points.

Hell, you can even start helping local businesses with going mobile after this session, and get some consulting/freelancing cash flowing in to make your transition start faster and safer.

Just click on the button below and I’ll send you the session to your inbox! 🙂

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