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Austin Netzley is an author, investor, and the Founder of 2X, a company specializing in helping 6 and 7-figure service-based entrepreneurs double their business in 90 days.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Growth isn't about getting more leads, it's about working on your sales conversions, maximizing the lifetime value of your current clients, and giving your clients the ability and incentive to share.
2. The secret to scaling your small business? Make things simple. It's all about applying the 80/20 principle.
3. Everything is possible in your business if you can break free from the day-to-day.
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Sponsors:
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Chris Ducker is a serial entrepreneur and author of the bestselling books, Virtual Freedom and more recently, Rise of the Youpreneur. Based in Cambridge, England, Chris owns and operates several businesses, including the VA recruiting hub, VirtualStaffFinder.com and the personal brand education company Youpreneur.com. He employs over 350 full-time employees around the world and is regarded as one of the top experts in the world on the subjects of virtual staffing and scaling an expert business.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. No matter where you are on the journey, you're exactly where you need to be right now. It's not about the destination, it's about the journey.
2. Just because you can do all the things in your business doesn't necessarily mean that you should
3. Successful entrepreneurs and leaders define themselves by their ability to work harder, longer, smarter, faster and all that sort of thing. But that hustle and exhaustion will become part of your identity. And before you know what's happening, you’re burning out.
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Sponsors:
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Doug Bouton quit his law career and led Halo Top ice cream to #1 brand and $300m in sales. Now, Doug is starting over with Gatsby Chocolate, the first-ever low-calorie chocolate brand.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Take that leap. Remove the monetary value as motivation and find joy in the process and the people. You will never regret taking the leap in.
2. If your product wasn’t good enough, your brand doesn’t matter. If your product is good enough, your brand doesn’t matter.
3. The product should retain the customer. If that doesn’t happen, it’s not worth the time and effort acquiring the customer. It’s like putting water in a leaky pocket.
It's simple: eat better chocolate, so you can eat more chocolate - Gatsby Chocolate
Sponsors:
HubSpot: Learn how HubSpot can help your business grow better at HubSpot.com.
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Arjun Bhatnagar is the CEO and founder of cloaked - a consumer-first privacy startup dedicated to bringing humanity back to the internet.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Think about how to get personal. Every person listening to you wants to take a bet on you and what you’re doing. Your team and your customers are aligned to what you believe in, what you think about the world, and what you want to change.
2. A bad concept with a good presentation is doomed eventually, but a good concept with a bad presentation is doomed immediately.
3. You have to figure out what you resonate with and channel that out. Otherwise, there’s no other way to tell your story that attracts a product or convinces you to a product that you want to build.
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Sponsors:
HubSpot: Learn how HubSpot can help your business grow better at HubSpot.com.
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Melinda Wittstock is a 5-time serial entrepreneur in media-tech, and the CEO and founder of Podopolo, the podcast app that makes listening interactive, discovery effortless, and podcasting profitable for creators.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Podopolo is the only app out there built by podcasters, for podcasters as well as for listeners and everybody else. It is a whole ecosystem where everybody wins.
2. Structural problems that prevented creators from easily growing their reach and discoverability, engaging with their fans, knowing their fans, having the deep audience analytics that were actionable to be able to make content more responsive to listeners and viewers.
3. One of the reasons is it can be hard to really discover something new. There's so much to discover, and you have to know what you're looking for.
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Sponsors:
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HubSpot: Learn how HubSpot can help your business grow better at HubSpot.com.
Speakeasy: An app that allows you to organize your own live talk show! Visit GetSpeakEasy.com to download the app and start interacting with your audience LIVE!