Project Ignite Podcast With Derek Gehl: Online Business | Internet Marketing | Make Money Online

Nathalie Lussier has been building websites since she was 12, and I trust her more than anyone with her knowledge on pop ups and list building because she has the experience to back it up. Nathalie has launched her 30 day challenge to get people out of their comfort zones, building their lists, and improving their business. Here we talk about which pop up plugins to use and how, and the tricks that Nathalie used in both paid and free advertising to build her customer base.

Sean D’Souza is one of the most respected marketers and copywriters that I have ever come across, and I’m incredibly excited to have him on the show today to walk us through the framework of his book, the Brain Audit. Sean guides us through his Seven Red Bags analogy, and explains the importance (and the trickiness) of working with urgency as a motivator. He also shares where you can find the first chapter of his book for free.

Dave Rogenmoser was born an entrepreneur, and most recently he’s turned his entrepreneurial mindset to LinkedIn: a platform which he thinks is seriously overlooked by most businesses. If you’re working in the B2B space, or are trying to connect with business owners and decision makers, Dave’s surprisingly quick and easy tips will absolutely generate more traffic, more leads, and more conversions.

Dave Espino is an absolute authority on an incredible new platform called Udemy. Udemy is the perfect space to post information products in the form of courses–videos, slideshows, audio–and to start generating some serious passive income. You can also link your Udemy with Blab.IM, which we’ve talked about in previous episodes, to build your list.

I’ve been using Eugene Ware’s Market Samurai for years, and today he shares with us the benefits and importance of creating fantastic content–something that his other program, Content Samurai, makes incredibly easy. We talk about the importance of distribution, and how to get from a single article to heaps of content in an hour or less.

This episode features Matt Astifan of WebFriendly.ca. Matt has run over 200 very successful Internet Mastermind Meetups over the past six years, building a community of over 5,000 members. Matt is a leading authority on running affective social media campaigns, and in this episode he shares with us the formula that he’s used to build his businesses: the Ace Formula.

This episode is a little outside of our regular content, but I’m really excited to bring it to you today. Dr. Jones is a leading expert on the Health Model, and in this episode he talks about his favourite supplements, his dietary habits, and how he would suggest that we as entrepreneurs maximize our health and brain performance.

In this quick podcast, I get into the single biggest mistake I see people make when they consider their sources of traffic generation. It’s more complicated than you think, but it doesn’t have to be impossible!

In this episode, I interview my long time friend and business partner Steve McKnight. Steve made the leap into being a digital educator in 2001–wait till you hear how he bought his domain name–and has since made over $26 million with one single website: PropertyInvesting.com. Steve offers his tips on building trust with your community, and a few words of wisdom to those of you just about ready to take the plunge into full-time entrepreneurship.

In this episode I share my top ten email marketing truths–not about what goes into the email, but how to put things into emails. I discuss the optimum lengths for subject lines, paragraphs, even individual line lengths, and tell you why it is that I never use those fancy email layouts that come with internet marketing clients.

In this episode today we get into the science of thinking like a truly successful entrepreneur–getting past your negative self-images by learning to reprogram and retrain your brain. I see so many people unknowingly sabotage themselves by making the mistakes we talk about in this podcast. John is an authority in this kind of brain training and we’re lucky enough to have him share his methods with us.

This episode is about one of the most important things to focus on as an online business owner: your website security. These seven simple strategies are going to make brute force attacks and software hacks infinitely less likely to occur, and they all take less than a half hour to implement. You won’t regret it.

In this episode I talk with Marlon Sanders about the importance of knowing how to sell. In this day and age, shiny and slick graphics can take over the priority list, but you won’t be successful if you don’t understand how to sell. We talk about the future of mobile business (goodbye desktops!) and how to push traffic from one platform to the next.

In this episode I tell you about my three rules for running a successful Google campaign. I don’t sell any SEO services–this is all information that I’ve learned through trial and error to be true, with no strings. You need to be focusing on your keywords, on your content, and on your backlinks! But be careful–because with Google, it often is all about perceptions.

In this episode, media buyer extraordinaire Mike Hill shares his non-politically correct and candid opinions and advice on media buying today. We talk about how the industry has changed, how you should be buying media, and just how profitable that can be.  

In this episode, I outline my top three strategies to ensure that your landing page is delivering the results you want. People make these mistakes all the time, but it really isn’t that hard to correct! I talk about headlines, distractions, and the number one disconnect that pushes people off of your pages: congruence, or a lack thereof.

In this episode I tell you about what I see as the number one entrepreneurial success killer. It sounds daunting, but there’s an easy fix: two steps will take you from zero to 100; from thinking about a business to starting and running a business. It’s not hard, you just have to take action.

In this episode of the podcast, Facebook guru Laura Betterly shares her secrets and knowledge for maximizing on Facebook ad space. We talk about how to roll out advertisements, how to start conversations, and perhaps one of the most powerful tools Facebook has to offer: retargeting.

  In this episode I give you the rundown on how I create great, high quality, and unique content starting with just one audio file. Tons of people struggle with it, but it really doesn’t have to be that hard! I’ll walk you through it step by step.

 Joel Comm has been in the internet business since he was 16, which–if we count–was 35 years ago. Since then, he’s authored 12 hard copy books and over 40 digital ebooks and special reports. Joel has recently put out the third edition of his Twitter handbook, Twitter 3.0, and spent some time with us sharing his insights into the next big thing, and his insights on our most frequently asked Twitter related questions.