Your First Thousand Clients With Mitch Russo

If you believe that you have value to add then add it. Step up, speak up and become part of the conversation. That is exactly what Stephan Spencer did. Stephan got a job as a mic runner at an internet marketing conference so he can get in for free. As a 24-year-old young guy who thinks he knows SEO and online marketing and conversion stuff more than the panelists and the speakers, he started to chime in on some of the answers. By the end of the day, he had this huge stack of business cards, two of which turned into at least $500,000 each accounts over the course of time. Stephan didn’t have a portfolio but self-taught himself different online marketing techniques. He is now bestselling author and an SEO expert whose work includes helping business owners increase their visibility on the web and generate traffic through SEO. He says you’re on to something if you're creating something that is so valuable that people are compelled to share it, to link to it, to blog about it, and to tell people, friends, family a

There are no shortcuts to success. Almost every one of us has to go through tough times and learn how to move forward. Tom Hopkins’ journey towards becoming the influential person that he is now proves just how important hard work is. Aptly called The Builder of Sales Champions, Tom is also the author of the book How to Master the Art of Selling. From being thrust into the world of real estate at such a young age, he took on the guidance of J. Douglas Edwards and started doing better, growing himself later on to impart what he learned to other people. Tom says mastering the art of selling is about loving what you do and having the passion for it. He shares some tips on how to find that passion and gives some inspirational advice about selling and closing deals that will give you the confidence to take on the tasks coming your way. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Succeeding in your business is about going beyond the comfortable. Nathan Hirsch is no stranger to this when he built up his own remote hiring software, FreeeUp. Coming from one of those rare success stories that sprung up from a dorm room, Nathan started his now million-dollar business bargaining books in college. He later went out of his comfort zone and started selling toys and baby products at just 21 years old. Talking about his parents and the dream life he wanted, he explored on the kind of freedom he wanted in a job, which later on helped built his empire today. Hiring VAs from all around the world, expanding beyond his town, and helping others focus more on growing their businesses; Nathan shares about the increasing opportunities found in remote hiring. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are two big reasons why quizzes are incredibly popular. Number one, people love to talk about themselves, and the other thing is it lets you learn about yourself through quizzes. Josh Haynam, co-founder of Interact Quiz Builder, says a quiz lets people talk about themselves because you're answering questions that are often highly personal within the quiz. A quiz lets you find out about yourself because you're going to get personalized recommendations on how to improve at the end. Josh says there's an entire industry built around learning about yourself. People in the marketing world are taking advantage of building quizzes in order to entice somebody to buy something. Josh explains that somewhere between six and fifteen questions is optimal for getting somebody interested in your product or your service and then selling it to them. Discover how you can formulate and launch a quiz to capture an audience, get some leads, and get new opportunities from it.  Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review,

Businesses is relationship between people, and selling is not about pushing people and putting a lot of sales pressure on the sales event, the sales page, the sales call, and so on. It's all about creating a marketing strategy and creating messaging and communication that is all-around, installing buying beliefs. That’s what respect-based marketing is all about. CEO and Founder of Wild Audience Bastian Ernst explains respect-based marketing is offering something to relevant to a person that solves that person's problem. Bastian says if you do that, that person will actually thank you and appreciate you, and you don't push anything onto someone. Learn more about respect-based marketing and how you can pull people into your sphere of influence so that they want to make the move and actually talk to you and buy from you. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The power of hypnosis could be one of the most powerful forces on the planet. Ultimately, everything is hypnosis because everything is what we perceive it to be, and all hypnosis is self-hypnosis, just the same as all learning is self-learning. Marshall Sylver is a respected business consultant and a world class hypnotist. Marshall says while we are 100% in control of our thoughts and emotions, we are not 100% in control of our environment or our world. The one that we're dealing with in the world are people that are not willing to be responsible. The first thing we've got to do to create a life of purpose is we've got to be willing to take full responsibility for our current circumstance. Marshall shares his story of how he went from living in a renovated chicken coop to a beach front property using the power of hypnosis. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are a lot of businesses you might like to go into, but coaching consultant Extus Justin says the one that you should go into is the one that is solving pain problems for other people. Offering coaching and advice and going out and saying, “Here’s what I want to help someone with,” is a route that can lead to failure. Instead, you should try to find what people are struggling with and figure out how you can make them realize their problem and want to solve it. Extus says your job is to take away the pain and replace it with success, and that’s when you start to see results because that's what people want. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is always something to be said about a renegade businessman who started with nothing and slowly built his company the hard way. For those looking to make it big in direct response marketing, perhaps you’ll find courage in Doberman Dan’s inspirational story. He is no stranger to the school of hard knocks, fighting back to become successful over and over again. After nine years of serial failure, he used direct response marketing to start a self-publishing business in the bodybuilding niche. About twelve months later, Dan was making enough money to finally to be able to leave his job. Since then that's been his entire business model for the past 23 years: starting business businesses in different markets and niches using direct response marketing. Now with Marketing Camelot, Dan continues to explore more ways to launch and encourage other entrepreneurs.  Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choice

Why is now the best way to grow revenue with online courses and corporate digital training? And is there a way to achieve this in a culture that demands authenticity? Isaac Tolpin reveals ways of disrupting EdTech by aligning online courses with human behavior. Isaac is one of the Founders of ConveYour.com, the #1 Micro-Learning platform for influencers and companies. He’s a tech entrepreneur and futurist at heart, on a mission, enabling brands to authentically connect and inform at scale with over 105 million in combined revenues from the companies he’s helped build. His success comes from understanding the relationships between human behavior, business and technology. This expertise has helped celebrity influencers and companies to transform their knowledge into humanized digital training. His recent background includes being a keynote speaker, digital marketer, and EdTech disrupter through the pioneering Micro-Training technology, ConveYour.com. Learn from Isaac’s real-life experiences before his success o

What’s the next big step after the billion-dollar idea? When it comes to building a sturdy foundation for your business, it is important to work out the logistics in your follow-through. How detailed is your implementation going to be? And will it correspond with your original intention from when you first started out? Business expert Nicole Holland shares the secrets on how to leverage your existing resources and properly execute your vision.Nicole was named by The Huffington Post as one of the 50 must follow women entrepreneurs in 2017. Her diverse work expertise has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur and The Huffington Post. She is known for helping brick and mortar businesses connect with their ideal markets. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For someone who didn’t have a degree in technology, business expert and strategic coach Penny Zenker ended up going from being chief technology officer to taking her boss's job and being responsible for a holding company across five different companies in three different countries. Penny shares that her experiences working for a market research firm taught her the most valuable lessons about time management and how to think and act strategically. She said that being presented with challenges pushed her to grow her expertise. She’s now focused on helping people regain focus, reset their priorities, and increase productivity with an innovative new system. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today’s current financial state of affairs, every business owner must create an inbound flow of leads. You create better businesses through better leads, which requires a higher level of understanding about what it means to be in demand. Luckily, Tom Poland has taken care of the process with his program called Leadsology: The Science of Being in Demand. Tom operates a blended learning program that gives professional advisors a model for generating a flow of high-quality, inbound, new client enquiries into their businesses almost every week of the year. Tom, a marketing mentor who started his first business at age 24, has gone on to start and sell four others, taking two of them international. He’s helped over 2000 business owners across 193 different industries add millions to their earnings – and with Leadsology, you, too, can be in demand. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad

How can you maximize profit with your retail business? Salena Knight knows the strategy. She is a business owner who started as a government employee dealing with teams of contractors, angry clients, and mayhem on a daily basis. Adding to that a miracle, her new baby who needed a sustainable baby product. Salena did what all great entrepreneurs do and opened a retail store. That's when the life-changing lessons of business hit like waves on the beach, “How do I get clients? How do I manage inventory? What about staff?” Finally, she perfected the process, sold the stores, and now teaches others how to scale their own retail empire even in the face of Amazon. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Being online is not an option, it's a must, and there's a simple way to succeed if you're willing to persevere. LinkedIn consultant and strategist Sarah Santacroce is going to show us how. Sarah is a self- proclaimed introvert and is nothing but determined to be extroverted with clients in helping them with their LinkedIn presence. Back in 2006 when social media was just beginning, Sarah found a way to create buzz around her own company and thought that if she can do that for herself without a budget, she can definitely help other business owners and entrepreneurs do the same thing. She shares that having a can-do attitude will help you become successful in business. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Want to change people’s lives for the better so they could pursue their dreams and attain them? This has always been what Charles Byrd, Evernote guru, wanted to do in life. It led him to create a course that teaches entrepreneurs and professionals how to apply Evernote to their businesses and lives so they can have less stress and find what they need within seconds. Since doing so, things have snowballed in a beautiful way to where he reaches over a million people a year with his message and builds relationships that have been fundamental to his strategy. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Imagine if you could have the ability to see the future, what would you like to know? Daniel Ameduri of Future Money Trends Newsletter is a business expert who claims that to be able to see the future, we must extrapolate where we are now to where we will be in the future. When it comes to money, he has the crystal ball to know what’s going to happen next. What started as a hobby of doing economic updates and forecasts turned into a full time business of putting content on the internet and building up an educational brand and a financial publishing company. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In every business and with every business person, there are blocks that will cause hold-ups. Luckily, with the advent of the internet, we can learn from online courses and self-help programs. But not all business owners become successful with this step, and Brian Ridgway was one of them. To make matters worse, his self-help addiction lead him to seven failures. Still, this did not stop him from finally generating $160 million. He discovered that when the standard business stuff isn’t working, it’s time to turn to the spiritual side of things. Learn how he is able to help entrepreneurs with lifelong issues and solve it in just one hour.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn

The strategy of differentiation is a core element of a strong foundation for what it takes to grow a business. This is what Ron Carucci learned through his own experiences with being a CEO. Ron is a business expert who specializes in working with leaders of organizations to greatly enhance their skills and help accelerate the growth of small companies. Ron says growing a business starts with understanding exactly what makes you unique, what, and why people are buying from you. It could be service, innovation, cost management, creativity, or anything that sets you apart that have attracted your customers and got your funders to talk to you that makes your product or your service so unique against an array of competitors. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many of us have faced insurmountable challenges in life where we almost gave up, but we didn’t. Kimanzi Constable delivered bread for 12 years but he had to wake up in the middle of the night to start his work. He wrote a journal about the experiences of those 12 years that turned into his first book, “The Tales of Everyday Working Man and Woman.” Like most authors, he needed to sell his book but figured that guesting on podcasts is one way of achieving this, as well as learn the basics of SEO. Kimanzi shares that to become a writer for Fortune or Entrepreneur Inc., you don’t need to be an expert, you just have to show people that you do know what you’re talking about in your topic. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As an entrepreneur, you need to make enough decisions, get into enough trades and investments, and build enough relationships so that there is enough in your life going well that they make up for the things that don’t. Brad Hart became a successful real estate developer where he developed the mindset that he would rather make more marbles than take everyone else’s. He believes collaboration and cooperation should be the driver to make and grow a business, rather than the cutthroat concept of capitalism. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices