Your First Thousand Clients With Mitch Russo

It is only when you give yourself permission to fail that you also give yourself the permission to succeed. This is one of the first lessons Heather Havenwood set out for a career in corporate America and had a lot of moments to ask herself what she really wanted to do next. Heather shares how she lost everything and realized she wasn’t a failure, rather she made a critical mistake. She has built an online information marketing company from zero to a million dollars and developed a passion for helping women in business to be financially self-sufficient. 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

From the time he was young, Rennie Gabriel was struggling with how to handle money effectively. It was definitely not taught in schools and the CPAs he approached certainly did not have personal budgeting information that they could teach. When he got deeper in debt even though he made more money, it finally dawned on him that more money was not going to solve a problem of mismanagement. He began to model what works and started hanging around with people who had the attitudes he needed to adopt. Rennie started copying what the wealthy did and started understanding the attitudes that wealthy people operated by. That’s what led him to start a program called Debtors Anonymous, a twelve-step program for people who can't handle money to find mental, emotional, and psychological support from other people who’ve been through the same things. 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

Jesse Cole is gifted in creating an entertainment experience that draws big crowds. He is able to take the worst performing team into stadium-packing teams based entirely on the idea of doing things differently. He is highly known for his work with the Savannah Bananas and his mantra in life is to think differently and let that make you millions. Any entrepreneur wants to be builder. Jesse is no different. He likes to take on a challenge, and that’s what he did with Savannah Bananas. From a baseball business, he turned it into an entertainment business. He turned baseball games into a circus that have the players do choreographed dances. Jesse shares that with creating attention, you can start creating customers for life. 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

Connecting with people is every entrepreneur’s biggest focus because through these connections come the growth of a company. Between connections and growth is the relationship culture, and this is where Michael Zipursky learned what was and wasn’t working when he was building a consulting business. He got to places and gained access to high value customers by hanging out with ex-pats and foreigners in little takoyaki joints and ramen stalls instead of going down to the local bars like his contemporaries. Michael shares his story of making the switch of working with outside companies to working individually with coaches and consultants. 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

Fiction is the spark for most writers. People learn from stories regardless if a writer writes elegantly. It’s how the stories are told and how people learn from it that inspired Caleb Breakey to start his ghostwriting company. Starting out, he was willing to undercharge himself with his first client at $300 for an entire finished book that he needed to edit. From there, he grew the $300 to a six-figure business and perfected the Speak to Write process. Caleb shares the seven steps for writing a powerful book and getting it out there to inspire people. 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

A lot of people know what their passion is but they have no idea how to express it, and hence they get stuck. There are passions that are tied to external and physical things that are all temporary, and people are often caught up in the feeling of constantly being behind their dreams and passion. This usually happens when you develop a mindset that what is around you is the truth you need to respond to. Bri Seeley helps people get out of that mindset and practice their truth to show up fully in life. She shows people that the ability to love oneself is more meaningful than living in a big beautiful house.  Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are times when you don’t need all the trappings to get things started. When you are in alignment with your goals and the path you need to reach them, you will do all you can to make the sophisticated simple and realize your dreams. Dov Gordon believes that being exceptionally good at what you do will make your clients move forward in key areas they are currently having concerns with. You don’t need to share the same experiences to get on the same level with them and show how you can assist in removing the obstacles along the way.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn

Starting a business can result in one of two things, you either make money or lose it. Matt Watson has experienced both with his own company but that didn’t deter him from working on improving his product. His experiences taught him how powerful online advertising can be. He shares how startups can efficiently get on the first page of Google when people are searching for answers. As the Founder of Stackify, Matt has proven that consistent content marketing is a fast and efficient way to gain exposure and traction.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn

As we step into life, we see people who are already at the top. Selena Soo, a super fan of thought leaders and successful people, found that she wanted to know more than how they got there, she was seeking inspiration. What started as helping people for free so she’d get to meet her idols grew into an impactful contribution of connecting people through authenticity, simplicity, and brilliance. She explains the importance of admiring great people, learning their best practices and values, but also letting your idols see your own value. Selena shares her publicity strategies and how to build lasting relationships as a super fan.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn

Google can help users get to you when you can provide the answer to their questions and show the system that you're an authority on the topic. This is where Paul Kortman helps clients dispel myths and rumors around SEO. He explains how links are equally important to leverage your content. He reveals how diving deep into the market you are writing about can help you find what is missing for people so that they will become interested in you.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn

The key to make work feel like it’s not work is to enjoy what you are doing. Marc Mawhinney discovered this when he decided he wanted to become a coach after being in the real estate industry for ten years. He doesn’t tell people that being a coach is easy and quick way to make money, because it wasn’t like that for him. What Marc tells his clients is to do a daily something that they enjoy so putting in the extra hours doesn’t feel like extra hours. His got his clients through podcasting, Facebook groups and email marketing, knowing that results will come, he just needs to stay current and consistent. He shares what it takes to be a coach and how you can find yourself wanting to be one.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn

How do you start in PR? This question eats up any entrepreneur if they don’t get the answer right. The first thing about PR is having a clear message that you want to send out to your clients. Josh Elledge, Founder of Savings Angel, helps you define yourself in one line so that the media puts focus on you at your first shot and goes all in. Another key to remember is that you need to be the authority in the subject that you are talking about, otherwise people will think you are not important or impactful. Serve people instead of selling to them is one of Josh’s key philosophy as business owner. He shares fantastic tactics on how he helps people set up for a huge publicity boost.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn

Can you imagine earning but not having to go to work each day and retiring at the age of 32 and living the life of your dreams? Lane Kawaoka was living the linear path, going to college, graduating with an engineering degree from the University of Washington, and getting a day job in the corporate world as dictated by the status quo. Renting out his Seattle home got him started on real estate investing at the age of 22. Fast forward ten years, Lane is enjoying passive streams of income from investing. He’s now offering a powerful master class to help working professionals like him generate passive income and have the freedom to do what they want. Work towards your goals by taking advantage of the financial education he’s crafted from his experience with Main Street investments.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn

As an entrepreneur, you should always ask which one of your competitors would like to partner with you so you can both grow and succeed. This is the competitive advantage that Barry Gosin learned when he bought his primary competitor out. He knew they shared a vision of success where they could both benefit. Barry shares important points on the margins for paying and selling.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn

Social capital dictates a business owner’s position in the market. With this kind of business of belief, opportunities rise for every member of the organization. Instead of building a culture that punishes employees who fail after they take a risk, companies should focus on building a supportive culture; work place that recognizes advantages and weaknesses that will help when problems arise as well as opportunities. Tom shares how this social culture also promotes freedom.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn

One of the first things that a company needs to envision is how they can price properly their product or service. The other is having a culture that doesn’t necessarily involve top players in the team. As long as every employee is aligned with the CEO’s vision, the rest will fall in. These are the lessons that Cameron Herold learned as he started his early with this entrepreneurial journey. He explains how PR can really help on boosting a company, especially when you get media involved in it. He built a successful company using this, also using culture a key to keep everyone moving to the same direction. Cameron shares how business can get proper financial oversight from their startup stage.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn

When you treat your business like an infant, you’d realize that it will not grow on its own. You have to be there when it becomes a toddler as it looks for potential clients. And then it grows to its teenage years where everything is a risk because there is this want to be everything and anything for everyone. Brian Smith explains the birth of a brand through his experiences in surfing and owning a billion-dollar company. But the best advice he gives to entrepreneurs is to go deep and connect with spirit and know what it is that you really love doing.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn

Business owners who work 9 to 5 and go home to work for their own 5 to 9 are admirable. To make this time worthwhile, study and learn something. Put this learning into practice and keep doing it until you become a master of your market. This is how the king of sales Jeffrey Gitomer made a lot of money. And then he went one up and developed “write to share.” When writing has value it is worth sharing, and when you share this valuable knowledge there is not only wealth in it, but also a way of paying it forward. This is the best form of content marketing that is valuable, usable and implementable. Learn the tips of going from understanding to proficiency to mastering and then finally to teaching.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn

Successful business owners have a system they have developed to able to pivot and become marketable. They come prepared all the time with good PR being the key. Matt Kazam saw all of this when he was the most in-demand comedian in Las Vegas. His father taught him that in order to become successful, he needed to do 10 things to get work done. He continues to do that today, but Matt has also found a system that puts value in businesses using humor to enhance his business. Creating content for commerce is not that different from setting up for a stand up show. Learn how comedy can be applied in your business and elevate your brand.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Your First Thousand Clients Community today:mitchrusso.comMitch Russo LinkedIn

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