The Art of Online Business
Imagine sitting down for coffee 2x per week and getting free coaching on the best actionable plans, practical tips and easy to implement secrets for increasing your Profit and Impact in your online business, with LESS Hustle. That's exactly what you can expect from The Art of Online Business podcast. For established online course creators and/or coaches who want to positively impact the people you serve, The Art of Online Business is the place where you'll learn how to intentionally develop a CEO mindset, optimize your sales & marketing, and create the systems and processes that your business needs to scale beyond your individual capacity (while keeping your sanity). Host Rick Mulready is an Online Business Coach and Ads Expert, but most importantly he's a dad and a husband. Along with everything else in his business, this podcast is meant to represent the inclusivity and diversity of online businesses. In this podcast, you get a mix of solo episodes where Rick candidly takes you behind-the-scenes of creating a 7-figure business, interviews with a diverse group of expert online entrepreneurs sharing their actionable advice, coaching student Case Studies and more. If you're looking for tips on things like creating an impactful values-based business, removing overwhelm, building a team, outsourcing, Facebook and Instagram ads, social media, productivity, scaling online courses or memberships, evergreen funnels, podcasting, building a YouTube channel and more, hit "Subscribe" now and let's do this!
Episodes
Let’s talk about revenue goals.
In this episode of Art of Online Business, I’m diving into this topic and why they may not be as important as we once thought. As online entrepreneurs, we've all heard that hitting the 7-figure mark is the ultimate measure of success, but what if we're chasing after something that doesn't align with our values or our lifestyle?
I hit the $1 M mark and realized that it wasn’t a...
Are you utilizing case studies in your business?
In this episode of Art of Online Business, I sat down with Brittany Herzberg who specializes in writing case studies that are rooted in SEO. Brittany is here to share why she believes testimonials are so last year and we should be focusing on case studies instead.
Brittany shares how to create case studies using her PET framework and where we should be using them to maximiz...
Are you using AI in your business yet?
In this quick tip episode of Art of Online Business, I want to talk about AI and give you a little bit of a different perspective than most people have when it comes to this technology.
There are a ton of tools available, and if you haven’t yet embraced them, I encourage you to check them out. However, if you haven’t yet taken the time to understand it and understand what the possibil...
Is your funnel working for your business? In this episode of Art of Online Business, I’m diving into some of the problems I see people having when it comes to building a funnel for their coaching business.
I can tell you what buttons to press in your ads and give you templates to use, but that’s just one part of the process. It’s really important to understand the bigger picture when it comes to finding what is and isn’t workin...
Are you using YouTube to find paying clients?
In this quick tip episode of Art of Online Business, I’m sharing a guest teaching episode with one of my Accelerator coaching members, Karin Carr. She teaches people how to use YouTube for lead generation so they can find paying clients.
Karin Carr is a sought-after speaker on video marketing for real estate agents. A 15-year veteran of the real estate industry, she was named ...
What do you think about passive income?
Have you always thought that it wasn’t possible or it is something that other people can do but not you? Or have you ever wanted to create a side project that can generate revenue for your business passively? If so, this episode is for you.
In this episode of Art of Online Business, I sat down with one of my Accelerator coaching members, Kristin Hanes, to talk about how she generates...
How do you know if your evergreen funnel is working?
In this quick tip episode of Art of Online Business, I’m sharing another Ask Rick episode. A question I hear from my Accelerator coaching members all the time is how to know if your evergreen funnel is working.
This question can be tricky to answer if you don’t have all of the pieces to the puzzle. It can be overwhelming to look at the entire funnel at once. To make it e...
Let’s talk about business values.
Your values are the foundation of your online business. I’ve been running my business for nine years, and putting my values into action has been one of the hardest things I’ve done. It impacts a lot more than you may think.
When you’re living through your values and making business decisions through your values, it can completely drive your online business success. Not only does it impact ...
Let’s talk about context when it comes to your team.
One of the simplest things you can do with your team is to give them context. In this quick tip episode of Art of Online Business, I’m sharing what I mean by this and how you can do it with your team to get them more involved in your business.
We all want our team members to be more involved and enrolled in our business, but how do we do it? No one will ever care about ...
With the explosive growth in popularity of Chat GPT and AI-generated content, one of the things we have been talking about is how it’s going to change the way we write content or blog posts for our business. And with that, there’s been a lot of talk about how AI-created content will rank on Google.
In this episode of Art of Online Business, I sat down with Gert Mellak, my resident SEO expert, to talk about what all of this mea...
Are you wondering how you can find out how your team is feeling about their workload?
In this quick tip episode of Art of Online Business, I’m sharing how you can get an instant pulse on their workload using Slack or your team communication tool.
This concept is called Green Light, Yellow Light, Red Light and it has been a complete game changer for me in my business. It allows me to quickly and easily find out what my tea...
Let’s talk TikTok.
It’s been a little while since we have talked about TikTok on the show and in this episode of Art of Online Business, I invited one of my Accelerator members, Keenya Kelly, back onto the show to share what’s working with TikTok today, what she’s hearing from the people at TikTok, and how we can make video creation as easy as possible.
Keenya Kelly is the CEO of If You Brand It, a marketing and consulting...
As online business owners, we know how fast things can change. What worked before might not work now, and what’s working now, might not work in the future.
In order to stay in business and continue to bring in revenue, we have to be in tune with what is changing and adjust our business based on what our audience needs from us.
In this quick tip episode of Art of Online Business, I’m diving into why this is so important an...
Do you know how to legally protect your membership?
In this episode of Art of Online Business, I’m sharing a replay of a fan-favorite episode from November of 2021 where I sat down with Chanteé Hallet and Autumn Witt Boyd to talk about everything you need to know about legally protecting your membership.
Autumn Witt Boyd works with influencers to help them protect their members and avoid costly legal mistakes wh...
What would you do in your business if you knew you were going to win? If you knew that you can’t lose, how would you do it?
In this episode of Art of Online Business, I’m sharing a coaching call that I had with one of my Accelerator members, Hallie Sherman. She already has a very successful membership program, and today, we are mapping out a new launch that she is thinking about doing for her audience.
Hallie Sherman is a...
The stuff I’m getting ready to share with you is going to send you down a rabbit hole that will blow your mind.
In this episode of Art of Online Business, I’m sharing 6 AI tools that every online business owner should be using today. There’s been a lot of talk lately about AI and I really want to talk to you about it too because it’s not coming up in the future - it’s already here.
We can either choose to ignore it and ca...
On today’s quick tip episode, I’m sharing a recording of a recent coaching call that I had with one of our Accelerator coaching members. This call is a 1-on-1 coaching call with Laura Peters from www.mikeandlauratravel.com. Laura and her husband are travel bloggers who teach other people how to be travel bloggers.
Not too long ago, Laura’s business was ruling everything in her life. She was working 80 hours a week, ...
How to Turn Your Launches From Stressful, Unfocussed Chaos Into Fun and Profitable | w/TaVona Denise
If you’ve been listening to the show for some time, you probably already know my stance on live launches. I am not generally a fan of only live launching your offer. As I teach my Accelerator members, you can do live launches, but you should also be offering your program on an evergreen basis.
Offering only live launches is stressful. There are so many moving parts and it can easily get overwhelming.
If you’re t...
In this quick tip episode of Art of Online Business, I’m doing an “Ask Rick” episode. This is where I answer questions that I get from people that I think would really benefit your business.
So in this episode, I want to talk about your role as the CEO. In past episodes, I shared more about why you should be incorporating CEO time into your business. This is when you block off time on your schedule to focus only on CEO things....
In this episode of Art of Online business, we are talking about a topic that I think we could all use some help with- copywriting.
This has never been a strong suit for me, so I am thrilled to sit down with Kris Jones today who is brilliant at writing copy in a way that doesn’t take up a bunch of our time.
I asked her to come on to the podcast and share her framework for writing better copy in a shorter amount of time to ...
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