Nine-Five Podcast

#0097 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. How to decide if your own business is right for you (and will it make you happy)
2. Understanding your Ikigai: What that means and how it can help you to live a more fulfilling life
3. Determine how to build a business and a brand that is in alignment with your core values

If you're core values are not considered in your business, how far do you think you'll make it?

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#0096 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. Ways to effectively use incentives to grow your business
2. Addressing the question: “Won’t people only sign up for the free trip or incentive?”
3. Why discounting your products or services could be terrible for your business

Have you thought about using incentives to grow your email list or bring in more potential leads?

Well today, Marco Torres is with us to share his amazing...

#0095 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. How to cut through the noise and BE KNOWN for something in your industry
2. Using consistency to build momentum and propel your brand 
3. 3 ways to get more eyes on your personal brand, even if you’re starting from scratch

You're stuck, trying to build your brand from scratch.

You don't have the money to pump into ads, so you're getting drowned out by all the big...

#0094 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. How to make your course standout against the competition before they even purchase it
2. Why you need to “forget everything you know” before starting to create your course
3. The elements to a truly successful course, and one that your students will stay engaged with to the end

As much as it seems like they are, online courses aren't exactly a set-it and forget-it type of thing. At...

#0093 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. The importance of collaborations and why getting out of your comfort zone might be the best thing you ever do for your business.
2. Standing out against the competition, by leveraging your craft.
3. Why doing things that fuel your creativity is good for you and your business.

Building a business based around something you enjoy doing is a bit of a double edged sword.

On one han...

#0092 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. Coming up with new and creative content ideas that make people fall in love with your brand.
2. How to find your creative groove before creating.
3. What is the creative process for a professional UGC (user-generated content) Creator and how to we use that to our advantage when creating content.

Content Creation isn't easy. How do you grab someone's attention when our attentio...

#0091 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. Insanely smart short and long-game ad strategies to reach prospective clients.
2. The Iceberg Strategy - What it means and how this will help you meet your customers half way.
3. Learn how to meet your potential clients BEFORE they have a problem, and how this alone can help you beat your competitors to the customer.

If you've spent way to much money on ads and had little results t...

#0090 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. What the experience has been like to suddenly drop a 9-5 job and start a business.
2. Why it’s important to start branding yourself NOW, even if you don’t have a business yet.
3. Defining your CLEAR NICHE so you can speak directly to your audience.

Lindsay Hanson kicked off her entire entrepreneurial career by straight up quitting her job. No established business, no clear direction, ju...

#0089 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. How becoming a publish author boosts credibility and opens doors to new opportunities
2. The B.E.A.T.S Method - Mapping out the beats to your life to tell your amazing story
3. How to easily publish your own book by using content you’ve already created

Through his marketing skillset, Vince Warnock has helped companies reach 8-figures, was named in the list of Top 50 Marketers by Adobe, ...

#0088 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. How to avoid getting “Should-On” by your family, peers, and jobs.
2. Finding out what happiness means to you and have a better understanding of WHO you actually are.
3. Ways to start aligning your business, career, and life with what makes you truly happy.

Have you ever felt like you're no longer happy in your business?

What started out as something you were excited and pa...

#0087 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. Ways to monetize and make a living from podcasting
2. How building credibility within your industry can lead to targeted and lucrative sponsorship deals
3. Bringing on guests who pay to be on your show - how to do this in a way that won’t rub people the wrong way.

Everyone who hosts their own podcast wants to figure out ways to monetize it. But the answer to how is not always clear or e...

#0086 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. What is the Hub & Spoke Model? How can it help unify your digital marketing strategy.
2. Why your website is the MOST IMPORTANT aspect of your digital marketing strategy for attracting leads and customers.
3. How are marketing funnels and sales funnels different, and why you must leverage BOTH to succeed.

After working as a marketer with many major brands like Apple. Visa, and Wells...

#0085 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. The 3 questions you need to be able to answer before starting your own software or app.
2. Where can you turn to find developers to help create your software?
3. How much does it really cost to get your software developed? It's not as much as you'd think!

Within 10 months of development, Tim Branyan was able to create a SAAS company, TrueFanz, that is now a multi-million dolla...

#0084 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1.  Facing the fears and feelings of starting a podcast
2. The power of social media and newsletters and how they can help you grow your show
3. Why is Dynamic Content and how can it help you get clear with your call to action

There's not doubt that deciding to start a podcast can be a bit intimidating. I haven't met a single podcaster who didn't have some form of the jitter...

#0083 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1.  The importance of finding a PROBLEM before trying to sell the SOLUTION - and why so many people get this backwards.
2.  Why understanding who IS NOT your audience is just as important as understanding WHO IS.
3.  Building an email list, and why it is one of the most crucial aspect of building and growing a brand that people trust.

After spending several years working for the same compa...

#0082 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1.  What does it mean to work ON your business instead of IN your business?
2. “OAO Everything” - Optimize, Automate, Outsource
3. Using the 5P Framework to turn your frustrations into freedom

It can become very easy to fall into a trap of sinking every hour of your time into your business. It would seem logical that this is how you grow a business.

In actuality, this is hurting y...

#0081 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1. Why you're having difficulty growing a brand and building something that people resonate with.
2. Steps you can take to ensure that people actually care what you have to say.
3. 7 Questions you can ask yourself every time you sit down to plan your content to leave your audience wanting more.

The idea of branding always made sense to me. Or at least I thought it did.

The co...

#0080 Top 3 Key Takeaways:

1.  How to become the face of your brand, and why it is so important today.
2. How to find out what makes you unique so your brand can stand out and shine among the rest.
3. 5 Magic Questions to ask yourself while defining your brand, and using the 3D Formula to help create your brand.

Tonya Eberhart and Michael Carr of BrandFace are joining us today to discuss why branding is so vital to ...

1.  Biggest reasons why the students taking your courses don’t finish them.
2. 3 things you can do to keep your students engaged to the end of your course.
3. Importance of tracking engagement data with your courses and how it can help.