Your First Thousand Clients With Mitch Russo

Building relationships are very necessary for businesses. Yet so many still fail on creating that connection that they end up losing out. If you want your business to succeed, you must practice the art of relationship development. Jordan Harbinger of Advanced Human Dynamics and Art of Charm talks about networking, branding, and relationship development. He explores body language and communication, both verbal and nonverbal, while sharing his own personal journey. He teaches on the education of connection and gives some pointers on how to do well at networking events. He gives his insights on what goes on under first impressions and how to ace it to successfully connect with people, and reminds us to dig the well before we get thirsty. 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

Bryan and Shannon Miles is a power couple who grew their company in the virtual assistant industry from two employees to over 60. But as amazing as this story is, like most people, they started with a lot of heart-pounding risks and “burn the boats.” In the spring of 2010, Bryan was working as a VP of consulting for a construction company and was on four to six flights a week. At the same time, Shannon was working for a Fortune 10 company called McKesson. They had two kids at the time, two and five, and they hit a roadblock in terms of how they were operating as a couple and also how they were working in their jobs, coming to a point where they needed to make a change. Bryan and Shannon shares the preparation they did before quitting their job and taking the leap, and talks about how focusing on one vertical helped propel new contracts and referrals and word of mouth.  Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad

When you are in a great place where your health is fantastic, when something comes up, you sometimes make the assumption that it’s temporary and it’s all going to go away. That is not necessarily the case. When corrective care chiropractic Chris Zaino found himself in his late twenties contracting a deadly disease, conventional medicine gave up hope on him. However, he didn't give up hope. Instead, he doubled down on discovering a cure. That led him to a huge new business opportunity as the owner of a chiropractic clinic which is now one of the largest clinics in the world. Chris tells more about how he was able to cure himself from an incurable terminal autoimmune disease called ulcerative colitis. 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

Rob Kessler started out like many of us. He graduated college and took a job, but one day he had a brilliant but simple idea. He became obsessed with it. It took over his life and he refused to stop until he brought his idea and his business to life. His invention could be called the most dramatic enhancement to collared dress shirts in the last 70 years. When you hear about what it is, you, too, will say, "Why didn't I think of that?" Rob Kessler invented the placket, a plastic-like stiff reinforcement on the part of the shirt with the buttons and the button holes that goes down the front of your shirt. Rob goes back to life in college and what happened in the junction between getting a job and inventing the placket. 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

After learning important lessons about relationships, accountability, and constant change, Rick Miller emerged as the leader he always was. After his time spent as a Vice President and General Manager for Sperry Corporation, he was snapped up by AT&T as their first Senior Corporate Officer not hired from within. It was there he tripled the growth rate and was promoted to the President of Global Services. Later, he led a Fortune 10 company as the President of the government division of Lucent Technologies which took him directly into the war zones of Iraq. Now he speaks on stage to thousands about his most important message ever. He just released the book that has taken 40 years of experience to create called Be Chief: It's a Choice, Not a Title. 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

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

From being under millions of debt to resurfacing back with a coaching business inspired by Og Mandino called the Og Mandino Leadership Institute, Dave Blanchard shows how nothing could get in the way if you’re willing to help other people. Dave takes us into his life story and helps inspire people to become their best selves through his programs. He believes in identifying the habits of people through a habit finder to further enhance and help them in their lives. Touching on the importance of vivid visualization and intrinsic validation as well as unhealthy habits of thinking, Dave shows how we can effectively create a life that is really worth living. 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

Mistakes are necessary steps to success. Jake Jorgovan knows that too well. Before becoming the founder of Lead Cookie, a lead generation services company, he started his career leaving one business after the other. But without giving up and getting discouraged, he eventually landed on a job that has his strong suit: sales consulting. Jake imparts knowledge on LinkedIn marketing, from where to begin to how to generate results. He teaches three important things that will get you leads through optimizing your profile, getting sales navigator, putting out content, and more. He also touches on topics like video content and crushing contact requests. Overall, he highlights the concept of your value proposition, which is about finding your niche and watching it multiply your efforts. 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

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