Your First Thousand Clients With Mitch Russo

Some of us already have that entrepreneurial spirit at a young age. Sharing his own entrepreneurial journey from the age of fourteen is Jim Johnson, business expert and founder of Contractor Coach PRO. Jim talks about how he found his true north as a coach for contractors while giving his own advice to people in the industry. He discusses some of the systems he has built at creating a successful business, inspiring you to work on the fundamentals to support our businesses better. He also gives his observation on the usual mistakes and problems some coaches in contracting organizations tend to commit and how he was able to help them. Discover some great tools on contractor management as Jim shares some of the software that are out there today. 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 things happening around us are very much rooted in the abundance, or the lack thereof, we feel. What is inside manifests on the outside. Christy Whitman, CEO and founder of Quantum Success, is a believer of this. She sees the unmistakable relationship between success and your vibrations to a higher source. Exploring the source of your abundance, she talks about the Universal Laws when it comes to attracting and creating your own reality, breaking it down with the Law of Attraction, Law of Deliberate Creation, Law of Allowing, Law of Sufficiency and Abundance, Law of Pure Potentiality, Law of Detachment, Law of Polarity. She narrates her journey towards this discovery and brings in some inspiration that marries both business and spirituality. 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 the world has become more visual, it is no wonder that videos have become a powerful tool for businesses to market their own products and services. President and co-founder of Animoto, Jason Hsiao, talks about the power of video and the effect it can have on your company. As someone who has worked as a television producer, he has the insights that could help you push yourself among your competitors when it comes to video creation. He also gives some inspiration when it comes to actualizing your ideas, not letting them get stuck in the air. Moving deeper into the subject, he then shares some of the technical stuff—from the pricing system and Amazon investors to the relationship between the marketplaces and technology. 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

Relationship is key in business. A good foundation to build that is through communication, specifically one that stems from authenticity. Being transparent to the people around you and working towards the same goals with passion keeps you connected with them and helps realize business goals. However, not most of us are great at this. We still find it hard to communicate our thoughts well, even more so on a regular basis. Olof Mathé, founder and CEO of Mixmax, shares how he mastered the art of mixing technology and relationships together. Olof talks about his own journey, beginning from when he started up until the great things he is doing now. He shares some great advice on funding, appreciating investors, and more.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: mitchrusso.com Mitch Russo LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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

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

Growing up, we have always wanted to become successful. That means acquiring wealth and dreaming of a big house. Yet what seems to slip our minds is the amount of taxes that comes with dreaming of business success. A person who knows this all too well when he started his journey is Andrew Henderson of Nomad Capitalist. As someone who grew up being a big saver, Andrew knows the value of money. He talks about saving money on taxes and offers some astonishing discoveries about maximizing your income to live a better life. Just like the name of his company, he urges everyone to look for opportunities outside of the country and to be a Nomad Capitalist. He gives some strategies that you can employ in setting up international structure for your ventures. 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

With technology at hand, emailing has become an integral part in the business, most especially in the growth aspect. Talking to us about successfully doing email marketing is Tom Kulzer, founder and CEO of AWeber, one of the most well-known email delivery businesses in the world. Tom shares great insights on how we could figure out a way to get people to open more of our emails. He talks about having an algorithm that improves engagement as well as some of the best practices that he has seen from his best customers, from content to funnels. Tom goes deep with all of this and puts forward how to create connections among people in remarkable ways.  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

Nothing feels better than being able to serve others and have it circle back to find yourself in a community that is also willing to help you. It’s like the love you gave comes back to you. This is the kind of positive output that Jairek Robbins has experienced throughout his life and now gives back to others. As a performance coach, trainer, adviser, and a congressional gold medal winner, he helps clients and individuals optimize human performance and tap into the seven broad areas of life - health, emotions, finances, business, relationships, family, and spirituality. Jairek shows entrepreneurs to become more aware of their tasks at hand as well as the fires that go on around them. He takes us into the entire process and offers some great advice and tools that will help you do your best and foster that focus you need in your 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

Hosting or guesting on a radio show or a podcast has been growing rapidly among entrepreneurs and experts in multiple fields to propel their businesses and careers forward, gaining more clients and followers as well as recognition. If you find yourself interested in pursuing this, you’ll find a lot of great advises here and there is no better person to talk with us about that than Al Cole. As a ten-year veteran broadcaster from CBS radio, an author, musician, and keynote speaker, he shares the lessons he learned that would help improve the way you show up for interviews. Al talks about sales communication and the importance of being able to sell to yourself first. 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

Becoming an eCommerce entrepreneur can be a very lonely business. Most of those people are the ones who made that transition from corporate America and into this industry where you have to be everything. Barth Getto of Empowery eCommerce is familiar with this and he aims to help entrepreneurs to navigate eCommerce together. He has set up a unique venture through a cooperative with knowledge of the processes that will take them to success, from the marketing, advertising, and merchandising, to product specialist and dispute resolver. Barth shares some tips and insights about retail, Amazon, and the benefits of being in a cooperative. 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 biggest thing that tends to hold most aspiring entrepreneurs back from their businesses is self-doubt. They continually ask themselves, “Do I know this?” As Iman Aghay learned, you need to move past that self-doubt and into actually doing them because only then will you actually learn. Have you ever been in the position where you tried building a course that you wanted to use to create a company and the foundation of what you want to teach? If so, then Iman Aghay has got you covered as he breaks down all the process to get you to realize that with his great experiences as a TEDx speaker and founder of the largest info-marketing center in Canada, Success Road Academy. Iman takes us through a discussion of business models and online courses and webinars, and teaches on how to use these as marketing vehicles to build a relationship with your client. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join the Your First Thousand Clients Community today: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone

Not every connection happens with every spoken word that is out in the open. Sometimes, it lies in the secret language that allows you to connect with each other. This is what Jeffrey Shaw believes and he's on a mission to share this with the world. As a high-end portrait-photographer-turned-coach to entrepreneur in the creative business, he helps people find the more meaningful aspect to a conversation: the unspoken word.  By doing this, entrepreneurs get it right from the start because they’ll be working with their ideal customers. Speaking the lingo is about understanding the depth of the people you like to serve, and Jeffrey Shaw willingly speaks about it. 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

Persuading his way into the success that he is in now, Ryan Stewman has got an incredible and inspiring story that will push you to continue with your goals. He started behind bars and eventually moved his way out from the jailhouse to the penthouse by his desire to change his life. Now, he is a sales and marketing expert helping people work on their mindset first towards the path of success. Ryan gives the four areas that we have to focus on to move beyond the average algorithm the society wants us to be: faith, family, finances, and fitness. He gives some great advises on how to do sales right and offers a great gift that simplifies internet marketing. 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

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