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GFY023: Interview with Terry Whalin (author of Jumpstart Your Publishing Dreams) If you have ever thought about going the traditional route with publishing a book, you’ll definitely want to tune into this podcast.  For Episode 23, I’m interviewing editor  and writer–Terry Whalin. Terry is an acquisitions editor at Morgan James Publishing. He has written more than 60 books through traditional publishers in a wide range of topics from children’s books to biographies to co-authored books. PLUS, he as appeared in more than 50 publications. Terry has a best selling book called Book Proposals that Sell and his latest book (which we’re chatting about on this podcast) is Jumpstart Your Publishing Dreams: Insider Secrets to Skyrocket Your Success. In this podcast, he provides some amazing insider secrets for easily getting into the publishing world, creating a strong platform for your writing, and how to market your final book product. Don’t miss it! A few items mentioned in this po

GFY022 – Interview with Jeet Banerjee I’m excited to be chatting with Jeet Banerjee on the podcast today. Jeet quit his job as a project manager for a software development company in 2009 to start his own business. Since then, he’s launched numerous successful startups, apps and other projects. PLUS, he’s written two books and is a consultant and speaker. Currently, he’s involved with at least 4 different project, including one called StatFuse which is a virtual platform that helps students and parents conquer college admissions through a variety of interactive tools and resources. But here’s the kicker—Jeet is only 20 years old.  Impressive, right? Check out the interview with Jeet to get his valuable insights on how he’s become so successful at such a young age and be sure to connect with him on Twitter at @thejeetbanerjee. Items mentioned in this podcast include: www.jeetbanerjee.com How to Build a Startup (Udemy course) Profitable SEO Strategies Pursuit of Passion   Did you like the

021: How to Escape the Entrepreneur Comparison Trap Thirty years ago, you couldn’t go online and compare your business, your life and your dreams to someone else’s. Back then, when starting a business, you couldn’t always see that many of your competitors were perhaps more talented than you, more established, had celebrity clients, or had all day long to work on their business (while you’re still stuck at your day job). On top of that, we now have social media. The tricky part about social media is that it looks like everyone is winning–all the time. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it can be if you measure the height your success against it. These days, because of the Internet and social media, it’s really easy to to get sucked into a constant comparison trap with other people and businesses. It’s easier than ever to feel bad about yourself and your achievements as you grow your business merely based on what other people are doing. The problem is when you start a comparison cyc

9 Tips for Creating Multiple Online Income Streams for your Business Earlier this summer, I wrote a blog post about how to create multiple streams of income for your business and I decided to expand on that idea and turn it into a podcast episode. When you set up multiple income streams in your own business then… (1) you no longer have to rely on just one aspect of your business to pull in all the revenue you need (2) you can mix passive and active income streams so that you’re not working dollars-for-hours all the time. Also, as you’ve probably noticed with your clients/customers/audience—some of them like to read a physical book, others like to take a course online, and there are always those who want to interact with you directly. When you can reach all of these people by creating various services and products, your audience and your business has the potential to start growing like a weed. Listen to this podcast to get 9 great tips for expanding your business, re-purposing your content and increasing

Episode 019: The Fool-Proof Marketing Strategy for Service-Based Businesses When you run a service based business–consulting, copywriting, therapist, coach (relationship, business, health, etc), motivational speaker, or anything along those lines—you are what I would call an “expert”. As an expert, there is a specific way that you have to market yourself in order to be effective–the GIVE GIVE GIVE SELL method. The idea is that as an expert, you give tons of incredible, valuable and useful information FOR FREE to your audience and then (and only then) you sell to them.  So you give and give and give and then sell. In other words, you don’t reach out to your audience/email list ONLY when you want to sell something to them. This is kind of sleezy and it can be annoying to people. Additionally, it is not going to help you create a strong following. Instead, you want to keep the communication open with your audience by giving them your best content for free. This turns you into a “giver” in

9 Tips for Creating Share-Worthy Content How many times to you feel like you create a brilliant (dare I say, life-changing) piece of content for your business—a blog post, article, podcast episode—and hardly anyone seems to notice? This especially rings true when you’re starting a new business, blog or online platform. You’re trying to churn out content, make an impact, share your priceless expertise for FREE–and sometimes all you hear is crickets for a while. There’s kind of a Catch 22–You need to produce great content to build a strong readership, but you want a large readership to feel like you’re being productive spending all your time creating content. The solution is to produce share-worthy content. In other words, produce content in a way that compels other people to share it and basically do the work for you to get your content out to the world. When more people share your content… You build your readership/fans/followers You make a broader impact You build your reputatio

Podcast 017: How to Use Google+ to Promote Your Business (with Chris Turner) Welcome to the very first episode of Go Fire Yourself. If you’ve been following my blog, you know that GFY was previously called The Day I Quit. But even though I’ve changed it up, I’m still dedicated to bringing you great stories and helpful advice from other great entrepreneurs, leaders and specialist. I’m excited today because I’m kicking off the new GFY podcast with Chris Turner—an SEO specialist and founder of ChocolateSEO. I met Chris at Podcamp in Nashville when he was giving a workshop on Google + and since I learned a lot from him in only 20 minutes that day, I thought he would be great to have on the podcast. Since most of us are new to Google+ (because it’s only been around for a short while), I asked him if he would share about how to use simple SEO strategies and Google+ to boost the online marketing strategies for local small business owners. SEO is an essential part of any good business marketin

Podcast 016 “Entrepreneurship is a little bit of a sickness and a disease,” says Mitch Gordon, founder of GoOverseas, “but it’s one that I’m happy to have.” When Mitch said this on the podcast, I couldn’t help but laugh because that’s exactly how I feel most of the time. Plus, I know that many of my fellow entrepreneurial friends can relate. When you have that innate entrepreneurial “bug” or “disease”, you KNOW it. And there’s no doubt that Mitch Gordon knows it and has truly embraced it. Mitch is one of those really cool entrepreneurs with a “pay it forward” attitude. Even with his super busy schedule and successful business with 20 employees, he’ll still genuinely ask you, “What can I do for you?” and find a way to help you out. After quitting his corporate job in consulting and auditing for PwC in 2005, Mitch moved across the world to Taiwan to start his first full-time entrepreneurial venture—Reach to Teach. When funds started running low and credit card bills began piling up, Mitch didn’t throw in the to

DIQ 015: Maximize Your Time in Your Current Job Today, the topic of the show is 5 ways maximize your time while you’re still working at your current job. In the last week  or so on the Day I Quit blog, I’ve talked a lot about this. When I interviewed Angela Proffitt for the last podcast, it struck me that she was using so much of the knowledge she gained during the 10 years she was working a job as a therapist to set herself apart and excel at her wedding planning business that she’s doing now. The fact is, she probably wouldn’t have grown her business so quickly if she hadn’t learned everything she learned working a job. This is the same with many of the other people who I’ve interviewed like Trevor Page, a java programmer, Jeff Quinn, a magician and Amber Campion, a yoga instructor. They’ve all used the time they spent in their 9-5 jobs wisely to increase their chances of being successful when they make the switch to being self-employed. Wouldn’t it make a huge difference if you maximized the time you’re sp

DIQ 014: Interview with Angela Proffitt (angelaproffitt.com)map :: {skin:’orange’, animate:true, width:’200′, volume:0.2, autoplay:false, loop:false, showVolumeLevel:true, showTime:true, showRew:true, downloadable:true, downloadablesecurity:false, id3: false} Angela Proffitt had her whole life planned out after college—she was going to work as a therapist, get married, buy a big house, have two kids and drive a Range Rover. Everything in her traditional upbringing suggested that she was on the right track with her life. But for Angela, she realized that this kind of dream wasn’t going to cut it for her. When Angela left her job as a therapist in a mental unit and moved back to Nashville, TN in 2003, she got a job working at a local hospital. Soon afterward, she took on her first wedding planning client “just for fun”. This lead to the next client and the next wedding, and pretty soon, she had a full-time job AND a full-time wedding planning business. By 2009, she was working 21 hour da