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Show Topics:

• Worldwide business business from North Dakota
• Partnering to make a business stronger
• Content marketing for a web design firm

Garrett Moon and Justin Walsh have partnered together to build a web design firm in…Bismarck, ND.

Garrett is a designer and Justin is a developer so they compliment each other well. They met in the old school world of advertising and decided to start a business.

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I gave some top Air Force Cadets some weird advice last night. I told them to do whatever you want right now, and figure out a career later in life.

These guys are the top of their class; an elite set of jumpers that you’ll see parachuting into stadiums around the country before football games. They have the best grades and can do about anything they want. So why tell them to do anything now and figure out the important stuff later?

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Show Topics:

• Should I display pricing on my website?
• The definition of real community

Free Agent event this weekend.

Jimmy: I have been going back and forth on whether to put the price of my coaching package on my website. I currently have my price on my services page on my website, but I don’t know if that is preventing people from contacting me after they look at my website. I’m starting to get more and more traffic from my blog posts and Google adwords is optimized and bringing quality traffic in my area, but no phone calls or emails for the free 30 minute consult after they view my services page. My gut feeling tells me to take it off so I can explain the value of coaching before I tell them the price, but I figured you would be the best person to ask and other coaches may have this same question.

Community post. Have you had it since college? Where?

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I was in a brainstorming session with Kevin Miller, Gary Barkalow, and Jon Dale last week and we got to talking about community.

Jon brought up a definition of community that Gary created a number of years ago and we all agreed you need these three things:

• friendship
• context
• mission

If you want true community, it’s a given that you need friendship. You can’t go deep with people you’re not friends with.

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I’ve been wanting to write about the plug-ins I use at Coach Radio for a while, but I’ve been wrestling with creating a list. It’d be easy to go down my list and share the plugins I’m using, and while I may do that at some point, I thought it best to start with a disclaimer.

Using too many plugins can and will slow down your site and slower-loading sites get hit with a search penalty by google.

That should be reason enough not to use too many plugins. I suggest 12-15 max for most shared hosting. (If you don’t know, you’re probably on shared hosting.)

Secondly, plugins shouldn’t be viewed as a fix. Finding and paying for a good theme (I use the Standard Theme) means many of the features you want are built into the website. That saves the time and hassle of installing and setting up multiple plugins that increase load times.

Currently, I’m running 18 plugins at Coach Radio, but that will soon change in the next release of the Standard Theme (3.0). I expect to be delete at least six of them as more functionality is added to my theme.

How about you? How many plugins are you running on your website? What’s your favorite?

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After 205 shows at Coach Radio, almost half of them being interviews with world changers, I’ve decided to change the schedule up a bit.

In this short audio clip, I talk about the reasoning behind the change and what you can expect from here forward.

I haven’t gotten tired of talking to amazing people in the least. In fact, I’ve taken my own advice about getting fired up, inspired, and motivated from these interviews, and I’m doing something with it.

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My friend, Kevin Gainey, got me thinking about fences and dreams the other day. Kind of weird since I seem to have inspired him to think about it in the first place. Wait, did I just inspired myself? Moving on…

You really do need to read Kevin’s post to get a full view of this topic. He expanded my thinking when he said wide open spaces scare the hell out of him. Even though I brought it up, I got to thinking:

Wide open spaces scare the hell out of me too.

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Show Topics:

• Unsupportive parents
• Social media and time zones
• What I’ve learned in 6 years of business
• Staying disciplined after success

Todd: Were your parents supportive of your decision to leave the airlines, and did you care? It seems a lot of people still seek approval to be a free agent from people like family, even if they are able to dismiss others.
Rob: I like to think that I understand the basic concepts around interaction through social media and building a community, but I am having trouble implementing them lately.  Almost exactly a year ago, I moved from Illinois to Kathmandu, Nepal.  

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