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Show Topics:

• Come to BlogWorld
• Create a speaking and coaching brand
• Help with a new travel tips website

Are you going to BlogWorld?

Jason: I want to become a speaker, leader, helper, and coach, but I find myself looking at these goals in a few different areas. I need to figure how to make my ideas concise enough that I can be effective, however I am unable to find what one or two of these should go together or should I just find one and go all in? Am I able to be effective if I match up a few of the ideas together?

I feel like I lack the technological know how of where to begin and how to create my brand and start to make my presence known. Could you give me some advice and ideas?

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Show Topics:

• Justin’s European trip and other summer travels
• 3 big mistakes in dealing with large contracts

I talked about speaking at BlogWorld (affiliate link and gets you 10% off with code: PodCoach10). Come to New York City and meet me in June.

Josh and I talked about traveling and then the three big mistakes he’s made lately while working on a big marketing contract. I learned a lot from talking to Josh about these mistakes.

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I’ll help you turn your ideas into a business that changes the world (and your bank account). Here’s how.

Download the show | Leave a review on iTunes | Submit a question or call (919) 355-8275.

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Show Topics:

• Dental insurance for self-employed
• Marketing a business that may harm a pet

Justin: I provide veterinary surgical procedures for veterinary clinics that are unable to provide these types of surgeries for their clients. I perform surgeries they normally have to refer out to specialty hospitals for lack of skills, equipment or the willingness to do them.

The benefit for the veterinary practice using our services are two fold:

1. Value added service for their clients
2. Additional revenue source they didn’t previously have available to them

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Show Topics:

• The best video camera for video blogging (I bet you already have one)
• Just ship it
• Guest appearance by Jon Dale

Josh and I had some surprises in today’s show, including a guest appearance by Jon Dale. After discussing domain names, we all gave our advice on the best video camera, and ironically landing on the same one.

Keith: I am in the market for a video camera for a blog that uses mini-documentaries as a platform. I’m not very tech savvy, but have some friends that can help. In your opinion, what would be a solid, economical camera? Where would you purchase it?

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I’ll help you turn your ideas into a business that changes the world (and your bank account). Here’s how.

Download the show | Leave a review on iTunes | Submit a question or call (919) 355-8275.

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Show Topics:

• Marketing for free by using forums
• How to market using social media
• Coming up with a business idea

Joshua Gordon joins me again to answer your questions. Email them or call (919) 355-8275.

Jean: Do you know what kind of forums I could visit / participate in where people would be looking to have websites made? I have tried a few marketing ones but didn’t feel that they were worth continuing to pursue.

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Show Topics:

• Metric / English measurements (not sure how that got in here)
• How to market a product when you hate marketing
• Building an online community

Joshua Gordon joins me again to answer your questions. Email them or call (919) 355-8275.

Scott: OK Justin, you know me really well. And, you’re also a customer! People who’ve seen my apps love them. When I can get them to leave a review in iTunes, they use phrases like “great”, “awesome”, “wonderful”, “elegantly designed,” “delightful”, “really useful”, etc. My brick wall is this: I cannot get the word out. And my reason is this: I dread (and perhaps even despise) the process of getting the word out. If I had the proverbial $5 million in the bank and could do what I wanted to do all day, I would be creating the apps and throwing them OVER the brick wall to somebody else to go and market them for me. I have ZERO interest in the marketing research and selling aspects of the business, and try as I might, I can’t get myself truly interested or motivated to do so. I know the mantra that you must be able to sell, and I can give mental assent to it, but I just can’t make it happen. I get drained just thinking about it.

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Show Topics:

• Blogging for two years but no community or audience, and few clients
• Get unstuck and find clients

Joshua Gordon joins me for the next few weeks to talk through a lot of questions that were recently submitted. It was great to get Josh’s take on the questions that have rolled in

Jon White: Justin/Josh I work with individuals and couples on improving their personal economy by giving them a new a perspective on their money. After blogging and podcasting for almost two years, I have created a lot of content but have not been able to build the community or gotten as many clients as I would have liked. In the past few months I have been questioning why I am continuing to do what I have been doing when it really has not worked out too well. I want to create content and products that will help people change their lives and allow them to live the life they want to, but I am having trouble determining what my target market wants and how to market it to them. Thanks for doing this and I am looking to the upcoming podcast. Should be a fun one!

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Show Topics:

• Stop spamming people in forums
• Automating social media
• It’s not about the skills but in how you market them
• Speakers get paid to market their business

I mentioned how I make money as a blogger.

Getting your message across by spamming is not the way to go. I’ve seen a lot of this as I’ve sat on the advisory board of 48days. I talk about it in this show and what to do instead.

Keith: Thank you for answering my question last week. My blog is released every Sunday. Once I do that, I would post a link to it on my Facebook business page which would automatically post it on Twitter & LinkedIn. Should I stop all of that and start some kind of newsletter so that the people who like to read it can still get it and all the others who don’t want it, won’t? Thanks again! I love the show & listen to it all the time. It has helped me out a LOT!

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