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MBA1197 Dealing with Email While Traveling + Free Ride Friday! Feb 08, 2019

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Travel is possibly the best fringe benefit of the entrepreneur’s lifestyle. But when you’re on the road, the emails can pile up fast.

No one likes coming home to a crammed inbox. So how can you keep the backlog low? Whether you’re traveling for business or pleasure, there are ways to make sure those “unreads” are kept to a bare minimum — without missing anything important.

Today, we discuss the tips and tricks we’ve picked up from years of entrepreneuring around the globe. Our own experience, combined with tips from business efficiency experts, have given us an arsenal of tools that keep our email accounts from getting out of control whenever we step away from the laptops for a week or two.

See what options for inbox control work for you. Click Play!

EasyCourse

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MBA1196 Why Theming My Days Has Been a Game Changer Feb 07, 2019

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No matter how long you’re in business, there are still incredible, game-changing strategies to be learned.

We just found a new one.

For the past few weeks, we’ve been using a technique suggested by a keen business mind to increase our productivity. And boy howdy, does it do the trick. “Theming” our work days has made us more productive, more efficient, and better at everything we do. We just couldn’t wait to share this incredible “hack” with you, our beloved listeners.

You honestly can’t fully imagine the full benefits of this system until you try it. Tune in as we discuss how to implement this scheduling strategy, and how its success is rooted in the actual physiology of the human brain. We discuss the number of “themes” you should include, and how to lay out your personal plan.

This one’s a keeper. Click Play!

Dan Martell

EasyCourse

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MBA1195 Q&A Wednesday: Where do you recommend I post my open job positions? Feb 06, 2019

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It’s a big world, and there’s talent all over it. So how can you attract the right employees for your team?

It’s Q&A Wednesday, and one listener’s expanding business is ready to take on new blood. But with so many options for posting job openings, what’s the best move? Today, we discuss our favorite job boards and recruiting services. With a remote team of dozens spread across the globe, we’ve had to learn how and where to find the best, quickly.

We’ve also learned how to save time and effort by posting positions in a way that automatically weeds out the duds and brings in the real keepers. On this episode, we’ll show you how to write the job descriptions, and put them in the right places. With a little strategy, the right fits for your business will be knocking at your door in no time. Click Play!

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MBA1194 How to Get a Handle on All Your Domains Feb 05, 2019

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What’s in a name? If it’s a domain name, quite a bit. As entrepreneurs, we often impulse-buy domains, hoping to lock them down for our next great business idea. But all too often, we end up with nothing more than a pile of unused domains draining our resources.

Our host Omar is a classic domain addict. Today, he’ll explain how he finally got his extensive collection organized and under control. With a simple system he shares in this episode, Omar describes how to stop paying for what you’re not using, and start using what’s worth paying for.

There’s nothing wrong with a little investment in what could be a valuable domain. But as domain prices rise, it’s time to make cuts. We’ll discuss what kinds of domains are must-keeps, even if you’re not using them yet, as well as how to keep track of all your pending renewals. It’s just a little bit of necessary housekeeping that can save you a significant chunk of change — Click Play!

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MBA1193 Guest Teacher: Steve Glaveski- How to do Rapid Experimentation Feb 04, 2019

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“Fire and adjust.” It’s a military metaphor that works wonders in business; you put something out there, watch it miss, and use that information to hit the target the next time.

Or 3 times later. Or 10 times. Whatever it takes.

The point is, experimentation is key to creating the “perfect” product, or at least one people will buy. The best entrepreneurs don’t perfect an idea and release it — they release ideas and perfect them based on feedback. Steve Glaveski is an accomplished entrepreneur who knows how to try, try again until you hit the mark. Today, he’s here to show us how.

Glaveski has a system for creating and conducting product experiments rapidly, kicking your market research into overdrive with fast, real-world, actionable results. By failing as many times as possible as quickly as possible, you engage in a collaborative effort with your audience to discover exactly what they need — and what they’re willing to pay for.

Learn how experiments can tell you things you never would have thought of. Click Play!

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MBA1192 How to Create Accountability With Your Team + Free Ride Friday! Feb 01, 2019

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As your team grows, it becomes tougher to manage. Keeping everyone on task, and getting the results you’re paying them for, gets a little more complicated with each new hire.

We’ve got a strategy that keeps everyone on point by keeping everyone accountable. With a far-flung remote team of dozens, our system makes it clear exactly what’s expected when, with full buy-in from all our employees. Best of all, this system involves little to no whip-cracking, instead focusing on a shared agreement between everyone on the team.

Tune in, and learn how specific communication and planning techniques create a well-oiled machine in which all team members are on the same page. By getting employees to take ownership of their roles, you can manage with a lighter, more collaborative touch — which makes life easier for everyone. Find out how it works. Click Play!

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MBA1191 My Video Message Productivity Hack Jan 31, 2019

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We used to think time is money. Since then, we’ve come to realize that time is way, way more valuable. Every way to save time is worth more than its weight in gold, and we recently stumbled on something that takes hours — yes, hours — out of our workweek.

While writing can be painstaking (especially for those of us who aren’t great at it), talking is the simplest, fastest way to answer questions for team members and customers alike. That’s why we use video messaging to do most of our communicating. While filming videos — even short ones — may seem more complicated and time-consuming than writing emails, trust us: it’s not.

Today, we discuss how we use video messaging to shave massive amounts of time from our schedule. We talk about the process, the tools you’ll need, and how much easier team management and customer service can be once you’ve got it down to a science.

This will save you time. Lots of it. What could be better? Click Play!

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Dan Martell

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MBA1190 Q&A Wednesday: How do you come up with all your content ideas? Jan 30, 2019

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The toughest part about content marketing? All that content doesn’t create itself.

To keep your audience engaged, you have to produce consistent, quality content. And if you’re truly committed to producing podcasts, blogs, pics, and videos week after week, you can run out of ideas fast. Every content marketer needs a system to keep the topics coming, even when inspiration isn’t exactly striking.

It’s Q&A Wednesday, and we’re helping one listener with exactly that problem.

Today, we discuss how to systematize your content creation so that you never run out of creative juice, separating your topic creation from your content execution. Plus, we describe how to identify topics in your own niche, breaking down each aspect of your industry into perfect content fodder. It can be done, with the right procedures in place. Click Play!

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MBA1189 When & How to Kill a Product That’s Not Selling Jan 29, 2019

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Business is failure, and failure is business.

Knowing when you’ve lost — and how to move on — is an absolute requirement of entrepreneurship. No matter how much success you create, you will also create flat-out duds, products that miss the mark and just plain don’t sell.

No big deal.

Today, we discuss how to know when it’s time to admit defeat. And just to prove it happens to the best of us, we’re using our own company as an example. We recently launched a product that did not perform as expected, forcing us to pull the plug. We put in time, effort, and resources — and it flopped.

Fortunately, product fails are never a total loss. Knowing how to retire a product skillfully will ensure that you get something out of it, even though it didn’t sell. The information and lessons revealed by a flop can be the key to your next, much better idea. Find out how to cut your losses and create new wins. Click Play!

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MBA1188 Must Read: Choose Yourself by James Altucher Jan 28, 2019

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The bad news: you’re on your own. The good news? That’s not such a bad thing after all.

Since the 2008 financial crisis, what’s been called the “American Dream” (along with similar dreams globally) has collapsed. The days of just getting a job and supporting a middle-class lifestyle are, for most, over. To thrive in today’s world, you’ve gotta take the reins of your own financial future.

This week’s Must-Read for entrepreneurs explains exactly how to do that.

James Altucher hosted one of our favorite podcasts, and his book Choose Yourself has made a dramatic impact on the lives of readers. After some very fervent recommendations, we gave this book a shot — and it did not disappoint.

Today, we discuss the big-picture outlook and day-to-day habits that foster independence, success, and self-reliance in a broken economy. Shaking free of poor influences and unshackling yourself from the external opinions that hold you back is the only way to find your path forward. This book is a good place to start. Click Play!

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