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When things don’t go right in life it can be pretty easy to bounce back but when something happens in your business, that business failure can be a crushing blow to your ego. Today on the show we have Omar Zenhom of the $100 MBA Show talking about one of his business failures and how to overcome this huge hurdle. As you may know, Omar Zenhom is the host of the $100 MBA Show a 10 minutes business podcast that helps entrepreneurs educate themselves every day. After meeting Omar and his producer Nicole (you’ll see her in Episode 30), they spoke very candidly about the podcast they had before the $100 MBA Show that became a total flop. Instead of taking this business failure and quitting podcasting altogether (which would have been a tragedy!) They went back to the drawing board and figured out what would work using their skills and talents to really shine. The $100 MBA Show has gone on to win awards like “Best of Itunes” for 2014. In this show you’ll learn:How to determine if you ha

What sets successful entrepreneurs from those who aren’t as successful is intentional planning. This planning with a purpose or goal in mind is what not only motivates you but also keeps you focused on where you’re going and how to get there. Without a clearly laid out plan to really hone in and focus on how to create an amazing business. Today on the Podcast, Amanda and I chat about how to plan with purpose and intention. It’s key to make sure that you have a goal with metrics to measure and that these goals will get you to where you want to go. We’ve seen many times successful people with amazing ideas fall short because they are so focused on the end goal that they don’t see the small attainable goals they can take to get them closer to what they want to achieve. Since we don’t want you to fall into the same rut, we’re going to teach you what we’ve done to insure we are always creating an intentional plan for what we do in our lives and in business. In this s

Amanda and I first met Nicole Baldinu when we were sitting behind them at Podcast San Diego. Nicole turned around and asked us to take a picture of these two rockstars. Since then we’ve been getting to know Nicole and Omar over the first few months and did we mention they ROCKED their joint keynote at Podcast San Diego. If you’re not familiar with Nicole, she’s a New York Film Academy Graduate, Producer and Co-Founder of the $100 MBA Show and The Webinar Ninja Podcast. Today we are diving into what makes an amazing partnership. It was easy to see that Nicole and Omar not only liked each other, but had the secret sauce in regards to building an awesome partnership. When Amanda and I wanted to chat about this topic the first person we thought to call was Nicole. Just to give you a taste of this episode Nicole’s shared a secret to success for their partnership with us. Just hit play,meet Nicole Baldinu, and prepare to learn A LOT.   In this show you’ll learn:How Nicole and Omar

Denny Krahe is a host of the Diz Runs With Podcast, a father, a personal trainer and running coach. When we got him on the podcast the big question was- how do I find more time to do the big stuff in my business. Amanda answered with business automation. Automating your business does make life a little bit easier for you and a little bit easier for your clients. On this episode, we walk Denny through how he can use some small business automation tweaks to see real results in regards to freeing up his time. Denny was able to jump into this hot seat by being apart of our online mastermind. If you want into this awesome mastermind: Click here.   In this show you’ll learn: Why business automation is key even when you have “non-tech savvy” clients How to find out if you’re spending too much time on-boarding clients and moving from a manual system and moving to an automated system Why you should create a system with your face to face clients to late scale your business later. Wh

The hardest thing to do is to ask for help when you own your own business. Knowing how to ask for help is all about tact and is almost it’s own art form. Help comes in many different ways and means different things to different people. Amanda and I are the first to admit we sometimes hate asking for help. We don’t mind people coming to us, asking a million questions and helping them out. In this episode we are going to talk about how we learned how to ask for help and what we do when there is fear surrounding asking for help. In this show you’ll learn:When should you be asking for help and who should you go to for helpHow to deal with the fear of “looking bad” if you don’t know the answer or have to ask for help.When you ask for help- Who you should ask.Why asking for help is not a failure This Week’s Action: Find an area you’re having trouble in and reach out to someone in that space to ask for help. (For a bonus: Take a picture, post it to instagram with the #

The first year of business is the hardest and answering the “how to business” question is almost just as hard. Recently this subject came up when Amanda had a client of hers get frustrated when things weren’t working the way that they thought. It all came down to that particular client not tracking what they were doing and having extremely high expectations. The sad part is this is a common mistake amongst first year business owner just because the question comes up: How to business? How to money? When you are first start a business you’re lucky to break even in your first year, but if you’re not mindful of the things you need to track, staying consistent, and realize that this venture needs to be approached with a “long haul” mindset you’ll be stuck in the trap that Amanda and I call “How to business.” In this show you’ll learn:Focus on how do things strategically instead of how much money you’re getting.The importance of tracking your s

Amanda and I are always talking about business, which is part of the reason we started this show. As two best friends who have their own businesses, struggle with day to day life, it’s not uncommon for entrepreneurs to decide to do business with friends. As the years have gone on, we have been able to figure out what the other is good at and what we need to work on. Yes, there are days where I drive Amanda up a wall and vise versa but at the end of the day our friendship and businesses mean a lot more than just some petty misunderstanding. In this show you’ll learn: How Amanda and I deal with each others differences in philosophy when it comes to work and time. How to create systems to help run your business and create them to make them easy to work with others. Learn strategies to deal with strong personalities. Why you should never do favors for friends in business.   ...And much more. This Week’s Action: Build a deeper stronger relationship with those you do business with

Who doesn’t love their friends? But not friends are created equally. Some friends are great as co-workers, bar buds, or having philosophical conversations with. Some Friends you can go into business with and others you just can’t. Today Amanda and I are going to go through the Do’s and Don’ts of being friends and doing business together. We’re to show how we make it work in regards to this podcast and our respective businesses since we do share clients, refer each other, and work together on a pretty regular basis. In this show you’ll learn: How to respect and play to each others strengths Friends don’t do Friends Favors in Business Friends have to be good clients too How to always have open communication Why it’s important to have an accountability partner not a “boss” as a friend. This Week’s Action: Make the effort to communicate once a week. Thanks for tuning in and doing shit with us this week. Don't forget to subscribe to the

The first time we met Kate was at Podcast San Diego after she had given a moving opening keynote. Amanda and I couldn’t help but to scribble “We need her on the podcast” at the top of our notes in all caps. We’ve heard a lot of people speak up in our Facebook Mastermind Group about how hard it is to get things started when you’re first starting out or thinking about doing something new. We’ll let Kate tell you the story the moment that changed her life which she shared at the event.   Kate shares with us three main steps to overcome our fear: Surround yourself with the right community, Take baby steps to move forward, and focus outward instead of inward.   In this show you’ll learn: How to stop “playing small” How to stop letting fear control your actions How to give yourself permission to move forward even when you’re afraid … And so much more.   This Week’s Action: Figure out what’s at stake for you. What

This week we have Sofi Magliacano of SofiandSofia.com a high end jewerly line for those who want to class up their style with nerdy and electic pieces. Sofi is one of our community members who have been active in our exclusive Facebook group since we launched the podcast.   Since we get a lot of questions about what you should do or focus on when first starting your business we thought it was a great idea to have Sofi come on, put her in the hot seat and take part her business for all of you who want to improve your business or find out how to get started.   In this show you’ll learn: What to do when you are pre-revenue and how to get ready for your launch How to create an action plan for yourself when you’re overwhelmed and just starting out What to do when you have your business plan, but are unsure of your next steps Why you need to shift your mindset to customer focused instead of passion focused How to grow your business as a side hustle or part time ...And so much more.

It was our pleasure to have Megan come out to our studio and talk about Youtube. Megan is the co-host of Get in the Lab Podcast and one of the pioneers in the video podcasting space. Megan started her entrepreneurial journey as a wedding photographer along side now fiance Kevin and just last year quit the wedding gig to fly solo as a marketing and branding consultant. WARNING: This episode is FULL of knowledge bombs that will blow your mind. Megan gives us some pretty insightful take aways- so make sure you have a pen and paper handy. You might want to take notes. Without any more delay here is the episode and the 6 things that Megan suggests you use to launch a Youtube Channel. In this show you’ll learn:How to take care of your community or fansSEO Tips that will help get you to the top of YouTubeQuality vs Quantity - what works best on YoutubeHow to name your channel and target it for successWhy You should be ok with changing your brand especially when you are first starting out… AND a whole lo

This week we wanted to give you a business idea 101. What to do when you have a Million ideas, a ton of them and what not to do when getting overwhelmed. Then we had a talk with Amanda’s 10 year old daughter who wants to start a business (just like mom), but has a ton of ideas… Seriously, more ideas than we could even count in this show. We decided to pull Celeste in to illustrate that you have as many ideas as you want, but you can only really work on each idea one at a time. Episode Link: http://www.doshitpodcast.com/021Free Mastermind: http://www.doshitpodcast.com/subscribeVideo Link: https://youtu.be/lVdiYSIxfWo

In this episode, we are talking about when shit hits the fan (SHTF) and life gets real. We are talking about how everything you can think of goes wrong and how to come back from that wild ride and still get things done. As they say life happens – personal, professional and everything else in between and just because the website crashes, you can’t invoice a customer (or they haven’t paid) along with everything else that could be going on – doesn’t mean you have to lose yourself (or your business head) in the process. In this episode, we are going to give you real strategies we’ve been using since our business have recently gone through some changes, expansions, and moments that have triggered our stress levels to go through the roof. Episode Link: http://www.doshitpodcast.com/020Free Mastermind: http://www.doshitpodcast.com/subscribeVideo Link: https://youtu.be/NtntRhKErm0

Nowadays creating content for an avid following is the thing to do when it comes to marketing. Sadly only a few people are able to harness this to create content and build a community quickly. Amanda’s strategy was to find an immediate pain that needs solving and do what she could to solve to provide value to that audience. Sadly this strategy doesn’t work for everyone. Natalie’s going to go over a technique that everyone should be using in their content strategy called learning what is adjacent to your business and talking about that as well as building that value to that following. Also you have to have your own system and that you can’t copy someone else’s structure for content- even if they have the same audience. We think it’s an easy win if we can copy our competition and to some extent it’s the right thinking but everyone is different and so is every business. How each business speaks to the same audience is different which means the content can’t be a ca

These days it seems to be trendy to have your own business or a start up. The downside is deciding which mindset to have: one of the busy and booked Freelancer or of the always creative Entrepreneur. Changing your mindset from task-focused to one that focuses on the result, not the how-it-gets-done. Freelancers are ones who are consumed by the task(s) at hand without the bigger picture in mind. They are do-ers and less dreamers. As an Entrepreneur, we have to be a person of action, but to always be focused on where that action is taking us instead of being consumed by it. This is something that Amanda and Natalie have struggled with in different points of building their businesses. Truth be told, there are times even know several years in, that these issues come back up. Episode Link: http://www.doshitpodcast.com/018Free Mastermind: http://www.doshitpodcast.com/subscribeVideo Link: https://youtu.be/KAsk_NumbdA

Money is the thing that families and couples fight over the most. And the same thing goes for business. Profits and what you spend your money on is always up for debate the more people you put into the mix. Today’s topic, raising money, comes straight from our Do Shit Podcast Community on Facebook. One of our listeners wanted our feedback on what we think he should do when he launches his business later this year and- we answered it live. We talk about the pros and cons small business versus corporate business, what you have do when you have to answer to investors, or getting funded through a site like Kickstarter or Indiegogo. Episode Link: http://www.doshitpodcast.com/017 Free Mastermind: http://www.doshitpodcast.com/subscribe Video Link: https://youtu.be/WMRWdxXweJs

No matter where you are in your business you need to have an email list. This will make sure that you’re not paying for random traffic to return to your site week after week. These people who sign up are fans and have a special connection with your blog, brand, or the videos you put out every week. Episode Link: http://www.doshitpodcast.com/016Free Mastermind: http://www.doshitpodcast.com/subscribeVideo Link: https://youtu.be/TtIafV1FCPw

We’d all love to have a business that connects us with clients day in and day out. Content has the power to do that correctly but only when it’s used wisely. Defining “what is content marketing” is done best by showing what it is not. It’s not the amount of page likes you have on Facebook or how many followers you have on Instagram or Facebook. It’s really all about the connection and information you bring to the table when talking about what you do and how you do it. So, how do you create content that kills? Content is very much a “What’s in it for me?” from your customer. The only way you can formulate that is by creating a content marketing strategy that builds a ‘know, like, and trust’ factor. From there, marketing your content is ten times easier. Prioritize making the relationship with your customers number one and as Kevin said in the keynote we talk about in the show (and the one we linked below) “You’re only as good as your

Perfectionism can be a weakness that can bring you down and keep you from taking action in your business. Amanda and Natalie call it the kryptonite for a reason. It’s held them back many times and it’s a battle that never seems to go away. In this episode they chat about how perfectionism leads to analysis paralysis and how that looks for both of them. Natalie for instance is an education addict and Amanda sometimes has to hit the Publish button while running away and trusting in her gut. Episode Link: http://www.doshitpodcast.com/014Free Mastermind: http://www.doshitpodcast.com/subscribeVideo Link: https://youtu.be/vJDa0ZJ8mF4

The Art of Delegation is really all about deciding if you want to learn it yourself, do it yourself, or hand it over to someone who can do it better. Sadly, if you pick the first two that requires your time. The last is you’re paying a premium to get it done. Everything has an opportunity cost. Episode Link: http://www.doshitpodcast.com/013Free Mastermind: http://www.doshitpodcast.com/subscribeVideo Link: https://youtu.be/R67jsBDKOG8