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What's going on everybody? This is Coulton Woods and I want to welcome you to my podcast, learning from the experts.

So here's the deal. I know how frustrating it is to waste countless hours sifting through experts who never actually help you in the end. Then to learn years later that there was a real expert who could have helped you a hundred times faster than learning it on your own.

I've created this podcast to save you time and money while taking you on a journey with me as I learned from real experts who can actually help you grow your business. My name is Coulton Woods and you're listening to learning from the experts.

I'm so stoked to have you guys on here. And really honestly, I really appreciate you guys being on here and I really hope to provide some awesome value for you guys and provide some really cool things that I'm learning from actual experts around me.

So I created this podcast mainly for entrepreneurs or I guess you could say business owners as well, which we all know they're entrepreneurs.

So, the reason for that is because I believe that entrepreneurs are actually the key to our success in society. With that being said, I believe that entrepreneurs are actually the most important people in society or in the economy to help make it run because if you think about it, if we didn't have entrepreneurs to start businesses and grow them, then we wouldn't have businesses.

And without businesses, well, you know, things don't work.

So, I know you're probably thinking like, holy cow, I can't believe you just said entrepreneurs are the most important people in society, but I would say I guess in the economy or for the economy.

So entrepreneurs are definitely very important for the economy.

But with that being said as well, those who aren't entrepreneurial minded definitely are just as important because we know entrepreneurs can take things or create things, but they're not always the best at scaling it or I guess you could say managing it or you know, just kind of taking care of all the other tasks that need to be taken care of in the business.

So, yeah, with that being said, if we didn't have entrepreneurs, we wouldn't have jobs essentially. How's that for the very first podcast?

I'm just kind of laying it out there and anyway, so also with that being said, I think the reason they call it the American dream is because of the way we're structured and how capitalism works for us.

We can definitely do some awesome things and free markets are awesome.

It definitely inspires competition and helps it so that we don't just kind of, you know, we're not just kind of lazy about it, but we actually have to be creative and do things better than the next guy or we won't be around for the next guy.

So, that's what's great about our society and being able to even be an entrepreneur.

But I mean if we also, with that being said, like I really truly believed that if we didn't have entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs, we wouldn't have the inventions we have today, like phones would not be where they are at today without creative minds and entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs.

There's a ton of different areas, a ton of different entrepreneurs who are creative people that have built many other industries today that are just awesome and have helped us get so much farther into the future with all these great things that are being created.

So my goal in this podcast is to really just help entrepreneurs and those who have a business or running a business or starting up a business, and for them to have the tools to better do business or to better market and better grow their business and be successful.

I believe that there are so many tools out there right now and so much information that there's not enough time to consume it all.

That's actually one of the things that actually kind of bugs me.

Like, I really wish I had more time or could even just like freeze time for a little bit so I could consume more and take the time to actually consume enough for what I may be doing at the time or for project that I may have at the time.

When growing up and going to school I was not that way at all and I did not consume much at all and I didn't read a whole lot of books growing up, which is sad.

But now I really wish I would have caught the bug. Because once you start and you start realizing how much awesomeness there is out there, you just can't stop because it's so amazing.

So I want to help business owners andentrepreneurs, better market, better sell and also better know of the tools that are available to them as well as the experts that are available out there so that they can grow their businesses faster.

I mean honestly, I believe so many businesses fail because they don't know how to market or they just focus on the product and think that the product is gonna sell itself.

Or they didn't realize that there's actually an expert out there that could have helped them.

Then obviously they fail because they weren't able to scale or grow or manage their business the way that they should have when they thought they were managing it the right way.

So there are a bunch of marketing strategies and tools out there nowadays and if you know where to look, you can find some awesome people that can help you.

So that's my goal. And yeah, obviously if you're listening to this and you're an entrepreneur, you own a business or sell a product or you want to start selling a product, then you definitely fit in the category of the people that I'm looking for on this podcast.

So I've been around a lot of tools, I've been around a lot of experts, I've seen a lot of strategies and there's a lot of them.

There's just so much out there and it's becoming more readily available and it's just ramping up so much faster and there's so many more tools available everyday.

But because I'm around this all the time and I'm in the world of entrepreneurs and marketing and I see a lot of tools that come available, I want to kind of teach about the things that I'm learning from those experts who are talking about different tools that are becoming available or that are available and that I've used and am using.

I'm an entrepreneur, I'm in the online marketing area and we sell a ton of stuff online. I was actually a bit of an entrepreneur growing up.

I don't think I actually realized it until later, but I would do things like buy boxes of candy bars and my dad actually ran vending machines at his work and he'd go pick up boxes of candy and I remember one time telling him, Hey dad, can I borrow money through you and buy a box of candy bars that I can go sell at football games and soccer games.

So I ended up doing that and would make a little bit of cash that way.

It's amazing. I remember being like, wow... you can mark these up pretty good when you sell them at games and stuff.

But when I really got started in business and I got a more focused on it and really focusing on being an entrepreneur was right after I was married.

It was probably before that. But after I was married I was like, okay, I really need to get this going.

My wife was in school, I was going to school for business management with an emphasis in marketing, which a later changed to an emphasis in entrepreneurship in the business management degree.

Right after we were married was the time that I got really focused on it and I was taking a class in college and where we had to come up with a business idea.

So long story short, I ended up breaking my own phone, which I hadn't done before.

And I've owned multiple phones before that one and I just completely demolished the screen on my phone.

I'm a bit of a do it yourself kind of guy.

And I really enjoy puzzles.

Anyway, so I was like, hey, I can fix this myself.

So I looked it up, got my youtube education on how to fix it and ordered some parts and fixed it myself.

And I had a blast doing it.

I thought wow, that was actually really fun and since I'm trying to figure out what business to do for this class in college I thought this is actually a really good idea.

So I started a cell phone repair business on the side. Honestly tho, we were just poor college kids who Probably shouldn't have started a business.

I had a job already on campus that didn't pay much and my wife had a job that didn't pay much either and we weren't taking student loans, so it was definitely very tight on money.

I remember plenty of times the account would go negative and we wouldn't have anything to our name. It was definitely tight.

Well I started fixing phones and what I essentially did was I would just order the very minimum amount of parts I could to start fixing phones with so I could turn around and take the money that I made and reinvest it.

Anyway, so I had just started this and I remember one Saturday morning my wife and I were still laying in bed and we're just talking and she's like, you know, we really need some groceries.

But we have like $10 in our account.

Yeah we really can't really buy groceries with $10 in our account.

At that point I don't know what to do.

Like we have no money and we really need some food.

As she's saying this, I remember thinking about this phone that I had put on Ebay and I remember it was for like a couple hundred dollars.

I thought man, if we could just sell that we could have a little bit of cash to go actually get some groceries and have some food.

So I thought about this for a little and she got talking about other things.

As we were talking, I remember hearing my phone ding in like the Ebay notification noise that Ebay had.

I thought no way.

There's no way this could actually be happening right now.

And sure enough, I look over there and the phone on Ebay had sold.

And I was like, what the heck?

Wow, it actually sold.

I looked over at my wife and I said babe!

The phone sold!

No way!

Yeah, we have money now and we can go get some groceries.

I remember that feeling before it had sold, like I'm failing as a man, you know, I need to provide for the family but we have nothing.

What kind of provider am I?

I'm trying to start this business or start doing my little side hustle and make some money there and then the phone sells and we make a little cash and I thought, this is awesome!

After that I was totally hooked.

When you start making money and when in a split second you sell a phone that makes you more money than three days of working it makes you think, this is sad that im spending so much time making so little.

So you're totally hooked after that.

I built this business up and I started getting really busy.

It was essentially every night I'd have two or three people every day dropping phones off at my house.

And I mean when we first started, I was in an apartment and I would literally go meet them in the main lobby area of the apartment and do repairs out of there.

I got to know the apartment lady that ran the place pretty good and she totally didn't even care.

Then we moved into a little townhome and pretty soon people were stopping by the house every day and dropping phones off and I got so busy.

So I found a buddy that I went bowling with and we were on a Bowling League together and no I'm not very good at bowling, but I love it.

So we got talking one night and he's like, hey, you know what, I have some cash and I really like what you're doing.

I want to buy into it and see if we can make it big.

I knew the guy pretty good at this point and said, heck yeah, let's do it!

You put some money in, I'll bring my assets and my knowledge and I'll train you on repairs and things and we can run it together.

We ended up starting a brick and mortar store fixing phones and tablets.

It was definitely a good time.

Every month we were growing it, getting it bigger and bigger and getting the word out more and more.

One thing that I started doing is I would actually go to all of the local cellular places like AT&T and T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon, all of those places.

I would literally just walk in with like two cases of pop in my hands and say I have some Mountain Dew and Dr Pepper and I just want to introduce myself.

I'm Coulton Woods, I run the phone and tablet repair business down the street.

Anyway I just wanted to come bring guys some treats and stuff and order some pizza or something and get to know you guys a little bit more.

And if you happen to have anything that some people need some help with, I'd love it if you sent them my way, but you know, no worries if not.

I just wanted to come over and get to know you.

I literally would walk into all these stores and just give them pop and a different treats and then buy pizza every now and then and I'd go back after a while and take them pop again.

That way I would keep the relationship up.

And what I didn't realize was I was actually doing what they call a Dream-100 strategy.

If you don't know what D100 is, you essentially write down a list of 100 businesses or people that would be able to help your business grow if you were to be able to develop a relationship with them and partner up.

It's a strategy that is used in a lot of businesses nowadays and is insanely worth every minute and penny of it.

I use it in our business now and it does a ton for us.

It's huge! And I had no idea that Dream-100 was even a thing.

I didn't even know it was a strategy back then, which is pretty sad.

With that being said, there are so many more strategies out there that I had no idea even existed until now.

And there's still more that I don't even know about yet and I will be learning in the future still.

But the thing is, if I would've known what I know now, back then, I could have done so many more things and I could have literally 10X'd my business.

I could have exploded it so much more than it already was.

The reason I'm doing this podcast mainly is so that I can help you guys know where to go for legit experts, tools, trainings and courses.

I can help you actually 10X your business.

One of the things nowadays is there are so many "life coaches" that are literally 23 years old, like, yeah... you've really been through life.

You're 23 and you're a life coach?!

So I want to help you guys actually have a place where you can go to find real experts and obviously I'm still creating it.

I'm still putting it together and I'll always be adding to it as I go.

I would love any feedback or let me know if you know any experts that aren't on my list.

I have a page on learningfromtheexperts.com that they can apply to become an expert.

That's essentially where I want to put everything together so that people can know where to go to find help for their business and find real experts and actual tools that will help them 10 x their business.

There are always new tools coming out and I don't even know of everything out there right now.

I'm around some awesome experts right now as it is, but I don't know everything and everyone out there.

I mean I work with Steve Larsen and I've actually known him since college.

We did some business stuff together in college.

That's a whole other story for another time.

But I literally get to sit next to Steve Larsen everyday and learn from the man himself, which if you don't know who Steve Larsen is, he sat next to Russell Brunson for two years and was his lead funnel builder at clickfunnels.

If you don't know who Russell Brunson is, then you're gonna want to check out the site and figure out who he is because that guy can really help you blow your business up.

Interestingly enough, his business clickfunnels is devoted to helping people grow their business to a million dollar business.

And I don't even know how many it is, but I think it's like 200+ some businesses that they've helped create a million dollars or more in their business.

So if that doesn't get you excited, I don't know what does, but yeah, Russell Brunson is definitely the man.

So that's the reason I'm creating this podcast and website.

I'd love to hear your feedback. I'd love to hear reviews or your feedback through reviews and definitely feel free to reach out to me if you have any ideas or suggestions.

I'm always open to that.

So thank you very much for being on this podcast and I hope to provide some awesome value for you in the future. And I hope you got some value out of this as well.

Thank you very much.

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