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TIM411: Answering Your Entrepreneurial Questions5 Pillars Of Mind Management5 Pillars Of Mind Management by Tim Conley<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tim411/~4/Fa0OZe-j_rQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
2018-03-2100 minTIM411: Answering Your Entrepreneurial QuestionsWhat To Do When You F*ck UpToday on TIM411, Tim answers the question, "I F'd up. What should I do?"
“It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.” ~ Will Rogers
Integrity and strength of character will save you from many of your own mistakes. Listen in to learn how to own up to your mistakes and then fix them.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tim411/~4/UF6oD9SpqkE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
2017-02-2300 minTIM411: Answering Your Entrepreneurial QuestionsHow To Transition From Consulting To Products?Tim answers a question from "The Danish Entrepreneur", "How can I transition from consulting to products?"
Tim doesn't go directly at the question with a step-by-step answer on how to turn consulting intellectual property into a product -- both are a form of transferring knowledge and experience.
Instead, Tim focuses on why. Why make the switch? If you think it'll be easier then you'll probably be unsuccessful at switching to products. If you want to add to your revenue and reach a bigger audience, then you'll probably succeed.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tim411/~4/1-5D5lmqAn8"...
2017-02-1500 minTIM411: Answering Your Entrepreneurial QuestionsHow To Acquire Short Term DebtToday on the show, Tim answers the question, "How Can I Acquire Short Term Debt For Inventory?"
Tim has limited knowledge in this space, but does his best to answer with sources (outside of a line of credit or credit card) to buy inventory for a fast growing company.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tim411/~4/nr9IKAnlzqg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
2017-02-0800 minTIM411: Answering Your Entrepreneurial QuestionsHow Do I Get All The Work Done?In this episode, Tim answers the question, "How do I get all the work done?"
It's a matter of vision of the future and the priorities needed to get there. Tim covers the steps to getting there by setting your goals, priorities and delegating to your team.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tim411/~4/16orMyKoBpc" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
2017-01-1800 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA130 - Kicking Apps And Taking Names With Jesse LawlerHOW TO BUILD AN APP IF YOU’RE NOT A PROGRAMMER: LESSONS FROM A SOFTWARE DEVELOPER I invited my friend and mastermind member, Jesse Lawler of Evil Genius Technologies, to come on the Show to answer a question I get frequently in my inbox, “How do I make an app if I’m not a programmer?” Jesse is in the business of making apps for other companies and for himself so I reckoned he would be able to tell us what process we should take to get our ideas turned into apps. Listen in a...
2016-07-1843 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA127 - Build Your Online Store With Terry LinA PAY NOW PODCASTING TALE This week my friend and mastermind member, Terry Lin of BuildMyOnlineStore.com, joins us to talk about Pay Now Podcasting, building your online store, podcasting about ecommerce, and ecommercing about podcasts. Okay, that last one doesn’t make any sense. Terry started a podcast about ecommerce by interviewing online store owners. He brings out their ups and downs and successes and failures in their ecommerce adventure. These entrepreneurship stories are inspiring, but also very informative. His show fits a need in the market which is getting an ecommerce education from ins...
2016-07-1350 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA126 - Work From Anywhere By Building A Lifestyle Design Business With Mark MansonDO YOU HAVE A VALUABLE MESSAGE TO SHARE? My guest, Mark Manson of Postmasculine.com (and member of my mastermind), started with dating advice and found that he had a deeper, more valuable message to share with the world. This message now affords him a great lifestyle — one with the opportunity to be his own boss, live and travel to anywhere he desires and make a good income. In this episode, Mark and I talk about how he was able to become a successful blogger. We talk about the work he did to get there. Hint...
2016-07-1245 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA125 - How To Use Direct Mail In An Online Business With Ed Stapleton JrSTOP THINKING OFFLINE VS ONLINE: USE ALL TOOLS AVAILABLE TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS In this episode another one of my mastermind members, Ed Stapleton Jr, visits the show to talk direct marketing and specifically direct mail. Ed has been using some real old school sales letters to get leads for his marketing consulting company. He’s driving tens of thousands in sales for his company by sending out a 3-letter sequence that gets people on a free consultation call. We share some examples on how you could use direct mail for your onl...
2016-07-1133 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA124 - Sales Funnels That Sift, Sort And Screen USE EDUCATION-BASED MARKETING TO GET MORE LEADS THEN SIFT, SORT & SCREEN THEM TO FIND YOUR “A” CUSTOMERS In this episode, guest co-host, Johan Woods, hit me with a question: How do I get more customers without spending the rest of my life constantly creating content? I’ve been mentoring Johan for about a year now and two concepts that I shared with him were education-based marketing and sift, sort and screen. I learned these strategies from my mentor, Joe Polish. Inside I’ll teach you what these strategies are and how to use them to attra...
2016-07-0857 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA123 - 3 Stages To Managing A Powerful, Virtual Team With James SchramkoLEARN TO HIRE, TRAIN AND MANAGE EMPLOYEES ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD Guest co-host, James Schramko, shares how he manages a remote team of 80+ people to double his business (with a stated goal to hit $10 million in annual sales). During this discussion James pinpoints the key areas as to when you should first hire someone, what kind of person to hire and how to turn each hire into a successful team. You’ll learn what simple tools you need to manage your team. You don’t need fancy project management software. Everything you need is available for f...
2016-07-071h 01
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA122 - Pay Now Podcasting: Put A Buy Button On Your ContentIS PODCASTING DEAD? The Internet world claimed podcasting died in 2009. But, my guest co-host, Dan Andrews of LifestyleBusinessPodcast.com and I know it didn’t die. Hell… CAN YOU MAKE MONEY FROM PODCASTING? If anything it got more effective as a marketing medium. This episode is about developing a podcast that will attract a buying audience. People who have big problems or strong desires that they want addressed and they have the money to buy a solution. Dan and I are true believers in podcasting as one of the most ef...
2016-07-0642 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA121 - Risking It All To Live Your Passion With Keith And The GirlWOULD YOU BE WILLING TO GIVE UP WHAT YOU ENJOY TO LIVE WHAT YOU LOVE? Keith and Chemda, the duo behind the successful show Keith And The Girl Comedy Talk Show, took a big risk — they stopped doing something they enjoyed (and was paying their bills) to start a podcast. This episode is a story of that journey with lots of jokes thrown in. I think this is the craziest episode of The Foolish Adventure Show ever. What could I have expected when bringing on people who make their living by making fun? Oh...
2016-07-0546 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA120 - How To Double Your Business Every Year With James SchramkoDO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR? Special guest, James Schramko of SuperFastBusiness.com, shares his story of needing to replace his wife’s income when their first child came along and how he eventually built a million dollar business. This is a story of drive and ambition that took James from an administrative job to salesman to manager of a $50 million Mercedes dealership to eventually building his current business. James shows how putting true caring for your customers together with salesmanship can skyrocket your income and your personal network. Don...
2016-07-041h 06
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA119 - How To Buy, Renovate And Sell An Online BusinessBUYING, RENOVATING, SELLING & PROFITING I’m not talking about real estate. I’m talking about websites. There is a huge opportunity for people to buy existing, under-performing websites and turn them into real businesses that throw off excess cash. My guest, Dave Rodenbaugh of Skyline Consulting, came on to share how he has bought, renovated and sold websites. He also points out what you should be looking for and how to do your “due diligence” so you don’t get ripped off. Buying existing websites that are generating revenue is a great way to...
2016-07-0348 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA118 - How To Make $10,000 A Month With A WordPress BusinessTHE WORDPRESS ECOSYSTEM IS FILLED WITH OPPORTUNITY… GRAB YOURS: THEMES, PLUGINS, SERVICES, HOSTING & MORE Today’s special guest is John Turner of SeedProd.com, shares with us how he found a profitable niche within the WordPress ecosystem and how you can do so too. In this episode, we talk about: overcoming the inevitable setbacks and frustrations that come with becoming an entrepreneur, how going to a mentor can accelerate your success, where the opportunities lie within WordPress for you to build a successful company, and much more. Join us in this discussion and se...
2016-07-0232 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA117 - Discover Your Market’s Desires By Picking Up The PhoneARE YOU CREATING A NEW PRODUCT OR STARTING A BUSINESS? Then this episode will teach you how to quickly discover your prospective customers’ desires and pains so you can validate your business idea. I want to bring Lean Startup Methods to the Niche Site world so that niche site owners can become full-fledged business owners. I’ve had the pleasure of working directly with nearly a hundred niche site owners now and I discovered that their businesses were small because of limiting beliefs about their market and not because their market was tiny. I do...
2016-07-0138 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA116 - The Power Of Sales: Make Huge Profits With Discount PricingCAN YOU PUT YOUR PRODUCTS ON SALE AND STILL BE A PROFITABLE COMPANY? That’s basically the question posed to me by my guest co-host Lain Ehmann of LayoutADay.com. She wanted to have a conversation around discount pricing and whether it was good for business. If it was good for business, how could it be used profitably? One major downfall of discounting is that it can cheapen your brand to the point no one will pay prices you need to remain in business. In this episode, Lain and I give you...
2016-06-3046 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA115 - Business Gets Personal With Andrew Warner Of MixergySOMETIMES THINGS DON’T GO AS PLANNED I set out to interview Andrew Warner of Mixergy fame about the insights he’s gained from interviewing over 700 entrepreneurs. He gets such personal information from them and gets them to reveal as much about themselves as they reveal about their business. There’s that old cliche’ that “It’s Not Personal, It’s Just Business,” but what we all know instinctively (and try to hide) is that our business is very personal. Our interactions with our customers has a personal effect on us (wait till you get hate mail for the...
2016-06-2942 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA114 - From Rapper To Info-Product Entrepreneur With Greg RollettCREATE A PERSONAL BRAND TO PROPEL YOUR BUSINESS SUCCESS What can a former rock band rapper teach you about becoming a successful info-product entrepreneur? Greg Rollett of the Product Pros shares how he started making money online by teaching other bands how to book gigs. From that beginning he started building a brand around his knowledge of marketing and booking bands and became the go-to guy for bands wanting to make more money selling their music. Now Greg makes info-products for others. His company helps create a “celebrity” brand for professionals (even lawyers! JK...
2016-06-2846 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA113 - To Software Or Not To Software With Rob WallingThis Just In… HUGE OPPORTUNITIES IN SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION! Today’s guest, Rob Walling of Software By Rob, Startups For The Rest Of Us, Hittail.com and much more, joins us to talk about building and selling software. The surprising part is his belief that there is a lot of opportunity still in information products. Most software developers only talk software and believe that information wants to be free. In this episode, we learn about buying software. I’m not talking about software for your computer, but software as your flagship product in...
2016-06-271h 01
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA112 - How Not To Suck As A Writer With Forbes.com Writer Elisa DoucetteBECOMING A BETTER WRITER ISN’T IMPOSSIBLE Focusing on a few key areas in your writing will dramatically improve your skill and help you engage on a deeper level with your readers. I’ve brought my friend and fancy-pants writer, Elisa Doucette, on to The Foolish Adventure Show to talk about un-sucking your writing. I felt she was better qualified than me to talk about becoming a better writer since she changed careers from insurance to professional writer. Elisa writes for Forbes.com and Forbes Women and has had her work published by Huff...
2016-06-2645 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA110 - Rapid Product Creation Strategies – A Summer Marketing Mashup GET HOT TIPS FOR SUPER-FAST INFOPRODUCT CREATION FROM… JEREMY AND JASON OF INTERNET BUSINESS MASTERY, PAT FLYNN OF SMART PASSIVE INCOME AND ME, TIM CONLEY OF THE FOOLISH ADVENTURE SHOW. In this product creation episode, we share our best tips and tactics for rapidly making infoproducts for our audience. Before I go further, I have to say we missed having Dan and Ian Of The Lifestyle Business Podcast on this Summer Marketing Mashup episode. They were caught in a typhoon in the Philippines without access to the Interwebs. They made it out safely an...
2016-06-2459 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA109 - Skyrocket Your Business Without Selling Your Soul With Ryan HolidayINSERT TITILLATING HEADLINE DESIGNED TO COMPEL PEOPLE INTO CLICKING Pageview competition is driving news sites (legitimate and not-quite-so legit) to “out outrageous” each other. I don’t watch the news because it’s full of negativity that ruins my mental health. Why all the negativity in the news? It gets people to watch, to read a paper, to visit a blog. Humans are innately attracted to bad events. NEWS MEDIA KNOW YOU’RE A RUBBERNECKER Since we can’t help ourselves, we look, we click — we are entertained by tragedies that befall other huma...
2016-06-2338 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA108 - 3 Fundamentals You Need That Business Bloggers Don’t TeachLEARNING THE BASICS MIGHT SOUND BORING, BUT WITHOUT THEM SUCCESS WON’T COME You might want to blow everyone out of the water with your innovations or dazzle with cutting-edge advanced methods. But if you don’t have the right fundamentals in place, you will only blow out and frazzle yourself to pieces from burnout. But don’t worry, Tim and I won’t let that happen to you! Fundamentals may not be that exciting, but if knowing and using them helps you achieve freedom and success, then I’m thrilled to practice t...
2016-06-2239 minTIM411: Answering Your Entrepreneurial QuestionsHow To Help Employees Get To The Next LevelToday on TIM411, Tim answers the question, "Some employees say they want to move to the next level, but then they procrastinate. Any ideas?"
You have to stop treating employees as an entrepreneur. If your employees signal that they want to level up, you need to sit down with them to help build a plan.
Listen in on how to help them grow into the team members they desire to be and you need them to be.
Find out how to run your business and team for rapid growth at http://timconley.co/bootcamp<img src="http://feeds.feedburner...
2016-06-2200 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA106 - Website Design: 5 Things You MUST Do & 5 Things To NEVER DoHAVE YOU MADE THESE SAME MISTAKES ON YOUR WEBSITE? My Mate from Down Under, Dan Norris of WebDomination.co joins me today to school me on some web design Do’s and Don’ts. And oh, buddy… I needed some schooling. I admit to a HUGE design mistake for the Foolish Adventure redesign that I’ve delayed because of how badly I messed up. And let’s not even bring up the lame design that is Foolish Adventure currently (it was just meant to be temporary and nearly 2 years later it’s still there...
2016-06-2040 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA105 - The Only 3 Ways To Grow A BusinessGET EXPONENTIAL GROWTH BY DOING JUST 3 THINGS Jay Abraham, Consultant Extraordinaire, teaches that there are only 3 ways to grow a business. Since I’m creating training for Foolish University on Maximizing Profit Centers in a Business, I thought I’d share the 3 ways to grow a business and several simple ways that you can implement them in your business. What we didn’t cover in this episode is what happens to your business when you increase each of these 3 ways by just 10% each. What happens is you don’t increase your total business by 10% or even 30...
2016-06-1944 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA104 - Ready, Fire, Aim – 5 Key Behaviors of Highly Successful Entrepreneurs SUPER SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURS DO THESE FIVE THINGS, DO YOU? Dan Andrews, of the Lifestyle Business Podcast, and I sit down to have a discussion on success traits. We decided to discuss a presentation I gave to his TMBA Startup attendees where I shared 10 behaviors of highly successful entrepreneurs. Inside this episode, we cover 5 of those behaviors (Dan picked) that can have a huge impact on your business and your life if you’re willing to implement them in your business. The 5 Key Behaviors we cover are: Ready, Fire, Aim! Master of Details Adv...
2016-06-1824 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA103 - How To Source Products In China With Matt KowalakGETTING A PRODUCT MANUFACTURED DOESN’T HAVE TO BE SCARY Matt Kowalak, a TMBA startup attendee, sat down with me to talk about sourcing products in China. He’s been there for 8 years helping companies navigate the complex waters of product manufacturing. In this episode, Matt shares his experience and gives some great tips on how to avoid making big mistakes. I know this isn’t the typical show topic, but I found Matt and his company very interesting and hope you do too. It’s a story of a Midwest boy who sought a...
2016-06-1726 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA102 - Do Impossible Things With Joel RunyonIn this episode we are joined by a man who does the impossible, Joel Runyon of ImpossibleHQ.com, who is here to help us achieve the impossible in our own lives. Joel uses his story of how he went from being laid off from a temporary, part-time job at UPS to a well-paid marketing director and then on to running Impossible HQ and his own marketing agency. This is an episode that you can use as a roadmap to determine the life you want to live and get the skills to live it. T...
2016-06-1648 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA101 - Succeeding Online With Internet Business Mastery’s Sterling And JayHOW TO SUCCEED ONLINE WITH THE GODFATHERS OF INTERNET BUSINESS PODCASTING A long-time favorite podcast of mine is Internet Business Mastery. I’ve been listening to Sterling and Jay since the nearly the beginning of their podcast almost 7 years ago. That is some serious longevity in the Internet world. In this episode, Sterling, Jay and I discuss what it really takes to start, grow and manage a niche online business. This show has a lot of excellent advice especially about outsourcing and success mindset. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I...
2016-06-1555 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA100 - How To Thrive On Change In Your Online BusinessAKA THE REUNION EPISODE GIVE A WARM, “WHA’SUP, IZZY?” IN THE COMMENTS! Izzy comes back on the show to let us know what’s up with him and to talk about dealing with change. No, thriving on change. Check out the episode. Have a few laughs with a couple old friends and change right along with us. Tim and Izzy Join The Forge: A Group Of Entrepreneurs Creating A Life While Building A Business bit.ly/entertheforge New Training: How To Scale Your Business
2016-06-1432 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA099 - Are You Setting Transformational Goals?Are your goals materialistic? Achievement driven? Or are they transformational? In today’s episode, guest co-host Lain Ehmann and I have a chat about setting and evaluating goals. We’re just over a third of the way through 2012 and it’s a great time to see if we are on track to achieve our goals. BUT… Contrarian that I am, I switch things up a bit on Lain as she lists some goals she has and asks advice on meeting those goals. Listen in. I think you’ll see goal setti...
2016-06-1342 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA098 - Are You Self-Employed Or Are You Launching A Startup?HOW YOUR MINDSET & WORDS YOU USE TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF CAN EFFECT YOUR SUCCESS Dan Andrews, of Lifestyle Business Podcast fame, and I have a chat about Startup Success since I’m flying out to the Philippines soon to help him put on the first TropicalMBA Startup Class. This episode is, as with most episodes I do with Dan, is a philosophical conversation about the mindset it takes to 1) want to start a business and 2) to actually do it. Most people are stuck at the first stage and seldom get to the second stage of s...
2016-06-1228 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA097 - How To Acquire The Right Clients: Make $5000 to $10,000 A Month Part 2BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND… Johan Woods has returned to the Foolish Adventure Show to ask, “How in hell do I get more clients for my marketing consulting business?” In this episode, Johan dives right for the core of building a business — any business. If a business doesn’t get customers it isn’t a business. For Johan, it’s a matter of paying the bills. Rent has to get paid. Food has to end up in the fridge. Johan and I dive deep into the topic of getting clients especially positioning yourself before you even set o...
2016-06-1158 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA096 - How To Quit Your Job and Double Your Income In 6 MonthsThere’s a myth about making a living online that says you can’t make money online unless you’re selling how to make money online. Here’s the third in my series of Foolish Adventure Show listeners who make a living from the Internet and don’t do it in the “How To Make Money” world. Inside this episode, you’ll meet Denver Riddle (yes, that’s his real name) of Color Grading Central, who started listening to the Show in the very beginning. After listening for a few months, Denver had the confidence to start his own Int...
2016-06-1034 minTIM411: Answering Your Entrepreneurial QuestionsHow To Defeat Entrepreneurial ProcrastinationToday on TIM411, Tim shares an insight from a conversation with a prospective client.
"I can't do anything if I can't do everything."
Too many entrepreneurs, even Tim, are perfectionists and let the huge scope of a project interfere with accomplishing it.
Listen in to learn how to overcome your procrastination.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tim411/~4/Z41TxGlYTc8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
2016-06-1000 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA095 - The Selling Mindset That Leads To SuccessARE THE VOICES IN YOUR HEAD MAKING YOU FAIL OR SUCCEED? There’s a cultural script that says selling is bad. Being called a used car salesman is an insult. This script has made a resurgence online. A lot of the blogging community (bloggers who blog about blogging) are giving anti-sales advice, which really translates into anti-business advice, which is very detrimental to building a successful business. In this episode, my guest Craig Ernst and I have a conversation about selling mindset and how it greatly affects your business and your life. We ta...
2016-06-0946 minTIM411: Answering Your Entrepreneurial QuestionsWhen Should I Set A Lower Price Point?Today on TIM411, Tim answers the question, "When should I set a lower price point?"
Tim is famous for saying "add a zero" when asked about pricing. He wants you to find a way to add so much value that customers would be willing to give you ten times more than they do now.
But not all markets, not all products can have a price increase without losing sales. So when should someone lower their prices? How best to do so?
Listen in and get Tim's advice on lower price points.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tim411/~4...
2016-06-0900 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA094 - How To Make Six Figures Without Being An ExpertFROM EARNING DOLLARS PER HOUR TO SUCCESSFUL INFOPRODUCTS BUSINESS Your daring host of the Foolish Adventure Show, Tim Conley (hey, that’s me) comes face to face with a… curmudgeon! Dun dun DUN (inside joke, like it’s inside the episode) Today’s guest, Carl Olson of DigitalFilm.TV is a Foolish Adventure Show listener from the very early days of the show and was also one of the Charter members of the Foolish University. What makes this a great episode is that Carl used to disagree with some of the things I would say...
2016-06-0843 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA093 - Make $2000 A Month In A Small Niche With EbooksHow does someone make a living in a niche that most people have never heard of? Laura-Jane the Rawtarian makes $2000 a month in a niche inside a niche that’s inside another niche. Have you heard of being a rawtarian? It’s a subset of veganism, which is a subset of vegetarianism. I had heard of it since I’m a vegetarian, but I’ve never tried to go “raw.” Well, Laura-Jane has built an audience in this niche and is now making $2000 a month doing what she loves. How cool is that? Well...
2016-06-0738 minTIM411: Answering Your Entrepreneurial QuestionsHow To Get Knowledge From My Head To My TeamToday on TIM411, Tim answers the question, "How to lead my small team when I have most of the business knowledge in my head?"
This is a really good question as it is a problem many entrepreneurs face this problem all the time.
Tim shares how you can have your team do their jobs well and help grow your company without needing to take tons of time to get all your knowledge out of your head.
I'm looking at you, Melanie!
To learn how to run your team, get free training at http://TimConley.co/bootcamp/<img src="http...
2016-06-0700 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA092 - How To Get Automated Newsletter Income With Matt PaulsonYOUR AUDIENCE + NEWSLETTER = AUTOMATED INCOME This is as close to getting passive income as I’ve seen from someone actively running his own business. Oh, I’m not changing my position on earning passive income. This is a case of Leveraged Income, but boy howdy, it sure is leveraged. In this episode, you’ll meet Matt Paulson (one smart dude) who created a premium newsletter that he promotes on his financial news sites. His audience signs up for the newsletter and he gets $10 to $15 per month. Software does all the rest. No writ...
2016-06-0627 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA091 - Jobless to Internet Success with Gideon ShalwickWhat do you do when you immigrate to a new country, but can’t get a job? You start an online business, of course! In this episode, guest Internet entrepreneur, Gideon Shalwick of GideonShalwick.com shares his story about being jobless in Australia and his struggle to make a living online. Within a couple of years, Gideon became a very successful Internet marketer and a known expert in Youtube marketing. Oh, and this isn’t an episode all about how Gideon did it, he also gives some killer advice on doing super successful joint...
2016-06-0545 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA090 - How To Get More Freedom From The Money You Make In Your Online BusinessTIME TO GET FOOLISH WITH YOUR FINANCES Foolish Adventure Show listener and (now) contributor, Tom Wachowski of YourMoneyHouse.com joins me in this episode to talk about your money and what to do with it to gain more freedom in your life. Tom and I talk about the cultural script of “spending equals success” and how to overcome societal pressures to live the life that’s truly important to you. You’ll learn about finding your BIG WHY for financial freedom. What you won’t find in this episode is stock tips or specif...
2016-06-0432 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA089 - Customers Are Always Right Except When They’re NotHOW FAR DO YOU GO TO PROVIDE CUSTOMER SERVICE? In this episode, guest co-host, Lain Ehmann, asks, “Is the customer always right?” As business owners we have to walk a tight-rope between serving our customers and serving ourselves. There are some altruistic sentiments floating around that says if you serve your customers completely then you’ll prosper as a business owner. I don’t think this is true. You shouldn’t leave a job to gain your freedom from one boss only to enslave yourself to thousands of other bosses in the form of custome...
2016-06-0337 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA088 - Up, Down And Across: The Art Of Selling More To Your CustomersThis episode, with co-host, Dan Andrews of Lifestyle Business Podcast, is all about making you a lot of profit really fast. Dan and I cover Upselling, Downselling and Cross-selling in your business whether you’re selling digital or physical products. Adding these sales techniques to your shopping cart and customer communications will dramatically increase the size of your average transaction which in turn grows your net profit. Inside this episode, you’ll get: the definitions of Up, Down and Cross selling where to use these techniques how to use them and Dan throws...
2016-06-0224 minTIM411: Answering Your Entrepreneurial QuestionsWhat Type Of Team Structure Will Help Me Scale?Today on TIM411, Tim answers a question from Maciej Godlewski from Fired Up Digital.
Maciej wants to optimize his team structure so he asks if switching from skill set silos where for example all SEO experts get all clients who need SEO to a model where a team of experts handle a set number of clients. He wants to know if making this change will help his company grow.
Listen in to learn how to better structure your team for greater scale.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tim411/~4/c8TSIBEKMl8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
2016-06-0200 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA086 - How To Make $500, $1000 Or Even $25,000 A Month With Adsense SitesTHIS IS A CAN’T MISS EPISODE! Justin and Joe have become a major tourist attraction online because they have done something many, including myself, thought impossible — they actually make a lot of money from Adsense Sites. Like to the tune of over $44,000 in January! These two guys have legitimately built a business around Adsense sites that can be replicated by you if you’re willing to put in the work. You don’t have to completely do what the Adsense Flippers have done you can just build a small group of Adsense sites to bring in...
2016-06-0154 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA085 - Can You Love Your Job And Build A Business?My friend, Leslie Samuel, disagreed with me about day jobs sucking. He loves his and wanted to come onto the show to defend the honor of great day jobs everywhere. This episode is a conversation about keeping your job (if you enjoy it) while building an Internet business. He and I do disagree about jobs and businesses especially since I believe the good things that can be found in a job can be replicated or even better in your own business. Leslie believes and is living the opposite. He gets great enjoyment from his day j...
2016-05-3132 minTIM411: Answering Your Entrepreneurial QuestionsThe Effective Executive By Peter DruckerIn this episode, Tim recommends you go back to the source material. One of the best thinkers on management was Peter Drucker. He was the godfather of modern management and many people have reused his ideas in their management books ever since.
If you've not read the great book by Peter Drucker called The Effective Executive you can get it here: http://amzn.to/1TUAkjX<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tim411/~4/qarTACHMBSE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
2016-05-3100 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA084 - Pull Onto The Millionaire Fastlane With MJ DeMarcoAre you driving down the Financial Slowlane? Where you possibly get wealthy after 30, 40 or 50 years of saving. Or worse… are you on the Financial Sidewalk? Where you’ll never generate wealth because every penny you make is spent and then some. Special guest, MJ DeMarco is here to share how you can get off the wrong wealth road and onto the Millionaire Fastlane. Get rich quick is possible. We see it all the time, but it doesn’t come from buying lottery tickets or purchasing an ebook on how to get r...
2016-05-3130 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA083 - How to Make $5000 to $10,000 Each Month as an Internet Marketing ConsultantSIX FIGURES IN 12 MONTHS OR LESS… IGNITE YOUR CONSULTING BUSINESS WITH RAIN MAKER MODEL: REVERSE ENGINEERED ACQUISITION. Have you learned anything about Internet marketing? Have you set up email opt-ins on your website and made an autoresponder series for it? Do you know how to set up Facebook fan pages that get people to like a page? What about getting your site to rank for a keyword phrase or two? If you really want to quit your job and get control over your Time, Income and Mobility then bec...
2016-05-311h 04
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA082 - 3 Types of Action Takers and How to Become One“I Have To Know Everything Before I Do Anything.” ~ Analysis Paralysis This episode is all about giving yourself permission to get started… To get the beginnings of a business going… To build the skills necessary for success. This episode is also about giving yourself permission to not make thousands of dollars a day in thirty days. It is okay to make mistakes because it’s the only way to learn… The only way to get the skills to pay the bills. Listen to this episode about Action Takers and L...
2016-05-3147 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA081 - Creating Awesome Website Graphics With Liz NessHOW A TECHIE/PHOTOGRAPHER/DESIGNER MAKES WEBSITE GRAPHICS THAT ROCK In this episode I chat with Liz Ness of LizNessStudio.com about WHY (even if you’re not a designer and never plan to be) you need to be able to make your own website graphics. This conversation touches on principles and purposes of web design and how graphics make a huge difference in the way a website visitor perceives your online business. We also talk about design software and what you should use and why. Also, we talk about the Foolish Guide to C...
2016-05-3019 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA080 - Retention: How To Manage A Membership Site Pt2Managing a membership site isn’t all fun and games, but it can be very profitable. Lain and I continue our discussion on how to deal with all the issues of running a membership site. We were going to talk directly about money in this episode, but ended up talking mostly about something that will make you more money — retention. Keeping customers will make you extremely profitable. When your site isn’t losing lots of members, your income can stabilize and then grow. Also, in this episode we toss out some more a...
2016-05-3041 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA079 - How To Manage A Membership Site Pt 1Time to get down to business… The business of membership sites. Lain and I run membership sites and I consult on several so what we wanted to do is bring you some concrete ways of managing your membership site. What was going to be a single episode is turning into a series. (We’re recording part 2 tomorrow and will publish it next week.) In this episode we tackle: member intact strategies, two types of membership sites, doing “live” content vs digital content and pricing strategies. Membership sites are a great wa...
2016-05-3048 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA078 - The App That Wasn’t: A Business Management TaleEVEN EXPERIENCED BUSINESS OWNERS HAVE SETBACKS WHEN VENTURING INTO NEW TERRITORY In this episode, Lain explains how she is having trouble using outsourcing to build a new app for her business. She doesn’t know how to program, hasn’t managed any software development until this project and is finding that she can’t get the people she hires to actually deliver the work they said they would do. Lain and I sit down for a conversation on hiring a team versus outsourcing to a freelancer. I give my best tips on...
2016-05-3038 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA077 - The Business of Blogging With Srini Rao of BlogcastFMIf you’re not listening to BlogcastFM.com then you’re seriously missing out… You’re missing out on the insights and experiences of a couple hundred bloggers — from the really successful to the just-getting-started. I got Srini, the host of BlogcastFM to come on the show to share what he has learned from interviewing all these bloggers, what he’s learned about running a business and advice he can give to you, dear listener. Inside this episode, you’ll hear about the “scripts” we run in our lives, consciously and unconsciously, that d...
2016-05-2949 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA076 - Are You Making A Product Line Or Living In Product HellDO YOU EVER FEEL AN OVERWHELMING NEED TO MAKE ANOTHER PRODUCT? Lain wanted to know what I thought she should do with her business since she felt she needed to make more products. Advice that I had given her in the past was to focus on selling what she already had to a bigger market. Her question was, “But how do I do it?” That what this episode is answers. It covers the problem of too many products (Product Hell) compared to building a product ladder (Product Line) with the right mix of prod...
2016-05-2935 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA075 - Linchpin Lies: The Risk Of A Job Vs EntrepreneurshipThis is the most personal episode of The Foolish Adventure Show yet. As a matter of fact, I was reluctant to record this conversation. And even as I sit here writing this, I’m still unsure of releasing it to the world. Yeah, it’s that personal. WHICH IS RISKIER, A JOB OR ENTREPRENEURSHIP? Lain and I talk about our personal and familial experiences with Lynchpin Lies. Seth Godin wrote a book about becoming a lynchpin in an organization — you know, becoming indispensable. Well, there is no such thing as being indispe...
2016-05-2930 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA074 - Make Thousands Each Month From User-Generated ContentWhat if you could make a living from content you didn’t create? What if that content is more diverse and higher quality than you could ever make on your own? That’s the power of user-generated content. Dan Andrews is the guest co-host for the show today and lets us in on how he set up a community site that has very high quality content covering dozens of advanced business topics from setting up Hong Kong corporations to search engine optimization strategies that catapult niche sites number one rankings. Dan’...
2016-05-2931 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA073 - Successfully Using The 5 Types of Membership Site ContentTHERE ARE 5 BASIC TYPES OF MEMBERSHIP SITE CONTENT… Do you know what they are? Are you using 1, 2 or all 5? NOVEMBER IS TURNING CONTENT INTO CASH MONTH In this episode of the Foolish Adventure Show, Lain and I use our knowledge and experience to talk about successfully using content in a membership site. A big problem we’ve seen for membership sites is creating content. Many people focus on being the sole creator of content for their site, but… This can lead to burn out especially if you get cau...
2016-05-2846 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA072 - Are You Doing Enough To Have Enough?DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE YOU’VE DONE ENOUGH? HOW ABOUT SUCCESSFUL ENOUGH? Own enough? This episode of the Foolish Adventure Show addresses the problem all small business owners face — especially startups — how much is enough? This ISN’T an episode on having less. It’s about looking yourself in the mirror and knowing — really knowing that you accomplished enough today. Knowing that you can get enough of what you want in life. The show runs from practical to philosophical, but hopefully you’ll find it all useful...
2016-05-2855 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA071 - How To Run A Million Dollar Online Business…EVEN IF YOU’RE JUST STARTING OUT. All the principles of running a million dollar online business are used even when you’re just starting out. Yeah, some of the things you have to do in the day are different — like managing staff. When you are first starting, there is a good chance it is just you or you plus a cofounder or two, and you’ll be wearing all the hats in your business. My friend and fellow podcaster, Ian of the LifestyleBusinessPodcast.com, was kind enough to come on the show and talk a...
2016-05-2834 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA070 - Sell ’em What They WantGIVE ’EM WHAT THEY NEED This episode of The Foolish Adventure Show is all about business innovation — from products to customer service and it’s all wrapped in the concept of “sell ’em what they want, but give ’em what they need.” Also, welcome Lain Ehmann back to the show. Lain has decided to become a part time cohost for the show. I think her experiences in her niches and her membership site will bring back some of the consultant/business owner dynamic that former Foolish cohost Izzy brought to the show. I think Lain and...
2016-05-2839 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA069 - Blogging Success: Do What We Do Not What We SayIt’s not just bad advice; it’s so subtle you can’t tell it’s bad advice — the problem with correlation. SUCCESS IS A HABIT After two hours of conversation, Dan Andrews and I decided to hit record to talk about why success is singular. No one wants to talk about this problem — especially in the Self-help and Internet Marketing industries, because it doesn’t help sell info-products. The reason success advice is usually bad advice is because people attribute their success to factors that weren’t the real reason they succeeded. It’s a matte...
2016-05-2825 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA067 - How Not To Get Crushed When Expanding Your BusinessA CONVERSATION ABOUT SCOPE CREEP AND… HOW IT PRETENDS TO BE BUSINESS GROWTH WITH LAIN EHMANN My guest on the Foolish Adventure Show this week is Lain Ehmann of LayoutADay.com. Oh, and 30 Minute Martha, which I think is a compelling brand concept. Lain operates a successful membership site in the scrapbooking industry and also a few other niche sites. She brings a wealth of knowledge and passion about running a business especially as a busy mom. In this conversation we cover briefly the topic of rejuvenating an industry during a recession — essent...
2016-05-2842 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA066 - Stop Being Normal – Start Being Entrepreneurial With Dan AndrewsNORMAL VS ENTREPRENEURIAL Dan Andrews of The Lifestyle Business Podcast and I have a conversation about being normal and making normal decisions versus being entrepreneurial and what that means for your life — good and bad. We discuss how purchases can effect you and determine your future. A lot of this conversation revolves around money. Spending it, saving it and earning it. You can quickly lock yourself into a typical workaday life without ever trying to. Since your coming to Foolish I presume you don’t want to work at your job or your want t...
2016-05-2721 minTIM411: Answering Your Entrepreneurial QuestionsHow To Break The Feast Or Famine Cycle In Your BusinessToday on TIM411, Tim answers the question, "If we're not ready or capable to bring on new customers, how do we stop marketing, but not dry up the sales pipeline?"
This question is really about flattening the feast-famine cycle that many B2B service providers get into. It also happens in product businesses when they sell out of product, months go by before new stock comes in and then they have to build up demand again.
This episode talks about how to forecast and handle those down times.
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2016-05-2700 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA065 - Online Entrepreneurship For Women With Steph Of The DailyDigiFoolish Adventure really needed a woman’s touch in sprucing up the show. The Foolish Adventure Show had become a bachelor pad of sorts so I’m setting out to change that by bringing on a successful woman entrepreneur. Steph, of TheDailyDigi.com, has a life many people (women and men) would love to have — great kids, happy marriage and an income-producing business she can be passionate about. In paying attention to my audience, I’ve noticed that Foolish listeners are almost split 50/50 between men and women. Yet only once before has a woman been on the sho...
2016-05-2642 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA064 - How To Become A Virtual CEO: A Conversation With Chris DuckerHaving control of my life is important to me. I’ve arranged my life so that I can do what I want on my schedule without needing to ask permission of a boss. However, I have limited my success by not getting better at management. You can’t have really big success without the help of others. I didn’t want employees because I didn’t want the imposition on my freedom. Wow, was I wrong! I’ve watched Chris Ducker, through his blog VirtualBusinessLifestyle.com, transform himself into a Virtual CEO. This episode is a...
2016-05-2428 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA060 - How To Create A Successful Membership Site: Tim Bourquin InterviewFROM POLICE OFFICER TO NEW MEDIA MOGUL: AN INTERVIEW WITH TIM BOURQUIN OF TRADERINTERVIEWS.COM Tim Bourquin was day trading stocks after getting off his shift as a police officer. He got interested in podcasting in the days before it was called podcasting and built an audience for a mountain biking/triathlon podcast — he later sold this podcast and it was most likely the first podcast ever sold. Tim has a broad range of business experience so he has a big picture view of business combined with a depth of knowledge that only comes from bei...
2016-05-241h 01TIM411: Answering Your Entrepreneurial QuestionsWant To Make A Fortune? Fix Your MarginsToday on TIM411, Tim answers the question, "What should my gross margins be?"
This is probably the most important metric to measure in your business.
Listen in to find out how to make a fortune by fixing your margins.
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2016-05-2400 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA059 - Are You Chasing Fads Or TrendsTAKE ADVANTAGE OF FADS & TRENDS TO BUILD A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS In this episode we have a conversation about fads and trends and what that can mean to your business. Learn to identify the difference between a fad and a trend so you can create the right kind product. We discuss how the skill to identify a coming fad or trend comes from developing your “producer” mindset which is critical for value creation. We cover two big trends that Tim thinks will continue to grow exponentially and that you should find your place inside one or...
2016-05-2333 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA058 - Invest In YourselfHOW ADVICE FROM A ROMAN EMPEROR CAN MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL TODAY I’m about to show some of my nerd cred here — for pleasure reading I will, on occasion, read ancient Greek philosophy and sometimes this reading takes place on a Friday or Saturday night. What’s a night out compared reading the teachings that were foundational to Western culture? Right? No? Okay, so maybe it’s just me. In this episode of Foolish Adventure, Izzy and I converse about an idea sparked from reading the Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius. I won’t go into hi...
2016-05-2329 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA056 - How Important Is a Needs-Based Business?Tim and I sometimes agree, and well, sometimes we don’t. And that’s okay, because it makes the show interesting, right? In this new episode of Foolish Adventure, we have a bit of a debate about what’s more important: building a business about something we love, or building a business to meet a customer need?
2016-05-2339 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA054 - Turning Expertise Into An Internet BusinessCheck out my latest articles and podcast at TIM411.com. CAREER EXPERTISE PLUS PASSION CREATES A GROWING INFO-PRODUCT BUSINESS Izzy and Tim interview Foolish Adventure member, Jules Watkins of iPhone Video Heroand PocketVideoPower.com about his Internet business. You’ll get an inside look at a growing online-based information product business. Jules’ story may sound familiar — it may sound much like your own, where he was tired of using his knowledge, time and energy to build wealth for others and not creating any long-term assets for himself. The industry Jules is in can be...
2016-05-2143 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA053 - Repurposing Content To Increase Your Product LineCheck out my latest articles and podcast: TIM411.com. How To Build A Backend To Your Business Last week we introduced the Product Ladder so that you could build a backend for your online business. You may be thinking, “How the heck am I going to create a bunch of information products?” That’s what this episode is all about — taking the content you create, whether written, audio or video and turning it into more products. We cover webinars, teleseminars, virtual events and so much more that will give you a bu...
2016-05-2128 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA051 - The Art Of Time, Income And MobilityDISCOVER THE IMPORTANCE OF T.I.M. Once you master the art of TIM… Your life will be your own. You will have the freedom to do what you want, when you want and where you want. TIM & THE INTERNET LIFESTYLE Developing systems so you can control your Time, Income and Mobility (TIM) is the key to having what people perceive as the Internet Lifestyle — you know, lounging on the beach running your business from a laptop with just four hours a week of work. This episode is a philo...
2016-05-2149 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA049 - Is Your Online Business Healthy?DO YOU KNOW THE VITAL SIGNS OF YOUR BUSINESS? Knowing if your business is healthy comes down to tracking and not guessing. Over the years I’ve asked my clients some very basic business questions and only a handful knew the answers. Questions like: What’s the Lifetime Value of a Customer (LVC)? What’s your Average Cost Per Acquisition (or new customer)? What’s your monthly break even point or annual break even? Of course, there are a lot more questions to ask of a business. There really is a lot to k...
2016-05-2136 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA048 - Freedom Changes Everything And It’s OnlineFREEDOM CHANGES EVERYTHING… FROM THE DECISIONS YOU CAN MAKE WITH YOUR LIFE TO THE IMPACT YOU CAN MAKE IN THE LIVES OF OTHERS. This episode gets us back to our roots–freedom through entrepreneurship. Freedom is probably the number one reason people get into business for themselves. They want choices that aren’t available to them by working for someone else. This may be a choice on how they spend their time or what they do to earn their money or where they earn an income. Some people may be like...
2016-05-2146 minTIM411: Answering Your Entrepreneurial QuestionsWhat To Do About Bad HiresToday on TIM411, Tim answers the question, "I made a few really bad hires and now I have to fire them, but still need to work to get done. What do I do?"
You need to know why you think the employee is a bad hire. Find out if there is a better place for the employee in the company. If not, you must do the mature thing for the good of your company and fire the bad hire.
But you still have to get work done. So listen in on how to handle this tricky situation.<img src="...
2016-05-2000 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA047 - Busting 5 Internet Business MythsBELIEVING IN MYTHS CAN PREVENT SUCCESS FROM BECOMING A REALITY You may not have seen these myths in your classical mythology course in college, but they are some of the most famous ones in business today. In this episode, our Herculean heros step up to bust 5 of the most pervasive myths that are holding many business owners back from success. Sometimes building, growing and managing a business feels like the 12 impossible labors of Hercules. But we persist. What can make business even more difficult is when we believe in myths that seem so tr...
2016-05-2020 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA046 - The Power of Online AdvertisingSHOULD YOU USE ADVERTISING TO GROW YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS? There are a lot of people online, experts of sorts, who spout phrases like, ‘Attention is worthless so don’t buy people’s attention.’ What they are saying is spending money on advertising (any paid activity that gets someone’s attention) is worthless. If you see someone online bad-mouthing advertising you should put it into context; either they have never used advertising or they have never used advertising successfully. There is a third type–the social media guru who is advertising his/her product on how you only need...
2016-05-2026 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA044 - Use Your Passion, Don’t Sell ItOur tangent-driven heros — one carrying a deadly illness (the sniffles) — bring you another exciting episode of The Foolish Adventure Show! Tim and Izzy share harrowing tales of people without passion, online business mayhem, and monsters that only eat the ambidextrous. Okay, that last one is made up. I’m still sick from when this show was recorded so I’m making this process of posting the show more fun, well…at least for me. This one tries to answer what to do when you aren’t that passionate about anything or you don’t want to sell what you...
2016-05-2021 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA043 - Lifestyle Business Design RoundtableHOW TO DESIGN YOUR BUSINESS TO SUPPORT YOUR LIFESTYLE This episode brings to you a couple of really smart and successful online entrepreneurs, Dan & Ian of LifestyleBusinessPodcast.com. You’re about to get great information and inspiration from guys who sell–wait for it…real physical products! Who knew that people still bought stuff you can touch. Here at Foolish Adventure, we live off ones and zeros, but not only is it possible to sell physical products – you can even build a successful business. What’s best about this episode is partnership...
2016-05-2055 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA042 - Foolish Guide To Being DecisiveMAKING DECISIONS BUILDS CONFIDENCE AND CONFIDENCE LEADS TO SUCCESS Join in on our conversation about Decision Making and Confidence. We talk about the pitfalls of indecision, waiting on others to make decisions for you and the problems with certainty. Of course, we don’t just talk about the problems, but also the way we go about building our confidence through decisions plus action. Decisions without actions are as ineffective as making no decision and letting the world happen to you. Once you make a decision, even a little one, take an immediate acti...
2016-05-2036 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA039 - Are You A Failure? And 5 Ways Not To BeHOW NOT TO BE A FAILURE If you’re not having the kind of success you want in your life–you can’t get your business started, you can’t seem to make enough sales or build an audience. This episode, as with all our shows, started from a conversation Izzy and Tim had about not reaching goals. First, at Foolish Adventure there is only one type of failure–quitting on your dreams for your life. As long as you keep working and improving, you’ll eventually reach your goals. You’ll build momentum and yo...
2016-05-1850 minTIM411: Answering Your Entrepreneurial QuestionsAre You Living Frantically In Your Business?Today on TIM411, Tim answers the question, "I'm working 12 hours a day, barely see my family, have no free time, make little money, and I reinvest everything back into my business. What should I do?"
This is a common problem with most entrepreneurs. When you look around online it seems like everyone is crushing it. They probably aren't.
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2016-05-1700 minTIM411: Answering Your Entrepreneurial QuestionsShould I Pay My Employees First?Today on TIM411, Tim answers the question, "Should I pay myself or my employees first?"
As entrepreneurs we take on the risk of business in exchange for future reward. Employees trade future reward with limited risk today. So employees get paid first.
But the reality behind this question is why is it being asked in the first place? Typically a business owner asking this question has a gross margins problem because ultimately both should be getting paid at the same time.
Listen in to learn how to fix this problem.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tim411/~4/k2...
2016-05-1600 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA023 - How To Craft A Sales Page For Your Digital ProductCreating a Sales Page for Your Internet Business Doesn’t Have to be Scary
Sparked by a listener email, Izzy and Tim set off on a Foolish discussion about what makes a good sales page.
You’ll learn about techniques from the offline world of direct response marketing that still work today in an online business.
New forms of sales pages are discussed such as audio and video sales messages.
Tim covers some important elements that were in the Foolish Guide to WordPress sales page he wrote.
All this and much more…such as going off on mos...
2015-04-0745 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA014 - How To Name Your Online BusinessIn this episode, Izzy and Tim talk about naming your online business using two major naming strategies: Branding and Search.
We give you resources to look for good domain names and how to get them even if they are not available.
There are also lots of Do’s & Don’ts with domain names to get the most out of your website name.
Izzy and Tim prefer the branding approach to naming, but also recommend doing search naming together to drive as much traffic to your online business as possible.
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2015-04-0744 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA013 – Paid Traffic Tactics To Grow Online Sales QuicklyTips, Tactics and Warnings Regarding Paid Traffic
Hi again! Tim and I promised we would talk about paid traffic, so here’s a show that digs into this wild and crazy subject. Because my own experience is limited with this type of traffic-building, I decided to squeeze the information out of Tim through an intense interview (which he survived just fine).
If you’ve been thinking about trying this method for traffic, listen well and take notes. This show is packed full of great stuff.
2015-04-0735 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA010 – Find and Develop Your Foolish ExpertiseIn this episode, Izzy and Tim cover finding and developing your expertise for your niche. We cover partnering with experts, finding time to become an expert and many more ways.
You might find that you are already an expert without knowing it. Tim even brings up a new type of expert that has been working in a bunch of niches for the last few years.
Stay Foolish, my friend.
2015-04-0735 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA005 – The Thing We Wished We Had Done SoonerIn today’s show, Izzy and Tim reveal things they wish they had done sooner with their businesses.
Tim again gives Izzy some free consulting about optimizing and tweaking his business to get greater results.
Tim talks about his reluctance to be a “guru” and how he stayed behind the scenes in the marketing world and what he wished he had done sooner.
Have a listen and enjoy the show…
(It’s a short one today)
2015-04-0714 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA003 – Musical Marketing Mayhem and Other AwkwardnessIn this “behind the scenes” show, Izzy and Tim remove any sense of structure to share their conversations about:
Izzy’s Super-Trademarked, Ultra-Copyrighted Secret Marketing Strategy
A listener’s business idea gets some Foolish advice
Izzy puts out a call for a new business partner…
…After getting some on-air consulting from Tim
You’ll get some truly Foolish insights, ideas and (hopefully) inspiration to take action on your online business. Listen now!
2015-04-0734 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA001 – Passions and ObstaclesIn the first installment of the Foolish Adventure Podcast, Tim Conley and I discuss things like:
Why it’s smart to build a business online
Tips for picking a business idea
What obstacles you might encounter
Tips for overcoming obstacles
We also talk about our goals for the show and website.
2015-04-0751 min
The Foolish Adventure Show | Internet Business RadioFA192 - Reverse Engineered Customer AcquisitionStart At The End To Attract Your Perfect Customer
Every sales funnel training out there follows this path:
They start at the opening of the funnel and talk about getting a bunch of traffic.
But Sam Woods and I have found that started with the end result creates more and better customers. Starting with the end, you can engineer the structure (the steps a prospect has to take to become a customer) of your sales funnel so that it:
Attracts the right prospects for your business
Sifts, Sorts & Screens out anyone who i...
2015-03-3050 min