Learning From Others

Today's guest had a massive success with his very first business. But opportunity can come at a cost. Listen as he shares with you the awesome journey of entrepreneurship with a realistic view of what to expect with rapid growth. Please welcome Chris Michael Harris. Contact Info: https://chrismichaelharris.comhttps://instagram.com/heychmhttps://twitter.com/heycmh Today's guest had a massive success with his very first business, but opportunity can come at a cost. Listen, as he shares with you, the awesome journey of entrepreneurship with a realistic view of what to expect with rapid growth, please welcome Chris Michael Harris, you are ready to grow your business, and I love helping entrepreneurs find success. So let's do this. I'm Damon Burton, Forbes contributor, author of the search engine optimization book, outrank and president of SEO National. I've been featured on Forbes, entrepreneur and hundreds of websites and podcasts for helping big businesses grow bigger and make more money by showing up higher on search engines, including shark tank, featured businesses, NBA teams, and Inc 5,000 companies. I'm bringing my successful network to you here@learningfromothers.com. Whether success to you means financial freedom, freedom of time or freedom of the soul. We're in this together. Welcome to the learning from others podcast. Ready to show up higher on search engines for words that you can monetize, but without paying for ads, download your free copy of my SEO book outrank. If you visit www.freeseobook.com today. Chris, Michael Harris, welcome learning from others. Good to meet you. Hey man. Great to meet you. Hey, so before we hit record, he said, uh, you know, you recognized a couple other people we've chatted with and, uh, I think that's kind of something interesting that you find when you kind of dive into the podcast world, regardless of which side of the mic you're on. I think it's called that you can run into. there's so much opportunity and there's so many people out there, but you kind of realize it's, uh, it's its own little world too. Yeah. Especially when you like really niche down to entrepreneurship, you see a lot of the same names and faces kind of popping up. It's interesting. Cause like we have our own little world, but yet we have the people that kind of continue to pop up in that world. So yeah, it was interesting to see a lot of the folks in there that I write. Yeah, I appreciate you jumping on. So, you know, the drill two questions, question number one is who are you and why are we listening to today? All right, well, I am the founder of StartUpU, you and the host of StartUpU podcast started UTV, uh, and that all kind of came to be because I had early success with my first venture when my, uh, my brother and I decided to launch a little side hustle. And that evolved into a multi-million dollar company within the next 36 months. By the time I was in my mid twenties and realized throughout that process, wow. They didn't teach me like how to do this. And despite the fact that I was at a very notable school university of Georgia go dogs by the way, national champions and right now, um, yeah, I just feel like there was so little application, both in life and formal education, not to disparage those, but that actually applied to running a business, especially when it was growing as quickly as we can. From year one to year two 48,000 to $500,000. I mean, it's ramping growth, right? Not no funding whatsoever. And so I kind of had this vision of what I would do after that, that business. And it really revolved around education. It really evolved around, I can't build every single business, but I can help people and indirectly create a lot of businesses. Uh, and so that's what we've kind of started to work on with startup you, and as we continue to serve people in the online space, both in all animals. Uh, that's the, there's a big vision as far as what we can accomplish doing that. Well, I want to dig...

After the death of what would have been his future father-in-law, today's guest talks how that loss gave him a gift for life. Life hacker, podcast host and entrepreneur here to motivate you to make the most of life, please welcome CJ Finley. Contact Info https://www.instagram.com/cj.finley/https://twitter.com/cjfinley7https://www.linkedin.com/in/cjfinley/https://www.cjfinley.com

Today's guest is a business consultant that was inspired to write his book "Don't Be Dumb" after the successful removal of a brain tumor. Here to discuss his leadership playbook that's intended to help people be smarter, overcome obstacles and rise rapidly in these challenging times, please welcome Robert Towle. https://dontbedumb.expert

Today's guest has had more careers than cats have lives. From Hollywood TV exec and game designer to manga rewriter, voice actor, animator, electrical engineer, studio head, and video game designer. He's the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators that was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. Here to teach you the ins and outs of venture capital funds, please welcome Steve Hoffman. Contact Info https://CaptainHoff.comhttps://FoundersSpace.comhttps://SurvivingAStartup.comhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/FoundersSpacehttps://www.linkedIn.com/in/FoundersSpace/https://instagram.com/FoundersSpace/https://twitter.com/FoundersSpace/

Today's guest was diagnosed with dyslexia at eight years old. After the initial overwhelm he learned how to use what others called a learning disability as a super power. Then, after building up a successful real estate agency for five years he threw it all away after a chance phone call that lead him to talking on stage about being your best you. This professional speaker and peak performance coach is here today to help you increase productivity, reduce stress and have more energy. Please welcome Christopher Dedeyan. Contact https://www.christopherdedeyan.comhttps://www.youtube.com/c/ChristopherDedeyan/https://www.instagram.com/christopherdedeyan/https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherdedeyan/https://www.facebook.com/ChristopherDedeyanhttps://twitter.com/chrisdedeyan

From $75k in debt to a millionaire that's worked with Snoop Dogg, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry and more, today's guest is one of the top music producers in the industry. With his decades of experience in music he's converted those lessons-learned with the best artists to challenge others to achieve their goals in life. Please welcome Mr. Bellringer, Marcus Bell. https://www.100dayzimpactchallenge.com

Today's guest is here to share that the quality of your brand will determine the quality of your clients and the quality of your clients will determine the quality of your life. He went from a broke designer racing to the bottom on Fiverr to building a multi-million dollar business. Please welcome Henry Kaminski. Contact Info https://uniquedesignz.nethttps://twitter.com/the_brand_drhttps://www.instagram.com/thebranddr/https://www.facebook.com/HenryKaminskiJr/https://www.linkedin.com/in/henry-kaminski-jr/

Today's guest is a USA Today bestselling author and has been seen in Forbes, Huffington Post, Fox, ABC, NBC, and more. She's here to talk to you today about how dropping the excessive professionalism, embracing your uniqueness and how NOT selling could be your greatest sources of sales. Please welcome Adriana Alvarez. Contact Info https://adrianamoniquealvarez.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/adriana-monique-alvarez/

Playing sports at a high-level, today's guest studied personal growth and performance. They found that many resources focused 80% on the problems and only 20% on the solutions. Now he is on a mission to flip this statistic around to help more people. On his own podcast about performance and human wellbeing, his guests have included Sean Percival, former CMO of MySpace and Dan Brule, breathing master and Tony Robbins' breathing coach. Here today to help you have a health-positive impact on your business ventures, please welcome Mads Friis. Contact Info https://www.facebook.com/growthisland.madsfriishttps://www.instagram.com/madsmfriis/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYLy4k2VbDX6DefVlLfW0uQhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/madsmfriis/

Today's guest is a successful entrepreneur in his fourth business in 20 years. He's an Amazon best selling author of the book "Let's Go Win, The Keys to Living Your Best Life" and “Champion’s Daily Playbook." With a passion to help other succeed, he coaches athletes, executives, and leaders on peak performance. We talk about the valuable insights you can discover in your first world problems that help you decide how to live you life by design. Please welcome JM Ryerson. Contact Info https://letsgowin.comhttps://www.facebook.com/letsgowin365https://twitter.com/letsgowin365https://www.instagram.com/letsgowin365/

Today's guest is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, international speaker and coach. But, most importantly, he's an advocate for adult survivors of childhood trauma. Listen as we talk deeply about how things in your past effect your performance and mindset today. Learn what he learned from his own parent cutting off his finger as a child, growing up around drugs and violence, and how he went from being a self-admitted asshole... to compassion and helping others. Please welcome, Michael "Unbroken." Contact Info https://www.thinkunbroken.comhttps://twitter.com/michaelunbrokenhttps://www.instagram.com/michaelunbroken/

After nearly two decades of marriage, today's guest was thrown into a tailspin. His ex-wife accused him of cheating and drug use, and even went as far as to get him involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility. Here to talk about the positive that he took away from it all and what you can learn about yourself in hard times, please welcome JD McCabe. Contact Info https://thirdgift.comhttps://www.instagram.com/thethirdgift/https://www.facebook.com/thirdgift/https://twitter.com/thirdgiftbook

Today's guest just finished year one as a solopreneur and is here to share his journey. He is a Direct Marketing Consultant from Dublin, Ireland, helping direct-to-consumer businesses create offers and messages that are relevant, timely, and attractive to their ideal customers. He talks about his first client, and scaling sales to his first six-figure year without doing any marketing. Please welcome John Caprani. Contact Info https://www.facebook.com/jdcapranihttps://www.linkedin.com/in/johncaprani/ [1]

Today's guest has built and sold two agencies that were 100% bootstrapped. He took what he learned and married it with his strong passion for scaling service-based businesses and now helps entrepreneurs and professionals scale sales without the gross sales approach. Ready to sale more in a way you can be proud of? Please welcome James Harper. Contact Info https://agencyflare.comhttps://twitter.com/jharpermediahttps://www.instagram.com/jamesdharper3/https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesdharper3/

Today's guest is an evangelist for what he calls "acquisition entrepreneurship." Why start a business when you can skip they startup headache and buy one? He's ready to help you become the entrepreneur that everyone admires and respects. Please welcome Philip Arthurs. Contact Info https://www.thebusinessminer.com/learninghttps://twitter.com/TheBizMiner https://www.instagram.com/phil.arthurs/https://www.facebook.com/TheBusinessMiner

Today's guest is a performance coach, author, and speaker that has been featured by Yahoo! Finance as one of the Top Business Leaders to Follow and is on a mission to build people. He talks about why you don't need to entirely remove negativity from your life. Yes, you don't want negativity, but what if instead of ignoring it you embraced it and converted it to rocket fuel? Please welcome Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco. Contact Info https://www.mikecroc.com/bookhttps://www.instagram.com/mikeycroc/

Today's guest is a doctor in organization and is among the nation's most respected experts in online higher education. What I enjoyed most about our conversation was that he had nothing to hide about the pros and cons of considering a college or university. His diversity in direct experiences in and out of schools and entrepreneurial environments, including helping launch a new university from zero students to 300, brings a great discussion on the future of higher education. Please welcome Dr. Joe Sallustio. Contact Info: https://www.claremontlincoln.eduhttps://www.edupexperience.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/joesallustio/

Today's guest is a digital marketing expert, and author of five books, including the 4th Edition of the Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising. Since 1998, he has been helping his clients achieve their goals through digital media and storytelling, and he is eager to share his experience with you of not only the ups of Facebook advertising, but also what to watch out for. Please welcome Bob Regnerus. Contact Info https://bobregnerus.com Bob Regnerus Facebook wizard. Thanks for jumping on learning from others. How are you? Hey, Damon. Good to be on man. Good. Look at you and your fancy background while the listeners can't see the fancy background, but you got a fancy background. I do I do it's yeah. It's a green screen with a nice blue background. So it leaves at least some of the cluttered office, uh, out of people's of you. So these backgrounds are getting fancy. I was actually on a call just a little bit before you and I jumping on and the person says, how do I get rid of the background? And I said, are you talking about you can't get rid of your background? He goes, no, no, no. That's not where I'm at. That was like, oh, that looks super real. Well, I love the ones where they're like on a beach or something. Yeah. Sit back in their chair and disappear into the ocean. That's always fun. Yeah. The stuff we never knew, we would learn in 2020, right? Yeah. All right, Bob. Well, why we listening to you today? What are we going? Hey, I want to talk about Facebook ads, but doing it for seven plus years, been in direct marketing for 22 years. So, um, let's, let's learn a little bit about how to make Facebook, Facebook ads work. Right. But not until I ask you a question number two, which is what do you suck at Bob? Um, well, I, I I'll give you two answers. Um, number one, I suck at it. So maybe that's just laziness, but like, thanks to this. My wife knows how to do it. Um, the other character I would say is, uh, I hate to lose, like, I'm a basketball coach, so like I'm just wired to win. So I'm a really poor loser, whether it's cards or I don't care if I like, if I lose a game or Rumi cube on my phone or something like I'm a sore loser. So I'll give you two floods. Do you legitimately suck at ironing? Like you burned stuff or you just don't like it. I can't do the process. Like I can't iron a collared shirt and make it look good. Like I can get a little bit of the creases out, but I actually create more creases when I do it. So like, thank goodness I got a spouse that like enjoys it. And, and also, you know what, I don't wear that many shirts that need to be ironed. So that's also, yeah. What, what, what type of age? Uh, basketball coach are we talking? High school, high school boys. So 15, 16 year old boy. Okay. All right. I'll let that one slide. I was going to say, are you like the aggressive seven-year-old coach? Oh no, I did. I've been coaching for 33 years. I started when I was 16 years old and I've done it every year since, um, I've coached anywhere up from five-year-olds up to 18 year olds. So boys, girls. Yeah, I am not a screaming idiot. Right? Well, let's talk, let's talk Facebook ads. So, um, why don't we, why don't we start with Facebook ads? 1 0 1. What is it? What's so amazing about it. Let's start with super basics. Yeah. I mean, Facebook obviously is, is where everybody is. Um, it, it's a media that people spend hours per day on. And so. One of our responsibilities as a, as a, as a business is to be in front of the people where they're at. And Facebook makes it really easy to do that. Obviously it's got its issues and we could dive into some of those, but Facebook remains one of the best places to reach your target audience in advertising today. Why is it such a good place to reach? Uh, what I like about it is you target people based on who they are. So you target at the kind of the user level versus keywords. Like if you doing Google ad words, right? Um, Google ad words, you're figuring out what...

Today's guest was a rock concert roadie turned entrepreneur. He's spoken in over 30 countries on six continents, helping you become a better speaker and presenter. He's written three books, was voted top 40 under 40, and is just a good guy. Really enjoyed this conversation. Listen to the end to hear how he almost died on stage in front of thousands of people. Please welcome Richard Mulholland.

Today's guest helps business owners and entrepreneurs learn how to achieve success without losing focus. For more than two decades, he has helped countless executives transform their business and professional lives by empowering them with systematic, scalable approaches. Please welcome S. A. Grant. Contact Info http://www.sagrant.comhttps://www.bossuncaged.com