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An event could be beneficial but sometimes overwhelming to the audience, especially when the organizer fails to deliver a core message. In this podcast, learn how you can make your event successful and get the results that you truly want. Dan Dobos and James Schramko In this podcast: 02:00 – Dan’s concept of offering funnels 03:05 – Can it work for you? 03:57 – The key to success is proof 04:20 – Wide and deep technique 06:09 – How to organize an event 07:00 – Marketers struggle with online events 07:28 – James’ experiment on his SEO services 08:20 – Handling too much volume on free events 09:30 – An ideal length for a seminar 10:08 – Dan’s topic on SuperFastBusiness Live 10:18 – Webinar vs. seminar 11:38 – Dave’s strategy before the event 13:08 – Educating people but not overwhelming them 14:13 – The key to the success of one seminar 15:32 – Know the process to become successful 15:53 – The key to getting a response 16:50 – James strategies on his own events 18:05 – What to do at the end of the seminar? 19:22 – Benefits of doing one-on-one 21:40 – Provide benefits to your audience’s challenges 22:30 – Understanding your customers’ pain 23:40 – Benefits of getting feedback 25:35 – Tailoring testimonials 27:22 – How to do things better 29:35 – What to do when someone responds to your lead generation process 31:40 – Traffic sources 34:46 – The key to keep growing 36:06 – The action steps Do you know where 6 and 7 figure marketers talk about business? Click HERE Let James show you the next ten things you can do to double your business HERE Find out more about SuperFastBusiness Live Download the PDF Transcription Tweetables: Tips to increase your sales page conversion. [Click To Tweet]. The secret to 60x more revenue. [Click To Tweet]. Want 60x more profitable campaigns? [Click To Tweet]. Transcription: James: James Schramko, here. Welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. In our special guest series of interviews, I love to go find out interesting things from interesting people. And today’s topic is going to be very interesting. We’re going to learn how to get 60 times more revenue from your campaigns. And this guest is not here for the first time, actually. My guest today has been here before. I’d love to welcome to the call, Dan Dobos from MentalBlank.com. Dan: Good day,

Discover the real power behind learning to monetize and leverage your own style as an email marketer. In this podcast, learn how you can effectively connect with your audience through emails.Topics discussed:01:32 - The unusual style of Andre Chaperon 02:45 - Email as the perfect platform 04:25 - Effective storytelling 06:22 - Learning from Hollywood’s storyboards 08:15 - How people’s viewing habits change 08:55 - Do you have to be a great writer? 09:35 - Should your emails be conversational? 10:10 - Autoresponders or broadcasts? 11:33 - Hybrid email strategies 12:18 - Follow-up sequence is the spinal cord 13:15 - Most popular solutions from Andre 14:00 - The introvert as entrepreneur 15:30 - Monetizing and leveraging your own style 16:05 - Common mistakes of email marketers 16:58 - Researching techniques 18:46 - Should you do segmentation? 20:40 - The power of the “from” address 21;22 - Subject lines that lead to more opens 22:25 - Why you need to set up filters in your email 23:11 - Tweaking messages 24:25 - Creating your email system 26:12 - Taking the stress away with autoresponders 27:27 - Email service provision 28:50 - Why James left Aweber 29:26 - Wrapping things upLet James show you the next ten things you can do to double your business HERE Access all of James' courses HERE Access more details about SuperFastBusiness Live HERE Download the PDF TranscriptionTweetables:Effective storytelling strategies. [Click To Tweet]. How should you write your emails? [Click To Tweet]. How to be a great email marketer. [Click To Tweet]. Common mistakes of email marketers. [Click To Tweet]. How autoresponders help. [Click To Tweet].Transcription:James: James Schramko here, welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. And I’ve tracked down one of the earliest people who I can remember from when I went online who was publishing good stuff back then and flies pretty close to the radar, in fact a little bit under it. And you won’t hear too much from my next guest out there in the public, because he’s quietly just doing his thing, making good revenue, and I guess he’s built up quite a reputation for just a few products that have made it out publicly.I’d love to welcome to the call, Andre Chaperon. How are you going, mate?Andre: Hey, mate. Top of the world. I’m doing good. It’s a lovely sunny day here in Spain.James: Yeah, it’s great that you’re in a different place than when you started out. I think, back in maybe 2006 you were in London?Andre: Yeah,

Are you experiencing friction in your business? Learn how you can turn that friction into freedom by using powerful frameworks.In this episode:01:40 - Taki’s specialty 02:13 - Why is freedom important? 04:20 - The Attract, Convert, Deliver (ACD) Chart 06:08 - ACD 1.0 vs ACD 2.0 07:00 - 2 easiest ways to be free 07:06 - Get the right tool 08:09 - Get a virtual team 08:52 - Taki’s upcoming presentation at SuperFastBusiness Live 10:14 - Upscale your brain software 10:48 - Learning and doing 12:50 - Choosing the right platform 14:20 - Offering workshops 16:30 - Using frameworks and checklists 18:10 - Taki shares an article about Obama’s decision making 18:47 - Examples of businessmen saving time on decision making 20:45 - An action step from Taki MooreNeed help growing your online business? James is waiting HERE MasterMind with other serious business owners HERE Find out more about SuperFastBusiness Live. CLICK HERE Download the PDF TranscriptionTweetables:How to achieve freedom in your business. [Click To Tweet]. What is the right platform? [Click To Tweet]. How frameworks make things easier. [Click To Tweet].Transcription:James: James Schramko here, welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. Another special guest episode where we interview people who know really cool stuff about cool things and I can’t believe that I haven’t had today’s guest on the show earlier because we’re such good friends and we catch up pretty much every single week.Welcome to the show, Taki Moore.Taki: Dude, about time I got this invite.James: I know. I know you’ve had me come and chat to your people at a special event you ran and you’re coming to speak to my people at the event.And then this sort of podcasting cross-over was destined to happen and we’re going to be really dialing in on the topic of freedom and how you might sort of achieve that.Now, you run a very popular website called CoachMarketingMachine.com.Taki: Yup.James: And, you’ve primarily worked with coaches to help them market their coaching business to get students and to deliver good results right?Taki: Exactly. Yeah, most of my guys are great at what they do and often not so good at the “How do we get enough clients to do it for” piece, and so my job’s the marketing and sales guy to teach them how to do that that well.Freedom In Life James: And I think that topic has a broad application for most people listening to this. Most people are looking to get customers, looking to convert, looking to somehow deliver whatever they’re doing in a leveraged fashion and that happens to be your specialty. So, let’s dig into this.As the coach’s coach, I’m sure you’ve got some highly evolved techniques and I’ve seen you in action. I’ve known you for a few years now and you do really walk the walk as opposed to talk the talk.So,

Do you struggle with the tech stuff? In this podcast, learn how you can take advantage of automation to build a more efficient, more valuable and more profitable business.In this episode:01:19 - Mastering marketing + tech stuff 03:45 - Starting the Evergreen Business System 05:12 - How achievable are automated funnels? 06:15 - Teddy is going to speak at SuperFastBusiness Live 07:40 - What James and Amazon have in common 08:25 - Biggest mistakes marketers do 09:34 - How can you raise your customer lifetime value? 11:35 - Moving from no automation to a more effective system 15:59 - Numbers in your business are the key 17:09 - How do you get the numbers? 19:20 - James’ dad’s decision tree 22:21 - What SuperFastBusiness members get 22:50 - What is Life Book? 24:17 - How assessment helps 24:57 - Minimum work, maximum result 25:35 - Teddy’s favorite tools 26:53 - Automating your life processes 28:35 - The action steps to the journey to automationJames helps you grow your business into a profit powerhouse HERE Get more details about SuperFastBusiness Live HERE  Download the PDF Transcription  Tweetables:How to achieve automated funnels. [Click To Tweet]. The biggest mistakes of marketers. [Click To Tweet]. How to raise your customer lifetime value. [Click To Tweet]. Get the numbers in your business. [Click To Tweet]. Start the journey to automation. [Click To Tweet].Transcription:James: James Schramko here. Welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. In this interview, I’m having a chat to Teddy Garcia from InfoMarketingSystem.com and Teddy is a specialist in taking prospects through a well-organized campaign or system if you like to end up into customers and that’s exactly what we’re going to be talking about today. So, welcome to the call, Teddy.Teddy: Thank you, James. I’m so excited to be here man. Looking forward to this.James: We got fair way back. I bumped into you several times over the years. It’s same system every time I go to a conference whether it’s marketing, especially in the U.S. but also in other countries, you are there. You’re right at the cusp of this marketing crowd.I think that’s because so many marketers have great ideas. They’ve got books. They’ve got websites. They’ve got memberships. They’ve got e-commerce stores. But, they really struggle with some of this tech stuff and you have that under control.Teddy: Yeah. I am kind of unique. I grew up being technical. My dad was into computers really early on. So, as a kid, I learned how to program computers but I also always had the marketing background as well.

In this video:00:09 - We’ve moved our websites to SuperFastBusiness.com 00:54 - Find tools, join the community – it's all here 00:59 - Why have we done this?Do you know where 6 and 7 figure marketers talk about business? Click HERE Choose the right product for you HERE Download the PDF TranscriptionTweetables:Need content for your website? [Click To Tweet]. Get your content ranked. [Click To Tweet]. Get the tools recommended for your business. [Click To Tweet].Transcription: James Schramko here, and I’ve got some news for you about SEOPartner.We've moved our products to our main site We’ve had an incredibly successful run over the last few years. And, what we’ve done now is we’ve moved SEOPartner across to our main website, SuperFastBusiness.com. We’ve also moved our website development company ATLWeb across to SuperFastBusiness.com.And, we’ve moved LinkJuice across to SuperFastBusiness.com as well. So if you need content to put on your website and then have it ranked, you can get that at SuperFastBusiness.com under the traffic section.BuyWithBonus was my website where I recommend tools that we use in our business, and we thought, you know what, why don’t we bring that across to SuperFastBusiness.com as well. So that’s now under our recommended category.And of course, the world-class Internet business community known as FastWebFormula is now the SuperFastBusiness Membership. It’s all here, on SuperFastBusiness.com.It's now easier for you So why have I done this? I’ve done it because it makes sense. It’s much easier for you to have one website to go to: SuperFastBusiness.com. And, now I only have to wear one T-shirt. So everyone’s happy.Subscribe to SuperFastBusiness on iTunesFeel free to leave your comments below

Knowing the rules -- and knowing how to break them -- on Instagram can help you fire up a huge following for your brand. In this podcast, “The” Betty Rocker shows you how you can rock your Instagram account.Need help growing your online business? James is waiting HERE James is able to help you with your online business - Details Here Download the PDF TranscriptionTopics discussed:00:50 - Introducing “The” Betty Rocker 01:30 - James bakes vegetarian cupcakes 02:17 - How Betty started her brand 03:00 - The U.S. food scene 03:52 - Betty vs. bad food 04:58 - Is Instagram your primary platform? 05:54 - Betty’s stats on Instagram and Facebook 07:32 - An awesome way to leverage Instagram followers to Facebook 08:40 - Monetizing your Instagram account 09:59 - What if you lose your Instagram account? 10:49 - Can you make money? Oh yeah. 12:20 - Target your market with what they want to see 13:28 - Use Instagram to motivate and inspire people 14:40 - Getting into Pinterest marketing 15:28 - Using Instagram content across different platforms 17:05 - Have an Instagram targeted account 18:05 - How do you get analytics on Instagram? 19:07 - Top apps to use on Instagram 22:34 - Should you use videos or pictures on Instagram? 24:30 - Engineering captions to engage people 25:01 - How old is Betty Rocker? 27:02 - Using filters to make pics more interesting 27:55 - Is it OK to get controversial on Instagram? 29:12 - Rules on creating captions 31:00 - What’s great about hashtags? 35:37 - Action steps and cool tricksTweetables:Is Instagram the Neverland? [Click To Tweet]. Leverage your Instagram followers. [Click To Tweet]. Create the right Instagram account. [Click To Tweet]. Get your stats on Instagram. [Click To Tweet]. How to use hashtags. [Click To Tweet].Transcription:James: James Schramko here, welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. In this interview series, I’ve been talking to experts about what they are specializing in, and in very different subjects to some that I’m familiar with. In this case, it’s a topic that I have almost no understanding of and that’s why I’ve brought on my friend, Bree, to talk about Instagram. Welcome to the call, Bree.Bree: Hey James, hey everybody.What’s behind “The” Betty Rocker James: Now, most people call you as The Betty Rocker. I’m really interested in this stage name thing and if that has been an obstacle for you or is it a positive for you when you go out there in the social media platform?Bree: Actually, I find it to be incredibly useful. I wanted to have a name for the brand that people could sort of rally behind and imagine themselves as.James: Was it sourced from Betty Crocker?Bree: I guess, kind of. I mean, I have been kind of an adrenaline junkie for life and I also like to bake and cook so people were calling me punk rock Betty Crocker since I was a kid so I kind of morphed into Betty Rocker.James: I did some baking yesterday.

It’s not about getting clicks, but getting a lot of customers. In this podcast, James and his special guest talk about acquiring traffic and increasing conversions using the right strategies.In this episode:01:15 - Specializing in traffic and conversions 02:15 - What is App Store Optimization (ASO)? 03:05 - How on-site search box helps 04:04 - The big move to SuperFastBusiness.com 04:35 - What is content native advertising? 06:20 - How do you apply native advertising? 07:50 - “Disguise your advertisement as news” 08:55 - Are you using Twitter’s ad platform? 10:23 - How to track results on different platforms? 14:33 - Common mistakes with advertising 15:48 - How to craft effective ads 19:29 - The inspiration behind video sales letters 21:10 - What is an interactive VSL? 26:47 - Movie recommendation: Her 26:57 - Simplest ways to implement VSLs 29:20 - What is the action step?Stop letting your competition beat you in the search results Click Here  Dreaming of a page one listing? Perhaps we can HELP Download the PDF TranscriptionTweetables:What is App Store Optimization? [Click To Tweet]. What is content native advertising? [Click To Tweet]. What’s the best performing ad strategy? [Click To Tweet]. The benefits of native advertising. [Click To Tweet]. Track your results. [Click To Tweet]. How video sales letter helps. [Click To Tweet].Transcription:James: James Schramko here, from SuperFastBusiness.com. Today we are joined by a good buddy of mine from the USA, Justin Brooke. How are you, Justin?Justin: I’m good man. Fire it up.James: We just caught up recently and it’s always fun having a chat behind the scenes. It’s one of these interesting things where in the online world, some of the best relationships you have the people you actually end up meeting face to face and we bumped into each other a few times now. Certainly, we’ve known of each other for years and years.Justin: Absolutely. I remember you with the hoodie and the Affiliate Pounce thing.James: Yeah, and I remember you way back, you were flipping sites. And then, you had a few different iterations as I have done. And it tends to be the way. But the interesting thing is it’s a long game. And both of us have been certainly paying attention to one topic and that’s what we’ll be talking about today.That is all about traffic and conversions, because these elements are essential for any online business. It’s always going to be important. That’s something you specialize. You run a website called IMScalable.com. Tell me about what you have been up to lately.Justin: So, yeah. Traffic is kind of the thing that changed my life. Literally,

In this week's episode:00:26 - We now work with Shopify websites 00:45 - The best package we offer 00:58 - Get the right team for the jobLet us handle your e-commerce website Click Here WordPress websites custom-made for you Here Download the PDF TranscriptionTweetables:Get the best help for your Shopify website. [Click To Tweet]. Find the right project manager for you. [Click To Tweet]. No need to task source. [Click To Tweet].Transcription: James Schramko here with an important news announcement regarding our Web development services.We’ve mastered Shopify You know how if you can drive a car, then the chances are you can probably drive a bus or a truck, it’s not that different. Well our Web team has been very, very good with WordPress, and what we’ve been able to do now is adapt our skills to Shopify. That’s right, we’re now able to help you with Shopify websites. We’ve been learning the Shopify language, we’ve got some very skilled developers on our team who specialize in coding that hard-core stuff. And we’ve found that Shopify is very easy for us to use. So, if you’d like some help with your Shopify website, we can help you.Best package for you Our best package is the 5-Hour Pack, where we can just be your project manager. You just hand over the job to us and we’re going to make all the changes that you don’t have time for, and you don’t need to hire or task source anyone for this. Just put our team on the job and we’ll be right there to make all the changes you need. So we’re really looking forward to working with your Shopify website. Thank you so much for watching this video, and I hope we can look after you soon. I’m James Schramko.Get more episodes – subscribe to the podcast in iTunesPlease leave your comments below

An expert in software as a service, Paul Clifford shares his effective approach to building your own successful software business.In this episode:00:55 – Software as a service expert 01:21 – Paul’s SaaS business background 03:34 – Who should be building software businesses? 04:25 – The great thing about creating a software business 05:23 – The Lean Startup Movement by Eric Ries 06:45 – Create your Plan A 08:53 – Build-Measure-Learn loop 09:50 – 2 ways to build your idea 12:26 – Customers don’t know what they want 14:16 – Set up your wireframe 15:15 – Will your prospects be willing to pay for your product? 17:05 – How to save money during development 17:54 – Partner with a developer 19:14 – Outsource a developer 24:22 – Building a long-term relationship with your developer 25:42 – Key points to remember 26:58 – Facing feature creep 29:30 – Time to ask for payment 31:33 – Successful software tools 32:56 – Biggest mistakes on software development 38:30 – The best long-term marketing tacticMasterMind with other serious business owners HERE Want to grow your business faster? Join SuperFastBusines Membership here Download the PDF TranscriptionTweetables:Can you build a software business? [Click To Tweet]. The great thing about a software business. [Click To Tweet]. The best long-term marketing tactic. [Click To Tweet]. What do customers really want? [Click To Tweet].Transcription:James: James Schramko here. Thank you for listening to SuperFastBusiness.com. And I’ve got another interview. I’m really out about finding people, digging up the talent and also, some different topics.And today’s guest is someone who I was hanging out with at a recent conference in San Diego, sitting in the back of the room, discussing this enamoring topic of software and how you set up software development. It’s a fascinating topic so I brought onto the show an expert in this subject, Paul Clifford, welcome.Paul: Hey James, thanks for inviting me in the show. I really appreciate it.Disrupting The Marketplace James: Now, you are doing something very disruptive in the marketplace. You even called your website “Disruptware.” Something around that. Is that right? Disruptware.comPaul: Yes. Absolutely. Essentially, my background has always been in software, especially in the SaaS market. SaaS stands for Software as Service, so essentially, a software delivered on the Web.What happened, my last SaaS business where I was actually an employee, we sold that company for like $38 million and since then I moved and started on my own and started doing online marketing and how to sell online and everything like that.And I started building some apps, some content marketing apps, I’ve got a keyword tool, some security software and I got another SaaS app in progress.What I really found is that, in the marketing world, a lot of people are coming to me asking, how do I do this, how do I do that.

Do you spend huge amounts of time building your brand? Today's guest reveals the essentials you need to create a strong and reputable identity for your business.Topics discussed:00:30 – Topic on building out your brand 01:27 – Building a successful brand name 03:42 – How do you want to be perceived? 04:45 – Treating your brand name like a person 05:15 – Think of values you want to have for your business 06:40 – What are you standing for? 07:52 – Who do you need in the team? 09:22 – When to invest in your brand 11:20 - SuperFastBusiness being in control of its brand 13:40 – SilverCircle perceived as a strong brand 18:55 – Two kinds of people in the business 22:22 – Your name is not the most important thing 22:59 – Be consistent in terms of marketing 24:00 – 2 methodologies in building a brand 25:00 – “Humanizing your marketing” 27:55 – Why you need to use custom images 29:16 – Should you do a professional shoot? 32:50 – Checklist and final tips for business ownersFind out more about SuperFastBusiness Live 2014! Click HERE. SilverCircle is currently OPEN Click Here. Download the PDF TranscriptionTweetables:Build a powerful brand name. [Click To Tweet]. What does your business stand for? [Click To Tweet]. Invest in your brand. [Click To Tweet]. Be consistent in terms of marketing. [Click To Tweet].Transcription:James: James Schramko here, and today’s topic is building out your brand, so I’ve brought in a branding expert, and I’d like to welcome to the call Franziska Iseli-Hall.Franziska: Thank you James, thanks for having me.An Unusual Name James: I actually remember when your business first started doing business with my business, because of your brand name, how ironic is that? You’ve got a website called BasicBananas.com, so it’s quite an unusual name.Franziska: It is, and you know, it’s an interesting name because it kind of doesn’t say much about what we do, but people remember. So it’s interesting that you actually remember when we first started using some of your services for our members.Because every time I go somewhere to a function or some events, people seem to come up and say, “You’re the banana lady.” And that’s a good thing, even though I don’t really like bananas.James: Well, I did hear at Seth Godin’s Startup School, he was talking about how the more you have to explain a brand, the stronger it can become if it becomes successful. And he gives examples like Google. But if you think about Amazon, Google, Apple, Yahoo, eBay, they don’t really mean anything.They’re not like keyword domains. Like we sometimes see in the Internet business space, where people feel compelled to have a specific keyword descriptor. So you’ve built quite a strong brand, and then I remember seeing you in a magazine. So you’ve obviously got something worked out with this marketing machine.Franziska: Yeah, I think we did, and look,

In this video: 00:04 – Change the way you look at your marketing future 00:10 – SEO vs. content marketing 00:33 – Why is podcasting so important? 00:43 – The challenge of building a team to publish your podcast 01:02 – What’s the perfect solution? 01:46 – Professional, practical podcast publishing servicesNeed help getting faster results in your business? Join our community HERE Download the PDF TranscriptionTweetables:Take a look at your marketing future. [Click To Tweet]. Learn about the trends on content marketing. [Click To Tweet]. What you need to know about task sourcing. [Click To Tweet].Transcription:James Schramko here and I’ve got a really interesting graph that I want to show you that might change the way you look at your marketing future.The rise of podcasting So I’ve been researching search trends for search engine optimization, and not surprisingly, they’re on the slight decline. But, when you look at search trends like content marketing, they’re way on the up. And that’s why I’ve been putting out podcasts and videos on SuperFastBusiness for the last few years.And it’s really come to the attention of other marketers who have invited me to submit guest posts for blogs, to speak at events like the Traffic & Conversion Summit, on why podcasting is so important, what podcasting actually means to the marketer, and how you go about doing it.Now one of the things that come up when I’m talking about it is the challenge of getting a team around you to help you produce and publish your podcast.You see, talking to the camera like this, or making an interview on Skype is pretty much the easy part. The hard part is task sourcing or building a team, who you have to pay, train and manage to put it all together.And let’s face it: you’ve got other things to do as a business owner other than to run a team. So now I’ve put together the perfect solution.Get a team to help you process your podcasts I thought, my team, who have been doing a lot of search engine optimization, some of those people can move across and start helping out in the publishing team.So the same team who have been putting together these videos for the last two years have been training out new recruits so that we can help you with your podcast.In fact if you go to our products tab, you’ll see there’s a Publisher’s Pack. And if you don’t even have a website, we can actually help you build it from scratch.And if you already have one, great news, we can help you produce and publish your episodes. Our team will actually upload, edit, transcribe, do show notes, write images, post to the blog and all that stuff like we do at SuperFastBusiness.com, ThinkActGet, and FreedomOcean.So check out the team’s packages. It doesn’t matter if you’re doing short videos like this one, or whether you do hour-long podcasts. We can actually help you get one out every single week like clockwork.And it’s going to cost you a heck a lot less than if you have to hire ...

Jules Watkins' course iPhone Video Hero has inspired many. In this interview, he offers video creation tips that will benefit any aspiring video marketer.Covered in today's podcast:01:50 - Welcome video expert Jules Watkins 02:36 - The idea of factual entertainment 04:40 - Bringing professionalism to video marketing 06:20 - Cutting out the fluff 07:33 - James' video production tools 09:10 - Making it "visual" 11:02 - Equipment vs. story 13:12 - Who's doing the filming? 16:55 - Get started making videos 18:47 - Creating videos without the upfront costs 22:58 - Strengthen relationships through video 24:46 - Different style approaches to video 30:39 - iPhone Video Hero's target market 32:19 - Accessories and apps for the iPhoneJoin around 1000 dedicated online marketers in this private forum SilverCircle is currently OPEN Click Here Download the PDF TranscriptionTweetables:The power of edutainment. [Click To Tweet]. Keep it concise. [Click To Tweet]. How can you grab your audience? [Click To Tweet]. Story before equipment. [Click To Tweet]. Look for visual metaphors. [Click To Tweet]. Transcription:James: Good day, James Schramko here. Today, I’ve got another interview. I like to bring these interviews because we get to dig inside the mind of an expert on various topics.Today’s topic is really close to my heart. It’s something I’ve been involved with, on almost daily basis for the last couple of years, and I think that it’s a huge opportunity for more people to get involved with.And of course I’m talking about the area of video marketing. And who else could I invite for a show like this than Jules Watkins. How are you Jules?Jules: Yeah, very good James. Thanks very much for inviting me on.James: Well, it was just a matter of time because I have two of your products that I absolutely adore. And I think I commented somewhere that iPhone Video Hero is one of the few products where I got access to it, and watched the entire product in one sitting because it was so engaging and so interesting.And a lot of that comes down to your presentation style and the way that you put the course together. So congratulations on doing such a good job with that.Jules: Oh yeah, thanks very much for that. Well, that’s exactly right. I did try and put a lot of myself into it, and some of my background which I’m sure we’re going to talk about in a sec.

Years of experience in the design industry have helped Greg Merrilees perfect his craft. In this interview, he reveals his top web designing secrets.In this podcast episode:01:02 - What Greg’s been up to 02:55 - From fashion to websites 03:27 - Rules to convert paying customers 07:00 - Designing a very strong brand 08:45 - What every design should have 11:48 - What is flat design? 14:30 - On copycat designs 15:20 - Mixed typography explained 17:07 - Podcasters Greg has designed for 18:54 - Raising your profile with design 19:44 - A quick recap 21:11 - Greg's biggest tipLet us  build your WordPress website Need help growing your online business? James is waiting HERE Download the PDF TranscriptionTweetables:Design always changes. [Click To Tweet] People get bored seeing the same things. [Click To Tweet] Frame your brand with great design. [Click To Tweet] Hit it with the simple stick. [Click To Tweet] Transcription:James: James Schramko here, welcome back to another special interview podcast on SuperFastBusiness.com. Love to get a hold of experts and talk about things that are really impacting the Internet business space. Today’s topic is what makes a great website design, and the particular focus is on design.So I’ve reached out to one of my good friends, and he really is actually a good friend, and also a member of my SilverCircle mastermind. Welcome Greg Merrilees from Studio1Design.com.Greg: Good day James, how are you, man?James: Good. So, are you burning up down there in Melbourne right now?Greg: Actually it's a bit colder today. But it has been ridiculous. It's just too extreme down here, but today's bearable.James: Now with your business, you've been focused heavily on design in many traditional industries, and you had a design studio, you were doing some cool stuff with T-shirts, but also some unusual items. What sort of things have you been designing in the last few years?Greg: Mainly websites, actually. The last probably four years, I developed my own websites and trying to work out what converts and build a site that's better based around conversions. And in doing that, you know, I started doing it for friends, and then eventually started doing it professionally.So that was four years ago that we started, and now, I guess we concentrate on designing for marketers like yourself that have your own clientele.From fashion to web design James: Right. What are some of the most unusual things you've designed? I went to your studio and you had some unusual merchandise there.Greg: Yeah, I guess over the years, so we've had the design studio for 14 years or thereabouts, and over the years we've pretty much sifted and shifted through all sorts of products, so we've done… let me think, we've done thongs, we've done packaging...James: Now, you should clarify that for the non-Australians. We're talking about flip-flops, right?

In this episode:00:00 - James sings...really 00:13 - Inspiration from a movie 00:44 - Get your own motivational anchorJames is able to help you with your online business - Details Here From $30,000 per month to $300,000 per month. Thats what Shaq did Click Here For Details Download the PDF TranscriptionTweetables:Amazing how powerful a song can be... [Click To Tweet] What's your motivational hook? [Click To Tweet] Transcription:(James singing along to David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”)What is your motivational hook? So you’re probably wondering why I’m singing while I’m waxing my board. If you’ve seen [The Secret Life Of] Walter Mitty, a great film, you would have noticed there was a great scene there where he was reluctant to catch a helicopter ride with a drunk guy and I understand that, but the song got him inspired.It’s his anchor, it’s his motivational hook to get out there and do something inspirational. So that’s why when I’m waxing my board, I sing this song because taking up a new sport like surfing can be really difficult but that song gets me in the mood. It’s my anchor.So my action step for you today is get yourself a motivational anchor to move into something that you might feel uncomfortable with. I hope you’ve enjoyed this little grab. I’m James Schramko and will talk to you soon but right now, I’ve got to go out and have a surf.Want more episodes? Subscribe on iTunesFeel free to comment below.

Guest entrepreneur and author Chandler Bolt shares valuable tips for maximising your productivity and striking the work-life balance many find elusive.Covered in the podcast:00:30 - Chandler Bolt, author of “The Productive Person” 01:40 - Want-tos versus must-dos 04:21 - The entrepreneurial paradox 07:39 - Getting up and staying up 13:15 - The 50-10 rule 16:31 - Parkinson's Law 20:39 - The Pareto Principle in motion 22:23 - What can you do daily to reach your goal? 26:50 - Power lunches with multi-players 28:18 - Chandler's top tipDoes the idea of getting results much faster appeal to you? Click here Rapidly increase your six or seven figure per year business HERE Download the PDF TranscriptionTweetables:Inspiring productivity tips [Click To Tweet] Work now for future freedom. [Click To Tweet] Set short deadlines. [Click To Tweet] What's your 20-mile march? [Click To Tweet] Create, then consume. [Click To Tweet] Transcription:James: James Schramko here. Welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. I’ve got a special interview today and the topic is productivity. I was over in San Diego and I met a young author who had put together a book on the subject of productivity called “The Productive Person.” Welcome to the call, Chandler Bolt.Chandler: What’s up, James. How are you doing?James: Very good, thanks. So, you’ve co-authored this book and your co-author is called James Roper. You put together some information around productivity and I am always interested in this topic as I’m sure most of our listeners are because it seems like, if you speak to most business people, they always have the sense that there are more things to do than they have time to do. Would that be a fair statement?Chandler: Exactly. And that’s kind of why we wrote the book.James: So a lot of the ideas in there I was familiar with. There’s a few distinctions that I thought was fantastic. Let’s treat this like a book club where we sit down and chat about some of the ideas that you mentioned in the book and how you perhaps discovered them and what sort of implications it has for people when they started applying it. All right?Chandler: That sounds good.Want-tos versus must-dos James: So, one of the first things is that people are confused with the “want-tos" and that "must-dos." Perhaps, you could develop that a little bit for us.Chandler: Just a little bit on the story of the background of the book… James and I, we basically decided to write this book and it came about because him and I both run businesses and we were also students along with all these other things that we also had to get done.It was kind of forced productivity and we realized that the major thing there was as a student and as an entrepreneur, you know you have a lot of things that you just need to get d...