The How-to Entrepreneur

Paid Media Buyer & Digital Marketing Entrepreneur. Tsegie is an expert on everything from Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Web Development, SEO, Content Creation, and Email Marketing. He’s got extensive knowledge in the art of Paid Media Buying and also works his magic with Common Thread Collective. Not only does he work with the most reputable Growth Agency but he also runs his own Digital Marketing Agency Khmat Media. Links from todays show are listed here: www.thehowtoentrepreneur.com/episodes/tsegie

Kyle Elliott, MPA, CHES is the founder and career coach behind CaffeinatedKyle.com. He is also a self-proclaimed Starbucks addict. As a result of working with Kyle, students through c-suite executives have landed jobs at Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and nearly every other Fortune 100/500 company you can think of. They have also found happiness.

Preston Weekes is the founder of the Operations X, a company that provides the best solutions for businesses to help them achieve their success and to help more people. He also recently released a book he co-wrote, titled How to be UP in Downtime. He is an advocate of relentless improvement. He has experienced downtimes too. And as someone who also had a hard time lifting himself up, he gives some tips on how you can stay focused on achieving more.

Russell Nohelty is a USA Today bestselling author, publisher, and consultant. He runs the small press publisher Wannabe Press and The Complete Creative, which helps creatives build better businesses. He’s run successful Kickstarter campaigns for Ichabod Jones: Monster Hunter, Katrina Hates the Dead, My Father Didn’t Kill Himself raising over $135,000 on the platform to date, including three campaigns that raised over $25,000 each, and one that raised $39,000.

Chris Snook is undoubtedly one of the most experienced entrepreneurs we have on the show to date. He is solid proof of the mountains and valleys that exist in entrepreneurship. He is also a living testimony of turning tides and how you can go from walking against the wind, to later having it to your back.

Geoffrey Klein, alongside his wife, both came from corporate backgrounds with a strong footing in C-Suite knowledge and an understanding of the creative process.  For all the How-to homies listening that have considered starting an agency of your own, (REGARDLESS of what kind!)Geoffrey tells exactly how they got theirs started and how they got the ball rolling with B2B and B2C/DTC. Go ahead... Gain the unfair advantage!

Men’s Modern Athletic Wear/Founder of OLIVERS. David is an entrepreneur who has funded his own brand, sourced his own materials from all over the world, and manned all other helms in order to make room for OLIVERS in an already competitive industry. He has found the riches in the niches! This episode is for anyone trying to bring an athletic/lifestyle brand to life, needs help on how to fund, and how to source the best materials on the planet.

Marketing Expert & Brand Scaling Entrepreneur Jeff Apfelbaum is the real deal muscle for hire. Jeff himself was running a rock solid business before his inner entrepreneur presented him the “what’s next?” question all of us ask from time to time… Jeff realized he wanted to scale by helping others do the exact the same thing! Through his skills as a digital marketing expertise in SEM, SEO, funnel optimization, email campaigning, automation as well as design and development he's doing just that.

In a league of his own as one of the first Stem Cell Treatment Entrepreneurs! Matt’s approach and cycle of care is personalized towards each patient’s goals of improvement. Matt has been fighting chronic degenerative battles right alongside those in need, prior to being able to practice in accordance with federal law here in the United States! There are enough hurdles put in place that ultimately lead to the inevitable failures as an entrepreneur. Matt overcomes those challenges.

For entrepreneurs (and aspiring alike!) that have thought about sharing their expertise and helping others build their brands... Maybe you need a mentor, an idol, a coach... Someone in the industry that not only has that fashion backbone but has the consulting credentials to back it up!?  Look no further, Sharon Haver has been vouched for 1000 times over and has had her own marketing medium campaigned in collaboration with Macys (in which she was personally featured). She now advises business owners!

Channeling your skills as an entrepreneur into something that you can infinitely scale sounds nearly impossible, especially when you factor in passion.  Jared was able to make a lifestyle change as an early adult, invest his time and energy differently, and started one the first fully-customizable nationwide meal prep distribution businesses. Jared weathered the change of ownership similar to that of SpaceX in which one partner was left to man the helm and navigated the success to inconceivable scale

Tab Pierce has been fighting the good fight on the cyber crime front line for quite some time now. Also known as information-security is something most small business owners can usually handle on their own with a all-in-one software but when any business owner is trying to take their company to the next level... Stepping up the firewall is a must. If you've got skills in the anti-virus, dark-Web scanning, alien-vault device space and have the entrepreneurial spirit... Take note of what Tab has to share!

Being an entrepreneur NEVER has a same ol' same ol' story told about those and the paths they've chosen. To some choosing the right business and living with that "what if" existential crisis-like mentality can leave the path untraveled an unsolved mystery... Maybe you wanna hire Mike Ski so he can get to the bottom of it since he runs his own PI Firm and if that's not enough he'll teach you how to start and operate a firm of your own! No real entrepreneur leaves a rock unturned! 

There are two key aspects to owning a personal training business. The first is being a personal trainer, and the second is being an entrepreneur. Gunnar has trained an insurmountable number of actors, actresses, athletes, and regular Joes throughout his career and is has the built not only a brand but a reputation as the best of the best in not only the fitness world but amongst world of entrepreneurs as well! Find out if anything Gunnar has to say resonates with your entrepreneurial goals.

There are loads of startup ideas floating around that people will recommend. Most of which will require little or investment capital to kick start it. A mining business may be the last thing on your mind. You may not have even considered it. With huge chance, comes huge rewards. For the entrepreneurs that are always trying to turn the bigger picture into a mosaic, this is an industry that really demands capability.  Max Porterfield helps break down a machine like Callinex, one cog at a time.