How To Get Verified on Google In Under 5 Minutes

Getting verified on Google is one of the most important things you can do to elevate you or your company’s brand. By becoming verified, you’re signaling to Google that you are a real entity. This is especially true if you’re a local service business. This opens the floodgates for more visitors, more SEO power, and more customers booking calls. Here’s …

The Winning Formula for Successful Podcasting

Can you imagine interviewing the CEO of a multi-billion dollar company without being afraid? Today, we have Michael Krigsman. He’s a good friend and the person I consider to be the Larry King of interviewing executives, having run the CXO Talk Podcast and interviewed more than 800 business leaders. What really impressed me about Michael is that he has such …

How to Build Your Credibility

I was called retarded when I was six years old and was placed with the other “special” kids— some sweetest kids. Ms. Gore, my teacher, would grab my pudgy cheeks and exclaim, “You’re so cute!” I didn’t speak English, so adults would yell LOUDER at me as if a higher volume would help me understand the words better. I felt …

A Killer Technique to Promote You

Here’s a killer technique to get folks like me to promote you all over the place. Write a blog post honoring me or something I teach, linking to me. For several reasons, sharing a website link is more powerful than sharing a social link: As a former search engine engineer, I know this– so I want to get more engagement …

Do You Know the #1 Reason Why Clients Leave?

I was loading groceries at Costco when a client called me. So I answered it– I squished the phone between my shoulder and ear while putting stuff on the conveyor belt. As a founder, you can’t be MIA – Missing In Action. No matter how “busy” you are or how unimportant you think a client is. I even answer my …

3 Secrets on How to Increase Your Following From 12 to 7,600 in Just 8 Weeks

Wondering how some people rise above the noise and get that high following on their social media accounts? Here’s how: 1. Make posts honoring well-known friends, instead of talking about yourself These friends would appreciate the compliment and retweet you to their audience. Not sure how this works? Here is an episode of Office Hours that talks about How to …

Is Working Nonstop a Badge of Honour?

Tommy and I stayed up until 1:30 am playing Golden Tee on the day of the biggest deal of his life. With zero guilt. Even though we “should be” busy working every minute of every day. Tommy took the time to have a long steak dinner with me, horse around at a friend’s house (see the silly video below), and …

7 Best Cold Email Practices by Alex Berman

Wondering how someone like Alex Berman has generated over $100 million via cold email? Here are his 7 best cold email practices he wish he followed earlier: 1) Spend 4-6 minutes researching Research your leads: – Industry – Job title – Company size – Active social media channel Don’t send emails to: – Industry you have no case studies in …

10 Secrets to Successful Freelancing

Are you aiming for a successful freelancing career, trying to grow your freelancing and your agency, so you can make more money?  Fiverr is a great place, and Fiverr is a great partner; however, we know that there are so many little pitfalls and different things when you’re trying to get high-paying freelancing gigs. What are the secrets of successful …

The 3 A’s – Analytics, Audiences, and Advertising

This is an extract from the Tom Ferry Podcast Experience with Jason Pantana and me, where we discussed the 3 A’s and how Digital Plumbing stitches them all together. The 3 A’s – Analytics-Audiences-Advertising, and Digital Plumbing What does it mean to build out everything so I can start making good decisions based on the math? Let’s say you want …