HTE 372: Investing in Yourself | Kai Davis
My guest today is an author, speaker, and coach with one goal: Help your business be better off than it was before you found him. He is working to accomplish this goal in several ways: One, he sends a daily marketing tip to his newsletter. Two, he has written three books. And One, he sends a daily marketing tip to his newsletter. Two, he has written three books. And three, he coaches freelancer...
45m Oct 06, 2017
45m
HTE 371: Improving with Actions, Not Tasks | Heath Armstrong
My guest today has gone from a sales position in the concrete industry to running a successful eCommerce business from his home office. Back in 2009, while still working in the construction industry, my guest decided to start a website called ConcreteHelper.com. His plan was to help the industry, and in turn, help his career. Instead, he realized he hated his job. Fast forward to today, and my ...
51m Oct 02, 2017
51m
HTE 370: Starting From Scratch | Matt Miller
My guest today is the founder of School Spirit Vending. But he wasn’t always an entrepreneur. He spent the first nine years of his career as an Air Force pilot before entering the corporate world. Despite being a top performer, he had a long-term desire to start his own business and be his own boss. After a random conversation with a friend about the gumball machines his family owned, the seed ...
45m Sep 27, 2017
45m
HTE 369: Finding Your First Customers | Michael Palmer
Today’s guest is a podcaster, coach, and currently the founder of two successful companies. Back in 2010, he brought Pure Bookkeeping to life in Canada, and they have recently grown and expanded into the US. Pure Bookkeeping is a system for helping bookkeepers manage, grow, and scale their businesses. He is also the co-founder of eCircle Academy, where he helps coaches and consultants grow thei...
47m Sep 21, 2017
47m
HTE 368: How the Pitch Podcast was Acquired by Gimlet Media | Josh Muccio
My guest today is the founder, host, and executive producer of The Pitch podcast. Earlier this year, The Pitch podcast was acquired by Gimlet Media and is currently publishing its second season. Back in 2011, when my guest was still in college, he started an online iPad and iPhone repair company called iHeart Repair. After growing it rapidly for three years, my guest sold the business to MTechR...
44m Sep 12, 2017
44m
HTE 367: What Drives the Value of Your Business? | Steve Little
My guest today sold his first business at just 15 years old, and spent the past 41 years building, growing, and selling countless others — both his own and for clients. He is currently the founder and CEO of Zero Limits Ventures, a small and middle market Mergers and Acquisitions Firm. In this conversation, we discuss how to understand what drives the value of a business, why an exit strategy i...
48m Sep 01, 2017
48m
HTE 366: Chasing the Horizon | Landon Ray
Landon Ray of OntraPort is a serial entrepreneur. He has unparalleled perseverance and has failed more times than most. At the age of 25, with money he got from his father, my guest made the transformation from a street vendor of flowers, into a top securities day trader, in only 12 months. This alone is a brilliant story, but just the beginning. After beating the odds on Wall Street, my guest ...
31m Aug 28, 2017
31m
HTE 365: Learning to Connect the Right People | Sean Smith
Sean Smith of Simple Tiger is a marketer, writer, strategist, and an entrepreneur. His career began in SEO by consulting for multiple Fortune 500 companies and 17 years old. Just two years later, he joined his first agency, Gravity Free, where he and spent two and a half years running SEO campaigns for leading brands like Holiday Inn and Best Western. He is now the cofounder and VP of Simple Ti...
1hr Aug 21, 2017
1hr
HTE 364: Empowering People Through Music | Nicc Johnson
My guest today has led a fascinating journey as a musicologist, professional DJ, and an entrepreneur. At just 16 years old, he got started as a professional DJ with a goal of working in the epicenter of electronic music — Ibiza, Spain — which he accomplished when he became resident DJ for six years at Pacha Ibiza. He also worked as a consultant and crafted 24-hour playlists for restaurant and r...
38m Aug 14, 2017
38m
HTE 363: Learning to Sell Every Day | Nicky Billou
My guest today is an Iranian immigrant inspired by the freedom and power at our fingertips through the power of entrepreneurship — a freedom we sometimes take for granted. My guest is the creator of Finish Line Thinking, where he is a mindset coach to high performers in sport and business. He is also the co-founder of The Business of Thought Leadership podcast and the author and co-author of se...
40m Aug 07, 2017
40m
HTE 362: Run Your Business with Processes (and Grow it with Vision) | Allen Brouwer
My guest today is an outdoors enthusiast, marketer, and an entrepreneur. Back in 2015, he was approached by another entrepreneur with an idea to design, manufacture, and sell a powerful yet simple daily planner and journal. This idea became the Self Journal. When their initial Kickstarter campaign raised $322,000 in just 34 days, they knew they were onto something — this something became known ...
40m Aug 01, 2017
40m
HTE 361: Starting a Record Label in an Era of Digital Media | Budi Voogt
My guest today has built his life around the things he loves building things, music and entrepreneurship. He is a label owner, artist manager, writer, consultant, and an entrepreneur. He is the Co-founder of Heroic Recordings, a record label and full-service agency. He has also launched Villain Recordings for the release of darker and heavier sounds, and provides a platform for up-and-comers on...
33m Jul 28, 2017
33m
HTE 360: Destroy Your Ego and Grow Your Company | Bill Lyons
My guest today is the founder, CEO, and serial entrepreneur behind three companies within the real estate and mortgage industries. My guest has been building and growing Lyons Realty for the past 10 years. During this time, my guest has also started Revestor, the only residential real estate search engine that can run investment calculations over live listings. On top of this, nearly four years...
35m Jul 24, 2017
35m
HTE 359: How to Learn Faster By Going All-in on Your Ideas | Gabriel Machuret
My guest today is an App Store Optimization specialist, hustler, entrepreneur, idea machine, and a very good friend of mine. When I met my today’s guest, he had a team developing over 30 apps per month — but he will tell you that he is not an app developer. In fact, he couldn't care less about apps. He looks at an app and doesn't see a coding challenge or an opportunity for creativity; he sees ...
41m Jul 18, 2017
41m
HTE 358: Humble Enough to Ask | Dave Munson
My guest today is the founder of Saddleback. Saddleback is the result of several years he journeying across North America with his dog to create bags and other products made to outlast their owners. Their slogan is: They’ll fight over it when you’re dead. His founding story is one of legend. He spent three years living in a $100 a month apartment in Mexico with his dog Blue and dodged a crooked...
47m Jul 13, 2017
47m
HTE 357: Overcoming Anxiety and Accomplishing Anything | Phil Singleton
My guest today is an author, web developer, SEO grunt, and an entrepreneur. During the past nearly 20 years, my guest has enjoyed a busy and successful career path. From starting a software company in Asia, raising over $1 million in venture capital, and exiting three years later. To helping dozens of US startups and tech companies raise strategic venture capital (over $20 million). Just over 1...
42m Jul 10, 2017
42m
HTE 356: Doing the Opposite of Everyone Else | Ronnie Nijmeh
My guest today is a father, author, marketer, speaker, and an entrepreneur. I met my guest over dinner with about 10 other entrepreneurs here in Toronto, and when we got to talking about his business, I quickly became fascinated by it. He has been an entrepreneur for over 17 years. For the past nearly nine years, he has been the founder and CEO of PLR.me, a private label rights content provider...
47m Jun 26, 2017
47m
HTE 355: The Entrepreneur’s Game | Chris Mailander
Today’s guest has more than two decades of experience as a technology executive, internal M&A lawyer, management consultant, and an entrepreneur. He was co-founder and CEO of a healthcare tech company called Health Access Solutions, which he and his team scaled and then sold in 2016. He is currently the founder of Ironheart Corporate Advisory, an operating partner to high-potential companies fo...
41m Jun 22, 2017
41m
HTE 354: Doing Charity the Silicon Valley Way | Gret Glyer
My guest today is a dedicated entrepreneur and an advocate for the poor. From 2013 to 2016, my guest lived with the world’s poorest people in Africa, where he built more than 100 houses for the homeless, and famously crowdfunded $100,000 to build a girls’ school in rural Malawi. He is now the Founder of DonorSee, a marketplace that lets you help the world's poorest people in seconds after downl...
39m Jun 20, 2017
39m
HTE 353: Setting Goals and Getting Started | Joe Pulizzi
My guest today is an author, fan of the color orange, and an entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder of Content Marketing Institute, and the largest in-person content marketing event in the world, Content Marketing World. He founded the company back in 2007 and spent nine years growing and scaling the business until it was acquired in June of 2016. During this time, my guest also publishe...
46m Jun 12, 2017
46m
HTE 352: Finding Places to Add Value | Kris Reid
My guest today is the self-proclaimed ‘coolest guy in SEO’, am Australian ex-pat living in Cambodia, and an entrepreneur. Over nine years ago, and after spending a few short years as a software engineer, my guest took the entrepreneurial leap and started Ardor SEO. Nearly a decade later, they have offices and teams in Australia, Cambodia, and the Philippines. In this conversation we discuss how...
41m Jun 08, 2017
41m
HTE 351: Finding the Right People | Shawn Rubel
My guest today is a marketer, designer, and entrepreneur. In 2008, while employed as eCommerce Marketing Manager at Camping World, my guest began building websites and tools for graphic designers. What began as a side hustle with Brusheezy.com, my guest has spent the past 11 years building and growing the Eezy brand, which now includes four main products built in-house with their 18-person team...
33m Jun 06, 2017
33m
HTE 350: 8 Years of (Seemingly) Going Nowhere | Darryl Ballantyne
My guest today is a music lover, Blue Jays fan, and an entrepreneur. While still in university, my guest cofounded a company that seemingly failed. So after graduation, he went to LA to work for EMI Music, with the plan to permanently relocate for a long-term position. During the slight delay as he prepared to move, Microsoft found the website for his failed business and reached out to him. Thi...
39m Jun 01, 2017
39m
HTE 349: Take Responsibility For Your Situation | Marya Jan
Sign up to receive the special offer for Hack the Entrepreneur listeners at ActiveCampaign.com/hack. My guest today is a Facebook Ads Strategist, writer, a qualified lawyer, and an entrepreneur. In 2010, my guest started a website called WritingHappiness.com. For the next five years, she honed here content writing skills, launched three online programs, and wrote for countless large publication...
35m May 25, 2017
35m
HTE 348: Keep Asking Questions | Tim Fargo
My guest today is an author, runner, and entrepreneur. Back in 1996, my guest cofounded Omega Insurance Services, an insurance fraud investigation company. They went from a company of three to a company of 300 and were acquired for $20 million in 2003. After enjoying a mini-retirement of sorts, my guest launched a software company called SocialJukebox, a social media management system. He is al...
42m May 22, 2017
42m
HTE 347: Think Big, Act Small | Tristan White
My guest today is a leader, author, and an entrepreneur. A little over 13 years ago, my guest began helping seniors stay mobile, safe, and happy, with his company The Physic Co. What started as less than a full-time job for one person, has since grown to a team of 100 delivering over 200,000 physiotherapy consults per year. And for seven consecutive years has earned itself a place on BRWs annua...
36m May 15, 2017
36m
HTE 346: How to Turn What You Know Into a Business | Jessie Shternshus
Today’s guest is the founder of The Improv Effect, a company that gives their clients the competitive edge, through creativity, collaboration, and effective communication. My guest's goal was to help businesses reach their full potential and she has successfully done this for global companies such as Groupon, Johnson & Johnson, The PGA Tour, Crayola and many more. With techniques that she learn...
32m May 11, 2017
32m
HTE 345: Ruthless Prioritization (and Hacking Growth) | Sean Ellis
My guest today is an author, growth hacker (in fact, he personally coined the term back in 2010), and an entrepreneur. He got his start back in the mid-late 1990s and spent the next decade and a half heading up marketing and growth at several companies, such as LogMeIn, Eventbrite, and Dropbox. In 2012, he founded Qualaroo, a SaaS company who’s customers included Uber Starbucks, Spotify, Burger...
44m May 08, 2017
44m
HTE 344: Frame Your Work Around What You Love Doing | David Meerman Scott
[episode]Today’s guests is an online marketing strategist and author of several books on marketing, most notably The New Rules of Marketing and PR with over 300,000 copies sold to date. At the height of the dot-com boom, he was vice president of marketing at NewsEdge Corporation, an online news distributor with $70 million in revenue. In 2002, after NewsEdge was sold he was fired. Like any ent...
36m May 04, 2017
36m
HTE 343: How to Free Up Your Business | Connor Gillivan
My guest today is a writer, traveler, e-commerce expert, and an entrepreneur. He got started with building a landscaping business while still in high school and ran it until going to college. While in college, he met his business partner and launched as eCommerce business called Portlight, which has sold over $20 million in products and has a team of ten people running it. He is currently the c...
42m May 02, 2017
42m
HTE 342: [GOING DEEP] Dartboard Pricing | Sean D'Souza
You’ve built a new product or decided to start providing a new service to offer your customers. How do you determine the price you are going to charge? Now think of the flip side to this, have you noticed how you buy a product or service? In most cases, you look at what's being offered and then look around for a better price, or at least better value. This behavior means you're not just conside...
47m May 01, 2017
47m
HTE 341: The Reason Why I Freelance | Bryce Bladon
My guest today is an editor, writer, and entrepreneur. With 10 years experience in self-employment, my guest has published 12 books, gathered 780,000 blog followers, and 25,000 email subscribers. He is currently the editor-in-chief and co-owner of Clients From Hell, where they help creative professional. Now, let’s hack… Bryce Bladon.
43m Apr 25, 2017
43m
HTE 340: Just Make Your First Dollar | Carrie Wilkerson
My guest today is a bestselling author, international speaker, and an entrepreneur. In 2004, my guest released her book The Barefoot Executive, which went on to becoming an international bestseller. The success of this book has taken her to countless stages in countless countries — educating, entertaining, and empowering her audiences. She has been featured on CNN and FOX Business News and has ...
38m Apr 24, 2017
38m
HTE 339: Driven By Profits and Purpose | Jon Carder
My guest today is a true serial entrepreneur with 17+ years experience in the startup world. From struggling to get his first business off the ground at 19 years old, to selling his second company for $10 million at the young age of 26. He has since started, shutdown, and pivoted on more businesses than I can count, and he is now drive by both profit and purpose. He is currently the founder and...
42m Apr 18, 2017
42m
HTE 338: Mastering Your Habits | James Clear
Today’s guest is an entrepreneur, weightlifter, and travel photographer in 20 countries. He has started four businesses over the course of his entrepreneurial career and two of them have succeeded. His real success has been his personal blog. He started consistently posting twice per week in very late 2012 and has not missed a post since. Not only that, but he has an email list of over 100,000 ...
28m Apr 17, 2017
28m
HTE 337: The Pros (and Cons) of Starting Things Really Quickly | Reggie Milligan
My guest today is food lover, former chef, and an entrepreneur. At a young age, my guest was finding ways to take action and make money. From collecting mis-hit golf balls to apprenticing at The French Laundry, a three Michelin Star restaurant. After college, him and a friend started a business called Social Feed that was quickly acquired. This left him time to think of his next venture. In Feb...
50m Apr 11, 2017
50m
HTE 336: Entrepreneurship is a Journey to Self-Discovery | Petra Foster
From 2013 - 2015 my guest was the managing director of Perfect Print Shirts, a work wear printing company based out of Birmingham, England. While working as Managing Director, my guest decided to start a consultancy on the side, and in August of 2014, she launched her side hustle. 10 months later, she went full-time as a Client Enrolments Strategist at PetraFoster.com. Now, let’s hack… Petra Fo...
40m Apr 06, 2017
40m
HTE 335: Working Between Your Comfort and Panic Zones
My guest for today wasn’t always an entrepreneur. My guest attended Harvard and worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, did policy work for the National Economic Council at the White House, and political organizing for the Service Employees International Union. But then he gave it all up to become an entrepreneur.He is the CEO and co-founder of Mic, a leading news, and media company for ...
31m Apr 04, 2017
31m
HTE 334: Why You Need to Throw Yourself Into Your Projects | Naomi Dunford
My guest today is a triple Pisces, marketing and growth coach, and a smart entrepreneur. She is the founder of IttyBiz, where her and her team turn smart, quirky people into smart, quirky entrepreneurs. She has been coaching and teaching online marketing since 2006 and has been featured in major outlets such as Forbes, Cosmopolitan and USA Today. Plus, her newsletter has attracted over 50,000 s...
50m Apr 03, 2017
50m
HTE 333: Habit Formation and Mental Energy | Zack Arnold
My guest today is an award-winning Hollywood film editor, a former sufferer of ADD, and an entrepreneur. Being an editor is hard on the body, both mentally and physically — with long hours, high stress, with long bouts of sitting in a dark room. At the age of 25, my guest was overcome with anxiety, ADD, and suicidal depression. This started him on a journey experimenting with blending high-perf...
47m Mar 30, 2017
47m
HTE 332: Why You Need Other People Working On Your Business | John Jonas
My guest today is former programmer turned marketer, father of five, and a smart entrepreneur. Nine years ago, he started OnlineJobs.ph, the world's largest marketplace for finding and hiring virtual staff from the Philippines. Since programming the first version of the site himself, my guest has grown the company to a team of over 20 full-time people. He is also the founder of Replace Myself, ...
46m Mar 28, 2017
46m
HTE 331: The Best Opportunities Don’t Look Good On Paper | Marcus Cobb
My guest today is a self-made, serial entrepreneur who has spent over half his life building businesses. Plus, his attitude and outlook are infectious. He is the co-founder and CEO of Jammber, where the focus is in bringing art and commerce closer together, and by creating technology to do the stuff people hate so they can do more of what they love. This was a super fun conversation to be part ...
46m Mar 27, 2017
46m
HTE 330: Keep Building Momentum | Christopher Gimmer
My guest today has been bootstrapping startups since 2014. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Snappa, software built to enable entrepreneurs and marketers to create graphics. Snappa was launched in July of 2015, and just recently passed the impressive milestone of $25,000 monthly recurring revenue. From quitting his stable government job to recently purchasing the URL Snappa.com for $40,...
40m Mar 23, 2017
40m
HTE 329: An Eagerness to Create | Michael Brown
My guest today is a writer, marketer, and an entrepreneur. After spending a few years as Content (and Senior Content) Manager at uTest, my guest decided to step out on his own as a content and copywriter. While landing his first few clients, he realized he had created a unique way to pitch his work to potential clients. This new method was so effective he almost immediately began hiring writers...
38m Mar 21, 2017
38m
HTE 328: Concentrate on Effective Communication | Bruce Morrow
My guest today is sales expert with over 40 years experience, a business and sales coach, and an entrepreneur. After nearly 20 years working in sales for numerous national and international companies, he eventually worked up to VP of Sales where he hired, trained, and managed the entire sales staff. After spending decades on the inside, my guest decided it was time to step out on his own. So he...
36m Mar 14, 2017
36m
HTE 327: Building a Business For Acquisition | Brock Ferguson
My guest today is a data & cognitive scientist, full-stack web developer, and an entrepreneur who started his first company at 11 years old. My guest doesn’t just have a penchant for starting companies, but as you will hear, he also knows how to achieve successful exits. He is currently the co-founder of Strong Analytics, a data science consulting firm that helps companies understand their cust...
38m Mar 13, 2017
38m
HTE 326: How Sticking with Things Can Be Good for Entrepreneurs | Anita Campbell
My guest today is the founder and CEO of Small Business Trends, an award-winning online publication, which offers breaking news and advice for small business owners.   My guest is a former corporate attorney that left corporate life and founded Small Business Trends in 2003. She is considered an authoritative voice on small business issues and has been noted and quoted in respected publications...
37m Mar 09, 2017
37m
HTE 325: The Art of Serious Playfulness | Simcha Gluck
My guest today is a former real estate agent, current keynote speaker, and an all-out entrepreneur. Just over five years ago, my guest was introduced to a new way of teaching entrepreneurship — the idea was learning while playing a newly designed board game. So, he took a chance and headed to the UK to try running a workshop based on this new board game, and he found his calling. Upon his retur...
38m Mar 07, 2017
38m
HTE 324: Managing Your Thoughts | Angela Lauria
My guest today is a marketer, writer, and entrepreneur. She spent the first 18 years of her career as the founder of Nimble Cricket Marketing, a full-service marketing, and communications consulting firm. Today, my guest is the founder and publisher behind The Author Incubator, where her and her team help life coaches, how-to writers, and solo entrepreneurs increase their bottom line through bo...
39m Mar 06, 2017
39m
HTE 323: Where Do You Want to Spend Your Time? | Dan Andrews
My guest today is a former digital nomad, writer, podcaster, and a smart entrepreneur. In 2007, my guest and his business partner started an eCommerce business. They spent eight years growing it into a multiple 7-figure per year business and then sold it in 2015. In this time, he also started the Dynamite Circle, a private community, and forum of lifestyle entrepreneurs — of which I am a part o...
44m Feb 28, 2017
44m