Scott Voelker's (TheAmazingSeller.com) journey is an amazing Amazon and e-commerce success story. Beginning with retail arbitrage (buying local items and selling them on Amazon), then online arbitrage (buying physical items online and re-selling them on Amazon), private labeling (get a product sourced), and finally, e-commerce (setup a storefront outside of Amazon), Scott has not only generated a huge income scaling his business, he also teaches others how to do it. Topics covered: how...

Dan Janal from PRLeads.com has a number of easy tweaks you should make in your marketing for huge results. He wants you to create an authority piece (lead magnet) such as "10 Tips to Save Your Marriage." Create a Facebook ad sending people to a (LeadPages) landing page, research your target audience, create a compelling headline and call to action. Create a Facebook post (use Canva.com to generate graphics), boost that post, and re-post it anywhere you can. Test different headlines with A/B...

Lin Eleoff from CoverYourAssetsOnline.com and DIYLegalToolkit.com wants to help you take care of your "baby" (your online business). Many business owners do not properly protect their intellectual property. Many are missing proper website legal documents and use images in such a way that could open them up to lawsuits. Lin keeps things simple for us and explains what we need to do and what to avoid (legally) with our websites.

Todd Tresidder (FinancialMentor.com/3) has three ways of building wealth: real estate, business, and paper assets. Todd has some unique insights when it comes to building wealth since he believes in simplicity and uses math (research) as well as basic principles to create a sound investment strategy.

Stacy Aaronson from TheBookDoctorIsIn.com and TheSelfPublishingScoop.com says that many authors make huge mistakes when they independently publish their books. Her approach is very step-by-step and detail oriented: Consult, proposal, contracts Editing process, developmental, structure, cohesive chapters, the right points are in the right chapters Copy-editing: bio, picture, grammar, remove cliches, correct syntax Illustration and graphics Presentation: interior, cover,...

Peggy Sealfon from 3MinutesToDestress.com wants you to supercharge your life, help you break your patterns, hang onto your available energy, and live a mindful, integrated life. Many of us are caught in cycles where our health or relationships may have suffered due to over-focusing on our business, for example. Peggy have tons of insights, tools, and habits to share with you today. Resources Escape From Anxiety book and website 3 Minutes To Destress Peggy Sealfon blog (free...

Eric Louviere from EricLouviere.com and WebVance.com provides coaching and consulting services to authors, speakers, and business owners of all kinds (for example, one of Eric's clients is a local gym.) In years past, he grew tired of the "cash crunches" that resulted from membership site and e-book income and decided to scale up. Listen in to tons of takeaways about: how to avoid spreading yourself too thin how to simplify your marketing with "one problem, one solution" thinking ...

Katie Hornor coaches hobby bloggers to turn their website into a real business. She focuses on your traffic, people, plan, schedule, and hiring. Hire based on your own weaknesses. For example, hire people to create pinnacle images, Facebook ads, or technical website actions, and give them a 2 to 3 month trial period to test them out. When improving a blog, Katie looks at the following areas: Is the website clean and inviting? Is there an offer, a freebie that people can get in...

Pam Terry from PamTerry.com will help you to become a better speaker who prepares, practices, and gives. She has four pillars for you to build confidence with your speaking engagements: 1. Passion: fuel, make a difference 2. Power: knowledge, topic, audience, speaking skills 3. Preparation: outline, intro, close, objectives 4. Practice: does it fit in the allotted time and do people pay attention

Emily Hirsh (click to book a free consultation) is a master when it comes to cutting edge Facebook ad techniques. Here's what's working very well for her lately: 1. provide free training on Facebook: post a stock photo with no text on the graphic 2. retarget people on your Facebook page 3. run ads audience engagements on ads or posts (your warm audience) Emily has also had great success with Facebook live streaming for 15-20 minutes, usually 10 minutes of teaching and 5-10 minutes of...

Jessica Rhodes from Interview Connections provides a service that will book you on podcasts (to promote your sites) and get you guests (to fill your podcast with interview content). Jessica appears on four interviews a month, publishes a weekly blog post, podcast episode, and video. She says that in order to be a great podcast guest, you must do the following: be an expert in something be a unique guest about that topic use your own online presence to create content and get book on...

Wally Hauck, author of Stop the Leadership Malpractice: How to Replace the Typical Performance Appraisal, realized that many employers and managers can actually kill their own business by not communicating properly with their employees. If you'd like to provide a better customer experience have self-managing employees, then you need to ask these three questions: 1. What process in the business isn't working? 2. What is the first 15% of that process? 3. What should be done to improve that...

Social Media Manager Debbie Peck from Crush Marketing Group has a two-pronged strategy for getting traffic from social media: share content from scheduled posts, and engage other users actively on a daily consistent basis. She logs into HootSuite once a week to schedule posts to drip out weeks in advance. She also comments, shares, likes, retweets, finds new influencers, and checks her insights regularly. We're talking about 3-5 posts per day on Facebook and 8-10 posts per day on Twitter. You...

Jason Criddle from The Smartr App Company (you can contact him directly at [email protected]) says that you should learn as you go, make mistakes, and have failures -- pivot, fail, and snag. Everyone has ideas, but people only succeed through the failures from implementing their ideas. Instead of being simply self-employed (and recreating the job you were trying to escape), be an entrepreneur. Make focused decisions to reach your goals, have a faith or belief in something, have...

Rocco Baldassare from Zebra Advertisement has had massive success by creating a landing page with key sellling points, advertising that landing page, remarketing on a different platform (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and guest blogging for third parties such as Entprepreneur Magazine, Search Engine Journal and LinkedIn. He provides account reviews and strategy calls if you're looking to get more from your paid social media traffic.

Dr. Kathy Gruver from The Alternative Medicine Cabinet wants you to focus, be healthy, reduce stress, delegate, and make decisions early.

Steve Olsher, author of What Is Your WHAT?, wants you to impact the maximum number of lives possible by discovering, sharing, and monetizing your WHAT: the thing you were made to do. It's done in these three steps: clarity on your core gift (i.e. healing, entertaining, communicating) create a vehicle to share that gift people compelled to share Get it done, surround yourself with the right people and immerse yourself in that world. Tune up your Attributes, Beliefs and...

I don't lose any sleep over this, but I roll my eyes when someone says... November and December are slower months! No one is online during holiday time... Don't even bother marketing or sending emails until January... Don't you want to take some time off? And my answers are: Of course I take time off -- that's what scheduled blog posts and scheduled autoresponder emails put in the queue in advance are all about (bonus if people can't really tell if they're live or...

"Why are you emailing me on a weekend / holiday?" That's the response I get every now and then and I hope that's a response you get in your business -- why is that I hope you get it? Because if people are unsubscribing from your list, if you have (a small percentage) of refunds, if (a few) people have some nasty things to say about you and your values... Then it means you've actually done some things in your business and you've built a big list of buyers... Very few people treat...

This scares the heck out of me and maybe you can relate... I'm not sure how long you've been building your online business, buying courses and plugins, how long you've been on different marketers list and seen the affiliate contests and big launches... I ask myself these sorts of super scary questions all the time: "If such and such had a million dollar launch back in 2014, why haven't I heard anything from them since?" "If this other marketer made 2 million dollars in a day back in...

Julie Broad from Have More Influence asks, "If money wasn't a factor, what would you do?" She wants to help you serve instead of sell and think about how you can help others. As a result, you can become the name people know about a given subject. She also tell us about her adventures in real estate, book publishing, online training, and more. Resources Have More Influence (blog) The New Brand You (book)

Mike Saunders from MarketingHuddle.com (author of the book Authority Selling) tells us about the Zero Moment of Truth. Every business has a "Moment of Truth" where a customer discovers if that business delivers on their promises or not. These days, the "Zero" Moment of Truth exists -- where your future customers check the online breadcrumbs of your business before they even interact with you. Mike tells us how to educate those customers and provide a consultation as opposed to an...

Jan Bear from Author Impact Publishing has three simple questions for you: Who's your audience What do you want to accomplish with your book? What does this book have to do with your career over a lifetime? By having a clear plan for your book, and knowing your goals, you can avoid many of the usual author mistakes such as trying to "writing for everybody" AND you can publish something with consistency that matches the mood of your reader.

Heather Choate was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 29 while ten weeks pregnant. By overcoming this unexpected adversity (as well as other up's and down's) Heather was tested to the max. During this time, she mastered using deep meditation (and visualization) for focus (and strength), anchoring (for confidence), and quiet focused times during the day (for calmness and clarity). Tune in to discover how to listen to your own voice, do what you love, and follow your passion.

Natasha Davis from Impact Branding Consulting says that many business owners confuse marketing (psychological minutiae that let people know your business is present, i.e. t-shirts) with actual branding (pricing, content, client acquisition, culture, business model, expertise you have, identity). Don't do so many things that you can't differentiate yourself in a unique way! Branding is the difference between being seen as a "Target" business or a "Dollar Store" business. Decide what...