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Reset Search$2 million / year AI engineering firm
My friend created an AI engineering firm and every time I see him, he tells me how much his business is growing. So I asked him to tell me all about it in this interview.
This is the story of how Tarun Thummala created PressW, the Austin-based AI dev shop.
AI, B2B, Consulting
Neil Patel’s insanely powerful AI sales machine
I’ve been talking with founders who used AI to build companies, but aren’t getting enough customers. I found the perfect person to show them how to grow.
Neil Patel has been on the cutting edge of AI marketing. He’s going to show us what’s working for his customers and...
Boast: Community Built to $20 million Revenue
Lloyed Lobo believes anyone could have founded Boast, a company designed to help businesses secure R&D tax credits. However, when asked about why he built it to tens of millions in revenue when others didn’t, he attributes it to community.
Lloyed cultivated a network of entrepreneurs...
SocialBee Faked a Software Company
Today, SocialBee is a fully functional social media management tool. But at first, it was a guy secretly servicing his customers by using publicly available tools like Google Sheets and Zapier.
That buy was Ovi Negrean. In this interview, he talks about how he did that, while his cofounder wrote...
Running a startup with your dad
In this interview you’re going to hear me bust the chops of today’s guest.
Sam Ovett is the co-founder of Mobile Pocket Office, a consulting company that helps clients automate sales and lead generation.
He started the company with his dad. I want to find out about that and how he...
Profitable WordPress plugin
My guest today created a plugin that allows people to create a membership site on top of WordPress. It’s called Paid Memberships Pro.
I want to find out how he came up with this product as a result of consulting. I also want to find out what event in his personal life was the breaking...
$9M ARR solving enterprise-y BizTalk problems
Joining me as an entrepreneur who spent 10 years as a consultant, helping enterprises solve boring problems. But here’s the thing: He discovered a few problems that the clients all had in common. And so he bootstrapped software that solved those issues and turned his clients into...
How to use acting techniques to get waaaaay inside your audience’s head
Today’s guest works with coaches, consultants, and service providers to help them get clients. I want to find out how he turned a 3-step system into a business.
Russell Ruffino is the founder of Clients on Demand, but he spent the first 10 years of his career as an actor. We’ll...
How an executive assistant turned her job into an agency
Joining me is someone who was the executive assistant for people like Michael Hyatt and Amy Porterfield.
I want to find out how she went from doing a job herself to relatively quickly building up this big agency.
Trivinia Barber is the founder of Priority VA, an Executive VA service.
How to score an internship with one of your heroes (like Gary V)–before launching your startup
I love stories of success, but I’m also one of the few people who’s fascinated by stories of failure.
Joining me today is an entrepreneur who’s had both. He had a company that didn’t work out so well, so he gave up everything, which turns out wasn’t that much. And...
Systems that help small businesses scale
Joining me today is a Mixergy listener who has built a company so big that I’m lucky to have him on here.
Matt Symes is the founder of Simplicity, a service business that helps organizations get out of their own way and scale.
If you’re listening to me and you’re running a...
What does it mean to be a lonely entrepreneur?
Joining me is someone who teaches entrepreneurs how to build their businesses. And I have to be honest with you, I was skeptical.
And then I started to read up on his background and I talked to our producer about his background. He had this company that had a mission of helping people stay...
YEC Founder Series: Trainual
I’ve been fascinated by YEC since the beginning. I’ve known them for a long time but I admire them much more so as the years have gone on. So, I wanted to interview some entrepreneurs who are part of that organization.
Joining me is someone whose brother I interviewed already. He was...
Shufflr Case Study: Turning a consultancy into a SaaS
Joining me today is someone whose path to software creation is very similar to many of the other entrepreneurs that I’ve interviewed here.
She started out by doing consulting services, helping businesspeople with their presentations. Then she recognized that they had a problem with...
When should you transition from SaaS to Service as a Service?
Joining me is a repeat guest. Bryan Kreuzberger came on a few years ago to talk about how he was helping salespeople send out email and get responses. And his approach was so good.
His simple approach for getting an email to the CEO, and then having him forward it down to the right person has...
How Amy Porterfield does marketing without communicating like a marketer
Developing a marketing strategy that is successful can be a painful and intimidating process. What’s the secret of successful marketing?
Amy Porterfield teaches business owners, educators and entrepreneurs the profitable action steps for building a highly-engaged email list, creating...
How innovation is the ‘Secret Sauce’ behind the success of Sylvain Labs
How does a company overcome innovation stagnation to bring a new product to the marketplace?
Alain Sylvain is the Founder of Sylvain Labs which is an innovation and brand design consultancy.
Companies are able to outsource their innovation issues to Sylvain Labs where they help businesses to...
How a ClickFunnels superfan turned funnel creation into his own consultancy
Today I’m interviewing Jeff Banek about how he built a consulting company based on what he learned from Russell Brunson.
Jeff is so into ClickFunnels that he has TWO tattoos about it. In this interview you’ll hear about the rough situation he was able to pull himself out of by creating...
How Rachel Kersten helped me grow Mixergy
From time to time I want to bring someone on who’s been working in the Mixergy inner circle.
I want to show the audience how I built my company. Rachel Kersten is someone I met at an event and since then she’s been helping me launch products, charge people and really grow.
One of...
Is consulting just a distraction from the software you really want to build?
Today’s guest had a goal for growing his company to $50M in revenue.
In the beginning no investor believed in him enough to back him.
So he earned the money he needed by doing consulting work.
Did he hit his goal? We’ll find out.
Larry Kim is the founder of WordStream is software for...