Entrepreneurship Saturday | Hello Tech Pros

Jeremy Slate is the founder of the Create Your Own Life Podcast which helps entrepreneurs live the lives they know they were meant to.  He studied literature at Oxford University and specializes in using Online social networking to build offline relationship and was ranked #1 in iTunes New and Noteworthy. It is because of Jeremy’s success in podcasting that he was able to accomplish 10,000 downloads of his podcast in the first month.  After his success in podcasting, Jeremy and his wife, Brielle, founded Slate Media Productions; a done-for-you podcast service and PR firm servicing busy entrepreneurs and helping to get their message out. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/jeremy-slate-entrepreneurship/ What You Will Learn In This Episode Why some people are following the dreams of others instead of their own dream. Why Jeremy's second podcast had success from the beginning, unlike his first show. What the average "guru" entrepreneur's success story is going to teach you and why you need to find inspiratio

Kwame Christian is a lawyer that focuses on serving the needs of small businesses. He founded the American Negotiation Institute, a consulting firm that specializes in teaching entrepreneurs and professionals how to negotiate in the business world and is regularly invited to speak on the topic. In this role he helps individuals and companies create and implement powerful negotiation strategies. Kwame also hosts a podcast called Negotiation for Entrepreneurs where he interviews successful entrepreneurs and shares powerful persuasion techniques. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/kwame-christian-entrepreneurship/ What You Will Learn in This Episode What types of things are negotiable. How to ask for more. How to negotiate without offending people. Why you should focus on the other person in the negotiation instead of yourself. The circumstances that increase and decrease your room for negotiation. How to spot negotiation tactics when they are being use on you and what to do to counter them. How to negotiat

Career Hyperdrive Course: Day 6 The Career Hyperdrive Course is a free 7 day email and audio course for technical professionals to help launch your career into hyperspace. Each module in this course is designed to help you overcome a major barrier to your career growth. Here's what you're going to get out of the course. The motivation you need to overcome your biggest career obstacles and navigate asteroids. Productivity tips to help you crush it at work without killing your personal life (leaving more time at the cantina). Jedi mind tricks that will build your respect and influence across the organization without needing to move into a management track. A droid masterclass that’s going to guide you through the process of selecting the right technology for the right problem, every time. Social engineering hacks to break into the elite inner circles and get a seat at the Jedi Council. A strategy that will raise your value (and salary) within your organization and increase your reputation and negotiation power

Anthony M. Verna III, is the managing partner at Verna Law, P.C. Anthony has his Bachelor's degree in computer science from Case Western Reserve and his J.D. from Rutgers Law School.  Not only practicing at his own firm, Anthony has lead multiple continuing education classes and professional development seminars including "Practicing Before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board" at Lawline.com. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/anthony-verna-entrepreneurship/ What You Will Learn in This Episode What could happen if you don't read the End User Licence Agreements. The first step every entrepreneur should take to protect their intellectual property. Who owns the content when two or more parties collaborate. The tricky boundaries when authoring software using open source contributions. When Creative Commons is appropriate for your work and when to choose a different license.  

Priest Willis, Sr is CEO of Affiliate Mission – the fastest growing affiliate management startup in North Carolina. Priest got his start in affiliate marketing in early 2000’s where he cut his teeth building a few niche affiliate sites and eventually started managing company programs like Lenovo, Atomicpark.com and BuyCostumes.com. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/priest-willis-entrpreneurship/ Key Takeaways Affiliate marketing is not MLM, get rich quick scheme. Amazon was first to put together affiliate programs. Entrepreneurs are hungry. Many millionaries have 7 streams of income. Affiliate marketing is a pay-for-performance model with no inventory. Little risk is involved because no inventory. Build up an audience and be an influencer. Subscription boxes are doing really well. As a merchant, it's a cheap way to extend your marketing program. Find a hot niche right now like Suicide Squad and then sell costumes. Position yourself to look for the new hotness.

Simona Pop is a shareholder and head of partnerships & communication for a SaaS startup, InstaSupply. The company operates in the finance and procurement areas of B2B with the focus of changing the way we work through digitization and the removal of redundant manual processes. Simona's goal is to bring B2B in line with B2C across technology and communication. Way too many people go to work and have to leave the efficiencies they know and love in their personal lives at the office door. It's currently like 1999 but without Prince or a party! Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/simona-pop-entrepreneurship/ Key Takeaways Why are we leading dual lives of super techies in personal life and then vintage tech at work? The core idea of entrepreneurship is "Let's make things better." To remain competitve, businesses need to adapt. There is no way to maintain the King of the Jungle status without changing. Enterprise software feels like something frozen in time. The user experiences are not keeping up with w

Dave Chesson is the author behind Kindlepreneur.com, a site devoted to teaching authors advanced books sales tactics and strategies. Dave's helped authors all over the world increase their sales and does it freely.  Just recently him and his team created KDP Rocket, a software that gives authors key marketing data to ensure their book will succeed on Amazon before they even write it. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/dave-chesson-entrepreneurship/ Key Takeaways You don't have to be a naturally good writer to write and sell books. Fail forward. It's the challenge and overcoming the failure that's fun. Niche websites are doing well at 10k hits a month. Amazon is a search engine. Keyword research and SEO is equally important in Amazon as it is for Google. You need to prove to Amazon that you will make them more money than your competitors. Amazon rankings are influenced by traffic volume, number of purchases and great reviews. Do the research and see if your book going to be successful before you write

Kelly Roach is the host of the top rated podcast Unstoppable Success Radio, an International best-selling author, and the CEO of Kelly Roach Coaching. As a former NFL Cheerleader and Fortune 500 Executive where she was promoted 7 times in 8 years, Kelly brings a powerful combination of proven and profitable business growth strategies coupled with the mindset, wellness and productivity practices required to help entrepreneurs build a profitable business around a life they absolutely love. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/kelly-roach-entrepreneurs/ Key Takeaways Entrepreneurship is about fulfillment, purpose and impact and earning an income that allows freedom and financial abundance. You wont have the persistence and hustle unless it aligns with your purpose. Don't feel bad about working full time and working on the side hustle. Most people start and stop several businesses before they land on one. Don't force it just because you want it. What do you want life to look like 5-10-15 years from now? We are

Veronica Kirin is an anthropologist turned serial entrepreneur.  She loves working closely with clients to help them reach their goals.  Her first business, Green Cup Design, began as a freelance web design venture and has grown into digital maintenance for small businesses.   Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/veronica-kirin-entrepreneurship/

Matt Rehm is a data guy.  Most of his career has been spent in supply chain, sales analytics and e-commerce.  The last 15 years have been in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.  He is also one of podcasting's biggest fans and is the founder of podxref.com.  Matt and his beautiful wife have three daughters and live in the Chicagoland area. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/matthew-rehm-entrepreneurship/ Sponsors Minio Cloud Storage - Built in Go for developers and devops.

This is Part Two of a 2-part series on membership businesses. Click here for part 1. With over 15 years in web development and online marketing, Mike Morrison now makes up one half of The Membership Guys, specializing in teaching business owners and hobbyists alike how to build, launch and grow successful membership sites and communities. He now considers himself a "reformed web developer" and enjoys nothing more than helping others escape the time for money trap and teaching them how to move from one-to-one services to a one-to-many model. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/mike-morrison-memberships-entrepreneurship/ Sponsors Minio Cloud Storage - Microstorage Architecture. Erasure Code & Bitrot Protection. Written in Go.

With over 15 years in web development and online marketing, Mike Morrison now makes up one half of The Membership Guys, specializing in teaching business owners and hobbyists alike how to build, launch and grow successful membership sites and communities. He now considers himself a "reformed web developer" and enjoys nothing more than helping others escape the time for money trap and teaching them how to move from one-to-one services to a one-to-many model. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/mike-morrison-entrepreneurship/ Sponsors Minio Cloud Storage - Microstorage Architecture. Erasure Code & Bitrot Protection. Written in Go.

Ian Paget is a graphic designer based in Reading UK. He runs a part time freelance business called Logo Geek, designing logos as well as running a popular social media group of the same name. In his day job he works as a creative director. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/ian-paget-entrepreneurship/ Sponsors Minio Cloud Storage - Store photos, videos, VMs, containers, log files, or any blob of data as objects.

Rajiv Menon is an entrepreneur, consultant, and mentor. He is the Founder/Solution Architect at Informulate, a unique software services consultancy that employs Lean Startup and Agile methodologies, launched in 2006. He launched Talent4Startups.org, a free, non-profit portal for startup founders to collaborate with students and professionals in 2014. He is committed to the Lean and Agile methodologies. Rajiv is the founding organizer of the Orlando-based Lean Startup Practitioners group. He is a mentor through workshops, events and accelerators - notably VentureScaleUp, WeVenture and Lean Startup Machine. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/rajiv-menon-entrepreneurship/ Sponsors Burdene - The bot that remembers your stuff so you don't forget.

Cassidy Lackey started a mobile software company in 1997 focused on PalmPilot and grew it to become a leading software company in the Treo / BlackBerry days.   He eventually sold that company and decided to focus on lifestyle internet businesses. This gives Cassidy the flexibility to spend time on the things that really matter. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/cassidy-lackey-entrepreneurship/ Sponsors Burdene - Bot that remembers the things you forget and reminds you via text messages.

Homeless for a period of two weeks, Karma Senge and his family used to struggle financially. Now he is a successful real estate investor and FOREX trader. Karma Senge started his first business back in 2000-2001 by investing in real estate and then opened up a few martial art schools. He got out of those two businesses in 2007-2008 and then came back into real estate in 2013. Karma started trading the markets as well in 2011 and in 2013 found a passion in the currency markets. Today he has found his passion in the Forex Market. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/karma-senge-entrepreneurship/   Resources Mentioned Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki (Listen for free on Audible) TradingView.com   Sponsors HelloTechBook.com - Get a free audio book on audible Burdene - SMS-based notes and reminders

Joshua Davidson is an entrepreneur, speaker and startup advisor. He's been creating companies since he was in high school. In a nutshell, he spends most of his days building products and growing companies. Joshua's been personally featured on MSNBC, NBC, Fox, Technically, AOL, Mashable, EliteDaily, Huffington Post, CBS and the Examiner. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/joshua-davidson-entrepreneurship/ Key Takeaways Joshua Davidson started ChopDawg at the age of 16. ChopDawg works with early startups and large organizations to handle all their tech needs. Joshua went door to door to small businesses in summer selling website design. At time websites were thought of as accessory, not necessity. He was motivated by business & journey, experiences, family/friends. When hiring in a startup, use the NBA draft analagy - pick the most talented people who can perform multiple jobs. Think long term and be very patient. Post a new piece of content every day - podcast, social media, blog posts. Use social

Besides a full-time technical staffer, Lauren Rutledge runs multiple online businesses. Lauren Rutledge is a hungry, career minded professional that is motivated to grow herself & her team. Staffing technology professionals has become a passion of hers and she appreciates the opportunity to work with some really great people everyday! Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/lauren-rutledge-entrepreneurship/ Key Takeaways Entrepreneurs don't get much sleep, but they get excited about solving people's problems and staying active. If your product or service was available elsewhere, would you buy theirs instead of building your own? Entrepreneurs are makers. They are doers. Time management is critical to get all the things done. Instagram-based boutique stores are popular. Customers ask questions and place orders via comments on a product picture. Don't wait to see if it's going to work, jump in! You have to nail your audience and nail your brand. Be a consumate learner and hustler. Always keep evolving.

Everyone wants to be a rockstar, in life and in business, right? Nicole Holland believes that everyone is a rockstar in their own right, they just need to find their hit song and get discovered. She's been involved in entrepreneurship and coaching since a young age, but when she got serious about it, she rocked it! Host of iTunes’ New & Noteworthy podcast, The Business Building Rockstars Show, Nicole Holland loves helping entrepreneurs build profitable online businesses that excite & inspire them through her private & group mentoring & coaching programs. Nicole believes there’s no “right” way to do anything unless it feels good to you. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/nicole-holland-entrepreneurship/ Key Takeaways Everyone wants to be a rockstar Everyone IS a rockstar in their own way We all deal with the same emotions: fear, love, disappointment, joy Everyone who has success today came from a starting point and grew How we define success needs to change - it's not just about money Entr

The tragedy in Flint, Michigan created a public outcry that got policy makers to ask questions on what to do about the state of water quality in municipalities. Concerned about the national security implications of the availability of potable water, Michael Morford is working to improve water treatment technologies which have not significantly changed in the last 50 years. Michael Morford is CEO of The Bison Group, an Oklahoma-headquartered privately-held company with a long-term focus on environmental and water scarcity issues. A former U.S. Army Captain and Iraqi War Veteran, he is a Fellow for the Truman National Security Project. He is a sought-after speaker for his understanding of the complexities facing the Water-Energy Nexus. An Oklahoma native, Michael is married to his wife Megan and has three children, Ava, Hayes, and Finley. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/michael-morford-entrepreneurship/ Key Takeaways Sometimes chemicals in water supplies only 6 miles apart can be drastically different M