Best-Selling author, serial entrepreneur and founder of EOS Worldwide, Gino Wickman assists leaders and entrepreneurs in-the-making to get a jump-start on taking their business to the next level.

Discover how Wickman explains the entrepreneurial range and systematically provides a clearer understanding of his six essential entrepreneurial traits and his eight critical mistakes entrepreneurs make when launching their company.

Are you an Entrepreneur in the making? If so, you don’t want to miss this episode of John Bowen and Gino Wickman.

Implement Entrepreneurial Operating System into your business and take that entrepreneurial leap to jump-start your business.

Quote of the Day

• “We teach what we needing the most” – Danielle Kennedy

Book of the Day

• Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business by Gino Wickman & Mark C. Winters

• Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman

• Get a Grip by Gino Wickman & Mike Paton

• How to Be a Great Boss by Gino Wickman & Rene Boer

• What the Heck is EOS by Gino Wickman

• Entrepreneurial Leap by Gino Wickman

Resources

• E-Leap Website – Do you have what it takes to becomes an entrepreneur?

• Are You an Entrpreneur-in-the-Making? – The following assessment is designed to determine if the charactersistics of an entrepreneur resonates with you.

Mentions

• Mark Winters – also at AES Nation

• Dan Sullivan – also at AES Nation

• Mike Paton – also at AES Nation

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As award-winning speaker and Chief Visionary Expert for EOS Worldwide, Mike Paton is taking on the holistic approach of conducting effective operating systems for small businesses.

The EOS Model™ provides six fundamental components visually illustrating how to manage any business. In this short podcast, Mike divulges these six key drivers and how they will strengthen and simplify the vision of your company.

Jump aboard the EOS traction-train for a complete set of simple concepts and practical tools.

Book of the Day

• Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business by Gino Wickman and Mark Winters

• Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman

Resources

• EOS Worldwide – Get a Grip on Your Business with the Entrepreneurial Operating System

• The Traction Library – EOS Books for Everyone in Your Company

• Find an EOS Implementer – Need help finding the right implmenter?

Mentions

• Mark Winters – also at AES Nation

• Verne Harnish – also at AES Nation

• Dan Sullivan – also at AES Nation

• Steve Covey – Six Ways to Help Your Organization Be More Inclusive

John’s 6 Key Take-aways

1. Leverage your tools and resources ensuring you have clarity while doing it.
2. Implement your key drivers and make adjustments when things are not working correctly.
3. Get clear on your process.
4. Create traction.
5. Run your meetings effectively.
6. Have the right people on the bus working beside you.

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Dan Martell offers today’s business owners a fresh approach to fund-raising strategy. Watch the interview above for a front row seat into mindset behind the greatest “Growth Stacking (not Hacking) Show” on earth.

Structuring how and when businesses deploy their core marketing message is essential for successful fund-raising campaigns. Software as a Service (SaaS) business models are no exception—in fact SaaS businesses often have an especially difficult time with this. To thrive in today’s ever-growing, over-saturated, (and often over-hyped) online marketplace it takes savvy forethought and extremely flexible execution.

Dan’s unique approach of “growth stacking” prioritizes smart investments and produce amazing results. Having invested in over 40 tech companies and starting 5 of his own Martell continues to raise millions in funding for his entrepreneurial clients.

Explore new ways to find more of the right prospects, and get your messaging out effectively—your sales cycle will take less time and conversion rates will continue to rise.

Quote of the Day

• “Id rather teach a programmer how to market than a marketing person how to program.” – Bill Gates

App of the Day

• Voxer – Walkie talkie app for high performance teams

Resources

• Dan Martell – Website
• Dan Martell – Instagram Page
• Dan Martell – YouTube Channel – Escape Velocity

Dan’s 3-part framework for your 30 day YouTube challenge:

• Situation
• Struggle
• Solution

Mentions

• Ari Meisel – also at AES Nation

• Dan Sullivan – also at AES Nation

• Tim Sanders – Sales & Leadership Keynote Speaker

John’s 3 Key Take-aways

1. Be a life-long learner. Get passionate about video—the power of one to many is incredibly powerful.
2. Design your business be successful on purpose to maximize value. Get traction. Build a great client experience. Growth stacking not hacking. Look for those silver bullets.
3. Check out applications and productivity tools to change your life tremendously. Human capital is really worth it.

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In light of what is happening in the world today, Ben Hardy believes being ritualistic is more important than ever. Ben describes how who you are is a product of what you do. The choices you make on a daily basis shape the type of person you are. Change yourself from the inside out to become a highly influential individual who others will follow.

In this podcast, discover Ben’s introspective assessment on what drives successful entrepreneurs today. Step into the unpredictable, take smart risks and catapult into the state of “tolerating the unknown”—the place where innovations meet opportunity and the keys to success will unlock doors you never thought possible.

Quote of the Day

• “Your input shapes your outlook and your outlook shapes your output.” – Zig Ziglar

• “Its better to be prolific than perfect.” – Joe Polish

• “If you do not create and control your environment then your environment controls you.” – Marshall Goldsmith

Book of the Day

• Will Power Doesn’t Work: Discover the hidden keys to success – Ben Hardy’s book

Resources

• Benjamin Hardy – Home Page

Mentions

• Joe Polish – also at AES Nation

• Dan Sullivan – also at AES Nation

• Dean Jackson – also at AES Nation

• Jason Korman – also at AES Nation

• Michael Hyatt – Your Leadership Mentor

• Tony Robbins – Transform Your Life

• Seth Godin – Because your work matters.

John’s 3 Key Take-aways

1. Your Environment: Tweak it as necessary. Your environment is subconsciously influencing you all the time. Turn the tables on your surroundings.
2. Self Signaling: The choices you make “shape-signal” the type of person you are.
3. Decision Making: Confidence and motivation are the effects of success—not the cause. Successful entrepreneurs are confident because they made the right decisions.

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As an Olympic athlete striving for his personal best, Lex Gillette is setting goals and encouraging others to set theirs. By hand-crafting personal keynotes to motivational speaking events, Lex holds true to positive forward-thinking and the belief that anything is possible.

As soon as his feet hit the ground in the morning, Lex is calculating ways to create a machine of success for all. His authenticity and focus is infectious both on the field and off.

We all struggle with our blind spots (so to speak), so listen to what Lex is teaching and shift your focus. Believe in your visionary dream and become the entrepreneurial athlete you know you are.

Resources

• Lex  as Motivational Speaker

• Lex Gillette – Gold Men’s Long Jump T11 – Final – London 2017 World Para Athletics Championships

• Lex Gillette – Men’s T11 100m Semifinal 1 – 2016 Paralympic Games

• Lex’s Promotional Video

John’s 3 Key Take-aways

1. Start with a vision and then focus until it becomes really clear. What exactly is it that you want to achieve and how are you going to get there?
2. Quantify the strengths and specific goals you will need to achieve your vision.
3. Build the right team around you to help guide you and utilize the coaches willing to help you along the way. Build trust with those individuals. Then inspire yourself day in and day out to remain fixed and accountable to your vision. If we have a blind spot, we will not get clear on our vision.

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Joe Weiss is a highly successful insurance executive specializing in design and implementation of asset protection strategies for high-net-worth individuals.

Committed to helping entrepreneurs understand the modern challenges inherent in building successful businesses, Joe provides critical advice regarding liability protections, risk assessments and exposure in tech savvy marketplaces.

Joe shares with entrepreneurs the reasons that time may be right for adding an insurance expert to their teams to protect all they’ve accomplished from litigation and loss.

Quote of the Day

• “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” – Joe’s favorite, the fifth of the seven habits of highly effective people, by Dr. Stephen R. Covey

Passions

• Helping high-earning entrepreneurs protect their assets, their families and their stakeholders through comprehensive and customized insurance solutions including professional liability, errors and omissions, and tailored business owner policies.

Resources

• Bruce Gendleman – Insurance Services

• Joseph M. Weiss – Website – Email – Office: 800-845-4145

Mentions

• Dr. Stephen Covey – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

John’s 3 Key Take-aways

1. As an entrepreneur, the buck stops with you. Don’t overlook the risks associated with successful business. Protect your assets, your holdings, your real estate and your legacy by consulting with an insurance expert to shield all that you have worked for.
2. It’s critical today to really understand the businesses you create, the risks and liabilities associated with those businesses in a rapidly changing world. As your success scales up, your need for coverage and protection does as well.
3. Growing your high-end business requires that you need a high-end team to cover the growing level of liability, risk and exposure that commoditized insurance providers don’t/can’t consider.

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Jaime Hope is a highly-regarded emergency care surgeon, a sought-after professional speaker and an emerging entrepreneur with an expertise in health habits, self-care and empowerment.

In addition, she serves as life coach and consultant to entrepreneurs looking to prioritize personal health in highly stressful careers.

As a gifted, a-type, high energy personality with an enormous skill set, Dr. Hope knows firsthand the price one pays for ignoring the dangers of overload, and much good advice for those ready to make themselves, and their stakeholders, a healthier presence in the work place.

Quote of the Day

• “Self-care is not selfish.” – Jaime Hope

• “You can’t be killing it in your business for so long if you’re killing yourself to do it.” – Jaime Hope

• “The smart entrepreneurs know they are successful because of their commitment to self-care, not in spite of that commitment.” – Jaime Hope

• “Often your best, most inspired and creative ideas come from times when you’re actively engaged in giving yourself a break, during meditation, or exercise, or siesta. You are perhaps least enlightened when you’re overworked.” – Jaime Hope

Passions

• To teach highly stressed entrepreneurs the secret to resilience muscles and introduce resilience strategies that readily adapt to the work place often associated with stress.

• Hope is also passionate about health promotion, empowerment and using evidence-based truths about human nature to improve habits and health span for her patients, and her clients.

Resources

• Hope Health – Where employee wellness is engaging, well communicated, inexpensive and fun!

• Jaime Hope, MD – Author at FemInEM

Book of the Day

• Strategy and the Fat Smoker: Doing What’s Obvious But Not Easy – by David Maister

Mentions

• Joe Polish – also at AES Nation

• Verne Harnish – also at AES Nation

• Jason Campbell – also at AES Nation

John’s 3 Key Take-aways

1. Don’t wait for the heart attack or stroke before you make your personal health as important as the health of your business.
2. “The smart entrepreneurs know they are successful because of their commitment to self-care, not in spite of that commitment.”
3. The key to healthy work habits is a willingness to schedule time for yourself (both short and long range) and focus activities directly on self-care.

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Bradley Callow, born into ease and affluence, showed his skills as an entrepreneur early, selling and using drugs at age 11. At some point, however, after some “bumps in the road,” a major pivot: today Bradley is an internationally recognized speaker, a highly successful conscious entrepreneur, and co-founder of RichLegacy.com and several other companies committed to behavioral health innovation.

Join us today for his powerful back story and even more remarkable personal transformation. His commitment to providing entrepreneurs and their families the tools and resources to ensure happy, productive lives is well worth your attention.

Quote of the Day

• “No good stories ever come from when things go according to plan.” – Bradley Callow

Passions

• Conscious Entrepreneurship: Challenging the status quo and turning… adversity into something good by helping others.

Resources

• Rich Legacy – We help high-performing families from around the world empower their children in a way that moves them away from self-destructive behaviors.

• The Moderation Institute – New Alcohol Treatment Program-Highest Success Rate of Any Program

Mentions

• Kevin Thompson – Fire Nation Podcast – also at AES Nation

John’s 3 Key Take-aways

1. “Easy hard; hard easy…” Of the things that most deserve time and attention in your business, even though it’s often the most difficult to provide, none is more critical than family. Taking the time now is hard; taking the time later may not even be possible.
2. With respect to family, the wise choice is to be proactive, to build a culture which recognizes challenges to your values, your priorities and your goals, before those challenges occur.
3. Become a conscious entrepreneur. Adopt and apply the 5 principles of family realignment: Connection; Understanding; Balance; Inspiration; and Empowerment.

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Dominate Search Engine Optimization and reconfigure inbound marketing strategies with top marketing consultant and SEO strategist, Phil Singleton.

Phil is ranking visibility clicks and sales by expanding web analytics to new horizons. Using a data-driven approach to every aspect of a project he is generating amazing leads and the increasing online traffic is ideal for all types of entrepreneurs.

Want to create that steady stream of ideal clients—the kind that want to invest in you? Then watch the video as Phil explains how to pivot, create evolving content and manipulate the most powerful new addition to the sales process in recent history, GOOGLE.

Resources

• Google Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines – a PDF download

• SEO for Growth – Search Engine Optimization Book & SEO Certifications

• Kansas City SEO – Kansas City SEO Search Engine Optimization

Mentions

• John Jantsch – also at AES Nation

John’s 3 Key Take-aways

1. E.A.T. is the acronym for Expertise, Authority and Trust.
2. Expertise; the internet is an excellent facilatator to prove your type of expertise. Write a book, create content, become a thought leader.
3. Authority; You must be positioned as the expert to experience being the authority in your field.
4. Trust; allow others to share testimonial reviews so others know who you are and what you do. This trust factor arrives form the work you do with clients and through word of mouth. This is evidence that you can deliver.

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Empowering Entrepreneurs To Stay Ahead Of The Competition, Michael Loban is leading digital analytics and marketing optimization expert, is CMO of InfoTrust.com, and he shares today the increasing role data analytics has in reshaping the way companies do business.

As entrepreneurs looking to make better decisions about advertising, merchandising, user experiences, and marketing campaign impact, take advantage of Michael’s take on the role of data analytics.

Quote of the Day

• “To use analytics today, and to do it well, will give you a competitive advantage in your business; but as we progress in applying analytics, it’s going to become the price you pay for being at the table. ” – Michael’s take on its value to business success.

• “And if you don’t do it, you don’t get to play.” – John’s confidence that analytics is a game-changer.

Passions

• Translating the complex challenges of data analytics and integration to empower businesses to compete more favorably in the modern world.

Resources

• Info Trust – a digital analytics consulting and technology company that specializes in consumer-packaged goods (CPG). “Above all, we are passionately dedicated to helping everyone make better decisions through data.” -Visit our website, learn more about us and take advantage of an array of free resources.

Mentions

• Amazon.Com – a client-friendly business that has become a model for illustrating the power of customer service

John’s 3 Key Take-aways

1. Past business success doesn’t necessarily translate to success in the future. Take advantage of the rich store of data accessible on the web and what analytics can do to keep you in step with your customer/clients.
2. Analytics is key to ensuring the ideal client experience by keeping you in touch with what works, what needs to improve and what needs to change.
3. The ROI to entrepreneurs of tapping the expertise of data analytics experts is huge. The advantages of modern business techniques can make all the difference in achieving your dream.

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Embracing the digital landscape, Aditya Jagannathan transforms marketing thought leadership. CEO of SCI Creations, LLC, Aditya and his team provide a concierge service for any start-up or established business where innovation meets entrepreneurship.

Follow a road map which allows you and your brand to execute scalable tactics to achieve brilliant results. As Steven Covey says; “Begin with the end in mind.” Let this be the guiding component of your vision.

Build your theme, and educate yourself in digital marketing. Appreciate the difference between working on your business and working in your business. Take the opportunity to discover your conversion tactics and engagement levels, and nurture yourself and your company.

Resources

• SCI Creations – The Digital Brand Growth Experts

• You can download a version of the Start-up Map by clicking here.

Mentions

• Joe Polish – also at AES Nation

• Stephen Covey

• Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers – by Geoffrey Moore

• Michael Gerber

• Russell Brunson

John’s 3 Key Take-aways

1. Get on your road map to success with your start-up map from aha to exit. As Steven Covey says; “Begin with the end in mind.” There will be plenty of challenges along the way. Ask yourself where you want to go, and where you will end up.
2. Build a team by getting the right people on the bus, as Jim Collins says—both internally and externally.
3. Make time in your business and on your business. Digital marketing is now and the wave of the future. Try new initiatives and testing with low dollar amounts.

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