Entreprogrammers Podcast

Episode 143 “This Is Where The News Happens” 0:15 And We’re Live. Chuck says hello for NYC for Microsoft Connect. Chuck plans to retire for iPheaks and The Freelancer show in Dev Chat TV. Chuck talks about hiring a coach to help him get to the next level. Chuck talks about letting the podcast shows know about what they need to do with the sponsorship funds. John thinks Chuck should still control the sponsorship funds as the producer.  8:00 John continues to talk about the control Chuck should have as the brand or producer. Josh suggests finding away to  split sponsorship if they host find sponsors themselves. John thinks that as a business, Chuck should not lose the sponsorship money, incase the show become super popular.  15:00 Chuck says that he has another sponsor beside hired.com. Also, Chuck says that he is trying to hire another VA type person who can take over Mandy’s old tasks. John think this is ok for Chuck to do, because now Chuck has multiple roles filled at less cost.  20:00 Chuck think he may ne

Episode 142  “Tall Caramel Macchiato!” 0:15  We’re Live! No Sonmez. John is attending a Tony Robbins event or concert.  Derick talks about how his MacBook Pro kept crashing during mastermind calls. Derick said the main issue on the mac was a bad video card. It will be replace for free from Apple. Derick mentions that he likes the upgrades of the new mac book pro, but does not care for the touch bar.  8:27 Derick talks about working on upgrading an older MacBook pro to make it useful for work. Derick says he had a great week at Watch Me Code. He talks about building his launch sequence for his Docker project. He also shares that he has gain some subscribers.  12:00 Derick shares that he is going to give a 10 percent off code starting Monday. Josh mentions that he like what Derick is doing, because he is getting dual purpose on his material. Derick says that he is using a guide to help focus on the projects people need.   18:00 Derick talks about how he likes his new screencast mastermind. Chuck talks about a n

Episode 141 “This Is Going To Be Huge!” 0:15 We’re Live! Derick warns us he may be disappear due to his faulty MacBook Pro. Derick notices the John’s sound has improved. John complains about the labor cost for hanging pictures in his home. Derick says to hire a handy man so he can’t work for anyone else but you. 5:00 John talks about a launch he did not mention last week called, 10 Ways To Make Money Off Your Blog. John shares the details of the mini launch. Josh shares his mistakes and troubles with the links and launch in general. John talks about a death ray and check list… rant in progress… 10:00 John talks about how mistakes can cost thousands if you don't have checklists. Derick concurs with the need for organization and checklists. John talks about having use FireSub awhile back for task management and checklists. Derick suggest using the notepad app over building a complex systems of apps.  16:00 Derick talks about his new mastermind and what the members are doing for work. Derick talks about how he h

Episode 140 “Dragon Team?” 0:15 We’re live! Derick talks about the new macbook pro, but might be leaning toward the new Microsoft surface. John thinks Microsoft bought out apple for new ideas.  2:45 EntreProgrammers talk about how your keyboard will get jack now by the new virtual bar on the new macbook pro.  Derick has issues with the new power supply for the new macbook pro.He mentions that he has tons  of chargers for the older macbooks.  6:00 Josh says he was excited about the release of the air pods, but they keep pushing off the release date. 8:00 John says he has t-shirts designed for Simple Programmer! John mentions that he also updated his podcast list.  John thinks his t shirts will sell fast.  Josh cracks jokes about John wearing small shirts to show off his muscles. John talks about the process of the podcast lists.  16:00 John talks about having issues with Zaxaa and missing out on about 500 sales. Josh talks about  all the issues with shopping cart software.  John talks about complaining to the

Episode 139 “Spin-off” 2:00 We’re Live! With a new 1 hour format. John says we should beat up Bernie supporters. because they are weenies. John talks about the new ideas for the creating a spin-off group who are similar to the original mastermind of EntreProgrammers.  7:00 Derick talks about already starting in other Slack/Mastermind group. Derick talks about the big name groups and process of the new mastermind.  9:00 Josh suggests having the spin-off shows on the same feed. John suggests sharing the website hosting of the website. Chuck suggests perhaps creating a paid type of mastermind to create a serious and working group.  13:00 John talks about maybe charging 50 bucks a month, and create an application process to group people together.  The EntreProgarmmers talk about how they can help with the process of creating the new spin offs, and paying for a portion of the cost for podcast production.  20:00 Chuck and John agree on creating Facebook or Slack groups for communication purposes. Also the EntreProg

Episode 138 “Debbie Downer” 2:00 And the dumpster is on fire..   Derick talks about laughing a docker  management cheat sheet for Watch Me Code. Derick says this is publish along with his ebooks an such. So far he has   170 downloads since a day ago. Derick says he did notice that people have been using junk email address, just to get the download file.  7:00 Derick says he got some good feedback through the Watch Me Code Slack channel. Derick talks about his further plans for the features he want to add to Watch Me Code.  Derick says he want to use Twitter to help with the Docker.  12:00 Derick mentions that he has been doing a lot of video editing, since he doesn’t have an editor anymore. But he is noticing things he can improve on. Derick also is seeing new subscriber on the annual package.  15:00 Derick mention that he is going to wait and see if the changes he made to his site, are going to payoff in the next few weeks.  Josh says it is interesting to see the monthly signup compared to before. The EntreP

Episode 137 “We Just Need to Clone Ourselves…” 2:00 John suggests changing up the EntreProgrammers theme song to a dumpster theme song. Derick talks about his parents visiting and introducing them to new technology.  5:00 John mentions visiting Wendy’s in Kansas. John also so shares finishing his half marathon and 5K runs.  John talks about how he cannot help dominating anything.  10:00 Derick mentions that Watch Me Code is having a great week since he did a pricing experiment. Derick says its a combination of new prices and new content. Derick says his website now visual fits his business, services and programs.  15:00 John says Derick’s dumpster in not on fire anymore. John says he likes the new framing. Josh ask about how Derick is using RayGun. Derick talks about about his referrals are coming along.  20:00 Derick shares how he is getting a lot of traffic and things are growing for his business. Josh talks about nailing your position in your USP, and how the sky just opens up. Derick talks about his strat

Episode 136  “Bubba Don’t Play Dat!” 2:00 EntreProgrammers give Josh a hard time  about facial hair. John talks about the golden age of 36. John share that he is going to be running a half marathon in San Jose CA. Chuck mentions that he is at Microsoft Ignite. Chuck gives the variety of sessions at the convention.  7:30 Chuck mention that he made 300 dollars on this independence sale. He is not sure what he did wrong. Derick thinks he was discounting to many products, so them people are not sure about the sale.  10:00 Chuck talks about one of his hires, Bubba. Who is suppose to be the social media expert. Chuck is having a rough time getting feedback from Bubba. Everyone says to urgently fire Bubba. 15:00 Josh ask what are the exact duties of Bubba’s job, then post the job on UpWork, and hire 5 people to audition for the job. Chuck ask what should he tell her next?   18:00 John says to have a standard level for new hires, like Rodrigo at Simple Programmer.  Chuck talks about the task that Bubba is doing that

Episode 135 “ The Dumpster Is On Fire” 2:00 Derick talks about his 38th birthday sale, and had 16 sales of the yearly subscription. John does some math, and says that Derick should maybe drop some prices on his subscriptions, because he found a price range that sells.  6:00 Josh says just change the prices without announcing the price change. Josh suggest to drop the prices incrementally, until he see sales come in. John says this is good new for finding a price range people are buying in.  10:00 Chuck asks a question about discounts for his products. Derick talks about the randomness of doing discounts. Chuck ask if this is a good way to let people know that you have stuff to sale. 14:00 Derick says he can finally pay down some credit card debt. Derick shares that he started seeing a therapist. Derick says he needs to working not being an asshole on his downtime. Derick shared that he will begin weekly therapy. 19:00 Derick says this is death of thousands of paper cuts. Derick mentions that if you are strugg

Episode 134 “We Fire People Around Here…” 2:00 And We’re Live! Josh looks less grayish with his color correction filter. John says he wants overhead lighting to enhance his muscles. John says he is making progress with the decor of his office.  Derick talks about his behemoth desk move from an office to his apartment.  11:00 Derick talks about his week taking care of his family and is sick son, and the trial of getting back to work. Derick talks about taking a look at the homepage of Watch Me Code. Derick have been researching and making significant changes to his Watch Me Code homepage.  15:00 Derick mention redoing the framework for the website and reworking the backend of the page. Derick says he reinstated the monthly plans to some of the products on his page.  21:00 Josh talks about the positioning of some for the elements on the Watch Me Code website, this will help them navigate to the features and services. John mention that some of rate icons are broken on the webpage.  25:00 Josh thinks that Derick

Episode 133 “Lean Manufacturing…” 2:00 No John or Josh today. Derick talks about getting Quickbooks online, and fired everyone that works for him. Derick has a lot of questions about this next stage and the ins and outs of Quickbooks. Derick is trying to figure out out how to connect banks, PayPal, and payment processing into Quickbooks. Are John and Josh automating the payments?  6:53 Derick mentions working with figuring out the connection of finances to quickbooks for two hours. John might be trying to connect to the call.  9:00 Chuck talks about getting his act together and start blogging and connection with LinkedIn. Derick says that was what Mark was working on, to help create a constant stream of content. Derick shares that he was giving away some stuff on Docker.  13:00   Derick talks about repackaging his content and figuring out his emailing system. Derick mentions having 30 sales of his RabbitMQ book on LeanPub. Derick is puzzled on how these sales are coming in, because he is not doing any marketi

Episode 132 “Bridge Gapper” 2:00 We’re Live! Derick quotes the classic software developer movie “Office Space.” John talks about pissing off the internet again. John talks about the different views of a creationist or evolutionist on his youtube channel.  8:30 John says that the more you look into a “cracker jack” idea, there is some sort of compelling agreement.  13:00 Josh talks about the up coming censoring on YouTube. John again talks about the different scientific hypothesis of life, creation, or evolution. Josh talks about losing some subscribers on patreon.  19:00 John says that something that is scientific, doesn’t ave to be true. John talks about epigenetics and experimentation for induced results.  24:00 Derick finally gets to talk about his last two weeks. He mentions that he has a couple new subscribers, and somethings in the business are broken. Derick shares that he is seeing at least 10 people drop a month.  28:00 Derick thinks that he need to present his content in a more unique way, to help s

2:00 We’re Live!   John mentions that EntreProgrammers got a down vote the last episode. John was a guess on the Coding Newbies podcast recently. John talks about taking what he says out of context. John refers back to and old Ruby Rouges episodes to explain himself in the context of the situation at the time.  8:00 Chuck talks about voicing options and having a conversation, rather then immediately coming to conclusion.  10:00 Josh talks about the tendency to celebrate differences, rather than common goals. Josh says you will rarely be successful, punching people in the face, right out of the gate.  14:00 John talks about the lack of balance content on people social media feeds. People usual have a ton of content on their social media feeds that supports their views, rather than a little bit of both.  John says he respects Tom Cruise. Another Down Vote!  19:00 John talks about how fully understanding world views can have a kind of paradigm shift in your views.  21:15 John talks about having to take his Surfa

Episode 130 “Troglodytes” 2:00 We’re live! No Derick today. Derick is conducting his webinar. John talks about being late because of  being sucked into a Youtube comment.   8:00 EntreProgrammers continue to talk about the distortions in reality. John talks about taking the reality punch when meeting with the mastermind.  13:30 Josh asks about Chuck’s question on the up coming conference projects. Chuck talks about using Member Press for ticket sales. Josh mentions a feature called Events in Drip.  18:00 Josh mention way to keep audience warm for the tickets sales. Josh says to target last years audience with an email. Josh recommends broadcast to Chuck.  Josh talks about forgetting to publish a draft.  25:00 Josh says lesson learned is not to get too tricky with your automation first time through. Do it the simplest way possible.  27:00 Chuck is trying to decide if he should do and Early Bird pricing like last year. He mention to really needing to do an early bird ticket sale. Josh and Chuck see not real issu

“To Busy To Shave” 2:00 We’re Live! Derick’s room lighting looks different. Derick shares his new lighting setup and new camera. New tools for new projects?  4:50 Josh shares that he just recently ended his experiment with home automation. Its a train wreck and more trouble than its worth. 7:00 Derick talks about getting addicted to playing No Man’s Sky video game. Listen to Derick geek out on this game.  14:00 John talks about feeling like he wanted to shut it all down.. Talk him off the ledge people. John shares that he wants to expand out and move on more automation and new projects. Josh says to try acting.  18:00 Josh talks about how comments on the Simple Programmer YouTube channel, 100s of people say John looks like Matthew McConaughey. John says he had be mistaken for Jeff Goldblum.  22:00 John shared that he was on The Faster Than Normal Podcast, an ADHD topic podcast. John talk abut his encounter with the Host of the FTN Podcast and their discussion topic on ADHD.  26:00 Chuck says he started settin

“Sticker Cheap…” 2:00 John mentions trying to connect to the internet last week. John talk about his experiences in China. John talks about his trip or tours of China. John talks about the language barrier and the difficulties of communication during the trip.  7:30 John talks about the difference between Europe and China, and language barriers. John talks about the complexities of communication in China.  9:36 John thinks that China will rapidly surpass the US. in world power and growth in technology.  John talks about how their economics are based on entrepreneurship rather than conventional jobs.   11:59  John talk about how his book was #1 on amazon in China, and possibly translating Simply Programmer into Chinese.  15:00 John talks about gaining 10 t0 15lbs because he could not do any exercise. Panda Express everyday. John mentions that KCF is very popular in China. KFC everywhere!n John talks about the similarities in food to American from China.   20:00 Josh ask about the  safety in China. John says it

Episode 127 “Turn Your Head and Cough” 2:00 No John today! John is lost behind the Great Firewall of China.  Chuck and Josh are going to be gone next week. So no EntreProgrammers next week.  EntreProgrmamers discuss their encounters with playing Pokemon with their children. Chuck mentions that this is a great way to connect with his kids and to spend time with them.  10:00 Chuck talks able automating stuff and working on scheduling podcasts tasks. Chuck talks about finishing up the press kits for sponsorships. Derick spots lego collector items in Chuck’s office. Derick shares he likes build legos, even without the kiddos.  18:00 Chuck talks about the different format of the sponsorships on his podcasts. Chuck explains the exposures numbers, mid roll format that will be available for those who want to buy spots.    23:00 Josh asks about how Chuck is working wth hired.com. Chuck mentions that he is using pretty links. Derick mentions that Chuck should be able to use the Pretty Links as he described.  27:00 Chuc

Episode 126 “Relaunch?” 2:00 John talks about taking only a Chrome Book to China with VPN configuration to use internet. John is going to be in Beijing and other parts of China for a couple of weeks. John talks about doing an hour and half Keynote during his recent talk. 10:00 Josh talks about working with Aaron who is helping Simple Programmer with blog posts, embedded material, and code. 15:00 Josh talks about using certain settings in Drip that have to do with marking strategies and email material. Josh talks about not having any meetings for weeks or a month, and having to redo his accounts and move money around to make paychecks happen. 20:00 Derick shares that everything possible has happen with week and is working with Mark. Derick talks about doing his second webinar with Scott Harrison. Derick mentions having an incredible discussion on the webinar, but had very low attendee numbers. 27:00 Derick talks about possibly reediting video content for new projects. Derick talks about doing a noise removal a

Episode 125  “China, Firing, and Burning The Boats” 2:00 We’re live! Chuck talks about his chat with Mandy. Chuck shares that he is moving to a fixed price for work on his podcasts. Chuck mentions that he tried to negotiate getting the podcast editing down to a lower cost, but no success. However, moving this to another team may save a ton of money in the long run. 10:00 John thinks that Chuck should replace Mandy entirely and not feel guilty about it. Chuck mentioned that he had never looked at editing prices before.  14:00 The EntreProgrammers talk about value base pricing and raising rates as a freelancer. Josh mentions that your quality of work has to be 10X if your are in to commodity base pricing. 21:00 Chuck mentions that these are real people in his business and he still cares about them. But the process and cost no longer fit with his business.  23:00 Chuck talks about Podcast Movement 2016 in Chicago and the amazing people his got to meet. Chuck mentions learning about using video on SnapChat, Peris

Episode 124 “Keep Those Huskies Mushing…” 2:00 Alright, We’re Live! No billionaires and going for over two years. John discusses a subscriber who is struggle to make his entrepreneur goals work. John has been try to understand where he is going wrong. 7:00 John talks about his presentation at the CA Code Camp, and experimenting with multiple way to get results and generate more income. 10:00 Josh talks about committing to a specific goal, but not a specific way to get there. Josh says one might blog for 2 years and still not get anywhere. John thinks charisma is major part of personal development to help support building entrepreneurship or a business. 15:00 Josh says one should practice in their area of talents. The Enterprogammers talk about diving into area they struggle in. John says that failure may be due to the lack of confidence. 20:00 Josh scares John about not hitting certain goals. John and the Entreprogarmmers talk about control, goals, and success. 31:00 John asks, when do you know you are course