Entreprogrammers Podcast

Episode 123 “Cake and Burritos” 2:00 We’re Live! Josh is upset with Apple and hates change. EntreProgrammers discuss wireless headphones. John argues that new technology is forcing us to move forward. 11:20 Derick is impressed with the Apple Magic Track Pad. John mentions they need to start a new show doing tech reviews on their technology.  14:30 John mentions that the Patreon was a success with 1500 pledges. John talks about how the Pateron is similar to a Kickstarter, and you need some momentum to make is work.  20:00 Josh joking says they should open source Simple Programmer. John gives us a peak of the new Simple Programmer logo, and the runner up logos.  27:00 John gets some mic technique instruction. Going back to tech talk for a minute.  29:00 Derick is shares that his Watch Me Code team is growing, and working with a new video editor. Derick talks about planning work with Mark, the “marketing guy.” Derick is working on reorganizing the email content with Mark.  35:00 The EntreProgrammers talk about l

Episode 122 “Veiny Bastard!” 2:00 We’re Live! Derick says he hired his first person on UpWork. Derick shares that he had to revamp the first posting of the job, with Josh’s help to get more people to apply for the job.  5:00 John talks about the changes in UpWork’s contracts with their Freelancers. Josh talks about the changes in the amount of people that apply for the jobs posted, as well.   10:00 Josh suggests to Derick to do an email blast to possibly find people in their audience, before using a freelance service to hire people.  15:00 Derick is now going to be working with a developer/market who moved to Waco, in the same town where Derick lives.  Derick mentions a possible joint venture if things start pick up. 21:00 Derick shares his penthouse letter story with the team about a ink pen incident.  Derick shares that he found out he had a friend that had went to school with Ryan Deiss.  27:40 Josh shares that he wrote some Java Script over the week, and work on their Simple Programmer stores.  32:00 John

Episode 121 “Pasty White…” 2:00 We’re Live!  Orangey John and Pasty Josh.  John talks share his sign up for a half marathon. 13.1 miles in just under 2 hours. “I just sign up yesterday!” Josh shares his knowledge on training for a marathon from his former client. 10:00 Derick talks about doing his webinar, telling a story, and missing his transition back to the topic. Derick will be posting his video to Youtube and several other videos will be free. Derick sounds like he had some success with his webinar, which then gave him more ideas for other projects. Derick mentions that only if you are registered or a member, the other supporting videos are behind the pay-wall for 250 dollars.  16:00 Derick asks for help on creating a one-click link in Drip for a campaign he has created. Josh shares some how-tos, and other experience with campaigns. Josh shares how to do a Trigger Link.  20:00 Josh talks about temple style or fill in the blank emails for ad copy. Derick talks about struggling with not making sales with

Episode 120 “Crabs In A Bucket” 2:00 John is having some modem troubles and Derick is excited about his new couch. Derick talks about rediscovering some forgotten toys under an old couch. Derick talks about how an old subscriber had renew their subscription with Watch Me Code. Derick also share some update information on his refund plan. 7:00 EntreProgrammers discuss their refund tactics and how to go about using the trail window before getting a refund. Derick continues on about customers looking for a specific series on his Watch Me Code website. Derick talks about how feedback from his customers are giving him new ideas about products, bundles, and marketing strategies.  11:00 Chuck mentions trying a walk through of the product for the customer. Derick talks about the community on Slack. Derick says that there are a few people joining slowly. Derick is still working on the marketing on the JS Jabber project, and is now see the light at the end of the tunnel.  18:00 Derick talks about a story he is using fo

Episode 119 “Burn The Boats” 2:00 We’re Live! John says his office still does not have furniture. John mention he is going to China. also his book is being translated. Derick says to only drink bottled water.  John mentions that his book has exploded on Amazon Japan.  8:30 Josh says they’ve hijack John’s book.    10:30 Derick says he still want to punch Josh in the face. Derick shares his frustration for figuring out the marketing stuff, but instead writes code. “Holy Crap, I hate doing this…” Derick talks about may creating a teaser video for the new direction he is taking.  14:30 Josh says least he is learning more about marketing if anything. On the positive side, he has not made any sales or subscriptions. But the individual bundle sales are picking up. Derick says he is still trying to figure out why people have not gravitated to the annual subscription sales.   19:00 Josh show us a stack of transcriptions. Derick talks about how the project has already taken over 40 hours.  24:00 Josh talks about a Dan

Episode 118 “Crapalytics” 2:00 And we’re live! Josh apparently is cracking the whip on Derick. Derick is doing the brunt work on researching for marketing and he i working on the persona or avatar for the course he is building.  6:40 Derick mentions he has 254 plus people signed up the webinar launch. Derick hope to gain customers from the webinar. Derick is looking for a guess speaker for the webinar, so he can focus on the marketing.  10:00 Derick says he wants to tie in the Watch Me Code projects into the webinar and continue the questions in for the products in the Slack channel. Derick mentions the webinar will be available on YouTube. 16:00 Chuck talks about how to understand an avatar for marketing purposes. Josh explains the demographics of an avatar and how to marketing to this particular type of person.  22:00 Derick talks about how working on the marketing material such as emails are sharpening his marketing skills other areas. Like marketing for his new bundle. 26:00 Josh talks about how getting i

Episode 117 “Its Just Atoms!” 2:00 We’re Live! John talks about trying to write a thousand words a day. Josh shares his daily writing strategy to get content or emails logged. Josh shares that he uses the Strides app to help him track his daily habits. John talks about going to back to the KabanFlow for daily tasks.  9:00 Josh shares how he has reached 2 to 3 thousand words a day. Josh talks about experimenting with creating video, and how he has to plan the video ahead of time rather than creating it “on the fly.” John talks about editing verses getting comfortable with creating on the fly. Josh shows new his selfie stick for video production.  16:00 Chuck shares his A/V gear and ideas  on how he records video. Josh and John disagree with the quality of bluetooth, in regards to Apple getting rid of headphone jack.  19:00 Chuck talks about his experience with bluetooth headsets. John and Derick talk about offending people intentional and unintentional. Chuck mentions we need to have common sense about these s

Episode 116 “Lets Fight for Bacon!”  2:00 Derick says his business is burning to the ground. Chuck mentions he has lost one of his helpers.  Chuck is cancelling React Remote Conf. and shuffling the schedules around to make things work. Chuck talks about a bunch of challenges he is facing for the week and is very tried. Chuck shares that his son is facing some issues at school.  10:00 John talks about how this situation looks like a quadrant 2 for Chuck. John shares how he could regain bandwidth to get things taken care for his business and home.  Chuck thinks that part of the issues with his flaky help, might be because of timezones.  15:00 Chuck says he wants to do a Founders Retreat, base off of Sherry Walling’s book. On the up side, Chuck did a meet up using an app to coordinate the meet up. John thinks that Chuck need to simplify, and focus on the main things such as the podcasts and the remote conferences.  24:00 The EntreProgrammers discuss the things that Chuck needs to focus on and simplify.  Derick m

Episode 115 “Pike or Pipe?”2:00No John today! 4:00Chuck mentions that he has been doing WordPress development allweek. Chuck talks about plans for sponsorships and logisticaltasks. He is going to ignore all the advice from his mastermindgroups.  Chuck talks about the decision he has made with Mandymanaging the podcasts.13:30 Josh thinks Chuck should have Mandy document steps just in case.Chuck says he wants to outline expectations for social media andgrowing the audience. Josh asks how he is defining his role. Chucksays has change his title to CEO and handling businessrelationships. 19:00Chuck says he is going to do a kickstarter in June. Chuckmentions that he is the public face of Dev Chat TV, and that is thevalue he brings to sourcing business to Mandy. Chuck is thevitamins!27:00Chuck ask if he should get permission to monetize on the videosfrom the conferences he holds. Josh mentions how some people chargethe same prices on videos as the price to hold theconference. 31:00Chuck talks about doing a Slack cha

Episode 114 “Burn Your Business To The Ground” 2:00 EntreProgrammers are joined by Adrian Rosebrock from pyimagesearch. Derick asks Adrian how he was able to make his kickstarter campaign successful. Adrian explains what his blog and business are about.  6:00 Adrian explains that the first two days are early signs of the success of your campaign. Adrian mentions he aimed to raise just below the full funding. Adrian shares how to get funded faster, as far as providing tons of value.  Adrian talks about reverse engineering the campaign to reach his funding goal.  10:30 Derick ask what was the criteria and the goals. Adrian talks about the early bird backers and the different tiers pricing.  12:25 Josh asked how the 25 dollar tier worked for the subscription. Adrian continues with a launch plan and email. 16:30 Chuck talks a bit about the past kickstarter he did, and ask if a previous semi- failed kickstarter would hurt future campaigns. Derick talk  19:00 Derick ask about validation and pricing of the tiers. Ad

Episode 113 “Expert Sex Change Host” 2:00 Derick and Josh plan an 8 hours podcast episode since Chuck and John are out. Derick shares his expertise on gaming consoles, shelf life, and his preferences. 6:20 Josh mentions he has been working long hours on the Simple Programmer sales page with eleven thousand words in the bag. Josh thinks he can hack the content down to eight thousand words soon.  10:00 Josh shares his strategy for writing the sales page and searching through old material for Simple Programmer. Josh goes into detail for writing the lead and the rest of the email sequence for the courses.  14:00 Josh shared that he was home schooled, so deadlines are kind of blurred. But he is trying to make his deadline for John’s content. Josh mentions he did not have any coaching student today.  16:00 Josh mentions he gave the tasks of getting testimonials to John and Rodrigo. Josh shares a recent testimonial for a follower of Simple Programmer. Josh says they are reacting quick with the testimonials and conta

Episode 112 “Derick Favored Ice Cream”  2:00 And we’re live! Derick says he is going to raise his prices on Watch Me Code. Derick talks about getting some ideas from the guys at egghead.io. Derick wants to experiment with annual subscriptions and maybe stop the monthly subscriptions. Derick get ideas to possibly try a 6 month or quarterly type subscriptions if the annual model does not work out.  9:00 John suggest doing an annual plan with a shorter term model. Josh asks about the turn rate. Derick says he has a 10% turn rate. Derick thinks at least half dozen people are signed up for the entire year. According to the turn rate, the annual plan makes sense for Derick subscriptions. Derick thinks this is going to change the overall message to the corporate organization who pay for their employee’s subscriptions.   16:30 Josh suggest outlining a ‘battle plan,’ so the EntreProgrammers can help him keep on track. Derick says he wants to try this plan for 2 months, which is fair enough to lose sales for 2 months u

Episode 111 “Retreat in Las Vegas” The EntreProgrammers meet in Las Vegas for Micro Conf.  7:00 Derick shares that he may have found a VA from Spain. Derick is setting up test projects for the hiring criteria.  9:00 Derick talks about his ideas for doing a Periscope weekly as apart of his content.  11:00 EntreProgrammers discuss video production for their content materials.  17:00 John talks about the advertisements and monetization on their Youtube channel. John further talks about his Youtube strategy.  22:00  Chuck talks about pain points your audience is experiencing in order to get more options. Josh talks about hiring someone to help with advertising on YouTube. Josh talks about finding a clear lead magnet to help Derick’s content.  28:00 Derick asks if he should pay someone to do the banner art for Youtube. Chuck says it would help, but since he already has art for websites he should repurpose the graphics. Derick thinks he really should use his stick figures in his videos ideas. .  33:00 John mention

EntreProgrammers Episode 110 “We Need You To Caucus” 3:20 We’re live! John come to us from his new home in San Diego. John mentions he is enjoying all near by shops, gyms, and beach. John mentions he has hired an interior decorator to help design his home. 15:00 Chuck mentions that most people he knows don’t pay people to move their stuff. Mormons give a helping hand when you move. 16:52 John talks about he meant an interior designer who also went to the Traffic & Conversion Summit. 19:45 Chuck had to postpone the Ruby On Rails Conference, because he was lacking some speakers. Chuck talks about the craze over React. Chuck mentions he is a bit worried about iOS Remote Cont., he mention he needs speakers to help sell the conference.  23:45 Josh says the conference should be application based for speakers to apply for a speaking slot. John mentions that Chuck should charge for an application fee.  28:00 Chuck talks about the discussion of who is to speak at Ruby Rogues. Also, on losing a panelist on the podc

Episode 109 “Screencast Leaf?” 3:15 Derick shares he is getting a new Android phone.  6:15  Josh is thinking about getting his AdWords account unbanned. Josh does some research and is talking to a guy who could help with his AdWords account, and maybe trade services for the reinstatement. Derick thinks it isn’t a good trade because of the high cost. 12:00 John suggests to trade services by doing a consultation and picking his brain to learn how he get Adwords unbanned. Also, John suggests writing copy for him for trade. 15:00 John is having to wait of his new house keys as paper work gets sorted out. In the meantime, its SeaWorld time.   18:00 Chuck say because he does not have a real job, he has to pick up his dad at the hospital. Chuck says he is changing Mandy’s job description to Chief Operating Officer. Derick ask about the hours Mandy works, and talks about legal work laws centered around contractors.  22:00 Derick mentions he wants to hire a new VA. Derick talks about the video editing and other task t

Episode 108 “We Are The Man!” 3:20  We’re Live! John talks about his moving situation and is schedule to move.  6:54 Chuck talks about discovering security issues with a baby video monitor. Derick talks about the the marketing strategy in Samsung smart TVs. John talks about how privacy will soon be a thing of the past.  11:30 Derick talks about the FBI and Apple situation. John talks about the how anyone could cancel a flight or an electricity account with  a little bit of information on the accounts or confirmation numbers.  15:00 John says in there future it would be a situation of privacy verses identity.  19:00 John talks about the DPD tracking and email information from customers. John and Josh talk about how to do tagging and make decisions base on the numbers from Drip.  25:00 John mentions that he does not want people to buy a product and get an email for a discount afterward. Derick says he is still dealing with the same issue. Josh talks more about how DPD works.  Derick is trying to set up his PayP

“It’s Not a Negotiation Unless There’s Blood” 3:20And We’re Live! Derick shares more of his crocheting talents, and might be going into to business with someones grandma. More on the dropping subscribers, but increasing income. Derick mentions he may be hooking up a designer for his website. Derick talks about creating a new way to purchase subscriptions and videos. 10:00John ask about the cost for the new designs. Or maybe he should invest in something else. Derick is looking at investing in the designs, so he can free up time to do real work, instead of designing himself. 13:00EntreProgrammers talk about the user research and ways to look at project’s worth. John, Josh, and Chuck have a concern about the idea Derick is thinking about doing. Josh thinks that Derick needs to increase subscribers in order to break even. John thinks content creation will help to increase subscribers. 20:30EntreProgrammers talk about the keyword and SEO optimization to help Derick’s website traffic. John ask to look at what has

“We Have Become The Man!” 3:15 No Chuck today, because of a conference scheduling conflict. John and Josh have their second meeting for the day, first for Simple Programmer and now for the EntreProgammers. Josh talks about changing up his lighting situation for his office, and other routine workflows. 13:00 John talks about gesture base lights fixtures. Josh talks about how voice recognition still has a long way to go before it is easy enough to use. John thinks its probably learning properly, or investing time in how use it, similar to a keyboard skills.  17:00 Josh shares his experience with Siri, creating reminders, emails, and other things.  20:00 John thinks subvocalization feature will be more useful as it get developed. Josh thinks it is dorky to talk to Siri, or babbling into your phone in publicly. Josh shares more about his new lights. 25:00 John mentions final being able to record a video, after having video troubles.  When thing start to get busier,  John is talking about hiring a junior marketer.

“This Week In Podcasting Problems” 3:18 We’re Live! Derick says he was inspired last week. He’s now got two people on annual subscriptions. Also, some work on ‘Watch Me Code,’ and updates the series page, plus a possible video player in the future.  7:25 Derick is about ready to call himself “Master of WordPress plugins,” after all the work he has recently done in WP. Derick shares information on WP developing. Derick mentions using Migrate DB Pro, and answers Josh’s questions about DB Pro.  12:45 Josh ask if John needs a copy of Simple Programmer running else where…as backup.  16:00 John talks about manually migrating a site. Derick swears that Migrate DB Pro is worth using to take care of migration. Josh talks about migrating a customers site at TrackAbout.  19:00 Josh mentions that he wants the ability to add tags in Thrive. Derick asks what Josh is doing with the tags. John mentions that Rob should create this feature for them in Drip.  22:00 Josh finds other things Thrive can’t do. John talks about the i

Episode 104 “Adult Category” 3:15John shares his recent trip with Josh to the Traffic and Conversion Summit. John talks about the potential growth that Simple Programmer could have in the future. John mention how valuable the conference was for him. John mentions seeing Gary Vaynerchuk and how he dropped the F-bomb at least 100 times in his talk. 10:00John talks about how Gary V. thinks that Snap Chat is the next ‘happening' app and platform. John talks about a canning website, and how one can make an offer on buying the domain, base on the revenue numbers. Making money without any risk… 17:00John talks about how Soft Skills could blowup with the marketing skills they have on their side. John mention their Trello board has 200 to dos in the list. 18:30Chuck talks about how iPheaks got invited to Microsoft Build conference, which might throw a wrench in the retreat plans. 21:00Derick talks about the new direction of Microsoft, and how it is not the same old Microsoft as it use to be. Derick is trying to find h