Entreprogrammers Podcast

We´re Live. Chuck Starts the conversation with John, about how he´s been lifting weights recently and how sore he got, especially on legs than even on his runs, couldn’t complete the goal for that time. John Gives him great advice on this and focuses on nutrition to keep the long runs coming. Chuck is talking about migrating all of his podcast processes to a different system, the last one didn’t have an API so automation is off the table, which really slows down the whole process. Also, his Email list has stopped growing insanely like it was recently. Thoughts of the week John – “You got to analyze the decision you make, what´s that going to do at the bottom line”

We´re Live. The conversation starts on how much Chuck is doing in half a month, he is crunching really good numbers, although he´s been slacking on his major focus which is sponsorship sales, this is great for him because he´s a master at this. John Tells him clearly, that he doesn’t know anybody who can do that amount of sales in so little time. So, Kudos Chuck. Josh is struggling with a very important decision business-wise, its something that could take him years to work, so he´s looking for advice from the guys. Big Decision from him, apparently he´s going solo with other projects. John is trying to prepare him as much as possible On the other hand, John needs to make decisions too based on this, Josh did a lot of the day to day business that keeps bringing Revenue on this entrepreneurship. Thoughts of the week CHUCK - “The Thing is, as long your delivering value they´ll keep paying you”

We´re Live. The guys talk about about a system to minimize decisions called Flywheel, it works really well. Mani explained clearly, with fewer decisions you add it works better so you need to focus. Chuck is getting really good on his running, is competing on a Bulldog Mindset Challenge against marathon runners and he´s killing it. Chuck is planning to charge people to manage other people podcast until they can get all their sponsors and experience ready, which is brilliant. Charges $2500 per podcast a month, until they get their sponsorship. Really easy money for Chuck. John and Mani give really good advice on this, Chuck is in the stage that he can charge a minimum amount for any of his services, and still get the client no problem. John says his minimum is a $1000, if it's less it is just not worth the time. Thoughts of the week John - “If its not a $1000 I don’t even bother to open the email”

We´re Live, Guys talk about the app to record the program, Zoom seems to be working fine with the guys, but there´s a slight audio decrease on quality so bare with us. Chuck got a serious issue with his Drip account, they stop doing everything he configured to do without telling anything to him, Big rant. Trying out Active campaign, this is important on email marketing, deliverability can never stop. Podcast business for Chuck has been growing wild, incredibly good in a really short time. Congrats to Chuck! But the guys are checking the numbers and something seems weird, low traffic cant brings lots of subscribers. Thoughts of the week MANI- “400 people a day and 50% conversion rate on the opt-in, something´s wrong”

We´re Live, The guys start discussing and comparing sales of the same product but with 2 different approaches, direct promo sales and a funnel to a sales pages. Funnels worked way much better and haven’t even finished the sale. There are different levels of audience or possible buyers to the product, this is important when making a sale, we´ll make things easier to reach goals and even to spot failures. Mani Shows the guys and even way to split groups with just the names of the subscribers, great brainstorming here. Thoughts of the week “Choose your sale technique Wisely”  

We´re Live. The guys start talking about a competition about Pomodoro, who´s more discipline who gets more Pomodoro done. John and Josh share strategies to work on this, using apps that block your social media or internet connection, but the guys agree that they are too smart for that, they will find a way around. Discipline is the key here. Mani was participating in this, and couldn’t get much done because he was on vacation. Guys share a few laughs, John had a huge advantage and had way more Pomodoro, there was money involved too. Hilarious haha On at all, the guys really get productive with this system, although there are losers, the productivity skyrocketed. Thoughts of the Week “Don’t bet against a person that has run a marathon with Broken ribs”

We´re Live. John is checking back with his 10 Pomodoro a day technique, and it's amazing how much of a difference it makes. It´s the equivalent of 4 weeks of work in 1 week, that´s something else. To put the cherry on top, between 5 Pomodoro break, he´s reading a book. John talks about some real state he´s been making recently, that´s something that he can't stop doing and makes a lot of progress on it, it just makes a good revenue, on the other Josh asks him how are things with Bulldog Mindset, stable position but he´s been losing some subscribers. Emphasis on growing on youtube, the algorithm has changed so much which makes it really difficult to progress. Social media has changed a lot throughout the years, one of the main reasons why is so difficult to grow, its because there´s so much content right now. There´s a lot and depends on the audience in the case of the length of videos, for example, some people prefer small curated content than a full contrast of one point. Thoughts of the week JOHN – “The bes

We´re Live. Google Hangouts is finally going die and supposedly going to be replaced by Youtube Webcam, we´ll see how it goes. Other topics, Charles feel off a roof and really hurt his elbow, he has a really funny anecdote on it. He´s a little worried because he´s got a 5k really soon, his doctor will tell him. There´s an interesting argument with the guys about how Doctors do stuff, are they really needed? They all agree that doctors (Medics) mostly work o tell you what is wrong and prescribe you medicine, but there´s an actual belief that they don’t actually fix the stuff that you wanted to be fixed. Charles says clearly that he will go to anyone who really believes that he can fix him! Charles is getting really serious about running, Jonh has solid advice on how to push through the fatigue that accumulates off all the training. It's really a difficult job to do the only way to do it its to have the mindset for it. John talks about the Pomodoro technique, It has been doing 10 Pomodoro a day, but the game c

We´re Live. The guys start the conversation with how Google gets so many apps on the run just to experiment with them, Wave or Google plus is just an example even Google Health, that are completely shut down right now. That just leads to knowing that sometimes google is out of their game, and this is happening much more. Chuck tells some good news to the guys, he´s now a host for 3 more podcast shows and some more business that he´s into, life is going pretty well for Chuck and he´s looking for advice with the guys. The first thing that they tell him is that he needs to take more action up front, hold the torch he´s on the perfect time and moment for this to happen. Thoughts of the week Josh – “ITS TIME TO TAKE UP FRONT ACTION”

We´re Live. Chuck starts the conversation about some emails that he had with some producers and involves John in the process, there was some type of complaint of how John is writing his emails, looks like he´s not giving much information away, chuck wanted feedback from the guys on this. Chuck asks some advice to Josh about a problem that he´s been having with deliverability to his subscribers there was a serious issue that he should have at least send an email to tech support (Wich he didn’t) because almost half of his subscribers were not receiving anything, had to reorganize everything and in the process lost quite a pack of subscribers. This is a really important topic for the guys, most of the business they conduct rely a lot on this email lists, all of the content and interaction goes through here , if this not taken care of, could be a game changer for the bad on any of the entrepreneurship they are doing, these are big numbers, so there´s lots of software that helps the guys with this. Thoughts of the

We´re Live. Mani wants some feedback on a video that changes his traffic with little details changed on it like changing the title and thumbnail, there was a huge difference in traffic and the guys are analyzing it. They´re not sure what actually happened, the various hypothesis is on but is a mystery still. They Go through all the changes you can make to a youtube video just to make sure what makes the dramatic uprise. The main concern is the tags, which actually it only leads the search engine to find the video, the guys agree that tags have no effect whatsoever, but Mani insists that the tags must do something, if not, why keep them? Youtube algorithm has changed a lot across the years, so it is essential to get up to date with this changes, your strategy can just plummet in a day if you don’t know what´s happening. John claims that Youtube is a neural network, they have enough data to take the decisions of which videos will be recommended in your feed and what not, the algorithm do changes every now then

We´re Live. Mani Talks to the guys about an email campaign about some new courses that he´s developing and looking for feedback on this especially from Josh who´s done this lots of times for Simple Programmer. The main topic in this conversation is that when your doing a campaign there are two ways to do it, build the products for a brand you´re already working on and be correlated to the brand or the product itself alone, this depends on how are you running things and what are the end results you are looking for. Mani talks about his entrepreneurship on book summaries and explain to the guys how this has become a great way to get a profit, but not only that, the knowledge and content that people are aware with this is tremendous and that´s what´s makes the difference between selling the book itself and the summary. Josh gives an example of a brand transition, this happened with Simple Programmer. John Message didn’t get through completely people got really confused with it at some point. Charles recommends t

We´re live. Mani talks with John about how he´s preparing to come back to his cycle of work, always a difficult thing to do especially when you have a long vacation. Mani is thinking about some launch that he wants to do, and his rambling on ideas. John Advice him to focus on the main plan, getting back to the cycle is crucial and focus is what he needs. The next item in hand for mani was to set the price point, critical issue because it is based on a lot of factors and can be the decisive point between getting amazing success and just blowing it all away. The most important factor in this is the value of the product. This can get really deep and dense especially when the product is expensive, setting the price point is based on the trust that the client has in it, there can be a lot of people that can pay high prices but not all of them are willing to do it because of that fact, there is no trust that the product will work for the client. Thoughts of the Week MANI – “ The Price Point is a crucial decision, i

We´re Live. Mani is back from his vacation, he reiterates how cheap it is to travel to Thailand and Bali. Although he had an amazing time and lots of fun, he was looking to work every day at least 4 hours but it becomes really difficult because he couldn’t find a proper place to work. He explains how difficult is to work and especially focus when the only space you have to work is a crappy desk, tried going to coffee shops but didn’t work either. Changing Hotels did the trick found some accommodations that a proper desk in the room and he could do at least 6 hours of work a day and still have lots of fun. Mani explains how important it is to really take a look at the expense and cost of time when you do something. Talks about a theory that says, if people would pay for the use of social media, how much will they pay? HE clearly says that people are already paying for social because the goal of social media is to catch your attention, they don’t sell content, they are consuming your time and attention which is

We´re Live. Chuck tells how ti went with the podcast booth. I manage to get a lot a business and a lot of sponsors, lots of contacts were made, which was the main goal for the booth, so incredibly great for Charles. The best thing about booth is that is movable, Charles is looking to get to the booth on many conferences as possible. Josh Gives some ideas and programs that Charles can have shows with. Python is on right now, its really really popular between programmers and is the actual niche, Charles agrees, he´s a bit surprised but its something that has been growing rapidly. John Charles about his running schedule. Charles tells him that he´s doing really good, that the main problem that he had was that, not that it hurt (Wich it didn’t ), it was that he felt completely bored doing it, its completely mind game to pass this barrier, cause the distances get longer. Thoughts of the week CHARLES – “All it matters is that you have the mental fortitude to keep going, whether you like it or not”

We´re Live. No Mani today, he´s on vacation in Thailand and Charles we are not sure where he is. So this is a Simple Programmer guys show. Guys talk about possible negotiations for the future of SP and a lot of people that are turning down because they don’t have a clue what they want or how to do anything even. There´s a pretty nice option in the table that can bring a lot of profit, but the guys need to talk to the person, there are funnels that work and are completely functional and proven to bring great profit, so they just need to get in sync. Python is making a lot of money these days, you can make six figures being a python freelancer, the guys are aiming this way. Guys talk about ads that were added to Facebook, and how they were not being really efficient. Thoughts of the week John – “Python Freelancers are making six figures, that´s amazing”

We´re Live. Mani starts telling the guys that he´s going on a trip to Thailand and wants to spend as many time as possible there. Charles wants to take this trip, also would like to travel the world, as an experience that´s definitely going to take a lot of time. Josh Asks the guys for some creative ideas to track facebook campaigns, he finds very limited the data that Facebook provides in order to check everything is in running smoothly or in the other case, find out where he went wrong and fix the problem. The guys recommend various ways to this, and they all agreed on one thing, they do not trust facebook in this cases, Josh has shown that in a lot of opportunities Facebook has taken credit for the sale on many occasions, this can create flaws and it makes it really difficult to track. Thoughts of the week “It is always best to take sales tracking in your own hand, you can't trust any software on this”

We´re Live. Guys start joking about John possibly having Mono, and Mani tells him that he´s pretty sure that he doesn’t have mono because mono is one most horrible experiences he´s had in his life. Apparently, he´s just tired. Mani is experimenting to find new stuff for his business to grow. He tells its really difficult to sell to other people audiences, but I can be seen as leverage when working as a team, this is happening with Josh and john. There are new promos that mani is trying but he´s not getting great results, compares numbers with Charles and gives some advice to boost the numbers. They talk about some software that is actually not helping get the goal. Sometimes experimenting with new stuff its not the best way to get to the finish line. Just need to make sure that the mistake it´s not a 200.000 $ one. Guys make the statement that show notes on podcast are not the best tool to promo a sale, but nevertheless, it should be done correctly in order to get more people to buy, it doesn’t matter if its

We´re Live, Guys start talking about that they´re finally taking down hangouts but going to keep youtube streaming. Charles is still traveling having meetings with the sponsors for the podcast shows. Also giving an anecdote about a podcast booth that he is mounting. John gives advice to Charles on who to work with, that he needs to start with small groups and little enterprises and go way up, that way is safe and a make a profit without going crazy. Besides, what you´re looking for is that they know you and eventually pay you to be at the conferences. Charles Talks about adding video to his format, but not entirely sure because his strong suit is audio. Josh Talks about paying taxes, an issue he has about a huge debt that he was due to a change of state, its basically a mess that he needs to sort out because this can catch him down and make a real problem of it. Thoughts of the week: JOHN –“THERE IS NO TAX LAW, THERE IS JUST TAX IMPLEMENTATION”

We´re Live. Charles starts sharing some good news that he´s got on the podcaster world, being super successful a looking for improvement. Lots of podcasters and sponsors want to work with Charles. Talks about some podcast show that have gone silent and had a great audience at one time wanting them to bring them back up. John Agrees with Charles, he´s going in the right direction. John Recommends that is a great idea to help other podcasters grow, and is a good business model with a great profit. Charles makes clear that he doesn’t want to control other podcasters or just tell them what to do, but instead put them in the right position for them go on forward themselves. The second edition of soft skills is a go, John explains that process wen really well based on how good the first one did. Also talks about the bulldog mindset membership that had some issues with the credit of some people. Nonetheless, exponential growth is predicted for this campaign. Thoughts of the week CHARLES - “I DON’T WANT TO BOX PEOPL