Jon Nastor's Hack the Entrepreneur

I don't just recommend Nexcess, I trust them with my website. My entire business depends on fast, secure hosting. Use Offer Code HACK60 to Get 60% Off For Your First 2 Months Visit: https://hacktheentrepreneur.com/go/hack60 My guest today is an impulsive writer, family man, and founder of three companies with two successful exits under his belt. Back in 2007, and while still in college, he founded what would become Woocommerce. After six years growing the company, we exited to start something new and exciting. The following year, he started Conversio. He grew this company and team until August 2019 when the company was acquired by Campaign Monitor. It was through his experience in building Conversio that he stumbled onto this idea of creating a business that could be life - and family - first. This idea become the foundation for his brand new book called Life Profitability: The New Measure of Entrepreneurial Success. Now, let's hack... Adii Pienaar.

To help you get started, as a special offer for our HTE listeners, visit https://Teachable.com/hack and enter your email for a free 7 step guide, walking you through the exact steps you can take to create your own online school and start making money   My guest today is a master of low-risk cash flow investing, structuring deals, and disciplined investment systems to consistently produce profitable results. His ethos is to create wealth without creating a job.   In the span of 21 months, and before his 40th birthday, Justin's investments created enough passive income for both he and his wife to leave their jobs. Following his simple investment system and 10 Commandments of Lifestyle Investing, Justin negotiated deals with over 100 companies, multiplied his net worth to over eight figures, and maintained a family-centric lifestyle in less than 2 years.   Justin is also the author of The Lifestyle Investor: The 10 Commandments of Cashflow Investing for Passive Income and Financial Freedom.   Now, let's hack...   Justin Donald.

To help you get started, as a special offer for our listeners, visit Teachable.com/hack and enter code HACK for 50% off your first 3 months on Teachable today! My guest today has been an entrepreneur for 25 years and has no plans to stop anytime soon. During his career, he has built multiple businesses in the UK, Germany, Poland, and the United States, and currently sits on the board as a director of three companies. His most successful venture has been Escape Fitness, which he cofounded in 1998. Since then he has grown the company from a small start-up idea into a world-renowned fitness equipment brand. Now, let's hack... Matthew Januszek.

To help you get started, as a special offer for our listeners, visit Teachable.com/hack and enter code HACK for 50% off your first 3 months on Teachable today! Learn more at Checkout.com/hack. You can download their free White Paper Report and learn how you can generate more growth through their payment platform. Back in the late 90s, my guest left his home in Australia to pursue his dream of working in Hollywood. He had no real plan, and up until that point, he had never left the country. But he took the leap and went after it. Today he works mainly as a VFX Supervisor and FX Technical Director in Hollywood. Some of the more recent projects I’ve worked on include Transformers 3, The Equalizer, Star Trek Into Darkness, and The Last Airbender. But he's also an entrepreneur who has sold hundreds of thousands of dollars in products and trainings. Early on in his career he began creating video tutorial to help other people learn visual effects, and eventually began selling products and services. Now, let's hack... Allan McKay.

To help you get started, as a special offer for our listeners, visit Teachable.com/hack and enter code HACK for 50% off your first 3 months on Teachable today! Learn more at Checkout.com/hack. You can download their free White Paper Report and learn how you can generate more growth through their payment platform. Bryan Clayton is a former lawn mower turned landscaping entrepreneur. Back in 1998, when Bryan was still in v college, he started mowing lawns on the side to make a little money. Not one to settle for a little success, he decided to turn his lawn mowing into Peach Tree Landscaping and he spent the next 14 years scaling it to a team of 150 and $10 million in revenue, until he sold and exited the company in 2014. Today Bryan is the CEO and Co-Founder of GreenPal, the Uber for lawn care, which he founded in 2014 and has grown to almost 200,000 active users and over $20 million in annual revenue. GreenPal is nationwide in the US and will soon be expanding into Canada. In this conversation, we discuss: Why you need to be willing to do things that don't scale Marketplace disintermediation (and what it means to Bryan as the CEO of GreenPal) How business is simply an extension of your day to day life Now, let's hack... Bryan Clayton.

Start building your better portfolio today!  Get started at Fundrise.com/hack to have your first 90 days of advisory fees waived. My guest today is blogger, food enthusiast, and entrepreneur. Along with her husband and business partner, they have created the Pinch of Yum and Food Blogger Pro. My guest spent the last five years teaching elementary school by day and blogging about food by night. She always went back and forth about becoming a full-time blogger, but in June 2014, she officially made the jump to living this crazy full-time-food-blogging dream. Now, let's hack… Lindsay Ostrom. In this episod,e Lindsay Ostrom and Jon Nastor discuss: Letting go of the scarcity mentality Accepting the tension of being an online entrepreneur The importance of setting timelines and goals in your business Taking actions on your ideas

Get 3 months of payroll, benefits admin, and more totally free at gusto.com/hack Start building your better portfolio today!  Get started at Fundrise.com/hack to have your first 90 days of advisory fees waived. One of the most popular pathways to entrepreneurship is taking a skill you possess and selling your services as a freelancer. Then if you do it right, you can sell enough work to hire other people to help you now you've got an agency! My guest today has successfully started, scaled, and sold several businesses. But for the past five years, he's been working on WIT Digital, a digital marketing agency that works exclusively with home services companies plumbers, electricians, and HVAC. The really interesting thing about Stephen's journey is that he has completely removed himself from the day-to-day operations of the agency. In fact, as you will hear, he only has one meeting per week with his management team. Now, let's hack... Stephen Christopher.

Start building your better portfolio today! Get started at Fundrise.com/hack to have your first 90 days of advisory fees waived. Get 3 months of payroll, benefits admin, and more totally free at gusto.com/hack My guest today is a Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, and 13x Bestselling Author. He's spent the past 30 years building businesses and has had four business exits, two to publicly-traded companies. His first company, Digital Cafe, he started in 1990, was one of the first digital marketing agencies in the world. Today, Mike Koenigs is the founder of The Superpower Accelerator, where he is known for being a media master who knows how to help his international clients get attention, create premium brands, and elevated status in days. In the words of Tony Robbins: Mike is an extraordinary man. He's brought me insights on how to reach people on the Internet that are so valuable. This is a man you should deal with. Take advantage of what he has to offer. Now, let's hack... Mike Koenigs.

Get 3 months of payroll, benefits admin, and more totally free at gusto.com/hack Grant Cordone is a New York Times bestselling author, international speaker, and obsessive entrepreneur. He's also one of my more confrontational guests it seems people either love him or they hate him. It also seems that he's completely fine with this. He currently owns five hugely successful companies, including a real estate company with over $400 million in property. He is also the founder of Cardone Acquisitions and Cardone Enterprises. Grant Cardone is the author of seven books. His book, Be Obsessed or Be Average, is a call to action for you to become obsessed with your life and business, or simply live an average life. It also made it onto our list of the best business books ever written Now, let's hack Grant Cardone.

Get 3 months of payroll, benefits admin, and more totally free at gusto.com/hack LinkedIn: Try it for yourself. LinkedIn is offering a free $100 LinkedIn ad credit to launch your first campaign. Simply visit LinkedIn.com/HACK. Tibor Laczay of Zenni Optical, is truly disrupting and transforming an industry fighting to retain its hold on the market -- and losing the battle. In 2013 with his wife and co-founder, they started in their garage with no outside funding of any sort and created what is now Zenni optical. If you are a glasses wearing individual like myself, then you've heard of and possibly purchased a pair of glasses or two from Zenni. Their growth has been staggering. As they celebrate 15 years in business, they are also celebrating selling 24 million pairs of glasses worldwide -- at a rate of 15,000 per day. What started in their garage, now has its headquarters in Novato, Calfornia, with nearly 1,000 employees worldwide -- including one of the largest end-to-end manufacturing facilities in the world. In this conversation we discuss: Why disruption is inevitable and you can't stop innovation How to ignore your competition (and leave them trailing behind) Why you should forget the money and follow an extreme passion Now, let's hack... Tibor Laczay.

Get 3 months of payroll, benefits admin, and more totally free at gusto.com/hack Try it for yourself. LinkedIn is offering a free $100 LinkedIn ad credit to launch your first campaign. Simply visit LinkedIn.com/HACK. Victoria Montgomery-Brown is the author of a brand new book called Digital Goddess, and CEO, and an entrepreneur who uses her anxiety to her advantage. Since 2007, Victoria has been the cofounder and CEO of Big Think, a media and education company focused on short-form, digital, and immediately actionable content. Most recently, she has written her first book called Digital Goddess: Unfiltered Lessons of a Female Entrepreneur. Now, let's hack... Victoria Montgomery-Brown.

Try it for yourself. LinkedIn is offering a free $100 LinkedIn ad credit to launch your first campaign. Simply visit LinkedIn.com/HACK. My guest today is a driven and strategic leader, creator, and mentor. Ross Kimbarovsky immigrated to the United States from the Ukraine in 1979. Following a 13 year career as a successful trial attorney, and then about 14 years ago Ross founded Crowdspring. He began his career as a trial attorney, where he successfully spent 13 years representing clients in intellectual property disputes. But back in 2006, he stumbled across an opportunity and turned his idea into a reality. For the past 14 years, he's been the founder and CEO of Crowdspring. Crowdspring has helped to democratize design around the world. Over 220,000 creatives from 195 countries have helped more than 60,000 of the world's best entrepreneurs, small businesses, startups, agencies, with logo, web, and graphic design. What began as an idea to scratch his own itch has turned into a pioneer and forerunner in the world of online design. Now, let's hack... Ross Kimbarovsky.

Try it for yourself. LinkedIn is offering a free $100 LinkedIn ad credit to launch your first campaign. Simply visit LinkedIn.com/HACK. Want to learn more about competitive analysis? Check out the Ahrefs blog or YouTube channel for step-by-step SEO tutorials. Plus, they have a 7-day trial for only $7. Head over to https://ahrefs.com to sign up now. Michael Lennox is the Founder and CEO of Electric Hospitality and ATLFAMILYMEAL. Electric Hospitality consists of three successful restaurant brands in Atlanta, Georgia. With a staff of 125, and two new restaurants ready to launch in two new and exciting markets, Covid and March 16, 2020 -- or what the restaurant industry in Atlanta calls black Monday -- hit. And everything changed. With the temporary closure of his restaurants, he took action the very next day, and founded ATLFAMILYMEAL with the mission to feed, nourish, and support hospitality workers experiencing food insecurity and joblessness. The initiative brings together a community of local chefs, restaurant owners, hospitality workers, and business/non-profit leaders to purchase, prepare, and deliver free meals to hospitality workers in need across the metro Atlanta area. Since launching, the organization has delivered nearly 100,000 meals to unemployed hospitality workers. With no one being paid and money running out, in August ATLFAMILYMEAL received a donation of $2 million from a local donor in honor of two Atlanta restaurant servers. This generous donation will enable them to continue supporting hospitality workers in Atlanta, grow its team, and adding new initiatives in the months and years ahead. Now, let's hack... Michael Lennox.

Get 3 months of payroll, benefits admin, and more totally free at gusto.com/hack You can either download the blueprint for free or sign up for the mass traffic blueprint course which at the moment is a huge 94% off! Go to masstrafficsecrets.com/specialoffer Tim Chatfield is an advocate for the sharing economy, savvy executive, and an entrepreneur. He was born in Australia, spent several years starting his career, before spending almost five years in Singapore as CEO of Viocorp. In mid-2016, with his 3-year-old daughter and wife – who was seven months pregnant at the time – moved to New York City to launch his company Jitjatjo. Now four years later, JitJatJo is a marketplace and platform leveraging artificial intelligence to instantly and accurately match hospitality businesses with vetted industry workers on demand. 2020 and all that has thrown at us has caused all businesses to adapt and change to the new normals as they come, and JitJatJo's place within the hospitality industry exacerbated their need to adapt and change quickly. Now, let's hack... Tim Chatfield.

Want to learn more about competitive analysis? Check out the Ahrefs blog or YouTube channel for step-by-step SEO tutorials. Plus, they have a 7-day trial for only $7. Head over to https://ahrefs.com to sign up now. A couple of years ago, my guest decided that she was through with working for digital agencies that didn't have their clients best interests in mind. But she had developed some serious marketing skills and loved helping clients succeed, so she decided to go out on her own. For the past two years, she has been working as an independent consultant and social media educator. She has done all of this while also taking care of her children -- which gives her only three to four hours a day to work on the business. In this episode, we discuss: How to prioritize your time to maximize your results Why marketing yourself can be the hardest marketing to do well Why social media is not about ROI   Now, let's hack... Danielle Welch.

Try it for yourself. LinkedIn is offering a free $100 LinkedIn ad credit to launch your first campaign. Simply visit LinkedIn.com/HACK. About three years ago, my guest was working in his family-run ecommerce business, when a thought struck him, why isn't there a simple service to hire writers to write articles? Using what he likes to call "decision velocity", he jumped on the idea and took action. Today he is a co-founder and head of marketing at Content Cucumber, where they simplify content creation and enable companies to get content on demand. In this interview, we discuss: The true value of having cofounders in business Covid: And sudden shift from in-person event marketing to driving leads with paid ads How to use shiny object syndrome to your advantage Now, let's hack... Chris Chasteen.

Want to learn more about competitive analysis? Check out the Ahrefs blog or YouTube channel for step-by-step SEO tutorials. Plus, they have a 7-day trial for only $7. Head over to https://ahrefs.com to sign up now. My guest today is an advisor, board member to nonprofits, and a purpose-driven entrepreneur. Grant is CEO and Founder of OnlineDegree.com. He founded the company in 2016 with a purpose-driven mission to make higher education more accessible and affordable for everyone, and six years later they are well on their way. Grant has spent his entire career working in startups with nearly 15 years of experience. Now, let's hack... Grant Aldrich.

Try it for yourself. LinkedIn is offering a free $100 LinkedIn ad credit to launch your first campaign. Simply visit LinkedIn.com/HACK. My guest today is a serial entrepreneur and innovator, who has followed her passion and her heart while building several successful businesses. She began her journey in the herbs and herbal tea industry in the early 1970s and has designed award-winning herbal beverages for top tea companies including The Republic of Tea, Yogi Tea Company, Uncle Lee’s Tea, and Organic India. 25 years ago, she started a company and set out to create a caffeine-free herbal cappuccino, and in this she created Teeccino, now America’s top selling coffee alternative. Now, let's hack... Caroline MacDougall. Teecino.com

Want to learn more about competitive analysis? Check out the Ahrefs blog or YouTube channel for step-by-step SEO tutorials. Plus, they have a 7-day trial for only $7. Head over to https://ahrefs.com to sign up now. My guest today is a growth engineer, investor, advisor, author, and serial entrepreneur who has had seven successful exits. Travis currently serves as the CEO of GrowFlow – an industry-leading, venture-backed suite of software products for companies in the cannabis industry. As CEO, he leads the vision and strategy of this fast-growing team of 60. Although he's been building, scaling, and successfully exiting businesses for the past 12 years, he started his career in 2008 as a professional online poker in 2008. Using some of the same skills that made him successful at the poker table have translated well for him in his entrepreneurial journey. He is also the author of Viral Hero, where he not only dispels the myths of viral marketing but also provides you with a proven playbook for creating explosive growth through marketing. Now, let's hack... Travis Steffen.

To start your 14-day Trends trial for just $1, go to Trends.co/hack My guest today had a dream to change the way consumers shop. A dream to build a brand that would help people make buying decisions based on peer endorsements, not just advertising. In 2007, that dream became Parent Tested Parent Approved, a seal of approval used by thousands of brands across North America and one of the most respected in the industry. Sharon has used the power of network television to grow her business, and has been featured on more than 200 shows. Now, let's hack... Sharon Vinderine.