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174 – 23 years of being funny: Tom interviews Ron Culberson

Ron Culberson ranks in the top 30 of his wife's favorite speakers. He's a funny guy. He's worked as a hospice social worker, a middle manager, and director of quality improvement at Hospice of Northern Virginia. He was also the 2012/2013 President of the National Speakers Association. That's a prestigious organization. And he was recently inducted into that organization's Speaker Hall of Fame, that is the highest award you can get in the professional speaking industry.

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173 – She’s a Knockout: Tom interviews Diane DiResta

Diane DiResta is a certified speaking professional. She is founder of DiResta Communications Inc and author of Knockout Presentations. As a speaking strategist, Diane brings over 20 years as a communications expert and speech pathologist. Her company works with Fortune 500 companies. She media trains, sports and entertainment, celebrities and coaches C level executives how to exude executive presence.

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172 – Theories I live by: Tom talks My Theories

After being in business for many years, I started to notice certain principles that by living by them, they seemed to create more success for me. Then I started telling them to my mentees and they seemed to have more success when they adhered to them. And over time, these principles seem like they were totally solid and worthy of memorializing, which I did by making posters of them and hanging them on the wall of my school. And now in this episode, I guess I'm memorializing them in a little different way.

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171 – He Flunked Retirement: Tom interviews Steve Epner

Steve Epner is a serial entrepreneur. He teaches lean canvas and also corporate entrepreneurship, and ideas at St. Louise University and Washington University. And after selling his company, he flunked out of retirement. I know we usually bring great entrepreneurs, but he flunked retirement. Then he became an entrepreneur in residence at Boeing.

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170 – He drove a school bus at 16 years of age: Tom interviews Ben Brooks

Ben Brooks is an international speaker, management consultant, and he was one of the first African-Americans to enlist in the Pennsylvania State Police rising to the rank of Major. He defies the typical stereotype of the hardened state trooper. He can be very serious when the situation demands it or he can be very warm and caring when it's appropriate. Through personal anecdotes, humor, charm, passion and his highly energized, interactive style, Ben is able to convey the most serious of messages.

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169 – Make Hobbies Tax Deductible: Tom talks Hobbies

This is going to be one of the shortest podcasts I've done, but really, really powerful for people out there that they're in business or thinking about it or they just want to enjoy their life and get tax deductions for it. That's what we're going to talk about.

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168 – He follows the sun: Tom interviews Frank Furness

Frank Furness is a CSP. That's a very high designation in the professional speaking world. And he's a best selling author and international sales and technology speaker. He travels between his homes in London, Spain and Florida, and he's presented in 65 countries. He's the regular speaker at Entrepreneurs University and his clients include the British Olympic Team, Sporting Champions and Sport England.

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167 – Eight year old magician rocks the LA Times: Tom interviews Judy Carter

Judy Carter was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey after writing her first book, Stand Up Comedy, The Book. And Judy went from playing Vegas as a headlining standup comic to becoming an in demand corporate speaker. And she speaks on the power of purpose to overcome stress and navigate change. And she was featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNN, as well as being a frequent contributor to NPR's All Things Considered.

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166 – Leasing Commercial Space: Tom talks Leasing Space

Now, of course, I think you're thinking that this topic seems like it is totally against my podcast title of “Screw the Commute”. I really want you working out of your home, but there are times when you need commercial space. Hey, I have a school where I leased commercial space, but I hardly ever go there unless we are having an event or an inspection by the State, so I have not violated my vow of always working from my home.

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165 – Your Wingman: Tom interviews Waldo Waldman

Lieutenant Colonel Rob Waldo Waldman. He's a CSP. That's an accolade in the speaking industry. He's a CPAE. That's the highest award anybody can get in the speaking industry and he's an MBA. He's called the wingman. He's a Hall of Fame leadership speaker, executive coach and author of The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Never Fly Solo.

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164 – He lasted 45 minutes at his corporate job: Tom interviews James Feldman

Jim Feldman is a globally recognized transformation growth advisor and business advisor who's guided leading organizations such as Toyota, AT&T, Apple, Hyatt, Walt Disney, Ritz Carlton and Microsoft to ensure that shift happens, which is one of his trademarks. Incentive magazine recognized him as one of the top six innovators in the last century, along with the founders of Google and Dell Computer.

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162 – Her clients love her: Tom interviews Christine Kloser

Christine Kloser is The Transformational Author, coach, and she's trained more than 70,000 coaches, entrepreneurs, and leaders to write their transformational books through her popular programs. Get your books done with the Transformational Author Experience breakthrough live and the My Time to Write mentorship program.

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161 – Stealth Webinar 2.0: Tom interviews Geoff Ronning

Geoff Ronning is co-founder of StealthSeminar.com and founder of Webinar Prosperity Blueprint. That's webinar training. And I have used his service for five years or more. And it's made me a fortune and continues. There's probably money rolling in right now from automated webinars that are running while I'm talking to Geoff. Now he has the front row seat and an advisory role to webinars that are running around the world.

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160 – The tools I use to run my business: Tom talks My Resources

I’m going to tell you about the myriad of resources, both services and products, I use to run my business. And full transparency here, I may get affiliate commission on some of these things, but you can be darn sure I won’t recommend anything that sucks just to get a commission. I’m not going to ruin my reputation for a few bucks. I’m also going to tell you about a bunch of the free and paid resources that I’ve created.

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159 – From secretary to CEO: Tom interviews Mary Agnes Antonopoulos

Mary Agnes Antonopoulos has a client list that reads like the Who's Who. And she's created successful marketing and copywriting campaigns for clients like Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street and JJ Virgin and some of the chicken soup people. And thousands of others. And she teaches what works and how to work it.

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158 – He made Bill Gates look bad: Tom interviews Jack Turk

Jack Turk has decades of experience writing for corporations like Microsoft and Kodak, as well as a number of small businesses, including dentists, attorneys. Hey, even magicians. His copy has generated millions of dollars in sales, and he's now known as the world's fastest copywriter.

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157 – Are meetings worth it?: Tom talks Team Meetings

Today’s topic is the value of team meetings. I really didn’t use them until the last five years or so. As I look back, that was a stupid mistake in my business. Yes, I’ve done very well, but what I finally realized was that everyone that worked for me was working pretty much on their own. There was no real coordination. Now that I know better, that was terribly inefficient and I can’t imagine how much money I’ve blown over the years because of this inefficiency.

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156 – Get Tons of Podcast Interviews: Tom interviews Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann is a niche marketing expert. He founded podcastguests.com. It's a service that connects podcasters with guests for their shows. He's also publisher of Domain Name Wire. It's a trade publication for the domain name business that has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, NPR, and many more.

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155 – The Queen of Facebook: Tom interviews Mari Smith

Often referred to as the queen of Facebook, Mari Smith is considered one of the world's foremost experts on Facebook marketing and social media. She is a Forbes top social media power influencer. She's the author of The New Relationship Marketing and co-author of Facebook marketing an hour a day. Forbes recently described Mari as the pre-eminent Facebook expert. I mean even Facebook asks her for help.

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153 – Academia meets Entrepreneurship: Tom interviews Cheryl Lentz

Dr. Cheryl Lentz is a multi award winning publisher of the internationally acclaimed series The Refractive Thinker. It's a collaboration of doctoral scholars from around the world and it's earned 20 awards so far. Now Dr. Cheryl is known as the academic entrepreneur. You don't see those two together often. She's known globally for her writings on leadership as well as critical and Refractive thinking as an accomplished University professor speaker and consultant.

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152 – Speakers bureau owner and prolific marketer: Tom interviews Frank Candy

Frank Candy is a popular author, speaker, business culture expert and business consultant. He's worked with Disney and Harley Davidson and Goodyear and probably a lot more than that. Frank is the founder and president of American Speakers Bureau Corporation. They book professional speakers, authors, athletes, hey even astronauts, all over the world for keynote speeches seminars and workshops.

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151 – Set yourself apart from the competition: Tom talks Starting a For Profit School

When I started my school, the Internet Marketing Training Center, I worked on it for about three years part time. Now my intention on this episode is to get you to the point where if you worked on it really hard you could have a school open in about six months to a year, fully certified by the state where you reside.

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150 – The Diabetes Doctor: Tom interviews Dr. Jeff Hockings

Dr. J. Murray Hockings has been an entrepreneur for twenty eight years and he's currently the CEO and founder of Help Your Diabetes, which is a diabetes reversal company with 15 locations throughout the U.S. and plans for 50 by the end of this year. He's given over 275 presentations over the past five years in six countries and he is known as the world's number one diabetes reversal Doctor.

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149 – Mr. America bench presses our show: Tom interviews Tom Terwilliger

Tom Terwilliger is equal parts athlete, entrepreneur, and motivator. And five years after pulling himself from the world of drug and alcohol abusing outlaw bikers, Tom's “never give up” attitude, determination, and willingness to sweat has earned him a national bodybuilding championship. He is and was Mr. America and he had a successful 16 year career as a Fox Sports Net TV show host.

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148 – Breakthrough Growth for your biz: Tom talks Advisory Boards

Advisory boards. Now, the one difference this episode is going to have as opposed to my other Monday training sessions is that normally my training sessions is about something that is either made me or saved me a lot of money over a long period of time. This episode is different in that I'm right in the middle of implementing the idea that you're going to hear today and I haven't made any money on it yet. However I expect to and it's a good solid idea used by many small businesses.

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147 – He makes technology easy: Tom interviews Terry Brock

Are you overwhelmed with the new gadgets and gizmos that hit the market on a regular basis? I know I am. I know my cell phone. I tried to get the kaching sound on it because I'm known as the king of kaching and I figured to take me all day, and if you passed it off to someone like Terry, it's on there in like two seconds. So this is the guy that helps us not go crazy with these all these gadgets and gizmos that come around.

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146 – Everyone wants to steal this lady’s ideas: Tom interviews Jane Ubell

Jane Ubell is an award winning entrepreneur and former TV and film producer. Her credits include Good Morning America, Wall Street Journal TV, E.T. and lots of others. In 2017, Jane founded Bedside Reading, one of the most innovative author marketing programs in the world. Bedside reading places books by the bedsides in luxury hotels and in the media the hotel brands. Waldorf Astoria, Mandarin Oriental, The Fairmont and many others.

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145 – Simple skills = big money: Tom talks Business Skills That Rock

If you are expecting me to espouse some high-level business school theory, you are wrong and in the wrong place. I’m going to tell you about some simple and easy-to-implement skills that can have an extremely powerful effect on your business. I thought I would take a completely different approach than I ever have before on these podcasts.

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144 – Drinking & Smoking Cigars earned $600K for Charity: Tom interviews Ed Rigsbee

Ed Rigsbee is one of a select and very few people on the planet to hold both a CSP and a CAE. He has been a professional member of the National Speakers Association since 1988 and was awarded the certified speaking professional. Ed is the ROI guy. He's obsessed with helping organizations to give and receive more return on investment in everything that they do. He's recognized internationally on the topics of strategic alliance development and membership growth.

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143 – He does what he loves every day: Tom interviews Tomaz Mencinger

Tomaz Mencinger has been living the dream doing stuff with volleyball as a professional, virtually professional, volleyball coach. And then he just loves everything to do with sports and balls and he took up tennis part time and then just fell in love with it. And for 25 years he's been making his full time living for him and his lovely wife with tennis. And it's called feeltennis.net.

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142 – How to Create a Quality Podcast: Tom talks In Front of the Scenes

Podcasting in front of the scenes. Last week we had Larry Guerrera on. He’s an IMTC graduate who did so well in school I hired him as a contractor. He went into depth on what goes on behind the scenes at a quality podcast. That was episode 139. In this episode, I’m going to tell you about everything I do before Larry gets the final mp3 file that you all listen to.

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141 – She sings, dances and WOW’s ’em around the World: Tom interviews Lynn Rose

She is known as the WoW maker. Lynn Rose is an award winning media and marketing entrepreneur and speaking consultant for executives and experts, and CEO of the Power to Wow. In front of the scenes you've seen her on CBS ABC NBC Sony, films and other media. Behind the scenes she works with CEOs celebrities and thought leaders to help bring out their wow when they speak, pitch or perform in their business.

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140 – From Dumpster to Dynasty: Tom interviews Annie Meehan

Annie Meehan is an international motivational speaker based out of the Minneapolis area. She's published five books, three workbooks, and won a national award. She's the president of the National Speakers Association chapter in Minnesota and Annie was a 12 year Snap Fitness franchise owner. Annie loves inspiring people to live an exceptional life in the office, in their homes, and communities.

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139 – We pull the curtain back on “Screw the Commute”: Tom talks Behind the Scenes

Quality podcasting “behind the scenes”. Larry Guerrera is here and he's the guy behind now about 140 episodes of Screw the Commute. And in the beginning, it was kind of a learning process of how this all worked to get our show notes to show up properly and make connections with all the major podcast directories. And also next week on episode 142 I'll be doing the companion episode on what goes on in front of the scenes before I ever turnover the final MP3 file to Larry.

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138 – From the Bronx to the Boardroom: Tom interviews Simma Lieberman

Simma Lieberman creates inclusive cultures where people love to do their best work and customers love to do business. She's a consultant, speaker, and author, and Simma produces and hosts the podcast Everyday Conversation on Race for Everyday People at www.raceconvo.com.

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137 – She’s passionate about WHAT?: Tom interviews Bobbi Olson

Bobbi Olson became a Budget Coach thanks to a phobia of driving. So dealing with the Orange County Metro Traffic, that's in California, required the perfect distraction which led to an education on budgeting through books on tape. Now I'm gonna figure this out. That she was afraid of driving so she always rode or she was driving and learning budgeting at the same time. I don't know. We'll find out, but it really changed her life creating a passion for budgeting.

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136 – Tom’s favorite software for 20 years: Tom talks Screen Capture Video

Screen capture video is something that I’m pretty sure you’ll want to embrace after you see all the cool stuff it will do for your business. And the very last segment is how I make really big money with it. Most people understand a basic screen capture. That’s where you pretty much take a picture of what’s displayed on your screen. You can even do it on cell phones by pressing a certain button combination. That’s not what I’m talking about here. It’s similar, but definitely not the same.

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135 – International Intrigue: Tom interviews Gene Ehmann

Gene Ehmann worked in law enforcement for 17 years which included many years as a special agent with the FBI. Now in the private sector, he's provided investigation executive protection and security for individuals and international corporations both domestically and internationally in Asia the Middle East and Latin America. He specializes in providing vetted connections for businesses in Latin America. And he's an expert in travel security and a certified firearms and personal defense tactics instructor.

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134 – Faith based business is her specialty: Tom interviews Maryann Ehmann

Maryann Ehmann is a former prosecuting attorney, financial adviser and ministry leader. Maryann combines her diverse expertise and life experience to bring you magnificent love coaching. She was recently invited into the Forbes Coaches Council and Maryann is passionate about helping spiritually inclined business owners bust through their limiting patterns, so they can fulfill their dreams and soar in their calling.

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133 – Paid traffic is the way to go: Tom talks Ad Tracking & Split Testing

This is how people get rich. If you put 10 ads out on the Internet and only one of those was bringing in paying customers, wouldn’t you want to know which ad that was? Well, today’s episode, about ad tracking and split testing, is going to teach you how to get those exact answers so you can maximize the sales from everything you do and minimize the losses from ads and promotions that aren’t working.

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132 – Protocol is her game: Tom interviews Jacqueline Whitmore

Jacqueline Whitmore is an international etiquette expert, a certified speaking professional, and the founder of the Protocol School of Palm Beach. She's also the author of Poised for Success mastering the four qualities that distinguished outstanding professionals, and Business Class Etiquette Essentials for Success at Work. Jacqueline's etiquette advice is sought by radio and television shows around the world including 20/20, CNN, Fox News, National Public Radio, and CNBC.

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SYE2 – From Bible College to Boardroom: Tom interviews Ashley Monk

Ashley Monk is an up and coming entrepreneur in the Indianapolis area that's been in the marketing game for roughly two years. But in four months, she's laid the foundation to begin establishing her own digital marketing agency and with a background in ministry. She's an example of how grit, discipline, and ambition trump formal education as she paves a new way for herself and others. She's also enrolled in our school and we're really glad to have her.

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131 – She knows how to manage time: Tom interviews Robyn Pearce

Even though solopreneurs and work from home folks have freedoms our office bound friends envy, many of them still say they struggle with time. And our guest today, Robyn Pearce, works with clients around the world helping them win their time battles. And she's got a bunch of practical time tips to help us find more time to enjoy our screw the commute lifestyle.

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130 – Keywords Revisited: Tom talks Voice Search

This episode is to open your eyes to something that’s going on all around you and most likely you are participating in, in some fashion and that’s voice search. So, what is Voice Search? Well, very simply, that’s where you talk into a device and it returns the results orally. The device could be in your hand, on your wrist, the dashboard of your car, or a device sitting on your counter at home. The big players are Apple Siri, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and to a lesser extent Microsoft Cortana.

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128 – The Dental Market loves this Guy: Tom interviews Jeffrey Palmer

Jeff Palmer is the founder of Case Acceptance Academy, which specializes in training dental offices and their teams how to increase their case acceptance. Now case acceptance means he teaches dentists and their teams a hyper effective and systematic method to ethically sell dentistry in a way that increases their revenue and profit and simultaneously creates an amazing patient experience and I've seen some of his training and I have to say some of his tips would work for any of our businesses.

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127 – Get top rankings fast: Tom talks Paid Traffic

I made a major shift in my strategy. It’s just not worth the time and effort anymore and for most people they could chase top rankings for a year or more and never get one. Not only did you lose all the time and money chasing the top rankings, you lost the sales you could have had during all that time. It’s long past the time when people penny pinch and think they can just write some good blog posts and have traffic pouring into their website. You have to do so much now to even have a chance of any success.

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125 – From rough beginnings to top coach: Tom interviews Heather Parady

Heather works with multiple brands on their content marketing strategy. She helps them build systems and processes to produce more consistent and effective online content, resulting in more leads for their business. She's the host of the Unconventional Leaders podcast. It airs three times a week where she speaks with leaders from all over the world who are making an impact through their business or organizations.

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124 – Mentor others for fun and profit: Tom talks How to Start a Mentor Program

How to Make a Fortune with a Mentor program. I prefer the term “mentor”. A mentor is a trusted advisor. In Greek mythology, Mentor was a trusted advisor to Odysseus. I’d rather be a trusted advisor than a coach and I think it would serve you better because of the reasons I outline about the market being flooded with worthless coaches. Just something to think about.

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123 – Prolific author with 27 books to her credit: Tom interviews Rebecca Morgan

Rebecca Morgan is an international keynote speaker, trainer, consultant and award winning and money making blogger. She produces income producing webinars and teleseminars. Two of her twenty seven books have sold more than two hundred and fifty thousand copies. She's been on and in international media such as Oprah, 60 minutes, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, NPR, and many more.

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122 – Deal or No Deal Star: Tom interviews Patricia Kara

Patricia Kara has been working in the entertainment business for over 30 years as an actress model spokesperson and television personality. This year, she is returning to primetime television on the New Deal or No Deal, airing on CNBC. Her career has included NBC's Deal or No Deal primetime and daytime editions. She's been on America's Got Talent, Extra, Fox Movie Channel, and People Magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People.

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121 – Going Super Viral: Tom talks Quizzes

The first thing I want you to realize is that you shouldn’t write quizzes off as silly, non-sense entertainment devices. Quizzes are serious lead, brand awareness and cash generators for many businesses, so pooh poohing them is not in your best interest. There’s three big reasons we do quizzes. One is list building, two is sales and three is getting new people to hear about us, commonly called “brand awareness”.

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120 – Her fast food experience is really paying off: Tom interviews Rose Haller

Rose is CCO of Restaurant Employee Safety. She was an H.R. manager for a 12 unit fast food franchise and Rose's restaurant safety program lowered the franchise's worker comp multiplier from 1.1315, and then it went to 0.9535, then 0.7014 and finally to 0.6. That year, the franchise earned a 40 percent claim free discount, which saved the company a hundred and eighty nine thousand dollars. So she's gonna give you the details of what all this stuff means.

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119 – She started as a foreigner with nothing: Tom interviews Patricia Fripp

Patricia Fripp is a CSP and CPAE. And that's a Hall of Fame keynote speaker. She's an executive speech coach, sales presentation skills trainer and an online learning expert. And companies hire Patricia when they want to gain a competitive edge by mastering conversations and presentations. Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine wrote that one of the best investments you can make is to learn presentation skills from Patricia Fripp.

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118 – This is where the money is online: Tom talks Broadcast Email

Let's talk about the forms of broadcast e-mail. I started out with a newsletter called Great Speaking, which was directed towards professional public speakers. Now this was a long time ago, folks. My mindset didn't support a regular output of these newsletters on a certain day every week. I just put it out whenever I had enough to say. I'm just more of a random guy. I mean I refuse to be held to a certain schedule. Now with this podcast, I learned that having a regular schedule grows your audience faster.

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117 – A divorce changed her life: Tom interviews Gina St George

Gina St. George began her career as a chemical engineer and designed manufacturing processes. She moved to business process design and was assigned to troubled business areas that she turned around and grew them by sometimes up to seven times. But after burning out on corporate life, she became a partner in a small business and learned that the reason small business owners are overworked and have a hard time scaling their business is that they lack the systems and processes that she's so good at creating.

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116 – His starter was a barter: Tom interviews Andy Sokol

Andy Sokol is an entrepreneur, speaker, author, and client retention expert. He started his business in 1995 and he still has customers today from his first year in business. In 2003, he started a second business and he sold it to a multinational company in 2015 because they wanted his customer relationships. Then he wrote a book on client retention, and he now speaks all over the country helping entrepreneurs grow their business by retaining their clients and getting more referrals.

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115 – Control spam coming and going: Tom talks Spam Control

There are three different kinds of spam I’m going to discuss on this episode: 1) Keeping out of spam filters when you send broadcast email. Email still is the biggest moneymaker so it behooves you to get the darn things delivered. 2) Reducing spam coming to your email inbox, however in some cases I’m going to encourage you to get more spam. YIKES! I know that freaks you out, but when you see what I mean, you’ll understand that what I’m proposing is a good thing & 3) Dealing with spam comments on your blog.

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114 – World’s Greatest Copywriting Coach: Tom interviews David Garfinkel

David Garfinkel is a best selling author of Breakthrough Copywriting and he's known as the world's greatest copywriting coach. Before he escaped the clutches of corporate life, he was McGraw-Hill World News' San Francisco bureau chief. And today he helps people like you write ads that bring sales to your business.

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113 – A Really Big Thinker: Tom interviews Yanik Silver

Yanik Silver really redefines how business is played in the 21st century. He's at the intersection of more profits, more fun and more impact. He's the author of several best selling marketing books and tools, including Maverick Startup, Instant Sales Letters and Evolved Enterprise. He's also the founder of Maverick 1000, the global collective of top entrepreneurs and industry innovators who assemble for breakthrough retreats, rejuvenating experiences and giving forward opportunities.

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112 – Make a Fortune Using Contests: Tom talks Contests

Contests are great for many things like list building, brand awareness, and even selling products. What’s also great is there are many built in features a contest has to help you go viral and get free traffic. Unlike a quiz, which I’ll cover in another episode, quizzes could potentially keep running forever. A contest usually has a start date and an end date. This is a built-in scarcity factor that causes people to take action and join before the deadline.

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111 – He’s made a long career out of talking: Tom interviews Jim Barber

In 2019, Jim Barber is celebrating his fortieth year as an entrepreneur. In the past 40 years, Jim's done many things he'll tell us about. But the common thread in everything he's done, and I love this because it's the way I live, is that he's always had a good time. Now, screwing the commute isn't for everybody, but it's definitely for Jim Barber.

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110 – Be Funny Make Money: Tom interviews Jeff Justice

Jeff Justice hasn't had a real job since 1981 yet he has a 3000 square foot house in a prestigious Buckhead Community in Atlanta Georgia. He's traveled the world and he doesn't really need to work another day for the rest of his life. But the money is too good and too easy to turn it down. After getting screwed over multiple times by the system. Jeff developed the motto most amount of money for the least amount of time but always make it fun. Jeff are you ready to screw. The commute.

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109 – Ya Gotta Protect Yourself: Tom talks Insurance

The exciting topic of business Insurance. Well it might not be that exciting to talk about, but if you don’t have it, and even if you do, things can get exciting real fast when someone makes a claim about your business, or your business is involved even remotely in doing damage to someone or someone’s property.

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108 – One of the top 100 motivational speakers: Tom interviews Dov Baron

Dov Baron was twice cited as one of Inc Magazine's top 100 leadership speakers to hire. He's also cited in the meetings and event professional's guide to the top 100 motivational speakers and named one of the top 30 global leadership gurus. Now Dov is a man with a finger on the pulse of the evolving world of next gen leadership. He's the best selling author of several books, and his latest book is Fiercely Loyal – How High Performing Companies Develop and Retain Top Talent.

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107 – Learn about creating systems in your business: Tom interviews Mark S A Smith

Mark S. A. Smith is the guy I met decades ago when he was writing business books with Jay Conrad Levinson. And for those of you that don't know, that was Mr. Guerrilla Marketing. And now 14 books later, Mark works with executives to hone their mindset, skill set and tool set to run a sustainable, scalable, profitable and saleable company.

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106 – A bunch of ways to finance your “Real” business: Tom talks Side Hustles

This episode is not going to simply give you a list of a bunch of side hustles. There are tons of those lists online. I’m going to tell you how to approach a side hustle from a multimillionaire’s point of view and how you can get rich “from” side hustles not from “doing” side hustles. At least not doing them forever just to scrape by. In the Internet age, side hustles can include online businesses, but I’m going to take a little different attitude about this.

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105 – He’s the “Magic Man”: Tom interviews Dean Hankey

Dean Hankey is a marketing magician and a people pro and he is a speak-tacular entertainer and implementer. Dean will speak, teach, preach and nag you on the million dollar money making marketing magic secrets. He's got 40 years as a passionate, proven profit producing, here we go again, professional entrepreneur, mentor, business author, radio and TV host.

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104 – She’s the “Empress of PR”: Tom interviews Wendy Kurtz

Wendy Kurtz is the founder and president of Elizabeth Charles Associates LLC, a public relations firm that specializes in helping executives become published authors and paid speakers. And she's an accredited professional. Wendy has been helping people develop and deliver marketing and communication messages efficiently and effectively for more than 25 years.

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Special Edition – Be a New Collar Worker: Higher Education Exposed

This is a special edition of the Screw the Commute podcast. I call it Higher Education Exposed How Colleges and Universities are robbing you. This is the audio track off a webinar I did about this same topic. Vocational education used to be only for second tier students who couldn't make it academically. Well, that has changed dramatically in the past few years. In fact, CNBC said vocational education is preparing students for the 21st century workforce.

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103 – Simple video editing skills can save you a fortune: Tom talks Basic Video Editing

I’m here to give you some tips to save a ton of money by doing some of the simple editing yourself, and making you aware of some of the rules of video, you probably never heard of, that can mess up your final video. Also, make absolutely sure you listen to episode 088 on how to make a $50,000.00 video about you and your company for only pennies on the dollar.

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102 – Lifelong Real Estate Entrepreneur: Tom interviews Nathalie Mullinix

Nathalie Mullinix has worn every hat in the real estate industry for over thirty three years. Her passion is being a change agent. She started with creating real estate menu systems in 1994, which was way ahead of her time. Her real estate teaching supports many small mom and pop brokerages and allows Realty Universal to donate and serve the much needed areas. She is passionate about starving children and wounded adults.

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