Today, I'm going to talk about presentation practice methods. It turns out this week is going to be about presentations, maybe a little bit next week, too. We'll see. But these methods will keep you on track even if an earthquake happens during your presentation.
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Today, we're going to talk about attention gaining devices. What the heck does that mean, Tom? Well, I did the intro to bomb proofing for your presentations and speeches when you have to do them to make sure that everything goes good. So I got such good feedback on that. I said, okay, well, maybe I'll do this week on presentation skills and and things. I'm not trying to make you professional speakers unless you want to be, but any time you have to do this or you need to do this, you want to make the best of it as you possibly can. So today we're going to talk about attention gaining devices. This is the whole basis of my Wake 'em Up speaking system.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. Sometimes you have to do a presentation either at work or to promote your business or something like that. Or maybe you like speaking and you want to improve on it. So this is going to be an introduction to bomb proofing. This is why no matter where I speak, I never, ever, ever bomb. And there's a lot of money on the line when I go, so I can't take any chances here. But this stuff will help you in all your presentations.
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Today, I'm going to give you ten tips in ten minutes, all on pretty much entrepreneur stuff.
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I'm here with Kris Safarova, and this is one prolific woman, let me tell you. And this one thing I got to ask her about this. She's co-chief executive officer of one of her companies and I'd never heard of such a thing having two CEOs. I think if I was going to do that, if anything good happen, I'd take the blame for it. And if the bad happened, I'd blame it on the other guys. I don't know how that works. And also, she's got an upcoming summit called The Author to Profit. I have been asked and very humbled to be part of it, so I'm looking forward to that coming up in October. And she is herself is a multiple bestselling author. And listen to this. She's a concert pianist at 13 years old. And then this other thing, she claims to be a professional immigrant. I don't know what that is either, but today she's going to talk and give us some real tips on authoring and writing. And I really loved one of her postings about six sources to knowledge, and I want to go over that with her.
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Today, I'm going to do one of my Question and Answer sessions. I do these periodically when questions start building up. So that's what we'll do today.
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I'm here with Brigitta Hoeferle and she is educating and inspiring others from the heart. She's got degrees in marketing communication and this is, you know, I'm from the other side of the tracks. This is social pedagogy. That's way above my pay grade right there. That word and education. She's a highly qualified and professional international speaker. And today she's going to be talking about listening, communication, NLP and the laws of success.
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I'm here with Ali The Professor, and we'll have to ask him where the professor part came from when we bring him on. We're going to cover a lot of things about podcasting and mental health, which I'm kind of afraid of asking a mental health expert about my mental health. So we'll get into storytelling and a lot of interesting stuff.
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Today, we're going to talk about QR codes. I'm kind of revisiting this topic I did a couple years ago. Now, these codes are simple to create and can make it a lot easier for people to do business with you.
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I'm here all the way from London with Saeed El Jammal. I met him on another podcast and we had a blast on that thing. He is a dynamic podcaster with a passion for humanitarian work and global affairs.
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I'm here with Jay Aigner and this guy started a software testing company in his basement, and he also has a cool morning routine.
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Today, we're going to talk about an introduction to Threads, the new social media platform tied to Facebook and Instagram and all that stuff.
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I'm here with Marc Wendt and I got to tell you, I've seen a lot of coaches in my day. I've been around a long time, but I don't think I've ever seen someone take as much training for themselves to be a better coach than this guy. So many people get into coaching because they think it's an easy buck and they just put out a shingle and they're clueless, you know, idiots that have never did. What gets me is the life coaches that never did a thing in their entire life and they want to be your life coach. So I've been ragging on coaches quite a bit, but I've researched this guy and boy, he really improves his skills continuously and I really appreciate that. And plus, how many people do you know who've been in a Star Wars movie? Huh? Think about that.
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I'm here with Christine Vartanian and she is a woman of many talents. She was an engineer, an attorney, but her biggest accomplishment is being a great mom and she's a fashion expert now. She also can set up to make you look really great on these Zoom calls and all these other things you're doing remotely.
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Today, we're going to talk about some cool tools. Basically, these are chrome extensions. You really need to get in touch with chrome extensions. There's so many tools there. I mean, there's hundreds of thousands in fields like productivity, security, writing, social media, video, SEO, blogging, finding content, all kinds of stuff. So you really should fall in love with that. I picked out five of them today for you to get started.
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I'm here with Richard Rosser. This is the Hollywood Richard Rosser. And I got to tell you, from what I've researched, this guy, Kiefer Sutherland, would be nobody if it wasn't for this Richard Rosser. And he's also an AI lover and he's going to tell you a lot about that today. I'm going to challenge him on some of the stuff on how lovely this artificial intelligence is.
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I'm here with Greg Wilker and he is described as a media provocateur and us country bumpkins don't really know what that means, so we'll ask him. He's also a website counselor and therapist. He's been making websites almost as long as I have, and he's the co-host of Moped Outlaws podcast and also the host of Live with Greg and also worked at a radio station called The Bone.
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Today, we're going to talk about business emergency preparedness. Of course, it would work for a lot of your personal life, too, because, I mean, you've got hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, high winds, electricity out, you got sickness, you got accidents. And and if you don't think this could ever happen to you, one of my students just talked to me this week and out of the blue, there was no warning. There was no nothing. She opens her front door and there's a giant tree from her yard laying in front of her front door. A tornado had struck her front yard and she was probably 30 feet from death. So you can't say, oh, it's never going to happen to me.
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I'm going to talk about auto leasing versus buying for your company and all the pros and cons of that. And somehow, this entire week was about motor vehicles because episode 768, that people are just going crazy over, was on car rental hacks. I could save you thousands of dollars on car rentals if you just listen to that episode. And then also Episode 769 was all kinds of cool ways, and I'm not talking just Uber and Lyft. I'm talking about ways that you can get paid for driving.
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I guess this must be like automobile driving week or something because episode 768 was rental car hacks. You got to listen to that one. It'll save you a fortune on renting cars. But today, we're going to talk about a lot of different ways to get paid for driving and get free and super cheap vehicles to drive if you want to drive them. Yeah, this is legit stuff. And you'll also get paid to drive for different kinds of deliveries, things without a fancy CDL license and yeah, I know I'm total internet guy, but I know some of you need cash and you can get it quick just using your car and driving around a little bit. So this will cover getting free and cheap driving trips and making some money with your car.
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Today, we're going to talk about rental car hacks. I've rented cars probably over a thousand times and I learned a little bit about saving tons of money and keeping from getting ripped off. Plus, in the next episode, 769, I'll give you tips on how to get free or a dollar a day rentals of cars and RVs. You know, if your schedule is flexible and how to get paid for just driving around.
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I'm here with Avi Wolfson and he is very passionate. He's got a lot of stuff going for himself. I'll tell you about his full intro, but we're going to talk about parenting. And he's making a business called the All Star Parent where you can get started for free.
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Lance Cayko is here, and I think that's not a stage name. He can tell us about that. But he is an award winning architect. And he got knocked down and he got back up with some guerrilla marketing techniques he's going to tell you about.
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I'm here with a repeat guest, Paul Brodie. He is one of the summit guys and he's got a “get published” summit going on right now. Just started today. So we want you to jump on that and check it out.
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Today, we're going to talk about must listens. This is a super easy technique to revive and add to the consumption of your old or older content.
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Now, many of you know that I've recently got my commercial drone license. A side benefit of my studies in that field brought me to a fantastic microphone that speakers, authors, consultants, coaches, content creators are going to love and I'm going to tell you about it in this episode.
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Today, we're going to talk about cell boosters, sometimes called cell extenders or repeaters. And this is going to help you get through when your normal signal is weak so you don't lose business and not be able to talk to people.
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Today, we're going to talk about a place where you can answer questions and they've got 300 million users. And you can really get your name out there. It'd be a good social media thing to add to your mix of marketing tools, and it's called Quora.
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Today, we're going to talk about pitiful podcast pitches. I get pitches all the time to be on this top rated show and most are pitiful and hardly even get looked at. And it doesn't take much to turn this around and put yourself in a position where podcast hosts want you on their show. And that's what this episode is about.
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Today, I'm going to talk to you about free software. I'm going to save you a ton of money today, give you lots of options and some are PC only, but many are both Mac and PC. And it's not just software, it's software as a service. So you just log on. So it doesn't matter if you're on a Mac or PC or Linux or whatever else.
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Today, we're going to talk about collecting the money. How about that? We're going to talk about payment processors and how you collect the money for selling stuff.
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Today, we're going to talk about exciting video. I think I got about 15 tips. I tried to count them up and they just kept going and going. So you'll get at least a dozen tips, but you know how I do more? You get more than you bargained for. And you'll get more views on your videos if you do this stuff. And more results and engagement and sales and everything.
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Today, we're going to talk about live streaming. Now, this can be a great addition to your business to build credibility and connection with your audience. And you can even start right from your cell phone.
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Today, I'm going to talk about social media success tips. Now, many of you know I consider social media a necessary evil. You have to have it. But for most of you, it's a waste of time business wise, because you may not understand some of the basic premises of how social media companies operate. I'm going to clear that up for you on this episode.
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Today, I'm going to talk about fast recurring cash. Now, there's not a week, or sometimes a day, that goes by that someone calls me up and wants to find a unicorn or someone to basically run their business for them. So today's episode is going to hone in on one aspect of business that you can focus on that's fun and you could make a substantial recurring income.
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Today, we're going to talk about the exciting topic of transfer speeds. I mean, I've been getting lots of complaints that transferring files and charging devices and stuff like that takes forever and also upload and download speeds on your computer take forever or they're slow as molasses. So this episode will teach you how to get the fastest speeds possible. Plus, I got a super big warning for you to stay safe from being hacked.
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Today, we're using some alliteration on you and we're going to say Making money from media. And this is a good side hustle that could turn into full time income for some of you.
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Today, we're going to talk about travel vlogging or blogging, whichever way you want to talk about it. You know, I want nothing to do with this topic, actually. I've been lots of places in the world, I think about 12 countries, and I'm happy to sit home and and work my business. You know, I'm starting a drone business and hey, you know, come to think of it, a drone would be really handy in a travel vlogging business, you get some spectacular shots. So anyway, I'm not going to be doing any traveling, travel blogging or blogging anytime soon, but it is a viable business. And I know many of you would love to be out on the road after being cooped up for a couple of years with COVID.
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Today, we're going to talk about social selling versus social commerce. Now, many marketers get these two things mixed up, but I'm going to clear that up for you in this episode.
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Now here's the thing, folks. From now on, you must address me as Captain Tom. So this is another episode about something I've been harping on for over 25 years, and that's making your hobbies tax deductible. I'll tell you about my new hobby turned business.
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Well, I'm really sorry this episode is so late. I was doing extensive and I mean extensive research on today's topic. And after you hear what today's topic is, I'm sure you're going to be saying to yourself, boy, that Tom sacrifices his time and his life, researching every episode for us to the nth degree. And he he should probably get an award for his sacrifices. Maybe, maybe even a Nobel Prize or maybe a Freedom Medal. Well, folks, I know you're saying those kinds of things, and I'm truly blushing here behind the microphone, but I just want you to know I feel you are worth the sacrifice, So. I was researching OnlyFans. If you don't know what the joke is here, you will in a minute.
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Now, in this episode, I'm going to try to save you legal trouble that you might never see coming. Some of it's legit, but some companies may just be trying to scare you to pay up for legal stuff.
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Today, we're going to talk about multiple and bulk sales. This can really, really, really add a lot of money to your bottom line with less hassle too.
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Today, we're going to talk about business gifting. Now, this is something you might want to add to your business operations, no matter how big or small your business is, and there's lots of benefits to it.
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Today, we're going to talk about an earth shattering brand new topic of voicemail. You say, Hey, Tom, I thought you were supposed to be Mr. Cutting Bleeding Edge. No, I'm not. I'm dull edge technology. But you say, well, what's the big deal? Voice mail has been around since Superman was a baby. No, the thing is, there's plenty of people with loads of money that want to talk to you on the telephone. You can't depend on text and email totally anymore. Or ever. Really? You should have been paying attention to this. And what you say on your voicemail can can make a big impression on somebody like me who could give you a lot of money.
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Today, I've got a study challenge for you that can get you a big shout out here on Screw the Commute and the bar is going to be real low, folks. Don't worry. You don't have to go back to take a PhD course to do what I'm going to tell you today. And it's going to help your business and it's going to get you a big publicity bump by getting a shout out here on Screw the Commute.
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Today, I'm going to show you how to increase the value of every customer you have. You got to do this because it's much easier to do that than to try to find new people all the time.
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Today, I'm going to talk about a skill that pays off in three different ways, and it's a skill that's going to serve you way into the future, until they start embedding chips into your customers.
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Guess what? I got attacked by a bird. And there's a business lesson here, so stay tuned.
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Let me ask you, would you buy an empty pizza box for 100 bucks? Or would you buy a used bra? Well, many people would. And I'm going to tell you how I sold one last week.
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Today, I'm going to talk about anachronisms. What the heck is an anachronism and why should you bother listening? Well, you should because it's a cute little advertising and speech technique that you can use to promote yourself.
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Today, I'm going to talk about search tips. Now, wouldn't it be nice if you could easily find what you're searching for in the search engines? Mostly Google. I get it. Well, today I'm going to give you some practical tips on finding stuff fast while searching.
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You know what? I'm not really even happy about having to bring up this topic today. Just so you know, the online business and the business world is full of so many scumbags, idiots, corporate executives that are pencil pushers that couldn't care less about the actual user of the product. They just want to protect their cushy, pitiful jobs because they can't do anything on their own. I mean, that's the way I feel about a lot of these people. So this is kind of a negative thing that's here to protect you and give you some tips on how to handle these people, to get to at least attempt to get the best result. And we're talking about making sure you get your affiliate commissions.
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Today, I'm going to talk about logical training. Now, many people have asked me, Tom, Do you have a PhD in instructional design? No, I don't. I just come from a background of people that have common sense. I'm going to show you in this episode a super easy way to make training products that make you money and don't get returns.
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I'm here with one of my favorite people in the whole world, Christina Hills. I've known her about 20 years. I've never heard a bad thing about her. And people do tell me because my consumer advocate, when people are schmucks, and never heard a bad word about her. In fact, the opposite. Everything she does is really top notch. And she's doing a big launch. And I talked her into telling us about how she set it up, because I've been around 29 years online seeing lots of launches. And this is the best one I've ever seen. The way it was organized and easy for me to participate in.
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Today, I'm going to talk about part of my three prong attack, specifically products. And the last couple episodes, 732 was revamping old products so you can make some quick cash. And 730 was creating an ebook Empire. And so now today, 733, is making a new product fast. It's all part of my three pronged attack.
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Yesterday, I was researching how to make the old bricks around this low wall that's surrounding my pool look new again. So if you want to make some easy money using the same concept that I discovered, I'll tell you about that in this episode.
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Today, I want you to set aside a half hour this weekend and it could be the most profitable half hour you've ever spent.
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Today, we're going to tell you about building an e-book empire. Wow. Digital products at 97% profit. I love it. *** P.S. Tom made the first mistake of his life! The episode he mentions is 361, not 381, and is reflected correctly in the show notes below. ***
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Wait till you hear what we're talking about today. What you can learn by making your own dog food. And I'm not kidding. So hang in there and we'll see what business use we could make of that.
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I'm here with Sally Gimon and she's been an English teacher in Poland and a business analyst for a tire company. She sells insurance, too. And I got a way to sell a lot of life insurance. I'll tell her. See what she thinks about it. But her claim to fame is real estate investing and the trust that saves you lots of money. So if you like to save money in taxes, you better listen to this episode.
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I'm here with Emanuel Rose and he's going to talk about marketing to Gen Z. And another thing that he's doing, that I've been preaching for a hundred years, is he's making his hobbies tax deductible. He's going to talk about steelhead flies and fly fishing and he's doing a lot of cool stuff with young people. And then I'm going to hit him up of why or what I think is the biggest problem when marketing to Gen Z.
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Today, I'm going to talk about my secret question idea and how it can help you and how it helps me. And I'm going to tell you a little bit about what I've been going through lately and how questions help me save the day.
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Tom is taking a week off to care for his ailing German Shepherd. This week we will be doing a “Best of” series featuring highly rated previous episodes. Today's episode is Ad Tracking and Split Testing. *** Jason Feifer is here with us and let me tell you first why I don't like him. The guy is such a great storyteller, he sucked me into watching or listening to a 42 minute podcast on elevator history. He sucked me in. I couldn't couldn't stop listening to it, but he is the Editor in Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine. And he's the host of the podcast Build for Tomorrow, which I think was the podcast he sucked me in on, which is about the things from history that shaped us and how we can shape the future.
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Tom is taking a week off to care for his ailing German Shepherd. This week we will be doing a “Best of” series featuring highly rated previous episodes. Today's episode is Ad Tracking and Split Testing. *** 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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Tom is taking a week off to care for his ailing German Shepherd. This week we will be doing a “Best of” series featuring highly rated previous episodes. Today's episode is Ad Tracking and 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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Scott Bywater is a sought after marketing copywriter and the creator of the online simple email ROI system. And ROI is return on investment. And over the past 21 years, he's written for gurus and leading companies.
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We've got Daniel Martinez here. He's operated a trucking business. He learned real estate. He was even in skip tracing, which I'm interested in that also. And he's a podcast host and The Hive Mind it's called. So we tell him, figure out how he came up with that name. And he's got this software as a service company and helps businesses automate their marketing. But he also does this really cool method of real estate investing.
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This is one of my question and answer things. I do this occasionally where I just collect questions and answers or questions from people that I get all the time and pick the ones that I think would be most pertinent to most people listening.
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I've been sleeping rough. That's what we're calling this episode. Sleeping rough. That's a term that goes around and it's usually people are homeless or not, you know, if they're sleeping in their car. Well, I'm not homeless and I'm not sleeping in my car. It also applies to some just sleep in some place that's not normally designed for people to sleep.
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Matt Shoup is an award winning serial entrepreneur. He's an author. He's a keynote speaker. He loves Spain and he's an aspiring Paella chef. He's also a Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt. You know, I love that kind of stuff. A Spanish coffee addict, he's grown multiple companies from the ground up.
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Today, we're going to talk about public Wi-Fi. You know, everybody's hey, including myself, is touting lifestyle, business and digital marketing you can do from anywhere. Well, that doesn't mean you ignore Internet safety hazards of working remotely, especially on public Wi-Fi. Hey, and your home Wi-Fi can also be hacked. That'll be a subject for a future episode. But today I'm going to talk about publicly accessible Wi-Fi and what you should do to keep yourself safe.
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Today, I'm going to talk to you about a dozen marketing tools that myself and my staff use all the time.
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Helen Polise, aka the TikTok Teacher, is a TV commercial director with 30 plus years of experience elevating global brands like Sensodyne, Blistex, Hasbro, NFL alumni, and more. And after a quick rise to TikTok fame during the pandemic, she recently founded Socialize, a Startup, where she demystifies the social media process and teaches people step by step how to start to create content.
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Today, we're going to give you a primer on text marketing. And usually I tell you about something I've made a lot of money on. Well, not this time. In fact, I quit doing it rather quickly years ago. Now, that does not mean that this is a bad way to market in the right circumstance, and I'll probably in this episode reveal some of the things I think I did wrong back then. But text messages, listen to this, have an open rate of up to 98%.
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