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843 – Tell stories to gain customers: Tom talks Stories and Case Studies

Today, we're going to talk about stories and case studies. These are powerful ways to show how well your product and service works. And this is a copywriting technique from my copywriting series. While my whole program on it is copywriting901.com, you definitely should check that out, because that's the number one skill writing copy in my entire business career, long before the internet started being able to write, copy and don't get sucked in at this, it is going to save you from writing copy. No, you have to know the techniques, know how to adjust them for your audience and all that stuff.

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842 – Widen your target audience: Tom talks Theory of Parallel Tracks

We're continuing on our copywriting techniques from my copywriting course, copywriting901.com, the fast track to writing words that sell. Today we're going to talk about the theory of parallel tracks, so you can attract more people or convince more people from one sales letter to buy.

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841 – Use these to grow sales: Tom talks Tracking Links

Today, we're going to talk about tracking links, and this is still a part of my copywriting techniques based on my course, copywriting901.com. And I'm not going to read off all the numbers, but starting at episode 836 til this one and a couple more will be doing copywriting stuff. And I have some other episodes on copywriting.

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839 – Answer these to help your customers: Tom talks FAQ

Today, we're going to talk about Frequently Asked Questions. This is a part that you can add to your sales letter. This is all based on my copywriting techniques from copywriting901.com and you want to listen to these back episodes because these are little things you can add to your sales letter. They're very easy to add and you will increase your sales.

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838 – Another powerful way to increase sales: Tom talks Cost Comparisons

Today, we're going to talk about cost comparisons. This is another copywriting technique based on my course copywriting901.com. Episode 837 I talked about teasers that yeah, they're not that important for low ticket products, but very important for high ticket products. That was episode 837 and then 836 was bonus testimonials. That's another little known copywriting secret that you can add easily to your sales letters to sell more stuff. Also, your video sales letters.

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835 – Don’t do these things: Tom talks How To Ruin Your Reputation

Today, I'm going to tell you exactly how to ruin your online and possibly your offline reputation. How about that? Now who else can you think of that would be so kind and loving and interested in your business, to show you how to ruin it? Well that's me. Anyway, there's certain things you can do that will hurt your reputation, and some of them you could do totally innocently just because nobody taught you. And this episode is going to protect you from the shame of a bad reputation.

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834 – Do this right to make money: Tom talks Demonetization

Today I'm going to talk about a demon. Wait a minute. Wait. My notes are wrong. Demonetization. Oh that's different. Well, it's bad both ways, I guess. You don't want that to happen if you want to make money from YouTube by getting part of the ad revenue when they play ads on your videos. So if you want that, want that money, you got to listen to this episode.

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833 – When you need to send BIG files: Tom talks File Transfer Services

Today we're going to talk about file transfer services. Let's say you shot the coolest video of your life, and you want your friends and colleagues to see it right away, or it's a business thing, you need to get somewhere quick. Well, it's probably way too big to email, and if you text it, it's compressed so small it loses its quality and power. So that's where file transfer services come in.

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830 – Safety tips when traveling: Tom talks Electronic Security

Hey, we're going to talk a little bit about electronic security, especially if you're traveling. This episode kind of plays off my continued attention to satisfy both domestically and travel abroad. Your safety. I care about this, and a whole course on it is on brutalselfdefense.com. You won't believe some of the things that can happen to you, and you wouldn't even know what happened until it was too late if you don't listen to this episode and kind of get your head around the kind of things that are going on electronically that can screw you over.

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828 – More tips for your Phone: Tom talks Phone Tips

I haven't done one of these episodes for a while, but these are phone tips. Now yeah, I use iPhone, but you know, Android pretty much has a lot of the same features, and so you just have to figure out how to do them on Android. And plus this isn't really a how to, it's what can you do. And then you can easily find some YouTube videos to show you the step by step if you can't figure it out on your own.

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823 – Sound Great Make Money: Tom talks 25 Tips on How to Sound Great

Today, I'm going to give you 25 tips on how to sound great. See, audio is the only medium where you can learn or be entertained while doing something else. So you really want to sound great. And it's easy to sound great nowadays, and you're competing against other people that are doing the things I'm telling you right now. So you don't want to sound terrible compared to your competitors. And another rule of thumb, people will put up with poor video. Even though I want you to shoot great video, but they will not put up with poor audio.

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822 – Start your day RIGHT: Tom talks Morning Routines

I'm going to talk about morning routines. And, I've interviewed over 400 guests on this podcast and almost all of them, I ask, hey, how do you start your day? What do you do? You get up early? Do you eat? Do you journal? Do you meditate? What do you do? And almost all of them had a morning routine that worked well for them.

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821 – Email is still king: Tom talks Five Emails That Made Money

Today, I'm going to give you a breakdown on five emails that made money along with all the explanation of what I did, what the purpose of it was, the psychology of it, the whole bit. It's part of my book, 50 Emails That Made Money, that breaks down 50 different ones that all made money, tells you what the subject line was, why it was done that way, what the individual paragraphs were for, all of that stuff.

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818 – Make your website search better: Tom talks Improving Search Part 2

This is a second part of a two part series on improving search on both Google and on your website. Episode 817 was the first part on improving when you're searching to make yourself more efficient, and this one is on your site. Can people find the things that they want easily?

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817 – Level up on search: Tom talks Improving Search Part 1

This is part one of a two part series on improving search in both Google and on your website. In other words, can you find what you're looking for easily and fast? And can the visitors of your website do the same? Today, I'm going to be improving your search efficiency when you are searching for something, and Monday will be improving the search function on your website. That'll be episode 818, so watch for that.

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816 – Getting people together: Tom talks Running Retreats

Hey, we're going to talk about running retreats. Now, you don't have to have a big honking estate like I do to do retreats. You can do them in hotels and even a crazy yacht or something out in the wilderness all over the place. Now, if you do have a house, you can most likely get some great tax deductions for using as part of your business. And I'll be discussing that too in this episode.

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813 – Emails that make money: Tom talks How to Write Sales Emails

Today, I'm going to give you a template for writing emails that sell. I mean, it's one of my templates. I got tons of them, but this one will get you started. But there's a fair warning here and a quick solution. The warning is that there's two parts to selling with email. One is writing a great email and the other is having someone to send it to.

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812 – Using video formats the right way: Tom talks MOV vs MP4

Today, we're going to talk about some things you really need to get a handle on, and that is the video formats. They are really important on how you distribute video and shoot video and edit video and so forth. So it'll be pretty quick, but you'll learn the differences between movie files and MP4 files, and even Android has some other kind of files.

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810 – These will help your life and business: Tom talks Gadgets

Today, I'm going to talk about gadgets. These are gadgets that I have, and I'm going to break it down into some that I might buy and some that I would never buy. And these are things that make my life easier, safer, more productive and it's by far not a comprehensive list, because I got all kinds of stuff everywhere I couldn't even think of.

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808 – Comedy is serious money: Tom interviews Alfie Noakes

I'm here with Alfie Noakes and he's going to tell you how to make stand up comedy an actual moneymaking career, even though he was never a comedian himself. How about that? Now, in a former life, Alfie was a film journalist and a documentary maker, and he wrote and directed films on artists as diverse as Jennifer Lopez and all the way to Metallica. And here's the thing. Richard Gere really does not like him, but Jack Black really does.

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807 – Don’t get ripped off: Tom talks PPC Pilferage

Today's episode is called PPC Pilferage. PPC is pay per click. I'm going to be talking about reducing the amount of money that you get ripped off when using any pay per click system to advertise, and you most likely are getting ripped off. Now, I've got evidence.

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806 – Be a creator and make money: Tom talks ASMR

Today, we're going to talk about becoming an ASMR creator. Now, if you don't know what ASMR is, then you're going to find out on this episode and you may find that it's perfect for you. Now, for me, I don't want anything to do with it. Well, unless I was an ASMR eating creator and then I might like it.

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805 – Attract business with Charisma: Tom talks The Art of Rizz

Today, we're going to talk about the art of Rizz and what's Rizz you say? Well, that's the cool way to say charisma. Now we're going to talk about how that can attract business to you and also your personal life a little bit, but how you can increase your charisma.

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804 – Increase your income and grow: Tom talks Maximize Speaking

Today, I'm going to just give you a little primer on how to maximize your income any time you speak or do a presentation. You're leaving money on the table, figuratively and literally, if you don't use these tips, tricks and techniques. Would I steer you wrong?

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802 – How to be a Humble Alpha: Tom interviews Steven Kuhn

We're here in Vetpreneurs Month and we have a guest that I think is a record holder with us now. This is his fourth appearance here. His name is Steven Kuhn. This guy, I met him through the military stuff and he's got deep rooted beliefs in building trust and rapport. He's got this hit method, honesty, integrity and transparency. And, you know, we're all about that here.

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800 – He’s The Comeback Coach: Tom interviews Richard Kaufman

We couldn't have a better guest on this momentous episode. His name is Richard Kaufman. He's the comeback coach. And when you hear his story of what crap he's been through and and came back and now is inspiring thousands of other tens of thousands of other people, you'll be amazed.

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799 – Helping veterans help themselves: Tom interviews Adam Bardwell

I'm here with Adam Bardwell and this is part of Vetpreneur Month. Every September, we honor our great veterans and the great things that they're doing. And I got to tell you, he's going to be so impressed with me because I can deploy my cat tourniquet gen seven on either my left or right arm in less than 25 seconds. How do you like that?

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798 – Take your website skills to the next level: Tom talks WordPress Full Site Editing

I'm here with my right hand, left hand, all hands guy, Larry Guerrera, who, by the way, has worked the back end of every one of these podcasts, 800 and some podcasts. So he knows what he's doing there for sure. I guess I should be careful saying working the back end, but it's technically what it is. So today, Larry's going to tell us about WordPress full site editing and all the changes that have happened on WordPress recently.

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797 – Creating a Positive Impact for Veterans: Tom interviews Richelle Futch

We're right in the middle or the beginning of Vetpreneur Month here. Every September, we honor our great veterans and I've got one of my superstar favorite veteran military spouses on with us today, Richelle Futch. And she's going to tell us about the great things she's been doing this year.

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796 – Veterans connecting Veterans: Tom interviews Jared Ledbetter

We're here again in September. It's Vetpreneur Month and we've got another great veteran on here. Jared Ledbetter is here from Carbon Digital.us and also from The Veteran Database that he's going to tell us about. He's a proud United States Marine Corps veteran and he's worked in supply and logistics for well over 15 years during the Marine Corps and as a government contractor and a federal employee.

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795 – Protect your sensitive data: Tom talks Encrypted QR Codes

It's Labor Day 2023, and I promise I'm going to make this short and sweet, and this is going to be a technical one that I don't even talk about hardly at all, but I want you to know about it so it'll be really quick. It's on encrypted QR codes. Now, if you don't know what a QR code is, I highly suggest that you listen to episodes 241 and 780. Basically, I'll tell you in a minute what they are, but you need to listen to those back episodes and to see all the cool things you can do with QR codes.

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793 – How to get a Great Deal: Tom talks Saving Money

Today, we're going to talk about saving money. Yes, I am all into making money, but if you make the money and save the money, it puts you way further ahead faster. Instead of blowing all the money that you make on worthless full retail things when you don't have to.

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792 – Beware and Be Aware: Tom talks AI Bias with Larry

Today is going to be a warning shot across the bow of artificial intelligence. It's going to be about artificial intelligence bias with my right hand, left hand man. I don't know what I can call him. Larry, the guy that you all know and love from doing the back end on all these podcasts. So he's front and center now because he's kind of a little AI freak lately since it came out. So we're going to have him on and tell you about the bias he's uncovered and what people are saying about it.

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791 – Rich Men, North of Richmond: Tom reacts to this song

This has to be the furthest I've ever departed from straight entrepreneur stuff, right? Even though it probably will have some entrepreneurial lessons in it this episode. But I'm going to do a reaction podcast to the historic and I mean historic song Rich Men, North of Richmond.

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790 – Use these to enhance your presentations: Tom talks Caricature and Cartoons

Now this is part of a series I'm doing on presentations and speeches based on my classic book. Classic, because it's been around a long time. Wake 'em Up Business presentations. And I still use the same techniques today. So today I'm going to talk about using caricature and cartoons and how to use these in presentations, especially if you have an international audience. I mean, everybody loves cartoons and comic strips and caricature and stuff like that, but it's especially important with international audiences.

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789 – Be a success as a trickster: Tom talks On Stage Tricks

We begin such good feedback on these presentation tips that can help build your business or if you want to be a pro speaker, or if you just forced at your job to be a presenter. Hey, this can lead to raises and career changes and promotions, but I like to use it to promote your business because, this is Screw the Commute. We don't want you going to that job every day if you can help it.

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788 – Presentations as smooth as silk: Tom talks Practice Methods

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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787 – Keep your audience focused: Tom talks Attention Gaining Devices

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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786 – Defuse your presentations: Tom talks Bomb Proofing

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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784 – Look what a Professional Immigrant can do: Tom interviews Kris Safarova

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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782 – Living the American Dream: Tom interviews Brigitta Hoeferle

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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781 – Storyteller Film Maker Entrepreneur: Tom interviews Ali The Professor

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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776 – Wisdom Coach and Star Wars actor: Tom interviews Marc Wendt

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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775 – Engineer Attorney Fashion Expert: Tom interviews Christine Vartanian

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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774 – Give your browser Super Powers: Tom talks Cool Tools

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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773 – Get intimate with your favorite ChatBot: Tom interviews Richard Rosser

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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772 – Entertainer Performer Media Provocateur: Tom interviews Gregory Wilker

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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771 – Prepare BEFORE disaster strikes: Tom talks Business Emergency Preparedness

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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770 – Buying an auto? Listen to this NOW: Tom talks Auto Leasing vs Buying

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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769 – Turn your vehicle into a Cash Machine: Tom talks Get Paid For Driving

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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