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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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101 – This guy will expand your brain: Tom interviews Rick Raddatz

Rick Raddatz is a bona fide Internet pioneer. He's a political philosopher and a political activist. He began his career at Microsoft in the 90s and then starting in 2003, he launched four, I'm talking four, multimillion dollar businesses. And I'm sure that I sent him some money to help them make them multi million dollar businesses over time. In 2007, Rick put his employees in charge of his business and became a full time political philosopher searching for a solution to our country's political divide.

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100 – Sam Antion Memorial Episode: Tom talks about his Dad

This episode is loosely based on a eulogy I wrote for my father in the year 2000, where I wrote down 10 leadership tips I learned from him since I was a little boy. I'll be throwing in some other ones and some spin offs as we go along. What I plan on doing is popping back and forth from that eulogy to my commentary. I want to make sure you get some learning points on things that you can do to really be much more successful in your life and in business.

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99 – Video has exploded: Tom interviews Lou Bortone

Lou Bortone has been a pioneer and thought leader in the video space since the launch of YouTube in 2005. He's helped thousands of entrepreneurs create and leverage online video to build their businesses. He's also the author of Video Marketing Rules – How to Win in a World Gone Video.

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98 – He’s built the ultimate lifestyle biz: Tom interviews Corbin Ball

Corbin Ball is a speaker, consultant, and writer focusing on events and exhibitions technology. He has been named five times, by Successful Meetings magazine, as one of the 25 most influential people in the meetings industry. And he was recently inducted into the Event Industry Council's Hall of Leaders, the premiere recognition program and the Meetings Convention Exhibition hospitality and travel industry.

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97 – Get money coming from all directions: Tom talks Multiple Streams of Income

Multiple streams of income. This is a term that’s been thrown around a lot in money making circles. It sounds good on the surface, but the question is how do you make this work in real life? That’s what I’m going to talk about today. I look at the concept of Multiple Streams of Income as a kind of insurance policy for you and your family.

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96 – She fixes relationships: Tom interviews Rhoberta Shaler

Rhoberta Shaler is a PhD and she's called the Relationship Help Doctor. She's a relationship consultant mediator, and speaker, who provides urgent and ongoing care for relationships in crisis. And she does that around the world. Rhoberta empowers people to recognize emotional abuse and stop tolerating it and reclaim their lives. She's the author of 16 books, hosts two podcasts and a popular YouTube channel that has over 200,000 views. She screws the commute and works from home.

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95 – Learn chess and learn life: Tom interviews Orrin Hudson

Orrin “Checkmate” Hudson is a chess champion. He's the number one best selling author of One Move at a Time – How to Win at Chess and Life. He is a strategist, an inspirational speaker, and he's the founder of Be Someone (besomeone.org is the Web site) and he's created a successful youth development program for students across the country by teaching them the game of life through the game of chess.

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94 – The new wave in TV: Tom talks On Demand TV

On Demand TV is taking off like crazy because people like the fact they can watch their favorite shows any time they want, rather than being forced to be in front of the TV at a certain time on a certain day. Also, there wasn’t really an easy way to watch an episode of a show you missed. You might see pieces of it on YouTube, but it just wasn’t the same. For about 40 bucks, you can buy a Roku box and hook it up to your smart TV and get access to thousands of shows through your WiFi connection.

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93 – Ty the Dog Guy: Tom interviews Ty Brown

Ty Brown is an internationally recognized dog trainer, author and speaker. And I know his effectiveness, because he's helped me with my dogs when he was here in Virginia Beach. His dog training company, he's called Ty the Dog Guy, is one of the largest in the nation and helps dog owners around the world to solve dog problems.

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92 – Fraud and Safety are his games: Tom interviews Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano is a Certified Speaking Professional. That's a very high level person that's gone through tremendous amount of scrutiny to get that designation. He's the number one bestselling author and CEO of safr.me and he's serious about teaching you fraud prevention and personal security. Robert is a security expert fiercely committed to informing, educating, and empowering people so they can protect themselves and their loved ones from violence and crime.

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BONUS EPISODE – Tom interviewed on the Profit By Design podcast

BONUS EPISODE! Tom Antion interviewed on the Profit by Design podcast with Dr. Sabrina Starling.

91 – Your Printed and Online Image Represents You: Tom talks Business Graphics

Business Graphics. This is something people spend a fortune on unnecessarily, which just makes it harder for their business to be profitable. I’m not saying there aren’t times when you should hire a real pro to do some graphics. I’m just saying you can get high quality graphics very cheaply and you can do many yourself with the cheap and free tools available now.

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90 – The Original Traffic Tootsie: Tom interviews Gayl Murphy

Gayl is a Hollywood correspondent, media and presentation coach. She says you got to tell it to sell it. She's the speaker and author of Interview Tactics How to Survive the Media without getting clobbered and also the Insider's Guide to Giving a killer interview. She reports on and works with entertainment media on TV, radio, print and online.

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89 – The Lie Guy: Tom interview Stan Walters

Our guest today is Stan Walters. He sent me his intro and I'm a little bit concerned because he's been in 36 prisons in 16 states, and one foreign country. He's known as The Lie Guy. How did he screw the commute while being in prison? I don't know. And if you remember the old Lucy show, Ricky would say, “Lucy, you got some splainin' to do”. So Stan, you got some splainin' to do.

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88 – Great Video Means Great Sales: Tom talks $50K Video for pennies

How to make a $50K video about you and your company for only pennies on the dollar. It sets you far above your competitors. When you have a high-quality video production showing people what you’re all about, you will move to the top of the heap when it comes to people making a decision of who to hire. Of course, there are plenty of other factors involved when people decide to buy products and services, but if everything else was equal, your video will help put you over the top.

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87 – Generations butt heads: Tom interviews Meghan Grace

Meghan Grace is a generational researcher, consultant, author and host of the podcast Hashtag Gen Z. Her career started in higher education but her research focuses on the post millennial generation: Generation Z. She's been studying Gen Z since 2013, has conducted two original studies on the topic, and I've got her book here in front of me. I've been looking through it and it's a really really in-depth highly researched book and I'll be reading some excerpts from it as we go.

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86 – Learn to hire: Tom interviews Dr. Sabrina Starling

Just back from a four week vacation, Dr. Sabrina Starling wants to inspire you to tap your potential. She runs her business only 25 hours per week, that's most weeks, and she's a single mom and author. Her latest in the How to Hire the Best series addresses the labor challenges in the construction industry. Although the whole series covers a lot of different hiring best practices.

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85 – Other people finance your projects: Tom talks Crowdfunding

Get the money you need for your business or personal projects and never have to pay it back. So, what exactly is crowdfunding? It’s where you get lots of people to contribute in your projects. I emphasize the word “Contribute” because everyone that gives you money gets something in return, as opposed to “donations” where people just give money for the satisfaction of doing it and maybe for a tax deduction.

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84 – The “Art” of smart calling: Tom interviews Art Sobczak

Over the past 30 years, Art Sobczak has helped sales people worldwide say the right things to get through, get in, and sell primarily using the phone. He's a speaker, trainer, author, and marketer of his training products. His flagship book Smart Calling – How to Eliminate the Fear of Failure and Rejection from Cold Calling hit number one in Amazon's sales category on the very first day.

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83 – She messes with people’s minds: Tom interviews Carla Rieger

One of the biggest reasons people fail in business is because they haven't learned tools to bounce back from setbacks. Carla Rieger shares a powerful “MindStory” method to help you stay confident and motivated no matter what happens. Co-founder of MindStory Academy and a professional speaker and storyteller for 24 years, she's addressed over 1000 groups on 5 continents. She’s also written 5 books, created 10 online learning programs and is the host of her own podcast show called the MindStory Speaker.

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82 – Video is exploding: Tom talks YouTube Secrets

Marc Bullard has been a video editor for 15 years. He's also my YouTube and video marketing expert, and a YouTube consultant for many other clients. He's also the Head Instructor at the world's first, fully independent, internet marketing institution. That's the Internet Marketing Training Center of Virginia as well as the author of many books, including The YouTube Marketing Manual which you can check out on Amazon.

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81 – He threw away the corporate career: Tom interviews Manny Nowak

Coach Manny is a professional speaker, author, and consultant to business owners and entrepreneurs. He uses his methodology, 90 Days to Your Success, to help organizations build effective sales and marketing processes that take their sales to levels they've always dreamed about. And it helps them to create extraordinary results.

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80 – She’s funny, funny, funny: Tom interviews Jan McInnis

Twenty three years ago, Jan McInnis left her marketing career to become a comedian and comedy writer. She's performed for thousands of organizations and has sold material to everyone from The Tonight Show to guests on Jerry Springer. She is also a keynote speaker who shows audiences how to use humor in business.

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79 – Make money without a website: Tom talks Private Facebook Groups

This is one of the many ways you can earn money online without having a website. Having one always gives you way more chances to increase your income, but you don’t have to have one to start earning. There are also many ways you can make money with a Facebook group both directly and indirectly. I’ll start with directly since that’s the main way I do it. Then I’ll get to some of the more indirect ways.

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78 – MomPreneur Extraordinaire: Tom interviews Elayna Fernandez

Elayna Fernandez is known worldwide for her blog thepositivemom.com. She is a Latina storyteller, an award winning story strategist, and avid student of pain. Certified as the coach, master teacher and trainer, Elayna helps moms create positive growth in the areas of motherhood, mindset, and Mompreneurship, which is mom entrepreneurship. Her philosophy is be positive and you will be powerful.

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Special Youth Episode: Tom interviews Tiffani Hockings

SPECIAL YOUTH EPISODE! Tiffani Hockings is the founder of Discovering Me Mentor Program and the author of the book Discovering Me: Because a Girl's Life is an Adventure. She graduated from Liberty University with a degree in psychology and life coaching, and now she's found her own passion of helping the next generation of girls discover their life purposes.

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77 – He speaks around the world: Tom interviews Dave O’Connor

For over 20 years, Dave O'Connor has been a leading success coach to entrepreneurs, speakers, salespeople, consultants, and mission driven business owners. He's the co-founder of Mind Story Academy with his partner Carla Rieger. Dave's live and online trainings are ideal for individuals and organizations that want to open minds, increase sales, and maximize impact.

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76 – Your own online robot: Tom talks Chatbots

“Messenger Bots” aka Chatbots. These things are a lot of fun and if you get in now, open rates and click through rates are through the roof. Pretty much never before seen in email marketing. Messenger bots were first released by Facebook back in April of 2016. At the time, nobody knew what to do with them or how they could be used for marketing, but that’s all changed.

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75 – Spunky Old Broad: Tom interviews Gayle Carson

Gayle Carson was selected as the 2007 Legend of the Speaking Profession. She hosted entrepreneurs women in business radio show, she wrote for them and had articles in more magazines. Currently she hosts over a dozen radio shows per month and is the founder of the S O B Radio Network.

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74 – Entrepreneur on Fire: Tom interviews John Lee Dumas

John Lee Dumas is the host of Entrepreneurs on Fire, an award winning podcast where he interviews inspiring entrepreneurs every Monday and drops value bombs every Thursday with over two thousand episodes, one point three million listeners every month and seven figures of annual revenue. He's just getting started, so visit EOfire.com to set your entrepreneurial journey on fire.

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73 – Be great on stage: Tom talks 30 Speaking Tips

I'm going to give you 30 public and professional speaking tips and today's training will actually be the audio copy of a webinar I did that got lots of great reviews. I'll have the link to the actual webinar in the show notes for this episode.

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72 – The Host with the Most: Tom interviews Raven Blair Glover

Raven, also known as the Talk Show Maven, is the recipient of President Obama's 2016 Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award. As a child, she dreamt of being on radio. However her journey didn't begin until age 55. Now she teaches others how to be the Oprah and Larry King in their niche, mastering the art of interviewing.

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71 – Writer Extraordinaire: Tom interviews Judith Briles

Dr. Judith Briles is an award winning and bestselling author of 36 books, including Author You, creating and building your author and book platforms. And here's a cool one, Snappy Sassy Salty Wise Words for authors and publishers. The crowdfunding guide for authors and writers that's a great way to finance your writing and how to avoid book publishing blunders, bloopers and boo boos. Her latest book is How to create a million dollar speech.

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70 – Make a Fortune with Ebooks: Tom talks Ebooks

Ebooks or Electronic books. I’ve been selling them since around 2001 and I’ve made a literal fortune doing so. Ebooks are 97% profit. What other legal product has that much profit? I half-jokingly say you have to be a moron to not be able to make money with a product that has 97% profit. Today, I’ll be talking about both PDF Ebooks and Amazon Kindle Ebooks.

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69 – Ms. Perseverance: Tom interviews Jo Hausman

Jo Hausman is an inspirational speaker and coach. She's an international live radio talk show host and a bestselling author. She speaks and coaches others to move to greatness in their life. Jo wrote and published a book called Go For IT – A Woman's Guide to Perseverance. The passion she has comes from empowering others to live in a positive life. She has appeared on numerous television radio blogs and podcasts around the world.

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68 – Speaker Match: Tom interviews Bryan Caplovitz

Bryan Caplovitz is the president and CEO of SpeakerMatch.com, the world's largest online speakers bureau. Speaker Match helps line up thousands of speakers on all topics with meeting and event planners who need speakers, from local service clubs to the biggest speaking events in America. Speaker Match has been in business for nearly 20 years.

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67 – How to Make a Fortune Referring Me and Others: Tom talks Referrals

In today’s episode, I’m going to tell you the kind of money you can make by referring me and my services, and the same techniques can be used to refer others. Not only will I be telling you about the commissions I pay, later I’ll also tell you some of the methods you can use, some don’t even require a website, to refer me and others and get big commissions.

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66 – “The Assessment Guy”: Tom interviews Ken Keis

Ken Keis is a PhD and he's the foremost global authority on behavioral assessment strategies and processes. He's an expert in leadership purpose and wellness. He's authored over four million words of content, that includes 500 articles for books and a dozen assessments. Ken's purpose is to help others to live, lead and work on purpose.

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65 – He’s a professional investor: Tom interviews Joel Block

Joel Block is the money business insider. Joe's a longtime venture capitalist and hedge fund manager. He says that's gobbledygook for a professional investor. So when you hear a hedge fund, it's a professional investor. He lives in a shark tank world just like on TV, since selling his publishing company to a Fortune 500 company. Joel keynotes conferences worldwide delivering business strategies and the inside track for money and success to business executives and Joel are you ready to screw the commute.

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64 – Stand Out in a Crowd: Tom talks Excellence

The goal of this episode is to inspire you to see how using pretty darn simple principles could change your life and your accomplishments completely, and make good things happen for you that right now you might not even be able to dream of. Excellence, and what it can mean to your life, in both the short run and the long run. I was fortunate in that from an early age I had a good role model for excellence.

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63 – “The Reinvention Guy”: Tom interviews Steve Olsher

Steve Olsher is known as the world's foremost reinvention expert. He's famous for helping individuals and corporations become exceptionally clear on their “what”. And that is, the one thing that they were created to do. His practical no holds barred approach to life and business propels his clients towards achieving massive profitability, while also cultivating a life purpose conviction and contribution.

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62 – Super Hot at 54: Tom interviews Becca Tebon

Becca Tebon is a serial entrepreneur. She's owned two advertising agencies. She's developed numerous brands and coached many other businesses. Becca's intentional mission has become to be a go giver through various charities, and sits on the board of StarzFoundation.org and she aspires to speak to women and children in crisis on “SELF LEADERSHIP U” and guiding them to evolve from adversities and circumstances into healthier, happier and more productive guided souls. Becca is a lifestyle and content expert, speaker, author and coach. She's redefining the landscape of sustainable healthy living at the corporate level as well as one on one or in groups around the globe. Check out her highly successful 17 Minute Fitness Club, Fitness17Club.com, where you get to choose 4 exercises timed for only 40 seconds each.

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61 – Outsourcing on the Cheap: Tom talks Outsourcing

Why should you outsource? There are lots of reasons and one is the price. Also, getting out of payroll taxes and benefits. It also lets you keep you and your other employees focused on more productive things that only you and they can do. Depending where you are located, you could order work at the close of business in your time zone and it’s just the beginning of the day in your outsourcer’s time zone. So basically, you order some work and it’s waiting for you when you get to work the next morning.

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60 – The Sexy Boss: Tom interviews Heather Havenwood

Heather Havenwood teaches coaches, experts, and service providers current online marketing and sales strategies to close the right clients any time they want. She's regarded as a top authority on digital marketing, sales coaching, and online publishing business strategies. She has been named the top 50 must follow women entrepreneurs by Huffington Post. She's also author of Amazon's best seller book Sexy Boss how female entrepreneurship is changing the rule book and beating the big boys.

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59 – The “Blown Up Guy”: Tom interviews Brian Fleming

Brian Fleming is an author, speaker, and Combat Wounded Veteran. He's the resilience trainer for the U.S. military and teaches people how to come back from setbacks as stronger, better people. He's a walking poster child for that for sure. He speaks for Fortune 500 companies and other organizations about how to stand firm when everything around you is blowing up.

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58 – The Gold is in the List: Tom talks List Building

If you really want to grow your list rather than see it decline, your content needs to be great. If you don’t start there, you’re just wasting your time because people will not stay on your list and you will be always looking for the next sucker who briefly comes in and maybe spends some money, but quickly leaves because you don’t give great value. I’m going to introduce you to lots of ways to get people on a list. Each method has lots of details on how to implement them successfully.

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57 – She chucked the corporate life: Tom interviews Carol McManus

Carol McManus is an author, speaker, radio host, and social media consultant. She is the CEO of CKC Global Media, a branding and marketing company that helps individuals and companies reach new markets by elevating their message and amplifying their voice. Her newest book, Choices, is about how real people share their stories of how they overcame challenges to design a better life. It's an international bestseller and a bronze award recipient from the Nonfiction Authors Association.

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56 – Business Out of Adversity: Tom interviews Mike Domitrz

Leading organisations and educational institutions seek out Mike Domitrz's thought provoking programs to transform the culture in their organizations. He's the author of “Can I Kiss You?”. He's also the founder of The Date Safe Project. He has been a featured expert on many media outlets, including Dateline NBC.

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55 – Instant Products: Tom talks Private Label Rights

What is a private label information product? It’s a product produced by someone else and that person or company sells you the “rights” to sell the product under your name as if you created it. You will frequently see the abbreviation PLR which stands for Private Label Rights. These could be eBooks, audio or video but the great majority are eBooks.

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54 – The Master Negotiator: Tom interviews Greg Williams

Greg Williams is the master negotiator and body language expert. He's also a TV News contributor. He's authored seven books on the topic of negotiation and reading body language and he's trained tens of thousands of people worldwide. Today he'll unlock some extremely important negotiation secrets that you can use to better your negotiation outcomes.

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