Shaan Patel: A Perfect SAT Score Led To A Super-Successful SAT Prep Business And A Life-Changing Deal With Mark Cuban On Shark Tank
Shaan Patel grew up as a son of Indian immigrants, who worked hard to save enough money for a deposit on a property in their hometown of Las Vegas. However, rather than buy a house, the Patels bought a small hotel. Later they expanded to buy the petrol station next...
Joanna Penn: How Artificial Intelligence Will Cause A Seismic Shift In How We Produce And Discover Content Online
Over the last decade I've been asked many times whether I think blogging will die, or will it be replaced by something else. Every time I was asked this question I replied that I believe the only way it could change is if how we consume content changes. As long as we...
How To Know Exactly What People Want (And Will Pay For) Using Your Most Powerful Research Tool
When I started teaching people how to build blogs that could potentially make money, I faced a difficult challenge, a big question that begins the entire process of blogging that had to be answered - How can I teach people to pick the right blog topic or niche? It's...
Reflections On My 40th Birthday: Blogging, Business, Travel And A Party I Will Never Forget
On July 19th, 2019, I turned 40. When I was a teenager, I saw 40 as REALLY old. It was the age you properly became an adult. No more using youth as an excuse for anything, plus you have to consider things like visiting the doctor for prostate exams... yikes! As I got...
If You Can't Write Words That Sell You Won't Make Money
Years ago my friend and previous business partner Gideon Shalwick and I were creating marketing content for a course we created together. For that campaign we both wrote lots of emails that we sent to our subscribers, which resulted in thousands of dollars in sales....
Christina Symes: Aussie Completes Elite Interior Design Course In Florence Then Launches ‘We Are Triibe', One Of The Fastest Growing Design Firms In Australia
About eight years ago I was out in my old neighborhood in West End, Brisbane, at a lounge-bar called 'The End'. At the door to enter the lounge was a friendly lady named Christina, who was checking IDs and greeting guests. I struck up a conversation with Christina and...
The 5 Golden Rules Of Expectation Management And Why You Can't Ignore Them
If you have a good memory, you may recall a few weeks just before Steve Jobs passed on, Apple stock dropped a good few percentage points. It wasn't because of Steve's death that brought the valuation down, because that was factored into the stock market years ago when...
Tim Cameron-Kitchen: A One-Time Drummer Turns His Website Building Skills Into One Of The Largest Internet Marketing Agencies In The UK
Tim Cameron-Kitchen grew up with a passion for music, in particular playing the drums. The highlight of Tim's drumming career occurred in a most unexpected place -- on stage in a cover-band singing competition reality TV show... in France. His band didn't even realize...
Chris Barnes: School Teacher Turned Game Creator Explains How He Launched A Million Dollar Escape Room Board Game Online Subscription Business
In late 2018 I received an application for a new InboxDone.com client. His name was Chris Barnes and he explained how he had a hugely successful online subscription business. As I listened intently to Chris during his discovery call to determine whether my company...
Tien Chiu: How This Ex-Google Employee Gave It All Up To Build An Online Business Teaching The Craft Of Color Weaving (And The Story Behind Her First $25,000 Product Launch)
I'm so excited to publish this interview because it shares a success story of one of the most recent people to go through Blog Mastermind 2.0 (this is a 2019 case study!). Tien Chiu has a background as a mathematician and previously worked at Google in a job she hated...
