Breakthrough Success

Michael O’Brien is a sales and marketing executive business coach who helps leaders slay their internal feelings of worry and doubt so they can achieve complete success for themselves and their teams. He helps other business executives and entrepreneurs realize their potential by changing the conversations they have with others and themselves. His bestselling memoir, Shift: Creating Better Tomorrows shares his journey of going from a human doer to a human being. 

Quotes To Remember:

• How to remove self-doubt from your life
• Discovering the internal motivators that will take you through the finish line
• How to be happy–for real
• Reframing your mindset
• Becoming resilient
• The “Yes But, Yes And” Exercise

Derek Gallimore is a serial entrepreneur who has experienced the fullest highs and lows of the entrepreneurial roller coaster. He has built multimillion dollar property portfolios, has bootstrapped a $20 million dollar business, and has seen it all come crumbling down. He is the founder of Outsource Accelerator which is the Alibaba of outsourcing as it provides the gateway for businesses to connect with outsourcing suppliers.

Quotes To Remember:

Bill Gates isn’t sitting there with Microsoft doing everything by himself. He’s probably got a couple of hundred thousand employees now.

You are limited if you are just doing the business yourself

The only limitation is how disciplined you are

You either win or you learn

You really learn in the tough times

You can always try harder. You can always be more successful.

You’ve gotta to keep your eye on the goal but don’t beat yourself up too much.

What You’ll Learn:

• How to figure out what to outsource first
• Why the Philippines presents a great outsourcing opportunity
• How to train virtual assistants
• What it takes to work remotely
• How to survive and thrive on the entrepreneurial roller coaster

Key Links From The Show:

Outsource Accelerator

Derek’s email: derek@outsourceaccelerator.com

Recommended Books:

Content Marketing Secrets by Marc Guberti

Podcast Domination by Marc Guberti

12 Rules For Life by Jordan Peterson

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari 

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

Maverick by Ricardo Semler

Anton Kraly is the founder of the Drop Ship Lifestyle course which was Shopify voted as the best ecommerce course. Over 10,000 students from over 25 countries have gone through Anton’s training. Drop Ship Lifestyle’s mission is to give students the knowledge and tools necessary to create freedom through entrepreneurship by leveraging the power of Drop Shipping

Quotes To Remember:

When you’re making more money per sale, that means you can have more resources dedicated to your customers.

Set this up once and make money for life…that’s a pipe dream.

Any task in your business that has to happen over and over, and in a very similar over and over…those can typically be automated.

There’s no point in doing the work that’s not going to work.

What You’ll Learn:

• What drop shipping actually is
• The drop shipping model that doesn’t involve buying cheap products and materials from China (especially with the tariff)
• Tools to use for your drop shipping business
• What to automate
• The right niche to promote
• What MAP stands for in drop shipping and why it’s so important

Key Links From The Show:

Drop Ship Lifestyle

Klaviyo

Zapier

Shopify

Slack

eCommerce Lifestyle

Google Shopping

Google Ads

Recommended Books:

Content Marketing Secrets by Marc Guberti

Podcast Domination by Marc Guberti

Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss

Ready Fire Aim by Michael Masteron

The Four by Scott Galloway

Rebecca Gill is the SEO instructor at DIYSEOcourses.com with over 20 years of experience in sales, marketing, and SEO. She teaches her students how to succeed with internet marketing by working hard, being smart, and always staying focused on the visitor and solving their problems by creating a positive user experience.

Quotes To Remember:

SEO is about helping Google figure out what is the best content.

When SEO has to trump usability, there’s a problem.

The wonderful thing about the internet today is that there are lots of resources available for learning SEO.

Over 50% of the searches now happen on mobile.

If someone has enough desire, they can learn SEO. 

The people that are successful are the ones that have the follow through.

What You’ll Learn:

• Optimizing your SEO campaigns
• Finding the right keywords
• How to discover what your audience wants
• The search engine signals you need to know
• How to optimize blog posts, podcast episodes, and videos for SEO

Key Links From The Show:

Rebecca’s Site

DIY SEO Courses

Kwfinder

Answer The Public

Google’s SEO Documentation

Recommended Books:

Content Marketing Secrets by Marc Guberti

Podcast Domination by Marc Guberti

The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington

Content Rules by Ann Handley

Brian J. Greenberg, aka The Salesman Who Doesn’t Sell, has founded businesses in e-commerce, marketing, and financial services. He has generated over 50 million in revenue from his businesses and collected over 10,000 reviews and testimonials from customers. Brian is the founder and president of True Blue Life Insurance, whose mission is to be transparent, honest and helpful to their customers without ever bugging or pushing them. Brian also runs e-commerce websites at Touchfree Concepts and Wholesale Janitorial Supply. Breakthrough Success listeners can download Brian’s audiobook for free.

Quotes To Remember:

“The first thing is to value it. If you value it, you are much more likely to ask for it.”

“It is important to incentify your employees.”

“I think that is the first thing you should do – compensate your crews or your employees – then getting your good reviews.”

“One of the main things is to always ask.”

“Make sure that you let everybody know how important these reviews are.”

“You can leverage reviews on your content marketing.”

What You’ll Learn:

• Strategies to Get Organic Customer Reviews and Testimonials
• Top Ways to Ask Anyone for Reviews
• Key Things To Do With Your Content Marketing to Boost Reviews

Key Links From The Show:

Brian’s Site

True Blue Life Insurance

Recommended Books:

Content Marketing Secrets by Marc Guberti

Podcast Domination by Marc Guberti

The Salesman Who Doesn’t Sell by Brian Greenberg

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Tom Casano is the founder of the Sure Oak Podcast who helps people grow their businesses with results driven SEO. After several years of experimenting with different SEO strategies and tactics, he discovered that SEO comes down to links, optimization, and content.

Quotes To Remember:

“You can’t force someone link back to you.”

“Outreach is so important for link building.”

“There’s this element of networking, building relationships and being off of your website that is so valuable.”

“Google algorithm has over 200 ranking factors but really we want to focus on 3-4 of them.”

“We want to plan the content or plant the pages based on what the people are searching for.”

“The only way to win and succeed is to be even more competitive and put more focus and energy into it.”

What You’ll Learn:

• How to Naturally Get Backlinks for SEO
• Top Three Ways for Getting Organic Backlinks
• “The Scholarship” Link Building Strategy
• Tips on Promoting and Optimizing Content

Key Links From The Show:

Tom’s Site

Sure Oak

Ahrefs

SEMrush

Moz

Help a Reporter Out

Brian Dean’s Site

Rand Fishkin’s Site

Recommended Books:

Content Marketing Secrets by Marc Guberti

Podcast Domination by Marc Guberti

The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber

Traction: Get A Grip On Your Business by Gino Wickman