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Thursday, February 4, 2021

#2041 The Hustle acquired! Here’s the founder.

HubSpot acquired The Hustle. So I’m republishing the interview I did with its founder, Sam Parr, about how the company was founded and grew. It’s an exciting story.

Sam Parr is the founder of The Hustle and Trends.co, which picks up on trends that lead to new products that lead to new businesses.

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Wednesday, February 3, 2021

#2040 Motion Array sells for $65M

I’m so excited to have today’s guest on the show but I’m sensing that he’s incredibly nervous. Tyler Williams is the founder of Motion Array, a membership based resource for downloading premium After Effects templates, stock music, stock motion graphics, and stock video elements. We’ll find out how he built this business

Tyler Williams is the founder of Motion Array, a membership based resource for downloading premium After Effects templates, stock music, stock motion graphics, and stock video elements.

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Monday, February 1, 2021

#2039 Standing out in marketing automation

I want to find out how today’s guest is competing in the world of marketing automation. Shaun Clark is the founder of GoHighLevel, everything that agencies need to manage their client’s leads, websites, funnels, calendars and many other services. I’ll ask him how he grew it to over $10m in two years and why he’s so paranoid.

Shaun Clark is the founder of GoHighLevel, everything that agencies need to manage their client’s leads, websites, funnels, calendars and many other services.

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Zopto – There are lots of LinkedIn Automation tools out there, and choosing one can be overwhelming. For cloud based lead generation, Zopto is the easiest way to prospect, message and reach out on LinkedIn. Attract hundreds of leads by targeting your ideal customers on LinkedIn using Zopto.

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Friday, January 29, 2021

#2038 Sketching as a Service

Joining me is somebody who thinks of himself as a creative turned entrepreneur. Today’s guest is somebody who’d been sketching, designing, and drawing his entire life but found himself working a corporate job at Chic-fil-a. It was in endless meetings that he got a brilliant idea. I want to find out what happened in this interview. William Warren is the founder of The Sketch Effect, which delivers whiteboard videos and dry erase board sketches at conferences to make your ideas understandable, memorable and sharable stories.

William Warren is the founder of The Sketch Effect, which delivers whiteboard videos and dry erase board sketches at conferences to make your ideas understandable, memorable and sharable stories.

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Outgrow.co – Get new customers with powerful and easy-to-configure interactive content. Outgrow offers feature packed Calculators, Quizzes, Chatbots, Surveys, and Forms. Unlike ads, interactive content adds value for your audience. Outgrow’s no-code content tools are inherently viral because they give your users personalized results. Outgrow is easy to use, easy to configure and easy to implement. Mixergy listeners get 30 days to try Outgrow for free at Outgrow.co/mixergy

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Wednesday, January 27, 2021

#2037 Adii Pienaar on his darkest moments

Adii Pienaar is the founder of multiple companies. Many of us know him as the guy who created WooCommerce, an e-commerce platform that works on WordPress. It was acquired by Automatic. He then created Conversio, email marketing automation for e-commerce brands which was acquired by Campaign Monitor. His latest company is called Cogsy. But today he’s here to talk about a book he’s releasing. Life Profitably. I invited him here to argue about his ideas in the book. You’ll find out why in this interview.

Adii Pienaar is the founder of WooCommerce, Conversio, Cogsy and the author of Life Profitably.

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Monday, January 25, 2021

#2036 Bringing avatars to telemedicine

I am fascinated by what today’s guest has done. He essentially created the first Siri in the early days of voice interaction. Today, Adam Odessky is the founder of Sensely, a character-based Enterprise Virtual Assistant Platform. We’ll find out how he did it and how COVID helped build this business.

Adam Odessky is the founder of Sensely, a character-based Enterprise Virtual Assistant Platform.

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Friday, January 22, 2021

#2035 Getting business on LinkedIn

Joining me is somebody who’s been on Mixergy before. His name is Josh Turner and he was first on here to talk about LinkedIn University. That’s was where he said, “Look, there’s a way to get business from LinkedIn.” And he was one of the first people to say that. He’s back here today to talk about something new.

Josh Turner is founder of LinkedSelling which helps businesses generate leads.

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Wednesday, January 20, 2021

#2034 A wholesale Cannabis marketplace

I’ve been so excited about marketplaces as businesses that I’ve done interviews with the founders who created them for over 10 years. It started out being such a hard thing to do. Now, with no-code solutions, it’s so easy. That’s why I wanted to talk to today’s guest. Ryan Smith is the founder of Leaflink, a wholesale Cannabis marketplace. This is such a brilliant idea and at the same time, this is such a daunting space to be in. I want understand how he did it.

Ryan Smith is the founder of Leaflink, a wholesale Cannabis marketplace.

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Monday, January 18, 2021

#2033 Answering a major question for first-time founders

I have to be honest, I was very skeptical as I went through the site today’s guest created. But I I was impressed with it I thought, “I should have come out with this idea!” It’s so simple, so brilliant, So elegant. My guest, Bobby Peddi, realized that one of the big questions that many people have when they’re starting a business is: how should Ieven structure my business? Do I even need an LLC? Do I need to incorporate? Should it just be a partnership? He answered those questions as simply as he could with HowtoStartanLLC.com. That led to Truic, The Really Useful Information Company. I want to find out how he did it.

Nagabhushanam “Bobby” Peddi is Founder and CEO of Truic which offers free tools and guides to start a business, including How to Start an LLC.

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Friday, January 15, 2021

#2032 Going public through SPAC

Joining me is someone who’s become essentially famous for being one of the first Silicon Valley companies that went public through a SPAC. George Arison is the co-founder of Shift which makes it easy to buy and sell cars online. I want to find out how he built his company and about his experience going public without an IPO.

George Arison is the co-founder of Shift which makes it easy to buy and sell cars online.

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Wednesday, January 13, 2021

#2031 Solving the huge pain of haircuts

I am so freaking excited about the problem today’s guest is solving. Obi Omile is the founder of The Cut, a barbershop technology platform that allows users and barbers to schedule and manage appointments. I want to find out how he grew this app to 7 figures.

Obi Omile is the founder of The Cut, a barbershop technology platform that allows users and barbers to schedule and manage appointments.

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Monday, January 11, 2021

#2030 Bootstrapping after a funded failure

Joining me is somebody who got funded and got to Silicon Valley. But it didn’t work out for him. He had to leave the country. He ended up coming back with a bootstrap company that’s doing better than the previous business. I invited him here to talk about how he did it. His name is Carlos González de Villaumbrosia. He’s the founder of Product School, Product Management training taught by top PMs working at Google, Facebook, Netflix, Uber & Airbnb.

Carlos González de Villaumbrosia is the founder of Product School, Product Management training taught by top PMs working at Google, Facebook, Netflix, Uber & Airbnb.

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Friday, January 8, 2021

#2029 Custom prospecting at scale

Joining me today is the founder of BombBomb. His software lets you record a video of yourself, customize it for your prospects, email it out, and even get insights about who watched it. His name is Conor McCloskey. He built this tool because he was selling billboard space and he wanted to close more deals and renew more contracts. I invited him here to talk about how he did it and we can do it.

Conor McCluskey is the founder of BombBomb, software that lets you record and send videos directly to anyone from your computer or smartphone (iOS and Android).

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Thursday, January 7, 2021

#2028 EdTech Series: LearnWorlds

Joining me is an entrepreneur who created a platform that helps teachers do more than just teach. They enable testing, student success and even give teachers tools to help them sell their courses. It’s kind of like Shopify for online education. If you want to teach, you want the platform, they’ll make it easy for you. The software and company is called LearnWorlds and the founder is Panos Siozos. I want to find out how he built it.

Panos Siozos is the co-founder of LearnWorlds, online course platform for creating, selling and promoting your online courses.

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Monday, December 21, 2020

#2025 Music streaming for b2b

Joining me today is an entrepreneur who was crucial in creating the Beats Music brand that was eventually sold to Apple. He then partnered up with Spotify to create a way to bring music streaming to businesses. He has recently moved away from Spotify and I’m fascinated by how he’s did it. I want to find out how he got a deal going with Spotify to spin out this very complicated product. Ola Sars is coming to us directly from Stockholm. He is the founder of Soundtrack Your Brand, a music streaming solution for businesses.

Ola Sars is the founder of Soundtrack Your Brand, which allows businesses to find the perfect music in the world’s largest commercial catalog.

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Friday, December 18, 2020

#2024 Selling from the stage

Joining me as a Mixergy listener whose numbers don’t exactly hit our minimum for revenue but when we heard his story we knew we had to bring it to the audience. Adrian Tobey is the creator of Groundhogg, a CRM and marketing automation WordPress plugin. We believe that Adrian Toby is going places in the way world. I consider us lucky to have him on here as a guest to talk about what he’s building.

Adrian Tobey is the founder of Groundhogg, marketing automation for WordPress.

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Thursday, December 17, 2020

#2023 Is your business model broken?

Joining me is an entrepreneur who is dealing with a realization that I think a lot of us need to come to. I wish I had this conversation myself years ago. In this interview we’ll talk about what today’s guest learned the hard way about what business models work. Adam Arkfeld is the founder of ParaCore, a pay-per-click lead generation agency.

Adam Arkfeld is the founder of ParaCore, a pay-per-click lead generation agency.

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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

#2022 Killing repetitive tasks in PR

Today I have a founder who just sold her company to SEMRush. She was running her own PR agency and was looking for a solution to make her team more efficient. When she couldn’t find what she was looking for, she created it. Joanna Drabent is the founder of Prowly, PR and Media Relations Software.

Joanna Drabent is the founder of Prowly, PR and Media Relations Software.

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Friday, December 11, 2020

#2021 Otter outpaces Google in voice-to-text

I’m so excited about the software today’s guest created. It’s so powerful and it costs pennies on the dollar compared to the competition. I invited the founder here to talk about how he built it. Sam Liang is the founder of Otter.ai, which generates rich notes for meetings, interviews, lectures, and other important voice conversations.

Sam Liang is the founder of Otter.ai, which generates rich notes for meetings, interviews, lectures, and other important voice conversations.

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Thursday, December 10, 2020

#2020 $15M ARR internet marketing agency

Joining me is Matt Bowman, a guy who runs a results-focused internet marketing agency. The thing that I find about people who run agencies is it’s an easy way to get started, but it also has basically unlimited growth potential. I want to find out how today’s guest went from building websites for non-profits who had no money to pay him to running a $15M ARR agency at Thrive.

Matt Bowman is the founder of Thrive Agency, a full-service digital marketing agency.

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