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451: How to Create, Live, and Sell a Powerful Personal Brand with Dr. Cindy McGovern

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My guest today used to live just a few miles away from me in Franklin, Tennessee. She also taught for a time at a well-regarded Nashville university (Belmont). Something I too have done (MTSU).

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Her name is Dr. Cindy McGovern. And her newest book just released in September. It’s called Sell Yourself: How to Create, Live, and Sell a Powerful Personal Brand.

She says that, no matter what your role or title is at work, selling is an important part of what you do―whether you’re selling a product, an idea, or a new way of doing things. But, before you can sell any of those things you have to sell yourself.

Creating your own personal brand―and promoting it in all you do―is essential to achieving your professional goals and getting ahead in life.

In the book, you’ll learn about how to apply the most effective selling strategies to your personal brand, and how these strategies can help you create and live a personal brand that will be easy to sell.

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450: Primal Storytelling: Marketing for Humans with Anthony Butler

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Today’s guest has an incredible background. He served in Baghdad during the invasion of Iraq. And, somehow, he managed to take the corporate world by storm shortly after finishing his time in the service, despite not having previous business experience.

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His name is Anthony Butler. Anthony has written a book that just came out in September.

It’s called Primal Storytelling: Marketing for Humans.

Two years into running his own digital agency, Anthony was stunned when a new client left. The work was good, they said, but the results weren’t consistent.

So, he set out to fix it—to design a reliable digital marketing system that would always come out ahead.

The result is a cutting-edge approach that combines evolutionary psychology with age-old story techniques to create high-performing digital content that cuts through the noise.

Whether you’re competing for local foot traffic or global downloads, Primal Storytelling will help you forge authentic connections with your audience, improve your brand performance in social media and SEO, and supercharge your content results.

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447: The Inside Story of a Multibillion Dollar Behemoth with Mike Evans

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It’s not every day I get to interview the founder of a multiBILLION dollar startup. Today, however, is indeed such a day.

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That founder is Mike Evans of Grubhub and—more recently—Fixer fame.

Mike has a brand new book out today that unpacks his story in entertaining fashion. The book is called HANGRY: A Startup Journey.

In Hangry, Mike details, step-by-step, the grind of building an innovative business with each chapter including sharp lessons for entrepreneurs and startups that he learned on the fly as he piloted GrubHub by the seat of his pants.

Hangry reveals a decade of eighty-hour work weeks, detailed steps of how Mike garnered his first customers, his hunt for financing dollars, cliffhanger acquisitions, the near collapse of his marriage, a brutally difficult merger, and a pair of tumultuous quit/unquit moments, all to steer the company to become one of the most successful startups in the world.

There’s plenty of razor-sharp wit, as reveals hard-won truths about how startups succeed—and even harder-won truths about how startups fail.

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446: The Only Business Metric That Matters with Jeremy Utley

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My guest today asserts that we all want great ideas, but few of us actually understand how great ideas are born. Innovation, he says, is not an event, a workshop, a sprint, or a hackathon.

It’s a result of mastering ideaflow, a practice that elevates everything else you do.

His name is Jeremy Utley, and he is the coauthor, along with Perry Klebahn of IDEAFLOW: The Only Business Metric That Matters.

They advocate a simple core principle: ideas matter. Instead of focusing on output, innovators focus on input. Instead of obsessing over quality, innovators generate quantity.

They argue that every problem is an idea problem at its core, and changing the way you think about any problem will unleash success. Innovation is a volume game, and the quantity of ideas drives quality.

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445: Peak Your Profits with Jeff Blackman

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When our guest is someone who’s been working in his Zone of Genius for as long as he has, you can rest assured you’re going to learn a lot!

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His name is Jeff Blackman, and he is the author of several books, including Peak Your Profit: The Explosive Business-Growth System.

Jeff reveals years of testing, research and development, and his explosive business-growth system that will show you step-by-step how to Peak Your Profits.

You’ll very quickly outdistance your competition and reach new levels of unprecedented success. That’s because Jeff proven, profit-producing strategies on the crucial areas of business development.

He helps you build sustainable opportunities to strongly improve your top and bottom lines.

Jeff’s book will help you grow your business and skyrocket your profitability—quickly, ethically, and dramatically—even in a tough economy.

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