Travis Makes Money 743: Jonathon Kendall | Monetize Your Skills by Adding World-Class Value
Jonathon Kendall realized early on that all the skills in the world mean nothing if they’re not providing value to people. Today, Jonathon is a copywriting, funnel building, course creation, and capital raising, specialist. His crowdfunding systems have recently raised over $110,000,000 for startups & iconic brands like RadioShack and Pier1 Imports. His outsourcing company, Virtual Worker Now manages 300+ employees for North American entrepreneurs.
Dive in if you want to find out how to monetize your skills by adding world-class value.
Things you will learn in this episode:
[00:01 - 04:49] Opening Segment
- Jonathon shares his background
- Growing up ambitious and active
- Jonathon’s experience in competitive events
- Learning to organize people into one mission
[04:50 - 24:25] Monetize Your Skills by Adding World-Class Value
- How Jonathon made his skills into money
- Turning the creative skills into marketing
- Your skills have to provide value to get paid for them
- Jonathon’s first venture into entrepreneurial success and failure
- Transitioning from artistry to copywriting
- Taking off after a big assignment to ghostwrite a book
- Utilizing the 4 Hour Work Week Strategy
- Jonathon talks about how he started landing bigger named clients
- Thinking long-term in terms of networking
- Understand the need and just solve it in advance
- How to be strategic about your networking
- Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
- Take a lot of swings
- Differentiate hard skills from soft skills
- The importance of time blocking
- A quick word from our sponsor
[24:26 - 36:59] Keeping Up with Scale While Managing Many Projects
- Jonathon shares about his current work and future projects
- Building out models that provide value while supporting scale
- When to create something around your skills vs. hiring out weaknesses
- Optimize for the right KPI and get obsessed with increasing that KPI
- At the end of the day, the important thing for your client is revenue
- Give proof of work not fancy work
- Who you know or what you know?
- Get to the who by providing a high-level what
[37:00 - 33:21] Closing Segment
- ThE RaNDoM RouNd
Want to connect with Jonathon? You can find him on LinkedIn and Instagram. Get your brand or business to that world-class level by checking out https://virtualworkernow.com/.
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Tweetable Quotes:
“Your passion matters but only in so far as much as for other people to pay you for it.” - Jonathon Kenall
“Take a lot of swings. You’re not going to hit a home run every time.” - Jonathon Kendall
“Money is an exchange of value. If you want to have more money, and more freedom, and more resources, and more status, and more esteem; there’s no shortcut.” - Jonathon Kendall
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