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Today’s listener Q&A is all about motivation! One of our audience members wonders if Omar ever wakes up and just plain don’t feel like handling business. The answer is a firm YES! Today, he discusses how he motivates himself to push on when work really feels like…well, work! Tune in to hear what he thinks about when he needs to remind himself why he does what he does. Learn how you can find the energy to take on the day, even when you don’t feel like it. Click play! SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTS Stitcher | SoundCloud | Podcast Feed | How To Subscribe Give us a Rating & Review Today’s Sponsors: Sumo The #1 tool to grow your website’s traffic and your email list. Sumo powers almost 400,000 websites! Best of all, it’s free! Get started with their basic plan over at Sumo right now! Earth Class Mail Earth Class Mail moves your snail mail into the cloud. You can get all your mails scanned and accessible online 24/7. Start receiving all your business correspondence at one of our prestigious addresses. Visit earthclassmail.com/mba and get your first month of service for free! Show Links: Freakonomics The post MBA687 Q&A Weekends: Do you ever wake up & not want to do what you do? How do you overcome that? appeared first on The $100 MBA. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

It’s Q&A Weekend, and today’s listener question is one we hear kind of a lot: How on Earth does Omar organizes his day? Omar is a busy guy with multiple projects and products in motion, so scheduling efficiently is paramount. Today he shares his basic routine, plus some tips and tricks for how you can make the most of every day. Click play! SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTS Stitcher | SoundCloud | Podcast Feed | How To Subscribe Give us a Rating & Review Today’s Sponsors: Sumo The #1 tool to grow your website’s traffic and your email list. Sumo powers almost 400,000 websites! Best of all, it’s free! Get started with their basic plan over at Sumo right now!  Lenovo is shaping the next generation data center by enabling companies to create scalable cloud infrastructures. We’re talking turnkey infrastructure for private and hybrid clouds that set up, scale and become operational quickly. As always, Lenovo is there to plan, implement, and provide support. Learn more about how Lenovo is transforming the data center at solutions.lenovo.com Show Links: WebinarNinja The post MBA686 Q&A Weekends: How do you organize your day dude? appeared first on The $100 MBA. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

As our business grows, we have to (get to!) decide which responsibilities we’re ready to hand off to new team members. So when is the right time to put an accountant on the payroll? Knowing why you should is the key to knowing when you should. Today, we discuss the accountant’s role in making sure that your business is on track for growth, and when it’s time to bring one in. Plus, it’s FREE RIDE FRIDAY!!! Click play! SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTS Stitcher | SoundCloud | Podcast Feed | How To Subscribe Give us a Rating & Review Today’s Sponsors: Sumo The #1 tool to grow your website’s traffic and your email list. Sumo powers almost 400,000 websites! Best of all, it’s free! Get started with their basic plan over at Sumo right now! Stop guessing – start asking with Qualaroo surveys. Qualaroo makes it easy to survey specific groups of website visitors to gain qualitative information. Get a clear picture of who your customers are, and what they’re looking for on your site. Visit Qualaroo.com and get your first two weeks of service FREE when you sign up! Show Links: Xero The post MBA685 When Should You Hire an Accountant? Plus Free Ride Friday! appeared first on The $100 MBA. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Many of us think that real entrepreneurial success depends on having a groundbreaking, dynamite original idea. But what if that’s not the case? Spoiler alert: it’s not! Implementation, innovation, and the ability to make ideas work is what counts. Today, we discuss how success comes not from the perfect idea, but from a commitment to realizing the ideas that are already there! Check it out. SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTS Stitcher | SoundCloud | Podcast Feed | How To Subscribe Give us a Rating & Review Today’s Sponsors: Sumo The #1 tool to grow your website’s traffic and your email list. Sumo powers almost 400,000 websites! Best of all, it’s free! Get started with their basic plan over at Sumo right now! Work smart with QUIP! Skip the endless chain of emails, meetings, chats and document versions by working simpler and faster. Quip is a place for teams to write, edit, share and discuss documents — online or offline. Try it out for yourself. Get 6 months of a QUIP TEAM PLAN for FREE when you visit quip.com/mba! The post MBA684 Is Business About Having the Perfect Idea? appeared first on The $100 MBA. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Take it slow! Bombarding your customers with content might seem like giving more, but it’s counterproductive for both of you. Today we discuss why drip-feeding your content in manageable, digestible bites is the best way to give your customers the experience they’re looking for. We look at some excellent models of this approach, and demonstrate how not overwhelming your customers keeps them coming back for more. Click play! SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTS Stitcher | SoundCloud | Podcast Feed | How To Subscribe Give us a Rating & Review Today’s Sponsors: Sumo The #1 tool to grow your website’s traffic and your email list. Sumo powers almost 400,000 websites! Best of all, it’s free! Get started with their basic plan over at Sumo right now! The virtual receptionist service with the 5-star Yelp rating! Just forward your existing business phone number to Ruby’s super- friendly team of professionals and prepare to be amazed! It’s like having a model full-time employee …for a fraction of the cost! Hurry to CallRuby.com/Business to get free activation– a 95$ value! Show Links: teachery.co easycourse.co The post MBA683 The Advantages of Drip-Feeding Content appeared first on The $100 MBA. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Sometimes, not everything goes according to plan. When you’re faced with unexpected last-minute hurdles, is it ok to delay the launch of a product, service, or whole business? What effect does this have on sales? Today we discuss the right time to delay, the wrong time to delay, and how to delay the right way- if you have to. Click play! SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTS Stitcher | SoundCloud | Podcast Feed | How To Subscribe Give us a Rating & Review Today’s Sponsors: Sumo The #1 tool to grow your website’s traffic and your email list. Sumo powers almost 400,000 websites! Best of all, it’s free! Get started with their basic plan over at Sumo right now! Have you found the right payments partner to grow with you? Braintree lets you accept every way to pay, from Paypal to Apple Pay and everything in between. All it takes is one integration. And it doesn’t matter what currency your customers use: because Braintree lets you accept over one hundred and thirty of them. To learn more about how your company can grow with Braintree, visit braintreepayments.com/mba. Show Links: WebinarNinja The post MBA682 Is it OK to Delay Launch Day? appeared first on The $100 MBA. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Today’s episode is another super-informative, wildly helpful must-read book for the entrepreneur! Mike Vardy is a best-selling author, fellow podcaster, and founder of Productivityist. His short e-book Beyond Trying is a bite-sized master-class in productivity. With an individualized approach to finding the time you need, this book can really help you get things done! Click play to hear all about it. SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTS Stitcher | SoundCloud | Podcast Feed | How To Subscribe Give us a Rating & Review Today’s Sponsors: Sumo The #1 tool to grow your website’s traffic and your email list. Sumo powers almost 400,000 websites! Best of all, it’s free! Get started with their basic plan over at Sumo right now! You don’t need to be a web designer or a coder to create beautiful-looking websites, a blog or an online store. You can do it in minutes with Weebly! You have no more excuses and you can do it right now, today! Just go to weebly.com/mba and get started for free. Show Links: Get the book on Amazon! Beyond Trying Kindle Edition by Mike Vardy Productivityist.com How to Stop Time: Mike Vardy at TEDxVictoria 2013 The post MBA681 Must Read: Beyond Trying by Mike Vardy appeared first on The $100 MBA. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

It’s Q&A Weekend, and today’s listener query is about prices! Specifically, how did we decide what to charge for our SaaS, Webinar Ninja? SaaS pricing can be tricky, with prices ranging wildly from service to service. Finding the sweet spot in terms of profitability and the customers’ return on investment takes some figuring. Fortunately, we’re happy to tell you all about how we did it! Click play! SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTS Stitcher | SoundCloud | Podcast Feed | How To Subscribe Give us a Rating & Review Today’s Sponsors: Sumo The #1 tool to grow your website’s traffic and your email list. Sumo powers almost 400,000 websites! Best of all, it’s free! Get started with their basic plan over at Sumo right now! The virtual receptionist service with the 5-star Yelp rating! Just forward your existing business phone number to Ruby’s super- friendly team of professionals and prepare to be amazed! It’s like having a model full-time employee …for a fraction of the cost! Hurry to CallRuby.com/Business to get free activation– a 95$ value! Show Links: WebinarNinja WebRTC The post MBA680 Q&A Weekends: How did you come up with the pricing for your SaaS, WebinarNinja? appeared first on The $100 MBA. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

It’s Q&A Weekends, and thanks to one listener we’re faced with a choice: Leadpages or a WordPress plug-in? One requires a one-time fee, and the other is a monthly subscription. But which is best for your business? Both approaches have their ups and downs, and what you decide will depend on a few different factors. Strap in, buckle up, and get ready for our answer to yet another incisive question from the audience! SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTS Stitcher | SoundCloud | Podcast Feed | How To Subscribe Give us a Rating & Review Today’s Sponsors: Crown & Caliber is the smartest way to buy or sell the perfect luxury watch that’s certified pre-owned for you! Listeners who enter promo code CC100mba will receive $150 off their first luxury watch purchase up to August 30th! Just visit crownandcaliber.com/100mba or speak to one of our watch experts at (888) 226-5795. Show Links: Leadpages WP Profit Builder InstaBuilder 2.0 OptimizePress For a great breakdown and comparison of the best drag & drop WordPress page builders, checkout this post on Authority Hacker. The post MBA679 Q&A Weekends: What are the advantages of paying a monthly subscription to Leadpages VS a one-time fee plug-in? appeared first on The $100 MBA. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

When it comes to sales and customer onboarding, few things are as useful as a well-made screencast tutorial! If you’re unsure how to make the best ones possible, we’ve got good news- it’s easier than ever! You just have to have the right tools and basic knowledge. Today we discuss what tools and software we use, how we prepare and shoot our tutorials, and why we use them so darn much. Click play, and learn to make screencasting work for you! Plus Free Ride Friday! SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTS Stitcher | SoundCloud | Podcast Feed | How To Subscribe Give us a Rating & Review Today’s Sponsors: Web Hosting with Unlimited Disk Space, Bandwidth and 24/7 Technical Support. All $100 MBA listeners get 30% off hosting! Just visit hostgator.com/mba30! Show Links: Camtasia EasyCourse.co WebinarNinja The post MBA678 Five Tips to Killer Screen Cast Tutorials Plus Free Ride Friday! appeared first on The $100 MBA. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.