INspired INsider Podcast

Oren Klaff is one of the world's leading experts on sales, raising capital, and negotiation, and has raised over $2 billion in investments for his companies. He is the best-selling author of Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal, and Flip the Script: Getting People to Think Your Idea Is Their Idea.  Oren also helps companies worldwide to craft and deliver a pitch that will help them raise funds that will change their company. In this episode… If you're looking to raise millions in capital or you’re wanting to close B2B deals worth millions and you're struggling to lock down the second or third meetings, Oren Klaff says it’s most probably because you're going about it the wrong way. He says that when your pitch is only about your product's features, benefits, and the clients you currently serve with nothing else but the price to talk about, what is to say that those you're pitching to won't go with your competitors?  According to Oren, no one will get into a deal with you quickly, smoothly, and at a fair price if they think you're of a lower status. That’s why you have to understand and practice status alignment which is just one of the mechanisms you need to tick of when closing million-dollar deals. So what are these mechanisms, and how do you use them in practice?  Tune in to this episode of INspired INsider, as Oren Klaff shares with Dr. Jeremy Weisz how he closes million-dollar deals, the mechanisms at play, and how he uses them to flip the script to get those he is trying to make a deal with come after him. Stay tuned.

Kim Walsh Phillips is a multi seven-figure business entrepreneur with no business degree and she has put more than a billion dollars in her clients’ pockets through direct response, social media marketing.  Kim is also the Founder of Powerful Professionals, where she empowers entrepreneurs to stop relying on word-of-mouth marketing and start scaling quickly online. She is the best selling author of the book No B.S. Guide to Direct Response Social Media Marketing which she co-authored with Dan S. Kennedy. She’s also a renowned public speaker who has spoken at different conferences all over the world and has shared the stage with the likes of Tony Robbins and Gary Vaynerchuk. In this episode… The entrepreneurial journey has many hustle moments. These are moments when even if you’re lacking in resources or have no idea what your next move will be, you just can’t say no. So what do you do? You get resourceful. And that’s exactly what Kim Walsh did when she encountered her very first hustle moment. In this episode of INspired INsider, Dr. Jeremy Weisz talks to his friend, Kim Walsh Phillips of Powerful Professionals, where Kim talks about her very first hustle moment and how business owners can get resourceful in order to push through their hustle moments. Stay tuned.

Dave Woodward is the Chief Revenue Officer and Partner of ClickFunnels. The platform helps businesses quickly create beautiful sales funnels that convert their visitors into leads and then into customers. ClickFunnels has over 100,000 users and has helped people build over 6 million funnels generating over $4 billion. Before ClickFunnels, Dave started his company Monopolized 17 years ago and has been helping businesses grow in different industries from insurance, investments, real estate, and much more. Dave is also the host of the Funnel Hacker Radio podcast. In this episode… The current business climate isn’t the best of time for many entrepreneurs around the world because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses have had to let go of some members of their team because they weren’t generating the same revenue due to a decrease in revenue. But according to Dave Woodward of ClickFunnels, every loss is a learning opportunity and it helps define who you are as an entrepreneur. So what can you do to not only attract new customers but to also make them stick? Sell something for free. How do you do that? By using funnels. The men behind ClickFunnels, a company that has helped generate over $4 billion for over 100,000 users, used this method to grow their business into a multi-million dollar company. Tune in to this episode of INspired INsider as Dave Woodward of ClickFunnels generously shares his business insights and learnings with Dr. Jeremy Weisz. Listen in as they discuss the perfect webinar of ClickFunnels and how this allows people to sell items for free, their stick strategies for maintaining customers, the successful ways that people have used ClickFunnels for membership sits, and more. Stay tuned.

Oren Klaff is one of the world's leading experts on sales, raising capital, and negotiation, and he has raised over $2 billion in investments for his companies. He is the best-selling author of Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal, and Flip the Script: Getting People to Think Your Idea Is Their Idea.  Oren helps companies worldwide to craft and deliver a pitch that will help them raise funds that will change their company. In this episode… There are low and high points in business and life, but how quickly you come back from a low point determines how you can flip things around for the better. For Oren Klaff, there are just four words that he uses to motivate himself in order to come back up after reaching a low point in business. Tune in to this episode of INspired INsider, as Oren Klaff shares with Dr. Jeremy Weisz how he gets back up after reaching a low point in business and how a seemingly innocent exchange made him realize the importance of messaging.  

Johnathan Dane is the CEO and Founder of KlientBoost, a hybrid PPC SEO agency that has grown from zero to eight figures in just the past few years. KlientBoost is a creative pay-per-click and paid social and landing page conversion rate optimization agency pushing the boundaries of ROI and profit potential for over 200 active clients in SaaS, eCommerce, and lead generation.  Johnathan is also the Co-Founder of GrowthComet, a training platform that assists agencies, consultants, and freelancers looking to 10x their service business through a community and 12-month training course. In this episode… Many marketing agencies, ironically, don’t know how to market themselves. Marketing agencies play in a very saturated market where they have to compete against other marketers to attract potential clients to sign on with them. For Johnathan Dane of KlientBoost, succeeding at marketing as an agency and not having to depend on referrals for the next client requires a deliberate focus on differentiation.  How do you differentiate your agency to increase client acquisition and retention to reach over 10 million dollars in revenue? How do you manage growth, hire, and keep A-players in your team? Today’s insightful episode on leveraging your uniqueness in the marketing space is brought to you by Rise25.com.  Tune in to this episode of INspired INsider as Dr. Jeremy Weisz interviews Johnathan Dane of KlientBoost about how his company became a top marketing agency. Listen as Johnathan discusses what he learned from the almost-sale of his company before COVID-19 happened, what agency owners need to do to get ahead in the game, how to use contrarian marketing to acquire more clients, and more.

Ian Garlic is a top video marketing and content expert. He is the founder of StoryCrews, a company that helps businesses connect with top-rated videographers to help businesses market and expand their brand through powerful stories captured on video. He is also the CEO of authenticWEB, a top-rated SEO company that helps businesses grow by sharing authentic stories online through a combination of videos, animations, websites, and SEO. Ian also runs and hosts his own podcast, the Garlic Marketing Show podcast, where he has featured some amazing guests such as Gary Vaynerchuk, Neil Patel, Ryan Deiss, and many more. In this episode… Did you know that testimonials are actually hurting your business? Customer testimonials provide a huge ego boost in business but it doesn’t really leave much of an impact to future potential customers. So how can you share client feedback in a way that not only catches people’s eyes but sticks? You create case stories.  But not everyone knows how to tell a story and not a lot of people know how to make a story viral. You need to be able to convey the right emotions into your story’s messaging to make an impact because a good story is one that converts the audience into clients. And this is what Ian Garlic does. Over the last ten years, Ian has been helping service-based businesses find their most powerful client stories, capture them on video, and deliver them at the perfect time to attract and convert their ideal clients.  In this episode of INspired INsider, Jeremy Weisz interviews Ian Garlic of StoryCrews about the power of a great client story and how it can convert the audience into future clients. Listen in as Ian gives tips on how to tell a great story, how to leverage Youtube to grow and expand your business, and why you should consider hiring a video marketer over a videographer. Stay tuned.

Nick Araco is the Chairman and CEO of AchieveNEXT, a company that helps introduce disruptive knowledge sharing to the c-suite, the Finance, and the HR communities in North America. Considered as one of the nation’s most prominent business, career, and life Connector, as well as the ‘Voice of the Middle Market CFO, Nick has spent over 20 years educating, inspiring, and empowering his ever-growing c-suite and professional network. In this episode… Entrepreneurial decisions are tough calls to make. And these days, it’s even more difficult to make financial decisions because the repercussions can lead to a domino effect within your business and outside of it. This is why for Nick Araco, it’s crucial to have a support system and a network that can help you study your decisions so that you can get to the most optimal solution and get to an informed decision. And that is exactly what Nick has been up to with AchieveNEXT and his CFO Alliance Community In this episode of INspired INsider, Dr. Jeremy Weisz interviews Nick Araco of AchieveNEXT about CFOs and the tough decisions they have had to make during a crisis, what the CFO Alliance is all about, how they support members of their community, and why Nick now considers the path towards success as more like a lattice and not a ladder. Stay tuned.

Johnathan Dane is the CEO and Founder of KlientBoost, a hybrid PPC SEO agency that has grown from zero to eight figures in just the past few years. KlientBoost is a creative pay-per-click and paid social and landing page conversion rate optimization agency pushing the boundaries of ROI and profit potential for over 200 active clients in SaaS, eCommerce, and lead generation.  Johnathan is also the Co-Founder of GrowthComet, a training platform that assists agencies, consultants, and freelancers looking to 10x their service business through a community and 12-month training course. In this episode… Becoming a professional basketball player and even winning the MVP award at a training camp in Denmark were certainly not what Johnathan Dane thought would happen when he got into a fight with his dad and was sent back to his mom in Denmark. Johnathan was still in high school at the time, and when he thought he could get comfortable at his mom’s, she pulled the rug from under him and sent him out of the house to go be his own man.  Johnathan has since gone on to make his own rug and has been keeping it as heavy as possible financially so no one can yank it out again. He’s been doing so by helping his clients stay profitable through creative pay-per-click and paid social and landing page conversion rate optimization.  In this episode of INspired INsider, Dr. Jeremy Weisz interviews Johnathan Dane of KlientBoost about his experiences as a professional basketball player and his pivot into the world of entrepreneurship and digital marketing. Join in on the conversation as he discusses what has led him to the paths he has taken in life and what keeps him motivated and determined to help his clients achieve their success. Stay tuned.

Ross Hudgens is the founder of Siege Media, an agency that helps great brands scale with SEO-focused content marketing. Ross founded Siege Media in 2012 and they have continued to grow since then and have made it to the Inc. 5000 list these past three years and they were also recognized as Inc.’s Best Workplaces. Their past and current clients include Airbnb, TripAdvisor, Shutterfly, Zillow, Intuit, Audible, and many more.  Ross also runs GrowthComet, a training course of record for agencies, freelancers, and consultants looking to 10x their growth. He runs GrowthComet with his partner, Johnathan Dane, CEO of $10M ARR CRO/PPC agency KlientBoost.  In this episode… No other marketing channel offers immediate and long term value like content marketing. But many brands still continue to struggle to gain a strong foothold in the world of content which means they’re unable to generate the optimal ROI for their business. And this is why it’s a good idea to hire a team who knows what they’re doing and can get the results you need to market your brand efficiently in order to grow your business.   Ross Hudgens’ company, Siege Media, is in the business of taking away the guess work in content marketing from their clients because they take on the content marketing steering wheel and drive their brand to its desired destination.  Learn more about Ross Hudgens and Siege Media in this episode of INspired INsider as Dr. Jeremy Weisz interviews him about how they help grow the bottomline of companies they work with through content marketing. They will be talking about what makes for great content, what makes a content go viral, the best tools to use for content marketing, and more so stay tuned.

Dr. Erica Miller is an inspirational speaker, entrepreneur, and international best-selling author who survived the Holocaust and was in the Israeli Air Force. She opened a chain of mental health clinics with over 40 clinicians. She also ran a nonprofit and is a highly sought-after guest speaker all over the world. Dr. Miller oversees her family’s real estate in Austin, Texas. She’s the author of three books: Dr. Erica Miller’s Story: From Trauma to Triumph, Don’t Tell Me I Can’t Do It, and the international bestseller, Chronologically Gifted: Aging with Gusto: A Practical Guide for Healthy Living to Age 123. In this episode… People and businesses continue to suffer the effects of COVID-19 with no definite end in sight and yet, Dr. Erica Miller believes that it is possible to not just survive but thrive despite the challenging times. She should know what it means to be resilient and have grit in the face of challenges because she’s a Holocaust survivor. At 7 years old, she was herded in a cattle car and brought to a Nazi concentration camp where she spent four years battling hunger, oppression, and thoughts of never making it out alive. But she was resilient and when freedom came, it was only a matter of time before young Erica would conquer the world and decide to join the Israeli Air Force. Now an octogenarian, Dr. Miller says she’s got the guts, grit, and gusto to keep smashing her goals all the way till she’s 123 years old. She has started and managed 40 mental health clinics and she has seen the world in all its beauty and tragedy. Her mantra? “I’m lucky to be alive”. In this episode of INspired INsider, Dr. Erica Miller talks about the hurdles that she has had to overcome in her life and how her resilience, fearlessness, and determination paved the way for her to not just survive but thrive. It’s an insightful episode about fighting to survive, grabbing opportunities, and smashing goals one by one so stay tuned.