Hustle & Flowchart: Mastering Business & Enjoying the Journey

Chris “Mercer” Mercer, co-founder of Measurement Marketing.io, is a sought after measurement marketing expert. For the past 5 years, Mercer (as he’s known) and his team have been helping marketers, marketing teams, and agencies know, trust, and grow their numbers. First by planning out what’s important to measure in their marketing, then how to actually measure it by using tools like Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics, pulling actionable insights from what’s being measured, and finally predicting future results. Mercer spends countless hours reading, practicing, adjusting and innovating to improve his skill set. He has a knack for teaching, and is known for his ability to simplify even the most complex ideas for his audience. On today’s episode, Chris will give us information on Google Analytics: how to track where your sales are coming from, where is your traffic coming from, which traffic is converting into sales.

Stefan Ciancio has driven a hundred thousand visitors to his niche website through Pinterest. His story is an interesting one, on how he went from a 9-5 job and finding a winning niche for himself through pinterest. Pinterest is a huge traffic source which acts both as a platform and a search engine. It has a feature called Group Boards filled with people who are passionate about something. These people post pins in this board and these pins can be redirected to your website once clicked. That’s where the traffic comes from, the engagement algorithm. With his innovative knowledge on Pinterest, he has developed a software called Board Commander to make pinning trouble-free.  On today’s episode, we will talk about how to drive traffic to your website using Pinterest. The strategy & tools Stefan used and the software he automated.

Ori Bengal is an amazing artist who did art for 2,160 days in a row and published it on his Facebook daily. This brilliant guy also did sculptures, 3D Painting, oil paintings, and a lot more. He got this massive process that tied in Art and Marketing and breaks it all down. On today’s episode, we will talk about art and how to hack accountability. This episode is one to listen to, if only for the bull poker story and explanation.

Wilco is a full-time online marketing “whiz kid” who started at the age of 16, when he started selling sunglasses online. Over the next decade and then some, Wilco has developed several online marketing applications and WordPress plugins. This humble man is the founder of UpViral and Connectio, two powerful viral marketing applications. He spearheads a diverse, talented team of programmers, developers, designers and online marketing professionals to ensure that UpViral and Connectio continues to grow as top-shelf applications. On today’s episode, Wilco will be telling us with us how to grow your email list exponentially. He will also discuss the intensity of Ad campaigns and how to effectively use and maintain them. And of course, he will be pleased to walk us through the functions and benefits of UpViral and Connectio.

Bastian Ernst is an Austrian entrepreneur who is super passionate about two things: our planet and marketing technology. He sees life like a butterfly with different stages and each stage contributes to & builds the next stage. This zeal brought him to building Relationship Funnels. He is the CEO and Founder of Wild Audience. They partner with clients to drive their business outcomes through respect-based marketing & smart funnel automation, and everything in between. They also build sales funnels for online businesses. On today’s episode, Bastian will tell us how to effectively use funnels in marketing. He will share with us their unique process in using multi-channel marketing through the relationship funnel.

A single mom with four children, Tina Marie has been creating fast, sustainable growth for startups and liberating entrepreneurs from the grind since 2003. She is the owner of Profit Drivers Inc., which was running since 2012 up to date. Profit Driver’s Inc. helps entrepreneurs become CEO's. The company’s goal is to take you off the hamster wheel that you call a business and turn it into the freedom you always envisioned it being for you. Through small tweaks, this company can obtain huge results for your business. Stop working 80-100 hours a week, get more done in less time and start scooping up that money you keep leaving on the table because you're too busy to get to it. On today’s episode, Tina will walk us through her entrepreneurial journey. In addition, she will share with us the Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) you should be monitoring in your business and the roles you should be filling in your team. She also covers how to benefit from using Personality test to find the right people.

Josh Bartlett is the founder of Webactix and the creator of some of the most well-respected software tools in the online marketing world. Josh is the visionary behind such powerful tools as Easy Video Player, Easy Video Suite, Audello, and most recently, >Thrivecart. Josh grew up in a tough town in the UK and built a strong entrepreneurial career out of necessity. After seeing success with his ecommerce business, Josh moved with his wife and setup roots in New Zealand. Josh has been a mentor to Matt and Joe, helping both of them jumpstart their careers. Josh gave Joe some of his first agency work and helped Matt come up with the idea for his first major info-product, The WordPress Classroom. For the past 9 years, Matt, Joe, and Josh have all worked closely together to support each other and help grow each other's businesses. On today’s episode, Josh will share with us his success story in his transition from being a mortgage broker to being an entrepreneur. He will also reveal to us his mindset philosophy and effective team handling. Learn more about Thrivecart here.

Travis Ketchum is the Founder & CEO of Campaign Refinery and Contest Domination - helping 10's of thousands of businesses build bigger email lists filled with qualified leads since 2012.   For a grand total of $7,500 ($4,000 of which was on a credit card)... founder Travis Ketchum set out to solve his biggest challenge in growing an online business from scratch - something every small business needs to survive. His solution was to run a contest, but all available solutions at the time gave points to contestants for the act of sharing instead of giving an incentive for the actual opt-in.   Contests instantly helped Travis add thousands of people to his email list, and the product launched to thousands of new customers within just a few months of entering the market.   And suddenly, Contest Domination changed the way people think about viral lead generating campaigns.

With over twenty five years’ combined online marketing experience between them, the Evergreen Profits team also helps their clients implement automated marketing funnels to capture and nurture qualified leads, driving business growth. Joe is very much the “hands-on” guy. He has a unique ability to look at a business and quickly put together a strategic marketing plan that leads to an immediate upsurge in sales and revenue. Matt is the self-confessed nerd of the Evergreen Profits operation. There’s nothing Matt loves more than to get knee-deep in data! He’s constantly split-testing and experimenting with incremental changes that dramatically increase sales and profits over time. On today’s episode, Matt and Joe are recording live on their way to an Overtime Event. They’ll share how Networking has benefited their business and how it can also give value to your business.

Brian G. Johnson is a serial entrepreneur, #1 best-selling author, engaging speaker, product creator and poodle wrangler who enjoys coaching others to success. For more than a decade now he has been making money online by leveraging a number of programs and systems that have allowed him to quit his day job as a professional chef. In the past ten years or so he made hundreds of thousands of dollars as an AdSense publisher, an affiliate marketer, a product vendor and a reseller of domain names and hosting services. By 2008 he mastered affiliate marketing and sold posters, artwork, vintage items on eBay, software, apps, website plugins and lots more. He also become quite good, some may even say expert, at search engine optimization (SEO) and WordPress. It was time for new challenges, so he decided to create his own info products which are based on the skills he used for years to make money online. Thus, since 2008 he launched a variety of digital programs. On today’s episode, Brian will help us better understand the suggested video algorithm and the importance of delivering value to your audience that’ll make them binge watch your channel. Also, he’ll talk through a  way to monetize your videos using live stream.