SharkPreneur

Podcast with ImpactAnna Parker-Naples, The Podcast Agency – The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 782 Anna Parker-NaplesAnna Parker-Naples is bestselling Author of ‘Podcast with Impact’ and ‘Get Visible’, Speaker, Coach and audio expert. She helps leaders to get louder by amplifying their message through the power of podcasts. Her own show, ‘Entrepreneurs Get Visible’ is amongst the top 1% of all podcasts globally. Anna has a background as a multi award winning audio producer and voice actor. She began working in the mindset and entrepreneurial space after going from disabled to fully recovered at the top of her field on the red carpets in Hollywood, and wanted others to understand the potential of mindset and NLP to transform their levels of success. She is CEO of ‘The Podcast Membership’ and ‘The Podcast Agency’ - a full consultancy and production service and uses her audio knowledge to help experts reach the masses with their message. She has helped almost 300 podcasts became chart-topping shows since Jan 2020, with a ripple effect that touches millions.   Listen to this illuminating Sharkpreneur episode with Anna Parker-Naples about her book, Podcast with Impact.Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:- How many entrepreneurs don’t understand the unique opportunity having a podcast affords.- Why it’s important to have the right equipment and good audio when making a podcast.- How you must take advantage of the small window to promote your podcast when it first launches to grow your audience organically.- Why having a strong social media following is important when launching a podcast.- How podcast producing agencies should only launch one podcast a week. Connect with Anna:Guest Contact InfoTwitter @AnnaParkerNapleInstagram @annaparkernaplesFacebook facebook.com/AnnaParkerNaplesCoachLinks Mentioned: annaparkernaples.comThepodcastangency.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Growing Your Business on Tik TokWill Perry, Reason Agency – The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 781 Will PerryWill Perry is the CEO and CMO of Orlando-based Reason Agency, a direct response ad agency focusing on apparel brands, health and wellness, and healthy food spaces within e-commerce. They help scale up growth-stage ready brands drive significant revenue through paid social media ads such as Facebook and Google ads. Reason specializes in highly optimized split testing & media buying strategies that make acquiring customers more profitable.  Listen to this illuminating Sharkpreneur episode with Will Perry about growing your business on Tik Tok.Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:- Why people should be excited about using Tik Tok as an advertising platform.- How the changes Facebook makes impacts small businesses.- Why 2021 was a rocky year for a lot of advertisers.- How Tik Tok ads are a lot less expensive than Facebook ads right now.- Why creating native interactions drives sales for your business. Connect with Will:Guest Contact InfoLinkedIn linkedin.com/in/will-perry-4a483958Links Mentioned: reasonagency.co   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thriving Coach AcademyFrank Macri, Thriving Coach Academy – The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 780 Fank MacriFrank Macri is the Founder of Thriving Coach Academy. When he started his own journey as a coach over 7 years ago, Frank did not have any prior business experience or a large online following. Yet, he discovered a unique process that allowed him to take his business from zero to multiple six figures before turning 30, making him one of the most successful Millennial coaches in the industry. Now, Frank has trained and mentored over 1,000 individuals looking to start their own coaching practices. He is also the host of the “Life Coaching Secrets” podcast. Listen to this illuminating Sharkpreneur episode with Frank Macri about Thriving Coach Academy.Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:- How Thriving Coach Academy has trained over 1000 coaches to date.- Why you can’t let yourself be held back by your own limiting beliefs.- How you need to know how people’s minds work if you want to be a life coach.- Why you don’t have to stay locked into one type of client as a life coach.- How life coaches should let their specialty evolve as they evolve. Connect with Frank:Guest Contact InfoTwitter @_FrankMacriInstagram @frankmacriFacebook facebook.com/frankmacriLinkedIn linkedin.com/in/frankmacri  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Evolved ProfitsMarc Freedman, Evolved Profits – The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 779 Marc FreedmanMarc Freedman is a serial entrepreneur, CEO, and best-selling author who loves helping people. He has 40+ years of experience and an extensive network of experts who help businesses answer an important question that each one runs into at one point or another—am I paying more than market price? Sometimes the answer is no. But when the answer is yes, Marc and his team help businesses free up cash so that it can be reinvested into helping employees, growing the business, and creating Social Impact!Marc believes that, like people, businesses can often fall into ruts. One of those ruts is the mentality that the only way to cut costs is to reduce payroll or cheapen the product. In more than 25,000 audits of businesses of all sizes from a range of industries, Marc and his team have found dozens of expense categories in which businesses can lower their spending without adversely affecting their people or their product.His first company, Expense To Profit, focused on ensuring that companies paid no more than market price for the products and services that they needed. After saving companies over $1 billion, Marc has extended his vision of helping others with Evolved Profits, where he helps companies not only reduce their spend, but also extend their positive impact on the world by taking 5% of his fees and donating it to an impact fund that companies can apply to a cause-driven project, community contribution, or donation to a charity partner.Marc’s need to share his expertise with the world also led him to write a book. He is now a #1 Amazon best-selling author in 8 categories, and the book is titled Expense To Profit: Eliminate the Costs that Sabotage Your Growth. Listen to this illuminating Sharkpreneur episode with Marc Freedman about his company Evolved Profits.Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:- How building relationships with people who own businesses can set you up for success.- How many businesses don’t know they are paying too much for some things.- How Evolved Profits has helped businesses save billions of dollars.- Why it’s important for businesses to know why something costs what it costs.- Why an ambassador program is a great way to bring in new clients. Connect with Marc:Guest Contact InfoLinkedIn linkedin.com/in/freedmanmarcLinks Mentioned: evolvedprofits.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shift Your Marketing ThinkingSean Doyle, FitzMartin Inc – The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 778 Sean DoyleSean M. Doyle is principal at FitzMartin Inc, a leading consultancy focused on sales marketing and management, sales and marketing technology services, and revenue operations for B2B companies. Sean and his team at FitzMartin are focused on long term value creation through a sales-first, scientific approach to driving revenue. Sean knows that the split personality of marketing is inhibiting growth aspirations. Budget and impact conversations often become contentious: revenue operation marketers tout their ability to drive sales while brand builders argue for longer-term brand investments. The executive team thinks both struggle to demonstrate the near-term value. It is for this reason that Sean’s team believes a thoughtful and datadriven full-funnel marketing strategy can drive significant value. Sean’s latest book, Shift, explores 19 practical ideas, grounded in the science of behavioral change, that can transform a business’s marketing efforts and, by natural extension, its profitability. A native Pennsylvanian who’s put down deep Southern roots, Sean is a man of family and faith who strives to be a selfless leader. On weekends, you’ll find him out fishing local streams and teaching the art of fly fishing to anyone who wants to tag along. Listen to this illuminating Sharkpreneur episode with Sean Doyle about shifting how you think about marketing.Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:- How marketing and sales is applied behavioral science.- How cognitive marketing equips sales and marketing to know when and what to do.- Why you should find a marketing firm that starts with the late-stage deals that don’t close.- Why it’s important for you to look at your customers and see what their needs are.- What full funnel marketing is and how it turns people into customers and fans. Connect with Sean:Guest Contact InfoTwitter @FitzMartinb2bInstagram @fitzmartinmarketingFacebook facebook.com/fitzmartinmarketingLinkedInLinkedin.com/company/fitzmartinLinks Mentioned:Fitzmartin.comSeanmdoyle.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Life Lessons from Winning 18 Million Dollars Playing PokerDaniel Cates – The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 776 Daniel CatesDaniel ‘Jungleman’ Cates is renowned in the poker world as a high-stakes cash game crusher, having battled at the highest stakes in both the online and live arenas. The 31-year-old poker pro came into the 2021 World Series of Poker with nearly $9 million in prior tournament earnings to his name. Cates added to that total in a major way at the 2021 WSOP by taking down the $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship nine-game event, defeating an elite field of 63 entries to earn the top prize of $954,020 and his first gold bracelet. Listen to this illuminating Sharkpreneur episode with Daniel Cates about life lessons learned from winning 18 million dollars playing poker.Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:- Why it’s important to have determination and to try as hard as you can.- How people can be relatively predictable in life and in poker.- Why underestimating people is a mistake you don’t want to make.- How online poker players do psychological things that live players don’t do.- Why you want to come across as being pleasant during live games. Connect with Daniel:Guest Contact InfoTwitter @junglemandanInstagram @thedancatesFacebook facebook.com/jungleman12Links Mentioned: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-winning-the-game-of-life-92125055/   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

America’s #1 Investment Real Estate MarketplaceJosh DeShong, Trelly – The Sharkpreneur podcast with Kevin Harrington and Seth Greene Episode 775 Josh DeShongJosh DeShong is an entrepreneur and business magnate. He is the founder and CEO at Jdre; founder and CEO of Myers Home Buyers; co-founder of Propalytics; and co-founder, CEO, and early-stage investor of Trelly. First known as one of the nation’s top real estate agents, DeShong is now more known for doing groundbreaking work within the real estate industry while shaking things up in the real estate tech space.At age 18, Josh became the youngest person to get their real estate license in the state of Texas; the youngest person ever hired at Keller Williams, then advanced to running one of the top real estate teams in the country by the time he was 21.Josh has been named one of Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Business Founder; Wall Street Journal’s top 100 agents in the country, and has closed over $2B+ transactions. As founder, co-founder, and CEO of his companies, Josh leads his team by example, with the highest level of integrity and a firm commitment to doing the right thing.Josh found a passion for investing and helping others learn how to invest in real estate. That passion is what continues to fuel his drive to develop new and innovative ways for people to buy and sell real estate. Listen to this illuminating Sharkpreneur episode with Josh DeShong about America’s #1 investment real estate marketplace.Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:- How Trelly makes buying and selling real estate more efficient.- How Trelly allows you to buy and sell off market real estate for free.- How real estate investors do thousands of transactions a year on Facebook.- How there are over 20 million residential real estate investors in the US.- Why it’s important for Trelly to identify and understand different types of users. Connect with Josh:Guest Contact InfoTwitter @JoshDeShongTeamInstagram @joshdeshongreFacebook facebook.com/TrellyInvestorsLinkedIn linkedin.com/company/trellyLinks Mentioned: trelly.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Art of the SettlementJason Lazarus, Synergy Settlement – The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 774 Jason LazarusJason D. Lazarus, J.D., LL.M., CSSC, MSCC is the founder and chief executive officer of Synergy Settlement Services. Synergy allows trial lawyers to focus on what they do best by handling all the issues which arise at settlement such as lien resolution, Medicare compliance, public benefit preservation, and settlement planning techniques for protecting the recovery. He is also a Principal and President of Multi-Claimant Solutions which offers lien resolution and MSP compliance services for mass torts.Mr. Lazarus is a renowned legal settlement services industry expert. His written work is widely published and his thought leadership in Medicare compliance has been cited by Federal courts and Florida courts including the Florida Supreme Court. He is available to consult with trial lawyers across the country when they are dealing with the issues that arise at settlement including lien resolution, Medicare compliance, government benefit preservation, trusts and protection of the financial recovery.Mr. Lazarus is the proud father of three children: Sarah, Kyle, and Camille. In his free time, he is an avid cyclist and amateur auto racing given his passion for going fast! Mr. Lazarus has a passion for UCF and FSU football. He works out of the Synergy main office in Orlando. Listen to this illuminating Sharkpreneur episode with Jason Lazarus about his book, The Art of the Settlement.Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:- How having a niche business can lead to a successful business.- How settlement planning helps protect the person who gets the settlement.- How the book helps prepare lawyers to better serve their clients in settlement cases.- Why people need education on settlement cases before their case resolves.- How personal injury litigation is very diverse. Connect with Jason:Guest Contact InfoTwitter @SynergySettleFacebook facebook.com/SynergySettlementServicesLinkedIn linkedin.com/company/syngery-settlement-servicesLinks Mentioned:Synergysettlements.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ExitPreneurJoe Valley, ExitPreneur.io – The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 773 Joe ValleyJoe Valley is a serial entrepreneur, EXITpreneur, M&A Advisor, Podcaster and Partner at Quiet Light Brokerage, one of the top online business brokerage-advisory firms in the world. Joe has also built, bought, or sold over half a dozen of his own companies. And over the last nine years, he has mentored thousands of entrepreneurs whose goal is to achieve their own eventual exit. He is a ​Certified Mergers & Acquisitions Professional, and a frequent guest expert in mastermind groups, AMAs, on podcasts, and at speaker events for entrepreneurs worldwide. Joe’s book, The EXITpreneur’s Playbook – How to Sell your Online Business for Top Dollar – shares real-life stories of successful and failed exits, and teaches you how to reverse engineer a pathway to your own incredible exit. Gino Wickman, author of Traction, and The Entrepreneurial Leap says “This EXITpreneur’s Playbook is a must-read for online entrepreneurs.” Joe has personally closed nearly 100 million in transactions and touched nearly a half-billion in online exits through the entrepreneur-led team of Advisors at Quiet Light Listen to this illuminating Sharkpreneur episode with Joe Valley about helping entrepreneurs sell online businesses.Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:- How you can’t just wake up one day and decide to sell your business.- How entrepreneurs make 50% of their money from their business the day they sell it.- Why entrepreneurs need to focus on the four pillars that buyers look at and what they are.- How setting goals makes you a more successful person and business owner.- Why you must take time off after selling your business for me time. Connect with Joe:Guest Contact InfoTwitter@TheJoeValleyFacebook facebook.com/exitpreneursplaybookLinkedIn linkedin.com/in/joe-valley-833ba48Links Mentioned: exitpreneur.io  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reinventing the Educational SystemSam Silver, Heron Books – The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 772 Sam SilverSam Silver is the Vice President of Business Development at Heron Books, After using the curriculum as a teacher for twenty years, he is now dedicated to providing many more students a chance to study materials that put them in the driver’s seat. Listen to this illuminating Sharkpreneur episode with Sam Silver about reinventing the educational system.Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:- How you should take the time you need to learn a subject fully before moving on.- Why most schools are using time inefficiently and how that doesn’t benefit students.- How Heron Books focuses on serving those who decide home schooling is best.- Why Heron Books can help bring home schoolers a higher quality of learning.- How Heron Books uses a student study guide to give the student a path to success. Connect with Sam:Guest Contact InfoInstagram @heronbooks_k12FacebookFacebook.com/HeronBooksLinks Mentioned: heronbooks.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices