SharkPreneur

On today's episode, Seth speaks to Daniel Ramsey founder & CEO of MyOutDesk (the Virtual Assistant company in the marketplace) about about how he served more than 5000 clients. Daniel is a long-time licensed real estate broker, mortgage broker, and general contractor who’s sold hundreds of homes and made millions in commissions, and built real estate’s #1 staffing company. Back in 2008, he was inspired by his own time-management struggles to find a better way to help agents leverage their time & energy, and created MyOutDesk to provide a trusted, reliable solution to the office administration, marketing & prospecting tasks that every agent has – but most lack time to focus on. In twelve years with MyOutDesk, Daniel has helped thousands of clients scale their businesses & grow profitability. He’s worked with some of the top clients in the industry – from sales organizations like the Mark Spain Team to tech providers like the Zillow Group, Keller Williams, and RE/MAX.Daniel said, One of the consistent measures for success at MyOutDesk is growth, and that’s not only growth in our client base but also growth within our employees and teams. As a company, we’re looking to have a positive 2020 growth scenario.Also Daniel and his team didn’t have a model to follow. 12 years ago, when we started doing virtual assistants, not only was it not something that was normal, there wasn’t really a model to follow. Not only did they have to educate the market, but they also had to build their business into a model and then scale it. That was a bunch of challenges. The goal was to grow and provide value to both their clients and virtual assistants, but at the same time, it wasn’t a normal business. We’re very much entrepreneurial about how we built it and what they did, and now, as a scaled business, they're undoing some things they did as a scaling business.Daniel likes entrepreneurs and business owners who solve big problems in the world, and also people that build systems and process. As an entrepreneur, he undervalued the positiveness of creating systems, especially when he was new at running a business. Now, he richly appreciate the system and process that entrepreneurs have to put in place to affect a significant growth and hitting big goals.more about MyOutDesk here,Link: https://www.myoutdesk.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Seth speaks to Adam Witty, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Advantage|ForbesBooks. Adam’s business aims to help entrepreneurs to grow their businesses through writing, publishing, marketing and PR. Tune in as he goes over learning to trust your instincts and taking calculated risks in order to grow your business.What began in the spare bedroom of his home is now an international publishing and Authority Marketing® company. Most recently, Advantage has partnered with Forbes to create ForbesBooks, the first book-publishing imprint for the global media company. Advantage|ForbesBooks is a 5-Time Honoree on the prestigious Inc. 500/5000 list of America’s fastest growing private companies in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2017, and also named to the Best Places to Work in South Carolina for 2013 and 2014.He was named to Young Presidents’ Organization 40 Under 40, 50 Most Progressive, and was named to the 2011 Inc. Magazine’s Under 30 List of “America’s Coolest Entrepreneurs.” In 2012, Witty was selected by the Chilean government to judge the prestigious Start-up Chile! entrepreneurship competition.Adam and the Advantage|ForbesBooks team have helped over 1,300 busy entrepreneurs, business leaders, and professionals around the globe write, publish, monetize, and market a book to grow their business. Advantage|ForbesBooks’s famous Talk Your Book® program helps busy professionals get the content out of the their head and onto the paper in less than one day.He is the co-author of Authority Marketing: How To Leverage 7 Pillars of Thought Leadership to Make Competition Irrelevant with Rusty Shelton, Publisher at ForbesBooks, and the upcoming book Looking Forward To Monday, both scheduled to publish in 2018. He has also authored Lead The Field: How To Become An Authority And Dominate Your Competition, 21 Ways to Build Your Business with a Book, 11 Ways Financial Advisors Attract Their Ideal Clients With a Book, co-author of The Book Itch: Do You Have a Book In You?, and Book The Business: How to Make Big Money With Your Book Without Even Selling a Single Copy.Adam is an in-demand speaker, teacher, and consultant on marketing and business development techniques for entrepreneurs and authors, and is a frequent guest on the acclaimed Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour.Adam has spoken to companies, conferences, associations, and college and high school students around the world. Although Adam is pleased to customize a talk to the needs of any audience, his typical speaking topics include Authority Marketing®, business development, customer service, writing and publishing a book, and entrepreneurship and business creation/start up.He has shared the stage with Steve Forbes, Gene Simmons of KISS, Peter Guber, and Bobby Bowden. Adam has been featured inThe Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, USA Today, and more.More about Adam here,http://www.adamwitty.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Seth speaks to Stephen King, Founder of the7dares.com , about looking to simplify life and thinking. Stephen is most at home in a creative space working on art, film, music, or writing. His adventures have taken him to 38 countries around the world where he has worked in a wide range of business and humanitarian endeavors. He is currently traveling the US writing his 7 Dares books.For the first time in human history most of us suffer from information overload and option fatigue. It's not that we can't find our way in the world, but that we find so many ways we are immobilized by over stimulation. Stephen is ultimately looking to simplify his life and thinking... to focus on what really matters... on those few ideas that inspire the best in him. You are invited to join in this daring journey as we are reminded over and over and over to align, create, connect, dominate, discover, excel, and serve.What are the 7 Dares?Dare to AlignYou are not interchangeable with any other person on this planet, you are a unique one-of-a-kind individual. You’re going to have to find your own path… In order to fulfill your potential there must be an alignment between your strengths, values, and vision.Dare to CreateYou are a creative being on a creative journey while on this planet. It is only through creative expression that you understand yourself fully and are able to interface with others. Don’t be a boring copy! Choose your canvas and paint your masterpiece. Dare to ConnectYour heart will die if left in solitary confinement. You need connection - not just shallow interactions - but deep intimate and inspired connection. It takes courage to be vulnerable enough to share life fully - to be loved and respected. Dare to DominateYou control a kingdom - a realm of resources, talents, and connections. A daring life requires an incessant focus to manage and develop your domain. Everything you influence is moving toward GROWTH and ORDER!Dare to DiscoverThere is a universe of possibilities waiting to be discovered. Through the books you read, the people you meet, and the places you travel you learn. Each new insight tells you something about how the world could be AND reflects on your personal potential. Dare to ExcelTo master any art form is to understand every art form. You must dedicate yourself to an endless journey of personal development. Choose a craft that will stretch you to your personal best. Excellence is a race without a finish line but trophies for every lap.Dare to ServeThe measure of a life is the service it provides to humanity. Your life can shape history. You can leave a legacy that impacts for millennia. Allow yourself to go beyond just surviving and lead humanity forward!Learn more about the7dares here,https://www.the7dares.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Seth speaks to Jorge Villar, Partner and Founder of LeadingResponse about his marketing experience, insights, and techniques that have helped him and his company, LeadingResponse, achieve this impressive milestone and find overwhelming success in the industry.LeadingResponse is driven by the social face to face marketing approach to create meaningful engagements between financial advisors and their ideal prospects.Jorge and his team focus on developing new client acquisition marketing concepts and solutions.Their primary goal since 1995 has been to provide all of our clients with a continuous flow of qualified and motivated prospects with our unique and innovative social event DM promotions , Facebook ads, and one-on-one appointment programs.24 years of experience with over 1 Million proven and tested new client acquisition campaigns.Specialties: Doing "Makeovers" of someone's current marketing efforts to show them how they could dramatically improve and increase their response using our data, hyper-local social approach, creative ideas and proprietary (face to face) prospecting concepts.In this episode, you’ll learn:●  About the marketing strategies that Jorge uses to manage successful campaigns●  How he evaluates results in marketing campaigns●  Jorge’s outstanding approach to direct marketing●  How his company leverages data to build on their marketing campaigns●  Jorge’s approach to avoiding message saturation on his campaigns●  And more!learn more about Jorge Villar here,https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorge-villar-87521614 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Seth and Kevin speaks to Wade and Catherine Reed from Bizy Beez about how they transitioned from one business to a second family-owned business thru his spiritual power.Wade and Catherine talk about finding your true north to find ways that lead you to your ideal career or ideal life. The founders of BizyBeez, Wade and Catherine Reed and their children, have made it their vision to spread peace and joy to millions of homes across the globe, because of this they know MagStix is more than just a toy. It is about connection and love, made especially for these beautiful children and their parents.BizyBeez was born out of a 20 year vision by co-founder, Catherine Reed, to inspire children to learn through creative play. As a teenager, she worked as a nanny for a family with 3 children with Down Syndrome and Autism. She was trained in how to help children with special needs focus. She learned that when the children’s hands were busy, they behaved better, which minimized frustration and encouraged more love, peace, and joy in the home. Thus our slogan, “Busy Hands, Quiet Mouth”.Now, Catherine, with her husband and BizyBeez co-founder, Wade, have 6 busy children of their own. Their hope is to empower parents across the globe to connect with their children through imaginative, fun, creative play.BizyBeez is committed to giving back! 20 percentage of all profit is donated to children with special needs throughout the world.More about Bizybeez here,https://bizybeez.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Seth speaks to Jason Harsh a Private Wealth Advisor at Harsh & Associates Financial Advisory, about how to plan for a confident retirement.Jason deliver personalized financial advice to help you achieve your goals, today and tomorrow, through our Confident Retirement® approach. He started with a conversation about key financial areas including covering essentials, ensuring lifestyle, preparing for the unexpected and leaving a legacy.By identifying clear steps to take toward your goals, He can help take the uncertainty out of planning for your financial future. Jason can help you feel more confident, connected, and in control of your financial life.About AmeripriseFor 125 years, Ameriprise has been committed to putting our clients’ needs first. Over the years, we’ve helped millions of people invest billions of dollars so they may pursue what’s important to them.Our advisors develop ongoing one-to-one relationships with clients and take time to understand what’s truly important to them and their families. To help clients achieve their financial goals and prepare for the expected and unexpected, we offer personalized financial advice and a range of product solutions, including investments, insurance, annuities and banking. Smart technologies enable clients to track progress toward individual financial goals, as well as see how investments and solutions are performing, at any time, any place, from any device.At Ameriprise, our focus is to help clients achieve their financial goals and feel confident, connected and in control of their financial life.Here are just a few ways Ameriprise is different:- Ameriprise Financial is a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice.- Ameriprise earned top ratings in the investment firm category:- #1 most trusted- #1 in customer service- #1 in customer loyalty- To provide our clients a broad choice of investment products, we offer thousands of mutual funds from more than 160 mutual fund families on a stand-alone basis and as part of our wrap accounts.- A meriprise Financial has approximately 10,000 financial advisorsmore about Ameriprise here,https://www.ameripriseadvisors.com/jason.s.harsh/aboutameriprise Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Seth speaks to Jack Gibson, President and Co-Founder of High Return Real Estate,Jack knew from an early age that punching time clocks and working for someone else wasn’t enough for me, which is what drove him into building businesses himself and being his own boss. Living a healthy and active lifestyle has always been important to him, that’s why at the ripe ol’ age of 21, He built his first company that coached clients on effective nutrition and fitness strategies. He began to grow his team and recruited and hired an epic sales team to keep things running smoothly. He ran a successful multi-million dollar company before he was old enough to rent a car.As soon as he realized how profitable real estate investments could be, he bought his first home as an investment. One home quickly became five, and when those five were doing really well, he just couldn’t help but add more. he became obsessed with learning everything that he could about the business. Before he knew it, he had over 50 investment properties that were all performing well and the steady flow of passive income was proof of that. He was very passionate and incredibly excited to tell everyone he knew about everything he have learned.After building a multi-million-dollar income with a multi-level health company, he had a serious wake-up call. A bet was placed against his company’s stock, and he ran the risk of losing his financial footing. He felt vulnerable watching his only income source teeter and committed to building multiple streams of passive income. In a short time, he’d built a portfolio of over 50 properties. Now, along with Jack Schechter, he operates High Return Real Estate, a turnkey provider. They specializing in helping other people build cash flow income with turnkey rental real estate in Indianapolis, IN.More about Jack here,https://highreturnrealestate.com/jack-gibson-jeff-schechter-team/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Seth speaks to Tim Schmidt, founder of Ice Cold Marketing , about learning the basics of affiliate marketing to success. In 2001, Tim grew tired of the cold Minnesota winters and instead of moving to Chicago to work as an IT Consultant with Accenture, he decided to knock on the doors of several budding SEO companies in South Florida. He found immediate success in sales and business development roles and began mastering the fundamentals of how to build an online business with SEO as a backbone and catalyst for growth.After having years of success in SEO client consulting, he decided it was time to build his own online businesses in the form of e-commerce products. The volume of success stories his clients shared with him led him to believe there was more to gain as the person on the other end of the relationship.After several very successful years in the health supplement and wellness industry, coupled with a solid exit strategy, Tim decided it was time for a new challenge. He moved to Costa Rica, his second home, and became the mastermind in helping real estate developers sell property to foreigners using his Internet Marketing game plan to successfully generate leads for a $300 million luxury community.After successfully executing the project, (and let’s face it – several years perfecting Spanish, golf, and traveling through Central America), he returned to South Florida and started a disruptive company in the anti aging space. As the company dialed in it’s procedures and sales processes and became operable by employees that were personally trained to do so, he also began consulting various companies in the highly lucrative electronic cigarette / vapor industry.A master at team building and creating a streamlined work flow, Tim continues to oversee high level strategy for his various e-commerce brands in the consumer packaged goods space while growing his SEO agency and helping businesses of all levels gain more visibility online.Tim has been featured in Inc. Magazine, among many other media outlets. He’s also a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council and a regular speaker at Internet Marketing events. In his spare time he enjoys contributing to his column at the Huffington Post, SocialMediaToday.com, and other news outlets.While it’s rare he gets the opportunity to fully disconnect from the digital world, Tim enjoys spending time with his fourteen-year-old (a budding YouTube star himself!), playing, coaching, and watching sports, travel, golf, and he is quickly becoming a connoisseur of fine tequila and cigars.More about Tim here,https://www.timschmidt.com/connect-with-tim/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Seth speaks to Clay Clark, one of America's most trusted financial and leadership expertsand has written nine consecutive New York Times bestsellers with 7million+ books in print about how he started his first multi-million dollar business from his college dorm.He is the founder of a successful marketingfirm, a world-class entertainment company, a successful chain ofmen’s grooming businesses, a party rental company, a videoproduction company, a real estate company, an advertising firm, andthe massively successful online business school and business coachplatform, ThriveTimeShow.com. However, he is most known for all of thebusinesses he has personally helped others launch and grow byproviding their leaders with the wealth of knowledge he has attainedthrough studying the past and present giants in business.He and his partner (Doctor Zoellner), have since built 15multi-million dollar business. Clark is the former U.S. SBAEntrepreneur of the Year and has been featured in Bloomberg, FastCompany, he’s a current contributor for Entrepreneur Magazine andformer Forbes.com contributor. Clay Co-Host’s the iTunes #1 RadioShow ThriveTimeShow.com Radio Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Today's episode Seth speaks to Brett Swarts who shares information about Deferred Sales Trust, the tools and techniques that will create and preserve more wealth, and tips to attract high net worth. If you’re one of the people who want to have more time, travel, liquidity and pay off some debts through selling property, then this thing is for you!Brett Swarts is an entrepreneur, real estate broker/investor, podcaster, a deferred sales trust educator/trustee, the Founder of Commercial Realty Apartment Advisors, and CEO of Capital Gains Tax Solutions - an educational platform inspires and helps business professionals like Venture Capitalists, Financial Advisors, Business Brokers, CRE Syndicators, and Realtors help their clients or partners execute a passive capital gains tax deferral wealth plan of their own. His experience includes numerous Deferred Sales Trust, Delaware Statutory Trusts, 1031 exchanges and $85,000,000 in closed commercial real estate brokerage transactions. Swarts has been featured in various notable podcasts across the web, including The Best Ever Real Estate Podcast with Joe Fairless, Lifetime Cashflow through Real Estate Investing with Rod Khleif, Apartment Building Investing with Michael Blank, The Real Estate Espresso Podcast with Victor Menace, RE Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp, The Project Egg Show and many more. Brett is a guest speaker every year, who trains 100’s of business professionals at companies such as Marcus & Millichap, Keller Williams, Western International Securities, Multifamily Investing Academy & Equilus Financial Group, Inc.Brett observed that most high net worth individuals, tech entrepreneurs, commercial or real estate owners struggle with capital gains tax in the amount of 30-50% of their gain when they sell their highly appreciated assets. Therefore, bring a solution and arrived at his mission to educate everyone on this area and empower them with the strategy so that they could use it to unlock capital not only tax-deferred. Therefore, people could create and preserve more wealth and can give more freedom to choose to allocate their money in alignment with their goals.Together with this, Brett explains Deferred Sales Trusts and gives tips and something a way to differentiate yourself from all of the competition in the marketplace. For him, it’s important to not be focused on 1031 Exchange but look for options and find out what’s the why behind what you’re doing. Find out what’s best for you have given your current source of funds, given your current goals, and dreams. Aside from this, be cautious not to take on the dumb debt but take on the smart debt and have a clear business plan.At this moment, Brett is happy with so much time and energy. Aside from having a successful business career, he is also giving value to his healthy - body, mind, and spiritual being. Brett makes sure everything is balanced and stays focused on what’s most important. Trying to be more passive with his estate deals and gives importance to taking care of his kids and wife. Brett believes that marriage and family are the two best things that God has given to us.Brett Swarts is the CEO of Capital Gains Tax Solutions. He has developed a rock-solid tax strategy when it comes to capital gains and he focuses on helping people solve their capital gains challenges when they try to sell their highly appreciated real estate. Brett explains more about the tax laws in place and the strategies he and his team have developed to leverage them for the best results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices