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Welcome to the Entrepreneur Mastermind Podcast! One of the most powerful ways you can grow your business and expand your knowledge is by having a mastermind group of people who come together to share their business experiences, struggles and solutions with each other. We wanted to document this process by making our mastermind public and completely transparent. Initially this podcast was called Entreprogrammers since we were a group of entrepreneur programmers starting our first businesses, but since then several people have left and new people have joined and we’ve rebooted the podcast as the Entrepreneur Mastermind Podcast.
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Dec 28, 2016

Episode 147 "Foam Hatchet Time"

0:15

We’re Live. Almost Christmas. Foam Hatchet Time. Josh ask if Chuck eliminated a person for having scheduling issues for an interview. Chuck describes the issues he was having with interviews. Chuck is looking for an A+ player! Chuck says hiring is tough and some people are not cut out for the job. 

8:00 

Chuck talks about automating stuff for his sponsors. John talks about Aaron a new hire, who is doing a great job for Simple Programmer. John talks about the tasks that were successfully completed by Aaron. Chuck ask is John reads fiction books, as he is creating a list. John talks about Snow Crash the book. This book is somewhat Pre-Matrix. 

16:00

Josh and John talks about reading their kids books. Chuck talks about his picture in front of the Trump tower. John says to look up the word Bigget. Chuck says he did this for laughs, but it backfired. John talks about about liberty and what it means today.

23:00

Chuck talks about rights to speak rather they are right or wrong. Chuck asks how they plan for the beginning of the year. Josh says that make it up as it goes. Johns says to come up with the plan, then alter the plan. John describes planning based on what he is doing with the podcast awards. 

28:00

Josh says they have a pool of ideas and do them based on what is best next. Chuck talks about attending conferences in the new year. John talks about having a mix of thing for the new best and plan building around them, as far as on going things. 

32:00

For example, John plans to making the book a huge success. Chuck ask because he is building a team. Chuck ask how John and Josh build and manage their team. John talks about the interesting dynamic they have with Rodrigo at Simple Programmer, as an employee. Josh talks about communication with his helpers for Simple Programmer. 

37:00

Josh say the real key is getting the A+ players. Josh says he wants a better promotional calendar. John says if he has to monitor you, he will fire you. Chuck says see progress will help him relax. Josh suggest using Trello to see progress with the team. 

42:00

John says he does not hire, unless there is an automation that can be applied to the job. Chuck talks more about things he want to do to build a team for his business. John talks about why he has no hired a personal assistant. John speaks more on assigning  tasks to his employees. 

48:00

Chuck asks what is a good test project for hiring an executive assistant. Chuck talks about creating a standard operating procedure as a task for the new hire. Josh says he wants his new hires to screw him now on a test job. Chuck ask what he should he pay them for the test task. 

55:00

John says to pay them their hour rate they asked. He says this will give him the good idea about how they work. Let them hang themselves.. 

57:00

John says to vote for the Podcast Awards through December 31st!  Next, John says all the EntreProgrammers  have their logos, and pay your membership fees. John says he is going to logos ready.

Thoughts of the Week!

Chuck - You can keep moving at a breakneck speed, but you will hit a wall…

John - Set realistic expectations.

Josh - Have multiple channels of things to do…

Dec 20, 2016

Episode 146 “Sandwich Artist”

0:15

John, again demonstrates Alexa’s capabilities, another experiment with his office lights. Success! John talks about nonstop Elvin and the Chipmunks songs coming out of Alexa. 

4:00

Derick talks about being sick. Chuck talks about his hectic day with phone screenings. John talks about his challenge of bringing him 50K for a job. Josh said he will claim credit for accomplishing this challenge. 

9:00

Derick said he loves the idea, and would hire someone on the spot if they can help bring money into his business. John explains how to this challenge works if you had implemented this with a millionaire. 

13:00

Chuck talks more about how hiring the right person can help generate revenue for your  business. Chuck talks about using KSL radio for trying to hire a local person for his business.  Chuck shares how this potential new hire will help his business. 

20:00

Derick says that everything that Chuck mentioned as his need for this job, is everything he needs to tell the person for hire. John shares how to look at the situation when looking for a new hire. John talks about how he hires on UpWork, or just hiring in general. 

28:00

The EntreProgrammers talk about how looking at resumes maybe worthless, verses meeting the person on a video call to judge their personality.  Chuck talks about specifically what he is looking for in a new hire. 

34:00

John makes a funny comparison to government employees because they never quit their jobs, because they do nothing.  John talks about a ambitious sandwich artist who is trying to make something of there life. 

38:00

Derick shares his thoughts on the kind of person who would want this job that Chuck is offering. Chuck says he wants to find the person who is aspiring to do the best at everything that they do and looking for stability. 

40:00

John says this person has to have a vision for themselves in the next few years. John says to Chuck that he is not looking for a hanger-on-er. Chuck says that most people who apply for the job are stay-at-home-moms.

48:00

Derick reveals he is going to do a ebook on Docker. Derick is doing a blogpost and the ebook, and getting people up to speed for the pre-sale.

50:00

Derick quickly mentions his plans for his business as of now. John says he want to be one of Derick’ s stick figure on his page.  Derick talks about his next experiment with his book. 

Thoughts for the Week 

John - Finding a Stopping point and do it. 

Josh -TSA pre check is worth it. 

Chuck - Figure out these procedures!

Derick - Don’t Don't get pneumonia. Take care of yourself.

Dec 13, 2016

Episode 145 “ Leotard and Cape”

0:15

John says he just completed his new book on air. John says the entire book took 6 months to write.  John says he can now remove the Trello card to write his book in the morning. John tries an on air test with Alexa. Not working so great now. Chuck mentions having similar issues with playing Christmas songs.

7:00

EntreProgrammers discuss ways they use Echo, time out timers and playing music. Josh say he is fed up with Siri as well.

12:30 

Chuck talks about trying to find a CRM, but he does not want to pay for duplicate services. Josh asks why Drip was not providing everything he needed. Josh mentions he liked SalesForce.  Josh talks about Active Campaign and their small issues.

18:00

Chuck and Josh talk about the cost of the features for a CRM and the tools for email marketing. Chuck also talks about creating a standard operating system for his business.

21:00

Chuck talks about possibly hiring another good contractor, but only locally. He asks if he should put it on Craigslist. Josh thinks that on Craigslist, he will be flying blind. Chuck talks about his plan and criteria for hiring his next person. Josh suggests a COLBY assessment before hiring.

28:00

Josh talks about working with Dan on the Sublime project and audience.  Josh shares a story with Dan’s project. Josh shares some information on his training material.

33:00

John talks about how Simple Programmer can scale with different ways to help other businesses to monetize and gain an audience. John says he can give all the secrets, but will they implement it? Josh talks about what the project manager will be doing.

39:00

John talks about running a full marathon distance, 26 miles total. Chuck say he needs to get back into shape to run "one miles." John says he was running at a slower pace the whole time.

44:00

John says he stop wearing his Apple watch because the battery is not performing well. Chuck asks for advice on things to listen to while running. John says Chuck should run in a leotard and cape. John shows off his new customs build laptop.

50:00

Josh talks about how hot his ThinkPad  laptop use to get. John talks about how great the system runs so far. Josh also sports the new Simple Programmer t shirt design.

55:00

Chuck says he is now looking into Origin PCs. He may ditch his Mac soon.

57:00

John says its almost about time for the spin off groups to start recording their episodes. John says that they need to start looking for sponsorship for the podcast. Is Digital Ocean still onboard? 

Thoughts for the Week 

John - You can always do more than you think you can.

Josh - There is so much opportunity, that is yours for the taking..

Chuck - Having a process and automating the process..

Dec 6, 2016

Episode 144 “Don’t Stop Twerking The Business”

0:15

Hardware report. John talks about possible reasons why Apple got rid of the headphone jack. Derick talks more about the water resistance of the new iPhone. Josh says he is still waiting for the Air Pods. John talks about his Surface Book. 

5:00 

Chuck joins with an awful cold. John talks about how the people at Microsoft are going to take back the Surface Book. John talks about his gaming Laptop PC he built. 

8:15

Chuck talks about how he is not too excited with the new Apple MacBook Pro. Derick talks about his issues with the 2012 thunderbolt port, and buying a new MacBook. Derick talks about doing returns and buying new external hard drives. 

14:00

Derick talks about paying down as things are going well at Watch Me Code. Derick talk about his Cyber Monday sales. But the subscription are growing. 

17:30

Chuck mentions that he actually hired someone from UpWork, and doing a great job a Dev Chat TV. Chuck talks about the upcoming DevOps remote conference. Chuck is excited about his new hire as she is going a great job. 

22:00

Chuck talks about firing the dirty bastard that edit his podcasts. Chuck talks about finding other people to edit his podcasts. John thinks that Chuck should build team that could do some in house editors. 

28:00

Derick talks about having a similar situation, also having the need to have control to get things done properly. John says he is almost done with his book, and he thinks it is going to be a great seller. John says they are looking to hire somebody to talk care of the podcast awards project. 

32:00

John and Josh talk about their Black Friday sales. Josh mentions that they hit their biggest month. John talks about his sponsorship dealing with hired.com

35:00

John talks about their experiment with Adwords. Josh talks about the cost of ads and trying to grow their list. Josh talks more about Dan doing a project with Sublime. Josh talks about turn the book into a video training course. 

41:00

Josh talks about cloning himself to scale the project. John talks about the benefit of platforms and white labeling. 

43:00

Chuck says that people are coming to Simple Programmer for Johns voice, and he should not take anyone else that does not mesh with the Simple Programmer brand. 

46:00

John talks about his plan for curating content for technical material. Josh mention to Derick that they could white label his projects. John talks about having to take more electrolytes and how this is helping him feel better and have more energy. Derick talks about the need for electrolytes. 

50:00

Derick mentions adding team membership for Watch Me Code, for businesses to use for their teams. Derick says this is only for the annual memberships. Derick says the reason he did this is for businesses to use for the budget money on this platform. 

55:00

Mastermind team members! John mentions that the teams should contact him, about the team names, cover art, and other elements for building the podcast mastermind. John ask if it is possible to create a subscription account with PayPal for monthly payments. The goal is to launch the mastermind project for January!

Thoughts for the Week!

Chuck - Sometime things don't go as plan, just adjust your plan next week.

Derick - Don’t stop tweaking you knobs.

Josh - No matter what something is going to go wrong…just deal with it. 

John - Suck it up buttercup! 

 

Nov 22, 2016

Episode 143 “This Is Where The News Happens”

0:15

And We’re Live. Chuck says hello for NYC for Microsoft Connect. Chuck plans to retire for iPheaks and The Freelancer show in Dev Chat TV. Chuck talks about hiring a coach to help him get to the next level. Chuck talks about letting the podcast shows know about what they need to do with the sponsorship funds. John thinks Chuck should still control the sponsorship funds as the producer. 

8:00

John continues to talk about the control Chuck should have as the brand or producer. Josh suggests finding away to  split sponsorship if they host find sponsors themselves. John thinks that as a business, Chuck should not lose the sponsorship money, incase the show become super popular. 

15:00

Chuck says that he has another sponsor beside hired.com. Also, Chuck says that he is trying to hire another VA type person who can take over Mandy’s old tasks. John think this is ok for Chuck to do, because now Chuck has multiple roles filled at less cost. 

20:00

Chuck think he may need to hire someone to drive his kids to school and bring them back. This will give him more time to get to work early in the day. John says that he final got his shirts. Josh talks about almost getting fired over bad t-shirts. John talks about trying to get sample t-shirt before he pays for a boat load. 

25:00
John and Chuck talk about selling t shirts and other items that support their brand. This is about ways to manage inventory and shipping. John says he is looking for screen printed shirts, or print on demand, and drop shipping. 

32:00

Josh says he is looking forward to more shopping cast fun, selling t-shirts and stuff. Chuck talks about possible doing coaching as apart of his business or consulting. Josh says he enjoys working one on one with people, but he suggest selling 2-3 month block of coaching, for a coaching business. 

38:00

John talks about how he does his coaching and the things the people need to do before he started coaching them.  John says that for coaching business, Chuck should raise his rate if it is something that he is not sure about or going to enjoy in the long term. Josh suggest $500 per hour, and should not go more than 1 hour. 

45:00

Chuck talks about other formats for Java Script Jabber and way to grow the numbers. John says that he has raised his episode number per week to increase audience numbers. 

51:00

John talks about his Tony Robbins event and walking on fire. Chuck ask if the Tony Robbins event is worth going to. John explains why it is worth the money. 

56:00 

John say he is sending out an introduction email for the mastermind groups about team names and artwork for the podcasts. All this to kick off in January!

Thoughts for the Week

Josh - Audience is primary 

Chuck - Have a template

John - You are fighting against the universe or fight the biology. 

Nov 15, 2016

Episode 142  “Tall Caramel Macchiato!”

0:15 

We’re Live! No Sonmez. John is attending a Tony Robbins event or concert.  Derick talks about how his MacBook Pro kept crashing during mastermind calls. Derick said the main issue on the mac was a bad video card. It will be replace for free from Apple. Derick mentions that he likes the upgrades of the new mac book pro, but does not care for the touch bar. 

8:27

Derick talks about working on upgrading an older MacBook pro to make it useful for work. Derick says he had a great week at Watch Me Code. He talks about building his launch sequence for his Docker project. He also shares that he has gain some subscribers. 

12:00

Derick shares that he is going to give a 10 percent off code starting Monday. Josh mentions that he like what Derick is doing, because he is getting dual purpose on his material. Derick says that he is using a guide to help focus on the projects people need.

 

18:00

Derick talks about how he likes his new screencast mastermind. Chuck talks about a new mastermind he just joined. Chuck talks about a surprise in his bookkeeping that he did not notice. Chuck talks about where all his revenue this past year and talks about all the different services that he pays for to help his business. Chuck is looking into what he can cut for the new year. 

28:00

Chuck shares that he wants to earn over $200,000 next year. Chuck talks about hiring several people off of UpWork.

31:00

Derick talks about his usual Monday tasks, and task for the rest of the week. Josh asks about how long the editing takes for the videos. Chuck mentions using and app called Toggle. 

35:00

The EntreProgrammers talk about the work habits and ways to build a working routine. Chuck talks about how he does not want to lower prices on his products. Chuck ask how to go about this.

40:00

Derick talks about what he might do with the RabbitMQ bundle. Chuck mentions doing a beta sales for Get A Coder Job.

47:00

Josh shares a disaster a Simple Programmer. Josh talks about his emails that generated 5 sales.  Josh talks about runs a list for a person who is selling his book. Josh talks about the plan he created to help up the price and sales of this launch sequence. 

55:00

Derick mentions that he forgot to ask for emails, for the EntreProgarmmers Mastermind. Please give Derick the email you wish to use for joining the Slack groups. 

Thoughts for the Week!

Chuck - Get to work on the stuff you can control.

Derick - Make sure you have a good backup of your stuff.

Josh -  You can do so much more with what you have then what you are doing.

Nov 8, 2016

Episode 141 “This Is Going To Be Huge!”

0:15

We’re Live! Derick warns us he may be disappear due to his faulty MacBook Pro. Derick notices the John’s sound has improved. John complains about the labor cost for hanging pictures in his home. Derick says to hire a handy man so he can’t work for anyone else but you.

5:00

John talks about a launch he did not mention last week called, 10 Ways To Make Money Off Your Blog. John shares the details of the mini launch. Josh shares his mistakes and troubles with the links and launch in general. John talks about a death ray and check list… rant in progress…

10:00

John talks about how mistakes can cost thousands if you don't have checklists. Derick concurs with the need for organization and checklists. John talks about having use FireSub awhile back for task management and checklists. Derick suggest using the notepad app over building a complex systems of apps. 

16:00

Derick talks about his new mastermind and what the members are doing for work. Derick talks about how he had to preach about email sequences to his new mastermind members. 

20:00

Josh talks about the email marketing analytics of Simple Programmers’ launch. John talks about how their knowledge up till now is equal to an MPA on topics like marketing and creating products. 

26:00

John talks about how more sales pitched toward developers. But John is thinking about changing that information. John and Josh talks about how they are backing up their 100 dollar guarantee. 

29:00

Chuck talks about doing a beta version of a product. Josh share his thoughts on learning from videos verses reading a document. Derick talks about his view on creating videos and his audience absorbing information about programming. 

35:00

John share more on his Ultimate Podcast List on Simple Programmer. John says that this is a great list for developers. John says he actually wrote some code for the podcast list project.  

41:00

John says he is going to create the Software Developers Podcast Awards!  John talks about his ideas for nominations and creating traffic for this project. John is thinking about a 1000 dollar prize among other things. 

46:00

Derick suggests talking about the spin-off groups. EntreProgarmmers are shutting down the application submissions. Next in progress is figuring out standard operating procedures.

 50:00

Derick suggests that people begin talking with one another to get things coordinated while starting up the spin off groups. Derick is thinking that a Slack channel can allow people to start owning some of the task to create a podcast. 

54:00

Chuck shares that he has been hitting a brick wall with website and signing up for webinars. Derick talks about Docker. 

Thoughts for the Week

John - Consistent wake and start time!

Derick - Some times its really fucking painful to fix things. 

Josh - Focus means saying no to things you want to do.

Chuck - Get motivated..

Nov 1, 2016

Episode 140 “Dragon Team?”

0:15

We’re live! Derick talks about the new macbook pro, but might be leaning toward the new Microsoft surface. John thinks Microsoft bought out apple for new ideas. 

2:45

EntreProgrammers talk about how your keyboard will get jack now by the new virtual bar on the new macbook pro.  Derick has issues with the new power supply for the new macbook pro.He mentions that he has tons  of chargers for the older macbooks. 

6:00

Josh says he was excited about the release of the air pods, but they keep pushing off the release date.

8:00

John says he has t-shirts designed for Simple Programmer! John mentions that he also updated his podcast list.  John thinks his t shirts will sell fast.  Josh cracks jokes about John wearing small shirts to show off his muscles. John talks about the process of the podcast lists. 

16:00

John talks about having issues with Zaxaa and missing out on about 500 sales. Josh talks about  all the issues with shopping cart software.  John talks about complaining to the Zaxaa company about losing money and not fixing their software. 

22:00

Derick says he got 9 new subscribers since the pricing change at the beginning of October. Derick is getting a 1.7 conversion rate. Also Derick is talking about re-emphasizing the bundle sales. 

27:00

Josh thinks that Derick’s business will being growing considering the new information and pricing. John says that he should be able to keep up because of the new messaging on the Watch Me Code website. Derick talks about his client work and getting board with the projects.

30:00

Derick talks about doing client work and maybe an overnight upgrade job. John says to ask these questions by mirroring his client. John says that it should only be looked at as a job that pays the hours worked, and not to care to much at it.  

38:00

Derick says 11 people have signed up for the mastermind group. Derick talks about possibly using Slack group channels to help communication between the members. John says they need to review all the applications to weed out all the psychopaths. Derick talks about his snooping tactics on applications. 

42:00

John talks about deciding how to divide up the mastermind groups. Josh talks about doing a 24 hour challenge as apart of team building.  John explains his idea of how all the podcasts under EntreProgrammers will function. 

48:00

The EntreProgrammers  talk about creating a standard procedure or code of conduct for each group incase things arise.

55:00

John says he is excite about creating a EntreProgarmmers movement!

Thoughts for the Week!

Derick - Understand pricing structure.

John - Who you are on your worst day, is who you are. 

Josh - Very rarely are there silver bullets.    

Oct 25, 2016

Episode 139 “Spin-off”

2:00

We’re Live! With a new 1 hour format. John says we should beat up Bernie supporters. because they are weenies. John talks about the new ideas for the creating a spin-off group who are similar to the original mastermind of EntreProgrammers. 

7:00

Derick talks about already starting in other Slack/Mastermind group. Derick talks about the big name groups and process of the new mastermind. 

9:00

Josh suggests having the spin-off shows on the same feed. John suggests sharing the website hosting of the website. Chuck suggests perhaps creating a paid type of mastermind to create a serious and working group. 

13:00

John talks about maybe charging 50 bucks a month, and create an application process to group people together.  The EntreProgarmmers talk about how they can help with the process of creating the new spin offs, and paying for a portion of the cost for podcast production. 

20:00

Chuck and John agree on creating Facebook or Slack groups for communication purposes. Also the EntreProgrammer talk about the logistics and ways to pay for the podcast production and hosting. 

24:00

The EntreProgrammers talk about creating events the should be like  a “Passing the Torch” of what the EntreProgrammers mastermind is about. 

25:00

Go to: entreprogarmmers.com/apply, to apply for a mastermind group hosted by the EntreProgarmmers. 

29:00

The Entreprogrammers talk about how to create ways to collect and pay it’s production fees.  Derick talks about how PayPal works for this type of business process. 

33:00

John says let see how many crazy people sign up, then they can get the process in place for new spin-off podcasts. More to come in the mailing list. 

35:00

Derick ask about what he should do, if he should continue with the monthly and annual memberships, or focus on individual product launches. John suggests doing everything, from T-Shirts to expanding out to other type of products and services. 

40:00

Josh suggest focusing on the launch of new products and monetize on them, then rolling them over to monthly memberships that will attract more prospects. 

44:00

John suggests that Derick should find someone who is 5 times as successful, and duplicate their success. Josh talks about the difference in the product launches and evergreen content. 

47:00

Derick is talking about killing his RabbitMQ website because everything is out of date. 

51:00

Chuck suggests that Derick should do both types of production if he can. John suggests to continue looking  at what Wes Bos is doing. Derick mentions that he does not want to alienate his current subscribers in that area. 

Thoughts of the Week

Derick - Change is inevitable.

Chuck - Get a vision, figure what time you need to get it done. 

John - Wake up early…get everything done, to have you time.

Josh - The simple tool that you use in better than the complex tool. 

Oct 18, 2016

Episode 138 “Debbie Downer”

2:00

And the dumpster is on fire..   Derick talks about laughing a docker  management cheat sheet for Watch Me Code. Derick says this is publish along with his ebooks an such. So far he has   170 downloads since a day ago. Derick says he did notice that people have been using junk email address, just to get the download file. 

7:00

Derick says he got some good feedback through the Watch Me Code Slack channel. Derick talks about his further plans for the features he want to add to Watch Me Code.  Derick says he want to use Twitter to help with the Docker. 

12:00

Derick mentions that he has been doing a lot of video editing, since he doesn’t have an editor anymore. But he is noticing things he can improve on. Derick also is seeing new subscriber on the annual package. 

15:00

Derick mention that he is going to wait and see if the changes he made to his site, are going to payoff in the next few weeks.  Josh says it is interesting to see the monthly signup compared to before. The EntreProgrammers talk about the monthly plans verses the annual plans. 

20:00

Josh talks about upgrade to annual plans. Derick talks about tools he is using to implement these new features.  Chuck mentions a develop edition for Content Pro. 

26:00

John talks about having more thoughts on quitting the internet again. Because of tax laws and financial stuff.   But Simple Programmer is going to spend the profits to pay  the least amount go taxes across the shareholding between Him and Josh. 

32:00

John talks about losing some discipline in his workflow…getting close to burnout. John talks about getting the discipline back inline, and he is doing more work in less time. John says to compress your work time to get more done, because of a time crunch. 

37:00

John talks about the new Blogger Workbook product. Also he is talking about a new video call !0 Ways To Make Money Off Your Blog.” John talks about plugging both Derick’s Watch Me Code website and Chuck’s Dev Chat TV websites as example of ways to generate income. 

45:00

John talks about how an idea can lead to generating more income. Derick says that it works if you already have an audience. Josh say if you have not audience, do thing similar to what Noah does and ping people on Skype. 

48:00

John talks more about brain storming ways to gain a bigger audience, even in the late quarter. John is reading/listening to Grant Cardone’s book  Be Obsessed Or Be Average.  John talks about final registering Simple Programmer as a trademark. 

55:00

Derick talks about a friend who was using the name Cake Boss for a software company, verse the TV show. EntreProgrammers talk about Trademarks and logos. 

59:00

John talks about having a sound guy come in and treat the room for sound. EntreProgrammer talk about room treatment for recording. John says his Code Newbies Podcast just launched. Josh talks about the new signups.   

1:05:00

John says he did a video on Trump, about the leaked tapes.  John mention that he does support some of Trumps ideas. John says people get butt hurt when he tell them to use their brain and not blindly follow. 

1:12:00

Josh talks about freaking John out. Josh is putting big boy pants on an creating an email course. Josh says to John that he is not going to do a product like this until Milestone 2 is in the bag. John explains his plans for revenue and how he sees him and Josh working together. 

1:23:00

Josh talks a new Real Estate Investment product, and people are asking to see John buy a house and invest in property in Kanas City. This is a new launch idea for the real estate course at a $1000 price point. Josh mentions a 10k course as well, where John holds you hand every step of the way. 

1:29:00

John says he is on Chapter 43 on his new book. John talks about a controversial chapter in his book. John continues talking about prejudice people experience no matter what. 

1:38:00

John think that they can get a 5 to 1 conversion rate on his new book. John shows an example of a book, that he would like to emulate for his next launch. John and Josh talk about possible platforms they could sale their book. 

1:42:00

Derick ask if the EntreProgrammers as a group is doing their job anymore as a mastermind. Derick say he has nothing to contribute during the times John and Josh talk about their business.  Josh gives some input about the place where he is at in his business. 

1:50:00

Derick ask how can they start to benefit from the meetings, at the stages in their entrepreneurial journey. EnterProgrammers talk about the stage their podcast is at as of now. Possibly shortening duration of the podcast?  

2:00:00

John talks about changing the format of the podcast to an hour, and it will be a group of friends talking about their business. 

Next week will be an hour podcast!

Thoughts of the Week

Derick - Some you have to stop doing new things and look at whats happening…

John - What you perceive as burn out, might be the opposite.

Josh - Be a finisher!

Oct 11, 2016

Episode 137 “We Just Need to Clone Ourselves…”

2:00

John suggests changing up the EntreProgrammers theme song to a dumpster theme song. Derick talks about his parents visiting and introducing them to new technology. 

5:00

John mentions visiting Wendy’s in Kansas. John also so shares finishing his half marathon and 5K runs.  John talks about how he cannot help dominating anything. 

10:00

Derick mentions that Watch Me Code is having a great week since he did a pricing experiment. Derick says its a combination of new prices and new content. Derick says his website now visual fits his business, services and programs. 

15:00

John says Derick’s dumpster in not on fire anymore. John says he likes the new framing. Josh ask about how Derick is using RayGun. Derick talks about about his referrals are coming along. 

20:00

Derick shares how he is getting a lot of traffic and things are growing for his business. Josh talks about nailing your position in your USP, and how the sky just opens up. Derick talks about his strategy to make things work out for his site. 

27:00

Derick continues to talk about how he is formatting products on his Watch Me Code website. John says this is what Derick is meant to find for helping create solid direction for his business. 

30:00

Josh looks into the analytics of Derick’s Watch Me Code website, and gives some insight on the clicks what people are gravitating too. Josh and John have the same idea on creating a streamlined shopping cart software. 

38:00

John talks about the processes he and Josh are using in the Simple Programmer. Derick talks about how he uses Stripe to take payments by credit card. Josh ask about how PayPal do their payment process. 

45:00

Josh rants about a service he is using on Simple Programmer that is broken. John talks about creating a SAS product for tracking. John talks about Drip cookies for tracking. Derick says that is how every re-targeting system works. 

50:00

Chuck says that he as an internet entrepreneur is finally getting into the marketing tools side of his business. John rants on the tracking tool idea for marketing. 

58:00

Derick says he will not be impress until the software works. So just build it!. John says they are rocking it at Simple Programmer. John mentions that Josh is close to his Mile Stone! John says that picked up hired.com as a sponsor. 

1:04:00

John just mentioned that Simple Programmers’ baseline revenue is 20K. Josh is about to reach his milestone.  John says he is on chapter 39 on his next book. John shares the revenue report on his first book on all platforms.

1:10:00

Josh says that Amazon will be another traffic source after John’s new book is launched. Chuck says there is no more Bubba on the team. Chuck says at this rate he has fired a person every month.  Chuck shares about the work load of his current employees.  

1:15:00

Chuck is talking about using UpWork to hire a bunch of people for one job, and pick one of them. Chuck had to new panelist for the Ruby Rouges podcast.  Chuck says he is building the panel slowly to get the right people inline. Chuck reads some feedback and emails about Ruby Rouges. 

 1:20:00

Chuck asks about the sales opportunities during and after a webinar. Hopeful he has some sales twinkle in. John mention how he would never promote someone else’s product again, because of the conversion rates. 

1:32:00

Chuck is buckling down to finish off the book he is writing. Chuck thinks that a redesign, similar to Derick’s project would be good for Dev Chat TV.  Josh suggests, just building in Thrive to test the pages out.  Chuck talks about inviting people to the conferences. 

1:42:00

Chuck tell us that he sign up for Patreon for some of the account at Dev Chat TV. Chuck talks about how updates for his backend website. Chuck is reading about how to do 12 week years. 

1:47:00

Chuck says he has his sponsorship stuff all figured out. 

Thoughts of the Week

Derick - Forward Always, alway forward. 

Chuck - The things that are really worth doing, are the things that are not easy to do. 

John -  Learn to love the fight! 

Josh - You are never done with the basics.

 

 

 

Oct 4, 2016

Episode 136  “Bubba Don’t Play Dat!”

2:00

EntreProgrammers give Josh a hard time  about facial hair. John talks about the golden age of 36. John share that he is going to be running a half marathon in San Jose CA. Chuck mentions that he is at Microsoft Ignite. Chuck gives the variety of sessions at the convention. 

7:30

Chuck mention that he made 300 dollars on this independence sale. He is not sure what he did wrong. Derick thinks he was discounting to many products, so them people are not sure about the sale. 

10:00

Chuck talks about one of his hires, Bubba. Who is suppose to be the social media expert. Chuck is having a rough time getting feedback from Bubba. Everyone says to urgently fire Bubba.

15:00

Josh ask what are the exact duties of Bubba’s job, then post the job on UpWork, and hire 5 people to audition for the job. Chuck ask what should he tell her next?  

18:00

John says to have a standard level for new hires, like Rodrigo at Simple Programmer.  Chuck talks about the task that Bubba is doing that might be in progress. John talks about the tasks he eventually had Rodrigo take over. 

25:00

Derick talks about the grammar and small detail issues he deals with.  Derick further mention the training process with new hires. John says that you cannot teach good work ethic. John talks about writing a chapter on Dealing with Your Boss, in his upcoming book. 

30:00

Chuck says he is going to reach out an try to get on .NETROCKS. John talks about the value an employee should  bring to a business. 

37:00

John mentions listening to Tim Ferris. Derick thinks John is drinking the “Kool-ade"… John talks about doing your job the best you can, not matter what your job title is. Mop those floors up to upper management. Josh talks about working a Radio Shack and cleaning toilets. Derick talks about cleaning a gas station restroom. 

45:00

Chuck talks about working a K-Mart.  Derick talks about doing a less than stellar job at Watch Me Code this past week. Derick says he may have lost out on a couple of sales, due to a code bug, on the check out system. 

52:00

Derick says he has just become a WordPress developer, and may sell his programs for WordPress.  Derick says he knows the efforts to build this business. 

1:00:00

Josh talks about the birthday sale. Josh shares the details on the email he sent, and only had one sale.. Josh says there was an issue with the check out system. Come to fun out the system was broken and he may have lost out on some sales. 

1:04:00

Josh talks about how the discount codes are not working properly with the check out system. Josh and John say the sales are going up because of the payment plan they are offer with Simple Programmer.  

1:12:00

John says the Patreon is dying out.  Chuck in not sure in it affects things. EntreProgrammers talk about the Patreon setup and the goal they want to reach with using it. 

1:20:00

John thinks that Chuck should do both version of the sponsorship, and double dip. Chuck says that he is not sure what to giveaway to do this sponsorship. 

1:25:00

Derick talks about a documentation base on getting sponsorships. “Pom Wonderful Present the Greatest Movies Ever Sold”. John talks about using the Ring doorbell camera kit. 

1:30:00

The EntreProgrammers discuss more home automation kits, and safety features. Derick ask about more information about the Ring system. Josh says the home automation industry, needs to not replace everything for certain automation services. We still need the physical product. 

1:41:00

Derick talks about the Microsoft equipped car that sometime have bluetooth failure. Josh mentions the driverless Uber in Pittsburg. Josh says not to takeaway his earbuds. John talks about interviewing Eli the computer guy. 

1:17:00

Josh talks about the new Avengers movie. EntreProgramers geek out on the Marvel and XMen movies. 

1:50:00

John talks about signing up for Pay Checks. Josh talks trash about Net Suite, for logging hours.  Josh thinks that the Time Tracking and Shopping Cart people should get together. 

Thoughts for the Week

Chuck - Find a way to get some downtime…

Josh - Understanding how you do things is very valuable. 

John - You got to cut yourself free. 

Derick - F U I’m doing it anyway.

Sep 27, 2016

Episode 135 “ The Dumpster Is On Fire”

2:00

Derick talks about his 38th birthday sale, and had 16 sales of the yearly subscription. John does some math, and says that Derick should maybe drop some prices on his subscriptions, because he found a price range that sells. 

6:00

Josh says just change the prices without announcing the price change. Josh suggest to drop the prices incrementally, until he see sales come in. John says this is good new for finding a price range people are buying in. 

10:00

Chuck asks a question about discounts for his products. Derick talks about the randomness of doing discounts. Chuck ask if this is a good way to let people know that you have stuff to sale.

14:00

Derick says he can finally pay down some credit card debt. Derick shares that he started seeing a therapist. Derick says he needs to working not being an asshole on his downtime. Derick shared that he will begin weekly therapy.

19:00

Derick says this is death of thousands of paper cuts. Derick mentions that if you are struggling, make sure you get help. Derick shares that because he works at home, his personal life and working life are so entangled, that its hard to separate the two. 

22:00

John suggest to Derick, that he should look into Awaken The Giant by Tony Robbins. Also perhaps attended a Tony Robbins event.  John says it does not matter how sharp you are, if you are struggling mentally. 

27:00

Derick says that it is difficult to make a choice on the many therapist out there.  Derick says to pick the first one on your google search, you can always see someone else.  Derick says to check OSMIhelp.org if your want to learn more. 

29:00

Derick says that he is not in a depression, because he has been there. he just need to learn how to reach to things he is dealing with.

30:00

John talks about getting into a funk, and it is a constant battle. John says that astronomy may have something to do with their funk that they are in. John try to do some manual zoom. Derick says that despite the issues he was experiencing, this was a very productive week for him. 

37:00

Derick shares the many different updates he did to the website. The EntreProgrammers talk about using avatars to help their marketing or target market. 

44:00

John talks about Josh’s ring pull-up moves. The EntreProgrammers talk about the important feature on a website, and guided learning on websites. 

47:00

John suggests doing a free introduction to Java Script course on Udemy.  Derick says that he would hate to support that company. John says the dolphins get kill when making tuna…

 52:00

Chuck ask if Derick needs more help, after all John’s metaphors to describing being serious. Chuck talks about doing his webinar for the Ruby Rouges listeners. Chuck explain where he want to go from here. Chuck talks about what more people want to hear on the show. 

56:00

Chuck about doing a show every two weeks. Chuck say he is going to opening up the show to questions. Chuck talks about get rave reviews on a project idea.  Chuck says he is going to Microsoft Ignite. 

1:03:00

Chuck talks about updating how people signup as guess on his shows. Chuck talks about his employees and how they communicate with him about work. Josh suggest a tool like Trello, to keep in contact with contractors, and progress on projects. 

1:12:00

Chucks for advice and maybe  doing a step by step with a one of his contractors to help the process. Chuck say he is going to be more mindful on the precess on teaching his contractors processes. 

1:16:00

Chuck talks about moving the conferences to DEV Chat TV. Chuck is trying to fugue out how to do a custom page, and adding the talks. Derick explains his workflow and how to, on Chuck’s question. 

1:22:00

The EntreProgrammers give feedback on the actions to take on contractor doing working, and where they should be, as far as being handsfree as an entrepreneur. Chuck ask he should redesign the webinar site. The EntreProgrammers give advice to Chuck about website template and building in features. 

1:34:00

Derick says his PHP code is garbage. Derick ask if Chuck is using Slack for his shows. John says Bubbas are highly qualified people in Chuck business. John says he is gong to be interview Eli The Computer Guy on Monday. Josh is a now full throated supporter. 

1:41:00

Josh talks about promoting on youtube, and ways to get more traffic. Josh talk about his tactics to warm up your traffic, and retargeting, on Simple Programmer. Josh thinks all shopping cart software on the market sucks!

1:50:00

Josh talks about implemented a payment plans to How to Market Yourself, and got 26 sales. Josh suggests to Derick that he should try it on Watch Me Code annual subscriptions. Josh also mention the one dollar offer. 

1:55:00

John and Josh talk about testing verse real business testing, as far as marketing goes. Derick talks about how those test or studies are in control, but in the real world things vary. More talk on studies and real application. 

2:00:00

John talks more about psychological study and “meta game changing.” The tactic stops working!

Thoughts of the week 

Derick - If you need help, get the help. 

Chuck - If you serve people well, when you need them, they will come out and help you. 

John -  Can you hold on to progress you’ve made..

Josh - Invest time and understanding how you tick. 

Sep 20, 2016

Episode 134 “We Fire People Around Here…”

2:00

And We’re Live! Josh looks less grayish with his color correction filter. John says he wants overhead lighting to enhance his muscles. John says he is making progress with the decor of his office.  Derick talks about his behemoth desk move from an office to his apartment. 

11:00

Derick talks about his week taking care of his family and is sick son, and the trial of getting back to work. Derick talks about taking a look at the homepage of Watch Me Code. Derick have been researching and making significant changes to his Watch Me Code homepage. 

15:00

Derick mention redoing the framework for the website and reworking the backend of the page. Derick says he reinstated the monthly plans to some of the products on his page. 

21:00

Josh talks about the positioning of some for the elements on the Watch Me Code website, this will help them navigate to the features and services. John mention that some of rate icons are broken on the webpage. 

25:00

Josh thinks that Derick made some good improvements on his website. Josh says that he made good progress for not getting a whole lot of work done. 

31:00

Derick talks about a blog post about he thoughts on a topic of a blog post. Derick talks about experimenting with post footers. 

38:00

Chuck joins the call in between his conferences. John talks about getting attack on Twitter. Chuck talks about a couple past episodes he was getting flack on about his past contractor. 

46:00

John says that you can not have your cake and eat it too. The EntreProgrammer’s forum is very unique and honest about the things they share. John is glad that Chuck brought on a real problem that they, as entrepreneurs are dealing with and they deal with it the best way possible.

53:00

Derick says that the EntreProgrammers are willing to make a mistake publicly, and this in turn should help people  in running a business. Chuck says they need to be open with the people they are open with. 

1:02:00

Derick says that change is painful, and it sucks. John says they are here to service and genuinely love to help people. Instead, people should be judged on their real intentions. 

1:10:00

Chuck says that he is done trying to be right, and he is going to be himself. At this point he is going to do the best he can. Chuck says he is going to piss more people off and be John. 

1:15:00

John says to Chuck, your filth is public, and others peoples filth is private. Chuck share story about the things he sees in his personal life. 

1:18:00

John says he hit that same point when he was polarizing. Josh says this is another part that develops him more. John says people would rather hear the honest truth. John says he is proud of Chuck to take this on. 

1:22:00

John mentions that he is about to hit 40K subscribers on the Simple Programer youtube channel. John mention that Eli the Computer Guy is coming on the Simple Programmer. 

1:27:00

Josh talks about his current video recording methods, as he build up his video production. Josh talks bout their last weekend at SumoConf. and a presentation on making their fee money back. 

1:33:00

Josh says he is going to be looking for new ways reach people, something like an icebreaker to follow up with their audience. John talks about he experience with SumoConf. 

1:39:00

Josh talks about a new tagline for his business. I teach Software Developers How to be Cool! Derick talks about his goal for the year is to do an attendee talk at Micro Conf. Derick say as soon as they open the submission, he is going to submit “ How to burn you house down to build a better one.” 

1:45:00

John says that Derick is now able to handle bigger problems. John mentions the book Built to Sell by John Warrillow

1:53:00

Derick talks about lasts year’s mad dash to gain subscribers. Derick is thinking about send out  another discount of 38 percent to celebrate his 38th birthday on Tuesday. 

1:58:00

Josh talks about adding some features to help grow sales of products in incremental ways.  Josh and Derick talk about the prices tiers on their products. Josh talks about getting great feedback for Lewis, about selling a product. 

2:06:00

Derick ask about investment that he may have missed, concerning more marketing. Derick ask if he should hold off till his finance are solid. Josh talks more about marketing strategies and sponsorship information. c

Thoughts of the Week

Derick - Burn your house down to build a better one.

John -  Physical exhaustion is not good for you.. Sleep. 

Josh - What can I do that won’t fail?

Sep 13, 2016

Episode 133 “Lean Manufacturing…”

2:00

No John or Josh today. Derick talks about getting Quickbooks online, and fired everyone that works for him. Derick has a lot of questions about this next stage and the ins and outs of Quickbooks. Derick is trying to figure out out how to connect banks, PayPal, and payment processing into Quickbooks. Are John and Josh automating the payments? 

6:53

Derick mentions working with figuring out the connection of finances to quickbooks for two hours. John might be trying to connect to the call. 

9:00

Chuck talks about getting his act together and start blogging and connection with LinkedIn. Derick says that was what Mark was working on, to help create a constant stream of content. Derick shares that he was giving away some stuff on Docker. 

13:00  

Derick talks about repackaging his content and figuring out his emailing system. Derick mentions having 30 sales of his RabbitMQ book on LeanPub. Derick is puzzled on how these sales are coming in, because he is not doing any marketing for them. 

15:00

Derick mentions that he is in a tough spot, now that he does not have any one to help him with his content editing and creation.  Derick shares how his workflow use to be when he first started to creating videos, compared to today's duties. 

20:00

Chuck talks about his video editor's tasks list, who helps with his projects. Derick says he has been taking over things that he once use to do in the past. Chuck shares that he is hiring more people to help with his conference schedules. Chuck says he is ditching Crowdcast for WebinarJam. Derick says for he may switch to WebinarJam as well. 

28:00

Derick asks about the chat type systems built-in to webinar or a google hangouts for video conferencing. Chuck mentions goofing a link for a webinar, but he does have 170 people signed up. John mentions to Chuck that only 40 people may show up for the live event, even if that many people signup. 

34:00

Chuck talks about having two events scheduled conferences on the same day. Kind of a tight situation...

38:00

Derick shares that he is messing with an idea, and writhing code, instead of all the important business stuff. Derick asks “how does he get there…”, He ask himself if he should turn monthly subscriptions back on. 

43:00

Derick talks about a helpful post from Josh Pigford's blog of Baremetrics. Derick talks about how that one new thing is not going to solve your problems. 

48:00

Derick talks about his “fails” that he knows about, and should fix. Derick talks about an email conversation about fixing problems for a presentation. 

1:00:00

Derick talks about how his pricing structure is that near PuralSight's price list. Chuck talks about being the “Bridge Gapper.” 

1:08:00

Chuck thinks that Derick is headed into the right direction and needs to solidify his ides for success. Chuck and Derick want to clone Josh for their businesses for ad copy. .Chuck asks about Derick’s vision. Derick questions his business. “Is it my business?” 

1:10:00

Derick ask if there is something wrong with his business, or if his business a viable business? Chuck thinks it is.  Chuck says he runs into the same questions with his business, and ask if he just screwed up.  

1:15:00

Derick ask if Chuck would be willing to take care of EntreProgrammer’s sponsorship duties? Derick says he is failed at taking care of the sponsorship stuff. Chuck shares his view on the sponsorship of his podcast. 

1:21:00

Chuck mentions that he ignored his book writhing and Rails Clips, because of all the thing he has been doing. 

1:26:00

Derick talks about the book The Marine Corp. Way, and the type of work models that are involved. 

1:29:00

Chuck will be in Atlanta  Oct. 25th to the 1st of November. Anyone up for a meet-up?

Thoughts of the Week

Chuck  - Keep moving forward.

Derick - Tweaking all the knobs of the business… You got to be somewhat organized. 

 

Sep 6, 2016

Episode 132 “Bridge Gapper”

2:00

We’re Live! Derick quotes the classic software developer movie “Office Space.” John talks about pissing off the internet again. John talks about the different views of a creationist or evolutionist on his youtube channel. 

8:30

John says that the more you look into a “cracker jack” idea, there is some sort of compelling agreement. 

13:00

Josh talks about the up coming censoring on YouTube. John again talks about the different scientific hypothesis of life, creation, or evolution. Josh talks about losing some subscribers on patreon. 

19:00

John says that something that is scientific, doesn’t ave to be true. John talks about epigenetics and experimentation for induced results. 

24:00

Derick finally gets to talk about his last two weeks. He mentions that he has a couple new subscribers, and somethings in the business are broken. Derick shares that he is seeing at least 10 people drop a month. 

28:00

Derick thinks that he need to present his content in a more unique way, to help subscribers. Derick said that the material is there and that he need to help the subscribers see that material they need. Derick is getting help to learn how to present his material in a more simplified way. 

31:00

Derick says that he feels that he has been throwing money away on marketing efforts. He is not sure what to do. Maybe go back to a monthly model as far as subscribing to his program. John thinks that Derick need to get his bookkeeping in order, to understand the expense on marketing efforts. This way, Derick can budget out the funds for marketing. Chuck thinks that Derick’s problem is customer retention or on boarding new subscribers. 

37:00

John asks what is the one thing that Derick is good at. Josh talks about he purpose of niching down. The EntreProgrammers give their opinion about the direction Derick should take for acquiring more customers. 

45:00

The EntreProgrammers talks about the strategies Derick should think about in order to present himself as being awesome. 

52:00

John suggests offering some free content to lead to paid content. Chuck suggests having someone advocate for his products as the next step in advancing a programmer. Josh suggest doing a 4 week class to generate income.

59:00

John ask if Derick is shooting himself in the foot as the “bridge gapper.” Derick mentions that he does not know which decision to make on all the ideas available to him. 

1:10:00

Josh suggest that more traffic is not the problem, but Derick should be analyzing data. John suggest that Derick should stop paying for marketing, and figure out who to make cash fast to get out of the trouble he is in, and then come up with the marketing and messaging plan. 

1:23:00

Josh shares an example email with Derick to help understand that need of his customers. Derick ask it is worth to spend money on setting up Quickbooks. The EntreProgarmmers are planning to help Derick, by referring him to their network of marketers. 

1:38:00

John suggest that Derick sign up for a subscription to quickbooks. Derick mention he is very close to quitting a clients project.  Derick does not want to work under this manager anymore. 

1:48:00

Josh talk about his webinar this pass week, with 126 seat filled. Josh also mentions that he has to do some affiliate pay outs. Josh shares what work but for him when he does webinars and presentations. 

1:54:00

Josh talks about having delayed email with SendGrid, right before the start of his email. Josh shares that he had a person ask for a refund, after he realized that he was not a good fit for the webinar. 

2:03:00

John shows am example of Josh’s Simple Programmer business card. Chuck mentions that he is following Josh’s example of how to do a webinar. Chuck says he is still figuring out how to do these things with Thrive. 

2:08:00

Chuck is talking about hiring a couple of people to help him, since Mandy is not working for him anymore. Chuck talks about a dilemma one one of his podcasts about race. 

2:16:00

Chuck talks about how Josh had bought a webinar platform, and he waiting to see if it is worth it for him. Josh think so far it is probably worth the money.  Chuck mention talking about Webinar Jam. 

Thought for the Week

John - Explore a lot of crazy stuff, there is value in a lot of different things. 

Chuck - Sometimes it really sucks. 

Josh - What is the dent in your world.

Aug 30, 2016

2:00

We’re Live!  

John mentions that EntreProgrammers got a down vote the last episode. John was a guess on the Coding Newbies podcast recently. John talks about taking what he says out of context. John refers back to and old Ruby Rouges episodes to explain himself in the context of the situation at the time. 

8:00

Chuck talks about voicing options and having a conversation, rather then immediately coming to conclusion. 

10:00

Josh talks about the tendency to celebrate differences, rather than common goals. Josh says you will rarely be successful, punching people in the face, right out of the gate. 

14:00

John talks about the lack of balance content on people social media feeds. People usual have a ton of content on their social media feeds that supports their views, rather than a little bit of both.  John says he respects Tom Cruise. Another Down Vote! 

19:00

John talks about how fully understanding world views can have a kind of paradigm shift in your views. 

21:15

John talks about having to take his Surface Pro in for service agian. Chuck wants to learn more webinars from Josh. Chuck shares that he may being adding more webinars/conferences. Josh talks about setting of DPD with Xaphier. 

29:00

Chuck talks about using Drip to tag people with the product for the sales of seats in the webinar. 

34:00

John mentions that he uses webinar ninja and is willing to share with Chuck. EntreProgrammers talk about the multiple ways to conduct a webinar, as far as taking payment to the software to run a webinar. 

38:00

Chuck is hoping to get most of the work done today. Chuck shares some information about the content go the book to build relationships.

43:00

John talks about reading “How To Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big” by Scott Adams. John talks about optimizing later… Chuck shares an idea about hiring an intern for a friend. 

54:00

Josh suggest looking for interns in their late teens or in the later years of high school. John says to round up a few homeless guys. Chuck talks about the language barrier with people from the  Philippines.

1:00:00

John says that Chuck would have to make sure the interns understand that they are contractors. The EntreProgrammers talk about how to document the tasks and time to complete a job. 

1:05:00

John says part of the trouble is that Chuck did not document with task with Mandy. Chuck says that John is making more work for him. 

1:12:00

Chuck shares that he is thinking about creating a wiki, Josh and John suggest starting in Google Docs. Chuck talks about a payment dispute with Mandy. Josh agrees that Chuck has to pay the late fee, and should end the work relationship. 

1:22:00

Josh share a story about selling an item on Ebay. John gives advice to put the ball in her court to make a fair decision on the late payment fees. 

1:29:00

Josh shared that they had a crappy product launch on the Simple Programmer sight. They are hoping for incoming sales at some point.  Josh is calling this the BS detector for real estate. John says this is spending 500 dollars to see if you really want to do real estate investing. 

1:34:00

John and Josh share the possible stories for the real estate project to help warm up to the audience. John says the that people could buy the course and tell them what they might be missing, and they might get it. 

1:39:00

Chuck ask about the steps of a launch that Josh and John are using for their recent projects. Chuck ask about prefacing the subject line on emails.  Josh says to test several subject line to see which work best. 

1:50:00

Josh talks about the automation of the How to Market Yourself email course. John talks about gaining more subscribers  about 4500 a month. John talks about the mystery of YouTube analytics. 

2:03:00

John mention that after Entreprogrammers today, he is going to be on .Net Rocks podcast. Chuck ask if anyone has use Medium.

Thoughts Of the Week

John - There was an intelligent person who made these goals. If you feeling bad, you are just in a bad mental state. 

Josh - More people work only hard enough to make it work…”

Chuck - Sometimes you need the time off. No need to panic.

Aug 23, 2016

Episode 130 “Troglodytes”

2:00

We’re live! No Derick today. Derick is conducting his webinar. John talks about being late because of  being sucked into a Youtube comment.  

8:00

EntreProgrammers continue to talk about the distortions in reality. John talks about taking the reality punch when meeting with the mastermind. 

13:30

Josh asks about Chuck’s question on the up coming conference projects. Chuck talks about using Member Press for ticket sales. Josh mentions a feature called Events in Drip. 

18:00

Josh mention way to keep audience warm for the tickets sales. Josh says to target last years audience with an email. Josh recommends broadcast to Chuck.  Josh talks about forgetting to publish a draft. 

25:00

Josh says lesson learned is not to get too tricky with your automation first time through. Do it the simplest way possible. 

27:00

Chuck is trying to decide if he should do and Early Bird pricing like last year. He mention to really needing to do an early bird ticket sale. Josh and Chuck see not real issue in doing an early bird, depending on the price difference. 

31:00

Chuck mentions doing the early bird to create urgency and doing a double launch. 

38:00

Chuck thinks that Java Script, Angular and React are going to do best for this year. Chuck talks about the scheduling of the conferences for the best sales. 

42:00

Josh talks about selling 30 seats for his upcoming webinar. Josh mention that he could possible get some help with at email for Bob Bly. This could help get more on his email list. 

49:00

Josh talks about people reaching out the him and John for content to add to a passive income bundle from Azat. 

50:00

The EntreProgrammers talks about seeing familiar name from hyper responders on their emailing list, as they sign-up or opt-in to products, programs, or services. 

54:00

John talks about how his Surface Pro is running hot, and never using the tablet feature or disconnecting it.  Chuck talks about his iPad Pro and how appealing it is as a tablet. Josh says he is over using a tablet. 

58:00

Chuck talks about his long journey with his Mac, but is thinking about switching about to Window or Linux. John mention he would not go to Linux.  Josh talks about the trouble he had when he first move to a Mac. 

1:08:00

John talks about the changes between Mac and Windows, and the conflict with touch screen. John talks about the possible future of computing, like the Hololens. 

1:12:00

Chuck ask about how to fit exercise into the his schedule. Josh talks about this routine for exercise and daily habit he built-in to his work day. 

1:16:00

John shares that he runs an hour and half as a standing appointment everyday. John suggests starting the day with the most brain intensive activity, because your attention wears down. 

1:24:00

Josh talks about the creating deficit in caloric intake, and creating overhead in the exercise daily. John talks about changing your location to make changes, like a boot camp situation.  

1:30:00

John mention that he is still not back to where he left off in weight, before he went to China. Josh mention that he sign up for SumoCon in Austin TX. Josh shares more on the “How To Market Yourself” email course.  Josh talks about the differences this course will make for those who are interested. 

1:45:00

Chuck asks about the notification in Thrives and patches to correct and issue. John mentions that Youtube subscribers are jumping and growing to 35,000 subscribers. John talks about a controversial thumbnail on one of his Simple Programmer videos. Video

1:50:00

The EntreProgrammers talk about controversial topics on race and how people talk about different cultures on nationalities

Thoughts of the Week!

John - Troglodytes

Chuck - Focus on one priority a day

Josh - When you push yourself consistently for awhile, you redefine what your capable of doing.

 

Aug 18, 2016

“To Busy To Shave”

2:00

We’re Live! Derick’s room lighting looks different. Derick shares his new lighting setup and new camera. New tools for new projects? 

4:50

Josh shares that he just recently ended his experiment with home automation. Its a train wreck and more trouble than its worth.

7:00

Derick talks about getting addicted to playing No Man’s Sky video game. Listen to Derick geek out on this game. 

14:00

John talks about feeling like he wanted to shut it all down.. Talk him off the ledge people. John shares that he wants to expand out and move on more automation and new projects. Josh says to try acting. 

18:00

Josh talks about how comments on the Simple Programmer YouTube channel, 100s of people say John looks like Matthew McConaughey. John says he had be mistaken for Jeff Goldblum. 

22:00

John shared that he was on The Faster Than Normal Podcast, an ADHD topic podcast. John talk abut his encounter with the Host of the FTN Podcast and their discussion topic on ADHD. 

26:00

Chuck says he started setting up the automation of his business and setting up his Calenldy accounts. Chuck asks about “Gravity Forms.” Josh talks about using A WordPress content feature. 

32:00

Chuck mentions that if he automates the conferences, he will not have any work of Mandy to do, and may not need her help. Chuck mention that he is working to automate the projects. John says that Chuck needs to document the process of the jobs, so the automation part is easier to implement. 

39:00

Chuck talks about the change up of topics on Ruby Rouges, and how it is less about tech. Chuck mentions that Ruby is use as a stable system to build stuff. 

45:00

John says that Chuck needs a Python show.  Chuck shares the rough stats of the podcasts show on his Dev Chat network. 

53:00

Chuck is trying figure out how to be a better person and rid his bad habits. “Its Just stuff”

55:00

John gives us an update of his book, Soft Skills, and its sales in China. Currently, his new book is developing or being written. EntreProgrammers discuss the possible topics to write in the book with John. 

1:05:00

Josh talks about the road map he wanted to see as he was up an coming as a programmer. Josh thinks that the goal is that these areas exist for developers. Chuck talks about how this book is the difference between learning to get a job and source control. 

1:15:00

John say this book is his “magnum opus”. John says he has several chapters to complete before it is done. 

1:18:00

John says to book will be done way before the blog posts are ready to go. Chuck mention he might steal this tactic. 

1:25:00

John talks about getting off track on his diet plan, but he shares a tactic to get back on track.  Not Shaving. John is doing some extreme fasting and exercise at the same time.  John is going to pound some pickle juice? The EntreProgrammers talks about their diet and exercise plans. 

1:32:00

Johns says the difference between anorexia and body builders is muscle. Josh talks about promoting a product, and is trying to make a $1000 total. Josh is hiring a coach to get his project done.    

1:42:00

John and Josh talk about how to create a product for Josh to sale. John says that Josh needs to learn to make Youtube videos, because he is going to be the Simple Programmer guy. Josh mentions he is struggling with create the product. 

1:45:00

Josh is talking about an October release for his new product. Josh says that webinar has been getting traction. Josh says that the new email for “How to Market Yourself” is out and he is waiting for the product to pickup sales.  

Thoughts of the Week

John - Have systems in place to remind you of what you want to become.

Josh - Hire a personal trainer.. 

Derick - Accountability is important….  

Chuck - Changing one thing to make a difference.

Aug 9, 2016

“Sticker Cheap…”

2:00

John mentions trying to connect to the internet last week. John talk about his experiences in China. John talks about his trip or tours of China. John talks about the language barrier and the difficulties of communication during the trip. 

7:30

John talks about the difference between Europe and China, and language barriers. John talks about the complexities of communication in China. 

9:36

John thinks that China will rapidly surpass the US. in world power and growth in technology.  John talks about how their economics are based on entrepreneurship rather than conventional jobs.  

11:59 

John talk about how his book was #1 on amazon in China, and possibly translating Simply Programmer into Chinese. 

15:00

John talks about gaining 10 t0 15lbs because he could not do any exercise. Panda Express everyday. John mentions that KCF is very popular in China. KFC everywhere!n John talks about the similarities in food to American from China.  

20:00

Josh ask about the  safety in China. John says it was very safe and the evenings were busy.  John talks about the different cultures all over China. John share the dinning rituals in China and the different cultural practices. John shares the cheap prices of food. 

35:00

John talks about the cost of living in parts of China. 

36:00

Josh talks about the week he did not have John around. Josh shares that he did has been lightening up his workload. Josh share his work for the week while John was out on vacation to China. 

43:00

Josh share some of his interest on the upcoming webinars his is doing.  Josh share his ideas for his webinar. 

48:00

John asks Josh if he read the 10X Rule book. Josh talks about having a great month at Simple Programmer. Josh shares some numbers. 

58:00

Josh and John talk about the Patreon project and fund. Josh talks about losing people on a course and possible ways to try to rebound numbers. 

1:01:00

Chuck asks if the majority of sales come from product sales for Simple Programmer. Josh explains the multiple streams of income Simple Programmers is generating. John talks about the upcoming ideas for the new book sales and bundle type ideas. 

1:11:00

Josh talks about actually taking a break and down consistent production over time. 

1:15:00

Josh shares that he has been losing weight along with John and working out on consistent basis. Josh shares his workout plans. 

1:21:00

John talks about the prescriptive workout. Chuck talks about getting back for training for boycott leaders. Chuck hires Podcast Motor for audio editing for some of Dev Chat Tv’s podcasts. Chuck spill the beans to Mandy about changing up the editing for the podcasts. 

1:28:00

Chuck is working on automating stuff for his business. Chuck shares his ideas for working with Podcast Motor. 

1:36:00

Chuck mention that his next sprint is working on the conferences are transferring work for podcast to Podcast Motor. 

1:44:00

John talks about the 80 20 rule and having built up a revenue channel. Josh talks ways Chuck can promote his project.  Josh talks about being ask to teach a class or course. 

1:50:00

John shares his he experience with the traveling and international date line.

Thoughts for the Week

John - Take a realistic assessment of where you are, and that is where you are. 

Chuck - Sometime you have to make those tuff decisions. 

Josh - What would this look like if it were easy.

Jul 26, 2016

Episode 127 “Turn Your Head and Cough”

2:00

No John today! John is lost behind the Great Firewall of China.  Chuck and Josh are going to be gone next week. So no EntreProgrammers next week.  EntreProgrmamers discuss their encounters with playing Pokemon with their children. Chuck mentions that this is a great way to connect with his kids and to spend time with them. 

10:00

Chuck talks able automating stuff and working on scheduling podcasts tasks. Chuck talks about finishing up the press kits for sponsorships. Derick spots lego collector items in Chuck’s office. Derick shares he likes build legos, even without the kiddos. 

18:00

Chuck talks about the different format of the sponsorships on his podcasts. Chuck explains the exposures numbers, mid roll format that will be available for those who want to buy spots.   

23:00

Josh asks about how Chuck is working wth hired.com. Chuck mentions that he is using pretty links. Derick mentions that Chuck should be able to use the Pretty Links as he described. 

27:00

Chuck mention that he is going to be moving over to Blubrry for more stats on his podcasts. Derick ask if people really do use the RSS feed for notification on podcasts. 

32:00

Josh mentions he is going to be cutting off Meet Edgar to save on expenses. Josh mentions that he could save 600 dollars after dropping Edgar, among other useless tools. Josh mentions to look at your analytics to see if interaction is there before you stop using tools. 

37:00

Derick talks about the official Twitter cards plugin, and  how it is helpful. Josh shares engagement and impression numbers for tweets.  Josh talks about is issues with his tweets. 

43:00

Josh talks about the changes that will go into effect soon with tweeting and boosting of tweets. Josh mentions that because of this Edgar is not useful to him anymore. 

47:00

Derick ask about Josh’s interaction on Twitter. Josh mention he may not be active enough. Josh mentions that he may have lock down a sponsor for Simple Programmer. Josh said he is excited because this may get him to milestone one. 

52:00

Josh says that he is cleaning up old Simple Programmer stuff. He is have Aaron go through tasks for Josh. Josh loves delegating. Josh mention because of this he was able to crank away at more important task.   Josh talks about his struggle with building out his product, because he does not have the system down yet. 

56:00

Chuck says that his resistants are getting started and having focus to finish the project. Josh mentions that he may have to announce publicly a least date to help him get things on track and done. 

1:00:00

Derick has an relaunch planned  to go out to him email list to target new traffic. Derick talks about his first experience with launching, verses with all the working put into this round of launch prep. Derick is frustrated with having to put more working than anticipated. 

1:12:00

Josh ask what is going on with Derick’s pop-up, as far as numbers and stats. Derick says he has nothing else to do, but to take care of these backend issues. 

1:20:00

Derick talks about losing subscribers. Josh thinks that when Derick does a big push, he gets his numbers back up.  Josh asks what or when he could do another push to bring in more customers. Derick says that his plugin may need custom code to make things work. 

1:25:00

Chuck talks about maybe getting Dev Chat TV redesigned, Chuck talks about how this will take time and money to get this done. Josh ask if this is worth the time and money, and will accomplish a specific goal for his products, program, and services. 

1:29:00

Chuck urges Derick to look at other system to help with the membership programs. Derick mentions the the API on Restrict Content Pro has great features for developers. Chuck describes what system he is using and how that does similar feature to Restrict Content Pro. 

1:37:00

Derick mentions that the bundle sales are declining as well. Josh asks what does he need, and if they could reverse engineer a plan to help the situation. Josh talks about ways Derick could do a discount on his products to increase the sales for a short time.   

1:48:00

Derick says that he continuously tries things that are suppose to work, but are not. Derick is not sure what to do as far as marketing. Derick says that firing all his editor will solve that money issue, but that means tons more work for him. 

1:56:00

Derick talks about how he is 10 grand in credit card debt and needs to pay into his retirement plan. 

2:00:00

Josh mentions that Derick should do a one month pricing plan that is only to a small part of his list. 

Jul 26, 2016

Episode 127 “Turn Your Head and Cough”

2:00

No John today! John is lost behind the Great Firewall of China.  Chuck and Josh are going to be gone next week. So no EntreProgrammers next week.  EntreProgrmamers discuss their encounters with playing Pokemon with their children. Chuck mentions that this is a great way to connect with his kids and to spend time with them. 

10:00

Chuck talks able automating stuff and working on scheduling podcasts tasks. Chuck talks about finishing up the press kits for sponsorships. Derick spots lego collector items in Chuck’s office. Derick shares he likes build legos, even without the kiddos. 

18:00

Chuck talks about the different format of the sponsorships on his podcasts. Chuck explains the exposures numbers, mid roll format that will be available for those who want to buy spots.   

23:00

Josh asks about how Chuck is working wth hired.com. Chuck mentions that he is using pretty links. Derick mentions that Chuck should be able to use the Pretty Links as he described. 

27:00

Chuck mention that he is going to be moving over to Blubrry for more stats on his podcasts. Derick ask if people really do use the RSS feed for notification on podcasts. 

32:00

Josh mentions he is going to be cutting off Meet Edgar to save on expenses. Josh mentions that he could save 600 dollars after dropping Edgar, among other useless tools. Josh mentions to look at your analytics to see if interaction is there before you stop using tools. 

37:00

Derick talks about the official Twitter cards plugin, and  how it is helpful. Josh shares engagement and impression numbers for tweets.  Josh talks about is issues with his tweets. 

43:00

Josh talks about the changes that will go into effect soon with tweeting and boosting of tweets. Josh mentions that because of this Edgar is not useful to him anymore. 

47:00

Derick ask about Josh’s interaction on Twitter. Josh mention he may not be active enough. Josh mentions that he may have lock down a sponsor for Simple Programmer. Josh said he is excited because this may get him to milestone one. 

52:00

Josh says that he is cleaning up old Simple Programmer stuff. He is have Aaron go through tasks for Josh. Josh loves delegating. Josh mention because of this he was able to crank away at more important task.   Josh talks about his struggle with building out his product, because he does not have the system down yet. 

56:00

Chuck says that his resistants are getting started and having focus to finish the project. Josh mentions that he may have to announce publicly a least date to help him get things on track and done. 

1:00:00

Derick has an relaunch planned  to go out to him email list to target new traffic. Derick talks about his first experience with launching, verses with all the working put into this round of launch prep. Derick is frustrated with having to put more working than anticipated. 

1:12:00

Josh ask what is going on with Derick’s pop-up, as far as numbers and stats. Derick says he has nothing else to do, but to take care of these backend issues. 

1:20:00

Derick talks about losing subscribers. Josh thinks that when Derick does a big push, he gets his numbers back up.  Josh asks what or when he could do another push to bring in more customers. Derick says that his plugin may need custom code to make things work. 

1:25:00

Chuck talks about maybe getting Dev Chat TV redesigned, Chuck talks about how this will take time and money to get this done. Josh ask if this is worth the time and money, and will accomplish a specific goal for his products, program, and services. 

1:29:00

Chuck urges Derick to look at other system to help with the membership programs. Derick mentions the the API on Restrict Content Pro has great features for developers. Chuck describes what system he is using and how that does similar feature to Restrict Content Pro. 

1:37:00

Derick mentions that the bundle sales are declining as well. Josh asks what does he need, and if they could reverse engineer a plan to help the situation. Josh talks about ways Derick could do a discount on his products to increase the sales for a short time.   

1:48:00

Derick says that he continuously tries things that are suppose to work, but are not. Derick is not sure what to do as far as marketing. Derick says that firing all his editor will solve that money issue, but that means tons more work for him. 

1:56:00

Derick talks about how he is 10 grand in credit card debt and needs to pay into his retirement plan. 

2:00:00

Josh mentions that Derick should do a one month pricing plan that is only to a small part of his list. 

Jul 20, 2016

Episode 126 “Relaunch?”

2:00

John talks about taking only a Chrome Book to China with VPN configuration to use internet. John is going to be in Beijing and other parts of China for a couple of weeks. John talks about doing an hour and half Keynote during his recent talk.

10:00

Josh talks about working with Aaron who is helping Simple Programmer with blog posts, embedded material, and code.

15:00

Josh talks about using certain settings in Drip that have to do with marking strategies and email material. Josh talks about not having any meetings for weeks or a month, and having to redo his accounts and move money around to make paychecks happen.

20:00

Derick shares that everything possible has happen with week and is working with Mark. Derick talks about doing his second webinar with Scott Harrison. Derick mentions having an incredible discussion on the webinar, but had very low attendee numbers.

27:00

Derick talks about possibly reediting video content for new projects. Derick talks about doing a noise removal and compression on the audio to improve the quality of the audio for new publishing.

30:00

Derick talks about mentioning John and Simple Programmer in a new Youtube video. But John’s name was misspelt. Derick talks about be called Daxter for two years and not ever fixing the problem before the person found out on his own. 

37:00

Derick talks about and email he wrote about  being in a Spanish class, comparing learning how to write in a new language or programming code. Derick shares that he is doing a 500 dollar retainer with Mark and arranging the partnership. Mark is going to be doing marketing work for Derick digital products.

40:00

The EntreProgrammers talk about sharing  lawyers and preparing the documents for partnership. Derick mentions that most law offices don't know much about online business. Josh mentions how each of the mastermind members are doing a lot of hiring.

49:00

Josh talk about hiring for a designer, and using particular job title heading to weed-out a larger portion of people who are not qualified. Josh talks about giving extensions and firing on the spot.  Josh and John discuss hiring people for particular jobs for Simple Programmer.

56:00

John talks about chatting with people in Las Vegas and trying get some interesting stories. John talks about learning about a cab driver who needs to learn soft-skills in order to get a programming job.

1:04:00

Josh asks that he needed help with some marketing strategy or delivering end to end value information. Derick talks about how to create an avatar for their market. The EntreProgrammers discuss Josh’s email/copywriting course.

1:18:00

Derick and Josh talks about how to structure the email course and how to come up a great avatar. Josh talks about taking a personality type test similar to the Myers Briggs tests.

1:29:00

Josh ask how many people would buy the course even if they don't have a product to sale. Josh is planing to do 2000 words of text for each module. The video with be him sharing his screen and talking. Josh this he can sell the product for 97 dollars each.

1:40:00

The EntreProgarmmers discuss the learning how relaunch their product and improving that business sales.  Josh talks about maybe relaunching the How To Market Yourself course, and updating material. John think is makes more sense to create an Entrepreneurial course, rather than do a relaunch of How To Market Yourself.

1:46:00

John think that having more product is better for those who join your emailing list, and are more likely to purchase. John would like to expand the product line and product 2-3 products a year.

1:53:00

Derick thinks a proper relaunch of RabbitMQ could be helpful and reaching new customers and furthering his reach with his RabbitMQ bundle. And an interesting conversation about education level and success as an entrepreneur.

Thoughts of the Week

John - There is a different between being in a hurry. Being in a hurry is never good.

Derick - Deliver end to end value with each iteration.

Josh - Eliminating things is painful.

Jul 12, 2016

Episode 125  “China, Firing, and Burning The Boats”

2:00

We’re live! Chuck talks about his chat with Mandy. Chuck shares that he is moving to a fixed price for work on his podcasts. Chuck mentions that he tried to negotiate getting the podcast editing down to a lower cost, but no success. However, moving this to another team may save a ton of money in the long run.

10:00

John thinks that Chuck should replace Mandy entirely and not feel guilty about it. Chuck mentioned that he had never looked at editing prices before. 

14:00

The EntreProgrammers talk about value base pricing and raising rates as a freelancer. Josh mentions that your quality of work has to be 10X if your are in to commodity base pricing.

21:00

Chuck mentions that these are real people in his business and he still cares about them. But the process and cost no longer fit with his business. 

23:00

Chuck talks about Podcast Movement 2016 in Chicago and the amazing people his got to meet. Chuck mentions learning about using video on SnapChat, Periscope, and YouTube Live,  as apart of creating a bigger network for podcasts. 

29:00

Josh talks about how tools are abandon as soon as marketers figure out other effective ways. Chuck has an idea to manually tag the episodes on his network and put them into Meet Edgar. 

33:00

Chuck talks about learning tons at the Podcast Movement, especially building more networks on social media such as Facebook groups. Chuck talks about the inner working of a prerecord webinar and how to use it to get audience in conflicting time zones. 

40:00

Chuck shares a trick of handing out playing cards with his information, rather then business cards. 

43:00

Josh ask Derick about his collaboration with Mark. Derick shares is plans on the marketing strategy with Mark. Josh gives some suggestions to Derick. 

54:00

Chuck ask how he found someone like Mark, to help him with marketing, copy writing, and emails. Derick mentions it was waiting on fate on drop him in your lap. Josh mentions that it is hard to find someone in the US who knows what they are doing for copywriting.

1:03:00 

Derick suggests rev.com for transactions. The EntreProgrammers discuss when they create content, and how to focus intently to get things finished. 

1:11:00

Josh shares trying to get through projects and stripping his gears. Josh talks about adopting a formate similar to Johns real estate video project. 

1:18:00

John talks about TSA pre-check, and how it is worth the time.   John talks about getting ready to go to China. 

1:22:00

Josh talks about holding down the fort while John is off to China. Derick share his new subscriber numbers.   

1:25:00 

Josh and John talk about spending tons of money on business expenses. Josh shares that in Google analytics he learn to tag people. 

1:33:00

EntrePrograrmmers discuss how webinars are conducted and the future of building a business using webinars.   

1:38:00

John says he is a 68,000 words on his new book. John thinks his book might be delivered in two volumes.  John shares the new logo design is complete, and no backlash on the change up. 

1:46:00

Chuck mentions that he may do a Dev Chat TV redesign. John says to bring back flash. Josh shares some information on a Google analytics measurement on bounce rate.

1:52:00

Chuck ask how to get people to click on the link of the pick on his podcast pages. Josh suggests the subscribers should signup for email to see the picks. 

1:55:00

John suggest using landing pages to the best picks. Josh says it is not selfish to ask for emails. 

1:59:00

John talks about dropping to 8% body fat and gain 2 pounds. 

Thoughts of the Week

John -  Don’t look that the world through the lens media portrays it…bb

Derick -  Stop starting and start finishing.     

Chuck - Commit and life your life. 

Josh - Burn the boats

Jul 5, 2016

Episode 124 “Keep Those Huskies Mushing…”

2:00
Alright, We’re Live! No billionaires and going for over two years. John discusses a subscriber who is struggle to make his entrepreneur goals work. John has been try to understand where he is going wrong.

7:00
John talks about his presentation at the CA Code Camp, and experimenting with multiple way to get results and generate more income.

10:00
Josh talks about committing to a specific goal, but not a specific way to get there. Josh says one might blog for 2 years and still not get anywhere. John thinks charisma is major part of personal development to help support building entrepreneurship or a business.

15:00
Josh says one should practice in their area of talents. The Enterprogammers talk about diving into area they struggle in. John says that failure may be due to the lack of confidence.

20:00
Josh scares John about not hitting certain goals. John and the Entreprogarmmers talk about control, goals, and success.

31:00
John asks, when do you know you are course correcting too often? Derick asks what part of the plan did not work out for someone with two thousand videos of content.

36:00
Josh talks about pulling the plug on Sublime. John says he was not going full-bore at Sublime. The EntreProgarmmers talk about working at fast food restaurants in their earlier days.

41:00
Chuck talks about reading Procrastinate On Purpose by Rory Vaden. Chuck asks what he should do on the technical issues of podcasting with Mandy. Chuck discusses the processes that Mandy does for the podcasts. Chuck is trying to figure out exactly what she does and understand the processes of the business, but not to fire her.

50:00
John tells a story about Elon Musk working with an employee who wants a raise. John says to Chuck that his business is not growing when his employees are not providing processes and evidence of growth.

53:00
Josh talks about switching to an abundance mindset, rather then a scarcity mindset to help the business grow. Derick says he thinks that Chuck is having trust issues with his employees.

1:02:00
Chuck agrees he may have to have a difficult talk with his employee. Chuck asks when does he have this conversation with Mandy. Derick ask if his business can do without Mandy for 2 weeks.

1:13:00
John says that Chuck has to stand firm on his own plan, and if his employee don't want to follow, then they have to go.

1:15:00
Derick shares a story at a former job, about a upper level CTO who thought he was indispensable. Derick says Chuck may have to find 5 people to replace the one person, but the process with be better define.

1:28:00
John says if Chucks situation goes south quickly, then he will know that he made the right decision. Derick says all he has for this week is complaining about his business. Derick gets lectures from the mastermind on staying the course.

1:37:00
Chuck agrees with John that Derick is coming up for air to much during the process of working on the business.

1:45:00
Josh talks about potential energy, as far as capitalizing on bundles overtime rather than sooner. Derick says he has seen no evidence of profits on all the things he is trying, even when collaborating with Josh.

1:50:00
EntreProgrammers talk about hitting their revenue goals on their individual businesses. John talks about how he wants to shoot for a million dollars a year from Simple Programmer. Derick says it is hard destroying his income taking chances on trying new things for his business.

2:00:00
Josh says as long as you’re able to pay your bills, it does not matter. Derick is not sure what he is suppose to do for the business. Derick shares what videos he has to produce in order to get keep going with his business.

2:10:00
Josh is confident that Derick can get the project done by end of July to launch that new product. John suggests awaking up one hour early to work on the project. Derick says that is at 4:30am, for all of July.

Thoughts of the Week

John - There are people on the internet giving you money for something you made!

Chuck - Priority: The one thing above all things.

Derick - Priorities are the things you actually do…

Josh - The value of being over or under prepared.

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