0:15
We’re Live! Barely alive… John talks about Josh asking questions about the lighting in John's space. John talks about his new video projects and equipment. John continues to talk about setting up a new Rode shotgun mic for better audio quality on his videos. Josh talks about considering a hair light.
6:30
John mentions that he spent 2500 on the equipment. Not a bad investment, considering that John does many videos for Simple Programmer. Josh says that John needs to make it to where Alexa controls all the video equipment in the room.
11:00
John mention the surprising video quality on the iPhone. Chuck asks about the difference in the sound foam an sound panels. Chuck mentions that he is thinking about doing video at some point in the near future.
13:45
Chuck talks about his podcast processes and how the scheduling is working. Chuck is trying to determine if the podcast transcripts are worth doing. John mentions a few ways to check if people are viewing the transcripts. John also mentions that cost effectiveness of the transcripts.
19:00
John asks Josh if he know of any kinds of metrics to see the effectiveness of the transcripts, and to see if they are beneficial and cost effective.
22:00
Chuck talks about the performance of the new hires for transcripts and show notes. John goes back to the benefits of the transcripts. Josh takes a peel at the analytics of a podcast on Dev Chat TV. John talks about how to gauge the need for the transcripts.
28:00
John wants to cut off the assholes podcasters who complain about giving information, as John helps provides traffic to their podcasts. Josh tries to leverage traffic by using Chuck’s list. Josh continues to look into JavaScript Podcast transcript traffic. John think it is not worth doing the transcripts.
33:00
John thinks that dropping the transcripts, to move the other parts of the podcast production faster. And maybe revisit transcripts in the future when revenue is up. John talks about maybe opening the transcripts behind a pay wall.
38:00
Josh help setup an automatic Tweet to help Simple Programmers book launch using Chuck’s reach.
43:00
John shows Chuck the new landing page for Simple Programmer Career Guide. John talks about Smashing Mag. Josh talks about how they would not allow them a subscription.
50:00
Josh talks about their plans with the book launch. Josh talks about getting hooked on the Facebook group for the book. John talks about the numbers he wants to hit for the book and career guide.
53:00
Josh mentions a Facebook Live appearance that John is going to do soon to the group. John mention that whoever is watching this progress of the book launch is probably afraid to do their own, after all the issues Simple Programmer had.
58:00
John talks about his plans post book launch and possible tripling business. EntreProgarmmers talk about other kinds of projects they could do once the book launch is done.
Thoughts for the Week
Chuck - Finding the systems that work for you.
Josh - Ratcheting it up takes time.
John - Learning to maintain this new level.
Episode 173 “John’s Law”
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Simple Programmer Edition of EntreProgrammers. John talks about his visit at Fit Con. Highschool party? John talks about feeling like the “old pervert” at this conference. John talks about how 14 year old girl articulate building a following on Youtube. John goes on to talk about trying to network with a young crowd. John goes on the talk about traveling to and from the conference.
7:30
John talks about possibly going to another YouTube conference. John talks about his sport activities as the conference. John tries to out punch the Six Pack Ads guy Mike Chan. John continues to rant about his encounters at the conference.
12:00
John talks about learning techniques for deescalating a situation, and his experience at the expos. John explains his idea for installing a shoot gun mic.
16:00
Josh talks about his busy week and get down to the wire of the book launch. Josh talks about how in the beginning of his career he managed printed material. Josh talks she hiring someone form UpWork to help with design of the book layout.
19:00
Josh talk about his distrust with some UpWork freelance designers. John and Josh talks the Kindle book designers. Josh talks about the new UpWork hire, and the process of designing the book. Josh talks about trying to figure out why her service was more then they budgeted.
23:00
As a back up, Josh mentions hiring a firm as a back up for the book design. Josh says this is their flagship and need great job done of the book design.
28:00
Josh talks she his confidence in the book designer, who is a book publishing veteran. Josh talks he doing Op-Ins for the book.
30:00
John mention how he was explaining his book launch to a person. John say you can launch a book in a few weeks, but it will not be a premium product lacking all the marketing perks.
34:00
John mentions how some tradition publisher execute a book design and launch. John talks about promoting a video that was once from PluralSight. John says book Book Trailer is ready to go, as long as the Book landing page is done.
40:00
Josh says he has not yet looked into the emails and copy he has to create for the book. John talks about getting of .Net Rocks, and a bunch of podcast to help the book launch.
45:00
John talks about how his book SoftSkill was available for download from a Chinese site, but after it was taken down, book sales on Amazon are up again.
50:00
John talks about creating “Johns Law” for productivity. John talks about having a personal/business assistant in the future. Josh talks about finding someone as good as Aaron for another hire at Simple Programmer.
54:00
John and Josh talks about about everyone on their team is an A plus player, and replacing Aaron is going to be a challenge.
Thoughts for the Week
John - Be willing to take the skunk cost..
Josh - If you have something critical, get redundancy on it.
Episode 172 “Kiss off Mickey”
0:15
We’re Live! Chuck immediately says he world is blowing up. Chuck mentions having to find ways to pay things, such as server hosting. John says it is good that things blow up early, to figure out how to not go into the hole bad.
3:30
Chuck talks about how some of his revenue is not till a few weeks away, according to to sponsor payment cycles. “Its just freaking hard.” Chuck talks about an upcoming conference he is coordinating for quick income.
5:44
John asks questions about how to avoid short term solutions. Chuck talks about how at the beginning of the month he will have funds for business, but questionable for personal stuff. Chuck talks about adding possible podcast sponsor to his lists.
9:00
Josh ask what cause the “Current Crunch.” Chuck says it was paying taxes for the whole year last year. Chuck talks about his plan to not going into he red with paying taxes at the end of the year. Chuck talks about cutting on spending an saving in places where he is not using services.
14:00
John says to tells Mickey Mouse to kiss off. John talks about how they have to live an die based on looking at the monthly report. Chuck says he expected this year to look like last year as far as number goes. John says “You need buffers.”
17:00
John suggests to have your book keeper level off or spread the cash over the next few months to get a better idea of how much money you have. Chuck says this is kind of a belt tightening mode.
21:00
John talks about 6, 12 month rolling averages to gauge budgets. Josh suggests going back a looking the sales cycle, it is the summer, and that effects sales every year.
25:00
John says that Chuck is setting up himself great for the future, he just needs to survive till the future. Chuck says he is not going to be able to get to a promised project. John says just to do the deliverables, and tell your clients what you are going to do next.
29:00
John talks about threading or multitasking, and how that still slows progress. So bucket own and do the projects.
31:00
Josh ask if Chuck heard the new of Josh hitting mile stone 2, and is now a 50% Simple Programmer owner. John talks about arm wrestling his father. John says there is only two things that can only happen with money in Simple Programmer, expenses or income.
36:00
Josh talks about exporting his bank info. and built a budget around that information. Josh talks about getting a call from his bank, and how they see that he is run a business out of his account. So Josh is opening a credit card account for business.
40:00
John suggest just setting up a business account rather than changing banks. EntreProgrammers talk about business credit cards.
44:00
John talks about using 99 Designs or a designer for the UK for the book landing page. John talks about DHH.
Thoughts for the Week
Chuck - Git yer done.
John - Like is an obstacle course..
Josh - Carve away stuff..
Episode 171 “Veiny Bastard Program”
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We’re Live. EntreProgrammers talk about trying to not discuss anything before they air. John shares information on his body fat measurements, at 11 percent. John talks about low hanging fruit and having a lot of room to grow. Be harsher on yourself as you measure your goals. John get off his soapbox.
5:00
Josh share his encounter with a very strict diet, and measuring his calories. Josh talks about the mental aspects and reaching the goals. Josh mentions being at 12 percent body fat.
10:00
John says losing weight does not take long, but getting to a certain body fat percentage is difficult. Josh talks about his conflict goal between gymnastic training and body building. Josh says the train helps him feel better, with less aches and pains.
12:00
Josh explains his maintenance levels for maintaining his body weight. John suggests workouts for Josh. Josh continue to talks the the other types of thing he was to continue and change with his workouts.
16:00
John talks about putting Josh on his Veiny Bastard program. John talks about finishing his marathon in some 4 hours this past Sunday.
20:00
John talks still doing leg day even after running a marathon. Josh talks about the Keto diet and his experience with broccoli tasting like butter. John talks about low fat diet and how sex drive.
25:00
John say vanity has a high price. Josh talks about how he finally achieved his childhood dream with his bracer. Josh asks questions about John’s two image consulting meeting. John shares how using two image consultants are creating an image for him
30:00
Josh talks about doing an interview for software developers and professionals for image. John and Josh discuss how people are dressed in the work place, and how that effects how people see them.
37:00
John mentions that Josh now is an equal partner in Simple Programmer! Josh talks about building a business is a quick way to build wealth.
40:00
John talks about Ty Lopez’s new video or commercial. John talks about the main points of Ty’s video on creating wealth. John compares this to MJ DeMarco’s practice to building wealth. John talks about investing in real estate to build wealth.
46:00
John and Josh discuss different ways to invest money from your business into real estate, stocks, and Angle Investing. John talks about adding a “Hey John” section in his book.
50:00
John talks about the value of his book as he is working on it. Josh thinks this is going to be a very long audio book. John talks about how they are going to blast 1 million developers on launch day. John wants to hit the biggest launch numbers in Amazon, not mainstream numbers.
1:00:00
Josh and John discuss the developmental ideas for John’s new book and the launch preparations that are coming up quickly. John talks about another idea that is similar to the new book landing page.
1:03:00
John and Josh talk about polarizing and getting people excited about the book. John talks about Algorithms to Live By
1:09:00
Josh talks about YouTube ads on mobile, verse desktop ads. John talks about different pay platforms like ApplePay. John talks about break the store with updates.
Thoughts for the Week!
Josh - Little bit at a time and chipping away, don’t despise the little things.
John - Plan your day ahead of time and cut away the distractions.
Episode 170 “Cheap Bastard”
0:15
We’re Live! Derick is frozen, kinda. Chuck wants to rant about having a cancelled guest because of sponsors. John talks about finding a pattern of refunds form a particular customer.
5:00
Josh talks about his reasoning for asking for a refund. Chuck, said that John should go to a movie, and if it was not a good, to as for a refund. Chuck talks about taking the EntreProgrammers advice about doing an urgent time sensitive deal for sponsor slots. Chuck talks about doing a pre-sale on his book.
9:00
Josh say that chuck when to opposite direction of a pig farmer this pass week. Derick talks about a jerk giving away his course for free. Derick says he need to create a sales sequence.
11:00
John talks about reading a great book, Algorithms To Live By . Josh talks about the issues with the emails on the last sale at Simple Programmer. Josh shares his email flop. Josh say him may not want to do FAQ emails anymore. Josh say he may just highlight just the bonuses.
17:00
John talks about a Tweet from Drunk Old Bastard, and how they turned in this situation around. Josh talks about other ways them could have converted on the course.
22:30
Josh described that cost for an email subscriber. John and talks about training customers, and how doing fire sales are not good for business.
26:00
Derick talks about a friend’s course that returns very low sales on UDemy. Derick talks about doing or noticing geographical pricing on courses.
30:00
John talks about new customers and return customers, and small percentage for sales are form return customers. Derick talks about his discount situation at Watch Me Code. Derick says there is a balance to be found when doing discounts on products or services.
35:00
Josh talks on customer lifetime value, and cost per subscriber. Entreprogrammers talks more about discounts, which is like buying customers. John talks about price tiering.
39:00
John talk about the different tiers of discounting. Josh talks about noticing the ShutterFly discounting pattern. Chuck says most people will react to the price that make sense to them.
42:00
Derick talks about a game discount supplier. John talks about how the best customers will learn the discount pattern or frequency. Josh says the whole point of a discount is urgency and scarcity of a product.
47:00
John talks about resistance to sales. Derick talks have finally cracked the 8K number on his mailing list. Derick interactive publishing company for multiple kinds of media. Derick mentions that his lead magnets are begin to work.
55:00
John says the key thing is to own the source, or ow the platform for blogs and content. John talks about publishing all video as a membership type site for Simple Programmer.
Thoughts for the Week
Josh - When you don't have time for a checklist, that is when you need a checklist.
John - Pomodoro Technique…
Derick - Focus on the right thing
Chuck - Being deliberate…
Episode 169 “Short on Top, Long on Sides”
0:15
Chuck mention he would not mind being a pig farmer. Entrepreneurship is taking a toll these days. Derick cracks jokes about John’s situation at Simple Programmer, and Josh’s Apple Air Pods.
3:45
Chuck talk about having to pay taxes, paying a lot of money out, and maybe having to do something desperate. Chuck talks about his email conversation with a former sponsor.
7:00
Chuck talks about having to do some deep discounts and other dealings with this former sponsor.
10:00
John talks above creating perceptions within a business, in order to follow through with business. John more about the 100K goal that Chuck created for himself. John talks about hitting goals first that are steps to the target.
15:00
Josh makes a suggestion on Chuck’s LinkedIn profile. Josh says that benefit of huge goals or targets make you think in ways you haven’t. John thinks that Chuck did have a great month.
21:00
John says that at any given time we can only do what we are capable of doing at the time. Josh suggest a time sensitive offer to gain some quick income. Chuck mentions going back to quarterly and annually sponsor spots.
28:30
Josh says the easiest place to get money is from those who already gave you money.
31:00
John talks about going shopping to change his image, and not look like a muscle bound freak. Johns says that he bought stretchy pants at actually fit. John says that he is ban from wearing tank tops. John says that experience has open his eyes on image.
40:00
Johns talks about the perception he was putting off according to his new stylist. Chuck makes comment on the perception rant. Chuck ask if John was taking the videos down. John says this is a moving forward change with image.
45:00
John talks his plan for changing up the Simple Programmer brand in to something more mainstream. John eagerly awaits feedback from the mastermind.
50:00
Chuck talks the difference of marketing when going mainstream. John says the next book he writes will not be about programming, but about self development. John talks about expanding out of the niche into the more mainstream.
53:00
Josh says this change might be something that Chuck would be interested in doing with podcasts.
55:00
Chuck mentions taking over a couple of shows, but is not sure when this will happen.
57:00
Derick says he is actively looking for client work within companies for training purposes. Derick says that What Me Code is still paying the bills, and he is done with one of his clients. Derick talks about his income numbers with Watch Me Code.
1:05:00
Derick says he is still waiting on his big final success with Watch Me Code. Derick say he feels that he can’t not give feedback on the rest of the guys, because they are somewhat far ahead of him business wise.
1:08:00
Derrick talks about he video game youtube channel, and a viral video he created.
1:12:00
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Thoughts for the Week
John - Use an expert as leverage.
Josh - Know when to say no..
Chuck - Make a plan and get with it.
Derick - Timing is everything.
Episode 168 “Shock Collar!”
0:15
John talks about take your iPhone 7 into the shower. John talk about every time they hire an expert, they John and Josh still know more than them. John says to only thing they lack is the time to get to all the ideas they have. John explains that the more money they have, the more issue that have getting too extend their business into new areas.
8:00
John mentions that he made the same mistake he tell Chuck not to do.John says you either implement it or project manage it.
12:00
Chuck talks about having a hard talk with Jamie about the podcast editing. Chuck talks about finding an new podcast editor. John says he the asshole who tells everyone to fire their employees. Chuck talks about communicating with your help or employees to make sure things are getting done correctly.
19:00
John tell Chuck that he should be careful not to fire someone prematurely. John says you have to be thrilled with your help to make things work.
21:00
John ask if Chuck got a transcriptionist, but not a show notes writer. Chuck says he thinks he may have mess that up. Josh talks about the order of publishing of the podcast. Chuck says he have at least 8 episode going out every week. Chuck talk that different type of transcription services he has used in the past. Still wait on technology to get better.
28:00
John mentions using Hot Jar to find out how many people actually use the show notes. John say a better workflow will up the output production. Chuck talks about getting started on the Kickstarter for React and Elixir shows.
32:00
Chuck talks about how people at the Build Microsoft conference are reaching out o him for sponsorships. Chuck explains how people got interested in the sponsorships. Chuck talks about changing his philosophy on acquiring sponsors, and how he want people to get an great ROI.
37:00
Chuck talks about helping the customer reach their ROI as a sponsor as a new approach to selling sponsorships. Chuck talks about going to other kinds of events outside of developer conferences to find sponsors.
43:00
Chuck says that Grace is no longer doing conference task for him, he is now having more meetings or call to help stay on track. Chuck talks about doing things in a 3 month plans.
46:00
John talks about having to many ideas and thing to do as the shit hits the fan. Chuck show his tasks board, and tell us how it works to keep him on schedule.
59:00
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Thoughts for the Week
John - Plan ahead for the days you are away
Josh - Ckicken and waffles!
Chuck - “The way you do anything, is the way you do everything”
Episode 167 “Turning Sh!t Into Shitake!”
0:15
We’re live and there are 4 of us! John tells us about a strange phenomenon and his video responses. Crazy stuff. John talks about receiving his Apple Air Pods in another strange event.
6:28
Derick tells a story about about a double from amazon. Derick talks about his strange coincidence. Derick asks about a tale about at Simple Programmer. John shares about working with someone to create a course for Simple Programmer. John talks about a mistake on the video. Josh and John talk about trying to salvage the video.
15:00
Josh talks about the uncertainty of the quality of the course. John goes on to explains being accused of stealing the course, and going on to verify the content on UDemy . Come to find out… it was stolen by the hired person.
22:00
John talks about trying to turn this around, by using the actual author’s course to replace the stolen material. Tony the author agrees and launch the course through Simple Programmer. Bubba gets called out publicly. John talks about confronting Bubba.
32:00
John talks about how he learn from his mistakes of not check Bubba’s background. Josh talks about his mistakes as well and cognizing the warning signs.
40:00
Stressfully week at Simple Programmer. Chuck is in Seattle at Microsoft Build. Chuck asks Josh about how he using LinkedIn. Josh gives some pointers on how to use LinkedIn to reach people in a more professional connection. Chuck talks about using BlueTick.
48:00
Chuck talks about looking for sponsors at the conference, and doing in person meetings. Derick talks about his webinar, replacing floors and washing machine. Derick talks about camping with ADHD kids.
52:00
Derick says the webinar went well, and sold 58 spots for the webinar. Derick describes this email sequence. Derick talks about the different JS language he is offer in the videos. Derick talks about what he is offering with his Docker videos.
1:00:00
Derick talks about his survey, and what he learn from it to create the webinar and sales page. Derick is not going to do webinars in May, but plans to get bak to the e-book.
1:03:00
Josh talks about Micro Conf. and a story about a 2 Star review. Josh talks about catching flak about doing a review in the course. Josh and John talk about the out coming and down votes on this review.
Thoughts of the Week
Derick - Do the Copy Hour Course.
John - Turn shit into shiitake.
Josh - You don't know anything.
Chuck - Reaching out to people…
0:15
Live on a Monday! Weird.. Luis gets ahold of Chuck after hearing the podcast. John talks about running 20 miles. John is still training for the marathon, that is going to happen in the next month. Chuck stalls on the Keto Diet. Chuck mentions using the internet and researching what he need to do to bring down his blood sugar.
4:30
John talks how what Chuck need to do to possibly bring down is blood sugar. Josh suggests taking MCT oils or brain octane oils by Dave Asprey. Josh thinks that Chuck is though the hard part of the Keto diet.
9:40
josh talks about increasing his fat intake and the effects. John talks about going in and out of ketosis and fasting. Chuck talks about hiring a new book keeper, and attempting doing 100K in sales this month. Chuck finds out the BlueTick does not work in Safari.
14:00
Chuck talks about having issues with his VA in the Philippines. Josh talks about someone has not been fired in awhile. John talks about how family is in high regard in the Philippines, and this may be the issue with a missing VA.
15:00
Josh and Chuck about having an emergency fund. John suggest having some stored salted pork. Josh talks about testing book covers, and running Facebook Ads. Josh talks about doing Facebook ads and having some issues with text.
21:00
Josh talks about working with Ad sets. John and Josh talk about the process of the book launch and Facebook ads. Josh talks about reaching cold traffic and retargeting. Josh continues talks about the many different ways to reach cold traffic, warming up and audience, and creating effective ads on Facebook.
32:00
Josh talks about the 99 Design contest, and how the poll was being reused or copied by designers. John talks about how to do a 99 designs contest. John thinks that 99 designs is worth the work.
36:00
Chuck talks about having issues with his podcast editor, and podcast are not getting done. The EntreProgrammers talk about Chuck’s situation with finding a new podcast show note editor. John thinks that Chuck should turn he podcast editing into an in house editor.
49:00
Chuck is postponing Ruby Remote conf. and is going to take care of the product side of things. John talks about interviewing MJ DeMarco of Millionaire FastLane! John say having huge following allows them to get big names for interviews.
53:00
John talks about leaving the Sub groups applications open. Apply at entreprogrammers.com/apply .
Thoughts For The Week
Chuck - Share our warts…
John - It is easier to forget where you were….
Josh - Trilled to be where I am…
Episode 165 “Random Dude”
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John mentions looking at book cover designs, and not sure about the design or creativity. Josh describes the designs and issues and challenges with the book cover. John talks about the 99 designs contests for the book cover. John talks about using 99 designs for a lot of projects and how they should be sponsors.
6:00
Chuck chimes in on his thoughts on the contest of using 99 designs. Josh mentions using Facebook ads to promote the book. Josh think a cover with a photo is more usable for the real book cover. Josh says asking people what they like is usually the best bet. John mentions the colors people pick and other things that are pleasing to the eye. Honey badger and Unicorns…
13:00
Chuck talks about trying to figure out his launch sequence. John ask where he is at in the process. Chuck talks about his crazy number of 75K with the upcoming conferences and sponsorships.
16:00
Chuck talks about launching a book at the end of May. John say it does not have to be finished to do a pre-sale. At Chuck’s current pre-sale of 1500 dollars, Josh suggest having more to offer. Josh suggests a 10 week course, or releasing content overtime, to create value.
22:00
Chuck asks how he can package the product into a 500 dollar product.. Chuck mention the beta package paying 300 dollars. John says not to write a book, unless you are going to publish on Amazon.
27:00
John says you have to ask yourself why you are writing you book. Josh suggest doing video to gain an audience. John compares this to a gym membership service.
31:00
John talks about doing a running with Manny, and running 9 miles with him. Chuck talks about needed carbs, badly. Chuck is doing the Keto diet. Josh talks about finding things that have too much protein calories. Chuck talks about his experiment with the Ketogenic diet.
37:00
John talks about the night and day body fat percentage. Josh talk about reaching out to Red Gate. Josh talks about using BlueTick.
41:00
Chuck talk about have a VA find people who sponsor podcast. Josh talks about how Blue Tick does what he needs it to do.
45:00
John talks about growing the pool of audience and sponsorships. Josh mentions sponsorships. Chuck talks about his plan for the funnels, cold groups, podcast sponsorships.
49:00
John talks about reaching out to DPD. Chuck asks why Josh’s WordPress guy never got back to him.
52:00
John talks about possibly getting an interview with MJ De Marco or Millionaire Fastlane. John is looking of a personal stylist or image consultant.
1:05:00
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Thoughts For The Week
Chuck - “How You Do Anything,Is How You Do Everything…”
John - There is nothing that is difficult in life…
Josh - “It’s important to know what you enjoy…”
Episode 164 “I Need a Job, Come Work For Me”
0:15
Derick mentions that he needs new clients. Need help wth Docker..? Josh mention that he needs to email some 12000 people for clients and building his business.
4:00
Derick mentions creating 15 emails for he launch sequence. Derick talk about doing a Jeff Walker type of launch for his project.
7:40
Derick mention that Monday is launch day, with 40 percent off for his mailing list. Derick also talks about the mistakes and challenge he encountered. Derick says he is going to use this sequence as an evergreen funnel if it works well.
11:30
Derick talks about free bonus with this Docker product. Derick says he wrote 2300 word for his most current emails. Derick say he still has to write the last chance emails. Derick says that only has been writing tons, but has not had time to build the webinar.
18:00
Chuck says he cancelled Freelance Remote Conf., and lower some prices on others. EntreProgrammers talk about marketer and their strategies. John says he is afraid of Ministry of Tests…John says they are similar to Hell Angles.
25:00
Chuck ask what he should do as are as sponsor cost. Chuck says he is looking into trading services to cut cost. Chuck talks about his beta test project. Josh gives some suggestion on how to keep growing a list.
31:00
John talks about opening up another sub group of 4 people at entreprogrammers.com/apply. 50 dollar application fee and 50 a month.
34:00
John talk about hiring Native Commerce to do content production and SEO. Josh talks about getting into the zero spot for a blog post. Josh talks about the meeting with the Native Commerce people.
40:00
John talks about getting the price down to 6K a month for Native Commerce services. John says they should be able to double or triple traffic within a year. Josh talks about BlueTick.
47:00
Josh hope The EntreProgrammers are the backlink to BluetTick for request on their software. Similar to how they use to ask Rob Walling who created Drip. Chuck ask if he should check out BlueTick.
53:00
Chuck asks about key features he would need if he were to use BlueTick. Chuck talks about features challenge with Contactually. Chuck talks about reaching out to people to acquire podcast, as well as doing a survey. Chuck says people were interested in React and Elixir. Chuck talk about his ideas of this project. The EntreProgrammers gives feedback on marketing and ways to be most effective with podcasts and audiences reached.
1:05:00
Derick talk about the Elixir community and Rob Conery.
Thoughts for the Week
Derick - Trust The Process
John - Ignore what everyone says and do what you think is right.
Chuck - Do what you want to do, but dot be afraid to ask for help.
Josh - Be willing to negotiate on things, its uncomfortable but worth it.
Episode 163 “That was Vegas…”
0:15
We’re Live and Alive! Josh talks about his flight with an annoying lady. John crack jokes about United Airlines.
3:30
Josh talks about how John won 2 awards in a row at MicroConf. John talks about going to nightclubs in Vegas, and getting girls to go to a club.
7:00
Chuck talks about how he has no interesting nightclubs. So that was Vegas… John ask how Chuck like MicroConf. EntreProgrammers talk about their thought about the events at MicroConf.
13:00
EntreProgrammers continue on their thought on the talks and event organization at MicroConf. John says that because they’ve been to tons of conferences in the past, they have heard it all and noting new is happening in the world of marketing.
18:00
Chuck says that after learning from MicroConf., he feels like he should cancel the rest of conferences he has schedule until he gathers more information. Josh suggest looking at the math and his list.
22:00
Chuck talks about the last funnel he was building to gain more people on his list. Josh suggest growing the audience would be quickest for Chuck. Chuck is think about doing somethings for free and Summit event as a land grab.
27:00
Josh ask Chuck about how long does it take for Chuck to set up the conference events. Josh suggest looking at the costs first.
31:00
John talks about having a mountain of email during traveling. Including taxes. Chuck talks about his tax situation. John explains pay taxes as you go up the tax bracket. Death and Taxes..
37:00
Chuck talks both doing an Audience Survey with his assistant’s help, and mistakenly gets 11,000 emails because they did not check a certain box in Drip.
39:00
Chuck ask if anyone had some major takeaways from MicroConf. John talks about a ideas and new ways to do things at Simple Programmer.
44:00
Josh talks about how most of his takeaways were from talking to people at the conference. Chuck says the conference have become generic, and most great information come from talking to people.
48:00
John mentions the BlueTick…
Thoughts for the Week
John - Beliefs and contrast.
Chuck - Open up and be honest at conferences.
Josh - Physical proximity works best.
Episode 162 “Live From Vegas!”
0:15
EntreProgrammers minus Derick, Live from Vegas! Chuck talks about the recent retreat he attended by Jamie and some notable marketers. Chuck talks about getting help with how to create more revenue with podcast and sponsorships, all mapped out by Jamie.
5:00
Chuck talks about getting some direction for the marketer’s perspective. Chuck talks about not being able to walk after doing some martial arts. Chuck says he is still looking for a good CRM. Josh is leaning toward Contactually . John about another type of CRM.
14:00
Chuck talks about 17Hats. EntreProgrammers discuss the features of their current CRMs and which service works best for them.
20:00
EntreProgrammers talk about their tactic for setting up emails and unsubscribes. Josh talks about how unsubscribe process works, within emails. John talks about predicting revenue. Josh talks about the process of a pipeline, verses a waiting list.
27:00
John talks about changing their sponsorship model, because of an incident at Simple Programmer. Josh continues with extending a sponsorship for a client. Josh talks about the possibilities if they could bring in 30k in sponsorship revenue.
32:00
John talks about how they want to do sponsorship in a different way for the way Chuck does sponsorship. John talks about the process they would do for sponsorship at Simple Programmer.
36:00
Josh asks Chuck about the slots available for podcast sponsorship at Dev Chat TV. Chuck talks about how he wants to do individual stories of the podcasts at Dev Chat TV. Chuck is planning to recording podcast episodes 2 months ahead, maybe twice a year.
42:00
Chuck talks about having trouble with his podcast editor. Chuck is looking into the issues for the podcast editorial process. Chuck talk about using Cashfly rather then Libsyn for podcast hosting.
47:00
Josh talks about the bottleneck situation for copywriting at Simple Programmer. Josh talks about how getting 2-3 week ahead will help him with get Q&A ready. Chuck talk about his issues and frustrations with the editorial process with podcast editing.
51:00
John talks about how”Baba” email him about creating an audio and e-books out of the past videos posted on the YouTube channel. John talks about how this individual want to do an internship to create content. Josh describes this as reusing the byproduct of the left overs of the material on YouTube.
1:00:00
Chuck talks the indoctrination email. John is covering the mic again…. lip reading would help… Not subtitles. Sorry. Derick saves the day.
Thoughts for the Week
Chuck - Don’t be afraid to ask…
Josh - The easiest money in the world is like taking money for a baby.
John - There is always something that comes up…stuff still has to happen.
Episode 161 “Quality Check…”
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EntreProgrammers joke about Chuck’s microphone issues and the usual technical podcasting challenges. Derick mentions he had a hold lot of nothing happening and only 6 hours of work. John talks about the issues with their newest white label launch. Quality Check anyone?
4:00
Josh say he was too focus on the marketing to worry about the quality of the product. John says he is going to have the author go back through the product quality to make sure is it good to go for the next round.
6:00
John says he feels bad about no double checking the product, and worried a little about their reputation. Josh says is not great a doing quality control for video and audio. John gives the workflow for making sure your audio sound is the same or consistent when edited.
13:00
John is not sure if he wants to continue with the White Label material. John talks about listening to an audio book, “The Everything Store.”
18:30
Derick says he had a successful webinar. Also, he mention the sale of the seats and the Q &A sessions. Derick was able to connect the current webinar to previous webinar material. Derick says he generated 616 dollars for this webinar. Derick mentions that after doing webinars, he gets and influx of subscribers.
25:00
Derick and Josh discuss email lists and marketing strategies. John talks about the hypothetical store front that Derick created, and what the next step of marketing is going to be. Josh talks more about what Derick can do to rework is email list.
34:00
Derick talks about how is was able to get back on his health care client work. Chuck talks about being sick all last week, and dealing with a broken washer. Chuck talks about an interesting budget system he learned. Chuck mention that he is going to prioritize and focusing on his business. John talks about advertisers putting out of Google ads.
44:00
Josh talks about how he know people are using ad blocking. Chuck talks about how Microsoft are spending money for their presents on podcast on the Dev Chat TV network. Derick says sometime it is about brand awareness.
51:00
John talks about the book , The Ultimate Sales Machine. Chuck their inner workings or relationship with Microsoft. Chuck talks about the possibility of connecting with Dell for sponsorship proposes. John said to do anti-sponsorship. Chuck talks about how he wants to tell stories and experience in his ad copy. Chuck says he might want to find someone to write copy. Josh thinks he need to find a develops and train them as a copywriter.
1:00:00
EntreProgramers talk about working with a copywriter, and the learning to do copywriting as an entrepreneur. Josh talks about the copy he writes verses the sales generated, hit and miss.
Thoughts for the Week
Derick - Practicing and improving, shift away from the “this has to work”
John - What is success? Maximizing your potential.
Josh - Take the hit and own it.
Chuck - Priority
Episode 160 “Italian Fever”
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We’re Live! EntreProgrammers talk about needing tech support for starting the podcast call. Chuck talks about how his computer has no optical drive. John mentions being sick for the last few days. Also has to run a half marathon. Chuck says he has been sick this past week as well.
2:50
Chuck has a question about the ticket price situation for his conferences. Chuck thinks he should lower the prices a bit to increase the sales. Josh talks about doing the split test on the ticket prices, also increasing the response rate. Josh says to test on the less popular conference to see if it works.
6:00
John advises to limit features on the test ticket price. Josh said to go back to the people and ask that reason people did not see the value. Chuck talks about those who did not understand the conference was remote or online.
12:00
John and Josh suggests offering the ticket price at half prices to those who did not signup yet, but remove some small features, like youtube video access later on or something lesser to the full paying access. Josh talks about the pricing situation on training courses at Simple Programmer. John gets and idea from the advice he gives to Chuck.
20:00
Josh talks about the sales launch Simple Programmer recently did, and how they could do things better. Also, the idea for the courses they will be offering. Josh talks about the type of courses will reach a certain audience. Josh says they have to scale their efforts.
28:00
John talks about how the audience is the most important and that is where the value is at. Josh talks about selling this template as a business opportunity. John says this is reinventing Plural Sight, unfortunately.
35:00
John talks about his idea for the 12 month courses. Josh says he really wants to do this. John mentions that they need to get the book launch out of the way first. Josh says that he is almost done reading John’s new book. John talks about ways one can claim being “the best in the world” at some niche. Chuck says sometime it is up to “just showing up” to be in the ring of best in the world.
42:00
Chuck moving the Ruby Rogues parlait to Slack. Chuck talks about writing code to make the move. Chuck talks about pissing people off on hack news or other forums.
50:00
Chuck mentions have at least 10 for the beta on the Getting A Job project. Josh talks about his pass ideas for learning and maintaining services like SharePoint.
52:00
John mentions that he is learning Italian to Chuck. Apparently, Chuck knows Italian. Chuck think he want to learn Japanese. John talks about how is learning Italian. Chuck says to practice just for a half hour.
57:00
Chuck reveals how he learned Italian. Chuck also took French in high school.
Thoughts of the Week
Josh - Increasing work capacity
John - No matter how much you don’t like it, what it is, is what it is.
Chuck - Get the prospective right.
Episode 159 “Trust the Process”
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I think we’re live? But, Trust the Process. Going Retro! Josh says that he's is cancelling his email account and everyone can reach him by carrier pigeon. John trackpad clicking a super loud. Windows issues still prevail.
5:00
Chuck talks about his recent conference experience. John talks about his live YouTube board cast, and how popular it is. John talks about his weird encounter with a YouTube viewer.
10:00
Derick says he goes around screaming to people too. John talks about being called a Nazi and how things got crazy. Chuck talks about how people misunderstand comments or discussions.
15:00
Chuck ask about how to present YouTube videos for Ruby Rants. John mentions that YouTube is getting rid of annotations. So cards are the next thing. Derick says that annotations did not work on mobile anyways. Cards work better.
19:00
Chuck asks what happens to old videos with annotations. Johns says that still will work, but you can’t create new annotations.
22:00
John question why YouTube did not just make annotations work on mobile. Derick says he is going to have to cancel his plans to go to Micro Conf. Chuck offers to share a room, but Derick says he is a horrible roommate.
25:00
Derick says he is does not have the funds to spend on extra events, but he is still able to cover bills. Derick talks about how America Airlines will not refund tickets. Derick shares where the expenses are, and how he got into some debt.
30:00
John suggest that Derrick should start contract work full-time to get out of debt, and get into a better situation. Then start his regular Watch Me Code work when he is in a better situation.
35:00
Josh says even if Derick has credit cards, he needs that pressure on, to get him into the mindset of working with regular income not credit cards transactions.
37:00
John ask if there is way he and Josh could launch a product that Derick has created through Simple Programmer. Chuck talks about looking into his channels to help Derick. Johns says these options are bandaids to help the situation.
42:00
Josh talks about he credit card situation of a 500 dollar limit. John mentions that he is in Boise Idaho, visiting all the old place he use to visit.
Thoughts of the Week
John - To let go of everything.
Josh - Challenge equals opportunity
Chuck - You probably know more than you think and start asking the hard questions
Derick - Don’t Be Derick
Episode 158 “Hookers and Green M&Ms”
0:15
John and Josh in the same room. John and Josh talk about getting help with the book launch. John thinks that they will have a successful book launch, and are hoping to take the number one spot in all of Amazon. Josh talks about the pre-sale strategy for Amazon.
4:30
Josh talks about working with Tom in the book launch and the tasks he is doing for the book. John describe the book review process.
6:00
Chuck talks about his week and getting his Get A Job product out. Chuck talks about the questions he is often asked about getting a first developer job or getting a better developer job. Chuck talks about he process for acquiring information for his new product.
10:00
John and Chuck talk about the process of “Stalking.” Chuck is trying to get people into his funnel. Also, Chuck is doing the JS conference this week.
13:00
Chuck talks about getting a logo job out on Fivrr, for his short videos. Chuck discuss his plans for his next product. Chuck mention his plans for doing a Kickstarter. John explains how it is important on planning how to exit. Chuck talks about his plans for the various podcasts on his channels.
23:00
Chuck talks she doing press kits for some of his podcasts, possible for sponsorship slots. Josh gives some feedback on how Chuck should handle the sponsors or ad slots for various companies.
25:00
John suggests that Chuck should do a partnership with a company that wanted to buy Simple Programmer. John says this would broaden the reach.
28:00
Chuck says this plan is blowing up his brain. Chuck says in a couple with he is going to be at a retreat with Jamie Masters.
30:00
Josh explains what he saw a the Traffic and Conversion conference. Chuck compare this to using the Amazon Echo.
35:00
Chuck talks about sending out email for a 17Hats account. Chuck has discovered that 17Hats does not have and API. John talks about google collaborative group boxes.
39:00
Josh talk about building the perfect tool, and how every tool can talk to one another. Chuck ask if the Rails Conference is worth going too. Chuck talks about wearing a pole to stranded out. John says he wants to invite himself hang out with Chuck to hang out with book authors.
47:00
Chuck mentions that he is building a new PC. John is excited about how everyone is going back to PC. The EntreProgrammers talk about the computer setups.
Thoughts for the Week
Chuck - Just get out and do it.
John - Putting some changes it place .
Josh - Don’t let yourself off the hook.
Episode 157 “Cloning Chuck”
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Only Josh and Chuck today. Derick is in a meeting and John is not responding. Chuck talks about the sales on conference tickets. Chuck talks about how each day has not been below a thousand dollars in sales.
3:00
Chuck mention another hire from UpWork, to help with the conference and doing research. Chuck talks about using 17Hats . Chuck talks about cloning his employees to be more efficient. Chuck talks about working with an employee who is having some trouble in the business.
9:15
Chuck mentions a few issues with his new hires no following through on their job. Chuck is trying to decide if it is he who is have some communication issues. Chuck talks about getting up a 4am and getting a bunch of work done, especially when no one is awake to bother him.
12:00
Chuck explains his work connection to Chris Voss and Jesse Stay. Chuck talks about his plans to go to SXSW. Chuck talks about how to get a programming job or a raise in your current job.
17:00
Chuck talks about splitting the sponsorship expense for the two marketers mentioned. Josh ask what kind of door this could open for Chucks business. Chuck thinks that the way the year is going, he thinks this might be good for his business. But the timing is not right.
21:00
Josh talks about the “Bar Bell Strategy” for the book “Anti-Fragile.”
26:00
Josh says that passing on these opportunities are hard, but he thinks Chuck should probable pass. Chuck agrees, but asks himself if he should be spending money on market. Chuck talks about reading, “Invisible Sales Machine." Chuck says it is similar what Josh is doing with Simple Programmer.
30:00
Chuck and Josh discuss marketing tactics they are learning and using. Chuck mention that people respond saying that they like getting is emails.
35:00
Josh talks about he process for emailing, or fishing for customers. Josh mention reporting their subscriber number to their sponsors.
38:00
Josh talks about what was going on with Simple Programmer this pass week. Josh talks about the week they had bad sales. Josh says he did not know what was the problem. But things are looking normal again.
40:00
Josh talks about a new hire who work with John Lee Dumas. Josh is excited about working with Tom. Josh talks the reading John new book.
45:00
Chuck ask if they are going to do a KickStarter for the book launch. Josh think that might do some sort of launch at sone point. Josh talks about working with Tom on the book launch.
48:00
Josh talks about doing a 30 day challenge on sending out emails to their most engaged subscribers.
54:00
Chuck ask is John used an Copy Editor for the book. Josh explains John’s editorial process.
Thoughts of the Week
Josh - Focus on Mental Toughness
Chuck - Getting Up Early
Episode 156 “Selling Magic Twigs”
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Josh is wondering why he is the default thumbnail for every episode. Trying to change it up today. John says he is skipping the Disney Princess run this time around. John talks about getting around the tickets for the run. John thinks nobody has ever seen the Yoplait Yogurt lick breast cancer campaign some 10 years ago.
6:00
Derick talks about scheduling he webinar. It’s not free..wink, wink. Derick mentions that 80 people are signup. Derick says he has been wearing out his email list lately.
10:00
John talks about getting compliments on Josh’s ad copy, but sales are down. Josh says he can not find a correlation in the issues with sales and email lists. John says that they probably need to do a test purchase to make sure the sales page is working. Might that people are paying taxes? Rather than buying products.
13:00
John says they need to hire a WordPress developer and sell on WooCommerce. Josh says that the emails are only going to the top 25 percent of their list, with a 50 percent open rate.
17:00
Josh and John talks about pulling together a possible course on marketing called “Cracking The Coding Course.” Josh thinks they need a 99 dollar course in help them in the tiers of sales. John talks about what Derick should have done help those along for paying for the webinar fee. John suggests that Derick be funny about it whole situation.
23:00
Derick thinks that there might be my issues with the payment system into the webinar. Derick talk about some issues this week with his car and getting a tube put in his ear. Beside all the challenges, he finally got is webinar script done.
27:00
Derick says he is take a break from his health care client. Derick mention the slow pace and not getting working for this particular client. Now his is trying to find ways replace that income.
31:00
Derick talks about missing out the the Copy Hours stuff. He mentions that he did not like the secret leads stuff. John ask what a dowsing rod is all about. John talks about making your way to sell magic twigs.
35:00
Derick talks about getting an interesting compliment on his new marketing skills. Josh says he is getting close to the point that market with not be his problem anymore.
41:00
Josh and John talk about getting ready to launch John’s new book, and getting help from an individual to make it successful. Josh talks about the growing email list for the book.
47:00
Josh talks about reading the new book, and mentions how this could have really help him coming up as a developer. Josh talks about doing a review on the book and getting 500 applications.
50:00
Derick mentions that he like Wes Boss’ marketing strategy, and might implement that same setup.
Thoughts of the Week
None
Episode 155 “Painful Lessons”
0:15
John and Chuck are out. Josh and Derick talk about Derick’s sales at Watch Me Code. Derick shares his frustrations with some of the marketing emails.
3:20
Derrick talks about the email he sent on Monday. Derick talks about the discount code his sent out 160 people that had a wrong link. Derick said that even with all the trouble, he had at least 50 people sign-up.
7:19
Derick talks about the negative charges on the discount system. Derrick says he is now sitting out zero dollars for the registration, and might be at zero for sales.
12:40
Josh talks about the email list they have at Simple Programmer. Josh talks about the engaging customers and marketing tactics. Derick talks about his strategy on getting people to signup.
17:30
Josh talks about using a plugin to update pages for Derick’s situation. Derick talks about how this webinar is apart of the rest of the bundle for Docker. Josh talks about how Derick should maybe have not give it away of free, but that lease discount it.
22:00
Derick talks about how participates can use Docker and other products. Derick says that he got a interview lined up. Josh asks about what Docker is, and a about. Derick talks about how the Open Standard came about of Docker.
26:00
Derick mentions how to approach someone for an interview. Derick explains how to build interest to get people on the line for podcast interview. Derrick and Josh talk about their open ended email that build interest for a response.
31:00
Josh ask if this person form the Docker company, could connect him with other things. Josh say that all you can eat models are difficult to measure.
35:00
Derick talks about the Master Minds that he is active in. He realize that Josh was part of one of the groups.
39:00
Josh talks about how they are reaching their super fans with product like the T-Shirt. Derick talks about the different sources of income to support projects and ideas.
43:00
Derick mentions that in the middle of the week he did not now what to do to respond to his situation. Josh says to look at how much he is doing with this core audience. Josh thinks that Derick is get traction, but he does not see it yet in his income.
48:00
Derrick talks about his retirement working for him, and he will be a multimillionaire at some point. Derick mention how that pass year was taxing on his income. However the copy hour was a good investment.
50:00
Josh talks about the things Derick could do to gain traction and build sustainable income.
Thoughts for the Week
Derick - The most important lessons are always the most painful ones.
Episode 154 “All Kinds Of Shady…”
0:15
We’re Live! Chuck talks about his extra stuff he had to do with Toast Masters, and teaching WordPress. Chuck says no go for Go Daddy website builder.
4:00
Chuck mentions that he almost got scammed trying to sell his desk on Facebook or Classified sites. Chuck talks about being over ambitious with his help. Chuck says he says he is trying to organize things for his conferences about 6 months out, but his employees are occupied with regular work and emergencies.
10:00
Chuck ask what he should do with his situation. Chuck says he may have to hire another person to help with his conference organizing. Josh mention that Chuck might want to use Fivrr for extra help on web searching. Chuck says he initially hired Grace for this job, but he may bring on some one from previous interviews.
15:00
Chuck ask what he should do when it comes to going to a Mastermind. Josh compares this to a roundtable talk with John at Simple Programmer. Josh talks about how to look a the growth of the business verses the projects you do to 10X business.
20:00
Chuck talks above the things or plan he want to put into action to scale the podcast business. Chuck mentions talking to people about starting at WordPress podcast and Dev Ops podcasts. Also, started back up the news podcasts for JS and Ruby. Josh says to chart out the growth.
25:00
Josh mentions the second podcast Simple Programmer is doing by just turning videos into another show. Chuck think he might do video at some point. Josh ask how many podcast show he releases a week.
32:00
Derick talks about the things Chuck could do with video or YouTube podcasts, as far as show notes and annotations. Derick talks about why good tags, title and descriptions, are important for videos on YouTube and you website.
40:00
The EntreProgarmmers talks about how and what Chuck can do to hire someone to handle a new video podcast project.
47:00
Derick talks about working toward not relying a clients for main income source. Derick is looking into doing smaller projects and sales pages. Derick shares things he has learned form the Copy Hour. Derick says that he is now not getting any work from his clients.
53:00
Josh and Derick talks about how to go about doing a sales page launch. Derick ask how much of a buildup he needs to do before the launch. Josh suggest a 2 week, but not much of an announcement. Josh call this an impulse buy for Derick’s audience.
59:00
Josh says that Derick now is getting to a good place with all the new information he is learning from the Copy Hour. Derick says he is handwriting all his research, which is helping with training himself. Chuck says he is seeing a change in Derick as fas as learning how to do copy writing.
Thoughts for the Week
Chuck - Bitting off more then you can chew…
Josh - People complain even with free content.
Episode 153 “Biomarkers for Inflation”
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We are live. Josh is cutting carbs and wants to destroy stuff. Chuck talks about his allergies to Wheat and Milk. John talks about only drinking human breast milk. John explains why drink milk from a cow is a bit odd, compared to human breast milk. EntreProgrammers describe their allergies to dairy products.
9:55
Chuck says he really enjoys having people do work for him. Chuck ask for advice on what he should do about targeting his audience for his “Get a Coder Job” book. Josh suggest doing a paid webinar about the book.
15:40
John suggest to Chuck that he has to do something he wants to create or is passionate about.
19:00
Derick suggests that if Chuck is going to do multiple books, and that he should not flip the order and confuse his audience on which book is first in the process of job hunting. Chuck talks about systemizing his employees, which will help his focus for the book and other products.
25:00
Derick says he likes Josh’s idea about doing paid webinars. He says this is something he could do. Derick asks Chuck about his WordPress setup for paying of webinar access and membership.
32:00
Derick says he want to have his first paid webinar in February. Unless you bought the presale book or an annual subscription, you will have to pay.
34:00
Chuck talks about switching from Drip to Active Campaign. Chuck says he needs a CRM. Derick suggest Zepier for a CRM. John suggest pretty links instead. EntrePorgarmmers talk about ways Chuck can get around promoting affiliates while using Active Campaign.
42:00
Josh talks about how Amazon will ban you if you have affiliate link in an email or pdf. Chuck talks about putting Amazon affiliate link in show notes.
45:00
John suggest doing more podcast in stead of affiliate links.
47:00
Derick says to 264 people bought the pre-sale. Derick explains the question he is incorporating in the book for the Docker Project. Chuck suggests that Derick need to be on the phone with people more often, for the Docker Project.
52:00
Derick ask if 29 dollars is a good price for a webinar. John suggest going a higher price, because you want to make it worth your time. Josh suggest promote it for a week, don't just send out an email.
55:00
The EntreProgarmmers talks about the price tag of a webinar, and how that relates to the pain the custom is experiencing.
57:00
Looking to replace an EntreProgrammer Subgroup member! Only one slot! email John!
59:00
John talks about how his daughter is selling Girls Scouts cookies. John says he like the idea of starting entrepreneurship early. The EntreProgarmmers talks able the scams schools and clubs get children into.
Thoughts for the Week
Chuck - If you think you need help, do it.
John - Do it like Elon Musk.
Josh - Carbs make you happy.
Episode 152 “Kill The Ponies That Don't Perform”
0:15
We’re tangled…. Chuck gots a new deck and having mic issues for podcasting apparently. Derick mention that last week he has been rearranging too in his living room. Derick talks about his trip to the recycling center in his Subaru Outback.
5:00
John talks about getting rid of everything on Ebay and Amazon, which made organizing easy. Derick talks about trying to reorganize. Derick says it is freeing to get rid of stuff. Josh says everything you see, that you own, that you don't use, is a reminder of a failure.
11:40
Derick talks about handcopying sheets of paper and doing homework for the Copy Hour. Derick talks about his blog response on the 5 stages of the Copy Hour. Derick talks about the one word change to make headlines effective.
17:00
Josh talks about his experience with taking the Copy Hour class. Derick mention that he ramp up the studies for the classes. Derick says he need to not rely on his client work for meet his income needs. He need Watch Me Code to be a reliable source of income soon.
20:00
Derick talks about the power of writhing down your financial goals and continually look at it to help make decisions in the future. Chuck talks about doing the same practice to help meet his goals.
23:00
Josh says to look at all the levelers and controls that he has access to, to control the next 10 to 20 percent goal.
26:30
John talks about the book, How To Fail at Anything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams. John talks about writing down affirmations and following them to completion. Derick talks about selling 150 copies of his Docker product.
33:00
Josh shares some info on the 80 20 rule. Josh ask for the Tony Robbins of Docker… Derick talks about the thing you can do with Docker for development.
40:00
John talks above the freak-o-nomics of owning a Tesla. Josh suggest a podcast tour to increase income on Watch Me Code. Chuck suggest a JS podcast he knows to get some traction.
47:00
John says he launched the Simple Programmer T-Shirts this past week. Josh mentions that he is happy about WooCommerce. John this is something that they will just have for fans.
53:00
Josh says he predicted 60 sales. John says people were upset that he was throwing away T- Shirts. Chuck says he uses t-shirts for garage clean up.
57:00
Chuck talks about hiring a human. Chuck talks above moving off of service that he does not use. Chuck mentions doing a beta launch of the Get a Coder Job book. John talks about his issues with pre selling a book, in Chuck’ s situation.
1:05:00
Josh suggest outline the book if he is going to pre selling the book.
Thoughts for the Week
John - You shouldn't be trapped under the expectations of who you were before.
Derick - Trust the Process. When in doubt, handwrite it out.
Chuck - Having that plan.
Episode 151 “I Want To Be A Pig Farmer…”
0:15
Chuck expresses his need to become a pig farmer, in recent times at least. John talks about how this is why EntreProgrammers is a soap opera for entrepreneurs.
4:30
Chuck talks about having a rough time with hiring and all kinds of business challenges. John relates this to exercise, being sore, and worn out. There is a purpose and reasoning.
7:30
Chuck asks about when to pull the plug on references criteria for his new hires. Josh mentions that the information he gets form the references is pretty low, after the test project.
11:00
Josh asks questions about pull the plug, on employees now, compared to the ones Chuck is about to hire. Chuck talks about the test projects he had the candidates do.
15:00
John talks about why he is understanding about people on UpWork, who work from the Philippines, verses those in the US. John stresses the need for people to have “Mommy Skills.”
20:00
Chuck talks about the pay the candidates are asking for pay, verse what he is paying now, and all the stress to keep up, if he has to do it himself. Chuck says he is looking for an excitative assistant, and any for regular tasks. John says to make the job descriptions clear.
26:00
John and Josh talk about what the new interviews are telling them as far as time they need off or can't do. The EntreProgrammers talk about complicated needs that they have when hiring new people. Also the communication they have with the team for short notice communication for important events.
29:00
Chuck says he is creating a standard operating procedure for hiring. John talks about he and Josh going to attend a Perry Marshall event for learning marketing. Josh talks about the celebrity type business and how he wants to study how they work in the marketing world.
35:00
John talks about going main stream while gaining freedom. John talks about doing optimal work for his business. Josh talks about how Simple pProgrammer is a known company in the programming niche. Josh talks about mirroring what John is doing on YouTube, to the email list.
41:00
John his talking about how they need to get people hooked on their content for more sales and a growing following. John talks about have a corporate clean brand instead of the startup or raw version. Kind of like Toyota to Lexus.
44:00
Josh talks about having a mental model for the project they were doing. John talks about having 100 percent growth. John says they built a good machine and model.
47:00
Josh says someone is says that John is a free range horse that does not need to be chain to the plow. Chuck asks to what degree can he use his celebrity to leverage his business. Josh says that Chuck is a curator and some who brings information together.
53:00
Chuck talks about starting new podcast, where he is note the “main guy.” \
58:00
John talks about give the 24 hour challenge to the EntreProgrammer Sub Groups.
Thoughts of the Week!
Chuck - Once it all in place, it going to get done…
John - If I’m doing something, it need to be a 9 or above…
Josh - Investing time in understanding your own DNA, is worth the time.
Episode 150 “#Fail”
0:15
Derick asks If Chuck still has his PR40 mic. Chuck changes our his podcasting mic. Derick talks about how his new gaming channel has gain more subscribers. More talks about the difference in usb mics and regular condenser or dynamic microphones. Derick talks about being apart of the copy hour classes, and getting bad photocopy sheets to work with.
6:19
5 days in with the Copy Hour classes and Derick feels like he is learning a lot and gaining much insight with the conversations. Josh asks some questions about exercises and how this is changing Derick’s perspective on how ad copy is created.
13:00
Derick talks about pattern interruption, and how encouraged this is. Derick says the gears are starting to turn in his head with the things he learned among the EntreProgrammers and the Copy Hour class-mates.
20:00
Josh talks about scientific marketing and how giving away free products can work against the business, by cheap’n the value of the product.
23:00
John talks about the book the Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes, as an example for Enterprise companies to gain as a client. Derick says in a month he will regret taking these classes, but will eventually see the results payoff.
29:00
John talks about running a 5 minute mile in a treadmill. John shares how he plays to hit his goals for the year. Josh suggests starting the Simple Programmer journal. John says he came up with his own version on a journal.
35:00
John starts his day with visualization, practicing gratefulness, thoughts, ideas, and lastly, facing mistakes and failures. John says his big idea is to create a failure journal to help shift the mindset. John shares his idea about hanging Costco racks and Craigslist hire mistakes. John kills the Christmas ornaments. Listen or Watch this part.
40:00
John talks about in detail sabout the mistakes in not vetting the hire to create racks in his house. In all, the failure journal might me a good idea of up coming Devs.
53:00
Josh talks about reading the book, Anitfragile by Nassim Taleb
54:00
Chuck talks about the failed transition between Podcast editor companpies. John talks about getting a week buffer for the editing in podcast episodes. Chuck says he is tried of hiring. Chuck talks about Grace his new hire, and how she is doing a great job for Dev Chat TV. Chuck thinks he still needs help in the future.
1:03:00
Chuck explains his plan for his 12 week plan. John shares how he kills procrastination. Chuck shares how fast they can move ahead if that can automate tasks.
1:10:00
Chuck shares some info on the Dev Ops Remote Conf. Chuck talks about double his revenue, and creating some new podcasts on his channels.
Thoughts for the Week
Derick - Whatever you suck on, triple down on it.
Chuck - Have a plan.
John - What can you cut out that you don’t need.
Josh - Once you get past a certain point, improvement take more effort.