Today, I am excited to interview Chris Ronzio of Trainual.com. Chris talks through the process of validating, launching, and scaling Trainual, a software program that helps companies build out their “business playbook” to document and organize company processes, people, onboarding, training, and operations. Chris provides a blueprint breaking down how to start a SAAS company, talking through exactly what he did to start and grow Trainual.Trainual is now a fully-developed SAAS product with over 10,000 customers, 100 employees, operating in 183 different countries, with $33 million in funding. In this episode, Chris show's us how he got there.Chris Ronzio Case StudyChris is featured in my new book Use Your Job to Quit Your Job. Below is the case study from the book where Chris is featured. This comes directly from the book:Take Chris Ronzio for example. Chris started a video production business in high school at fourteen years old. Over the next decade, he grew this business to three separate offices, with 300 camera operators across the country, and netted over $3 million in revenue before selling the business in 2013. This was just the start of Chris’s entrepreneurial journey. Chris took his expertise in managing a business and founded Organize Chaos, a consulting agency focused on business efficiency. Chris worked with small and mid-sized businesses, helping the leadership team scale through the process of organizing and mapping company workflows, procedures, responsibilities, and roles. In his consulting practice, Chris noticed a trend. These small businesses did not have a tool or process in place for organizing company operations, and it was hindering the company's ability to grow. So, Chris created and launched Trainual in 2015, a software program that helps companies build out their “business playbook” to document and organize company processes, people, onboarding, training, and operations. With this tool, the owner of the business can essentially hand off their “playbook” as a manual to operate the business. Chris understood the pain point and created the solution. Now, Trainual is a fully-developed SAAS product with over 10,000 customers, 100 employees, operating in 183 different countries, with $33 million in funding. This is what you can do. This is your start, your first stepping stone. You can see, Chris took one step after another. Starting back in high school with a video production business. One business stepping stone after another, learning more and more with each step until he founded Trainual. This InterviewThis interview is part of a series of case studies that I will be publishing to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast over the coming weeks as I interview successful entrepreneurs in the online business space. These interviews and case studies will be featured in my newest book Use Your Job to Quit Your Job.Resources MentionedResources mentioned in this podcast episode:Use Your Job to Quit Your Job (the book)Trainual.comChrisronzio.comChris's book: The Business Playbook

Today, I am excited to interview Karthik Vijayakumar of designyourthinking.com.Karthik shows us how he used his expertise working in product marketing and product management to start his business.Karthik Vijayakumar Case Study Karthik is featured in my new book Use Your Job to Quit Your Job. Below is the case study from the book where Karthik is featured. This comes directly from the book:Karthik Vijayakumar spent 15 years working in product marketing and product management for some of the largest technology companies in the world. In 2016 Karthik quit his job and started publishing content at designyourthinking.com, a blog and podcast about product design where he discusses the product mindset and which led to eBooks, speaking gigs, and cooperate trainings before he branched out into teaching podcasting and copywriting. Karthik took the brain dump question “When people ask you for help at work, what do they need help with?” and turned it into his first business. He took his expertise in managing products and turned that into a business. Now he has once again taken his expertise, this time in podcasting and copywriting, and turned that into a business helping startups and small businesses fix their messaging and make more sales. Karthik used his day job and his expertise from 15 years of mastering that job and turned it into a business.This Interview This interview is part of a series of case studies that I will be publishing to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast over the coming weeks as I interview successful entrepreneurs in the online business space. These interviews and case studies will be featured in my newest book Use Your Job to Quit Your Job.Resources MentionedResources mentioned in this podcast episode:Use Your Job to Quit Your Job (the book)Karthik ’s Business: designyourthinking.com.

Today, I am excited to interview Steven Foust of ncosupport.com and cutoffscores.com. Steven shows us how he used his past job, even though he had retired from the military over twenty years ago, and built the business that has now allowed him to leave his corporate day job and pursue entrepreneurship full-time. Steven Foust Case Study Steven is featured in my new book Use Your Job to Quit Your Job. Below is the case study from the book where Steven is featured. This comes directly from the book:Steven Foust owns a portfolio of businesses in the military niche, including ncosupport.com and cutoffscores.com. In just two years, he has signed up more than 100 members, generating over $5,000 a month in profit. He took his experiences from serving in the military and his knowledge of its promotion points system and shows military personnel how he was able to leverage this system to be promoted quickly and climb the ranks in the US Army. He used his past job—even though he had retired from the military over 20 years earlier—to build the business that has now allowed him to leave his corporate day job and pursue entrepreneurship full time. Steven followed the blueprint and used his job to quit his job.This Interview This interview is part of a series of case studies that I will be publishing to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast over the coming weeks as I interview successful entrepreneurs in the online business space. These interviews and case studies will be featured in my newest book Use Your Job to Quit Your Job.Resources MentionedResources mentioned in this podcast episode:·         Use Your Job to Quit Your Job (the book)·         Steven’s Business: ncosupport.com.·         Steven’s Business: cutoffscores.com.

Today, I am excited to interview Rose Griffin of abaspeech.org. Rose shows us how she used her expertise as a speech-language pathologist and turned it into a full-time business dedicated to helping, teaching, and training speech language pathologists.Rose Griffin Case Study Rose is featured in my new book Use Your Job to Quit Your Job. Below is the case study from the book where Rose is featured. This comes directly from the book:This is how Rose Griffin built her business and quit her job. Rose is a speech language pathologist and board-certified behavior analyst. She worked in a public school system for 20 years, specializing in helping autistic learners find their voice and a way to communicate with the world. Rose started the business ABA Speech, an online business dedicated to helping, teaching, and training speech language pathologists. She started by selling a physical product called Action Builder Cards, a set of 100 flashcards for autistic learners and those with language delays. The cards are used by speech language pathologists to work with learners and help students generalize their language skills. Rose worked with a designer to produce her flashcards, which she sells through Amazon and other retail distributors in her niche. These flashcards are sold directly to school districts and speech language pathologists. She has since grown the product offerings at ABA Speech to include digital products that help parents and therapists work more effectively with students with autism, along with a suite of online courses for speech language pathologists to earn continuing education credits. Rose successfully took what she had learned in her career as a speech language pathologist and turned it into a full-time business with physical and digital products teaching speech language pathologists.This Interview This interview is part of a series of case studies that I will be publishing to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast over the coming weeks as I interview successful entrepreneurs in the online business space. These interviews and case studies will be featured in my newest book Use Your Job to Quit Your Job.Resources MentionedResources mentioned in this podcast episode:·         Use Your Job to Quit Your Job (the book)·         Rose’s Business: abaspeech.org.

Today, I am excited to interview Allison Strickland of ATStudybuddy.com.Allison shows us how she used her expertise working as an athletic trainer, passing the BOC Exam, to build her business ATStudyBuddy.Allison Strickland Case Study Allison is featured in my new book Use Your Job to Quit Your Job. Below is the case study from the book where Allison is featured. This comes directly from the book:Take Allison Strickland for example. Allison worked as an athletic trainer before switching careers to work at a company developing neurocognitive testing software. In 2020, Allison combined her years of expertise and education in athletic training, along with her knowledge of building learning management systems, and launched the business ATStudybuddy.com, a website dedicated to helping athletic training students pass the BOC Exam, the certification program for entry-level Athletic Trainers (the same one Allison had passed). Allison now sells a membership-based course with a full suite of study guides, flashcards, study games, and practice exams to help students pass the BOC exam. She licenses this product to universities and also sells directly to students. She is now branching out to develop professional-level courses, which can be used by athletic trainers for continuing education credits. You can see how Allison has successfully used her job to quit her job, taking her experience passing the BOC exam along with her experience building learning management systems, to build out her own profitable business that supports her financially as a full-time entrepreneur. This is how you can use your job to quit your job.This Interview This interview is part of a series of case studies that I will be publishing to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast over the coming weeks as I interview successful entrepreneurs in the online business space. These interviews and case studies will be featured in my newest book Use Your Job to Quit Your Job.Resources MentionedResources mentioned in this podcast episode:Use Your Job to Quit Your Job (the book)Allison’s Businesses: ATStudybuddy.com and Sheahawksolutions.com

Today, I am excited to interview Vickie Velasquez. Vickie shows us how she used the skills she learned working in project management to build a portfolio of successful businesses.Vickie Velasquez Case Study Vickie is featured in my new book Use Your Job to Quit Your Job. Below is the case study from the book where Vickie is featured. This comes directly from the book:Vickie Velasquez is another great example. Vickie worked for twenty years in project management as a business analyst manager. Rather than starting a business about project management, she has started a portfolio of online businesses on various topics including  vegetarianzen.com, a website that shares resources for living a more compassionate plant-based lifestyle, cheerybirdvintage.com selling vintage products, and firsttofinal.com a copywriting agency. Vickie took the tangential skills she learned on the job including communicating, presenting, and most importantly her project management skills to build her successful businesses. She uses the project management skills she learned to bring a project from start to finish, asking important questions such as “why am I doing this project?” and “is this in line with my ultimate goals?” to keep herself and her business on track, to avoid wasting time.  These skills were necessary for Vickie to learn, in her career, to ensure her success as an entrepreneur. Now, Vickie is taking her skills and joining forces with her wife Larissa to build out a successful copywriting practice. Larissa has a background in professional copy editing and Vickie has grown into an expert copywriter. Combining Vickie’s project management and writing skills along with Larissa’s professional copy-editing background, they started the copywriting agency at firsttofinal.com. See how you can take your tangential skills, like Vickie did in project management, and build out a successful business?This Interview This interview is part of a series of case studies that I will be publishing to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast over the coming weeks as I interview successful entrepreneurs in the online business space. These interviews and case studies will be featured in my newest book Use Your Job to Quit Your Job.Resources MentionedResources mentioned in this podcast episode:·         Use Your Job to Quit Your Job (the book)·         Vickie’s Business: cheerybirdvintage.com.·         Vickie’s Business: vegetarianzen.com.·         Vickie’s Business: firsttofinal.com.

Today, I am excited to interview Kevin Namaky of gurulocity.com.Kevin shows us how he used his expertise in brand management to create a business selling trainings and workshops.Kevin Namaky Case Study Kevin is featured in my new book Use Your Job to Quit Your Job. Below is the case study from the book where Kevin is featured. This comes directly from the book:This is what Kevin Namaky does. This is how he used his job to quit his job. Kevin worked for twenty years in marketing and brand management before starting his business at gurulocity.com. Kevin now works full-time hosting training workshops for corporate clients where he teaches brand management. In these trainings, Kevin and his team focus on one particular subject or skill related to brand management, depending on the needs of the client, such as “how to write a great creative brief”. In his live training, he works directly with the client’s creative team to provide constructive feedback on the company’s marketing and branding campaigns. Kevin simply took his job, and his expertise from twenty years in brand management, and turned it into a training workshop that he sells B2B.This can be your business model. You can use your job and the skills you learn on the job to create a business selling trainings and workshops. The best part is, your professional network is your client list. Like Kevin, you can reach out to your connections on LinkedIn, tell them about your career change (not selling or being pushy) and let the clients and referrals flow in.This Interview This interview is part of a series of case studies that I will be publishing to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast over the coming weeks as I interview successful entrepreneurs in the online business space. These interviews and case studies will be featured in my newest book Use Your Job to Quit Your Job.Resources MentionedResources mentioned in this podcast episode:·         Use Your Job to Quit Your Job (the book)·         Kevin’s Business: gurulocity.com

Today, I am excited to interview David Shriner-Cahn of smashingtheplateau.com.David shows us how he used his expertise working as a finance executive in the non-profit sector to start his consulting business. David now teaches consultants how to create their own businesses in his membership community at Smashing The Plateau.David Shriner-Cahn Case Study David is featured in my new book Use Your Job to Quit Your Job. Below is the case study from the book where David is featured. This comes directly from the book:This is what David Shriner-Cahn did. David worked as an executive in the non-profit sector for over twenty years. When he was laid off from his job, he decided it was time to pursue his dream of entrepreneurship. Naturally, having enjoyed working in the nonprofit space in his previous career, he chose to start his business as a consultant in nonprofit management. Using his expertise, having managed nonprofits for over 20 years, and leveraging his connections, David was able to quickly book his first consulting clients. All he had to do was tell his connections that he started a consulting practice, this led to referrals, which immediately led to clients. Soon after, David used his expertise in business management and expanded into consulting private for-profit businesses. Years later, after building a profitable consulting practice that supported David’s life as a full-time entrepreneur, he started a new business at smashingtheplateau.com where he helps consultants, coaches, and professional service business owners learn how to be more successful entrepreneurs. You can see how David used his expertise in nonprofit management to start his consulting practice, which led to an expanded consulting practice, which then led to his business teaching consultants at Smashing the Plateau. Consulting is a viable and easy option for your first business. Take what you know, from your experience working in the industry and sell it. Start with consulting, use it as a stepping stone into entrepreneurship, then build your next business just like David did.This Interview This interview is part of a series of case studies that I will be publishing to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast over the coming weeks as I interview successful entrepreneurs in the online business space. These interviews and case studies will be featured in my newest book Use Your Job to Quit Your Job.Resources MentionedResources mentioned in this podcast episode:·         Use Your Job to Quit Your Job (the book)·         David’s Business: smashingtheplateau.com

Today, I am excited to interview Chris Nelson of bondinvestmentmentor.comChris shows us how he used his expertise working as a Chief Investment Officer in the banking industry to start his online business where he now offers coaching, advising, and courses to banking executives.Chris Nelson Case Study Chris is featured in my new book Use Your Job to Quit Your Job. Below is the case study from the book where Chris is featured. This comes directly from the book:Take Chris Nelson for example. Chris was working as a Chief Investment Officer in the banking industry. He had worked in this position for over twenty years. In his time working as an executive in banking, Chris was contacted by someone in the industry and asked to present at a school providing executive training for bankers. His employer allowed it, at the time, and it probably looked good for the employer to have a representative of the bank networking and teaching other bankers. This presentation sparked Chris’s entrepreneurial spirit. He fell in love with speaking, presenting, and teaching. He started teaching at this school a few times per year. Years later, Chris leveraged this connection to build his business. Chris perfected his presentations and teachings, and partnered with this school to turn his presentation into an online course. Chris now offers coaching, advising, and courses to banking executives at bondinvestmentmentor.com. Chris quit his job in 2020. He successfully used his job, and his relationship with the banking school, to quit his job.This Interview This interview is part of a series of case studies that I will be publishing to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast over the coming weeks as I interview successful entrepreneurs in the online business space. These interviews and case studies will be featured in my newest book Use Your Job to Quit Your Job.Resources MentionedResources mentioned in this podcast episode:Use Your Job to Quit Your Job (the book)Chris’ Business: bondinvestmentmentor.com 

Want to start an online business but don't know where to start? Want to build and scale a business that will help you achieve your dream of financial freedom and live the entrepreneurial lifestyle full time?Use your 9-5 day job to build your online business and become financially free so that you can live the entrepreneurial lifestyle full time. It's time to use your job to quit your job.That's what today's episode is all about. Take the expertise accumulated over years of working 40 hours per week. Take that expertise and turn it into a business that generates recurring revenue for you for the rest of your life. (just like I did).I'm going to show you how in today's episode of The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast.The Day Job NicheThe day job is one of my absolute favorite places to find business ideas. You are an expert at whatever you do in your day job. You are literally a professional; you are paid to do what you do every day, forty hours a week, fifty-two weeks a year. That is the definition of expertise. You spend over 2,000 hours per year focused on one particular task in one specific industry. You have an immense amount of knowledge on this subject, knowledge that other people will pay to access. If you look, you will find a topic you have mastered in your day job that you can turn into your first business. I don’t care whether you are a barista at Starbucks, the retail manager of a Dicks sporting goods, a financial analyst at KPMG, an attorney for Samsung, or the CEO of Google. That job, where you spend over 40 hours per week, every single week is a breeding ground for business ideas. If you want to start a side gig or build a business to support yourself financially so you can live life as you please (and not work), look to that monstrous time suck where you spend 40 hours per week. Use it to lose it. Use your job to build a business so you can quit your job and reap the financial rewards. So why should your day job be your first business? Well, there are three simple reasons.It’s easyIt’s the quickest path to successIt’s profitableI'm going to show you why I love the day job niche, and show you how to utilize this niche to start your first online business, in today's episode of The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast.Get The BookJoin the pre-sale team today, be part of the first group to read my newest book and learn how to use your 9-5 job to create and scale an online business. Pick up your copy of my new book Use Your Job to Quit Your Job today!Links mentioned:https://theentrepreneurridealong.com/jobhttps://theentrepreneurridealong.com/membership/https://steponebook.com/https://theentrepreneurridealong.com/day-job-niche/

2021 was my best year yet, with total revenue of $167,051 for the year.In this episode, I am providing a breakdown of my blog income report. This is a breakdown of the revenue, expenses, and profit from my niche websites. I will give you some insight behind the scenes into what I am doing with each of my niche websites, detailing what happened during the last year, and how I plan to continue scaling.This income report is for the year 2021, my year-end 2021 income report. For a full list of my income reports, see my blog income reports archived here: https://theentrepreneurridealong.com/incomereportsAnd if this sparks some ideas for you, or encourages you to go out and start an online business for yourself, I encourage you to start today. If you just need some ideas, go ahead and download my five website ideas (the businesses I would start if I had more time): https://theentrepreneurridealong.com/nichedownload/Enjoy!

In this episode of The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast, we learn how to start writing a sales page from scratch, without using any templates. This is the exact technique used by the world’s greatest copywriters.In today’s episode, we are joined by Karthik Vijayakumar of designyourthinking.com. Karthik is a professional copywriter and solopreneur. Karthik has mastered the art of writing sales copy and creating a sales page from scratch. Today, he teaches us how to get started with five simple steps.Karthik is a master at sales page creation. He is the copywriter that designed and wrote the copy for my sales page.I’m excited to bring you this conversation with Karthik so you can improve your conversion and begin selling your products and services!Be sure to download Karthik’s checklist bundle that he put together special for listeners of The Entrepreneur Ride Along podcast at: designyourthinking.com/jakeFrom this podcast:Karthik’s special download (checklist) for this episodeDesign Your ThinkingLaunch Plan PodcastThe Entrepreneur Ride Along Membership

I just sold one of my websites for $95,000. Today, I will tell you all about how to sell a website, how I flipped my website for $95,000, and I will give you a review of Empire Flippers (the broker I used to sell my business).The business is the "Pomsky Owners Association". A business I started in 2017 as a website to practice my SEO. The website has grown substantially over the past few years, averaging over $2,000 in monthly profit. Through Empire Flippers, I was able to get a 55x multiple of monthly earnings, which put the valuation of my business just under $95,000. I learned a lot along the way selling this business. I first started the process of selling this business on April 27th 2021. I didn't officially list the website for sale until July 6th 2021. I didn't sell the business until August 14th 2021, and I didn't get paid for the sale until December 28th 2021. It's a LONG process, and I messed up quite a bit along the way (which slowed up the process). I talk all about that in today's episode including what to expect when selling your business, the expenses you can expect for broker fees and taxes, and all the behind the scenes in flipping a website.In today's episode I'm going breakdown why I sold my business, share the lessons I learned, and show you how to sell a website on Empire Flippers using my business as a case study.Download the "how to sell a website" step-by-step case study (coming soon)Resources Mentioned:"How to sell a website" step-by-step case study (coming soon)Entrepreneur Ride Along Intro About Pomsky Owners Association (Podcast)Empire FlippersFlippaMotion InvestStep One BookAsk Pat 2.0 Feature

Book marketing is new to me. I'm learning a lot!In today's episode, I share what's working, and what's not, when marketing my book Step One. Step One: The Surprisingly Simple Process To Research, Validate, And Choose The Perfect Online Business launched in September of 2021. The launch went great, I sold over 120 copies in the first month and hit #1 in the new release category for eCommerce.But things have slowed down since. Sales are still coming in, but it is a lot slower without the buzz of the launch.Today, I talk through what I am doing to keep the sales rolling in now that the launch period is over.You can checkout Step One here: //steponebook.com/

Update time! If you listened to Episode 29 of The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast, you heard all about my business AssociatePI and the struggles it has faced this year.I am turning this business around in 2022.In today's episode I talk all about my plan, my strategies, and thoughts going into the next year to scale this business back to an $8,000 - $10,000 per month online business.You can checkout the updates I made to my sales page below, in the quick vide recorded showing the before and after results.

For the first time EVER, I ran a Black Friday promotion on my insurance education business.From Friday through Monday, just four days, I sold over 25 online courses and generated OVER $6,000 in revenue. The promotion took me less than one hour to put together. Which means I made $6,000 in revenue from one hour of work.It was an eye opening experience for me. Now, I will be taking advantage of Black Friday every year going forward!In today's episode, I'm going to breakdown exactly what I did to run a successful Black Friday promotion. I will take you behind the scenes to talk through my thought process, and breakdown the strategies I used to utilize email marketing to drive $6,000 in revenue in four days.For reference, this is my sales page for my business AssociatePI where I ran this 40% off Black Friday Promotion.This is the cadence of emails I sent for my Black Friday Promotion:Email #1: Thursday at 2 pm - Early sneak peek of my deal sent to the email list.Email #2: Friday at 12:15 am - Introduction to the Black Friday deal with a link to the sales page.Email #3: Friday at 7 pm - Reminder email. Reminding my subscribers to take advantage of the Black Friday deal.Email #4: Saturday at 7 pm - Informative email with testimonials from students that have had success with my courses.Email #5: Sunday at 2 pm - Informative email touching on the value proposition of my courses (pass your exams in less time with less studying).Email #6: Monday at 10 am - Talking savings. Letting them know they can save $170 per course, up to $1,360 if they buy all courses. And, for the fist time, mentioning that the deal is 40% off so they can buy my course for just $255 (the course is normally $425).Email #7: Monday at 5 pm - Reminder that the deal ends at midnight. I also send more testimonials showing the success that people have in passing their exams with my course.Email #8: Monday at 11 pm - Final Reminder. Deal ends in one hour. Give them a final chance to buy now and save 40%.And that's it!Just eight emails, that took me no longer than one hour to schedule in ConvertKit, sold 25+ courses and generated over $6,000 in revenue. 

$18,547 is a lot of money.No one can argue that.That is how much money I paid in legal fees to dispute a cease and desist against my business AssociatePI, my business selling online courses in the insurance industry.It was, by far, the biggest mistake of my entrepreneurial career. This is a follow up episode to Episode 32 of The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast, where we talked about how to protect your online business from legal claims.Today, I tell you the story behind my $18,547 mistake. How one stupid mistake, stemming from my lack of knowledge and understanding of trademarked terms, cost me $18,547 in legal fees and nearly forced me shut down my business. 

In this episode, I have a conversation with Wesley Henderson. Wesley is the founder of Draftedlegal.com, and an attorney of Henderson & Henderson Attorneys at Law, a law firm he founded with his brother . Wesley is an attorney and entrepreneur.In today's episode, Wesley talks us through a few simple steps that we can take to legally protect our businesses. These are simple steps that you can take today to protect yourself, and your business, so you can avoid costly lawsuits (and $20,000 in legal fees like me...).Take this episode seriously. The legal world is not as scary as it seems. Wesley makes it easy for us in today's episode, and gives us three simple task that you can complete this week, for less than $300, to protect our businesses from the bulk of legal issues. Resources mentioned in this episode:Draftedlegal.comWesley's steps to get startedhhlawsc.com

In this episode, I have a conversation with Steven, the host of The Adventures in Online Business Podcast. We talk all about my entrepreneurial journey, discussing what I have learned over nearly a decade of starting and scaling online businesses. We talk about my book, Step One, and how I learned the methodology taught in the book from my real experience trying to grow my own online businesses.In this episode, I give a sneak peak of what's inside the book, including three of my personal case studies that are used as examples in Step One.You can checkout Step One the book at: Steponebook.comYou can see the original recording of this episode here on The Adventures in Online Business Podcast with Steven Foust and Michael Tanner.

In this episode, I break down my book launch process and describe how to launch a non-fiction book. This is the exact process I used to get 120+ sales and 25 five-star reviews in one month. This is the exact process I used for my book Step One.Step One launched on September 1st 2021. Within the first month (launch month) Step One accomplished the following:120+ sales25 five-star reviews#1 new release in the E-commerce category for September#1 new release in the Home-Based Business Sales & Selling category for SeptemberReached #2 best seller in the E-commerce categoryRanking for keywords on Amazon such as "online business ideas"In today's episode, I'm going to show you exactly how I did this. I will give you step-by-step instructions to build a launch team and teach you exactly how to launch a non-fiction book. By the end of this episode, you will know exactly what to do to successfully launch your book.You can checkout Step One the book at: //steponebook.com/

Wow...this was an expensive quarter.Total operating expenses of $6,563. What happened?!In this episode I will breakdown my real revenue and expenses for each one of my websites. I will give you some insight behind the scenes into what I am doing with each blog, what happened during the last quarter, and how I plan to continue scaling.In total, my business generated $17,518 in revenue which resulted in $10,982 in profit for quarter three 2021. This was a good bounce-back quarter after a few down months in quarter two.For a full list of my income reports, see my blog income reports archived here: /incomereports

Uh-oh...Things are not looking good with my business AssociatePI. Is it time to sound the alarms?It was an AWFUL quarter for AssociatePI. My worst quarter of performance since 2017. Only $6,151 in revenue this quarter from AssociatePI. That means I sold less than 10 courses per month.In this episode, I breakdown what went wrong and I provide a full breakdown of my blog income report. This includes a breakdown of the revenue, expenses, and profit from my niche websites. This income report is for quarter two 2021.In total, over the two months, my business over $11,000 revenue.For a full list of my income reports, see my blog income reports archived here: /incomereports

In this episode I am providing a breakdown of my blog income report, a breakdown of the revenue, expenses, and profit from my niche websites. This income report is for quarter one 2021.In total, this was a pretty solid quarter. My business generated $19,064 in revenue which resulted in $14,358 in profit. That is a pretty good start to the year for my businesses.For a full list of my income reports, see my blog income reports archived here: /incomereportsIn this episode, and in each upcoming blog income report episode, I will talk through the following:RevenueExpensesIncomeIn this episode I will breakdown my real revenue and expenses for each one of my websites. I will give you some insight behind the scenes into what I am doing with each blog, what happened during the last quarter, and how I plan to continue scaling.And if this sparks some ideas for you, or encourages you to go out and start an online business for yourself, I encourage you to start today. If you just need some ideas, go ahead and download my five website ideas (the businesses I would start if I had more time): /nichedownload/Enjoy!

Today, I am excited to interview Kevin Davis of Ourketogeniclife.com. Kevin talks about his online business in the keto diet niche and his journey of starting his medical practice as a physician assistant.I've used Kevin as a case study in a number of my blogs, because there is so much opportunity in the diet niche (especially the Keto niche) and Kevin is taking advantage of this.In today's episode, Kevin takes us behind the scenes managing his medical practice at Knott County Family Healthcare and his journey into building an online business in the keto diet niche.Kevin is featured in chapter chapter three of my book Step One.  This Interview This interview is part of a series of case studies that I will be publishing to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast over the coming weeks as I interview successful entrepreneurs in the online business space. These interviews and case studies will  be featured in my newest book Step One: The Surprisingly Simple Process To Research, Validate, And Choose The Perfect Online Business.Resources MentionedResources mentioned in this podcast episode:Step One (the book)Our Ketogenic LifeOur Ketogenic Life PodcastKnott County Family HealthcareEnjoy!

Today, I am excited to interview Kris Pavone of Krispavone.com.Kris is a full-time life coach. He quit his job as an art teacher in 2020, and built a successful full-time coaching practice.In today's episode, Kris shows us how he progressed through various careers and entrepreneurial ventures to find his calling as a life coach. Kris has done it all. He went from a professional wrestling career in the WWE (he was known as Caylen Croft), to art teacher, to children's book author, to fitness coach, to life coach. Kris breaks breaks down his business in this episode, and takes us behind the scenes describing how he built his business and how you can start booking clients as a life coach.Kris is featured in chapter two and chapter three of my business ideas book.  This Interview This interview is part of a series of case studies that I will be publishing to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast over the coming weeks as I interview successful entrepreneurs in the online business space. These interviews and case studies will  be featured in my newest book "business ideation" (still available for pre-sale).Resources MentionedResources mentioned in this podcast episode:Business Ideas BookKris's Business: Krispavone.com.Enjoy!

Today, I am excited to interview Tom Heffner of Tomheffner.com.Tom is an executive and leadership coach, he helps organizations accelerate decision making, collaboration, and innovation through his coaching and workshops.In today's episode, Tom breaks down his business and takes us behind the scenes describing how he built his business selling innovation workshops and executive coaching. Tom Heffner Case Study Tom is featured in chapter two and chapter three of my business ideas book. Below is the case study from the book where Tom is featured. This comes directly from chapter two of the book:Online business is incredibly profitable. I love online business because you can charge a premium for high ticket items. You can sell an online course for $400. You can sell coaching for $1,000 per session. You can sell a training workshop for $10,000.Think about that. Sell ten online courses per month, that’s $4,000. Book five coaching clients and you have $5,000 per month. Sell just five training workshops in a year and you have a business generating $50,000.Not to mention, your profit margin is nearly 100%. There are almost no expenses, there is no overhead. Your only necessary expense is paying for a domain and website hosting (as we discussed above).My profit margin is typically around 80%, and that’s because my businesses are big enough that I’ve expanded to hiring contractors and investing in automation. Most entrepreneurs that I coach have profit margins of 90% or higher. That means, the business is operating with limited expenses, and the owner of the website is keeping 90% of the revenue as profit.When I say highly profitable, I do not mean Jeff Bezos $200 Billion profitable. Though, you can be. When I say highly profitable, I am talking about starting small when you start. I want you thinking about how you can make $5,000 per month from your first online business. Just $60,000 per year. That is achievable to start with. And that is much easier than you think when starting an online business.Tom Heffner, of TomHeffner.com, is a great example of how profitable this type of business model can be. Tom helps people and organizations accelerate decision-making, collaboration, and innovation through his training, coaching, and workshops. Simply put, Tom is a coach that hosts a workshop teaching employees how to be more innovative. Tom charges $9,500 for his services plus $6,000 for each additional day. If Tom books one workshop, for two days, he’s making $15,500. If he books just seven clients per year for this two-day workshop, he’s making over $100,000 for the year! To put this in perspective, Tom took on his innovation consulting practice full-time in 2018. By the end of 2019, Tom brought in $173,000 in revenue, almost all of which was profit. Not bad for hosting a couple of workshops!Don’t get me wrong, Tom is one of the hardest working people I know. There is a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes, creating his workshop and booking clients. He has perfected his craft, and fully deserves what he is paid. But let that sink in, think about how this could be you in just a few months. You can copy Tom’s business model; it is highly profitable. That is online business. That is why I love online business. This Interview This interview is part of a series of case studies that I will be publishing to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast over the coming weeks as I interview successful entrepreneurs in the online business space. These interviews and case studies will  be featured in my newest book "business ideation" (still available for pre-sale).Resources M

Today, I am excited to interview Cliff Ravenscraft, the Mind Set Answer Man. Cliff is a big inspiration of mine. Cliff has been my mentor, and coach, for the past three years. Through his coaching and content, Cliff has helped me to become a better person and better entrepreneur.This is an excellent episode, Cliff gives us a full behind the scenes of the various businesses that he has started and scaled over the past fifteen years. Cliff has done it all. From an eBay store, to the original podcast coach (when he was known as the Podcast Answer Man), to his current business coaching and teaching entrepreneurs through his one-on-one coaching, mastermind groups, and conference. Cliff tells it all in this podcast episode, sharing the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, and sharing an in-depth analysis of his finances to give you a better understanding of what is possible in the online business space. Cliff Ravenscraft Case Study Cliff is featured in chapter three of my business ideas book. Below is the case study from the book where Cliff is featured. This comes directly from chapter three of the book:Start small, start niche as I recommend. Learn the ropes, learn everything you can about being your own boss and building your own business. Then go big and scale this business or launch your next big business with everything you have learned. Take Cliff Ravenscraft for example. Now one of the biggest names in podcasting and personal development, Cliff’s first business was teaching people how to make money selling on eBay. He sold a digital product teaching how to build an eBay business. Then he pivoted, to a totally different interest in his life, and started a blog about the hit TV series Lost. This blog later turned into Cliff’s first podcast. He got hooked on podcasting. He started to experience some financial success from his podcast about Lost and another podcast about The Hunger Games. He was making revenue from affiliate products and selling advertisement space on the podcast, but during this first venture into online business he learned a lot about podcasting. So, he started teaching others how to create podcasts. He later became known as the Podcast Answer Man, turning his hobby into the biggest podcasting education brand in the world making over $500,000 per year! But that is not where Cliff stopped. In 2018, Cliff decided to shut it all down and pivot again. Pivot to focus more on what he loved doing, teaching and life coaching. He totally shut down his podcasting business, a business capable of making $500,000 per year. Cliff took everything he learned about business over the past ten years and quickly became known as the Mindset Answer Man, with a life coaching business generating over $300,000 within the first year.Like Cliff, like me, like so many other entrepreneurs. Your first business does not need to be your last. If Cliff had continued his eBay store, or never moved on from his Lost podcast, he never would have grown into the Podcast Answer Man and never would have become the Mindset Answer Man. He would probably still be working as an insurance agent in Northern Kentucky. That being said, if he had not started on eBay and learned about online business, if he never started the Lost Podcast and learned about podcasting, if he had not started small and grown, we would not know who Cliff Ravenscraft is and hundreds of thousands of lives would be worse without him.This is your starting point. This first idea is your “Lost Podcast”. It might be your $500,000 business, but it does not need to be. This is the first step; this is a stepping stone to get you started in entrepreneurship. This is the starting line, start with this one small business. Learn to crawl first. Then learn to walk. Then take off sprinting.

Today, I am excited to interview Chuck Marting of Colorado Mobile Drug Testing. Chuck shows us how he went from a full time law enforcement officer to full time business owner with his drug testing business Colorado Mobile Drug Testing.This is an excellent episode, we talk a lot about how Chuck first thought of the idea for his business, how he transitioned from a drug enforcement officer to a full time business owner, and how he scaled his business to nearly $500,000 per year with multiple brick-and-mortar locations and full time employees.Chuck Marting Case Study Chuck is featured in chapter three of my business ideas book. Below is the case study from the book where Chuck is featured. This comes directly from chapter three of the book:Chuck Marting is another great example. Chuck spent twenty years in law enforcement, eighteen of those years he spent as a drug recognition expert. With the help of his wife Stacy, Chuck took his expertise as a drug recognition expert and built the business Colorado Mobile Drug Testing (ColoradoMobileDrugTesting.com). A business that specializes in doing employee drug testing and employee workplace safety audits. The idea for Chuck and Stacy’s business came from Chuck’s day job. It actually came during an arrest that Chuck was making, when the man Chuck had arrested for a DUI complained he would miss his pre-employment drug test. Claiming that drug-testing companies were not flexible, he would not be able to reschedule his test. Chuck saw an opportunity. After some research and validation, he found that no one in his area of Northern Colorado offered walk-in drug testing, and no one in the state offered a service that would bring drug testing directly to the employment site. This means, if an employer needs an emergency drug test, they need to schedule it weeks in advance and must pay for the employee to drive hours away to a testing center. Chuck saw an opportunity, recognized the pain point, and created the solution. What started as Chuck and Stacy going business to business to perform on-site employee drug testing has grown into a nearly $500,000 business with multiple physical locations, walk-in testing sites, and full-time employees. Chuck took his expertise from his day job in law enforcement, as a drug recognition expert, and turned it into an immensely profitable business. Thanks to Chuck’s day job, his years of expertise, and one irresponsible driver’s off-hand comments, Chuck has built a half-a-million-dollar business in less than eight years.There are countless examples of entrepreneurs turning their day-job into their first business, which later allowed them to quit their day job (myself included). I did this with the CPCU exams I was studying for, Pat Flynn did this with the architecture exams he was studying for, Tom Heffner did this with his innovation training workshops, Michael Tanner did this with his leadership workshops, and Steven Foust did this with his expertise climbing the ranks in the Army. There is a ton of opportunity, sitting right in front of you, at the place where you spend forty hours per week. You can turn your day job into your first business. There is something there, a certification, program, or subset of your job that you are an expert at. You study, train, and work at it every day. There is something at your day job that you can turn into your first business.This Interview This interview is part of a series of case studies that I will be publishing to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast over the coming weeks as I interview successful entrepreneurs in the online business space. These interviews and case studies will  be featured in my newest book "business ideation" (still avail

Today, I am excited to interview DJ Eshelman of DJeshelman.com.In this episode, DJ teaches us about the pillars of online business, and how he is building a business in the Information Technology industry (Citrix).This is an excellent episode, we talk a lot about the various products, services, and revenue streams that DJ is building in the Information Technology Industry. We also discuss how DJ balances his life building an online business while working as a Citrix Consultant.DJ Eshelman Case Study DJ is featured in chapter three of my business ideas book. Below is the case study from the book where DJ is featured. This comes directly from chapter three of the book:Every career I have ever pursued I could turn into a corporate training business. I could sell workshops to corporations teaching their employees how to write effective stock reports, how to analyze a 10-K, or how to be an effective product analyst. I know there is a need for this because my employers used to pay thousands of dollars to send me to those exact same workshops.Any of my certifications, or qualifications, could be a business. I did this with the CPCU certification, I created my own study material to help people pass the difficult CPCU exams. I could do the same thing with my experience in Agile, I could create training guides, courses, or I could provide one-on-one training.Any of the programs that I have mastered, such as SQL Server or Tableau, could be a business. I could create training guides, courses, or provide corporate training. DJ Eshelman did this. DJ is a Citrix Consultant. He travels around the United States, going from business to business, training and teaching about Citrix. DJ took his knowledge and expertise about Citrix, built his own business, and became one of the go-to resources for Citrix training and coaching. He is now one of the most well respected, and sought-after, consultants and teachers in the Citrix industry. He has turned his expertise from his day job into a profitable business that has resulted in numerous paid speaking engagements, a prosperous coaching practice, paid mastermind groups, and a number of highly-regarded books on Information Technology including his book Be a Citrix Hero. This Interview This interview is part of a series of case studies that I will be publishing to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast over the coming weeks as I interview successful entrepreneurs in the online business space. These interviews and case studies will  be featured in my newest book "business ideation" (still available for pre-sale).Resources MentionedResources mentioned in this podcast episode:Business Ideas BookDJ's Business:  DJeshelman.com.DJ's Book "Be a Citrix Hero"DJ's Book "Just Do This"Enjoy!

Today, I am excited to interview Michael Tanner of Credibleleaders.com.In this episode, Michael talks us through how he came up with the idea for his business, validated his business, and how he is scaling his business (and getting clients). This is an excellent episode, we talk a lot about how to validate a business idea and Michael gives us a step-by-step process to find clients, book clients, and build a profitable consulting business.Michael Tanner Case Study Michael is featured in chapter three of my business ideas book. Below is the case study from the book where Michael is featured. This comes directly from chapter three of the book:Your expertise is a logical place to look for business ideas. This is why I teach entrepreneurs how to build and scale their first online business. I have been doing this for more than a decade. I have struggled, failed, and succeeded. I am an expert on this topic. I turned my expertise into a business to help others, others that face the same challenges that I did when I started my first business. Teach what you are naturally good at, use your natural gifts to help others. This is the logic that Michael Tanner followed to start his business CredibleLeaders.com, a consulting firm dedicated to developing leaders and growing collaboration within corporate teams. Michael has been in professional leadership roles for the majority of his life, for more than twenty-eight years, going all the way back to his time in The United States Marine Corps. Michael is an expert on leadership. He knows how to lead, he knows how to manage a team, and he knows how to inspire collaboration. This is his particular expertise. This is what he is good at. It is easy and it comes naturally for him. When looking to start a business, looking for who he could serve, Michael quickly took to the idea of serving corporate leaders. It’s what he loves doing, it’s what he has done for nearly thirty years, it’s what he has studied and trained for. He took his knowledge and built an entire business providing coaching and training to corporate leadership teams charging a minimum of $5,000 per session, and over $1,000 for individual clients. Michael is building a highly profitable business by teaching what he knows.This Interview This is the start of a series of case studies that I will be publishing to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast over the coming weeks as I interview successful entrepreneurs in the online business space. These interviews and case studies will  be featured in my newest book "business ideation" (still available for pre-sale).Resources MentionedResources mentioned in this podcast episode:Business Ideas BookMichael's Business: Credible LeadersRyan Levesque: Ryan's Book "Ask" | Ryan's Book "Choose"Enjoy!

Today, I am excited to bring Steven Foust back on to the Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast! Steven was last on the podcast in episode 10, talking about his new online business Army Promotion Point.Today, Steven comes back to the podcast to share an amazing update on his progress. In less than twelve months Steven bought two new websites (in the same niche) with 200,000+ website visitors per month, acquired a Facebook page with over 200,000 followers, and launched a few new products to turn a struggling niche website into a $4,000 per month powerhouse that is growing faster every month. Today, Steven is sharing how he is building, buying, and scaling online businesses.This is the start of a series of case studies that I will be publishing to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast over the coming weeks as I interview successful entrepreneurs in the online business space. These interviews and case studies will  be featured in my newest book "business ideation" (still available for pre-sale).Resources mentioned in this podcast episode:Business Ideas BookBuild a Business ProgramSteven's Businesses: Army Promotion Point | Cutoff Scores| NCO SupportEpisode #10 - Building an Online Business with Steven FoustEnjoy!

In this episode I am providing a breakdown of my blog income report, a breakdown of the revenue, expenses, and profit from my niche websites. This income report is for the year 2020, my year end 2020 income report. 2020 was my best year EVER as an entrepreneur, surpassing $91,000 in revenue for the year.For a full list of my income reports, see my blog income reports archived here: /incomereportsIn this episode, and in each upcoming blog income report episode, I will talk through the following:RevenueExpensesIncomeIn this episode I will breakdown my real revenue and expenses for each one of my websites. I will give you some insight behind the scenes into what I am doing with each blog, what happened during the last quarter, and how I plan to continue scaling.And if this sparks some ideas for you, or encourages you to go out and start an online business for yourself, I encourage you to start today. If you just need some ideas, go ahead and download my five website ideas (the businesses I would start if I had more time): /nichedownload/Enjoy!

This is the BIGGEST news I have ever had as an entrepreneur. Today, April 16th 2021, is my last day as a corporate employee. Today, I quit my job to pursue my entrepreneurial ventures full-time.This episode was recorded on April 2nd, 2021 minutes after giving my two-week notice to my employer.In today's episode, I share five lessons that I learned on the journey to full time entrepreneurship. Some of these lessons might surprise you (like don't quit your day-job yet). Enjoy the episode, one of my favorite that I have recorded in a long time, and don't forget to checkout the book launch at: Theentrepreneurridealong.com/book

Book: Theentrepreneurridealong.com/bookToday I answer the question "I want to start a business, but I don't know what to do". I answer this exact question every day. This is the most common question I get from my coaching clients.Today, I am giving you three steps directly from my book detailing what type of business to start, how to brainstorm and choose your first business idea, and my favorite revenue stream to make money online.Basically, in this episode, I will tell you how to start your first business step by step. I will give you instructions on how to find that idea, make sure it's valid, and how to get started. Tune into this episode of The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast for an action packed 45-minutes. By the time you are done with this episode, you will have an idea for your first business venture.Check out the book launch at: Theentrepreneurridealong.com/book

Ray Blakney joins us in this episode of The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast to discuss the ups and downs of entrepreneurship. Including building his business Live Lingua (twice), scaling Live Lingua to a seven figure online business, transitioning from a brick-and-mortar business to online, driving traffic with SEO, his tendency to get bored and start new business (like me), and behind the scenes of his newest business Podcast Hawk.Ray gives us a lot of great insight here behind the scenes of starting a seven-figure online business, including the expenses, revenue, and profit that go into building an online business.Tune into this episode of The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast for some amazing insight from an experienced entrepreneur with years of experience building and scaling online businesses. We all have a lot to learn from Ray and his successful ventures.  

In today's episode, I’m going to give you one online business idea for beginners and I will show you how to make money with the idea. This is a very specific (and niche) idea that we researched in-depth in my build a business program. This is a real business idea that we validated and considered pursuing.This podcast will be a little different than the other “online business idea” blogs that you typically see. I’ve seen far too many blogs out there that just give general advice like “start a blog” or “write a course”. Sure, that’s great. But back in 2014 when I was getting started, when I was looking for “online business ideas for beginners”, I was looking for ACTUAL ideas that I could take and run with.So that’s what I’m going to do, because it’s what I wanted when I was in your shoes. One real online business idea, and specifics about how I would make money with the idea. This is an idea that I wrote about in depth in my six business ideas for beginners blog. Here is a snippet from that blog: One Online Business Idea for Beginners – Six Sigma Certification (or any certification)I LOVE the study material or certification niche. I call it the “exam prep niche”. On average, I make well over $5k per month in this niche. In the exam prep niche, we are creating a business by providing study material, guidance, and advice to those pursuing a particular set of exams, designation, certification, or licensing.Like creating study material and resources for the six-sigma certification.There are THOUSANDS of niche exams, designations, certifications, and licenses with hundreds of thousands of people taking the exams each month. Off of the top of my head, I think of the CPA, CFA, CNA, Real estate license, underwriter licensing, Fundamentals of Engineering (FE), and CLU. And those are just the big-name designations and licensing that I could think of without doing any research!I want to show you the research I did into the Six Sigma certification.  I found that over 18,000 people per month are searching for “Six Sigma Certification” and “Certified Six Sigma”. That is PLENTY of people searching for this type of certification, that is plenty of volume to create a profitable business teaching people how to earn their Six Sigma certification. People are also searching for:Six Sigma Green belt examLean Six Sigma Yellow beltSix Sigma onlineSix Sigma trainingSix Sigma Black Belt certification costLots of relevant search terms here. It’s clear to see what people are searching for relating to Six Sigma. People want information about each “belt” of the Six Sigma! You can provide that. There are a lot of ways that you can differentiate yourself in this niche, even if there is other competition out there.For more insight into how to make money in this niche, and what I would do to pursue a business with the Six Sigma certification, listen to the full podcst Episode 14: One Online Business Idea for Beginners (and how I would make money)

In today's episode, I'm sharing one simple (and cheap) SEO tip to increase your website organic traffic. This is the #1 thing you NEED to do to drive organic traffic to your website. This is a tip for SEO beginners and bloggers. If you are just getting started, you need to do this if you hope to drive organic search traffic to your blogs, videos, and podasts.Before I knew more about SEO, I used this one tip to drive 5,000+ monthly visitors to my website every month. You can take this one SEO tip for beginners, and apply it to your website right now to start driving organic traffic.Links Mentioned:Long Tail Pro Free Trial1K Traffic ChallengeEnjoy!

In this episode I am providing a breakdown of my blog income report, a breakdown of the revenue, expenses, and profit from my niche websites. This income report is for the period of quarter two 2020. May 2020 was my best month EVER as an entrepreneur, surpassing $11,000 in revenue for the month of May.For a full list of my income reports, see my blog income reports are archive here: /incomereportsIn this episode, and in each upcoming blog income report episode, I will talk through the following:RevenueExpensesIncomeIn this episode I will breakdown my real revenue and expenses for each one of my websites. I will give you some insight behind the scenes into what I am doing with each blog, what happened during the last quarter, and how I plan to continue scaling.And if this sparks some ideas for you, or encourages you to go out and start an online business for yourself, I encourage you to start today. If you just need some ideas, go ahead and download my five website ideas (the businesses I would start if I had more time): /nichedownload/Enjoy!

"The One Thing" by Gary Keller is one of my favorite books. Today, I share a book summary of The One Thing and my three biggest takeaways.My biggest takeaways from this book, as I talk about in today's episode and The One Thing book summary, include:Time block 4-hours to focus on your "one thing"Set bigger goals and dream biggerWillpower is a scarce resource, so don't waste itI hope you enjoy The One Thing book summary! I highly recommend picking up a copy of this book, you can find The One Thing on Amazon here.

Today, I share a conversation with Steven Foust from Army Promotion Point. In today's conversation, Steven talks about his experience going through my 5-week Build a Business program, and his experience building online businesses from scratch. Today, we get insight into Steven's thought process, actions, and goals that go into building a business. You get to see behind the scenes of Steven's online businesses.Since our interview, Steven has also started a new website at //armypromotionpointscalculator.com/.Enjoy!

Today, I share a conversation with Clint from the Wallet Wise Guy podcast discussing niche sites and coaching (and how to make money).Here is Clint's description of the episode: In today's episode, I interview Jake Lang from The Entrepreneur Ride Along! We talk a ton about niche websites and how they're still a great option for building a passive income stream in 2020. Be ready to get inspired by this as there's a strong chance you could turn your own area of passion and knowledge into a money-making niche site!You can see the original podcast episode here: //walletwiseguy.buzzsprout.com/658465/3900251-episode-26-how-to-create-passive-income-through-niche-sites-with-jake-langI highly recommend checking out Clint and Wallet Wise Guy: //walletwiseguy.com/Enjoy!

Today, I am sharing one niche site idea with you. In the golfing niche. This is a real niche that I researched, take this idea and build your niche site.You can take this niche site idea and start making money today. Go out and build your niche site today with this one niche website idea.Enjoy!

You need to use email marketing in your business. 95% of my sales come through my email list.Today, I want to share one email marketing trick with you. Today, I am sharing one email that I send that gets people from my email list to reply and start a conversation with me. I call it the "got it" email. With this one email, I increased the engagement and conversion of my email list.You should use the "got it" email in your marketing campaign.Enjoy!

In this episode I am providing a breakdown of my blog income report, a breakdown of the revenue, expenses, and profit from my niche websites. This income report is for the period of quarter one 2020. For a full list of my income reports, see my blog income reports are archive here: /incomereportsIn this episode, and in each upcoming blog income report episode, I will talk through the following:RevenueExpensesIncomeIn this episode I will breakdown my real revenue and expenses for each one of my websites. I will give you some insight behind the scenes into what I am doing with each blog, what happened during the last quarter, and how I plan to continue scaling.And if this sparks some ideas for you, or encourages you to go out and start an online business for yourself, I encourage you to start today. If you just need some ideas, go ahead and download my five website ideas (the businesses I would start if I had more time): /nichedownload/Enjoy!

Today, I am sharing my biggest failure as an entrepreneur. Today I share my experience launching my business "NE Lounge". An Amazon FBA product that resulted in a $16,000 loss.That's a lot of money! I wrote about this over at Failory, where I shared my entire experience. Below is a snippet from the article I wrote for Failory explaining why I failed and lost $16,000 from an Amazon FBA product:In the end, it came down to profit. I just could not turn a profit. No matter what I did. My marketing effort, trying to rank for my keywords on Amazon, was not working. No matter how many 5-star reviews I got, and no matter how many discounted items I sold, my Best Seller Ranking was not climbing fast enough to rank on the first page of Amazon.I was in over my head. I chose an expensive product ($20 per unit), I was trying to sell at a premium price ($50 per unit) but no one was buying. The only buyers I was getting were the people buying through JumpSend at a 50% discount. After Amazon fees, I was taking a loss on those JumpSend sales and it wasn’t even helping my organic ranking!In the end, I sold more inflatable loungers at a discounted rate through JumpSend then I sold organically at full price. I was essentially paying money for people to take these inflatable loungers from me.After accounting for the initial investment, marketing fees, Amazon storage fees, Amazon sales fees, JungleScout fees, professional photography, and graphic design the end result after selling 500 units of NE Lounger inflatable loungers was a loss of $16,000.I shut the business down in April 2018 after selling all 500 units (for a loss). The nail in the coffin came when I brought the dilemma to my mastermind group, a group of entrepreneurs I trusted and had been meeting with on a weekly basis for over two years. I asked them if I should re-order more inventory to try and turn a profit, or cut my ties and walk away. I got a lot of great feedback from an outside perspective; it was eye-opening.The choices were clear, spend another $16,000 and maybe turn a profit or double down on my other online businesses and scale those to reach my goal of $10,000 income per month. It was an easy decision. In the end, I decided not to re-order the next round of inventory. I shut down NE Lounge and walked away with a $16,000 learning lesson.I can point to a number of reasons why this business failed. First, I suffer from shiny object syndrome. I jumped in too quick after just learning how to launch an Amazon FBA product. I saw the profit potentials, and I was really pushing myself to generate a little extra money so I could leave my 9-5 job and pursue entrepreneurship full time. I chased the shiny object when I could have doubled down and scaled my successful businesses.Second, I chose the wrong product. I chose an expensive product to manufacture, one with lots of competition, one that is known to break (and get bad reviews), one that is a fad product that I had never personally used or even heard of before researching niches on Amazon. I should have chosen a simpler item for my first FBA product, one that was less costly and cheaper to manufacture on a per-unit basis. I was in trouble right off the bat when I dropped over $10,000 just to manufacture my inflatable lounger. I put myself in a hole from the beginning. I should have started smaller, and started cheaper for my first attempt. It would have softened the blow of this failure.Third, I didn’t fully understand Amazon. This was my first Amazon product. I didn’t understand the fees, I was learning about manufacturing, I didn’t understand importing, and I didn’t realize how hard it was to rank a product organically on the Amazon search platform.

Welcome to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast with Jake Lang.In this episode, I am interviewed by Eric of the breaking through the cloud podcast. Eric and I have an in-depth discussion about how I started my business' started and what it took to get to where I am today. Here is Eric's description: What is it like to start online business? What is it like when the first time it does not work out? How do you get back up and keep going? Jake Lang shares his uplifting story with us as well as tons value that we can all incorporate into our daily lives.

Welcome to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast with Jake Lang.In this episode, I breakdown exactly how I’m generating $1,000+ per month in passive income with my dog blog. It’s a membership site in the pet niche. This is an introduction to my dog blog niche site, Pomsky Owners Association.I’ll breakdown what I’m doing, my struggles getting to this point, my sales process, expenses, and plan for the future. I’ll tell you exactly how you can begin generating passive income with your own membership website.Below is a snapshot of earnings from Pomsky Owners Association during Quarter one of 2020. See current progress and income from Pomsky Owners Association here on my blog income reports.

Welcome to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast with Jake Lang.In this episode, I breakdown exactly how I'm generating $5,000+ per month in passive income by selling online courses in the insurance industry. This is an introduction to my niche site, AssociatePI.I'll breakdown what I'm doing, my struggles getting to this point, my sales process, expenses, and plan for the future. I'll tell you exactly how you can begin generating passive income selling online courses in your niche.Below is a snapshot of earnings from AssociatePI during Quarter 1 of 2020. See current progress and income from AssociatePI here on my blog income reports.

Welcome to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast with Jake Lang. Follow along with me on the entrepreneurial journey as I learn, fail, and grow while testing, scaling and starting new businesses.Along the way I will be scaling my online business, starting new online businesses, and talking to other entrepreneurs to learn exactly what they did to build their businesses.