Ep212: Bill Flitter

Today on the More Cheese Less Whiskers podcast, we're talking with Bill Flitter from Moraga, California, where he's very passionately involved in youth basketball, helping kids gain confidence.

He sees this as the big thing basketball skills can really do for kids, so he's had a lot of involvement in various programs.

Over the years, he's developed training protocols, he's got a great name for his program, he's developed an app, and we talked about how to take all of that and package it up into an opportunity for syndicating everything he's developed for Moraga, to people all over the United States.

You're going to enjoy this episode, especially if you've got something you think you might like to duplicate or scale to other marketplaces.

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Ep211: Charles Wallace

Today on the More Cheese Less Whiskers podcast, we're talking with Charles Wallace from California.

This is a great conversation because we dive into the idea of creating a program around all the things Charles has learned about elite performance from his +20 years as a football coach.

As we talked, it became clear that Charles has a passion for coaching quarterbacks. They have a great opportunity to maximize their abilities and opportunities, but it requires discipline and a systems approach to developing their careers.

We outlined how Charles can approach something like this in a way that helps narrow your focus to a single target audience and also create something with an outcome that's worth pursuing.

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Ep210: Jeremy Segal

Today on the More Cheese Less Whiskers podcast, we’re talking with Jeremy Segal, a commercial photographer from up in Vancouver.

He asked how do you stand out as a photographer, trying to stand out among all the other photographers, and get the attention of the agencies that are hiring to do photography for hotels and commercial photography work.

So we spent the hour having a great conversation about the difference between positioning yourself to be selected and doing the selecting yourself.

When we talk about selecting a single target market, that's what we're talking about, you doing the selecting, not you being selected!

It was a great episode, with lots of ideas, so listen in.

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Ep209: Aaron Lester

Today on the More Cheese Less Whiskers podcast, we're talking with Aaron Lester, all the way from the Philippines.

Aaron helps personal trainers who work with people virtually, and one of the things we had a great conversation about is the idea of building your prototype.

In order to scale something, you have to have a proof element and what I call the scale ready algorithm.

So much of the frustration I see people experience with scaling is that they haven't taken the time to get things scale ready, and often that's about just investing time and energy in figuring out your protocol. Figuring out the best things that works for one of your ideal audience.

Whoever you choose as a target market, it's about getting the core right, and then being able to scale from there.

Once you get something scale ready, you may find it could be even centrally managed, and you could offer an entirely different service where you just deliver the result to people who just want to be personal trainers, or chiropractors or coaches or dentists, and don't want to be marketers or technicians.

So much opportunity stems from your ability to crack this idea of getting the scale ready algorithm, and this episode is great to start thinking in that way.

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Ep208: The Self Milking Cow pt3

Today on the More Cheese Less Whiskers podcast, I'm going to share the last in a 3 part podcast series that Joe Polish and I did way back in Episode 12 of the I Love Marketing podcast, talking about the concept of the self milking cow.

It's particularly relevant now because Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy have just released their new book 'Who Not How' and this concept was the genesis of that idea. So it's a great time to listen to the behind-the-scenes thinking that evolved to their big concept.

If you haven’t listened to the first part of the series, I'd recommend going back to the last episode, but more importantly, go get a copy of Who Not How. It truly is a revolutionary book that will make a big difference in your life.

You've heard me talk a lot about this idea of being the cow and not succumbing to the temptation to be the self milking cow, trying to do it all yourself. Well, this is the framework and the philosophy that gets you there.

It's a great time of year to contemplate going into 2021 with a real Who Not How plan to multiply your efforts in the coming years. daily routines and a lot of really cool stuff. There is great information here that I think you will find valuable.

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Ep207: The Self Milking Cow pt2

Today on the More Cheese Less Whiskers podcast, I'm going to share part 2 of a 3 part podcast series that Joe Polish and I did way back in Episode 12 of the I Love Marketing podcast, talking about the concept of the self milking cow.

It's particularly relevant now because Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy have just released their new book 'Who Not How' and this concept was the genesis of that idea. So it's a great time to listen to the behind-the-scenes thinking that evolved to their big concept.

If you haven’t listened to the first part of the series, I'd recommend going back to the last episode, but more importantly, go get a copy of Who Not How. It truly is a revolutionary book that will make a big difference in your life.

You've heard me talk a lot about this idea of being the cow and not succumbing to the temptation to be the self milking cow, trying to do it all yourself. Well, this is the framework and the philosophy that gets you there.

It's a great time of year to contemplate going into 2021 with a real Who Not How plan to multiply your efforts in the coming years. daily routines and a lot of really cool stuff. There is great information here that I think you will find valuable.

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Ep206: The Self Milking Cow pt1

Today on the More Cheese Less Whiskers podcast, I'm going to share part 1 of a 3 part podcast series that Joe Polish and I did way back in Episode 12 of the I Love Marketing podcast, talking about the concept of the self milking cow.

It's particularly relevant now because Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy have just released their new book 'Who Not How' and this concept was the genesis of that idea. So it's a great time to listen to the behind-the-scenes thinking that evolved to their big concept.

Over the next two weeks, I'll share the other parts of this series, and what I'd recommend is that you listen to all of these, but more importantly, go get a copy of Who Not How. It truly is a revolutionary book that will make a big difference in your life.

You've heard me talk a lot about this idea of being the cow and not succumbing to the temptation to be the self milking cow, trying to do it all yourself. Well, this is the framework and the philosophy that gets you there.

It's a great time of year to contemplate going into 2021 with a real Who Not How plan to multiply your efforts in the coming years.

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Ep205: Gary Klaben

Today on the More Cheese Less Whiskers podcast, we're talking with Gary Klaben, and Gary is a financial advisor from Chicago.

Gary has a really great program of videos and education that employers can offer as a benefit to their employees, giving them access to real financial advice when they need it.

He's put a lot into creating an app that provides all of these videos to employees to help them get educational advice on practical things like what to do when they're going to buy a car, or when they're going to buy a house, or how to think about money. Things they wouldn't necessarily have access to otherwise.

What he's really doing is helping provide a sense of financial wellbeing for employees of large employers.

So, one of the things we talked about was how to get this word out, and towards the end of the call, we really came up with the idea of ideas, which is identifying potential clients for this service, and how do we get the message in front of them.

This is a great episode and will really help you think about who benefits from your service.

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Ep204: Rene Floyd

Today on the More Cheese Less Whiskers podcast, we're talking with Rene Floyd from Perris, California, and Rene has a wonderful business helping people make their beautiful, curly, wavy hair look even better.

Rene's a retired hairstylist who's developed her own products and methods to help people, and I love her single target market focus. She's got great products, and she has a great business, so we talked about overlaying the idea of a before, during, and after unit on to what she's doing, and found that a lot of her business is actually in the after unit.

That's really where a business like this is.

When you have a business where you solve an ongoing problem or provide an ongoing solution for someone, and you create an experience they love, they have an opportunity to come back again and again and again.

That's your great opportunity to build an amazing business.

We ended by talking about the before unit, acquiring brand new business and thinking about how much you would cheerfully pay to develop a new customer, and we had a great little breakdown of how to think about business in that way.

This is a great episode, especially if your business had the opportunity to build relationships with clients in this way.

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Ep203: Stu Swineford

Today on the More Cheese Less Whiskers podcast, we're talking with Stu Swineford from Boulder, Colorado, where they have an agency that helps nonprofit and purpose-driven businesses with their marketing.

We had a great conversation about selecting and narrowing to a single target market. I love that they're crystal clear on who it is they want to work with, and we talked about how they can get more involved in that community in a way that would start providing engaging content for them.

There are so many opportunities, including a nice content marketing strategy involving podcasting, and if you're looking for ideas to connect with your potential customers, this is a great episode.

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