723: Scaling Trust with Adam O’Leary

Scaling TrustAdam O’Leary, TrustScout – The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 723 Adam O’LearyAdam O'Leary is the co-founder of TrustScout, a video testimonial capture tool originally developed for agency white-label, eCommerce, and SMBs. Adam started out with over $30k in debt as a real estate agent who began using Facebook ads to generate leads. After paying off his debt, he quit his job in real estate and started searching for people making $1M+ a year online to learn from them. Eventually, his skills and expertise led him to launch an agency with his co-founder, Dan. They grew quickly using an internal video testimonial tool as a "foot-in-the-door" offer for building client trust before moving to 4 and 5 figure retainers. Realizing the broader appeal of the tool, they pivoted focus and TrustScout was born! To test their new tool, Adam recruited 3 brand new agency owners wannabes to launch their business using only TrustScout...No referrals, no websites, just sales + video.Within 24 hours, all 3 had landed their first clients. TrustScout's mission is to create a simple way for agencies to collect video testimonials for businesses everywhere. Listen to this illuminating Sharkpreneur episode with Adam O’Leary about scaling trust.Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:●    Why it’s important for business to have good testimonials to gain social proof.●    How TrustScout allows businesses to get video testimonials in 24 to 48 hours.●    Why business don’t want to get cookie cutter reviews and testimonials.●    How using guidance questions provides a framework that works for testimonials.●    How TrustScout lets you see the video testimonials before posting to your website. Connect with Adam:Guest Contact InfoFacebook facebook.com/GetTrustScoutLinks Mentioned: trustscout.io  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices