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In The Trenches
by Tom Morkes | business, marketing, writing, and publishing
In The Trenches with Tom Morkes tells the story of entrepreneurs, business owners, founders, inventors, and leaders who are doing the hard, creative work of building businesses that matters. Tom Morkes interviews these high-impact world-changers and cuts through the fluff so you can get right inside the brain of these creators. Listen to In The Trenches and you'll hear from bootstrapped startup founders, to self-made millionaires, to bestselling authors, to people who turned their creative pursuit into full-fledged businesses, and more. Here are some of the subjects we cover: hot to start a business from scratch, how to launch a product, how to market and sell your products online, influencer marketing, affiliate marketing, online business strategies, copywriting techniques, and much, much more. All interviews are unscripted, with as little editing as possible. Tom believes the only way to go deep on a subject is to let it happen organically...so we hope you forgive any craziness that
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ITT 239: From Steel Mill to Capitol Hill with Robert Ordway
Robert Ordway grew up in a small mill town on the fringe of Gary, Indiana. He had a typical blue-collar upbringing, but all that changed when he turned 13 and his dad was diagnosed with ALS. Robert learned that adversity can come unannounced, and often, we need to prepare to handle those...
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ITT 238: Thinking Big and Building Success with Ridgely Goldsborough
Ridgely Goldsboro is an author, personal growth expert and a prolific founder who has initiated 45 companies. He is also a sought-after speaker and trainer who conducts fifty-plus seminars annually, as well as the creator of TSTN's Modest to Millions series, which chronicles the principles of...
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ITT 237: The Future of Blogging in the Era of AI with Ryan Robinson
Ryan Robinson is a veteran blogger and the brains behind the innovative AI-driven content creation tool, RightBlogger. Twelve years ago, Ryan started his blogging journey with a college assignment and has since evolved into a trusted expert in the realms of freelancing and content marketing,...
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ITT 236: Building a Multi-Million Dollar SEO Agency with Damon Burton
Damon Burton is a remarkable figure who, nearly two decades ago, outsmarted a billion-dollar company by outranking their website on Google. This victory was just the beginning for Damon, who went on to author a best-selling SEO book and establish “SEO National”, an international search engine...
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ITT 235: AI Growth Hacking and Lifestyle Design with Danny Flood
Danny Flood is a vibrant individual whose life experience spans a range of diverse chapters, all encapsulating an adventurous spirit and a penchant for non-traditional living. About eight years ago, you would have found him in the bustling city of Bangkok, living a life many only dream of. A...
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ITT 234: Million Dollar Weekend with Noah Kagan
Noah Kagan is the founder of AppSumo, dubbed the premier software deal site for solopreneurs, and 8 other million-dollar businesses. He is an entrepreneur with a keen eye for unique business angles and the innate ability to transform the ordinary into extraordinary revenue streams. In his book...
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ITT 233: The Journey from $0 to $50,000/mo with Robbie Samuels
Robbie Samuels is an accomplished networking expert who has dedicated over a decade to teaching people the art of networking at conferences and events. After years of balancing his day job with speaking engagements, Robbie took the bold step of quitting his job to focus on networking full-time....
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ITT 232: Book to 6-Figure Business With Jane Duncan Rodgers
Jane Duncan Rogers is an accomplished author, entrepreneur, and award-winning Life and Death coach. She is passionate about creating a world where dying, death, and grief are considered a natural, normal, and nourishing part of the conversation, with end-of-life plans becoming as commonplace as...
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ITT 231: Inside the Mind of an Underground Comedian, Actor, and Film Producer with NT Bullock of Sequential Pictures
Nicholas Todd Bullock (NT Bullock) is the founder of Sequential Pictures. He is a filmmaker who discovered his passion for creating videos long before the advent of YouTube. In the mid-90s, he got hold of his father's camcorder and fell in love with capturing moments on camera. Despite the...
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ITT 230: Pay What you Want Pricing with Justin Brooke
Justin Brooks is the founder of Adskills.com, the world's largest online school for digital advertising. His company teaches advertisers how to install proven campaign frameworks and training the next generation of media buyers and connecting them with great clients or jobs. Today, we’re gonna…
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ITT 229: Behind the Scenes of the Founding of Comedy Central with Art Bell
Art Bell is the former TV executive who founded The Comedy Channel, which became Comedy Central. He continued his television career as President of CourtTV. After Art left the TV business, he took some writing courses and found he loved writing. Constant Comedy: How I Started Comedy Central and...
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ITT 228: Inside SYSTEMology with David Jenyns
David Jenyns is the author of SYSTEMology, host of the Business Systems Simplified podcast and a serial business owner. Recognised as a high achieving businessman, you will find many of his keynotes on YouTube. In today’s episode, David and I discuss his proprietary 7-step process for systemizing...
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ITT 227: How to Invest in Real Estate Without Cash, Loans, or Debt with Chris Prefontaine
Chris Prefontaine 3- time best-selling author, founder and CEO of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and host of the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. Chris founded Smart Real Estate Coach in 2014, bringing in his son Nick, daughter Kayla, and son-in-law Zachary to help grow the company. Chris and his team...
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ITT 226: How to Start and Grow a Podcast in 2020 with Michael Neeley
Michael Neeley is an authority strategist, business mentor and podcasting veteran. Along with hosting many podcasts, Michael is a writer, a motivational speaker, a personal development coach, and the creator of the transformational program The Art of Forgetting. In today’s conversation, Michael…
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ITT 225: Leading with Style with David McKnight
David McKnight is the founder of McKnight Image Lab and the author of The Zen Executive Presence. He is an image consultant and professional coach who specializes in helping ambitious and busy professionals craft and leverage their personal image and brand to generate wealth, success and...
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ITT 224: The Intersection of Design, Entrepreneurship, and Hustle with Daniel Scrivner
Daniel Scrivner is the CEO of Flow, which is a project management software. Previously he was the Head of Design at Digit and Square. He's worked for some of the most respected brands in the world including Apple, Nike, Disney, and Target. In today’s broadcast, Daniel and I discuss how someone…
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ITT 223: How to Grow and Sell an Online Company with Nathan Hirsch
Nathan Hirsch is a serial entrepreneur and expert in remote hiring and e-commerce. He is the founder and CEO of FreeeUp.com and the co-founder and COO of Portlight. Nathan is an expert at building efficient systems and processes, sales strategies, and business management. In today’s broadcast,...
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ITT 222: How to Level Up Your Life and Business with Jovana Miljanovic
Jovana Miljanovic was born and raised in Serbia. She built a brick and mortar style business where she ran in-person workshops from scratch and then pivoted to helping people around the world through her virtual education platform. Now Jovana helps women start and scale their businesses online…
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ITT 221: How to Make Money with eCourses in 2020 with Danny Iny
Danny Iny is the founder and CEO of Mirasee and best-selling author of nine published books, including Leveraged Learning, Teach and Grow Rich, The Audience Revolution, and Engagement from Scratch!. He is the host of the Business Reimagined Podcast and is also the creator of the acclaimed Course...
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ITT 220: Ramping Up Remote Work with David Hassell
David Hassel is a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of 15Five, which is what he views as his opportunity to help organizations and individuals reach their potential and become ‘organizationally-actualized’. He and his team have developed industry leading people management software to...
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ITT 219: How To Stop Trading Time For Money with Edward Kay
Edward Kay works with associations who are frustrated by the inability to get digital and web technology working for them. Clients come to him who are struggling with terrible website-to-membership-database integration, lack of member self-service and important data isolated in unconnected…
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ITT 218: How to Survive Financial Chaos with Samir Patel
Samir Patel is the founder and managing partner of Trophy Point Investment Group. He bought his first hotel when he was a junior in college. Samir has successfully served as an officer in the US Army serving as the chief operations officer of a 1,000 person organization. He has engaged in real...
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ITT 217: Why You Need a Referral Marketing System (with the founder of EarlyParrot) Gaetano Caruana
Gaetano Caruana is the founder of EarlyParrot, which is a referral marketing software that has helped hundreds of businesses generate high-quality leads through referrals. EarlyParrot was built out of a need and soon evolved into a flexible platform that can be plugged into any sales firm. Today…
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ITT 216: How to Grow a Profitable Membership Site with Jen Lehner
Jennifer Lehner is a Digital Marketing Strategist and Adjunct Professor of Digital Marketing at Cleveland State University. She shows entrepreneurs how to build an audience and monetize their expertise online using social media and digital tools. She creates online courses and trainings, while…
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ITT 215: Why You Don’t Have To Be Ruthless To Win with Jonathan Keyser
Jonathan Keyser is the founder and CEO of Keyser. By using his own selfless service model, Jonathan was able to turn Keyser into the largest tenant rep commercial real estate firm in Arizona in just six years. The rapid growth and continued success of Keyser inspired Jonathan to share, teach and...
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ITT 214: The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur with John Jantsch
John Jantsch is a marketing consultant, speaker, and author of Duct Tape Marketing, The Referral Engine, Duct Tape Selling, The Commitment Engine, and SEO for Growth. His newest work, The Self-reliant Entrepreneur 366 Daily Meditations to Feed Your Soul and Grow Your Business, taps into the…
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ITT 213: Make More Money as a Freelancer with Jonathan Stark
Jonathan Stark is a former software developer who is on a mission to rid the world of hourly billing. He is the author of Hourly Billing is Nuts, the host of Ditching Hourly and writes a daily newsletter on pricing for independent professionals. During today’s conversation, Jonathan breaks down…
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ITT 212: How to Become Indistractable with Nir Eyal
Nir Eyal is the bestselling author of "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" and "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life." He has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. His writing on technology, psychology…
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ITT 211: Behind The Scenes of Building a 4-Hour Workweek Business with Jake Jorgovan
Jake Jorgovan is the founder of Lead Cookie, Outbound Creative, and Content Allies. Prior to starting Outbound Creative, Jake ran business development for a video production agency and won the business of multiple Fortune 500 clients and A-List touring artists. Since leaving that agency, he has...
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ITT 210: Billion Dollar Infomercial Marketing Secrets with Rick Cesari
Rick Cesari has been a pioneer in the Direct Response advertising industry since the early 90s, and his Brand Response strategies have helped build many iconic brands that you have probably heard of (like Sonicare, The George Foreman Grill, and OxiClean). He is the author of "Buy Now, Creative...
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ITT 209: Small Business Mistakes to Avoid with Rob Braiman
Rob Braiman is personally responsible for the development and growth of three directly owned and successful start-ups, he brings a passion for the small to mid-market segment of business. He has spent 15 years working directly with business owners to improve strategic planning, operations…
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ITT 208: How to Outsource Your Book and Become a Wall Street Journal Bestseller with Alinka Rutkowska
Alinka Rutkowska is a USA Today best-selling author, a Wall Street Journal best-selling author and a top 100 Amazon best-selling author in business and money. She’s sold more than 100,000 copies of her books and her book creation process has been showcased in Entrepreneur magazine. She’s also the...
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ITT 207: Better Manage Your Projects with Hussain Bandukwala
Hussain Bandukwala is the Chief PMO Coach and Adviser at Parwaaz Consulting, which provides consulting, coaching, support and resources to facilitate the success of Project Management Office (PMO) leaders. He is a seasoned program/project manager who has worked with C-level executives and…
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ITT 206: How To Effectively Incorporate Humor Into The Workplace with Andrew Tarvin
Andrew Tarvin is the creator of Humor That Works. Humor That Works has helped over 25,000 people, from all around the world and within more than 250 different organizations, use humor to achieve success and happiness in the workplace. As an entrepreneur, and as a marketer, I like to use humor to...
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ITT 205: 6-Figure Affiliate Marketing Strategies with Jill Stanton
Jill Stanton is the co-creator of Screw the Nine to Five with her husband, Josh Stanton. Jill and her husband are obsessive world travellers (with their little guy, Kai), say-it-like-it-is podcast hosts, lovers of quality of red wine and hell-bent on helping transform unsatisfied employees into...
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ITT 204: How to Start a Side Hustle and Quit Your Job with Steve Chou
Steve Chou is the founder of My Wife Quit Her Job. When Steve’s wife became pregnant with their first child, she decided to quit her job to stay at home with the kids. But instead of cutting back on their lifestyle, they started an online store and made over $100K in only 12 months to replace her...
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ITT 203: Using Ads on Amazon To Boost Your Book Sales with Brian Berni
Brian Berni is a former Vatican secret archives employee and a best selling author under multiple pen names. He blogs for writers and self publishers at Authorstech and is the co-founder of BookAds, an agency that helps authors advertise their books through Amazon Marketing Services (AMS) and…
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ITT 202: How to Scale an Agency with Chad Pytel
Chad Pytel is a developer, founder and CEO of thoughtbot, a product design development consultancy with six studios across the U.S. and U.K. For over 15 years, thoughtbot has produced top quality web and mobile apps with hundreds of clients from one person startups to Fortune 500 enterprises,...
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ITT 201: How to Feast as a Freelancer with Jason Resnick
On today’s episode, I am having a conversation with Jason Resnick who is a web developer, host of the podcast, Live in the Feast and creator of the online community for freelancers, Feast. Inside Feast and through his blog and podcast, Jason helps freelancers discover their niche, plan out and...
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ITT 200: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur with Patrick Vlaskovits, Megan Reamer and Bret Boyd
Today’s panelists are Megan Reamer is the co-founder and CEO of Jackson’s Honest, a healthy foods company. Jackson’s Honest makes potato chips, tortilla chips and grain free puffs all cooked in organic coconut oil. Patrick Vlaskovits is an entrepreneur and 2 time New York Times bestselling…
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ITT 199: Authority Positioning with Podcasts with Michael Greenberg
Michael Greenberg is a serial entrepreneur, strategist, founder of Gentleman of Technology and the CEO of Call for Content, a white label podcasting agency. In a nutshell, Call for Content helps agency owners book podcasts for their clients. Instead of going the typical straight to client…
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ITT 198: Creating Your Family Story with Caspar Craven
Caspar Craven is a conference and corporate event speaker, adventurer who sailed around the world with his wife and three children, and the best selling author of the book Where the Magic Happens. In today’s episode, Caspar and I talk about his experience sailing around the world with his wife…
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ITT 197: Attract and Close More Clients
Dov Gordon is a coach who helps consultants, coaches and experts get ideal clients. He is the founder and head coach of The Alchemist Entrepreneur, which works on the core concepts of your marketing message and systematic implementation. On today’s episode, I sit down with Dov Gordon, a coach who...
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ITT 196: Lifestyle Design with Beard Brand Founder Eric Bandholz
Eric Bandholz is the founder of Beardbrand and the first urban beardsman. He is passionate about changing the way society views beardsmen. Eric wants to help men find ways to keep on growing and become better men. He currently resides in Austin, Texas with his wife, daughter and dog. Today, I’m...
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ITT 195: Ramp Up Your Reading Comprehension
Mani Vaya is the founder of 2000 Books. He is a Physicist and Electrical and Computer Engineer. Mani spent 13 years in the tech industry rising up the ranks to manage billion dollar cellphone projects at a Fortune 500 company. However, he realized that ambitious entrepreneurs must read often and...
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ITT 194: How to Create a Personal Brand
Taylor Lou Dixon helps women create amazing businesses/passion projects/and side hustles as an integral part of their higher purpose. Prior to coaching, Taylor managed to create a profitable and growing social media agency. She worked with clients like Chick-Fil-A and other big-name restaurant...
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ITT 193: Growth Through Culture
Meny Hoffman is the Chief Executive Officer of Ptex Group, a marketing agency located in Brooklyn, NY, and a published business author. He is a lifelong entrepreneur who is passionate about collaborating with growing businesses to create winning strategies that yield hard-hitting results. More...
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ITT 192: How to Bootstrap a Summit with Abdo Riani
Abdo Riani is the founder of StartupCircle where aspiring and rising entrepreneurs can connect with and learn from successful founders over daily live Q&A sessions. He also mentors and guides entrepreneurs to their first paying customers and beyond. Abdo helps entrepreneurs design a plan to…
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ITT 191: How to Grow Your Audience with a Virtual Summit with Liam Austin
Liam Austin is the Co-Founder of Entrepreneurs HQ. He hosts marketing summits and sends a daily marketing tactic via EHQ Daily to help small business owners and entrepreneurs grow their business. Liam’s passion for entrepreneurship began whilst at Macquarie University when he was tasked with...
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ITT 190: From Employee to Entrepreneur with Steve Glaveski
Steve Glaveski's mission is to unlock the latent potential of organisations and people to create more impact for humanity and lead more fulfilling lives. He is CEO and Co-Founder of Collective Campus, a corporate innovation and startup accelerator based in Melbourne, Australia with clients across...
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In The Trenches with Tom Morkes tells the story of entrepreneurs, business owners, founders, inventors, and leaders who are doing the hard, creative work of building businesses that matters. Tom Morkes interviews these high-impact world-changers and cuts through the fluff so you can get right inside the brain of these creators. Listen to In The Trenches and you'll hear from bootstrapped startup founders, to self-made millionaires, to bestselling authors, to people who turned their creative pursuit into full-fledged businesses, and more. Here are some of the subjects we cover: hot to start a business from scratch, how to launch a product, how to market and sell your products online, influencer marketing, affiliate marketing, online business strategies, copywriting techniques, and much, much more. All interviews are unscripted, with as little editing as possible. Tom believes the only way to go deep on a subject is to let it happen organically...so we hope you forgive any craziness that
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