TICM 98 | Khierstyn Ross | From painting houses to raising over $1.1 Million in Crowdfunding

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TICM 98 | Khierstyn Ross | From painting houses to raising over $1.1 Million in Crowdfunding

Khierstyn Ross is a crowdfunding expert specializing in products and has raised over 1.2 Million in the last year. 

She went from running painting businesses, to consulting, before going through massive crowdfunding failures before she found her groove. 

In the episode, we deep dive into WHY she believes crowdfunding is the best way of validating a product idea and we also figure out what went wrong with her very first failed campaign. 

Fun fact: We run Toronto Internet Marketers together, which is the fastest growing internet marketing meetup in the city of Toronto. 

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TICM 97 | Michael O'Neal | The Art Of Being A Great Interviewer

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TICM 97 | Michael O'Neal | The Art Of Being A Great Interviewer

Michael O'Neal's grammar school report cards always read:  Doesn't live up to his potential and Talks too much."  

One of those pieces of feedback would come in handy, as he is now the founder and host of the award-winning and much acclaimed business and entertainment podcast, "The Solopreneur Hour with Michael O'Neal." The show, launched in August 2013, has already garnered more than 6 million downloads and monetized to multiple six-figures, features lively and highly engaging conversations between Michael and his various (and often much sought-after) guests, who share remarkable stories, advice and practical tips for an audience that badges itself as "proudly unemployable" and highly motivated to finally take charge of their own lucrative business pursuits.

IF you found the episode valuable, let Michael know on Twitter - @solohour :) 

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TICM 96 | Yaro Starak | How To Launch A Business From Your Blo

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TICM 96 | Yaro Starak | How To Launch A Business From Your Blo

"How relevant is having a blog in 2016?"

"How do you make money from blogging?"

These are both common questions for Yaro Starak, a blogging expert and the newest guest on podcast.

He is the author of the Blog Profits Blueprint and founder of the Entrepreneurs-Journey.com blog. He began blogging over ten years ago initially as a hobby, however as his income from blogging surpassed $10,000 a month, he decided his future lay in this new publishing medium.

Since then Yaro has mentored thousands of other experts, authors, coaches, consultants, speakers and trainers how to turn their expertise into a profitable online business. Today Yaro helps people set up their own “Blog Sales Funnel”, a system that combines blogging with email marketing to build a platform to sell your own digital training products.

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TICM 95 | Craig Ballantyne | How To Have The Perfect Day

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TICM 95 | Craig Ballantyne | How To Have The Perfect Day

Would you like to have a perfect day? 

How would you spend your perfect day? 

Our guest this week is the master of the perfect days. 

Craig Ballantyne is a Productivity & Success Transformation Coach from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the author of The Perfect Day Formula: How to Own the Day and Control Your Life. He has been contributing to Men's Health magazine since 2000, and in 2001, Craig created the popular home workout program, Turbulence Training.

On his journey to success, Craig had to overcome crippling anxiety attacks, and he beat them with his 5 Pillars of Transformation. Today Craig shows men and women how to use the 5 Pillars to lose 10 to 75 pounds, get a raise and make more money, find the love of their life, and overcome any obstacle in the way of success.

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TICM 94 | Evan Carmichael | How To Uncover Your One-Word

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TICM 94 | Evan Carmichael | How To Uncover Your One-Word

Most of the world knows Evan Carmichael on YouTube from his infamous Top 10 videos of famous entrepreneurs and celebrities. 

Evan has amassed a huge following of over 444,000+ subscribers and his channel has generated over 55 million views! 

Here is what you don’t know.

At 19, he built then sold a biotech software company. At 22, he was a VC helping raise $500k to $15mil. He now runs EvanCarmichael.com, a popular website for entrepreneurs.

He also runs Toronto Dance Salsa as well and his one word is #Believe.

He is a believer in humans. He believes in entrepreneurs solving the greatest problems of our generation.

And the reason I am mentioning his one word is because that's what tour interview is about.

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TICM 92 | Grant Cardone | Drop Into Your Inner Junkie And Be Obsessed

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TICM 92 | Grant Cardone | Drop Into Your Inner Junkie And Be Obsessed

Grant Cardone is an international sales expert, New York Times best-selling author, and radio show host of The Cardone Zone. He has founded three companies: Cardone Enterprises, Cardone Real Estate Holdings, and the Cardone Group. He has shared his sales and business expertise as a motivational speaker and author of five books: Sell to Survive; The Closers Survival Guide; If You're Not First, You're Last; The 10X Rule; and Sell or Be Sold and we are chatting about his new book be Obsessed or Be Average.

It’s funny actually, I introduced him as a multi-millionaire on the show and he got offended. You have to check out his reasoning for why he almost killed me for saying that.

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