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In this album, Michael Izbotsky demystifies financial planning for the unpredictable lives of young entrepreneurs. Whether you’re turning your side hustle into a full-time hustle or launching a new business, entrepreneurship comes with its own set of unique financial challenges. As a financial planner and millennial, Michael explains how to turn big ideas into flourishing businesses with these unbeatable strategies.

Being an entrepreneur can be more complicated than your traditional day job. But this shouldn’t stop you from living your dream. Find out how to properly manage your finances and turn your big ideas into financial success.

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Financial Planning for Entrepreneurs

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When launching a new business, building a client list can take months! But according to Westcoast Industries founder Justine Nguyen, new business owners don’t have to start from scratch. In this album, she explains how to appropriately use former business contacts to build a dense client list booming with sales potential. It’s time to wash the fear away and reach out to former colleagues today.

When launching a new business, building a client list from scratch can be incredibly time consuming. This album could be your head start!

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How to Build a Client List from Your Previous Job

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In this album, Charlie Boots, the Director of Branding for the NFL Alumni Association, explains how to sustain and maintain partnerships in order to launch a brand forward. Business partnerships can make or break an emerging brand. If executed correctly, these relationships can last a lifetime, and provide mutually beneficial publicity and support to everyone involved. Over the next few minutes, discover the art of delivery, communication, and value proposition.

Any relationship, but especially a business relationship, is all about giving and receiving value. Learn how to tackle long-term business partnerships from the NFL’s Director of Branding.

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The 3 Keys to Building Constructive & Meaningful Business Relationships

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Most people make a mental list of exciting career goals early on in life: make six figures by the age of 25. Become CEO by the age of 30. Launch a million-dollar business right out of graduate school. But life doesn’t always go as planned, shattering the confidence of some of the biggest and most innovative dreamers. Nate Peo, a branding and networking expert, reveals how realistic goals can pave the way to endless success and confidence.

Creating overly ambitious goals often leads to disappointment. This album provides actionable steps you can take to reassess and edit your objectives so that you can experience confidence and success.

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Shoot for the Horizon: The Power of Underestimating Your Goals

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It’s the dream: quit your 9-5 and work for yourself. But what about the costs? How will you build a client list? Where do you start? These are all great questions, and business founder Justine Nguyen knows the answers. As a former full-time recruiter, she explains what it takes to quit your day job and launch a company. You already have many of the resources at your fingertips. It’s just a matter of tapping into them successfully.

When quitting a 9-5 and starting a business, it may seem like you’re starting from zero. But that’s often not the case. Learn to tap the resources you already have at your fingertips to launch a successful business.

From Employee to Employer: Underutilized Sources for Starting a Business

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An entrepreneur doesn’t have to be a lone wolf. In fact, one of the best things a business owner can do to build their brand is to form a partnership with an even bigger brand. Branding expert Charlie Boots walks listeners through the steps needed to create strategic alliances that can boost a business’ reach. The stronger the partnership, the stronger the brand!

Form unstoppable partnerships to boost your brand.

Whether you’re a new business owner or looking to amplify your brand, forming an alliance with another company can be your ticket to widespread recognition. Discover how to form partnerships with big brands and use that alliance to come out on top!

Alliances for Success: Forming Business Partnerships to Build Your Brand

Build Your Brand via Partnerships

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The fear of failure is one of the biggest phobias on the planet. It’s also one of the main reasons people avoid financial risks. However, many entrepreneurs and business owners have found success despite failing many times in their career. Financial influencer Aubrey Janik lost one of her first businesses to a fire, but didn’t let the devastation and financial hardship hold her back. In this album, she explains what it takes to rebuild finances, restore confidence, and remain resilient.

In this album, Aubrey Janik reveals the steps anyone can take to rebuild their confidence and finances after their business is hit with financial disaster. 

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From the Ashes: Rebounding from a Financial Disaster

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From hiring a website designer to paying for video editing services and portfolio builders, freelancing costs can add up! Thankfully, there are resources out there to help. Content creator and consultant Aubrey Janik reveals the zero-dollar tools she uses to boost her freelancing business and impress her clients. 

Being a freelancer doesn’t have to cost a lot of money. Quickly discover some free resources you can use to monetize your services. 

The Best Free Tools for Freelancers

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A lot of people assume that the content creation industry is reserved for celebrities, trending influencers, and adorable cats. But in this album, Aubrey Janik reveals that creating a lucrative YouTube channel is easier than it seems. Despite having only 30,000 followers, her channel is able to serve as her primary source of income, and gives her the freedom to work on her own terms. Learn tips and tools to launch a successful YouTube channel of your own.

Creating a lucrative YouTube channel is easier than it seems.

Fed up with the traditional 9-5? YouTuber Aubrey Janik explains the steps she took to make YouTube her main source of income.

How to Make YouTube Your Full-Time Gig

Make Big Profits from YouTube

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Getting approved for a loan before your business is profitable can be difficult, and some businesses need that extra cash early on to start turning profits quickly. As an immigrant from Rwanda, Jack Karuletwa barely had a business track record, but needed several thousand dollars to upgrade his first coffee shop's operations. He explains how he got approved for a loan by leveraging his passion, planning, and personal finances. 

Getting approved for a business loan can be difficult, especially if you are just getting started. Learn some helpful pointers to secure a loan without a track record of profit.

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New Business Loans: How to Borrow When You’re Starting Out

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Strategic networking can produce lucrative partnerships for business owners who are good at it, but most people are unaware of or haven't mastered networking as a business tool. Shalom Klein, the founder of Jewish B2B Networking, explains the basics of Business Networking and discusses how listeners can use this skill to produce meaningful partnerships and lasting connections with other business owners and entrepreneurs. 

Learn how to land business-boosting partnerships through strategic networking.

Business-to-Business networking is a key way for business owners to secure lucrative partnerships with other businesses and entrepreneurs. Learn the when, where, and how of B2B networking through this comprehensive album.

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When, Where, and How to Secure Amazing Business Partnerships

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Think you don’t have the skills, money, or reputation to start your own business? Well, give this album a listen. After 22 years in prison, Quan Huynh was able to start a successful cleaning business, Jade Janitors, from the lowest point possible. He had $0 to his name, and all the cards stacked against him. He breaks down how anyone from any level can start a business by simply taking things step by step. 

Learn how Quan Huynh built a successful business for $0.

Anyone can start a business with the right mindset – and Quan Huynh is proof of that. Learn how he started a business after being released from prison without a penny to his name. 

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Zero Starter: Starting a Business from Scratch

From Prison to Fruition

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If you feel volunteering and unpaid work is the only way to tackle causes you care about, give this album a listen! Jack Karuletwa, the founder of Silverback Coffee, proves you can make a substantial income while improving the world. Through his business, Jack is able to support his family while helping to rebuild Rwanda and its wildlife. He explains how you can run a thriving business built around a social cause, and reach unbelievable fulfillment in your work. 

Learn how to set up a profitable business that gives back.

Your life’s mission does not have to be separate from your source of income. Learn how to set up a profitable business that helps tackle the world’s most pressing issues.

Charitable Business: How to Make Money While Helping Others

Make Money While Helping Others

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Market research is all about identifying the demographics of an ideal customer, right? Well, market strategist Rebecca Sadwick feels that approach can quickly sink a business' marketing budget. In this album, she explains why developing a negative customer profile and not putting too much emphasis on demographics is a much more successful way to target who to sell to, and who to avoid.

Identifying your ideal customer based on demographics is only a small part of market research. Learn why uncovering the qualities of non-buyers could help you save BIG on marketing costs.

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Overlooked & Undervalued: How to Identify Your Negative Buyer Persona

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"Entrepreneurship" is a popular buzzword - and for good reason. It's the lifeblood of new ideas and disruptive ventures. But what does it really take to be a trailblazer without the support of others? As a talent manager and the founder of multiple businesses, Ryan Sullivan knows how to notice a diamond in the rough. Through a promotion mindset, time management, and networking with every type of person, Ryan explains how to find huge opportunities that are often overlooked.

"Entrepreneurship" is a common buzzword. But what does it really take to be a trailblazer when everyone else is looking the other way? Talent manager Ryan Sullivan explains how to mentally keep up with the challenges of entrepreneurship.


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How to Spot Business Opportunities No One Else Sees

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Business plans aren't just a piece of paper used to attract investors. They aren't a set-in-stone proposal that should never be changed. Business plans are a tool for planning and pivoting. Tim Berry, a thought leader on business planning, shares how to write, organize, and execute a lean business plan. Learn the best ways to develop a plan that can guide you through difficult business decisions and help you succeed.

Tim Berry, an industry leader in business planning, teaches how to craft a lean business plan that can guide you through the most challenging situations. 

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Lean Business Plans: Your GPS to Success

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Christina Nicholson shares how anyone can start a small business from home on their own time, even if it is only a few hours a day. Despite having to juggle a full-time job and the responsibilities of motherhood, she was still able to start and grow Media Maven into the formidable company that it is today. Learn to reframe your mindset, find mentors, and structure your business to run autonomously, so that financial success will not have to come at the expense of your other commitments. 

Learn how to start and grow a business without an office space. All it takes is modern technology, remote workers, and determination.

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All You Need to Start a Home-Based Business

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Creating fun and impactful social media accounts is one of the best ways for a business to build a following and attract potential customers. In this concise album branding and marketing expert Kat Elizabeth offers three universal tips that can build engagement on any business' social media account. Learn to become more intentional about posts and expand your base of active customers.

Creating fun and impactful social media accounts is one of the easiest ways for a business to build a following and attract potential customers. Discover the best strategies to build online engagement.

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3 Proven Ways to Boost Your Business' Social Media Engagement

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Video marketing is one of the best ways to advertise a business online and boost sales. But what does it really take? Kat Elizabeth, an expert in content strategy, makes video marketing accessible to any business owner. Learn the who, what, and how of effectively producing and distributing video content online. 

Boost your business and amplify your following.

Learn how to use video marketing to boost your business’ brand and multiply your customer base.

The Ultimate Guide to Video Marketing

Guide to Video Marketing

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Digital marketing expert Rene Lacad breaks down the foundational principals of marketing a business online through foolproof sales techniques and cost-effective customer relations.

Learn concise and pertinent tips from a renowned master of digital marketing.

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5 Digital Marketing Strategies for Your Business

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With the rise of online shopping and social distancing measures, home delivery and DIY kit businesses have skyrocketed in popularity. It's one of the safest ways to reach customers and fulfill a market need. Sophia Parsa formed the party planning kit business Boxxie at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. She's excited to share some money making tips on building, branding, and advertising a home delivery business.

Discover what it takes to start, brand, and advertise a pandemic-proof home delivery business.

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How to Start a Home Delivery Kit Business

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In this album, Tansu Philip describes what it actually takes to get a new local business on the map. Despite having no business experience and opening a drink shop in an underdeveloped part of town, Tansu made Viva la Boba into one of the hippest storefronts in San Bernardino. Learn how to capitalize on a market gap and earn love and respect from your local community.

Tansu Philip shows how to start and build a small, thriving business in your local community. 

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Local Loyalty: Building a Business Your Community Loves

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Social media is one of the most effective and affordable ways for an individual or a business to build a large following and user engagement. But with shifting algorithms, trends, and new platforms, it's sometimes hard to keep up. Celebrated influencer Rene Lacad breaks social media popularity down to its simplest form and reveals the fundamentals of online stardom.  

Celebrated influencer Rene Lacad reveals the top five tips to building a lucrative social media brand.

5 Secrets to Social Media Stardom

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Do you have passions you wish you could turn into a business, but you feel the market is already too saturated to stand out? Nenna Joiner breaks down exactly how she turned her enthusiasm for sex and pleasure into a thriving business - despite sex toys being available all over the country. She shares how to take advantage of importing and exporting, stay on top of trends, and brand a company as a leader in the industry. 

Nenna Joiner breaks down the steps to start and grow a small business in a competitive product space.

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BDSM: Business Domination for Saturated Markets

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Social media is at the center of all of our lives. But how can you use it to increase your business’ sales and presence? Kamelia Britton, an online branding expert, explains what it takes to bring your business to the next level using social media.  

Discover expert strategies to promote your business and build a following on social media.

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How to Effectively Brand Your Business Online

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Ever feel stuck on what to post on your business' Instagram account? In today's market, a consistent online presence and tactful social media marketing can be everything you need to build customer engagement. Online branding expert Kamelia Britton outlines some of the best types of content that both businesses and freelancers can post to turn likes into cash.

Managing a branded Instagram account and unsure what to post? Check out this helpful list of Instagram posts that can help you grow your following and boost business.

The Top 5 Instagram Posts for Your Brand

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Want to start making money now, despite having no capital? Linda Johnson, a top reviewed Amazon seller, shares how she built a thriving business that generates a six-figure income. She does this by selling unwanted books sourced at garage sales and thrift stores. She offers valuable insights on navigating the competitive marketplaces and structuring a business for success. 

Tips and tricks to mastering the used-item Amazon marketplace. 

One of the best ways to start making money immediately with little to no capital is to start selling online. Learn the art of selling in a competitive online marketplace environment.

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Mastering the Amazon Marketplace

Amazon: Trash to Treasure

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Rene Lacad explains how starting his advertising business allowed him to reach the Freedom Trifecta. Small business owners put their financial destiny in their own hands. They have complete control over when they work and where they work - all it takes is some planning! Learn how to set up and organize a business that gives you full control over your life. 

Learn how your business can set you free. 

Learn how starting a small business can lead to “The Freedom Trifecta.”

Your Business Can Set You Free

The Freedom Trifecta

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Is suffering part of an artist’s destiny? Emotional torment? An empty bank account? William Carnahan, a photographer, cinematographer, and business owner, is living proof that it is absolutely possible for creatives to enjoy financial success. Through his many businesses, Will has built a happy medium allowing for prosperity while staying true to his artistic vision. He provides insight into how a positive attitude, patience, and structure can generate multiple streams of income for artists. 

It's absolutely possible for creatives to enjoy financial success. Learn the universal tips that can help you make money from your skill or art. 

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