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In this special Fizzle workshop we cover how to tell your company's story and create a compelling elevator pitch that will make all of your efforts more effective. From there we share how to turn your pitch into a concise tagline for your business and website.

Create, Launch and Sell a new product or service online in the next 30 days. We’ll walk you through it, step-by-step. We've created a very special 30-day challenge and we want you to join.

Josh Shipp has been public speaking since he was 17. He toured with Bill Cosby when he was still a kid, used to be on MTV's Total Request Live, and just recently had his own TV show with Oprah's executive producer.

Launches are important and shouldn’t be taken lightly. In this course we'll cover why planning a launch is so much better than just "putting it out there", we'll develop a launch plan that builds pre-launch buzz, we'll discuss what types of content to create before during and after your launch, how you should invest the majority of your time, and set the date for your launch. In the later lessons we'll get into specific tips if you are launching something people will pay for, like a product or service, and we will even walk through a couple case studies of blogs we've launched or helped re-launched.

Jenny Blake is best known for her blog and book Life After College, which helps 20-somethings do bold things and find direction during a critical phase of life. But Jenny is much more than the author of Life After College. She's a highly paid speaker, a career coach and an NYC yoga instructor. Jenny gave up a highly visible career at Google to do her own thing and follow a lifelong dream of leading and speaking.

Affiliate marketing can be an extremely powerful & profitable strategy for your business. In this special Fizzle course Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income breaks down his strategy for affiliate marketing.

Chuck is the founder of Digital Telepathy, a user experience web design company. In this interview we talk about what it was like to build the web apps Hello Bar and Slide Deck as well as work on big name book launches like the 4-Hour Body and 4-Hour Chef with Tim Ferriss and The Lean Startup with Eric Ries.

Chris is a masterful salesman and one of the founders and full-time "frontline guy" for Simplifilm. This interview turned into a masterclass in sales as he shares with us tips, tricks, hacks and new perspective on what it means to convince, persuade and, ultimately, help people get what they want.

Launching a podcast is an extremely complex and sometimes frustrating process. In this course you'll learn the different types of equipment and software you should use, how to properly record, edit, and tag your podcasts, how you use the best tools and services for hosting and publishing a podcast, and get your podcast launched.