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So you already have a podcast (or have at least been through our Getting Started With Podcasting course) and you want to know how to take your podcasting to the next level. That's what this course is for. In it you'll learn from John Lee Dumas, founder of the Entrepreneur On Fire podcast, a consistent #1 Business podcast, about podcast sponsorships, growing your audience, and tips for landing and conducting interviews with high quality guests.

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.

It's one of the most common questions we hear from entrepreneurs: how do I get more stuff done? Why do I keep procrastinating!? Productivity is about more than just how you organize your sticky notes (though, let’s be honest, that is pretty important) and in this course Chase shares the essentials of productivity specifically for online business builders.

Jason is the founder of a bunch of online businesses. Most of them he’s sold. All of them have been small and fun. His most recent business is Paleo Plan, which we talk a lot about in this interview because it’s such a great example of the small, focused, simple online business.

Nathan Barry is an experience designer for both the web and iOS apps. He also recently published The App Design Handbook, a guide to designing beautiful iOS applications. In this interview Nathan explains why he left college early to freelance, how working at a startup in Boise took him from being a designer to being an iOS programmer, and how he successfully grossed $12,000 in one day of eBook sales with less than a thousand subscribers to his blog.

Corbett Barr is the founder of Think Traffic, a site that helps entrepreneurs grow thriving and profitable online audiences, and he's also co-creator of Fizzle. In this interview we fill in the gaps between where he started and where he is now. Find out how Corbett started blogging, why he started Think Traffic and how he grew his following in the early days. We also discuss the question: what would you do differently if you were starting all over again.