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.
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.
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.
Barron Cuadro is founder of Effortless Gent, a top men's style blog. He's also one half of Fifth&Brannan, a new men's fashion label based in San Francisco. In this interview, Barron shares how he built Effortless Gent into a popular blog and business that attracts over 50k unique visitors per month. We find out how Barron launched his first E-Book through the site, and how he and his partner Katie started Fifth&Brannan with a highly successful Kickstarter campaign.
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.
If you haven't defined your audience you're, at best, leaving money on the table and, at worst, too clueless/blind/self-centered to create and land something valuable to others. In this course Chase shares why it's so important to define and understand your audience as well as how to do the digging, thinking and insighting (sp?) so you're able to create, serve and sell to your audience.
There are lots of ways to accept payments online, and it can be confusing trying to choose the best way for your situation. In this special comparison series, you'll learn about several popular payment processing services and how to choose the best for your business.