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Justin Mares is the founder of Kettle & Fire , a bone broth company, and co-author - with Gabriel Weinberg - of the book Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth . Justin turned Kettle & Fire into a multi 7-figure business in just one year by using influencers and content marketing. You can contact Justin on Twitter or at Justin@usefomo.com. Also, check out Brad's pr...

Books have the power to teach, transform, entertain, sell and spread ideas, and to build credibility and celebrity for its author. Today's guest is one of the most criticized and controversial authors in modern times and one of the most disruptive, inventive, and successful authors on the planet. Tucker Max is a three-time #1 New York Times best-selling author that has sold over 3 million books wo...

Alex Charfen , the author of Entrepreneurial Personality Type , wants you to know that you are not alone. Entrepreneurs are known for being “different,” for standing on the outside of normalcy. Alex always felt like he was different from everyone else and just didn't belong. Over time, this led him to identify common personality traits of entrepreneurs. If you think about history, how many signifi...

In recent episodes we discussed finding a COO for your business so you could be a more effective CEO. Today, our topic is about how to create and groom CEOs for your business so they run your entire operation for you while you oversee them as an “investor-owner” instead of a managing-owner. Meet today's guest, Dale Hensel . I met Dale in 2005 and we became business partners on a software company i...

The customized T-shirt and print on demand business is a very big industry and has put money in the pockets of many smart marketers. I've personally been using this in some of my own marketing campaigns and decided to reach out to the number one expert in this field, Don Wilson. Don Wilson is the extremely successful founder of GearBubble, which allows marketers, artists, celebrities, and charitie...

Peter Hoppenfeld is a lawyer who really understands marketing and a marketer who happens to be a lawyer. His uses more of a holistic approach to representing clients that aims to bring peace of mind and direction to the business and legal issues that successful, dynamic entrepreneurs face on a daily basis. As a lawyer, adviser, counselor and friend, he tries to integrate himself into his clients'...

Will Ford is a highly successful entrepreneur and Crowdfunding Expert. He is the president and co-founder (with Tom Dadourian) of LaunchBoom.com , a full service marketing agency that manages the entire crowdfunding process from start to finish. They partner with companies that are looking to launch new, innovative products on platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo. They have a 100% funding s...

If you want to watch someone build a legacy in real time, simply pay attention to what Kent Clothier is doing in his life and with his business. Kent is the founder and CEO of Real Estate Worldwide (REWW) , where he leads an amazing team of individuals that are focused on building disruptive systems, software and techniques that help real estate investors and professionals achieve astounding succe...

Greg Rollett is a cofounder of Ambitious.com, a best-Selling Author and Marketing Expert who works with experts, authors and entrepreneurs all over the world using new media, direct response and personality-driven marketing to attract more clients and to create more freedom in the businesses and lives of his clients. He is also the CEO of Celebrity Expert Marketing. See Greg's NEW Reality Show: Am...

Ryan Levesque didn't invent the survey funnel, but he did perfect it. BONUS: CLICK HERE TO WATCH RYAN'S VIDEO ON THE ASK METHOD HERE FOR FREE If you sell anything online and you aren't using some form of interactive survey funnel, you could be missing out on a giant opportunity. In this episode you'll hear how Ryan builds high converting sales funnels that create a real conversation with your pros...

Matt Gallant is on the show so we could geek out about what's working now in the world of digital marketing. As a fanatical split-tester, he has tested well over 10,000 different marketing ideas. He currently has about 200-300 tests going on (opt-ins, sales letters, order pages, up-sells, etc.) and he has two businesses that have been around for more than a decade that are doing a healthy seven fi...

Have you ever wished that you could find someone who could just execute all of your ideas, run your team and make sure your company ran like a well-oiled machine? If so, you need an integrator on your team. When a visionary meets their integrator and vice versa, the combination is powerful. So powerful that today’s guest, Mark C. Winters, calls it Rocket Fuel which is the name of the book he co-au...

Equity Crowdfunding is changing the game for many businesses and entrepreneurs. This is NOT Kickstarter of Indiegogo-style reward-based-crowdfunding. It's similar, but instead of giving away rewards and swag, you are giving equity in your company. It's much like doing an IPO (initial public offering) but without going public. This is all a result of brand new legislation that has been passed over...

Have you ever compared business strategy to surfing? Mike Michalowicz has. As author of the new book SURGE: Time the Marketplace, Ride the Wave of Consumer Demand, and Become Your Industry's Big Kahuna , Mike uses surfing as an analogy for business. So listen up and ride the waves with him on this episode of Bacon Wrapped Business. Be where people need you when they need you by identifying imminen...

Ace Chapman is a micro private equity investor who has acquired 15 offline businesses (he has sold 13 of them) and 31 online businesses. He is also the author of The Ace Formula , a book on how to buy a profitable business, starting with no money, and live life on your terms like a boss. Ace bought his first business, CoolWallStreet.com , in the late ’90s at the age of 19. He started as a member o...

What can you learn from a man who has sold over $3 billion dollars of product over the past 2 decades as one the top direct response TV (aka Infomercial) creative directors in the business? Today you're about to find out. CLICK HERE TO GET THE TRANSCRIPT FREE at http://baconwrappedbusiness.com/ron-lynch Meet Ron Lynch... His combined background as a retail operations expert and a filmmaker made di...

Generating leads is the lifeblood of any business, especially for salespeople, experts, consultants, and coaches. That's why I sought out one of the world's leading lead generation experts and advanced Facebook ad specialist, Nick Kusmich. Nick has built an empire out of what he’s most passionate about–marketing.  He is one of the top industry authorities on Facebook advertising and is relied upon...

Dan Martell is Canada's TOP Angel Investor, has started 3 tech companies which were each acquired for millions. EXCLUSIVE BONUS: Visit IdeaToExit here to watch 3 videos of Dan Martell explaining exactly how to take and idea, get it to market and get it acquired. There's few people more qualified to teach this than Dan Martell and his first video is how to do "No Cost Product Development and T...

Before you meet today's guest, email me your favorite business book (or 3 of them). Send an e-mail right now to askbrad@baconwrappedbusiness.com SUBJECT: Books BODY: Then the name of the book(s). That's it! NOW, Meet Keith Yackey . After the loss of his mother when she was only 56 years old, Keith decided right then and there to live his life with no regrets. With that “No Regrets” mantra he start...

What is the difference and does it matter? Being an entrepreneur is not for everybody and it's rarely easy. Being "entrepreneurial" however is extremely easy, it should be for everybody and it's the first step out of the rat race. Today's short episode, which I call a "bacon bit" will explore the nuances of this topic and why it's important you understand it. A small shift in y...

Can an average entrepreneur get coverage and recognition in the national media without already being a well-known expert? When making a purchasing decision for a product or a service, we always look for the obvious expert, the authority in that particular industry. For us entrepreneurs, becoming an authority in a particular industry amplifies your message dramatically and converts your new audienc...

Gary Vaynerchuk builds businesses: Fresh out of college, he took his family wine business and grew it from a $3M to a $60M business in just five years. Now, he runs VaynerMedia–one of the world’s hottest social media-first digital agencies. Along the way, Gary became a prolific angel investor and venture capitalist, investing in companies including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Uber, and Birchbox bef...

Michael O'Neal the Proudly Unemployable host of The Solopreneur Hour, on iTunes 3x week, where he's interviewed over 400 people who have decided that they want to live life on their own terms and carve out a better path by being a "solopreneur." His success on iTunes also led to him co-hosting another podcast with veteran NFL superstar Hines Ward. You'll enjoy this episode because you'll...

Entrepreneurs are full of ideas. Some are great, some are terrible. But how do you know which is which until you put ideas into action? How do you avoid the time and money suck of half baked ideas? In other words, will your business idea fly? I invited Pat Flynn, host of AskPat and Smart Passive Income and author of a new bestselling book, "Will It Fly? How to Test Your Next Business Idea So...

Have you ever wondered how all these Ads on Facebook could help your business grow? In this episode, you will learn about generating high converting client leads with the use of advanced Facebook Ads from Adrienne Richardson . Adrienne has a degree in Public Relations and worked in an advertising agency out in Philadelphia before she decided to start a family. When she came back, she opened a mark...