BizNinja Entrepreneur Radio

This week's entrepreneur on the show is Travis Chambers – the "Henry Ford of Video Ads." He is the founder and Chief Media Hacker at Chamber Media. Chamber Media crafts viral videos which help brands grow fast and drive millions in sales. Travis led the content strategy for the greatest YouTube viral ad of the decade, which amassed more than 140 million views. He shares with us his entrepreneurial...

More and more businesses rely on AI to make their operations easier and more efficient. It’s no different when it comes to marketing.  The future of marketing is definitely AI. Repetitive and time-consuming tasks such as prospecting, and qualifying leads are better handled by AI. You’ll achieve incredible results faster with AI and automation in marketing. But this doesn’t mean that AI will replac...

Is affiliate marketing a thing of the past? Not if you look at the growth of ClickBank and the many offers thriving today. And if you ever wanted to include affiliate marketing in your marketing strategy, then this is the episode for you. I chat with the senior business development manager at ClickBank, Thomas McMahon, on the big trends they are seeing in the direct response and affiliate marketin...

Usually, my guests are straightforward business people. But today, my guest is a little bit different. Well, not completely different since the music business is still a business.  Naughty by Nature has been doing music for 30 years, the group has sold millions of records, and has won the first-ever Grammy Award for the “Best Rap Album.” My guest today is one-third of the award-winning group, Vinn...

How do you double your sales in the fastest and least expensive way…. my guest today, has the perfect answer to this question.  As the CEO of Chet Holmes International, Amanda Holmes carries forward the legacy of her late father, Chet Holmes. Chet Holmes is the author of The Ultimate Sales Machine, one of my all-time favorite business books. Amanda’s story of how she took over the company is incre...

For many people quitting a corporate job is a very scary thing to do. Even when the job drains and sucks the life out of them, they are afraid to take the plunge. This is understandable as corporate wages may seem like a form of security. Quitting may seem like taking a massive step into the unknown. But according to my guest today, it doesn’t have to be this scary, and here’s why… The online worl...

What is the one commonality of successful people in eCommerce? If one person would have the perfect answer to this question, then it’s my guest today. Matt Frew is the CEO of ShipZoom, a fulfillment business.  Over the last 15 years, he has worked with many entrepreneurs to fulfill their orders. He has seen why people fail or succeed in ecommerce.  He advises entrepreneurs getting into ecommerce t...

The Covid pandemic has had a profound impact on the retail industry and consumer behavior. By some estimates, the pandemic accelerated by about 10 years the transition to online shopping. Without a doubt, this has caused a lot of strain on brick-and-mortar stores, and most of them are slowly dying out. To better understand retail trends and the best practices in today’s eCom space, I have on Josh...

After their soccer careers ended, these talented brothers had to decide if they were going to chase the corporate job or craft their own destiny. After several ideas, they started to focus on publishing and content. Now, they help entrepreneurs turn their long-form content such as podcasts and articles into highly valuable short-form content that improves their digital currency and turn a profit....

You have a great product, but you haven't quite figured out a way to launch it to the masses…what do you do? Enter Words Taylor - The Webinar Launch King Taylor is an online marketing expert and has mastered the art of creating content that will increase engagement, build a following, and ultimately get more sales. He helps entrepreneurs launch high ticket products and services through webinars. I...

The inventor of one of the most iconic audio toys shares the journey from idea to icon. In its 25th year, the BopIt! transcends generations, and it all started with a simple idea to make a fun remote control for kids. Dan Klitsner has had a love for games for as long as he can remember. He went to school for industrial design and eventually found his way to toy design. Inventing the generationally...

What happens when you are suddenly laid off from your corporate job with bills to pay and a family to take care of? You start selling T-shirts online…. That’s the story of my guest this week, Kerry Egeler. Even though he had that entrepreneurial spark in him, he didn’t know where to start or fund a business. He always thought it needed a lot of money and skills. It took being laid off from the cor...

Yan Stavisski is known as King Credit because he leveraged hard work and knowledge of credit card rewards to go from being broke to running a 7 figure business. He's traveled to 49 countries in style all before he was old enough to rent a car. We're talking about getting on $20K first-class flights and other travel perks for free or for a few hundred bucks. To date, he has accumulated nearly $500,...

You’ll love my guest this week  He is engaging, dynamic, passionate, and authentic. In fact, they call him The Real Brad Lea.  Not because there is another, but because he is so real, he says it as he sees it. No BS  Brad Lea is more than a master sales trainer. He is so inspiring and can easily pass for a motivational speaker.  He is the founder and CEO of LightSpeed VT, an interactive experience...

This week, I interview Tom Malloy, co-founder of the Deuce lifestyle brand. He started Deuce Brand together with Gary Hughes, a former college football teammate.  Deuce is now being brandished by a number of the NBA’s top players, including Kyrie Irving, Marcus Smart, Myles Turner, Fred Van Vleet, Anthony Davis, Kelly Oubre Jr., Victor Oladipo, and Jawun Evans. Tom and his team over at Deuce are n...

Veronica has been Chief of Staff for BossBabe and a speaker for Tony Robbins, but at heart, she is an entrepreneur. She helps 7 figure business owners build their dream team. Most entrepreneurs are the visionary types who know where they want to go and why they want to do it. However, the who and the how constantly holds them back. That’s where a team comes in. Building a great team will determine...

In this week’s episode of BizNinja Entrepreneur Radio, I chat with Greg Hoffman, founder of Apogee Digital Marketing Agency and an affiliate marketing expert. As an entrepreneur, it is a good idea to use affiliates to reach new audiences and help sell your product. But Greg reckons that many brands launch their affiliate programs way too early or have unrealistic expectations. So, when is the righ...

This week, I chat with Sally Schimko, The Tahini Goddess. She has brought a product that is popular in Israel to the U.S. market and educates her community on healthy eating. Sally is on a mission to get people to eat more veggies and through engagement with her online community discovered that the Tahini sold in the U.S. was not as tasty and healthy as the one in Israel. This inspired her to star...

Mike McDerment founded FreshBooks.com because he saw the need for a better solution to invoicing clients. In this episode, he shares the importance of culture and values in growing a global powerhouse. Company culture is a loose concept that is not easy to precisely describe, but according to Mike, it is the difference between a successful company and one that is destined to ebb away. It is the X-...

In this episode, I chat with Raja Rajamannar, the CMO of Mastercard, on the current state of marketing and what he believes the future will hold for the industry. I'm so excited to welcome Raja to the show. He just published the book: Quantum Marketing - Mastering The New Marketing Mindset For Tomorrow's Customers and had so many great insights to share during our conversation. We talked about wha...

Sharon Lechter may be best known as the co-author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad and for the 10+ years, she led the Rich Dad Company to international fame as their CEO. She is also the author of 26 books, the creator of Thrive Time For Teens, which is a board game that teaches financial literacy and the power of making good decisions through experiential learning. Sharon has made a lot of impact and contin...

In the ever-increasingly competitive race to win digital customers, what does a brand has to do to keep on thriving?  To help us answer this question, I am joined today by Howard Tiersky, the author of the Wall Street Journal best-selling book Winning Digital Customers: The Antidote To Irrelevance. Howard is also the Founder and President of FROM, The Digital Transformation Agency. He has been in...

Getting into Harvard isn’t easy.  The famous university has an acceptance rate of below 5%, according to Prep Expert . But do you know what’s way harder? Getting your first business idea off the ground within 12 months.  Do you want to know someone who achieved both? Meet Will Nitze.  Will studied psychology and neuroscience at Harvard, where he became obsessed with the human brain. While studying...

Saying that Andreas Wolf has a lot of work experience would be an understatement. He has worked for more than two decades in many industries, including animal nutrition, specialty chemical, and medical devices.  For the better part of the last decade, he operated as the general manager and vice president of the private-equity-owned oral hygiene manufacturer, Young Dental. In May 2018, Andreas beca...

Usually, my gusts are straightforward businesspeople. But today, my guest is a little bit different. Well, not completely different since the music business is still a business.  Naughty by Nature has been doing music for 30 years, the group has sold millions of records and has won the first-ever Grammy Award for the “Best Rap Album.”  My guest today is one-third of the award-winning group, Vinnie...