EDGE with Brandon White

Part 3 step by step how I started, built and sold my online business.  This is a section of a book I'm writing with the working title, "This way. Living, Loving and Finding Your ' insert your first name here ' - Ness.  I lay out my journey from start to finish. How I... Started with just an idea Built the site Built an audience Marketed the site online and off Raised over $2 mi...

Part 2 step by step how I started, built and sold my online business.  This is a section of a book I'm writing with the working title, "This way. Living, Loving and Finding Your ' insert your first name here ' - Ness.  I lay out my journey from start to finish. How I... Started with just an idea Built the site Built an audience Marketed the site online and off Raised over $2 mi...

It's all here, step by step how I started, built and sold my online business.  This is a section of a book I'm writing with the working title, "This way. Living, Loving and Finding Your ' insert your first name here ' - Ness.  I lay out my journey from start to finish. How I... Started with just an idea Built the site Built an audience Marketed the site online and off Rais...

Patience. Everyone says you should have it. Entrepreneurs don't like that advice. We believe the world needs our idea today, not tomorrow and people should have our product now.  Here's what I learned about a product idea I had about twenty four years ago, how it came to life in the last year and is taking off (finally) and what you can learn from it for your business. If you enjoy this...

Ever wonder how to leave your corporate career and make the leap to entrepreneurship and run your own business? Wonder if it's even the right thing to do if you're killing it in your corporate career but you're just not happy? Courtney Brand is an Entrepreneur and Founder of Lighthouse who quit her day job, started her own company and then raised money from investors for it.  Courtn...

Everyone is working from home now and finding it's not as easy as it sounded. Good news is that I've been working from a home office for most of career and I found this free app will zone you in like nothing else I've found. Add in this free site on YouTube you'll be in an amazing productive zone.  Give these free apps a try and let me know what you think. Find the apps at: My...

I started podcasting before it was podcasting, that was 1997-98 time frame. A lot has changed in the podcast world since then... Learn about the history of podcasting, how I used it to grow my first business and how Pat Flynn and his podcasting course got be back into the game after a take a break for a few years with Build a Business Success Secrets Podcast your listening to right now 😃 A podcas...

Tony has had an amazing entrepreneur career, sold several companies, raised a record breaking amount in a crowdfunding campaign that went against conventional wisdom of using Kickstarter and shares tons of actionable HPT's (high percentage tips) that are sure to help grow your business. He's currently the Interm CEO of RescueTime,  and previously was Head of Product and Software at  Glow...

Jenna and Jeremy Chipps share how they found the courage to sell everything, buy an RV, start a travel blog, and live the digital nomad life. We talk about what it's been like, how they approach their Quench Your Adventure media business, how they keep up with social media posts, come up with content ideas, how they grew their Instagram followers, how they are building their YouTube channel a...

Will and Trevor met in college and always wanted to build a welding business together. Through some long conversations on Trevor's way home from working for someone else, they built a plan. Listen in to how they planned their business and made it happen and created Dexter Welding. They talk about how they use their business plan to consistently grow their business and drop tons of HPT's...

Wyatt got into the barbecue restaurant business because of his love of cooking outside after spending years in kitchens in San Francisco getting yelled at by talented, but hot headed chefs. Listen in to learn his journey from working in kitchens, to being a sales representative for a surf board company to buying a grill, some meat and launching his business in Half Moon Bay, California. And... Wya...

Learn how Sophia turned her artistic talent of turning secondhand clothing into fresh pieces of art and turned into a side hustle business by founding MoonTown Paints based in Half Moon Bay California.  Sophia shares her entrepreneur journey, how she leverages Instagram and Facebook as her marketing channels and doesn't spend a cent on paid ads, how demand for her product led her to starting...

Thomas entered a business plan competition in college, won it and used his business plan and $5,000 in prize money to launch VNTR surfing clothing company and later Tommy Tsunami Surfing School with his brother Peter.   Thomas shares how he came up with the idea for his companies, how he learned to make and design clothing, a bunch of mistakes he made launching his company and how he has adjusted...

Julie is a packed with passion and energy entrepreneur who runs three businesses in Half Moon Bay, California: Main Street Hair Design, Main Street Barber and Posh Pumpkins. She shares her story and drops tons of HTP's for fellow Entrepreneurs who are starting and scaling their companies. A few made me realize some mistakes I've been making! Her passion for entrepreneurship is natural al...

Helen Sewart is an artist, entrepreneur and owner of Coastal Wood Designs in Half Moon Bay, California. Helen tells her inspiring story of how entrepreneurship found her right out of high school because she didn't having enough money to buy gifts for friends and family. Helen also explains how she started a business for less than $100. And she gives some other great HPT's on how to start...

An unscripted conversation with Brandon and Gia on how to successfully work with a virtual assistant, executive assistant or any person who is your right hand person, remotely.  Brandon has had a virtual assistant or executive assistant for over fifteen years. He was lucky enough to find Gia five years ago.  There's been a lot of buzz about having a virtual assistant for years now. It may hav...

 In this episode Gia offers some tips from an Assistant's perspective on how to be a successful executive assistant working remotely.  In the next episode Brandon offers tips from a CEO's perspective on work with a virtual assistant to make sure he/she is set up for success and you are as productive as possible.  Gia and Brandon also drop some tips on how to find a good virtual assistant...

Steve Brown is author of the Golden Toilet. His marketing book explains why you should stop flushing your marketing budget into your website and build a system that grows your business. Steve explains why Entrepreneurs should write a book, how it has helped him grow his sales and how to do it. Listen to this episode to learn how to write your book to grow your sales, regardless of your industry or...

One of the top questions I get from Entrepreneurs is, "How do I find a business mentor?".   I've been lucky to have several in my business career, I've had some kind enough to mentor me for free, some who I've paid, some who were investors, some who were board members. All of them have helped me build a business .   In this episode I talk about one amazing business mentor...

Executive Assistant extraordinaire Gia joins me to talk about 7 essential tools we use to run our podcast and how we use them. CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) Brandon writes a weekly email newsletter called EDGE that over 22,000 people rely on for an edge to achieve their best selves in business and life. Content Brandon writes about wha...

These are 3 must have social media management tools we use.    Gia, our Director of Operations, is back and gives the down and dirty what the tools are, how we use them and how they will help your business sales and marketing strategy.    We've made tons of mistakes spending lots of money on social media tools that don't work. Avoid the mistakes we made and get these three tools for your...

How to live your best life formula.    I share a story of a recent Zoom business call I had that illustrates why living this way can change your life for the better in just one shift of thought. In one simple moment. CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) Brandon writes a weekly email newsletter called EDGE that over 22,000 people rely on for a...

How to save time and money... my EA extraordinaire, Gia, joins us to lay out 7 Productivity Tools we use to run Build a Business.    We've made tons of mistakes using the wrong tools to run different parts of our business. Get the down and dirty on the best tools we found and what we use them for at Build a Business.  CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Bottom Lin...

Are you a bison or a cow? This is a parable I read when I need a little motivation to get things done and helps me avoid that feeling of overwhelm. Sometimes we all need just a little push and this will do it. CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) Brandon writes a weekly email newsletter called EDGE that over 22,000 people rely on for an edge...

Kelly McGannon joins me and talks about feeling overwhelmed and some tips on how to reduce and eliminate the feeling.    Everyone feels overwhelmed from time to time. It's especially common when starting a business or growing one.    However, overwhelm doesn't discriminate. It can easily creep into your every day life and wreck havoc on your business, relationships and family life.     L...