The Yiannis Daily Podcast

Valentine's ultrasound hospital date on my 100th live

What I learned by studying Chris Do, founder of The Futur I am studying Chris content on branding, pricing and positioning and my key takeaways are: 1. Price your services based on the impact that your services have on the businesses you serve. 2. Do not sell the product or services but the solution to the painpoint(s) of your ideal customer 3. Use step by step guides to show to your audience how...

How I turn Monday to a happy and productive day Do no focus work early in the morning! I prepare my task list from Sunday night. For the first 3-4 hours of the day I only work on quick wins, projects and tasks that need 30 mins of execution or less. Anything admin goes here. By the time I am done: 1. Half of my week's task list is done so I feel lighter and happier 2. I can block bigger chunks of...

Kind reminder to self: It's a marathon, not a sprint so relax when you can

60 hour working week AND 95th live a row DONE!

Ecommerce store owners do not ignore this! When you list your products take the time to do it right, especially these small details that no one talks about: 1. Images alt tags so you can increase the image SEO 2. Appropriate tags for easier search and filtering in your website so you can offer a better user experience 3. Add information in all the backend elements as SKU, inventory, pricing tiers,...

How it started vs how it's going When I started I was offering services and consultation for free. It was my way to get traction and experience. Later on I started charging but almost nothing for the quality of work delivered. 6 months ago I changed my model from project based to subscription based with a very low price for the monthly commitment and the continuously improving quality of work. Wit...

How to build a community if you don't have many followers If you are expecting a secret recipe to success you will be disappointed. The only thing you need to do is to engage. Send a message to every new follower Reply to every comment In other words, be a social human being. If this is too hard for you then probably social media is not a place you should use to do business. Or anything social rea...

Does waking up 5 a.m. helping with productivity? Starting my experiment

Storytelling. What I learned from reading stories to my little boy.

The emotional loneliness of running your own business

What technology do you work on? This was a question half an hour ago in a DM and it is a great opporrunity to address it in this live! After 10+ years as a software developer and 5+ in ecommerce, marketing, advertising and services I am proud to say I am software agnostic... I have worked with over 60 different tech and platforms (and this is a very conservative number). So, I am trained to work w...

A quick question to all my British friends!

A reminder to self about keeping it simple, flexible and agile

Your website design does not matter. Before you start creating branding, design elements or anything visual you need to focus on something else. Website architecture and customer journeys. Take pen and paper ans think what you want your website visitor to do in every page, every section, every next step. I do not care if your website looks pretty, refined and unique. Unless you nail architecture a...

A perfect offer needs a guarantee. I do not care what you sell, you need a strong guarantee. A guarantee will reverse the risk that a stranger will take by investing their money on your product or business. A guarantee is part of a great customer experience. And, yes... Some people will take advantage. This is just part of the statistic. But a strong guarantee will: 1. Show confidence to the value...

Is Artificial Intelligence (AI, ChatGPT erc) going to steal our jobs? My opinion

Let's talk abou the No1 platform in client retention and life time value. The platform that very small content creators make a lot of money. A.Lot. But they leave so much money on the table. A platform that so many people know about, many use and yet so few dare to talk about... And the platform is.... OnlyFans! So many creators are funneling people from Instagram and TikTok to their OnlyFans acco...

I will use custom ChatGPT to fully automate content creation - here is my plan

Attention to business owners that use email marketing. You need to update your settings before February 1st. If you don't your email deliverability will stop as a result of the Google and Yahoo updates that take effect at February 1st. The settings that need to be updated in the platform that you hosts your email are the following: * SFP * DKIM * DMARK This is time critical, and I warned you! Take...

How a 2 hour investment can save you over 100 hours or $10000 per year. The investment is called.... AUTOMATION Identify all the manual and repetitive tasks. Especially the ones that are pure admin and make no money... You know exactly what I am talking about, right? Consult or hire someone to automate this process for your business. Invest 2 hours and get back a 50x return on your investment with...

Guilt. A 3 a.m personally shocking realisation.

How Kanye West dominates attention and how you can do it for your business He is a master of attracting attention. His lyrics and music. His outfits. His wives. His comments. Everything about him is unique. Even when he f*** up with anti-semitic comments. Even when he loses half of his net worth as an effect of the above. Because he knows the recipe that leads to failure... And this is being vanil...

This is how 99% of businesses look like... Overcomplicated Without a clear path forward Broken in places Without clearly defined processes With more operations than they should! Entrepreneurs are famous for having a chaotic mind... So, our businesses are a representation of our chaotic mind. Our approach should be leaner, minimalistic, with simple processes that are well defined and scalable. Decl...

Giving myself permission to have a bad day