Marketer Of The Day With Robert Plank: Get Daily Insights From The Top Internet Marketers & Entrepreneurs Around The World

Laura Pennington left her job as a 7th grade teacher to become a freelance writer and virtual assistant. She has advice about getting initial clients, scaling your business, and filling your schedule with nothing but your ideal clients. 1. evaluate your own experiences: you don't need to have been good in the past (office skills, data entry, phone calls) 2. work samples (logos, write a white paper, write blog posts) 3. marketing plan (job boards, contracts) 4. long-term marketing (cold calls, chamber of commerce meetings, trade shows conferences) Resources Your Way to VA (Website) Six Figure Writing Secrets (Website) Laura Pennington's Courses on Teachable (Courses)

Deborah Ager from Radiant Media Labs and creator of The Book Activation Method wants you to embrace your fear and use it to move forward. She also wants to get a book out of you in the following steps: 1. master market and idea 2. align with mission: book sales, speaking, which publisher, authority 3. mining your material: blog posts, existing presentations, themes and ideas 4. mark out the tools: find the time/space to write, calendars, Evernote 5. map your mind: get messy with a mindmap 6. brain to book: break to-do list into do-able chunks, word count or time goal, schedule, write or speak 7. marketing

Rob Slee, author of Time Really is Money, wants to help you scale to a: $50/hour business (where you are the value proposition) $500/hour (where you manage employees) $5000/hour (where you only deal with the culture, niches, and business model) $50k/hour (changing industries) $5m/hour (changing the world)

  Nathan Hirsch from Freeeup.com has several insights about outsourcing your team in the departments of biz-opp, e-commerce, marketing, and web development. Nathan began his entrepeneurial journey wiht a business that re-sold textbooks, and has since branched out to supplying workers for e-commerce businesses. Visit the Freeeup Marketplace Page on Facebook

Corinna Essa from Social Media Worldwide wants to help you and your social media marketing efforts. She has a unique strategy when it comes to social media, which involves spending $1000 on an initial ad campaign to a free offer with no call-to-action, to then retarget (cookie) your best prospects and run ads to that already-engaged-audience. Resources Social Media Worldwide (Website) Social Media Worldwide (Blog) Social Media Worldwide (YouTube)

Gerald Leonard, author of The Culture is the Bass, has advice for you on developing a company culture that works. If you're tired of miscommunications and employee turnover, and you want a team that works together, then you'll want to tune in to discover the seven principles you could be missing; vision: interest in a goal or dream values: actionable items that govern behavior buy-in stories best practices environment execution

Larry Becht from The Expert Media Group has a lot to say about ClickFunnels, his preferred tool of choice for setting up landing pages and funnels, especially since it now includes "Backpack" for running an affiliate program and "Actionetics" for tracking your visitors. Larry specializes done-for-you website setup and you'll want to hear his thoughts about hiring a professional to setup your pages quickly.

Marty McDonald from Bad Rhino Inc. stops by to share some interesting social media marketing strategies that can apply to any business, online or offline. Marty shares some case studies with Victory Beer and Blind Squirrel Apparel and how he's been able to track improvement with his clients while being entertaining with his content and marketing specific calls-to-action.

Can you relate to having "too many ideas" and you're not sure if any are any good? Maybe you've done the legwork for this website or that website... registered some domain names, setup an empty WordPress blog that will "one day" hold your membership site... maybe you've bought some resale rights content... Maybe you've recorded some interviews, videos, audios, or written some sort of report down that you one day want to put into a membership site... a site where someone pays you to get access. And then what happened? Life got in the way, right? Something came across that was more urgent and you had to switch gears to make money now... Or you came across something more exciting and you said... I'll put my current hopes and dreams on the "back burner" to try something else... I'm not sure about your current situation, but many people that are currently struggling with making money and creating a profitable membership site have this problem: -- not enough time, too distracted, too overwhelmed, too stresse

Morgana Rae, author of Financial Alchemy, gives us a healthier, and more productive, approach to handling our relationship with money in the following steps: Uncover the Root Cause of your financial situation (hint-it’s never really about money) Personify the root cause into your "Money Money" Get rid of your Money Monster by any means necessary Meet your new relationship with money—your "Money Honey" Dialogue with your Money Honey Take concrete, measurable action Resources Financial Alchemy: The Book (Book) Morgana Rae's Website and Blog (Website and Blog) Does Money Love You? (Website) Money Honey App (Website)

Tashayla Williams from Life Embodied Therapy, a substance abuse counselor, has created a revolutionary new movement for eliminating blocks and achieving fulfillment through artistic and musical forms of expression.

Bailey Richert from Virtual Summit School has made a living by creating online training courses based on website creation and product creation skills. She shares not only how she comes up with product ideas, but how she develops sales letters by re-using the "language" prospects give her. She also explains her 90-day process for running a virtual summit, including: Month 1: planning, speakers, branding Month 2: creating and recording interviews Month 3: launching, speaker followup, execution

Have you ever wanted to be more in control, be more determined, make better decisions, miss less opportunities and overcome fear of failure? Aaron Walker of View from the Top stops by to not only share his story with you, but how explain how you can find significance and authenticity through the power of the mastermind and an abundance mindset. Resources Free Personal Assessment (Website) View from the Top (Website) View from the Top Community (Website) Interview Valet Service (Podcast)

Motivational speaker Todd Lemense gives you the baby steps to lose your ego and eliminate distraction so you can live up to your full potential. Eliminate toxic people, become a better communicator, and practice better habits daily to improve your self-esteem.

Brian Basilico from B2B Interactive Marketing and the author of The Bacon System has a lot to tell you about content marketing. He records monocast or single-person podcast episodes, transforms them into written transcripts, and records expert interviews.

Gina Catalano, the author of Tandem Leadership, an important guide that tells you how to work with others, whether that's an equal business partner or a "number two." She'll help you identify your value system and find that complementary person who is neither your opposite nor your clone, so that you can stop holding yourself back and continue to scale your business to new levels. Resources TANDEM LEADERSHIP

Lindsey Anderson aka One Click Lindsey has the answers for you about how to build SEO and social media traffic, and run pay-per-click ads. She'll share the important components of a landing page and what to split test, for example, long or short copy. She also tells us about her 12-part autoresponder sequece to convert cold traffic into warm leads, and make sales.

Corey Porier from The Speaking Program and The Passion Cure has interviewed thousands of high-earners and high-achievers and discovered their commonalities. The top three qualities that he's seen over and over again are: 1. focus or the ability to go all-in: take that single pass and say "no" to most ideas 2. life-long learners and leaders: successful people can sift through the ocean of information to find that small amount of wisdom 3. live with passion: successful people have found their purpose

Cythnia Stine from EGrowthPartners is an expert Amazon seller and she wants to help you avoid the loss of your Amazon seller account. Cynthia explains how to build buyer trust, get reviews, keep your account in good standing, and even re-instate your account if necessary.

If you're not measuring the metrics in your business, then you don't know where you're at! Scott Gombar explains how he uses tools such as Google Analytics, HubSpot, and the Google Search Console to increase search engine rankings, organic traffic, conversions, and therefore sales.