Every Wednesday, I interview a top influencer in the business and marketing world. These men and women are the business personas that have helped shaped me into who I am and can also help you as a business owner also.
Below you will find a list of all the interviews I have had the pleasure of conducting. I have also listed their blog as well so that you can research and learn from them even more.
If you want to learn how to be great at marketing, you have to find great marketers – and these are who I recommend.
Carrie Wilkerson Helps You Find the Focus to Work from Home
In a break from what successful entrepreneurs usually say, Carrie Wilkerson never had a passion, or even a big idea, for starting her own business. And she didn’t even hate the job she was doing.
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Lisa Song Sutton’s Model for Strong Business Partnerships
Seven years ago, Lisa Song Sutton moved to Las Vegas after completing Grad School and began working at a law firm as she focused on building a legal career. And she did this whilst modeling on the side.
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Josh Steimle Answers Why You Should Focus on Your Personal Brand
At around five years old, Joshua Steimle’s father sat him down and explained the concept of money coming in and going out. That meant he was raised knowing that he wanted to buy something, he had to earn the money to pay for it, and that’s a lesson he is now passing onto his own children.
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David Basulto on Producing Hollywood-Quality Videos on Your iPhone
Before accidentally inventing the iOgrapher case which helps people to create professional standard videos using their mobile devices, David Basulto had achieved a lot.
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Sujan Patel Helps You Find the Perfect Business Partner
When Sujan Patel was still at school, he had made an eCommerce website and then learned the hard way about the importance of actually bringing people to it.
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Johnathan Dane Shares His Secrets for Staying Ahead of the Game with Content Marketing
For Johnathan Dane, his first experience of advertising and marketing was listing his car wash and waxing services on Craigslist. On a good day, it was making him between $300 and $400, despite having no repeat custom.
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Stefan Thomas’s Guide to Successful Business Networking
For well over 10 years, Stefan Thomas has been attending business events. When it came to attending his very first event, he was nervous and he completely hated it.
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Aaron Orendorff’s Secret Recipe For Making Content Go Viral
Although Aaron Orendorff is now one of the top copywriters in the world, he actually used to work full-time in a ministry as a Pastor and even has a Masters of Divinity.
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Gary Turner Helps Small Business Outfox Big Business
When Gary Turner was a teenager, he fell in love with computers and technology, and although he never really had a clear sense of what he wanted to do back then, he knew it had to involve technology.
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Jon Dick Explains the Science of Inbound Marketing
Now Vice President of Marketing at HubSpot, Jon Dick was once studying Physics with a plan of becoming a Physics teacher. Surprisingly, it was a passion for improv comedy that took him away from that goal and instead towards marketing.
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Ross Simmonds’ Tips for Trying Something New
Ross Simmonds was always going to end up following in his Grandfather’s footsteps of being an entrepreneur. His ability to control his own time and schedule inspired and intrigued him.
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Shawn Blanc Helps You to Take Ownership of Your Time
When Shawn Blanc’s wife was pregnant with their first child, he decided it was time to quit his job and start up his own business. He wanted to lead by example and allow his children the freedom to try new things and to take risks.
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Kevin Kurtz’s Recipe For A Dedicated Audience
Kevin Kurtz is one-half of the husband and wife team behind Bigger Bolder Baking. Over the past few years, they have made themselves a name as the place to go online to get new and tasty recipes, with a loyal tribe who named themselves Bold Bakers.
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Amanda C. Watts’ Method for Escaping the Corporate World
A specialist in helping bored, frustrated and desperate corporate professionals, Amanda C. Watts helps them to escape their unsatisfying career. She’s here when you’re stuck in a corporate job, you’re unhappy and not experiencing the exciting world from behind the desk.
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Ian Dickson’s Secrets for Setting Goals and Being Happy
Ian Dickson has coached 100’s of businesses in the UK since he started nearly 13 years ago. What he shares with his clients is the result of the many experiences he’s had in a varied career path which took him from Police Officer to Corporate Director, and now Business Coach.
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Rand Fishkin Shares How to Handle Business Trials And Tribulations
Before Moz.com, Rand Fishkin was just a college dropout, and his only previous work experience was working for nine months at The Wizards of the Coast game center where people played magic and Pokemon.
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Sean McCabe’s Visual Business Concept of What Why and Whats
Sean McCabe runs seanwes, which helps people to build and grow an audience-driven business, and yet it all started with hand lettering.
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Melissa Maker Shares How Multitasking and Scheduling Keeps Her Business Growing
When she graduated from business school in 2005, she took a job in a bank. It was never something she imagined doing herself, but the pressure to keep up with her friends made her do it.
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Johannes Mehlem Helps You To Create a Website That Google Will Love
Back in 2004, whilst in a band at high school, Johannes Mehlem started to get an understanding of how to build and promote websites. At the time, it was to help spread their music, but it has since developed into a career in SEO.
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Jon Acuff Teaches You How to Truly Measure Success
Jon Acuff is the author of best-selling books Start and Quitter, with his latest Do Over soon to be released. In each of them, he helps the reader to achieve something they want.
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Wade Foster Shows You How to Cut Your Workload In Half With Zapier
Fresh out of University and living in Missouri, Wade Foster was not only working a job but doing any sort of freelance web work he could get which paid in money.
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Michael Hauge’s 6 Simple Steps For A Blockbuster Business Story
Michael Hauge grew up in Oregon, earned himself a Master’s degree and worked as a teacher. However, he had always secretly dreamed of working and living in Hollywood.
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How Michael Gerber’s Dreaming Room Can Keep Your Business From Failing
Michael E. Gerber is a legend walking among us. His books, particularly The E-Myth Revisited, are basically the handbook of being a successful entrepreneur.
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Tim Reid’s Easy Marketing Advice For Your Small Business
When Tim Reid (or Timbo) left school, he went straight into marketing, first studying at University and then working in a large advertising agency for ten years.
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Mike Rhodes’ Ultimate Tips For Google AdWords
Having dropped out of university studying engineering after the first semester, Mike Rhodes started working for a few businesses. This is where he discovered his enjoyment for the business of businesses.
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Tom Kulzer Shares 5 Secrets for Dominating a Competitive Market
AWeber is the email marketing service which is the secret ingredient to the success of many businesses around the globe. Tom Kulzer is the founder who created it to in order to save himself time back in 1998.
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Ian Brodie Creates Emails Which Actually Work
Ian Brodie has a degree in mathematics and was once a magician in his spare time. And yet, he’s now a leading expert in email marketing whose book Email Persuasion is one of the best.
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Dan Shure Makes SEO Easy For Any Business
Although Dan Shure is an SEO expert these days, his life used to revolve solely around music. And in fact, one of his earliest memories is the story of how he found music as a young child.
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Joel Comm Shares How He Stays Happy And Ahead Of The Game
As a nerdy 16-year-old, Joel Comm invested in his first computer which was back in the days of cartridge hard drives over 30 years ago. The technology drew him in.
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Neil Patel Shares 4 Tips on How to Blog to Make Money
At just 31 years old, Neil Patel is not only one of the busiest marketers around but also one of the successful and well-known.
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Brian Dean Shares His 8 Best Tips For Improving Your Ranking on Google
Brian Dean is the master of producing the most awesome of content, which ranks highly on Google and has more traffic than a highway at 5pm on Friday.
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Ben Settle Shares How to Create An Excellent Email Marketing Plan
Once upon a time, Ben Settle was secretly sleeping in a two-room office and he was regularly mocked for selling cassette tapes door-to-do.
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Andre Chaperon’s 6 Tips For A Winning Email Marketing Strategy
Since leaving school, Andre Chaperon worked in IT in London. But with many jobs like his getting outsourced to India, he started to see what else he could do to earn a living instead.
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Ryan Langford Shares 6 Secrets For Balancing Work and Home Life
With five children, it’s a wonder that Ryan Langford manages to find time to have so many businesses. But somehow, with the help of his wife Stephanie, they have together built multiple business successes.
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Mary Beall Adler’s Recipe For Turning Your Business Around
Once a gymnast competing in national tournaments at school alongside a future Olympian, Mary Beall Adler has now been a successful businesswoman for over 30 years.
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Jon Morrow Shares His Revelations For How You Can Become A Smart Blogger
You’ve almost certainly heard of Jon Morrow. He is an expert when it comes to getting more traffic flowing through your blog, and making sure your readers are fully engaged..
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Mark Schaefer Spills His Secrets for Great Content
It seems like Mark Schaefer has done just about everything over the past 30 years. But he’s currently well-known and respected for his numerous books and great blog posts, as well as his work as a podcaster too.
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Nicholas Kusmich Shares His Secret Formula For Facebook Ads That Actually Work
When it comes to advertising on Facebook, you want to go to no-one else but Nicholas Kusmich. He was one of the first to use the social media platform for targeted advertising, and he is probably one of the most successful as well.
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Thor Holt Shares 5 Tips for Speaking Like A Pro
Thor Holt isn’t connected to the God of Thunder in any way, but he is one of the most powerful and influential public speakers around.
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Phil Pallen Offers 7 Tips to Help You Become a Social Media Super Star
Phil Pallen is a brand strategist who seems to turn everything into a smash hit. He’s been instrumental in creating personal brands and social media strategies for every sort of person you can think of.
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How Not Having a Plan for Life Set Jeff Goins on His Career Path
It’s fair to say that Jeff Goins has never really lived his life with a plan. And yet, he’s achieved so much. He makes a good living from doing what brings him the most joy in life, which is writing and educating.
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Andy Crestodina Shares How to Make Your Website Work For You
As co-founder of Orbit Media Studios, Andy Crestodina has watched the internet evolve since he started building websites in 2000. And during that time, his job roles have also changed.
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Janet Murray Reveals How You Can Get Top-Class Publicity, For Free
After years as a journalist and an editor at The Guardian newspaper, Janet Murray has had her fair share of people pitching to her for media coverage.
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Sally Hogshead Shares How to Make Your Brand Impossible to Resist
Sally Hogshead quickly became successful in the advertising profession when she started out in her 20s.
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Ryan Stewman’s Top Tips on Becoming A Hardcore Closer
Ryan Stewman is known as the Hardcore Closer and has earned his nickname by becoming one of the best salesmen of a generation.
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Claire Williams Teaches How to Automate Your Business Like Amazon
Claire Williams is a very talented artist, and when Jon met her many years ago, she was making the most of her art and her artistic abilities.
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Ryan Holiday Shares 7 Secrets to Open the Door to a Career You Will Love
Ryan Holiday is an author, a marketer and an entrepreneur. Much of his career has been spent courting controversy surrounding marketing and publicity.
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Tucker Max Reveals How to Write a Book Without Really Writing Anything
You may know Tucker Max from his previous life as a humorous writer of books which are based on ‘the dumb things he did in his 20s’, to put it lightly.
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Craig Ballantyne Teaches 6 Tips to Make Every Day a Perfect Day
It all started with a single article in Men’s Health magazine. Now, Craig Ballantyne helps people all over the world.
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Christopher Gimmer Shares 5 Secret Content Marketing Habits That Work
Christopher Gimmer Shares 5 Secret Content Marketing Habits That Work
Having recently released the brilliant graphic design tool Snappa, co-founder Christopher Gimmer understands the importance of content marketing.
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Joel Boggess Teaches How To Launch a Rockstar Podcast in 12 Days
Joel Boggess has practically spent his whole life giving other people confidence, focus, and direction. All in order to help them achieve their goals.
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John Lee Dumas Shares 5 Secrets to Slam Dunk Your Goals and Get On Fire
John Lee Dumas, from Entrepreneur On Fire, has gone from serving in the army to being a corporate lawyer. Finally, he escaped the world he hated and became the success we know him as today.
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Peg Fitzpatrick Reveals How She Attracted 1.3 Million Followers on Social Media
Peg Fitzpatrick is a social media strategist for many big names. Plus she has over 1.3million followers of her own.
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Ray Edwards 6 Surefire Copywriting Techniques That Produce Sales
Ray Edwards is probably the highest paid online copywriter. And he’s been a fan of copywriting since before he even knew what it was.
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Laura Roeder Gives 6 Special Secrets for Social Media Brilliance
Laura Roeder may be younger than most people who are leading the way with online marketing, however, what she knows – according to Laura – isn’t really that much more than others in the online marketing world.
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Build a More Profitable Online Business with Steve Chou’s 5 Steps
Steve Chou has set up a mini business empire, and even now, he still has a job in micro process engineering. But it all started as a result of his wife, Jennifer, becoming pregnant in 2007.
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Nick Wheeler Shares Advice on How to Believe in Your Own Success
Nick Wheeler has been selling shirts for 30 years, having started Charles Tyrwhitt, the company which bears his two middle names, in 1986.
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Michael Stelzner Reveals How You Can Attract More Leads Without Actively Selling
In 2009, Michael Stelzner created Social Media Examiner. Chances are you’ve already stumbled across his website in some way. They turn out a lot of high-quality content over there.
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Chris Ducker Shares His 6 Tips To Make More Money By Working Less
Chris Ducker knows better than most how hard and stressful being an entrepreneur is. He worked his way from a part-time sales job selling classified adverts in England to a virtual CEO in his highly successful global companies.
We chat about how he has managed to work a lot less, yet managed to grow successful businesses.
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Dave Kerpen Shares 6 Tips For Being Likeable On Social Media
Thankfully, Dave Kerpen of Likeable Local and Likeable Media only needs four hours of sleep a night. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have had the time to create such helpful books and dependable tools.
We chat about how he ended up raising $100,000 to fund the wedding of his dreams and generated $20million worth of earned media for his vendors and how he and wife Carrie started their business Likeable Media.
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Corbett Barr’s Guide To Thrive Instead Of Fizzle
Corbett Barr’s main purpose is to help people get online and do it in the right way. And that’s exactly what he does at Fizzle.
We chat about how his blog was the starting point of his success and how he did it.
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James Schramko’s 6 SuperFast Business Domination Tips
James Schramko has huge online businesses. It’s a wonder how he ever has the time to do anything else besides work, but he manages it. James loves surfing!
We chat about how he makes millions of dollars a year, and what you can start doing to enjoy similar success.
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Tim Paige Shares His Top 5 Secrets to Grow Your Email List
Tim Paige is Senior Conversion Educator, the podcast extraordinaire and webinar host at LeadPages. As well as that, he finds time to do voice work and perform music.
We chat about his amazing list building skills and his top 5 secrets for anyone trying to build their email list.
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Rebekah Radice’s 7 Strategies For Social Media Success
Rebekah Radice has been in marketing for 20 years. She started back in the days of traditional marketing and is now practically the Queen of Social Media.
We chat about how she’s always present on social media, how she manages to it while running her own successful businesses and helping others to grow theirs.
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Omar Zenhom’s 6 Tips For Winning The Online Game
You’ll know Omar Zenhom from The $100 MBA and Webinar Ninja. He started his journey towards becoming the master of online marketing after 13 years as a teacher.
We chat about how he actually grew his businesses into the big successes that it is today with the help of his wife Nicole and his constant focus on content creation.
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How Vinay Patankar is Building Process Street into a SaaS Superstar
Vinay Patankar, who you may know as the founder of Process Street, is a keen traveler, who initially started a business to make money as he went exploring.
We chat about what he has learned along the way, and how he applies these to his business today.
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Marcus Sheridan’s 6 Best Content Creation Tips For 2016
Marcus Sheridan of The Sales Lion revolutionized how people market their companies online with an innovative approach to content creation. Put simply, they ask, he answers. This is a strategy many of the best marketers use to create content today, and it’s all thanks to Marcus.
We chat about how to market a business more effectively than your competitors.
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Kate Erickson Shares 8 Secrets to Become An Entrepreneur On Fire
In the latest of our Podcast interview series, I chat with Kate Erickson. She is the content creator of the Entrepreneur On Fire blog and the ‘better half’ of John Lee Dumas in business and life.
We chat about the challenges of developing an online business and yourself, as well as their new project.
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John Jantsch Reveals 8 Real Truths About Content Marketing
Recently I had the opportunity to talk to John Jantsch, owner of Duct Tape Marketing for our new Podcast interview series. We discussed Content Marketing and how it applies to you as a business owner.
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