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Brand Ownership, Emails, CRM, Online Scheduling, and Funnels

Scott Mulvaney — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 18:30:00 +0000

Chuck is back for a return appearance and we dig into the successes of CRM’s that pair with their weaknesses, Sales Funnels, and much more.

Charles Max Wood is a coach and podcast host at Top End Devs. He’s building a system to help developers advance their careers by building their skills, personal brands, and networks. He’s been podcasting about programming since 2008. He lives in Utah with his wife and 5 children.

Chuck is also the author of “The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job.” The podcasts he produces reach more than 80,000 developers every week.

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Today’s Top 3 Takeaways:

Branded domain name emails.
Integrating CRM’s including ZOHO, Salesforce, Zapier Automation, Click Funnels
Online Scheduling including Schedule Once and Acuity Scheduling

Today’s Guest & Resource Links:

https://topenddevs.com/
Book: The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job – https://amzn.to/2Jrh5A8
https://instagram.com/charlesmaxwood

Watch us on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/hk6DIZvzjSM

Timestamped Show Notes:

07:50 – Mail servers on their own are pretty stupid. It’s the stuff that you build on top of it that matters. So Google built this application layer on top of it, that sorts it all out and allows for that custom domain email universal platform for businesses. They have two advantages. One is that they’ve been doing this for a really, really long time. So they they’ve gotten pretty good just on their own building algorithms to say for example, hey that looks like spam! The second thing is now we’re getting into the age where you have Machine Learning aka AI aka Artificial Intelligence. What it is, is they are taking this giant data model, and you train it against the systems that build basically mathematical formulas that replicate the result you want.

09:10 – This is all in software. So effectively, what you do is you set up your system and then you feed it. You say, here’s an email, it’s spam. Here’s another email, it’s spam. Here’s an email, it’s not spam. You send millions and billions of emails through to the end, what happens is when you send an email that you don’t know, it can come back and it can say this is 90% chance, it’s spam. So then you just have to decide how sensitive you want to be. The more you train it, the better it gets.

20:20 – The issue that I had was this CRM, it did a bunch of stuff, I could go I could cancel like four or five services, because they all could now get consolidated. So I was super excited. I start using it, and then it seemed okay, but the email deliverability was in the toilet. So they’re like, hey, look, you know, we have this tech expert that will go in and fix it for you. So I paid the extra to have the guy come in and fix it for me. So he comes in and fixes it and the deliverability gets better. It’s not where it was using the other system. But it wasn’t so bad that I just threw up my hands in disgust and walked away.

30:30 – So I went back to Schedule Once, and you know that they’re cheap. So it’s not a big deal. But they’ll let you set up booking pages that all go to different calendars. That’s the kicker, and I have to set up like 10 of them for all the podcasts and everything else. Then I can use the Zoho calendar thing, because it’s already built into everything else, just for the stuff that involves just me.

42:15 – Final Words

Our Final Words of the Show:

The thing that I want to point out is that what your brand is, and that’s the embodiment of truth and backing up your words. In a lot of cases, it is the way you present yourself, part of your brand is I tried to work with them. They were hard to work with, so if I came through, and I said hey this is Company X, and I named them outright, and said, and their their customer service has been terrible. But they actually have built their brand on being good salespeople and brand people. They talk about this on their podcast, which they have, and how their customer service is part of your brand. It really just does not come across well, especially that fact that I’ve had so many issues with them.

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147: From Unhealthy & Penniless to 7 Figure Ethical Sales Funnels with Akbar Sheikh

Scott Mulvaney — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:00:00 +0000

Your Sales Funnels and Former Penniless and Fast Food Junkie King of the East Co-Host:

Akbar used to be homeless and penniless, living in his birthplace of San Francisco. After nearly losing his life in the hospital, as a consequence of partying and self-destructive behavior, he realized it’s time for a big change. He then quit smoking and lost 50lbs renouncing his title as “fast food junkie king of the east”. He considers himself extremely blessed to have turned his life around and is now able to live clean and abundantly.

Akbar has even co-founded an online mattress site where one of its core focuses is to eliminate homelessness in San Francisco.

Akbar helps businesses scale to 7 figures by ethically injecting principles of persuasion into their funnels. When he started online marketing he was penniless but within 12 months rose to become a top 2% earner in a 186 billion dollar industry.

Akbar says “We believe that every hardworking, honest person deserves a successful business. A lot of the time (most of the time), businesses just have terrible funnels which result in no growth. Sorry to be so blunt, but if we don’t clearly outline the problem, we can’t solve it. That’s where we come in. We master fix your broken funnel and prime your business to scale to seven figures and beyond. We do this systematically, scientifically and quickly.”

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”00:30″] Introduction
[spp-timestamp time=”01:50″] Akbar joins us from down under.
[spp-timestamp time=”03:00″] Why we do what we do.
[spp-timestamp time=”04:50″] Akbar actually hates retail.
[spp-timestamp time=”06:00″] Akbar’s executive content guy, Matt, is also super into health and the bulletproof aka fatty coffee like Scott is.
[spp-timestamp time=”06:20″] Akbar’s many areas of his life that he had no success in… from penniless, to loveless relationships, and more.
[spp-timestamp time=”08:15″] His ugliest sales funnel, keeping it simple.
[spp-timestamp time=”10:00″] Simplifying Click Funnels.
[spp-timestamp time=”13:50″] Akbar wants to make a major impact in the world by working to help other entrepreneurs succeed with their own income and business goals.
[spp-timestamp time=”16:00″] Why he wants to build a billion-dollar empire and why he cried recently.
[spp-timestamp time=”18:30″] THRIVE: Make Money Matter with Sanja and Cole Hatter.
[spp-timestamp time=”20:00″] Getting introduced to Sanja Hatter for his goal of increasing his public speaking experience.
[spp-timestamp time=”22:05″] Learning about Akbar’s Inner Circle.
[spp-timestamp time=”23:50″] Benefits of great hydration daily along with the challenges. Plus talking about cellular cleansing and fasting.
[spp-timestamp time=”25:20″] Akbar tries to fast twice per week, he finds it quite liberating to not be tied to food dependency.
[spp-timestamp time=”29:30″] The magic solution to a healthy lifestyle, the simple value to water and proper hydration.
[spp-timestamp time=”30:15″] Sitting is just as bad as smoking. Benefits of standing desks and productivity in walking meetings.
[spp-timestamp time=”32:30″] Sharing the knowledge around water, light, magnetism education from Dr. Jack Kruse, mitochondria health at the cellular level, and much more.
[spp-timestamp time=”35:00″] The 7-Figure Society on Voxer.
[spp-timestamp time=”35:45″] Shutting your WiFi down at night to hack your healthy sleep success.
[spp-timestamp time=”39:50″] Healthy hacks performed by top performers around the world.
[spp-timestamp time=”40:05″] PEMF Global from Allie Ochs and their Integrated Magnetic Resonance Stimulation (iMRS) technology.
[spp-timestamp time=”41:00″] Health is less sexy than sharing financial best practices. You have to go through the unsexy.
[spp-timestamp time=”43:40″] Final Words

Akbar’s Favorite Quote:

“Any fool can complicate things; it takes a genius to simplify them.” – Einstein

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Final Words:

We really have a lot of opportunity as entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are the backbone of society. It’s up to us to make a change when we can, and we are daily. Which is why we need to keep leveling up, so we together, can make the world a better place.

Building a For Purpose business, Akbar donates 10% of gross income monthly. The more you give, the more you get. If you can’t afford to give, then give your time. If you don’t have the time, then call your mom and make her smile!

Akbar believes it’s his responsibility to share the message of The More You Give, The More You Get. He’s a living example of this.

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