Ep. 8 Purchasing And Running A Franchise During COVID-19 Times w/ (My Sister) Tori Cozart

01/18/21 • 52 min

Today I interview Tori Cozart, who is also my sister, and a business owner in Chattanooga, TN. Tori has had multiple jobs at good companies including being the marketing manager at the Birmingham, AL Mercedes Dealership and she has a degree in Economics with a minor in business administration. So, Tori definitely has a good business mind.
We start off talking about how she decided to move from a secure job to purchasing an AR Workshop franchise during the prime of the COVID-19 outbreak. She has always pictured herself running a business, she just wasn't sure what it would be until one day an opportunity hit her. Her mom sent her an email about an AR Workshop that was for sale and jokingly said that maybe that could be her side hustle. Tori had visited an AR Workshop before and started to research it as a legitimate opportunity.
Tori has put together an amazing team behind her to make her life easier (not any less stressful), but as a great support system to help her make good decisions. We talk about her struggles in the first couple months of ownership and how she has dealt with all of the problems they've faced. We also discuss how Tori has managed to earn 92% of the income that the prior owners made, while dealing with a global pandemic!
Tori has some big plans for growing the business even more and blowing the past sales numbers out of the water. She also breaks down her future goals a little bit, which you can find out about in the episode!
If you want to check out Tori and AR Workshop Franklin go to the links below:
Tori's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tcozyknits/
AR Workshop: https://www.arworkshop.com/franklin/
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Ep. 7 Paul Getter - Teaching Himself Internet Marketing, Growing His Personal Brand Past 1M Followers And Securing Clients Like Tai Lopez, Grant Cardone, Akon And Many More

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In this episode I interview Paul Getter, "The Internet Marketing Nerd", who is an expert marketer and has massive clients, like Tai Lopez, Grant Cardone, Akon, Tim Storey and many more! While working with these giant names on exploding their online marketing presence he has turned his personal brand into a massive success by amassing over 1,000,000 followers on Instagram.
But, Paul hasn't always been ultra successful... before he got into the internet marketing world, Paul was cutting grass, delivering phone books out of the back of his minivan and doing anything else he could to make money. Eventually, he made a Facebook page and helped out his local church with setting up their facebook page. He ended up teaching himself internet marketing through trial and error because there was no other way to do it at the beginning.
He was one of the early adopters of Facebook ads and ended up being a product tester for their ad platform. This gave him an edge at learning all the new features as they came out. He has been learning ever since and his results show how much he knows. He has grown multiple pages to over a million followers and has helped multi-millionaires and billionaires up their marketing game.
Paul and I discuss his opinions about the newest opportunities in the internet marketing world and how people can take advantage of these opportunities. We also talked about what Paul would focus on if he were starting over and was going to try to grow his personal brand and business in today's climate.
Paul aspires to reach more than just monetary success and he has a passion for helping the homeless. He's on the board of directors for a large non-profit for the homeless. We talk about his future goals about helping coach and mentor more people along with expand his philanthropic ventures.
I'm very grateful I got to talk with Paul and pick his brain about so many different marketing strategies and questions. If you want to contact Paul for any reason you can find him on Instagram at the link below.
Paul's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paul/
Paul's Websites: https://www.paulgetter.com/
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Ep. 9 Turning Your Dream Job Into A Thriving Business w/ Christina Flach - CEO of Pretty Girl Makeup

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In this episode I talk to Christina Flach, a professional makeup artist that has worked with huge names like Journey, Metallica, Condoleezza Rice, Bobby Flay and many more. She is also the CEO of Pretty Girl Makeup, a makeup company that she started back in 1999 and has been successfully growing since then.
She had been doing makeup professionally for five years when she finally got tired of her lip gloss coming off whenever she ate or drank anything. She decided she would fix this problem and that was the beginning of Pretty Girl Makeup. She found a problem and fixed it!
Christina also has a deeper mission in life, which is to raise awareness for sepsis and make people more aware of the signs and symptoms. If you go to the doctor in time, they can do a blood test, put you on an IV of antibiotics and you'll survive. To find out what the warning signs are for sepsis listen to this episode!
Christina has always been a hard worker and she says that the reason that she succeeds when others fail, is that she always goes the extra mile, in everything she does". When she was climbing her way up in the professional makeup artist game, she would work long hours and do anything for her clients to make them happy. Her work was also top notch, but there are a lot of good makeup artists. Her extra mile approach put her above the rest, when it came dow to who to hire.
Although Christina works hard, she also gives herself some time to relax or exercise everyday. A balance in her life is super important to her and she urges all entrepreneurs to not set unrealistic goals for yourself. Love yourself and don't be too hard on yourself! Your happiness is the most important thing, so do what makes you happy!
If you want to contact Christina Flach or check out Pretty Girl Makeup you can reach her at the links below:
Pretty Girl Makeup: https://www.prettygirlmakeup.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christinaflachmakeup/
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