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Live In The Feast

Live In The Feast

Jason Resnick

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Live In The Feast is a seasonal podcast for developers and designers looking to discover their niche to build recurring revenue. So that they can live the life that they want and ultimately reach the goals of why they started their own business in the first place. Each season will be a theme specific to your business. And each episode features a guest who's been there before and achieved success. You'll get actionable takeaways for you to implement in your business immediately after each show. No fluff, no pie in the sky dreaming, this is real-life examples and takeaways for you.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Live In The Feast episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Live In The Feast for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Live In The Feast episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Today’s co-host is Matt Medeiros, host of the Matt Report podcast and the Director of Podcast Success at Castos. To mark episode 100 of Life in the Feast, Matt will be taking the reins and interviewing Jason about his 10-year “overnight” success story.

Back in 2012, Jason was forced to choose between paying rent and his cable bill. His bed or his business. And even deeper, his passion or his family. At that moment, Jason made the tough decision to end his freelancing career and return to a job for the sake of his then-fiancé. However, when he broached the subject with her, she reminded him that freelancing was his dream. She encouraged him to keep on trucking a little longer.

So that’s exactly what he did. Rather than throw in the towel, Jason re-examined his business, raised his prices, and doubled down on a new niche. He kept grinding and ended up on the other side.

Almost a decade later, Matt talks with Jason about his journey to freelance success, navigating tough life and business decisions, what he’s learned about networking and adding value, and why shutting up served him in unexpected ways.

“Everything that I try to do from the business perspective is to serve the customers, but also see where a trend is headed and try to cater to that in some sort of fashion.” ~ @rezzz

Main Takeaways

  • Staying a generalist won’t lead you to success. While it’s tempting to say yes to everyone, especially as your business is still launching, focus on figuring out what your niche is and then double down on it.
  • If you’re struggling to find your niche, go straight to your clients and see what they need help with. Look for trends and determine where your expertise aligns with a common need.
  • Fill in the gaps of your knowledge and expertise by outsourcing and finding wise mentors whenever possible.
  • The key to success with clients is learning to listen. Spend more time hearing what their needs are and observing things about their life and business. Listening always pays off.
  • Start adding free value in the communities you live and influence in. The more people you can help, the easier networking and growing your business will become.

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Live In The Feast - S02E01-Chris Marr The Future of Sales and Marketing
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02/28/18 • 48 min

If you are struggling with content marketing either for your own business or your clients’ business, then Chris Marr gives 7 ideas for you as well as 7 mistakes to avoid. Let's stop having discussions around content marketing and talk about the consumer buying behavior, science, psychology and how a blog article, podcast, a video grow a business.

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Live In The Feast - S01 E00-A Guy Named Fred

S01 E00-A Guy Named Fred

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03/13/17 • 15 min

Today's episode is about a guy named Fred and a bit about his every day life, his hopes and dreams, his struggles, his successes, the reason he became a freelancer and why this podcast is perfect for him.

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Today’s guest is Vincent Pugliese. Vincent is a dad, husband, photographer, coach, and author. He runs The Freelance Tribe and helps others on their journey to finding success as a freelancer.

In 2007, just before the economic collapse of 2008, Vincent left his job to start his own photography business. In spite of the timing, he was able to get his family out of debt and create a thriving business - eventually reaching the point where he could be selective about his clients and wasn’t living project to project.

Though he barely finished high school, Vincent clawed his way back by going to college and then getting a job with a newspaper as a photographer. At one particular low point, his father told him something that changed his life forever - that he was settling.

That, along with the realization that no matter how hard he worked he would always be held back by traditional employment, led him to jump ship and start his own business.

Vincent focused on building a network rather that focusing solely on money, which gave him long-term stability. He chose to focus on his strengths, and this too helped him attract the ideal clientele.

Today, Vincent and his wife are running the Business of Photography Academy as well as a mastermind community for freelancers. When he’s not shooting weddings and other events, he can be found spending time with his family and homeschooling his three boys.

In this episode Vincent talks about:

  • His journey from getting in trouble with the law to becoming an award-winning photographer to running a thriving freelance business.
  • How even after winning awards and reaching a pinnacle in his newspaper photography career, he still found himself struggling to support his family.
  • Finding your niche and finding the right clients to be your target audience.
  • How he paid off his debt and raised his prices when other businesses were struggling.

Main Takeaways

  • Winning awards for your talent does not always equate to making money - especially when done within the constraints of a traditional career path.
  • The sooner you can become a giver and think about somebody else first and your business second, the sooner your business is actually going to thrive.
  • When you have little to lose you should be seeking out opportunities to improve your situation.
  • Freelancing is all about creating and maintaining relationships and connections and helping others.
  • Success doesn’t happen overnight. It’s about building a strong business over time.

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Outreach is focused on building and maintaining relationships.

When outreach is done correctly, when it does come time for the pitch, it won’t seem sales-y because it will just be the natural course of the conversation and relationship.

What you’ll learn about in this show:

  • How to think about the 4th or 5th sale not the first with outreach
  • Repeatable system for outreach
  • Difference between cold and warm outreach
  • How to research for an outreach campaign
  • How to generate more projects from the first project with a simple email
  • Does your marketing reflect your most current understanding of your target market?
  • Your objectives should be in your top, middle, and bottom of your marketing funnel
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The takeaway from this show is to look at your services page or your homepage. Are you speaking your language or your clients’ language? Do you have techno-jargon on there or speak to the benefits of your service or solution? You should be able to tell. If not, then tweet me at @rezzz and I’ll take a look and give you a personalized video review.
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When starting out as a freelancer, even as you build your business and gain experience, often times you are working with agencies. Maybe your goal as a freelancer is to build an agency. Lee Jackson was a freelancer with an agency mindset and comes on to share how he's built his agency but also gives us how freelancers can excel and become rockstars that agencies will want to work with.

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Live In The Feast - S02E02-Chris Ducker Rise of the Youpreneur
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02/28/18 • 27 min

A freelancer’s goal is to become future proof. When you control your own destiny, your finances, your own opportunities, that makes you as future proof as you can be. Chris Ducker solves problems for people and built all his businesses with that in mind. When he saw that people were buying him, not his company, he realized that the personal brand business model was a real money maker and genuinely profitable.

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Ruben Gamez, founder of Bidsketch, has built a business around strategic content marketing and he’s doing it again with DocSketch. Wondering what the ROI of content marketing is? Then this episode will show you how to maximize your efforts and increase the chances for your service to get the most ROI.

Ruben saw a gap in the market when trying to help someone. He filled that gap through particular content around an ideal client to see if it’s something viable. Almost a decade later, Bidsketch is a multi-million dollar company.

Putting a time and cost investment into testing and building content has proven what works and doesn’t work when it comes to converting leads into customers.

Most people want it done for them, rather than do it themselves

As a result of their testing, Ruben found how educated leads were more likely to convert from trial to customer than if he offered the trial right up front.

So they went against the grain of conversion optimization and put a layer of friction in.

In this episode Ruben generously shares how he’s building DocSketch from the ground up and insights into the freelance and consulting space.

We dive deep into:

  • How to get clients
  • How to get quality feedback from clients
  • What you should give away for free
  • Why positioning is so important in selling your service
  • The process Ruben does before he builds any product or service

Make your service as close to a no-brainer as possible

Getting clients obviously isn’t just about your skill set, but Ruben points out 2 things that freelancers struggle with most often. But understanding them will make getting clients easier.

The 2 points about your business you should understand are:

  1. How did you get to where you are today?
  2. What are you doing differently than other businesses?

Episode Takeaway
Ruben walks us through 3 steps in the show to help you craft the best content possible to validate an idea for a service, and the second step is to think about what someone may search for before they know that you and your service exist. Think about the problems, issues, questions your ideal client will have before they even know you. Jot down those down. Then, later on, go ahead and write a post about it and see how it works for you.

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Today’s guests (yes, two guests!) are Rob and Kennedy from ResponseSuite, a survey app with built-in marketing features designed to get more of your customers buying more of your products, more often.

Special offer: Get a 14-day free trial and a one-on-one coaching call with Rob and Kennedy by vising responsesuitedeal.com/feast.

As you’ll hear in this episode, Rob and Kennedy are entertainers who happened to become entrepreneurs. Rob is a master at psychology, body language, and reading people, which resulted in a comedy show where he reads people’s minds. Kennedy comes from a background in magic and hypnosis. Together, they co-founded ResponseSuite and found a way to leverage their unique skill set in the business world.

One thing’s for sure — Rob and Kennedy are passionate about surveys! And that passion came directly from scratching their own itch, as the saying goes.

After years of CSV files, spreadsheets, and separate email lists, Rob and Kennedy decided it was time to find a better solution for segmenting customers, and getting the information they needed. But they weren’t happy with what was on the market at the time, so (as is the case for most entrepreneurial types) they decided to build their own, and ResponseSuite was born.

While their software is designed to help entrepreneurs, it also serves another purpose: it provides a revenue stream that allows them to continue doing what they love: performing.

“It’s so important to qualify leads up front, because all that time we’re spending doing in-between work that is not generating new work or fulfilling existing work, is kind of a waste of time.”

In this episode Rob and Kennedy talk about:

  • How their background prepared them to build ResponseSuite and what they learned along the way.
  • How the brain works and how to hack it with surveys.
  • How their app saves times, gathers more data, and automates important aspects of marketing.
  • Listening to your customers and using that to innovate and iterate on your product.

Main Takeaways

  • Surveys are a great way to gather the right kind of data from your customers or target audience.
  • Having prospects fill out a survey puts their minds into an engaged mode, making them far more likely to purchase or interact with a call-to-action at the end.
  • The information gleaned from a survey allows product owners to do “mass personalization,” which goes a long way in today’s market.

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FAQ

How many episodes does Live In The Feast have?

Live In The Feast currently has 103 episodes available.

What topics does Live In The Feast cover?

The podcast is about Marketing, Development, Podcasts, Business, Freelancer and Careers.

What is the most popular episode on Live In The Feast?

The episode title '810 - Putting in the Work and Communicating Your Value with Kim Doyal' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Live In The Feast?

The average episode length on Live In The Feast is 38 minutes.

How often are episodes of Live In The Feast released?

Episodes of Live In The Feast are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Live In The Feast?

The first episode of Live In The Feast was released on Mar 13, 2017.

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