Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To – Details, episodes & analysis

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I recently joined friend Jonathan Stark on his podcast "Ditching Hourly" where he typically talks about business strategies and best practices for helping freelancers and consultants escape hourly billing. And we talked about that world of business quite a bit, including how people often copy the wrong parts of the successes they've seen.

But as a self-published digital author himself, Jonathan also wanted to grill me on exactly how we launched The Tiny MBA and sold thousands of copies without a publishing deal...and without boxes of books sitting in my basement.

So I indulged him!

In this episode, you're going to hear my answers to Jonathan's questions about:

• Why we decided to make The Tiny MBA a physical, printed book in the first place
• How and why we picked our printing and distribution partner (and why it's not Amazon)
• And Jonathan and I riff on my new "secret weapon" for building pre-launch momentum, and why it created a 90% conversion rate and some of the fastest sales I've ever seen.

I also learned that Jonathan went to music school, and the comparison he draws in the first few moments between learning both business and music through style practices still has me thinking about it weeks later!

I'm excited to see Jonathan ship his first paperback book in the future, and if you're inspired to consider self-publishing a print book, I hope the stories and suggestions in this episode help you too.

WIth that, let's get into my conversation with Jonathan Stark from the Ditching Hourly podcast.

Ready? Here we go.

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Over the last few episodes, I've been visiting podcasts all across the internet, talking with entrepreneurs and creative people just like you to talk about some of their  favorites tidbits from my new book, The Tiny MBA. 

In THIS episode I visited with Tony Lopes on the Self Made Strategies Podcast, where he  explores modern collaboration, craft, and persistence.

In this shorter excerpt from the longer conversation you can find on his site, we talk about:

- The biggest hurdles and challenges in publishing a book (hint - it's not writing a book).
- Making reversible decisions
- And what people get wrong about risk - keep in mind that Tony is a lawyer!

And a whole lot more!

With that, I hope you enjoy this in depth conversation I had with Tony. Here we go!

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Over the last few weeks, I've been visiting podcasts all across the internet, talking with entrepreneurs and creative people just like you to talk about some of their  favorites tidbits from my new book, The Tiny MBA. 

In THIS episode I visited with Matthew Arnold on the Iowa Idea podcast, where he  explores modern collaboration, craft, and persistence.

We talk about:

- Why businesses - especially agencies - get distracted by awards

- What it means to "flintstone" your work

- And what people get wrong about passion

And a whole lot more!

With that, I hope you enjoy this in depth conversation I had with Matt. Here we go. 

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Over the last few weeks, I've been visiting podcasts all across the internet, talking with entrepreneurs and creative people just like you to talk about some of their  favorites tidbits from my new book, The Tiny MBA. 

In today's episode, I visit with Brendan Hufford from the SEO for the Rest of Us podcast to talk about some of his favorite lessons from The Tiny MBA.

We talk about:

• Learning and feedback loops
• Building in public
• The valuable knowledge that's often locked up behind closed doors

In the full episode (which you can watch on Brendan's youtube channel) we talk more about the backstory and design of the book, so you can go check that out over there if you like. 

But for here on the stacking, the bricks feed, I jumped straight to the part where we start talking about the lessons that Brendan learned from the book and wanted to share.

I hope you enjoy this in depth conversation with Brendan and I. Lets go!

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Over the last few weeks, I've been visiting podcasts all across the internet, talking with entrepreneurs and creative people just like you to talk about some of their favorites tidbits from my new book, The Tiny MBA. 

And today I'm sharing an episode from a live stream that I did with Ken Rimple and Becca Refford at Chariot Solutions, an enterprise tech consulting firm right here in Philadelphia. Chariot is a big force in the Philadelphia tech community, doing lots of great things for technologists in the region.

In today's episode, we riffed on a few of Ken and Becca's favorite nuggets from the book, including:

• The power of slowing down to take a look for hidden C
• The real reason self-promotion feels achy to you. 
• And we explored a hidden theme of "wellness" in the book!

Also, a quick shout out to Hannah Litvin, the designer behind The Tiny MBA. In this episode, we talk a little bit about her designs and the design process that we went through together. 

If you're thinking about creating a book of our own, and are interested in hiring a designer, you should absolutely check her out: https://www.behance.net/hannahlitvin

If you're interested in my full backstory, you can and should go check out the full episode The Tech Cast youtube channel: 

But for here on the stacking, the bricks feed, I jumped straight to the part where we start talking about the lessons of the book.

I hope you enjoy this in depth conversation with Ken Rimple and Becker Refford from Chariot Solutions.

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Hope you're safe, hope you're well, hope your loved ones are well, hope you're finding ways to stay sane and of course, finding ways to keep stacking the bricks to build your own product business.

Over the coming weeks I'm going to be adding new episodes to the Stacking the Bricks feed to highlight conversations that I've been having across the internet with creators and entrepreneurs.

Why have I been having these conversations?

One: I'm stuck at home, just like you!
But two: I have a new book, The Tiny MBA

• 100 Very Short Lessons about the Long Game of Business
• Short enough to read in 20-30 mins
• Available as an ebook but also for the first time, a paperback book!

Today's episode is one of the first conversations I had about the book, with Louis Nicholls from the Sales for Founders podcast.

Louie was one of the beta readers, and invited me to kick off a new seasons of his show to talk about the book and to go deep on a few of the lessons inside.

I'll let him introduce the episode in a moment, but if you want to get your own copy of The Tiny MBA, you can go to https://tiny.mba to order it in paperback or ebook formats, OR find it on the amazon kindle store.

With that, here's Louis. Oh, and go subscribe to his show too: https://pod.salesforfounders.com

Enjoy.

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Nathan Johnson left a corporate gig to bootstrap an affiliate business to 100,000 users. But to get it any bigger - and profitable - he would have to give up the very thing he left his corporate gig for: freedom. Ouch.

Find out how he changed course to build a different business that DOES let him travel and spend more time with his family, while helping his growing audience of professional photographers.

• Nate's website: http://natephotographic.com/
• The Film Guides that started it all: http://natephotographic.com/vsco-film/
• Nate Johnson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/firstnate
• Nate Johnson's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/firstnate/?

• Stacking the Bricks: http://stackingthebricks.com
• Amy Hoy: https://twitter.com/amyhoy
• Alex HIllman: https://twitter.com/alexhillman

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I've been wanting to do an episode with Brennan Dunn for a LONG time. He's one of our most successful students, having built an empire of resources and products for freelancers at doubleyourfreelancing.com. But freelancing rates aren't the only thing Brennan has figured out how to double...now he's mastered the art of personalizing on-page content to boost conversion rates, often 2x or more!

Brennan has come a long way since he joined 30x500 with the idea to build and AirBnB for homecooked meals...and in this episode you're going to learn how he built his empire by stacking the bricks.

• Brennan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/brennandunn
• Brennan's Double your Freelancing: https://doubleyourfreelancing.com
• Brennan's Drip Automation & Personalization Course: https://doubleyourfreelancing.com/drip-course/
• Rightmessage: https://rightmessage.io/stackingthebricks
• Churnbuster: https://churnbuster.io

• Stacking the Bricks: http://stackingthebricks.com
• Amy Hoy: https://twitter.com/amyhoy
• Alex HIllman: https://twitter.com/alexhillman

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Dave Ceddia knew how to ship, but none of his projects had ever made a sale.

Today, $15,000 in sales of his book "Pure React" later, he knows how to create new, bigger products for his loyal and growing audience.

In this episode, you'll find out how he stopped thinking of himself as a "lifer" at a cushy job to being in control of his professional future.

And - YES - the Stacking the Bricks podcast is officially back!

• Book recommendation: Personal MBA by Josh Kaufmann
• Book recommendation: Badass by Kathy Sierra
• Dave's Website: https://daveceddia.com
• Pure React: https://daveceddia.com/pure-react/

• Stacking the Bricks: http://stackingthebricks.com
• Amy Hoy: https://twitter.com/amyhoy
• Alex HIllman: https://twitter.com/alexhillman

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