Adrian's goal is first to create a hunger for video by demonstrating the power that it offers any entrepreneur. And then to convince them not to settle for amateur looking iPhone recordings but start creating videos that will make THEM look like ROCKSTARS, feel more confident, increase their sales and ultimately give them the life they desire!

Adrian's One Hot Thing...

Create a professional-looking set for your YouTube videos

Connect with Adrian

• Watch his YouTube channel
• On Twitter

Resources Mentioned

Editable workflow template

Get outsource ready: The checklist

Ben is the founder of Engage Video Marketing and has over 15 years experience in the film and media industry. He is also Founder and Creative Director of Innovate Media, a video production and online video strategy agency operating from Queensland, Australia. Ben has also founded Australia’s only purpose built video blogging studio space, and facility – Vlog Pod®.

Ben is passionate about working with clients to develop effective online video strategy within their niche and is driven to help other business owners and marketers to understand the full potential for online video platforms within a wider business marketing strategy.

Ben's One Hot Thing...

Repurpose your YouTube videos for social media

Connect with Ben

• Watch his YouTube channel
• On Twitter

Resources Mentioned

Editable workflow template

Get outsource ready: The checklist

Rob is the Brand Evangelist at TubeBuddy.com

He creates a lot of content on his own channels, primarily on LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook.

Rob shares a lot of video marketing & creation strategies, live-streaming tips, as well as tools & software reviews. Basically, videos to help you, the content creator.

Rob's One Hot Thing...

How to use collaboration to grow your YouTube channel

Connect with Rob

• Watch his YouTube channel
• On Twitter

Charlie is an advertising strategist, writer, speaker, and agency owner. He’s the founder and CEO of Gecko Squared, a Facebook and Instagram advertising agency that specializes in working with high-growth businesses from around the world including eCommerce, software and professional service companies. He’s been planning and buying digital media for over 9 years since he started his first business aged just 18.

Heather Osgood is the founder of True Native Media, an agency that helps both advertisers get better results as well as assist podcasters in finding sponsors. She everyone find a bigger piece of that advertising pie. 

Heather's One Hot Thing...

How to get sponsors for your podcast

Connect with Heather

• Visit Heather's website

Helen is a storytelling and speaker coach. She helps entrepreneurs and leaders increase their impact, authority and reach and become sought after speakers. She passionately believes everyone has a TED worthy story inside them.

Helen's One Hot Thing...

A cut through method to land huge speaking gigs

Connect with Helen

• Visit Helen's website
• Join Helen's Facebook group Sought After Speakers

Jess Lorimer is UK’s most influential Sales Consultant for service based entrepreneurs, looking to sell to corporate companies and add profitable corporate revenue streams to their business. Jess currently produces her own award nominated podcasts; Selling to Corporate and Smart Leaders Sell which are accessible on iTunes

Jess' One Hot Thing...

Hot to train your audience to buy from you

Connect with Jess

• Visit Jess’ website
• Follow Jess on Twitter and Facebook

Philip is the founder of Verhaal Brand Design, a brand strategy design and marketing agency based in New Jersey, USA. Philip helps entrepreneurs and small to medium sized businesses with their branding. He's a thought leader, and he shares his expertise in marketing design and entrepreneurship on his amazing YouTube channel, which has hit 185,000 subscribers.

Philip's One Hot Thing...

Grow your YouTube channel with TubeBuddy

Connect with Philip

• Visit Philip’s website
• Follow Philip on YouTube
• Sign up to TubeBuddy with Philip’s affiliate link

Holly is a business coach and freelance management consultant from San Francisco in California. She helps clients start service based businesses and be their own bosses through her program, the Consultant Code.

Holly's One Hot Thing...

Create consistently great content with mega-batching

Connect with Holly

• Visit Holly’s website or Consultant code
• Connect on Instagram
• Connect on LinkedIn

Bella is a very dynamic personality behind the one-woman coaching company Jump Consulting. Since 2002, Bella has been a trailblazer in her industry, consulting with multimillion dollar companies all the way to hundreds of small businesses. She's an author, long-time podcast host, blogger, and she's been featured on NBC, CBS, FOX, NPR, Entrepreneur Magazine, and Huffington Post. Bella lives out her passion to inspire, motivate, and challenge business owners through her speaking, coaching, and consulting.

Bella's One Hot Thing...

How to use the ‘hey girl’ DM to close a sale

Connect with Bella

• Visit Bella’s website
• Connect on Instagram
• Connect on Facebook

Jennifer is the Social Media Manager for Agorapulse, a podcaster and speaker. She has a diverse background from working on camera to executing digital strategies. Jennifer is a dynamic talent with a passion for every aspect of digital media from building brand strategies, creating content plans, to getting executive buy-in. She motivates audiences from the stage and drives engagement, including launching numerous Facebook Live campaigns for the biggest weather brand, garnering millions of views. She has been featured in Chief Content Marketer Magazine, and on stage at Social Fresh, Social Media Marketing World, Social Shake-Up to name a few.

Jennifer's One Hot Thing...

How to gain the confidence to rock your live video

Connect with Jennifer

• Connect on Instagram
• Connect on Twitter

Meredith Marsh is the creator of the Video Pursuit Society where smart creative people are growing their audience and profit using YouTube and social video content. As a total introvert with millions of views on YouTube, Meredith helps people show up online with organic, binge-worthy video content so they can create income and impact online.

Meredith's One Hot Thing...

• Create binge-worthy video series to turn random YouTube viewers into raving fans

Connect with Meredith

• Visit the website
• Connect on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook

After the first course Kerrie ever created netted her nearly £2000 in just one week, she figured that she was on to something good. Now she spends her days teaching her amazing clients how to build their own businesses that’ll give them the freedom to work when they want to.

Kerrie's One Hot Thing...

Using client wins to attract new clients

Connect with Kerrie

Visit the website

Connect on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram

Justin is one of the guys behind Primal Video. Together with his brother, Mike, they have built a multi-six figure video production company, grown a community of over 100,000 subscribers on YouTube, developed recurring income models that grew their business while they slept, and coached tons of entrepreneurs to do the same.

Justin's One Hot Thing...

Creating problem focused videos for more YouTube subscribers

Connect with Justin

Visit the website

Connect on Twitter, Facebook,YouTube

Connect with Natalie

• Visit the website
• Connect on Twitter

• Visit his website
• On Twitter

• Visit his website
• Visit the Youpreneur website
• On Twitter

Callie's One Hot Thing...

• Segment your audience 3 ways for more sales

Connect with Callie

• Visit the website
• On Twitter

Antoines's One Hot Thing...

• The best tools for choosing video topics your audience are interested in

Connect with Antoine

• Visit his website
• Visit his YouTube channel
• On Twitter

Salma's One Hot Thing...

• Get people hooked on your videos with the Video Engagement Timeline (or VET Formula)

Connect with Salma

• Visit her website
• Visit her YouTube channel
• On Twitter
• On Instagram

Andrew Davis is a best-selling author and keynote speaker and is recognised as one of the industry's "Jaw-Dropping Marketing Speakers." Andrew is a mainstay on global marketing influencer lists and has built and sold a digital marketing agency, produced for NBC and worked for The Muppets. Today, Andrew Davis teaches business leaders how to grow their businesses, transform their cities, and leave their legacy.

Andrew's One Hot Thing...

• Raise anticipation to win more deals, faster at higher rates

Connect with Andrew

• Visit his website
• On LinkedIn
• On Twitter

Teresa Heath Wareing is one of the UK’s leading experts on social media marketing, working with people to address their social media challenges and give them ideas to help them improve their online presence.

Her blogs have been featured on various well known social media websites and she’s the author of a book entitled 'Social Media Marketing for Small Businesses'

As well as working for international brands she’s an international speaker… and in her spare time she likes to drink tea.. and by tea she means gin.

Teresa's One Hot Thing...

• Getting AMAZING podcast guests on your show (and Teresa really does this!!!)

Connect with Teresa

• Visit her website
• Listen to Teresa's podcast
• On Twitter

Brian Fanzo inspires, motivates and educates businesses on how to leverage emerging technologies and digital marketing to standout from the noise and reach the millennial and generation z consumers.

He has a diverse background working for the Department of Defense in cybersecurity, then as a technology evangelist at a booming cloud computing startup and is currently the founder of iSocialFanzwhich has helped launch digital and influencer strategies with the world’s most iconic brands like Dell EMC, Adobe, IBM, UFC, Applebees and SAP.

A proud pager-wearing millennial and Dad of three girls, Brian hosts two podcasts (FOMOFanz& SMACtalk), has traveled to over 70 countries and has spoken at many of the worlds largest events including SXSW, Social Media Marketing World, CES, Mobile World Congress.

Brian's One Hot Thing...

• Talking with your audience, not at them

Connect with Brian

• Visit his website
• Listen to FOMOFanz
• Listen to the Just Try This podcast
• On Twitter

Janet's One Hot Thing...

• The 'Grenade Post' - When you quite deliberately go onto social media and post about a topic that you know will divide people. You know it’ll get people talking, get conversation going, and will probably have people arguing in the comments below the post!

Connect with Janet

• Visit her website
• Listen to Janet's podcast
• On LinkedIn

I chat to Kelly about...

• How to get started with chatbots
• Her top 4 ways to use chatbots as a business
• How chatbots can increase your reach and engagement on your content
• The crucial chatbot/email marketing link
• Kelly's top tools for working with chatbots

Connect with Kelly

• Visit her website
• On Twitter
• On LinkedIn

I chat to Ian about...

• How to channel your nerves and use them to improve your live videos!
• How taking part in Facebook live challenges can help with confidence
• Getting started with Insta Stories
• Preparing for a live video - should you script?
• Ian's top tools for going live on social media

Connect with Ian

• Visit his website
• On Twitter
• On LinkedIn

Phillip works with SME businesses to plan, create and execute social media strategies and campaigns.

Many small to medium-sized businesses either are not comfortable, don't have the budget or don't havethe time to make social media part of their marketing.

From the development of the strategy to the day to day management and implementation he helps companies get active on social media while they can focus on the day to day business.

I chat to Phillip about...

His 10 step content marketing strategy master plan

1. Goal setting
2. Identifying your clients
3. SWOT analysis
4. Content audit
5. Getting your systems in place
6. Content brainstorm
7. Strategic promotion
8. Repurposing
9. Measuring

Connect with Phillip

• Visit his website
• On Twitter
• On LinkedIn

Mike started Velocity Digital in 2012 with the aim of helping businesses of all shapes and sizes understand and make the most of the many opportunities digital marketing offers. He does this by working closely with his clients to deliver truly effective and measurable marketing strategies, while ensuring a creative and innovative approach at all times. He gets a real sense of satisfaction when he sees businesses progress due to the work they do together.

I chat to Mike about...

• How he's created a virtual team and the benefits it brings
• His solution to the overwhelm of social media
• How to combat feeling like you have to 'be everywhere!'
• How he see video fitting into his own and his clients' businesses

Connect with Mike

• Visit his website
• On Twitter

Christine Gritmon helps the busy owners of small, local businesses be less intimidated by social media. Her previous experiences includes marketing work for big-brand beauty, local journalism & newsroom engagement work, and creating funny Photoshops for a comedy website (yes, really). She lives with her husband and two small children in Nyack, NY.

Colin Gray is a podcaster, a writer and a PhD in education. He specializes in engaging through content, with podcasting at it’s core. His company, The Podcast Host, helps businesses to grow an audience by combining podcasting, blogging and video to cultivate fanatical fans.

These days, Colin writes regularly on podcasting and content marketing, and he produces five podcasts along with his team at The Podcast Host. The topics include mountain biking, podcasting, subversive leadership and running a business. PodCraft is the flagship, a season-based show which tackles Podcasting topics head-on over a series of shows, looking to create a definitive guide each time.

Colin is also an experienced speaker, both in new media and in the academic world. Most recently he was a main-track speaker at New Media Europe and spoke at Podcast Movement in Texas, USA.

Mike Morrison is co-founder of The Membership Guys and Member Site Academy, where he helps guide the growth of high performing memberships, e-learning businesses, and online communities.

With over 15 years experience in digital marketing and online business; Mike has worked closely with multinational brands such as McDonalds, ITV and Ancestry.com;and has been the driving force behind a multitude of 6 and 7 figure membership businesses.

He's the host of a popular podcast, author of two best-selling books and has been featured on the likes of Social Media Examiner, Huffington Post, Foundr and Net Magazine.

Mike can regularly be found on stages around the world at events including Social Media Marketing World, Tropical Think Tank and Podcast Movement.

Dan has been ranked as a Top #100 Digital Marketing Influencer and is an international speaker who went from knowing nothing about Digital & Social Media Marketing, to growing a multi-award-winning Digital Marketing Agencywith his brother Lloyd in under 2.5 years.

Richard Tubb is an IT business growth expert and provides expert advice to help you grow your IT business, working with the owners of IT businesses to help them free up their time, concentrate on doing what is important and making more money.

Richard also does a lot of speaking, training and consultancy work in this sphere to keep him up to date with the wider IT industry.

With over 20 years’ writing experience and a thorough grasp of content marketing, Gudrun works with busy consultants to provide a bespoke solution to help them expand their reach, widen their audience and build on their credibility. She saves them time by taking over the creation and management of their content, producing blogs, podcast shownotes, ebooks and more, ensuring it’s delivered on time and in the right places.

Here's my talk (in it's rawest form!) from Newcastle Startup Week.

Nicole Osborne is a Chartered Marketer passionate about helping businesses grow with sweeter marketing. With more than 17 years’ experience leading marketing teams, Nicole has successfully delivered growth-focused marketing strategies for the Financial Times, Institute of Directors, Association of Colleges and Mighty Social, Europe’s fastest growing social ad tech company.

When Nicole became a mum, she wanted a better work/life balance and trained with the award-winning Digital Mums strategic social media programme. Nicole founded Lollipop Social and has been helping small businesses get sweeter results with their marketing and social media ever since.

Nicole comes from a family of Eastern German entrepreneurs and enjoys working with ambitious entrepreneurs, bringing a combination of heaps of German logic and empathy to all her marketing projects.

I chat to Nicole about...

• How to nail your brand values
• How to work out what your brand values are when you are your brand
• How to avoid a vanilla brand and inject your personality into it

Connect with Nicole

Visit the Lollipop Social website

On Twitter

On Facebook

On LinkedIn

Yva Yorston started her entrepreneurial journey at the age of 22, as a virtual assistant. Within 4 years, she had grown the business to be the number 1 of its kind in the North East of Scotland, through a mix of local networking and blogging.

Earlier this year, she relaunched as Content Boost, and made it her mission to help other B2B companies to harness the power of blogging to get more customers.

She specialises in content strategy, coaching and blog management services, working with clients to make blogging an easy, efficient process, and one which gets results.

She loves to share her story and connect with fellow entrepreneurs, and is regularly invited to speak at business events, universities and schools. (edited)

I chat to Yva about...

• How to overcome the barriers standing in the way of creating content
• How to get the best return on investment from your content
• The best channels for promoting your content once you've published it
• Tips for achieving consistency

Connect with Yva

Visit the Content Boost website

On Twitter

Subscribe to the podcast on i Tunes

Kat founded and runs a hot UK blogging conferencefor creative and design loving bloggers called Blogtacular.

I make films, specialising in online advertising, book trailers, video profiles and stop motion.

I work with online and offline businesses to improve their social media reach, develop strategies, expand their customer base, implement websites and build their brand. I create and manage social media profiles and blogs for indie businesses – find out more about what I offer on my pro site.

I chat to Kat about...

• How she has monetised her long-standing blog
• The influencer/brand relationship
• Balancing raising a family with running a business

Connect with Kat

Visit her website

On Twitter

Subscribe to the podcast on i Tunes

Martin and Lyndsay run Jammy Digital, a WordPress web design agency based in Manchester, UK. They create high-performing websites their clients can be proud of, and specialise in WordPress web design and development, conversions and search engine optimisation. They also put a lot of effort into content marketing, and teaching others how to make their mark online.

I chat to them about about...

• Their personal experience of creating a website for their own business
• What they've learnt along they way
• How they've harnessed Facebook live and Facebook groups to grow their business
• Working together as a husband and wife team

Connect with them

On Twitter: @Martinhuntbach @LyndzCambridge

On LinkedIn

Visit the Jammy Digital website

Subscribe to the podcast on i Tunes

Lee leads two digital businesses providing powerful WordPress solutions for personal brands, design agencies and event companies. He runs the WP Innovator Facebook Group with over 1400 members who support one another, network and have fun.

There is a focus on productivity, WordPress tools and tips, business and strategy. He is the host of The Agency Trailblazer Podcast (Formerly WP Innovator Podcast), which focuses on agency life with a heavy WordPress bias (WordPress for President).

He compliments this with a paid community focused on helping stressed out design/web agency owners fall in love with their businesses again. No 10x BS, just practical advice and support to help people undo bad decisions and create an agency they can love that supports the lifestyle they need.

I chat to Lee about...

• How he's building his own personal brand
• How he found his niche
• The importance of finding your 'why'
• How he stays positive

Connect with Lee

Visit his Angled Crown Website
Visit his Agency Trailblazer website
On Twitter
On Facebook

Subscribe to the podcast on i Tunes

Multi award winning Entrepreneur Chris Marr believes content marketing is the only way to set business leaders free from the world of mediocre interruption marketing.

Chris is the Founder and driving force behind CMA, the UK’s largest membership organisation of it’s time.

He is raising the bar on talent curation, leadership, personal development, and community building. His pioneering work has changed the lives of hundreds of businesses, all through the power of Content Marketing.

I chat to Chris about...

• His ultimate content marketing definition - If there is any confusion surrounding what content marking actually is, this'll clear it up!
• How content marketing is directly related to sales
• The no.1 mistake he sees people making in their content marketing efforts

Connect with Chris

Visit his website

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• Facebook (CMA)
• Facebook (Chris)

Resources

Here's the link to Chris's blog post 15 things I'm fed up teaching you about your blog . I highly recommend you give it a read, some great advice in there.

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Louise Harnby is a professional fiction proofreader and copyeditor. She specializes in helping independent, self-publishing authors prepare their novels for market. Louise worked in-house for two international publishers for 13 years before setting up her editorial business. She has self-published several books on the business of editing and proofreading and runs the Craft Your Editorial Fingerprint series of online courses. You can find out more about her at www.louiseharnbyproofreader.com.

I chat to Louise about...

• How she has built up an online presence through consistent blogging over a number of years
• How she has dominated social media despite not being in a particularly 'social media-friendly' industry
• How blogging has benefited her business and personal brand
• How she has used Facebook Bots to better engage with her audience

Connect with Louise

On Twitter

On LinkedIn

Visit her website

YouTube channel

About Ahmed

Ahmed Khalifa is an experienced digital marketer with a keen passion for WordPress. With almost 10 years in the industry and working with local companies to national brands, Ahmed has helped a number to grow their online visibility. As an active member of the WordPress community, Ahmed also helps to contribute by attending the meetups, organising/volunteering at WordCamps and generally help everyone make the most out of their WordPress sites via his own site. 

In this episode I talk to Ahmed about...

Why WP is such a popular platform

How to get the most out of your WP site

The importance of quality content on your website

What we should be focusing on including on our home and about pages

he benefits of having a blog on your website.

Connect with Ahmed

On Facebook

On Twitter

On LinkedIn

Visit the Ignite Rock website

Resources

Wordcamp Events

KWFinder