We've talked about it before. It took me more than a few tries to finally quit my last day job.

The day Laurel quit was a bit easier. But it's never easy.

If you're thinking of quitting your day job, this episode of RED Podcast has some ways to make it as smooth as possible...

What You'll Learn:

- The biggest "money" problem that hurts (and sometimes kills) the newly self-employed
- An entrepreneurship lesson from retail stores you should learn
- The formula that will get you clear on your money situation
- You need to get clear on two things -- your "big idea" and this...
- Why entrepreneurs should be on eBay (even if you're not in the "auction" business)
- Is your "big idea" a good one? Here's how to tell...
- A good reason to launch a business on Kickstarter (even if you have the money you need already)
- Why you want to work with as many clients as possible -- especially is you're newly self-employed
- The importance of surrounding yourself with good people (it sounds obvious, but we give you specific reasons why this is a must)
- Frat Guy Marketing and how you can use it (even if you think frat guys are idiots)
- Different ways to approach people (and tell them about your business)

RED - Real Entrepreneur Development - RED 065: How To Quit Your Job - Part 1 (made with Spreaker)

This is Part 2 of a two-part series on how to quit your day job. Part 1 is here.

If you’re thinking of quitting your day job, this episode of RED Podcast has some ways to make it as smooth as possible…

What You'll Learn:

- Why David quit 26 jobs (and why one only lasted two hours)
- Easy ways to create a professional presence (even if you still have a day job)
- How Laurel can instantly tell if somebody is a professional or a hobbyist...
- A way your wife (or your husband) can really screw up your business
- How much business cards at Vistaprint actually cost (even if you get them "free")
- What a business card from Vistaprint says about your business
- Why you don't need a business phone line (but why you should have one)
- Want to pay more money for everything you buy? Do this...
- Business lessons from Laurel's "secret project"
- Why we screw up explaining our own businesses (and how to fix this)
- Have somebody who doesn't understand your business? Here's a way to fix that...
- Something you want to start practicing ASAP...
- This skill will help you with your personal relationship (and we'll show you how to practice it)
- You don't want to be that guy...
- A good reason to burn a bridge

RED - Real Entrepreneur Development - RED 066: How To Quit Your Job - Part 2 (made with Spreaker)

Want to start a business? You can do it in a week.

Or can you?

A new book called The 7 Day Startup says it's possible and we talk about the good, bad, and ugly of actually doing this on this episode of RED Podcast...

What You'll Learn:

- Why you want to talk to your customers (and it has nothing to do with "customer service")
- The real reason why people big SUVs (it's not the reason they'll tell you)
- Can you really launch a new business in seven days?
- A good thing about Kickstarter (something more valuable than the money)
- Why you may want to take longer than seven days to launch your business (even if seven days is an option for you)
- Is it possible to make a bad first impression? Yes, but here's the truth about how it actually happens...
- Nine elements of a bootstrapped business idea (we'll cover a few of them)
- The #1 thing you should think about before starting a new company
- This is more important than money
- 14 business rules to live by (you're already doing one of them for sure)

RED - Real Entrepreneur Development - RED 067: The 7-Day Startup (made with Spreaker)

Want to get connected to somebody in your industry? This is the episode for you...

We talk about ways to establish and maintain good business connections. You'll learn how to establish trust quickly and keep people from people skeptical when you first reach out to them.

This is our final episode with the "split studio" setup where we're in two different locations. In honor of that, we kept the editing a bit looser than normal when the UPS guy interrupted our recording with his delivery.

Ironically, he was delivering the final components of our brand new studio, which is where we'll be recording RED Podcast from now on.

What You'll Learn:

- Want to get connected with a specific person? Ask yourself this question...
- How to get a response from the people you reach out to
- What to "research" before contacting people
- The best way to "shortcut" your learning curve (at anything)
- A good way to meet experts who can help you
- Laurel's "rule" for making connections with people (you can start this on a new connection right now)
- The "Bone" and how it works
- If you're trying to reach out to people, here are some things to keep in mind...
- Why David never answers the phone
- A likely reason why you're not getting responses from people you reach out to
- How to relieve skepticism in people you make contact with
- The best way to be annoying to people

RED - Real Entrepreneur Development - RED 068: How To Make Connections (made with Spreaker)

Want more customers? Want to keep current customers coming back again and again?

This is the episode for you! We give you several ideas you can "steal" to start getting more customers today.

What You'll Learn:

- This will guarantee your new business succeeds...
- The best way to come up with good ideas for a business (or a new invention)
- How big should your market be?
- Starting a new business? Here's the first thing you should do...
- Two ways to give customer testimonials (the second one makes the first 10x more powerful)
- The best way to guarantee your product or service
- If you don't have this down, nobody will come back
- You can't lose with this...
- A good way to show customers you appreciate them

RED - Real Entrepreneur Development - RED 069: How To Get More Customers (made with Spreaker)

Want to sell more from your website?

Alex Harris wrote a book called Boost E-commerce Sales and Make More Money that has 300 tips for you to sell more from your website and get more people to sign up for your mailing list. In this episode, we talk about some of his advice and give our thoughts the subject.

This is our second episode in our new studio and we're still working a few kinks out. For one, the new mics are a little hotter than what we were using previously and we're still getting used to them. So if something clips, that's why! 

Want to make your website more effective? This is a great episode to listen to!

What You'll Learn:

- What to focus on when people come to your website (or open an email from you)
- A common "SEO mistake" that is killing your sales
- The only two questions you need to ask customers (and they must be done in this order)
- People make fun of this kind of website, but it makes money...
- Don't do this
- A good way to screw up your sales (and your life)
- What happens when people make assumptions (HINT: it's not sales)
- Are you copying the wrong person?
- The little things that will give you away (it busted a US spy)
- How to research customers via Amazon
- Two types of websites -- which one do you have? (you can't have both)
- Like a woman (or a man), prettier isn't always better... We'll tell you why!
- $30,000/month from an ugly website (and the dude of the front page isn't even alive anymore)
- A website mistake from my drug dealing friend (don't do this!)
- How a $12,000,000 business was built...
- Why David doesn't buy domains from GoDaddy
- This will go a long way to helping you increase your website conversion (and it has nothing to do with your website)

RED - Real Entrepreneur Development - RED 070: How To Sell More From The Web (made with Spreaker)

Rich people do stuff that poor people don't. Beyond that, rich people have an outlook on life that poor people don't.

If you want to make more money and have greater "wealth" in your life, you need to do certain things. In this episode of RED Podcast, those certain things are exactly what we talk about.

NOTE FROM DAVID: This is the third episode in our new studio and we're still getting used to working with the new equipment. My side of this one is a bit "hot" and clips much more than it should (which is never). Apologies...

What You'll Learn:

- How to be an early riser
- Why rich people wake up early (it's not what you think)
- The truth about meetings (and the only time when you should attend one)
- How to "respect" money (and why you want to do this)
- This will make it easier to get "hard work" done
- A good reason (used by Hollywood celebrities) to take on a new opportunity
- Why you don't want to get rich (or famous) too quickly
- Is bigger better? Not in this case!
- Don't have what you want in life? We'll tell you why.
- Stingy rich people vs. generous rich people
- This freaks some rich people out (and made one guy I met completely paranoid)

RED - Real Entrepreneur Development - RED 071: Rich People Habits (made with Spreaker)

How to build your business and make more money with tested strategies for passive income, outsourcing, social media, building trust, email marketing, time management, goal setting, book publishing, viral marketing, and product development.

We will help you find the "hidden money" in your business.

This podcast isn't about tricks or shortcuts -- this podcast is about strategies that really work. RED is where the "four-hour work week" really exists.