#danknows - business podcast by Dan Holloway

If you've struggled with work/life balance... Struggled with working from home... Struggled with juggling home and work...

What's the one thing sooooo many business owners avoid like the plague...?

Let's dispel some of those pesky mindset gremlins, shall we?!

What is an omni-present personal brand? How do they work and what is their core purpose rooted in...?

Should you grow your business slow and steady, or do you need investment? Are you a lifestyle business, or are you a startup business?

Trust is all you need...! No those are not the opening lyrics from a song (although they could be! ha).

How many times have you bought something, agreed to something, or otherwise committed yourself... Then desperately regretted doing so!?

When should you consider hiring a team...? Is Outsourcing going to be a better route to getting the job done for you...?

How to you put together an offer within your business...?

If you're struggling to create content that maintains the attention of your audience...

Something that comes up more often than you may think... Is businesses structure in one way, but functioning in another.

Allow me to introduce you to Paul, my local window cleaner...!

What do you feel when you see people being attacked online by those keyboard warriors out there?

The DanKnows Vault (https://danknows.app) is my answer to what I see as a pandemic of unhelpful information-based marketers and their products.

In your business, what's the difference between growth and scale...?

Have you ever heard of Flywheel Marketing...? How about Growth Loops..? Viral Loops, perhaps...?

Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Business Coaches and Business Mentors...?

Do you need to be first into a market? Do you need to pick a niche where no one has ever started, grown or scaled a business before?

So this is something I get asked quite a lot. And I see questions around this in Facebook Groups (and other communities) even more often!

Spoiler Alert! - I'm not a fan of Business Plans... Like, at all! lol.

It's time for a soapbox moment... #sorrynotsorry lol.

In this episode we're going to be talking about system's being your friend, but only when they're effective. 

In today's episode, we're going to be talking about popular advice and how that often isn't good advice.

The dangers of pitching if you are a startup... That's the topic for today's episode, where are we going to be digging into the concept of pitching.

How do you lead your audience on a journey to becoming a paying client?

When you understand the customer journey, i.e. The journey that your customer, your ideal customer takes, from the point of not knowing that you exist, to being aware that you exist, to knowing that they want to sample your products or services, to them being a client.

The title of this episode is not quite a direct quote. I'm paraphrased slightly, but it's something I learned from a very, very smart guy by the name of Sun Tzu. 

There are two ways of looking at this.

Let's kick off todays episode with some advice on sales strategy, marketing and engagement.

In yesterdays show I talked about my mission, to help 1 Million Creative Entrepreneurs to earn a stable, diverse income, doing what they love...

Your business can often feel like your very own Mission Impossible movie...

Your business can often feel like your very own Mission Impossible movie...

Among all the downsides of Covid (of which there have been many!), there's no doubt the world of online business hasn't been more popular!

There were a few announcements made recently by Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram. And it's left parts of social media community a-buzz'in!!!

Digging into questions raised by entrepreneurs this past week.

Let's get ready to dispel some myths.

Not every business owner is READY to hear this.

Let's get real for a moment...

So let's be honest here...

Certainly in the world of online business, 'Funnel Hacking' is a term thrown around a hell of a lot!

Have you ever thought of systems and processes for your business, like talking to friends over a coffee?

The world is becoming more and more flooded with media.

How much time, effort and cash do you think is wasted unnecessarily...? And how much of that do you think could be avoided?

When you're looking to start, grow or scale your business. Few activities in your list of actions as an Entrepreneur are more important than understanding your target audience.

If you're a Creative Entrepreneur wanting to level-up your Entrepreneurial skills. Or use what you learn here to push your business into the next phase of its journey. Then you've come to the right place!