Hey Jonathan, really like how unscheduled the episodes are. It feels like something that everyone is missing in the podcast space.
A couch a room some drinks and ramble away and within that some useful little nuggets are discussed shared and loved. A chilled and laid back conversation where the only personality shines.
Hey Jonathan, are the free trainings you do as marketing hosted by you and AJ & Smart or do you partner with other organizations to help you promote to your target market?
Also do you host them only in person or also virtual? And again how to you get attendance either way? Partnership or just ads?
Thanks for the podcast again Jonathan. I do not have a question but wanted to make a comment on the whole 'being-unscheduled-as-a-CEO-thing'. It reminds me of a book I have been reading called Be Less Zombie by Elvin Turner. It is about innovation for leadership and one of the chapters is about the author having been in many board rooms and being surprised by the fact that so many top level people are busy with day-to-day stuff. But - in the book from the perspective of innovation - these are the people that should be busy with more 'visionary' things: learning about trends in society, technology, in politics etc. to be able to develop a strategy to guide the organization into the future. Day-to-day stuff should be on the to do list of the managers just below them in hierarchy. The whole unscheduled approach you discuss reminded me of this book. Looking forward to the next episode!
Jan 24, 2023·edited Jan 24, 2023Liked by Jonathan Courtney
Jonathan: if you thought Episode 2 was better than Episode 1, then you're not going to like this one!
Colm: Grrrr!
But in fact it isn't *that* bad. Lots and lots of good stuff in there, amongst the ramblings. Indeed, some of the best insights are buried within the ramblings. #waytogo
And I'm so glad to be a member of the Irishmen-wearing-Birkenstocks Club - 3 members so far: Pierce, Jonathan and I ;-)
1) I totally understand you when you say (well, when you write first, then read what you wrote...😆) that you actually enjoy working and don't enjoy as much other activities which are usually considered as fun activities, things you do to counter-balance your work side.
I am very similar to you: I like to come up with new strategies, new ideas, coming up with a new name, building a website...damn even checking for a domain availability is better than many other "fun activities"!
GaryVee expressed the same idea in a video (can't find it right now among his gazillions videos) but I think he said "I use all these businesses the way people use golf..."
2) while you were saying that you were reinvesting all the profit in the company, I told myself "Mmh, that's strange, he interviewed Jason Fried and that's not his philosophy". 4 seconds later you mentioned how Jason Fried manages the money from his company. ANYWAY, long story short: since you know you like to read stuff on your podcast, maybe you can read this piece written by Jason which very clearly explains their (Jason and DHH) point of view: https://medium.com/signal-v-noise/why-we-choose-profit-e511efc4dcb9
Hey Jonathan, I really liked the last two episodes. the topic work-life-integration aka how do i have social interaction while hustling resonates with me. I have no solutions for that, i can only 100% agree :-D
I learned that everybody likes to meet and hang around (private & business), but only a small percentages takes actions and created opportunities. When you create opportunities ("like to hang around?") people will happily join and thank you for that. Just like the article you were reading out loud: You have to actively manage that, otherwise it wont happen. Just like working out and other stuff...
Your selling strategy (free workshop with hard sell at the end) peaked my interested. Can you please dive deeper into that in later episodes? Like how did you end up doing that and why does it perform better than email/whatever marketing to landingpage?
Not planning on missing an episode but when you read an article verbatim I kinda fall asle….💤. Maybe just give us the TLDR version and more interested on your thoughts on it.
I have an idea to make it more interesting for next week, but sometimes it’ll be boring. Remember I only intend this podcast to be like “comfort noise” in the background. Thanks for sticking with it though!
Hey Jonathan, really like how unscheduled the episodes are. It feels like something that everyone is missing in the podcast space.
A couch a room some drinks and ramble away and within that some useful little nuggets are discussed shared and loved. A chilled and laid back conversation where the only personality shines.
Keep it going 🚀
Thanks a lot Velen!
Hey Jonathan, are the free trainings you do as marketing hosted by you and AJ & Smart or do you partner with other organizations to help you promote to your target market?
Also do you host them only in person or also virtual? And again how to you get attendance either way? Partnership or just ads?
We host them ourselves and are mostly virtual
Gotcha, thanks, Jonathan.
And you only market them to your current lists or spend on ads or something else?
Actually a lot of variation there, we have multiple layers of who we target for these campaigns. I’ll discuss it in detail on next weeks podcast.
🙌
Thanks for the podcast again Jonathan. I do not have a question but wanted to make a comment on the whole 'being-unscheduled-as-a-CEO-thing'. It reminds me of a book I have been reading called Be Less Zombie by Elvin Turner. It is about innovation for leadership and one of the chapters is about the author having been in many board rooms and being surprised by the fact that so many top level people are busy with day-to-day stuff. But - in the book from the perspective of innovation - these are the people that should be busy with more 'visionary' things: learning about trends in society, technology, in politics etc. to be able to develop a strategy to guide the organization into the future. Day-to-day stuff should be on the to do list of the managers just below them in hierarchy. The whole unscheduled approach you discuss reminded me of this book. Looking forward to the next episode!
Jonathan: if you thought Episode 2 was better than Episode 1, then you're not going to like this one!
Colm: Grrrr!
But in fact it isn't *that* bad. Lots and lots of good stuff in there, amongst the ramblings. Indeed, some of the best insights are buried within the ramblings. #waytogo
And I'm so glad to be a member of the Irishmen-wearing-Birkenstocks Club - 3 members so far: Pierce, Jonathan and I ;-)
The Birkenstock club is the ONLY real club
Hey Jonathan,
Two things regarding episode n.2:
1) I totally understand you when you say (well, when you write first, then read what you wrote...😆) that you actually enjoy working and don't enjoy as much other activities which are usually considered as fun activities, things you do to counter-balance your work side.
I am very similar to you: I like to come up with new strategies, new ideas, coming up with a new name, building a website...damn even checking for a domain availability is better than many other "fun activities"!
GaryVee expressed the same idea in a video (can't find it right now among his gazillions videos) but I think he said "I use all these businesses the way people use golf..."
2) while you were saying that you were reinvesting all the profit in the company, I told myself "Mmh, that's strange, he interviewed Jason Fried and that's not his philosophy". 4 seconds later you mentioned how Jason Fried manages the money from his company. ANYWAY, long story short: since you know you like to read stuff on your podcast, maybe you can read this piece written by Jason which very clearly explains their (Jason and DHH) point of view: https://medium.com/signal-v-noise/why-we-choose-profit-e511efc4dcb9
Best!
For next episode: Do you think passion is overrated?
Hahaha YES but will go deeper in the episode
For the next one:
• What games are you playing?
• Any favourites?
• What's good for single player what's good for multiplayer?
FINALLY A QUESTION ABOUT GAMES!
Hey Jonathan, I really liked the last two episodes. the topic work-life-integration aka how do i have social interaction while hustling resonates with me. I have no solutions for that, i can only 100% agree :-D
I learned that everybody likes to meet and hang around (private & business), but only a small percentages takes actions and created opportunities. When you create opportunities ("like to hang around?") people will happily join and thank you for that. Just like the article you were reading out loud: You have to actively manage that, otherwise it wont happen. Just like working out and other stuff...
Your selling strategy (free workshop with hard sell at the end) peaked my interested. Can you please dive deeper into that in later episodes? Like how did you end up doing that and why does it perform better than email/whatever marketing to landingpage?
Thanks and looking forward to the next one.
Oliver
I can do a breakdown of the Livestream im doing tonight next week if that helps!
yes please!
deal!
Not planning on missing an episode but when you read an article verbatim I kinda fall asle….💤. Maybe just give us the TLDR version and more interested on your thoughts on it.
I have an idea to make it more interesting for next week, but sometimes it’ll be boring. Remember I only intend this podcast to be like “comfort noise” in the background. Thanks for sticking with it though!