Aston Merrygold: Rob Interviews with Global Pop Star from JLS [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]
Disruptors17 Juni 2018

Aston Merrygold: Rob Interviews with Global Pop Star from JLS [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Interview with Aston Merrygold, former member of JLS, one of the biggest ever boy bands with 10,000,000 records sold. Aston’s since been a judge on a dance talent show and appeared on Strictly Come Dancing. He’s appeared in adverts for Coca-Cola, Samsung and Tesco. Rob’s met with Aston at his dance studio in Vauxhall to discuss success, wealth, leveraging social media, reinventing your career and dealing with the business side of celebrity. KEY TAKEAWAYS You’re now pursuing a career as a solo artist, that must be different to working with your bandmates. I bet there’s upsides and downsides, do you want to talk about that Aston? Yeah, I guess the only real difference is the social. you'd be in a room with your friends, business partners, having a heated business discussion, everyone's got their own ideas and nothing ever arrives to arguments or blows, but from an outside perspective it can be quite awkward. It looks like we're going at each other, but that's just the passion. Now on my own, it's my way or the highway. I prefer it that way, 100%! I'm so thankful to the rest of the guys and my team, but now being on my own I can finally be myself and express myself fully, not contribute 25% to a four-piece. How do you want to be known and remembered, Aston? Well, I want to be remembered as one of the greats, and I think if you don't want that, then you're in the wrong industry. If I could have an eighth, a third or a slice of something someone like Michael Jackson had or Justin Timberlake, more recently. If I could get a slice of their success, I'd be more than happy! Music or dance specifically, or the fusion of both, Aston? Do you know what? I think it's just entertainment. People ask me what I do for a living, and I tell them entertainment. It's everything, music, from a writing perspective, from a performance perspective, dance-wise, acting, everything. I love everything to do with this industry. Working with business partners, sometimes that passion can overflow, sometimes you can fall out, how did you and your band learn to deal with and overcome that? To be honest, I don't know why, we just did! There was no learning process. As individuals we just wanted to fight the good fight. We would put it to each other like, "If we do this we could be here, if we do that we could be there..." It was all about where we needed to be. What was best for us as a collective. I was the youngest of the four so I tended not to take things as seriously, when it came to the business aspect I was more than happy to give my opinion and not back down, but ultimately I thought that was why we outsourced, hiring business managers, administrators and consultants, to make those decisions on our behalf. How much of it was agents and labels telling you what to do and how much of it was you saying, "Wait a minute, we want to do this." Well, I'd say about 50\50. We were trusted with our opinions which was great. There were times when we trusted the label, sometimes great, sometimes not so great. Just the way of the industry. Sometimes our hits which we didn't think would succeed were massive and other times the releases we thought would be huge just didn't hit the mark. Luck of the draw, half the time. We would have to trust our lives to these people and we had a great run, I think I can speak on behalf of myself and the boys when I say it was the best thing we'd ever done. So, from your position, why do you guys feel like you moved on? I think it was the perfect turn, I'm still in JLS, I'm always going to be in JLS, but we were young when we entered the industry, then we got our break. We're all now in our mid 20's, we've already had a fantastic career, we have time to pursue other dreams! Five albums take a lot of time, there's been a lot of tours and it was the thought of signing the deal for another five albums and being contracted all over again. Now we're all starting families, it seemed to us that we were at the top of our game, didn't want to overstay our welcome and then if we're welcome back then we're welcome back! We're more than happy with where JLS left.Was it scary, leaving the industry to try other things? Hell yeah! It was so scary, because I'd been cocooned. For the last 7/8 years I'd lived by the diary, having cars pick me up at certain times to take me to meetings and events at certain times. From life being handled by every aspect to getting the reigns back to my own life was definitely scary, but I was free. I got to start again with all the knowledge and wisdom of the industry which I didn't have before, it was a rush! You seem totally laid back about transitioning career and going from being massive to starting from scratch, Aston. What would you say to people who aren't as laid back as you and they're scared? Well, you can look at fear one or two ways; it can over could you and make you introverted, or you can take it upon yourself and admit it's scary. There's a difference jumping out of a plane with a parachute and without one. Regardless of whether you have one or not, it's scary. Jumping without one, it'll only ever end one way, with one you still have a safety net which may not work but at least you confront it and take it head on. Nowadays on Social Media you can be absolutely killed. One wrong remark or faux-pas and that could be your career done within a matter of hours, regardless of what's happened. It's as cut-throat as that. Once you realise and know that, life won't be so stressful! You might as well just be like, "Alright, well I'll try again." Is that faith? Is that belief in yourself? Is that confidence? Is that accepting of your industry and career and how it can be or is it all of those, Aston? It's all of them, it has to be. Sometimes I can see the bad sides of all those things within the industry and think you can be too confident. You might as well be naked on stage and say, "There you go, judge away." Has the industry changed you? Yeah, definitely. I used to go out with my mates from uni, early twenties, same as everyone else. The only difference was that I was I had money so we could really enjoy ourselves and the media perceived me to be showing off. What else would you be doing on a weekend with your friends from uni at that age, going out every night obviously! Do I have work tomorrow? Yeah of course, but I'm fine! So you've talked about these glass ceilings to smash through, what's your glass ceiling and how're you going to smash through it? The next glass ceiling is just getting music out there. Letting people know that I'm a solo artist now. Not many people know it. Music's based mainly online now, it's ever-changing and you can so quickly and easily get lost. It's me having the courage to step back and take a harder look at it and evaluating how I want to approach it. At first I was like, "Yeah I want to chuck anything out and do whatever." Whereas now I'm like, "Now I have to chuck it out in the right way." Do you think some of the purists struggle with how fast music and content are changing? Yes! I had a meeting the other day with a great friend of mine who works for a label and he got pissed off with me for talking on my phone. He said, "Stop talking, I've heard your stuff, let people hear it and decide!" Get your content out there. Whether 10 people here it or 10,000,000 people hear it, you'll effect change. People think they should wait for the perfect time but there is not perfect time. It's ever-changing, so fast paced! People are now starting to put their own truth out to the world. Podcasts, YouTube, Social Media, etc. People want honesty, but you're damned if you do and damned if you don't if when for example your niche is writing sad songs and you decide to write a happy one, some of your followers may disapprove but at least you're being authentic. Too often we aim to please everybody and don't want to be judged too harshly. A lot of people are really intrigued about the business side of your career, did you show an interest in that or did you just want to go and do entertainment? At first, I was definitely happy-go-lucky, thinking business was cool but then I'd get invited to an accounting meeting and I'd think, "Perfect..." Then the taxes came and I wanted to know who was taking my money! As it went on I wondered why hadn't they taught me about this at school? All these avenues and options, I don't know why it took me to reach a certain age for it to click. In the early stages money was coming in thick and fast, unreal! First I was partying, then I wanted to buy a house, then the business aspect start to get more real. Then I started to analyse why the volume of gigs in the first part of the year was more than the third part of the year, etc. I started to realise there was a business cycle behind it all. A preparation period, a release period, etc. A template every artist follows. People are launching from yesterday. "I'm gonna be in the studio tomorrow, everyone out there, check out this song that I posted last night." The rule book's been thrown out the window! Slade wrote a Christmas number one 40 years ago and they're still milking £500,000 per year from it! Cristiano Ronaldo gets €300,000 per tweet if he does a brand endorsement. There's some downsides to Social Media but if you want to set up a business or be an artist or creative, surely it's gotta be the best time in history?! You get a small tripod for £5, set your camera up, start singing or dancing or whatever and start selling products! Have you embraced all the Social Media, are you quite active? Instagram and visual things I love, things like Twitter, not so much. For me, Twitter's maybe 90% negative and 10% positive. You get a lot of opinions when people post music but aren't ready to perform in front of large crowds of people. You want to be true to your art and your work and you could spend 30 years crafting your work, never be perfect, get still always be judged by purist critics. Social Media today, you can dictate the terms. If you like the comments, get involved. If you hate it, turn it off, if you're an introvert you can do a podcast because nobody can see your face! There's ways around it now, there's lanes, avenues, ways people can really express themselves. Building multiple streams of income and making hay while the sun shines. I've seen a lot a lot of people who've become very successful and then relaxed. You never know when there could be another recession. In your world Aston, you can be the best and then you can be gone. Do you think about building income streams, having multiple business interest endorsements? What are your thoughts on streams of income and making hay while the sun shines? I'm 110% up for building these streams of income. As an artist I choose when I get paid. If I don't want to get paid, I don't go out and work. It doesn't work for me. You're never too successful! There's always bills to pay and people to provide for. We're sitting in one of my avenues now. There's always a bigger picture. I'd like ten of these, dotted around the country, dotted around the world. You've got a business partner in this venture. How important is having that business partner, what benefit have you got? It's nice to always have the other perspective, coming from a band it's nice to bounce ideas. At the same time, when I'm touring, I need someone to hold down the fort. If something comes up within the business which I can't handle straight away, he can handle that. It's nice having a business partner that's totally on your wavelength. Gold dust! People say you shouldn't go into business with friends. I say life's too short to go into business with people purely for commercial benefit and not enjoy your time together, especially if you succeed. Surely, you'd want to succeed with your friends and people you care about?! If they're true friends, you'll never run into any worries. They'll all eventually show their true colours. The best advice you've ever received, if you can remember it? From Seal, actually. One of the greats. He told me, "Enjoy it." Regardless of whether you're performing in front of 50 people at a local concert or 50,000 in an arena, enjoy it. We're all rushing everything we ever do, so slow down, soak it up. Worst advice? Honestly, I've never had bad advice. If I've ever had advice which didn't go according to plan, I'd learn from it, which would be invaluable anyway. Going against my gut always bites me. A myth about the industry or a celebrity or someone in the media which most people don't know about? When you get £1,000,000 you don't actually get £1,000,000! Why didn't they teach you in school that if you're an employee, when you get paid, you lose 40% to tax?! Management, agents, staff, whomever it may be, they all get a slice too. So once all of the overheads are cleared you're left with around £200,000/£300,000... Don't ever believe the newspapers! If I did six or seven of those gigs, then I'd be looking at earning that kind of money. Anything you strongly believe in the world that you'd like to change and put your stamp on? The Social Media is such a curse and such a blessing at the same time. People use it for so much good but at the same time you have to filter through so much rubbish and negativity to find any scrap of it. I'd like to put more filters and choice for people. The theme that's emerged in this interview is that there's two sides to this reality. Social media is a bit negative, but we can put our products and content out to the world in five minutes. Celebrity's all good or celebrity's all bad... There's a choice. You can always choose how you look at things and approach them. What does the word disruptive mean to you? Now? A four-and-a-half-month old baby screaming at 2am! Personally, for me being disruptive is probably more of a good thing. Music is always disrupting the airways and people's vision and hears. Music that disrupts popular, conventional music creates its own undefined genre. I enjoy proving that there aren't any rules! BEST MOMENTS The best thing about building a dance studio underneath a railway bridge is that there’s no sound restrictions, so if clients want to have their music playing at top volume, they can. It's good that clients hear music going on when they arrive, if it was silent then it'd feel like something was wrong. The smell adds to it too! I never felt the need to push buttons. If someone was feeling a bit tender over a business decision or something similar, I'd tend to back off and give them some time and space. There's no ceiling. Every ceiling you see is made of glass and if you don't smash through it then you're going to get stuck. I'm going to invest in myself instead of waiting for years for the knock on the door from the big label. Everybody's putting their stuff out through their own means. That one bad review out of the 1,000 decent ones really doesn't matter! Don't fixate on it. If I sit out home all day, doing nothing, it's not long before the phone stops ringing. I have to go out, make myself known, do shows, take appointments, etc. because if I don't do it now then my family will be in trouble. Focus yourself on what you've got, not what you've not got. I realised Social Media was a daily thing. Instagram, Twitter, people wanted to see all of you, not just the music. Sometimes I would grow my hair for campaigns, sometimes you'd see a yearly cycle within a day! As you said, happiness is a choice. Now it feels like, well that's just common sense, why would I not want to be happy? It's quite alluring and tempting, the gossip, the bad news, it's an attractive thing for some people. When my little boy came along, I thought he needs everything I didn't have when I was growing up, regardless of whether I can buy it right now or not. [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter https://robmoore.com/podbooks rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

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How to Build Your Business (& Assets) From Scratch (LIVE) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

How to Build Your Business (& Assets) From Scratch (LIVE) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Discover today how to build your assets and business if you are starting from scratch. Listen in today as Rob discusses how creating a minimum viable product which is good and not perfect, can allow your business to evolve, how to utilise social media platforms as well as understanding why it is vital to create a personal brand.   KEY TAKEAWAYS When it comes to products and services where there are no strict health and safety regulations (unlike the aviation and medical industries) then you can create a product that is good enough. Creating a product or service that is good enough is better than having no product at all. Use the mantra ‘start now and get perfect later’.   Minimum viable products (MVP) can still be really good value, as long as you create the fair exchange price. Once you have created your product or service you then seek second, third and fourth-round feedback. Use this feedback to improve your product or service incrementally and then relaunch.   If you ensure that you are utilising social media by having active profiles on each platform, then you will naturally gain a wide followership. Focus your attention on the platforms where you seem to get the best engagement, more followers and the one that brings you the most enquiries.   Creating a personal brand is vital. A personal brand is where you have some influence, status and reach in your industry as well as being a commentator on your respective industry. All your investment in a personal brand and all the content you put out there really pays off in the long run. Creating a personal brand may take a long time but eventually, you will get ‘first-mover advantage’.   To create a successful and profit yielding business, you need to have creativity and innovation. Another great way to make money without money is in trademarks or intellectual property. What is it you know that can convert into money? When you understand your unique talents and genius and convert that latent money into cash money, then you are able to make money without having money.   BEST MOMENTS “You want to be in the markets where your clients are in.” “We don’t want to engage with Coca Cola, we will drink their drinks but we don’t want to engage online and have a debate with Coca Cola. We want to engage online with whoever the owner of coca-cola is.” “You don’t need money to create money.”   [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

23 Aug 202032min

Caffeine Cast: The One Secret to Scaling ANY Business [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Caffeine Cast: The One Secret to Scaling ANY Business [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Discover today what the one way to scale your business is. Listen today as Rob discusses how any business can use this technique to scale their business while maintaining a brilliant reputation in their market. Learn how to listen to your customers’ feedback, learning of your products' inadvertent problems and how solving these problems can allow you to scale your business to become the best in your market.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Your company needs to be able to listen to your clients’ complaints and therefore will need to learn how to solve these problems. Many companies do not necessarily mean to annoy you, they mean to serve you. However, there may still be inadvertent problems with the service. If you ignore these problems you are not serving your clients in the best way possible.   Figure out solutions to your customer’s problems and create a new version of your product or service which has overcome the inadvertent problem and then your customers will be grateful. Customers will be thankful and will continue to use your service in the future.   Ask your customers questions and for their feedback. Care about them enough to want to be able to find out what their pains and problems are. You have to put your own ego and defensiveness away, and understand that your product or service will create inadvertent and accidental problems for the consumer.   You then need to market that these problems have been solved and communicate that to your customers. You then continue to solve problems that your customers may have. Continuously do polls, surveys and speak to your clients about your product, taking responsibility for mistakes that may have occurred and learn to overcome them. If you continue to do that you will have a scaled and connected business that really meets your client’s needs.   BEST MOMENTS “Listen to your clients, ask them questions and care about them.” “It is not just fixing the problem it is about communicating that you fixed the problem.” “Then you win and become the biggest player in your market.”   [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

20 Aug 202013min

What Freedom REALLY is (& is NOT) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

What Freedom REALLY is (& is NOT) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Have you always thought that to achieve freedom, you must get rid of all your responsibilities and accountability? Well, listen in to today's episode as Rob explains why responsibility actually equals freedom. Discover today how you can achieve freedom by learning to concentrate your thoughts and accept ridicule as well as focusing your mind on all the wonderful things you have in your life rather than focusing on the negatives.   KEY TAKEAWAYS When you are always looking for something, you are not free. Stop looking at the destination for freedom, stop looking at the people, lack of responsibility and lack of accountability. Your greatest sense of achievement usually happens as a result of doing something meaningful and challenging.   There are two things that freedom really is. Firstly it is the ability to concentrate your thoughts. Focus on the lessons, not the problems as well as focusing on what you are grateful for. This will create a shift in your awareness from scarcity to abundance. Secondly, freedom is the bravery and acceptance of being disliked, ridiculed and rejected, acceptance of this can allow you to be free.   Break your addictions such as social media, overwhelming thoughts and obsessing over your competition. Take all these thoughts and start practicing changing the focus of your concentration. Each time you feel your mind going into a doomsday mode and you begin to start worrying and panicking, acknowledge it and learn to change that awareness to feelings of value and self-worth as well as focusing on all the good things in your life   No matter who you are or what you do, you will always be disliked. Some people will love you and some will loathe you. Once you truly accept that you are able to be yourself and present a true version of you to the world. The courage and bravery it takes to truly be yourself is the ultimate freedom because when you are truly yourself you are not trapped in the imposition of others or society.   When you let go of the perceptions of others, you free up space in your head. The fear of ridicule and judgment occupies thought. As well as being free to say and do as you want (and the liberation that goes alongside that), you also have free time in your head to concentrate on yourself and your own happiness.   BEST MOMENTS “I have had an intense search on freeing myself from the confines of my own mind and fears despite business being amazing.”   “You always want to follow the people who have been there. Sometimes the people who have been there, have to have been through the pain.”   “Isn’t it liberating to say and do things knowing that they are right in your heart, without guilt, without shame and without second-guessing yourself all the time.”   [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

18 Aug 202028min

The Worst Advice I've Ever Been Given [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

The Worst Advice I've Ever Been Given [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Have you ever reflected on your life journey and thought about the worst advice was that you have ever been given? Join Rob today as he looks back on some of the advice he has received on his business journey and how it turned out to be completely wrong. Find out today why it is sometimes important to give up on things that aren’t getting you anywhere in life, how good advice can actually become bad advice if given in the wrong context and why it is important to have multiple streams of income rather than focusing solely on one business model.   KEY TAKEAWAYS The advice “Never give up” is not always good advice. Sometimes in life, you have to give up things in order to move on. You need to give up things that aren’t working for you and the things you are holding onto as these are not necessarily things that are good for you. Never give up on your dreams and never give up on yourself but you should give up bad habits, triggers, bad investments and uncontrollable emotions.   Many people will say ‘ideas are nothing without action’, that is not always true. You will not be successful unless you take action and you should implement what you learn however there is going to be a large amount of unconscious learning. However, if you keep educating yourself, you may feel as though you are not implementing every single action step but unconsciously you will be, and you will also be building up your knowledge bank for when you need it.   It is really risky just to become completely dependent on one business model, or one business niche because what if that suddenly gets disrupted or you are unable to perform the job due to illness. You need multiple streams of income and you need to be diversified in your investments. Purely focusing on one area of success is extreme advice and extreme advice can become bad advice.   Many business owners and employers still live by the advice “always hire on attitude over experience” this is not always good advice as you may end up with the wrong person for the role. If the person you are interviewing is perhaps a little bit quirky or are not much of a people person then this is fine so long as this is not a key part of their role. As long as the person is good at their job and their personality does not affect this then it should not really matter.   Often, when you are not feeling great in yourself you can transmit that into other areas of your life. You need to be able to compartmentalise and not let other things derail you or make you have a lower belief in yourself and stop you from doing what you do, and doing it well. Many entrepreneurs are really impatient and sometimes they become self-destructive because they push too hard for things, short term fears and impatience can really affect you. BEST MOMENTS “The funny thing about good advice is that it can be bad advice for the wrong person or in the wrong context. In the same way, bad advice can be good advice if it is put in the right context.” “Filling your brain with really good ideas and really good information, courses, podcasts and audiobooks, is never wasted. It is always there locked into the back of your brain for when you are ready.” “You are one good idea, and one inspired idea away from really changing things.”   [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

16 Aug 202042min

Caffeine Cast: How To Be Unique [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Caffeine Cast: How To Be Unique [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Discover today how identifying your uniqueness can set you apart in a saturated market. Join Rob today as he outlines how you can extract your own uniqueness by drawing on your own life experience, asking friends, family and previous clients why they think you’re unique and how you can use this to your advantage.   KEY TAKEAWAYS One reason why it is important to show your uniqueness is that it will differentiate you in a crowded market, and it will differentiate you from the rest. Secondly, being unique is great leverage and makes you memorable to your clients. The more memorable you are, the more reach you will gain for your business and thus your marketing costs will be lower. In order to extract your own uniqueness, you must first listen to what other people find different and unique about you. Use your social media resources to find out what people like about you and what they find unique about you. Use these answers to find out what people are consistently saying about your product or service that is unique to others in your market. Look at your own personal experiences in life when identifying your uniqueness. The life you have led makes you who you are which is a uniqueness in itself. Honour who you are and think about what you bring to your business that others don’t by looking at your previous life experiences and drawing on them. What do you do, that is different? And how do you do it differently? Have you figured out a way to market yourself differently? Or perhaps you have hybridised two existing ideas, to create your own unique one. Look at your niche and think about how you are different from the others and how you can disrupt your niche.   BEST MOMENTS “With a lot of people, maybe they are not really sure why they’re better, different or credible. When you extract those out of yourself it gives you more confidence.” “Being unique isn’t just about being one in seven billion.” “You are you, and you do you.”   [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

13 Aug 202022min

Caffeine Cast: A Great Way to Build Credibility for You/Your Business [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Caffeine Cast: A Great Way to Build Credibility for You/Your Business [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Discover today how writing a book can be the best way to boost your credibility amongst your peers and customers. In today’s episode, Rob outlines how many entrepreneurs struggle to scale their business and create credibility within their niche market. Learn today how writing a book can change all that, why people will acknowledge your hard work with admiration and why a book can sell you better than you could ever sell yourself.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Many entrepreneurs struggle to scale their businesses as they are worried about their credibility and perhaps have inner conflict about how worthy they are in their niche in comparison to others. The best way to create credibility and show your consumers that you have knowledge within your niche is to write a book.   Writing a book is hard work. There is no shortcut to writing 150,000 words. There are many different genres of books you can write; it does not necessarily have to be specific to your business niche, it could perhaps be an autobiography or a fiction crime thriller.   When you write a book, all you really know more of, is how to write a book. However, this leaves an impact on other people in your industry as they perceive this to mean that you are an expert in your niche, you are a hard worker and you have become more credible to them. It will sell you better than you can ever sell yourself.   Anything that sells you is a better sales vehicle than you because people know that you have an ulterior motive. Once your book is out there it is an asset which will continue to grow for years to come. Writing a book is like planting an oak tree and over 20 or more years it is only going to grow bigger and bear more rewards.   BEST MOMENTS “It is easy to get a Trustpilot review, it is easy to do a Live, but it is hard to write a book.” “When you have written a book people will look at you and think ‘you know what, well done that was hard’.” “Once your book is out there, it is a vast asset.”   [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

11 Aug 202011min

How to be a Social media Influencer (15 Advanced Tactics) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

How to be a Social media Influencer (15 Advanced Tactics) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

It is no secret that social media has taken over the world and has changed the way we consume media, it has even opened up a whole new job market which allows people to use social media as a full-time career. Join Rob today as he describes how you can become a social media influencer by using these 15 tactics. Discover how to attract big guests to interview on your podcast or YouTube channel, the importance of posting engaging content more regularly and how to repurpose your existing content.    KEY TAKEAWAYS It has been proven that if you go through struggles, people will want to support you. The harder something is for you to achieve, the more people will support and encourage you. Social media challenges have become increasingly popular among consumers. The more challenging something is the more people will view it as a worthy item to view.   There are a few techniques you can try in order to attract big guests for your YouTube channel or your podcast. Things such as using Instagram DM’s on a Sunday evening has proven to be effective. Voice memos are sometimes effective as this offers a pattern interrupt in comparison to a text message. Finally, getting connected via others in the industry works well by using your network.   If you want to be a real social media influencer, then you have got to up your game on your content. Take your content from one a week to three a week and eventually up to one a day per platform. Upping the volume of your content really helps to grow your audience and engagement. Learn how different social media platforms use different algorithms, which will dictate how much reach you can get when you start to increase your social media presence.   Interviews are a great way to boost your social media influence as it allows you to be next to really successful people. The great thing about doing one interview is that you can leverage the content and use it on a variety of different platforms meaning you are able to create a much bigger perception of your reach and influence. The great thing about interviews is that it is not just about the good content you receive from the guest but it allows you to reach their audience as well.   Anything that you believe that is different, surprising and against the masses will become a popular social media post. Content detailing your contrarian views on why you think something is wrong or how you believe you can disprove something will allow you to gain a larger reach for your post as it makes consumers stop and think and open up for discussion.   Repurpose long-form content. You may create one piece of content, and be able to find six or seven uses for it by utilising all of your various social media platforms. The longer-form content you have, the more repurposable it will become as you can cut and edit the original content to create a number of different pieces which again, you can utilise throughout various social media channels. Repurposing content will make it seem as though you are on social media all day long when in reality you are likely to be active for just 90 minutes.   BEST MOMENTS   “Ultimately to be an influencer, you have to be watchable.”   “Don’t be scared to shoot for the big fish.”   “People will share things that make them look good. This is really important.”   “The more time I spend on social media the more it seems to benefit me, my brand, my reach and my exposure.”   [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

9 Aug 20201h 3min

Caffeine Cast: The Single Best Way to Get More Sales (& More Clients) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Caffeine Cast: The Single Best Way to Get More Sales (& More Clients) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Are you wondering how to generate more sales and create a larger customer base, but don’t know how? Rob tells us how you can use referrals and ambassador programmes to get more sales and build a loyal client base. Whilst many people wait for referrals, Rob details the importance of actively seeking them, learning the right time to ask for a recommendation and what rewards you can offer the referrer as an incentive.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Referrals are people who are offered to you as a genuine lead. Many people wait for recommendations, what you should be doing is actively seeking them. To do this you must firstly offer a great service at a great value so that your customers are grateful and they want to refer people. You need to seek out testimonials and recommendations. Wait until your client is at their highest point of gratitude, service or value. Some people will try for a testimonial as soon as they have closed the sale, however, the client may not have experienced the product yet and so there is a risk doing this. Make sure the risk is low and then people will do it with much less friction. Reward the referrer. Create some personalisation with each referral, perhaps by sending a thank you card, hamper or gift. Monetary rewards are favoured for those who will accept them such as commission programmes or bonus’ for good referrals. Ask your referrer’s for case studies, because you are trying to get people like them. Your best new clients are going to be the same as your best existing clients. Make sure you keep a leader board of all your top clients, get them to create case studies for you so that their stories will resonate with people of a similar demographic to them. It is important to get recommendations in multimedia. Platforms such as Facebook messages, emails, videos and online text show a good, wide and diverse range. Both private messages and public posts are great because they seem very personal.   BEST MOMENTS “You can use it as a business and sales growth strategy, rather than just a ‘nice to have’ as you grow your business.” “I still believe you should reward them with kindness, with gratitude, with service.” “They will be some of your best evangelists, and they will almost make their job referring to you.”   [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

6 Aug 202031min

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