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Hit It and Quit It with Jane Veron and LaChelle Adkins · The SmallBizChat with Melinda Emerson

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  Three, two, one, zero.
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  Ignition.
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  Lift off.
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  Ending small business failure.
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  Welcome to the Small Biz Chat podcast with the number one small business expert, Melinda
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  Emerson.
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  Melinda's goal is to end small business failure, and she'll give you the information
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  you need to succeed and live the life you dream of.
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  Now here's your host, the small biz chat lady herself, Melinda Emerson.
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  Have you been thinking about adding AgenTic employees to your business?
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  Cofounder Doubt AI could be a great option.
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  Build an AI powered team that can help you research, strategize, market, and sell, and
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  just get more done.
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  Put AI to work in your business.
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  Visit cofounder.ai and meet your new digital team.
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  What I would like to do is bring back my guest, Jane Vernon, and we're gonna have a little
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  panel that I like to call hit it and quit it.
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  And here's how it works.
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  I'm gonna ask both of you the same four questions.
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  You only have thirty seconds to answer.
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  And if somebody steals your question, too bad.
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  You gotta come up with another answer quick on your feet.
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  Okay?
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  Okay.
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  So
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  Jay, since you've been waiting the longest, I'm gonna start with you.
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  So my first question is, what is your favorite podcast?
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  So I'm trying to get excited about learning everything on AI.
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  Moonshots with Diamantis.
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  Do you know that?
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  I have not heard of that one, but I'm gonna have to check it out.
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  Moonshots.
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  Okay.
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  We'll check that one out.
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  Lachelle, what about you?
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  What is your favorite podcast?
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  You know, I haven't been listening to a lot of podcasts here recently, but I would say the one
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  that comes to mind that I remember is the gold digger.
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  Gold digger.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  It's been a while since I listened to it, but I'll go with that.
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  No, I like that podcast too.
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  I really am big on membership geeks.
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  I like their podcast out of The UK and they talk all about membership sites and how to
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  monetize membership sites.
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  It's really interesting.
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  And they're really funny because it's like two guys and they're like always making jokes and
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  stuff.
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  So I enjoy them.
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  All right.
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  Second question, Lashell, I'm coming to you first this time.
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  What is your favorite business
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  So I use the Monday board, monday.com.
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  So that keeps track of everything, make sure I get things done on time.
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  I love it.
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  Also just I want to let you know because if people want to find me, my last name is Varon
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  And so it's not a big deal, but in case people need to look for us, I want them to know where
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  to look.
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  Okay, well I'm glad you told me that, I apologize.
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  I think my mind just went to Vernon, I apologize.
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  Now, did you tell okay.
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  So you like monday.com, you like boards.com.
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  I like chadgpt.
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  That's my BFF.
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  I'm on chat.
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  I have a nickname for Chad.
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  Chad has a nickname for me.
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  I'm all about Chad GBT.
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  I know there are other people that love Claude, but what I have to say about AI tools is this.
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  It doesn't matter what tool you use.
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  It matters how well your tool knows you.
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  Yeah.
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  That is my public service announcement about AI tool.
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  Now, third question, and Jane, I'm coming back to you first.
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  What is your favorite old school marketing tip?
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  Listen to the customer.
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  I like that.
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  It sounds so trite, but don't assume.
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  They're the ones who are buying your product or service.
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  All right.
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  All right.
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  That's a good one.
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  What about you, LaChelle?
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  Follow-up as fast as you can within four hours.
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  Because a lot of people, you know, have a lot of people that they get in front of that are
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  potential clients, but they lose the opportunity because they don't follow it.
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  I agree with that.
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  I believe 100% your fortune is in your follow-up for sure.
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  I'm a big proponent of picking up the phone.
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  Like these people wanna DM you to death or email.
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  I'm like, uh-uh.
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  If something gets confusion, if we get past two emails, somebody better pick up the phone.
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  It's crazy.
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  And you can get it resolved like much easier that way.
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  All right, last question ladies.
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  Lachelle, I'm coming to you first for this one.
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  What is the best business book you've ever read?
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  I have so many books.
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  Okay, I'm just trying to figure out one that I could, I would say one that comes to mind that
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  I think a lot of people can resonate with is the compound
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  effect.
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  Okay.
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  That's a good one.
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  Yeah.
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  I would go with that one.
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  There's so many.
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  I can't even say.
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  You know what?
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  I take that one back.
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  The one that I would say is Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill.
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  Have you read that?
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  I haven't read that one.
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  I read Vicky's tell you that's good.
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  I haven't read the out out what did what did you say?
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  What is it called?
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  Outwitting the devil.
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  Outwitting the devil.
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  Outwitting the by Napoleon Hill.
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  Mhmm.
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  I'm if they got it on Audible, I can find it.
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  I'm sure.
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  Alright.
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  Yeah.
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  Johnny, what is your best business book you've ever read?
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  Maybe not inspiring, but very good at achieving goals.
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  It's called Traction by Wickman, and I use it to develop a really
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  strict
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  operating system.
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  Basically, measure what matters.
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  Geo Wickman's book is very, very popular.
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  I am a fan of his book, but my favorite book is by Dan Sullivan.
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  10X is easier than 2X.
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  Oh, and that's the truth.
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  That book changed my life.
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  And I love to talk about this book.
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  And I love to tell people, listen to the audio of the book because like they tell, Dan
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  Sullivan wrote this with a younger researcher that helped him and they have these little like
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  mini conversations in between the chapters that are like amazing, like mind blowing.
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  If you can-
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  Fun fact, I actually interviewed him, Benjamin Hardy.
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  His co author Benjamin Hardy?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah,
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  yeah.
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  No, and he's great because it's like the elder statesman talking to the younger
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  whippersnapper.
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  I mean, it's good, good, good, good stuff.
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  So I love this book and I love Dan Sullivan.
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  And I just wanna thank both of you ladies so much for being my guests on the Small Bitch
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  Chat podcast.
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  Lachelle Atkins, she is the America's super mom.
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  Jane Varon, she is the head and co founder of the acceleration project known as TAP.
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  Please check out what these ladies have to offer.
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  We're gonna have great information about them in the show notes.
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  And thank you all for being guests and joining me for another episode of the Small Bitch
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  podcast. So now I will leave you with this. You never lose in business. Either you win or you
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  learn. God bless everybody. Have you subscribed to the Small
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  So now I will leave you with this.
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  You never lose in business.
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  Either you win or you learn.
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  God bless everybody.
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