Overview
On this episode of Build Your Network, Host Travis Chappell interviews Josh Elledge, a U.S. Navy veteran who launched Upmyinfluence.com and savingsangel.com.
Topics Discussed:
- About Josh Elledge
- Has appeared in the media over 2,000 times.
- Most excited about turning thoughtful entrepreneurs into media celebrities.
- Getting entrepreneurs invited to speak at conferences.
- There’s a clear formula to getting people to that point.
- Tell us your story.
- Josh launched a business called Savings Angel because of his own family’s money management.
- He developed a system that could scientifically cut his grocery bill in half.
- He knew that exposure was everything.
- He reached out to local media to see if he could get his message out there for free.
- He started writing a newspaper column that became a syndicated column.
- He’s generated more than $6 million in revenue spending less than $500 in advertising.
- Since then he’s been able to help a lot of other startups.
- He started doing consulting and then became an agency.
- He had failed in business 6 times before finding success.
- Did you have problems with authority growing up?
- He was a pretty good kid but didn’t like looking at teachers as authority figures.
- Do you believe that what you know or who you know is more important, and why?
- Everybody has value to bring and that makes me a better person.
- In the end, he’s in the who you know camp.
- To get into someone’s inner circle, you have to serve your way in.
- You cannot ask for a favor, you have to let them give it to you.
- How do you deal with the mindset that serving is being used?
- You have to let go of that mindset.
- Give a genuine compliment with no ask, honor the relationship where it’s at.
- Throughout your career have you spent money on mentorships or masterminds, etc.?
- He’s recently spent about $30-$40k.
- If you go into business with a scarcity mindset you’re really missing out.
- You should focus on doing one thing better than everything else and outsource the rest.
- You have to surround yourself with powerful, influential, successful people.
- If you want success, make the investment when it’s uncomfortable and tough.
- Who is the best networker that you know, and why?
- John Livesay – The Pitch Whisperer
- He’s constantly making introductions, recommendations, and referrals.
- He helps startups get funded.
The Random Round:
- What profession other than your own do you think it would be fun to attempt?
- Motivational speaker
- If you could sit on a park bench with anyone for an hour who would it be, and why?
- Abraham Lincoln
- How do you like to consume content best, books, blogs, podcasts, or videos?
- Audio
- What audio do you listen to a lot?
- Listens to the audio version of YouTube Red
- Give us a glimpse of your morning routine
- Wake up at 5 or 6
- Take a walk
- Get a green smoothie
- What is your go-to pump up song?
- Deep Purple Highway Star
- What are you not very good at?
- Bookkeeping and admin stuff
- What is one place where we can find you online?
- Upmyinfluence.com
Tweetable Quotes:
- When I meet a stranger, I’m on a quest to find out what I can gain from our experience.
- If you genuinely love people, you are just bound to have a blessed, happy, and lucky life.
- You can’t ask from a position of debt.
- You have to surround yourself with powerful, influential, successful people.
- Where you plant your seeds isn’t necessarily where you’ll gain your harvest.
Resources Mentioned:
Buildyournetwork.com– Podcast website
BYN.media/fb – Facebook Group
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