Creator Empires Podcast
By Jan van der Aa
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Episodes: 195
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Creator Empires is a podcast about the future of language learning, told by the people building it.
Hosted by Jan van der Aa, the show features conversations with founders, operators, and builders who are shaping the next generation of language education, apps, platforms, and education businesses.
Jan is co-founder of the language practice app Teacher AI, and runs Creator Empires; a networking community for builders in the language space.
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197. Grow Your Creator Education Business in 1 Hour (Real Case Studies + AI systems)
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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196. Will AI Destroy Your Course Business?
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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195. Simple Framework for Growing your Creator Business
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May 13, 2025 |
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194. My Conversion Rates Are Too Low
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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193. Your Creator Business is Worth Nothing
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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192. The ONE Thing All Successful Creator Businesses Have in Common
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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191. The Power Of 'World Building'
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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190. Stop Doing All The Stuff That Doesn’t Matter
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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189. Same Product, Different Offers
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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188. The Problem With 'Double Down On What's Working'
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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187. General Advice vs. Niche advice
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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186. How to Double Your Leads from YouTube
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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185. 7 Takeaways from our Mastermind in Tenerife
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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184. We Launched A Brand New 7-Figure Creator Business
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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183. What the Pros Don't Tell You About Winning On YouTube - Nate Black
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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182. How a $10M Creator Business Does Email Marketing
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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181. How YouTuber Oscar Owen Built The #1 Magic School
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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180. Steal These Marketing Tricks from McDonald's! (Bump vs. Upsell vs. Tripwire)
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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179. Launching A Tech Product with Viral YouTuber Xiaoma
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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178. Seven Takeaways from our Creator Mastermind in Tenerife
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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177. Can I Build a Course Business Just With Ads?
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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176. Building A Creator Business That Outlives You
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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175. Course or Membership? with Rob Balasabas from Uscreen
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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174. How Creators can use AI to Explode their Education Business - with Lucas Bighetti
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May 17, 2023 |
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173. The 8 Biggest Takeaways from NasSummit 2023
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May 05, 2023 |
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172. How Much Creators Make with Courses...
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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171. One Product, One Avatar, One Channel?
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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170. What went 'Wrong' with Yes Theory's Course Launch
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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169. 48 Ways To Grow Your Course Business
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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168. Our Plans For 2023
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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167. Writing a Killer Sales Page with Nick Poninski
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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166. Watch out for THIS Business Advice
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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165. When is it the right time to do MORE?
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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164. Business Advice From Thriving Creators
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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163. ''I Want To Scale Without Having to Be on Camera All the Time''
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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162. From Teaching Guitar to Creator Business with Allen Mathews from Classical Guitar Shed
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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161. What Happened At Our Creator Retreat In Morocco
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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160. Breaking News! YouTube is Going to Let Creators Sell Courses Directly on Their Channel!
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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159. How To Network Like A Pro And 10X Your Business
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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158. Goal driven courses vs. Entertainment driven courses
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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157. Building a Global Media Empire with Huseyin Kilic from Interesting Engineering
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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156. Finally Understand the Metaverse with Ivan Puzyrev Of Arhead
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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155. My Experience at Vidcon 2022
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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154. How Marina Mogilko Got $1.7M In Funding In Exchange For 5% Of Her Future Earnings
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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153. I Sold my Creator Business Last Week - Four Things I Learned
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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152. From Struggling Creator to Netflix Show Host with Jo Franco
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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150. Should Creators Partner with Platforms like Studio, Skillshare or Udemy?
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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149. How to Feel more Confident about your Business Decisions
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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148. How Much Should You Give Up For Affiliates?
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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147. Case study - How YouTuber 12X her Hourly Rate by making her Membership 'Evergreen'
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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146. Free Trial, One-off Payment Or Payment Plan?
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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145. How Creators Should Manage Their Mailing List
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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144. SPECIAL: Takeaways from NasSummit 2022
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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143. How Long Should Your Product Launch Last?
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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142. How To Know WHY Your Video Exploded (or Didn't) - with Nate From Channel Makers
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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141. How To Grow Your Creator Business 2 to 10 Times Faster
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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140. Creating Evergreen Funnels VS. Doing Product 'Launches'
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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139. Creator Events I'll Attend in 2022
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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138. Course, Coach Or Conference? How To Get The Right Help At The Right Time.
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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137. Three ways to Fix your Sales Funnel And 2-5 x Your Revenue with John Ainsworth
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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136. Making Online Courses More Engaging with Sam Kary from New EdTech Classroom
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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135. New Year Special - 22 Ideas to Start 2022 with a Blast!
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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134. Dopamine Detox and Better Storytelling With Niklas Christl
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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133. Do YouTube Creators Really Need Long-Form Sales Pages?
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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132. Should you do Sponsorships When You Can Also Promote Your Own Products?
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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131. Teaching 7 Million People English with Lucy Simkins
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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130. How to Build A YouTube Production Team with Olly Richards
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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129. Effective Ways to Repurpose Content With Amy Woods from Content 10X
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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128. From 0 to 300K YouTube Subs in Less Than 1 Year with Brian Wiles
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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127. Launching Your Own Physical Products with Ronak Trivedi from Pietra
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Nov 06, 2021 |
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126. Lessons Learned Consulting for YouTube's Top Creators with Paddy Galloway
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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125. The Ten Biggest Lessons Learned From Our Mastermind Retreat In Crete
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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124. Information I Consume to Become a Better Marketer in the Creator Space
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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123. Making Millions in a Small Market with a Simple Business Model with Kevin Timmer
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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122. The Entrepreneurial Approach to Running a YouTube Channel with Olly Richards
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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121. How to Increase your Prices and Sell MORE? (Value Equation)
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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120. How to come up with Viral Video Ideas for YouTube?
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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119. How to Reinvest Profits to Create Exponential Growth for your Creator Business
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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118. The #1 Lesson I Learned from Spending $7500 on a Mastermind Event
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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117. Selling High Ticket Language Courses with Liz from Talk the Streets
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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116. Why the Creator Economy Will Change Everything with Hugo Amsellem
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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115. Highly Lucrative, Impactful Ways to Monetize Your Language Skills with Stuart Jay Raj
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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114. How to Build a Million Dollar Ecosystem for your Creator Business with Olly Richards
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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113. How to Build an Online Education Business - Crash Course for Beginners
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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112. Should Creators Build a Personal Brand or Business Brand? (or both?)
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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111. Organising Lucrative Virtual Events with Kris Broholm
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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110. The Truth about Starting and Growing a YouTube Channel with Nate from Channel Makers
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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109. High Profits with a Simple Business Model with Hugo from innerFrench
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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108. Mr Beast's Manager Reed Duchscher on The Biggest Opportunities in the Creator Industry
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May 28, 2021 |
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107. How to Discover the Holes in your Online Creator Business and Fix them
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May 25, 2021 |
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106. Pioneering and Monetising in New Niches with Conor Clyne from Tsar Experience
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May 21, 2021 |
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105. Follow THIS Simple Strategy to Build a Million Dollar Online Business
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May 18, 2021 |
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104. The Challenges of a YouTube Creator and Staying Mentally Healthy with Nathaniel Drew
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May 14, 2021 |
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103. When is the RIGHT Time to Hire for my Creator Business?
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May 11, 2021 |
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102. Making BIG $$$ and Building a Stable Company by Trusting your Intuition with Anja Winter
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May 07, 2021 |
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101. How to Manage your Finances (Ignore your Bank Balance)
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May 04, 2021 |
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100. From Solo Creator to Business Owner with 70+ Full-time Employees with Peter Galante
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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99. Three Things That Creators Can Do Today to Grow Their Business by 20% or More
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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98. Conquering Business Struggles and Learning Through Mentorship With Cara Leopold
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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97. What’s 'the Best' Online Business Model?
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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96. Staying Productive and Working Together as a Couple with Amigos Ingleses
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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95. Onlines Course vs Membership Sites: What Should You Create?
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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94. Building a Community within your Online Courses with Tom Rees from Eat Sleep Dream English
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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93. Stick or Pivot? When is the RIGHT time to try something new?
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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92. From 0 to 100K Followers on LinkedIn with Daniel Smith
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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91. Five Steps to Hiring your Dream Video Editor
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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90. Becoming One of the World’s Biggest Travel Vloggers and visiting All Countries with Drew Binsky
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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89. Langpreneur is now ''Creator Smarts'' - Here's what you can Expect...
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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88. Embrace your Uniqueness and Create Content that Only You can Create with Lola from Bye Accent
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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87. How Can I Prevent Others from Stealing my Courses?
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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86. Teaching in China, Growing Multiple Channels, Limiting Believes with Teacher Mike
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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85. When is it the Right Time to move on to a New Project?
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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84. Growing Multiple YouTube Businesses while Raising Kids with Anna from English Like A Native
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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83. What I Would Do if I Had to Start a New Language Business from Scratch
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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82. Building an Online Language School the Smart Way with Virginia from Speaking Brazilian
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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81. How to Increase the Value of your Courses without Having to Change the Content
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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80. Overcoming Mindset Blocks and Taking Bold Steps with Michele Frolla from The Intrepid Guide
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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79. How to use Affiliate Marketing to Make Money and Create Happy Fans
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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78. The Advantages of Slow and Steady Growth with Luca Sadurny from MosaLingua
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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77. Online Business Fundamentals to Create Stability, Growth & Raving Fans for your YouTube Channel
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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76. Discussing the Journey from Teacher to Langpreneur with Phil from Phil’s Conversation
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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75. My Biggest Entrepreneurial Mistake
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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74. Six-figure Launches with only a few Thousand Followers - Sophie from Cours de Japonais
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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73. How to be More Productive?
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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72. Earning, Learning, Investing and Traveling Like a Boss with Johnny FD
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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71. Do you Really need to Niche Down?
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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70. The Struggling Chinese-speaking French Teacher who ended up Selling $800 Courses on Autopilot
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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69. How to Scale an Online Business from Six to Seven Figures?
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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68. Selling Language Courses without being Salesy with Shayna of Espresso English
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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67. Product First or Audience First - What's Better?
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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66. How to Stay Focused and get Results in 2021
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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65. What to do if your Sales Funnel is not Working?
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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64. From Personal Brand to Business Brand with Jenny from lingoni
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Dec 25, 2020 |
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63. Should you Run Social Media Ads for your Language Business?
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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62. Exponential Growth in only 2 hours per Day while Taking Care of the Kids with Léa-english
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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61. How Much Should you Charge for your Language Courses?
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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60. Becoming a Better Language Youtuber with Lindie Botes
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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59. What are Salesfunnels and do you Really need one?
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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58. Product First, Audience Second; Reversed Business Building with John from Outlier Linguistics
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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57. What to Do if your Language Business doesn't do as Well as you Hoped?
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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56. Merging Podcasts and Teamwork to create a Strong Brand with Lindsay from All Ears English
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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55. How do you know that you have Traction in your Online Business?
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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53. Annoucement: Changes on the Langpreneur Podcast
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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52. Top 7 Online Business-Building Lessons that I Learned Building Langpreneur
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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51. From Zero to 200K Instagram Followers with Stefanie Röher from LerneDeutsch
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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50. Building a Thriving Business by Trial and Error with Justin from RealLife English
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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49. Podcasting as a Tool to Build a Language Side Hustle with Tamara Marie from Spanish con Salsa
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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48. Expanding your Online Language Business to China with Chris Parker
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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47. The Ingredients for a Great Language Startup with Dimitris Polychronopoulos
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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46. Behind the Scenes of a Full-time Language Influencer with AndyGM en Berlín
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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45. Creating a Movement and Crushing it on Patreon with Matt vs. Japan
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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44. Running a Physical Language School vs. an Online School with Anja Spilker
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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43. Building a Scalable Online Teaching Business with Jack Askew
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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42. Achieving Success through Mentorship and Massive Action with ‘Speak English with Vanessa’
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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41. The Right Mindset for Building a Massive Audience on YouTube with Paul Jorgensen of Langfocus
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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40. From Zero to 20M App Users with Zackery Ngai from Hello Talk
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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39. When and How to make the Best Hires and Build a Great Team with Olly Richards
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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38. Finding your voice on YouTube by Trial and Error with Ari from Xiaoma NYC
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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37. Crushing it on Instagram and TikTok with Maria from ‘Dein Sprachcoach’
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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36. Building and Marketing a Language Exchange App with Tobias Dickmeis from Tandem
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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35. Taking Online Teaching to the Next Level with ‘Speak English with Christina’
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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34. Langpreneur Phil interviews Jan van der Aa on Becoming a Langpreneur (Flipped Interview)
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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33. Starting a Winning YouTube Channel & Building an Online School with ‘Deutsch mit Marija’
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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32. From Blogger to Bestselling Author with Scott Young
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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31. Selling Digital Language Courses in a Niche Market with Pierre from Holamigo
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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30. From Podcast to a Language Learning Empire with Peter Galante from Innovative Language
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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29. Beating YouTube’s Algorithm with Language Videos – Ikenna Obi
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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28. The Joy of Building an Online Language Business with John Fotheringham from Language Mastery
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May 29, 2020 |
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27. Teaching Italian on YouTube with Lucrezia from 'Learn Italian with Lucrezia'
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May 22, 2020 |
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26. Changing the Language Learning Industry with Stylish Books - Hyunwoo Sun from TTMIK
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May 15, 2020 |
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25. SPECIAL: Listen to These 8 Case Studies and Grow your Language Business Today
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May 08, 2020 |
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24. Building Lingq and the Big Opportunity for Langpreneurs with Steve Kaufmann
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May 01, 2020 |
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23. Building an Audience the Lazy Way with Daria from Real Russian Club
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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22. The Right Mindset for Powerful Copywriting and Email Marketing with Anthony Metivier
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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21. The Role of AI, Technology and Apps in the Language Learning Industry with Silver Ilves
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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20. Teaching Languages the Smart way by finding your ‘Sweet spot’ with Lindsay Williams
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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19. Building a Language Freedom Business through Paid Ads with Brett Whiteside from Ltfawg
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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18. SPECIAL - How the Coronavirus Almost Destroyed our Language Business Event!
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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17. Building a Massive YouTube Channel with 3.5+ Million subs with Lucy from ‘English with Lucy’
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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16. Raising $1.7 Million for the ‘Fluent Forever’ App with Gabriel Wyner
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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15. The Power of Imperfection & Publishing Language Books on Amazon with Daniel Welsch
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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14. Growing your Online Teaching Business the Smart Way with Elena Mutonono
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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13. Getting across the ‘Impact Barrier’ with Idahosa Ness
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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12. Conquering YouTube with a Social Franchise, with Cari from Easy Languages
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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11. Building a Language Podcast with 2,5+ Million Downloads per Month, with Mark Pentleton
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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10. Seven Mistakes that will Kill your Language Business and How to Avoid Them
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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09. Building and Monetizing a Massive Language Blog with Seonaid Beckwith
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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08. Boost your Productivity and Build a Massive Audience with Johan Tekfak
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Jan 09, 2020 |
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07. Organizing Unforgettable Language Retreats with Katie Harris
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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06. Generating six-figures with YouTube, with Lukas van Vyve
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Dec 23, 2019 |
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05. How to get more website visitors through Google with effective SEO – Gabriel Gelman
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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04. Growing your business by taking affiliate marketing to the next level with Kris Broholm
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Dec 08, 2019 |
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03. Lýdia Machová about how to become an successful Langpreneur and building a great team
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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02. Turning your Passion for Language Learning into a Profitable Online Business with Olly Richards
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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01. What is the Langpreneur Podcast all about?
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Nov 28, 2019 |