Many organizations play it safe by focusing on improving existing successes rather than exploring new innovations. In this episode, we delve into why embracing continuous learning is crucial for unlocking true innovation and moving businesses beyond the familiar to the groundbreaking.
Our guest Klara Pelcl is a leading figure in UX research at eBay, and her expertise helps transform insights into action. With a passion for fostering learning cultures within dynamic business environments, Klara is here to share her invaluable experiences and strategies. So, let's dive in and unlock the secrets to innovation through learning with Klara Pelcl.
We talk with Klara ….
So, let's dive in and unlock the secrets to innovation through learning with Klara Pelcl.
In this episode you'll learn
[3:40] Why Klara started a podcast of his own, and his strategy for being different and maximizing his results.
[12:02] The challenges Tim has faced since wanting to start a podcast over 2 years ago, and why it took him so long.
[13:12] The important question Tim always asks himself does when he acquires a new skill.
[18:54] The 20% of things Tim is doing to get 80% of the results for his podcast.
[21:49] The exactly guinea pig experiments Tim is running right now and the results he's hoping to find.
[33:01] Tim's first look into optimizing email capture on his site, and why he's never “built his list” up until now.
[40:59] Why Tim did not launch a multi-million dollar sports nutrition business along-side his book, 4-Hour Body.
And more!
Resources
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Episode Transcript
Jeff Gargas: You need to first fight that little voice in your head telling you not to betoo salesy, or that you're not good enough or big enough, or your pricing's too high, orwhatever it is. Get that thing out of here.
Now, be careful. Don't overcorrect to become something you are not. However, I wantyou to remember that in order to serve the people that you want to serve, you need tofirst stay in business. Your business is how you make money, and your brand is whatyou do with it.
So making money allows you to serve more people and do more good, whatever that'sgood looks like for you.
Pat Flynn: Hey, hey, it's Pat here. You're about to listen to something a little differenton the show today. It's not our usual Friday format where I follow up on Wednesday'sepisode. Don't worry, those aren't going away forever. Just a little break to bring insomething even more special, in my opinion. And this episode and the next few are apart of our Teaching Friday series, which we do with our SPI Pro members.
We have an incredibly talented pool of people within SPI. Why not give our pros, thespotlight and teach you here on the podcast every once in a while. it's just one of theperks of being a part of Pro in fact. With each episode, you get to hear a different pro,teach you something special from their area of expertise.
Without further ado, I'll let them take it away. Oh, and if you want to find out moreabout SPI Pro and be a part of it, you can go ahead and apply at SPIPro.com.
Announcer: You're listening to the Smart Passive Income Podcast, a proud member ofthe Entrepreneur Podcast Network, a show that's all about working hard now, so youcan sit back and reap the benefits later. And now your guest host, he's a four timecollege dropout who's built a seven figure business in the field of education, Jeff Gargas.
Jeff Gargas: Hey. What's up team SPI? My name is Jeff Gargas, and I'm excited to behere to share a lesson that my team and I have learned recently, and I think and I hopewill bring value to you as well. About nine years ago, I cofounded a company calledTeach Better. I currently operate as our COO, and I get to work with an amazing team ofeducators every day. We work with teachers and school districts to help assess andadjust and support their never ending work, extremely important work of continuouslychanging and improving their instructional practices to better serve their students.
You can find more about team and all everything that we do over at TeachBetter.Com. Ialso get to help lead an amazing and just simply awesome community of educreators, which are People create an educational type businesses and side hustles and contentand put it out in the world. And I do that over on our Educreator Club Plus community.Go to TeachBetter.com/educreator for that. We'll get you there.
If you wanna connect with me, I love connecting with other entrepreneurs. If I can helpyou with something, Awesome. Even if I can help you with some of the steps and ideasthat I'm gonna share with you today, I wanna help you. But even if it's just to get toknow you and learn about your business, I'm in. You can reach me atjeff@teachbetter.Com, or I'm at @JeffGargas on most social media, except onInstagram, it's @_JeffGargas over there. Alright. So let's talk about helping and sellingor selling and helping or helping via selling or selling via helping. What the heck is Jefftalking about at this point? So let's go on a journey really quick to how we kinda builtour business.
We built our business, like I said, about nine years ago. And at the time, Chad came tome with an idea of a new framework that he was utilizing in his classroom that we nowcall the grid method. It's a a framework for utilizing master learning. And he came tome and said he thought he wanted to share it out because of the results he was seeing.I agreed.
He was seeing incredible results with the students. I said, we need to share this withpeople, and we had this idea of starting to share it out and eventually maybe sellingservices to districts, the school districts to provide them with professional developmentor PD. If you hear me say PD throughout this whole thing, I'm referring to professionaldevelopment, doing workshops and coaching and consulting, stuff like that withdistricts and teachers. And when I pitched the chat, I was doing content marketing. Isaid, hey.
