During this episode, Matthew interviews Jake Richards, the founder of Act of Pod, about his experience as an entrepreneur, his upcoming wedding, and his role in producing viral content for popular creators such as Joe Pompliano.

00:00 Introduction

1:00 Happy Wife Happy Life3:00 Experienced Lead Life

12:00 Outreach. Landing First Client

13:00 Passion Work

19:00 Finding Early Success

20:15 Biggest Business Struggle

23:00 Removing Yourself From Your Business

25:43 Creator Economy Pyramid Scheme

28:15 Drilling Down

33:55 Mission Schaming

35:35 Exploring Your Curiosities

40:05 I’m Always Wrong

43:15 Favorite Business Influencers

48:01 Podcast’s Failing

52:00 Going To The Next Level

Being an entrepreneur has many highs and lows. Chava Mercado knows this all too well.

He always had an entrepreneurial spirit and was able to bring it to light when he first started hosting parties in San Diego for local college students by taking them across the border to Mexico to party.

Hosting parties were fun but he knew it wasn’t going to last.

Eventually, his event planning gig turned into corporate marketing but ultimately led him to be frustrated and burnt out.

In this video, we learn about the rise of Chava Macado who went from $7 to 7 figures in 3 years. Now, he’s using Instagram to help grow his personal brand and company InMotion Media Group.

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00:00 Introduction

03:15 Chava’s Entrepreneur Come Up

07:05 Billboard Advertising Hustle

10:55 First Client
13:00 Tracking KPIs

19:14 Future of InMotion Media Group

25:20 Business Start

28:00 Burgers to Riches

30:40 Start of Social Media

34:00 Backpack Swag

37:30 Next Steps and Scaling

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Instagram growth can be very frustrating when you first start. You take hours to create a reel to get a few likes and views.

You eventually become frustrated and wind up quitting.

This excuse is normal on Instagram.

No growth…

You give up!

But what if there was a better way?

Niti Sarran is a 17-year-old based out of New Jersey who started a content growth agency for Instagram and Twitter which does $5k in monthly revenue.

In this episode, Niti shares with us how she started as an entrepreneur and shares her early success on Instagram growth.

But it wasn’t always easy for her.

She struggled for 8 months before she even made her first dollar online but in the end, she made it happen.

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00:00 Introduction

02:15 Entreprenurial Network

06:43 Picking A Platform

09:42 Finding First Client Online

15:00 University vs Entrepreneurship

19:00 Future of Entrepreneurship

20:00 Biggest Social Media Challenge

21:50 1,000,000 Views on A Reel

24:30 Social Media Mentors

27:00 Advise To Beginner

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Welcome to The Digital Economy Podcast. This a podcast for creators and digital entrepreneurs who use social media as a means to help grow their business and personal brand.

I’m your host Matthew Baltzell and recently in May of 2022 became a full-time entrepreneur with my podcast booking agency Elite Podcast Bookings.

With The Digital Economy Podcast, I want to give creators and digital entrepreneurs the tools and skills to help them live and work on their own terms.

Borderless, Permissionless, Digital Savages exploring the new digital frontier.

Join me bi-weekly as I’ll be dropping a new episode every two weeks for The Digital Economy Podcast.

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